The Portland daily press., 1872-05-20
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News Items by Mail.

| "A deaf mute is a candidate for a county Of
flee in Indiana What Presidential nominee
he would make for the possum Democrats.
A Western preacher, just returned home
| from begging expedition to the East, thinks
ahat while martyrs will have the highest places
in Heaven, next to them will come the beggars.
1t is reported by persons who have travelled
through and by those who now live in the
Southern States, that each individual emanci-
pated slave has been duly recorded Lby the
| owner, with the value in dollars and cents at
tached thereto, with the view of being paid for
the same when any party favoring such an idea
shall get control of the government a3fdo
The Boston Transcript calls for cheap morn
ing and evening trains to the surrounding
towns with policemen to preserve order.
The papnrs make fun Of General Sheridan
because he is to be decorated with the Order Of
the White Eagle, by the Emperor of Russia for
his attention to Alexis If the Gear extends
him civilty how can he help it? The papers
are as irrational as Mrs. Beecher Hooker, who
takes Carl Schurz to task for not recognizing
women as delegates at Cincinnati, and then
asks how he could consent to be born of wo-
man. The greatness was thrust upon tim
Gen. Hooker who has been SO long sufferer
from paralysis, is now reported to be entirely
helpless. Ae2 9
The order of Sons of Temperance is prosper
ing finely in Massachusetts, under the present
board of grand officers .rli
The Springfield Republican admits that at
present the Greeley Republicans in Massachus-
etts are both lonely and lonesome esL
There is a general impression in Washing
ton that the Ku-Klux bill will not be extend
ed.
A Narylander says if the issue come between
Grant and Greeley, the Democratic party will
be split in two.
The Aldermen of Dover, N. H., have voted,
B to 8, to have the liquor law enforced, and in
consequence the dealers have shut down. The
mourners 20 about the streets
Postmaster-Genersl Creswell is highly graft
fed at the results of competitive examinations
for clerkships in his Department. soG-ys tU
The Germans of st. Louis held large meet
ing the other night, at which resolutions were
adopted denouncing the Cincinnati ticket
There is too much candidate and too little
platform.
The regular semi-annual trial of Macdonald
Cheek, the Indiana murderer, commenced on
Monday last. acrt1 ria 9
The life insurance companies of Connecticut,
pay in taxes 30 per cent. of the regular expens-
es the State. ~ -..r- .-a htr
The Iowa Legislature refused the ballot to
women but exempted sewing machines from
taxation.
'ohn L. Mcdonald, Catholic priest was
Drought before the Haverhill Police Court
saturday, and fined ten dollars and costs for
assaultlng woman in his church.
Ihey seem to be converting people very thor
oughly up In W aterbury, Conn. The american
says ''of the five lady converts baptized by Rev.
Mr.. Bailey on Sunday, three were gentlemen
The Gloucester mackerel fleet this Season
will carry more than 200 seines, worth, with the
seine boats to carry them, nearly S25o.ooo,
These nets, if stretched in continuous line,
would stretch from Cape Cod to Cape Ann,
with depth Of twenty-five fathoms; and if
spread out they would cover farm of 800
acres. slim |
The Nation (LiberaD calls the nomination of
Mr. Greeley "preposterous" one. 1t says it
Is very much the same as of the Chicago Con-
ventlon OF 1860, throwing overheard Lincoln
and all other eminent Republicans before it, had
Bell of Tennessee, or Davis of Mis-
Siss'ppi, on platform which relegated the dis
ousSlon OF slavery to the people in the Congress
Ihere will be convention of delegates of all
the narrow gauge railroadsin the Trn;ted s,a+os
at st. Louis, June 10th. This assent,o,ra Ill
t is said, be composed of some of the most
eminent civil engineers and railroad builders Of
anticipated from its deliberations There will