The Portland daily press., 1878-10-04
News and Other Items.

A Chinese childs' magazine, containing 16
pages and published monthly, has been started
at Shanghae. 1t contains a variety of instruc-
tive and amusing matter, is well illustrated and
costs Is cents year.
A Virginia woman offers to sell her husband
by auction and apply the proceeds to the liqui-
dation of the state debt 'I can recommend
him to purchasers" she adds, "as man pos
sessing all the qualities q woman capabls OF
controlling him could desre'
More journals are annually stated in Paris, it
is said, than in all the leading capitals of Ed.
rope put together, but most of them are short
lived, many dying after their third or fourth
issue. Most are sensational. many indecent
and some so scandalous as to be suppressed by
the police. Last year near 100 journals Of all
kinds were set up in Paris, and 9S of them
disd, many having bsen suppressed in obedi-
ence to law.
A most eccentric will is that left by the lats
Allen 7. Wilson of Marion county, Cal He
leaves some $4,000 to his son, but declares il
forfeited if he ever gives any money to
Catholic Institution, person or cause 1.-The
uses any kind of alcoholic liquor after he
reaches the aga of 10 years. he shall forfeit his
rights, or pass month on diet of bread and
water for each time he commits the offence. If
he smokes he shall forfeit his estate, or work
steady for year as a COMMON farm laborer
and save one-half of his wages.
The problem of using compressed air for
street car propulsion has apparently been sue
cessfully solved in New York. A compressed
air car has been running on upper Second ave-
nue. for month, and gives such results that
the horse railway company has resolved to dis
pense with horses on the avenue above the new
station at TweDty-seventh street as soon as six
of the compressed air cars can be built. The
inventors hops to get their motor introduced on
the elevated railways. the officers of which pre-
sumably only need to bs assured Of its success
to adopt it at once.
Salt has been commenced In the U Court
at San Francisco by Long All Kit, GOu Lin,
Choug Long Sing and Fag Wit against the
sheriff of the county to recover SlO 600 dam ages
alleged to have been sustained by them in the
loss of thsir queus, which were cut of. according
to the statute, while they were in the county
Jail. Fifteen other Celestiais are about to
bring similar suits against the sans officer. A
tempora ry injunction has been granted against
the she riff to restrain him from further queue
cutting during the progress of the suits, aud
the cases are exciting much interest. There is
law which requires ths hair of all convicts to
be cut dowu to a half-inch in length, but is was
made only to discriminate against the China
man, whose queue is bis chief glory.
bloody eucouotsr in a church near Dallas,
Texas, between the pastor and one Gen. Chene-
with, was averte1 Sunday or two ago only by
the interpositon of third parties in the congre-
CATION, which was engaged in service at the
time. The general strobe into the church and
advanced to the publit aad cursed the munster
roun n.y. When efforts were made to eject the
interloper he drew a large knife and threaten
ed to Kill any one who laid hold of him. In
the confusion that eusued the pastor was hur-
ried away by his friends, and some hours later
shots were fired at his house, bat fortunately
without iDjuring any one. Tbs merits OF the
controversy can be com mprehended only By theo-
logical experts, bat its immediate occasion was
the refusal of the pastor to allow the nss Of
his pulpit by brother pastor of the same de-
nomination, because the latter's parents had
died without espoasing the CAmpbellils doc
trine, and wsre COZ 'eq1sntly. in his belief,
eternally lost and Chenewith espo-sed the
cause of the offending pastor.