The Portland daily press., 1873-03-13


The report of the Overseers of the Poor of
one OF the towns in Rutland County, VT, con-
ealns charge of three dollars for 'staking pau
pers to meragerie" k
Iiram Taylor, of New Bedford, road con-
tractor, has been missing since Saturday, and
apprehensions are felt that he has been foully
dealt with,
The liquor dealers of indianapolis denounce
! the new temperance statute of that State as
"a had law" But, themselves being judges,
ir is not half as '.bad' as their whiskey.
Ex-Gov. Ward, of New Jersey, was robbed
of $1,000 diamond breast-pin in Washington.
Any man of mature years silly enough to wear
such bauble deserves to be robbed.
Another petition, signed by twenty thousand
women, is now before the English House of
Commons, praying for the legalzing of the
marriage of a widower with his deceased wife's
sister.
The New York Evening Mail expresses the
hope that Massachusetts will try woman suf.
frage, and adds: "We are rather anxious to
see the thing tried by one of the sober old
States IN which we do not expect ever to live"
The Agricultural College appropriation bill
"ouio nave taken at least $40 OO0, 900 out of the
pockets OF the people. The principle received
the sanction of both houses, but, fortunately.
there was a disagreement about details which
prevented final action.
Hon. Alfred Iverson, who has been United
States Senator from Georgia, and has held
nearly all the other honorable positions in the
gift of his State, died in Macon, ON the 4th in
slant His Senatorial term was about expiring
when secession took place.
1t is said that Presbyterian minister out
West was compelled, by high rents to econo-
mize by building small cottage of his own.
But he was too poor to finish it last fall, and he
has lived in it all winter upholstered. The
will be so warm that they will not need plas-
tered houses. -
An Indianapolis woman learning that her
husband was endeavoring to obtain divorce,
astonished him by confronting him in the
street with revolver, and remarking, "1f you
want a divorce, I'll give you good one"
shooting him in the face The ball glanced,
and so made painful but not dangerous
wound.
An attempt was made in San Francisco to
repeat the Laura Fair episode. A gentleman
named Charles Mac Dermott was fired at by a
servant woman on the street. The bullet
however, went astray, and the case will come
into court. -.-stN rs
The cerebral meningitis or spotted fever is
raging terribly in some places on the Pacific
coast. In one instance four children of one
family died within twenty-four hours. 1t is
almost inevitably fatal. The disease is raging
too very severely in Illinois
The Hon. George F. Hoar of Massachusetts,
has offered the back-pay voted him by the re-
cent Congress to the Worcester county free in
stitute of industrial science with the condition
that the annual income, as far as necessary,
shall be applied to the payment of tuition for
pupils from Norfolk county, within the eighth
District, who may need such assistance.
The strange wild animal, which is to farmers
what the sea-serpent is to sailors, has appear
scribed:-The animal was one hundred yards
distant from me, and appeared to be like a
huge black bear with name and head like a
| lion, bat had horns like an elk upon it. Its
| tail was long and bushy, with dark and light
| rings around it to its very extremity Its eyes
| cleaned like panthers, and its size was that
| of an ordinary OK but somewhat longer.
In Marshall, Mich, they have model hoy.
He sells popcorn covertly destroying his rival
boys of the vicinity by overlooking their stom-
achs. In his destructive labors he has, since
last summer, amassed fortune of $65, which
consequently he cannot get possession of for
fifteen years, unless his parents say he may;
for he is now only six years old. On Wash
ington's birthday he made $l.01, and with his
child-like faith put that into the bank too. 1t
will be quite sum before he sees it again.