The Portland daily press., 1873-03-18
News and Other ITEMS.

New York lager beer is no longer intoxicat-
ing. \tf 81
President Theirs library embraces 10000
volumes.
Bleeding Kansas is going into peanut culture
extensively.
Gov. Converse of Vermont has appointed
April 18th, for Fast Day in that State.
A defiant milliner of Defiance, o., founced
a minister in his pulpit for SANDER.
Two San Francisco school mistresses have
been suspended for using oaths that were not
in Webster's Unabridged.
The Indiana House of Representatives has
appropriated $4,000 for santarium for the
cure of inebriates
A trout weighing 1876 pounds is dividing
public attention with the last defaulter in Sa-
vannah
The salary increase of members of Congress
will come within one million dollars, says the
Washington Chronicle.
1t cost the town of Guilford, N. H., about
$4,000 to break out roads the past winter. over
and above the usual tax.
And now the advertising agents of the coun-
try are to have q National Convention. They
will meet in New York on the 10th of April.
A Western editor wants the NJ. G. from that
district to send him some pub. docs His wife
is afraid she will not get her tin ware closet
stocked before the first of July
The California press contains accounts, both
interesting and incredible, of an Indian shep-
herd at Vallejo. He is said to be of weak
mind and bleats and eats grass like sheep.
Personal friends of George Bancroft state
hot HOY bou inf tLotl In tO
relinquish the mission to Berlin, that he may
return to this country to attend to the compile
ton of his history. +-t-
Senator Sumner does not propose to speak on
the Caldwell case, neither is he preparing let
ter for publication on the future adornment OF
regimental flags with the names of battles
fought against our own countrymen.
Smith and Wesson sociables are announced
in Springfield. Before we would be sociable
with Smith and Wesson we should want to
be perfectly sure that every one of the seven
little chambers We're tenantless.
The Executive mansion in Missouri is built
on foundation of loadstone, and discharges so
much electricity that the Governor has been
obliged to vacate it, and give place to somebody
legs liable to cause friction.
icism: "ldlle Ormeny had, and we suppose
still retains, a magnificent voice for a fog whis-
tie. Its compass was perfectly surprising. She
would shake the chandelier with wild whoop
that made every man instinctively feel for his
scalp, and follow it up with roar that would
shame bassoon."
A Vermont farmer sent to an orphan asylum
for boy that was smart, active, brave, tract
able, prompt, industro us, clean, pious, intelli-
gent, good natured reserved and modest The
superintendent replied that their boys were all
human, though they we've orphans, and referred
him to the New Jerusalem if he wanted to get
his order filed
Some of the leading volunteer surgeons COM
plain that in the new medical history of the
war, just published by the Government the re-
ports of the regimental volunteer surgeons
have in almost every instance been disregarded,
while those of the surgeons of the regular
army, although less complete and scientific,
have invariably received attention.
Wilmington, Del, has an application of the
cooperative principle, which is rather novel.
The opulent families of the place, who keep
equipages, have dubbed together and built a
co operative stable, where all the horses and
carriages are kept, with only two or three men,
instead of score, to do the work. This sys-
TEN enables man of moderate means to keep
an equipage, who could not otherwise afford it.