The Portland daily press., 1874-01-24
News and Other Items

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warmers
novel, THE Gilded Age" is published in Lon
don in three volumes, and sells for six dollars.
& Henry A. Wise, the well known Virginia pol
itician, is dangerously i'll at his residence at
Richmond, from the effects of two carbuncles
Mr.. Waite has telegrsphed to Washington
that be will assume the duties Of Chief Justice
about the first of March. ~ 9ea.
A woman has been arrested in New York
with over $4,000 worth of wearing apparel on
her person. stahs aae %
Mayor Stokely, Of Philadelphia, has tele-
graphed to the home of the Siamese twins, ask
ing that in the interests of science Phladel-
pha surgeon be allowed to make an autopsy.
The Iowa House of Representatives has
reached the 139th ballot for Speaker without
result The 20 Changers in the House have
thus far voted, IS with the Republicans and IS
with the Anti Monopoly party. g.
The guardian of John s. Emerson, tie boy
who was injured at Gambia, N. H., last spring.
by Wilfred Fitz, the somnambulist, has been
paid the sum of $3.50 as damages, being salts
f6s K ssral6Raan of PhiIadelpnla nave re-
nominated Mayor Stokley, and the Democrats
put up Col. s. s. Biddle for the mayoralty
Both nominations are obnoxious to the friends
of reform in that city and there will probably
be third candidate in the field.
Havana reioiced over the resignation of Gen
eral Sickles at Madrid by hanging him in
efigy. The caricature held in one hand pla-
card with the '$'' mark, and in the other
card with the words protocol Fish, Polo"
Fromsthe waist there hung a third card, with
the inscription "Dsmission." E&sA
1t lis said that Senator Morton is preparing
speech on the right of the government to regu
late and control the actions of the railroads of
the United States, which he will deliver in the
Senate some day next week. He is understood
to hold that the government can and should
fix the ratio railroad companies shall charge for
the carrying of passengers and freight.
A Georgia negro bored a hole in the top
stick of his wood-pile the other night, and
filled it with powder, to catch thieves. The
next morning colored neighbor, with all her
pots and kettles, was seen to ascend through
the roof of her house at an alarming rate of
speed, while all the windows of the amateur
detective were driven inwards esal tss9ta
An editor in small town in Illinois, who at
tended an apple-paring, became imbued with
the whirl of society, and this is how it affected
him: "We are in the midst of the season for
parties, dancing, mirth and festivity. The ros-
ined hair of the horse travels merrily over the
'ntestines of the agile cat, evoking music to
which the impatient feet trip gayly upon the
floor"
The New York Evening Post says that
stranger on reading the comments of certain
Eastern papers on Mr.. Waite's nomination for
Chief Justice, would suppose that the selection
of that officer had always been limited to the
bar of New York or New Enfland, while the
fact is that no Chief Justice has been taken
from this region for more than seventy years,
and of all who have served in that Office since
the adoption of the Constitution, one only came
from New York and one from New England.