The Portland daily press., 1873-04-25
News and Other Items.

"A Now 1OrK shoemaker mas TAKEN OUT pa
tent on arched insteps, warranting blue blood.
Ohio has two old-fashioned log jails. She
will discover that they ought to have been su-
perseded by something stronger one of these
days.
A San Francisco boy having been badly bit
ten by a dog, all the theatres there propose to
give him Sunday benefit. Most any one
would be caught stealing apples for benefit.
St. Louis sent barrel of -four to Texas, re-
Gently, and now the wheat growers of the lat
ter State will return tie compliment by send
ing a car load of new Texas -four to st. Louis,
six weeks earlier than new -four was ever be-
fore seen in that city.
1t is proposed to build by contribution for
the Rev. Mr.. Ancient, a testimonial church,
| surmounted by light house, instead OF
| steeple.
| Barnums cannibal is on a strike. He wants
to wear silk hat and red neck-tie while on
| exhibition. and have day off every week to
| see his cousin
| The widow of the late Marquis de Chase
| loup Laubat is an American lady, having been
| Miss Pillie of New Orleans.
Greek is getting unpopular in Harvard's col
is gaining ground.
The St. Louis Bible Society collected forty
five dollars last year, and its report shows that
| the people of the future great city get along
with very few bibles.
| Gen. Candy used to be as famous for havin e
cigar in his mouth as Grant; but, unlike the
President, he rarely smoked, keeping, instead,
| the cigar in his month and chewing it mechan-
| ically until destroyed when another would, as
mechanically, take its place.
Col. Alvan c. Gillem of the First United
| States cavalry, who, on the massacre of Gen.
Candy, assumed command of the troops, grad
| uated high up iu his class from West Point
| academy in June, 1851. In 1856-'7-'S he was
| stationed at Fort McHenry, being one of the
| two first leutenants of Captain (now GENERALLY
William FL. French's battery company of the
first artillery. He greatly distinguished him
self during the war of he rebellion.
The order of Patrons of Husbandry has ex-
tended it's operations into the far South. The
farmers of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,
and Georgia, are organizing into gangs and
evince lively intesest in the movements of
filters of the soil in the northwest.
The use of lighter weight paper and envelopes
by thosesnow using the frank, is looked for as a
certain result of the abolishing law, and should
the use of thinner papers become general in
the country, there would be more ease and ce-
lerity in moving and handling the mails
Newark, N. j., noisily claims Captain Jack,
| the Modoc chief, as one of its former citizens.
There is no competition about the matter and
Newark has its own way.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
have written novel in partnership. The New
York Tribune afirms that it is holiday work,
and feels authorized to state that the paper on
which it was written cost eleven dollars.
Congressman Walden of Iowa gives his back
pay to the school fund of his county.
In Montreal, according to an official report,
six hundred children are abandoned every year.
The amount of child-murder in that city is
fearfully on the increase.
The St. Louis Republican thinks Rev. VIVIAN
Moyle of England, partly excusable for his
forgery, as "the temptation to sign somebody's
else name instead of ones own must be the
next thing to irresistible when one is afflict ed
with such name as Vyvyan Moyle.'
Professor Delissier, who has accurately pre-
dicted the occurrence of numerous earthquakes
now predicts that the New England States
will be shaken up by the motion of the earth
on the 29th day of August next.
The Governor of Arkansas has proclaimed
the general amnesty amendment to the Con-
stitution to be fully in force. -
Louisville member of the Kentucky Leg
islature is credited with running keno bank
at Lexington. t.,r.
There is bill before the New York Legisla-
ture to compel hotels to provide every room
above the second floor with chain or rope
ladder as fire escape.
The Special Committee on Temperance of
the Illinois House reports that 14,432 persons
have signed petitions for the maintenance of
the present Temperance law, or for adding to
its stringency, while 1854 have signed petitions
for its repeal In the former class were 2572
ladies, in the latter not one. The Committee
believes that "mach good has been accomplish
ed by the law, and recommend that no modif-
cation of the law be made at this session"