The Portland daily press., 1873-06-05
News and other Items.

NEWS anu OCner Items.
One woman has set out 13, 900 forest trees in
Greeley, Colorado
Texans are talking of ST. 900 testimonial to
Gen. Mackenzie.
E1-Gov. Jewell has postponed his departure
for Europe until about the 1st of July.
The Shah's overcoat is worth million orna :
ments and ALL
The potato bug in Illinois has shouldered his
toothpick for the summer campaign.
The farmers in convention at indianapolis,
complain because the grub was bad there.
| Saucy.
| The New Orleans papers are choleric about
the reports of cholera there They say it's no
| such thing.
A Kentucky paper claims Captain JACK as a
Kentuckian by birth. He was probably born
on the Ozark and Bloody Ground. %
Parsoa Brownlow says that better men than
Ben Butler have been hanged And better
preachers than the parson have been malgned
Wonderful metamorphosis-The turning of
Captain Jack from red man into white Gle
plant as soon as captured
The government has twelve members of the
Signal Corps at five stations on the line of the
AoiiAohu up NlOuuG w dsIlluSlOU.
Lazy persons have their paradise in England
where neatly Autographed sermons may be had
ready made. Sermons in stones have been
heard of before,
The San Francisco Bulletin says that two
thirds of all the crop failures in California this
season would have been prevented by thorough
tllage, as cases of the latter abundantly show.
The La Crosse Democrat refuses to publish a
poem about the st. Paul railroad on the ground
that railroad men have feelings as well as
everybody else
| A Minnesota man who was fined $40 for cut
ting off Quarter of an inch of another mans
pigs tail, is demanding to know what value
the other man puts on the whole pig.
subscription paper for repairs to church
in Lawrence Mass. contained one entry, "a
Poor Man,S2," and directly beneath this anotl,-
er reading, "a Poorer One, ST."
A young man in Canada refused at the last
moment to marry the girl of his choice unless
her father would bind himself to support her "a,
long as the bridegroom's mother lived.
Many of the lumbermen in the Michigan
pineries are fugitives from justice. The i'm
mense forests render conceament from the Off
GERS of the law easy, and offenders adopt this
method of earning living for that reason.
The notorious Butler of Egyptian fame, with
his man Friday, Major Wadleigh, has turned
up among the Carlist volunteers in Spain At
ter dsgracing our Republic, he finds it eongen-
ial business to war upon another.
The Bureau of Education has despatch
from Texas to the effect that the Legislature
has finally succeeded in overthrowing the COM
mon school system of the State in spite of the
opposition and veto of Gov. Davis.
A foolish young man in Savannah, Ga, fired
his revolver into the bung-hole of an empty
kerosene barrel. The barrel burst breaking
his nose, gashing his forehead, and knocking
him more senseless than he was at first
Nearly all the Connecticut papers, always
excepting those of New Haven, rejoice in the
settlement of the Capital question and tina vr-
tual removal of the absurd relic of colonial de-
pendence from the field of politics.
Senator Pool of North Carolina has come to
grief with his new political invention, the "Ny-
tional Labor Council" This organization has
beheaded itself by throwing the Senator over
board, so to speak.
Inc Internal Revenue office reports 403 dis
siiieres IN operation May LIST; daily capas;ity,
L8o'9o1 gallons; distileries in operation june
iss, 9i9; daily capacity, 191 ,1S4 gallons; dstil
ieries closed in May, SO; decrease in dai,v ca
pacity, 5S,815 gallons.
A bereaved st. Lousan, who w,x c,,,od >.
Chicago and sent to an undertakers to oh,,;,
coffin for dead body that he believed 70 ~ -
son, was astonished, on entering drink;no
loon for refreshment, to find there that son vi,
and very thirsty.
Rev. DR.. Stone of California, formerly of
Park street church Boston, is credited with
saying ''that the newspaper is more feared to-
day in Congressional halls and the high places
of corruption and villany, than the laws and
courts, the sting of conscience and divine
WRATH
The sensational Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial announces that
the next session of Congress will be called upon
to investigate a certain Washington paving
company, the disclosures. in which win com =
pletely dwarf the trifling irregularities of II re
Credit Mobilier
Mary A. Ford, daughter of Daniel Ford of
Phoenix, Il. l., was found dead in her roo,r
Sunday, with her mouth partly filed vii,
snuff and swab lying in her throat. tt :"
ferred that she was rubbing her teeth wi II .ha
snuff when she fell into stuper, and u q sv,h