The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-22
News and Other Items.

Countess of Paris has a son. All WELL
Alfonso's civil list will be fixed at 28,000, 900
reals.
1t is reported that the Carlist are now en-
rolling youths of II years.
DR.. Jos. d. Moody has been bound over a
Lowell for procuring an abortion.
The health of the Emperor of China is criti-
cal.
Prince Leopold is worse. Canon Kingsleys
condition is less favorable.
Forty-seven Carlst officers have notified the
Spanish consul in Bayonne that they have
given in their adhesion to King Alfonso.
The New York Post says that the dry goods
house of Heath, Anderson & Co., of Boston,
has failed.
The New York Assembly has passed bill
extending the time of the Brooklyn court to
enable the Beecher case to be completed.
Springfield appears to be a favorite name for
western towns. Pennsylvania has nine by
that name, Ohio ten and Iowa eight.
Prof. Robert E. Rogers has been elected
President of the Frankli Institute at Phila-
delpha.
A large number of Cherokee Indians are at
Muscongee. Indian Territory, to testify on the
trial of j. w. Wright, who is charged with de-
frauding them.
William B. Astor's tax for this year in New
York is $24O,OOO which is really only tax on
an assessment of $1O,OOO,OOO, which is not one
quarter the full amount of his property.
A California man advertises for wife, beau
ty no object, but wants her friends to deposit
$1,000 with him as security for her good behav-
ior.
Gen. Philip Regis De Trobriand is native
of France, and was for long time connected
with a paper in New York city published in the
French language
A Western editor asserts that it is emo use
trying to publish nonpareil newspaper in a
long primer community which will be readily
understood by the initiated.
The illness of John K. Porter, of counsel for
the defence in the Tilton Beecher case, is so Sc
his place in the trial. His absence is a serious
detriment to he Beecher interest
John II. Mckinley, well known in New
York, had $25O,00O four years ago. He spent
$5O,OOO of it in fitting up bar room on Broad
way, ETC., and now he talks with his friends
and customers through the bars of the debtor
room in Ludlow street Jail.
Richard Grant w bite has settled it that the
proper pronunciation of Cowper is Cooper, and
the Louisville CoaTier-Journal proves it by quo
ting the poets own rhyme from a humorous
poem in which he says:
"a riddle from Cowper,
Made me swear like trooper"
Senor Jimenez and his two sons, Jose Julian
and Nicasio. negroes of the purest type, are
among the best pupils of the Leipsic Conserva-
tore. The father is a violinist, the elder son u
violoncelist, and the younger pianist. They
play trios together like great musical artists,
and are received into society and treated like
their fellow students of white blood.
The new Senator from Pennsylvania, Mr..
Wallace, is of Scotch-Irish descent. and was
born in Huntingdon county, in that state, in
the year 1927; consequently he is forty-eight
years old. At the age of seventeen he began
the study of law, and has been in his sphere
| regarded as an able advocate. He has been a
state senator for twelve years.
A swindler is travelling through Pennsylvania l
representing that he is government officer
authorized to search their premises for coun-
terfeit money. He secured $4,000 in that way
from widowed lady, who had just sold her
farm, from the proceeds of which the fellow
picked the $1,000 and condemned it as counter
felt. He was afterwards captured and made to
dsgorge, but escaped punishment by giving his
captors the slip.
Siege balloons have been given by the French
postal administration to the War Office, which
has established a, Balloon Committee. The
head of that institution is Colonel Laussedat
of the National Engineers. The balloons are
now repairing at the Hotel des Invades, under
the supervision of Jules GODDARD, the youngest
member of the celebrated GODDARD aeronautical
family.
Mrs. Rousby, while playing at the Queens,
London, administered well-marked rebuke to
party who occupied a private box, and who
were talking and laughing loudly and continu-
ously, Drawing herself up to her full height
in front of the box, with whitening glance of
scorn, the fair tragedenne exclaimed: ''Well!
gentlemen when you have quite finished, 1
will 60 on" And she went on.
In the year 1874 there were imported at the
cities of New York and Boston 153,0S2 baskets
of champagne, or 2.S36, 1884 bottles, in fact, con-
siderably less than a bottle and half apiece
for each of us for one year. If there were on
ly 5000 who take bottle day, this would
consume nearly all the imported champagne.
But certainly 5000 bottles day cannot cover
the consumption in these two cities and in the
country they supply. Where, then, does the
rest come from?
The naval armament of the European powers
contains 142 frst-class iron-clads. OF these
England owns thirty-eight, France twenty
eight Austria, Russia, Italy and Turkey tif-
teen each, Germany eight, Spain seven, Dem
mark three, and Greece two. Besides the
iron-clads there and 103 iron cased vessels for
coast protection, and 431 screw frigates and
corvettes England's navy, named for war,
would require 6S, 900 men, $4,000 of whom are
continuously in service.
A Paris correspondent rf the Tribune says:
NJ. de Girardin believes he has the gift of re-
suscitatng dead newspapers. He accomplished
this miracle with La Liberia, whose 20 sub
scribers he bought for 10000 francs $4,000.
In a few days he printed 10000 copies. But
you cannot perform miracles every day. He
has paid $4,000 for the 200 subscribers of La
France. How many has he to-day? Yet he is
still the same sprightly wit and energetic
spirit.
One night recently the gas suddenly went out
in Marseilles and left the whole city in dark
ness. AT the moment gymnast was perform
ing on the flying trapeze in the theatre. He
was even in the air at that very instant, hav-
ing made the leap from one trapeze 10 catch
the other. He caught the other successfully,
but in such a nervous condition that he re-
mained in a convulsive or cataleptic state. He
could not relax his grasp to change his posi-
ton; his muscles held rigidy as steel and his
whole body was fixed swinging like a stone.
He was taken down in that condition and re-
covered next day,