The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-14
News and Other Items.

breakfast jackets OF light blue cashmere,
bound with velvet, are very much in style.
The South Carolina railroad now runs four
teen through freight trains daily, and can hard
ly fulfill its engagements.
Lieutenant Augur, son of General Augur, U.
s. A., will be married in December at Wash
ington, D. c., to Miss Kate Dodge, sister to the
.fancee of Governor Cookies son.
Edmund Yates is sorely exercised-and very
justly too-because the Citizen in New York
city is printing weak and trashy tale over his
name, and will not discontinue it. albeit he has
frequently demonstrated against the outrage.
Fletcher Harper, jr., of the publishing firm
of Harper Brothers, will shortly marry Miss
Tacey Mcdonald, daughter of ex-senator Nc
Donald of Arkansas. Mr.. Harper is one of the
youngest, and is said to be the best educated of
the Harper family. He is about twenty-five
years of age, speaks three or four languages
with fuency and has spent several years in
foreign travel.
A Kansas county has only twenty-six run
ming candidates for the office of Probate
Judge.
The Mayor of St. Paul has issued procla-
nation against the horse disease, but it doesn't
stopit.
Hereafter the worst you can wish your enemy
will be that somebody may put Mansard roof
on him.-N. Y Commercial
guard is stationed at the door of Gen. Lee s
old room in the Virginia University, to see that
not even the dust is disturbed
Leaden pills administered through an iron
tube by little brothers and sisters are still dec
imating Western infants.
The Louisville Journal considers the real
cause of Mr.. Greeley's defeat to be the opposi-
ton of the New York Evening Post and the
Pittsburg papers
The arithmetic man Of the New York World
has 'put on SUBJ"
During October eighty-six new newspapers
were established in the United States, and for
ty-one suspensions were announced.
Hartford has had a convention of business
men and women to nfuse holiness into the
transaction of business Unfortunately the by
law kind of holiness is what there is now too
much of already.
An Iowa sharper named Doris lately sold
$4,000 worth of somebody else's land to lady
on forged deed and escaped with the pro-
ceeds
The Philadelphia Trade Journal claims for
the City of Brotherly Love the honor of hav-
ing been the first to introduce street cars, in
the year 1855 Cincinnati followed her ex-
ample.
A bale of human hair weighing al pounds
was recently distracted from the Hamburger
depot en- route for England. 1t had chiefly
been obtained in lunatic asylums, prisons and
reformatory institutions in Germany.
The ''1hunder Clap Of Freedom" is a new pa
per lately started in Ashville, n c.
Single pews in the new church of St. Bar
tholomcw in New York rented as high as $3.50
the other day.
Gen. Custer has gone into the sporting line
and purchased an expensive young equine
named 'Frogtown" which he proposes to run
against ''Bassett' aud s'Monarchist'' at the
New Orleans races next Spring.
1t is already remarked that the next great
division of parties will be upon the subject of
Gree Trade" There was good deal of it
practiced at the last election.
The Richmond Enquirer wants to bury things
sin the grave of the forgotten pas" Well,
go ahead. The corpse is waiting, and there's
good deal of it.-N Y Commercial
A lady in Missouri has brought an action
against an election inspector to settle the ques-
ton of the constitutional right of women to
vote in that State.
A likeness of Thaddeus Stevens is to be
stamped on one denomination of the national
nickel coin.
What is considered first-class funeral can
not now be had in New York at less than $4,000
per corpse which, to most persons, must be
strong inducement, if not an absolute require
ment, to live on.
A Western man who has been living in
Gotham since the war, has just applied for di-
vorce from his sixth spouse. He has reason to
say, as he does that he has had 'badluck in
wives
A young man in Huntington, Long Island
having grossly insulted young lady, was tarred
and feathered few days since by party of
young men. Since the night of this occurrence
he has not been SEEM
The Navy Department advertises for sale by
auction, at New York. December 18th, the
Guerrero and Albany, two of the largest and
most useless vessels in the navy. Other sales
are expected to follow this until 5he depart
ment is relieved of the care of its surplus and
unserviceable property.
The government of Russia and of Spain have
instructed their representatives in Washington
to tender President Grant the official congratu-
lations of their home governments upon his re-
election and the emphatic approval by the peo-
pie of his administration