The Portland daily press., 1873-03-27
News and Other Items,

From 30 to 40 cents was paid for butter at st.
Adams on Tuesday A
An Iowa cattle show will be undertaken this
year without horse race, for the purpose Oh
seeing how it will work.
A man has lust been indicted at Omaha Tor
taking winter ride over the Union racine on
the pass of deceased Congressman.
Thomas Ball, the sculptor, is engaged upon
the modelling of a figure of Saint Paul. He
has got beyond American statesmen.
The Illinois Senate has passed bill to regu-
late freight tolls on railways, and killed the
compulsory education bill
There is farm in Essex County, Mass,
which has been in possession of the same fami-
ly for 237 years. a
Gloucester, Mass, like Portsmouth, N. H
proposes to have reunion of its sons and
daughters next summer
Only six of the eighty scholars in the Du-
baque High School were able to write the
Lords Prayer correctly from memory.
The Wilmington (Del) Commercial thinks
tne'New Jersey Fishery and Oyster laws mod
els OF exclusiveness and injustice.
A Florida paper complains that pigs are kent
IN the cellar beneath the church it its town, and
that they squeal during services.
Southern papers are beginning to urge the re-
moval of Jefferson Davis disabilities, so that
he may be sent to Congress-
The new Indiana temperance law is being
rlgidly enforced in the State, and MANY cases
are coming before the courts.
Inc legal weight of bushel of corn has been
reduced in Iowa from seventy to sixty-cight
pounds.
PRESIDENT Grant, on taking his oath of Office,
Kissed the words to be fonnd in the eleventh
chapter of Isaiah, second and third verses.
Inc Russians are beginning to emigrate to
America in such numbers as to attract atten-
ton in Europe.
Policeman George w. Matthews of Lawrence
has been arrested on the charge of bigamy.
He has one wife in Webster, and another in
lawrence. s
Scotland has just tried electricity as a means
of firing blasting charges, and is surprised at
the great masses of granite which were up
heaved.
General Mosby was informed by the Pres-
dent on Saturday that he shall visit Richmond
and Norfolk in a few weeks, but shall not go
any further South this year
The remains of the Leavenworth (Kansas)
Bulletin was sold by the Sheriff, last week, for
81, 1875, to satisfy a Judgment in favor of ex-
Senator Caldwell
The farmers of Illinois are to hold an s'anti-
extortion" convention in Springfield, April 2.
All county and town agricultural societies are
requested to send delegates,
A British society has lately had Its member
CHI in. s,or 4 1,x,k e -:f sc
hundred and fifty skulls from the Consul at
Peru
The Boston Transcript says that nearly all
the national banks IN this part of the country
pay half-yearly dividends of five per cent.
They have earned six or seven per cent since
October
Rhode Island man invented torpedo in
the shape of kernel of corn which is design
ed for the Requirement of crows. As soon as
that offensive bird takes hold of it, it explodes
and blows the top of his hand off.
Mississippi Sheriff makes an uncommon
demand upon public credulity, asserting that
both he and his wife were chloroformed by bur-
glars, and $1,000 carried off from his house.
The money was public funds. of course.
A gentleman in North Carolina built fire in
his house on his wedding day, twenty-five years
ago,aud has kept it burning night and day ever
since, and declares his intention never to per-
NIT it to die out while he lives.
New Haven lady. who has been dumb for
two months past, was frightened into distinct
utterance, Saturday, by the sudden and silent
approach of a member of her family while she
was ransacking the attic of her house.
An Alabama paper, describing a recent exc
cution, says: HE apostrophized the sun and
the trees bidding them farewell. and, turning
to the Sheriff, as the cap was being drawn over
his head. said: 'Mr. Sheriff, do your duty"
Two young ladies in Minnesota town volun-
teered to nurse the family of neighbor during
an attack of a contagious disease, and both
were taken i'll, died, and were buried in COM
mon grave.
The SANTANA Bay Company has adopted flag
and seal, The colors of the former are blue,
red and white, aud the device of the seal in
cludes figures of Columbus and Liberty, with
the inscription Coward" and the name of the
company.
Mankato, Mimi, is to have prize ball. The
best dancer is to have a sewing machine, and
the one who holds out the longest new suit of
clothes. The best dressed lady is also to have
prize, and SO is the gentleman who brings the
most girls.
1t is said that it has recently been discovered
that liquor dealers in Harrisburg buy large
numbers of empty ink-bottles, which they fill
with whiskey and sell to the members as "ipk,
warrante l not to corrode," which accounts for
the frightful stationery bills
The Pennsylvania constitutional convention
has adopted a section making it bribery for
member of the legislature to receive from any
corporation or person "any money testimoni
al, reward, thing of valne, etc." for his vote,
or to act as agent or attorney for corporation
or person. ~ -
A Mr.. Won Wick, ex-medium, has made
something of a stir in Chicago by the exposure
of spiritualistc quackery. He has just pub
lisl ed general challenge to any medium in the
city to make manifestations which he cannot
expose. Several mediums offer to accept the
challenge, and lively time is expected.
A Philadelphia physician makes the cheerful
prediction that we are t. have period of pes
tilences. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nep-
tune are all approaching the earth; and with
them come plague, famine, and very hot and
bitterly cold weather. The doctor was born
several centuries too late He would have made
an excellent astrologer.
A New York toy merchant imported, among
other goods, lot of little wooden statues rep
resenting the London '..heavy swell" 1t hap
pened that the beard of the toy swell was made
OF wool, and the Appraiser accordingly decided
that a duty of 30 cents per pound and So per
cent ad valorem should be paid, as the manu-
1acture was partly wool. This decision knock
&c all the fun out of the statues, and the i'm
portaton OF Londod ''swells" has greatly d.
minished