The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-07-13

A national labor congress meets at Cincin-
haiti, August 18th.
Georgia judges request lawyers not to eat
peanuts in court.
Michigan prohibitionists will nominate
State officers at Jackson, August I'd.
An Ohio girl recently won a bonnet by
throwing her father twice out of three times
in wrestling match.
Fisk's lates ideat is to.build grand hotel in
the region of Wall street, which will cost
100000, and supplant Delmonico's.
Continental Europeans are delighted with
base ball, as played before them by American
tourists, and it promises TO become an inter
national game.
Pleasure and piety were combined on re-
cent Sunday by the versatile Fisk, who took
chaplain and church choir with him ON
pleasure excursion and had religious services
on the boat.
A Lynchburg man, arrested as a vagrant,
protested that he had a regular trade, and
that was, smoking glass for total eclipses of
the sun. He remarked that as these occur so
seldom it was not to be wondered at that he
seemed out of employment good deal.
Rev. Phillip Brooks of Trinity church, Bos-
ton, is the Oldest of three brothers; Frederic,
next to him, is located at Cleveland, and Ar
lnuI, lne youngest, Has JUST graduated al
Philadelphia, and been called to Columbus.
All three are scholarly, brilliant, liberal, fer
vid and muscular.
at the press banquet to Dickens in New
York in April, 1868, were, beside himself, four
Journalists of note who have since died, all
suddenly: Henry J. Raymond, George w.
Demers, Henry E. Sweetser, and George
Wakeman. Three of these were cut off in
their youth, and the other two in mid-liie.
The first case in America of the marriage
of Chinese couple by'a Christian clergyman
has just occurred at San Francisco.
The ceremony of laying the corner stone of
, new German Catholic Church at Canton,
o., was performed by Bishop Rosecrans Sun
day in presence of 5000 spectators.
A farmer named James Justine shot boy
named Frederick Roth dead, Sunday morning
for trespassing in fruit bed at Springfield
Ohio. He is said to have first attacked him
with knife.
A verdict for $2250 damages was rendered
against the city of Chicago, on Saturday, in
favor of the parents of a boy eight years old,
who was Killed by an iron water pipe rolling
on him which had been left carelessly in TIL G
street where he was playing
In tearing to pieces part of house in Do
yer, sixty seven cards of friction matches
were found deposited around the chimney,
supposed to have been carried there by rats.
The combustable substance had been eaten
off.
The "Fat Contributor" in writing from
Franklin, Missouri says that cold Ben Frank
lin left name when he died. If he had
taken it with him, great many counties,
towns and taverns would have been compell-
ed to select some other title"
A man named Essex from Columbus, Ind.
has been arrested at st. Paul, Mimi, Oh
charge of having been implicated in the rob-
berry of guests at the Metropolitan hotel in
that city on Saturday morning. A portion of
the money was fround on his person. $4,000
OF the stolen money had been torwarded to
the father of Essex at Columbus, Ind.
The horse cars running from Worcester to
ew Worcester carry red flags for the pur-
pose of distinguishing them from others of
different lines. Several days since party of
Irishmen who were impatient to get to the
latter place let several cars pass that were
bound there, and on being questioned why,
one of them answered, pointing to the flag,
"Faix, thin, yell not get into car where
they have the small pox aboard!"
Two enterprising Yankees have Just start
ed drove of horses from Los Angeles, CAL,
for this eastern world. They are to be driven
$50 miles, to Salt Lake, and then put upon
Sle cars LOT tne East. Ihey cost the Yam
KEGS about $40 head. If this venture sue
ceeds, an unlimited supply can be had from
the same quarter; one Single lrancbman hav-
ing 1000 more of the same sort to sell. II is
but few years since droves of horses were
taken across the plains from Illinois 10 San
Francisco. !" ''ii
The little steamer, Kate Morgan, built NV
Robert Fulton, still plies in Cayuga lake, and
perpetuates the romantic story of its builders
marriage. Fulton was in love with the daugh-
ter of Gen. Morgan, of revolutionary fame,
who lived on the bank of the lake, but, not
withstanding his first success on the Hudson.
the old soldier would only give him his
daughter on condition OF his sailing steam
boat past his own door. The steamer was
soon built, and on its first trip carried bridal
party.