The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
News and Other Items.

1t is reported that Mrs. Theodore Tilton is
about to open a summer boarding house.
The London cremationists have found 1t I'M
possible to start their company,
Miss Harriet Hosmer is engaged on new
conception of Beatrice Cenci r..
San Francisco is to have new theatre and
hotel combined, to cost 100000.
Louisiana will raise 100000 barrels of rice this
season, or twice as much as last season.
The British surveying party in Palestine be-
lieve they have discovered the cave and city of
Adullam.
The British government has never erected
any memorial at Lucknow, India, in honor Of
the troops who fell during the great mutiny.
Lord Northbrook has now undertaken to do
this at his own expense.
The other day, on the Esquline hill at Rome,
a huge placard, carved with vOtive Inscriptions
to Jupiter, was discovered on portion of the
old walls built around the city in the time OF
the kings In addition little statue of the
same respectable bAt departed god was dug mp
by the wall.
The statement comes very we'll authenticated
that General Butler will not take a hand in the
fall election He has no desire to run for gov
ernor, and his personal friends are left free to
support any candidate they see fit. 1t is Cen
eral Buffers intention to pass his winters in
Washington.
The evidences of the rascality of Abraham
jackson increases every day. A well known
gentleman of Boston, worth a few months
since sixty thousand dollars, gave him power
of attorney to sign his name, having the ut
most confidence in him. Jackson has taken
his last cent
A paper up in eastern Greg m has this gen.
erous announcement GAN those who are in
arrearage for the paper, but calling and settling
the same can have the marks and brands of
their hogs published gratuitously; otherwise
they will be placed upon the black list and
their names published.
A number of petty criminals were p;lloli ID
or whipped at Wilmington, Del, few days
since A young New Jersey highway robber
remarked at the end Of forty lashes:-"l would
rather serve lifetime in the penitentiary
at Trenton than undergo that punishment
again."
In the First Masonic lodge of Jerusalem, it
is said the master is an American, the past
master an Englisbman, the senior warden
German, the junior warden native, the treas
urer a Turk, the secretary Frenchman, the
senior deacon a Persian, aud the junior deacon
n Turk There are Christians, Mohammedans
and Jews in the lodge.
They have hitherto fed the snakes in Il O
Garden of Plants in Paris, on live rats, which
satisfied the snakes and nearly every one else;
but the other day rat became unreasonable,
and differed with a snake worth 2000f, as to
who should eat aud who should be eaten. He
killed the snake, and now they will xii the
rats before they put them in, and won't give
the old fellows q chance,
A pastoral letter from Cardinal Manning and
the Roman Catholic bishops has been read in
the Roman Catholic chapels throughout Eng.
land The pastoral protests against the 'pros-
ecution" which Roman Catholics are suffering
''for conscience sake" iniGermany and Switz-
erland, and accuses the German chancellor
! of eudeavering to point the animosities of
governments against the liberty of the next
conc'aye.