The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-04-25
News and Other Items.

Ho"s anu Utuef Items.
deaf and dumb boy has been found OH
Long Island, who was lost by his parents in
massachusetts, sixteen years ago.
secretary Northrop, of the Connecticut
board OF Education, pleads strongly in his an
Aual report for the adoption of the metric sys-
tenn Tor standards of weights and measures.
a Minneapolis law student spoke i'll of two
young ladies' of the place. They told
friend, and all went to the lawyers Office The
two fellows had a free fight and the girls,
standing in chairs, enjoyed the scene immense
ly.
The Reading railroad although not suffer.
ing inconvenience directly from its discharged
engineers, is meeting with numerous accidents
by which freight trains are wrecked, and the
passenger trains are delayed Also
Mrs. General Sherman, who has been man
aging in this country contributions for the pope
to be presented in May next, on the fftieth an
niVersary OF his elevation to the epsicopate, has
$230,000 in hand.
Ex-President Grant will lease both of his cot
tages at Long Branch this season. The one on
the right of the Ocean will be occupied by the
Seligmans, the Government bankers. The one
taken by Harry McAulff, of Brooklyn Heights
Thirteen years ago negro burglar shot a
man in house at Atlanta, Ga, and, disap'
pearing, effectually evaded pursuit. Nothing
was heard of his whereabouts until a few days
ago, when he wrote from Kentucky to inquire
if the man died of his wound, and the letter
led to his arrest
The time approaches for the opening of the
Permanent Exhibition on the 10th of May
next, and the exhibitors are beginning TO show
little more energy in getting their cases in
order. There are now actually in the building
at least two-thirds of the entire amount to be
exhibited, or about 5000 tons, including the
cases.
The anthracite coal dealers of Pennsylvania
will probably unite in an extensive display at
the Paris Exhibition next year. Their plans
embrace collective exhibit of samples Of coal,
Typographical and geological maps of the coal
regions, CRATES, stoves, furnaces, and other de-
vices to show most fully the uses of that kind
of fuel.
Speaking of the support derived from relig-
ious belief, there is Chinaman in California
under sentence of death for murder, who is a
very intslligent man. He looks forward to his
doom with perfect calmness and resignation,
soothed and sustained by unfaltering trust. He
expresses his willingness to submit to the re-
quirements of the law, and has no dread of
death.
There was a lively episode of municipal poll
tics in the city councils of New Bedford, Mass,
last Tuesday night. The mayor nominated a
man for superintendent of streets thirty-six
times, and he was rejected each time by the
council. The thirty-seventh time, however,
the mayor won, and the man was confirmed
though the result was charged to fraudulent
voting.
A terrible murder, committed February 9Th
at Moravian missionary station in the settle
ment of Lance, on the Labrador coast, has just
come to light Rev. W. Balfe, who had spent
thirty years in Labrador; Ernand Balfe, his
son, and Charlotte and Anne, his daughters
were killed and frightfully mangled in theil
own house, and large amount of money was
stolen. The murderers are believed to have
been four Esquimaux, who had been refused
rum at the mission.
Edward S. Stokes, just out of State Prison
reappears before the New York public in a Gu
rious light. A physician in that city named
Thomas, is suing for divorce, and his wife
though she doesn't seem to care whether hi
gains his case or not, doesn't want to be both
cred with the matter. To lawyers who have
been serving papers on her she says she will
not do anything until she consults "her friend
Ed" as she calls him. and told one of them thu
other day, that he would shoot anybody wht
interferes with or annoys her.
A lively contest is raging in Sacramento
CAL, between the merchants of that city an(
the San Francisco drummers. The latter have
persistently undersold the local houses, and the
City Council has recently passed an ordinance
heavily taxing the sales of the agents of San
Francisco houses. The latter, however, are al
present ahead of the city fathers, for, by mere
ly crossing the narrow Sacramento river in Yo'
10 county they still sell largely to the Sacra
mentans, who cross the boundry to trade will