The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-26
News and Other Items.

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Abby and Julia Smiths Attorneys are to be
sol for taxes in Glastonbury next week.
Altogether Stokes has spent in prison, first
iu the Tombs and afterwards in the Sing Sing
and Auburn state PRISONS four years, nine
months and twenty-one days.
A medical exchange says that many men, if
they can't get whiskey, will get drunk off
ether 'How happy could they be with ether
were tother dear charmer awayr'-[Donn
Piatt.
The Boston Globe calls for the celebration of
the 15Oth anniversary of Medford rum, what
ever that may be. Diligent enquiry among
the literary people of New England is not re-
warded with any information on this subject
The Presbyterian synod of central Illinois
has sustained the decision of the Peoria pres
bytery, deposing the Rev. j. H. Glendenning
from the pastorship of the church at Henry,
III.
The New York Evening Post defends the
pronunciation af 'ceramics" with soft c, say
ing that the derivation of the word from the
Greek need not require the hard in "cera-
mics any more than in "cephaopod' or 'ceta-
cea.''
Walbridge A. Field, the Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Sd district of Massa-
chusetts is one of only three men who were
ever graduated from Dartmouth College with
perfect mark for scholarship. The other two
were Rufus Choate and Prof Charles A. Aiken
of Princeton.
Mr.. J. f. B. Marshall, treasurer Of the
Hampton, Va, Normal and Agricultural In
sttute, says that the en'ire earnings of the
Ham pton Singers. instead of being one hund-
red thousand dollars, as alleged, actually fell
short of their expenses. Itis estimated, how
ever, that by appeal in connection with their
Concerts, from fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars have so far been secured for the inst-
tuition.
Gerome's "Crucfxion," now on exhibition
in the Loan Collection at the New York Acad-
emy, has been criticised for several blunders-
not apachronisms, as the New York World
terms them. Thus the lew moon and the sun
are represented as being in opposite quarters
of the heavens, and from the shadows of the
crosses it appears that the sun is setting in
the east, while the moon is rising in the north
west.
Anna Dickinson, it must be remembered, was
read out of Quaker meeting, when she came Of
age, for "inciting to war and bloodshed," and
she is not the kind of woman to be frightened
at the critics. She is discouraged, however, at
the dense ignorance in respect to histor cal sub
jects manifested by large proportion of the
habitual frequenters of the theatre. What
could be more discouraging, for instance, than
the letter she received from an ardent admirer
who wanted to know why she didn't cut off
Henry VIIIth's head, and make Anne Bullen
Queen
Robert Peel johnson, grandson of Sir Rob-
ert Peel, lives in Springfield ILL.,, and is assis
tant in the office of the Secretary of State.
His mother, the daughter of the prime minis
ter, married Capt. johnson of the British
navy, and, at his death, brought her son to
America. She died few years ago, at an ad-
vanced age, leaving to her son many heirlooms
Of the family. A Courier-J Journal correspon-
dent, writing of her son, says: "Mr. johnson
is warden of the Episcopal church at Spring
field, and he and his wife are truly almoners
Of the Lord. One-tenth of their income is laid
aside for church and charitable purposes
The management of the New York Times
having announced its intention to reduce the
price of composition, the Typographical Union
ordered the compositors to quit their frames
Monday night About thirty of them obeyed
the order. but majority continued to work
With those who rem aimed, the publishers of
the Times made mutually satisfactory ar
rangement under which the office is to be con
Quoted Independently of the Union The FORE
man of the Times Office says that he has all
the men he wants and that he will expeIience
no inconvenience from the strike. The Union
men claim that the Times cannot be run as
nou. union office, and that it will eventually be
compelled to submit to the terms of the Un-
| ion.