The Portland daily press., 1872-12-06

put III an appearance at w ashihgtoh' Iue I
work of laying the tube has been commenced, |
and it will be completed in about month.
In three of thu New England States Rhode
Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, usury
laws are abolished, while in the remainder the
rate has remained for half century at a uni
form standard, which is less than the present
rate of the Bank of England
Fred Douglass is the electoral messenger of
New York TO carry the certificates to Wash
ington.
The Standard says Grants vote is not so big
as in 1868. Well, let's not talk about that-it
was Digh enough this year.-Gdrdiner Journal
Springfield and Hartford chess-players are
having tournament by telegraph.
California has another murderess to dea
with. Mrs. Eishler at Marsh Creek, killed her
husband, an old man, in most brutal manner,
striking him from behind with heavy axe,
and crushing his skull beyond all semblance to
humanity.
An exchange assumes that the people are in
favor of the one term amendment to the Con-
stitution, and the increase of the Presidential
salary to $4,000 per annum, and life annuity
of $4,000 per annum.
The workmen at the east end of the Hoosac
Tunnel advanced las feet westward in Novem-
Der, while the progress from the central shaft
was 14S feet, leaving only 1913 feet to be bored
before the two headings meet.
The american Grocer says the packers Of
canned goods, like peaches, pears, tomatoes, ETC.,
have tried to cheat by short weight this year
more extensively than ever before. AS usual
thing, the so-called two pound cans weigh about
pound and qnarter can ard all. When buy
ing canned fruits it will be well enough to ask
your grocer to put the cans on the scales.
The appointment of the Hon. Charles Fran
els Adams as Secretary of State, on the retire
ment of Mr. Fish, has been urged upon the
Presidents attention by persons high in his
! confidence.
COL Robert NJ. Douglas, son of the Little
| Giant, has returned from political campaign
in North Carolina, and resumed his duties as
private Secretary to the President.
George g. Cannon, who has dozen wives or
more in Utah, is going to Washington as ter
ritorial delegate, and if he brings his family he
will require galaxy of asterisks in the Con-
gressional Dictionary.
Wyandotte, Mich, is without Mayor. He
did not die, bat he did worse, having runaway
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dren behind him.
A circular issued by the Rev. DR.. Wines, an
nounces that the National Prison Association
of the United States will hold its second annual
meeting at Baltimore, Md, commencing on the
evening of Tuesday, Jan. q, 1873.
Georgia has her first snow for ten years.
Some of the Wisconsin farmers have to drive
their cattle five miles to water.
Gen. Hood is selling drugs in Georgia. He
ought to have a stock on hand, for "Pap'
Thomas gave him an invoice of bitter pills at
Nashville, Tenn.
A poor man who hanged himself owing to
domestic affection occasioned by his wife. ia
thus disposed of out VEST "Henry Lyman,
shoemaker, Terre Haute-bed cord. Jealousy
A Iemorseful man in Troy, N. Y, lately left
while on his death bed $4,000 to woman
whom he had Tilted numberof years before.
Michigan isreviving through her borders the
old-fashioned spelling schools, to counterfeit
the decline in matrimony.
The Montreal Gazette says of the confer
ences going on in that city with regard to the
question of domestic service, that "there is ap-
parently good promise of a satisfactory practi-
! cal result, equally in the interest of both mis-
trssses and servants
Mr.. A. ii. Stephens can walk only with the
aid of pair of crutches and servant, and
does not leave his house except on pleasant
days
A Mrs. Day, of Springfield, Illinois, lately
gave birth to bankruptcies. The bsreaved father
says Shakespeare was quite right when he said
we do not know what a day may bring forth -
The condition of George Macdonald is still
critical, though not altogether alarming. He
has had no fresh attack of bleeding at the
lungs, but is quite weak. He is at Dover, n.
| j., with friends.
The Boston Herald tells of man who was
recently arrested for chasing females in Nep-
tune street, attired in his SHIRT" If he had
not lent them the garment, it would seem as if
he had right to attempt its recovery when he
saw them in it, But the law has its peculiari-
ties.
Marye' flights, near Fredericksburg, Va,
comprising $50 acres, and the scene of num-
Der of fights, is offered for sale,
A statue of Chief Justice fancy is shortly to
be dedicated with impressive ceremonies at
| Annapolis, Md.
| Mr.. George F. Miller, one eff Prof. Tyndalps
assistants, died in Philadelphia Saturday of
typhoid fever, at the age OF twenty years.
Gen. Loomis of Michigan, who died in an in
sane asylum at Washington, and was buried in
the potters field has at last had decent burial
with military honors at Detroit. Funds for the
purpose were collected in Detroit, the body
was exhumed at Washington, and after laying
ten days in the New York morgue,was forward
ed to Detroit.