The Portland daily press., 1872-05-01
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Vermont farmers complain of a scarcity of
good farm hands.
Connecticut will cultivate more tobacco this
year than ever before.
A fire broke out at O clock Tuesday morn
ing in the car house of the Worcester & Nashua
railroad Company, at Nashua, which building
With the contents, consisting of a train of cars
snow plough, &C., was totally destroyed Wa
Ter was scarce, and the rolling mill of the
Nashua Iron and Steel Company took fire from
the heat and was also burned to the ground
small portion of the machinery was saved, but
the loss is very heavy, estimated at $4,000 or
S5O,OO0. 1t is said to be insured for $4,000
The loss of the railroad company is not learned
North Carolina paper of Democratic ten
denotes rejoces that Gen. Ransom has been adj
mitted to seat in the United States Senate,
because he "can speak eloquently and ably in
our behalf wheu assailed by harpies and carton
crows t aI -v --t@-
The New York Herald suggests that the head
officials of the State of Missouri suspend Pres
ident-mak!ng for a little while and try their
hands at suppressing the horrible lawlessness
mat exists in the western part of the State.
The recent bloody disturbances there msv he a
nut Tor the Cincinnati Convention to crack.
Win Gratz Brown for the cracker. 30
Canadian papers say that the emigration of
the French Canadians to the United States from
the townships is assuming larger promotions
than ever. Since January, 1871. no less than
126 families have left the parish of Somerset
alone, which is said to be rich parish, and the
emigration is largely composed of well-to-do
farmers. E@7s e
The New York Standard is soon to be diseon
tinued, the enterprise proving very losing one.
In two years it has sunk $4,000
An exchange is firmly of the opinion that the
search after the North Pole is one that will
not be abandoned" And it ought not to be-
There are some lunatics whom it would be inn
possible lawfully to get rid of in any other
way 500
An Iowa woman the other day drowned her
infant in barrel, ond then leaning over held
her own head in the water until life was ex
tinct Her husband found her in that nos;tion
and Immediately became crazy and still re-
mains so. FFt- 81
Memorial day will be observed throughout
the country more generally than ever before
the coming SOth of May
The other Sunday some Philadephians to prove
that liquor could be bought at bars in that city,
on that day, undertook to drink at every place
that they could find open. At five o'clock in
the afternoon they brought up at the station
house.
The revised census of London shows popu-
lation of 1926, 26O In the most densely popu-
lated section, the Berwick sub-district of West
minister, there are 400 persons to the acre.
There would appear to be room in St John,
N. b., for some of the clerks with whom Bos-
ton, New York and other cities are over-crowd-
ed. A dry goods firm in that city who adver-
Used for a clerk the other day, received only
one application, and that from one unacquaint-
ed with the business. ..fli.
Quebec permits cock fights on Sunday.
Gen. Negley's bill, introduced into the House
Monday, proposes to pay certain Western rail-
roads the difference between two cents mile
and the regular tariff rates for soldiers during
the war. Two cents mile was enough for
transporting men in cattle cars 1t woald cost.
it is said, one hundred million dollars to carry
out the measure:
Philadelphia is to have an academy of fine
arts the building will be begun to-day The
cost will be 100000 of which sum $23O,OO0 has
been raised.
The trial of Scott and Chest, the alleged
Windsor Locks commenced i'm Hartfor, yester-
day.