The Portland daily press., 1876-04-15
News and Other Items.

Australia exported, in 1875, gold dust to the
amount of $15,SSS,525.
Secret societies are being organized by the
Chinese throughout Nevada.
One thousand men will be employed in the
Consolidated Virginia Mine this summer.
The site on which Cincinnati is built was
sold for less than fifty silver dollars in 1887.
Mrs. Harriet Gray of Marquette has invented
alabor-saving tea kettle. 1t gets up in the
morning, splits the wood, builds the fire, puts
itself on and makes the coffee, and then calls
the folks to breakfast.
Titiens said to Mrs. Graut: "You have never
been in Europe" The reply was: mo; not
yet. But Mr.. Grant will soon be at leisure,
and then, no doubt, we shall CO."
The Glendenning ministerial scandal in
Jersey City does not quiet yet The adherents
of the ex-minister have just presented the
trustees with bill for 81, 1000 for money ad-
vanced to the late pastor
A Milwaukee man, who has had his ears
painted with alternate stripes of red, white and
blue. wraps them couple of times around his
neck, then ties them in sailor knot under
his chin, tucks the ends beneath his vest, and
calls them a centennial scarf. 1t is neat and
ingenious fashion, and will be largely followed
by Milwaukeeans who dislike to have their ears
Tapping in the wind.
Kate Heath, a New York adventures, who
has by questionable industry amassed about
$150000, including $5000O in government
bonds, has just died, and there is going on a
very lively row for her property. A 'friend'
has her last will and testament, giving it all to
him, but her housekeeper says it is hers, and
that the pew will is a fraud done while Heath
suffered from softened brain.
Mr.. Robert G. Winthrop, the president of the
Washington Monument Association, has sug.
gested plan to facilitate the completion of
the monument which was adopted by the
association last Thursday night. He proposes
that the design shall no longer comprehend
the temple of pantheon, which forms part of
the original plan, but shall be simple shaft
or obelisk; that all notion of surrendering the
charter, or allowing the monument, as far as
finished, to be taken down shall be emphati-
cally disavowed, and that from time to time
subscriptions shall be asked until fund is
accumulated sufficient to carry the monument
up to height of three hundred feet.
The late chief clerk of the General Land
Office, L. K. Lippincott who was. summarily
dismissed by Secretary Chandler some weeks
ago for being engaged in defrauding the
government by means of fraudulent Chippewa
land scrip, has turned up missing and efforts to
ascertain his whereabouts have proved fruit
less. Lippincott was indicted by the grand
jury in Washington, but before he could be
arrested, fled the country, and is supposed to
have taken refuge in some foreign country. A
full investigation of Lippincott's rascality
shows that he was paid about $4,000 for
passing one thousand fraudulent claims for
Chippewa land scrip, through the General
Land Office.
Pesach N. Rubenstein of New York, the
murderer, began the celebration of the Jewish
feast of the Passover on Saturday night. He
put on long, white cloak, trimmed his lamp,
prayed fervently standing before the light and
read the history of the Passover. The cloak.
on the neck and hem of which are Hebraic
characters, and the little lamp bad been brought
to him by his father, who also furnished
sweetened cakes of dough and water, honey.
dried.and canned fruits and butter. He was
asleep on the floor of his cell Thursday after
noon. He has, since he commenced his feast,
refused to do anything that might be consid-
cred manual labor, and would not even wind
his watch
One of the Democratic committees has at
last discovered full-fedged sensation. Being
in hot pursuit of Secretary Robeson, it called
for certain kilograms, and obtained among
others one in cipher, which was regarded as
very suspicious from the number of arbitrary
words which it appeared to contain. A key
and an explanation was insisted upon, when
the following terrible case of official corrup-
tion, clearly involving high crimes and misde-
meanors, came to light:
CAMDEN, New Jersey.
To Secretlry Robson, Washington, D. c.:
The baby is troubled with teething. and
weaving at this time the doctor thinks NAV be
dangerous. He advises the employment OF a
wet nurse, IT sound and healthy one can be
found.
(Signed) MARY"