The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-03
News and Other Itams

A wealthy New Haven family is hunting for
an unknown woman who bought for a few
cents $1,000 India shawl, which accidentally
got among some articles sent to the auction
room last week.
In the course of a law suit in San Francisco
recently witnesses testified that boy now in
New York, aged eighteen, and known by the
name of Karl Ludwig Bergstrom, was a son of
Charles XIV, king of Sweden.
Mr.. Byington, of the Norfolk, Ct, Gazette.
who ought to know the ways of the Washing
ton correspondent, writes that it is positively
asserted" that Proctor Knott's famous Duluth
speech was written for him 10 Newspaper
Row.
Private papers of Shelley are about to be
published, showing that he was not in fault 10
the so-called deserton of his first wife, Harri.
ct. These papers were, by his direction, to be
kept secret till certain event happened That
time has now come.
The Philippine Islands have been repeatedly
scourged before this last visitation. Five
earthquakes have laid Manila in heaps since
1645, in the last, that of 1868, 1000 lives being
lost; fire destroyed 10, 900 of her huts in 1888;
and Malinao, Nbay and the adjacent towns
have repeatedly suffered from volcanic erup-
tions.
The danger of being portly just now was re-
allied lately 3y a stout man who was arrested
at Ogden, Utah, on suspicion that he was
Boss Tweed. Twenty-eight ladies named Mrs.
Smith claimed him as being Mr.. Smith, and
this was considered sufficient to prove an
alibi, or an alias, whichever it was that wasre
quired.
The royalty on the sale of Moody and San.
keys hynn-books, in England, between jan
uary and June, last year, amounted to no less
than e5667-in greenbacks, $4,000. The
money has been sent to the treasurer of the
building fund for Mr.. Moody's church in Chi
cago.
A striking illustration of the interdepend-
ence of the commercial and industrial interests
of different parts of the world is furnished by
the fact that the war in Malacca, region
which one would imagine to be utterly discon-
nected with the price OF indispensable articles in
American households, has so diminished the
production of Java tin that the price of all the
ware must advance considerably.
Last week George Scott jeffrey, telegraph
operator at Waynesburg, Green county, Pa,
and Lydia Cutler, telegraph operator at
Brownsville were united in marriage by tels-
graph, the ceremony beginning at p. M The
officiating clergyman at Waynesburg read the
ceremony to the groom, who teegraphed the
same to the bride, who responded by wire All
other business was suspended in the TIVE offices
during the ceremony.
The special committee Of the board of Re-
gents of Michigan University appointed to ex-
anime into the alleged deficiency in the
accounts of the assistant professor in charge Of
the chemical laboratory have reported an irreg-
ularity OF over $4,000. A portion of this defic-
iency has been repaid by the professor, thus
virtually acknowledging his guilt, and he has
given a deed of his property to further secure
the university. These sums cover only about
half of the deficiency and concerning the re-
mainder there is question of veracity between
the assistant professor and his superior. The
former has been suspended by the Board of
Regents.
The condition of Turkey will remind the Gu
rious of the old-rhy med prophecy said to have
been made in 1853 1t is noteworthy that it
will be ''twice ten years." next spring, from
the conclusion of the Crimean war;
In twice two hundred years the bear
The Crescent shall assail,
But If the Cock and Bull unite
The Bear shall not prevail
But lookl in twice ten years again,
Let Islam know and fear,
The Cross shall wax-the Crescent wane,
Grow pale and disappear.