The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-26
The News.

The News.
Ex-Governor Seymour is developing his bu-
collie tastes in the retirement of private life.
He has recommended cheese as an article of
diet In a recent speech, with all the vigor that
he displays in disappearing the national f.
| nances when lie pays attention to political at
fairs.
Hon. Daniel D. Pratt the new Senator from
| Indiana, is not far from fifty~fve years Of age
| He graduated at Hamilton College, in New
York, in 1892 He studied law with the late
Hon. Calvin Fletcher of Indianapolis, and has
| long been known as an able lawyer, an eO-
| quent speaker, and true Republican.
A law has gone into operation in England
(aHd is very rigidly enforced), providing that
all persons working in factories and public
works, in all practicable instances-and wo-
men and minor children under all circum-
stances-shall have half holiday on Satur-
days, or, where it is not possible to allow it on
Saturday, on some other day of the week.
The privilege has been one of custom in the
northern section Of Great Britain for nearly a
century, but it is new in England proper,
where the working people look upon 1t as a
| great boon.
The City Councilof Egin, ILL.,, have closed
the schools for colorea children, and have also
forbidden them from entering any other
schools in the city. 8,
The percentage of attendance of scholars in
the schools of San Francisco is "a. This is a
larger percentage than, any other &C the great
cities of America can boast.
The Second Adventists have ceased to ex-
pect the destruction of the world on any par
ticular day.
An exchange says Ju,al Early will take ad-
vants ge of President .ohnson's amnesty pro-
elamation and returnhome, singing The year
| of Jubal E. is come return We wandering sim
ner, home.'
| Menard. the colo.ed man who claims a seat
| in Congress frop Louisiana, argued his own
case before the eection committee with great
ability.
| Mr.. Pratt, tie new Indiana Senator, weighs
400 pounds. lopez, the lately defeated tyrant
of Paragua, weighs 800 pounds and is not
more than ave feet, five inches, in height.
A prfvstei in a cavalry regiment stationed in
| Ter III JTduu6u Ou itib mp Will d
| iron am to be Imprisoned in Sitka two years,
with sball and chain attached to his ankle,
At the Baltimore reception Gen. Grant
| shock hands with about ffty-fonr thousand
parsons. ca. srf ..l.....t .....-,.
Albert Brisbane, the well known Fourierite,
has bought large tract of land in Kansas for
4 colony of Frenchmen, who will cultivate the
land on the cooperative principle and also
manufacture silk goods.
Dewitt. Chicago pedestrian, has walked
thousand miles in the course of thousand
consecutive hours.
Breckenridge is expected in Canada Febru-
airy first.
The Democratic members of the Pennsylva-
MIA Senate are true to the Democratic doctrine
OF secession. On Friday they withdrew from
that body.
The accident to Parepa-Rosa, which occur
red as she was alghting from the cars at Balti-
more on Wednesday, is more serious than was
at first supposed. She has been obliged to in
definitely postpone her Baltimore and WASH
ington concerts, and will not be able to appear
in public for several weeks.
Counterfeit $50 greenbacks, which give only
two buttons on the vest of Franklin in the
vignette, are in circulation.
The Bangor Board of Trade has taken UP
the reciprocity question. No results yet.
The Times Washington dispatch says the
Supreme Court will unquestionably sustain
the constitutionality of the legal tender act.
Grant was highly pleased with his reception
in Baltimore. -
Surratt has gone to Brazil for his health.
The Omaha Herald predicts trouble in the
Spring from the Sioux and Northern Chey-
enne Indians. .-...
Burglars stole $125, 900 from Baltimore
Bank, Friday
The whiskey revenue. collected during five
months, beginning July last, amounted to
SIS SOC, 278, an increase of $685., 1890 over the
amount collected in the corresponding five
months of the previous year.
The Senate considers the House petition
against confirming Johnson's nominations i'm
pertinent.
The extensive pork packing and lard estab-
lish nent of Boynton, Swallow & Co., at Brigh-
ton, Mass was burnt Sunday evening. The
loss was $4,000, on which there is partial in
surance.
Reverdy johnson has received and accepted
an invitation to dine with the corporate au
thorities of Manchester some time in Feb
ruary.
A Havana letter, dated Jan. IA, says the
strong parties are forming. General Quesada
is working hard to be made genefal-n-chlef
The cholera has broken out in Bayoma.
The hearing before the Liquor Law Commit
tee OF the Massachusetts Legislature continues.
Yesterday Mr.. Orne showed that license law,
when in existence, has always diminished the
valuation of property. Judge Crosby, of Low
ell, stated that the license law had greatly in
creased the amount of business before his
court
The Chicago Tribune speaking of Messrs
Dawes and Blaine, says: sit is rarely that two
persons, competitors for an Office so difficult to
fill as the Speakership, present such undenia-
BILE qualifications"
Bliss and Masterman, the members of Min
lister Washburn's legation, who were imprison-
ed by Lopez, the tyrant of Paraguay, have been
released.
A canal from Rutland, VT, to Lake Cham
plain, distance Is miles, is talked Of
Gen. Grant was quite jolly at Baltimore
Friday. In company with Farragut he sat,
down to an elegant dinner which had been
prepared at snuff factory which they visited.
No toasts were drunk, but, az the converse
became general, witticisms passed, and the
guests thoroughly enjoyed the informality of
the occasion. Farragut wittily turned the
laugh on Grant, when the latter said that
smoking was not a vice or the Admiral
would smoke" by replying: "The General for
gets that I am no longer Vice Admiral"
In the same vein, when after passing through
the building both were weighed, and it was
round that Farragut weighed 151 and Grant
100 pounds, the old sailor accused the soldier
OF having "bummerized" four pounds of to.
bacco to make up his weight
The body of Lieut.. Frederick X paecbor
son of Rev. Charles Beecher, of Georgetown
Mass, who was killed in the Indian war va,
to be removed to Georgetown for burial. bnt
it was found, upon making search that the In.
dams had opened the grave and carried the
body away.