The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-13
News and Other Items.

San Francisco papers chronicle with much
enthusiasm the first arrival of a carload of
lager from Milwaukee.
A brother of Admiral Semmes is candidate
for the position of door-keeper of the House of
Representatives.
Jefferson Davis has almost finished his me-
moirs of the civil war. He severely censures
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
Cincinnati is great town for beer Two
glasses are now sold for five cents there
Touch-the-Clouds was the shortest of all the
Indians who recently visited the Great Father.
The Russian Gen. Skobeloff dresses in white,
and four white horses 1. have been shot under
him.
The powder factory at Bridgeport, Ct, has
this year supplied Russia with 100000 cart
ridges, and Turkey with 10000 900, and has got
ah order for 100000 from Italy. The Rus
sian and Turkish inspecting officers have been
working side by side at the factory,
my dear boy" said mother to her son as
he handed round his plate for more turkey,
"this is the fourth time you've been helped"
Il know, MOTHER replied the boy, shut that
turkey pecked at me once, and L want to ge
square with him." He got his turkey.
A young fellow in love with a widow got SO
Jealous at ball in Houstin, Texas the other
night, that be got license and preacher, and
going to the widows home little before day,
informed her that she must marry him instan-
ter or he would make lead mine of the other
fellow. She married him.
John G. Anthony, professor of zoology at
Harvard College, is seriously i'll at his house in
Cambridge Mass. He is now 20 years of age,
and was the intimate friend of Agassiz, whom
he acco mpanied to Brazil and other. places on
scientific expeditions.
Mr.. Charles Fechter Is said to be a successful
farmer. He cultivates about a hundred acres
in Pennsylvania, employing the best macbin
cry. He givesiaway nearly all that he raises,
and is reported to support almost entirely many
poor families in his neigborhood
Suleiman Pasha is man of determination.
lie told the soldiers of the English ambulance
corps that had they not been able to take care
of his wounded he,would have been compelled
to shoot all who were to severely Injured to
take care of themselves.
Great excitement was caused on the Berlin
Bourse recently by the thrilling announcement:
"Czarewitch made a sprisonei." On inqdiry, it
turned ont that the mystfication of the Berlin
ers, who never can see a joke, was based upon
fact, man named Czarewitch, one of the pur-
VeYors OF the Russian army, having fallen into
the hands of the Turks while conveying provis-
ions to the Russians.
General Ord" says the Austin (Texas)
Statesman of a few days ago, twas in the city
yesterday to confer with Governor Hubbard.
He is an eminentlY peaceable looking man, in
any event. His whole outfit when he leaped
from the stage-coach yesterday morning at the
Raymond House, did not cost more than S.
He wore blue cotton shirt worth 40 cents,
even at rates that would be fixed by an old clo'
man. That Generals hat was absolutely viii
lanonsly smashed, shocking and ancient, and
his coat and breeches correspondent with his
other articles of apparel. Nobody would have
dreamed that famous soldier of the regular
army could be enveloped in so modest garb"