The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-06
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 6.
Gleanings from the Mails

hugh X. Belknap, a son of Ex-Secretary
Belknap, took the first prize in defamation at
Phillips academy, Andover, Mass, last week.
General Grants two Arabian horses were
shod in New Haven, and the blacksmith pre-
served the nails from the old shoes. He sold
one nail to a Bridgeport man for 81, and
refused $40 for one of the cast-off shoes.
There is a young lady in Wilkes county,
Ca, who was born blind, and who, it is said,
can instantly detect color by the touch. When
a child she could tell the name and color of
her pet cats and chickens by simply laying her
hand upon them. a-.
A Greenback orator in Iowa tells his audi
ences that communism in France means the
same thing as socialism in Germany, and
socialism in Germany the same thing as
nihilism in Russia, and nihilism in Russia the
same thing as Greenbackism in the United
States.
The last story told of Prince Bismarck is
marked by his usual condensed and caustic
humor. Prince Battenberg, the newly elected
ruler of Bulgaria, paid visit to the chancellor
OF the German empire, ond asked his advice
about accepting the post offered him. "Take
it by all means" said the chancellor; sit will
always be pleasant souvenir
A United States timber agent has seized
some 100000 feet of logs in Washington
territory on information that they were cut on
government land. Considerable excitement
prevails over the matter, and it is said that
number OF loggers guilty of trespassing on the
government domain have left the county to
avoid arrest.
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have been seduced into emigrating to Kansas,
among other agencies, by the Establishments of
the riotous stereopticon. A correspondent de-
scribes how this machine has produced its in
iquitous business in - Mississippi: -. 1.-THE
pictures most admired in these entertainments
are Kansas scenes. They represent negroes in
highly-colored garments chasing with buffaloes
through prairies grown up richly in grass and
grain, and performing other like feats of
proves, or contentedly sitting in the shade of
their dwellings and surveying their vast
possessions"
A singular endowment is that of Philadel-
phian Of the Episcopal faith, who has deposit
ed with the Evangelical Society the sum of
$500, to be awarded to the student in either of
the Episcopal divinity schools of Cambridge,
Philadelphia Alexandria, Genesee or Sewanee
who shall be thought the most correct, intelli-
gent and impressive reader of the Bible and
prayer-book in the service of the church. The
question is to be decided by committee of
nine, six of whom are to be appointed by the
Board of the Evangelical Educational Society
and the remaining three by the donor of the
prize.
A sad and singular incident occurred at Os-
wego, N. Y, the other day, in connection
with the murder, in 1875, of Mrs. Orlando
Greenfield by her husband. Mr.. Reynolds,
the woman's father. came to Oswego a few
days ago from New Jersey, where he had
been living for several years. On reaching
the town he met friend who asked him if he
had come to attend Greenfield's trial.
Reynolds asked what Greenfield was to be
tried for, and when informed that it was for
the murder of his daughter he was complete
ly dazed, and said that it was the first he had
heard of the murder, and had supposed his
daughter was alive and WELL He was on his
way to visit her when he heard the news of
the murder.
The Rev. Barnas Sears, general agent of the
Peabody Southern Educational Fund, has
informed R. M. Lasher, superintendent of
public education in Louisiana, that should the
constitutional convention in that state abolish
the office of State Superintendent it will give
a fatal blow to the public schools, and the aid
of the Peabody fund will at once be with
drawn He says in explanation: 1.-THE OBJ
ject of the Peabody fund is to promote educa-
ton in building up a good system of public
schools. If a state strikes at the vital part of
the system, we take no share in the work of
destruction. Beside, it will leave us with no
responsible officer whom we can safely trust to
deliver the funds.'' This abolition of the
office of State Superintendent is part of the
general scheme of the Louisiana regulators.