The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-10
News and Other Items.

NEWS anu UtucI AtcMS.
strakosch has purchased the exclusive right
=, perform Verdi's "Aida" in America.
Congressman Coburu of Indiana refuses to
take the ''salary steal"
Congressman Roosevelt has given his back
~, 70 tho New York Board of Education, to
ho rsed TO furnish prizes for deserving pupils
A Michigan man, whose wife and children
wore burned to death by the explosion OF
kerosene lamp, died of grief few days after
A Texas thief, who stole three accordions
from a music store, has been sentenced accord
ingly. EfN ..o.
The London Times publishes an advertise
ment soliciting assistance for Don Carlos OF
Spain.
The Cincinnati pork-packers are compiainins
because the railroads make too fat tning ou'
of it. EfE r
The cerebro-spinal meningitis is prevailing
laroelv at Haverhill, where six out OF eleven
deaths were occasoned by it last week.
The soanish Minister of War has been au-
thor zed to purchase fifty thousand rifles
abroad.
st. Adams had dull buutter market on
Tuesday, and prices ranged from IS to 3s cents
for medium to good, and 40 to 45 cents 1or
choice and selected.
A London dispatch says that Rev. Charles
Sturgeon has been offered fifty thousand dol
lars to deliver fifty lectures in the United
States.
Corporal punishment doesn't 60 down in
English schools. A schoolmaster tried his cane
on one of his pupils in South Stafford recently,
for which he was fined ten pounds and costs
and ordered to the cells until the money should
be paid
St. Louis is again wild with excitement and
delight, having got out another directory, which
gives the population of twelve of the thirteen
wards of the city at 42S, 126-an advance of
Ill, 1852 over the census of 1870.
The President recently stated, in CONVEX
sation with two leading Republicans, that he
fully approves of the financial policy of Score
tary Richardson, and does not believe that the
New York excitement will last long
Virginia and Maryland have been for some
time endeavoring to have their boundary line
settled by commissioners, but they cannot
agree, and it is now proposed to have the dis
puted questions brought up before the Supreme
Court of the United States
A secondhand furniture dealer on Michigan
avenue Detroit, hung out card last Thursday
inscribed, "Buggy! For Sale!' and inadvert-
emily hung it upon a secondhand bedstead on
the sidewalk, where it attracted much atten-
ton.
The Memphis Avalanche says it is evident
that, unless producers change tactics, the COM
ing planting of cotton will be the most extern
sive since the war, if not in the history of
American cotton, and that, with anything like
plentiful season, there will be, next fall and
winter, plentiful as the supply of labor is more
cotton than can be conveniently gathered.
The case of the Rev. Alexander Ellis, colored,
against the Narragansett Steamship Company,
growing out of the refusal of the walters to
serve him because he persisted in occupying a
seat at the captains table after being mortified
to sit elsewhere, has been decided by rescrpt
from the Massachusetts Supreme Court affim-
ing the rights of the defendants to reserve ta-
BILE for the officers and exclude passengers there
from.
Nashua, N. H., sends us another dog story a
family there, residing near the railroad, having
| permitted little daughter, five years old, to
| play about the yard in company with New
foundland dog. The other day the child es-
capped from the yard and went upon the track
just as train was coming. The dog saw and
appreciated the danger: and quickly seizing the
little girl by her dress, puledher back upon the
sidewalk and stood over her until the train had