The Portland daily press., 1886-05-19
PERSONAL AND PEcu AR.

The Indians ON the Yankton reservation in
Dakota celebrated Arbor day by planting
1000 forest trees, and the little Indians of st.
Paups Mission School set out fruit orchard.
A terrible drouth is reported on the Texas
plains and cattle are said to be dying at the
rate of 900 day. There hasn't been such
drouth for twenty years. 1t covers about
one-third of the grazing area.
The Queen of Roumania is dangerously i'll
from dropsy, and her condition is causing
the greatest possible anxiety to her family.
as her malady has seriously affected her ner-
Vous system. The King and Queen of Rou-
mania have no children, so that Her Males
ty's illness excites an unusual amount Of in
teTest abroad.
When ex-senator Clingman of North Caro-
lima heard of ex-senator David Davis sick
ness he rushed to the telegraph office and
telegraphed the family to try the tobacco
remedy. He says that tobacco poultice is
sovereign cure for carbuncles. Senator Cling
man attributes his own good health to toba0z.
co, and he is now past IS and as lively as a
cricket.
Mr. W. H. English, late candidate for vice
president, has retired from the presidency
and active management of the First Nationa.
bank of Indianapolis. He has also leased
his hotel and opera house. He will devote
himself for some time to his historical work
ON the lawmakers OF Indiana, and after its
tion in travel with his family. He has never
been abroad or even visited San Francisco
New Orleans or Boston in this country.
Sir Charles Macgregor, the British Gener-
al commanding the Punjab frontier force.
has been compelled to take leave on account
of ill-health, and it is doubtful whether he
will ever be able to return to India. Few
officers of the Indian army can point to a
more distinguished record of service, and it
is admitted that there is no one who is so
completely master of all political and strate-
gic questions connected with the defense Of
India, or who has done more to arouse the
government and the country to a sense of the
danger ef the old policy of drifting on and
making no appropriations.
Widow Landgraf, the boycotted New York
baker, is kept very busy nowadays dealing
out bread to persons who present little tick
cts bearing the words "Good for one loaf of
bread at Mrs. Landgraf's." She has had a
large number of these printed. and whenever
any one leaves money for bread to be given
to the poor he receives its worth in tickets
either to distribute himself or to leave at the
police station at Fifth street, where MANY
requests for them are received. The doctor
who has before contributed generously to
Mrs. Landgrafs aid left a contribution of
$3.50 Friday and took away big paclage
of tickets A man who said he was a noor
workingman, and whose appearance did not
belle him, left 81, and said he believed in
helping the prosecuted. Mr.. Stein. of tha
printing firm Of Freund & Stein, of No Ia Ia
East Houston street, called in the afteTnooS,,a 20
and offered to do all printingsMrs. LandSraf
may require ECU free; He also said he weuId
send her some ehromOs to be given to n,,,.
chasers as an inducement to defv tbe ul. Rul-
colt, He Will alse pint large number NH 10y, y,
circulars, and have them distribntad sl ol
house to house throughout the neigh6orh1oDo0dd 1Dod