The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-10
News and Other Items.

The wife of Senator Burnside died yesterday.
Postmaster General Jewell has just entered
firm in Detroit as a special partner, contrib.
uting to the capital 100000.
Uli Perkins has ravaged some of the most
fertile counties in Iowa, which even the re-
morseless grasshoppers had spared.-Chicago
Tribune.
The wife of ex-Attorney General Williams
| is to be hauled over the Goals again. She is
charged with having received fees in connection
| with cotton claims cases.
The formal presentation of the bust of
Goethe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York took place Wednesday night
Speeches were made by William Cullen Bryant
and Rev. Messrs. Alger and Osgood
Gen. Schenck will find an added drop of bit
terDess in the cup prepared for him ON arriving
home. Mrs Hicks, his fancee, sailed tor Eu.
rope to meet him few days before his sudden
recall to Washington, and they will pass each
other on the ocean.
As the spring advances the Mephistophee an
countenance of the base ball reporter wideus
and crinkles in a sarcastic smile. He is think
ing of how many telegraphic dispatches will be
crowded out to give place 10 his productions
during "the season."
AT a meeting of several members of the
Union League club Wednesday night to form a
new organization, under the title of the Reform
Republican Club, Judge Emmett and Joseph
Choate were leading spirits of the meeting and
their creed is said to be reform in the Republi
can party, which they allege does not meet
encouragement in the Union League club
If Mr. Richard Henry Dana, Jr accepts the
,,,ias. ,nI H. l.. A.
ter who has been sent to the Court of st.
James from Massachusetts,. John Quincy Ad-
ans, Edward Everett, George Bancroft, Charles
Francis Adams and John Lothrop Motley
three of whom are still living-have been the
ministers to Greal Britain chosen from that
state. and together they have served for eight
cen years.
The statement is made by the president of
life insurance company that it is fact that
women live longer in this country than in any
other. They are less robust and muscular than
the women of other nations, but their tenacity
of life is strong and their constitutions are suf
ficiently enduring to keep them alive consider
ably longer than their appearance, as a general
thing, would warrant.
The Detroit Post thinks Dean Stanley was
not equal to his opportunities in conducting
The marriage ceremony of Professor Tyndal.
The Dean might have asked the bride if she
would take that anthropoid to be her co-ordi-
nate, to love with her nerve centres and to
cherish with her whole cellular tissue, until
final molecular disturbance should resolve his
organism to its primitive atoms. But he
didn't.
The famous "sx million suit against VIM.
M. Tweed resulted, Wednesday, in a verdict
for the people for S4 $40, with interest since
September, 1870, amounting in all to $6,537 ,117
This trial has been before ''struck" or select
jury, and has aroused almost no public inter-
est, it being generally understood that David
Dudley Field had exhausted his 1repertory OF
psttifogging, and that he would be driven to
defend the case on its merits, which were MOTH
ing. Mr.. Fields plea threw his own character
and conduct into the scale with Tweed's, as
also in need of defense, but was scarcely more
fortunate in himself for client than in the
great boss