The Portland daily press., 1873-02-05
News and Other Items.


$275 per acre on their tobacco crop
The New York Times most strenuousy urges
the Legislature to provide for the abolition of
the vile medical and personal advertisements
which disgrace New York journalism.
The English post-ofice authorities intend
soon to reduce the cost of telegraphing, so that
twenty-word dispatch will be sent for n sum
equal to thirteen cents of our money. Tbi, is
an unanswerable argument for the government
assuming tne management of the telegraph of
the country.
Inc ranking privilege, now doomed to 90
ou' oI existence on the first day of next July,
was born January 10, 1892, and is consequent
~ IN It's eghty-second year.
The Indiana Legislature has enacted new
law which reduces the number of causes of di-
vorce to seven: Adultery, impotency, three
years abandonment, cruel and inhuman treat
ment, failure of the husband for two years to
provide for his wife, three years habitual
drunkenness, and conviction of any infamous
crime. Two years bona ide residence in the
State is required by the petitioner. Divorces
with no other than newspaper notices may be
opened and DEGREES set aside.
resident of Putnam Valley, New York
State, who brought suit for a small election
bet, before jury, recovered the whole amount,
with costs.
A Topeka, Kansas, merchant mourns the
loss of his wife, clerk and $3.50 cash.
Mrs. Charles Sumner is doing good in Europe
nursing sick Americans.
The Governor of florida thinks trial by iury
is useless institution, and recommends it's
abolition.
Minnesota now adds another to her many at
fractions for invalids. A mine of epson salts
has been discovered there.
The Southern newspaper man, in writing up
his report of brilliant social events inserts ju-
dicious puffs of the mills that make the clothes
OF the unfortunate young woman he describes
Out OF the 379 students of Princeton College
ITO have recently become converted and Joined
the church
Why asks the Buffalo Express, don't the i'm
plicated congressman avail themselves of an
alibi? 1t is clear as mud that the whole thing
was either an Ames or an Alley buy.
Mrs Sarah A. Oran, widow of so lder who
died in the United States service, has been
elected State librarian of Indiana.
The Goldfish caught ON the banks of Newfound
land and Labrador are enormous in quantity.
In 1872 there were exported from st. Johns
Newfoundland, 1882, 600 pounds of Goldfish,
valued at Sc, 81, ,445.
Gen. Ambrose Burnside is reported to have
aspired to the command of the United States
marine corps since the death of Gen. Meade,
and it is generally thought in military circles
that he is likely to obtain it.
| The Nebraska secretary of state is of very
| forgving disposition. He was recently called
| upon to act as governor for week or so, and
availed himself of the opportunity to pardon
twenty-seven conyicts from the penitentiary.
A suit was begun in Easton, Mass, in 1863
in which the matter of controversy was $156
worth of land and q few cords of wood. Out Of
this thirty different suits have grown, some of
which are still carried on at great expense and
much bitterness of feeling.
A bill is before the Vermont legislature
which proposes to go to the bottom of this rail-
road accident business, and make it murder in
the first degree when loss of life is caused by
accident resulting from amaliciously obstructed
track, and imprisonment for life when loss of
property only results.
Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine for
| February has q very valuable discussion Of
house drainage. 1t is considered that poison
GUS sewer gasses find their readiest access into
a house through the leaks in the house pipes,
and by the suction produced by the inner warm
air and by the chimneys; and it is insisted that
traps are necessary wherever the drain and the
sewer join.
Calcraft, the English hangman, is robust
and benevolent looking old man, and when not
professionally employed indulges in amateur
gardening.
A sad and most revolving attempt at suicide
is reported from Niagara Falls. The wife Of
William B. Senior, while laboring under tenn
porary alteration Of mind, attempted, ON Sat
urday, to disembowel herself with chisel. She
was still alive at last accounts, but it is hardly
possible that she can recover
Prof Loomis, of Yale College, who has a
record of the temperature for the past one hun
dred years, says that there has been but one
colder day than Thursday in all that period.
Amherst's meteorological record doesn'textend
so far back, but Prof. Smell reports Thursday
the coolest day for thirty-seven years.
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Southern States after the executive session of
the Senate, which will probably be concluded
| by the 20th of March. He will 60 via Rich
mond, Raleigh, Columbia, Charleston, Savan-
nah, Montgomery and Mobile to New Orleans,
and then ascend the Mississippi river to Mem
| phis, from whence he will either return
| through East Tennessee or go north to Louis
vile, perhaps visiting his farm near st. Louis
| before he returns.
An English newspaper, speaking of the large
amount of coal imported from the United
States into the United Kingdom, thinks it prob
able that eventually system of iron steam col
liers of large tonnage will carry United States
coal to all parts of the world. Some vessels
now loading for the export trade have a capac-
| ity of 4, 600 tons.
Postmasters will not deliver letters addressed
to initials or fictitious names, unless sent to the
care of some responsible person.