The Portland daily press., 1874-11-11
News and Other Items.

The wife of Congressman-eleet Tarbox is ly-
ing at the point of death.
Joseph Ramsdell and wife, of South Lynn.
field, have just had golden wedding, and so
have Asahel Green and wife of Lunenburg.
Golden weddings have been numerous lately.
Among those reported are those of Robert Nor
ris, of Hyannis; Abel Shattuck, of Orleans;
Deacon Reuben Lynch, of Stockbridge; Capt.
Samuel A. Wiley, of Osterville, and their
wives. r.ft
Mary Pike, of johnson, VT, celebrates her
one hundredth birthday this week By giving a
centennial party to her numerous family, which
consists of seven children, twenty-five grand
children and twenty ereat-grandehildren,
with their husbands and wives-cghty-six in
an -a4
This is awful! The Cincinnati papers print
the following letter from Mr.. Vanpelt, erst, il
cannot be forgotten, an ardent crusade lecturer:
eGambrinus Stock Co., Cincinnati, o.:
'.SIR-I start again in Business and would
like to sell yeur beer Please ship Doz. Bot
ties Beer. 1 will soon satel our oald account.
shalt start slow But have good Buissness
Place hear. Yours,
A Chicago actress calls avalanche SAY -alank
The educational advantages of that city are
notorious.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who is described as
an exceedingly attractive woman, is now re-
siding at Charlotte, n. q.
A Chicago paper has an advertisements, 1.-TWO
sisters want washing" Millions of brothers
are probably in the same predicament
The Catholic clergy in Chicago are reported
to be making vigorous efforts to encourage total
abstinence among their congregations.
An indianapolis woman opened the cushions
OF her working chair, the other day, after il
had been used nineteen years, and in it found
612 needles That cushion must have been as
comfortable to sit upon as the ragged edge of
despair .,,.---.-...
Marshal Bazaine and wife, under the name
OF Lapena, have sailed from Southampton on
the royal mail steamship Neva.
The suit for divorce by Pauline Lucca against
the Baron Won Rhoder went by default The
default was subsequently opened by the gener-
al term to-tlay, and Judge Lawrence granted a
motion on behalf of the defendant for a COM
mission to take testimony in Berlin.
1t is rumored that petition has been in pri-
vate circulation since last Wednesday, and has
been numerously signed, and will be kept in
circulation until New Years, asking Governor
elect TiIden to pardon Boss Tweed out Of
Blackwel's Islaud.
The grave of Horace Greeley, at Greenwood
Cemetery, is sstil unmarked and apparently
uncared for. l
Woman's suffrage in Michigan is reposing
under a majority of 10000 or $1,000 votes
against the new constitution.
Ii person in house on fire has the pres.
ence of mind to apply wet cloth or handker-
chief to his mouth or.nostiils, passage can be
effected through the densest smoke without any
serious Inconvenience. 1 lsdH 90 .l
Nineteen years ago a Tennessee father re-
fused TO let his young daughter go to candy
pull, and she disappeared. The other day she
returned, lifted eleven children out of the
wagon, and entered the house and took off her
things 'ust as coolly as il she hadn't been gone
over day. nG -r...l
Baron SchwarzlSenborn,i idirector-general of
the Vienna Exposition, says that the plans,
building and work of our centennial exhibition
are at least six months ahead Of the prepara-
tions at Vienna at the same length of time be-
fore the opening. [