The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-30

Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, vetoed
elghty-slx bills, and at his request over one
hundred were recalled and put in less objec-
tionable shape
In turkey stealing case at Norwlcn' .he
other day a woman testified that she knew her
turkeys ''by their walk, their coun''n'o
their manner of roostng' o,.
nj, ,,o,;,,ent recently made in Ohio, OF
-. -ror,en at the head of all the schools
- p The high schools, is pronounced decd
ed success
Our Gar West" correspondent says he pre-
fers roast OK to Modocs any day The latter
are shack nasty lot, who cut up badly, and
are apt to leave fellow bald.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Press is astonished a
the amount of tobacco coming to market. The
warehouses are stuffed full, and the dealers
never knew such time. Still the prices are
kept at the highest notch.
Professor Baird of the Smithsonian Ipstitu-
ton will on June 25th commence his investiga-
ton of the causes of the diminution of fish
along the Atlantic coast. His explorations
will commence at Mount Desert, Me.
This is from the Augusta, Ga, Chronicle
delinquent subscribers should not permit
their daughters to wear this paper for hustle
There being so much due on it. there is danger
of taking cold"
Five men from Cannons Station were cap
sized from sail boat east of Gregory's Point,
Conn, Sunday, Ind one of them Daniel Stur-
gis Abbott was drowned. The others were
picked up by schooner. The whole party was
under the influence of liquor.
The people of Waverly, r. 1. were greatly
agitated few days since, over the excavation
of a box supposed to contain human remains.
The mysterious box was dug from the earth,
and justice of the peace called to see it open
ed, when, to the disgust of the crowd, the car
cass of dog was discovered
Levi Souls was hanged at Marion Court
house, S. c., last Friday, for the murder Of
another white man. Under the gallows he said
intemperance had been his ruin, but continued.
81 am going to rest; hope you will all meet
me in heaven. My faith is in God, and 1 am
ready to CO."
People down in Kentucky have started O re-
port that Capt. Jack is a son of Capt. Jack
Chambers, who was born near Frankfort in
that State went to California with a party of
fortune seekers as early as 1916 or 1885, and af-
terward fell in with the Modoc Indians and
married the daughter of their head chief.
The wild man in the woods has made his an
nual appearance once more, and very early, he
being this time in Fannin County, Georgia. He
is represented to be eight feet high, and in re-
cent fight with some of the citizens who at
tempted to capture him, he killed one of them,
as represented, and tore off the tail of horse.
Diplomatic circles are much exercised at the
condition of affairs upon our Mexican border.
The most sensational projects are seriously dis
cussed by diplomats, who claim to have infor-
nation that our troops in western Texas are be-
ing reinforced, and that the Mexican Border
Commission will approve greater claims against
Mexico than that country can liqudate.
An illustration used by Mrs Livermore last
evening, drawn from Wellington's endurance
under the "hammering' at Waterloo, calls to
mind the remark attributed to an old peninsu-
lar soldier at that time, who, upon being told
that Wellington hal declared that he should
fight it out if necessary, all summer, or some
similar remark, replied in a common-p place way:
''Oh, if the Duke has said that, why. the other
.fel1oao will have to give in?' The idea of speak
ing of Napoleon I, as ''the other fellow" is es-
pecially good Boston Journal
Says the Utica Herald: The man who thought
anybody could milk cow, don't think so any
more He bought COW yesterday, and last
evening he took new pail and a raisn box,
and started for the stable. He revolved out of
the stable through a window in just three min
utes. AT the same time the tin pail was heard
wandering among the rafters, and the raisin
box came bounding out Of the door. The bired
girl made reconnaissance, in force, and report
ed that the COW was standing on her horns, so
to speak, and weighing her hind legs for more
worlds to conquer