The Portland daily press., 1875-08-04
News and Other Items.

Alexander Hamilton, son OF the great Ham,
ilton. died Monday, aged 80.
The Canadian Mennonites are suffering from
the destruction of their crops.
Congressman Chester w. Chaplin of Spring
field, Mass, was formerly a stage driver, and
is said now to be worth $10,000.0O0
At Portsmouth, Ohio, a vein of gas has been
struck at a depth of 1876 feet, and it is thought
that enough can be obtained to supply the
town.
The New York Herald says that number OF
shoddy rich in that city throw every OBSTACLE
in the way of the officials charged with taking
the census.
Henry. Ward Beecher will deliver the annual
address at the New England Agricultural Fair,
to be held from September 18th to 10th inclu-
sive.
Mr.. Dwight Learned, late tutor at Yale Col
lege, who has heen recently at Kidder, Mo-, is
now on his way to japan to teach in a mission
airy college there.
Father Tom Burke, the great Dominican
preacher, continues improving in health. He
is at his home in Ireland. He enjoys the best
of spirits, but from the nature of his malady
his convaescence must necessarily be slow.
"a EEcuCu WIlItT, dLteT ucoCIiuiuS Oouhe
- John, one of Bismarcks sons as low, coarse,
vulgar, dissoute and hdeous winds up with
the comment that he is just the man to put on
Brooklyn witness stand.
The New York Evening Post of Saturday
says that "the corn, oats barley, potatoes and
grass crops of this state have not looked better
for many years, in the last of Jaly, than now.
The wheat crop generally is a failure in the
wheat counties. The fruit crop will be light." "
The maharaja of Cashmere, India, has order
ed two state carriages to be built in anticipa.
ton of the visit of the Prince Of Wales. The
attentions and courtesy paid him during his re-
cent visit to the viceroy so pleased him that he
proposes to spend portion Of the next cold
season in Calcutta
1t will probably be news to most people that
horse stealing is still capital offence in Ten
nessee, yet such is the fact, and, consequently,
if the jury in the case of Gen. Waddy Thomp
son, who has just been tried at Memphis for
that crime, continue to disagree as they report
they do now standing nine for conviction TO
three for acquittal-and are discharged, he will
have to lie in Jail until the next term of the
court, no matter how much bail he may offer.
The Winnemucca (Nev.) "Silver State tells
story about an ex-Confederate soldier, lately
arrived in Winnemucca from Missouri, who
tried to pass one dollar greenback at par.
When informed that paper money was worth
o. only from Sc to 81 cents to the dollar in Neva-
da, he was sorely disguised, and announced his
intention of ''going right back to Missouri,
where money is money, and graenbacks are
worth a hundred cents on the dollar"
A company composed of French artists and
Philadelphian capitalists has been formed, to
transport to Philadelphia for exhibition the
splendid diorama of the siege of Paris; and it
has just bought the large iron building in New
York known as the Coliseum, to be put up on
Broad street, Philadelphia, and to be opened in
October 1t is one of the most perfect dioramas
in the world, and portions of the paintings
stand out SO naturally from the canvas as to
convey the impression to the spectator that the
objects themselves are there not painted re-
sembance.
The colored men OF indianapolis held meet
ing few evenings ago to protest against the
ee,.;--oroe .t,a rzs of Indiana mob; hitina
the intermarriage of the white and black races.
A series of resolutions were drawn up express
sive of the general sense of the meeting on
this subject, and declaring that the fourteenth
amendment of the Constitution of the United
States overruled the old statutes. A number
of criminal indictments have been found late.
ly against offenders under the miscegnation
laws, and movement is on foot among the
these cases through and appealing them if ne