The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-28
News and Other Items.

Alfred Wilt, the newly elected Mayor CT
New Orleans, is Democrat, a creole, and only
twenty-six years of age.
| Mosby of guerrilla fame is seeking a con-
| tract to furnish headstones for the graves of
| Union soldiers buried in the sacred soil of the
Old Dominion.
Catherine Cannon of Taunton who was
found dead under suspicious circumstances
has been found to have died from intemper-
ance, post mortea disclosing the fact that the
heart liver and brain, and in fact The whole sys-
tenn were completely destroyed by liquors; the
heart and liver were perfect honeycombs COM
pletely eaten to pieces by the liquors which had
been taken.
Rev. Josiah Brewer, one of this older of
American missionaries who went to Smyrna in
1880, died at Stockbridge, Mass, last week
The French spoliation claims are to be
pressed in both houses of Congress at the ap-
preaching session
children. %
Catacazy's former residence in Washington is
now used as fashionable boarding house.
Two Baltimore girls lately INDUCED in prize
fight. AS both drew little nasal claret it was
called sdraw'' battle,
A Wisconsin man who bet his brewery, house
and farm on the election, has just moved out
according to agreement.
The further South, the better they sspan out"
There are two men living at PARA in South
America, aged 100 and 121 years. who work
daily on their farms with great-great-grand-
children.
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been fall in real estate of from Is to 25 per
cent owing to changing the principal works
of the Intercolonial Railway from that city to
Moncton, N. B.
An effort is making to unite Denmark, Swe-
den and Norway under one common head. The
people of those countries favor the project. and
it is also supported by the King of Denmark
and the ruler of Sweden and Norway
There seems to be an unusual amount of row.
dyism in St John, n. B.. The NeaUS gives an
account of the assault of a countryman last
Sunday by band of rowdies called the ''Buck-
cts" He was pursued through the streets with
missiles, and at length took refuge at the police
headquarters. A large crowd of people follow
ed as spectators of this Sunday amusement
Mr.. Gushing gets three million feet of lum-
Der and and ten tons of nails in his coliseum
purchase.
Jay Gould estimates that the flats lost $780,
100000 in the Northwestern furry.
We wish it might be terrible warning, but
it won't. We mean the fact that child in
Wisconsin was lately choked to death by
peanut shell.
The best fashion articles that appear in Paris
are written by male clerk in the office of the
Chief of Police.
The St. .Albans butter market was dull on
Tuesday, with sales at 20 to SO cents.
A Boston paper says that bricks have ad-
vanced fifteen to twenty per cent. since the file,
and the dealers are now asking $1S per thou
sand.
1t is understood that the administration
strongly disapproves arrests made in the South
by United Marshals for political purposes, and
that the interference by United States officials
in the interest of Senatorial candidates with
the Florida State Board of Canvassers will not
be tolerated.
Hon. John P. Hale instead of Throwing the
first dirt at the opening of the Portsmouth
and Dover Railroad, has not been out of his
room since the 9Th inst when he rode to the
polls and voted for Grant.
1t has been recently brought to light that
Stonewall Jackson was a believer in astrology.
and more than ten years before his death had
calculated for himself horoscope, which was
fulfilled in May, 1868, by his fall at Chancel-
louisville.
The Constitutional amendments voted upon in
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, appear to
have been rejected. Michigan refuses to pay
her Judges better salaries (now $1,000 to S150O)
or even to have fewer Judges; Wisconsin re-
fuses to add two Justices to her Supreme Court;
and Minnesota refuses to appropriate $3.50, 900
for better pnblic buildings.