The Portland daily press., 1872-05-16
News Items nv Mail.

Appearances now lnulcate InaJ tile COnSeum
will be completed two weeks before the Peace
Jubilee.
The property of the late Erastus Corning
amounted to $1O,OOO,OOO; $4,000 worth of
stamps were affixed to his will.
The New York police force is as bad as ever.
Forty-two members were arraigned Monday be-
fore the Police Court on various charges One
of them was charged with keeping a rum shop.
The opposition of the New York World to
Mr.. Greeley increases daily. Though at first
that paper argued that his nomination would
breed serious split in the Republican party,
Tuesday it had a long article calculated to prove
that he had no influence at all with Republi-
cans. Ha .sa.
There was a bold Bourbon named Voorhees,
Gave his party fit of the furies,
Till tortured and rent,
To the devil twas sent
By this cuss'd contumacious ID. Voorhees,.
Tee general range of prices for butter at st.
Albans on Tuesday was from 20 to 28 cents;
choice lots 2S to 81 cents. -
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and
Brooklyn entertain fears of such deficiency
of water supply as to cause serious inconveni-
ence and even distress.
The Missouri Caucasian which advocated the
assassination of President Grant, now advo-
Gates the Greeley-Brown ticket.
Queen Victoria and the Princess of Wales no
longer wear chignons, while Madame Theirs is
said to dislike them, as well as false hair.
In fifteen cities and towns of Massachusetts
last week there were 342 deaths. The principal
causes were:-Consumption 63; pneumonia,
AZ; scarlet fever, 70; Group and diptheria, 12;
small pox, 9 (all but one in Boston,.
H. G. says it is useless to try to graft noun
tain oysters ON the ordinary long clam tree.
The Virginia or Saddle Rock plants are the best
for the purpose, and great care must be taken
of the young shoots, or they will blight the
first season.
Gen. Trochu, the celebrated French soldier,
estant .. -.--.
Father McMahon, the Catholic Priest who
accompanied the first Fenian raid into Canada,
and was captured and confined for two years in
a Canadian prison, died in Indiana few days
ago. ." "a
Olive Logan has no love for Chattanooga.
She was recently required to pay for delivering
her lecture there, $40 city tax, SIS State tax,
$15 county tax and Sc fees to sheriff and clerk
total, $46 The people growled because Olive
lectured the second night in walking suit in
stead of full dress.
An Indiana farmer, after trying to trap, poison
and shoot the rats that overrun hisi premises,
bought two goats and gave them the range of
yards and stables. Within week every rat
emigrated and staid away until the goats were
sold, nearly two years afterwards, when they
all came back with all their friends. A second
edition of goats were procured, and since then
not rat has been seen on the premises.
Minnesota has nine new railways in course
of construction.
The number of vessels owned in Philadelphia
in 1872 was 2546; in 1870, 24O4.
The Pullman Car Company has purchased IS
acres of land near London Canada, on which
to erect works for the manufacture of its pal
ace cars. 4 .cf et-.tat % -
The 100000 offered last year by the State of
New York, for the best plan for canal boat
navigation by steam power, is still open to
competition
Twenty thousand lawless men go armed in
New York, Recorder Hackett says.
Hon. Ben Wade gets salary of $15, 900 a
year as attorney of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. He is also director of the Union Pa
cific railroad.
There is not one editor among the three
hundred convicts in the Kansas penitentiary,
but there are thirty-ive 'honest farmers and
one lawyer. There has been a doctor, but now
'there is no physician there"
A MISSOURI legislator clinched an argument
against dogs the other day by swearing that
the money expended in supporting 21,000,00
dogs in the United States would buy 1, ,344, ,OOO,-
900 whiskey cocktails every year. rfFs5t.
On Friday last, Mr.. Callander the disreputa-
BILE bank examiner, was called before the
brethren of the First Baptist Church, Newark,
N. j., to answer charges against him as q
christian brother. .-....--s..-
A Methodist preacher has been sentenced to
bread and water for eleven days, in Sweden, for
endeavoring to gain proselytes to his denom-
ination. H a3fl n"A i-'A
The last failure of Weston, the walker, was
an attempt to get a divorce from his wife.
Mrs. Weston objected to being set off from her
distinguished husband. -stsz 4aasF
1t was Long John Wentworth, now sup
porter of Mr.. Greeley, who called him, not
many years ago, ga muck minded slovenly
cross between yam and cylinder press"
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