The Portland daily press., 1886-07-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

1t is reported that Gail Hamilton has been
offered an editorial position on the Chicago
Current.
Boycotting has been declared a crime in
three States-New York, Wisconsin and
Connecticut
The wife of an Albany Democrat is seek
ing divorce on the ground that he has
failed to make an averaye of 70 in a civil SER
vice examination.
The famous Mother Bickerdyke, the head
nurse of the Sanitary Commission during
the late war, is the guest of Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore at Melrose, Mass. Mrs. Liver
more was a co-worker in the same cause.
Sunday base ball playing is forbidden at
Cincinnati under penalty Of fine of So.
The teams play every Sunday, and the gate
money amounts to hundreds of dollars The
players are arrested and brought into court
Monday, plead guilty and pay their little
fines with great cordiality.
John G. Emo, the fugitive New York ban
ker, pays $4,000 house rent at Quebec, which
for that place is enormous. His house at
Beauvoir is one of the finest in the suburbs.
Financially he appears to be at ease. He
money, but socially he is not known. Nei-
ther he nor his wife is ever invited out, nor
are they visited by society people.
A controversy now going on between the
editors of the New York World and the Star
of the same city shows how much dignity
there is in metropolitan journalism. Editor
Pulitzer of the World calls Editor Dorsheim-
er of the Star ''a Brob dingnagian mass of
obesity" Editor Dorsheimer of the Star
thus described Editor Pulitzer of the World |:
ga deep ChaTybdiS yawns beneath his
por6 and fonOp1
chaSm comes a clammy hiss such as the
horned frog utters when at bay.'
DR.. Alfred R. Wallace, the naturalist, will
arrive in this country the last of October.
He will give eight lectures in the Lowell In
stitute, and will spend most of the winter in
the United States. DIR. Wallaces eXplora-
tions in the Eastern Archipelago and on the
Amazon are among the most valuable contri-
buttons to scientific knowledge OF the age,
and to him nearly as much as to Darwin is
due the discovery and proof of the theory of
evolution,
General Sheridan says he is delighted with
his new experience as a suburban farmer.
Instead of sending his wife and children to a
crowded seaside hotel or fashionable resort,
this year. he rented thirty-acre farm near
Washington, where he picks his own peas,
digs his own potatoes, and enjoys freedom
from intrusion, which has to be endured
good natqredly at Watering-places. The
general drives in every morning and returns
in the afternoon. The enjoyment of seeing
his children loving Mother Earth, he says is
far more happiness to him than he has ever
experienced at all the fashionable resorts.
Last April, during the great strike on the
Missouri Pacific, freight train was wrecked
near Wyandotte depot, and two men were
killed, fireman and brakeman. An ex-
animation showed that the train had been
deliberately wrecked; and while it was sus-
pected that the work had been done by strik-
ers there was no clue to the identity of the
men. But last week six men were arrested
for the crime. The case was worked III. by
a detective who passed as a Knight Of Labor
and secured confession from one OF the
men concerned.