The Portland daily press., 1886-09-06

and fifteen aldermen were arrested. The
leader was condemned to fifteen days I'M
priSOnment and fined $3.50 and 800 costs.
The others were fined 1875 and 500 costs.
Rev. Arthur w. Stanford was married in
Lowell, Mass, Wednesday afternoon to Miss
Jennie K. Pearson. Mr.. Stanford is grad
uate of Amherst College and of the Yale
Theological School. The bride has been I'M
til recently one of the corps of teachers in
Abbot Academy in Andover. MI. and Mrs.
Stanford VIII soon leave for Japan, where
they will be employed as missionary teach
ers by the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions.
NThe earthquake in Charleston is the last OF
a series of Affections. Early in the war one
half of the city was laid waste by fire. The
best part of what was left was badly bat
tered by shot and shell. Soon after the war
another destructive fire occurred. AS re-
suit partly of the war and partly of the de-
| yelopment of railroads the city has lost
| large share of its trade, being outstrlpped by
| Atlanta and even left behind by savannah.
| A wear or SO ago it suffered from cyclone.
| London Life has this uncomplmentary no.
tice of Americans: "The drollest scenes,
hear, are daily enacted at the American Le-
CATION, where, in consequence of the vast
| throng of Yankees who have come over this
summer, and who dare not go to Italy for
fear of the cholera, there is constant trouble
as a result of the inability of Mr.. Phelps to
| seat the entire crowd of some thousands at
his table Every Yankee in England wants
to go into society, and because Mr., Phelps
can not accommodate all their wrath is lm-
mense."
The process of treating the Obelisk in New
| York city to coat of paraffine with view
to arrestng disintegration due to climatic in
| fuences has not proved a success. More
than that, there is reason to believe that the
monolith has been positively injured by the
| treatment given. Opinions on this point diff
| fer somewhat, and time will be required to
| determine the facts. A coed deal OF the sur
| face of the Obelisk has already been de-
| stroyed, and if it is left exposed to our Try
ing climate further injury is inevitable.
The Dublin Freeman gives this instance of
abbreyiation "The modern rage for abbre-
viations, especially in the names of societies,
was strikingly exemplifed the other day at
certain women's prayer meeting. One OF
the sisters, who is very much interested in
the Womans Christian Temperance Union,
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,
the Woman's Home Missionary Society, and
the Woman's Educational and Industrial
| Union, prayed fervently, with a charming
| certainty that she would be understood
80 LORD, bless the w. T.. Il. u, the w. II.
| M. s., the w. II. NJ. S., and the w. E. and
I. W
For some time after 1870 Mr.. Sedgwick,
now our special Envoy to Mexico, occupied
the position of literary editor of the New
York Evening Post and since that time has
been regular contributor to the paper
Many of its leading articles ON law questions
were written by him. He was also a con-
tributor to the Nation and E. L. Godkin, the
editor, is spoken of as his most intimate
friend During the campaign of 1876 Mr..
Sedgwick supported Samuel j. Tilden, and
advocated his election to the Presidency
through the columns of the Nation. Up to
that time he had been a member of the
Union League Club and had always been a
Republican. He resigned from the former
| and became Democrat. In the last cam
paign he supported Cleveland.
Thomas CORTLAND Manning of Louisiana,
who has been appointed minister to Mexico,
to succeed Henry r. Jackson of Georgia,
was graduated from the University of North
Carolina, and went to Louisiana in 1855. At
the outbreak of the Rebellion he volunteered
in theIConfederate army. He was soon trans
ferred to the staff of the Confederate Cover
nor Moore, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel. In 1868 he was appointed adjutanT
general Of the State; year later, by Cover
nor Allen, he was appointed associate justice
voted himself to his profession, refusing the
nomination for governor. In 1876 he served
| as a Tilden elector. In January, 1877, he was
appointed the chief justice of the Supreme
| Court of the State. Judge Manning has been
for years trustee of the Peabody education
oil fund