The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-18


The Governor of Wisconsin recommends a
law to prevent church fairs and church lotteries,
which he says are next to sweatboards and
euchre decks 81
The two branches of the Boston Council are
still wrestling with the tax payers and with
each other on the subject of ''junketing." The
aldermen seem disposed to compromise with
the people by approprating money enough for
few carriage drives, but the Common Council
wants dinners thrown in.
The Brazil coffee market with its high prices
and advancing tendency, has attracted no little
attention. The supply of Brazil coffee for the
next nineteen months is placed at 1900, 600
bags, a very small quantity in view of the fact
that the consumption Of the United States
alone is about 100000 bags per month.
1t is said that the conductors of the Pan
Handle Railroad have been plundering it by
the aid of outside parties. 1t is supposed that
the swinde has been going on for two years
and that the road has lost $40, 600 yearly there
by. The mode of operating was for the con-
ductor to take up ticket without punching it
and send it to an agent to be resold.
There is not dollar in the Florida State
Treasury. The bonded and floating debi, ae-
cording to the report Of the comptroller, is S.
S44, S21. AS there are but $4,000 voters in
Florida, each voter, according to this showing,
is Sin for 1924 on o general average. The
county and municipal debts will probably run
this average up to $780, F4
Robert Emmett, the oldest son of Thomas
Adds Emmett, the Irish patriot, who died in
New York in 1927, and nephew of the cele-
brated Robert Emmett, died at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y, Saturday, in the eighty
first year of his age. Mr.. Emmett was long an
eminent member of the New York bar, and
was formerly one of the most este emed resi-
dents of New York city. e f~lsffsss
A dispatch from Sardis, Miss, says that Wm
Bayles, a farmer living near Batesville, was at
tackled last Friday by party Of negroes, one
Of whom shot him in the back, dangerously
wounding him. After Bayles had fallen to the
ground he raised himself on his elbow and shot
the negro who fired upon him, with one barrel
of his shot gun, and then fired upon another,
killing him instantly. Hf.& 'f#s ss4
New York narrowly escaped horrible ca
lamity on Sunday. About two o'clock in the
afternoon, just prior to the gathering of the
Sunday School of the New York Presbyterian
church, on the corner Of Houston and Thomp-
son streets, the walls of 5he old church fell in,
completely demolishing the furniture and new
organ. No one was injured, notwithstanding
several persons were in the vestry at the time.
The loss is put at $4,000.
The Kansas City Journal has advices from
the western border of Kansas to the effect
that party of roughs entered the town of
Sargent, on the Atkinson, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad, and amused themselves by shoot
ing into peoples windows and otherwise dis
turbing the peace Next day they attacked a
saloon keeper named Christopher Gibson, who
shot and killed two of them named Wright and
Mcclellan, and wounded another called Jack.
The remainder of the party then left and went
to Dodge City, where they undertook to burn
the town. Sunday night the citizens formed a
vigilance committee and killed two of the
roughs, one named Charles Hill and the other
known as Antelope.