The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-27
CIleanings from the Mails.

About 80 weddings have taken place in the
Oneida community since their peculiar mar
riage doctrines were denounced There are
over 800 adults in the establishment.
Colored cadet Whitsaker's mother is worthy
colored woman of Columbia, S. c.
Don Patt has sold his Washington Capital,
and it is said that the paper is to be run in the
interests of a syndica of "star' route mail
contractors hereafter
proposal to tax swallow tail coats was
made by Senator Kirkwood of Iowa, in debate
last week, but it was promptly opposed by
Senator Hamin of Maine, who always wears
one,
OF the 1900 Methodist Episcopal ministers
in the country, there are, according to Meth
odist, only eleven who have blots on their
names, and three others have been condemned
unjustly.
The number of different kinds of postage
stamps which have been hith erto issued all
over the world is estimated in round numbers
at 6000. Among them are to be found the
effigies Of emperors, II kings, 3 queens,
grand duke, princes. princess and great
number of presidents, etc
ton reports that besides the Chicago Tribune
and Home Journal, there are 200 papers in
the country that have adopted, in whole or
in part, the modified spelling, and are trying
to prepare the minds of their readers for
still further change.
A correspondent of the Washington Star
suggests that the government supply return
postal card, upon one side of which the sender
can write the address and short query, the
return address and reply to be written upon
the other.
The late Henry Vincent, the English lee
turer, once related that he was driving with
John Bright when the news of Abraham Lin
coins death was told them by man who
stopped their carriage by the wayside for that
purpose. Neither of the two Englshmen
spoke word in response. They drove on in
utter silence; and by-and-by, when each look
ed up at the others face, the eyes of both
were full of tears.
Daniel Conray, the stone mason of Erie,
Pa, who went crazy about three weeks ago
over the fifteen puzzle and was confined in an
asylum is now cured and will soon be released.
He insisted in cutting up everything into fiji
teen pieces. During his confinement the SUI
perintendent received many letters and sug-
gestions from all parts of the country concern
ing his case. One man in Michigan sent SO.
luton of the puzzle, which he thought would
have curative effect
A detective who has watched the move
ments of E. D. Winslow, the Massachusetts,
forger, confirms the report that he has mar
ried again, although his first wife is living.
When it became known in Buenos Ayres that
he was an escaped forger he was expelled from
church and dropped by the American resi-
dents. He early took up his residence with
Mrs. Clark and her daughter, girl of sixteen
years. In November last Mrs. Clark and her
daughter went to England, and Winslow fol-
lowed them and was married to Miss Clark in
London. The bridal party remained in the
English capital four days only and then re-
turned to Buenos Ayres.
Mr.. Yoshida, the Japanese Minister, who
has Just reached San Francisco on his return
to this country, has sent to President Hayes
and Secretary Evarts present of forest trees
for plahting at their homesteads in Ohio and
Vermont. The trees, which filled ten large
boxes, have arrived and been forwarded in
good condition. Mr.. Shorokui Agee Takato,
the new Secretary of the Legation, arrived by
the preceding steamer. He relieves Mr..
Yoshida Diiro, who will return in the steamer
of June /.