The Portland daily press., 1872-09-30
News and Other Items.

ANOVS ohu VUuCl 1tChS.
Some of the journals demand a railroad
from New York to Chicago which will take
nothing but freight.
Greeley is a remarkable agricultural candi-
date, truly. His nomination at Cincinnati
was queer turnup and the end of him will
| be beat.
The queen of Spain has been in such state
of nervous excitement since the attempt to as
sassinate the king and herself, that insanity is
| feared as the result
Kossuth is still resident of Tnrin, where it
is said he lives in extreme poverty and secfu-
sion.
Hepworth Dixon is about to visit Japan with
a view to studying the social and political life
of that empire.
Buckaleu gives fair warning that if elected
he will reduce the surplus in the Treasury to a
nominal sum. The people of Pennsylvania
ought to be grateful for the assurance that
there will be anything left in the Treasury at
all
M. Rouzeaud, the husband of Nilsson, is the
grandson of a blacksmith and son of mer-
chant. Nilsson herself was a peasant girl fif-
teen years ago.
Mr.. Bradford, the American artist, has re-
ceived commission from Queen Victoria and
the Marquis of Lorne to paint for them several
pictures representing scenes on the Arctic
| Ocean. The enemies of Mr.. Bradford say that
some of these pictures are certain to be for
| lorn.
The Attorney General has decided that, in
order to stop the payment of postal money or
der, the order itself must be produced, and that
the postmaster shall not recognize an order to
stop payment, merely. The money order must
be presented to receive back the money.
A Hartford gentleman, wearied with travel,
put up at the Dixon house, Westerly R. T.,
last Saturday night, and, ON awaking the next
morning, heard a planingmill next door in
full blast and the people pursuing their usual
avocations. 'Great heavensp' said he have
slept till Monday morning." The landlord
explained that the toilers were Seventh-day
Baptists
Miss Lottie Grant, who weighs 4S2 pounds, is
| on exhibition at Western fair, and an envious
paragraphst says that, thought she doesn't
| hold office, her situation is fat one.
| The Commercial is informed that since the
report that Brigham Young was dying of heart
disease became current company of New
Workers have concluded to start Grape foundry
in Salt Lake City.
A New Jerfey Epaper thinks the following
notice of death in the columns of contempt
rary is susceptible of two meanings:-"M Maria
B., wife of Henry B., ESQ.,, aged so years. She
lived with her husband fifty years, and died in
the confident hope of a better life''
The new colored cadet at Annapolis, JAMES
Henry COnyers, was free born. He was edu-
Gated at the Avery Normal institute in Charles
ton, and was afterwards employed in Columbia
as messenger in the Office of the Secretary of
State. He is a member of the Baptist Church.
No wonder, then, he should take to water as
profession.
G. A. Sumner, of Massachusetts,, has come
out for Greeley. He is a son of Increase Sum-
ner-no relation to Charles, who according to
Western paper, does not belong to the in
crease family.
An old lady, warm admirer of Mr.. Greeley
at one of the stations on the Little Miami road
the other day, said she "knowed Mister Gree
ley the minute she seed him, for he hadn't
changed a bit since be had his picture taken for
them FANS
Bev. Mr.. Kincaid, of Leavenworth Kansas,
having laid violent hands upon the sacredness
of our Fourth of July is now making furious
onslaughts ON the "Black Crook"