The Portland daily press., 1875-06-10
News and Other Items.

The coroner's verdict in the belfry murder
charges Piper with the crime.
Mr.. Lindsey Carson, a brother of Kit Car
son. the trapper, guide and scout, is a candidate
for state senator in California.
Thirty rods of flood rock in He'll Gate, off
Halletts Point, were blown away Tuesday in
ten blasts.
Twenty-one letters of Robespierre, which are
said to contain some startling facts, have been
found in Paris, and are soon to be published.
1t is stated that Prof. Marsh will prefer ger
eral written charges not only as affects DIR.
Saville, the Red Cloud agent, but other officials
and even some of the western delegates.
Probably the wea,thiest journalist in Ameri-
ca is A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, whose
property is estimated at from seven to ten mil
lion dollars
The body of Mrs. c. Kloenhammer of De-
trot, and the body of man with the initials
sd. o. H." engraved on scarf pin, were re-
covered from the wreck of the Schiller on Tues
day.
AT the meeting of the National Sportsmens
Association at Cleveland Ohio, Tuesday even
ing, the necessity of forming state organiza-
tions, and of securing proper legislation for the
protection of game aud fish, was urged.
In the United States District Court at Vino
ma, Mnn., Tuesday, Judge Nelson read writ
ten opinion very pointedly sustaining the con-
stitutionaity of the supplementary civil rights
bill passed by the last Congress
A memorial meeting in honor of Gen. John
c. Breckinridge will be held at louisville, KY,
on the 18th instant Gsneral William Preston
will deliver an oration, and there will be pro-
cession by the Masonic and other fraternities.
The Tennessee river went through the strange
freak of rising some eighteen inches and then
ebbing and flowing like the ocean for about
four hours at London, Tenp., the other day,
and nobody can tell what was the matter with
it.
The Brooklyn woman suffrage society at their
last meeting directed the secretary to send Mrs.
Titon letter of sympathy and trust, and to
Mrs. Field, her friend and attendant in court
room note, expressing gratitude for he friend
ly offices to Mrs. Tilton in her trouble.
A correspondent of the Revue Archeologque
gives a very deprecatory account of the marble
statue of Venus, lately found in excavations on
the Esquiline at Rome. Though the type diff
fers from the known types of Venus, or any
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Roman copy of some Greek original.
The fourth and last performance during the
present season of Anton Ruoinsten's "Macca-
bees' filled every place in the Royal Opera
House, Berlin, the principal artists being re
warded for their efforts by repeated applause
and recalls. The composer has been made
corresponding member of the French Acade-
my of Fine Arts.
A Westchester county, IN. " farmer, while
blowing near Yorktown the other day, came
upon large stone under which was found two
bushels of cannon balls and number of knives
and bayonets. They were near a well dug and
used by the American soldiers. The ground
was being plowed for the first time, and the
appearance of the balls ard knives indicated
that they had lain there undisturbed for hun
dred years.
The oldest ex United States senator now lv-
ing is said to be Peleg Sprague. formerly of
Maine, who was senator from this state from
1929 to 1885, He also represented the Kenne.
bee district in Congress from 1926 to 1929, was
subsequently for many years Judge of the
United States District Court of Massachusetts,,
and is now living in Boston at a greatly ad-
vanced age.
The vassar College girls made trip to West
Point the other day, and while they were there
the cadets had a sham fight, in the course os
which they charged, with fixed bayonets, right
In the direction of their fair visitors. And now
the question is whether the girls run or stood
their ground; the cadets say they scampered
like flock of sheep, but the girls say they
were not bit afraid and "and only ran little
Bit"