The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-05
News and Other Items.

Stylish young men in California wear alliga-
tor boots about yard long. M
Woodruff and Clafin have emigrated to Cali
fornia, where they expect to strike ''pay dirt"
An Iowa clergyman, after recent donation
party, found that he had beans enough to last
him for thirty seven years. as az H4.
Miss Maria Lovejoy Suggestive name) is now
prosecuting her fourth breach of promise suit
in Wisconsin.
According to the Springfield Republican there
is no efficient legislative provision in Massa-
chusetts for the supervision of dams, but there
is a law against the use of prosane language.
The Changers of Clark Co., Ind, have char
tered bank, and will soon have it opened for
business, lending money to farmers at per
cent. Har (.
John Anthony Froule is one of about fifty
priests and deacons of the English church who
have relinquished holy orders between August
8, 1870, and July 4th, 1873
Prices at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga,
have been reduced from $35 week to $21 a
week during June and September, and 1928
week during July and August sr
The Detroit Tribune quotes: 1.-THE voice of
the watering-place correspondent is now heard
in the land So it is, comments the Tribune
and in nine cases out of ten, the papers he
represents" knows nothing of the "correspon-
dent"
Cincinnati young lady has committed sui
eide because cruel critic said that her musical
execution was not perfect. What an induce
ment for other musical critics to indulge in
similar remarks! or f s-4l
According toa Washington gossip, when
MI. Bristow said that Mr.. Sawyer must 90 if
he became Secretary Of the Treasury, President
Grant acquiesced, remarking that sit was bet
ter to have all the Sanborn men out''
The Rev. j. Jaszkenitz, a polish preacher in
Winona, Mimi, has sued thirty of his con
gregation for pew rent. They refused to nav
because he called item empty heads in his pull
pit, and they claim the truth should not be
spoken at all times
They tell of a hen that floated down the rag
ing tide of Mill River, in a barrel, setting on
nineteen eggs. She attended strictly to bust
ness during the flood, finally brought up in a
friendly harbor, and has since left her barrel
with nineteen chickens at her heels. -
The Anti-Secret Society Association at SYRIA
cuse, among other officers, have elected b. j.
Roberts OF Illinois, President; Daniel Bradley
or Vermont j. A. Conant and Francis Gillette
of Connecticut, S. D. Greene of Massachusetts,
and f. Manter of Maine, Vice Presidents.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams will deliver
the Grafton, Oliver Wendell Holmes will read
an original poem, and Rev. DIR. H. w. Bellows
of New York, will offer the prayer at the dedi-
cation of Memorial Hail. at Harvard College
on June 23d.
Reputation is making Roadway in the West.
Dallas county, Missouri, has refused to pay in
terest or principal of $2S0,000 worth of bonds
issued for railway purposes, and when the
United States Court gave judgment against the
county the judges of the county court escaped
service by jumping through the window and
running away
The temperance women of Rhode Island won
decided victory in the Senate at Newport last
week. About thirty of them appeared before
the vote on the prohibitory bill was taken, and