The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-15
News and other Items,

News and other Items.
Mr.. jeff. Davis is lounging about New York
Mrs. jeff. is at Toronto, Ont
Some ladies at Remington, Iowa, recently
| demolished liquor saloon with their little
| hatchets
Miss Charlotte Cushman has, with her al
| Newport and is educating the four sons OF her
| deceased sister.
| Universal Salvation-why not?' is New
| York Herald correspondents heading That,
too, after reading that wonderful paper.
Six accidental drownings and two newly born
| infants in the mllpond within a few weeks
have furnished sensations to the local press of
the little town of Eau Clare, Wis
The New Orleans Picayune believes that
there are more yonths receiving military educa-
ton in the South at the present time than at
the North.
Widows who have promised their husbands
to never marry again on the face of the earth,
can go to the Mammoth Cave and have the
ceremony performed.
There are 156 members of the British Hou SO
OF Commons in favor of female suffrage, and
three hundred thousand persons have petitioned
for it.
The Smith family continue prolific. -Four
girls were born to Mrs. George Smith of Wat
seka, ILL.,, few months ago, and they ar e
thriving finely.
The libel suit of Miss Linda Gilbert against
the Chicago Evening Post was concluded Fri
day. A verdict for plaintiff was given asses
sing the damage at six cents,
1t is stated that the Conseil d'Etat of Gene
va has resolved to place two commemorative
tablets in the room of the Hotel de Willie. in
which the Geneva convention and the decision
of the Alabama arbitration were signed.
1t will not be long before all the small post
offices throughout the country will be under
the control of women. Within the last three
months over fifty appointments of this kind
have been made
Ihe Dutch war in Sumatra has rednced the
supply OF pepper, and there has been a marked
rise in the value of the article. This was to be
expected, as the natives 'tpeppered" the Dutch
in very lively and effective manner.
The wife of Esquimaux Joe, of the Polaris.
has acquired such taste for civilized life that
she refuses to go back, preferring roast beef
and strawberry short-cake to candles and bl nh
Der.
An Allegheny, Pa, woman deliberately
placed her infant upon railway track and left
1t to be crushed by an approaching train. 1t
was rescued and the woman confessed that she
wa 1ted the illegitimate babe killed.
AT the Caledonan Club games at Scranton.
Pa, the feature of the day was fat woman's
race for new bonnet. The eanest contestant
weighed 1870 pounds Three others weighed
200, 242 and 251 pounds, respectively.
The new publisher of the Houston (Texas)
Union is to change its name to the Mercury.
because that name has become so obnoxious to
large proportion of the people that the paper
is not permitted to enter their houses or places
OF business
The locomotive returns from fifty-one rail
Ways Tor November 1872, published in the
600 ~ Gazette, show an average expense of
20 oen's per mile for each locomotive; 1852
locomotives are employed, and they travelled a
'o'al distance of 6,95S,6l6 miles.
As an evidence of the force and effect Of ths
great storm at Fond du Lac, Wis. and vicinitv
on the 18th, it is stated that in one county aSo
barns were demolished, Wrecked BUILDINGS