The Portland daily press., 1876-01-08
News and Other Items.

The Emperor and Empress of Brazil will
arrive in New York in April.
Oregon is going into hop raising, with
Australia for a market.
The pop corn monopoly at the Centennial has
been sold for $4,000. The chewing gum monop-
oily is unsod
Bishop Haven has gone to New Orleans.
They probably don't believe in a third term for
Grant down there.
Michigan auctioneer the other day suited
the action to the word, and when he had
reached ''gone," dropped dead.
King Victor Emanuel in his New Years
speech at the Court reception mentioned the
possibility of events transpiring in Europe
that would require the cooperation of the
Italian army.
Mr.. Guy Magee, the city editor of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean, who "worked up the recent
sensational article in that journal charging
Secretary Bristow with completely in whiskey
ring, has been discharged from his position by
a vote of the stockholders.
Proctor Knott, the Kentucky congressman,
made famous by his Duluth speech, is short,
stout, straight, firm, gray-eyed, white-haired
and white moustached. He appears melan.
choy and smiles sadly, and is witty only once
in a while.
A. T. Stewart pays about $12O, 900 in taxes on
his real estate in New York city. His whole
sale store is assessed at 81, 100000, and taxed
$50, 200; his retail store, assessed at $3.50 900,
pays $23 800, and he pays $l6SOO tax on his
house on 9Th avenue, which is assessed at
100000.
Some of the sentences imposed upon GRIM
inals by the California justices would astonish
eastern malefactors. For simple assault and
using vulgar language, fellow recently got
fine of $3.50; another small thief got 200 days
for petit larceny, and a wife striker was
mulcted in $780,
Judge Hyrick of San Francisco has admitted
to probate will in pencil on two pages of
memorandum book, to which the testatrix
had attached no signature, holding that the
fact of its being written in such book was
presumpt've evidence of its being the draft of
will intended to be executed in q more regular
torm.
The shoe aud leather exhibition building in
the Centennial grounds will be great addition
to the ''side shows of the Exhibition. 1t will
be 160 feet by 314 feet on the ground, two
stories in height, constructed of iron, wood
and glass, and will cost 100000. In this de-
partment of industry we can beat the world.
Our exports OF leather already are valued by
the millions, and rapidly growing
In the educational department of the Cen.
tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, it is pro-
posed to place complete set of the works
issued by the officers and alumni uf Yale
College. The cooperation of the graduates of
Yale, and especially of those who are authors,
is invited in collecting these books At the
close of the exhibition the collection will be
presented to the library of Yale College, and
deposited in the alumni Alcove."
The proportions which the business of horse
racing has assumed in this country may be
judged from the fact that during 1875, eight
hundred and eighty races were run for stakes
aggregatlng in value $39O,OO0, and it wasn't a
particularly good year. The nominal stakes
n moreover, are but very small fraction of the
tens of millions of dollars that change hands
in bets between individuals
A Crcassian girl in Reading, Pa has a pair
Of stockings that she says she made entirely
out of our own hair. They are thick, heavy
and soft, and seem to be of pure hair. The
upper edges are secured with scarlet worsted
work. She says her hair grows to a great
length, and that she is compelled to have it
cut The stockings were knit while she was
on exhibition at Barnum's Museum.