The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
News and Other Items.

Iowa claims to have built 1916 school houses
during the cast two years.
A modification of the redingote is to be the
fashionable street garment
lne prices tor butter at st Adams Vt on
Tuesday ranged from So to AZ cents
Boston fees sour about her new Collector
Hereafter all clearaJceS are to be signed ''per
Simmons. IN. Y. Commercial AdUeTtiser.
The sugar season opened again at st. Adams,
VT, on Monday, and the sap flowed freely from
trees that were tapped.
An English poultry dealer has been discover
ed adulterating turkeys by stuffing their
breasts with fat pork.
A Detroit woman vainly tried every insurance
Office in the city to get $4,000 policy on six
months old baby
Will s. Hays, the musical composer and edi-
tor, is now journeyman printer in Louisville,
Ky.
Sir Bartle Frere still denounces the story of
Livingstone's death as "almost wildly improba-
Bile.
1t is feared that the iron-clad Dictator has
of the 18th off Charleston.
Archbishop Alemany of San Francisco, re-
minds Roman Catholics that they ought not to
Join the Patrons OF HuSbandry.
Elder Knapp, the Baptist revivalist is i'll
with pulmonary consumption at his home in
Rockford, Ill.
The sittng-room of an indianapolis couple is
| adorned with four divorces, handsomely franz
ed, which tell sad tales of old-time love.
The story comes from England that the men
tai disorder from which the painter Landseer
suffered in his last days, was caused by overin-
diligence in wine.
married her own widowed son-in-law, and the
children of the two families are now puzzled to
settle their relationship.
1t is reported that the House Judiciary Com
mittee has decided by vote of 9 to2, to ex-
clude all claims of insurance companies to any
part of the Geneva award.
After twenty years work the women of
Charleston, S. c., succeeded in raising $4,000
for monument to John G. Calhoun, only to
end their labors by voting down a resolution to
erect monument, after all. Now it is propos
ed to devote the money to educational purposes
AS Tweed was sitting with his fellow convicts
at dinner, recently, some of the ceiling of the
room suddenly fell. The Blackwelrs Island
AoSooi AoohCA up "uu JohtuSiy ODSerVeu Ilat
must be some of Garvey's plastering"; whereat
Garvey's whiom ring partner smiled audbly.
AGeorgia paper tells of an attempt by a
powerful eagle to carry off girl fourteen years
cid. 1t says the bird lifted her from the ground
several times and carried her some distance
She was severity wounded by its beak and tai
ons, her sides and arms being terribly lacerat-
ed
John Simpson of Putnam, Vt. while run ming
steam saw mill last week, fell upon the circu-
lar saw, which struck him on the hip. Some
workmen rushed to his rescue, hut in pulling
him off the saw, his head fell over and was
sawed almost off, Of course death was instan-
taneous.
The Supreme Court of Vermont, has lately
rendered decision which settles the law in re-
gard to the liability of town in ease of Ger
tain accidents upon the highways. The Court
holds that where two parties are passing in
vehicles along highway within the State, both
proceeding in the same direction, and the hind
most reins out to pass the other, in case OF in
jury resulting to the passing party, the town in
which the accident occurs is liable to him in
damages, provided he exercise ordinary care in
attempting to pass. In other words, that the
town must keep their highways in such condi-
ton that vehicle may safely pass another
which holds to the middle of track.