The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-28
News and Other Items.

The fruit crop is failure west as well as
east.
1t is announced that Senator Carpenter will
not prosecute the Tribune for libel.
Roscoe is said to have been a school-mate of
Kate Stoddard's
Carl Wilhelm, composer of the famous Ger
man war song, ''The Watch on the Rhine
died Tuesday at Schwalkalder Austria.
The ex-Empress Eugene has reached that
period when she refuses to sit for her photo
graph.
The daughter of White Cloud, the Sioux
chief, has married an Irishman named Pat
Mcclure.
Three heads Of departments on the Grand
Trunk Railroad have signed total abstinence
pledges in order to induce employees to do the
same. A good idea.
The Charleston News and Courier wants jeff
Davis to hold bis tongue. 1t says he owes as
much to the South "as the best service he can
render this people," Severe but sound.
Busiley, the aeronaut, assembled from San
francisco, Monday, in a balloon which fell in
to the bay. He jumped from the basket dis
lance of forty feet, and swan to Long Bridge
He YVES somewhat injured.
"A recent writer assures us that it is the 'sdel-
eterious habit of wearing clothing that is kill
ing off the Hawaiian people" He thinks that
the civilized ways introduced by the white peo-
pie are too great change from the primitive
simplicity of the natives.
'young lady in Schenectady has written
to Frank Walworth, eve all know you intend
ed to do no wrong, and we all love you as well
! MO did bacnra Inf
the love that laughs at locksmiths; but it is
very silly and very sweet.
| Mr.. J. K. Tyler, Of Charestown, late Cap
tain of the 29th Massachusetts Volunteers and
member of The Suffolk bar. over his own sig
nature in letter to the Transcript, announces
that he is the man who first suggested to Gen.
Butler that slaves were ''contraband of war;
The Chicago Post is quite sure that the first
duty OF the Changers is to extinguish every or
ator who starts out with, 81 have not the GOOD
fortune to be farmer, but have always felt
the most profound interest in the truly noble
and predominant pursuit of agriculture and
never was that interest greater than now.'
While Troy man was in a beer saloon the
| other day speaking TO the toast: ''Woman-
| God bless herp' his wife walked in and led him
of another festive meeting he will have that
| toast changed to woman something else-to
which improved sentiment he will respond
with an eloquence that will cast cloud upon
the fame Of Daniel Webster.-Neao York
| World.
Senator Morton in his speech at Athens, Sat-
urday discussing the morals of our congress
men, said that there was less intemperance in
the last Congress than in any one that ever as
sembed ia the Capitol. Gambling too. he
thought had declined, and he now knows of not
a single Senator who has the reputation of q
gambler.
The Attorney for the Post Office Department
has just delivered an opinion that Postmasters
under all circumstances must deliver letters to
the persons whose names are in the address, or
according to the order of those persons The
question came up on the application for infor-
nation from Postmaster who had been en-
loined by the Courts from delivering letter to
the person addressed,