The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-01
News and other Items.

Miss Ellen Upper, daughter of the proven
bal philosophy man, is out with = volume of
| poems which shows that she inherited some of
her fathers remarkable Deficiencies.
An cid sailor recently refused to ship on
Lake Erie schooner because he had seen a rat
swim ashore from it. Curiously enough the
vessel foundered the next night with all on
board. ......s
A Philadelphia judge compels the Quaker
jurymen to remove their hats and there is
great indignation among the broad-brimmed
persuasion.
A couple who were divorced twenty three
years ago, the wife meanwhile having married
another husband, were recently remarked in
Colorado. On hearing of the death of bis sue
cessor the first husband renewed his suit and
the lady returned to her earliest love.
Waldo Maynard, of the well-known house of
Maynard & Noyes, Boston, died on Saturday
Miss Sabone Karnell, of Little Compton, R.
l., is en- route to Omaha on foot. At last ac-
counts she was at Terre Haute, Ind, in good
condition, and proposed to push ahead to the
end of her journey
Boston is to have a new weekly commercial
paper called the Boston Journal qf Commerce.
At reunion of the family of j. A. G. Lee,
of Owingsville Ky, $4,000 were placed under the
plate of each of his children present. A cores
pondent says:-"As Mrs. Nesbitt gazed with
grateful bewilderment upon her thousands she
observed, eff it is more blessed to give than to
receive, pa, how do you feel?'
The British authorities have detained a
steamship which was to have sailed Friday
with number of emigrants for Canada, be-
cause it is now too late in the season for their
departure.
Some Georgia ladies flogged bogus doctor
for quackery.
A revolutionary party in Mexico is trying to
GUST President Lerdo so soon.
Libby, son of him who owned the Libby pris-
on, is editing Grant paper in Virginia. But
the fellow who kept the prison is for Greeley
every time.
The imports (othsr than dry goods and specie,
at New York during the past week, amount in
value to $5,719,2S1 er fE
Rumor hath it that Father Hyacinthe made
good thing of it in worldly point of view,
by his late marriage. His blushing bride is
worth the trife of $4,000.
Mr.. John Begg, of Lochnagar, has been ap-
pointed distiller to his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh. The tetotalers have now
between begg-ary and drink.
Another Revolutionary soldier, and, no doubt
the last has turned up in Tennessee. He is
lis years old and went to Nashville recently to
receive his pension, which had been accumulat-
ing for a long time He has four children liv-
ing and the baby of the family has turned his
seventy-flfth year.
Mrs. A. M. Griswold. wife of the Cincinnati
Fat Contributor" has started for Europe, to
be present at the debut of her sister, Miss Ben
son, ON the lyric stage, which event will take
place shortly in Milan.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says H. G.'s next
book will be entitled, ''What know about
Failing" The principal chapter will contain
review of Richelieu's famous remark ''there's
no such word as fall in the trenchant style of
the author, commencing thus: 'You lie, you
villain, you liep'
joaquin Miller sailed for England on the Both
ult He thinks the Americans do not appre-
cate him, and hence he will make England his
future home
The tidal phenomena on Lake On tario which
was noticed last June has again appeared. The
greatest change in the depth of the water OBJ
served is twenty-five inches The lake is very
quiet and there is nothing visible in the sur
roundlngs to create the unusual phenomenon.
The grand list of Vermont for 1872 is-real
estate S72 1881, 647; personal property $19,623,-
5S4 The list for State taxes is 81, 173,O5S
There are still eleven organized bands of brig
ands in Italy.
The fruit crop of Kansas this year is estimat-
ed to be worth 80, 100000.
negro, an Indian and Turk are climbing
the hill OF science together at Beloit College
Wisconsin r