The Portland daily press., 1872-06-29
News and Other Items.

Line boston newspapers charge the night
and sub-editors of the New York papers with
changing the correspondence and kilograms
from the Jubilee SO as to make them express
the opposite meaning from that intended by
the writer's.
| Some of the Boston papers are exceedingly
sensitive in regard to the railroad projects of
Portland and refuse to print current news items
| respecting them unless paid for it,
Judge McCann's case, before the New York
Senate is so bad that he has virtually retired
from its defense. rsIt- l..,..1
Up to the year 1871, $4,000 copies of Franz
Abt's song, when the Swallows Homeward
Fly" had been sold in Germany. The compos-
ser received only twenty dollars for that
popular production &&e<
A Geneva special to the New York Herald
says:-"A summary of the position is that the
United States withdraws nothing of its claims
Both parties are fairly before the tribunal
The "Elijahites" are a new sect who have
founded colony in Georgia, where thew have
all things In common That is to say, Mr.. Car
ry, their leader, holds the fifth of all the real
estate and keeps the bank account for the bene
tit of the entire community. We should saw
that the "Elijahites' would do well to keep a
sharp eye on their leader DE-
10 encourage beet sugar manufacture in New
Jersey, the last Legislature passed a law ex
emptirg from taxation capital employed exclu-
sively in this industry.
The earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company for May were: Gross earnings $780,
45207; expenses, $40, 715.11. h. ars1l)
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that no vessel is required to take out a
coasting license unless intended to be emploved
in the coasting trade. e.s.--.
The reports relative to the alleged seizure of
the fishing schooner James Bliss are ascertained
to have been very much exaggerated.
Daniel Frawley has obtained verdict of
$1,000 against the Flushing and Northside Rail
road for depriving him of one of his toes. Other
Juries have set the value of mans life when
lost by accident, yariously from $4,000 to 800
OOO At $4,000 toe and finger, the companies
will find the wholesale business in this line
more economical rV +.
The Times continues its exposures of the Tam
many frauds perpetrated while Gov. Hoffman
was Mayor of New York, amounting to $4,000
900, the warrants for which he signed himself
or were signed by Mr. Conan in his stead. The
Committee of Investigation appointed by the
Board of Supervisors in their report say that
the amount paid by these warrants was twenty
times the value of the materials. The bills and
vouchers all lack the necessary verification.
Editing newspaper is very much like carry
ing an umbrella in a windy day; everybody
thinks he could manage better than the one who
has hold of the handle.
No less than 800, 900 head of beef cattle were |
driven from the mesquit grass ranges of western
Texas; besides, more than $4,000, 900 worth of
hides were exported from one port alone-India-
"oia-during the last twelve months.
our young brutes choked and hung boy at
.ial,nester, Ia, recently, to make him confess
.iio' nc n'a stolen some harness rings. The
ooy escaped and the lynchers were arrested
and held to bail
Bad luck is simply man with his hands in
his pockets and his pipe in his month loolinc
IN to see how it will come out. Good l,ok 10
nan of pluck, with his sleeves rollad nm o,,d
working to make it come out right.
Canada proposes to amend her COPYRIGHT law
~ provision that Canadians may reprint Emo,
ish books on payment to their authors of a
oyalty of twelve and half per cent. If this
ill passes, it will cut off the Canadian market
0 American publishers.
Richmond (Va) dispatch says that Extra