The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-23
News and Other Items.


The internal revenue bureau has already re-
ceiyed for redemption over one hundred thou
sand dollars worth of adhesive stamps, which
are not required to be used after October 1st,
and expects to receive as many more.
Witnesses are sometimes put to desperate
straits to boil ter up their character One in
Iowa the other day averred that his reputation
for 'tru h and morality" was better than that
of one-half the lawyers in Dubuque county.
The fact that the Senate has now no stand
ing committee on the judiciary,-all it's COM
mites expiring with each session-disposes of
the recent reports that Senator Trumbull in
tends to resign his old craftsmanship The u.s.
ual senatorial caucus will probably be held at
the opening of the session, when all the COM
mittees will be reorganized and the members
Of the minority given proper representation.
sweet maiden was lately ground up in
sorghum mill in Iowa.
All the nickle coin which jngles in our pock-
cts comes from single mine in Lancaster
county, Pa, the only one in America.
Hubite journalist, in referring, in a recent
letter, to the numerous statues in Boston, saws
that every Bostonian who dies with a high
forehead has a statue erected to his memory,
and incidentally adds that his own frontal
tapers gracefully back to level with his ears.
Mark Twain writes to the London Times I'M
der date OF November 8: with your kind per-
mission desire to say TO those societies in
London and other cities of Great Britain under
whose auspices have partly promised to lee.
ture, that am called home by a cable tele-
gram. shall spend with my family the great
er part of next year here, and may be able to
lecture month during the autumn upon such
scientific topics as know least about, and may
consequently feel less trammelled in dilating
upon"
The Boston Advertiser says that immense
quantities of damaged wool are found among
the fire ruins.
Some one in Nashua, N. H., recently started
a story to the effect that President Grant had
been poisoned.
Mr.. Dent, the father of Mrs. Grant, is seri-
ousiy i'll at the White House, and it is feared
that he will not recover He is 81 years of
age.
The Bible presented by the Southern negroes
to President Lincoln shortly before his death,
has been given by his widow to the Rev. DR..
Miner, of Bevdere, Ill.
Charles Dickens Jr., is coming to this coun-
try in the spring
The New Hampshire Grand Lodge of Good
Templars held its seventh annual session at
Meredith on the 18th instant. The reports
show falling off in membership, from 1000
when the order was most popular, down to
about 400. sTt5
'Whalebone," $4,000 trotting horse, be-
longing to Mr.. Austin of Burlington Vt, has
died of the epizootic.
Henry III. Stanley, the discoverer of Living
ston, will lecture in Boston, Dec. 10Th.
The Boston mayoralty seems to go begging.
Several gentlemen have declined to accept it,
At South Royalton, VT, on the evening of
the 9th inst, an attempt was made to abe uct
Miss julia Foster, young lady % years Old
AS she stepped to the back door she was seized
by man who prevented any cutlery by cover
ing her face and mouth with the shawl she
wore. In this position she was borne some
distance across field, as she thinks to where
an accomplish was waiting with team, in
which she was driven away. She managed to
escape from her captors however, and reached
place of safety. Meantime the citizens had
started in search of her.