The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-21
News and Other Items.

At ST. Adams on Tuesday butter sold at Is to
3S cents.
The man who carries everything before him
the waiter.
Thomas Mast, the cartoonist, sailed for Eu-
rope Thursday.
Charles Bradlaugh, the English republican,
will visit the United States, next season, to
lecture.
Charles Gavan Duffy, an Irish rebel in '4S,
but lately chief secretary # Victoria, Austria
lia has been knighted.
The intellect of the Empress Carlotta is
said to be becoming clearer as she draws daily
nearer to death.
Mr.. sumner owns Bible that was once the
property of John Bunyan, author of the "Pil-
grim's Progress"
1894 in aid of immigration last year, and
obtained 8O2 foreign settlers.
Nova Scotia yielded in the ten years ending
January 1, 1871, about eight tons of gold, val
ued at $3,640,356
A man in Bowling Green KY, on resetting
an old gate-post lately found jar under it con-
tanning $4,000 in gold.
A young fellow in Stamford, Conn, recently
purchased another mans wife and two chill
dren for $25.
Phillip Gallivan, the Springfield burglar, has
been held in $4,000 for trial. The sheriff says
his conduct indicates that he is at least mo-
nomoniac.
Rev. William H. Alger of Boston, delivered
an interesting lecture in Music Hall Wednesday
evening on the causes of insanity and the treat
ment of the insane.
General Stephen A. Hurlbut, brother of
William Henry Hurlbut of the World is one
of the new congressman from Illinois. He is
said to be one of the ablest men in the West
President White, of Cornell University, has
written a letter to Governor Dix, congratulat-
ing him on the wisdom and firmness of his de-
cision in the Foster case.
Lieut.. Fred D. Grant has been assigned to
duty on the staff of Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, and
will leave Washington the last of the week
for Gen. Sheridan's headquarters at Chicago.
A temperance revival is reported in Lebanon,
N. Fl. A large club has been organized com
posed largely of men who have been addicted
to the use of liquor and a fund of $4,000 pledged
to enforce the law.
The village of Westfeld, Wisconsin, has
been so afflicted by smallpox during the past
two months that the stores, schools, and
churches have all been closed and the local pa
pers appeared in mourning for the dead.
A st. Paul jury has brought in a verdict that
husband and his wife have each stuff cred cruel
and inhuman treatment at the hands of the
other, and that consequently each is entitled to
divorce.
Tho Chico TIrjIsf,o1 Of Got +1,o%
the Legislature of Illinois has been in session
eleven weeks and has passed two bills, one of
which was adopted to enable the other one to
go into effect.
The coroner's jury in the case of E Anderson
late cashier of Lamberton's (Pa.) Bank, find
that he was insane short time before and at
the time he burned the valuables of the bank
and committed suicide.
The happy result of keeping Mr.. Froude
away from fashionable entertainments and
congressional debates is shown in the remark
by that gentleman that he did not meet vul-
gar person while in America.
Georgia clairvoyant revealed the where
abouts OF $4,000 recently stolen in Savannah
her supposed skill brought her considerable
custom for few days, but she was finally ar
rested and confessed to committing the theft.
Samuel b ,wles is a good authority on very
few subjects, but he may be believed when be
says: "There is no law against runnino tho
mails through hay-cutter, and charp
ing three cents on every separate particle Of
the chaff.
Joe Smith, the leader of the anti-polygamv
Mormons, and son of their founder, is reported
to have recently purchased the first Mormon
temple in Kirkland, Ohio, ind it is supposed
that the Mormons now living in Illinois mean
to return to their early settlement at Kirkland.
The most inconsiderate man of the day lives
in Seymour, Ind, contrary to his anticipations
He fancied recently he was about to die and
ordered a tombstone. When it was nearly COM
pleted, he found he was getting better, and now
he refuses to take the stone, to the utter des-
pair of the marble-cutter.
Five of the public schools of Hoyoke. Mass.
have been closed, and another will soon be- be-
cause the Catholic population prefer to educate
their children in their own way. In conse-
quence, the towns school expenses have been
reduced $4,000 in the item of salaries.
Scarcity of wood is now being experienced in
Hill, N H., such as has not been known for
long time. People are borrowing of neishbors,
hoping that warmer weather may both lessen
'helr needs and render it possible to get about
with teams