The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-27
News and Other Items,

NcNS ANA OthO1 AtCAuos :
Gov. Dix declines to commute the doom of
Foster, the car-hook murderer
The first report about the election riot at
Quebecis exaggerated. No one was killed.
Boston will fire a hundred guns ON Inaugu.
ration day.
A Minnesota judge has decided that shaving
on Sundays is s'illegal." .
The papers report the death of Hester Dick
eson, colored woman at North Greenbush, at
the age of 100 years.
A ball has been given in Wisconsin town
to raise money to start a newspaper. That
newspaper will probably die.
Local option mince pies are Western spec
ialty. They contain no intoxicating liquor,
whatever else they may be made of.
A Nevada family Of eleven members boast
ed ten cases of measles at the latest mail adj
vices. =
Senator Sherman of Ohio is estimated pecu-
niar;ly at two million dollars. He is regarded
as the best business man in the Senate.
1t now stated that Gov. Geary's death was
occasoned by the use of hair dye, in which
sugar of lead was principal ingredient.
/ Sir Francis Hincks Canadian Minister of FL
nance, has resigned, and Hon. Mr.. lilly was
sworn in as his successor. DIR. Topper sue
ceeds Mr.. lilly as Minister of Customs. /.
Mr.. Colfax has recovered, by the aid of de-
tectives a portion of the property stolen from
his rooms ON Saturday, including the jewelry
of his wife and sister.
President Grant on Tuesday pardoned
Charles Howard andJ ames Blanks of Alaba-
ma, convicted of KuKlux outrages and sen
fenced to Imprisonment in the Albany Peni-
Tertiary.
An inventory taken of the late Edwin For
rests personal estate shows that he had prop
erty valued at $22O, 1856; over 100000 in secur
tiles, on deposit stocks, etc.; jewelry, $4o71;
paintings, 81, 600; and $7357 for books.
The inhabitants of an Illinois town, in which
it was fated that Sergeant Bates should be
born, gave public reception to their distin-
guished townsman on his arrival home, the
other day,
A first-class unsectarian college for women
is proposed in Wilmington, Del. Col. H. s.
McComb, of Credit Mobilier fame, offers
$4,000 toward the 100000 or more for its en-
dowment.
Mr.. George Call, o one-armed resident of
Keeseville, Essex County, Che lost his right arm
in the war; last week cut and corded nine cords
of wood without assistance, walking each day
two miles and half also
Georgia paper, which opposes the emgra-
ton of the negroes, publishes, for their bene-
fit, startling rumor to the effect that they are
not to be taken to Arkansas but to Cuba, and
there made to fight the Spaniards.
A Minnesota youth who attempted to start
his horse by hitting it with his gun, failed to
make the steed go, but was more successful
with the gun. That went off, promptly, and
took off three of his fingers with it.
The Cri5pins Of Lynn and other shoe towns
in Massachusetts are making strong efforts to
get up another strike, but the great body of the
workmen are fast emancipating themselves
from the power sof that organization, and
there is at present little probability of strike.
A Western newspaper gives thrilling ac-
count of steamers perilous voyage, describ-
ing particularly her dangerous passage over the
falls, with only "one inch of water between
her keel and the rocks, and half an inch of
atmosphere between her chimneys and the
bridge"
A Haverhill clergyman married couple the
other day. The groom was tall STRIPPING
whose weight, with all his wedding fixings on
was ninety-seven pounds, while that of the
buxom bride was two hundred and ten. They
both declared that they had loved through thick
and thin. sl
A Georgia liquor dealer has lost his suit
against accompanying customer because the lat
ter proved that he once gave him liquor when
he was drunk. The court decided that the
whole bill for year was lost. on account of the
law which provides that no barkeeper shall sell
liquor to mau who is intoxicated.
The postofice department has decided that
Mr.. Wilder, postmaster at Columbia, S. c. can
not also sit as Alderman under the Presidents
order. slt ezFs
An attempt to blackmail one of the Credit
Mobiler Congressman out of $25 ON pain of
exposure is reported
The New York Times, after devoting more
than column to the discussion of Mr. Colfax's
case, reaches ''the single conclusive lesson of
this whole sad case which is, if Mr.. Colfax had
left the Credit Mobilier swindie wholly alone,
he would have escaped the cruel suspicion from
which he is suffering Why couldn't some
body thought of that before?
There is danger of coal and wood famine
II Concord if the present weather continues
Gu Tusday every wood yard was drained and
scarcely load was drawn in from the in
terror. The coal dealers, on account of their
limited supply carried around their fuel in
baskets, and could afford their patrons on ly
temporary accommodation 4t