The Portland daily press., 1875-10-06
News and Other Items,


The last surviving child of John O. Calhoun,
the South Carolina statesman. died recently in
that state.
Mrs. Lincoln, who is staying with her sister
at Springfield, H., accosts every one with,
Snow, you don't believe me insane, do you?"
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been at Colorado
Springs recently and is described as looking
sadly broken down in health and physically,
appearing like man from whom little harm
can be feared.'
The collecting of monograns is the latest
wrinkle among the young ladies' When large
number are obtained the young ladies paste
them on their fans, and the one who has the
most and finest holds her head in lofty scorn at
everybody else.
English papers tell of a tramp who being ar
rested for stealing goose, told the Judge that
he had been lying asleep by the roadside, that
when he awoke the goose was by his side, that
it persisted in following him, and that finally
he took it up only to return it to its cwner. The
Judge thought the yarn somewhat apocryphal,
aud the prisoner found his goose was cooked
for thirty days in prison.
The fourth centennial anniversary of the bat
tie of the Morat, in which Charles the Bold
lost bis life, is to be celebrated on the 23d of
june 1876, by the Swiss, the Alsatians and the
Suabans. A procession is to revive the cos
tunes and arms of the period, displaying on
the field of battle itself the banners of the
towns, districts, abbeys and corporations which
took part in the engagement.
German paper expresses uneasiness at the
decreasing population of Prussia proper Be-
tween 1861 and 1864 there was an increase of
S409, but between 1864 and 1867 there was a
decrease of II ,992, and between 1867 and 1871
one of 56,440. Allowing for the loss of life in
the two last wars, and for the Prussiau SOL
diers quartered in France at the time of the
census, the loss of population in ten years
amounts to 81, 200.
And now turns up man to blast the tradi-
tions about Gen. Taylor's saying at the battle
of Buena Vista. "a little more grape, Capt.
Bragg" Its only foundation, according to this
iconoclast, is the fact that one of his subordi-
nate officers having said, General, 1 shall
have to fall back with my battery or lose it."
the general replied: "Capt. Bragg it is better
to lose battery than battle.''
remarkable escape was that which a man
had neac Niagara Falls the other dav. On the
Canada bank of the river, between the new
suspension bridge aud Table Rock, is foot
path which in a number of places is on the
very edge of tie precipice, and the man acci-
dentally fell over the cliff just at the point
where there was projection of rock, some
twelve feet below the edge, upon which he
caught, and was rescued by ropes. Had he
been standing three feet on either side of
where he was when he fell, he would have
gone 100 feet
The Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday has
letter from Indianapolis, in which the writer
says he has received call from Robert Dale
Owen. He was alone, and to all appearances
perfectly sane. The wild expression of the
eyes so noticeable when he entered the asylum,
is entirely gone, and the firm step and ruddy
face indicate returning health. He is still re-
garded an inmate of the asylum, but intends
returning to New Harmony before winter sets
in. He reads much but yet writes little.
He is now just beginning to realize how badly
off he was when his sons brought him here
three or four months ago.
Koop, one of the parties in the boat with
Rev. DIR. Porteous, when it was upset at Sea
Cliff the other day, and the latter gentleman
drowned, has at last found his tongue, and says
ing out; that at the time of the accident Ben
jamn was trying to pass to the stern where DIR.
Porteous sat so as to be able to converse easier,
and losing his balance, put his foot upon the
rail to save himself, when the yawl cap
sized. Koop and Porteous made several efforts
to cling to the boat which rolled over once and
then he lost sight Of him 10 his struggles to
save his children.
The remains of Edgar Allan Poe were disin-
tered last week in order to prepare a suitable
foundation for the monument that is to be
erected over his grave; the coffin, in state of
good preservation, after having lain nearly 20
years, was reached at the depth of about i've
feet and the skeleton was in almost perfect
condition, lying with long, ,bony hands reposing
one upon the other, as they had been arranged
| in death. The skull bore marks of greater de-
cav. the teeth from the upper jaw having; be-
come dislodged but those in the lower were all
in Mace and some little hair was still clinging
near the forehead. The coffin was inclosed in
another and re-interred.
Mrs Tilton and her mother, Mrs. Morse, are
living at house on Madison street, BROOKLYN.
They had kind of house warming there on
Wednesday night, at which the Plymouthites
appeared in force, and asympathetic purse of
$iO0 was subscribed TO Mrs. Tilton. Donations
of erockery and other necessaries are being
made, aud doubtless the family will be COM
Portable. Thursday, Mrs. Tilton went to Nor
walk to meet her children, Alice, Carroll and
Frank, who are returning from school at wash
ington, CT. Miss Florence Tilton went to meet
them at the Forty-second street depot, The
result was that Alice went with her mother,
and the.boys-Raph iucluded-wsnt to their
father.-[New York Star.