The Portland daily press., 1874-05-08
News and Other Items.

A new town in California has been named
Sumner.
Now we are to be afflicted with tho ''veto
necktie.'' eeg iHzEEW e.g~s
Hon. Lyman Tremain is mentioned as sue
cessor to Senator Fenton of New York.
Births are being announced as "Our Young
Folks for May" in the Turner Falls (Mass) Re-
porter
Suburban subscribers ask why, il it be neces-
sary to put stamps on the wrappers of newspa-
pers, they are never cancelled.
About 100000 persons in the States of Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri are al
30 said to be in a state of restitution.
The makers of oleo-margarine are not at all
cowed by the reports of the vileness of their
compound Nv ~ .17.-rr- 80.
Ex-Governor G. c. Washburn of Wisconsin
will start soon, on European trip, to be alb
sent two or three months.
III health has prevented Governor Converse
of Vermont from doing any business for sever
al months, but he is getting better.
A st. louisville man, on his dying bed, re-
membered that his wife was smoking some
hams, and he said SNOW, Henrietta, don't
~ ohuhiiuS diOuuu anu AOiSCs tuO>C udnS.
An unsophisticated rural Pennsylvania jour-
nal thinks it ''rather mean in Congress to hesi-
tate about giving $4,000, 900 towards the Cen
tennial, when it has every convenience for
printing the money"
In the vicinity of Petersburg, Ind, according
to local paper, it is only forty feet in the
deepest place to the coal vein, and in many
places it is SO near the surface as to prevent the
digging of wells. M
A woman in New York is now drawing ali
mony from two husbands from whom she has
been divorced. Husband No thinks he ought
to be exempt, and the judge is considering his
case. F7
Two doctors of Naples have discovered ,liq-
uid preparation which instantly stops the
flow of blood from wounds of every descrip-
ton. A committee Of physicians have indors-
ed it.
The town of Bismarck, MIMI, is the place
for wealthy taxpayers to flee unto. 1t beats
Nahant. At Bismarck there are no taxes At
all; xll the expenses are paid from fines and
licenses. 1t is rum and rowdyism that runs
Bismarck. rs-t51&t
Boston Globe:-"We are seeking but arbutus,
my fair, laughing love and l." sang Spinks,
yesterday; but he didn't find any arbutus or
mud-puddle, into which he stepped with both
feet. &tbE E HfS q
L. B. Pillsbury, the High School teacher of
Charlestown, Mass, who cruelty killed little
dog on Monday by throwing HIM out of the
third story window of the school house, has
been prosecuted by the Society for the Proven
tion of cruelty to Animals.
Commenting upon the fact that General
Walker, the superintendent of the census de-
cines pay for his services, the Louisville.
Courier-J Journal says it has known men to be
sent to the lunatic asylum for eccentricities far
less glazing than thatl TGaFE1
1t is said that Chicago, with all her magnif-
cence, treats her paupers very shabbily. But
two meals are allowed each day; no vegetables
are given but turnips, their meat is rendered
tasteess by extracting the juice thereof, and
their tea is of the meanest.
Charles Reade the novelist, with purpose, is
reported to be engaged on a story of which the
sinking of an unseaworthy but insured vessel
and other incidents of maritime life and dsas-
ter will be the main features. Mr.. Plimsoll, NJ
p, it is said, has furnished the data to Mr.,
Reade.
Musical training in public schools is getting
to be great feature. The Committee on Mu-
sic in the Boston public schools recently report
ed that out of three thousand three hundred
and forty eight pupils in the schools, there
were only seventy-eight not able to join the
musical exercises. M
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore lectures and preach
es nearly two hundred times year, and ranks
next to Cough in the number of her engage
ments. She is now in her home in Melrose,
Massachusetts,, preparing two new lectures for
the coming season, entitled, Concerning
Husbands" and ''The Instruction of Wo-
men, Ese