The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-14
News and Other Items.


Paper flour barrels are proposed.
California has eight woolen-mills, all doing
profitable business.
Child number eighteen has recently blessed a
New Haven family.
Colored men own property valued at over
half million dollars in Petersburg, Va
Boston is talking about monument to Mrs.
Harrison Gray Otis in its Public Garden.
Charles Dix, the artist son of Governor Dix
of New York, died iu Paris, Tuesday.
Judge Bngham's Ohio friends think that he
is likely to get the japanese mission.
A Terre Haute man rejoices in the newly ac-
quired possession of some of Aaron Burr's love-
letters.
Congressman elect Charles Clayton, of Cali
fornia. has been painfully injured by being
thrown from his carriage in San Francisco.
A North Carolina paper expresses satisfaction
at the fact that the President, having frequent
occasion to refer to the war in his inaugural,
did not say rebel or rebellion once.
A sympathizing newspaper man in Georgia
condoles with brother editor at the serious
illness of the latters two sisters and three BROTH
ers.
The Director of the Philadelphia Mint has
been ordered to pay but $1.2O per ounce for sill
yer hereafter The price has recently been
$1.221-2.
The gentleman so often spoken of in novels,
who riveted people with his gaze, has obtained
employment in boiler mandatory, with ex-
ira pay, on account Of his peculiar faculty.
Vermont woman who recently followed the
remains of her rather irregular husband to the
grave, afterwards remarked that she had one
consolation, "she knew now where he slept
nights"
The Michigan Legislature has not only passed
prohibitory law, but one imposing heavy pen
alties for selling watered milk Which prompts
the indianapolis Journal to inquire 'sif men
are not allowed to put whiskey in their water
nor water In their milk, what is water good
for?"
The President has nominated Rev. Edward
Payson Smith, of New York, to be Comm's-
soner of Indian Affairs. He was recommend
ed by the Indian Peace Commissioners. and
during the war was an army chaplain. His APP
pointment excited the intense establishment Of
half dozen other applicants.
The Newark Register gives an account of the
organization in that city of Society for the
Promotion of Marriage. There are three times
as many men as women in Newark. The So
ciety proposes to correct inequalities of distribu
ton, and to send q committee to Boston and
Troy, N. Y, for supply of women.
-Four men who attempted to cross portion
of Lake Superior on the ice, recently. rot adrift
Iuifrs III cIrcuu
ference, and with provision scarcely sufficient
to sustain life, and in an intensely cold atmo
sphere, they endured the horrors of the situa-
ton for six days, when their ice raft touched
the shore and they escaped.
The Indiana Legislature has passed a new
divorce law, which requires bona tsde residence
OF two years, and limits the causes of divorce
repeating the discretionary clause" which al
lowed judges to grant divorces for any cause
they deemed proper. Do the legislators intend
to repel immigration from Indiana?
Rutland Vermont) people have new theme
for gossip in the following: A girl of Quincy
Mass, escaped from the despotic restraint of
home and eloped with her lover At Rutland.
she woke up on the third morning to find the
man of her choice departed, with $3.50 and q
large assortment of dry goods belonging to her.
Chicago has two unpleasant sensations One
is the abduction of young lady, who was
forced into a carriage by two men, on Indiana
Avenue about nine o'clock last Friday MORN
ing. Another is the discovery of the fact that
there is saloon in one of the back streets into
which respectable men are decoyed and drugged
and money extorted from their friends as a
ransom. One Of the victims who was with diff
hculty rescued by the police, died the next
morning from the effect of the drugs admins
tered to him.