The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-09-02
News and Other items.

Judah P. Benjamin is making $4,000 yer
OF the London bar.
Mr.. Henry Yore of Portsmouth, Va, has
eloped with his mother in-law. The daze of
Yore will soon be over
Mrs Stonewall Jackson resides in Charlotte,
N. c. She is quite young, between twenty-five
and thirty, of medium height and pleasing.
There's fine chance for young man in the
Sandwich Islands, where Queen Emma is sal
to have announced her intention of marrying
an American.
New Hampshire is to have great moral
baby show, and the judges are all ladies. 1t is
thought male opinions would be influenced by
the good looks of the mothers.
The Brooklyn Elevated Silent Safety Rail-
way Company have issued a circular calling
attention to their project, which is to construct
an elevated railway from the bridge terminus
to East New York.
And now Stokes health is said to be serious
ly impaired by his imprisonment. The next
announcement, probably, will be that he is
pardoned, lest he should die, he would be such
loss to New York society.
The Courier-Journal is having q bridge
built over the Ohio for the purpose of drawing
its cockroaches therefrom. Each insect is to
be tied up in o bag, with an iron weight about
its neck.
Hon. Alvah Croker has published card to
the electors of the 10th Congressional district
of Massachusetts, declining to be considered
candidate for the honor of seat in the Attn
Congress.
Kate Field will appear on one of the Jeffer-
son ''off nights during the term of the come
dams engagement at Booths theatre. The
piece selected for her debut is "Peg Voting
TOM
Law business in San Francisco must be in a
poor way when barrister is compelled to ad-
vertise that his rule is to give one-third of his
fee, be it large or small, to whoever brings him
lawsuit, or puts him in the way of getting
one.
There is q wholesome warning to salary
grabbers in the vote of the Republican Con-
gressional Convention of the twenty-third dis
trict of New York, the other day. Mr.. Lam
sing, the present incumbent and grabber, was
allowed to retire to private life without re-
ceiving SO much as single vote for renomin-
alton.
The council of Spiritualsts, of which Victo-
ria G. Woodruff is president, has issued card
for meeting at the Parker Memorial Hall,
Boston, on September 18th, 10th and 18th, to
which are invited sail Spiritualists, Socialists,
Infdels, Materalists. Free Religionists and
Free Thinkers to join in the effort to advance
the cause of truth and human welfare"
1t is stated against an Ohio candidate for Of
flee that. he shod mules to sell to the govern.
ment in such way that they stood higher, so
as to come up to the required standard of
measurement, and also that he pulled teeth
out Of innocent mules so as to deceive the gov
eminent as to their age. Well, man who
would run for Office in Ohio deserves to suf-
fer.
Subjects connected with Modern English Lit
erature has been enlarged from six to ten lee.
lures. The additional four new discourses con-
sist of the following topics: ''Keats and Shell
ley;" "De Quincy, the English Opium Eater"
"Longfellow;" and 'Wadsworth." Mr.. Fields
lecture on "Rufus Choate, the Advocate aud
Scholar" will be delivered first at Dartmouth
College the 18th of next month.
The New York World undertakes to show
from figures that sixty thousand New York
Democrats stayed at home two years ago and
would not vote for Francis Herman, "the GAL
lant accomplished and most liberal Catholic"
besides several thousand who voted directly
for Gov. Dix. What the party in that state
wants of Catholics is their votes-when the
Democratic Catholics want votes it is another
thing.
The Philstnes fell on New Orleans re-
porter the other night, and deprived him of
Barlow knife, two custard pies and revolver.
A movement is now on foot among his friends
to offer him boomerang or bow and arrow
By way of compensation fer his lost weapon.
The value of property in California, as fixed
by the assessors for the current year, amounts
in the state, exclusive of Modoc county, from
which no official report has been received, to
$500 100000, an increase of 1914, 600 over
1873, and of this increase Sar Francisco has
&55 O00 600