The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-12
News and Other Items.

The Typographical survey OF Great Britain
has been going on since 1874, and will require
about ten years for its completion. The cost
thus far has been about S21 ,0O0, 900.
In 1S41 the population of Ireland was S,171,-
124; in 1871, 8 4l2,377. In the last census there
were 7A persons returned as over 100 years of
age.
Bishop Cumming, of the Reformed Espisco-
pal Church, says the new organization has from
forty to fifty cergymen and more than thirty
congregations.
Tyler, Frost & Co., wholesale grooers, and
Bradley & Co., carriage manufacturers, have
failed at New haven. the liabilities of both ag-
gregating 100000.
Probably the first Of her sex to attain TO the
dignity of professor in an American college is
Miss Priscilla Breslin of Vassar, who has just
been elected to the professorship of mathemat-
les in that institution.
The Russian government is said to have con-
ceded to the Mennorites, settled in the empire,
the right of immunity from military service'
provided they will serve the prescribed time in
the imperi Al forests instead.
The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost of Brooklyn, Is
convicted of lying by an Investigating commit
ee of his church. Mr.. Pentecost and wife had
irculated stories derogatory to the honesty of
one of his church members.
1t is said that Mr.. s. j. Walker, one Of Sena-
tor Logan's "sx Chicago millionaires," who
petitioned for more rag money, has recently
had his notes sold at public sale to the amount
of S10O,O0O the p,ices averaging IL per cent. of
face value
1t is said that the editor of the New York
World was just winding up another brilliant
leader on President Grant at Long Branch, ex-
patiating upon neglect of public duties, idle
ness and all that, when some one told him Gov.
Tilden had gone to Long Branch for the sum-
mer The article has never appeared.
Paris newspaper sent special reporter to
Rouen TO report an important centennial. He
sent the following dispatch: "The distribution
of prizes took place at half past four to day.
1t has just terminated and am too hungry to
write you the result You will wait until to-
morrow.
A rich New Yorker has spent $4,000 on a
volume of poems which he is having printed
for private circulation. He is excessively nice
and tickle about the punctuation, which has
been changed go many times that the work
will cost $50 per volume, As the edition will be
Ouly AUU copies.
Rev. Reuben Jeffrey, the minister whom Full
ton tried to crush, but who has built up one of
the largest churches in Brooklyn, left for Eu-
rope Saturday, his expenses all paid by his
church. larger edifce is to be built for him
If his society cannot succeed in purchasing the
building in which Fulton breaches.
AT Schnectady, Saturday, w. H. Craft ac-
complished the feat of walking 300 miles In
100 hours without sleep, finishing Saturday.
He walked the last mile in minutes As sec
onds. He made the whole distance in 9S hours
aud Is minutes 1t is believed that this is the
first time the feat has been accomplished in
this country.
Pools in the University race stand as follows:
Yale, II; Harvard, s.; Wesleyan, 5; Cornell, 2;
Columbia, 4; Dartmouth. 2; the field, g. AT
Kelly's the figures were: Yale, %; Harvard, @:
Wesleyan, 2; Cornell, 6; Columbia, 6; field, 6;
Princeton, 3; Bowdon, 1; Amherst, /; Dart
mouth, l.
Mrs. Grant, who is at Long Branch with her
husband, rides generally in high barouche.
drawn by four black horses, and these are talk
en- core of by two colored gentlemen on the
box. She very rarely misses her afternoon ride.
and is generally accompanied by several of her
children.
Much damage is reported by the recent
storms in Missouri. Miles of track are under
water, and il will be two or three days before
travel is again unobslructed. Hundreds of
hogs, cattle and horses have been drowned.