The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-13
News and Other Items.

News ana Other Items.
Floating sugar mills, which can be removed
n one plantation to another, are the latest
lustrial enterprises of Louisiana.
Che official records of marriage licenses in
hicago during the past two years show that
Only about one in twenty of the welded couples
are native born Americans
Alexander 81. Stephens of Georgia, who has
been thought for some time to be at deaths
door, has recovered sufficiently to smoke and
talk politics.
An experienced physician says that anybody
who continually uses choral as sleeping
draught is sure to be killed by it in the long
run, certain conditions of the physical nature
making it deadly poison.
Mr.. Baird, she famous iron master of Scot
land, whose munfcent gifts to the Church Of
Scotland have been noticed in the public prints,
contemplates the bestowal of another half mil
lion sterling to Presbyterian uses.
A stormy scene occurred lately in the Italian
Parliament on account of the discovery in the
secret ministerials archives of ''black book"
containing detailed and generally libelous ac-
count of the private lives of members, especial
ly of opposition members.
The New York Express says: Mrs Theodore
Tilton has been giving music lessons during
the winter, supporting herself and mother.
More recently, her pupils having gone into tie
country, it is understood that she has been sew
ing for various Brooklyn families.
The London Lancet says Rome enjoys the
best drainage and the purest water supply IN
Europe, and that the cases of typhus fever
xuhi oh, tIora
due to residence in Naples or Florence, where
: the drainage and water supply are VIGOROUSLY
bad.
The Governor of California has committed
the sentences of a hundred convicts at San
Quentin for their energy to suppress the fire at
the prison on the 9th of February. The aggre
gate terms If imprisonment are III years.
while three men sentenced for life are commut-
ed to ten years and one to twelve.
There is a cremation society in Milan, four
hundred strong, A wealthy sick merchant es-
tabshed it, and was the first to try the merits
of the new process. So great was his devotion
to the cause that he burned rapidly, without
odor, and left only very small quantity of
ashes.
The French government has decided that it
will not impose any line of conduct upon its
/workmen going to Philadelphia at the expense
of the State, but leave them entire at Liberty
relative to their researches and studies. A spe-
cial programme will, however. be prescribed for
the teachers delegation.
The President of the Western Union Tele.
graph Company has notified Blaine, Morton,
Conkling and Bristow that they can have the
free use of the Western Union wires between
Cincinnati and Washington during Convention
week. and can have a wire placed in their
houses with operators at their disposal. A wire
was placed IN Mr.. Blaine's house Saturday
evening.
Preliminary work son the channel tunnel
to connect England and France has begun at
Langatte, France. IFShafts have been sunk to a
depth of 40 metres. When these reach depth
of 100 metres below the sea a gallery one kilo-
metre long will be made in the chalk. If this
is successful, and nothing indicates the imprac-
tbility of the project the tunnel will be def
nitely begun.