The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-02
News and Other Items.

Boomers seven year old gelding Joe Elliott,
did mile in 2:15h, on Mystic Park, Boston, on
Saturday This is the quickest time to har-
ness ever made, butas it was not in a public
race il is not a record.
One of the members of the Jubilee chorus
gave bin tn to fine boy at the hospital room of
the Coliseum Saturday afternoon. d..
The Boston paper intimate that the sale of
lager at the Coliseum was the only thing that
saved the Jubilee from being financial fail
ure Beer saved it from its bier
The Figaro isbeing prosecuted for humorous
obituary of President Thiers's dog XII Ki,which
expired in its fourteenth year. The weeping
Theirs will have no member of his family spok-
en- of with levity.
Newton, Mass, boasts of bashful Irshman
who oiled the carriage as he was directed, but
his employeEwas somewhat astonished ON the
next occasion of his riding forth to find that
every portion of his carriage, top, sides and
wheels, had been plentifully covered with the
oily substance. H
The annual police reports of New York show
an apparent falling off in the numbers of
crimes of all sorts committed in 1871 from pre-
vious years.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright, who was serious
ly i'll some months ago, has recovered his
health in degree, but appears to have lost the
use of his mental faculties n
Mamma" said little boy who had been
sent to dry towel before the fire, ..'Is it done
when it's brown?' ,3aa a4
About two years ago police officer in Bos-
ton lost $4,000 in United States bonds, which
he supposed were stolen. A few days ago, in
moving into another house, an old bandbox,
which the family thought of leaving behind,
was thrown into the cart. Upon arriving at
the house and setting things to rights the old
box was opened, and much to the surprise and
delight Of the family the bonds We're found
within it. .-.r-.
The swiftest pitch in the country is
young woman, aged tweuty-three, belonging to
a Minnesota baseball club $3.50 eHsI
1t has become quite common now to close
fashionable churches in July and August.
How nice it would be if the devil would take
vacation during the hot months. s-,.as e..
Two Boston merchants offered to give Father
Cleveland 500 each ON his one hundredth birth
day, but, as he passed away just sixteen days
before the time, they have saved the money.
On and after the LIST of July the women, of
Illinois will be eligible to hold appointive of
fees in that State. This is regarded as de-
cided triumph for the sex.
Col. Tennessee Clafin has been presented
with pair of Mexican spurs, with rowels as
large as silver dollar, to stimulate the fiery
steed she will ride at the head of her regiment
The spurs will penetrate the equine tanks from
opposite directions. .ss y, .,,..,
1t is stated that the habits of Alexis have
not improved by long absence from his mother,
and, like the Prince of Wales in Paris, he is
too much of an habitue of the concert saloons,
where the purest in Brazil do not congregate
Not long since dyspeptic was beguled by
an advertisement into sending to New York
individual dollar, for which sum a cure for
dyspepsia was promised. He received print
ed slip with these words: ''Stop drinking and
hoe in the garden" In a short time he was as
well as ever.
exploring trip in the Lake Superior country,
came across a man who had been lost in the
woods since the Both of May, and had given up
to die. He could hardly talk or sit up
A woman named Beardshear. living near
Dayton, o., while carrying in an armful of
wood, the other day, was bitten on the leg by
what she supposed to have been a rattlesnake
After drinking large draught of pure alcohol
in lieu of whiskey, and nearly dying of fright,
it was discovered that her assailant was a
piece of barrel hoop. She recovered
Riots lasting three days occurred the first of
= the month at Leghorn, during which several
lives were lost and five hundred arrests were
made. The cause of the disturbance is involv-
ed in obscurity, but religious matters had some
thing to do with it. aaaa.E
The village of Irvington, N. j., is Kept
awake nights by the fact that a huge tarantula
with big sharp bullying eyes, hairy body and
inch and a half legs, has got loose and is roam
ing about the streets. 1T was imported from
the West Indies in a bunch of bananas a-m
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that man
named Capt Buckley of Natick, Mass be-
came engaged to a'scherry Tipped lady on Cap
itol Hill. Lately the day for the marriage
came and all was ready, the gaily dressed party,
the priest, the supper, the presents-all but the
bridegroom. He was not to be found, and has
not been since found. 1t is said that he had
thought that the lady had SAC, 900, and on find
ing out that she was portonless left abruptly