The Portland daily press., 1886-07-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

President Cleveland will be in Albany
Thursday to participate in the bi-centennial
celebration.
Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania. has formally
announced that he will not again be candi
date for Congress.
Santa Fe, N. NJ, is to have monument to
Helen Hunt Jackson of most fitting kind,
viz, a Ramona school for Indian girls.
The latest veto of Mr.. Clevelands is upon
the proposal of photographer to place Mrs.
Cleveland's picture on SALE
Germany has a vessel loaded with manu-
features and wares of that nation making a
tour of the world as travelling exhibition in
the interests of her merchants
One of the latest additions to the graphic
phrases of the United States language is
''backnumber eggs the sort used in pune
Springfield Union.
Canada is now pushing for a Pacific cable
from Victoria, B. c., to Japan and Australia
by the way either of Sitka or Honolulu and
to be operated in connection with the Cana
dian Pacific.
Manitoba has extended municipal suffrage
to its women. Thus within two years, four
provinces of Canada Ontario, Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Manitoba-have quiet
ly adopted the principle.
1t is said that there are in Minneapolis
about 600 liquor saloons, and out of this
number only 10 are kept by Irishmen. This
has been brought about by the influence of
one man, Bishop Ireland of st. Paul.
A skeleton, believed to be that of the late
a. t. Stewart, the great merchant, has been
found under the tagging at No. 81 Rose
street, New York city. The body was stolen
from the grave in 1878. At that time this
part of Rose street was a headquarters for
thieves.
Queen Victoria will celebrate the jubilee
year of her reign by having new impress
sion of the coinage and of the postage stamps
made. The present portrait on the current
coins and stamps represents Her Majesty as
she looked forty years ago, and she desires a
change made to true likeness now.
In Denver, Col, out of Chinese popula-
ton of 800, IT'S are in schools, and 100 of
them under decided religious influence. In
San Francisco there are 24S members con-
nected with the Chinese and Japanese
churches, IS having been added during the
past year. There are $50 pupils in their
schools.
Associate Justice Stanley Matthews of the
United States Supreme Court is f1ourishing
with his bride in London and evidently feel
ing as happy as boy let loose from school,
An American friend who met him at q pri-
vate reception asked him some questions, to
which the Buckeye jurist responded ''Oh,
don't expect me to give an opinion. Mrs.
Matthews is on the bench now"
Among the contributions to the New York
Tribune fresh air fund announced yesterday
was check for $1,000 from Mr.. George w.
Vanderbilt, the youngest son of the late VIM.
III VaOdarhi1t Rv fbic fup6 ndc If
poor children are sent into the country for
two weeks vacation. Already $11, 9S9.34 has
been received for the fund this year, and
1879 children have been sent out of the city.
There has been much discussion among
thetKnights of Labor in Boston over print
ed report that Mr.. Powderly would accept
nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.
Friday despatch was received from him de-
nying the report, and repeating his former
statement that he was not, and would not be,
a candidate for political Office under any cir
cumstances.
Mrs Carlisle under the Arthur adminis-
tration was the lady of the highest social
rank in Washington. Mr. Arthur recognized
this, and in spite of the opposition of Mrs.
Frelinghuysen, rarely abated this recogni-
ton. Mrs. Carlisle is today by all social
precedence the lady third in rank at Wash
ington, yet she has had less social acknowl-
edgement OF her superior position from the
Democratic President than from any one of
the preceding Republican administrations.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor, after many months
absence in Germany, will leave for New
York by the steamer Vera on the oath of
July. Herself the daughter of a distin-
guished German professor, she has re-
ceived the attentions of many scholars and
literateurs, and was recently elected mem
Der of the Goethe Society of Weimar which
is publishing magnificent new edition of
the works of the poet. Her daughter, who
will return with her, has been studying
painting in Munich.