The Portland daily press., 1872-07-24
News and Other Items.

The report that A. T. Stewart of New York
had given 1000 to the Greeley campaign fund
is pronounced falsehood in New York.
Horace Greeley has been made life member
of the American Missionary Association
1t is noticeable fact that the campaign
songs of the Zebra party are almost entirely set
to rebel music. -s .,,.--..,---- s-7-..
Senator Sumner has taken quarters at tn e
White Sulphur Springs, Va.
A New Yorker calls the Boston swell fronts
"chicken-breasted houses
That jubilee deficit is on the gain, and is now
reported at 100000.
"A rifle company-a gang of thieves.-N. o.
Times. Ls."-.
st. Louis's grain receipts for the past six
months exceed those of the same time in the
year previous by 100000 bushels. ...
The Chicago Post is the reputed author of the
rumor that ''Brick'' Pomeroy will accept po-
sition on the editorial staff of the New York
Tribune. ..-...a5
Another British steamship company, to run
vessels between England and America, has
been formed, with capital of $4,000, 900.
All the prizes at the recent commencement
of the Chicago high school were taken by the
girls. .s-
Nothing but rough board at the head and
cedar bush at the foot, marks Gen. Magruder s
grave at Houston, Tex.
A Troy doctor who entrusted his horse to a
juvenile Hebrew, while he made call, found
him giving the boys rides round the block at a
penny head, when he came out.
Mrs Medley, Schuylkill county lady, swept
out her room, and while sweeping found box
of powder. As she didn't want the dirty black
sand she threw it into the fire. Mrs. Neeley
was picked up in fragments, and Mr.. Neeley
needs new roof on his house.
A correspondent of the Boston Traveller TIM.
asks and answers the question: "Why is Mr..
Greeley's likeness placed on fans?' because
he can be used to blow from any drection-he
is Boreas, alias Auster, alias Zephyr, alias
Eurus-'Vichever you please; you pays your
money and takes your chice.'"
j. w. Watson, an express messenger from
Concord, n H., to st. Adams, VT, fell dead
from bis chair just after supper, Sunday even
ing. He served honorably for three years in
the army, AID was wounded in one of the early
Virginia battles.
The Congregational church at Beckett Center.
Mass, is supported by fund, the principal of
which is invested in Kansas at 80 per cent. per
annum. One of the deacons, now nearly SO
years old, has missed hardly Sabbath service
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Augustus Shaw, of East Andover, N H., has
this year raised from ninety sheep of the COM
mon mixed breed, eighty-seven lambs, already
sold for $3.50 each, and the clip of wool at the
market price is enough to raise the income
from each sheep to Sc.
Alderman McMullen, who was shot in Phila-
delphia Monday night, is better, and there are
hopes of his recovery.
The terms of the lease of the Missouri Pecific
railroad to the Atlantic and Paciyc railroad are
ten per cent dividends on the present stock.
S3, 100000 for three years; u per cent for two
years and aud IA per cent for ninety-nine years,
Rio Janeiro advices say that the ironclad for
which the Argentine government voted $4,000
has been ordered from the United States. Large
quantities of arms are arrivins and other pre-
partitions are being made for war.
The first bale of cotton arrived at New York
Monday from Galveston.