The Portland daily press., 1877-12-13
News and Other Items.

Blondin has travelled nearly $500 miles on the
tight rope.
Lydia Thompson's burlesque troupe has brok-
en- up and Lydia is going to Europe
The gas company of Richmond, Va, has cut
OH the gas from the custom house there on ac-
count of the non-payment of the gas bill.
The Newark Savings Institution has been
taken charge of by the Chancellor. Assets,
S12,OOO,OOO; deposits $11, 100000.
Geo. N. Jennott, aged 21, was killed Tues
day by an engine, while walking on the track
at Nashua, N. 81.
Catholic priest named Bloomer is in Jail
at Elmira, N. Y, for refusing to answer q
query OF the court. He stands % professional
privilege, and not on church discipline
Peter b. Sweeney sailed from New York for
Europa yesterday, having settled with the city
to the amount of $450,0O0 for his ring thieving
He expects to return soon on a lecturing tour.
The canal system of the Khedve of Egypt
has reclaimed 100000 acres of desert land with
in Is years and 100000 acres more are being op-
Grated upon.
A cancan troupe traveling.West has got into
limbo at South Bend, Ind, the proprietors hav.
ing been arrested under law prohibiting i'm.
moral exhibitions.
About two-thirds of the Southern cotton crop
has been gathered, and the yield falls about 10
per cent. behind that of last year. Nearly half
of it has already been sold.
Queen Isabella of Spain is expected to visit
Rome this winter with the intention and hone.
1T Is thought of effecting reconciliation be-
tween the Pope and the King of Italy.
Toronto Savings Bank has suspended pay
ments. 1t is represented as solvent and has
$125 600 of real estate. There is said to be no
doubt but that the depostors will be paid in
full
Among the delegates elected to the Rspubli.
| can general committee of New York, Tuesday
night, are Naval Oficer Cornell, U. s. Marshal
Mike Cregan. U. S, Bankrupt Register Dayton
| and customs officer O'Brion.
The City Hotel, two stores and four small
buildiugs in Beringher City, Pa, have been
burned. Loss about $4,000. A B. Mozart
| ney of Mercer, Pa, was burned to death in the
L hotel.
William and Mary College at Williamsburg,
Va, wants Congress to pay her for the de-
struction Of some of the college buildings by
| federal soldiers in 1862. This claim has been
presented before and the House voted to pay ii,
but the Senate failed to concur.
| By recent decisions of the New York courts,
| man is held responsible for his wifes funeral
| expenses, the same as for her living, no matter
how much she may leave But he may charge
her estate with extra expenses on account of
religious forms, if she was not of his denomi-
/ nation.
Mr.. Elihu Burritt of New Britain, Conn.
"the learned blacksmith" had a severe hemorr-
hsge of the lungs last Friday, and is considered
BY his physicians to bs in very critical condi-
ton. He has been in feeble health for some
months, and as he is sixty-seven years old, 1t is
not probable that he will again be restored to
health.
There lives in Tolland county, Conn, an old
man named Bernard Covert whom some of the
| elderly men of our day will recoect as ia
nous singer at political meetings in aid of the
1 Whig and Republican cause. He took part in
successive Presidential canvasses from the ia
/ nous ''log cabin and hard CIDER canvass of
1910 up to that of 1868. Horace Greeley used
often to agree to take the stump only on condi.
tion that Mr.. Covert accompanied him.
The death of Bishop Marvin of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church South, will require the
election of three bishops by the General Con-
ference which meets at Atlanta, Ga, next May.
It is probable that the Rev. DR.. Lynus Parker,
editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate,
will be urged for one of the places. Had the
Rev. DIR. Duncan, who died few months ago
lived, he would undoubtedly been elected to a
bishoprc.
Mrs. Chisholm, whose husband was murder
ed in Kemper county, Miss, says that the per-
sons who attacked him in Jail were all old resi-
dents, and, what seemed most strange. all re-
ligiols were represented. "There were," she
says, Catholics, Presbyterian elders, and, most
Of all, noticed two Methodist class-leaders
that were very active all through the matter.
One OF these men was great exhorter. and
had often labored with us for the good of our
souls. At the last camp-meeting 1 attended
this man got so happy he shouted at great
rate and ca ne up to Mr.. Chisholm and took hi m
around the neck and begged him to go forward,
and said, 1T is all you lack, Judge, to be first
rate man-all you lack is religion. And that
man helped kill my husband"