The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-05
The Boston Consolidation.


To the Editor of the Press:
In your paper of Saturday you say that full
examination of the report of the hearing of the
Eastern and Boston 6, Maine Railroads upon
the bill for consolidation before the Massachu-
sets Legislature, 'leads to the conclusion that
the B. & NJ. only became party to the bill in
| order to secure as unobjectionable measure as
possible" etc. The bill referred to was origi-
mated by neither Of the above named compa-
MES, but the consolidation of those roads has
been recommended over and over again by the
Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, The
proposed consolidation is probably as much de-
sired by the Boston & Maine as by the Eastern
Railroad, and it is perhaps safe to say that it is
not upon principle that either would reject it,
the question with both being one of terms. The
same measure was before the Legislature of
Massachusetts last year, and then it was oppos-
ed by the President of the Eastern Railroad
The ninth section of the bill now pending pro-
vides that the consolidated company may lease
connecting roads, or substantially that, and to
that the Boston & Maine agreed The Boston
& Maine did not want the bill passed SO as to
authorize but one of the Boston roads to lease
these roads. The Boston 8, Maine can claim
no advantage over its rival as a champion for
the people. ONE OF THE PEOPLE
News and Other Items.
Vesuvius is threatening again.
Charles Sumner declines his back pay.
The name of Chief-Justice Chase has been
given to city in Virginia.
Strawberries and peaches are promised in
abundance this season.
Major William s. Worth with 200 men from
Governors Island, New York harbor, left last
Thursday for the Modoc region.
Sturgeon is not coming to America to lee
ture, because che won't degrade himself nor
disgrace his congregation
Superintendent Kelso of New York has Or
dered the police to make census of all disrep-
utable houses and characters in the city. A gi-
gantic undertaking.
Overtures have been made to Mr.. Morphy to
induce him to join in a grand chess tournament
which it is proposed to hold at the Vienna Elk.
position.
A bill is before the Dominion Parliament
regulating the amount of deck load which may
be carried by sea-going vessels, the home gov
eminent having set the measure on foot
Many of the cardinals in the Roman Catholic
churches have reached extreme old age, Billet
is 80; De Angels, 81; Catermi, rs; Amat, 76;
Grassellint, Y; Matthew, n; Antonucci, Is;
| Patrizi, rs.
| 1t is now proposed to construct a navigable
channel between the North and East rivers
New York, by way of the Harlem, and it is
predicted that this will make Harlem the
great commercial centre of the city.
| A large number of excursion parties will
MAKE the tour OF Europe this summer from
America. They will number from ten to one
hundred and fifty each, and the expense of
members will be from $500 to $1,000 in gold.
Albert Fortune, the notorious horse thief
desperate and convict, captured in Baltimore.
Saturday, was manacled and placed on a train
in charge OF officers, but he escaped by jumping
off when going twenty-five miles an hour, and
cannot be found.
| Up at Concord, N. H., they want to know if
ale is Intoxicating and in recent trial man
was called as an expert, who said he had
drank thirty or forty glasses of ale in day,
and thought he might be able to drink pail
full
Connecticut people will be interested by the
American news" recently published in the
London Graphic, to the effect that "the Demo-
Gratis have carried their candidate, Ingersoll,
for the governorship of Philadelphia by three
thousand votes
During the exhibition Of menagerie in
Poughkeepsie, last week, monkey seized hold
of the curl of one of the lady spectators and
dragged her entire ch:gnon and bonnet into
the cage greatly to the amusement of the look
ers on.
| In the Pennsylvania coal trade the total an
thracite tonnage for the past week amounted
to 372, SIG tons, and for the coal year to 4,413,
| 1856 tons, against 422, $3.50 tons to correspond
ing time last year, being decrease of 9,194
tons.
ga petrifed Indian, billed to Yale College,"
was among the Eastern Express matter which
passed through Des Moines, Iowa, last Thurs
day, the body having been discovered and duo
up in the bluffs on the North Platte, last sum.
mer.
A young woman in Cumberland, England.
lately threw herself in front of railway train
and was killed. Her conduct was attributed to
TO love quarrel. Two weeks later her sutton
followed her example and was killed in the
same way.
IL Is not true that the Eastern Railroad has
pa'a or agreed to pay $4,000 to Palmer, the
postal car clerk, who was injured at Seabrook.
Inc case OF JEFF. G. Row vs. Eastern Railroad
Tor injuries received at the Revere disaster ia
now assigned for trial in Portsmouth at the
October term of Court.
: The average annual earnings of the wbo,a
American people do not exceed $500 a vear
each. The average earnings of the employed
classes do not exceed $1,000. The average earn
ings of those holding salaried employments do
not exceed $780, The average earnings of the
learned professions do not exceed S25O0
The grinders at the East Douglas axe works