The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-03
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Hon. J. P. Hale, of New Hampshire, has al
dent EE
q Upper Michigan is again clamoring for the
new State of Superior 80 eti2 ...T
A Wisconsinian has acturally made whistle
out of pigs tail ,,-f--$-EE
The first and second editions of Mr.. Fosters
'Life of Dickens" were swept out of the mar
ket almost before they entered it, and there was
hardly one house last week where the book was
anywhere purchasable. The third edition is
'nearly ready
George Elliot retains the copyright of Middle
march instead Of receiving a percentage from
Messrs. Blackwood. She is said to have re-
ceived on former occasion the largest sum ev-
er agreed in advance to be paid by publisher
fora novel, She was given. $50, 900 for 'Romo-
Ia" which came outin the Cornhiu Magazine,
then and now owned by Messrs. Smith & Ell
der. They relied good deal upon its increas-
ing the sale of the magazine which was about
10000 when 'eRomola" began its course
But when the tale was completed
the circulation was 10000, and Messers Smith
& Elder have not been inclined to repeat the
experiment. The truth is that 'tRomola,' with
all its wonderful merits, was never popular
story in England. Miss Elliot or Miss Evans,
or Mrs. Lewis. or whatever we ought to call
her, distinctly background by that performance;
ground which she bids fair to recover, and
more than recover, in 'sMiddlemarch.''
A letter-carrier of Lexington, Ky, while
sorting his route at the post office the other day
received a Geographic dispatch informing him
that he had drawn $35O0O Like sensible
man he put the dispatch in his pocket finished
his days work and then went home and talked
the affair over with his wife, The next day he
woke up the most popular man in town.
4 MI. Thomas Within, formerly member of
the Adelphians, is now connected with the
grand English opera combination, under the
management of Carl Rosa, which opens at the
Boston Theatre on Monday evening next.
Falconer's famous new drama, eileen Oge,"
will be produced at the Globe Theatre, Boston,
on Monday evening.
During the year 1871, there was a weekly
average of twenty-five violent deaths in New
York. B .i e.. ). II 8 (l3 =
A divorce suit between parties residing not a
thousand miles from Bennington was on Tues-
day put over until the June term of the Court
1t places the woman and young man in pecu-
IL
vorces would be granted, and had arranged to
be married on New Years Day. The parties
had even purchased their bridal outfit-Bur-
Hngt0n Free Press -...s.4sli-l.N # -
Gov. Washburn of Massachusetts has an
pointed Sydney Andrews his private Secretary.
Mr. Andrews was formerly Washington cor
respondent of the Boston ADVERTISER II
The first passenger train over the Vermont
division OF the Portland and Ogdensb burg rail-
road, from Hardwick to st. Johnbury, ran on
Monday, connecting with the Passumpsic road
for Boston and New York
A bitter feud has arisen among the shoe
blacks in New York, owing to the nraetice of
some of them of charging only five cents for q
"shine," while the regular tariff is ten cents
Making dwarfs and beggars is a common
thing in China For the first children are put
into heavy porcelain vases where they have to
remain, so that it is impossible for them to
grow any larger than the interior of their pris-
on, while the latter voluntarily submit to hav-
ing their eyes taken out or their limbs broken
in order to excite public commiseration
France is the only European nation which
refuses to make treaty for reduction of in
ternational postage. The Postmaster-GeneraI
says that France acts upon the theory that the
postal service was not established for the hem
eft OF the people, but to raise revenue for the
government. rg,-.
Last August Samuel Jones, an eccentric in
dividual, suddenly disappeared from New Bos-
ton, n. H., since which time nothing has been
heard OF him: He had about $4,000 on his per-
hind to the value of 100000 His wife ond only ]
child died some time ago, and his nepbews and
nieces, who believe him dead, have applied for
letters of administration upon his estate.
Many of his friends in New Boston think ba |
still lives, and further testimony is to be taken
on that point. -
Fisk had to pay Mrs. Helen j. Mansfield
$56000 as compromise. If Jim had gone tn
Sunday school when he was boy he wonid
have saved this sum. |
Miss Charlotte Cushman is building cot
tage at Newport, II: L., which is to cost 500, 900.
1t is SO planned that all the rooms are octapon-
al This would seem to indicate that the lady
has determined to take up her residence ner- |
in her native land. S-@3s.' po-
The Home Journal says: "Mr John W. Hor-
per, eldest son of John Harper, of the firm of
Harper Brother, has built and furnished, en-
tlrely at his own expense, Methodist church
at Port Washington, L. l. The Harpers are
strong Methodists, while the other great NH
fishing house Of New York, the App1etons. are
sturdy Episcopalians. =
The large bequest which Sylvia Ann How
land left in behalf of '1iberal education in
1t was proposed to paper school
room at its expense, but the city solicitor.
whose opinion was demanded, said no. and
went further, declaring that 'liberal education
must De construed IN The OH technical sense of |
college education" This being manifestlv
what Sylvia Ann did NJ mean, the public is
much stirred up aboutit, q nd the matter is to
be carried before the supreme court.
The new city government OF Portsmouth was
Tuesday. Horton D. Walker is
Mayor for the fourth term. The city debt is
S2A7 500, all funded ~
The excitement over the outrage committed
1t Rochester, N. Y, upon little white girl by
The negro Howard is very great Tuesday FORE
noon mob of four or five hundred people went
% the Jail and attempted to break in and kill
;he prisoner. They were foiled by the Sheriff
md police. The military assembled for the
protection of the jail