The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-19
News and Other Items.

LHo ouuStS duu OllCerS OF tno supreme
Court called on the President yesterday, accord
ing to the usual custom.
The four candidates for Congress in Oregon
are on the stump together, and it takes them
about five hours to go through with their dis
cussions.
They say Stanley is going to marry zone of
the wealthiest and most beautiful young la
dies in New York." when he comes back from
Afrca-if he ever does.
Milwaukee has established course of Sun
day afternoon lectures. and it was opened last
Sunday by Mr. James 7. Fields He is to be
followed by Messrs. Carl Schurz, Bayard Tay-
lor, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bret Harte.
Mrs. Sadie e. Martin, Democratic candidate
for superintendent of schools in Bremen coun-
ty, Iowa. has taken the stump and is making a
regular canvass of the county. They say she
makes an effective speech.
lot Of jewelry consisting Of watches,
chains, fnger-rings and such like, being un-
claimed articles of personal property recovered
from the bodies of those drowned from the
steamer Atlantic, were sold at Halifax, n S.,
Thursday.
The Duke of Edinburghs baby has an awful
habit of picking things off the floor and put
ting them in its mouth, just like other babies.
Recently it ate box of backing under the i'm.
preston that it was new kind of fig paste.
President Grant, according to report from
Colorado, expressed his intention when at
Manitou recently, of buying lot there and
building house in which he would live a
great part of the time at the close of his Presi
Dental term.
President Orton of the Western Union Tele-
graph says that for all telegraphic purposes the
English language is from % to SO per cent
cheaper than the French, German or any other
language, and that the economy OF its use has
been thoroughly established.
In letter to Gen. w. T. Sherman Reprtsen
tative Garfield of Ohio says: II have read your
two volumes of Memoirs very carefully and L
cannot let the occasion pass without telling you
how much pleasure they have given me. do
not believe that just criticism will charge you
with doing any intentional injustice to any one.
Judging from the effect of your book upon my
self, cannot doubt that it will greatly strength
en- the affection with which you are cherished
by the American people"
Prof. T. B. Comstock of Cornell University,
with assistants, has been engaged for couple
of days past exhuming the skeleton of masto-
don recently discovered at Isle in Broome
county, N Y, and have taken out one piec, of
tusk seven feet three inches long, and two feet
of the other; also humerus 3S inches long, a
hyod rib 40 inches long, and 21 shorter ribs;
the atlas 10 by II inches, aud several tail ver'
tebt@ The skeleton is we'll preserved.
A Kentucky paper tells story of back
woodsman who, few days ago, saw carpet
for the first time at Bowling Green, in that
state. He was somewhat confused at first,
thinking it was some kind of an ornament
probably an oil painting-but, perceiving q
bare place at the farther end, of the room lstep.
ped back few PAGES, and, with running
jump, struck the floor about six inches from
the edge of the carpet. When his heels struck
the floor, he slipped and fell back, but quickly
arose, and after looking with complacency at
the distance be had leaped, exclaimed: "By
gosh, 1 cleared her.
Pere Hyacinthe has just republished his SER
monsat Geneva. They contain the explana-
tion so long asked of his real creed. He takes
as text of his faith four maxims-one from 81.
Augustine, 'Iu things necessary we must have
unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things,
charity" One from Mo1talembert. The Je-
suits are hateful sect, which in these times
tyrannizes aud makes profit out of Catholicism
One from NJ. Renan, 81 eau say of the Catholic
church what job said of God, Even though He
kill me, in Him WILL hope And last, a
passage from Pere Gratry's treatises on the
latest council, "They finished with a coup d
etat what they began with an ambuscade.'