The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-01
Current NoLes.

Brevet Lieut.. Col. Dana, of the paymastet's
Department, United States Army, died on
Tuesday at San Francisco, Cal.
One reason for the complained of scarcity
and inefficiency of horses in the French army
was that good many of them were "used un''
in the Paris restaurants.
John Allen, once known as "the wickedest
man in New York." died on Friday last at h;s
old home in Perth, Fulton county, N. Y. and
was buried on Sunday
Pittsburg is becoming famous for burelaries.
highway robberies and murders. The latest
sensation in that delightful City was created by
the knocking down and robbery of bank
clerk who was walking along the street in omen
day with $1,000 in his possession.
A woman named Cleveland and her
| three children, two sons and daughter, were
| bitten by mad dog at Buffalo last week. The
| nothing has since been done to prevent the in
jured persons from dying OF hydrophobia.
An Irish lady at Troy, teacher in one of the
public schools, tortured class OF young girls
by suddenly ipquiring if they could tell the
name Of the first woman. ore OF the little
ones, more forward than the rest, advanced to
she front OF the class and rsplied:-"WelI, we
don't know M aam, what her name was; but,
any way, she wasn't Irish!" .
Yankee Robinson's elephant was taken sick
in Canandaigua, N Y, and left there to recu-
| perate. When it was thought that he was well
|
fell down in the road in fit, broke one of his
tusks, and at last accounts was expected to die
He is valued at $4,000.
The post Office authorities of New York de
not consider it probable that the Government
Will despatch the United States mails by the
German line of steamers, as under the presen
condition of affairs the ships would be liable Il
capture. There are now three mails per week
to Europe, aud these are ample for the neces
sites of American correspondents.
: VIM. Gibbons, New Jersey State prisol
c, nvict, sentenced in Essex county to three
years. term for larceny, escaped from the pris
| ON in Trenton early Wednesday morning. H
had on Tuesday, placed figure on the bed il
his cell, and at night, when the men quit work
: he concealed himself in the shop. During tb
> night he climbed out upon the roof, aud whe
!. morning came ne was nowhere to be found.
4 The Collector at San Francisco reports to th
3 Treasury Department the discovery of ne'
n seal island, vessel with II 500 fur seal skins
=. taken ON an uninhabited island in Alaska, nc
heretofore known to contain seals, having al
rived at that port. sn
The National In.eltgenccr, published
Washington since 1900, has oeen transplante
T. | to New York, where, in a new shape, it wi
~ appear in future Mr.. Alex. Delmar and
g ID. Louis are the principal managers. Speat
ing for ITSELF the paper claims to be not part
- | organ.
q woman named Kehl has been arrested
q Detroit for throwing vtro upon two sisters
e Mrs. Carey and Miss Pangborn-on the 18th
July last When brought into Court the ladit
presented most melancholy appearance. On
has lest an eye, AMI every trace of beauty
!, obliterated from the faces of both. The di
: = bolical act is supposed to have been prompte
Is by jealousy. ..}rs
A young lady of eighteen, the daughter of
$ wealthy gentleman OF Louisville, KY, left h
$ boarding school at Cincinnati last week, so
e her hair for So 90 and purchased railroad tic
y ct to the former city, where she subsequent
70 attempted to become an inmate of disreputs
! BILE house. Strange to say, the woman wi
"a owns the establishment dissuaded her IRON u
y sacrifice, and had the misguided girl place
y under restraint until the arrival of hor fathe