The Portland daily press., 1873-03-29
News and Other Items.

News and Other Items.
President Grant has had monstrons halibut
presented to him by the halibut fishermen of
New London. 4e8Fgau a}u,s.F
To take the place of those killed or ruined by
the epizootic, an Eastern man has purchased
5000 horses in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
The Kansas Legislature has voted Increased
appropriations for the penitentiary and cut
down those for literary institutions"
A Kansas City paper has the following ad
vertisement: Wanted.-A liberal salary will be
paid for the loan of young babe Address
box LOOT. tf.f
Speaking of Senator Caldwells successor, q
Washington correspondent says" 1t is ad
mtted that every adult in Kansas is candi-
date" -'7 li,a 'a'fl@ fs.f! +tfttr
A new trial has been granted in murder
man slept during the address of the prisoner s
counsel ,a-.s
The Legislature of Illinois has just rejected
a bill to provide for the punishment of habitual
wife whippers by publicly whipping the offend
ers upon the back.
The first cabin erected in Kentucky is likely
to stand for several centuries yet unless the
usual stock of preserving fluids should give
out e
An enterprising church in Virginia has
mailed printed circular to every member Of
the Forty-second Congress, asking for contri-
buttons to their fund for building new edi-
fee.
Fred. Douglasss paper administers the fol-
lowing: "The New York Tribune should know
that it is not the paper to lecture colored peo-
pie, as it is the recognized organ of all the hos
tility to colored people in this country
Still they come, and yet there is room. The
Albany Evening Journal announces that Con-
gresham Eli Perry will invest his share of the
salary grab in the U. S. bonds and then cancel
the bonds.
An unsophisticated Bengalee has sent chal-
lenge to Darwin, for making his race one of
the unpublished links. The remonstrance shows
how widely the study of Mr.. Darwins works is
disseminated, and what difficulties he has yet
to overcome. 800 Ez
At a court held in Marlboro, VT, Monday,
the officer was obliged to go on snow-shoes to
subpoena witnesses, on account of the depth OF
snow, and the jury came by the same convey
ance. The oldest inhabitant don't remember
SO much snow at this season Of the year.
France imports annually 100000 tons of
coal, receiving about 100000 from Belgium
100000 from England, and 100000 from
Germany and elsewhere. This dependence on
foreign sources for fuel is proving unfavorable
to French industry.
In consequence of juniors violently assault
ing freshman of the Sheffield Scientific
School at New Haven, because the latter re-
fused to give up "beaver" hat that be wore
on the demand of the former, the governing
board of the institution promptly expelled the
offending junior.
A joint resolution endorsing Governor Walk
er's plan for the resumption by the Federal
Government of the debts of the States has
| passed both houses of the General Assembly OF
Virginia, and the Governor has been instructed
| to forward copies of the resolution and his mes
| sage on the subject to the Legislatures of the
several States. -.--.-...-
A conflict has sprung up between the New
York and the Connecticut oystermen with re-
gard to the title of certain rich bed of oysters
over which the latter claim exclusive jurisdic
ton. The bed is just off Bridgeport, but the
New Workers say it is within the limits of the
Empire State, and they are organizing to fight
the matter out in the courts.
Webster county, Georgia, has been growing
hemp lately, and will vindcate the awful maj
esty of the law during the next and the early
part of the following month of May as follows
E. F. Spann, the wife murderer, and Mrs. Eber
hart, his alleged accomplice and paramount
and Lee Smith, anegro murderer. Spann will
be hung on the 18th of April, Lee ON the 18th
and Mrs Eberhart ON the I'd of May
Nearly thirty years ag5 a merchant in Ports
mouth, N. H., failed in business and settled
with his creditors for sixty cents on a dollar,
afterwards emigrating to the West. Nothing
was heard of him until this week, when let
ter bearing the postmark of town in Texas
was received by gentleman In Portsmouth,
containing check for $6OOO This sum, said
the letter, comprised the entire balance of forty
per cent, which would make the liquidation of
the old debt complete.
A New York correspondent says:-"One of
our large dry goods merchants reports among
the items of sale, last week, twenty camers-
hair shawls at $4,000 each, five of which were
disposed of to one family" The same writer
adds" There are women here whose ward
robe costs them, or rather their fathers and
husbands, at least $4,000 annually, and there
are great many who think themselves econ
oniical because they manage to dress upon
$4,000 to $40, 900 year.