The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-29
News and Other Items.

Shakspeare's chair sold at auction in Eng
land recently for 1925.
The expense of the Centennial to the British
government was $3.50.
''Your noble and genteel city," is what the
President of the Italian Centennial Commits
sion calls Philadelphia in his letter of thanks
to Mayor Stokley.
Two thousand acres of land were recently
sold in Alabama for cent an acre. Most any
poor man can carry round a whole plantation
in his vest pocket down there
The Rev. ID. M. McCaffrey of the church OF
Our Saviour, New York, was recently arrested
and locked up for forcibly kissing one of his
flock.
Maud Oswald, young New York girl, thinks
she can ride 300 miles in &c consecutive hours,
and is going to try it, having been in training
for some time.
Gordon Cumming, the famous lion hunter,
is to marry Miss Eames of Washington, in
April. Among the bridesmaids will be the
daughters of Secretary Fish and Sir Edward
Thornton.
A woman, partially drunk, at Oshkosh Wis,
recently passed her baby half way through a
wringer before she discovered that it was en-
yeloped in shirt she had been washing. The
wrnger and the baby were about equally dam
aged.
Philadelphia seems to be growing in wicked
ness. Anthony Comstock says more obscene
literature is distributed there than in New
York, and within month II dead infants
have been picked up by the police in the streets
and alleys of the city.
The municipal reports of the city authorities
of San Francisco. show that the city has re-
markably small debt. In these days of large
Indebtedness and extravagaut management by
municipal authorities, it is cheering to find a
city in which the assessed property valuation
aggregates over $26O, 100000, and whose debt,
including the new issue of bonds for the wild
ening of Dupont street, aggregates less than
81, 100000, or less than three per cent. of the
assessed valuation.
The storms on the coast of Scotland this year
have forced the ocean to yield some long hidden
relics. A large cannon, nine feet long, and an
anchor weighing 1000 pounds, have been wash
ed ashore at UREA one of the Shetland Islands.
They were presented to the Queen and placed
in the armory of Windsor Castle, near the
Nelson relics. These interesting jetsams are
supposed to have belonged to one of the ships
of the Spanish Armada.
Judge S. G. Hastings of San Francisco, has
offered to deposit 100000 with the treasurer of
California on condition that the state shall
promise to pay per cent per annum forever
to the University of California, the amount
thus received to be divided into two uarts.
one of $4,000 aud the other Of $4,000, the ior-
mer to be used at first to purchase books for
a law library, ard the latter for professor s
salary.
Cazeneuve, The necromancer, gave marvel
lous illustration of the trunk trick in Boston
few nights ago. The trunk was tied in COM
plete network of cords, and then wrapped IN
thick paper, and all the folds covered with
seallug wax aud writing This was then placed
in a large box which was also locked and seal
ed. In three minutes, however, Cazeneuve's
wife was found slowed away in the inside
trunk, and in sack that was tied over her
head.