The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-29
News and Other Items.

"Eoly week. at Rome this year is pronounc.
| ed failure.
The bishop of Minnesota has issued prayer
| for aid against the grasshoppers.
| Theodore Thomas has been engaged as the
musical director of the Cincinnati musical ses-
tval of 1875.
A Western paper announces that the Hoosier
| lady who ate half bushel of warm doughnuts
at Elkhart Lake has returned home.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, the popular Boston
clergyman who is now in England, preached
recently in Westminster Abbey.
A Buffalo court has dismissed complaint
against a street car conductor brought by a
man who was elected from the car for splitting
tobacco juice on the floor
Noble lords are scarce at the watering place
hotels, and cruel Western man accounts for
it on the ground that it is not time for the bar
bsrs to take their summer vacations.
A Saratoga minister preached to his congre
| cation the other day on the Christian regatta,
who turns the stake-boat of life with his eye
on the heavenly Referee"
Away out in Bismarck, Dakota Territory, the
| young bachelors are competing largely for a
| toilet set for which each has subscribed Lalf
| dollar and which is to become the property of
| the fellow who marries first.
Jesse Pomeroy, the companion-cutter of
Boston, objects to having his deeds get into the
| newspapers as sit hurts a yonlg mans repu-
tation to have such things published about
| him.
They have a negro at Springfield who only
has to rock his head to become a jewsharp or
| hand-organ or any musical thing by turns,
| and anything as long as you please. Kill him;
| it may be catching.
A bill passed the Connecticut legislature, be-
| fore its adjournment last Saturday, providing
that ''no cashier of bank of discount or circu-
lation shall be treasurer of any savings bank or
savings society having over 100000 deposits"
To ascertain how the proposed reciprocity
| treaty with Canada will affect the customs,
| Edward Young, chief of the bureau Of stats.
| tics at Washington, is at st. Adams on semi.
official visit to get as accurate statistics as pos
sible regarding our trade with Canada.
Two painters jumped from the st. Louis
bridge into the Mississippi river, distance of
50 feet, to win wager of ten dollars, and the
leap was successful. They were under water
over two minutes. A man recently applied to
the police authorities of Buffalo for permission
to leap from the top Of an elevator into the
creek, but leave was refused
Genelal Sherman, accompanied by his son
Thomas, left Washington day or two ago in
two-horse buggy, for long trip over the
battle fields of Virginia, where he will devote
much time to the study of the positions of the
two armies, and endeavor to get some insight
into their manmuvres, merely to satisfy his own
Curiosity.
curious case has come up in England
where, under the adulteration act dealer has
been detected and fined for selling green peas
made in France and dyed with arsenic, They
are manufactured over there entirely for the
English market. The comic part of it is that
the dealers establishment was at Turnbam
Green.
The Knoxville (Tenn) Press and Herald tells
pitiful story of negro preacher who elm
posed himself upon q respectable farmers
family as white man, and thus won the
affections OF the farmers daughter Just be-
fore they were TO be married the fact of his
color leaked out, and the match was abruptly
broken off. 1t would be interesting to know
just how much that negro preacher lacked of
being a white man.
Troy woman had her husband arrested on
charge Of non-support She testified that he
had gwen her a house and lot worth $4,000, to-
gether with severa! smaller pieces of real
estate, that his life was insured for her benefit
to the amount of $1,000. and that he gave her
SIS of his weekly income of $35. She wanted
S25. the brute refused, and she had him ar
rested. but being blinded by masculine preiu-
dices the iul ye dismissed the ease