The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-22

A novel stock company is forming in Wash
fnyton to build snow hills for the amusement
known to all boys by some name or other, but
In New England designated "coasting"
There were ioHr incendiary fires at Thomp-
sonville, Ct, on Friday night.
A sister of the Reno brothers, on being adj
uitted to the room where their dead bodies
lay, fell on her knees beside them and called
Heaven to listen TO the vow she there made to
take terrible vengeance on their executioners.
M. De Bodisco, of the Russian Legation,
has notified the Committee on Public Expend-
itures. through Secretary Seward, that his
government will not permit him to testify be-
fore the Committee regarding the Alaska pur-
chase. aetif 9fl fg l..l.l boa. .lnlTs
Sxty-seven female teachers in Cincinnati
nave petitioned for the same salary as is paid
men In like positions. They say that they
have found in paying board bills that no de-
duction is made on account of their sex.
The Hon. Edwin M. Stanton returned, Oh
Friday, to his practice in the Supreme Court,
remarking to his friends that he had with
drawn from politics. 4- o-t b. ..'
A burglar on trial in Hartford conducted
his own defence, and pleaded the Cole Hiscock
decision as precedent that no man who COM
mits crime is sane. +3 i"3 30 ~ ID
A duel with broadswords was fought in
New Orleans last week, between Creole and
aFrenchman. 1t was a terocious affair, last
ing until one of the combatants had received
eight wounds and the other six. Both were
iearfully gashed about the head and face.
Worcester has elected two ladies, Mrs. Earle
and Mrs. Baker to serve on the school commit
zee, though the laws of the State have not vet
been SO amended as TO permit ladies to hold
such Offices .r1.a
oen' meoleiian has refused the Presidency
OF tne oIaoe University OF California on ac-
count OF the inadequacy of the salary
Notwithstanding the Proclamation of clam
eney recently issued to the leaders in tho late
instruction at Cad.z, several of the nron,-
inent ones have been imprisoned. About III
altogether have been arrested and committed
for q trial by court martial. Business has re-
sumed its natural sway and the people are re-
turning to their homes.
Capt. Ed. Terrell who died in Louisville,
KY, recently, is said to have murdered more
than 70 men In cold blood during his career
Mr.. Johnson's Salary is twenty-five thou
sand dollars year. The Boston Transcript
thinks 1t would not be a bad idea to pay it in
Treasury bond for that amount, ON interest.
due in seventeen years, with the provision
that the interest as itaccrues be deducted from
the principal, instead of being paid to Mr..
Johnson ra7u 1s l--. u..r.s. ts.-
The Spanish provisional government has
abolished the quarantine which closed the
rorts Of the kingdom to- Algerian vessels for
she past two years.
Two Montreal ladies rescued skater from
drowning, by tying their cloaks together and
hauling him out while his male companions
were running ashore for help.
The bill introduced into the Senate on Fri
day pr,viding for new executive mansion
appropriates $4,000 for the ground on which
the bnilding is to be erected.
A single American drug house consnnos
fifty thousand sheepskins annually in MAKING
plasters for our fellow citizens who have weak
backs.
1here is talk of tunneilng the Delaware
river between Philadelphia and Camden.