The Portland daily press., 1886-07-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

'The masses against the classes" was MI
Gladstone's cry again at Liverpool.
Louisiana is talking of falling into lin,
with Delaware in establishing the whipping
post.
The Machias Union says: "There is
man in Bluehill who hoes his potatoes will
pickaXe."
MIR. Petrie, the Egyptian explorer, thinks
he has discovered the site of Taphanhes, til,
city in Egypt mentioned in the Book of Jere
niah.
There are ut three of the well established
colleges of Ohio whose doors are still CLOSED
tC young women. They are Denison, Ken
yOn and Marietta.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is for sale. TIL,
public sentiment against the paper has be
come very intense on account of McLean'i
connection with Ohio election frauds,
Miss Kathleen O'Meara, author of recoI
lections of Mime Mohl, her Salon and he
Friends" "Diana Coryvale," and othel
works, is about to visit Boston.
Dr. Burt G. Wilder of Cornell university
has pet frog named "Mugwump." Some
six months ago, according to the Springfield
Union, he removed the entire brain from the
creature, but it lives right along and appears
as well as ever.
Some of the Western settlers whose home
steads have been imperilled by Land Com
missioner Sparks's rulings have been writ
ing letters to Congress declaring Sparks tC
be a more severe Scourge than the drOuth
and worse plague than the grasshoppers.
The French people have sent over fast
steamer, La Bourgogne that made the voyage
from Hayre to Sandy Hook in the unprece
dented time of seven days, FIVE hours and
eight minutes. This is almost as fast rate
as the Etruria's record Of six days, five hours
and thirty-one minutes from Queenstown.
The Law School faculty of Yale have
voted to confer the degree of LII. B. upon
Miss Alice r. Jordan, over whose case there
has been so much controversy. They also
voted that hereafter the law department be
only open tc male students, except in spe-
cific cases.
The Unitarian club of Boston has given a
saw-mill to the normal school at Tuskegee,
Ala, of which B. Washington is principal
The Institution, which is conducted by col
ored graduates of the Hampton (Va.) insti-
tute, has 300 students and is doing valuable
work
Mr., G. M. Roe, city editor of the Cinein-
natl Enquirer, and brother of Principal
Roe of the Worcester, Mass, high school,
has been dismissed from his position because
he could not or would not give the testimony
desired in connection with the Payne cleo
ton case.
Col. j. B. Folsom's will has been probated
The property amounts to $150,000 of which
$4,000 is personal. The will divides the
property among his eight grandchildren,
share and share alike. The Presidents wife
will, therefore, receive not quite $4,000 in
stead of $4,000 as reported.
During the Mexican war sutler had been
arrested for "adulterating' whiskey with
water. General Scott discharged the prison
er on the ground that 'adulterating" whiskey
with water was no crime since if the whis-
key had been all water it would have been so
much better for the health of the officers and
soldiers who drank it.
Zaldiyar who was President of Salvador
when Barrios attempted to force unifcation
of Central America, is about to make his
home in Central America. When Zaldivar
left Salvador a revolution took place and
Menendez was made President. Menendez
has confscated all of Zaldivar's property in
and is a deadly enemy OF his.
Major S. w. Saxton of Deerield, Mass,
and brother of Gen. Rufus Saxton, has been
dismissed without cause from the first comp
troller's office. He was chief of division up
to the advent of this administration, and was
one of the most trusted employees in the
treasury. Some months ago he was reduced
to clerkship, and his place was given to
Mr.. Mangum of Arkansas, an ex-Confeder-
ate soldier.
Boycotters are in danger of coming in con-
for with ha odd
N. Y, cigar manufacturer has brought test
case against four members of the cigarmak-
ers' union, claiming that by paying his in
ternal revenue tax he acquired the right I'M
der the internal revenue laws to manufac-
ture cigars, and that the right so acquired
gives him the protection of the federal laws.
The Stephens's Monument Association of
Georgia has purchased Liberty Hall, Alex
ander H. Stephens's old home, and built
schoolhouse opposite it, in which school is
in prosperous operation but it has not been
able to pay for the property, nor has it
raised any money for the proposed monu-
ment. Dollar subscriptions are to be solicit
ed throughout the State, and it is hoped that
$4,000 will be secured.
A sharp-sighted Boston dealer in some sort
of disinfectant, has several men dressed in
tllO OuV-lduuiou Sdlu VI COW DOyo, anu lOducu
with circulars containing information of val
ue from the National Board of Health, to-
gether with card bearing gilt letter words
which set forth the splendid qualities of the
so-called disinfectant These men 90 from
house to house in South End. and showing
letter purporting to be signed by the mayor,
demand of the housekeeper admittance to
the bathroom of the house, where they place
On the wall the circular and advertisement.
The Boston Traveller says that the state
ment which recently appeared in a New York
journal, that the first telegraph line in this
was erected by the late Ezra Cornell
of Ithaca, New York, father of Ex-Governor
Cornell, is incorrect. The first line was
erected between Washington and Baltimore
in the spring of 1914 by the late Gamaliel E.
Smith, Esq of Newfeld, York county, Maine,
which fact was clearly settled in acommu-
nication published several years ago from the
late ex-Congressman Herrick of Maine, who
at the time was the representative from the
York district, and upon whose suggestion or
recommendation Prof. Samuel E. b. Morse
entered upon a contract with Mr.. Smith for
its construction. Mr.. Cornelfs connection
with Prof. Morse in the construction of tele-
graph lines was subsequent to the compile
ton of the line between Washington and Bal
5imore. Mr. Smith prided himself upon the
TACT, and during the latter years of his life
frequently alluded to it as having construct
I'd the first telegraph line in this country. He
lied four or five years ago at a greatly adj
yanced age, at his residence in NeWfield,
how h.t HI aCfa nod affi