The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-18
News and Other Items.

Mr. P. T., Barnum has been chosen director
of the New York and Eastern Railway.
The Boston City Council refuses to give $4,000
for music during the summer on the common.
New Hampshire farmers find handsome
profit in sheep raising.
A Vermont paper speaks of the four summer
months. We might have expected that from
Minnesota, but in staid Vermont never
! Hon. Albert j. Smith is to succeed the late
Hon, Joseph Howe as Lieutenant Governor of
Nova Scotia
| Henry Clay's court dress, worn at the Treaty
of Client, has been presented to the Ashland
| (Ky.) Museum.
White Feather, ESQ.,, an Indian resident of
Michigan, who is graduate in medicine and
divinity, is lecturing In Kentucky.
1t is estimated that the cost to the Treasury
Department of the new postal stamp system
will be half a million dollar
The people of Martin county, Indiana, are
agtated over the elopement of Catholic priest
with the young daughter of prominent citi-
zen.
The supervisors of Wapello county, Iowa,
have returned to Congressman Walden $3.50. 50
which he recently sent to them out of his back
pay.
The total valuation of Manchester, N. H.,
is little over $12,000,000. The heaviest tax
payer is Gov. Straw, whose taxes amount to
$2153
Liebig has showed that oatmeal is almost as
nutritious as the very best English beef, aud
that it is richer than wheaton bread in the ele-
ments that go to form bone aud muscle.
Both Michigan Senators, Chandler and Fer
ry, ordered their back pay turned into the
treasury before leaving Washington after the
last session.
Washington dispatches report that it has re-
Gently been discovered that all the archives in
the War Department pertaining to the secret
history of the late rebellion have been stolen.
When this was done, or by whom, is not known.
Democratic papers in Louisiana seem to be
very much disturbed by suspicious respecting
the relations of Gen. Dick Taylor to thu powers
that be, ana especially respecting his feelings
towards Gov. Kellogg.
Boston paper asserts that more men have
been arrested for drunkenness in that city since
the new Prohibitory law went into ''effect'
than ever before in the same length of time.
Give us the figures.
Forney's Washington Sunday Chronicle has
had falling out with ex-senator Harlan, and
exclaims: ''Why does he not realize his .stua-
ton as Cakes Ames and Brooks did, and follow
their example? The country is tired of the
Credit Mobiler gang and wants no more to hear
from them"
The Boston Advertiser very properly calls
attention to the fact that it is an improper use
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means of sending notices of protest. 1t is Civ
ing publicity to private business affairs, and is
liable to result in an injury to the business
credit of perfectly good houses.
The Society of Friends of New England are
holding their grand meeting at Newport, R. l.,
this week. A very large gathering is in at
tendance, on Sunday upwards of 10000 persons
being reported in attendance on the various
meetings held in different sections of the city.
We mentioned the other day the i'll success of
young lady out West who started barber
shop. A widow named Lcttie Palmer. who
started a photograph gallery in Racine, Wis,
mourns similar experience. For time she
had great deal of custom; and then the ladies
of the town destroyed the establishment and
stopped the entire business.
After Dinner remarks: st seems to be an
impossibility for Americans to collect together
for any purpose without calling upon some poor
wretch to say something They can't have
chowder down the harbor without it-tbey
can't picnic in the woods without it-they can't
have pleasant excursion over the country
withoutit. 1t interrupts travel, mars the tour,
spoils the dinner, and has become one of the
chief nuiSauces of human life -