The Portland daily press., 1873-04-17
News and Other Items

Hawthorne's birthplace in Salem, Mass, is
to be sold at auction.
Tipsy justices in Iowa have been pronounced
incompetent to solemnize weddings.
At st. Albans on Tuesday spring dairies of
butter sold for 40 to 43 cents.
Chicago has a troupe of "Christian gym
nasts.'
Iaboring for higher motve-working ct an
increased salary.
A New York sage promises two more snow
storms before spring sets in in earnest
A man who was buying a new pair of socks
explained that he was about to get photo
graph taken.
The strike of the Springfield house painters
is failure. Many of them have gone to work
at the old prices
Ex-senator Frank Blair, whose health is
feeble, has gone to try the virtues of Clifton
Springs New York.
The wealth of the city of Providence is said
to have increased nearly seventeen million dol
lars within the past three years.
One Vermont village claims to have had
nearly thousand cases Of measles this win
ter
An Iowa man locked his marriagebe daugh-
ter in her room, but her lover got her out by
writ of habeas corpus, and married her.
An Indiana lawyer lately defended man for
keeping his saloon open after 10 o'clock at
night. He made the plea that it is was 10
o'clock until it was II, and won his case.
1t is reported that suit similar to that
against the New York Central Railroad is to be
brought by the United States Government
Al nd
The school teachers of the District of Colum
bia have not received their salaries for fve
months, and intimations are made that the
District authorities have appropriated to their
own use monies collected to support the schools.
indianapolis is to be surrounded by q rail-
road, to facilitate the transfer of freight by
connecting with the twelve railroads centering
there. 1t will be about twelve miles long, and
the company has capital of $1,0O0,000.
Many nckle makes muckle. The Boston
Five Cents savings bank has accounts open
with g., 842 depostors, and the amount stand
ing to their credit is $107s6, ,573.1O, which fig
| ures show the wisdom of saving the pennies.
A new gold note bank has been started in
Stockton, California, and has commenced op-
erations, having received its notes from Wash
ington. 1t is probable that several more new
gold banks will be started on the Pacific coast.
An Iowa druggist has been sued for $4,000
by woman to whose husband he is in the
habit of selling liquor. She says she does not
see any difference between drug-shop whiskey
and dram-shop whiskey.
Grace Greenwood writes note of indignant
protest to the New York Times against a rcgu-
lation of the new Forty-second Street railway
station, which prevented her seeing her daugh-
ter ON board the cars, which a gentleman would
have been allowed to do.
The Acknowledgement of New Hampshire
requested the newspapers not to publish the
testimony taken at the inquest in a murder
case, because it would be hard to find jury
who had not formed an opinion. The newspa-
pers do not seem to regard the matter from his
standpoint.
During the quarter ending April l., there left
for the United States from Liverpool 81 ships,
carrying POSI- cabin and 19,S01 steerage passen-
gers. During the same time about 5000 emf
grants took passage for the British Provinces
and South America. Of the total number
1884 were English, 375 Scotch, 3O91 Irish, and
1894 foreigners.
A San Francisco paper says there has been
a marked decrease in public intoxicaton in that
city since the session of the State Temper
ancc Convention. On the other hand, Bos.
ton paper says that the number of drunken
persons seen in the streets of that city and
other public places has recently been unusually
laroe