The Portland daily press., 1873-03-06
News and Other Ifnms

The Missouri lower house has passed pro
rata freight bill
Ihe charter election in Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
Tuesday, resulted in the choice of H. s. East
man, Republican for Mayor by 800 majority.
Connecticut firm is about to ship 700 boxes
Of clocks to the "Heathen Chinee"
St. Johnsbury, VT, is to have system of
wafer works at a cost of $150,000.
''Cophology" is said to be the accepted term
for the science of instructing deaf mutes.
The New York Senate. by vote of to 10,
on Tuesday, refused to declare Tweed's seat va
cant.
Luther CALDWELL Democrat, was elected
Mayor of Elmira, N. Y, Tuesday, over George
M. Darwin, Republican, by 126 majority
Mary Brown of Brooklyn, N. Y, committed
suicide by means of laudanum, on Saturday,
because her father refused his permission to
her marriage with he man of her choice.
At the municipal election in Troy. N. Y on
Tuesday, William Kemp, Republican, was
elected Mayor over William Ingram, Demo-
crat, by about 800 majority
Three counties in Pennsylvania have just
voted in favor OF liquor license, and ten against
it. Other couctes vote on the third Friday in
| March. .....s ..... ,.... ,...
| The St. Louis Democrat thanks the exposure
of Credit Mobilier for the defeat of other jobs
1t feels quite sure that but for this "the cotton
tax steal would have been successful"
The Louisville Courier Journal is quite cer-
| tain Blaine is candidate for the next Presi-
| dent, while the Cincinnati Commercial is equal
| ly confident that Elhu B. Washburne is the
man. ....-,
! The people of Florida are making the pal
| metto quite a source of wealth. Thousands of
dollars worth of goods are being manufacture
ed from this material, which is adding greatly
to the business and prosperity of the State
| Two of the models for the Farragnt statue are
already designed as ''the foreman of fire COM
pany tied to chimney, and calling the boys to
| let nobody take their water" and san aged
| gentleman with balance pole about to walk
| rope" 80. -.... .ss..--.-...s -.. ....., .
| The report of the City Missionary at Taun-
ton shows the folly of giving money to the des-
titute for them to spend themselves One par
ty who received an order for some fish purchas-
ed brook trout at Is cents pound, and another
laid in stock of cucumbers at 12 cents each
Alas! Judge DAILY of the New York Common
Pleas Court has decided that SON -in-law is
bound to support his mother-in-law. Another
judge of the same court recently decided in the
case, however, that the reverse was the law,
| and that when a man committed matrimony he
/ did not marry the whole family. That's COM
| mon sense at any rate,
| A man whom DR. Chalmers engaged to man.
age disorderly Sunday School kept his eyes
wide open during praying, and when one boy
| thrust q pin into another he marched up the
aisle, still praying, and cuffed that boys ears,
and went back again, praying all the way. AT
ter that he was master of the situation, for the
| boys thought that man who could watch and
pray like that could not be put down.
The Richmond State Journal thinks it mis-
homer to call the schools of Virginia ''free''
when provision Of the law requires the pay
ment of the capitation tax for the preceding
year by the father, before the children shall be
admitted to the schools, and doesn't see the
wisdom or justice of Furnishing the poor unfor-
tunate children of worthless, improvdent,
drunken fathers by denying to them the benc-
tits of free school education. The Vhig joins
1t In hoping for change of the law. .LH