The Portland daily press., 1877-04-19
News and Other Items.

aue hampton mas been invited to attend
the centennial celebration of the ba tile of Ben
nington, vt.
Colonel S. S. Taylor of Cairo, ILL.,, has car.
ried in his valise for many years, when travel
ling, rope ladder and thick pair of gloves.
At the burning of the Southern Hotel at st.
Louis, where he was guest, the ladder and
gloves saved his life.
Philadelphia is reported to have 5000 houses
untenanted or occupied by families who unable
longer to pay rent, are permitted to remain in
them, on condition that they protect the prem
ises from the ravages to which unoccupied
buildings are liable.
As the King of Denmark passed a butcher
shop a few days.ago, large mastiff sprang
upon his tiny white rat-terrier. The King de-
Tended his dog, and the butcher, not knowing
who it was, went for the King, when he was
stopped by police constable, who explained
matters.
popularity about the st. Louis fire was the
burning and charriDg OF human bodies beyond
all possibility OF Identification, while the cloth
ing was left almost intact. Manuscripts and
letters, too, were found uninjured, near the re-
mains of bodies of which four-ffths are popu-
larly supposed to be water.
Lansing, Mich, has mum-socias. At one
given the other evening over 500 was realized,
mostly from fines for talking and whispering.
They raised purse of about $40 to hire one
lady to keep mum for an hour while the rest
were talking around her and teasing her. 'She
was school olmum,' says the Republican,
"and succeeded admirably"
The numher of indvduals anttled to vvaar
the cross of the French Legion of Honor is
about $1,000, of whom $4,000 are soldiers. The
chevaliers, wearing the lowest grade, are by
far the most numerous; then follows the Off
GERS, the commanders, grand officers. and,
finally, the grand crosses, which number but
forty-one, and are the highest in rank.
A tunnel through the Pyrenees will place
France and Spain in railroad communication
by the 1st of January, 1878. The work has
been several years in progress, and will save
twelve hours of tedious diligence riding be-
tween Perpignan and Barcelona. Next year
travellers will be able to travel by rail from
Paris to Malaga, almost without changing
trains.
DR.. r. H. Green of Hoosick, N. Y, appar-
emily died about fortnight ago, and the body
was placed in a vault, but as he had narrowly
escaped burial while in trance several years
since, his wife was requested to visit the body
until no doubt of his death existed. Last Sat-
urday signs of life were noticed. The body
was removed from the vault and physicians
summoned, who pronounced it case of sus-
pended animation.
The officers of the Agricultural Department
at Washington were good deal astonished
few days ago at receiving call from simple
minded bookseller who offered to sell them 200
copies of the Agricultural Report for 1874 and
1875 for fifteen cents copy, although the orig
inal cost to the department was ffty-five cents.
Investigation showed that the bookseller had
bought the books for ten cents apiece from a
member of the House of Representatives who
had received them for distribution among his
constituents.
A jersey octogenarian, Geo. Vreeland, fell
in love with Mary HARRISON a buxom widow.
They were engaged to be married, but Vreeland
failed to fulfill, and Mary sued him for breach
of promise He gave bonds, conditioned to
pay her 10000, if she would let up and prom
Use not to publish his letters, and then died, and
Mary has brought suit against the executors to
collect the money. There is tall swearing on
the trial, which is convulsing the social circles
at Bergen.
An auction sale Of very fine collection of
American coins was made in New York last
week. The following are the prices given for
some of the cents: 1898 cents, 500, $22, $12.75,
$50, $47; 1894, $50, $1S, $2l, $s.25; 1895, $22,
$25, $16.25; 1896, $1S, $13; 1897, $6.25; 1899,
SIG; 1900, S41; 1904, $40; 1906, $41; 1906, $21 !;
1907, $40; 1908. $34; 1909, $26.5O; 1911, $17;
1918, 81; 1874 $3.50. 81; 1921, $3.50; 1928, $40,
$s 1924, 1925; 1926, So; 1927, Sc; 1929, $25;
1881, Sc; 1882, $21 1885, $3.50; 1888, 81; 1S41,
81; 1S43, 81; 1S48. Sc.
The feat of independent baby travelling by
little Maggie Wood, a four-year-old Chicago
orphan, is rarity In juvenile achievement
The chids only living relative was an aunt in
England, to whom the waf was sent alone and
unprotected, save for the casual care of con-
d1ctors and steamship agents. At New York
she was received by total strangers who placed
per, supplied with toys and amusements, on
the City of Richmond, in the care of the cap
tain and stewardess, whe finally turned her
over to her aunt at Liverpool, after journey
of 45OO miles in which the child had not seen
familiar face.
That would-be diplomat Mr.. Henry Sanford,
who has made himself the laughing stock of
Washington lately, with his .ostentatIous din
ners and general snobbery, made his fortune,
tits said, by taking advantage of the govern
ment's need of arms at the beginning of the
rebellion. He bought large quantity of con-
demned Belgian muskets at less than 81 apiece
and got from the government SI4 each, and
consequently thousands of soldiers found them
selves armed with lot of pot-metal that snap
ped like pipe-stems or burst like egg-shel!s In
their hands. For.several years past Sanford
| has been induseriously working up colonial
| ton speculation in southern Florida, where he
| owns several thousand acres of comparatively
| worthless pine barreAs at the head OF steam"
| boat navigation on the st. Johns,