The Portland daily press., 1873-03-20
News and Other Items.

California has ST. ,552, 25S.64 in its treasury.
Mr. Jennings, editor of the New York Tim es
has gone to Europe for rest
The servant girls of Ottawa, Ontario, have
formed a Grades union"
Cats in Jago county, California, have the
epizootic very severely.
There are 1000 Cinnamon on the steamer
now due at San Francisco from the Orient
A Philadelphia lady who was married last
week wore dress of white cut Lyons velvet,
trimmed with lace, which cost $4,000 in Paris
There is snow bank on the side of Mount
Prospect, in Holderness, N. II. which good
judges have estimated to be 80 feet deep.
walls and blown away. No one was injured.
Governor Hartranft is commended in the
Philadelphia Press for his disposition to veto
bills of doubtful character
Prof. Lebig, the great German chemist,
says he is convinced the time is coming when
American beer will drive German beer from
the market.
More than 800 Presbyterian clergymen not
counting editors, secretaries ard missionaries
are said to be idle in the vineyard, having
nothing to do in their profession.
At Dalton, Mass last week little boy fell on
the front steps and bit his tongue almost off.
The wound is shockingly painful and very like
ly to produce death.
Henry G. Bowen refused $250,0OO cash for
the Brooklyn Union last week. He holds it
firm at 100000, on which it annually pays
fifteen cent
The price of the latest murder which had a
price was an axe, the ownership of which was
dicpu tadh INV bo nd ;c
victim, John Sheldon, of Goose Island, Ill.
The annual report of the affairs of the Mass
achusetts Lodge of Good Templars, recently in
session, shows an actual membership of Il, 718,
decrease Of 21s2 the past year.
The Common Council of Chicago has passed
an ordinance declaring that the aisles of
churches and places of amusement must not be
DISTRACTED by chairs, or in any other way.
The Supreme Court will in few days decide
whether women can claim the right to be adj
mitted to practice before the United States
courts under the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution.
The Pickens Is. CO. Sentinel states that
meteor fell mort Inward of that place on Tuesday
morning, 25th nit, at daylight, and exploded
near the earth, making loud report resemb-
ling that of cannon.
To meet the necessities of the law abollshing
the tracking privilege the appropriation for
stamps for the different depar ments exceeds
By 100000 the amount appropriated last year
under the old system.
One of the long-lost husbands made his ap-
and with tears and $4,000 induced his divorce
wife to kick her second husband down the
back stairs into pig-pen.
On Sunday afternoon during divine service at
the Flatbush, N. Y, Presbyterian Church, the
congregation were startled by the creaking and
swapping of the rafters. While they gazed
alb out in alarm the roof was lifted from the
The Pennsylvania Legislature proposes to in
crease the pay of its members to $780,. and a
proposition is being discussed to allow extra
pay to members serving on special committees
to hear election cases.
The galvanized pro-slavery faction in Louisi-
ana is making last effort against the Kellogg
State government by sending circular letter
to the Governors of other States asking their
sympathy.
New York has 1,5O2,684 children of school
age, of whom 494 $50 are in daily attendance in
the common schools-that is to say, less than
one third of the whole number receive regular
instruction, although upward of million at
tended the schools during some portion OF the
past year.
A Pennsylvania college proposes to establish
a department of cookery. A bill is pending in
the Legislature which provides for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to build the general cook
shop as an adjunct to the college, and the sci
ence of cookery will, therefore, become part
of the curriculum if the bill passes
The Springfield Union makes a point very
pertinently thus "Our legislature censured
Charles Sumner for proposing to erase the
names of the battles of the civil war from the
flags of the regular army, but it is strangely 81
lent about the grab of 1,650,00O made on the
Treasury under the leadership of Gen. Butler,
one of the Massachusetts members of Con-
press"