The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-10
News and Other Items.

Inc tnird-term sensation IS dead; but Its au-
thors alas! still live.
William Tweed's sentence is slowly expiring.
Meanwhile, however, so is William, ana there
are bets pending as to which will go out first.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the distinguished as
troncmer of Vassar College, is spoken of for
Superintendent of Schools in Cambridge, Mass.
s'Sponge baths are recommended. The best
way to get one is to 20 to some bathroom,
take bath, and tell the proprietor to charge
it.
The malicious amputation of cows tails has
become so common at GRANVILLE, ILL.,, that
vigilance committee is talked of.
Some San Francisco women have established
a gymnasium. They take one evening each
week to count the dead.
The opponents of Free Masonry in Windham
county, VT, had convention at Fayetteville,
the o.her day, and nominated full county
ticket.
A Stark county Qnd.) farmer pays his son
ten cents quart for potato bugs, and the boy
says if next year is as good this he will buy
the old man out.
Miss Nelson has purchased piece called
'sEthel'' from its English author, j. Mortimer,
editor of the London Figaro and will produce
it next season at Grau's Lyceum.
| A female broker of San Francisco has been
committed to prison for inducing lady to in
vest money in the stock of a visionary mining
| company.
| Some of the Madison. Ind, merchants pro-
pose to turn the tables on the grangers by Or
| gahizing stock company, purchasing farm
and raising their own fruit and vegetables.
1t is estimated that between Eastport and
| Delaware Bay there are at least nine hundred
and ninety-nine pleasantest places on the At
| lantc coast.
| AT the funeral of Mr.. Dickinson late repre-
| sentative of the town of Amherst, the hearse
was dispensed with, and the coffin carried
| to the grave on the shoulders of several leading
business men and professors in the college.
Mount Palatine. ILL.,, has a COW war. A great
number of cows were recently shut in the
pound, and the owners accompanied by band
of women with hatchets, made an effort to re-
lease them.
The American Bible Society intends supply
| ing all the railroad cars in the country with
Bibles. There are some railroads where the
passengers will feel that their time would be
appropriately spent in their perusal.
| Governor Taylor of Wisconsin had 100 guns
fired in honor of the states victory in the Unit
| ed States court in the refusal to grant the in
| junction to the Northwestern Railroad bond
holders against enforcing the Potter law.
| There are fears entertained by the citizens of
| ST. Joseph, Mo-, that the river upon which
| posite the city, leaving St. Joseph four miles
L..,l
| a slough.
| Messrs. Morton, Logan & Co., can learn
| thing or two from that Cuban official who
proposes to promote the circulation of the de .
preciated currency of that island by trying
for treason all who refuse to accept it in
trade.
The Chicago Post and Mail calls the Fourth
of July ''Sacrifcial Day. because on that one
particular collection of hours the people of this
country suffer more discomfort and loss of life
and limbs than attended the patriotic fathers
who fought, bled, and died in freedoms cause.
The length of the proposed Burlington and
Lamoille railroad, which is to connect with the
Portland and Ogdensburg, near st. Johnsbury,
will be little over thirty miles, and will cost
$725000 of which Burl;ngton's share is sup
posed to be about $3.50 600.
Joseph Arch, speaking at a mass meeting in
Sheffield, fortnight ago, said that in few
days he intended taking four shiploads Of the
best laborers from the Newmarket district to
Canada, to which they had been offered free
passage.
Local option has been agitating lady of Aus
tin, Nevada. Her husband told her it was cop
tionaP' with her whether he should buy her a
gilt-edged Bible or a new bonnet. She ''ras-
tled' with the subject for three whole DAYS,
and then took the bonnet.
Gen. Banks is going to adopt lecturng as a
profession. He is at work on the following
ssbieots: siAmeriean Volunteer sofdiers,,'
'sBue Stockings" ssWhat Man Owes to the
Town he lives in and 'The Princes of Diplo-
macy"-Cavour, Gortschakoff Castelar, and
Theirs.
The manufacturing interests of Lowell are
reported not to have fully recovered from the
effects of the panic. Large sales have been
made recently by one or two corporations, but
with little or no margin for profit, and there is
no immediate prospect of a return to the old
standard of wages.
Schuyler Colfax delivered the Fourth of july
Grafton at Ypsilanti, Mich. He declared that
in politics now-ad days men are elevated to a
position only to have mud thrown at them; but
he believed that there is still left the assur-
ance that right will prevail and be done them
at the open grave
1t is decided to hold the grand college regatta
ball on the evening of the university race, the
10th inst, and it will be given in the ball
rooms of the United States, Grand Union and
Congress Hall. Ali the balls will be going on
simultaneously. President Grant has engaged
rooms at Congress Hall for regatta week
Frank Lawry, a Massachusetts State prison
convict, who has already given several exhibit
tions of his skill with his jack-kuife, has lust
completed miniature museum mounted upon
wheels, which contains fifty-four views or
scenes, each with one to ten miniature figures,
representing all classes of society,".
A dying man in New Hampshire requested
that the ceremonies at his funeral should be
conducted by a certain auctioneer IN whom he
had great confidence. Said he sHes an easy,
fluent talker and 1 alters like to hear him.
I've had dealin's with him, and alters found
he set out things just about as they was''
The proposed new constitution of Michigan
does not make it lawful for a man to kill a
sewing machine pedlar lightning rod man.
However, the citizens find a sort of satsfac-
ton in the reflection that it says nothing
against keeping a ferocio s bulldog tied with
weak chain, and no jury in the land would
convict you if the dog happened to get
loose about the time one of these ca me around.