The Portland daily press., 1877-01-20
News and Other Items.


A French woman has bequeathed $4,000 to
Marseilles for horse and dog hospital
Over q million feet of lumber were shipped
from Ottawa, Canada to the United States, last
year.
The 80-ton gun which the British ord nance
department has been testing now for some
months has cracked its inner lining of steel,
although the outer coils of wrought iron still
hold.
Gov. Hendricks last official act was to par
don Buck Mckinney, an old schoolmate, who
had served twenty years of life sentence for
firing pistol at one man and killing another.
Brigham Young is still "bucking' against the
courts decree in favor of Ann Eliza's alimony
He now tells his Mormon tenants, whose rents
have been sequestrated insbehalf of the divorced
wife, that they must pay the money to him or
he will sue them, while there is the implied
threat of churchly accommodation if they
dare to disobey his behest.
Tho border Mexicans are terribly excited over
the threatened invasion from California, and
propose to resist to the bitter end Meantime
the expedition grows daily, and some think it
possible that the deposed president, Lerdo, will
join 1t at San Fran cisco.
San Francisco is coming moresand more un-
der the rule of the 'hoodlums." Unoffending
Cinnamon are constantly maltreated in broad
daylight on the crowded streets, andsno7arrests
is the invariable record.
A new source of arsenic poisoning has been
detected at Paris, in the case of lady who was
made chemically ill by the use of the brilliant
white candles in vogue there. These had been
strongly impregnated with arsenic during the
bleaching process, and this was volatilized by
the burning of the candle.
A wager has been made in England which
may have some political significance. Earl
Dudley, who is go years old, has offered $4,000
to $25 that the son of Napoleon ILL., will be Off
cially proclaimed emperor of France during the
earls lifetime The odds were at once accept
ed by the Prince of Wales and by three other
persons
The Salt Lake papers have the story of the
burial by snow avalanche of party Of miners
In Utah canon. The cabin was covered 800
feet deep, and four men, a woman and child
lay wedged. under the crushed roof six days be-
fore the rescue came, and then only two were
taken out alive, lone of whom was delirious from
mingled suffering and excitement.
The British admiralty has been made the
victim of an. extraordinary hoax. A fictitious
telegram was sent about six weeks ago to the
Port Admiral at Cork. ordering the gunboat
Goshawk to proceed at once to Gibraltar The
terms in which this telegram was couched was
such as to leave no doubt of its being genuine;
the number of the crew and the amount of coal
were duly detailed, and in less than twenty
four hours after the receipt of the orders the
Goshawk steamed out of the Cove of Cork,
leaving the fisheries, which were under her
care, entirely defenseless. Fortunately, gen.
uine admiralty telegram asking if the Goshawk
had sailed for Galway, aroused the suspicious
OF the authorities at Cork, and the hoax was
discovered. kilograms were instantly dis
patched to all the ports on the way, and one of
them reached the captain of the vessel in Vigo
Bay, where he had taken refuge during gale
The vessel returned to her berth at Cork on
Dec. Both.