The Portland daily press., 1875-03-26
News and Other Items.

The King of Spain has conferred on frlnce
Bismarck the Order of the Golden Fleece.
What's in name? The London Fortnightly
Review is issued once month, and the Sacra-
mento Weekly Union is issued twice week.
Why not get I'D pronouncing contests? Many
persons spell correctly who cannot pronounce
phthrough.-Chicdgo Journal
Maferon, one of Ristori's company, is said
to bear a striking personal resemblance to
Whtelaw Reid.
Elk Gov Moses of South Carolina is said to
be running faro bank at Columbia in that
state.
Gov. Pacheco of California, is an adept in
the Western accomplishment of throwing the
lasso, and has often assisted in the capture of
grizzly bears by this means.
A young lady in Chicago, who accompanied
her beau to a spelling sociable the other even
ing, gave him the mitten because he spelled it
with one and an o.
Occdent the California trotter, will start
east OF or about April LIST for the spring and
summer faces among our fastest horses Budd
Doble has charge of him.
At Chicago spelling match the word ''bour-
geois" knocked down Tribune reporter. He
had not begun his journalistic career as COM
positor.
A kind hearted baker in Charlestown, Mass.
who regularly filled basket with broken bread
for a female beggar every morning, was some
what surprised the other day to ascertain that
she was a boarding house keeper, and that ten
people daily sat at her table.
Eli Perkins, who is writing up the Beecher
trial from Brooklyn for one paper, and the
condition of the south and west from various
points there for the Chicago Inter Ocean paus
ed in his ubiquitous pursuits the other day and
was married by Dr. Potter of Grace church,
New York.
A tramp gave the name of Charles sullivan
at the police station in Springfield, the other
night, but sharp question made him own to
James Sullivan and another to John Sullivan.
When asked why he gave three names instead
of one, like an honest man, be said, 81 kinder
stutter."
Prof. Thomas Chase, formerly tutor in Har-
ward University, and well known as the editor
of editions of Virgil, Horace and Livy, has
been chosen President of Haverford College. at
Haverford. Pa. Professor Chase is one of the
committee appointed in this country to work
in cooperation with similar body OF scholars
in England, in revising the new translation OF
the Bible.
The fine wool sheep, formerly the pride of
Vermont farmers, as well as source OF wealth.
have almost disappeared from the state, those
who still continue sheep-raising having now
three or four ''clps' on hand, with little pros
pect of selling at a living price. The dairy
business is now one Of the best paying in the
state, and the demand for Vermont cheese is
constantly increasing
The Pittsfeld Eagle has story to the effect
that Bessie Turner, of Beecher-Tilton notorie-
ty, is long-lost daughter of Bartlett McDer-
mott, now living in Lee, Mass, who placed
her, with two sons, when children, in an Or
phan asylum in Brooklyn, on account of the
death of their mother. They were afterwards
adopted by different persons, and he lost trace
of them for twelve years. when the boys were
discovered, but not the daughter, whose where
abouts were not learned till the developments
of the Beecher scandal appeared,