The Portland daily press., 1873-02-12
News and Other Items.

Laborers are scarce in Brazil Eleven cents
day and board is the worth of their hire.
The value of the ale and beer exported by
England last year was upwards of $50, 400, 900.
The Duluth Herald claims that there are
more iron safes in that city, and less money in
them, than in any other city of similar size in
the Union.
The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer says that the
cattle are still dying in large numbers, and that
one more severe spell of weather will about
wind up the stock busiaess in Western Texas
Mrs. Edwin Forrest has begun suit for the
widows third of the tragedan's property.
claiming that he was never legally divorced.
This property is valued at several million dol
lars. Mrs. Forrest lives at Staten Island with
her brother-in-law Henry Sedley. ~
The House committee on post-onices will
give hearing to the publisher of the patent
weekly newspapers in nearly all the States,
who asks that the postal code may be amended
to allow ready-printed papers to pass free of
postage in the counties where they are issued
A Lady in Halifax. N. S., desired the remov-
al of her dead cat, and was informed that she
must go to the senior alderman of the ward; he
would then tell the mayor, the mayor would
tell the health inspector, the health inspector
would tell the police, the police would tell the
dead-cat man, and the dead-cat mar would in
form her what day of the week she could re-
move the cat herself.
Entire sheets of iron, have during the past
week washed from the wreck of the Sir Fran
els and been thrown upon Salisbury Beach.
They were completely perforated and worth
less.
During the week ending Saturday noon
there were 157 deaths in Boston, including "a
from smallpox, IS less than last week and the
smallest number for many weeks.
Portsmouth, N. H., proposes a novel method
of forming public library, by inducing every
son of the city who shall visit it on the 4th of
July next to "march into town with q book
under his arm"
President D. G. Gilman, of California Uni
versity, recently delivered an address before the
Agassiz Institute of Sacramento on the ques-
ton of s'What shall we do with our boys"
For one thing, he would have parents give their
boys scientific education which would fit them
to follow any profession they preferred.
Estimates of the pork crop of the West
show a gain over last year of 1928 per cent.
The total number Of hogs packed will be near
ly five and half millions Chicago packs as
many as Cincinnati and ST. Louis together.
A Nashville, Tennessee, ghost wears polo
na;se and carries parasol.
Uriah Heap is an humble postmaster in Dry
Run, Kentucky,
One hundred thousand persons were baptized
by immersion last year.
The North Carolina Legislature deals a stag
gering blow to gambling, by abolishing marked
cards.
Worms with side-whskers and other symp-
toms of dangerous precocity are doing serious
injury to vegetation in West Virginia.
The Kansas Grasshopper dominates Senator
York, of that State and Pomeroy fame, for
President in 1876.
The Court has decided that the will of Mr..
Greeley which was made 1871, is the only valid
one.
Mr.. Mansur, at Augusta, favors us with
copy of his new almanac. His politeness ex-
ceeds his beauty, if that portrait ON the cover
is truthful. The expression is as though some
one was stepping on his pet corn.-Belast
Journal