The Portland daily press., 1872-02-17
Clippings.

An exchange says: amidst the immense
amount of nonsense. that distinguishes what
is called the labor movement, exploded views
ofpolitical economy, the turgid orations of men
who never did a weeks labor in all their use
less lives, and solemn resolutions that water
shall emade to run up hill, there is one gleam
of common sene and sound philosophy: the
indorsement Of the cooperative system"
Dubuque, Ia, claims absolute independ-
ence of the state of Iowa. Her municipal
charter was granted before Iowa was a state,
and is claimed to be outside the province of
state law or amendment Among the powers
OF the citycouncil. conferred by charter, is that
of granting licenses for the sale of louor
Does the prohibitory law take away this pow
er? II it does, it is an amendment to the city
charter of Dubuque-an amendment which,
the courts say, the Legislature cannot make.
st Petersburg is said to be gossping about
the rumor that the Grand Duke Alexis has
married in America Mile Jonkofsky the maid
of honor to whom he has been attacehd for a
long time, and who was banished to Switzer-
land on his account. The on dit is that the
young lady managed to join him in America,
and that the other day the giand duke an
nounced to theminister and to the admiral
that he was married, to the utter despair of
both gentlemen, who will probably have to do
penance in Siberia for not looking more sharp
ly after Interchange.
The following touching incident is from
writer in the Deposit Courier: A poor Ger
man emigrant woman found dead baby at
her breast when the train arrived at this de-
pot on Saturday morning. Her cries were
most piteous, and melted many hard heart
to pity. She was a stranger in a strange land,
without knowledge of its language. No IA
miliar face was near her; and no one came
near her to soften her deep and heavy grief.
With true maternal love, she tenderly covered
the little one with her cloak, clasped it tight
ly, and held it close until she arrived at Bing-
hamton, her destination.
Mrs. Mary j. Walker, of Michigan, has
mulcted the Chicago Times of 81, 500 for libel
Her husband had drank himself to death, and
the Times in reporting it, gave as the cause
the infidelity of his wife, deriving its informa-
ton from the testimony before the coroner's
jury. When convinced of its error it promis-
ed to publish retraction the next day,
which was Sunday. The retraction came
out, therefore, in the Sunday edition, which
had only limited and local circulation. The
court ruled in her favor on all these points.
"A Paris correspondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette says: 1.-The misery which reigns
among the families of the Communists who
were shot or who are in prison is heartrend-
ing, and there is great difficulty in alleyiat-
ing the sufferngs of these unfortunate wo-
men and children, many of whom are inno-
cent of all participation in the recent revolu-
tion bv either word or deed. Charitable for
eigners encounter serious obstacles in their
efforts to relieve distress. heard this morn
ing of gentleman finding sixteen children
and three women in a hovel at Belleville,
with only one dish, and nothing to put on it
till he gave them money sent from England
and America"
Miss Lydia Becker has systematized the
woman suffrage movement in England to an
extent that shortens by considerable the ''sub-
lection of woman" She has divided all
England into districts, with committees in
each district, charged with holding monthly
meetings and visiting every house. The local
press is to be controlled; candidates for Par
lament are to be made to declare themselves
unequivocally; time and money are to be
spent without limit. The plan is perfect.
IF Miss Becker lives" writes an uneasy
man, ''these reforms are sure to come"
james F. Kelley, recorder of Cohoes, n.
Y. paws for three OF five sittings in pew at
st. Bernards church, while the other two
sittings belong to another man, who was in
the pew, Sunday morning, when Kelley and
four friends entered the church. Kelley or
dered to occupant to get out, and upon his
refusal, tried to eject him by force Failing
in that, he issued warrant in his own name
and had the offending member arrested.
Having accomplished his purpose, Kelley pro-
posed to drop the matter, but has been ar
rested for assault and battery and false im-
prisonment.