The Portland daily press., 1875-01-23
News and Other Items.


The Scientific American has found woman,
SO years of age, who attributes her long life to
abstinence from bathing.
Tie richest member of the new Senate will
be William Sharon, just elected Senator from
Nevada.
A sister of Anna Dickinson is in the lecture
field. She spoke at Scranton, Pa, Tuesday
evening.
The Chinese have names which correspond in
frequency with the Browns and Smith of Anglo
Saxon Christendom. Those most frequently
recurring are Chin, Chang, Wang and Shin,
which are the equivalents of gold, long, prince
and stone.
The Michigan prohibitonists have called a
state convention to meet at Lansing. Jan. q,
to nominate regents of the university aud a
candidate for justice of the Supreme Court.
They will also petition the legislature to estab-
lish a state constabulary, whose special duty it
shall be to enforce the prohibitory Jaw.
An old man lay on his deathbed in Indian
apols the other day, surrounded by five or six
children and his second wife. He was on the
point of signing his viii, when dispute arose
between the prospective widow and orphans
concerning the distribution of the property,
eliminating in an actual hand to hand fight.
Quiet was not restored till the public inter
fered.
The Halifax papers record the death of Rob
ert Griffin, colored man, aged S4 years. Mr..
Griffin was on board the Chesapeake when that
ship was taken by the Shannon, aud was taken
an prisoner of war to Halifax where he af-
forwards resided. He was never naturalized,
on1 o1xuavs oIaip,ad To ha IN cifi-
zen.''
Rev. DR.. Williams, the missionary to China
and secretary to the United States Legation at
Peking, is soon to return to this country TO
spend the rest of his days. DR.. Williams has
lived forty. one years in China. He is the au-
thor of several valuable works, among which
is dictionary of the Chinese language, on
which he spent eleven years.
A singular old gentleman, Atwood by name,
died recently near Chestnut, England. He
was about so years of age and a bachelor. His
favorite pastime has been the giving away Of
anonymous checks of $1,000 each. His books
show that he has given away S1,750 600 in that
way; $225, 900 during the last year of his life.
He left more than million pounds sterling,
but no will A $4,000 note was found in his
room Ike Dlt OF waste paper.
John Paparrhegopoulous, the Russian consul
at A thens, who held very distinguished di-
plomatic position during the Greek struggle for
independence, and who was well known 10
most of the governments of Europe during the
past forty years, died recently at the Teputed
ace of more than one hundred years. The fun.
eral was attended by the COURT the various di-
plomatic representatives and vast coneourse
of people.
The new Democratic senator from Indiana,
Mr. Joseph E. Mcdonald, has been held in the
cast to be "hsrd money representative of
the organization. The New York Times, how
ever, questions the justice of the appellatiOn.
1t seems that he is only just enough of hard
money man to be opposed to VOORHEES, an d
Holman, and in the light of the action of the
cancus by which he was nominated, it ques-
tions whether his views differ much from the
opinion held by those gentlemen.
Isaac p Chrstiancy, just elected to the Sem
ate from Michigan, has been for seventeen
wears one of the judges of the Supreme Court
and part of the time chief justice, to which
office he was elected twice by the unanimous
vote of both parties. In politics he was orig
nally Depocrat but has been a Free Soiler
and a Republican. He Is 63 years of age and
a resident of Lansir G. He is understood to
favor hard money and revenue tariff, is conser-
vative on constitutional questions, and man
of marked ability.