The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-08
General News.

A resolution has tee1 introduced in the
Massachusetts House requesting the hiring OF
a salute when proclamation Of the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States is made.
The Postmaster General reports that in the
month of January there was sent from the
Washington Post Office over two hundred
and thirty-seven thousand franked letters, at
a cost of about $4,000, and one hundred and
fifty tons of printed matter, at cost of s3s
O00
Saturday young man named Henry Rob-
inson was adjustinga pair of powerful steam
shears at Bradley's tool factory in Weston.
Conn, and by some means the belt on the
loose pulley worked over on to the station
airy pulley, which set the shears in motion
His arm was between the blades, which. clos
ing with great force, nearly severed it near
the wrist, leaving the hand hanging by the
skin. The arm was subsequently amputated
near the elbow.
The ship Loretta Fish, bound to Liverpool
has been detained inside the Mississippi Bar
four weeks for want of sufficient water to
cross the bar. There were altogether, on the
3Oth ult, a fleet of some thirty-fve vessels at
anchor above or below the bar, waiting rise
of the water to get up to New Orleans, or to
leave it. These detentions result in serious
loss to shippers, and must seriously initiate
against New Orleans in the increasing endeav-
ors of Mobile to attract the Mississippi trade
from her neighbor.
The Cardiff Giant is now puzzling the Bos-
ton Swans, who have been investigating its
origin with the scale, the tape line, and other
tests, and pronounce the material natural
stratifed gypsum, or plaster-stone, and bears
marks of erosion by water which could have
been effected only in long period of time
The statue is of decided artistic merit, and ap.
pears to be the work of some one who never
studied anatomy or antique models, for the
proportions are faulty; yet they pronounce il
very interesting work. The question, how
ever, is yet unsolved. What is it?
In Steubenville, Ohio, the other day, bull
letin board and big flag IN front of the Her.
aid office announced the ratification of the
| fifteenth amendment by the Ohio legislature
The announcement was espied by an Irish
man and negro at the same time. The Irish
man, unable to read, yet curious to know
what was going on, was obliged to ask the ne.
gro to read the neacs to him. Upon being in
formed, his serene countenance underwent a
magic change, and, in tone of the most in.
tense disgust, he calculated, as he turned on
his heel and walked away, "dom the niggerv
Mrs. Dahlgren, wife of Admiral Dahlgren
has started a movement in Washington, fol
active opposition to the Woman Suffrage par
ty. Mrs. Sherman, wife of Gen. Sherman
and number Of ladies beside, support the
anti-woman suffrage idea. They think the
universal voice of the women of this country
should be heard upon the subject, and they
feel assured that the result would be that an
immense majority of their sex would be found
to be opposed to accepting the right to vote
believing that such right would bring with il
burdens, duties and responsibilities which
would not only be distasteful to the female
sex, but of character which they are unwi,l.
ing to assume