The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-12-13
News and Other Items.

Taintor, the convicted cashier, has been put
to work in the shoe shop of the Albany peni-
tentiary. sar ...
1t is said that on the completion of the trunk
line between Chicago and New Orleans, pas
sengers can travel from one city to the other,
without change of cars.
A child was smothered in Appomattox Coun-
ty Va, few evenings ago, by guests at a
wedding. who threw their outer garments
upon a bed in which he was lying
The Common Council of st. Paul. MIMI, are
going to impress upon the people of that city
the propriety of paying their taxes,by publish
ing s'tlack list of delinquent taxpayers"
Charles A. Ryan. a brother of the late Amer
lean citizen whose blood was shed in the sham
bles Of Santiago, is peacefully shaking type in
an Arkansas printing Office.
S. j. Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, son of
Hon. Joseph Medill, has taken the place of
Washington correspondent for that paper. He
has been city editor for seven years.
A young man wrs struck by lightning near
Trenton, N. j., recently, and when the neigh
bors began to flock to the spot to view the body
they found man standing beside it trying to
sell lightning rods.
An employee in planning mill at Rock Island
ILL.,, was explaining to a visitor the way in
which his son had an arm taken off in plan
Ing machine last summer, when his own arm
was caught and taken off in the same manner
1t is rumored that Col. John Hay is to sue
coed Geu. Sickles at Madrid. No better selee
ton than this could be made. Col Hay, though
still young man, is a finished dlplomatist, and
an accomplished scholar.
Wilkie Collins has cancelled all his lecture
engagements in this country, because, first, he
cannot do himself or his audience .jnstice,
and finally because the lecture business is great
ly overdone.
The members of the Dominion Parliament
from Prince Edward Island, who acted against
the administration in the recent ministerial cri.
sis, have been returned to their seats, and on
Wednesday evening grand reform banquet
was gwen in their honor at Charlottetown.
A boy in Worcester has been fined SIS and
costs, amounting to $14.40 for stealing copy
of the Daily Spy Judge Williams in passing
sentence, said it was not the mere marketable
value of the goods stolen, that called for Sc
we're sentence, but the great annoyance attend
ing such petty pilfering.
The first patent issued in the United States
of which there is any record, was granted tc
Solomon Hopkins, Aug 9th, 1890, for making
pot and pearl ashes. The second was to James
Stacy Sampson, Aug. 9th, 1890, for making
candles; and the third land last in that year
was to Oliver Evans, Dec. 18th, 1890, for max
ing flour and meal
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that the Gin
posters who set out to fool the American peopl,
with the pretence of free breakfast table by
throwing off about twenty-five millions of rev
enues from tea and coffee, will see as much Al
that sum added to the public debt the cnrren
year by that act of folly"
The National Changers seem to be prosperin.
famously. The report of Secretary Kelley fo
the first week in December, shows the organi
cation CT two hundred and sixty nine new gran
ges, and an aggregate membership of the Orde
of Patrons of Husbandry, amour ting to 678, 1915
Total number of oranges, 9,649.