The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-26
News and Other Items

News and Other Items
The Foster murder at Keene, N. H., still re-
mains mystery.
Inc charge for an orchestra seat on Nilsson
night at Her Majesty's Opera, London, is 25
shillings, about 81 in our currency.
The President talks OF making trip round
the world when he gets through at the White
House.
1t Is proposed in California to manufacture
sugar and syrup from watermelons, and make
oil from the seeds.
The first lady editor of daily paper in Iowa,
is Miss Susan FL. Claggett, who succeeds her
late father, Judge Claggett, as editor of the
Keokuk Constitution.
Texas no longer looks to St. Louis for fiour.
She supplies herself from Kansas, and In
year or two will have thousands of barrels to
export from her own borders.
French people in New York propose to give
a banquet and ball to the skilled artisans who
are to oe sent by the French government to ex-
anime the Centennial exhibition.
Joaquin Miller has accepted an invitation to
deliver poem at the Dartmouth College Com
mencement. Ex-Gov. chamberlain of this
state, has been invited to deliver the Grafton
before the United Literary Society
The Khedive of Egypt provides daily feast
for the cats of Cairo, at the great Mosque, aud
great is the tumult of the hour of PRAYER, when
they all rush to the distributing priest for their
allowance
Commodore Vanderbilt behaves dreadfullv
about his medicines. He refuses to be waited
on Either he'll get up and take the stuff at
the wrong time or else neglect his dose. He is
improving and so doctor has been called in to
stay in the house and see that be gets his drugs
regularly.
San Francisco oodlunism, which has been
quiescent of late, has broken out again in a
dangerous form, and now attacks citizens upon
the horse cars. Timid people already fear that
it will soon come to murder, for car-driver and,
conductor are not sufficient protection. Work.
houses are suggested as q remedy for this dam
ger, which is caused by the idleness of many of
the worst people.
An awkward thing happened to the Turkish
Ambassador at Vienna, on his visit to the prin.
cipal lunatic hospital in that city. On his in
quiring the cause of the insanity of the first
patient be met, he was told the man had lost
bis senses through being ruined by the fall in
Turkish stocks. The ambassador did not wait
to make further inquiries, but left the hospital
at once.
The centenary of the deaths of Voltaire and
Rousseau is the theme of warm discussion in
the French papers. The Radical organs adyo-
cate celebration, while their opponents de-
nounce it as an irreligious demonstration. The
latter also warmly resent the withdrawal by
the Paris municipality of the annual grants to
religious charities, whether Catholic or Protes-
tant
Queen Victoria has conferred . companion
ship of the Bath upon Lieutenant Cameron, at
Windsor Castle, the sole instance OF a lieuten-
ant in the royal navy receiving this decoration.
Lieutenant Cameron was also presented with
the freedom and livery OF the Turner'S COM
pany in recognition of his African discoveries.
and ITO mark their sense of the advantages
likely to accrue to civilization and commerce
from his'recent exploration of the African con-
tinent'
The returns of the foreign commerce Of
Great Britain for the~smonth of April are the
most remarkable yet published. The value of
the imports has increased as compared with
April, 1875, from S15l, 900, 900 to S175 200, 900,
or fifteen per cent The exports of British pro-
duce and manufactures on the other hand have
decreased from S101 100000 in April, 1875. to
S77, 100000 in April, 1876 or nearly "A per cent.
Neither exports nor imports include specie.
There is decrease in the value of every one of
the twenty nine principal articles specified in
the list of exports printed in the London Times,
and decrease in the quantity of all but two
coal and woolen and worsted yarns.
Thomas Jefferson, when President, person.
ally superintended the planting of rows Of
Lombardy poplars along Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, not single one of which now
lives. The example has been followed, and
commission created by the District government,
of which Mr.. W. r. Smith of the botanic gar
den is president, has had planted during the
past four years q 900 shade trees. The sides
of the two Carolina avenues have been planted
with Carolina poplar; Kentucky avenue with
Kentucky coffee trees; and Massachusetts ave-
aue, which runs through the heart of the city
for four miles in an unbrokeu line, is bordered
with four rows Of linden trees. Hundreds of
oak, ash, elm, sycamore, and other shade trees
are growing finely, and large nurseries contain
q reserve stock to fill gaps with in case of
death or accident.
The following is list of the animals and
birds with which the Prince of Wales set out
from India: On board the Raleigh-Two tigers
one bear, three leopards, three thars, two In
dian wild dogs, two musk deer, one nylghan
calf, one sheep (domestic) one Indian antelope.
On board the Osborne-Seven Indian snteopes,
four Cashmere sheep, four sheep (domestic) one
coral or Himalayan chamos, two hog deer, two
elephants, one snow partridge. On board the
Seraps-two tigers, one cub, one bear, two
leopards, enc cheetah, one Viverrine cat, one
Indian antelope, two Axis deer, one Cashmeri.
an deer, two elephants, one mauise (dead), two
Rhesua monkeys. Birds-Sixteen Himalayan
monauls (pheasants) % horned tragopans,
Pueras pheasants, % Cheer pheasan,s, 4 Ka-
leege pheasauts, partridges (hilD, jungle
fowl, Chickore partridges. 8 doves, 10 green
fruit pigeons, gray winged blackbird, COM
mon pea-fowl, ostrches, 2 ghynies tzebus.)
London Times