The Portland daily press., 1875-10-08
News and Other Items,

The new hotel in Cleveland, o., will cost $1 =
100000.
A Hebrew college has been opened in Cincin-
natl.
A son of Dan Voorhees, is going to come out
on the stage as Hamlet
The reception of Admiral Wellesley at Prov
idence has been postponed till Saturday. His
frgate sails for Halifax Monday.
The latest discovery at Pompeii is that of
the figure of a woman lighting fire in the
cook stove, while her husband is asleep in bed.
Nothing of the lost arts about that.
Col. Bakers dsgraced relatives in London
paid photographer $1,000 to prevent the sale
of the unfortunate soldiers picture on the
street.
81. d. Claflin & Co. are to be sued for 81 $780,.
600 on Struggled goods, and to be criminaly
prosecuted also. The suit based upon what
one of their purchasing agents did.
Judge Strong of Erie, has sustained the gov
eminent claim of priority over other creditors
upon the assets of j. Cooke & Co, to the ex
tent of e132, $40 due from the London branch
of the firm.
The youngest Jesse Pomeroy on record is re-
ported from Digby, Nova Scotia, where the
son of Mr.. Rice, aged eighteen months,
nearly beat his baby sister to death with curl
ing iron.
Captain John Norris of Petersburgh, KY, is
said to be the only man now living who took
part in the battle of Lake Erie. He is "a years
old, is in vigorous health. and has = gold medal
which the Legislature of Kentucky gave him
in 1850.
The most long lived game of chess reported
recently, is one which has been going on for
nine months between o. A. Brownson, Jr., of
Dubuque, and gentleman named Rogers of
Detroit. As it is by corresp ondence, Uncle
Sans postoffice department has made more
out of it than anybody else.
Gen. Joseph E. johnson has at last put an
end to that story about himself and the Khe-
dives army. He writes to friend: 81 am
very sorry to say that the Khedive has not made
me the magnificent offers reported by some
southern editors, nor do know if he is still
appointing Americans in his army.
At meeting of the clergymen of new Ha-
ven on Monday, both President Porter of Yale
College, and the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon ex
pressed themselves as opposed to inviting
Messrs. Moody and Sankey to undertake re-
vival in that city. Dr. Bacon took the ground
that the results ola visit of the srevivalists
would be temporary and unsatisfactory.
One of the remarkable men of the Alabama
constitutional convention is Colonel Bethen
He is lawyer, that has had only one case in
his life. 1t was his first and his last. The
case involved large amount of property, and
his fee depended upon his success. He won:
his fee was $4,000, and with this he gracefully
retired from the bar. A legal career so brief
and SO brilliant has probably been the lot of no
other man since litigation began.
An English traveller, Mr. Hartshorne, gave
the British association, the other day, an ac-
count of the Weddas, wild tribe which lives
in the interior of Ceylon. These Weddas are
about five feet high, live on water and roast
monkey, and are, he reports, incapable of
laughter. After trying every way to make
their chief laugh, and failing. be asked in
amazement whether they ever laughed. mo-"
replied the Wedda, "why should we? What is
there to laugh at?'
number of hotel keepers in Chicago, who
nave been swndled frequently now require
travellers to pay in advance. They say man
VINO intends to pay for his accommodations can
not object to the arrangement. One traveller
-no' approaching the change in affairs, was
questioned by the clerk, who said: you will
not object tos paying before you 90 to YOUR
room, slr?' Certainly not, make out Iour
bill!' "For how long, STRIP "Well." saws
the stranger, "yop may charge me with abont
ten minutes, on the European plan. Bv the
end of that time l think shall be at a hote,
where the clerks wear. smaller diamonds and
have more confidence in human nature"