The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
. News and Other Items.

The Eastern Railroad Co. will declare semi
annual dividend of per cent Jan.-1st.
May Atkins, of Eureka, Wis, suieded be-
cause too sick to attend a candy pull with her
beau.
1t transpires that the claims for damages by
the Alabama and confederate cruisers will not
exceed $4,OOO.OO0. Tho balance of the Geneva
award will go to the benefit of the treasury of
the United States.
Now John Mitchell has taken to belaboring all
that remains of Mr.. Froude. This is the only
fact that we have seen favorable to the English
historian Mitchell is killer of his own cause
A woman in Mazeppa, Mimi, won a hum
bred dollar wager, recently, by eating five
quarts of oysters in fifteen minutes.
An East Saginaw, Mich, Lothario has twice
stolen away the wife of another man and as of
ten been arrested and punished He has now
ventured the third time and the long suffering
husband says let ergo"
The people of the Middle States will take adj
vantage of the present cold snap, to gather
their ice-crop 1t will interfere sadly with the
prospects of our Maine ice gatherers
Springfield is nowhere near so particular
about her public morals as Boston. In that
city of guns and railway cars, Mrs Woodruff
was permitted to pronounce her lecture on Jail
life to the people in public hall, the other eve
ming.
Two more cadets have been dismissed from
the Naval Academy for being concerned in the
hazing of the colored cadet. One was from
Michigan the other from Massachusetts,. Other
suspensions will be made if the ndignities to
the cOlored students are continued
Nobody ever stands in the horse cars at Leav-
enworth, Kan. When a gentleman enters
car the nearest young lady rises and offers him
her seat. She then sits in his lap, and both
are satisfied.
revival meeting was held Christmas even
ing at Kit Burns rat pit in Water street, New
York. 1t was conducted by prominent mem
bers of Methodist churches of the city, who
nope to continue the meetings aud do much
good thereby.
1t is said that the famous Gratz Brown 'stag''
which formed so prominent feature of Nast's
cartoons during the last campaign, and which
rendered entirely superfluous any deneation
of Gratz himself was the result of an accident
When Mast made his first cartoon of the Gin
cinnati sConvention, and the workmen were
waiting for it, he discovered that while he had
sketched every other person of prominence he
had left out entirely the would-be "Vice." He
had no likeness of Gratz at hand; so in sheer
desperation he drew the card and attached it to
Mr.. Greeley's coat tail
The Portsmouth Times says that fishermen
about there have not been very successful thus
for this winter. They find the fish exceeding
scarce, and the prices very low.
Dollie Bidwell, the actress, is quite seriously
i'll at Portsmouth, n. H. When playing the
French Spy at Rochester, n Y ), some weeks
since, she received wound in the arm while
fencing with some careless bungler 1t appar-
emily healed, and she afterwards filled an en-
at st. John. The wound in the arm
has broken out afresh, combining her to the
house.
During November the Royal National Life
boat Association saved in Great Britain 165
lives and seven vessels
Mrs. Julia w. Hunt is before the courts of
San Francisco pleading for divorce from her
husband, Oliver D. Hunt, brother of Laura d. |
Fair.
They have compulsory education in Texas |
The law requires that all persons under the age !