The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-21
News and Other Items.

Gen. Butler has been summoned to Lowell
on account of the severe illness of his brother
n-law, Mr. Hildreth.
A western gentleman is occurring on the
''bright side of Libby prison. This fact indi-
Gates that he never saw the inside
At Niles, Mich. there are two feet of snow
on a level and good sleighing, while on the
other side of the county there is no snow at
ALL
A Terre Haute maid of Is is six feet and one
inch tall and still on the rise.
The Boston Herald asks: 'What sort of
Christian is he who makes early prayers and
neglects to sprinkle ahses on his icy sidewalk?
Verify, he is no nearer the Kingdom than he
who scatters orange peel about in the summer"
A jet of gas from an oil well in Frankfort,
KY, on being lighted gave flame ten feet
high and as it could not be turned off or blown
out, a fire engine had to be used to extinguish
it.
Simon Themas, Toledo bootblack and
coored man, having by industry made a hand
some fortune, has purchased the Lutheran
church in Perrysburg, Ohio. aud has given it
to his colored brethren.
W. ~ AASiphs 1oiiACiiJ Sity Oui1oi VI chS
Troy Wing, has fallen heir to handsome for
tune in England.
Gen. Sanford, our former minister to Bel
GUM, has established very successful colony
in Florida, in which about one hundred Swed-
ish men and women are rapidly getting rich.
Secretary Robeson's recent order concerning
the treatment of Smith, the colored cadet mid-
shipman at the Annapolis Naval Academy
will be followed by the expulsion of Smiths
tormentors,on of whom is from Massachusetts,
and the other from Nevada, unless the inter
cession of their friends prevents their being
thus punished for their prejudices of race.
| \ holly contested lawsuit has just closed in
Michigan, which originated in the fact that
two womea laid claim to the same waterfall.
The largest pair of cattle ever seen at Brigh-
ton weighing 6115 pounds, were sold to Messrs.
Chas. Dana & Co., by D. A. Philbrick of
Hampton, N. H., for 5000.
Numbers of American travellers in Europe
were obliged to pawn their watches and jew
elry in consequence of the failure of Bowles
Brothers. uEas
An amiable Wisconsin Indian emptied box
of rattlesnakes on the bed of man who had
offended him.
Thirty persons in a Western town wore lately
poisoned by eating sausages, and an exchange
suggests that this is what comes of leaving
brass collars on dogs
Speaking of proposition to reduce rates of
life.insurance, the New York Nation remarks
"When man insures his life, he does not sim.
ply contract for the payment of certain sum
to his representatives at his death, but for
peace of mind on certain designated matter
during the remainder of his life, and he is as
much entitled to the one as the other
One day last week four brakemen were killed
in various parts of Connecticut.
1t is announced that several successful e1.
periments in silk worm culture have been made
at Beaufort, S. c., and that the sxperimenter i,
coming North to seek encouragement for en-
larged operations
A country paper says: 'One of our custom
ers, about to depart to the West, desire, to sell
a sitting in one of the most eligible groceries
in town. The stove is one of the most power.
full in the market, and the cracker and sugar
barrel are within easy distance" s4..,ss
The Vermont Legislature, in imitation oil
Minnesota, passed an act furnishing by fine any
pointing of firearms at . person in play, add
ing an imprisonment of two years when any
injury results from the folly.
The inventors of new flying machine claim
that by means of system of revolving aero.
planes they can carry = car from any point on
the earth's surface to any other point, at = rate
of from 80 to 60 miles an hour
A mysterious key was found floating in the
Hartford, Conn, Park river, Sunday, and the
bors who discovered it suspected that child s
body was in it and notified the police, and an
examination took place. 1t was filled with the
heads and tails of fresh cod