The Portland daily press., 1880-10-06
Gleanings from the Mails.


A thousand shares of Keely motor stock
sold at auction at New York last week for S.
per share, the par value being $50.
Vennor predicts that "October is likely to
be dreary in the extreme with cold and wet
weather and severe frosts. There will be a
brief term of balmy Indian summer weather,
probably about the 18th, 10Th and 2Oth.'
Gen. Grant has written Gen. Hawley that
it will give him pleasure to stop in Hartford
few hours "if it will in the slightest degree
help the Republican cause He will do so
on his return from the Boston bang uet of Oct.
18th.
People in Portsmouth were astonished
Thursday by what seemed to be sea
monster swimming in the Piscataqua river,
but which turned out to be an OK that had got
its head into barrel and. unable to get it out,
had fallen into the river.
Nellie Hubbard, daughter of an Ex-Governor
of Connecticut, who created such sensation
by running away with and marrying her
fathers coachman, is now seamstress in
Hartford, and her husband still drives a
coach.
An open rebellion is threatened in st. Johns
church at Utica, N. Y, the leading Catholic
church in the city, where Senator Francis
Herman and other leading Catholics attend.
Bishop McNierny has removed Father Terry,
who has paid off large share of their debt
and is very popular and when Local Editor
Flanagan of the Utica Herald carried a petit
tion to the bishop asking Terry's return, he
was not even admitted to the episcopal resi-
dence.
President George Stephen and other capital
lists of the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
road have bought $500 acres of coal lands in
Webster county, Ia, and expect to make them
the great coal supply for the Northwest The
Northwestern, Milwaukee and st. Paul and
Minneapolis and st. Louis roads will connect
with mines to be opened and as the capitalists
which will work them have abundant means,
an immense coal traffic is expected.
The central sanitary bureau in Japan has a
laboratory for the analysis of chemicals and
patent medicines. The proprietors of all
patent medicines are bound to present samples,
together with full particulars concerning COM
position and proposed use of each remedy
During the last year reported there W ere H.
9oa applicants for license to prepare and sell
14S,097 patent and secret medicines Permis-
sion for the preparation and sale of 5S63S
different kinds was granted, S5O2 were prohi-
bited, 691S were ordered to be discontinued,
and 7o,934 remained still to be reported on
New Yorkers are fighting about the advisa-
bility of killing cats; two 81. Louis men had
knife fight to decided whether the gates of
heaven are of pearl or gold, and two Spring
field men pulled hair and bit each other be-
cause of difference of opinion as to the
length of stick
There is considerable comment in Milwaukee
over the refusal of the Bay View Methodist
church to allow Rev. A. A. Hoskin, an indie
pendent Methodist to conduct marriage SER
vice in their building. Rev. Hoskins health
failed, and, as his friends thought that the
Methodist conference to which he belonged
did not use him well, they built church and
parsonage for him. This church has drawn
from the regular Methodists, who are con-
sequently disposed to snub its pastor i
James W. Mackey, the bonanza millionaire,
is great collector of agates, and when Mrs.
Hayes and her travelling companions inspected
his collection, during the presidential visit to
Virginia City, New, they each received a
handsome specimen as present.
The managers Of the Chicago man-against
horse race lost SO 900 by the enterprise, and
now they are being prosecuted by the Bergh
society in that city. The cruelty to the beasts
is described as shockingly inhuman. One of
them has since died.