The Portland daily press., 1876-01-21
News and Other Items.

Bishop Huntington, of Central New York,
thinks the exclusion of the Bible from the
public schools is foregone conclusion.
While over q, 900 women of Utah pray con-
gress by petition to maintain polygamy, aa
ugly census demonstrates that there are only
$4,000 women out there.
u. l.. Fox, the actor, is still in the asylum at
Somerville, Massachusetts, where he Is fire.
quently visited by his relatives. He shows
great improvement and has rational intervals,
but it is not thought that he will recover.
The Virginia consolidated mining company
intend to send to the Centennial $4,000 worth
OF ore and 150 tons of bullion. 1t will require
fifteen cars to carry the load which will be
shipped in May.
The grangers of Kentucky are reported to
have been SO exclusive in electing farmers to
the Legislature that the speaker is unable to
lind lawyers strong enough in that body from
which to appoint the Committee on the Judi
ciary.
Henry Varley, the revival preacher, had an
attack of rheumatism of the heart last week,
and his recovery for time was despaired Of
The disease, however, yielded and it is now be-
lieved he is out of danger. He was taken to
Brighton for the benefit of the sea air yestet-
day.
Tae statement that Prince Frederick Will
liam of Germany would visit this country this
year was pure fiction, concocted by four Berlin
newspaper reporters who have been fined 20
marks each by judge, and discharged by their
employers. They met casually in wineroom,
and, news being scarce, invented the report of
the visit.
Mr.. w. f. Baker, an eccentric character liv-
ing in Boston, has just returned from trip
which he made to the South for the purpose of
distributing silver pigs to certain Southern Wis
itors to the Bunker Hill Centennial celebra-
ton who when in Boston gooo -humoredly as
sisted him in laying the cornerstone of his
Centennial pig-pen.
Mr. Robert Dale Owen writes to the secre-
tary of the British national association of spir-
81 itnnlists that his-late~ illness duo to over
work, and adds: 'For two years and half
previous to my illness in May last I had been
sufferer from dyspepsia, causing weakness and
depression. These, by rest, water cure and
milk Diet bave been entirely removed, and
am now in excellent health, better than / have
been for five years past"
The steamship Alaska has brought to San
Francisco fifteen car loads of material for JAP
anese houses to be erected on the exposition
grounds. Teu Japanese carpenters accompany
the wood, which is in the main bamboo. 1t is
already prepared in great measure; all the
hewing, the dressing, etc., hos been done, and
no labor remains for the carpenters excepting
the task of finishing the material and putting
the frames together. Several styles of houses
will be on exhibition. They are entirely de
void of nails
The presents of the nobility of Madras to the
Prince of Wales. if not equal in magnifcence
and costliness to those which he received in
bombay and will receive in Bengal, appear to
be unique in their nature. One Reminder of
the southern presidency intends to present four
antelopes, which have been trained to be driven
as four in hand team. The rance of SILVA
gunga proposes to give sword of steel so beau.
tfully tempered that it can be worn round the
waist as belt This, morover is said to have
history, inasmuch as it once belonged to
Polgar chief named Catabam anaik, who gave
some trouble to the Madras government toward
the close of the last century, and who was cap
tured and hanged in the year 1899.