The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-22
News and Other Items.

News and Other Items.
Invitations to lecture are being showered
upon both of the principals in the Brooklyn
trial.
3The Grand Tlunk Railroad car shops at
Montreal shut down, Saturday, because of the
dullness of business, throwing 300 men out of
work.
The Democrats of North Carolina seem to
have pretty generally agreed upon ex-Gov. q.
b. Vance as the man for the coming guberna-
torial fight.
Cuba has covered itself all over with glory. 1t
attacked 200 rebels in the Vargos hills on the
18th inst. and, without casualty on its own
side, took 36 women prisoners.
There was another meeting of resident
Northern Pacific bondholders at Washington
Friday, but no action was tax en- with reference
to the proposed sale of the road. A general
convention of bondholders will be held on the
Both inst.
Now it is the gay and festive toad.
During violent storm at Lexington, Missou-
ri, the other evening, millions of these ami
mails made their appearance, and the farmers
are even more afraid of them than of the grass
hoppers.
Listar, one of the wealthiest manufacturers
of England, spent many years and over a
million of money in search of way to utilize
silk rags, but finally succeeded, and is now
m aking lots of money, employing four thous-
and workmen in factory that cost nearly ST.
100000.
The forest fires in Canada bid fair to be
about as serious as the recent ones in New
York and Pennsylvania, the people apparently
having no control over them. Nea rly 5000
acres of woodland have been burned over near
Eardly, Ont, alone. Fires are also raging
fiercely all around Renfrew, Ont: and the viii
lage is in great danger.
Thursday was decoration day at Lynchburg,
Va, and the citizens turned out en- mass to do
honor to the southern dead The procession in
cluded all the military companies, civic socie-
ties and Sunday schools of the city.
California will elect four representatives in
Congress on September 1, and great interest is
taken in the contest: Republican nominations
alrsady made are, Second district, H. f. Page
(renominated); Third DISTRICT G. B. DEMO;
Fourth district, S. o. Houghton.
Mark Twain, to have the furniture of his
house correspond with its other peculiarties,
has ordered unique chamber set made of
mahogany with diamond shaped panels of blue
and white china plentifully bespangling it,
and with heavy blue satin 6raperies, the whole,
of only three pieces, to cost 5000.
Ex-Governor English has given $1,000 to buy
for Yale College library complete collection
the Parliamentary papers of Great Britain
from To Tbavo OF vol,
bound in half parchment, and mostly of fell
size, and are principally the elaborate reports
presented to the British Parliament during
these years on great variety of subjects.
Ex-GOv. Scott of South Carolina, has commu-
nicated his opinion of the political situation at
the South to the Columbia Is. C) Phoenix. He
declares reconstruction and negro suffrage grave
mistakes, and advises the freedmen to seek the
friendship of their old masters by political CO.
operation.
Captain James b. Eads announces the be-
ginning of work on his system of jetties for
opening the South pass of the Mississippi river.
He says that at least one mile of the east line
of jetty-work will be built before the middle of
October, and that much larger force of men
and machinery will be put on the work, next
fall
A serious schism is impending in the Mis-
souri, Constitutional Convention, owing TO the
rejection by the country members" of prop
osition providing for the representation of the
sections of the state in the Legislature on q
basis of population. AT latest reports the st.
Louis members were deb ,ting the propriety Of
Withdrawing entirely from the deliberation
of the body
Last Friday six young men belonging in
Muskquash, N B., named Joseph and William
McClelen, Hugh Kellogg, two brothers nam ed
Timer, and the sixth, name unknown, went out
fishing off Point LIE Praux. In the night Sc
we're gale arose and their boat was capsized and
they were all drowned. The boat was towed
into LIE Praux Saturday morning, bottom up
None of the bodies have been recovered. There
IRE number of other boats missing and it is
feared others have lost their lives.
Lieutenant Payer has announced his inten-
tion OF attempting to cross Greenland from the
Eastern side, feat which his experience as a
traveller and an Arctic explorer fits him to un-
! dertake All attempts heretofore to cross the
great Greenland glacier have been from the
West side notably by Whymper, who, howev-
err succeeded in traversng but a few miles,
when he was obliged to return.
Prof. Langston Dean of Howard University
law school has resigned in consequence OF the
severe snubbpg he got from the trustees, last
week, and the action they took turning the COL
lege over to the Congregationalists, and A. G..
Riddle of Washington, who has been his asso-
ciate and coworker in building up the institu-
tion, will soon tender his resignation. The
law department will probably not be contin.
ued. Prof. Langston thinks the plan of max
ing thr institution sectarian will be greatly to
its disadvantage, and says that the Congrega-
tionaists have already injured it by misman-
agement.
Capt. William Ludlow of the engineer corps.
in his report to the war department. on the re-
connoissance made in the Black Hills. last
year, says that whatever may ultimately be
determined as to the existence of large amounts
of precious metal 10 that section, the evidence
collected on the trip was dscouraging to the
suppositlon, and he suggests that the best uss
| to be made of the Black Hills for the next so
years would be permanent reservation for the