The Portland daily press., 1872-05-04
News Items by Mail.


A reform bar association has been formed in
Brooklyn.
Sleighins is still good in some parts of Utah.
The first female lawyer in Washington is
mulatto
A jackson, Tenn, chain-gang broke jail, and
fed with their padlocks
The tables in Texas are turned. An ex-
change says the radical negroes of Calvert,
Tex, mobbed colored Democratic speaker the
other day. .FE.H sfIE
There is in Clay county, Indiana, family of
twenty chldren-twelve pairs of twins and
one odd one. fEf
All building operations in which lime is es-
sential are stopped at Denver, Col, there being
an entire absence of that article in the market
In the course of year the Treasury Depart
ment and its branches consume nearly fifty
tons of writing paper, six Thousand gross of
pens and one thousand gross of pencils. u.
Sixty divorce cases are pending in the Law
Court at Nashville, Tenn. QNu
They are obliged to close the schools of
Charleston, S. c., because they haven't funds
to pay the teachers.
Collaborating antimony is reported to have
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cific railroad.
The army worm has appeared in Tennessee
and is doing great damage to fruit trees.
italian residents in New York intend to erect
a monument to Mazzini or Garibaldi in Central
Park. .-.- .--.
Forty-eight thousand dollars in prime stocks
and bonds have been handed to the trustees of
the "New Hampshire College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts by Hon. John Conant of
Jaffrey, N. H., the income to be devoted to
scholarships in the maintenance and education
of young men of the State. This is the second
instance of muniicence from the same source
M Conant having previously bestowed $780,
on this New Hampshire College.
Next Wednesday is the day fixed for the
colored Republican State Convention of New
York. -9e~4. $3.50. l-s.sa~ 4
A Texan cougar carried yearling calf out
of the stable yard, over a six rail fence and one
mile into the woods without even dropping it
or killing the calf. rF.g rer =
Measles and scarlet fever are uncommonly
prevalent in Canada. &aAli-A
Iwakura's visit to this country has produced
good results. The Japs, abandoning their ex-
elusive policy, have opened their national fair
to the products of foreign competitors. g..
The appointment by the Mormons of mission
aries to evangelize Europe and the United
States, looks very much as if the tail was
trying to wag the dog.
In GAINESVILLE, Wis, lately, man slew a
quarrelsome canine with an axe-handle in try
ing to persuade him to leave off fighting in the
street. and that man has been mulcted in dam
ages to the extent of seventy-fve dollars
Swarms of locusts have made their appear
ance in the West. csA IA 81
Vast quantities of lumber are being shipped
from Indiana to aid in rebuilding Chicago
The prominent clothing houses in North Ad-
ANS, which have been in sharp competition for
some time, reached the climax on Saturday,
when clothing was sold for less than half the
cost of manufacture and silk hats 25 cents
apiece. Extra clerks had to be hired to wait
upon the crowds that thronged the stores until
a late hour. rs % sF,
One of the latest and best caricatures is that
in Hapers representing the teams of John
Bull and Brother Jonathan with their wheels
locked. "Now look'ee here! are you going to
back down?' says Bull. "No sir! bnt if you
don't, by thunder, I'll start my horse" an
swers Jonathan. s@
A twenty-acre chicken farm has been started
in Wyandotte, Kansas
The Dolly Warden eyebrows are got I'D by
mucilage and sifted charcoal thereupon dispos--
ed
A motherly cat in Somerset Penn, deprived
OF her kittens, adopted, and is nursing with all
care, nest of young rats, orphaned by the fe-
line, who caught and killed their mother for a
frugal breakfast. That cat knows what she's
about-and when they re fat enough they'll be
young rats
Mrs Randall of Mottaposett 81 years old.
half-bushel of potatoes two miles one
day lastweek, in order that friend might be
sure to have them in season for spring planting.
She cultivates an acre of land herself with yery
little, if any, assistance. Ersst
The Eastern Railroad Company is complete
ing the Essex Branch Railroad, which was
abandoned by the contractors last fall. The
company will build fine depot at Essex, and
propose erecting another at Woodbury's Cross
ing, in East Hamilton, near the Essex and
Hamilton lakes.
The Welsh people about Utica have an els
teddfodd wherein they discuss pryddestwyr,
the rhigmy, the traithodwry, the ffugchwel-
lewyr and various other things, which seem to
agree with them pretty MISUNDERSTANDING
they are so indigestible.
The Mexican Revolutionist Diaz, who was re-
ported to have "passed in his checks" is now
reported to be as lively as Juarez will care to
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