The Portland daily press., 1873-04-14
News and Other Items.

| Strawberries in abundance in California
The spring floods have actually ruined some
of the lateral canals in New York State, and it
is thought they will be totally abandoned
The Western papers unkindly style the Down
Easter, who walked twenty-five miles on snow
shoes to be married, Maineac. M
London has forty-six regular theatres, and
one now in course of erection. This is exclu-
sive of music halls, concert rooms, entertain
ment galleries, ETC.
A man from an adjoining town was in Ian
caster, N. H., last week with small coffin un.
der his arm containing the dead body of his
child, inquiring for the sexton. .-...&.
A man by the name of Peter Job was mar
ried in st. Louis the other day. The matrimo-
nial experience of his distinguished ancestor
did not terrify him in the least.
Whenever newspaper says anything excess
sively complimentary to the Hon. Alex Fl.
Stephens, his paper, the Atlanta San modestly
copies the pleasant exaggeration.
A model Yankee shoe factory, doing all the
work by machinery and turning out finished
shoe in seven minutes, will be put in operation
at the Vienna exhibition by H H. Bigelow of
Worcester.
The Springfield Republican says that Rev. 7.
W. Kemp, pastor of the Baptist Church in
West Royalston, has been compelled to leave
town in haste on account of detection in i'm
moral practice with small boys
The Arcadian-good authority-denies that
Lucca is trying to get divorce, or that she is
going to marry another officer when she does
getit; andlastly, that she has become an Amer
ican citizen.
Maid servants dress so like their mistresses
now as to cause dreadful modification to fash
ionable young men, who frequently take off
their hats to them, mistaking them for the
young ladies of the house.
Flirting is thoroughly cold-blooded perform.
ance. When it ceases to De cold-bloode1. it
ceases to be at all. The moment two f1irts be-
come seriously interested in each other, love
sets in and matrimony follows.
rural California paper says: ''Our town is
crimson, pink and white with peach, almond,
and the blossoms of other fruit trees; yet, look
ing up the Ojar Canon, far over the serrated
hills, rising dreamily higher and higher the
snow-capped peaks of the distant mountains
are clearly mapped against the sky" All! in
deed.
Leverett Leland ard Charles O. Dale, two of
the crew of Gloucester fishing schooner, were
lost during her recent trip to the Grand Banks.
They were off in boat to look after travis and
fog setting in could not find their way back
Leland was about 81 years of age, and belong
ed in Ellsworth, Me. Dale was twenty-eight
years of age, and Russian by birth. They
were both unmarried. s--t
An item on Boston history comes out in the
following paragraph of the will of the late
James Savage; 81 most earnestly advise that
my estate in and upon Long wharf be always
retained during their lives-Emma and VIM.
b. Rogers, because it was most the property of
my father, to him descending as part of that of
my grandfather, who died more than century
since, coming to him from my great grandfatll-
er' one OF the statute corporators, who was
grandson of the first conner of our tribe from
England, and, with owners of other water lots
around the cove between north and south Bate
RES, began the island wharyes for security
against invasion by the Dutch fleet in 1873, of
winch several wharves, one became the founda-
ton and corner stone of our Long wharf or
Boston pier"