The Portland daily press., 1873-03-10
News and other Items.

One firm in Indianapolis is said to ship 1000
bushels of eggs every week.
The rush of Northern visitors to Florida dur
ing the winter has been greater than ever be-
fore, t5 rHa k---G
jeff Davis is said TO have plenty of money,
Samuel Bowles is charged with an ambition
to go to Congress.
Mrs. Anna A. Pomeroy, former wife Of
.Bfck" Pomeroy, of La Crosse, has married
James II. Reed, of Fulton, III.
Thirty years ago, Boston had many ''ten
FOOT dwelling houses. The last one remain
ing is about to disappear.
The office of Mayor of Utica went begging
Over fifty Republicans refused the nomination,
and the party was defeated. a
Charles Lucia of Bridgeport, VT, drank foot
rot medicine (blue vitriol) by mistake for cider,
a few days since, and died in consequence.
Coal is so dear in England that some of the
great steamship companies propose to reduce
their fleets
Albermarle county, Va, does large business
| in wine making, and expects to produce $4,000
| gallons the coming season. -.r-
Hoosac Tunnel progressed 277 feet during
the month of February, and So feet less than
half a mile remains to be opened.
The March election in Georgetown, Mass.
turned upon the question Of Freemasenry and
the ants carried the day. etas
Somebody sold dealer in human hair in
Cleveland, Ohio, some hair that had been cut
from the head of a smallpox patient, and the
dealer took the disease and died. ia
A Montreal man. in fit of drunken rage at
his wife, went to the cemetery and mutlated
a costly monument she had placed over the
remains of her first husband. 6r
The Examiner and Chronicle, speaking of
Rev. o. B. Frothinghams slender connection
with the Unitarians, says that he hangs on to
the sectby his eyelids."
The proprietor of the Montreal Witness is I'M
der commitment for libel in permitting the pub
llcation OF temperance diatribe against gen.
tleman who had wine on his table at private
entertainment given to the Governor General
"A child was born a few days since at Nc
keansburg, Pa, which weighed only eight
ounces. and the local papers say it is doing
well. Little Hodge was a young giant in COM
parison with this microscopic infant.
Butterick, the New York molder of fashion
and shoulder padder, says gentlemen's overalls
for parties will be cut more biased this season.
and short men WILL when waltzing let out
their suspenders couple Of inches.
A Russian journal gets Mark Twain curious
ly mixed up with Henri Taine and credits the
latter with the authorship of 'Innocsnts
Abroad" 1t remarks that it sis In an entirely
different vein from his his other works" We
should think so.
There have been 1877 arrests for murder in
San Francisco during the past twenty-five
years, sixty-seven of them in the past four
years. There have been, in the same time,
only eleven executions-six during the past
past four years. Fully score of murders have
been committed for which no arrests have been
made. .4.a.. .
The Omaha (Neb.) Republican begins an ar
ticle in this way: "On the west bank of the
Missouri river, like schoolboy dangling his
feet in mud-puddle, sits the city of Omaha.
She holds the gateway to the Pacific coast. and
the agricultural lands this side the slope that
are tributary for supplies. There are nearly
10000 people chasing dollars in the corporation,
and yet everybody has chance to tnrn an hon.
est penny" And then it goes on to show the
necessity for sidewalks. .a