The Portland daily press., 1873-05-07
News and Other Items.

In Ironton, Mo-, there is movement
against smoking in church.
A now republican paper is to be started in
Philadelphia
Great destruction to winter wheat is reported
in some sections of Wisconsin.
The shoe business in Haverhill, Mass, is
represented to be very dull, and hundreds of
workmen are out of employment.
The city of Portsmouth, N. H., has appro
priated $4,000 to defray the expenses of the 70
union of the Sons on the 4th of July.
Forty-eight lawyers in Reading, Penn, have
petitioned the Constitutional Convention to
abolish the Grand Jury system.
Henry Ossian Flipper Phebus, a colored cit
izen, has just been appointed to a cadetship at
West Point.
New York, will make good Taintor's defalca-
ton and 60 on.
Of one hundred and nine daily journals start
ed in New York during the last twenty years,
one hundred are Dead at a loss of $25,O00,000
An Indiana justice of the peace claims the
power to unmarry as we'll as to marry, and has
been creating divorces accordingly.
Kate Williams of Peoria, ILL.,, limited her
lover to two kisses, but he rashly snatched a
third and she knocked him down.
The Legislature of Kentucky has passed a
law prohibiting the introduction of foreign cap
ital into that State.
A will case aow on trial in Atlanta, Ca, is
testing the legal learning of Alexander II.
Stephens, Robert Toombs and Ben Hill.
Josh Billings is going to try spell abroad.
He has had an unparalleled spell in this coun-
try the past ten years.
A Detroit man recently got divorced from
his wife only to find out, but all too late, that
she had just inherited half million dol.
lars.
A New Jersey paper complains of a youth
who came into town to attend circus, and
tried to beat the editor down to two cents for a
postage stamp.
The Albany Evening Journal says that q
spaniel dog, which belonged to the late David
Woodwork, of that city, died of grief the next
day after its master expired.
The Conference did not decide that preach.
er in New Haven, Conn.,, had been guilty Of
lying, but only that he had been incautious and
loose in his statements. Evidently they were
DESTROYS not to be guilty of the same.
An Oregon town got on landslide recently
and deposited itself in another county And
now the dishonest residents of that peripatetit
village coolly refuse to pay their taxes, on the
ground that they don't belong in that coun
/ ty.
One of the charges against Minister DeLons
is that when his wife was presented to the Mi
cardo of Japan he insisted that she should weal
an immense train and have four pages to carry
| it.
Florida hotels declare dividend of ten pei
| cent. per week. If the season lasted whole
| year there, nobody could live through it. The
high prices are only compensated by the lacl
of food Each evil is exhaustive.
Kxklux in the third internal revenue district
of Tennessee have threatened the life of the
collector unless he dismisses certain officers il
his employ. Thirty days of grace are allowed
when, if the request is not complied with, the
offenders will be hung.
George Fl. Butler, nephew of his uncle Ber
late Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, and his
former Secretary, Major Wadleigh, are an
nounced to have pledged their fortunes and
their sacred honor" to the support of the Car.
list movement in Spain.
Says country exchange; 'The sad effects OF
matrimony were never more terribly depicted
than the other day, when meek-eyed man
who had been married about year patrolled
the village streets all day, trying to swap a
meerschaum pipe for secondhand cradle"
Before passing sentence, Judge Chapman ask
ed Smith, abe Westfeld, Mass, murderer, il
he had anything to say, and was greeted with
the reply, II have nothing to say, sir, for il
don't concern me-" Smith Kept up a smiling
visage while in court, and evidently wanted tt
convey the impression that he is insane.
A Cincinnati boy of ten years of age was sen,
recently to Roman Catholic school at Dayton
Ohio. One of the monks beat him very badly
one day and threatened still worse treatment il
he did not say that the trouble came from ball
playing. Now the boy is dying from it and tells
the whole story. The priest broke his leg, and
left it without setting it, so that modification
ensund