The Portland daily press., 1877-10-05
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. s.
News and Other Items.

S"o anu Juliet Items.
Line last days of Senator Bogy of Missouri
were clouded by the loss of almost his entire
iorluue oy the failure of state bank.
queer mourner at boys funeral in Or
augsburg, KY, the other day, was simple pet
pig 1t followed its little masters remains to
the grave, trotting along under the hearse some
seven miles to the burial ground.
Women are being nominated for county
chool superintendents all over the state of III.
inois this fall
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat saws the
wholesale houses of that city in all the leading
lines are overloaded with customers from all
sections, and the outgo of goods is unusual for
this Immediate season of the year.
Louisville girl threw bottle containing
her name and address into the Ohio river. 1t
was found by youth, and a marriage has re-
suited. The Paducah News is alarmed lest,
upon the fact becoming generally known, the
navigation of the river will be permanently i'm
peded.
The University of Wisconsin is trying the
experiment Of co-education of the sexes, and
committee of the Legislature report san unmis.
taxable appearance of ill-health' among the fe-
male students, who are as well provided for az
The young men. The committee come to the
conclusion that the peculiar physiology of
women will not permit them I to study as close
~ as men.
The agent of Birmingham eng firm in
Japan writes home that the Japanese are repro
ducng English manufactured articles with
such skill and cheapness that they are not only
beginning to supply their own wants, but are
likely to compete with the English in the home
markets Frugal as badgers, industrious as
bees, they undersell every labor market which
they enter, and Guido every civilized artisan at
his own trade.
A Western paper states that ex-Secretary
Belknap is making a living by canvassipg for a
patent indelible ink for the use of postmasters
in canceling stamps.
According to the New York Sunday Courier,
MIR. Sothern is one of the most fortunate the a.
trical stars. 'tHe has always had luck Five
hundred dollars night and generally one-half
of the gross receipts of the house. This is the
first season he has departed from his plan. He
now hires his own company, but instead of fifty
per cent. he gets seventy per cent of the gross
receipts The Park Theatre holds about $1,000
night. Say he plays to $1,000 a week. Seven
ty per cent. of $1,000 is $4,000. Fortunately his
present play, new one here, does not need
any high-priced people, so his expenses are
about $500 week, which would leave Mr.,
Sothern the pleasant weekly income of $4,000 -
A wild son of ex Congressman Negley of
Pittsburg, Pa. has just got year in the peni-
Tertiary for swindling clearinghouse keeper
out of S. for liquor license.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont insists that the
Bartholdi fountain in Washington is worth all
the government paid for it-$6OOO-even if it is
painted iron instead of bronze.
A private insane asylum at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, is in state of siege. The institution has
been sold. but the doctor in charge barricaded
the doors and refused to surrender the build.
ings, while the purchasers surrounded them
and kept the occupants prisoners
That was very particular kind of sacrilege
revealed by Tweed in his testimony On the ring
frauds. On election night in 1868 the tele-
graphic wires were loaded with pass ages
from the Bible to prevent the transmission of
news to anybody but the Tammany managers,
while they doctored the results in the city so as
to carry the state.
Lie recent prevalence of typhoid fever in
Rochester, N Y, is proved by scientific anal
ysis to be due to impure well water. Prof Lat
tlmore OF Rochester University has tested water
from wells on 40 different streets, and finds
tnat surface drainage and bad sewers have
made the average of impure salts per gallon
1878 grains, an amount three or four times
that which is compatible with health, He
doubts if there is well of pure water in the
city.
Ex-Confederate Postmaster General Reae an
having denied that Jefferson Davis, when can
cured, wore as disguise female clothing, the
report OF Julian G.. Dickinson, the Michigan
cavalry officer who halted the party, has been
Drought out from the state archives. It saws;
ibe dress was not a perfect fitting garment,
out was Enthusiastically woman's dress, for L
saw the waist and skirt, and to me it cannot be
otherwise described. have no doubt it was
the travelling dress worn afterwards on the
march back to Macon by Mrs. Davis. Besides
the dress, Davis had closely about his head and
shoulders a black shawl or mantle which con-
cealed his face and shoulders, but through the
top of this could sae his o,av hair in mart