The Portland daily press., 1875-03-16
Hews and Other Items.

John C. Fremont has been at Virginia City,
Nevada, recently looking at the famous mines.
I'm to Saturday night 40 applications had
been filed with the President for official posi-
lions by ex-members of Congress.
The Winsted Herald is in the premium bust
ness aud offers very handsome two-bladed
pocket knife or 80 postal cards.
Another deluge is threatened along the Mis-
sissippi valley above New Orleans, the water
b,ing very high, aud the leyees at points show
i lg signs of weakness.
This is the way New Hampshire has gone for
Governor for four years ending 1S74:-lS7l, oo
Democratic; 1872, 1919 Republican; 1873, rs
Democratic; 1874, 1865 Democratic.
Mr. Bayard Taylor will begin, at Cornell
University, about May 10Th, a course OF lee
lures on Leasing, Goethe, Schiller, Hene anu
their fellow authors i'll Germany Since i''o
The course will last three weeks.
The old house on Water street, New Ha'eh'
an object of much local interest, as ha'ihs
been the one in which Benedict Arnold was
married, is undergoing demolition. IL was
built between 1860 and 1910.
The Rev. Dr. John p. Newman is once more
pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episco-
nal church in Washington, having returned
from the East, where he ha, been travelling
for the past two years in a government capa-
city.
sMother johnson, the famous pancake max
er of the Adirondack Wilderness, is dead. The
guides of the region about Riquttte River
brought the body some thirty miles down the
stream, and there laid away all that was NOR
| tai of one of their best friends
The Milwaukee Seminal thinks sit is simply
absurd to talk about a woman being qualified
| to fill every position in life that man fills.
| For instance, what woman could lounge around
| the stove in a country grocery and lie about the
number of fish she caught last summer"
| A Bridgeport, Conn. company have just fin
| ished a refrigerator car to be used in bringing
| strawberries from the South, and tho STANDARD
says: ''Ths is the first refrigerator car of thi
kind ever built, but will probably be soon fol
| lowed by thirty more, to be used on the differ
ent roads about the country"
At the funeral of the French painter CorO
| the Able Ducos in his sermon, blamed tn
| newspapers for not announcing that Corot died
good Catholic. Much excitement ensued
1 WHICH Was iuCIOdsCu Ny ouO Co'NUOeO ~ I" AS'>-''
| mopomanac, and the able was compelled t.
leave the pulpit.
Senator Schurz writes to friend at st. Lou
| that he shall return soon to his newspaper in
that city, after spending short time in the
| Eastern States for the purpose of collecting
material for his proposed History of American
| Politics, 1t is understood that the Senate
| goes abroad in the spring with his. family tt
see his daughter, who is still at German
school.
A gentleman in Washington is having foo
constructed in San Francisco, consisting o
different coiored woods, dovc-sailed together 81
as to represent the California coat-of arms, AM
the strips so arranged that the colors will blen'
as in painting. The woods were obtane'
from Pacific coast timber trees and the cos
alone of making thu floor will be $1,000. TIL
dimensions are Is by SO feet, and it will be sen
to Washington in sections.
The lower house of the Sonth Carolina lpgis
lature has indefinitely postponed the bill t.
provide for the redemption of tue bills of thu
Bank of the State. There are 100000 or 500,
600 of these bills in existence, and it is practi
cable to tender them next Writer in such
| manner as to block the wheels of the stat
| government by suspending the collection of one
| third of the public revenue.
| Since the passage of the civil rights bill re
| spectacle coored persons have applied for and
| have purchased tickets to several places o
amusement in Washington, and have occupied
| the most desirable seats without the raising OF
| any objections by whites Senator Pease, the
l from MsSiSSippi and Mr.
| Pnchback, occupied seats in the Opera House
the other night. Thus far no trouble has oc
CURED at aoy hotels, and it is understood thai
| respectable colored people will not be denied
entertainment if called for. Both Pinchback
and Pease are staying at one of the largest
hotels there.