The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-19
News and Other items.

The potato bug has appeared in Maryland
and commenced it's ravages
Carl Schurz will commence his lecture tour
in New England Nov. 1st
Queen Victoria has granted Lady Helps $500
year out of the civil list.
Governor Beveridge of Illinois pardoned out
in one week eight convicts sentenced to the
penitentiary for long terms.
The Fisk jubilee singers sailed last week for
another tour through England.
Miss Rye states that of all the children she
has sent into Canada not more than three per
cent have turned out badly
President Eliot, not satisfied with intro
ducing military exercises at Harvard, has
headed petition for similar innovation in
the Cambridge High School.
The only gold medal of President Washing
ton of 1890 now in existence in this country
was exhibited at the last meeting of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society.
Hon. T. w. Park of Bennington, Vt, is said
to be worth sly 100000, and the fourth man in
point of wealth in this country. His new
silver mines in California are yielding $4,000
per day.
A quarrel between the Rev. DR.. Chapin's
wife and some of the officers and deacons OF
the church has resulted in the secession of
several of the weathiest pew-holders, and
threatens to break up the Society.
The Toledo Commercial says the most prom
inent candidates for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton ia Ohio now are Hon. V. B. Horton of
Pomeroy, Judge AIphonso Taft of Cincinnati,
and General 1. r. Sherwood of Bryan.
Ex-Gov. R. c. Powers of Mississippi is not
overwhelmingly impressed with the probity of
the average juryman. He was foreman of the
grand Jury of Noxubee county recently, and
after finding an unusually large number of
true bills for larceny, the jury adjourned.
After they had gone, Mr.. Powers examined his
pockets, and found that one of them had
relieved him of a purse containing S75.
The next centennial celebration in Boston,
after that of Bunker Hill, will be on July Sd.
the anniversary CT Washington's taking COM
mand of the army. The committee appointed
to decide upon the matter report that in their
opinion it should be "lnore local in its scope
and intellectual in its aim than was the case at
Lexington and Concord, or than will be at
Bunker HILL" The "intelectuaP' part of that
opinion is not calculated to excite the most
amiable feelings.
James Lick is an eccentric individual. His
old neighbors represent him as leading an
isolated and cynical life. Severely parsimonous,
he yet has streaks of queer extravaganza. A
FIGURING mill near San Jose, which, with
adjoining land, he gave to the Paine Memorial
hall of Boston, was built by him with slow ald
expensive painstaking. The inside was par
a. md ho Ton Of
the building and about the grounds were placed
numerous dove-cotes, bis tribute of sympathy
for his poor animal relatives.
The workmen at the locomotive works at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, have just built
locomotive named after Senator Andrew john
son. On a panel on each side of the cab is
painted the name of the Senator in gilt letters,
while just above is the representation of pair
of shears, bearing the inscription, "From
Tailor to President" A portrait of Mr. John
son is painted on the rim of the tender, while
at each corner, encircling laurel wreath, are
the words, 81 will make Rome howl. The
Union and the Constitution"
The recent numerous applications of the OBJ
noxious Privilege rule in the House of Com
mons. by which one irascible member can by
calling the attention of the Speaker to the
presence of strangers cause their election, re-
suited, the other day, in dreadful scandal
from which the shaken nerves OF society have
hardly yet recovered. The Prince of Wales,
the monarch-to be of Great Britain, was
actually turned out of the House of Commons
along with Prince Christian, the German
ambassador, aud a number of other dis:in-
guished people.
The gifts presented to Miss Charlstte Cush-
man in Boston on Saturday evening consisted
of two fine bronze figures representing Mer-
curry and Fortunate. With the fancy pedestals
upon which they were mounted they stand
about seven feet from the floor. AT the base OF
one of them was a large floral harp, typical
of Miss Cushman's earliest efforts as VOCALIST
at the foot of the other was Tyre. In Inc
centre of the stage, upon a table, was an
immense floral crown, conveying the idea OF
Miss Cushmans queeny supremacy in the
drama, leaning against which was wreath OF
laurel. The presentation speech was made by
Mr.. Curtis Guild
An interesting lawsuit has just been decided
at Wilmington, Del, where the possession of
large property turneds ON the decision of the
question whether baby which was Indisput-
ably dead, few minutes after it was born, had
during those few minutes sufficient life to give
it a legal existence if yes, the share of its
mother (who died in the confinement) in her
fathers estate remained with her husband
during his lifetime; if no, it went to her
brothers On the one hand, it appeared that
the baby's heart had certainly beat few times;
on the other, that there was no sign of breath
ing, that all efforts to establish respiration soon
failed, and that the attending physician de-
scribed the child in his death certificate as
"still-born.' he jury decided that the child
was really alive for few minutes, and the
property remains with the father.