The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-28
News and Other Items,

Speaker Blaine will assist in the Ohio Repub-
lican canvass.
Pine land in Mississippi sells for from TWEEN
ty to fifty cents an acre.
Moose Ear is the newest post office station in
| Wisconsin.
Russia is about to establish the institution of
civil marriage.
The German-speaking Catholics lave raised
over 100000 for Catholic daily paper in New
York
| The last census returns make it appear that
there is a falling off in the number of suicides
in this country, when compared with the IN
crease of population.
| A sprightly girl in Fort Edward, Washington
County, N. Y, who engaged herself to young
man lin fun" tainted on learning that he had
procured the publication of the fact in the To-
cal newspaper.
| The Boston News tells the temperance men
Of Massachusetts that they may as well prepare
for the hardest fight during the next six
months the old commonwealth has ever wit
messed on any moral issue.
The parties arrested at the dog fight on Long
Island, Friday, were taken before Justice Bur-
ton, of New London, aud fined from S17 to $50
each, with the alternative of imprisonment.
A. c. Perkins, principal of the Lawrence
High school, has been offered the priucipalship
of the Phillips Exeter, N. H., Academy, at a
salary of $4,000 and the use of a fine residence.
He will probably accept.
1t is thought that the next Pope will be Car
dinal Panebanco, an illustrious member of the
Order of st. Francis, who, if the successor of
Plus shall be selected from the Sacred College,
will doubtless receive majority of votes.
Some fishermen got tired of taking trout in
the brooks in Middlefield, Mass, last Saturday,
and amused themselves by game of snow
balling-a recreation not often INDUCED in on
the Oath Of May.
Gen. McKenzie's invasion of Mexico was like
Gen. Jackson's invasion of Florida, while It
was Spanish soil, and Commodore Porter's in
vasion of South American territory ever so
many years ago.
| Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe, writing from
Florida, says: with suitable instruction, ALI
gators may yet be seen in the Legislature They
certainly would not be more grasping and vora-
cious than many in the situation
The Baptist Church of North Sunderland has
voted to discontinue the use of fermerted wines
at the communion service. Rev. j. D. Dono-
van the pastor, has accepted a call to the
church in Brookline, Vt.
The receipts from customs revenue for the
first "A days Of May amounted to 81, 2O3, 533.
This indicates an aggregate for the month of
fourteen and half millions, which is consid-
| cred large.
Gen. Davis has telegraphed that the rocky
and alkaline Modoc country has destroyed the
clothing and shoes of the soldiers Gen. Sher-
man Immediately ordered ar extra supply to be
issued
A fine of S15 and two weeks Imprisonment
was the sentence lately passed by London
magistrate upon a wretch who pricked out the
eyes of a chaffinch to improve its song He
boosted of having treated forty birds in the
same manner in one day.
The Commissioners of Tippecanoe county,
Ind. have forwarded to Gov. Hendricks petit
ton setting forth that Mrs. Samuel Smith, of
Iroquois county recently gave birth to four
children at time, and praying that such steps
be taken as will secure an appropriation to the
father and mother and to each of the children
section of government lands.
The Boston Daily Times and the Boston Dali
Ne'cs have become one paper, and will be pub
llshed hereafter as the Boston Daily Neacs, un-
der its former management, and upon its origi-
nal basis and principles; Mr. b. w. Thayer be-
coming stakeholder of the Ne,os, and giving
10 1t the weight of his influence
The London Times sarcastically points to the
tact that France has just paid over to GERMANY
ten millions sterling without making the SLIGHT.
est russ about it, while England cannot nav
third OF that sum to the United States without
resorting to every possible delay, and then bor-
rowing money in order to do it.
The Springfield Union, in noticing the e,n,,-
sion OF the homeopathic doctors from the Mas
saehusetts Medical Society, says: cit is an ex.
ample OF the middle age method of TREATING
honest divergences of opinion, which will no;nt
tne gloes OF those medical skeptics who main
tam the whole science of the materia medica +o
be relic of medieval superstition,
Recently Milan was full of peasants who
came to visit the church of Saint Eustoroio IN
the fete day of Saint Peter the MARTYR Tho
particular object is to preserve themselves from
heauaches for the year to come. and tho all
powerful charm consists of knocking the head
more or less hart against the marble urn of the
saint.
herman constable attempted to serve a
wit written in English, which he could not
read, in Wisconsin the other day, and was, af-
ter his repulse arrested and fined to the
amount of 800 for assault. He paid up and
said that he had had enough of that kind OF
foolshness, and wouldn't play constable any
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