The Portland daily press., 1872-10-21
News and Other Items.

A passionate Iowa woman, at the close of a
trial in which she was interested, horsewhip-
ped witness who failed to testify in accord
ance witch her wish.
A Hartford man is showing the people what
some kinds of wall paper are composed Of
One handsome green sample he examined con-
tanned in each square foot at least five grains
of arsenic, enough to kill two men.
Robert Dale Owen suggests that the word
translated veal" in our version of the Bible,
means but month, so that Methuselah instead
Of being 969, was but eighty years old There
upon, Edwin P. Whipple replies lin the Boston
Globe that this theory makes Shem father at
the tender age of s, and Nabor a grandf ther
twcnty-nine months from his birth. Mr.. Owen
will probably withdraw his suggestion
The twenty-first report of the inspection of
Lunacy," shows that insanity is alarmingly on
the increase in Ireland. In 1916 the rate was
66l sane persons to one insane; in 1871 the rate
was 300 to one, showing that not only the num-
erical increase was large, but relatively it had
doubled in the last twenty-five years.
Oregon proposes to dispense with grand juries
There has been considerable dissatisfaction
with this system of Indictment, especially
throughout the West, but no effective substi-
tutes seems yet to have been devised.
1t is stated that the health of Lord Chief Jus.
tice Cockburn of England suffered considera-
bly, by his labors at Geneva His reputation
has suffered still more by the publication of his
attacks upon his associates in the tribunal.
Henry A. Armstrong of Madison, Ind, ap-
priately shot himself after having severely
beaten his wife Thursday night.
A Washington despatch says that the coal
famine in England is creating demand for the
bituminous coal of tho Maryland district
Horace b. Claflin, the New York dry goods
prince once insisted on paying $4,000 revenue
tax in addition to the regular assessment, be-
leving that amount was honestly due the gov
eminent.
Returns of registration in Missouri show an
increase of nearly one-half over 1870. The
total vote will hardly be less than $50, OOO 1t
is favorable to the Republicans that fully two |
thirds of the increase in immigration is Repub- |
lican.
The Baltimore american says that A. X. Nc
Clure, the Liberal leader in Pennsylvania, is
is among politicians what Harry Bassctt is
among horses-full of pluck so long as he is in
The advance, but wretched potroon when out
stripped in the race.
Hon. Henry Wilson has been visiting his old
friend Gen. William Schouler, who is danger
,usly ill at West Roxbury, Mass.
Gen. Butler, in card to the Boston Traveller.
lenies that he ever said to any one that things
ook bad flor Grant, in the West
Mayor Medill of Chicago, has proclaimed
gainst Spirtualistic exhibitions and LIQUOR
cling on Sundays. He says liquor dealers
must go to church and Spirtualists must pay
cense.
Mrs. Richard Stanley, now living in West
'irginia has had IA childoen, 80 grandchildren
nd 223 great and great-great grandchildren
,tal progeny 336-with returns from the back
WINS not yet all in.
Track laying on the Dakota division of the ,
orthern Pacific Railroad is progressing at the 7
tie of three miles per day. a
A can torpedo was exploded at Newport, r
Friday, containing one hundred pounds of
tro- glycerine, fired by electricity The can
as placed under raft, aud the explosion was
olent in the extreme, raising the raft bodily il