The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-15
News and Other Items.

The Sioux Indians in the territory of Dako.
to number forty thousand, and occupy forty
two million acres of land.
a man was found dead inEa Georgia well and
local newspaper rashly conjectures that he
either fell or was thrown in.
Liverpool is compelled to erect another
lunatic asysum, because the number of in,
sane has doubled in the county within ten
years.
Miss. Thurstop, the baloonst, assembled
from the fair grounds in Armenia, Duchess
county, N, Y, last week, and descended two
hours after, some ten miles distant in the town
of Kent, Litchfield county, Conn.
Isaac Dayton, one of the murderers Of Mr.
Obsolete. at Edward, N. j., on the 9th of Aug.
in Jail at Mays Landing, has made confess
sion, in which he says Obsolete was shot by
Hill and that he (Dayton) and Fuller stood by
end saw him.
The Hoosac tunnel management, or those in
terested in its connecting railways, are making
a survey Of the new line from there to Sohe-
nectady, Utica, and Oneida, thence by Mid
land to Oswego, and by the Ontario Shore line
to Buffalo.
Another state is talked of. 1t is proposed
that California shall be cut in two along the
line of Santa Cruz county, with fourteen
southern counties for the new commonwealth.
which will have about 10000 Inhabitants, 30
OOG voters and taxable property estimated at
$100,OOO,OO0.
The other day would-be fashionable lady
called at neighbours at what she thought
would be supper time. "Come in," said the
neighbor, 1--WE are having a tableaux." 81 am
so glad,' said the visitor, 81 thought 1 smelt
'em, and like them better than anything for
supper"
A citizen of Chicago who has led rowing
life has named his children aftsrI the places
where they were born, and the list is row as
follows: First daughter, Albany Benson; first
boy, Omaha Benson; second son, st. Joseph
Benson; second daughter, St. Josephine Ben
son; third daughter, Cincinnati Benson; third
boy, Chicago Benson.
A farmer residing pear Newcastle, Penn, re-
Gently discovered lumber of boys helping
themselves to apples in his orchard. He i'm
mediately unloosed large bulldog and set the
brute after the boys The savage animal caught
one of the youths by the throat and in q mo-
ment tore out the boys windpipe and severed
his jugular vein, causing death in very few
minutes
In 1861 there were issued in Great Britain
4315 money orders payable in theis colonies or
foreign countries, the value being a12. .259; in
1875 the number of such orders was 81, ,0O9 and
the value e3O0963. There has been a still
more striking increase in the orders issued in
the colonies and foreign countries for payment
in the United Kingdom. These orders In 1861
numbered 16, ,273 and their value was e47, ,274,
while In 1876 they numbered 242, ,20i and their
value was 1884 ,2O2.
Some goods which were sunk over two years
ago off the Japanese coast, while on the way
back from the Vienna Exhibition, have just
| been recovered; and it is found that the lac
quer work made in the last century, after two
years immersion in the salt water, is uninjured
| while the lacquer articles Of recent manufac-
ture are quite spoiled. proof that the modern
makers of lacquer resort to spurious limitations
| which were unknown or at all events not prac-
| ticed inithe einhteenth century.
Several ladies were sitting together on the
balcony of the Clifton House, Niagara, the
other night, when the moon, although full was
somewhat hidden by the clouds. A natty lit
tie fellow came towards the group and said
softly, "Pusse, darlingr' whereupon all the
young ladies jumped up and came towards him
eagerly. He selected one and walked away
with her. The other brides sat down and told
their respective Romeos afterwards that it was
''too ridiculous for anything" and that they
"never were 50 embarrassed in the whole
course Of their lives