The Portland daily press., 1870-04-07
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items,
Brazil will have a h;.

| verts have been counted up.
A schoolmstress In Hamlin county. low,
was ousted the other day for kissing the Biz
boys.
Rev. Newman Hall writes from Jerusalem
that his health has improved beyond his ex-
pectations.
An Iowa wife has presented her Lord with
twins the third subsidy OF that character with
in four years.
A letter from Utah says schools will d.
more than bayonets in putting down the
Mormons.
There is said to be a growing hatred of
Nortbern.rs at Richmond, Va.
Hereafter all births are to be registered IN
Kentucky. 1t will make a certafr class of
the Chiv' more circumspect.
A recent English critic saws Cooner,s nov-
els delight boys more than nine tenths of the
books expressly written for them.
Burglars recently stole the bell from the
steeple of Baptist church at Pits Point,
Kentucky.
retired printer has started hotel In Sill
yer City Idaho, which he has named the Bre-
vier House. =.
A cynical man insists that the fewer reIa-
tions or friends we have, the happier we are
In your poverty they never help you; In your
prosperity they always help themselves.
Congressman Poland, of Vermont, gives
noIice that he will appoint Naval Cadet and
West Point Cadet after competitive exam
iDation of candidates.
The shoe trade at Marblehead Is very dull.
and some OF the largest manufacturers talk
of stopping for time, choosing 10 do this
rather than cut down the prices paid for
work.
nrnnny, hac
Sheriff of Polk County. A poker match IS
10 decide the lucky candidate in this brood Of
aspirants. {.
Caldwell, the drawback swinder, who fed
to Canada tor safety, says that his arrest and
return to the city were the worst drawback he
has experienced yet.
An Irishman sent to the Wisconsin State
Prison was asked what trade he preferred to
learn. He said that if it was all the same 10
them, he preferred to be a sailor.
The Baptist Church in Paris would not be
allowed to immerse their converts in the
Seine, or in pubic anywhere. As their place
Of worship will not admit baptistry they
are obliged, IN baptizing convert, to bring in
large box for the purpose.
A new story by Anthony Trollope-eSir
Harry Hotspur OF Humbewaite"-will COM
mence in the May number OF Macmillan's
Magazine.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Is about
erecting new depot in Dover. This road
been greatly improved in its depots within
few years.
Lots in Duluth, Minnesota, worth only $500
one year ago, now bring $1,000 to $4,000. hay
is worth SIS per ton, having to be hauled SO
10 10 miles.
The Elizabethan ruff is coming into FASH
ion. Just now they are of moderate width,
but a tendency to wear them wide will be al
most Irresistible.
Garibaldi has another novel In press, called
"Canton; or, The Volunteer"
A posthumous novel of Eugene Sue is an
nounced for publication in Paris.
The Boston Advertiser intimates that Gen.
DutleI Is at the bottom of the attempt to get
Gen. Andrews removed from the e.. 8. Mar
shalship at Roston. Whether the movement
is intended to benefit DR.. Loring's chance for
the governorship and Gen. Buffers chance for
the senatorship, as the friends oil General An
drews sllege, does not yet appear.
They have devised a new method of lobby
ing with legislators in Iowa. Jones county
Wants penitentiary, and supplies each repre-
sentative with cube OF AnamOsa stone, suit
able lor horse block. Marshal county wants
normal school, and presents each member
With paper weight made OF marble quarried
In that locality.
Westerly, R. l., has "two Sundays come to-
gether." Nearly half the population are
Seventh Day Baplists, and on Saturdays half
OF the mills, shops and other places OF busi-
ness are closeo, and Lalf of the churches are
hlled with worshippers who on Sunday re-
sume their secular occupations, while their
| neighbors take religion and rest
"Artillery Pond" in Nashua, n H., derived
its name from the fact that In the year 1878 "a
grant OF 1000 acres, lying in Nashville was
made TO the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
COMPANY OF Boston.a The whole OF the VII
iase OF NashvlIe-lhat portion of Nashua ~
ing north OF the rlver-was once called ar
tillery Farm"
The velocipede is played out by a new con-
trivance called the "pedespeed." II consists
OF two wheels, fourteen or htteen inches In d.
ameter, one of which is attacL ed firmly to
each loot BY meaus of slirIup-lIke conifiv-
ance. 1t possesses all the capabilities OF the
skate.
A few days since, In Vermont town, two
men started for the woods to blow open some
logs with can of powder in their sleigh. One
OF them was smoking, a-d when he hnished
put his pipe in his coat pocket before the fire
was extineuished. As the result, the men
suddenly found themselves in the snow by
| the 70 ,dside, but with no injuries more seri
Gus than singel hair and whiskers.
While two daughters Of James Lawler, pro.
prietor of the Central Hotel, New Haven.
were playing together the other day, one Of
them accidentally forced q crochet hook into
| the breast Of the other to the depth Of one
| and fve-e1ghih inches. Three physicians
were called, who succeeded in cutting it out,
although il was so rear the heart that it NOV
ed up and down with each pulsation of that
orean.
Jean Thierry made bis will In 1854, when
his fortune, amounting to $5,OuO.OOt was In
the bank of Venice. between 1896 aud 1877
some 369 claims OF heirship were registered.
In :he latter year Venice tell into the hands
OF the French, and the Thierry Inheritance
was swept into the French treasury. A few
days ago the tribunal of the Seine dismissed
the case of the last claimant.
Madame Parepa-Rosa will spend the sum-
mer in retirement in England. During her
stay in this country she has lost her mother,
and she now wishes to revisit her home. Pa
repa intends, when her singing days are over,
to devote her leisure time to the translation
into lta liam Of the novels of Charlotte Bronte
and other English writers. She Is an accom-
plished linguist. ~. b
The late DR.. Rice of New York paid $1130
for an Eliot Bible, spent some money in re-
covering lost parts, and 1t only brought $1060
the other day.
| The Queen of the Netherlands is visiting
London, inspecting the various "hons." She
| was specially pleased with the old oak carving
| in the hall of the Middle Temple. ~
The common council of Chicago voted the
hospitalities OF the city to the California pio-
neers and now refuses to settle the bill, which
| Is only $449. One of the committee of reeep-
ton has paid the bill out of bis own pocket.
Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden, who was
| formerly distinguished for his zeal in the
cause Of Protestant ascendancy In Ireland,
died in Edinburg, March 20, in the SD year
of his age. -
The new five cent pieces of 1870 will be
ready in few days. The token currency of
ten, fifteen and fifty cent pieces, made three
months ago, has not yet been issued, owing
to the fact that no act of Congress has been
passed to that effect.
Before the ink OF the Fifteenth Amendment
proclamation was dIy, President Grant re-
| ceived note from a member OF the press ask
| ing for the pen. 1t was sent Immediately,
| and before tue messenger left the ante-room
he was offered $50 for it.
| A gentleman residing in New York Is hav.
| ing IN de in Europe set OF lace curtains for
| his Murray Hill mansion, upon which are TO
be worked the portraits and monograms of
himself and family.
| John Saxton Is said to be the Oldest editor
in the United States, having published the
Canton, (Ohio) Repository for nifty five con-
i Secutiye wears His story ia rem RI abla In