The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-09

woman who holds up her skirts in the streets Is
rs vulgar as the man who is constantly occu-
pied ia reefng the slack of his breeches.
News and Other Items.
Another monster telescope, the largest yet at
tempted, Is IN course of construction at Dublin
for the Austro-Hungarian government. The
object glass will have an aperture of twenty
seven inches, and the total length is to be about
thirty-two feet. 1Hea sd 3 al +
There is project for a ball at Delmonico's
in New York, during the holidays, in aid of
the centennial fund. Tickets are to be placed
ct 50 high figure as $25 and the number lin
ited 70 800 The committee propose to pay all
the expenses of the bail and appropriate the
entire sum realized by the sale of tickets to the
centennial fund.
Washington society is stirred to its depths be
cause the Japanese Minister'S wife has little
margin OF exquisite native embroidery about
one of Der dresses that cannot be duplicated
for money. She cannot understand the Bit
ter words spoken by the ladies, but she sees
their envy in their looks and is made just as
happy. - .i atE lEr 70
Pull-backs have their drawbacks, as young
woman of Keokuk, Ia, found when she went
70 Masonic entertainment last week. She
looked at the banquet tables with horror, ejac-
ulating 20 her escort: ''Good gracious! Are
they going to sit down? didn't expect that
--I-I amt fixed to sit down." He found
place for her alongside the mantelpiece where
she could take her supper standing.
A grand international banquet was given at
the Hotel de Louvre, Paris on Saturday even
ing, some Of the most distinguished men of
both countries being present. Minister WASH
burne responded to the toast to President
Grant, concluding by proposing the health Of
fseaident McMahon. M. Laboulaye made a
iengtny speoeA- complimentary to American
institutions. Colonel Foruoy ana- others also
spoke. s
Ex-Marshal Bazaine is charged with having
hesitated at nothing that would bring him
money when in command of the French army
OF invasion in Mexico in 1866. He is alleged
to have kept 10 the name of others two stores
In the City of Mexico-one grocer's and the
other dry goods shop-in which French stuffs
were sold at high prices and immense profts,as
he found means to avoid paying freight or inn
port duties. In this way he is said to have
amassed Jorge fortune. 1
A Boston Journal special says it is ascer-
tanned from trustworthy Democratic sources
that the Democrats, Immediately upon the
meeting of the Mississippi Legislature in JAN
nary, will proceed to impeach Governor Ames
and the Lieut.. Governor. The basis of the ac-
ton will be the Vicksburg affair of last year.
The Democrats claim that they can obtain the
impeachment of Ames by Republican testi-
mony. Several charges will be preferred
against the colored Lieutenant Governor, among
them that he pardoned q murderer before he
WAS tried Hthe movement should be SUCCESS
full the Democratic President of the Senate
would become Governor. .tifslnr. =
Baron Edmond Rothschfld, from the Paris
Ian house of the great money lending family,
who 10 now visiting in this country,is described
~ quiet, easy-going and extremely polite
young man, something under thirty years of
age, dressed in the plainest of evening cos
Tunes, his dress coat not having even bit of
watered silk about it, nor his shirt front or
cravat the vestige of jewel; eyeglasses not
even mounted in gold, with an opera hat, in
the folds of which kid glove was half hid,
nAttily tucked under the arm. Personally his
appearance is progressing, but it cannot be
said to be striking either in an aristocratic or
Intellectual sense.
Berlin is great place for divorces. Last
year 1882 cases of divorce came before the court
In Berlin, while in the whole of Westphalia
there were only fifty such cases. Under the
new laws divorces are easily obtained in Prus-
sia, but by curious provision q husband and
wife who wish to be separated must first SUBJ
init their case to the Protestant clergyman of
the parish, whose duty it is to reconcile them
1t possible. If he fails they then go before the
civil court During 1874 no less than 743O cou-
pies appeared before the Protestant clergy of
Prussia, and of these 1888 were reconcied
10a2 were persuaded to delay further proceed
ings for while, and 800 went to law and Oh
tanned divorce.
The Williamsburg uudertakers are excited in
regard to the operations of journeymen coffin
maker who Keeps shop 1t was discovered
that he was in the habit of robbing cemeteries
and grayeyards of the coffins deposited in new.
~ made graves. 1t is stated that he would take
a horse and wagon and go into the country
dozen miles at night, to visit cemetery where
o corpse bad been recently buried. A boy al
ways accompanied him and helped him exhume
the cofins. The coffin would be removed from
the rough box case, the corpse taken out of the
coffin and put In the rough box and reinterred.
The coffin, thus procured, would be taken to
the city and sold to some undertaken. The Of
Tender, whose name is VIM. Baker, has been
arrested.
The congregation Of the Church of the Pill
Grms In Brooklyn, of which the Rev. DR..
etorrs is pastor, are awaiting anxiously his de-
cision in reference to his call to the Old Brick
Church In New York. The influential mem
osrs, concluding that their pastors prolonged
elaboration indicated an inclination to accent
the call. Sunday spread sheets of legal cap pa
Per on the tables in the vestibule, and as the
church members entered the ushers asked them
TO sign formal protest. The Hon. s. B Chit.
tenden, John d. Preptis, Dwight johnson and
others join in the protest. After the services.
DR. Storrs said there were many considerations
OF the subject, not private. but public, which
he was gradually digesting, preliminary to
conclusion. He would not indicate any day
when he would be prepared to make known
his final decision. The Brick Church, 1t 10 as
tai hox a. IN.