The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-25
News and Other Items.

The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
that the payment of January interest be com.
menced on Monday next without rebate.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Fleiss gives bis sixth annual
Christmas dinner to the newsboys of New
York to-day. Nearly 1000 newsboys will par
ticipate.
In his early life ex-Speaker Blaine was pro.
essor of mathematics in Drennon College,
KY, and at the time Gen. Bushrod johnson
now at the head of the military institute, Nash
vile, Tenn, was professor in the same insti-
tuition. A number of citizens of Tennessee,
educated at Drennon, still have diplomas of
graduation with the signatures of Messrs.
Blaine and johnson attached.
The very liberal exemption laws of Iowa
allow E. f. Allen, the bankrupt banker of Des
Moines and Chicago, to hold his residence,
which cost $4,000, and grounds amounting to
14O acres. beside 40 acres outside the city linn
its-so that he is pretty well fixed for personal
comfort and the possessor of sufficient capital
to begin anew. His creditors, or portion of
them at least, are not SO well fixed.
The Hon. George Bancroft told reporter of
the Philadelphia Item, recently, that the com,
ing Centennial exhibition would 10 every re-
spect excel any international exhibition ever
before given. He thinks it will drive away
hard times and encourage immigration to an
astonishing extent. Mr.. Bancroft thinks the
next presidential campaign will be the most
exciting one of our history
Blondin, the tight rope walker, has been
heard from again. On the 18th of October last
while on the Indian steamship Poonah, ard at
sea, he walked on finch hawser from the
main to the mizzen-topmast and back. 1t is
said that with the rolling of the ship and the
vibration of the powerful engines the rope was
drawn into such sinuous waves that it closely
resembled snake. Bondiu was frequently
obliged to sit down as the ship rode a heavy
swell.
Talking of Christmas presents, the magnifi
cent jewels which were lately the property of
the:Empress Eugenie, and which have just
been purchased by the Maharajah of Putiaka,
comprise brilliant cut diamond necklace COM
posed of eighteen large brilliant shape dia-
mond and eleven smaller diamonds; also eleven
brilliant cut drop-shape diamonds; a pair of
large brilliant cut diamond earrings composed
of two large brilliant shape diamonds, two
small diamonds and two large brilliant cut
drop-shape diamonds, silver setting; single
stone brilliant, the "Potachin" diamond. The
price is rumored to have been about 100000.
1t is now thought that the expenses of the
Prince of Wales's visit to India will be SO much
larger than the estimates that a supplement
tary grant will be needed to meet them. The
correspondent of tie London Times writes:
"The estimates for travelling in India have
been justified, and Greece and Egypt have been
done for the same which were put down for
them, and the run on the princes 'tosheek-
haDa,' or treasure room, has been very much
more heavy than was expected, notwithstand-
ing the extreme'care and pains of the officers
charged with the distribution; and On this head
alone, it is said, there will be large deficit"
The story that David A. Wells and Carl
Scnurz are about to become the responsible edi-
tors Oh tne Public (newspaper), formerly called
the Financler, of New York, is untrue. Its
possible that both roay form a nominal cor
nection with the Public as ocorresnondino edi-
tors, but that Journa',as was announced when
it changed its names, will remain under its
present competent management Mr.. Wells is
at present wholly occupied in supervising the
publication of new book on politico-economic
subjects, which is likely to surpass any of his
former efforts to inculcate sound economic doc
trine in this country.
The Keely motor is by no means dead, as the
long silence concerning it might have led some
to suppose. On the contrary, it was recently
crystalized by the organization of company,
the election of directors and active preparation
OF the machinery that is to generate and con-
.roi the mysterious and wonderful force which
Is now profound secret to the many. The
generator that is being built is of Austrian
Dronze' and said to be capable of resisting
pressure OF $4,000 pounds to the square inch
The new receiver is perfect sphere of thirty
inches interior and forty-two inches exteriar
diameter, weighing 1000 pounds The prepar-
alton will be completed in PHILADELPHIA. and in
about three months after all this powerful and
peculiar machinery begins to operate the mate.
rial interests of the world will suddenly be nro.
PEELED forward many stadia of progress on a
pint of water. The capital is 81 900, 900, and it
is divided into 10000 shares of $50 per share.
and all these have been taken up by lis per.
sons.