The Portland daily press., 1874-08-12

Murphy of New York, have just accomplished
Pa, to Pittsburg
At Avignon they celebrated the centennial of
Petrarch in punch. All the Latin nations were
there, Spanish, Italian and French, and such is
the poverty of their combined lang uages that
they were compelled to say ssnn punch.
New Orleans wants big bank, with capital
of five millions, which is going to prove pan
acea for every commercial woe. The object of
tits to bring more cotton to that city, but just
how the result is to be reached is not apparent
to business men outside of New Orleans.
The crops in Georgia, at least In the region
round about Atlanta, are very fine. The cotton
crop is large. The corn crop is the finest for
many years, the expected yield being nearly
double of last years. Oats and wheat are also
fine.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean says there is a
scheme which has the promise of success, for a
double track through line from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Southern
capitalists are interested in the scheme, and
will push it.
Planfed, Conn, is rejoicing over a romance
of the most approved pattern. A. B. Cornell
left that town in 1861, poor, and rejected
snitor of young lady, and now has returned,
very wealthy, to claim the damsel, who has
changed her mind, and is willing.
| Max Adeler thought to crack joke on some
of the crown heads of Europe by sending them
his joke book. Several of them took his book
but didn't take the joke and returned their &C.
acknowledgements, one of which was accompanied
| by golden motto medal.
| The New York Herald says: And now the
''Society for the Prevention" &c, interferes
with the juvenile amusement of turpentining
cats. Cannot there be society for the
prevention of the ''Society for the Proven
| tion," sc.
The captain of the ship Dexter, which re-
| Gently arrived at San Francisco, had all of his
crew arrested on charge of INSTRUMENTATION,
because during the voyage from New South
Wales they had refused to do any work, not
actually necessary for the safety of the ship, on
the 4th of July.
A Gentle paper in Salt Lake City says the
Indians are baptized and fabricated with en-
dowment grease and made brethren in the
church according to the revelations thereunto
appertaining. They swallow polygamy. Dan
iteism, but no Enochism, and so are the Da-
| NANTES coming back into the Kingdom. The
| converts are to vote at the coming election as
| a matter of course.
A man, partially swzzled with liquor, at.
tempted to show his prowess recently by kick
| ing the elephant in Queens menagerie. The
latter, quick to resent an insult, hit the fellow a
slap with his trunk which knocked him a dis
lance of twenty feet If the man had been kill
ed it would have been justifable elephanticide.
Men, drunk or sober, had better not kick
elephants for amusement.
When person is found guilty of drunken
ness in Burman, he is paraded through the
streets by the State Ministers. who read the
crime at the street corners and lash him with
thongs He is then taken to the high court
and fogged more severely, and then sent home.
If he is found guilty second time he is treated
in the same way, and then banished from the
country.
letter from Saratoga says, "Vice-President
Wilson, who is at Congress Hall, enjoys much
time and chatty conversation with the people
teses of the visitor without the formalites of
an introduction. He is always surrounded by a
host of people, and from his plain manners,
agreeable conversation and entire freedom from
haughtness, leaves very favorable impression
of the Natick cobbler. There is no necessity of
his resignation. as he is gaining health and
strength of body and mind