The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12

Within the past two years Detroit reporter
has shaken hands with thirteen Buffalo Bills"
all displaying the same bountiful supply of
shooting irons,' but every one with differ
emit 'spbiz."
The Republicans in OLiv oal1 tho Democrats
in that State, since they nominated William
Allen for Governor, "The Resurrectionsts.
1t is nearly thirty years since Allen figured pub
licly in politics.
A passenger, bound for a watering place on
board of steamboat, watching the revolving
light of a lighthouse on the coast, exclaimed,
the man Can strike it"
When the Shah presented to Earl Granville
his photograph set in diamonds the earl ex-
tracted the picture, pressed it to his heart, and
returned the diamonds, explaining that, much
as he thanked him, his position as an English
minister forbade his receiving present from
foreign monarch. 1t was rather tough, but he
did it.
The Union Pacific Railroad Co. sold, during
the month of July, 1873, 20 ,599.4S acres of land
at an average price of 81 70 2-10 per acre,
amounting to $13S,677 90. The sales averaged
1OS.42 acres to each purchaser. The total sales
W <AdSuSt AnVs 1000 WClC dOlCc, az al
average price of 81 371 per acre, amounting to
$3.50, 1858.
The directors of the Atlantic and Pacific
r. r. on Saturday elected Col. Thomas Ascot
of Pennsylvania, President and r. e. W.
Pierce, Jr., of New York, Vice-President and
general manager Gen. Clinton B. Fisk of ST.
Louis. Treasurer; ohm Edgar Thompson, Al
fred s. Dennis, Thomas A. Scott and David
Solomon of the Pennsylvania combination
were chosen directors.
The Brooklyn navy yard employs 1,725 men
at present
The number of paper mills in this country is
S12, and the total capital invested in the bust
ness is S43, 500, OOO' These mills employ %, O42
laborers, and produced last year, 317,3S7 tons of
paper, valued at $66, 475, 1925.
Carl Benson has propounded new conun-
drum: SIS the public made for the conven-
fence of the post Office, the post office for the
convenience of the public?'
A Boston gentleman is reported to have
bought lot of land at Old Orchard with the
view of erecting hotel thereon.
Some one in New York lost a $1,000 Treasury
note belonging to a friend in 1866. 1t has taken
him seven years to refund it. He has now
written to Treasurer Spinner inquiring whether
the note has been redeemed, and if he has any
chance of receiving back what it has taken him
so long to repay.
The seasouahle discovery that convict in
the Georgia State prison had put arsenic in the
food prepared for dinner, recently, saved three
hundred lives.
The Chicago Superintendent of Public
Schools recommends the establishment of a
school expressly for the worst class of pupils to
which ill-behaved scholars shall be sent from
the other schools. His theory is that this plan
will educa the evil disposed mentally and
and morally, while the other schools will not
be kept back by them.
The power of love is shown in the case of the
Iowa girl who went three miles from home to a
pasture lot belonging to her father, and there
cut the throat of calf, so that when the old
gentleman heard of the matter he might hasten
thither and thus give his daughter counting
spell with lover, who had been warned not to
appear upon the premises.