The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-16
News ang Other Items,

The first-class hotels of New York contem-
plate simultaneous and general reduction of
charges for the winter.
The remains of all the Cinnamon who have
died in California are to be sent home immedi-
ately.
At Georgetown, Ky, Tuesday, Louis E sem
schmidt fired pistol ball through can Of
gunpowder, and thereby set store on fire, and
it was entirely consumed. Loss $4,000
The track of the Elizabethtown, Lexington
and Big Sandy railroad in Fayette county, Ken
lucky was sold to General Leslie Coombs for
five dollars.
Sixty thousand dollars were sent from this
country to the sufferers by the French inunda-
ton. OF this amount New York subscribed
one-thlrd
Victoria Woodruff lectuIed in Auburn, n.
Y, to an "array of empty benches" and scat
tering audience numbering about score, on
Saturday last.
An important arrest was made Tuesday at
New York, Of a custom house broker
who, in colluson with an ex custom house
official, obtained an entry of goods to that port
by means of fraudulent valuations.
I An army of one hundred and fifty tramps
lighted down the other evening, dirty and pen
nlless, on central Iowa town, and demanded
food and quarters in the public square. The
demand had to be complied with.
The census takers of Winchenden, Mass,
have come across the case of woman twenty
five years OLD, married at twelve years of age,
who has had ten children, the Oldest being now
thirteen years old.
David Mayer, the Hartford diamond mer-
chant, has just imported from Paris probably
the finest solitaire diamond to be found in this
country, for lady who already has over $780,
600 worth of diamonds in her possession.
Chicago debating society Is preparing to
wrestle with the following question; 'Re-
solved that man who plays on an accordion
and keeps barking dog, can't be a Christian"
-Four members to one want to take the mega
tive side.
An old woman in Bridgeport who has pasted
nearly two thousand medical receipts iu book
during the past forty years, has never been
sick day in her life, and she is growing dis
couraged. Some people are born to i'll luck,
she says.
A country mother, visiting Detroit with her
daughter, girl of fifteen, said to the child
who was about drinking glass of soda water:
''Now, Mary, be careful. Don't gulp it down
at three swallows and get exploded all to pieces
by the gas, but sip, sip, and don't run any
risks
The Butler county, Pa, "gas well,' which is
to be made to discharge itself through lion
pipes eighteen miles distant from the point of
its situation, supplies 100000 feet of gas per
minute, enough to run large number of roll
ing mills, and light the cities of Alleghapy and
PittsbuEg with the remainder
Two sons of the Emerald Isle paid a visit to
Farmount Park, Philadelphia, recently. They
visited the water works. Looking on with
amazement at the great turbine wheels while
in motion, one exclaimed to the other: Faith,
Pat, the Americans must be a quare people;
they must have their wather ground before they
can drink it,
A preacher at Maroa, H., fred with emula-
ton of the only Talmage, obtained an audi
ence under false pretencss by announcing that
at the conclusion of his customary Sabbath
service a marriage ceremony would be per-
formed When he had administered the ben
ediction he invited his auditors to remain
and assist "at the marriage supper of the
Lamb"
If ever there was puzzling study of a face,
it is that of Gen. Sherman. In repose the fea-
lures are marked, even rugged, and there is a
suspicion of hauteur in the curl of the lips.
The eyes are cold, and the expression may as
easily be taken for that of stock broker as of
man who has lived hundred lives in one,
his brain teeming with memories of the most
thrilling and startling character. In conyersa-
tiOn there is no mistaking the master MIND,
and one does not know which most to admire'
the brilliant turns of thought or the attention
to detail and facts which impresses the reader
with the accuracy of his famous book.-LCor-
respondence Cincinnati Commercial.