The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-18
News and Other Items.

ANOVc ahu O0uCl AtCuSs
The New York police are to have a flag of
honor for their bravery and discipline in the
riots of 1868 and 1871.
A superintendent of schools at Quincy was
recently thrashed $4,000 worth by public spir-
tied citizen. --,4-
Two men recently came from the Kentucky
woods and wanted to enlist in a Union regi-
ment not having heard that the war was over.
The "children's fund.-" collected under the
auspices of the New York Times, now amounts
is over $4,000.
Still Lfe"-The whisky manufacturing
business
Francis Train "literally tore the treaty of
Washington to pieces"
Napoleon Third is to have an honorary de-
gree from Oxford
Civilization advances. A negro named Mi
mott, member of the city council of Columbia.
5. o., is reported to have won $4,000 recently
from General w. j. Whipper, also negro, at
faro
One would think that edit tors were more nu-
merous than men of any other profession, judg-
ing from the number of editorial excursion =
that occnr.
The name of Brooks Crossing" has been
changed to Conway Junction on the Port.
land, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad.
The track of the Sugar River road is now
laid beyond the east line of Claremont, and the
last bridge is nearly completed
Judge Linton Stephens, a brother of Alexan-
der II. Stephens, for many years prominent in
the politics of Georgia. and a man of great abil-
lty in the legal profession, died of congestion
OF the brain, at Sparta, Ca, on Sunday
1t has been thought necessary in Pennsylva-
MA to get judicial decision that a woman NAV
buy sewing machine without asking her hus-
band s permission. One would suppose that it
depended solely upon whether she had the
money to pay for it.
AT the great fire in Alpena, Mich, Friday
night, three men and one woman were burned
to DEATH and two men were severely injured.
Three and half blocks of the business part of
the town were destroyed. The total loss is es-
timated at S18O,OOO; insurance $4,000.
The London Echo published private letter
Saturday, to the effect that the Pope, the LIST of
November last, All Saints Day, bestowed car
dinals' hats upon the Rev. Henry Edward Man
ming, Archbishop of London, the Archbishop
of Paris and the late Rev. Martin John Spald-
ing, who was at that time Archbishop of Bal
timore
The doctors of New York are ordering cider
as beverage suited to this tepd weather
Gentlemen whose pledge does not allow them
to drink cider as a general rule call for the
toothsome beverage under the name of 'iced
tea;' reminding one of Dave Crockett, who
said once in Congress-: "Mr. Speaker: Some
members of the House have lemonade, and it
is charged under the head of stationery. L
move that those who desire it shall order whis-
ky, and have it charged under the head of
fuel"
A negro in Savannah was imprisoned for five
days in the City Jail for stealing two quarts of
corn.
A careful estimate gives the peculiar infor-
nation that one person in every fifty of the
population of Massachusetts committed mat
rimony in 1870.
Three months at hard labor is the London
penalty for wfe-beating, because the wife had
not provided supper in time to suit the lazy
husband convenience
AN Irish paper publishes the following: ga
deaf man named Taft was run down and killed
pya passenger train on Wednesday morning.
lie was injured i'll similar way about a wear
ago. ''