The Portland daily press., 1875-12-23
News and Other Items,

Gen. Richard Taylor of Louisiana, son of
Paris.
A Hoosier jury has brousht in a verdict,
'Guilty, with come doubts about his being the
man that did it,
Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina, has re-
fused to issue the commissions of Whipper and
ex-Gov. Moses, the obnoxious judges elect, fl
ing statement of his reasons.
The Ashtabula News says there are plenty of
absent-minded men in the world, but the gen.
tleman on the South Ridge, not far from Ash
tabula, who was milking his COW in a peck
basket, and only dessted after repeated calls
from his wife, is as exasperating case as we
have heard of lately. And this is fact.
As the incidental result of an attemp. to de-
ternine the length of time which must elapse
between the ingestion OF dose of alcohol and
its disappearance from the brain, Rajewsky dis
covered that the brain and other viscera either
normally contain alcohol, or else this substance
is generated from them in the course of distil.
1ation in closed vessels.
Won Bulow has had TO stop his piano in
concert at Washington. to demand that the au-
ulCuOC otOp uispClluSs VuusiChi duu
people say that Washington audiences are the
most boorish and il-mannered in the country,
and that the chief offenders are the young larks
who belong to the various foreign legations,
and think it fine to show that musicians and
actors are beneath their attention.
A brewing firm in Philadelphia has contract
ed with the centennial board of directors for
the monopoly OF the sale of beer upon the
grounds, for which they are to pay $50, 900.
The capacity of the establishment is 135, 900
barrels per annum, and as they expect to dis
pose of 100000 barrels, they are already max
ing contracts in other cities to help them make
up the deficiency.
A London despatch says an international
four-oared shell race. for $4,000 gold and the
championship of the world, has been arranged
between the champion four of Newcastle, viz:
Boyd, Sunsden, Hipplswhite and Bagnall, and
the Paris crew of st. Johns, N B., Price, Hut
on, Ross and Fulton. They are to row six
miles on the Kennebecasis river in April next,
the Paris crew allowing expenses.
A young woman of Ottawa, Ont, died re-
Gently of a disease that puzzled all of the ply
sicians the most peculiar symptom of which
d
would seize greedily large pitcher of water and
drain it entirely. The doctors were so much
puzzled about the case and SO anxious to solve
the mystery that they threatened to take the
BODY after burial, as her mother refused to al
low them to make an autopsy, and for fully
month her friends watched the grave.
The excitement in Sau Francisco over the
presence and employment by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company of Cart Wsddell, former
~ of the confederate privateer Sheoando al ;
was such that the Alta printed double-leaded
article deprecating auy mob demonstration
against him. The Alta says 'It has been rs-
ported along the city from. that a number of
whalemen who suffered so terribly teu years
age, aud who are serving o. board The whaling
ieet now rec; uitins at this port, have aIr2Dged
10 aoduct Capt. Waddell, aud give him re.
markably lively cruise in tue Arctic before the