The Portland daily press., 1874-03-17
News and Other Items.

The Danbury News man is going to Europe
Subscriptions will fall off,
Still another humorous weekly is talked of
with Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner and
Bret Harte as leading contributors.
The Iowa Senate has adopted the Constitu-
tional amendment by vote of q to 1, giving
women the right of suffrage.
The last day that Henry Clay ever sat in the
Senate was Charles Summers first day in the
Senate.
At and around fernando, Miss, last Tues
day night substance was rained down which
an analysis proved to be pure birthstone.
The Philadelphia Press hates to exult over
the humble, but says with modest frmness
that it is the best paper in the country, or
words to that effect.
The Cincinnati Times complains that the
peach crop has caught cold again. How else
can the peach crop prepare for consumption
next fall?
The Rhode Island House on Friday passed a
resolution submitting to the people the amend
mendment to the State Constitution authoriz-
ing woman suffrage. The vote stood A to II.
President White, of Cornell, speaks in quite
complimentary terms of the women students.
He says they keep fully up with their classes,
and average ten per cent better on the examina-
ton papers than the young men.
The Cleveland Herald requests its volunteer
correspondence to use postal cards and write
loud hand. 1t says that smaller sized card
than that now in circulation would suit very
well
A Chicago clergyman told his hearers at a
temperance meeting the other night that in the
larger cities the crusaders would do best to
make the fight against the stronger liquors and
let wine and beer alone
Rev. Mr.. Loysou, better known as Pere Hya-
cinthe, recently visited Rome with his wife and
child, visit that would have resulted fatally
were times in Rome as they were decade
ago.
A half dozen young men of Shreveport, La,
who entered the rebel army when the war be-
gan aud served through it without receiving
scratch, have all since been killed in bar-room
fights.
Governor Beveridge of Illinois. has tabooed
dancing at his receptions and Mrs. Beveridge
is said to be prominently interested in the pro-
ject OF the ladies to inaugurate the womans
temperance movement at the State Capital
Acouple of Iowa blacksmitbs, formerly in
parteorrhiP, h~-e e.-iorp lawsuit One snes
the other for labor performed and money paid
out. and the other presents counter claim for
twelve months checker-playing, INDUCED in by
the plaintiff when he should have been at
work. a-
If you want to live to green old age. get
yourself elected President of the United States.
Washington died at 81, John Adams at 81, JEFF
ferson at SO, Madison at IS, Munroe at Y. John
Quincy Adams at 81, jackson at 70, Van Buren,
at 80. Harrison at 6S, Tyler at 70, Polk at SO,
Taylor at g. Fillmore at "a, Pierce at 81, and
and Buchanan at ".
At sale 'unsight unseen" as the boys say,
of uncalled-for express packages in Providence,
the other day, one shrew Rhode Islander got
hiseye on compact, neat-looking package,
which he was certain must contain greenbacks
or some other blessings in disguise. So he bid
up to $3.50 and secured Seueral hundred of last
gears d enaocratic tickets.
The entire biography of Senator Sumner was
compressed by Mr.. E. G. Cowdin, at the
Chamber OF Commerce meeting in New York
on Friday, in these few weighty words: .The
salient points in his character and career wers
vast erudtion and cultivated tastes, tir. less in
dustry and sublime courage, fidelity to couyic-
lions and persistency of purpose, unselfsh pa
rIotism and unbendng integrity