The Portland daily press., 1876-10-20
News and Other Items.

The Western papers tell of boy who peer
ed fatally into the muzzle of shot gun"
-Four out of the five young men who left
Princeton College on account of the presence
in the class room of black men have been sent
back by their parents.
Dr. Hanslick, the eminent critic of Vienna.
notices that the persons in Wagners trilogy
seldom sang together, but one after another
as though they were witnesses in court of
justice"
The Boston Advertiser thinks it no longer
possible to dispute the fact of a real revival
IL appears everywhere and in nearly ali branch
ESQ trade.
Charley Sing, the Chinese foreman at Samp-
sons North Adams (Mass.) shoe factory, has
been naturalized, and says he shall vote with
the Republicans. He is probably the first Mon
golian voter in that state.
Mrs Louise Pomeroy made her debut in New
York as Julie. on Monday evening. The crit
les agree in praising her clothes and her beau
ty, and in the opinion that she is by no means
able to play tragedy, though some of them coz
slider that she would make fair coincidence.
The New York and Boston Despatch Com
pany had several crates filled with merchan-
disc upon the train that, on the 18th inst,
met with the accident on the Old Colony Rail-
road. Some of the goods in packages were bad
ly injured. The express company sought the
owners and paid for these in full. All claims
for loss and damage were also settled immedi-
atey This course is very just, and it is an in
stance of justice speedily done.
Rev. /. s. Kalloch, of the Metropolitan Bap-
tist church, San Francisco, formerly of Boston,
was recently arrested for debt, and when
brought into court swore that he did not own
property to the value of ten cents outside the
clothes he WORE He did not own any of the
furniture in bis dwelling. He received a sala-
ry of $4,000 per annum, and usually drew seve-
raj months in advance. His debts amounted
to somewhere between $4,000 and $4,000,
principally to creditors in Kansas.
Centennial exhibitors are to be allowed to re.
move their goodsIaft November II, and after
the close of the exhibition an admission fee of
fifty cents will be charged to those who desire
to purchase unsold goods, the Director General
being authorized to keep the building open as
long as he may deem expedient for the interest
of the exhibition.
's Mr.. Thomas Carlyle refused to permit any
denial of the recent report of bis suicide, which
originated from confusion Of names. Mr..
Carlyle, who processes vary great contempt
for modern newspapers land, in fact, for pretty
much everything else ancient or modern,) was
apparently glad to catch them tripping.
Everybody knows Mr.. Henry James as a
writer of very beautiful and graceful English,
yet to most readers it will be surprise to hear
that he has a story ''extant in very choice"
French in the current number of the Revue des
Deux Mondes, entitled Sun. Cousin ct une Cou-
sine" The plot is rather fantastical.
The Newark Advertiser says that company
consisting of ex-Colector Murphy and others,
has been formed to remove the Globe Hotel,
after the breaking up of the Centennial Exh-
bition to some point directly on the. ocean front
at Deal, near Long Branch.
circus which travels in Texas has an I'M
covered canvas enclosure. At Bracket, a tree
overhanging the ring was occupied by men and
boys, who thus saw the show free of cost. A
performers feat included firing revolver:on
horseback, and at the first discharge spectator
men were mobbed, and escaped only by prac
tical use of their skill in horsemanship.
The Albany Argus says: ''One of the largest
first payments ever made at the Pension Agency
in this city was made on Monday, in the case
of William P. Lamb, resident of Norwi rich,
Chenango county he was captain of Co. B,
18th Regiment. New York Voluntee rs. The
pension is granted for wounds and chronic
diarrhea. The amount per month is 800, and
dates back to February, 1866. The amount now
paid was $2536."
An interesting case, involving the question Of
the legal liability of mercantile agency for
the correctness of its reports, has just been ad-
Indicated in Canada. An agency in Toronto,
(. protesting Through its system Of espionage, to
know the financial standing of certain retail
dealer, sold its .so-called knowledge to whole
sale dealer, who proceeded to sell to the retail
dealer upon the purchased hypothesis that he
would receive the money for his goods in due
time. The wholesale dealers prospects of get
- ting paid were, shortly after this transaction
rendered unequivocally dubious by the abscond
ing of the retail dealer. Thereupon the whole
sale dealer recovered 1924 at law from the mer
camille agency, and higher court has affirmed
the judgment. The mercantile agency seeks to
evade its responsibility in the matter by last
appeal to the Canadian supreme tribunal