The Portland daily press., 1874-08-07
News and Other Items.

Fifty barrels of oil were offered as a prize in
boat race at Parker City, Pa.
Sunday swimming matches amuse the good
people of Milwaukee.
"Temperancst'' is the latest western contri-
button to the language. 1t is a deposit of the
Dio Lewis crusade.
A male Indian, dressed as squaw, is fire..
quently seen in Virginia City. He is compelled
TO wear female attire as a punishment for
cowardice.
According to a statement of the grain vessels
which have left New York since the 1st Of jan
uary, the numbers have been S27 sailing vessels
and 319 steamships.
Mr.. George g. Gorham. Secretary Of the
United States Senate, appears in California pol
itcs now as a candidate fos the Republican
nomination for Governor.
While the editor of the Clarksvilie Gowa)
Star was attending recent Republican conven-
tion, the person he left in charge brought it out
as an anti-monopoly organ.
The reports regarding General Schenck's we'd
ding appear to have been manufactured from
whole cloth. The gentleman denies that he
even contemplates matrimony.
A couple at South Bene, Ind, have just been
married to each other for the third time
They are profitable beth to lawyers and clergy
men.
bet his money on Barnum's colored jockey, but
the disagreeable darkey came in third and con
hrmed bis hackers prejudice against the whole
race.-Boston Herald.
An eccentric old Engiishman, with very
large amount of livestock TO care for, was
troubled about names for his cattle, and named
twenty-four of his cows with the letters of the
alphabet.
nl-executed counerfeits of the latest issues
of the fifty and ten cent currency are in circula-
ton; ingenious enough to be taken by the un
wary, but not enduring very close inspec-
ton.
The Boston Advertiser says ''it is reported
that the Strakosch italian Opera Troupe will be
the opening attraction ct the Boston Globe
theatre which, it is expected will be ready for
use in October"
1t is said that the French troops guarding the
Spanish frontier have been re-enforced. and
vigorous measures have been ordered to pre-
vent uniformed Carlists from crossing the
boundary.
General Lippincott, auditor Of Illinois, has
begun proceedings against the Atlantic and
Pacific Insurance Company, ON the ground that
it is hopelessly insolvent, and he will apply for
the appointment of a receiver.
j. A. Sawyer, formerly Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury, has forwarded a letter of resig.
nation to President Grant as representative of
the Treasury Department to the centennial ex.
hibitiou to be holden in Philadelphia.
Uncle Subsidy" Pomeroy, the renowned
christian statesman" threatens to pull down
a lot of Kansas politicians if he is delivered nm
to the Phllstnes. Old Pom knows that the
Kansas wire -puller lives in very glass house.
The peach prospect reports from Delaware
set down the peach crop as 100000 baskets.
one-balf of which will be Haes. and nearly ali
of these will be in the market within two weeks
The Hales, though the earliest, are the pooress
PEACHES
Just because smallpox is prevalent at New
market, England the newspapers are talking
about New Hampshire afliction, and the resi-.
dents of Newmarket in that State are a little
vexed that false statements should be fyino
around SO thick.
The editor of paper down at Proyincetown
says. we sometimes spend naif an hour to
look over paper, the sender of which has neg.
iected to mark what he expected we should
see.'' 1--WE" can't have much to do if "we."
can afford to spend time so
DR.. Linderman, director of the mint, states
that the new trade dollar, which was first
issued by the government, last summer, has be-
come extensively popular, especially on the Pa
cific coast, where it is used as a convenient
medium of exchange between San francisco.
Japan and China. The demand is far in ex-
cess of the supply, although the mint at Carson
City, Nevada, is worked to its full capacity.
night ald day, in its coinage.