The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-12

"a young lady at Portland, Oregon, recently
broke her engagement because her lover,
while taking her to ride, quarrelled with the
gatekeeper over the amount of toll
And now some scientists are claiming that in
stead of being cold the moon is in reality red
hot-so much so that no living thing known to
our world could exist there. This also knocks
the green cheese theory.
THE mosl thoroughly ventilated man in os-
wego," says Kansas paper, sis a horse-thief
whom the boys followed around for awhile.
He has nineteen buckshot holes in his left
breast aud twenty-one in his Left arm"
College commencements are not always occa-
SONS Of pleasure unalloyed. At Vassar, lately,
a sweet miss, graduate, fractured her lower
jaw in two places, while delivering an Grafton
in German and chewing gum, both at the same
time.
Some idea OF the way Ireland has been de-
populated may be gained from some of the fig
ures in the census in Queens county. In 1921
that county had a population of $4,000; in
1881, $4,000; in 1s4l, 1885, 900: in 1851 11l,OOo;
in 1861, $4,000; in 1871. $4,000.
1t is reported tn at gang of one hundred
thieves and outlaws have been pnearthed, who
ion Pacific road between Ogden and Omaha
A great amount of property has already been
stolen and detectives are looking for proofs
against the suspected members of the gang.
ID. w. Voorhees, is mentioned in an Indian
apolis paper The name comes to us like q
dream. We supposed he was Daniel gone to
judgment Isn't he the tall Sycnomore of the
Wabash? 1t appears that he Grated on the
Fourth at Waveland Ind; and then he proba-
bly, gyrated back to his Democratic oblivion.
Fred. Grant, according to a newspaper par
agraph now going the rounds, will shortly mar
ry the daughter of Judge Dunlevy of Ohio.
The lady should think twice before accepting
the young man. Personally he appears to be
well enough, but she ought to reflect that when
she is his wife she will be the property of the
Democratic newspapers.
The grand jury of the district of Columbia,
has found true bills to the number of nineteen,
against Judge j. Wright in the matter of the
charges of fraud against him in Indian boun-
ties. These indictments are based ON the oaths
of nineteen different Indians from various
tribes in the Indian territory who make positive
assertions tosthe fraudulent transactions on the
part of Wright.
New Jersey is at present greatly excited on
an invasion of toads at Morristown in that
State. All other matters give way to this phe-
nomenon. Prophssies about the failure of the
peach crop no longer fill the columns of the
daily papers and even the prolonged lament
upon the ravages of the cabbage worm is silent
for the nonce. These toads have ntered Nor
ristown in column several hundred yards long
and several yards wide
Maysville, KY, according to the local paper
has carniyerous caterpillars, who are only less
dangerous than rattlesnakes. An innocent lit
tie Maysville boy was sitting under tree the
other day, and eating pastoral meal of bread
and butter, when one of these malicious rep
tiles did feloniously drop upon the bread, allow
himself to be put into the gentle urchins mouth
and then and there ferociously bit his tongue so
that it swelled to an immense magnitude, and
nearly choked the child