The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-18
News and Other Items.

Commander John Pope, on the retired list,
died last Friday.
DR.. a. T.. Helmbod has escaped from the
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and his
whereabouts are not known.
The Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Va,
have suspended. Liabilities not known. 500
or 900 operatives are out of employment.
Eustis and Pinchback are on their way to
Washington to fight for seats in the Senate
from Louisiana.
A company of U. s. cavalry has been sent
to Mississippi for the purpose Of protecting rev.
enue agents.
The English Rifle Association has accepted
the challenge of the Rifle Association Of Amer
ica to compete for the championship of the
world during the Centennial.
A st. Louis murderer has written a request
that he be sentenced to death on his birthday;
his birth, he thinks, being the first and worst
of all his misfortunes.
The revolutionists who spent S. and lost one
man in overturning the state government of
Panama, last month, were disguised to find on
ly So. IL in the treasury.
Princess Frederick, daughter of the ex-king
of Hanover, is said to be the most beautiful
princess in Europe. She is the devoted COM
panion of her blind father.
George O. Cannon, the delegate from Utah,
viii give the Washington women a chance to
turn up their noses. He proposes to bring his
wife to the Capital, aud there are four of her.
Rear Admiral Worden, in despstch to the
Navy Department, dated Lisbon, Dec. "a, says
that reports of piracies on the Mediterranean
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foundation.
Simon, whose Indian name was Kisskaxe,
an Indian chief of the Cowlitz tribe, died re-
Gently in Washington Territory at the age of
ia years. He was converted to the Catholic
faith when Ill years DID,. The deceased never
touched liquor.
The other day, while the workmen at the
saw mill, Comperdown shipbuilding yard in
Dundee, Scotland, were engaged cutting up
large log of Quebec yellow pine. they laid open
several sections of wasp's nest. The nest
being near the centre of the tree, the animals,
several thousand in number, must have been
inclosed for upward of hundred years. The
prisoners are in good state of preservation,
and are evidently of the wasp species, with
very large wings in comparison to the size of
the body.
A good story at the expense of Representa-
tive Lamar is going around congressional Cir
ces. When he was returning home from the
session of Congress in 1860, newsboy on the
Memphis s. Charleston railroad insisted that
he should purchase book Annoyed by his
pertinacity, and anxious to be rid of him, Mr.
Lamar said to him, with q wave of his hand,
"Oh! pshaw! don't bother me SO; 1 wrote the
book" Quick as thought the little fellow an
swered, "Ah! now know. That's what makes
it so hard to SELL"
After Italy signifed her willingness to contri-
butte to the exhibition, it was announced that
company of gentlemen intended to charter
special steamer to visit this country. Infor-
nation has been received at the Centennial
headquarters that the project is an assured sue
cess, and the gentlemen are known as the As
sociazione Cristoforo Colombo. A very hand
some and commodious steamer has been Sc
lected and already the demand for berths has
been so great that all the space has been taken
and propositions are making for another. The
vessel will sail from Genoa, Italy, on the 1st OF
June, arriving in New York on the 18th, where
it will stay until the 3Otb, when it will leave for
Philadelphia.