The Portland daily press., 1877-05-29
News aud Other Items.

1t takes $100,0O0OOO worth of liquor year to
assuage the thirst.of New York city.
Martha Washington has sued George Wash
iDgton for deseItion in Philadelphia.
1t is semi-cficially announced that the grand
dukes didn't try to snub the president by leav-
ing Gov. Morgan's reception before he arrived,
but expressed their reluctance that they must
60 because of previous engagement
Wharton county, Texas, is said to have 900
colored voters and $50 whites, and yet, at re-
cent election. in which temperance was involv-
ed, only five votes were cast against prohibi-
tion.
There is great excitement at Brush Creek,
Fayette county, Iowa, over recent discoveries
of fine gold. 1t is found in dirt and in quartz,
and miners are focking to Brush Creek from
various sections
On the 9th of August the state of Virginia
votes on the question of removing the state
capital. There is so much interest over the
question that vote is anticipated which will
indicate remarkable increase Of the voting
population
A suicide worthy of the oil regions occurred
at Bradford, Pa, a few days ago, when Perry
Lewis saturated his clothing with kerosene and
set himself on fire. The pain was evidently
greater than he anticipated, and he made fran
tic efforts to extingush the flames but without
success.
Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller,
made his entry into Detroit last week with
taudem-teaD, man Oh each horse bearing the
American flag, and another on the seat beside
him blowing bugle. Daniel gained his point,
and secured column of attention in the morn
ing paper
Long Branch smiles in anticipation of
crowded and prosperous season. The warm
weather of a week ago brought quite number
Of the cottage people down, as well as some ho
tel boarders. All the cottages bat two or three
are engaged, which, considering the times, is
really remarkable so early in the season.
Hangings are still public spectacles in the
Southern States. Some 5000 persons were pres
ent at the recent hanging of the negro, Chas
Tommy, at Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of
Mrs. Carroway, white woman, the husband
of the murdered woman celebrating the day by
buying license for second marriage and then
complacently witnessing the execution.
Gen. Grant will be the guest in London of
Mr.. j. S. Morgan, the partner of the late Mr..
Peabody, and the so-called American "Pfince
in England" 1t is said the President is pur-
posing to dazzle the foreign couIts by wearing
his full uniform of General of the United
States Army. In Paris Gen. Grant will be the
guest of MacMahon; in Berlin, of Won Moltke;
and in st. Petersburg. Of the Emperor.
When Russian army officer or other person
of note is condemned to exile in Siberia, he is
first made to kneel on scaffold before the peo-
pie, while the epaulets and decorations are torn
off, and his sword broken over his head. He is
declared legally dead, and his wife, if he is mar
ried, can, if she chooses, consider herself
widow. His estates are confiscated to the
crown. If his wife aid children follow him
they can never return.
j. Proctor Knott has been explicitly charged
with stealing speech by Colonel P. Donan of
Newport, Ky. The speech referred to was de.
lvered in Congress some two years before the
one on Duluth. Donan claims that it was de-
livered by him and printed in the Lexington
(Mo.) Caucasian some eight or nine months
earlier. He has since frequently denounced
Knott as ga brain ipirate, "a thieving bum
mer, fattenng on ether mems wits" and other
monsters too odious to mention. There is
loud call in Kentucky, w here stealing a speech
is an unusual offence, for Mr.. Kuott to ex-
plaip.