The Portland daily press., 1872-05-22
News and Other Items.

A boy named Charles E. Burnham aged IL
years was shot and instantly killed at Great
Falls, N. H., while cunning with other boys.
The Richmond Enquirer particularly wants
to know if Mr.. Greeley is in favor of mixed
schools. The question is too early. Wait till
after the Baltimore Convention.
An Iowa paper recommends man to office
because it says, che takes an open drink with
out clasping all four of his fingers about the
glass;" That man is curiosity in Iowa.
All the Democratic papers in Pennsylvania,
with two exceptions, favor a straight out party
nomination at Baltimore.
The Chicago Union endorses the saying of
an Illinois free thinker that ''An honest God
is the noblest work of man." as very ingen-
ious parody and very sensible remark
Southerners are circulating fac smile of
the bail bond of jeff. Davis, slate President of
the Confederate States, with all the signatures,
including Horace Greeley's. -as
The Young Mems Christian rooms at Cincin-
natl are fitted up with an amusement ROOM,
in which ample space is given to the playing of
sroquet game which is nightly pursued to
the latest permissible hour
The strawberry season in Southern Illinois
opens excellently well, and carloads of the
fruit are being shipped to Chicago daily.
1t is reported that Trumbull refuses to run
as the Independent Liberal Republican candi-
date for Governor of Illinois.
A successor of Edith o. German, bearing the
name of Mary johnson, is lecturing in Missouri
on the horror of converts, she being an s'escap-
ed num-
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Cincinnati Convention shows that it will not
fully meet the demands of the hour.
Blackberries are quoted in Texas. by an ex-
change, as Zone dollar per bucket" Whether
cheap or dear depends altogether upon the size
of the "bucket"
The Louisville Courier-Journa considers DIR.
j. Emilio Houard an ass for spelling his middle
name in full, and supports B. Gratz Brown
The Cincinnati Enquirer morunfully says that
Mr. Pendleton received one of its reporters"
with GOODNESS, and declined to talk And this
itputs down as his "position" at the present
time. ersfe..re. FTfha
Greeley Smashes' and sNatick Cobblers''
are respectively the attractionsyof rival bar
rooms in Philadelphia. f.lHFgAI
James Wick, Jr., the well-known Rochester
florist and editor, has just been getting mar
RED There is strong prospect that his fu-
ture pathway will be literally strewn with flow
ers. -.-.
We regret to observe the hesitation of the
Methodist General Conference to take prompt
and energetic steps for the investigation of the
New York Book Concern embroglio- Wash
ington Chronicle. sewe&N zshap', e usz.ssl'l
And we do not The mercy of those good
men and true who refuse to again inflict upon
us this Methodist Schleswig- Holstein horror
evokes our unreasonable gratitude here, and
after.-N Y Commercial 's7-0
Senator Schurz sails for Europe next month
1t is asserted that he will not call on the EN-
peror William of Germany.
An Illinois genius claims patent for a ma
chine for driving hens out of garden.
1t is a sure sign of an early spring to see
cat intently Watching small hole in the wall.
Two millions dollars worth of elephants and
other insects which go to make up menagerie
are walking around in the States this year.
Detroit has some intelligent cats. One of
them eats oranges, and another opens Jack
knives. aE'a is&sso1 - .f4sb44 ~ .Flz
A negro girl escaped from Tennessee iail
by soapiLg herself thoroughly and squeezing
through the bars. Her garments remain to be
called for. ,-s....se.s.-
The city of New Bedford recently voted to
allow the sale of ale and cider, in consequence
of which good order and sobriety have given
place to disorder. -
1t is said that Seneca Lake was covered few
mornings since by coating of thin ice re-
markable circumstance, as the coolest weather
of winter failed to produce such coating of
ice, whether thick or thin. Syracusans are pol
ishing up their science and flooding the papers
with very various and unintelligble explana-
tions of the phenomenon. saea- i''A*sea.5f
One-fourth of the saloon keepers in Illinois
have already closed up, and about one fourth of
the remainder will close before July on account
of the rigid execution of the State temperance
law. --- 54-- s- ~ s--s
1t is said that the losses by the forest fires in
sections of New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey will foot up at least S2,5OO,OOO.
The New York papers. though hurting harsh
epithets generally, unite in calling the late rain
fall the blessed rain" 1E@
Capt. George Wright one of the keepers at
the headquarters of the Army of the East fell
down stairs at the Brandreth House Sunday
night, while intoxicated, and died soon after.
The Board of Indian Commissioners are in
sessions at New York Large contracts are to
be awarded. ia a-s.s9s .saass aassrgg