The Portland daily press., 1873-09-03

A Minnesota editor has succeeded in palming
off the dscalogue upon the readers of his paper
original communication
1t is understood that the gold clique exported
more specie to England in July, in twenty-sev-
Ell days, than had been shipped for seven
months before.
A. T. Goldsmith, of Dover, n H, was one
of party of American engineers who raised
the American flag on the highest peak of the
Andes, on the 4th of July, in snow knee deep.
Paul de Cassagnac, the noted French bully
and journalist, who is said to have killed eight
cen men in duels, is reported as likely to seek
refuge in America, from his present unpopu-
larity at home.
Two young ladies OF la Crosse, were stand
ing by the side of ditch thirteen feet wide,
which they didn't know how to cross, when
their escort said Snakes" and they cleared it
at bound.
A homely old Kentucky widow dug up $4,000
IN gold the other day, and now twenty -one
young men sit on her doorstep at shutdown and
compare her physiognomy to the beautiful face
of an angel.
A negro stole the carpet from a Tennessee
church, and cut it up into horse blankets, and
the congregation all went over Broal river to
see him immersed From some unaccountable
accident he was held under the water Just one
minute too long.
Western gentlemen here state that it is no
torious that all the government traders at posts
in the upper Missouri river country, constantly
supply the indians with arms. and ammunition
Notwithstanding the law against it, and that
the rapnpt 6iSpoyary of Groo
the hands of warlike Sioux is not surprising
Cakes Ames' brother and executor, says tina
his estate will not settle more than $4,000, 900,
or about ole-third what was estimated at his
death. The net results of all his Pacific rail-
road operations and speculations turns out
positive loss
The expedition that set out from San Fran
cisco almost year ago to recover the treasure
in Spanish vessel sunk off the coast of Ecua-
dor. in 1902, has proved sad failure. The ve>-
sci has returned with only about $4,000, while
the enterprise has cost the shareholders over
$4,000.
Rev. John Moore who was arrested at Green
wich, L. l.. last week on suspicion of being en-
gagged in recent burglaries in that place after
au examination, was discharged from custody,
it being shown that he had been mistaken for
one of two men who had tried to break in to the
house of one of the citizens.
Minister Washburn writes from Paris on the
18th ult, to the editor of paper in Washing
ton, to state that he never wrote the letter gem
orally published and attributed to him, in
which he was quoted as saying that 1.-THE peo-
pie don't send their representatives tow ashng-
ton to act like princes, buck the tiger and keep
half dozen mistresses."
Maurice Fl. Richardson, of Fitchburg, Mass,
Harvard graduate of the present year, has
just performed the extraordinary feat of swim
ming all the way from the stone pier at Fal.
mouth, across to Martha's Vineyard, distance
of seven miles and half, in two hours and fif-
ty five minutes. A friend escorted him with a
boat but gave no assistance.
Private advices from Utah from a gentleman
who has travelled extensively throughout the
southern portions of the territory, represent the
Mormons as intensely disloyal to the General
| Government Their suspicion Of foreigners
is SO great that every movement is watched. and
they seem have access to the mails Three let
| tiers received in succession from the southern
portion of that territory have been opened