The Portland daily press., 1872-05-14
News Items by Mail.

Tom Scott, President of the PENNSYLVANIA
Central Railroad, is also President of twenty
six other railroads He controls seven thous-
and miles of railroad, and credits to his salary
account $4,000 per annum He began rail-
reading as brakeman.
Mosby SAYS at last that he will continue a
Democrat as he always has been one. sd.
The Boston train for Bangor Monday had
YESTERDAYS brake attached 1t proved per-
feet success the engineer having the whole
train completely under his control, the brake
men stating that their services were not needed
between Boston and Portsmouth.
The Cleveland Leader thinks it has got poetry
enough on hand to last till next fall but if the
spring is backward, and the fires have to be
kept up, it will probably need more.
Ex-Governor Curtin's friends deny that any
body had authority to say he favored the Gin
cinnati movement.
The spotted fever is now known as the Dolly
Warden meningitis. .
A terrible fire has destroyed large tracts of
timber and forests at Lehigh ON the Delaware
Lackawana and Western railroad.
There were more fires the last week in New
York than has been known for year past and
the aggregate loss is estimated at So 600 600
The New York World Classics it's Democratic
exchanges thus: In favor of straight-out
Democratic ticket, A; in favor of awaiting the
action of the Democratic Convention, So; in
favor of the Cincinnati nominees, 20.
In Oatka Falls, Kansas, the farmers wives
have organized a club, and meet regularly at
one another's houses, and discuss various topics
relating to domestic economy.
Mr. Lincoln had favorite maxim, which
run in this wise: Craftsmanship consists
chiefly in controlling the average WEAKNESSES of
men for the advancement of the public good."
A California lunatic fancies that he is the
original Abraham. Recently, he carried a
sheep to one of the highest hills near San
Francisco and sacrificed it on an altar of stones
and earth.
You can beat your wife in Paducah, KY, for
ten dollars.
Hammocks are coming into general use in
New York houses, instead of beds.
A Cincinnati man is searching through the
West for runaway wife and $4,000 in bonds
which she Took especially the bonds.
Two mild housewives of Allegheny, Pa. en-
tered a saloon where their spouses were carous-
ing, and delivered a temperance lecture unto
them with cowhides.
America is threatened with a wholesale
irruption of immigrants from Russia The
Mennonite Colonies, which are situated in the
southern part of that country, near Berdiansk,
numbering some AZ, 900 souls at least, and esti-
mated at more than twice that, propose NOV
ing in a body either to the United States or to
Canada, in order to escape from the obligations
of military service, which is contrary to their
religious belief. t
Mrs. E. A. Pollard who can't agree with her
husband and whose husband quarrels with
everybody, has just been restrained in Wash
ington in her purpose to shoot Mr.. Lyons.
The boast of Mr.. Greeley's friends that he
has so great strength in the South does not
seem to have any sure foundation in fact
The Louisiana delegation will certainly be
against him, and Gov. Walker of Virginia has
pronounced against him.
A prominent man and physician of SWilmot
N. H., has eloped with the wife of Ia respecta-
BILE farmer. Both leave families aud the doc
tor left his without much money though quite
wealthy