The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-11
News and Other Items.

Mississippi paper puts up the name OF
Hon. Adelbert Ames for Governor.
Women are henceforth eligible to the posi-
ton of school trustees in Illinois.
A son of ex-President Tyler is lecturlng on
Congressman Shelabarger Of Ohio, now re-
fuses to participate in the back pay grab
temperance in California.
Rochester ice dealers refuse to deliver ice on
Sundays this season.
A New York Alderman was assaulted recent
ly by one of his constituents for whom he fail
ed to procure an Office.
The correspondent of the New York Herald
has been arrested by the Cuban authorities; of
course, that is what he wanted.
A California newspaper writer has been
nearing the frogs croak in the silent ether
blue"
line Executive Mansion of Illinois was the
scene OF mush and milk festival on Thursday
night last.
The people OF Edgefeld, Tenn, are becoming
rivals OF Nashville for the location of the Van
derbilt University
The rate OF taxation in Baltimore has been
fixed at 81 GO on the $l00 of assessable prom
erty. The amount to be raised is 50, s72, 226.
Rev. Father Brady of Rosendale, N. Y, has
been threatened with coat of tar for horse
whipping and beating with his fists Mary
Flynn, his cousin, who acted as his servant.
Representative Finkelnburg of Missouri adds
his name to the list of those Congressman who
refused to participation the salary grab, and
orders that it be paid into the Treasury.
NJ T., ionrpo1icf
has received spiritual communication that
the world is to be ''burned as black as a forgot
ten toast by wave of fire. within year.
Western men are getting their names into
the local papers by wearing the first straw
hats of the season in their respective locali-
ties
By vetoing one little bill providing for ex-
tensions, Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, has
wiped out 1923 private bills. 1t was good
days work.
The people of Tiverton, R. l., got tired OF
their female school committee in one years
trial, and last week elected new board COM
posed wholly of men, t "
Up to the latest accounts seven dead bodies
had been recovered from the ruins of the build
ing blown over in the hurricane at Burlington,
Iowa, last Saturday.
A man at Fort Wayne, Ind, dropped his
well filled pocketbook in a depot on the LIST
inst, and found it some time after, las everybody
around had been afraid of being sfooled."
The temperance societies are disguised with
August Pickard of Rochester, who is LOG years
for mixed drinks.
There is great indignation in Illinois over the
decision of the State Supreme Court adverse to
legislative regulation of fares and freights on
railroads. One of the judges has resigned in
consequence.
An Iowa dealer, who sold several pumps,
"to be paid for when Greeley was elected, re-
Gently brought suit against his customers for
pay Judgment was given for the defendants,
with COSTS
Boston stands aghast once more at the audac-
ity of the organ-grinders, who have invented
new torture, taking their position on the plat
form of the street-cars, and grinding out
"tunes" during the whole trip.
The ST. Louis Democrat is striving laboriously
to introduce the term Boosters" applying it
to linen who are politicians only that they may
be plunderers," and ''who meet every night at
Robbers Roost,'' "every large city having its
Robbers Roost."
The man who sells the lease of the corner of
Broadway and Fulton streets to the New York
Evening Post for $25O,00O was an oyster
catcher, working in New York Bay, seventeen
years ago. Getting little money he worked
his way up, and finally invested all the money
he had in long lease of that land at $4,000,
which he has just sold for S250,000
Gov. Smith of Georgia has issued invitations
to the Governors of twenty-five Western and
Southern States and the Mayors Of 153 cities,
together with the members of the Committee
on Water Lines, to take part in the convention
to be held in Atlanta on the Goth of May, to
take into consideration the subject of water
communication with the ocean through the
State of Georgia by means of the proposed At
lantc and Great Western Canal
Thousands of persons stood star-gazing in
Broadway, New York Wednesday afternoon,
with the expectation of seeing man try to fly
from Trinity church steeple. Each loiterer
held in his or her hand circular to the effect
that Professor Cantell A. Biglie would begin
his aerial performances at o'clock After
waiting patiently for some time it was discover
ed that the Professors name was composed of
the words "Can tell big lie,' and the sight
seers rapidly dispersed, very angy with them
selves at having been so easily "sold."