The Portland daily press., 1872-12-11

etrles limited as to race by charter rules, | have
chosen this that might illustrate in my death
The wind was SO strong in Solomon City,
Kan, recently that train of cars was delayed
four hours trying to make head against it.
A Fort Wayne youth of 26 has sued widow
of 40 for $4,000 because she trihed with his
budding affections
Mr. Oliver Emerson of Whitnsville, aged &c,
and Mrs. Eliza Caldwell of Douglas, aged 70,
were united in marriage on Thursday of last
week.
The Missouri Democrat says Of Fred Grant:
| ''IIe is fine looking officer, taller somewhat
than his Esther, but in feature disclosing the
unmistakable lneaments of the President"
The New York Herald says that Charles
O'Conor is to be made Chief Justice in tho
event of the resignation of Judge Chase. That
won't event at present.
Political speculation puts candy johnson
soon in the Senate in the place of Parson
Brownlow, who is to resign. Then heaven help
the Senate.
In long article the Brooklyn Eagle calls
upon Beechsr, Tilton and Moulton to vindcate
themselves through the courts and thereby pro-
tect the public against further outrages by
Woodruff and Claflin.
the principles which / advocated through
long ltfe-equality of man before his Creator.
A young clergyman having been Tilted by
three or four dansels in Laconia, n. H., tried
to commit suicide by poison, but failed in that
also
The New England association of surerinten-
dents of public schools will hold its next semi
o,,T Ia
cember Goth.
A ''fire-fiend" has been captured in New
port, r. l., in the form of a fifteen year old
boy named Waters who has already confessed
setting some of the many incipient fires that
have alarmed the people of that city.
A man in New York advertises to paint bruis
ed eyes so that no one can detect the discolora-
alton. He says the last election did not give
him half the business that the one four years
ago did. He offered to black the reporters eye
1 and color it for nothing, but the interviews
, gracefully decli ned the generous offer
. The Democracy of North Carolina have for
. maliy communicated Senator-elect Merri
, mon, for having accepted Republican supper
t for the office he now holds, thus defeating TIN
A regular Democratic nominee, ex-Gov Vance
Merrimon is not troubled over the fact, havin!
/ determined to merit the continued support o
e his Republican friends.
5 Lord Duffern, Governor General of Canada
: is said to regard Gen. Grant as a highly con
t sentative President. He also says that no in
: vasion of Canada by the United States coul'
a take place without injury to the free institu
e tions of the latter
n The pseudo ''Lord Gordon" whose career il
g New York few months ago excited some at
: tentiop, is ''wanted" in England for havin
defrauded different persons and firms in Lon
don and Edinburgh, to the extent it is said, o
S G10000 under the assumed title of ''Lor
$ Glencairn.''
Col. Burdett,of Missouri, now in Congress- i
/ being urged to become candidate for clerk
! King, the present postmas ter is not candl
date, but Nc Pherson and the doorkeeper are.
f There is TO be "a renewed attempt to abolish
7 the government printing office md let the wor
by contract. Quite a number of Democrat
favor it, but there is no probability of success
| There were exported from Boston last weel
l about 100000 bushels of corn, the larges
amount ever recorded in one week.
An Illinois schoolboy has been fined by
, police magistrate for kissing the school mis-
, tress; under what precise criminal statute il
, not stated.
Gen. Myer, the head of the United State
signal service, has intmated his desire to pro
mote the interests of fishermen through the op
erations of his department, as we learn from
the Gloucester Telegraph, by establishing sta
tions which shall not only notify the fishermen
OF changes in the weather, but also of tn
movements Of fish, such as mackeral, herr ing
{ ETC., Cng shore.
In one of the Lowell churches last Sunday
the minister stopped suddenly when about hal
, through his sermon, and taking up the hymn
book gave out hymn, requesting all the con
gregation TO rise and join in the singing. Ate
which he resumed his sermon, evidently wei
. satisfied with the waking up which had beef
effected.
Russian government surgeons, accompanie,
by Cossaclls, have been vaccinating the peop
of Central Asia n ct arnis. The mode of pro
cedure is to pounce upon a village, seize the in
habitants wherever found and in spite of pro
testations insert the benehcent virus. The PEG
pie are superstitious, and conceived the idea
that the punctures were marks preliminary tt
, transportation. AT Cbodsheut recently the,
broke out in open revolt and slaughtered
number of the vacclnators.