The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-28
News and Other Items.

Beecher says he met in Grinnel, Ia, Mr..
Grinnell, the identical man to whom Horace
Greeley said, "Go West, young man."
1t takes 10000 900 trees to furnish lumber for
this country, and 10000 acress of land are
annually cleared for railroad ties.
Rev. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hanaford preached her
farewell sermon Sunday, to the Jersey City
Universalist church, which lately decided to
get along without her pastoral labors.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey expect to remain
in Boston until June. Their future move
ments are not yet decided upon. Hartford,
New Haven, Montreal and San Francisco are
al appealing to them for visit
Secretary Sherman has notified DR.. Mary
Walker by letter that she Is free to enter at
any time the Treasury building, and Mary, in
return, takes back all the ugly things she has
said about the Secretary.
California newspapers allege that from unex-
planned causes that state and San Francisco in
particular, furnishes greater number of cases
OF paralysis than any other similar region in
the country, if not in the world.
The Parisians are fairly bewildered at the
Geographic dispatches sent to the French
Washington announcing the probability of a
storm in Europe. And it comes.
During the recent gales in the North sea, So,
vessels and smacks belonging to Yarmouth
Lowestoft, Grimsby, Hull and Ramsgate
England, were lost, and 215 men and boys were
drowned, leaving entirely destitute IS widows,
166 children and Is aged relatives
Six school ma'ams of central New York
have recently started for Buenos Ayres,
South America. They each get $500 in gold
for the expenses of their passage, and salary
of $24O0 in gold for five years. Then they are
to get six-months' leave of absence and
$500 in gold for the expenses of their trip to
this country and return.
Jennie and Albert Lannon'S, two American
trapeze performers, who refused to have safety
nets placed under them, fell from the trapeze
andwere seriously injured at Manchester,
England, recently. the man striking head first
on fiddler in the orchestra, and the woman
falling on her back across the orchestra rail.
Kenyon college, started in 1926 is pretty
proud of her sons Chief-Justice Chase, whose
uncle. Bishop Chase, was its founder, spent
some time there as student; President Hayes
in 1910; Senator David Davis 10 1882; Edwin
M. Stanton in 1888; Congressman Henry B.
Banning in 1850; Henry Winter Davis in 1887 !;
and Frank Hurd of the last House in 1858.
The Nebraska Legislature has provided for a
grand grasshopper war; Road supervisors
throughout the State are authorized to order
out all the voters in their respective precincts
to do IL days work each in killing grasshoppers,
for which each of these home guards is to be
paid So per day in county warrants Besides
this, grasshopper war clubs are being generally
formed throughout the State.
A well.known New York yachtsman con-
templates making voyage around the world in
100-ton schooner yacht. The party will con-
sist of about fourteen, all told including som 9
ladies. 1t is the intention of the owner to
visit the Western Islands, the Cape of Good
Hope, islands in the Indian Ocean, New
Zealand Australia, Van Diemans Land and
the vari GUS groups of islands in the Pacific
The cruise will extend over period of eighteen
months at least
On the very day nearly at the same hour
that John d. Lee, the Mormon, was shot for
the part he took in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, letter which had been written by
him to one of his wives reached the dead letter
office of the post Office department at Washing
ton. The letter had been written by Lee since
his conviction. but had failed in delivery
through misdrection. After being properly
addressed, the letter was forwarded to its pro-
per destination.
Gov. Cullom of Illinois has hit upon an ex-
csllent plan to relieve himself from importuni
ties for the release of state prison convicts.
The general custom has been 10 conduct nego
tiations for pardon in the most quiet manner
possible, so that the departure Of a prisoner
from this place of confinement would be the
first intimation to the pnblc that a par don had
been asked for. To avoid this, the governor
makes public all appl icatioas for pardon, with
the names of those who sign them; and the
reasonable inference is that hereafter men will
hesitate to sign requests to Let criminals loose
upon the community until they have informed
themselves whether the clemency asked for is
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