The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-01
News and Other Items.

Gen. Sheridan has arrived at Portlsnd, Ore.
gon.
Steamships City of Montreal and Batavia
have arrived at Queenstown.
The Governor of Kansas denoupces one G. S.
Smith who is in the Eastern states collecting
funds for Kansas sufferers, as fraud.
Jeremiah A. CrumO has been committed for
trial at Providence fer the murder of the waiter
Cowden.
A st. Louis doctor offers to give $1,000 for
case where ripe watermelon has injured any
ones health. He says such case can't be
found
A compositor 10 the Fremont (Pa.) Journal
Office has in his possession the original compos-
ing-stick which Benjamin Franxlin used while
learning the printing business. Il is made of
copper and is quite curiosity.
Governor Peck of Vermont has commissioned
Preston Powers to make statue of Senator
Collamer, to be placed in the Capitol at WASH
ington. The work was originally assigned to
Hiram Powers, his father, but he died before
beginning it.
1t is said that every steamer from China now
lands one thousand Cinnamon at San Francis
Co. 1t is wo thy of note that they are becoming
quite numerous 10 the east. Probably there are
twenty Cinnamon 10 Boston to-day where there
was one five years ago.
Shelby (Ky.) Republican: The worst case of
selishn-ss that we have ever been permitted to
present to the public, emanated from youth
who complained because his mother put big
ger mustard plaster on his younger brother
than she did on him, after they had partaken a
tlo t-.F L. e ,~-J
Mis- Minkler of Story county, New, deserv-
ed a better fate. Both her arms were taken
off at once by the sickle of reaper. Her ia
ther and the hired man were paralyzed with
horror Miss Minkler quietly called to them
each to seize the stumps above the wounds and
compress them, which they did. She then told
them to walk her to the road, and they obeyed
She was taken home smiling, the wounds
were dressed and the poor girl Is going to re-
cover.
Mr.. Conway rays that when Dean Stanley
was visiting the grave of Wesley, behind the
Oldest Methodist chapel in London, he asked
the old sexton, who stood by with uncovered
head, whether it was ''consecrated ground -
The sexton replied, Eyes" The dean, who was
speaking in the technical sense, further asked,
"By whom?" meaning by what bishop. The
sexton said: SIT is consecrated by the position
of the dust of the servant of God, John Wes-
ley" Dean Stanley will soon put, at his own
expense, window in Westminster abbey COM
memorative of the two Wesleys.
A letter from Havana says: can old gentle
man, Don Rafael Gonzalez. who died recently
in Calientes, 10 the Vuelta Abajo district, was
ablo IN colohrot 70 hic contonn;oI NTH 6va yaoru
to boot. He lived to the age of 105, and had
two sick spells-one when he ran nail into his
foot, and the last, which took him so much by
surprise that it carried him off. He had ten
sons-seven married and three single. The
married sons gave him ninety nine grand-chil-
dren, and these in turn had 166 children; to
these last four children have been born. So,
upon his death, Mr.. Gonzalez left 279 immedi-
ate descendants, four of whom were great
great-grandchildren.'
An incident containing all the ingredients of
a romance occurred on the last trip of the
steamer Rotterdam, from Rotterdam to New
York. Among the cabin passengers were a
Mr.. Van Seller aud Miss Maria Reuter-. They
were engaged to be married, and to give the
event an air of romance, had decided to have
the cerem ony performed on board the ship in
.mid-ocean. On the evening preceding the day
fixed for the wedding, while the lovers Were on
deck viewing the magnificent sunset and con-
versing on the plans they had arranged for
their future happiness, as well as indulging 10
"reminiscences of other days, it trauspired that
the young lady was the young mans halfsis-
ter. 1t appeared from explanations given to
the passengers that Van Seller left bis home in
Amsterdam when only ten years old, shipping
as cabin boy on boart d vessel bound for the
West Indies. He revisited mis- native place
after lapse of five years, but finding that his
father had died during the interval and his
mother had married again, he shipped once
more, and never returned home until about two
months ago, when he was unable to find any
trace OF MS mother. During visit to Rotter
dam he met Miss Reuter-. and an at, .cbment
at once sorang 10 between them, which result
ed 10 40 engagement of marriage. In TALKING
about their early days they accldentallv d.scov,
cred their relationship to each other. 1t has
been arranged that Miss Reuter- will return
home 10 the next steamer, add hat her bro h.
err beng rich, wi provide for her. This story
Is vouehed for by Mr. Nieuman, who was
passenger on board the vessel.