The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-03
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The new city government of New York
went into operation Monday.
The customs receipts at New York in April
exceeded those Of April 1860 over 2,5O0, 900.
Forty recruits were sworn in at the Fenian
headquarters in New York Saturday.
Plunkett has won the billiard champion
ship OF Pennsylvania and a nice cue and
biard-table by beating Nelms.
Forty citizens of Philadelphia have been
appointed a committee TO solicit subscriptions
for the Richmond sufferers.
Ann Plebay, an elderly woman, was killed
by railroad train at East Junction, r. l.,
ou Saturday.
The bleachery of S. II. Greene & Sons at
Warwick, r. H., was destroyed by fire Sunday
evening and an alleged incendiary was ar
rested.
The Rensselaer, and Saratoga, N. Y, freight
cars and all the contents, and John Benedict's
adjoining steam lumber mill, were burned
Sunday morning. Loss $6S,000.
Dispatches from Rome say preparations are
being made for the discussion of the infalli-
bility dogma at an early day; and that the
memorial of iCount Daru will receive no
attention whatever.
The favorite fraud in Boston Just now is TO
persuade errand boys to leave their bundles
with you, while they earn so cents by doing
your job. The errand boy sees no more of his
budget.
Samuel Flarty of Gloucester, while going
home from recent prayer meeting, was attack
ed and knocked down. He then gave his as
sailant thorough pounding, and found on
reaching home that apocket Bible had saved
him from dirk thrust.
About two hundred actors in the Baden rev.
olution of 1S4S-49, in New York, have united
to get up a memorial celebration, to take place
on the 18th of May. Among those who have
been selected as orators are Frederick Hecker,
Carl Schurz, Gen. Which, and others.
Mrs. O'ROurke was sentenced to thirty days
imprisonment at Woonsocket on Thursday
for cruelty gashing and bruising her little boy
OF 10, a crippled boot-black whose earnings she
took for drink.
George Hudson, the English "railway king,u
now 20 years old, has lately been called from
obscurity by subscription to save him from
poverty in his old age, and has publicly ac-
knowledged the charity.
There are upward of 500 street cars employ
ed daily in New York each OF which the law
requires tax of $50 year as license. The
only companies which pay the tax are: Sixth
avenue, " cars Eighth avenue, 95 cars, and
Ninth avenue, SO cars.
By dropping a lighted match into a barrel
OF whiskey, State street saloon keeper in
Chicago caused fire, Thursday night, which
destroyed six buildings, including boarding
house. Thirty-two boarders were turned out
in their nightclothes, many of them losing
personal property.
A venerable Danbury lady of a rather cred
ulous turn of mind and poor stretch of wisdom,
saw pair of greys dash by her window one
day last week, and in the agony of her envy
shook her fist at the establishment, and cried
out, Ride, darn ye; it will be my turn by and
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the hearse.
Prima donnas sing before courts for nothing.
but expect a stunning perqrisite in return.
Minnie Hauck recently received only a $40
bracelet from one of the aristocratic clubs of
st. Petersburg for gratuitous warbling. She
sent it back with letter in indignant Anglo
Saxon. The club returned it with the inform
alton that they could not read English. She
then sent in bill OF $50 roubles in Russian.
which they also professed themselves unable
to understand.
A flash of lightning at Starrsville, Ga. last
week struck stable, killing two mules and de.
stroying two trees; but the most remarkable
fact was that there were four mules in the lot,
two IL one stable and two in another, situated
some thirty yards apart, and the same stroke
OF lightning killed one mule in each stable,
leaving the others unhurf, and tore to pieces
the two trees, one pesmmon and the other
an oak, about the same distance apart as the
stables
A letter from Jackson, Miss, to the Spring
field Republican says: Two murders week
are our regular rations. Sometimes we have
more, sometimes less. Itdepends on whether
the whlskey for the week is imported from
fazoo flats or from Vicksburg. As came up
into the city, near the corner of Pearl street,
saw two men with shot guns. l wondered
what game there might be in the vicinity
Having reached the corner of the First Nation-
al Bank, however, came suddenly upon ,
crowd of men who were watching aro LIES 5ron,
gunners. From exclamatons ,dsd tina, wdfs tbat u
ped as passed through, % shot runs sUn were waiting
for SnU'e bineds Ni they were not feathered. They
wera ,ve o'p, indeed waiting for man named Dal-
VIZ, me.1 70 come out of drug store. Somtimes
shese NJ men miss fire; that Is why the street
was vuu,e drained of passengers as came up"