The Portland daily press., 1876-09-27

Col A. A. Seaver of Philadelphia is missing,
with unpaid debts amounting to $4,000.
The Newburg, N. Y, Telegraph, Demo-
cratic newspaper, Is years old, is dead for want
of support.
BIlse, the Theodore Thomas of Berlin, Is to
have pew and very grand music hall in Ber-
lin, to cost $25O,OOO. 1t will be the largest and
finest Of the kind in all Europe.
Newport has had its last fashionable game Of
polo for the season. The club now is going to
purchase sheep and keep them 10 its grounds
until next spring. fI..--.
AT its opening in Chicago last week. Stewart
& Co.'S new store had 5000 cases of goods on
hand and 200 clerks. The business prospect is
said to be f1attering. r -fs
The noise of the He'll Gate explosion was
heard in Ridewood, N. j., % miles away,
minute after the mine was fired. The vlbra-
ton was felt as far as Bronxville on the Har-
lem Railroad. 4f 'F
The carelessness of some people is shown by
the British post Office report for 1875, from
which it appears that $500 in cash and bank
notes, and nearly 10000 in checks we're found
in blank envelopes. .... ...,...
A reporter who hid behind house three
hundred feet from the He'll Gate blast, said
that the shock was sufficient to knock man
down, and caused feeling Of nausea which
lasted more than an hour.
There has been marked improvement in the
retail trade of Philadelphia since the Centen-
nial opened. One Chestnut street dry goods
house says its sales for the first six months of
1876 exceed in amount the sales of the entire
year of 1875.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company Is
said to be meditating an invitation to the Chi
cago city government to take the whole body to
the Centennial in palace cars The Chicago
party without meditating at all has decided to
accept
The flourish over the Countess of Dufferin
yacht at New York, closes somewhat discredit-
ably The owner has gone to Canada without
paying his bills, the vessel has been hbelled for
debt, and the craft, said to be worth 5000. is
offered for sale for $4,000. 1t looks as IL the
whole job was mere attempt to sell the boat
FL. B. Claflin s. Co. of New York, want to
follow A. I. Stewart & Co. to Chicago, and
have recently offered $1,000 per foot for build
| ing lot on the corner of Wabash avenue and
Monroe street. Their offer was rejected. which
L oho"o tuo polloul udS uUb ycb Iailcu Out VI
| the real estate business in Chicago.
| Mrs. Abbot, the widow of the murdered Ger
man consul at Salonics, has received from tho
Turkish government the sum of sixty thousand
dollars as indemnity for the loss of her hus-
band. In letter to Prince Bismarck she ac-
knowledges the receipt of the money and thanks
the Ger nan government for its prompt meas
| ures in her behalf.
A French dealer in spirit photographs" late.
ly confessed in open court that his calling was
fraud, and produced box containing mum.
Der of dolls which he had employed as spiritual
sitters. In spite Of this two elderly and edu-
Gated witnesses refused to believe that the pho
tographs of deceased relations supplied to them
were the result of trickery.
A patent has been taken out in England for
brown paper blankets as bed coverings. They
compensate for their lghtness by their density,
and add materially to warmth. They are per-
forated at distances of about four inches. in or'
der to promote ventilation, aud the small sizes,
As by 81 inches, sell at about nine cents each.
Several contracts have been made for hospitals
| and schools.