The Portland daily press., 1873-02-21
News and Other Items.

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What was left of the Boston Coliseum was
blown down ON Sunday night.
1t is proposed to start a new Republican
morning journal in New Haven, Conn. s
Rev. William R. Alger, of Boston, is report
ed to be preparing a lecture on insanity and
insane asylums. .,..- ...-s +tfrsv
A correspondent of the Liverpool Post
thinks the British wheat crop of 1873 will be
the shortest one upon record.
On the third day of the marriage of the EN-
perer of China he and his young bride appeared
in dresses valued at s36O, 900.
4 joaquin Miller has spent few weeks at Ten
nyson's house, and, it is said, is willing to
recommend him as poet. ~
A Vermont paper insists upon it that there is
no State where good square, upright living
is easier had than in its own.
! The st. Louis Democrat alleges the existence
| of scheme to secure the issue of new bonds
for the repudiated debt of Mississippi. y
Forty-nine new iron furnaces were reported
to be building in the United States in August
last Since then twenty more have been start
| ed. .1ya
The customs receipts at Boston for the week
ending the Sth instant, were $632l; at New
York, 1851, 1863; at Philadelphia $s1, $50; at
Baltimore, $161 1852 aa
Miss Dr. Williams has been de feated in the
city physician canvass in Springfield. The
lobby organized by the male doctor was too
strong for her. i -1 w. 1a g1
Rev. DR.. Horatio Stebbins of San Francisco,
informed his congregation Sunday before last
that he had decided to decline the call recently
extended to him by the church in Cambridge
A Nashville thief recently stole steam en-
CINE and got clear away with his plumber The
owner thought it wasa stationary engine, but
it unexpectedly turned out to be a locomotive.
A Louisville paper has felt called upon to
correct an error of the types 1t says: "For
one Of the worst of men, read one of the
wisest''
1t is just three months since Superintendent
Kelso so vigorously traded the concert sa-
looms in New York, and nearly every one of
themis now in full blast again, bands, waiter
girls and ALL ErFs4 hq4e.fnW
Miss Carolina Cheseboro, who died at her res
idence near Piermont, n Y, last Sunday, be-
gan her literary efforts in 1S4s, and afterwards
evinced talent far above that usually exhibit
| ed in our native literature n ee-r f3arssg
| The whole number of passenger arrivals at
San Francisco from China and Japan for 1872
was only 9773, while during the same period
1887 took passage from San Francisco for those
countries At that rate it will be some time
before we shall be very badly ''overrun''
A wonderful revival is in progress at Morris
vile, New York Last Friday one hundred and
fifty went forward for prayer at one of the
| meetings. The religious exercises are conduct
ed by the Scottish evangelist, Rev. r. A. Pat
terson.
Cincinnati is building huge sausage for the
Vienna exhibition, that will require the Great
Eastern to tow it across the ocean, after it has
been hoated down the Ohio and Mississippi to
the Gulf. Itwas made in sections in railroad
tunnel, the hogs being driven in by the hun
dred and then subjected to hydraulic pressure
st. Louis Democrat
Some people of Branford, Conn.,, have tarred
and feathered one of their neighbors, his wife
being gagged, and compelled to witness the out
rage. Its occasion was rumor that he and his
wife had subjected an invalid lady, submitted
to their charge, to ill-treatmen
A Rutland, VT, man thinks bears are about
the best stock man can raise. The meat of
one he sold in New York for $50. For the hide
he was offered $50, and he received a bounty of
$15 each for those he raised which, with the
bears grease, will amount to the sum of 800.
During last year 294, 581 alien passengers ar
rived at the port of New York, being an in
crease of 1912 over the arrivals in 1871. The
reduction of the head money from 49, 80 to 81. so
which took place two years ago. the Commits
sloners say, has proved an injudicious measure
Some of the Vermont Central first mortgage
bondholders have applied to the Hon. Homer
E. Royce, Chancellor, for the removal of the
trustees and managers and the withdrawal of
the road and its franchise from their control
The petition was placed On file. Counsel for
the Vermont and Canada Railroad have also
filed similar petition.
y The gallows used for the execution of Calf
ney at Buffalo, had been used thrice before,
and although the carpenters who inspected it
pronounced it all right, it was found, when it
was taken down. that it had been cracked bad
ly through the middle, The Express says that
had Gaffney weighed a few pounds more, or had
his body fallen a foot further, the result would
have been broken beam. and the consequences
almost too horrible to contemplate
An eminent Western physician says that for
thirty-four years he has held to the plan
of pustulation by tartar-emetic as fully as good
preventive of small pox as perfect vaccna-
ton. He adds that the fact is familiar to ply,
scians that there is an almost exact resem-
blance between tartar-emetic pustules and
vaccina, not only at their full development but
during the successive stages. He suggests that
experiments be made in hospitals to prove this
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