The Portland daily press., 1872-07-12
News and other Items.

The Connecticut Legislature has passed law
making education compulsory.
The English stockholders of Erie have elect
cd their ticket without opposition.
1t is considered certain that Stokes will not
be convicted.
Libbie Garrabrant's sentence has finally been
committed to imprisonment for life.
And now the negroes are attacked with jeal-
ousy. One of this race at picnic in the vicin-
ity of Washington almost cut to mince meat a
rival who was endeavorng to supplant him in
the affections of Miss Jennie Sumner.
1t is said the ex-Confederates Gems. Imboden,
Gordon, Withers and others arranged in Ba lii
more Wednesday with ex-Gens. Fitzpatrick and
Slocum for grand reunion in New York in
September of the officers of the two armies, to
bury old recollections and clasp hands for unity
and harmony in the future.
The Illinois penitentiary is on paying basis.
Cholera has made its appearance ON Long
Island.
w. J. Fleming, temporary lessee of the st.
James Theatre, Boston, has disappeared, ow-
ing his actors $500.
Boston family boasts servant whose
term of service has lasted forty years.
The temperance people of Chicago, with
view to the enforcement of the liquor law, have
organized a secret smelling committee of fifty.
A Tennessee girl broke an arm on the
eve of her wedding day, but pluckily went
through the ceremony with her arm in a sling
at the appointed hour.
Boston distributed 1,19O diplomas to the pu-
pills in the public schools last week.
From an acre planted to peanuts any indus
trious North Carolina farmer can make seven
hundred dollars.
A gentleman writes to New York paper to
say that he was cured of dyspepsia by the mod
crate use of tobacco.
The Shaker society of Mercer county, KY,
sent steamboat load of preserves to New Or
leans, and lost sixty thousand dollars by the
speculation.
Gen Mcclellan was not at Baltimore He
intended to go, but, as usual, he couldn't get
ready in time.
Gen. Joseph Lane writes to friend from his
ranch in Oregon that he is robust and healthy,
although over seventy years of age, and that
his children, grandchildren and great-grand-
children are well and doing WELL
The Post Office Department will not have
postal cards ready for distribution for at least a
month. They will be furnished by contract,
and advertisements for proposals will be issued
by the Department next week.
Somebody has been fooliug the Overland
Monthly with ar original article from McCau-
ley's history.
A Detroit Sunday-school boy got silver ring
and a nice case of brain fever by memorizing
14OO verses of scripture.
Four hundred and forty-six Mormons have
arrived in New York from Europe, en- route for
Salt Lake. Six Mormon missionaries accom-
panied them across the ocean.
John B. johnson, of Meriden, Conn, quar-
relied with his landlady, Mrs Herr, on Monday,
stabbed her in the neck and ran to the woods.
She died iu the evening, and johnson was
caught. He acknowledges the crime
The grave of Little Turtle, one of the most
formidable chiefs that "Mad Anthony had to
contend with, eighty years ago or more, has
been fotind in one of the streets of Peoria, Ill.
The excitement at Berlin over the increase of
emigration to America, gives reason to suppose
that measures will be taken to stop the deple-
ton of available Germans.
Mrs Kindred, mother of the family.t that first
settled in Washington Territory, has departed
this life from old age, and gone to ''Kindred
joys above"
The Democratic papers are speaking of the
Greeley undercurrent.'' The term is felici-
tous; Horace is being sucked in.-Toledo Blade.
A man was recently murdered in Le.ven-
WORTH Kan and, to avert suspicion, his body
was placed on railroad track, where it was
run over by half dozen trains before discov-
cred.
George, asked the teacher of a Sunday
class, who above all others shall you wish to
see first when you get to heaven? With face
frightening up with anticipation, the little fell
low shouted, Gerliah!
Strauss is said to be worth nearly million
dollars.
Mr.. John Gilbert, the actor, is at the White
Mountains.
Nearly 1000 pounds of ice were thrown into
the fountain of the New York gold room on
Tuesday last 1t didn't cool the air, however,
and the brokers amused themselves by chip
ping off small chunks of ice and dropping them
down the backs of each others necks.
A farmer of the vicinity of indianapolis a
few years ago sold his farm for $4,000 and went
West to grow up with the country. Recently
he was in that city seeking employment at $50
month, while the ground that used to be his