The Portland daily press., 1870-10-10
Current Notes.

A practical joker at Troy was recently ar
rested and compelled to give bail for borrow
ing an umbrella.
The McCrary farm in the oil regions y.
Pennsylvania, is said to have been sofa icn
100000. The average daily Y " y neraIs
A good humored Hiberman, VINO waa in
Gently bitter, bitten by aso dI rom the wound, and
$50 ohnnt his work as usual without suffer-
ing any inconvenience.
man in the outskirts OF Richmond, We.
hoe honn shooting brd-Shot into negroes, Just
for . fun. but finds his enjoyment has been in
terfered with for five years, owing to some
thing the judge said.
A circus manager at Wilmington. N. c.,
who failed 10 make balloon ascension in &C
cordance with his programme, stepped before
his audience and apO!ogized as follows: ut is
with righteousness that l have to attribute
my failure to oscullatory vibrations and ute
rior causes"
One of the marshals in Iowa reports to the
Census Bureau a family consisting of a father,
mother and nineteen children, the latter all
born within period of seven years, and all
| living. At the fist birth the wife presented
her husband with four cherubs, and at each OF
| three successive deliveries five more, making
nineteen within the specified time.
The late Thomas Rippon, Chief cashier of
/ the bank of England, once only in service
| of fifty years, ventured to ask for fOrtnights
holiday. He left town, but after three days
unhappy ramble he grew moping, and return
ed to the bssful regions of Tbreadnecde
street to die at his desk.
A clergyman residing in the vicinity of Bos-
| ton, who has had some trouble with his flock,
| recently read the following notice, when about
/ fO lpaVQ his mint for tho dav WThorn will hQ
a meeting OF the society on Thursday even
ing. The first part of the evening will be de-
voted to prayer and conference, after which,
if there is grace of God enough LEFT in the
breasts Of the brethren, they will proceed to
the transaction of business"
The question is mooted, Where is Train
Has anybody heard of him? Can it be that
he is supplying the Paris balloons with gas II
not, what?
Hugh Malloon, who killed George B. Por.
ter in Eambliug saloon ct Utica, some
IBIS a&Gfa no woe tried last june and sen
fenced to be hanged, has obtained stay oil
proceedings, and his attorneys have moved
for new trial. The decision is reserved.
AYoung man who was suspected OF murder,
was tried and acquitted at Fremont, Iowa
the other day. Before the trial 1T was as
much as the officers could do to prevent the
people from lynching him; but after the
speech OF the counsel there was an entire
change of feeling. The cries of execration
gave place to deafening cheers, in the course
OF which the liberated man was carried of in
triumph by the very men who had threaten
ed to murder him two hours previously.
Seven years ago London bank was robbed
OF eleven thousand pounds by a fellow named
Jones, and so well had he laid his plans that
he made good his escape with his booty
But the police of London never forgot his
great crlme-the robbers family was placed
under surveillance, and when, trusting tina,
time had cfaced the recollection of tie robbery
iron the public mind, they ventured. two
weeks,ago to sail to Canada, to meet the guilty
husband and father feom when they had beer
SO long separated, the sleuth hounds of jus.
tee accompanied them. On Thursday last
there was happy family meeting inI Toronto
the sorrows OF seven years separation were
swept away in the blssful reunion-when the
tender scene was rudely interrupted by sew
eral unpoetical policemen, who took the ere st.
fallen Jones into custody to answer for his al
parentlY forgotten crime.
While the last preparations were being
made at Farragut's funeral DR.. Mary A
out one ofithe assiitant marshals, requested
him to make provision for her to join in the
procession. She was attired in her peculiar
bloomer costume. Not recognizing the lady
the assistant marshal inquired her name and
who she represented. She replied by giving
her name, and saying she represented a par
OF the military. She was finally referred te
the committee, who assigned er to one O
the carriages.
The late terrible floods at Harper's Ferry
developed much individual heroism. The
Rev. DIR. Dutton and family lived in bricl
house on Herr's Island. On Friday night the
foundation of his house began to give way
and stepping out into the hall he was STRUCK
byIa falling timber and knocked senseless to tn,
. floor. Mrs. button signalled to the house
Immediately opposite, a strong building, aDt
from the second story rope was thrown t,
her. She tied this around one of the servan
girls, and she was drawn across the street t,
the next house through water fifteen fee
deep. The rope was returned, the other ser
want was sent over in the same way, then th,
still unconscious husband, and last the heroic
: wife herself crossed the perilOus flood, afte
she had seen all her household safely over
James Shipe, OF Overton's Island, took BIZ
wife, to whom he had but five months teer
welded, on his back, and swan with the
flood, hoping to strike a tree or some Other
safe refuge. After struggling for five hundred
yards he caught by the water tank, on HalPs
Island, and at least ten times he endeavored
to get hold Of it, but the waves washed him
away. His wife entreated him to let her &C
and save himself. "You are not prepared te
die, my dear husband, and l trust that am, :
We're her words. He next caught the branch
es of floating tree, on which he supported
himself for a few minutes, and lifting up hi
wile's head, which he had been unable tx
keep above the water, he found that she wa
dead. An old and very fat negress foatet
| down stream nearly seventy miles on piec
Of root, and was picked up on Sunday, com
posedly smoking short pipe.