The Portland daily press., 1875-12-17
News and Other Items.

A New York clergyman received $4,000
marriage fee, last week.
A Texan has written on to the centennial
folks to know if they don't want him to get up
bull-fght for one of the features.
Bismarck, Notwithstanding his long parlia-
mentary experience, is embarrassed, fdgety
and hestatiDg when delivering speech.
Queen Victoria personally conducts Sun
day school for the children connected with
Windsor Castle.
Solicitor of the Treasury Wilson had long
interview with District Attorney Dyer at St.
Louis, yesterday.
MIR. Julius Sheldon of Manchester, England,
is making an exact copy of Shakespeare house
at Stratford-on-Avon for exhibition at our GEN.
tenn ial.
The Rev. Mr.. Glendenning, formerly of Jer-
sey City, has not been altogether success at
Henry, ILL.,, as great many members of the
Presbyterian congregation that called him have
seeded and organized a Congreg gatinnal church.
1t is said to be settled that Don Pedro l., en-
peror of Brazil, will come to Philadelphia early
in the spring. A residence to cost $4,000 has
already been picked out for him, and the Bra
lillian exhibition buildings are going up in the
park.
Vice-President Wilson's death will prob ably
be formally announced in both Houses a week
after the holiday recess. Eulogies will be de-
livered by Senators from Massachusetts, and by
Messrs. Hoar and Warren and also by others
| not yet designated.
The Montreal druggists are very naturally
| good deal stirred up over a new bill before
| the Legislature allowing nuns to manufacture
/ drugs, remedies for maladies. etc. The nuns,
l you see, pay no taxes, and can therefore beat
l all competition.
Sharks are said to have done considerable
damage to the fisheries in the lower st. Law
i renee this season. So numerous have they
| been that 81 were taken on a single system of
nets at the mouth of the Saguenay, last week,
into which they had followed school of por-
poises and become entangled.
Mr.. Ruskin, at present. is advocating dancing
as part of religious education, and thus assails
young lady Sunday school teachers: cat pres
ent," he says, 'you keep the dancing to your
selves, and graciously teach your scholars the
catechsm. Suppose you were to try for a little
while learning the catechism yourselves and
teaching them to dance"
A letter from Leghorn states that the marble
statue of Gen. Baker, who was killed at llrs
Bluffs, was shipped on thes 10Th of November
for the United States. This was the last work
of DR.. Stone, who recently died in Italy. Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 for the statue, which
is to be placed in the old hall of representa-
tives.
| At the transportation convention at Chicago,
| Thursday night, Gov. Bross introduced reso-
luton favoring the enlargement of the Welland
canal and st. Lawrence river, to secure an out
let for the largest lake vessels to the ocean. III.
w. f. Lewis, editor of the Western Rural, read
long article on the extorti,ns practiced by
eastern warehouse men on western produce,
which excited lively debate.
United States Marshal Maxwell of Utah,
states that after having carried the burden of
territorial prosecutions for year and half
upon $13, 200, and $500 from the territory, it is
no wonder that the multitude of jurors, wit
nesses and guards should be clamoriDg for their
Just dues. Unless he receives aid in meeting
the expenses of the courts, he proposes to sus-
| pend operations January 1st.
A singular character, named Alexander Hell
fenstone, died in the poor-house at Eliz lbeth,
| j., last week. He was man of fine educa-
| ton, and one of the most complete masters of
surgery in the country. He ran away from his
family some years since, and has since gone
down, step by step, till he died in the slms.
house. Till few days before his death he
would not tell anything about his history.
A few days ago an elegantly dressed lady
| got into a Madison avenue New York; car. and
although the day was cool, she could not wear
her gloves on account of her many diamond
rings. balky horse having twice stopped the
car, the lady went to the door, and, looking at
the team for few moments, said to the driver:
"Tha5 ere off horse amt used to be druv on
| that ere sde." And that was just the trouble
in spite of the diamonds
Colonel Richard Henry Lee, the grandson of
Richard Henry Lee, of Revolutionary fame,
| who has been selected to read the Declaration n
of independence at the opening of the Centen-
nial Exhibition, is a successful lawyer of Mil
wood, Clarke county, Va He is nephew of
Charles Lee, who was Attorney General of the
United States during part of Washington's
administration, and of Light Horse Harry
| Lee" and is a cousin of the late General Rob-
| ert E. Lee.
| The Delaware peach growers have Just got
| the figures of the past seasons business footed
up, and find that there we're used by dstlleries
225,OO0 baskets; by canning factories, 576O54;
shipped to markets, 1851 ,662 baskets; total
| yield of 0,7S2.716. This yield is in excess of
any three previous seasons combined. The
crops of 1871, ~ and '73 were the largest pre-
vious to this year, and the total yield OF the
three years was S,175,33I baskets. The net
profit to the growers is put at Sl,OlS,OOO from
all sources, or trihe over III cents per basket.
The larger part OF the receipts went for paying
freight,