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

Ex-senator Pomeroy will be tried on the
bribery charge, al Topeka, Kan, some time
during this month.
| This years gooseberres are reminding the
people of San Francisco that the world is full
of sorrow, trouble and collie.
| The Richmond Dispatch thinks the great
mass of Americans too genteer' TO read posi-
| al cards.
There is rumor that Congressman Dave
will resign his seat in August 1t is sincerely
to be hoped that it is only an idle rnmor.
Some envious fellow says it has been ascer-
tanned that three out Of every five matches
made at Saratoga go to the courts for di-
vorce.
Lieut.. Col. Michael Sheridan, younger broth
er to the General, and one of his staff, was
married in Chicago last week to Miss Maggie
Wray.
The Pennsylvania Legislature,in establishing
mechanics high schools, generously appropri-
ated $4,000 for the purpose, and private gen.
tleman of Pittsburg had to offer gratutously
piece of land for a site
A drunken fellow got licked out of saloon
in Battle Creek, Mich, on circus day, and took
his revenge by mounting a dry goods box and
delivering temperance lecture to large
crowd.
l. 1t is stated that the cheese trade of this coun-
try, so far as dollars and cents are concerned is
almost as important as the grain trade, and I'M
! less something wholly unforeseen occurs, the ex-
port trade this year will be much larger than
| it was last year.
Senator Scott talking to a Pennsylvania
Sunday School, Sunday OF two ago, asked the
scholars why Simon was kept in prison. One
of the teachers quietly prompted boy to say
it was for hostage, and the youth not quite
catching the words, piped out: she was de-
tanned for postage
Gen. Duryea, who has recently been appoint
ed one of the police commissioners of New
York. proposes to arm the police. in cases of
necessity. He is to drill the men in the manual
and hrings, and says that if necessary be will
| lead them himself in case of a riot. The tur-
bulent classes of the city would be likely to
think twice before deciding to resist body of
drilled men commanded by an old soldier.
Miss Noyes, of Buffalo, played the intrepid
heroine to the life in trying to check pair of
very badly frightened horses which were run
ming away with her and three other ladies the
O''"A ""J, w oi"fCiy oHuSiiS 10 Tue relnS anu
| turning the animals squarely into conven-
lent omnibus which stopped them. Sh, spoil
ed it all, however, by fainting as soon as ii gen.
tleman helped her from the carriage.
The strikes in the English coal mines con-
tinue In the Bolton district, 1000 golfers have
lately struck; in the Cleveland district 1000
miners are locked out If this lockout contin-
ues long. 40, 600 men employed in blast furnaces
and iron works will be thrown ont of employ
ment. The National Union Association has
its hands fun in supplying funds for continuing
these strikes, and supporting those who are en-
gagged in them.
| Had Boss Tweed been convicted on the CHG
| Indictment" in New York, of malfeasance in
office and stealing $6,01O0OO out of the city
treasury, he would only have been sentenced to
the penitentlary for one year. The other dav
! Recorder Hackett sent man to State Prison
for five years for picking up ten cents on the
sidewalk AMI spending it. Which shows that
Justice is blind.
Major Elias Griswold of Baltimore, rebel
Provost Marshal in Richmond during the war,
has been appointed Special Agent of the Post
Office Department with good salary He is
now member of the Maryland Legislature,
elected on the Democratic ticket ticket in Nov.
1871, but has been acting with the Republican
party since last fall, when he ran as an anti
Greeley candidate for Congress. and was de-
| feated by ex Gov Swami