The Portland daily press., 1876-07-28
News and Other Items.


George Sand made $1,000 year.
ball in honor of Gen. Clusters memory is
TO be given at White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia, next week.
Eighty tons of fresh meat from New York
are now sold in the West End markets, Lon.
don every week.
Mrs. Tyner, the wife Of the new Postmaster
General, three years ago was a clerk in the
Treasury Department at Washington.
The New York yachtsmen are afraid to go
outside of Sandy Hook since that Mohawk dis
aster, and the ladies who had engaged for sum-
mer cruises are all backing out.
A gentleman in Cambridge, Mass, has re-
ceived a letter from Winslow, the forger, in
poor and that he is looking for situation.
Some statistician announces that more people
have been killed by accidents on the Fourth of
July than were killed in the Revolutionary
war.
Rev. William Henry Jones, an Episcopal
minister at Toronto Canada, is called to ac-
count for getting drunk on communion wine,
lying and stealing church funds
The latest counterfeiting fraud is to dig out
81 worth of gold from double eagle, by boring
into the coin from the edges, without damaging
its face, and then tapping the holes with metal
lie wires so as to bring it back to the regulation
weight
A pious New Jersey dame has stopped pray
ing for her husband, because, as she says, 81
have prayed so long without effect that L think
the Lord has just as poor an opinion of the man
as have"
A Missouri weekly paper combines business
and modesty by saying: ga rush Of advertise
ments this week prevents us publishing an &C.
count of how we licked four men in front of
the post office last Thursday"
Bailey, of the Danbury News is deyoting
most of his time now to rehearsing for his new
lecture. 1t is said that he has worked up that
part where he stands at the door and takes a
dollar from every one who comes in, till it is
enough to make strong man shed tears.
Senator Sharon of Nevada, denies the report
which has been circulated that he intends to
resign his Office. He says that in year his
affairs, which were complicated by the death
of Mr.. Ralston, will be adjusted, and that he
will then attend continuously to his duties 10
The Senate.
A lady of London has discontinued custom
originated by her, of having visitors write their
names in book in the hall in the event of her
absence as q supposed visitor came in fact to
collect bill of long standing, and wrote in the
book, SIS sorry Mrs. - didn't leave the amount
as she agreed"
The New Orleans Republican and the State
Register of the same city say the Mississippi
jetties are not a success, as has been reported,
and that Capt Eads is trying to dredge out the
channel in order to get the first installment on
the jetty work from the government. Several
vessels are named which have recently ground
ed in attempting to cross the bar at the south
pass.
In 1910 a New Highlander who had recently
emigrated to Kentucky, bought slave at auc
ton for 5000, after sharp competition. The
negro learned to read and write, handled
paint brush so well that he made 50 or SO a
day, joined the Methodist, and subsequently
the Christian church, and developed from an
exhorter into preacher. After the war his
former master lent him small sum and en-
abled him to take his family to Rock Island,
where he has educated his children and won
the esteem of his neighbors. On the last ma
tional holiday he delivered an grafton in the
court house square.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, in letter to the
Chicago Tribune, describes visit to the Bank
of England, and compares its dingy, almost
shabby, appearance with the palatial banking
houses erected in this country. She continues:
$50 long as the American people trust their
money to folks because they have magnificent
banking houses or other places of business,
eElendid residences retinues of servants hioh.
stepping horses glittering coaches, flashing
diamonds, gauzy laces, rustling silks, SHIN
mering satins, and sweeping velvets, SO long
do they prove that they belong to that class
of animated nature which was made to be
eaten, and have no right to complain when
the eaters eat them