The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-19
News and Other Items

Margaret Foley, New England girl has
won fame at Rome as a sculptor.
The debt of Mexico is reported 10 beS76 45a- !
1863
Gail Hamilton has her life insured for
600. $25,-
The number of visitors to the W.
sition was 7,250.oOO. 'nna Expo
Accounts FROM the Labr
highly satisfactory. Yer Ador hshsrles are
reported this season in ! few casualties are
Senator Edmupds the fishing districts
quite sick with Pr of Vermont, who has been
ing rapidly lalarial fever, is now improv
Wilk:e<F/
too sicb Collins agents represent that he is
Wor to read any more in this country. In
" lester Charles Bradlaugh has been Sc
red in his place.
{, In Waterbury, Conn.,, Saturday morning,
Richard Thompson, aged nineteen, was found
bankment, where he had fallen during the
night.
The Washington Chronicle urges the Massa-
chusetts Legislature to expunge the censure
resolution against Charles Sumner, and lift the
crown of thorns from their s'old Senator's
| brow" II
The Choctaws are making rapid progress in
civilization. Their Governor, legislators and
judges have just gone on a protracted dead
head excursion over the line of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railroad
The Harvard College class of IA is the first
for several years which has graduated without
an Grafton summa cum lastde, to obtain which
graduate must have 95-per cent of the max
imum of marks of the course.
Nearly the whole session-of the Judge, iury,
two lawyers, and other attendant officers of the
Central District Court in Worcester, Monday,
was occupied in trying case which inyolvsd
the enormous sum of 81 cents
| The Chicago inter- Ocean says that in many
country towns of Illinois, potatoes are selling
at S15o or So per bushel, and that the probable
consequence of potato famine is fit subject
of numerous editorials just at this juncture.
An Irishman reading over Andrew John
sons weak answer to Judge Holt on the Mrs.
Surratt case, exclaimed, with genuine sincerity
bad luck to Andy, if Abe Lincoln had been
President he never would have hung the ould
| woman"
A Nevada paper says: 'The many friends
of Bill Thompson will regret to hear that he
was hashed up by catamount the other dav
on Nixon's Hill, while lying in wait to shoot
Chinaman. This was always world of dis
appointments
Joaquin Miller, in his book about the Modocs.
relates that an old fellow who had been on the
war path brought to him a leather bag While
ne tapped 1t gently with his bowie knife, the
oiood oozed through the seams Looking at
'oaqu'n, OLD Modoc said "Fhem's scalps."
Inc Chicago Tribune has been carefully nv
amlnins the hotel system in that civ and il
well represents the country through and do
clares that TIE extravaganza and waste oro -.
raSeous. Every frst-cass hotel emn,o,,.
least one servant for each boarder Ono -,
costing $4,000 made in ten years S5oo ooo
profits. ''O''
The young ladies of the Wheaton Sem;n,r,
at Norton, in view of the panic, have resolved
'na' 'ley VIII spend upon themselves mo mon
ey not imperatvely demanded Iby honesty,
nealth' tldiness or mental improvement, and
Will carefully avoid every species of wasteful-
ness, wnichls very sensible resolution to
make and to keep.
AN English scientist has discovered a fact
important to farmers 1t is that sulnbita If
lime appears to exercise decided influence in
afrestlng the spread of decay in potatoes af
Iected by the potato disease. In one expert
ment the salt was busted over some tubers.
partly decayed from this cause, when thew
were slowed away. Some months afterwards
the potatoes were found to have suffered no
further injury.
Inc Newburyport Herald has got its back up
aC the mere suggestion of some one at ba:;
quet In Salem "that the whole custom house
BUSINESS of Essex county should be CONSOLIDATE
Gu at SALEM" 1t proposes to make a lively
! nght before that event takes place and before