The Portland daily press., 1873-04-21
News and Other Items.

NCWD ouU VtAVA AtCAiSs
Green peas are a dollar pound in Bos-
ton.
Even the Chicago Tribune heads its columns
of lake news "Marine."
A circus company lately used four barrels of
-four in adjoining Pittsburg with posters.
Il is expected that the collections at tho port
of Chicago this year will amount to SS'ooo'-
900.
SnowAakes and ripe tomatoes appeared to-
getherin the Richmond market, one day last
week.
Confederate paper money is being used III
New Orleans to discharge the liabilities OF
number of persons who failed during the war.
Mrs. Florence Knox has been engaged to sing
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, at a salary OF
$500 per annum. She is Michigan lady.
The Rev. Mr. Ancient, the heroic clergyman
at Mayr's Head, is an active citizen only thir-
ty-six years old.
The Offer OF the White Star Company to cd
ucate John Hanley, the boy survivor of the At
iantic disaster, has been declined by his rela-
tives.
Inc latest whopper is told by the World to
the erect that bull frogs attain sucb s;ze in
California that the hams are smo,eaa for ,r;,+or
consumption ''- "'''''-
The Boston Post thinks that Mr. ADO, =,
dress on Mr.. Seward ''can be regarded only as
violent political essay, rather than the dis.
passionate survey of notable life."
The New York Herald does not tb;r, a.
stock-market panic is going to be ''mucb Of a
shower after ALL" The merchants. it tb;nLs
are all right, notwithstanding the money nnc,,'
The New York Evening Post says: .srhe mast
five months have furnished abundant and con-
elusive evidence that the usury law instead of
protecting borrowers distresses Them
"Oakes Ames still silent-Spinner's little
note unanswered" is the significant heading
of Washington despatch to the Philadelphia
Press. ..s 1r
Peter Fay of New York has been found
guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree
He kicked his little boy to death for refusing to
get him some rum.
The colored people celebrated, on Thursday,
the ninth anniversary of emancipation in the
District of Columbia by procession, and an
grafton by Frederick Douglass, terminating
with a ball at night
A laborer engaged in grading the railroad
near Toledo, unearthed a twenty-dollar gold
piece, and the company got full quarter OF
mile of grading done gratis by excited treasure
hunters. f9a
Mr. Plunkett Of Adams. made a little sensa-
ton at the State House Friday, by declaring
that not one of the factories of Massachusetts
was 80 badly ventilated as the hall Of the
House of Representatives.
Ex-senator Revels colored, lectured on the
| 'sLaws of Health in Nashville last week. A
local paper sums up the lecture in these rules
Eat slowly and without drinking; masticate
thoroughly; keep clean; abstain from tobacco;
eat brown bread rather than pastry; quit when
yon are done, and keep good conscience.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell has been denied the
right to practice law in Illinois, although it was
admitted that she was qualified for the privi-
lege. The State courts refused her petition be-
cause she was woman, and the Supreme
Court of the United States because it was a
case over which it had no Jurisdiction.
A Cincinnati newspaper man, whose chiro-
| graphy had become absolutely unintelligible,
has succeeded in training several cockroaches
to write his editorials for him. The bugs are
dipped in ink, then placed on paper, and at the
word "go'' each starts off at brisk trot across
the sheet. The printers say this manuscript is
great improvement on the old. e..
curious accident happened to the late ex-
press on the Lowell, Mass, road on Tuesday
the train breaking loose from the engine while
running at the rate of forty miles an hour
The engineer ran ahead out of the way and
waited for the train to come up, when it was
recoupled again, none of the passengers being
any the wiser for the little mishap. X.
Eugene Hall, Rochester man, drank five
glasses Of whiskey and then felt in prime con.
dition to settle a little grievance he had with
his wife. He then looked at her moment
drew a revolver and shot her twice. There is
some doubt whether she will recover or not
and the Rochester papers are of the opinion
that there will be no difficulty, should she die,
in making out a case of premeditated murder
against him. r5-- 10 r.}' ... -rI..-. ,...l
The Supreme Lodge of the knights of Py-
thias at Richmond, after having the matter
under consideration for three days, sustained
by vote of GO to AZ the action of the Supreme
Chancellor in suspending the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, together with about $50 subor-
dinate lodges in that State, for alleged rebellion
against the laws of the Supreme Lodge This
action cuts off about 10000 knights from all
utilization with other members of the order.