The Portland daily press., 1877-10-11
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. n.
news and Other Items

"eorge, tne Count Joannes, has been unable
70 OBTAIN an injunction against the production
OF Inc Crushed Tragediau," and he will still
Wfithe under the imagined scoring of his friend
Sotbern.
MISS Randolph, great-grandaughter OF
Thomas Jefferson is at the head of young la
dies school near Charlotte, Va.
Max Strakosch was married at Watch Hill
on August 1, to Miss Kate Nelson, and bis
friends are Just finding it out.
The Canadian premier is recovering from his
indispositon. This is for tn information of
those who knew that he had an indsposition.
Some Southern papers want the South to use
school textbooks written by home authors. that
the southern children are not to be taught to
look upon their fathers as disappointed
rebels and "base traitors"
Newly married ministers generally show the
consequences by illusions in their sermons to
the duasm of love and the holy lie hit of a wo-
mans eyes. With older married preachers it is
just the same as if they were bachelors.
In Texas, recently, judge broke down with
emotion while sentencing one Lonely, a noto-
rious desperate, to be hanged for murder,
Lonely was surprised at this, aud remarked on
A woman's skeleton was sold recently to sat.
isfy claim against the estate of a CO untry
physician. Upon it were the lines: "Miss Ida
Montague, aged % years. Died of grief May
%, 1865. Her death-bed request: Honor your
sanctum with my bones.'"
Lord Mayo imported female emu. While
his lordship was away from home she laid an
egg, and bis perplexed bailIff, writing to inform
him OF the occurrence, began his letter as fol-
lows: sin the absence of your lordship put
the egg under the greatest goose could find."
In the archives of Kenyon College, Gambler,
Ohio, is the letter of President Wheelock. of
Dartmouth College, to Daniel Webster, retain
ing the great orator in the celebrated Dart
mouth College case. The letter,is dated the
9th of August, 1915, and it enclosed $40 as a
retaining fee
The managers of the Academy of Sciences at
San Francisco, one of the legatees under the
Lick will, have filled brief assailing the legal
standing of the present board of trustees and
against the compromise with John FL. Lick.
The whole matter will now go to the courts, and
it is very likely, most of the estate to the law
yers.
The New York Hereld gives nearly column
and half to answer the questions "What
would John Kelly have been in the Middle
Ages?" and arrives at the conclusion that he
would have been an ambitious sacker of cities,
"a noted disturber of the general tranquility"
And John can't dispute it, He can only ask
what the Herald would haye been.
Eighteen savings banks have failed in New
York in the last six years. Five of them have
paid nothing yet to their depositors, two paid
Is cents On the dollar, one 33A, one 49, one SO,
one 80, one 573, three 65, one 50, and one 95 and
one 100. With some of them som ething more
Is expected. This is not cheerful record for
the great busine IS centre of the country.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road has settled with the relatives and heirs OF
65 out of 81 persons who lost their lives in the
Ashtabula disaster. The largest amount paid
to any one party was $4,000, and the claims
have generally fallen under $5OOO Mr.. and
Mrs. Rogers. newly. married couple on their
wedding tour, were killed and their bodies
burned beyond recognition; yet their lives have
been settled for $4,000.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin claims that the
new residence of James Kneelaud of that city
is the most elaborate structure of the kind in
the West. The lot is a full block. and the in
structons to the architect were: 'Gve every
room in the building an outlook owards Grind
avenue; secure for every room. even to the
smallest, an outlook on three of the four streets
which bound the building; provide that in
every room there shall at some time in each
day be a bright sunlight if the sun shines.'
The Charleston, s. c., people are moving in
behalf of the restoration of their shipping. A
company is proposed, and the proposition is
received with substantial favor, to run line of
steamers from Charleston to st. Augustine.
thence to Nassau and Havana. under the sup
position that it will give Charleston the trade it
had with the Wess indies before the war and
secure large passenger traffic to Florida and
Nassau. The service proposes to start with
steamer thrice month to Havana and twice a
month to St. Augustine
All the official and private information re-
ceived in Washington relative to the El Paso,
Texas, uprising, shows that it is not of any in
ternational character, but is participated Who'll.
ly by Americans of Mexican origin, residents
ia Ell Paso county. The salt lakes, which have
been entered upon by Northern people, have
been for 200 years, under all Spanish and Next
can land grants, exempt from entry, and were
always consideredlas part of the state domain
for public use, which could never be appropri
ated for private use; but Northern SPECTATORS
having secured some Texas scrip, have seized
the lands and are endeavoring to make their
title to them clear. The Mexicans, following
the traditions of 200 years, are disposed to fight
and hence the trouble.