The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-19
News and Other Items,

Gov. Beveridge didn't veto the License bill
recently passed by the Illinois Legislature.
A professional writer of begging letters was
recently arrested in London, and sentenced to
seven years penal servitude.
Judge Gilmor, of Baltimore, has fined a
plug-ugly $50 for indecent and blasphemous
language in the street.
Two prominent citizens of Concord, N. H.,
have been sued for alleged lobby services with
the State Legislature in behalf of a railroad.
| A widow in Ohio has sued a lodge of Odd
Fellows for the weekly allowances and the
funeral expenses of her late husband
The Governor and Council of New Eamp.
shire yesterday appointed Thursday, April 10,
Fast Day, in that State.
Ex-senator Dixon, of Connecticut, is quite
i'll, and has been confined to his house for a
long time. az
A colony is being planted at Skiddy, Kan
sas, in which no one is to be tolerated who uses
tobacco in any shape.
The Governor of Nebraska has salary Of
$1,000, and is allowed $4,000 for gardener,
coachman, Secretary and other incidentals.
We are informed that about 500 men are en-
ployed on the Intercolonial Railway, building
immense snow-sheds similar to those on the
Pacific Railroad.
A Vermont paper says its town has five ply
sicians, aud in the same paragraph maliciously
inquiries if it is not about time to lay out the
cemetery incorporated by the last Legislature.
Since Mr.. Broughton, the champion checker
player of Maine, beat Mr.. Littlefeld, of Bos-
ton, year ago, they have played twelve games,
and of these Mr.. Littlefield beat four and eight
were drawn.
An Alabama paper thinks the disabilities of
President Davis ought to be removed, that
he may be sent to Congress now that Alex
H. Stephens is going there.
A Kentucky paper in reporting wedding
says that the bride was not particularly hand.
some, but her father threw in seven mules, aid
the husband was satisfied"
Tobacco smoke contains ammonia, pyridine,
picolme, lutidine, colidine, formic, acetic, pro-
picnic, bntyric, valerianic and carbolic acids,
and creosote-and, Trask says, death.
new military company has been recently
organized in Manchester. 1t is called Cover
nor Straw's Rifles, and consists of forty-fve
men.
and afterwards their father married sister of
their wives. Most of their spare time is now
devoted to efforts to ascertain the relationship
of their children.
The New York physicians say that George
Francis Train is a lunatic, but the District At
torney declines to assume the responsibility of
sending him to a hospital, and Judge DAILY is to
decide what shall be done with him.
The New York Senate has passed, q to 6,
the bill already passed by the House in relation
to chalengers of jurors in criminal cases, Civ
ing the decision of the question of a jurors
competency to the judge instead of to triers.
Henry Howard, the next Governor of Rhode
Island is comparatively young man, former
ly lawyer, but of late manufacturer mem
Der of an old Rhode Island family, and fully
acquainted with the requirements of his posi-
ton.
Hon. G. q. Esty has presented the increase
of salary received by him as member of the
last Congress from the seventh Massachusetts,
mngham, to be held by the Principal as a fund
for the aid of the pupils Of that institution.
The entire sophomore class were suspended
from Dartmouth College Thursday, for disor-
derly conduct in the chapel, whereupon the
members of the class hired big team and
took sleigh ride, evidently regarding the affair
as good Joke. sr.l.t
The efforts of the liquor dealers in opposition
to the new temperance law in Indiana seems to
have the effect of uniting all the best people for
its enforcement. An immense meeting of the
friends of temperance was held in Lafayette
last week, in which citizens of all parties and
creeds joined.
The Spectator points out the almost inevta-
Die appearance soon of at least forty or fifty
tenant farmers" who do not own
iaho' out rent from country gentry-in Parlia-
"leh1 and shows, in detail, that this will com
stitute social revolution of the most s;onif,-
cant character
Lafayette, Ind, has a Sunday law excite.
ment. y very stringent act was passed Inv tho
Legislature, and the first Sunday night after it
went into effect, the Mayor had arrested the
city editor and fire compositors of a morning
paper, milk-man and twenty-four railway
hands, and notified the sections of the churches
not to ring the bells, on pain of arrest.
; A Bostonian writes to the papers regretfully:
4ulTty YEARS dsSO d UCol-SUcdh, OySI6E anu CHICK
en- supper, with cream toast and coffee, and
"fxins' generally, cost but twenty-five cents
head, and Dark Seal brandy, or any other
brand, was only six cents glass-and large
bottomed cut-glass tumblers at that
Henry Kellogg, of Milford, CT. has patented
process for the manufacture of imitation fur.
which so closely resembles the original article
that good judges are almost deceived by its ap-
pearance. The material used in its production
are a base of thick wooden or felt, and hair
shaver from small and refuse pieces of the skin
of fur bearing animals.
The st Louis Democrat will not believe it ur-
til 1t hears it on excellent authority, that Sena-
tor Schurz accepted the $4,000 'back pay and
bounty" If Mr. Schurz should do such a
thing. it says, all his loud professions about
economy and retrenchment would be as
sounding brass and tinkling symbol"
An exciting horseback race recently took
place in Kentucky town between sheriff
and lady, on whom he was endeavoring to
serve process The lady, persisting that she
would not receive the paper or hear it read,
used the switch very vigorously on her horse,
but the officer being mounted on the better
animal, caught up with her aud continued in
her company until he had read to her the con-
tents OF the official documents which he held.
Cakes Ames goes for Sam Bowles in this
fashion:-Now, there is Sam Bowles of the
Springfield Republican,, he has been abusing me
for mouths; and Horace Clark told me in New
York that Sam had the impudence to write and
ask for Union Pacific pass to California for
IT
that he knew he had not advocated a monu-
ment to me, but he had not abused me as much
as some other people.
The Pope gave audience Monday to hun
bred Canadians who served in the pentifcal
service. He congratulated the visitors upon
their steadfast devotion to the church