The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-18
News and Other Items.

New York women are paying Sf5 apiece for
skye terriers to love.
The Christian Advocate speaks up and calls
poor Huxley an evolved polly wog.'
The Mikado of Japan wears trousers, except
on state occasions Lowell Courier.
Herman Lovingood of Ebert county. Ga,
aged LOG years, recently joined the Methodist
church.
A recent st. Augustine, (Fls.) newspaper
mentions "a new dog house, constructed for
one of our citizens
Norwich Bulletin: The loudest of colors
this year, says fashion paper, are from Paris.
Accordingly all the trees hereabouts may be
said to be taking French leaf.
Certain cotton growers of Alabama are just
now trying the experiment of sending uugin-
ned cotton to England. The cotton is first
sun-dried, then pressed into bales as in the first
case of lint cotton, bagged and bound, and
thus sent to market, seed ard all. The object
is to get the English market for the seed and
waste, as well as the clean cotton.
Griffin, Ca, News: A gentleman who went
down the Central railroad last week. told us
that ;he conductor told him that his was the
only fare to Savannah, except one, that he had
tdhcu III lWO WtchS, duu budb idfo was uOh
Catholic priest going down to the afflicted city
on his errani of mercy. The coaches going
into Savannah nova days carry no passengers,
and present mournful emptiness.
Selma, Ala, Times: DIR Vassar reports a
new and alarming disease that has made its az
pearance in the country about Caoabs. 1t is
supposed that it is the result indirectly of the
use af Paris green on the cotton crop. The
worms are poisoned, and the partrdges eat the
worms. The freedmen catch the partridges in
traps aud eat them, and the result Is death in
horrible form-couvulsions aud writings,
aud teeth-gnashing. The disease is confined
almost entirely to the freedmen.
Four travellers crossedithe Niagara recently
by ferry below the Falls, and hired a colored
coachman to drive them to the Clifton House.
says one: Nov, coachman, you have behind
you an Eoglishman, an Irishmao, Scotch.
m an aud Yankee. Which of Us would you
rather draw up the hil?' "rhe Yankee"
"Why?" "Becau1e Yankee if he has only
dollar in his pocket will spend it, while an En-
| glishman if he has thousand, will argue
about quarter" The number Of foreign Wis
| itors at Niagara during the past season, has
| been unprecedentedly large. The hackmen,
however, have perfect antipathy Tor English
men, as worrying, unpsrdonably close, and
| incontinently argumentative class
| The Sunfower is no longer in bloom. II
| was the spirit of an Indian maiden and az
peared nightly at the bidding of Mr.. Bennett
and her husband, partners in the materializa-
ton business, Boston. The discovery of pail
of parafioe aud trap door interrupted the
| course of trade. and the partners we're forced
to make a.desperate effort to demonstrate their
power. On Tuesday night the drap-door was
nailed up, the curtain rea,ranged, and the gas
extinguisbed. The ausky face of the Sun
flower appeared for moment at the curtain
and then vanished. An inquisitive gentleman
quietly announced his purpose to pull up the
boards in the vicinity of the register, where
upon Mrs. Bennett asked for glass of water
and sank to the floor in a state of miseellaG-
eous collapse. The boards came up, and a
large recess between the floor ard the furnace
was revealed. A shtewd-looking woman OF
perhaps 30 years was .clinging to the furnace.
1t was the Sunflower.