The Portland daily press., 1875-03-30
News and Other Items.

The Chicago Tribune, in commenting on
Senator Andrew Johnson's Louisiana speech,
calls him 'vain, miserable monument OF
national forbearance and forgiveness"
The refusal of boot-black of Cincinnati to
recognize the civil rights bill to the extent of
giving his services to colored customer is one
of the latest episodes of the new dispensation
Bishop Huntington defines ritualist as
"modern Anglican sentimentalist making
postures in the grave clothes of a dead de-
lusion.'"
At a meeting in Liverpool of the subscribers
to the Chicago relief fund, it was resolved to
divide the surplus balance, amounting to
e3, ,3S7, between the local charities.
1t is said that Jay Gonld is likely to again
obtain control of the Erie Railway, as be holds
$50 900 shares of the stock which will ensure
him majority in the July election.
A cremation case has occurred in Berkshire
England. The child of a woman named Fanny
johnson dying, she cut the body in pieces and
burned them in stove. She was arrested.
The blanket of snow, which has covered the
Northwest this winter, has been the salvation
of the winter wheat, accounts of which are
highly satisfactory.
WllIlam ENeT6li, d SUI Vi lSuNdiO HNOAOepj
and assistant professor of Latin III Harvard
University, will deliver the poem before the
Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Brown
University, at the next annual commencement.
All Sin is becoming civilized. He was mar
ried in Sacramento, on Wednesday, to Miss
Ah Toy, whom the Bee describes as "a little
almond-eyed horror, on the shady SIDE of sweet
sixteen" She must be pretty plaything.
The most cruel thing that the baggage
smasher has yet done was to break Detroit
box directed to the grasshopper sufferers, and
reveal that it contained only old boots, frozen
potatoes, and card inscribed, "The Lord
loveth cheerful giver."
They make a happy disposition of persons
inclined to suicide in Middlesex, England At
| the Hanwell Asylum four hundred patients of
| a suicidal tendency had been received during
the past year, and the product of their industry
| saved the county over $4,000.
When A. J. and B. B. heard of the Hon. j..
| Proctor Knott's lecture on 'The Model States
man." blush suffused their cheeks, and they
looked at each other with that benevolent ex-
preston which often accompanies conscious
but modest superiority.
The Graphic has published a portrait of
| Byron's s.Maid of Athens as she is now, and
the St. LOUIS Republican is not surprised that
he cried, ''Give, oh give me back my heart!
1t is time she 'took the rest" he prescribed for
| her.
Adelina Patti recently took her benefit at
st. Petersburg, the opera being "Rigoletto. u
The Gar sent for her during the evening and
| offered his congratulations, and diadem COM
posed of sapphires and diamonds was presented
to her by subscription.
The receipts from the ducby of Lancaster in
1874 were 1000 and expenses el5,O0O. The
receipts from the ducby of Cornwall were
eS6,923 of which e65, ,9O1 went for the use oi
the Prince of Wales, who is also Duke OF Corn
wall. The revenues from Lancaster belong 10
the Queen.
Rev. w. NJ. Parry of Worcester, who has
ust returned from.a swing around the circle,
announced Sunday that hereafter his church
will be conducted on the circus plan. Tickets
will be sold from five to twenty-five cents,
according to location, with a liberal discount to
constant attendants. No free list.
AT the st. Louis dinner to the civil engineer,
James B. Eads, General Sherman, in response sc
to toast, said that he "prayed that the life
and strength of Captain Eads be spared unit
he should see the Great Eastern steamship q
up the Mississippi river TO New Orleans to re
ceive 200 tons of superfne ST. Louis -four t
carry back to Sheerness and London"