The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-06


The Knoxville Press and Herald says no
families remain in Jonesboro, Tenn, except
those in which some of the members are sick
with cholera. II a.-- --4a-- a y
Ex-Presideut Hopkins of Williams College,
has been appointed provisional professor of
mental and moral philosophy at Bowdoin Co.
lege. IC El5k .1lFfE Tf
Since the Chicago clergy have been offering
prayers for the benefit of the press, the ungod-
ly Times, of that CRY, suggests that editors
unite in application for the diffusion of intelli-
gence among the clergy. s. ,....
The marble auarries of Rutland are now be-
ing worked by ten different companies, employ
ing over 1000 workmen. The aggregate produc-
ton is about 10000 cubic feet per annum. The
annual sa les amount to over million dollars.
The laws of Sweden require that every emil
grant vessel shall furnish eighteen superficial
feet of deck room for every emigrant and us a
result very few vessels receive emigrants direct
from that country -
A father in Washington, Del, who took
great dislike to one Of his children that was
el-footed''-having feet turned out-was ar
rested last week for endeavoring to persuade
his wife to assist him in poisoning it.
Gen. Pillow writes a letter to say that when
the Union forces entered Montgomery. all
though he was hard up financially and wore a
dingy uniform he was treated with great re.
spect by the Union officers who had fought
with him in Mexico. He adds that he voted
for Grant at the last election.
The ratio of Republican members who have
returned their back pay is one in five; but the
ratio among Democrats is only one in twelve
The statements in local newspapers, in MANY
districts, that the back pay of members has
been returned, do not agree with tine books of
Treasurer Spinner.
The increase in the average of human life at
Geneva since 1890 is estimated to be about so
per cent. Tables complied by life insurance
companies in England, and adopted in this
country, show similar increase. In France
since the fourteenth century, the average death
rate has decreased from in 16 to in 49, In
England it has decreased from / in SO to in AZ
since 1890. son
At Oswego Falls, Monday, while three boys
were plying in grove. two of them became
angry with the other and attempted to hang
him. This mode of inficting death not sue
ceeding as rapidly as they desired, one of them
proceeded to a. house to borrow an ak with
which to behead the victim. An alarm was
given at once, and the neighbors reached the
scene in time to save the boys life.
The Times money article of Monday says
Commodore Vanderbilt contemplates making
the Central and Hudson River Railroad a ten
per cent. stock; that he has control of the
Lake Shore line; that he intends to make a
scrip dividend on Harlem; and, most signif-
cant of all, that he has laid hands ON the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph stock. Certainly Mr..
Vanderbilt loses none of his energy or ambi-
ton in his old age. sit h- ,--.- 7e s.li .t.lr
The Chicago directory, which has just been
issued, includes 133, 070 names, and the papers
claim on the strength of it a population of
about 100000 for the city. The st. Louis
Democrat sees nothing laudable in all this, but
scornfully designates the directory as 'Chi-
cago romance and says that the book is IAN
ingenious device to enlist the sympathy of the
Boston mortgages, and persuade them out of
their threatened foreclosures f'''
Miss Nettie C. Stewart applied for license
to practice law during recent session of the
court in Gadsden, Ala, but her examiner
found her incompetent. Then there was a
pretty row. She got wrathy and said it was no
more than she expected, AMI called the conrt
and bar band of robbers. The Judge told the
sheriff to put her out of the room for contempt,
but she dared him to do it at the risk of his