The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22
News and Other Items.

| Governor Tilden is popular in New York So
ciety. OF course-he is a bachelor, wealthy.
| influential, apd likely to leave young widow.
Stock in Tennessee railway, representing
at par value $67 900, has just been purchased
by a citizen of Chattanooga for % cents.
John Bright thinks the Church of England
is too conservative. He says his country
can never enjoy anything like the Beecher
changed.-Brooklyn Argus.
Joe Jefferson has raised twenty bushels of
oranges on his Louisiana plantation this year,
and not one of them cost him as much as q
turnip reared on a model farm.
The New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Courier says it is reported, in newspaper cir
cles, that Senator Schurz will take an impor-
tant editorial position upon the New York Trib-
une when he leaves Congress, on the 4th OF
March.
An Illinois legislator has introduced bill to-
punish with fine and Imprisonment any person
who Greats another to intoxicating liquor.
and Californian goes farther in bill now
pending in the legislature of that state which
proposes to make an invitation to drink, or an
acceptance of such invitation, misdemeanor.
A cable dispatch says a match factory in
Gottenburg crowded with working people,
took fire Friday. The flames spread with such
rapidty that the employees in the upper stO'
ries were cut off from escape, and many per-
ished in the flames or were killed by jumping
from the windows. Fifty-one lives are re-
ported lost.
The Birmingham News had full verbatim re-
ports of Brights speech selling on the street
by the time the great audience which heard it
oE q kolI rsxt.k fo1-
lowed by other speakers, who occupied half an
hour, and in the interval the last words of the
reporters notes had been written out and put
in type, and the paper had been put to press
and delivered to the newsboys.
Now it is Mr.. Eben Tourjee of Boston, who
has had difficulty with his furnace He
bought one that was warranted to be satisfac-
tory and to warm his house. As it does not do
that he refuses payment to the furnace men
ard they have sued him. They say they oDl
warranted it TO be satisfactory to any rea-.
sonable gentleman" and that he is not one.
The case is especially interesting as showing
the mercantile view of what a reasonable man
is.
The 1ewly elected Senator from West Vir-
gnia, Mr.. Allen Z Caperton, was born in Mon
GA years of age. He is man Of finished edu-
cation, large information, courteous manners,
and splendid dignity. He was educated at
Yale college, and graduated in 1892 His great
ability as lawyer and high character as Il
citizen have made him not only q favorite in
the new state, but a shiniug light of the Old
Dominion, of whose declining aristocracy he
is conspicuous and worthy represe ntative.
He was a Senator in the confederate congress
which sat in Richmond in 1868. He is man
of handsome physique, faultess IN attire,
pleasing face, and long, flowing, white beard.
He is liberal in opinions and universally re-
spected.
The Meadvile (Pa.) Journal says: There is
being built at franklin, by the Galena oil COM
many. a miniature oil farm for exhibition at the
coming centennial exhibition at Phila-
delphia. 1t will be complete aud accurate
representation, upon reduced scale, of a sec
ton of the oil region. There will be rocks.
bluffs, hills and ravines, creeks and rivers
There will be railroads with trains in melton,
moved by miniature engine. There will be
four oil wells in the process of drilling, other
wells pumping, horses and drays transporting
the oily product overland, pipe lines, tanks, n
village containing costly residences of the snc-
cessful operators, and the pine board shanty of
the pumper, and in the foreground the the Ga
lena oil compauy's works, including tanks'
stills, engines, agtators, storehouses. etc. The
whole "farm' will occupy space about twenty
feet square, and will cost many hundreds Of
dollars. There will be several small engines to
run the wall, drills, railroad trains and refn-
ery. This ingenious contrivance is constructed
in sections, and can be easily taken apart for
transportation.