The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-02
Nwe s and Other Items.

The Cincinnati Pork Packers Association
has determined to make an exhibition of the
appurtenances of their trade at the Philade!-
phia Centennial.
In Bell county, Texas, there is farm Of
1900 acres, which is inclosed by one fence and
cultivated by thirty-two owners, every one of
whom is unmarried.
The number of American colleges is reported
by the national commissioner of education to
be 1928; male students attending the same, %,
600; female students, 2849.
Theodore Tilton delivered his lecture Thurs
day night TO an immense audience in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was fire.
quently applauded.
Proclamation has been made by Governor
Kemper, of Virginia. fixing the 18th of Octo-
Der as the day for the unwilling of Foley's
statue of Stonewall Jackson, at Richmond,
Va, and inviting the attendance of patriotic
citizens.
The Rev. w. Fl. II. Murray, at recent So
cial gathering at Boston, announced that his
new society would begin to hold its regular
public worship in Music Hall, in that city next
Sunday morning; that three hundred gentle
men have agreed to rent family pews at fifty
dollars year, each accommodating five per-
sons, SO that with the regular attendants. if
teen hundred seats will be occupied.
A man living in Essex county, Virginia, in
digging well recently, at depth of about
thirty feet came upon the trunks of large trees
several feet in diameter, which were found up
on examination to be cypress. Fearing the
water would be injured by the wood, he deter
mined to abandon his well, and dug another
some distance off. When he had reached about
the same depth he again encountered the trees,
and third attempt at still greater distance
from the first well, again brought him in con-
tact with this subterranean forest, the trees of
which are of great size and well preserved.
Rev. DR. Cuyler says that the history of the
song which Mr.. Sankey sings so often, 1.-The
Ninety and Nine" is curious. 1t originally ap
peared in the corner of an American newspa-
per, from the pen of Miss E. G. Clephane.
When Mr.. Sankey was among the Scottish
Highlands be tried to find some hymn pecu-
liarly SUITED to the pastoral tastes of his audi
tors, who were mainly shepherds He discov-
cred these lines in the Rock, an English Evan
gelical paper. He then adapted to them
wild plaintive air, and they soon sung them
selves into the hearts not only of rustic High
landers, but of lords and ladies in fastidious
London.
Mr. Alexander Fl. Rice, who has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans for Governor of Mas
sachusetts, was born at Newton, in that state,
in 1918. He was graduated from Union Col
lege in 1874. Having been chosen member of
the Boston Common Council, he became presi-
dent of that body in 1853 Three years after
ward he was elected Mayor of Boston, During
the Thirty-sixth Congress he was representa-
tive of his native state and served on the Com.
mittee on the District of Columbia. He was
reelected to the Thlrty-seventh, Thirty eighth
and Thirty-ninth Congress, in which he was
chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
For several years he has been president of the
Board of Trade at Boston.