The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-02

case In favor of the plaintiff, Martha
Claybourn. The contest was over thu
mlll1on-dollar estate of Allen Gregory
father of the stock yards
General James Longstreet of Georgia
who has been appointed commissioner o.
railroads, vice Wade Hampton, resigned
was born in South Carolina in 1921. He
graduated at West Point in 1S42, and was
on duty on the Mexican frontier unti,
1916. He served in the Mexican war
where he was wounded. He reached the
rank of captain and received a majors
| brevet. He enlisted in the Confederate
cause at the outbreak of the war, and
was one of the most prominent Southern
generals, having the rank of lieutenant
| general. He was active at Gettysburg
and Petersburg He surrendered with
General Lee. Since the war he has
striven to eliminate the old prejudices.
He was nominated by President Grant as
surveyor of New Orleans. In 1875 he
removed to Georgia.
The Churchman says that no good man
since the world began has been convinced
by the argument of abuse. 1t alludes to
a parson who delivered hard sermon
against Uniyersalism, after which his
daughter became Universalist. The
next year he preached hard sermon
daughter became Unitarian. He paused
after this for consideration. When min
listers cease to talk and preach and write
against brother ministers the partition
walls will begin to crumble.
AT the museum Of the r, E. Lee Camp
Soldiersss Home, Richmond, is sOld Sor-
rel, y the horse on which Stonewall Jack
son was killed An inscription reads:
General T.. j. jackson fell from the
back Of Little Sorrel Gas the horse twas
afectionately named by the Second
Corps) at Charlottesville, MORALLY
wounded, after riding him through the
| battles of first Manassas, Kernstown, Nc
| Dowell, Winchester, Port Republic, Cross
Keys, on the Chickahominy, at Cedar
Mountain, second Manassas, Sharpsburg,
| Harper's Ferry, fredericksburg aud at
last at Charlottesville. After General
| jackson was wounded the horse escaped
| into the Federal lines and was recap
tured thesnext morning by the Second
Corps under command of j. E. B. Stu
art Old Sorrel was presented to the
Home by General Jackson's widow, and
kept there until his death. The old horse
| was thirty six years old when he died,
/ eshA Lac 5hlA VOC GuohO0 GNU RA6lCo i'll
| the museum.
| In Southern Arizona the jail and pris-
| on officials have their hands full in try
ing to prevent the. smuggling into their
institutions Of the seductive mariguana.
This is kind of loco" weed, more
powerful than. opium. 1t grows from
seed by cultivation in Southern Arizona
and in Mexico. 1t is a dangerous thing
for the uninitiated to handle. but those
who know its uses say it produces more
ravishing dreams than opium. The Mex-
leans mix it with tobacco and smoke it
in cigarettes, inhaling the smoke. When
used in this way it produces hilarious
spirit in tho smoker that cannot be
equaled by any other form Of dissipation.
When struggled inside the prison walls
it's devotees readily pay 81 an ounce for
1t, but free men buy it on the outside for
fifty cents an ounce. General Shriver, of
the prison force at Yuma, has just un-
earthed a large quantity of the weed that
had been cached within rea CHI of the con-
victs who work in the outside gangs.
A single bell is made by German
manufacturersto give more than one note.
A number of dents divide the bell into
sections of different sizes and each Sec
ton when struck emits a tone correspon-
ding to its size.