The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-04
News and Other Items.

Rev. DR.. E. H. Chaplin has become editor of
the Christian Leader.
The Cincinnati Inquirer now calls for the
work of raising subscriptions for the Greeley
statue to proceed.
Twenty-four square miles have been laid out
on the Kansas Pacific Railroad for the site of
an English city to be called Victoria.
Some singular Indians have been found near
the coast of Peru. They are ruddy and fair,
with strong, shapely bodies and long full
boards. Some remnants of ancient royalty.
perhaps.
Port Jervis boasts wonderful colorcd fam
ily The father is without any ribs and so
runs no risk of Adams fate. One of the sons
though six feet high can reduce his stature to
three feet and three inches, and another can
stop the beating of his heart for a minute at a
time. Other members have revolving hips and
other novelties of construction.
The Wisconsin Daily Republican and Leader
publishes very excellent and eulogistic arti-
Gle OF Minister Washburne, in which it does not
forget to say that that Mr.. Washburne was an
apprentice in the Kennebec Journal Office. and
to mention some of its other distinguished an
prentices.
The last public whipping in Delaware oc-
CURED on the 23d ult. The offenses ranged
from petty larceny to highway robbery; and
the punishment was one hour in the pillory.
and from twenty to sixty lashes One of the
prisoners was sentenced for the larceny of a
door mat, and received twenty lashes. with the
additional penalty of six months imprison-
ment and six months of convict dress in nub
lie.
The daughters of Mr. Greeley, Ida and Ga
brielle, have suffered double loss within
few weeks, losing both their PARENTS and their
burthen becomes heavier by reason of the
loss in the steamer Missouri of the gentleman
to whom one of them was promised in mar
riage.
Virginia. which didn't have a cotton factory
before The war, has erected twelve of them
since,
A Bostonian stepped into an auction room
about month ago to purchase some Office
chairs, when he saw an old picture which he
bid off at $1.S7, which proved, after renovation.
to be one Of the old masters, painted in 1871.
There is said to be an abbey in Ireland where
they show two skulls CT Shakespeare, one when
he was man, and one when he was a little
boy.
TheiMissouri Republican reports one dav re-
Gently as "ield-day'' for divorces no less than
twenty-nine being granted.
There are $4,000 square miles of coal fields
in which Pittsburg is interested, and Sl5.ooO.-
GOO of Pittsburg capital is invested therein
Probably $25,OOO, 900 more is invested in trans-
portation, and the total of all interests denen-
dent upon these coal fields cannot fall short Of
the enormous sum of $10O, ZOO.
A woman has sued Leavenworth, Kan, for
$4,000, because crazy man, some months
ago, killed her husband while confined in the
city calaboose. Two thousand dollars have
been offered her as a compromise, but the nro-
position was not accepted.
Four Hartford men went to Manchester. CT.
the other night ''on a lark" and among other
things thought it would be good joke to steal
few chickens. They accordingly raided on a
coop, but were soon called upon to settle" by