The Portland daily press., 1872-08-23
News and other Items.

A severe drouth has prevailed in Virginia,
but was broken by copious rains on Friday
The James River has become nearly dry from
its source to its mouth.
An old gentleman of about IS years, and his
wife who is nearly so, living between Malta
poisett and Marion, have new born son and
propose to name the poor thing Horace Gree
ley.
Application will be made to the next Yer
mont Legislature for continuous line of rail-
way through the centre of the State, from New
port on the north, through Montpelier, Chelsea,
Woodstock and Cavendish, to Brattleboro' on
the South.
The statistican of an Eastern newspaper
season that well-organized one will allow
himself to be brushed off ones nose eighty
seven times and not show any temper.
Capt. FL. X. Davenport, of the United States
steamer Congress, died at Carlsbad, on the Sth
inst.
New York is entertaining two live princes
Augustus, imperial prince of Brazil and Duke
of Saxony and his brother, Prince Phillip, of
SaxCOburg. The former is an uncle of the
Prince De Joinville, who visited this country
some thirty years ago, and a widower, the ia
Their of four children, the eldest of whom, a
boy of SIX is heir presumptive to the Brazilian
throne. The Prince is reported to be a genial
and hearty sailor, being an admiral in the Bra
lillian navy, and quite averse to demonstra-
tions of any kind.
lunatic out west, who is twenty -seven
years old, and lectures, tries to pass himself off
as Horace Greeley.
George Kingsland, bookkeeper of the Hud-
son County Bank, Jersey city, has decamped
to Europe, being defaulter of $4,000. Wine
and women.
1t won't do to say that '1ightning never
strikes twice in the same place. Two years
ago it struck a pig-stye in Meriden, Conn,
without injuring the inmates On Wednes-
day the lightning took better aim at the same
stye, and killed two hogs that weighed 300
pounds each. %.
The N. Y Evening Star finds fault with the
| Associated Press. 1t says its agents betray
partisan proclvities that unfit them for their
work. their reports of the recent election in
| North Carolina were grossly exaggerated, and
| that they are now pursuing the same course by
eSSaylnS 10 Dellutle Une sCralgnC-Out DemOcratlC
movement in the South.
| General Newton's submarine excavations I'M
der the hard, primitive rocks of "Hell Gate, -
in Long Island sound, are regarded by many as
really more wonderful than the catacombs OF
| Paris, the Suez canal or the Hoosac tunnel.
Wall decorations are now manufactured to
| supersede paper-hangings and paint, composed
of thin sheets of metal painted over by patent
process. They are artistic in appearance
and said TO be durable.
Senator Doolittle's letters to Conatty are tc
be photographed and scattered throughout the
country. 1t is little singular that no reply il
made to them.
The news that John Quincy Adams had bolt
ed from Greeley was brought to the philosopher
while at dinner He dropped his knife ant
fork, incontinently, and all he said was, "My
God?' This sudden religious turn of Mr.
Greeley is one of the most consolatory incidents
of the campaign.
The reason why General Banks did not de
liver his promised address in Wall street is sale
to have been that the financial people didn'
care to hear it.