The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-20

| Many of the railroads have agreed to carry
| the members for one fare: among them the
| Portland & Rochester, Portland & Ogdensburg
| Knox & Lincoln Bangor & Piscataquis, Maine
| Central and Grand Trunk. Tickets from Bos-
| ton to Lewiston, by steamboat to Portland,
| Grand Trunk Railroad to Danville junction
| and Milne Central Railroad to Lewiston 49, 20.
| The boats leave India Wharf, daily, at o'clock
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News and other Items.
Newport is hot and dull
Rarey is tanning Iowa horses this year.
| A Providence sayant walks on the water.
The enrolled militia in Lowell numbers 4459.
| Lager beer is the fashionable drink at Long
Branch this season for both sexes
Thirsty people are studying, this warm wealth
err the signs of the Soda-ac.
| A $4,000 residence is being built for Rev.
Robert Colyer in Chicago. -4-
Tennessee promises II ,00O, 900 bushels of pea
nuts this year. &
In Alabama colored cooks are called Black
| Friars. a.
The potato-bug is reveling in the fields of
Coos county N. H. ar-
1t is certain that nearly twice as much bay is
being harvested this season in New England as
last.
The Washington Patriot says that the con-
fdential Executive archives of the Confederacy
are in existance and 'ssafe.''
! Strauss really meant what he said about
American pianos, when he called them the
best in the world.
The present debt of the city of New York is
larger than that of the entire nation before the
war. s8.
The Irish Band will return to Ireland in the
Inman steamer "City of Montreal" from New
| York to-day.
The first appointment of a colored man to
Federal Office in Connecticut is that of Lieut..
ii. Loyne to be letter carrier in New Haven.
The Woman's Journal wants Ito know why q
woman can't be a Bishop. A bishop should al
ways be able to sing bass.
| The city attorney of st. Louis has been fined
$50 for being half hour behind time, and go
more for not sitting down when ordered to sit
Half million of people and thirty millions
of capital are employed in this country in the
manufacture OF stoves, says the New York Bul-
letin. fNlftE 1898
| Professor Boise of the Chicago University is
gong to Europe as escort to party of twenty
three young ladies. The proportions of Boise
and girls do not seem to be equal. Of
The meanest man in Massachusetts must live
in Greenfield Some miscreant poured lot of
molasses on the steps of the court house last
Sunday evening, and enjoyed the satisfaction
of seeing about % ladies and gentlemen sit down
in the dirty mass. 7l.-l
Among the most elegant equpages to be seen
in the Bots de Boulogne, Paris, are those of Mr..
and Mrs. Barney Williams, and Mr. and Mrs.
Florence, the we'll known Irish comedians.
A North Adams Chinaman says he has not
money enough to marry 'Melican" girl, and
that the Chinese fashion of pinching feet is no
more foolish than the American fashion of
pinching waists. His head is level
English papers are inquiring why Mr.. STAN
ley did not bring some letters from DIR. Living
stone. They think it very curious that none
have been received
The Stokes jury complain while they were
locked up they were fed on cold meats and
mlnce pies. 1t was hardly to be expected that
they could agree, when such things were disa-
greeting with them.
A firm of Boston truckmen sent a lad from
the rural districts with horse to one of the
wharves where he was wanted. The boy mis-
took the wharf and went to the one used as a
temporary depot for dead horses and left him.
The employees about the premiset took the pro-
ceeding as a matter of course and killed the
animal, preparatory to transporting him to
Spectacle Island. As the horse did not arrive
at the Stone wharf, the youth was sent to bring
his lost charge. He soon returned with the
bride of the defunct animal, sadder, at least,if
not wiser. The firm valued the horse at $780,
and are consequently SO much poorer
There is much anxiety in business circles in
Halifax, and business is depressed. The banks
have curtailed their discounts considerably of
Piciou, N. s., was visited by fire Thursday
morning which destroyed about dozen houses
including Begair's hotel, the Royal Oak hotel,
and several warehouses. Loss $4,000.
The representatives of the shoe and leather
trade of the country were entertained at Ma
hant Thursday by the shoe manufacturers of
Lynn. The party, to the number of some six
hundred, left Boston on the extra train for
Lynn, rode to Nahant in barges, and were en-
tertained on the grounds of the Tudor estate.
a yacht race took place, and considering the
very unfavorable weather it may be pronounced
success. Dinner was served in large mar
quee ON the lawn, and speeches appropriate to
the occasion We're afterwards made by the chair
man, Mr. George w. Keene, the Hon. y. B.
Alley, General Banks and others. The gath
erIng was pleasant one, and it only lacked
fine weather to render it the best reunion of
the two the trade have held III
Prof. Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst Col
lege, started Wednesday for his voyage around
the world. -
Aaron Guernsey, of Lancaster N. H., has
just ploughed up in his meadow an English
half-penny dated 1916. fk~n ETFRCFk@
Here s q sentence some politicians may like
to remember:-''Time and circumstances have
SO altered us that we are obliged to give our old
selves the lie direct, or else to be untrue to our
present Selves" e [
James Dalton, of New Haven, Conn.,, unwit-
tingly confessed to selling liquor Sunday by
complaining against his bartender for embez-
zling the proceeds of that days sales. rr ..
Sir Henry Holland, octogenarian though he
DE, is SAID to be planning another extensive
tour, which he proposes to undertake during
the present season, and which comprehends
points SO remote and SO widely apart as the
North Cape and Madeira
One young lady at the Ocean House, who
calls butter "buttaw, waitah," wears nine dia-
mond rings on one of her hands, and hustle on
which she last night unconsciously carried
Charles Augustus Fitznoodle's blue-ribboned
straw hat from the lawn to the bluff. -[Long
Branch gossip. Z = a HalAf e "
A New York auctioneer announces that he
shall have among the attractions of land sale
music by Graffula's Band, comicalites by Har-
rison and banquet on the Green.
, An enterprising Hoosier has started a steam
chicken factory, with a working capital O
about 5000 eggs. At his first 'sbakine" he
Matched out four birds and roasted all the rest
of the eggs ~,
Recently the covers which conceal the throne
and royal chairs of State in the English House
of Lords were removed in honor of visit from
Miss Nellie Grant. This is compliment
which has never been paid to a royal visitor.
From series! of carefully coliated crop re-
ports, collected by the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change, it appears that the area of land placed |
under cultivation averages ten per cent. increase
on last year. cAiAA ~
A woman fell into the cellar of an unoccupied
house in Cincinnati last week and remained |
there four days and nights without food or
water, and in fulls hearing of constantly mass |