The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-20
News and Other Items

Is this free country? A city ordinance
more than two tame BEARS
A temperance lecturer out West gives every
person in his audience glass of whiskey, that
they may realize what vile drink it is.
The Irish of Stockton, CAL, are endeavoring
to secure the introduction of the Irish language
as study in the public schools.
Louisiana grew 100000 barrels of rice last
year, and will do better this year. The crop is
becoming favorite with the planters.
A New Bedford lady is willing to head
Staying band against the traffickers in ''oleo-
margarine" the substitute fer butter made of
animal fat, with which the market seems to be
flooded Ct late, She wants good butter
Twenty-seven Nashville ladies determined to
practice economy-vowed not to weaf anything
more expensive than calico dresses to church
and they stuck to it, as none of them have at.
tended church since.
A happy man writes to the London Chemical
News that he ''tried aepatent medicine for ear
ache, and it took it away. His daughter tried
it for toochache, with the same result" A
medicine strong enough to depart with an ear
anu eootu LHuS1 NC WOItu udNIHS
young lady graduate of the medical depart
ment of the Iowa University has carried away
from class, including twenty-four young men
the first prize for the best performed dissection
in surgical anatomy. The two dozen young
gentlemen ought to feel as badly cut-up as the
subject.
A flannel-cheeked lawyer of Bucyrus O..
led off in temperance meeting, stating that he
had seen his own father killed at his side by
the carelessness of drunken man. 'Then"'
said he, 81 took solemn oath never to drink
again, and since that time have never broke
that oath, at least not uery much.''
Testimony of liquor dealer who was asked
where good whiskey could be procured: 81
have sold liquor since 1 was old enough, at
wholesale and retail, and I am not yet sunk SO
low as to say to any man there is any good
whiskey. There is none! Twas never made
good enough for man to drink as beverage"
The Daily Herald of Duluth is dead Week
ly receipts, $40; weekly expenditure, $780, As
the Philadelphia Ledger might say:
Daily Herald thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feel;
But some fool will start another
We can all our sorrows heal.
The following letter to Congressional infla-
zionist hits the nail on the head: 81 see you are
in favor of more money, 1 have few dollars
in my pocket that should like to have inflat-
ed. 1 have also soma debts that should like
to have contracted. Ifyou gentlemen in Con-
gress will manage to literally increase the one
and decrease the other, I think can come out
about even.''
A terrible case of burying alive has occurred
near Pittsburg. A Mrs. Coggswell died, as
was supposed, during her husbands absence,
and was buried Some days afterward he re-
turned home, and insisted upon having the
body exhnmed so that he could once more look
upon the remains. The coffin was opened in
presence Of a few friends, and to the horror of
all present, the corpse was found lying upon
its face, and there was unmistakabie evidence
that the woman had been buried alive, and
that fearfnl struggle had occurred before
death hadifnally came to the relief of the suf
ferer The grief-stricken husband fell across
the coffin a raving maniac.