The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-03

'''oiAo vi disguised Dy belng
tackled on to the High School bill.
GOOD looking pedagogues should give Ce-
uar City, Iowa, wide berth. Recently a
young man named Byron Wright went there
TO teach the winter school. Miss Almira
ouckney aged seventeen, besought the young
man to board at her widowed mothers house,
which he did. Almira was enamored of By
ron and in season and out, importuned the
poor school master to marry her; but the
young man became more and more disguised
with the proposition and was about to change
his boarding place when proceedings assumed
a tragic air. The unrequited love of the girl
grew "sour and blackened into hate" Inc
mother was furious at the rejection Oh her
child so while the young man was e''lhS MS
breakfast, the young woman caiIe up ooiiilo
him and shot him in the head lie stagger-
ell to his feet and attempted to leave, when
he was met by young man who dotted upon
Alm;ra but who had been rejected, who
drove him back into the room, and taking
the pistol again fired at the teacher. Then
the young man and Almira left with team.
but, with the mother who is implicated in the
plot to murder Wright, have since been ar
rested. The young man is severly injured
but may possibly survive the wounds. The
guilty parties do not charge the young man
with making any advances to the girl; but
the two women were intent upon reyenging
the insult of his rejection and the young man
hnnp6 70 Ii Il.
charmer was out Of the way. 1t is at least
warning to the average young school master.
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PRINCE LUNALIHo or ''Prince Bill'' as he is
commonly called, the probable King of Sand
wich Islands is man of intelligence and wit,
about 50 years of age, but, as Mark Twain
puts it, never gets drunk because there isn't
time enough in the ordinary day for this cul-
tivated connoisseur of adulterated whiskey
to get full. He has been well educated by
the A. B. c. F. NJ, but if he is the inveter-
ate whiskey sponge and glutton that he is rep
resented to be it admits of question if the
money and time spent upon him has made
him greater ornament to the human race
than was his cannibal grandsire.
PRESIDENT CLARK of the Union Pacific
Railroad says that the present management
Of the road have adopted policy of rigid
economy and that it is the determination of
the company to conduct its business in such
way as to command the confidence of the
country. He complains, however, that Con-
gress has constantly made assaults upon its
management greatly injuring its credit The
fact that Mr.. Clark declines to be bled by the
clerk of Gen. Butler, is a good indication that
the company propose to make its money by
legitimate means rather than through the
Washington lobby.
Mr.. SARGENT, of California, insists that
before any new State can be admitted into
the Union, it must emphatically abolish the
political distinction based upon SEX ard per-
init its women to vote, and he holds that no
Republican Senator or Representative can
vote for letting in a young commonwealth
which DISTINGUISHES the ladies, without ''go-
ing back' upon the Philadelphia platform.
This would certainly be giving the subject
the respectful consideration to which the
Republican Convention pledged the coun-
try.
IT is matter Of congratulation that an.
other railroad line, Independent of existing
lines, has been completed from the seaboard
to the heart Of the grain producing country.
We refer to the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, the opening of which was celebrated
Friday. The opening of other lines is great
Iy needed by all interests and our people look
forward with almost impatient anxiety to the
time when the completion of the Portland
& Ogdensburg will make this city the sea-
board terminus of an Independent line to the
heart of the West.
The best Republican papers express their
satisfaction at the defeat of Senator Pome-
roy if he is guilty of the charge made against
hi II of an attempt to tribe members of the
Kansas Legislature and thus secure another
election, and express the wish that he may
receive the EXTREMIST penalty attached to the :.
crime. At any rate, Senator Pomeroy has
been one of the leading advocates of the cor
rupt policy of land grants and his loss will not
be very severely moumed by the country if
his successor, Mr.. ingalls,, is an honest man.
THE Boston Herald in referring to the de-
,ision of Secretary Boutwell, in Withholding
Ill the transportation charges due the
Union Pacific Railroad Company on the
ground that the government was obliged
to pay the interest on it's bonds, says
that it was the only Boston paper that sus-
tanned the Secretary. Even the Traveller,
which is now so rabid, sustained the preten-
sions of the Union Pacific.
The Aldine for February is most elegant
number of this always elegant art magazine.
The pulous care in every department pro-
auces result satisfactory to the most fastidi-
ous, and no lover of fine art and literature
ian afford to do without this beautiful period
cal. The publishers James Sutton & Co.,
IS Maiden Lane. N. Y, deserve all COM
and encouragement in their effort
% popularize high artistic culture.
HE new Kansas Senator, Mr.. ingalls,, will |
90 if he lives up to the remark he made to |
viz OoiuCl Iulldll AUcOlSO0 In 1886 when |
twitted on account of his youth and obscu- |
rity, he made reply resembling the famous
answer of the elder Pitt to Horace Walpole.
but more terse and pointed, to the effect that
youth and obscurity were preferable to age
and infamy.
IT is to be hoped that certain Democratic
papers will cease to assail Cornelius Wendell
because he took 100000 as the condition of
accepting the Pacific Railroad, when they
earn that he has been two years dead, was
appointed by Andrew johnson and through
his life was a 'dyed-in-the-woor' Democrat,
and, we blush to add, the editor of several
newspapers of that persuasion during his life.
FISH CULTURE.-Our Rumford correspon- |
dent "W'' writes respecting fish culture and |
the protection of fish in our rivers and ponds: |
I saw in the Lewiston Journal of last week |
a plea from venerable disciple of Issac Wal |
ton "for the protection of trout in our inland |
1 wish to add my protest to his