The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-22
News and other Items.

When the bears of South Carolina haven't
anything else to hug they thug the confines
of civilization"
Mrs. Victoria Demosthenes Woodruff, dis
gusted with her Presidential prospects, has
gone off to England in huff. The English
people are to be commiserated
Well hear more about those New Yerk
swells. A town in Georgia has just shipped
1000 bushels of dried apples to the metropolis.
Grace Greenwood liked the sensation Of feel
ing a stirrup under each foot SO well that she
will visit Colorado again this season.
The young white specimen of chivalry who
induced the Savannah street-car trouble by sit
ting down in q colored woman's lap, has
been unanimously elected president of the
young Mems Greeley Club" ,-
A Boston man has statue of the mother of
Noses, who, it will be remembered left him in
the bulrushes without a bottle-and it is said
to have modern chignon.
The new licensing law in England has
caused slight disturbances in some towns, the
publicans rebelling against the early closing of
their establishments.
The longshoremen on strike in Brooklyn
have become so riotous that the grain eleva-
tors whore non-society men are at work are
protected by police against attack.
Daniel S. Perkins, Boston broker, has been
held to bail at Nashua, N. H., charged with is
suing bogus mileage tickets ON the Boston,
Lowell and Nashua railroad.
They allpde to bald headed men in Colorado
as persons with their heads above the timber
line.''
An lilinoisan recently committed suicide at
the age of 1O3, having lost all hope of dying
natural death.
An improvement on thes Cardiff Giant has
been invented in Iowa in the shape of q petri-
fed buffalo. found standing and in the act
of eating"
Miss Jex Blake and her young lady friends
have obtained q judicial decision affirming their
right to attend the lectures at the University of
Edinburgh.
Mosby has accepted the challenge of prom
inent Greeleyite in Virginia to discuss the cam
paign issues with him.
A Saratoga special says that many eyes were
dmmed with tears when the impeachment
vote was being taken. Barnard's successor can
not be elected until next year and the tempo
rary appointment will <hold until January 1,
Mace and O'Baldwin left New York Monday
night for some unknown place to fight Their
referees have not left yet and the fight will not
come off for day or two. 1t is believed it will
be in the vicinity of Niagara Falls on the Cam
ada side.
Samuel Laird, proprietor of the Mansion
House and the United States Hotel, died at
Long Branch Monday aged S.
Five hundred manufacturers are represented
at the Newark, New Jersey, Exposition which
opened Tuesdays
G. Smith alias Dingivel, a noted New York
burglar, has just been arrested after serving
out sentence, by Newark Detectives for max
ing murderous attack on Mr.. Slocom.
Prince Augustus of SAKE Coburg, husband
OF the Princess Imperial Leopaldns of Brazil
arrived in New York Tuesday on q pleasure
tour with six attendants
The Board of Assistant Aldermen of New
York have refused to allow sacred concerts in
Central Park on Sunday.
Two husbands in Fifteenth street. New York,
Monday took up quarrel begun tby their
wives, and Henry Shalffer was fatally stabbed
by the other named John Abel
Rev. DIR. Thomas E. Bond of the Methodist
Church South, for long time connected with
the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist Church and
recently editorial writer for the ST. I,ous Chris
tan Advocate, died Monday in HaI FORD county,
Maryland, aged SO.
Manuel X. Sylvia, Portuguese sailor charged
with murder of Charles Marshal fellow sea-
man on board the whaling bark Europa, was
arranged in the U. s. Court in Boston Tuesday
and committed for trial
A son of the late Mai. Sabine Emery of
Passport, aged about ten years was drowned at
Wa4erville on Tuesday.