The Portland daily press., 1870-11-03
Current Notes. ,

Nine new steamboats, are now being buils
at Pitlsburg, Penn.
Four physicians have died of yellow fever
this season at Mobile.
A valuable salt mine was recently discover
ed at Kittanning, Penn, by workmen who
mad bored to depth Of 1,025 feet, in quest of
oil.
A three-months old calf, giving a pint of
milk daily, is one of the curiosi.ies to be ex-
hlblted at the Du Quoin, H., Fair.
Annie Raraiere, a waitress and singer at
the New El-Dorado," New Orleans, oas
burned in horrible manner the otner night.
through her blonde jute wig having taken fire
just as she was stepping from the stage.
A man named Kelley, fifty years of age,
VINO mas been married for many years, recent-
" soid ms farm ior 81, 400 at Iowa City, and
started Tor parts unknown, leaving his wife
and boy almost ten years of age in almost
destitute circumstances.
Nichols, the condemned murderer, who re-
Gently died at Washington, has left a confess
sion in which it is stated that he killed his
mother-in-law because she persisted in pre-
venting his wife from occupying the same
room with him, and killed the latter because
she interfered to prevent the murder of tha
mother.
A modestly- -attired individual, who had at.
tended the lecture of Senator Sumner az
Boston, the other night, being mistaken for
that gentleman, on his way out of the hall.
was surrounded by a bevy of colored lade,
and lionized until he was forced. in self de.
tense, TO declare that he was somebody else -
The same mistake has often occurred before.
Twelve hundred lunch fiends. from Cincin.
natl, went on free train to an auction Of
reaIestate i'll the suburbs where a free lunch
was served. The lunch was eaten and tha
peer uranH, out the auctioneer couldn't get
toSetner twenty live people to listen to his
pratIie, and his request for bids met with very
little sympathy.
we never quite understood the Divine pur-
pose IN the creation OF some retormers, says
the Christian Register, until we heard cross
grained men. lliened to knee timber, that is
good for ships ordained to be tossed, bu. not
Tor building houses that shall stand firm"
A correspondent says: at is somewhat
diScoura!ing to an intended immigrant to sea
how much sickness prevails on both shores OF
the Mississippi. Haifof the inhabitants are
down with chiils, and the other half seem Oh
ly to wait their turn. Thg, shakes constitute a
leading topic OF conversation, and never fall
when introduced, to elicit personal expe-
rences."
The presence within the bar of a co.rt II,
Rockford, H.. OF female law student. on tba
22d OF October, is said to have had rem.rt.
able result. Fewer boot soles were observed
to be resting upon tables and railinys and
there was less lounging in uncouth attitudes.
while 1t was noticed also that the young at
torneys paid more than ordinary attention to
the arrangement of their back hair"
At a late installation service. in Chicago,
the Rev. MIR. Mitchell in delivering the charge
TO the candidate, said thai the main hln-
dranee to the spread of religion in that city
was the devotion of the men to business and
the women to pleasure. He told his brother
that he would sfnd it difficult to induce men
in Chicago to stand still long enough to listen
to the gospel"
A recent letter to Blsmark marked "privaie'
was opeued BY his confidential clerk, who bad
scarcely opened and read few lines when he
was seized BY violent pains in the head and
fell back into a swoon. Another clerk picked
il up and felt the same symptoms. After .
little while they recovered, aud carried the
document to che mist, who soon ascertaipea
that the letter had been poisoned with vera
trina subtle and dangerous substance tbs
odor OF which mounts into the brain. and ia
very liable to produce death or insanity.