The Portland daily press., 1873-02-26
News and Other Items.

A boy has won the reward and medal offered
by the Nebraska State board of Horticulture
for tree planting He set out $50 trees on the
day appointed.
Tie State Industrial home for girls at White
Sulphur Springs, Ohio, was burned Monday
afternoon. One hundred and fifty-three per-
sons were turned out.
One of those national bores whose delight it
is to burrow in census returns has discovered
that there is one pig to every one and four
tenths men in the United States.
man who bought thousand Havana ci-
gars recently, on being asked what he was car
rying, replied that they were tickets to course
of lectures to be given by his wife.
tits estimated that since the discovery of
gold Nevada county, California has yielded
$195 GOO coo, and her mines are not exhausted
yet
The brother of a Nevada miner dreamed that
the miner was killed by the caving in of mine
and tcld him of it in a letter. Two days after
the letter was received the miner was killed in
the manner indicated.
A guest at Nashville hotel was robbed of
all his clothes one night recently, and as no
one would lend him suit he was obliged to lie
in bed until the police hunted up the thief and
recovered the property.
A dispatch from Bayou Sara, louisiana, re-
ports the sinking of the steamer Glasgow, and
she will be a total loss. The cargo is valued at
$4,000, and is fully insured. No insurance on
the boat, but the freight list is insured $S,0O0
The supreme court of Illinois has decided
that the situs for taxation of shares of national
banks is the county where the bank is stu
ated, and not the county where the sharehold-
ers may severally reside
Senator Hill of Georgia, naturally objects to
being classed as Democrat, as he says he was
a Wing till he became Republican, was for
the Union all through the war; and voted for
Grant both times.
sBuchu" Helmbold is now earning his living
in Paris, as an assistant in large drug house.
This, for man who appeared at Long Branch
with turn out of six-in-hand, and whose ca
reer was one of luxurious display, is certainly a
remarkable change.
Our conscript fathers sometimes indulge in
the pleasures of the dance, and are quite proud
of their achievements in that line. Says Sena-
tor Justin Morrill, think can dance. as
we'll as Hannibal Hamlin, and am sure I can
dance better than Zachariah Chandler.
The other day Fitz Hugh Lee sat at dinner
with Pinchback of Louisiana, in Washington,
and when spoken to afterward about it replied:
'sPnchback did not disturb me, and hope my
presence was not distasteful to him. l accept
the situation
James W. Sheffield, Lowell policeman, got
DRINK on Saturday and beat his wife nearly to
DEATH He aimed pistol at her head, but it
was snatched from him by parties who came to
the womans rescue. Sheffield has been on the
police force for seven years, and has hitherto
borne good character.
The premium on gold is now again at pref
ty high figure. Meantime the foreign imports
continue large, the total for the last week at
New York amounting to $11, 1854, 1868, of which
5000, S45 consists of dry goods. These heavy
importations are of great assistance to the
operators" in keeping up the premium, as
they send out specie.
The people of Illinois are waging a war with
| the Illinois Central Railroad, the question be-
| ing "Shall the State law be enforced?' The
Legislature at a recent session PASSED a law for
/ bidding railroads to collect more than three
| cents mile for fares. The Central Railroad
| continued to enforce the old rates. and the peo-
pie have taken to riding free, as the conductors
will not take the offered three cents a mile and
| dare not pnt them off the train