The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-04


broken mp by skunks.
Minnesota's wheat surplus over home need s
will this year be "a, 100000 bushels.
The anniversary of the surrender of Sedan
was observed throughout Germany Thursday
as holiday and day of general rejoicing
John Phillips, while drinking out of by
drant in Williamsburg Monday night, was
nearly choked by an eel, II inches long, which
got in his throat. 1t was pulled out with Off
Guilty.
1t is estimated that the child population be
tween the aged of six and sixteen in the United
States and Territories is about 1925, 900, and
that about 300 900 teachers are needed to edu-
cate this host of future citizens.
Mile. Marie Say. who was recently married
with such display to the Prince de Broglie, got
the most of h. r money from the sugar business
The gamins did not fail to appreciate the fact,
and when the bride stepped from the carriage
in her white robes on the wedding morning
there was chorus Of ''Ob, sugar, sugarr'
Baggage men are called upon to check queer
things sometimes. That official at Albany had
trunk with the dead body of a new born in
FAINT foisted on to him the other night by a
couple just in from the West. but detected the
odor and turned the thing over to the coroner
instead of checking it to New York.
Columbia, s. c., has been brought to such
straits by official malfeasance that the treasurer
was recently compelled to give city certificate
of debt for 40 cents. Tbs police are but half
paid, and they arrest persons on the slightest
offense in order to make money for the city by
fines, and thus obtain their salaries.
A resi- lent Of New London, Conn.,, is aston
ishing people by musical performances upon
piece of small wire attached to a nail and held
between the thumb and fingers. He can so
play piece of music upon this wire that it will
sound as though played in two different places
and in two different keys at the same time, and
so softly that the tones can scarcely be heard
one foot from the performer.
The Shah of Persia has just sent to the city
ofParis very handsome edition of the Journal
compiled by him during his trip through Eu-
ope, and which contains his impressions con-
corning the manners and civilization of the
countries he visited. The volume addressed to
Paris is manuscript of two hundred and eight
pages, on parchment; it is a marvel of calligra-
ply. The binding is In blue velvet, ornamented
with precious stones.
Walter Brown, the burglar who, it is alleged,
was hired by Col. Whitley and j. G. Nettleship
to break into the district attorneys Office at
Washington at the time Of the famous ''safe
burglary" and carry papers which he stole
from there to Columbus Alexander's house, in
order to criminate the latter, was kidnapped
recently from New York and brought to
Washington, where he is secretly confined, and
it is proposed to use him as witness against
Col. Whitley and others who are to be placed
on trial.
The quiet village of Durand, Wis, has just
experienced the delights of a decided romance.
In July. 1856. Timothy Stokin lost girl but II
months old, and after a fruitless search he con-
cluded she had been abducted. Nothing was
heard of the child's whereabouts until last
week, when she turned up as a school teacher,
under the name of Miss Fannie johnson. She
remembered but little of the abduction; her i'm
preston is that she was taken to st. Louis by a
woman, and about nine years ago given to a
Mississippi steamboat captain, Lorenzo Barrett.
The strangest part of the story is that the ia
Their charges the theft upon one Charles Tay-
lor, an unsuccessful suito- for Mrs. Stokin's
hand, and believes it TO have been prompted by
desire for revenge.
A curious relic of old slavery times turns up
in the shape Of race of negroes, ex-slaves of
the Seminoles. These people were moved with
their owners, the Semineies, from Florida to
Texas, many years ago. Subsequently they fed
into Mexico, and, induced by certain promises
that were never kept, returned to Texas, where
they are now in an impoverished condition.
They want rations and transportation to Flori-
da, in which state they think they can make
homes for Themselves; and, if they are not sent
there, they will probably return to Mexico, go
to the mountains below San Carlos, about 100
miles west of the Rio Grande, depredate on the
ranches of Texas, and furnish an asylum for
deserters from the frontier They number about
QUO men, women and children; are a distinct
race from the Semineles, and are like all ne
groes, except that they are accustomed to bear
ing arms, are brave and daring, and superior to
the Indians in fighting qualities. The army
officers in Texas and their superiors unite in
advising the Indian department to send them
to Florida. The people of Florida haven't yet
been heard from on the question.