The Portland daily press., 1877-10-22
MONDAY MORNING. OCT. 90.

H mule klckT Autumn maiden Hiss?
Autumn MUSICIAN muzisb? Ought 'em?-Puck.
Dr' James b. Coleman of Trenton, n. j.
owns the first breech-oading shotgun ever
Drought to this county. He purchased it of a
man to whom it was given by Lucien Bonaparte
upon his departure for France at the deposition
of Louis Philippe 1t is double-barreled and
beautifully ornamented 10 the Moorish sty
with crown and the initials 81 N."suuk jrto
the triggeI-guard in gold. 1t is still in good or-
der and frequently used.
The Hamburg Reform, in commenting upon
the death of Brigham Young, says that NOR
monism was founded by John Smith, who was
killed by mob. Not SO. John Smith has
died many time, and worms have eaten him.
but not for Mormonism.
News received through Asiatic and Oceanic
journals confirm the reports of a couple Of
months ago concerning the hosting Of the
American flag at Samoa, and the formal ten:
der of allegiance to the United States, The
New Zealand Herald corroborates this, saying,
"The American flag has been hoisted at Samoa
and unless the action of the consul is repudi.
ated by the authorities at Washington the is
lands of the Navigators' group will hencefor-
ward have TO be accounted as in the possession
of the American government
A young woman has entered the course of
architecture at Syracuse Unversity-the first of
her sex who has done this. The lumber of en-
frances in the College Of Arts is unusually
large. The course of music has been taken by
about forty students.
An Oregon paper has. this decidedly person al
item: "a great lot of young ladies welcomed
Gen. Sherman at Albany. The old warrior
went right 10 and kissed the whole of them.
while his son. eowardly young man who had
never been through the war, stood back and
looked sheepishIy or.
Mighty, indeed, is the pea nut crop In the
years 1867 the state of North Carolina pro-
duced 125,O0O bushels of peanuts; Virginia $780,
OOJ bushels, and Tennessee 500, coo bushels The
United States can point with PRIDE to the
fact that in the last four years within their bor-
ders 8, 320, 900 bushels of peanuts we're harvest
ed.
The Pope's,annual income of S645, 900, allow
ed by the Italian Parliament in the 'bill of
guarantees" has, since December, 1870, been
offered to him annually in single bill engrav
ed especially for the purpose, and as regularly
1t has been declined. Tht bills were then pac-
ed or deposit in the Bank of Italy, to the Pope's
order, and have been covered into the treasury
if five years elapsed without their withdrawal
The first two have thus returned to the Italian
treasury, but whenever the Pope dies bis heirs
will find So, 225 900 awaiting Them
Cincinnati has female woodsawyev who can
haul in her dollar and hall every day, and
when her husband bites his mustache and won't
speak because she wants new hustle or pair
OF white kids for the opera, she don't 90 over
to Mrs. Hennessey's and cry about it till her
complexion is ruined. Not any. She Just rolls up
her sleeves, shoves the hair back of her eyes.
and Sc tiles the question right then and there by
"wedging" him into corner and ''mauliag"
him till his eyes "buck''
The exhibition building in Paris is being
pushed rapidly to completion, and already has
grand appearance The great hall is COM
peted up to the sprnging of the iron-roof
trusses, and more than three quarters of the
iron and glass roofing over the industrial GAL
cries on the Champ de Mars has been COM
pleted. La the centre of the building is a wide
open-ar avenue, in which will be placed the
fine art galleries. Il was at first thought that
there would be no necessity for annexes, but
the idea has been given up, aud the Champ de
Mars will be more crowded with supplemeu-
tary buildings than it was in 1867
The Women's Christian Temperance Uuion
of Massachusetts, will hold their fourth annual
convention at Salem street Congreg rational
church, Wednesday aud Thursday, October "a
and %. Sessions 10 a. %. and and D. %.
Each auxiliary union will send two delegates
with credentials, to participate in the business
A
of women under whatever auspices they are or
gained, or are working whether auxiliary TO
state associations or not, are urged to send del
egates; they, with all delegates from unions,
will be provided with entertainment Free re-
turn tickets are expected.
The Louisville CoutieI-J ournal, which lives
: in state where whisky ought to be good If
anywhere, indors S the statement that probably
nine hundred and ninety-nine gallons out of
every thousand that are sold as brandy are
made from vile compound of whiskey swil
distilled spirits and chemical abominstons, and
adds Aud as it is also equally true of wills
key, what ia the name of goodness are we ALP
to do for something to drink? 1t looks as If we
are to be driven to the pump in spite of us. If
the world at large knew Of what villainous
the present crop of drunkards wonld be
about the last, or at any rate, all future crops
would be small. Nearly or quite all the liquors
that are retailed nowadays are undoubtedly a
slow but sure poison, and to drink them habit
ualy is simply roundabout way of commit
ting suicide, and unless you guard yourself
carefully, the way is not SO very roundabout
either
1t will interest all who lost friends in the
Ashtabula horror last winter to know that dur
ing the spring and summer large quantities of
relics have been found, and are in the corone1's
care at that city. 1t will interest them more,
and should interest every ore, to know that,
though some of them have been in the hands
of the county officials but two OF three mouths.
they propose to sell these relics at public anc-
ton in January next. They will sell them be-
cause one year will then have elapsed since the
accident, and that is the length of time the la
obliges them to hold such articles Toys and
little baby wraps, burned trinkets and garments
of all kinds are not of much money value. but
would be priceless to mourning friends, MANY
OF whom have as yet absolutely no relic of the
lost ones. 1t is hoped that this word will cir
culate all over the country that survivors may