The Portland daily press., 1886-06-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

This year for the first time in the history
of Brown University there was no Latin
salutatory and no valedictory address.
Fifteen counties of Virginia have voted on
the question of granting liquor licenses.
Twelve voted against license. The canvass
in other counties will begin in the fall.
The adoption of armorial bearings by Sec
retary Manning and Senator Logan has been
one of the sensations Of the Washington
season.
John Boyle O'Reilly is at Plum island
Point, near Newburyport Mass He is en-
joying himself hugely in canoe trips up and
down the Merrimac.
r. Cation Woodville, young artist, for
merly Of Baltimore, has been commissioned
by Queen Victoria to paint the marriage of
Princess Beatrice.
Nearly half of the 40 Yale seniors this
year are church members. The average ex-
pense of the college course per year-was
$500; one man, however, squandering $500.
and another managing to exist on $50.
The battery of United States troops will
leave Gen. Grants tomb the first of next
month. regular detail of the Park police
has been arranged by the Park commission
ers to receive the keys OF tomb and MAINTAIN
a-guard over it.
Democratic Federation of London, and lead
er of the English party of so-called Scientific
Socialism, has decided to visit the United
States on a lecturing tour Mrs Hyndman
will accompany him.
RobertL. Taylor, a brother of A. A. Tay-
lor, the Republican candidate for governor
of Tennessee, is one of the aspirants for
the Democratic nomination for governor,
and is thought to have good chance OF se-
curing it.
The young emperor of China has been en-
gagged in the pleasant occupation of selecting
three ladies as brides from among 80 assem-
bled at his palace from all parts OF the coun-
try The future empress IS first selected,
and then two assistants called the eastern
and western expresses.
Reports from Cuba state that the sugar
crop now about to be gathered, and which
has been mostly cultivated with free labor
will probably equal that of 1873. The crop
of 1879 was the largest ever made ON the IS
| land with slave labor. and JUST before the
law abolishing slavery went INTO elect. Ihe
crop then was about 10000 tons.
A few days ago the surviving progeny OF
the late President Young met in Salt Lake
| CITY and held a very enjoyable "family re-
| union" the occasion being the eighty-fourth
| anniversary of the birth of the founder OF
| the association" as this peculiar gathering
| styled itself. All the members were not
| present, but the Deseret News the Mormon
| church organ) says THE company comprised
| over 800 persons of both sexes"
The New York Times of Monday announc-
es that it has sent Frederick Sehwatka and
| Professor William Libby, professor of geog-
raphy at Princeton College, to make a thor
| ough exploration of the ST. Elias Alps in
| Alaska Schwatka is the indefatigable Of
| ficer who few years since, penetrated the
| interior of the continent and discovered the
| remains of the Sir John Franklin party. 1t
| is not contemplated pushing the expedition
| far into the interior.
| 1t is claimed that Boston capitalists con-
troll a greater system of railways than the
| railway magnates of either New York or
| philadelphia. 1t is their boast that their
| system extends from the shores of Lake
| Michigan to the wheat fields of the great
| Northwest to the far distant port of San
Diego. by the shores of the Pacific ocean,
and even to the romantic and many-eentu-
! ried capital of Mexico"
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, in his address
at the Storrs agricultural school commence
men. at Mansfield CT, this week, said that
| among the 1900 agricultural colleges in the
world, he had yet to hear of one that be
slowed any attention upon the hardships OF
the farmers wife, and yet aside from the
ruin brought by stimulonts and narcotics the
largest percentage of insanity is found
among that class of society.
N. B. Lutes, an Ohio lawyer, who is total,
deaf, made an argument in the Suprem,
Court at Columbus last week in nreply 10 hi
adversaries. He accomplished this remarl@
able feat by watching the rapid lips of hi
wife, who is his law as well as domesti
partner. She repeated every word said \,
court or lawyers by motion of her linz
which was readily understood. She was an
of the first woman lawyers in Ohio. and 80
cured admission to the bar that She mich
aid her husband. Judge West, the blind ora
tor, was also associated in the case. '''