The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-26
News and Other Ttems

Pickpockets are unprecedently active AVID
successful in Chicago just now.
AN Iowa clergyman has been STEALING R;h,as
ana giving them to the unregeneiated.
Gen. Butler is going to send his son r..
ILL ASlaei 10 the military school at West Point
The Supreme Court of Vermont has set aside
veruict procured by the jury drawing cuts ;,
ine seats OF one quarter of the members of
'ne dominion Parliament are to be contested
Ahe haptlsts are said to average eighty COM
mun'cants to every church in the limited
States '"o o"''eo
Inc pennsylvania coal combination has de.
c'ded to continue for April the prices of the
present month";
Inc Mlssi sippi Legislature has passed tenn
peiaace Dill which is a close copy of the Ohio
and Indiana laws.
AN enterprising Kentuckian threatens to rev.
olutlonize the chignon business BY cultivating
the raw material on his farm
The Buffalo authorities are taking measures
to prevent pool selling at the races there this
season.
Chicago thinks that she owes non-residents
$75,OO0,OO0, all told, which is secured upon her
realty.
The Albany Board of Public instruction have
opened the schools to whites and blacks alike,
| by vote of seven to FIVE
A Wisconsin miliner, finding the ribbon
business dull, insured her husbands life for
handsome sum and then persuaded him to
drink some indicated coffee.
The number of persons out of employmentin
Philadelphia is appalling. One insertion of a
| little advertisement for q clerk in railroad
| Office brought 9S5 applicants in single day:
The New York Times is hopeful as to Con-
necticut, and believes that popular confidence
in the Republican party has not been disturbed
where it presents candidates as good as those in
Connecticut
Work is going on upon the Portland and Og-
densburg road beyond Hyde Park, VT, in sew
eral of the heaviest cuts, so that the remaining
forty miles to Swanton may be finished for
running the present season.
Boston intends to attempt to save $100,0 a
year by making the State support its insane,
just as the other cities of Massachusetts do.
For thirty-three years it has paid for their sup
port itself
A Springfield brute put cat on hot stove,
and the judge said he could not issue warrant
for his arresa, as the laws for the prevention of
cruelty to animals do not include injuries done
cats or dogs.
A Minnesota farmer has just sold his farm of
16O acres, forty acres broken and fall-plowed,
with good frame house, stable, and all his
farming implements and utensils for 800 cash
and an old sheep skin overcoat.
The gentleman at Keene, N. H., who, a short
time since, SO CALAMITY got out his private team
after midnight and carried home over the drift
ed roads all the lady passengers who came on a
belated train, was Hon. S. w. Hale, and the
Keene ladies have put him on the track for the
next Republican nomination for Governor.
The Missouri House rejected the bill giving
to the jury in murder cases the option between
death and Imprisonment as punishment. The
Senate had passed it. The chief officers of the
criminal courts in St. Louis approve the bill,
and it may be reconsidered in the House.
The presi dent of Kentucky college has
manifested some little eccentricities lately. AT
first he made efforts to join all the religious de.
nominations in the town, and finally, when
the college trustees attempted to remove him,
he armed some of the big boys among the stu.
dents with shot guns and put them on guard
every night, instructing them 10 shoot the first
man who put his foot inside the college fence