The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-21
News and Other Items.

The Bayreuth festival cost about $685. 900.
Josie Mansfield is back in New York from
Australia-fat. aud her good looks all gone.
Prince Edward Island has declared in its re-
cent election for free non-sectarian schools.
Alexander 81. Stephens is pronounced neari y
we'll
The Adirondack Mountains, for long dist
ance skirting Bulwaggy Bay, are all afame
with forest fires.
Bishop Coxs's daughter, who was married
last week in Buffalo, received as a wedding
present from her husband $1000000 in bonds.
The hard times are felt even more in the
smaller German towns than in this country
and it is estimated that 100000 Germans have
of late gone into France after work.
1t has been ascertained that not man of the
gang of "Molly Maguires" in Schuylkill coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, was Republican, but
nearly every man killed by them was Repub-
lican.
ST. john N. BIS happy because the English
government is going to put Partridge Island, at
the month of its harbor, Sin such a posture of
defence that no single cruiser can attack it with
impunity."
Clara Morris is at the Catskil Mountain
House, where she has been ordered by her
physician. She was so weak that she had to
be carried up and down stairs, but it is said
a that she is studying new stage character.
A clerk 10 the treasury department, who
takes advantage of the privilege of resigning
with pay continued TO October 10Th, sails for
England, Monday, to take possession of a for
tune of several million dollars, left him by the
will of relative aud now decided to be legally
his, after two years litigation.
The widow of General Custer arrived at her
home in Monroe, Mich, last week. A number
of friends were at the depot to receive her, on
seeing whom she gave way to her emotions
and tainted. Several of the wives of those who
were slain in the Sioux massacre accom- panied
her.
The great public issue 10 Cincinnati at pres
emit is whether lager beer can proftably be sold
at the reduced rate of two glasses for five cents,
and the general impression seems to be that it
can "by the aid of glasses that deceive and art
in jerking beer with two inches Of foam at the
top"
At brilliant church wedding some of the
ushers showed some very worthy but socially
obscure people into good seats in the middle
aisle. As soon as he discovered it, the pompous
sexton FASTENED to thu usher and exclaimed,
ibid you give the - that seat?" Eyes"
"What on earth did you dc that for. Did
you not know that they were only side-aisle
trash?"
The marriage at Paris of Count de Fersant
with Mile. Marie Poirson is announced. The
bridegroom was sub-lieutenant of artillery
durnU tho aat xup and had hot hic Laws
ried off at Sedan by cannon.ball. The young
people were affianced in their infancy. and the
lady insisted upon keeping her word. She is
the daughter of very wealthy shipowner,
whilst her husband has only his cross of the
Legion of Honor.
According to the Journal the tax able prop
erty of ST. Stephen, N. B., for 1875 was assessed
at 81, 452,45O, while this year it amounts to
only 81, 259, lis, decrease of $193,335. This
marked difference is in part occasioned by the
fact that the Bank Of British North America
this year pays a tax on $4,000, real estate,
while last year it paid tax on 1920, 900. AS a
result taxes are higher in st. Stephen this year
and grumbling and profanity is resorted to by
rate-payers.
The Fall River News says that 1000 pieces
of print cloths were sold in that market on
Thursday, at cents, 80 days. The market
continues to harden, and still further advance
is confidently predicted. The rise thus far has
barely compensated for the advance in the
price of cotton, which is now two cents per
pound higher than it was two weeks ago when
goods sold for q cents. At the present prices
manufacturers are simply covering the cost
of production, and further movement upward
will be necessary before profit osn be real.
lied.
The ladies will be glad to know that in cor
recting the text of the New Testament, one of
the apparently uncomplimentary, or, at least,
unchva:rous, expressions of st. Paul. interpo-
lated or corrupted by an early ascetic, has been
given reading more in keeping with the doc
trine of the equality Of the sexes. The passage
is in First Corinthians, vii, g. In the authoriz.
ed version it reads "Lat the husband render
unto the wife due beneuolence" But the revis-
ion, rejecting this narrow and oriental readipg,
renders it "Lst the husband render unto the
wife her DUE" which is much more christian
and courteous.