The Portland daily press., 1873-06-04
News and other Items.

The horse disease has reappeared in Hartford,
Conn.
Some unknown but generous man has given
Union College 100000.
Gen. Barry has prohibited the sale of spirit
uous and malt liquors at Fortress Monroe.
A Boston liquor dealer, fined for violation of
the prohibitory law, approached the Clerk of
the court, money in hand, and plaintively urg-
ed him to attend to his case as soon as possible
because he had left no one at home 10 tend
bar
Stamford, Conn. man claims to have what
is left of the flag that foated over Fort Sum-
ter in April 1861, and it was carried in the pro-
cession on Decoration Day.
A young lady in a Wheeling, West Va,
street car, not only gave up her seat to a poor
old nan who entered, but paid his fare and quiz
city slipped S. note into his hand when she
got out.
The Rhode Island Railroad Commissioner
recommends that each. passenger car be re-
quired to carry FIRE extingushers, axes, and
pick, and that there be increased protection of
the stoves.
MIR. Speaker Blaine is to be the orator at the
Northern Wisconsin Fair at Oohkosh.
The story about the marriage of Auna Dick
inson and Senator Allison was a canard
Capt. Burton, under whose management the
Metis was wrecked, has been reinst ated and
placed in command of the Galatea.
A Minnesota farmer lost gimlet three years
ago. The other day he cut down tree and
found in it a three-quarter inch anger. So
much for putting a thing out at interest.
/ An almost incredible paragraph is circulat-
ing to the effect that Sergeant Bates is actually
after all that he has done for his ungrateful
| country, reduced to the humliating necessity of
| working for living, just like any ordinary cit
| izen.
The person who started the rumor that
charges were to be preferred against Gen. Bak-
er, Commissioner of Pensions was recently dis
charged from the Pension Bureau for drunken
ness and incapacity. -
Louis Rel, the ex-rebel of Manitoba is a
candidate for the seat in the Dominion Parlia-
ment vacated by the death of the Hon. George
Cartier.
Gen. Van Buren, writes another long and in
temperate letter from Vienna to the New York
Tribune, defending himself, protesting against
the suspension of the Commission and berat-
ing Minister Jay soundly.
A Vermont schoolmistress, fifteen years old,
who could not answer one question in her ex-
animation, has $1.50 a week, which is scarce
ly an inducement to know anything more.
Gen. Sewall OF Maine, Surveyor of Distiler
les in the Internal Revenue Bureau, recently
made an exhaustive report to Gem missioner
Douglass, which denies the existence of illicit
distillaticn in New Orleans He found the DIS
tilleries run in accordance with the pre-
scribed regulations, and failed to discover any
frauds
Two boys aged II and years, on Saturday
last were stonning herring in Sulphur pond,
Rochester. They killed two or three, which
lying dead on the surface of the water, an eagle
swooped for them. A well directed pebble hit
.ne noble bird in the head, stunning him so
.ua' the boys secured and killed him. The
' ~, VI MS wings was seven feet.
o;on me publishers of country newspapers. espe.
49, ~ 'he West, make numerous complaints
the onerous conditions of the new
po'.a, ".' some of these publishers ronre.
sent That 1t will lose them ona-th;., p
circulation. 1t is represented at tha pa.,e .ael
Department that the provision wa, ;ns oIo y.
the instance of the opponents of tha t,:,' a az
abolish the frankng privilege, with a Wow ~
defeat the latter