The Portland daily press., 1872-06-05
News and Other Items.

Woonsocket, R. l., contains five times as
many women as men.
The n. Y. Evening Post thinks Mr.. Summers
speech the weakest he ever made.
The Sacramento Union thinks the total wool
clip of California for 1872 will be between g.
100000 and Is, 600 pounds. o"f8 a4s
A man was fined $50 and costs lately at Rox
bury, for beating pair of overburdened horses
with crowbar. r-r.-lful
A lady in Cannelton county, Ind, lately rode
into town the wife of one man, and rode back
home the wife of another. She was divorced,
received license, and married while in town.
A young lady in New Hampshire has just Sc
cured g position as school teacher upon the
following certificate: 'This is to certify that
lamar Noyes stands on medium with other
girls of her age and sex, and, for what [ know,
is as good as folks in general
The Chicago Post says: If the young woman
who sends us the poem-sling on Spring will
communicate her address, she will be exposed.
A bachelor friepd says he hates this idea of
naming everything after young women; he says
he bought SallyMander safe ten years ago,
and he's been provoked with himself ever
since.
The Michigan homeopathic in convention
have passed bylaw making expulsion from
their society the penalty for feticide.
+. George Armstrong of fremont, N. j., re-
ceived forty days in the county Jail for trying
to hang his wife, Cheap enough.
The poet Whittier freely condemns Mr.. Sum-
ner's late personal speech in the Senate.
v1knl I've
found in an old grave in York county, Penn. 1t
is supposed to have been buried there in the
shape of calomel.
In spite of the terrible fire last October, the
population of Chicago is larger by several thou
sand than year ago.
The extent of French Canadian emigration
from Lower Canada is indicated by the state
ment in L4urore that within three leagues, on
single road north of Montreal, there may be
counted twenty deserted houses.
The editor of Democratic paper in Indiana
died recently His widow assumed the editorial
chair, and like sensible, patriotic woman,
came out uncompromisingly for Grant.
"Grass widow" is term of French origin
1t is derived from the French ''grace," and
meant therefore, a widow by courtesy.
A Chicago court recently condemned a small
boy to three years imprisonment for stealing
twenty-five cents from his mother.
Gen. Joe Hooker, although Greeley man
himself, has very poor opinion of Senator
Schurz. He says he relieved Schurz of the COM
mand of division at Wauhatchie, because the
first bullet from the enemy turned his brain.
'Schurz," said the General, SIS good talker,
and that's all there is of him. Talk about his
commanding the German vote! The idea of a
public man having influence with people who
know he can't stand fire! Nonsense"
John III. Surratt has been married to Miss
Victorine Hunter, of Montgomery county, Md.
Milton Herndon, Past Grand Sire of Odd
Fellows of the United States, died at Craw
louisville, Ind, Monday.
Not great many months ago Horace Gree
ley wrote this of B. Gratz Brown over his own
signature:
General, long ago learned that principles
were convenient, and that he who makes his
own aggrandizement his aim must wear them
loosely or put them aside altogether. I doubt
that you would ever have attained your present
dizzy elevation had you permitted yourself to
be encountered with them. But am Old-fash-
Toned and cannot change my camp or my flag
with your admired facility .Il-r u