The Portland daily press., 1873-07-18
News and Other Items.

There are 10 hotels and 14O cottages at Cape
May.
They had hot corn in the Chicago elevators
Wednesday to the extent of III 900 bushels
Clews, the banker, has given $4,000 toward
establishing a newsboys' asylum in New York.
Ole Bull and his young Wisconsin wife have
departed to spend two or three years in Nor
way,
The Navy Department has thus far received
twenty-five bids for the contract for construct
ing one of the new sloops-of-war ordered by
Congress.
Caleb Cushing has begun a suit against
neighbor in Washington, who has dog that
barks and annoys Mr.. Gushing. The latter
lays the damage at $4,000.
A western paper prematurely announced the
death of very sick gentleman, and conclu 1ed
its apology for the blunder by saying: "We
are sorry the item was Incorrect %
The wife of DR.. Robins, the newly elected
President of Colby University, died at Roches-
ter N. Y, last Friday. She has been in feeble
health for a long time.
1t is reported in Rome that the Pope will
soon cause the communication of Victor
Emanuel to be pronounced from the Cathedral
of st. Peter with the greatest solemnity
When a crowd of jayhawkers started dis
turbance in Texas church the other dey, the
preacher raised up shot gun and said: Evil
liam Dello. sit down or I'll make it painful for
YOU" William sat down and was as quiet as
q lamb,
An immense muscle bed, comprising many
hundred acres, has recently been discovered
H. :,t.,,< 1, cl,~ 1
post, it is said, is valuable one, and when
fully prepared for the market will equal the
Peruvian guano.
The Treasury Department has information
from the Syndicate that the large subscriptions
of the German government have created addi-
ton confidence in the new loan. Interest
checks on funded loan bonds, due August LIST,
will be forwarded to holders on Saturday.
1t has been decided at the Office of the Comp
troller of the Currency that national banks will
have to bear the expense of official correspon-
dence with the department.. The banks were
anxious to save this expense, and some of them
have applied for official stamps, which have
been refused under this decision.
Agenteman applied for marriage license at
Dover, Tennessee, last week, but when he
spoke the ladys name the polite county clerk
suggested that, if it was all the same to him,
he would prefer that he should name some
other party, as the one he mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening.
The official report at the Postoffice Depart
ment show that for the ninety-two days imme
diately preceding the abolition of the franking
privilege, the average weight of extra public
documents was 81 600 pounds daily. 1t required
forty cars to move this extra mail For this
the railroads receive no additional compensa-
ton.
Amanda Smith, the colOred Methodist exhor-
ter, is at the Round lake camp-meeting. She
is described as tall, noble looking colored wo-
man, with white superb teeth, and clear black
eyes-a figure that arrests one without knowing
who she is, in that strangest costume for her
sex, Quaker bonnet and dress.
The Postmaster General has informed post
masters that they have no right to stop letter
in transit for the purpose of discovering wheth-
er the official stamps covering them may have
been improperly used. He directs all postmas-
tiers to forward suspected letters to their desti-
nation, and to report all suspicious circum-
stances for subsequent investigation