The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-04-17
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago declines to
draw the S. 900 salary voted her as president
OF the board of lady managers" Worlds
Fair.
Barnum's big elephant. Fritz, and the
Central Park tigress, Cleopatra. have the
grip" and the tigress is reported In criti-
cal condition.
The new president of the Florida Senate.
Jefferson B. Browne, is but thirty-three
years of age, and refers with pride to the
fact that he kept Florida lighthouse to OBJ
tain money for an education In law.
Philadelphia's new mayor, Mr.. Stewart,
has given the policemen of that city ten days
in which to withdraw from all campaign and
| political committees OF which they may be
members. Hereafter they are to keep out of
| politics on pain of instant dismissal
The fifteen heirs of John Guy Vassar will
receive about $4,000 apiece from his estate
under the decision of the Court OF Appeals.
The trustees of Vassar College just saved
the beQuest to that institution by compro-
missing with the heirs before the case reached
the court. T6
Miss Kate Brammer of Raleigh, G. H.,
made plucky defense Saturday night when
the house was attacked by burglars. One of
the party demarded admittance at the door.
but was ordered away by Kate, who was
alone. He then raised window and was
climbing IN when the plucky girl knocked
MIN senseless with an axe. The other thieves
| fled, and the wounded man. named Thomp-
son, was captured. He is dangerously hurt.
Colonel Warren S. Reese wants to be elect
ed mayor of Montgomery, Ala. The Adver-
tiser of that town, which was for him two
years ago, is now "agin" him. Monday
morning the colone's son had fight in the
ctraa txx,StI Al A 4
Then the editor-in-chief, Major Screws an
nounced that he was personally responsible
Tor the papers policy and utterances, and
then tthe colonel published card In the
evening journal denouncing the major as an
INFAMOUS and malicious liar. SERIOUS
trouble is expected" Hs.
A nationalistic scheme is interesting people
In San Francisco. 1t is Bellamy boarding
house with religious features added. 1t was
established some weeks ago by Arthur w.
DOVE, who is at the head of a cooperative
| scheme called "The Commonwealth of
Jesus" The clearinghouse opened with
fourteen in family, and they get board for So
a week, which elsewhere would cost So or
| $40. Three classes of members are admitted
| to the society. Full active members must
turn all their property over to the society
| and hold all goods In common with the other
members. Active Independent members, SO
called. retain their individual property, and
honorary members simply patronize the CO.
operative stores and restaurants of the So
ciety. When Mr.. DOVE was asked why he
expected his plan to succeed, while so many
cooperative schemes had failed, he replied:
They failed mainly because they left out God
realize that but few will be found with the
devotion and unselfshness we exact for full
membership, but we will be like Gideon's
band: think that active members living
together will make backsliding less likely.
We expect to secure tract of land In the
| future. and will put some of our new con-
verts on It, away from temptations. some
what as General Booth suggests in Darkest
England"
Some interesting things concerning Pro-
fessor Henry Schliemann have been printed
in San Francisco papers, in consequence of
the raising of doubts as to whether he ever
resided in California. DIR. Hardness, presi-
| dent of the California Academy of Sciences,
says that the Schliemann who bought gold
dust for Rothschild at Sacramento was un-
questionably the great discoverer. HE was
very handsome man," says DIR. Hardness,
"very bright looking, and the first time saw
him resolved to watch him, being confident
that he would mark out for himself a career"
| That was In 1857; he stayed in Sacramento
not much more than year. A. K. Grim was
his cashier and bookkeeper, and says, HE
| spoke Russian, French, Spanish, Swedish,
Portuguese and Italian fuently, and this was
what largely attracted business to the house.
The miners, of course, preferred to talk with
some one who could converse with them In
their native tongue. We bought from 1000
to. 5000 ounces of gold per day from the
miners and averaged something like &. 600
ounces of gold per month. He was the
principal buyer in Sacramento" After
Schliemann returned to Europe Grim cor
responded with him for some years. during
his business career at st Petersburg. Mr..
Grim's opinion was that he came to Cali
| fOrnia only TO make mnnaY.