The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-07-25
News and Other Items,

The crop reports of the world indicate plen-
tiful harvests everywhere.
Nearly 10000 pounds of explosives will be
used in blowing up He'll Gate next September.
Eighty tons of fresh meat from New York
are now sold in the West End markets, Lou
don, every week.
A Chicago fruit dealer announces Fifteenth
Amendment berries for sale He probably
means blackberries.
Iowa juries hold that in case marriage en-
gagement is broken, the parties must return sll
presents or their worth in money.
Manton Marble late Of the New York World
is making an active canvass for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of New York.
Anna Dickinson is at West Pittston, Pa, and
will spend the rest of the summer there with
her mother and sister Susan, who is cores
pondent of the Graphic.
John Collins, the London pick-pocket, who
pretended to have been converted under the in
fluence of the Moody and Sankey revival, has
resumed his old occupation again.
DR.. Charles Jewett, the veteran temperance
reformer, has nearly regained his health, and
will probably lecture on temperance again this
fall.
Weston made $4,000 to $4,000 by his first
walking success in London but having since
been beaten by a number of amateurs and not
having the discretion to retire on his savings
he is likely to lose all he has made.
They captured a cheating conductor on the
Chicago and Rock Island road. The rascal had
100000 in bank, $4,000 in bonds in his trunk,
and gold watch ard chain. After he was inn
prisoned he proved the property was all of it
honestly his, by inheritance and marriage. He
turned on the company and they settled with
him by giving him $40, 900 more.
A milk vender in Belfast Me-, being inter
rogated by very inquisitive lady customer con-
corning his family relations, and being in a
hurry, gave her this. condensed and compre.
hensive summary of his family history. Said
he, 81 courted my wife'in Houlton-married
her in New Hampshire-went to housekeeping
in Providence-and expect to starve her to
death in Belfast.
Sixty-four Mennonite families left New York
Monday night to settle at the West. The inn
migrants are all farmers, are thrifty, possessed,
the agents say, of an average of $500 to each
family. and leave Russia only because of the
religious persecution which originally drove
them from Germany hundred years ago
They retain their German language and Gus
toms, and are in no sense Germans.
The burial of little Walter Whitman, an in
fant year-old nephew of the poet, occurred a
day or two since at Camden, N. j. 1t was
very simple, without sermon or ceremony. liz
the middle of the room, in its white coffin, lay
the dead babe, strewed with profusior of fresh
geranium leaves and some tuberoses. All the
young ones OF the neishborhood, by groups OF
couples or singly, kept coming noiselessly in
surrounding the coffin. Near the corpse, in a
great chair sat Walt Whitman, enveloped by
children, holding one encircled by either arm,
and beautiful little girl on his lap. The lit
tie one looked curiously at the spectacle Of
death and then inquiringly in the old mans
face. you. don't know what it is, do you, my
dear?" said he, adding, "We don't either.
Many of the children surrounding the coffin
were mere babes, and had to be lifted up tc
! take look.