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


ment is about to assimilate the foreign journals
entering France to lthe same repressve meas
ures as those published in thecountry. In fut.
ure, says the Paris print, foreign papers will
not be distributed in France until they'thave
been previously read by employees at the Minis
try Of the Interior and their sale authorized by
the Government
Here's another kndl A diminutive little
black insect, known among the farmers as the
coats bug" has been great annoyance for
few days past to the settlers between New Ath-
ems and Coultervlle, ILL.,, by the tickling sensa-
ton it produces when it alights on the face or
hands The atmospheric has been literally
filled with the little pests
Boston Corbett works at the hating business
on week days, and breaches in Methodist
church at Camden, N. j., on Sundays.
The new Boston directory contains 1877, $50
names, an increase of 20,567 in one year.
4 New Hampshire legislator who was
brought to the surface by the recent Demo-
cratic convention can't understand why 'elec-
ton day" al,coys comes on Tuesdays, when the
Fourth of July and Christmas and other holt
days seem to come along all days of the week.
The matter will be referred to a committee.
Ripon College, Wisconsin, never confers
honorary degrees, but it has made two women
mistresses of art this year.
Cincinnati women persist in drawing their
baby carriages into the street-cars, and the
men have to get out or stand upon the plat
form.
Chicago boasts of an Italian count and
lott tha IF
hand organ and the former turning over the
money earned.
L. B. Carpenter has begun three-quarter
length life-sze portrait of the late Horace
Greeley. He is represented seated with pen
in his hand, beside table, on which lie his
books, ''The American Conflict and "Recold
of Busy Life In the background there is a
view of the Tr bune building, with its old signs,
as it existed before Mr.. Greeley's death.
The poet Tennyson who has been suffering
from a severe rheumatic attack this summer,
has just sent cheering letter to Walt Whit
mantle first letter written by him for several
weeks, as his right arm was affected. The
laureate mentions in it the case of a friend of
his, Frustrated with cerebral anamia, Whit
mans malady but who recovered at last and is
now in sound health
Congressman Freeman Clarke of Rochester.
N. Y. says that his health is so poor he will
not accept denomination to Congress. He has
done good service in his time.
The Congregationalists of Massachusetts re-
port for this year three new churches organized
and two dropped, with gain of 1014 church
members, without including converts by the re-
cent revivals.
Ku-Klux leaders are being nominated by the
North Carolina Democrats fof judges, solicitors
and other like officers. Northern defenders of
the Bourbons will please take notice. In New
Hampshire they are great deal sharper than
that They get thems elves elected to the leg
islature aid then turn Ku-Klux Afterwards.
1t is a much safer policy than the North Car
DINA plan, for the people cannot help them
selves.
Candidates for Senator Fenton's seat in the
United States Senate are already getting num-
erous, if the Albany Express is rightly in
formed. That Journal finds on the Democratic
side, ex-Gov. Seymour, eX-Gov. Hoffman,
Samuel j. Tilden, Clarkson n. Potter and San
ford e. Church; and ON the. Republican side,
Gov. Dix, ex-Gov. Morgan, Judge Robertson,
the Hon. A. B. Cornell, and the Hon. Lyman
Tremain. The Express peters the latter gen
tleman.
The Brandon (Miss) Republican, being of
the ''white league" spirit, talks this way
"Rolla Williams. the pop-eyed, flat nosed,
thick-lpped chicken stealing preacher, radical
leader, and special pet and associate of the
pale New England thieves around jack
son, has come to grief at last" The Selma
(Ala.) Times says: eve are credibly inform
ed that q white-skinned fellow named Alex
Beach, who came to this country from Massa-
chusetts about four years SINCE married black
negro wench named Ida Mllhouse in River
Beat about ten days since"
A scramble among the boys for 5000 pennies,
was one of the features OF the Fourth at West
minister, Nd.
There is marked decrease in savings bank
deposits in England, owing to the stagnaton
of business. The falling off in April and May
amounted to e1S2,952.
With one or two unimportant exceptions the
Republican press of Missouri is unanimously
in fa7or of the proposed Peoples Reform
movement. The Democratic journals are very
sad.
Senator Gordon of Georgia, who says he is
every intimate with President Grant, has
been telling some interviewer that he thinks
the President wants to run again as the peo-
pies candidate.
During the last week in July the comet will
come within twenty-five million miles of the
earth, and with brilliancy tenfold that which
it had few weeks since. 1t will be between
the earth aud the sun July 20, and not until
then shall we have settled weather. The cold
spell which has prevailed is attributed to the
comet, and certainly 1t is many years since we
have had such a cold July.