The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-06
News and Other Items.

vice-Presdent Wilson's lie was insured for
$500.
Joyce is head book-keeper in the st. Louis
penitentiary.
Editor Jennings and Publisher Jones of the
n. Y. Times have been indicted Tor libel on the
complaint of James L. King.
Senator Logan is better but will not be able
to take his seat in the Senate for some time
yet.
The greenback party is going to hold Ma
tional Convention in May to nominate Pres-
dent and vice-President.
The college rowing association voted to in-
vite the crews of Cambridge, Oxford and Dub
lin universities to row at the next regatta.
William M. Evarts, just appointed Centennial
orator, is the grandson of Roger Sherman, one
of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
Ex-Chief clerk of the Treasury Department,
Avery, was convicted at st. Louis. Friday, on
ons count in the Indictment against him. His
Counsel will file motion for a new trial.
The President of the Louisiana state lottery
has offered $4,000 for only five songs from Ii
tiens on the day of the drawing, February the
9th.
Morse Brothers, the proprietors of stove
polish, says the Boston Herald. have shut
down work for short time, but will give each
of the married men in their employ SO week,
single men 50 and girls 50. This pay will go
on even if the hands temporarily obtain work
elsewhere.
An experiment which has been successfully
tried in Pttsburg promises TO revolutionize the
manufacture of iron, and is simply the substi-
tuition of gas for coal. The gas flows from a
well near Pittsburg, and the fuel it furnishes is
equal to 100000 bushels of coal a day, besides
heating iron much more rapidly.
A Washington despatch says that the scene
in the United States Supreme Court when the
decision in the Union Pacific railway case was
announced was novel one. The room was
crowded with the messengers OF stock jobblng
houses in Wall street, and there was great con-
fusion when it was evident how the court had
decided, caused by the rush of the messengers
for the telegraph Office
In consequence of the over stocked condition
of the eastern market and Of the close of navi-
CATION the Philadelphia aud Reading Coal and
Iron Co. has directed the stoppage of thirty or
forty collieries. About 5000 men and boys are
thrown out of employment. Twenty-Five more
individual collieries will also suspend and it is
thought that by Dec 18th, the suspension will
be general and 10000 people in the Schuylkill
region will be without employment
New Orleans had very high toned wedding
last week, when the state senator j. Henri
Burch, editor of the Baton Rouge Grand Era,
married the widow of the late Lieut.. Gov,
Dunn. Bishop Brown went on from Wash
ington to oficate, the toilets were very swell,
there were lots of presents, Gov Kellogg, Mar
tended the reception, and altogether it was
about the grandest affair of the sort colored SO,
ciety in New Orleans remembers.
An interesting historical relic has been
placed recently, in the museum Of the 1nval-
ides at Paris. 1t is the armor which Charles
VII, presented to the maid Of Orleans, and
which the latter, after having been wounded
under the walls of Paris, placed in the church
of st. Dennis. 1t is composed of plates of STEEL
weighs over fifty pounds, and is in all respects
similar to that-now in the collection of Pierre
fonds-which belonged to Joan of Arc at the
moment when she fell into the power of the
enemy at sortie at Campiegne.
At the Friday night meeting of Plymouth
church Mr.. Beecher, referring to the assaults
upon that church said that the time for silence
had gone by; that whatever was to be said and
should be said, would be said, and when the
matters of his church were at issue, he in
tended to be there. In regard to the case of
Deacon West, he wished to say he had not any
other feelings toward the persons brought for
ward in this controversy than feelings of broth
erhood in God. But he thought that when
parties were laboring to iniure the church,
that the church should remove them from fell
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