The Portland daily press., 1875-03-18
News and Other Items.

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News and Other Items.
Throgg's Neck buoy has not been removed.
Geo. w. Curtis denies that he was paid for
| his eulogy on Sumner.
Horace Kneeland, the sculptor blew his
| brains out in New York Tuesday.
Dunning b. McNair, former Sergeantrat-
| Arms of the Senate, diel Tuesday night.
An Italian stabbed his brother at Baltimore,
| Tuesday night, fatally.
James Parton has bought house at New
bvryport, Mass, where he will have his home.
M. Hoel de st. Gilbert, the last of Maria An.
| toinettes pages, died at Vienna recently at the
| great ago of 104 years.
The local option repeal with the license pro
| vision attached has passed both houses of the
| Pennsylvania legislature.
| H. Mcdowell, Dem, was elected Mayor of
| Burlington, N. j., Tuesday. He is the first
| Democratic Mayor for six years.
Seton Hall, a Catholic college in South Or
ange, n. j., has been closed, owing to the pre-
valence of typhoid fever.
Advices from points throughout the ncrth-
west show that snow has again bloekaded the
railroads and few trains were running on time,
while many have entirely stopped.
President Grant, Immediately after the ad-
journment of the Senate, will take a trip west
ward as far as st. Louis, where he has stock
farm.
The colored people of Boston have rendered
Gen. Butler public testimonial in acknowl-
edgement of his services in securing the pas
sage of the civil rights bill, and he has accept
ed.
The ruling el1ers of the Presbyterian church.
es at Baltimore have passed a resolution OPP
posing the proposition for changing the con-
sttution so as to enable the elders to be chosen
every five years.
| Eli Crozier, an ancient citizen of Delaware,
swore thirty-one years ago to wear the hat he
then wore until Henry Clay should sit in the
Presidential chair The venerable beaver stills
crowns his wrnkled brow.
The fences of the United States are said to
be worth 81 $50, ,O00, 900. and it is added that it
costs sos, ,000, 900 annually to keep them in re-
| pair. There is nothing more interesting than
statistics.
| The first enforcement of the compulsory
| education law of New York occurred at Fish
kill village, Tuesday, where several boys
were arrested and forced to enter the district
school house. More arrests occurred Wednes-
| day.
| England's great iron clad, the Superb, is to
| be launched on the 7th of April at Chatham,
and it is reported that the name is to be
changed to the Alexandria, in honor of the
princess of that name. The vessel is rated at
5000 tons.
A few days since the octogenarian OF Day.
ton, Ohio, published a challenge to any one of
90 N Coo ,1;tI !, n L.,
of 81 has signified her willingness of accepting
the challenge, providing the race comes off at
some private place.
A contract has been signed by FL. K. Browne,
tha sculptor, for colossal equestrian statue of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island, in
bronze, for the capitol grounds of Providence,
for which, with the granite PEDESTAL, Mr..
Browne is to receive $4,000.
Mr. Kaleas, noted for his excessive use of to-
bacco and for his beer-drinking proclivities, died
recently at Rotterdam, it New York, aged so.
A calculation shows that he had, during his
life, spoked more than four tons of tobacco
and drank 100000 quarts of beer.
Goldfish now abound thickly in the waters
about Alexandria, Va and are caught in all
the senes that are hauled. They were propa-
gated from one or two of the fish that escaped
few years ago from the fountain at the Capt.
tol in Washington, through a sewer, into the
Potomac
The English Commission to revise the au-
thorized version of the New Testament, COM
posed of fourteen members, with the Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol as President, have COM
pleted the revision to the 18th chapter of the
Gospel of st. John.
Jack Frost has gone into the medium busi-
ness. One cold morning, recently, he painted
on the parlor window the picture of Wiscon-
sin mans aunt in the act of giving him some-
thing; few days later, he received the intelli-
gence of her death and his accession to her
property.
Enoch Arden cases have not been very plenty
of late, but Quincy, ILL.,, now furnishes one.
John Bmpson, wealthy manufacturer, left
that place six years ago, for Europe, with two
| daughters, and was supposed to have sailed on
| the ship United Kingdom, which was never
| heard from. News are now received that Bimp-
| son and his daughters are alive and coming
| home In the meantime Mrs. Bimpson has
| collected $4,000 life insurance on Mr.. Bimpson's
| policy, married again, aud has child by her
| second husband.
They have been trying part of the Ameri-
| can prison discipline in one of the prisons Of
| Norway and the result has been sent to the
| Secretary of the Howard Mission, London.
| There was convict in the Norwegian prison OF
| Fort Bergenhuus, who lad already been pun
| ished several times for infringements of prison
| discipline, bnt still continued stubborn. He
was therefore subjected 10 the cold douche, and
| it acted admirably. 1t was applied continue
ously for AZ minutes, and the convict was qulte
| cured of his stubbornness. He died on the
| spot.
| The Treasury Department has had referred
| to il eleven hundren dollars in one hundred
| dollar bills of the Brighton Bank of Massa-
| cbusetts. issued under the old banking law of
| the state 1t appears that these notes came
| into the possession of Pittsburg banking firm
| who sent them to the bank officers at Brighton
| for redemption. Payment was refused on ho
| ground that the notes were counterfeit. Upon
| being returned to Pittsburg the notes were re-
| ferred to the Treasury Department Treas
| urer Spinner decidedt that the notes are good,
and that the Brighton Bank must redeem them
| to the extent of their face value.
The cool impudence of Bill King, so well IL
lussrated in the iLtevview with Postmaster
General Jewell, the other day, when he asked
| for the removal of the postmaster at Minneap-
oils, was displayed again at a casual meeting
with an old acquaintance of his, Massachu-
sets Congressman. King greeted him with
perfect composure, and opened the conversa-
| ton with, "Did you ever see such weather in
all your life as we've had this wnter?" Tho
congressman admitted that i. had been very
bad 'Awful, awful" continued King, brisk
ly, ''and the travelling-why, the travelling
was so bad that if fellow got far off 1t was
almost impossible for him to get back"