The Portland daily press., 1877-11-02
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 9.

In very long and interesting letter to the
Boston Transcript the Hon. Hamilton Fish,
in response to a challenge from Mr.. Edward L.
Fierce, gives the names and specific details of
nine treaties which had been transmitted to the
Senate for its action, and referred by that body
TO the Committee on Foreign Relations while
Mr.. Sumner was its chairman and which re-
manned Enacted upon at the time when be
ceased to be such chairman. One of them had
been in the hands of the committee nearlv
fifteen months. Eight of these treaties were
acted upon and approved within three weeks
after tbe appointment of Mr.. Summers suc-
cessor.
William 81. Vanderbilt was an inveterate
smoker IN his youth, and one day in 1868 as the
family were on the steam yacht North Star en-
route for st. Petersburg his rather remarked
to him: " wish you would give up that smok.
ing habit OF yours. I'll give you $4,000 if Won
doit." The son replied: "You need not give
me any money. Your wish is quite sufficient"
He has not smoked since.
Lord Falmouth, one of the English lords
who believe in "the turf" has won during the
recent racing season Sl72165 by his betting,
besides the Ascot gold vase
Invitations are already being given out for
the golden wedding of the Emperor and
Empress of Germany at Berlin next Spring.
Queen Victoria is among the elect who have
invitations.
Archibald Forbes, Eastern war correspond.
ent in Bulgaria, who has returned to Great
Britain on account of broken health, states
most emphatically that all the stories about
Russian atrocities" are untrue, and that so
far as he could discover, no Turkish woman
was ever maltreated by a Russian soldier. As
Mr. Forbes is not pro Russian in his views and
sympathies, his testimony is the more con-
elusive.
Mr.. Frodette, member of the Quebec Leg.
isature, is a professional diver and unable to
read or write. When candidate he boldly
avowed his Ignorance on these points, but said
that while the House contained plenty Of law
yers and others who could tell about things on
the face of the earth, none of them, like him.
self, could describe the bottom of the sea.
That declaration elected him.
The Vatican refused to make Christopher
Columbus saint on the ground that his Chris
tian virtues have not been exemplified by any
great deed; that. apart from his discovery of
America, his public and private life was open
to grave reproach; that, until now, nobody eve,
thought of regarding him as saint or invok.
ing him as SUCH and, finally, it is very doubt
full whether he died good Catholic.
Clara Manning Of Brooklyn, N. Y, pretty
young girl of II, was inveiglel into a mock
marriage at a summer resort st the Catskills,
the past season, and now her mother is en-
deayoring to get her out of the scrape, as it
turns ont that the marriage was performed by
clergyman and the bridegroom claims his
bride.
The recent row at Rutgers College seems to
have taught the students no healthy lesson.
The other night party sailed out with picks
and crow-bars and tore up the plank walks
upon the college grounds, saturated them with
coal oil and built an immense bonfire on the
campus. The town police saw the blazs and
rushed in, arresting three of the culprits, who
were taken to the lookup, but were subsequent
ly bailed out. President Campbell is reported
as greatly incensed and determined to prose-
cute the offenders to the full extent of the law
Prof. james Orion, whose death occurred
September Oath, while crossing Lake Tlticaca,
Bolivia, was born in New York in $780, gradu-
ated from Williams College in 1856 and from
Andover in 1858; travelled in Europe and in
1866 became Instructor of Natural Science in
Rochester University. The next year be led
college expedition across South America, de
scending the Amazon and discovering the first
fossils there. He then associated himself with
Vassar College, and in 1873 assembled the ANA
zon to Lima and Lake Tisicacs, renowned for
some ruins of Inca civilization, where he has
just perlshed He has published half-a-dozsn
volumes on metallurgy, zoology, female educa-
ton. poetry, minerals the Andes ard Amazon
his last work appearing in 1876