The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-23
Gleanings from the Mails,

Last winter was very favorable for cattle in
Texas, and this years drive is estimated at
10000 head.
Secretary Evarts has promised to go to Ohio
in the fall and deliver at .least three speeches
during the campaign.
The "Savanilla' railroad depot at Matanzas
Cuba, was totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst 1t was one of the best ON the Island of
Cuba. Loss large, and no insurance
1t was stated before the board of health of
Montreal day or two since that milkman
in that city had a case of typhoid fever in his
family last fall, and that examination has
shown that nine deaths from the disease had
since occurred among his customers, 20 in
number.
President Hayes and family have several
relics of Lincoln, and the President especially
values pair of black kid gloves which were
found in the pockets of the overcoat that Lin
coin wore to the theatre on the night he was
assassinated.
Parker c. Chandler, Otis Kimball and other
Boston capitalists have organized the Rich
mond and Southwestern Railway Co. to build
q road from Yorktown, Va, to Louisville, XIV.
Engineers have already made the preliminary
surveys, and the route will open up valuable
mineral and timber lands in Western Virginia
and eastern Kentucky which now have no
communication with the outside world.
Copt. Howgate's Arctic expedition will be
ready to start about May 15 and the details of
the preparation are about completed. The
company, including the scientific corps, will
number about %. The steamer Guinare is fit
fiUp at A1nvoudrsa Uo Eos Al
with large amount of supplies, will take out
portable house to be set up at Smiths Sound,
If possible From this basis the expedition
will work northwards, and the steamer will
return for more supplies. The expedi ton will
occupo several years and cost good deal of
money, but it is projected upon the principle
OF not letting go till the Pole is reached, and
Capt. Howgate is sanguine of success.
The House committee on pensions has agreed
to pension Mohammed Khan, a sallow-com-
plexioned, black-haired person, who has been
familiar to the habitues of the capitol for sew
eral years, and is supposed at one time or an
other to be Indian, Mexican or negro He
was born in Afghanistan, and in 1861 enlisted
as private in the 43d New York volunteers,
but for six months of 1862 was borne on the
rolls as deserter, having, while on detached
duty in Frederick, Nd, been arrested as a con-
traband, despite his prouestations. Sent with
squad of contrabands to Harrisburg he hired
out as servant to captain of Connecticut
battery, who took him to Petersburg, where he
reJoined his regiment. Mohammed was
wounded at Malvern Hill and also contracted
incurable rheumatism, which gives him his
pension.
To illustrate the penuriousness of McCreary,
formerly one of Kentucky's Senators, WASH
ington correspondent relates that one bitter
cold day in midwinter messenger was sent to
his apartments on business, and found the
Senator with his great coat on and his hands
thrust into his pockets, trying to worry along
without mourning the expense of fire. Thor
oughly chilled by the long and tedious ride
(some three miles from the capitoD the boy sat
shivering while waiting for an answer, observ-
ing which the dear soul compassionately said:
You look cold, my lad; here, let me give you
something to warm you," and, crossing the
room, he reached to the top of the wardrobe,
took down glass jar, from which he handed
the messenger glass of Kentucky "moon-
shine? Blese you! no-but cucumber pickle,
we'll seasoned with cayenne pepper.
Judge Jere Black of Pennsylvania is about
making his first trip to Europe, being ambiti-
Gus before he dies to see an English assize court
In session, Runnymede, the historic spot upon
which the English barons wrung from King
John the magma charta, and an English horse
race.
Manufacturing is growing fast at the West
since the recent revival of prosperity, and now
Detroit has organized company with 800, 900
capital to manufacture the copper of the Lake
Superior mines into sheet copper and brass,
copper rivets, copper and brass wire, copper
bars, bottoms and other articles in that line.