The Portland daily press., 1871-08-05
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Steamer Providence, Of The Fall River line,
while off Point Judith in the fog Thursday
night ran into three schooners within le IS than
an hour and badly damaged the w. U. Cobb.
of Bucksport The Providence was also con-
sderably damaged. No loss of life or limb
Smith is member OF the cabinet reeeptlv
appointed by the King of the Cann,bal Islands.
What if he should undertake to provide nub)ic |
offices for all his family?
Ii is reported that one OF our most ponnlar
c,roners left a body for a few moments the |
other day, ard when he returned it had walked |
eff 1t was case in which the old verdict
Rum did it," might have been used.
floating population-the people of Cork.
See how some men are slandered. Ben But
Ter has given pulpit to Methodist church in
Lowell and his enemies will persist in saving
that there is madness in bis methodism.
Horace Greeley resolution condemnipe the
attempt of the Republican State Central Com.
mittee to disorganzs the party and the con-
straint put upon subordiDates by the dispensers
of federal patronage, passed the General Com
mittee.
| The British Government gives Queen Vic
toria 1885, 900 scar; the Duchess of Cam
bridge, widow of the Queeu's cousin. 10000:
the Princess Augusta, daughter of the same
| cousin, $4,000; the Duke of Cambridge. son Of
the same, 912 600; the Princess Teck, another
daughter OF the same, $4,000; the Princess
| Alice, 10000, the Princess Louise, 10000: the
Princess Helena, $4,000; the Prince of Wales,
100000; Prince Alfred, $4,000; total a44 600,
or nearly 50. 500, 600 year paid to lot of Ia
dies and gentlemen who do nothing for it.
The statue of the Venus Of Milo at Paris. an
antique work Of art of great value, was saved
by the precautions taken during the late siege
and confagrations.
Nj. Charles Francois Marie de Rsncusat
whom tine latest cable dispatches Indicate as
the probable successor of M. Jules Fayre as
Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born at Paris
March IA, 1877. His father was chamberlain to
the great Napoleon, and his mother, who was
a writer of some note, was an intimate friend
of Josephine. M. Remusat is lawyer by pro-
fession, but his life has been devoted to politics
and literature. In political life be has gensr-
ally stood with M. Theirs, having been men,
Der of two cabinets formed by that gentleman.
The first mortgage bonds of the Vermont di.
vision of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad
are advertised in the Rutland Herald and
other Vermont papers. The road has been
nearly graded, ready for the ties, by stock sub
scriptions. The Herald says the Messrs. Fair
banks, the great scale manufacturers, are heavy
investors themselves in these bonds for which
they are agents.
They are playing hide-a nd-seek in the Nath
an murder investigation. The murderer il
hiding and his pursuers are.seeking him.
A Minnesota man hesitated long on tn,
verge of matrimony, trying to beat down tn,
price of a license from 800 to "four shillins,
but to no avail.
Senator Wilson was astonished by being pre-
sented on the steamer with bill of G5 70
wines. 1t was all a mistake
, A San Francisco doctor advertised for
good office cat" He has already receive,
A3 felines, with the southern counties vet t
hear from.
Tho widow of man who died in Ironton
Ohio, of deliniuna tremens has recovered S. 90
damages from the man who furnished tn
whiskey.
A journal certifies to the existence of
young lady who took out ifty-seven hairpin
from her couture, and yet her hair did not com
down.
!. 1t is expected that between two and thre
hundred women will attend the next term Q
the Michigan University. OF the thirty in at
tendance at the last session not one failed.
: A convicted murderer, in Ohio, when aske
| | If he had anything to say before sentence q
death was passed upon him, began a long an
rambling speech with the apologize remark
3 81 have, Sir, L have very bad cold. your Hon
| or
3 A young woman in Connecticut recently
, | when sick, mortgaged her body to her physci
an for dissection i'll case of death, as cOmpen
saticn for professional attendance upon her.
A young lady in town out West not fame
IJr TOO much piety has opened a store an
| placed upon it sign reading: "Miss A. r.
Jones, moral dressmaker and dry goods dea
er."
, The statement that Charles Reade's last sto
ry is improper is "A Terrible Temptation" I
? many to read it.
J The old saying that much shall have more
mas a 1resh illustration in the case of Lothair-
we beg his pardon, the Marquis of Butte. TIL
law courts have just increased his income b
$20OOOO, besides awarding him $500 900 com
pensatlon Tor arrears. At this rate ha- Wi
sUun oc as rich as the marquis of Westminster
, The pair of them will cut up very fat wbe
the London commune comes to get hold {
them.
A Milwaukee women lately got on a ssram
page" and was scolding the neighbors, hire
girl, and everything in general. when her hus
band entered and intersposed mild wo r
This added fuel to her temper, and she opened
r her mouth for an angry reply, but a spasr
? contracted her cheek, her lower jaw fell, an
she could neither speak nor shut her mouth
but remained in that condition, her tongu
hung out, and her eyes nearly started out Q
their sockets. On examination being made, j
was founl that she had dslocated her jawbon
in her violent effort to make a singing repl
to her husband.
: The New York Nation, which is getting int
the habit of saying clever things, remarks, il
, an article on the late riot, that the worst of
for Mr.. Hoffman is, that those very importan
thousands of Democratic votes in New Yorl
city which are cast after the polls are CLOSED
will never be thrown for him again.