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

ttiousIy followed any legitimate DuslHeSS nave
almost uniformly prospered. C.P.
News and Other Items.
Stanley's letters from Africa are translated
into French, and published with maps in the
last Bulletin of the geographical society Of
Marse'les.
A confidential clerk of the Rothschilds in
Paris lately absconded. after robbing his en-
ployers of over $36O,000. The money had been
nearly all lost in stock speculatons.
A New Orleans man named Burgess has de-
clared that he himself pulled down the flag
from the New Orleans Mint during the war,
and that Mumford. the man whom Gen. Butler
hanged for doing it, was innocent.
The publishers of the Atlantic Monthly will
give dinner next Monday evening, Dec. 18th,
at the Brunswick House, Boston, to its con-
tributors, to meet the poet Whittier on the oc-
casion of his 10th birthday.
A st. Louis widow has had three husbands,
She has on hand a lawsuit to break the will of
the first. another to recover the insurance
money on the life of the second, and third to
obtain alimony from the last.
Dewitt Talmage, who is himself minister.
editor, announces the following 'recipe for
making an ordinary editorial in religious
newspaper-Cuta dry sermon into ten parts,
add pint of skim milk and a gallon of water /;
sweeten with ipecac."
The outrageous prosecutions of Miss Kate
Claxton on occount of her fire record continue.
AT Columbus, Ohio, last week, when she was
playing the fire alarm was sounded and panic
almost resulted The only presence of fire was
burning chimney, and it looks as though the
whole thing might have been "put up"
Uneasy lies the head Of Rignold that wears
the crown of Henry V. In Troy the comman-
der of his army ran away with the money that
had been set apart for the payroll. In Phila-
dephia the audience plainly overheard him
threaten to kick his royal father-in-law off the
stage, and few minutes afterward he knocked
laundering courier down behind the scenes
Columbus, O., has wonder. A lock of hair,
cut from the head of Dr. S. Ha'sey's 1S-months
old boy, which was two inches long at the time
OF the cutting, is now over six inches long, with
every sign of life. For IA years it has lain in
the family Bible, carefully folded and marked,
but it retains the original color, though the
boys hair has changed materially.
According to the New York Sun, Washing
ton Nathan, son of the murdered New York
Jew, Nathan, drove up Thursday night late in
carriage, with lady, to police station, and
demanded the arrest of certain liquor dealers.
This was refused and fight ensued, as re-
suit of which Nathan was locked up for the
night. The lady in the carriage explained that
he was drunk.
The boat club of Cornell University at Itha-
ca, N. Y, wishing to head off the disbandment
of the college rowing association, propose q
grand regatta, open to all colleges, on Cayuga
lake next June, the races to include single
scull, pair, four and six-oarsd crew contests for
the championship of American colleges 1t is
also proposed to give regatta, open to all pro-
fessions, for which liberal prizes will be offer
ed.
james Todd, one of Gen. Lees favorits
scouts in the West Virginia campaign, was
killed last week in a dispute with hunter
near Staunton, Va He was reputed the most
skillful hunter in the valley of the Shenandoah.
having killed more than 2700deer up to 1860
with one old muzzle-loading rifle. He could
perform the feat Of putting a bullet through a
hat on the opposite side of tree, by placing an
ax-blade for the ball to glance upon.
The officers of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad have specially directed their
freight agents not to receive live poultry for
shipment unless the coops containing the same
are constructed high enough to permit the
poultry to stand up "without crouching," and
with the Stats on the top so arranged that they
can put their heads out. Agents are also re-
quested in slowing coops in cars of depots, not
to pile one on top of another, and thereby
cause unnecessary suffering.
A hen recently took up her abode in bag.
gage car which rested over night at the termin-
us of small western railroad, made nest and
laid fifteen eggs, upon which she proceeded to
Sit She stuck to them day after day, though
the Car was in motion nearly half the time. Oc-
casionally she would get off for food and water
and on several of these occasions she got left at
station, where she patiently awaited the re-
turn of the train when she flew into the car
and got upon the nest. She always recognized
the bell as the signal for starting and would
leave her food untasted when she heard it. She
has reward by 10 chickens
shrewd, keen-eyed Scotchman is employed
to do nothing else than board outside of the
New York Central depot in New York, all in
coming passenger trains, and go through the
cars Immediately after the passengers have left
them, looking for lost articles. No train.men
or other employees are permitted to precede him,
and, II one may judge from his findings. his
search must be very thorough. Scarcely a train
comes in from which he does not gather M
something. Overcoats shawls, rubber shoes
satchels, umbrellas, canes, packages, silk hats
pocket-books and jewelry are turned in by him
in steady stream that has, notwithstanding
the constant out-go to claimants. made up an
accumulation that fills huge closet and the
greater part of store-room. Some things have
baen on hand for five years.