The Portland daily press., 1872-06-12

it to some sense of its responsibility. Should
the reply to his proposal be unsatisfactory he
would suggest settlement OH the basis of the
treaty of 1856. Prussia takes the same ground
The answers OF the other powers are not yet
known, but it is probable that the suggestion of
Gortschokoff will be adopted. nT
CROP REPORTS. Crop reports received from
all sections of the country, say there is very lit
tie winter-kiled wheat. From Illinois the re
ports of winter wheat are very good, from Mich
igan poorer, Ohio fair, Pennsylvania average,
Indiana good. In California, we are informed,
the acreage planted has largely increased, and
the appearance of the crop is excellent From
the South, reports are very favorable, and new
wheat has already made it's appearance in At
lanta and Chattanooga. f9EUop
THE IRON notwithstanding the
immense iron mines of our country and the ia
cilities for working them, the production is in
finitely less than the demand. 1t requires fully
one-half of all the American iron produced to
build our railroads and keep them in repair.
The United States has now $4,000 miles of COM
pleted railroads. efT
aisa News and other Items.
A man in Boston was fined $50 for keeping
couple of unlicensed dogs, which is rather
high price for sausage meat
The omnibus bill as it finally passed Monday af-
ternoon appropriates $40, 528, 5S3, or about $780,
900 more than when it passed the House, and
$10,OeO,0O0 less than the corresponding bill last
year. E,ast ... '.t
The bill abolishing the franking privilege,
which the House passed Monday afternoon
while waiting for something else to do, embod-
les the plan proposed by Mr.. Potter early in the
session, providing for a stamping machine to
be issued to the head of each executive and
legislative department, for the purpose of frank
ing official documents only, the expense for
postage to be charged to each department The
bill effectually cuts off all private correspond
ence and many of the attendant abuses of the
existing system. .rt II
Guns and pistols repaired, coffins made to or
der, is sign of a combination firm in Ala
bama .f.-l....l.. al.. ~. i.-..
A California paper reports that hotel
chambermaid laid aside her broom few days
ago, and on calling for settlement, told her
employer she had been dabbling in stocks for
year or more, and had something more than
$4,000 as a result.
The Democratic conventions in Brooks
Pierce, Taliafero and Hancock counties, Geor-
gia, last week, all declared against Greeley
and in favor of a straight ticket at Baltimore.
Sunday, in New York, being day unusually
prolific in crime, the last was no exception to
the rest. The record for the day is positively
appalling with it's drunken quarrels, stabbing
ARRAYS. eyes gouged out, murders by corner
loafers, together with the casualties not less
numerous. -t
Archbishop McCloskey, on Sunday, address,
ed all the churches of his see in circular call
ing for their assistance in behalf of the Pope
who, in the words of the prelate, has been in
the last two years subjected to more trials and
embarrassments than he has ever hitherto been
obliged to endure.
DR.. Lanahan will bring a suit against Goode-
nough for malicious prosecution and imprson-
ment
AT last accounts the potato bugs were loafing
about the street corners in Dubuque, Iowa,
waiting for che tardy growth of their favorite
esculent .I,
The Boston Trdceller finds prediction of
Grants reelection in Subsequently, tanner
will last you eight years "a E..nsYEF
The New York Post says "the absence of en-
thusiasm" was conspicuous in the demonstra-
ton of the workngmen in that city on Monday.
Newburyport is flooded with drunkards every
night, large numbers of people going
there to get the liquor they cannot find in the
towns a. ~
2 correspondent of the Boston Transcript
learns that Senator Trumbull is disguised with
the Greeley movement and is likely to repudi-
ate it. TUU TvgEES WEF WI
Gen. Bartlett, of Pittsfeld Mass, will prob
ably in few days publish letter repudiating
his proclaimed connection with the Greeley
movement. He will vote for Grant unless
Adams is nominated at Baltimore.
One of the consequences of advertising for
"with view to matrmony,''
and of answering such foolish advertisements,
has been that brother and sister belonging
in Louisville lately fell in love with cath other
by this epistolary process. They had been sep
arated for some years, and though photographs
were exchanged, did not recognize each other
until they finally exchanged their real names.
Theodore Tilton, of the hyperion locks
speaks of Gems. Imboden and Wright as 'stwo
Confederate heroes Next week it will be in
order for Theodore to write down Wirz, of An
Jacksonville infamy, a Confederate martyr"
The Atlanta (Ga) -Whig is informed by
member of the Committee of Investigation that
the great bulk of the money of which the State
Of Georgia was defrauded in 1870 and the two
years previous has been traced to Democratic
hands.
Libbie Garrabrant, the murderess, under SEN
tence of death, has been pronounced insane by
the medical society of Patterson, N. j.
Mr.. Frye called up in the House on Monday
and had passed Senate bill for the relief of
Mrs. Harriet Spring, of Waterville, Me-, daugh-
ter of Capt. William Parker, who served in the
war of the Revolution.
Secretary Boutwell, has put into operation the
rules of Civil Service adopted by the President,
and a competitive examination took place in
the rooms of the Treasury examining board The
was for the purpose of filling four
vacancies of first class clerkships, and thirty
nine contestants, three of whom were ladies',
entered the lists for preferment. The ages of
The contestants range from nineteen to sixty.
One of the ladies competing is at present $500
clerk in the Treasury. sar-fes III
- \ $3.50
STATE NEWS.