The Portland daily press., 1877-11-12
News and Other Items.

John W. Young, the son of the late Mormon
Prophet. is an insolyent of the most homeless
sort While at the St. Nicholas in New York.
be lived 10 the most extravagant STYLE on money
obtained from capitalists, who supposed him as
weii-1o-ao as his father, whereas his railroad
stocE, his principal property has been utterly
eaten up by mortgage.
a colored woman in Washington county.
Kentucky. is the mother of thirty-four child
rem
a singular case of manslaughter is to be
tried in England, the defendant being a wo-
man, who bit publican on the leg when he
attempted to turn her out of his house. He
died soon after of delirium tremens which was
attributed to the effects of the bite.
Io the surveyed portion of Miunesot, there
are 1899 lakes, with an aggregate area of l.
bO0,0 600 acres, and it is estimated that there
are 1000 more lakes in the unsurveyed sections
of the state, or 1000 in ALL
The Rev. Z. W. Dale of Birmingham, Eng.
who is the lecturer in the Lyman Beecher lee
ture course at Yale College, delivered an ad-
dress on British politics in New Haven last
wednesday night, in the course of which he
said that If there should be any attempt by
Lord Beacons6eli to maintain the integrity of
the TURKISH Empire, or spend British blood or
gold IN that interest, the conservative party in
England would soon receive its death blow.
The New York register in bankruptcy has
called meeting of the creditors of J. B. Ford
& Co., Beecber's former publishers, to be held
on the 10th inst, to elect au assignee in bank
ruptcy aud to prove debts, the firm having
failed to carry out the composition Of 30 cents
on the dollar, and having btained an order
vacating the composition proceedings and to
let the matter go the regular coursc in bank
ruptcy.
Experiments have been recently made with
the telephone at Cincinnati to test its efficiency
as an aid to submarine divers. 1t was found
that sounds could be transmitted BY it to and
from ths diver and companions 10 a boat or on
shore, and when some necessary notifications
have been made 10 the instrument it is thought
that it will much relieve the danger of this per.
ilous business.
Recruiting for the British army is pursued
with so much difficulty that even the rules re.
eardipg admission to certain favorite bodies OF
troops have been much modified. The Life
Guards formerly would not accept recruits less
than six feet hieh, Roman Catholics nor Irish.
meD. Now five feet ten inches is the mini.
mum standard of height while Irish and Cath
olics are taken. Irishmen are also taken in
the Scots Guards. which formerly refused
them,
colossal statue of Capt Cook, the cele
brated navigator, is to be set up at Sidney,
New South Wales. The statue is 49, feet from
the foot to the top of the head, and nearly two
feet more to the end of the uplifted arm. Thus
when placed on the PEDESTAL already provided
for its reception in Hyde Park, Sydney, the
total height from the ground will not bs less
than 81 feet. The situation IN Sydney is most
happily chosen, and is SO elevated that vessels,
when they have entered the Heads of Port
Jackson, will be able to see the statue in the
distance as they work up to town.