The Portland daily press., 1873-01-06
News and Other Items.

In the case of the new Chicago Postmaster
it is asserted that the deputy positively declin-
ed the appointment before themew official was
appointed by the President.
The Brooklyn Union and New York Times
| are publishing alleged interviews with ''gentle-
men of high social standing" to prove that the
| Tribune has lost large nun bers of subscribers,
and that its present financial hacker is Jay
Gould
Love of Boston is not epidemic at the South
The Savannah Republican says: ''The pious
people of Boston have counted out the Demo
cratic Mayor, Mr. Gaston and counted in
! Pierce. The lesson of the fire seems to have
been lost on that generation of vipers."
| Warmoth, it is stated, has subsidized into the
| practice of the law If he had his deserts the
law would practice pretty freely upon him and
| his i'll acquired possessions.
| Ex-Gov. Weston of Manchester has written
letter to the chairman # the Democratic
| State Committee, withdrawing his name from
| the Democratic State Convention as a cand-
date for Governor ll-ai su-a ~
The colored cadet at Annapolis now enjoys
entire immunity from hazing, the midshipmen
having i'll formal meeting justified the dis
OOh-
gers, and voted to let him alone in future.
The Peoria ReUieao says, 'Our worthy coro-
ner gives, We believe, general satisfaction. He
doesn't know any too much, but we understand
that, by custom, knowledge isn't requisite to
the Office in Peoria county .if
Secretary Delano telegraphs from Havana
that his health is entirely restored, and that he
is no longer afflicted with lumbago, and will
probably return soon after the embling of
Congress.
Southern Georgia is afflicted with new spe-
cies of ghost. A Memphis man went there the
other day to investigate, and he saw the ghost
of hog walk into a room of which all the
doors were bolted. The percentage of strych.
nine and alcohol in the whiskey in Southern
Georgia is not known. ~ 1l33 nIt 4..t
''Died of insurance Adjustors' may yet be
the epitaph on the tombstones OF some Boston
merchants who were burned out aud handed
over to the tender merees of sharpeTs disposed
to skin the teeth OF their victims.-BoStoa Truy-
etler.
Mrs. Sherman, who has murdered several
husbands and about dozen children and is
now in prison at New Haven, has confessed
her past crimes, the whole history of which,
when published will be one of the most start
ling and thrilling tales of crime ever written.
She now says she is perfectly willing to die, but
hopes she may yet have chance to do some
good. r->. -f.,.f.. ..t,,. ..-.E- III f.-t-.s
A Philadelphia court lately spent two days
over dog case, and the animal, poor weak
looking creature cost his owner $4,000 III dam
ages And yet Chief Justice Cartier of Wash
ington has decided dogs to be nuisance
=,
twenty pounds of nitro-glycerine, and his own
CT has filled his pen with feather beds.
During the late freshets in Polk county, Ga
little son of Widow Moore attempted to save
his little sister by swimming with her to a
place of safety The brave little fellow was
borne down by the current, and he s,nd the ob-
ject of his care were found, when the waters
subsidized, dead in each others arms.
The production of salt in the Saginaw dis
trict during the season just closed was 632 coo
bushels, which is about 10000 bushels more
than the average of the previous three seasons.
Six of the signers of jeff. Davis's bail bond
are dead, but Gerritt Smith, who headed the
list, still lives.
Several wells in Buffalo failed after the slight
shock of an earthquake felt there in 1871, and
have been dry ever since.
DIR. Edward Eggleston, late editor of the
Hearth and Home, ard author Of the Hoosier
scboolmaster'' and other popular stories of
Western life has been engaged to write the
NY NY Of Peter Cartwright, the pioneer Of Meth
An in the West
ayo, a iowa man hid pot of silver few years
Der wbe,aaow, for the life of him can't remem-
ne put II