The Portland daily press., 1876-08-12
News and Other Items.

Prof. Huxley is in New Haven on visit to
Prof. Marsh.
The Sultan of Turkey is suffering fom that
vulgar complaint, delirium tremens, induced
by excessive indulgence in absinthe.
The free reading room of the Winona, MIMI,
Young Mems Christian Association has been
closed for want of patronage. Base ball did it.
A firm located near Baltimore, Nd, are
doing a large trade in the South with brandy
made from peach parings, which have hitherto
been thrown away as being valueless
Some of the leading life insurance companies
of Hartford are writing only from five co ten
new policies daily, the dull times having a
terribly bad effect on life business.
Smuggler won another brilliant victory at
Buffalo Thursday, beating Lucille Goladust,
Judge Fullerton and Bodine in three straight
heats. Time-2.15a 218, 2.19a.
From Newport comes the news that Manton
Marble will marry the fair Mrs. Danforth this
fall, and the same is true of James Gordon
Bennett and Miss Carrie May.
Ex-Postmaster General Jewell has been in.
terviewed relative to the charges contained in
the majority report of the House Post-ofice
Committee, and pronounces most of the allega.
tons erroneous.
The Salt Lake Tribune asserts that when the
Mormon bishops of San Pete heard that Gen
eral Custer and bis gallant soldiers had been
massacred by the Sioux they sent band of
music to serenade few lodges of Indians
camped near by.
The officers have discovered the place where
the Missouri train robbers divided their booty.
and found great quantity of papers, consist.
ing of rifed envelopes, stocks, drafts, coupons,
ETC., scattered over considerable space of
ground, damaged by rain and exposure
The American Dental Association, in session
in Philadelphia, have been discussing the ques.
tion of using an@sthetics in extracting teeth,
and the general opinion seemed to be against
it, as being dangerous to the patients. They
say anesthetics are too generally used by
dentists who know nothing of their effects.
A railroad disaster in Spain has resulted in a
law providing that when an accident in apy
way chargeable to the railroad companv &c.
ours, the company shall pay $4,000 to the
family of each person killed, $1,000 to the FAM
lily of each person incapacitated, and e5 day
to each injured person until recovery.
The Yarmouth, N. s., ship N. W. Bethep.
Capt Cox, grain laden, when three days out
from Baltimore, capsized in hurricane and
sank. The captain, his wife, two children
and oil the crew but four were lost The sur
vivors, after being ffty-six hours on pieces of
the wreck, were rescued and landed at Phila.
delphia.
Some months ago Mr.. Henry Irving boldly
appealed to the pulpit to help the stage. The
first clergyman to respond practically to the
appeal is Dean Stanley, who will assist at the
rehearsal in bringing out "Henry the Fifth"
at the Queens Theatre. The Dean is a his.
torian, and offers his advice in points of
historical accuracy, which offer has] been &C.
cepted.
Ex-Secretary Bristow and ex-Postmaster
General Jewell are both stopping at the Lin
coin House, Swampscott as the guests of Hon.
Harvey Jewell. Ex-Secretary Bristow arrived
in Swampscott from Manchester yesterday
morning and was driven through the town and
the city of Lynn and shown the prominent
points of interest. Ex-Postmaster General
Jewell arrived in Swampscott last evening"