The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-06
News and other Items.


MI Sinclair, recent publisher of the Tribune,
has gone into bankruptcy.
Ihe daughters of the late Chief Justice Ia.
ney are so poor as to be obliged to act as law.
yer's copyists for livelihood. A fund is talk
ed of for their relief
Edwin Forests divorced wife asks the law to
pass over to her all her late husbands property.
The suit involves q novel question. Mrs. F.
secnred divorce from him, but he could not
secure a divorce from her. Does this fact
leave her his heir?
The unstinted use of salt on the tracks by the
New York city railroad companies is causing
much trouble to owners of horses, and the cf.
fects upon the people are also said to be quite
marked. Horses are condemned to be killed
because of the hoof rot caused by the salt; in
some cases large patches of flesh fall off the
legs of the animals compelled to travel in the
brine. The Times says that hundreds Of horses
are in manned and crippled condition be-
cause of this illegal use of salt.
There is growing impression that we have
too much legislation. They think so in Penn
sylvania Hence the constitutional convention
nave just ucCiueu IOr Dleuuldl SESSIONS.
Far-seeing Kentuckians are taking measures
to educate the colored children of the State,
and bill to establish separate schools for
them and raise money therefor, is about to be
presented in the legislature.
The pictures for the Daily Graphic, the COM
lug illustrated daily paper of New York, are to
be made by the interchangeable process, by
w fho eli 10 all 4.
old copper etchings, can be put on the press in
half an hour after the design enters the office.
Mark Twain has written lecture, which he
proposes to deliver at $500. OF SO, a night, on
his rights to the vacant Sandwich Island throne.
He probably lays no claim to kinship with the
deceased King Kamehameha, but rests his
title in the fact that he has no other means Of
support.
Mobile is troubled with strikes. A disorder
ly clock made 912 Of 'em.
: Sixteen ex-Confederate. army officers hold po-
sitions on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Since the Arkansas Legislature forbade the
carrying of concealed weapons the citizens
don't take the trouble to conceal them.
A New York baker, who is a Spirituaist. dis
penses with yeast for raising his bread, and
does flourishing business.
A Macedonia, N. Y, dentist was cowhided
by pretty dressmaker, recently, for marrying
another woman after she had gone to the ex-
pense of procuring her bridal outfit.
Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut murderess
wants the manuscript of her narrative, in Oh
der to work in few more characters, whom
she unlntentionally omitted in her hasty COM
position.
Governor Jacobs of West Virginia refused to
give certificates of election to either the repre-
sen iativcs elected in August or those elected in
October last. and he will only give a qualified
certificate to Mr.. Hereford, who was success
full candidate at both elections,
The new Missouri Senator, Bogy, is pictured
by St. Louis paper as ''the most perfect
petrfaction of a politician we have ever known
To move him from single position which he
took up twenty years ago is absolutely impos-
sble''
The New Orleans Picayune sneers at the re-
port that Paul Morphy is successful lawyer
in that city, saying that one "must go from
home to learn the news
A Washington newspaper describes General
Butler as this stern uncompromsing Ameri-
can Cromwell" Now, where is the American
Napoleon?
A negro in Georgia has proved that his race
is incapable of citizenship by returning one
hundred dollars paid by mistake He mas not
read the history of Kansas or Congress, and
has no political ambition.
In the House Tuesday Mr.. Peters presented a
petition of the citizens of Bangor asking that
foreign goods in original packages may be made
subject to taxation for State and municipal
purposes.
When Louis Napoleon had received rcfusals
from four different courts in an wer to offer for
marriage, he broke chair in fit of passion,
and sa d: NOW, these gentlemen, my cousins
shall have an Empress of my own making,
and they shall honor her as such, as if she
were the daughter of an Emperor The next
day he proposed to Eugene.
Senator Pomeroy has returned to Washing
ton where he is i'll. He says that Mr.. ingalls,
is a good Republican and his personal friend.
Miss Dodge, better known as 'Gail Hamil-
ton," has not been sick with varioloid or small
pox, as has been reported. She was i'll fer
nearly month with lung fever, but is now en-
tlrely recovered, and is now spending the win
ter in Washington with her cousin, Mrs Blaine.
: The Minnesota Legislature is likely to be
soon called upor to act upon modification of
the Ohio liquor law, providing license with To-
cal option, and rendering the seller liable for
all damages from he use of the liquor he SELLS
A by in the book room of the Common
aoeGlm Office in Topeka, loaded the foreman's
pipe with powder The pipe was discharged;
SO was the boy, The foreman thinks he will
ultimately rec over the sight of one eye.
And now the Wisconsin Legislature proposes
to forbid its members and State officers from
accepting railroad passes.
A bill is before the New Jersey Legislature
providing that hereafter all railroad companies
heretofore or hereafter chartered, shall bear
their full share of county expenses, the costs of
lighting streets, supporting police and fire de.
partments, &c.; that all railroads running
through or terminating in any Incorporated city
or town of the State shall be assessed for State.
county and municipal tax, for all their property
situated in said cities or towns.