The Portland daily press., 1872-07-19
News and Other Items.

Stokes Is said to have spent $500 on his trial
Newport calls it her hottest for fifty years.
Miss Stockwell bore away the honors of ora
tory at the Michigan University commence
ment.
The French band were received by 40, 900 Chi
cagoans upon their arrival at the Lake City.
Jay Cooke is said to have ''set up finan-
cially, no less than thirteen clergymen.,
Prominent merchants of Carthage, ILL.,, spend
their leisure playing marbles on the street.
A Cedar Falls Qowa) minister recently
preached in defence of croquet, from the text,
"And she took the male;.''
The New York Seventh Regiment spent one
hundred thousand dollars during its six days
encampment.
An Eastern firm makes $50 bushels of tooth
picks daily.
Joe Jefferson has already recovered the use
of his eyes. He is obliged to wear goggles dur
ing the daytime. .t....- ..sr -ssl
People in New Orleans rejoice that they have
escaped the terrible heat which has lately af-
fected the Atlantic cities.
The Grand Opera House at New York had
an unusual attraction the other night, being a
hand-to-hand combat upon the stage between a
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in there IA-t # 'Hf
In Baden and other German States, and in
several Swiss cantons, the law oblges person
to plant tree in place of every one cut for
timber or for other purposes
1t is an error to imagine that women talk
more than men, They're listened te-more-
that's ALL -i-'i-s
The butter market at ST. Adams, Vt, for the
week is firmer. Common to fair brings Is to IS
cents; medium to good, 20 to % cents; choice,
"a to 70 cents; selections, % cents. Cheese is
dull with no transactions. g.1.s s1T
Mrs. Lincoln widow of the President, has
presented to the State of Illinois very valua-
BILE oil portrait of the late Col. E. d. Baker, a
favorite son of Illinois. -... fp-
A street temperance speaker in Albany
clothes himself in a white gown reaching from
his neck to his feet, with sashes of red and blue
about his shoulders. fia'''
The sale of the Empress Eugenie's Jewels in
London Melted $4,000 Among the prices paid
for single articles were e166O for watch g215O
for pair of brooches, a3525 for another brooch.
e2625 for a tiara and 1926 for a pair of ear
rings.
The publication of the names of persons in
Liverpool who become intoxicated in public has
reduced the number of drunkards one third
during the past six months.
There are thirteen new mills building in Fall
River. $50. ---sss- a .4.
An Irish editor says he can see no earthly
reason why women should not be allowed to be-
come medical men. s
The curious paragraphist of the indianapolis
Journal asks, "Why so much talk about the
sage of Chappaqua? Does it differ materially
from the sage raised elsewhere?"
1t is announced that President Theirs in his
Forthcoming message to the Assembly will re-
quest that body to take measures for a defini-
tive establishment of the republic.
Paying your water rate-buying milk.
Why is love like Scotch plaid? Because it
is all stuff and often crossed
The youth who would have will of his own
has been struck out of ahat of his father
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald remarks: ''Farm
help is very scarce and wages high. Were it
not for the improved implements no firm could
pay its running expenses and support family.
Kansas Democratic editor, when he heard
of Greeley's nomination, very sensibly gave up
his paper, got married and went to work in his
father-in-law's saw mill.
Colonel Tennie G. Clafin will petition Gov.
Hoffman of New York, for commission as
colonel of the S5th Regiment. yT-sa
The shoe manufacturers of Lynn gave the
boot and shoe sealers of the country recep-
ton at the Maolis Garden at Nahant. Thurs
day. aa.- la.Hlr-is-s.E .rc-s g g.l4E
The aeriel travellers in Prof. Kings balloon
tbatt a tI,n -, ,I,o
was distinctly visable to them while they were
passing over the sea- and that the abundant
growth of seaweed caused the vessels to appear
as if sailing in field of grass, while the yachts
looked like white mice sporting ON grassy
lawn.
The Post asks, ''Will the day come in Hart
ford, when a central bakery will be opened
where one can send dinner for cooking, and
have.it returned all ready for the table? In
these doggish days a fire in many houses is in
tolerable. If housewife could prepare a din
ner and send it out to an oven, she might get
along with half her present help % -,
A suburban gentleman having expressed a
willingness to give the use of his field to ball
practice, was invited to witness the game by
the grateful club on Saturday, and in turn the
club was invited to attend his funeral in body
on Monday. As the widow truthfully observed
none of 'em could have known that the bat
would slip as it did, -h"
The United States Marshal of Rhode Island
claims the custody of the Cuban privateer Pho
neer, now at Newport under a libel for viola-
tion of the neutrality laws. Collector Macy
OF Newport holds her at present under the Rev.
enue laws as an American vessel, she having
taken out register in March last at New York,
whence she sailed under the name of Resolnte