The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-27
News and Other Items.

The commencement exercises of Dartmouth
College occurred Thursday and were of the u.s.
ual interest.
George Francis Train has promised never
again to speak in public, never to publish an
other book, and never write another letter to
newspaper, if the papers will only let him
alone. Good
General Bragg looks with pain upon the Gun
seemly wranges' of the Southern ex-Confed-
crate leaders, and says that dignifed silence,
manly submission and Christian resignation
and sorrow would more become them.
The Prince Of Wales recently dined with the
Benchers of the Middle Temple in their mag
nihcent hall in London. In the course of his
Speech the Prince said it was good thing for
the profession and the public that he had
never been called to the bar, for he would not
have been brilliant ornament to it.
The grasshoppers in Iowa seem to have got
the better of the grangers. While the gran
gers were holding con ,entions and passing re-
solves against the grasshoppers the latter eat
up the crops and gyrate at the irate their an
tenn@ on The end Of their noses in token of
the superiority of action over elaboration.
The President says he has been more both
cred at this session by members of Congress
hunting Office for themselves and friends than
at any time since he has Occupied the White
House. His principal object in going away is
to escape this annoyance On his return to
Washington he will, after few days, start for
Long Branch.
According to the estimates of an agricultural
Georgian, the reduction of the area Of tie
states cotton fields from last year is some
twenty-five per cent, and in the Southern
States, as whole, to between fifteen and
twenty per cent. As compensation, however,
the grain crop is unprecedented, the yield of
oats and wheat and prospectively of corn,
never before equalled.
They had holiday in the Cincinnati En-
quirer Office when Ben Buffers last speech
came in, and they prefaced that memorable
philippe with such gentle comments as s.Ben
bounces 'em- High old times in the House last
nght-Buter puts on his war paint and goes
on general scalping observation-disclosures
trophies OF the raid dangling at his bloody
belt.
A special despatch from London, Ontario,
says the report of the Investigating Committee
of the Great Western Railroad is published. 1t
condemns the present management for care
lessness and reckless expenditures. 1t also de-
scribes the road as well nigh financially ruined,
and recommends complete reorganization of
The board of directors.
Ihe beet-sugar interest in California has
peen subjected to many disadvantages. Badly
constructed mills, in the first instance, inexpe-
.ienced workmen etc., retarded operations 1t
mas been satisfactorily demonstrated, however,
mat the business will soon become quite prof.
table. Inc Sacramento Company, it is stated,
has 1000 acres of beets in luxurious growth
A Des Moines despatch says it has been dis
covered that by defect in the new railroad
law, it is entirely imperative until 1885. The
law IS based on section 1880, of the code for the
classification of roads for 1874, when it should
have been section 1918. Such being the cases
the railroads need have no further immediate
fear of the law.