The Portland daily press., 1872-07-03
News and Other Items.

A year ago now the wheat harvest of In
diana had been completed, 1t is not yet com
| menced for this season.
One of the poor fellows who was injured by
| the steamboat explosion in New London har
Dor, was afterward given dose of saltpetre fol
Rochelle salts, and a9aiu had narrow escape
| from death. aR
On Sunday evening lately man by the
name of Davis, living at Eudora, Kansas, be
ing under the influence of ardent spirits, order
ed two young men visiting his daughters
away, and took up neck-yole with view tt
violently enforce his commands. His son at
tempted to make him behave, and club con
test ensued between them, which resulted in
the father having his skull so fractured by the
club in the hands of his son as to make his re-
covery doubtful.
A trial is going on in Northumberland coun-
ty, Pa, in which school director testifies that
he received twelve dollars from candidate as
piring to be county superintendent of schools,
to be divided among directors in payment fol
their votes. IS s.zr
The Government of Denmark has given or
ders that all Mormon missionaries within its
domain shall be tied up and fogged, aud one Of
the apostles has been actually treated in this
way. We haven't high idea of that manner
of punishment; but if it is ever excusable or adj
visable it certainly is in such cases.
A newly divorced lady in Chicago gave a re-
ception to her friends in honor of her freedom
from matrimonial chains, and they brought her
presents precisely as if the occasion were a SUI
gar wedding. Among the presents was
beautiful "divorce cake" with capital I'D, -
for divorce, entwined with the lady's maiden
name on the top of it, If this sort thing is to
go on Chicago will have SO many festivals that
there will be no time to devote to ordinary bust
ness. sF
The Boston Traueller says there is great in
crease of drunkenness in Boston. The law is
dead letter. public sentiment is adverse to its
enforcement, public men give their counte-
nance to the drinking customs of the day, wo-
men who move in what is called good society en-
courage drinking by their example, many of
the pulpits are silent or worse than silent, and
the community is rapidly drifting upon cur
rent strewn with the wrecks of desoated homes
and broken fortunes, and ruined men and wo-
men,. ass
u,
refusing to aid an officer in arresting rioters.
Gold mining is carried on briskly at Gays
vile, VT, where about twenty men are employ
ed in the search for the precious metal.
Fall River claims an increase of 5000 in pop
ulation since last year. About $4,000 is the
entire figure. There is great demand for
houses.
On Monday, the 18th, the Worcester and
Nashua Railroad Company are to begin the
running of the first express train upon their
road. - .-s.-s.e Il
A Terre Haute, Ind, paper speaks thus en-
Enthusiastically: ''This is the bountiful year.
The small fruit crop was immense the wheat
crop is huge, the oat crop is promising, and the
hay crop is unparalleled.
Edmund G. Stedman has 'given up Wall
street, weary and with broken health, and goes
back to literature
A forsaken looking woman, who, with a
pair of green spectacles over her eyes, and an
infant in her arms, has been working upon the
sympathies of the Worcester people by grind
ing doleful tunes from an asthmatc hand organ,
which bore placard announcing that the per-
former was poor blind woman and the mother
of ten fatherless children, turns out to have a
good pair of eyes, while her baby is only rag
affair!