The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-04
News and Other Items.


Ex-senator Ross of Kansas, who for year
or more has been foreman of the Lawrence
Journal, has become assistant editor of that
paper.
The Episcopal Bishop Hare of Niobrara is
soon to marry 'the richest lady in America >
Miss Kitty Wolfe, daughter of John d. Wslfe
of New York, and sister of Mrs. W. H. Apin-
wall
A young Norwegian who was converted I'M
der Moody and Sankey's preaching mas return
ed to his own country and started a. Sabbath
school, the first ever opened in the North of
that country.
A man in Philadelphia has a posta. card
with over 400 words written upon it, and he
expects to write 1000 words more upon it, max
ing 600 in all. 1t is to be sent to the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
!. The Ipswich Chronicle says it is easier to
raise hundred dollars for the purchase of a
gold watch to DO presented to somebody who
does not need it, than it is to collect the sane
amount from the same persons who owe the
money.
A store keeper in Puducah, KY, exhibits
with pride piece of hard-tack issued by Gen.
Grant at Vcksburg, to the Confederate prison.
ers after the surrender of that city, twelve
years ago. The Confederate troops had been
snbsisting on mule beef, with two ounces of fat
bacon day in which to fry the meat, and the
reception of this bareback was quite luxury
to the half-starved troops at that time.
The court of common pleas of Chester cpun.
ty, Pa, has decided that writing on slate is
not good will under the statute, which re-
quires all wills to "be in writing" Various
decisions have been rendered on the question
whether lead-pencil writing, which is easy of
alteration, is sufficient; the Chester county
court seems to have believed it ought to sdr,w
the line somewhere" and "drew it" at slate
pencils.
Still another of them. John Kelly, ex-canal
superintendent, has been arraigned in the Su.
perior Court at Buffalo, charged with perjury
and conspiracy, the former for falsely swearing
to an affidavit npon which be procured the pay
ment to himself of money for coal furnished
the state, and the latter for COLLISION with
Webster and WEIGH, who were arraigned on
Wednesday for frauds in connection with canal
contracts.
Mr.. Abel of the Baltimore Sun, is the veal
thest newspaper publisher in America. He
gets about $125, 900 year from the Sun, but he
made his greatest profits in coal fields, having
taken for bad debt of $500 piece of noun
tain land full of fuel; in manipulating it he dis.
covered the value of coal lands, continued in
that form of investment and as he acquired
money put it in Baltimore city suburban real
estate. He has the largest income of any
BaItimoreaD.
When the Hon. j. P. Jones of Nevada was
running for Lieutenant Governor, there stepped
up to him free-born American citizen, little
unsteady in his walk, and said, "Where's p.
Jones? Iwant to see him. want to know
who l am voting for before I VOTE I do"
Jones struck an attitude, saying" III am j. P.
Jones" "YouP' said the voter, taking de.
liberate survey from head to foot, and from
there back again. "Ah! you won't do, won't
do-No 8 hat and No. IA boots" And he
turned and staggered away ia sadness too great
for tears.