The Portland daily press., 1872-03-14

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crops and produce, is looked upon by not a few
to be big scheme to monopolize the grain and
provision trades, and to leave the people at the
mercy of knot of thirty-ive to fifty per cen
tiers connected with banks and railroads The
apprehension is very probably a just one.
--s News Items by Mail.
Matti Martin of Colchester, VT, ate arsenic
to beautify her Complexion. Possibly she sue
ceeded for she has gone to be an angel.
Our California exchanges record the marriage
of several Chinese with American women.
Says the Chicago Journal: s1f such flies as
Trumbull and Schurz choose to walk into the
parlor of the Democracy, they will no doubt be
welcomed and made much of after the usual
spider fashion"
Alfred Speer, of Passac Village, N. j., has
invented travelling sidewalk which, it is
claimed, will convey passengers from ten to
fourteen miles per hour, at cost of only five
cents a trip. -
The average cost to Yale College of each stu
dent of the class of 1870, was $1066 per year,
the extremes being $3.50 and $500.
The st. Paul Mimi Press says the Catho-
lies OF that city are preparing for ga new and
thoroughly organized assault on our public
schools" At a recent meeting of Irishmen,
called ostensibly to take measures for the cele-
bration of st. Patrick's Day in that city, reso-
buttons were passed denouncing as merely Irish
in name such Irishmen as do not approve the
action of the Catholic clergy in relation to
Catholic schools, and pledging themselves ''as
Irishmen and Catholics to promote the inter-
ests of "our schools. y
Andrew Bunker, of Boston, while intoxicat-
ed, broke his neck Sunday night by falling
down stairs. .a51 &d
Joseph Newman of Cincinnati, while out
shooting on Sunday, accidentally blew the top
of his head off. .s.eap r.
Mrs. Wharton has not left Annapolis, Md,
since her acquittal. Her daughter still remains
with her, and they are quietly awaiting the
trial in April, on the charge of attempting to
murder Eugene Van Ness 4fsta -.
A Sunday-school in Virginia City, Nevada,
received on the first Sunday in March the
Christmas presents purchased for them in New
City last Fall, and SO long delayed by the snow
blockade. ffs
Many Republicans in Nevada, not to mention
California, would like to see Gov. Booth, of the
latter State. nominated for Vice-President ON
the Grant ticket Ee
Twenty women applied for admission to the
Michigan Agricultural College, but were told
there were no accommodations for them at
present. Two women are students there.
Gov. Washburn of Mass, has designated
Thursday, April 4th, as day of fasting and
prayer. &C.
At st. Adams ON Tuesday. fall made butter
sold at "a to Sc cents, and winter diaries at 20
to 26. - s.-- -rsr...,-.
ThesU s. District Attorney at Richmond has
entered a suit in the Circuit Court to foreclose
a mortgage executed by the Richmond & Dan
vile Railroad Company during the late war,to
the Confederate States to secure million dol
lars, which it is claimed has reverted to the
United States. sHsRezr ed
One of the best definitions of inconsistency
we have ever heard was from Teutonic orator
ut recent town meeting near Boston, who
said: "It is wonderful shentlemen, how elastic
some men are in dere brains p
The experience of Massachusetts railroads
shows that person has a chance of accom-
plishing q ,901 ,048 journeys of thirteen miles
each, or an aggregate journey of 324,0O0,0OO
miles before meeting with any accident result
ing in death, and 100000 miles before meet
ing with any resulting either in death or in per-
sonal injury. ID qtgI
Henry Barlow of Greenville, Mississippi, was
told by fortune-teller that Louis Harris was
to kill him, whereupon he undertook to thwart
destiny and announced that he would kill Louis
Harris; then Louis Harris lay for Henry Bar
low and fetched him with load of buckshot.
Louis having thus established his justification,
was released by Justice Griffin
The Virginia Honse of Assembly has passed
a bill regulating one-third of the public debt