The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-12

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IOtai.... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 222
Delegates are authorized to I'LL vacancies only with
actual residents of the towns they claim to repre-
sent. ...... ....t. ,-..-.. .....f. 81.
The District Committee will be in session at the
Reception Room Of Lancaster Hall at o'clock the
morning Of the Convention for the reception Of ere
dentials. ID ..-.i.-Hl- -......
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
Sir Alexander T. Gait, prominent Cana
dian politician and member of the Dominion
Parliament for Sherbrooke, now retires from
public life. Mr.. Dorion, another prominent
member, will probably decline reelection.
They say the potato bugs out West are
feeling aggrieved and almost defrauded Of their
rights by the backwardness of the season. 1t
is expected that they will soon begin to hold
mass meetings and pass resolutions unless
matters improve. Gn.. .a
The Brooklyn people are still giving well
SOihCc " AeCNs LII Otollo. IL ttthCo thChi q
good while to show how glad they are that he
has got home. .... .....-......
One duty of the erier in Florida courts is
to wake up jurors to the Judges charge.
A western paper, alluding to the statue of
Shakespeare in the Central Park, New York,
says: ''That's right; such talent as Williams
ought to be encouraged"
Chicago is holding public meetings to pro-
test against the establishment of a Jardin
Mabille on the corner of Madison and Shell
don streets. u...rl
A fashion article in Wisconsin paper de-
scribes the suit of an Indian of five years old.
1t consists of garter tied around his left
leg.
AL the Paris papers tell how Niblo's Thea
tire, in the town of Broadwaynewyork, has
been burned. --
A Swede in Iowa being in love, in debt.
and in-drink, has got out of his complicated
difficulties by shooting himself.
A man after Mr.. Bergh's own heart, in
East Hartford, not only esehews meat diet,
but goes barefooted all winter, because he has
conscientious scruples about doing anything
which may even indirectly encourage the
killing Of any animal. How he manages to
get through the Connecticut mosquito season
is mystery yet unexplained
The earl of S.Iaftesbury startled meeting
of the Turkish mission aid society" at which
he was presiding, the other day, by saying
that it was quite delusion to suppose that
England was to be considered free from erup
tions, such as those which have lately been
making havoc around Vesuvius. He had fire.
quently been told by the most eminent geolo-
subterranean well of fire, and that she is La
BILE at any moment to meet the fate of the
district around Vesuvius.
A paradoxical motion--going down on an
elevator. mH .a3
The people of Norway are now preparing
for great national festival to celebrate the
one thousandth anniversary of Norways ma
tionality.
Charles Lever evidently had premonition
Of the approaching end, and it could not have
been unwelcome to him. This is the dedi-
cation of his last novel, "Lord Kilgobbin": {:
''To the memory of one whose companion
ship made the happiness of long life, and
whose loss has left me helpless, do dedicate
this book, written in breaking health and
broken spirits. The task that was once
my joy and my pride, 1 have lived to find as
sociated with my sorrow. 1t is not, then,
without cause say hope this effort may be
my last"
Detroit convicts write dime novels. Even
Jail life is no help to their depravity.
Mr.. Charles Henry Salinsbury Pickwick, of
radford-on-Avon, gives notice that he has for
ever abandoned the name of "Pickwick"
which has acquired an inconvenisnt comic
popularity, and taken that of "Sainsbury."
Mr.. Greeley, it is said will stump the coun-
try. Nothing else will remain for him, after
he has cut all the trees down.
A cat which exists in Christ Church, New
York, but cannot be found, fills the congre-
CATION with anguish by pouring forth unhal-
lowed melody at unseasona BILE hou
SsVo,. how lnsk hol
one gentleman to another. eyes, poor little
thing! it was only five months old. We did
all we could for it. We had four doctors,
blistered its head and feet, put mustard poul-
tices all over it, gave it nine calomel powders,
leeched its temples, had it bled, gave
kinds of medicines, and yet after weeks i'll
ness it died.
Every European prime-minister, except
Cardinal Antonelli and the Turkish grand
vizier, is a freemason.
Owing to Mazzinfs death, his paper, Romo
di Popolo, has suspended publication.
Illinois farmers find that the partridge is Q
great destroyer of the chinch-bug, which is
injurious to wheat fields, and are beginning
to protect them from the fowler. One farm
er says he has hundreds of tame partridges
about his place, and his wheat-crops are un-
usually abundant, while in places not far
away the chinch-bug commits great ravages.
He feeds the birds in winter.
Another humble imitator of George Wash.
ington has turned up. A Michigander pre-.
sented himself to the sheriff weeping, and
said he could not tell lie; he had killed his
wife and child with his hatchet. The sheriff
told him he was too good to live much long
er, and the chances are that he will not.
''They fired two shots at him." wrote al
Irish reporter; 'the first shot killed him, bu
the second was not fatal"
Professor Goltz of Konigsberg, in his ex
periments upon the nervous centre o
frogs finds that If Won tal>e out the brain