The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-26
News and Other Items.

Gen. Beauregard is reported to be in feeble
health
General Braxton Bragg is canvassing the
cities of Georgia as agent for patent wooden
water pipe.
Walt Within an, the poet, is quite ill at Cam
den, N. j., and his physicians are said to be
anxious about his recovery.
Of 80, ,294 railroad passengers in Pennsy,-
vanie last year, only 80 were Killed. ratio of
less than one in million.
The twenty-eight young Chinese students
why were on board the train recently robbed on
the Rock Island road, arrived at Springfield
Thursday morning.
The Western Union Telegraph Company, in
connection with the National Observatory, I'M
dertakes to give a uniform standard time
throughout the country,
AS sociable as a batch of candidates two
weeks before an election" is the latest way of
expressing the fact that man is good natured
and pleasant.
"Owing to the death of the editor there won't
be any leader Tuesday, says Wisconsin
weekly, shut look out for an old ripper on We'd
nesday.',
"Brick" in his palmy days, was sold by the
sheriff on the 18th instant, on a mortgage given
to the Charter Oak insurance company. The
property was bid in by the company for $50, 600.
Minnesota courts have decided that sewers
have the prior right to the occupancy of streets
over gas pipes on the ground that the former
conduce to the sanitary welfare of the cit-
zens.
The Paymaster General has issued what he
calls Monthly Stoppage Circular for July,
wherein III army officers are incontinontly de-
barred from appropriating their usual monthly
instalment of Treasury dross.
Young Walworth is not seen to partake Of
the prison fare at Sing Sing, and it is inferred
that goodies are Struggled into his porrnger by
his other, whereat the less aristocratic pris-
oners are indignant.
Mr.. Redpath applied to Mr.. Warner, author
of "My Summer in a Garden to enter the ect-
ure field. The genial editor replied that there
was less prospect now than ever of his doing
so. sit seems to me" he wrote, "that the old
er grow, the wiser grow"
Proceedings in bankruptcy have been insti-
tuted against Mr.. H. 1. Kimball, whose ATTAIN
ia speculations created so much enthusiasm in
that section shortly after the close of the war.
1t is said that his liabilities reach the large sum
Of $5OOOOOO.
A Washington father recently whipped his
daughter through the public streets with
heavy coach whip, and the intelligent police
judge on Thursday, after listening to an argu-
ment on the Importance of maintaining parent
al discipline, let the brute off with fine of ten
dollars.
An experienced husband in Lafayette, Ind,
sent TWO switches home to his wife, from which
she was to make selection, but before doing it
he changed the tags, putting the 1915 one on the
$40 switch and vice versa After a critical ex.
animation by herself and lady friends the
chsice fell upon that labeled S25. and she do
cided to keep it, notwithstanding her husbands
plaintive protest that he could not afford to
pay out more than $40 for such an article
The new through route between New York
and Washington was successfully inanouratad
Thursday. All trains pass through the Union
tunnel in Baltimore, saving nearly an hour in
the journey and reducing the time between the
two cities to seven hours aud forty minutes
The Canton Land company which owns the
tunnel receives fifteen cents toll for each pas-
senger and twenty cents for each ton of freight
passing through it.
Cassius M. Clay pitches into the controversy
that Charles Francis Adams raised as to the
relative capacity and influence in the admins
tration of President Lincoln and Secretary
Seward with severity which indicates great
dislike of the latter And yet it is said that
Seward kept from the public the damning evil
dence that Gortschakoff sent him of Claws
atrocious social vices at st. Petersburg while
American minister.