The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-07
News and Other Items.

| The Boston 7faueller calls Gen. Butler s.no.
litcal trout tickIer.'
The woman question-How shall have my
spring suit made?
AT wooden weddings in Montana clubs arc
among the gifts to the welded pair.
Among the Arabs the inability of wife to
make bread is good ground of divorce.
e Ex-senator Nye of Nevada will spend the
summer abroad, but not as Minister
Bret Harte and Dion Bourcicault are writing
play in collaboration for New York thea
tire
The Young Mems party, propose to have
something to say in the next Kentucky election
with Col. J. Stoddard johnson for Guberna-
torial candidate.
The Newburyport Herald says shad in large
quantities are being taken in Merrmac river.
the law prohibiting the setting of nets to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The New York Times will renew the moor
ehildren's excursions, inaugurated last summer.
and the first of the series will take place on the
21st INST
The heaviest brain on record has been lately
found in the skull of London bricklayer, who
was unable either to read or write. 1t weighed
sixty-seyen ounces.
Pittsburg coroner makes noscharge where
he sits on young man who parted his hair in
the middle. He says that his personal salts
faction is enough without the fee.
An Ohio Democratic paper denies that Hon.
William p Groesbeck is, or will be, a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor of that State
An Irishman in Bridgeport, Conn.,, who was
told that his employers store had burned down,
exclaimed, "Well, l can't see how that can be,
when have the key in my pocket
Henry AWise having refused to run for Gov
ernor of Virginia on either the Republican or
Conservative ticket, is said to mediate an in
dependent candidacy.
Oregon papers note that most of the emil
grants into that State now come from what
they call the Western Atlantic States, princi-
pally Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue de-
cides that toilet soaps which are recommended
to ''soften and beautify the skin, &C." are not
to be classed as soaps at all, but must pay the
special tax as medicinal articles"
The closing up of the five Central American
missions and their consolidation under one d.
plomatic representation, will save the govern
ment $27, 800 annually in the matter of salaries
and something more in contn gent expenses
Capt. Semmes, of Alabama notoriety, was in
Newburyport on Thursday, and attended a
wedding, where he met the owners of several
vessels which ne CAPTURED during the rebellion,
but who refused an introduction.
At Cheshire, Mass, the snow is so deep in
the woods west of Greyock Mountain as to in
terfere with the teamsters in getting out the
logs showed under last winter Some of the
lumber roads are still blocked up with snow
from six to ten feet deep. Next!
According to the logic of our new temperance
law, says the Rochester, N. Y, Chronicle, the
liquor-seller should be hanged for a murder
committed by one Of his customers; and per-
haps in that waya good deal of unpleasant re-
spoons bility may be shifted one of these days
| A young Westfeldian visited his sweetheart
| in West Springfield the other evening, and sat
up with her till one o'clock, when her father
made his appearance and invited the young
man to remain to break fast. 1t is said that ne
Immediately started for home and has not been
| in the vicinity since.