The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-25
News and Other Items.

New York is happy. Its Legislature adjourns
in a week. i
There are fourteen applicants for ~ Ne
braska post office.
Docletian says he has ga plan soaking in his
brain" for crusade against tobacco. 1t can't
be very extensive plan.
The Canadian Dominion is behindhand on
its finances for the first time since confedera-
ton. The deficit is $S47,726.
A Mississippi paper proposes as a motto for
the South:
''Corn and Economy,
nd q eaaiaa = = -
COldwater, Mich, is true to its name, at last,
thanks to the lady crusaders; no liquor can be
obtained there, and the people are virtuousy
unhappy.
Andrew Jackson once struck from the roll of
the navy lieutenant, because he did not pay
his board bill to widow with whom he board
ed in Washington. A.
Jacksonville Fla, is losing its lumber trade
on account of the difficult passage over a bar
in the harbor and the citizens are growing anx-
ious.
A female circus rider told Baltimore re-
porter that jumping through hoops did not pre-
vent her from trying to do good, and that she
was a member of church and in good stand
ing.
Somebody recommends that few tons of the
''Odes to Spring." now lying about the news
paper offices, be sent to Iceland, for exhibition
at the milliennial. Better send the writers; the
paper might be of some use.
The Alaska fur trade is not bad thing for
the United States Treasury. The government
receives S26200O direct. The skins of the seals
are taken to London, cured and brought to the
United States, and the duties paid amount to
$500, 900 more, -...,..--
A Washington special says that careful
canvass of the Senate on the currency bill
shows thus on the question, ''Shall the bill pass
Notwithstanding the veto," majority will vote
in the negative, thus finally disposing of the
measure
The extravaganza of the Republican party
is often alluded to, but we seldom hear of the
facts which show that retrenchment has been
the rule for some years, In 1865 there were
$500 persons employed in the Internal Revenue
Department. Now there are $685.
Boarding-house keepers should look out for
the man who is now in the city seeking quiet
board. If they secure him they will be well off
for life. He wants accommodations for him
self, his fourth wife, his nineteen children and
eight of their grandmothers; his three mothers
in-law will exercise general supervision.-Bos
ton Globe.
A Mr. Busy of Lake City, Wis, had his
life insured for 500, 900. and few days ago
was announced as being dead. His remains
could not be seen and he was buried quietly.
That is coffin was buried Somehow the
corpse has turned up in Colorado, alive again
and well. lzr
Hon. E. Croker informs the North Bridge.
water Gazette that for fifteen or twenty years
he has poured boiling water directly about and
on tho trunks of fruit trees, as a means of de-
stroying worms and other pests. The trees
have thriven under this treatment, increasing
in vigor and fruitfulnness.
Mrs. Van Colt says that at one of her prayer
meetings negro brother prayed: ooh, Lord
send dy angel to pin de wings on Sister Ban
cots heels, dat she may fly troo de world
preachin' de eberlas.in Gospel" And one
added, Lord! give wings on her shoulders, too
or the preaching will not have effect, for she'll
fly upside down. a..ess--
Joaquin Miller found Geneva full of bis
countrymen, and asked to be taken to some
place where there were no Americans. The
poatman looked at him for moment, then
hopelessly up and down the lake. and awav
across toward Mount Blanc, and at last shook
his head; but suddenly new idea seemed tn
strike him and he lifted his eyes towards
Heaven -...r