The Portland daily press., 1873-06-27
News and other Items.

The Nation refers to Hon. Roscoe C0nkllng
as ''that purple earthquake of oratory."
New post Offices are being established at the
rate of Que hundred daily.
A romantic couple paid $25 for the privilege
of being married in circus ring.
Senator Upton of Nebraska, is reported to
have covered his back pay into-an elegant
mansion at home.
A Catholic priest in Martin county, Ind, has
Hyacinthed with the daughter of prominent
citizen.
Some very original New York swells wear lit
tie Thermometers for scarf-pins and upon the
lapels of their coats.
A recent survey shows Kearsarge Mountain
in New Hampshire, to be 1926 feet high. Car
digan Mountain is 315O feet HIGH
1t is stated that "the late John Carpenter of
Marquette, Mich, knocked the ashes out of his
pipe on the head of keg of blasting powder"
Leprosy has made its appearance at San
Francisco, and, of course, the local papers lay
it to the Chinese.
1t is now generally believed that the little
girls found locked in closet at Philadelphia
were shut in accidentally.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company will
begin the erection of large warehouse on their
docks at Duluth.
The Springfield Board of Aldermen refuse to
pass an order instructing the city police to pros
ecute violators of the liquor law.
The returns from the wheat crop as far as re-
eceived have been quite favorable, and it is es-
timated that it will reach 1000, 900 bushels,
notwithstanding the first discouragng reports.
MIR. George DIGGER, the English Republican,
has been adjudged an involuntary bankrupt,
being unable to pay the cost of an unsuccessful
suit he brought against the London Figaro
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
has rescinded the vote to adjourn on the 9th
inst, until October and will now hold two ses-
sions day until its labors are completed.
A huge rock rolled down a cliff near Mon
treal last week, and pushed house, in which
ten persons were sleeping, out into the middle
Of the road without hurting any of them.
The Attorney General has not been requested
by the Treasury Department to commence Grim
inal proceedings against Phelps, Dodge & Co.,
as has been alleged.
The Allen county (Ohio) Democrats have re-
solved that both parties are immea surably
corrupt, and they therefore call meeting of
men OF both parties to organize something new
and better.
BY agreement among the manufacturers of
nails in new England, their works are to be
stopped for seven weeks The stock of nails
on hand is heavy and the price is said to be
below the cost of production.
Thos Mast, it is said, has been engaged to de-
liver one hundred and fifty lectures, next sea-
son on caricaturng; the lectures to be illustrat-
cd by sketches drawn in the presence of the au-
dence.
The subsistence of the cholera in Tennessee
shows that there has been a great deal of un-
necessary alarm on the subject The disease
arises from local poison, and when that is re-
moved the danger disappears.
Gen. Garfield has prepared magazine arti-
Gle, in which he explains the increased Con-
gressional expenditures of the present fiscal
year over the preceding year. The increase is
five millions. The main line of his argument
is justification on the ground of necessity
The weather in London on Thursday, june
9th was the most shockingly foggy ever known
there The day was exceedingly hot and sui.
try, and the atmosphere so dense that gas had
to be burned in the stores and houses all day
long,
Washington gossip now has it there is a pos
sibility of serious trouble with Spain, owing to
her bad faith in refusing to abolish slavery in
CUBA and Porto Rico. 1t is alleged that the de-
cree abolishing slavery in Porto Rico was a pre-
text to conciiate our government, and that be.
fore the edict took effect every slave in Porto
Rico had beer sold and sent to Cuba.