The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-16
News and Other Items.


Florida proposes to try her hand at raising
ostriches.
A. 7. Stewart has reduced the price of board
at his Grand Urion Hotel to So day for the
coming season.
Jennie June approves of hustle made of
cork; but we don't see the propriety of life
preservers on dry land.
A little boy, who was worrying over piece
of shad at dinner, lately, demoralized his moth
er by asking, mamma, where did God ind all
the bones to make the first shad of %
An Iowa railroad employe wrote to the sup
ply officer for "some more of that red OIL not
knowing that the color of the lantern globe had
something to do with the shade of light it
threw out.
The Changers of Minnesota have got into
trouble with regard to Catholic Patrons Some
of the Catholic clergy have dissuaded their
focks from joining the Changers, because they
are secret organization.
The Indianapolis Journal SAYS: ''Tbe people
of the West will not be likely to forget Mr.
James G. Blame, who votes with and leads the
Contraction party in the House of Representa-,
tives." Mr.. Blaine is good man to remember
West, East or anywhere. Journal
1t is said that Zach Chandler will Withdraw
his libel suit against the Detroit Free Press;
and really that would be the most direct way
of convincing the public that the Free Press
had lied about him.
Ex-President johnson, who is again in Wash
ington, has promised Massachusetts friend to
write out the history of his attempt to get Gov
ernor Andrew into his Cabinet which he
thinks would have been successful had not the
Governor died.
+ In 1853 Ben Butler was member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives. He
was then IN favor of an increase of salary, and
said that so day-the pay of Legislators at
that time-was not enough to carry him home
each day; whereupon the Mail (newspaper)
proposed to start contribution sufficient to
keep him at home all the time.-Boston Her.
aid.
An Arkansas 'Dastor' who owns 500 CASH
mere goats, 900 Merinoes, 300 Cotswolds and
200 Southdowns, says that his flocks ''have bit
ten, hooked and otherwise killed more than a
thousand head of dogs, and now sheep killing
dog will not come within mile of them" His
name is John Jones and he lives in Magnolia
Col T. w. Higginson's "Young Folks His
tory of the United States" is shortly to be pub
lished by Lee & Shepard. 1t will contain
some three hundred pages, and it written on
the plan of Dickens "Chid's History of Eng
land''an Hawthornes ''Grandtather's Chair"
Burying bricks with intention to defraud life
insurance companies is the latest dodge in New
York And it is greatly superior to the old
method, of killing the subjects of policies, for
in those cases the adventurer was likely to i'm
peril his pc ace of mind, not to mention his
neck.
Out of 90 towns which have been heard from.
and IN which straight issue was made, 60 vot-
ed 10 allow liquor to be sold, and only 20 refus-
ed. rms is not SO much a condemnation of
temperance as it is a condemnation of the
manner in which temperance agItators and en-.
thusasts are working. 1t is a lesson viii h
should be studied by them, and can be stndied
with profit.-Chicdgo Tribune
The Eastern Railroad having declined to sell
package tickets to Boston and Portsmouth pas
seneers a number of merchants in that city are
moving to have steamer rue between Ports
mouth and Boston, carrying freight for Ports
mouth and Dover at low rates, and passengers
for fifty cents between Portsmouth and Bos-