The Portland daily press., 1874-09-03


Politics wax warm in Nevada. One side is
circulating the report that the other prints the
emanations of a state prison bird.
Plain white chandelier globes are going out
of fashion since they have been introduced into
every rum shop in the land.
NJ Tisseraud left to the city OF Paris 2,0C0,-
900 francs, on condition that the authorities
build, in specified negborhood, an asylum for
aged persons.
Senator Jones of Nevada, after purchasing a
hotel in New York, has gone to Chicago where
he intends investing one million dollars in real
estate.
The very worst case of absent mindedness
yet, is that of the young man in Middlesex
county who applied for marriage license but
couldn't think of the name of his lady-love.
Belgian coal operators have presented sum
of $4,000 to the children of the late NJ MUG
seller, who invented the safety lamp used in the
coal mines in Belgium.
Scripture is being fulfilled at a foundry in
Newark, N. j., where large amount OF old
iron from the scene of the Crimean war is
being converted into plowshares.
An investigation has revealed the feet that
Mollie Ham, who died at Rye Beach, Saturday,
was driven to the queer, secluded life that she
led in her little cottage, at Straw Point, by an
early disappointment in love. Several relics of
her early days were found in her hut.
A New York dentist sent a bill for S1025 to
Agnes Tracy (Agnes EtheD for operations
upon her teeth from June TO June H. There
were six items in the bill, ranging from $50 to
$500 each. Payment was refused and the
matter is before the courts.
Louisiana negroes are moving to Texas in
consequence of the danger from the white
leagues of their own state. The New Orleans
Picayune is alarmed at the emigration, and
fears that parts of the state will run waste for
want of labor.
The suggestion is made that the Sunday
schools of America unite in erecting suitable
monument on the Centennial grounds of Fair
mount park in 1876, to the memory of Robert
Rakes and Robert Ralston, as the founders of
Sunday schools in England and America
The latest Corner in Chicago was got up
by rival clans of German and Bohemian boys,
who had pitched battle with stones the other
day. The corner was spoilt by some policemen,
but not before all the windows in the neighbor-
hood were broken.
The mother of brakeman who was killed
on the Jacksonville, Madison and Indianapolis
Railroad has sued the company for $4,000
damages on the ground that the company was
responsible for piece of bad track which
caused the accident
| In the Savannah market, tho other day, q
man from the country sat down upon the Stats
of box which happened to contain huge
turtle. The turtle reached for him, and the
reporter who describes the incident predicts
that the man twill carry the marks to his
| grave"
| Trautz, who was defeated in the champion
ship swimming match at Pleasure Bay last
week, has determined to challenge the victor,
johnson, to three OF five mile match on the
| Hudson, East or Harlem rivers, for $4,000 or
| $4,000. Should johnson accept the challenge,
Trautz will leave his employment and devote
all his energies in reducing himself to proper
| condition.
A London letter says:-A dealer in auto.
graphs recently advertised for autograph letters
of Mazzni. In a few days he was surprised to
receive calls from a large number of people
with still larger numbers Of autographs to sell.
Upon examination he found that they were all
l. O. US, and that they were all unpaid. He
declined to purchase all of them, but took a
few at the rate of five shillings for each EGO.