The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-16
News and Other Items.

The Ohio Legislature adjourned to 60 to .
circus.
It is feared that the New York canals will
run through the State treasury as well as
through the State.
Holders of bonds under the fourth call, by
sending to the Treasury Department now, will
receive a coin check in full on June 1st.
An Alabama Congressman has given his
back pay to his wife. He prefers domestic
peace to the favor of his constituents.
A lady ninety-six years old, in New Hamp-
shire, is suffering from whooping-cough and
teething at the same time.
Richard T. Greener, the first colored man
who was graduated at Harvard QS7o). has
Joined the editorial staff of Fred Douglass
New Era newspaper at Washington.
Wisconsin papers continue to report that the
Spring has been most favorable for the putting
in of wheat, and that greatly increased
breadth has been planted
A ledger used by Patrick Henry as a store
keeper in 1885, and his Textbook as a lawyer,
beginning in 1853. have just heen deposited in
the Virginia State Library.
The Detroit Recorder contains the following
advertisement t: -"Wanted-In Detroit, Becker
county, MIMI, large number of marriage
able girls. None need apply unless they mean
business"
The estate of the late Major General H. W.
Halleck has been finally settled in the San
Francisco probate court. After deducting the
widows allowance, commissions and costs, the
estate nets the sum of $3.50, 7S5 gold.
The expense account of the Geneva arbitra-
ton was settled yesterday at the Treasury De-
paItnent, showing total cost of $144, 1000. The
appropriation unexpended was turned into the
Treasury.
Chicago is called upon to pay $640,OOO, with
interest, within the next twenty days, and has
nothing in its treasury to meet it with Unpaid
taxes are being looked after sharply in conse-
quence.
The official report shows that in the late Ken
lucky Democratic State Convention twenty
five counties were represented by proxies,
mainly State officials One man represented
nine counties. Sixty-four counties were not
represented at ALL
The postal cards are used in New York chief
ly as vehicles for advertising and fun. The
number used for jocose purposes on Wednes-
day was very great. Broad street was literally
Hooded with them. Most of the cards were in
the nature of alleged tailors, washerwomen's
and boarding house bills; and doubtless many
barbed joke was launched this way.
An enthusiastic advocate of temperance, in a
note to the ST. Louis Globe, protests agai nst
the proposed congressional convention in that
city. He asks the Globe, "Why don't you come
out against this damnable, huge drunk, that
set of sap-heads are trying to get up, to drink
whiskey and wine at the expense of the gulli-
BILE in st. LOUISE"
jackson, Tenn, reports boy in his sixth
year who does not know his letters, but does
know the multiplication table, and is a mar
vellous wrestler with figures generally. A WIS.,
itor told him it was seventy-five miles between
two points, and how many yards there are in
mile, and with scarcely moments hesitation,
he told successfully how many yards, feet and
inches there were in that distance.
The poem Of General Van Zandt at the meet
ing of the Army of the Potomac, contained
some laughable illusions to Generals Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan, and brought down the
house and an extensive smile on the Presidents
somewhat immovable face. The allusion to
General Butler was as follows:
"Ben Butlers great head like billiard ball shining
He caromed on Bethel, and pockets himself;
But the maids of Orleans his fair laurels are twnng
And he always rolls off when he's laid the shelf'
Charges were made to the President day or
two ago, against the Indian Peace Commits
sioners, growing out of their recent awards of
contracts in New York, which it is asserted
were not let to the lowest bidder, and that
there is difference of several hundred thou
sand dollars between those awarded and the
lowest bids. The President at once directed
that the contracts be held in allegiance and that
the Secretary of tine Interior request the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs to report all the
facts for his inspection. The President is said
to be losing faith in these gentlemen, since they
have added to their advisory powers the con-
troll Of the whole policy of the department, and
have taken the contracts out of the hands of
the Commissioner