The Portland daily press., 1875-08-31
News and Other Items.


1t is now said that neither Mrs. Rousby mol
Emily Soldene is coming back to this country
as they proposed to do
Gov. Kirkwood of Iowa, has ayowed him
self believer in the distant advent of wo-
mans suffrage.
The Hon. 5. Russell Jones, late United
States Minister to Belgium, says that while
his salary was $4,000 year, it never cost him
less than 500, 600 year to live in Brussels.
Mr.. Robert Dale Ovens health, according t.
an Indianapolis newspaper, is greatly improved
and his physician anticipates his entire recovery
at an early day.
Eli Perkins stole an epigram from an old
writer and wrote, "We thrive by thrift" The
compostor recognizing the writer's chirography
amended the sentence to read, 1--WE live b,
theft"
The st. Petersburg Gazette states that in
tense heat prevails in Finland, and that not 6
drop of rain has fallen there for more thar
three weeks. The grass crops are entirely
scorched, and the forests are burning in seyera
localities.
The manufacture Of sewing machine needles
is carried on extensively in Brockton, Mass,
0hu III WIG poSe yOaI TIC pIOuuCtlUu dG Two
manufactures has been nearly five millions.
At present they are finishing about twenty
thousand needles day.
During the war of the rebellion Egyptian
and Indian cotton found market in Russia,
but since the war American cotton has nearly
driven the other varieties from that market,
and the quantity imported is rapidly ncreas-
ing.
This is the way compulsory education oper.
ates in Scotland. In Glasgow, out of 14,174
not at school, 5846 were sent on account of
warning or remonstrance, 3lO3 after service Of
notice, I'll after the parents had met the school
board, and A after the parents had been pros
ecuted. Both in city and country the law is
said to work WE'LL
The revisers of the New Testament have
been at work five years, aud it is said will pro-
badly require five years more. The latest Lon
don mail advices report that the four gospels
had been completely revised, except two points
yet in dispute to be decided. The Acts and
small Epistles had been revised once, and had
had to undergo second revision. The Epis-
ties of Paul would come next, and take long
time.
1t is said that arrangements for manufactur-
ing coal dust into fuel are success. At the
Harrisburg foundry five machines are making
for this purpose. The Reading Railroad Com
pany are abont to use this coal dust fuel in their
locomotives. The necessities caused by the re-
cent severe coal strike directed attention most
pointedly to the utilization of the waste of the
mines, and the resumption of labor in the coal
region has not stopped investigation.
Says the Davenport Democrat: "The little
mare Lulu. that made the wonderful time of
2.15 at the races at Buffalo, on Tuesday last,
was raised at Davenport, and at one time. about
five years ago, she was offered to Mr.. A. w.
Richmond of Dubuque, for $4,000, and after
that she could have been bought for less mon
ey, but no borsemen at that time, though she
gave promise of being good one, thought she
was safe investment. She was SO Eighty, so
wild, that it was thought she could not be de-
pended on"
Measles in the FIJI Islands were far more
fatal than anybody would believe. The popu-
lation of the principal island was 1900; the
number of deaths by measles 564-more than
one third. Great Britain is noted for her avid
ity in gobbling islands but fate seems to have
decided on leaving her without any population.
The government has hastily granted FAC, 900 as
pecuniary sacrifice to stay the plague, and
fears are entertained that a more serious pesti-
fence Is near at hand, "a deluge eff doctors to
wipe out the rest of the cannibals.
Ills semi officially announced at Paris that
IN consequence of the unanimous wish of
France, there Is now every reason to hope that
the Cathoiics OF Germany will make no pill
grimase TO france. Concerning this subject
London despatch says: "The Times correspon.
dent at Berlin telegraphs that the Pope has
sent his special blessing to the promoters of the
Catholic pilgrimage to France, and it seems
certain tina. the project will be carried out To
avoid collisions the pilgrims will leave Ger
many one by one, and the rendezvous will he at
Mons and Paris"