The Portland daily press., 1875-09-30
News and Other Items.

| Myson, put away tnat Dall. do you know
where the wicked boys go who play base ball
on Snnday|' 'Yes'm; they go go down by the
fair grounds"
! The mother of Little Mabel Young, the VIC
tim of the belfry murder, at Boston, has lost
her reason, and has been placed in an insane
asylum in that city.
A Scranton special says che National mine
located under the village of Minorks, suburb,
has been on fire several days but the flames
will probably be conquered
A shop-keeper in England calls himself
''boxing glove maker to Her Majesty 1t is
only few years since an old Eiinburgh sign
was taken down "Breeches-maker to Her
Majesty.
There seems to be hitch 10 the negotiation
between the British and Chinese governments
in reference to settlem ent of the existing dis
pute. The celestials don't like to carry out tie
terms laid down at Tien-Tsin, and a rupture is
not unlikely.
A cauldron OF boiling soap exploded at Ma.
comb ST. Lawrence ccuuty, the other:day, with
terrific effect, the grease, lye and fragments of
the cauldron being thrown a great distance in
every direction. A boy who was making the
soap was badly sca.ded.
A panther rushed into a bedroom in houses
few miles from Willis Tex, the other day,
and carried off baby in his mouth but the
twelve-year old sister followed and screamed
30 Justify that the brute dropped the youugster
only slightly injured
The Lynchburg Republican reports squirrels
migrating southward in large numbers, saying
"they may be seen above and below the city
inst hofn mia tfaI a,;-
bark boats, using their tails as sails wbep the
wind is favorable.
A passenger train on the Richmond, Drum
mond and Athabaska railroad ran off the track
Tuesday night, six miles east of this place.
Ten persons were killed and thirteen badly
wounded. 1t is said that rail was placed
across the track by some malicious person.
workingmen's excursion from Eugland to
America next year is proposed, leaving Liver
pool early in June, visiting New York, Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Nj
asara Falls, and the chief cities of Canada, and
en..eIling at Quebec for Europe about the
middle or,--xnst
NEWS has Juse oee--receyed by the Glouces-
ter Mutual flshlng lns~ranco Comnanv from,
Georgetown Prince Edward ISIS -. -
bad been heavy gale at Magdalen 1sranasse,
dniag which the schooner Martha t. Pike
| oilged'~and the schooner S.ockbridge went
| ashore Se'Nral other vessels lost their cables
| and anchors.
| A reporter OF tho Philadelphia Press has
learned from Mr. Ross r.st Mosher and Doug
lass approached patrolman,some time before
Charlie Ross abduction, with a,roposition to
assist them in the abduction of litr,> GRAND.
son of Commodore Vanderbilt. whom the, in
tended to hold for ransom for the sum of SO,
| 0O0
Hydrophobia communicated by pasteboard
dog is the latest medical novelty. Two months
ago mad dog was killed in q house after hav-
ing bitten at nearly everything in the room.
One of the things in which he buried his teeth
was little boys Toy dog made of pasteboard.
Subsequently, man used this pasteboard dog
to stop the blood from a cut 10 his band, and so
the virus went to his wound and he died.
Recently a Protestant missionary at Teher-
| an, Persia bought a copy OF the Koran IN Per
sisn after much searching aud liberal offers Of
| money. Great objection was made to selling
| the book to a foreigner aud when it was
known that the missionary had copy crowd
| collected and under the threats of violeuce
compelled him to give it up.
Considerable excitement was created in Eas
Boston last week by the discovery by workmeu
on the new railroad, of what looked like ant
was said to be gold. The find was located neal
Wood Island, and during three days the ex
element continued and grew till the whole
force of laborers and the entire neighborhood
were almost demoralzed. Conductor Smiih
finally though: the matter had gone far enough
and he explained that one of the boxes had go'
SO badly heated that the composition melted
out and that the supposed nuggets OF gold were
nothing more tbau.fused drops OF anti-friction
| metal.