The Portland daily press., 1873-05-23
News and Other Items.


Tobacco planting in the Connecticut valley is
much less extensive this season than last
There is cholera scare along the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers.
Gen. Devens has formally assumed command
| of the G. A. r.
| The hours of study in the Concord IN. H., }
pnblic schools, have been reduced from six to
| five hours daily.
The law authorizes postmasters to destroy all
postal cards which are sent for malicious pur-
pose.
Dom Piatt went to circus the other day Tor
first time in % years, and he lost his watch and
wallet.
Smith, Che Wesfield murderer, on being told
that the day for his execution had been fix
ed, exclaimed II never heard better news in my
life"
The Central Vermont Railroad Company or
ganized at st. Adams on Wednesday by the
choice of substantially the old Board of Di-
rectors. ~
Gen. Howard is much concerned about the
probable failure of the Government to feed the
sixteen thousand Indians now peaceably col
lected on reservations in Arizona
citizen of New York recently gave the
United States in his will half a million dollars
toward the payment of the national debt, but
the courts of the State declare the bequest in
valid
Among the women's rights women in Gree.
ley, Col, is Mrs. WILDER, slight person, and
formerly school-teacher, who, this season, has
rugged up gang-plough and prepared and
sowed eighteen acres in wheat.
The common council of Wankegan, ILL.,, has
fixed the liquor sellers license at $780, This
is an important measure OF temperance, mas
much as it is an effective blow against low
groggeries.
The authorities at Dartmouth have concluded
to abandon the old custom of printing the
Triennial in Latin. They have also abolished,
for this year at least, the Greek Grafton at jun
ior exhibitions
Already the activities of the coming season
begin to manifest themselves at Long Branch.
The last few days of bright sunshine have
aroused it from its winter torpor to the new life
which early in each June begins to infuse itself
through all its veins and arteries
There is a disposition in Maryland to own
much of the territory that joins her. The State
attorney-general, at recent meeting of the
Maryland historical society, alleged that Mary
land by right, owned Philadelphia, and that
their State was short 500, 900 acres of ground.
A Boston commercial traveller was arrested
in Springfield, on Tuesday, by a State Constable
for selling pair of shoulder braces to clerk
in store where he was negotiating for orders,
and compelled to pay fine of $500, for "ped-
| ding without license" before he could regain
his liberty.
The handwriting of the late Chief Justice
| Chase was very peculiar. He wrote singular.
~ and almost feminine hand, which, however,
ne turned of with great rapidity and nervous
force. His private letters (which were more
numerous than those of almost any other pub
lie man who filled stations so eminent) vera
meoels Oh terse and clear English STYLE
a washington despatch says that number
OF senators and Representatives were under the
impression that their back pay, if not drawn bv
them, would revert to the Treasury at the close
of the present year, under the general law rela-
| ting to unexpended appropriations. They learn
! however, that the back pay will Domain subject
to their orders under any circumstances, until
the close of the present Congress, and they are
drawing it and turning the same over to the
United ,Stases Treasury.
AWasbington special says that Senator Cam
eron, who was member of President Lincoln's
cabinet during the period of the discus
sion in the cabinet of Fort Sumpter,
Emancipation Proclamation, and arming Of ne
groes controverted questions does not coincide
with Montgomery Blair's state ent, concerning
Secretary Seward, and the position which he
maintained in the cabinet but proposes to pre-
pare a statement which will throw Mr.. Adams,
Blair, Gideon Welles, and all other persons
completely in the shade.