The Portland daily press., 1874-12-19
News and Other Items.

Tie milling capacity OF Mlnnesota Is eS''i"
ted at about a thousand run of stone.
Gen. Eongstreet is in very bad health. his
RIGHT leg Is crippled by disease, and his suffer
ipas have left their marks upon his face.
Whooping cough still RACES with fatal effect
among infants. Gen. I. Taylor, of Louisiana,
died of it last week at the tender age OF 70.
Attorney General Williams, in alluding TO
Touisiana affairs, says he is now convinced
that the report of anticipated troubles in New
Orleans is pure canard.
The combined armies of the partially mae.
pendent native rulers 10 India number 3lS'ooo
men and $500 guns, formidable power IL
united in opposition to British rule
The Rev. Talmage said the other day that
the theatre was the yestibule of hell. 1t isn't
strange, then, that vulgar people should won
der where in hi Miss Nelson got SO many
diamonds. -Chicago Tribune. ~
A Pennsylvania clergyman has LETT szooo
salary for one of $1,000, because he wanted to
be where he could do most good. There are
few like him, which fact, however, is nothing
againt the clergy.
The Montreal Witness gives statement
showing Canadas tobacco bill for 1873. IL In
cludes smoking and chewing tobacco, cigars
n;nes and snuff, and the bill foots up So ,42l 085
The figures are not exact, but are believed to De
q very good estimate.
A correspondent gives the causes OF the d.
yorce of Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, which may
he cunden sed as follows: Mr.. Ames has pas
sion for Harper's Ferry. Mrs. Ames detests
the place and her literary work carries her 70
Washington and the North. There is another
lady who also thinks Harpers Ferry para
disc and hence the divorce which Mr.. Ames
has secured. e r7sorr-.s I'll f-..f.. 10, Z
Encouraged by the success of the seelye
movement in Massachusetts,, a few prohibition
its in the ID Connecticut District have nomi-
mated college professor for Congress- IheS
met at Middletown on Tuesday, and agreed to
cast their vote for Calvin S. Harrington, Pro-
fessor of Latin for Wesleyan University. The
Professor accepted the honor, and subsequently
addressed mass temperance convention.
Hepworth Dixon, when in Johnsbury, VT
wanted s'slass of ale" In order to obtain 1t
he had to write an order to the Commissioner
"a town officer appointed by law to sell pol
son. and the signature went on record IN the
Commissioners book. "Intoxi eating drinks,
he saws, "are classed as poisons, such as laud-
anum and arsenc,'' and ''doled out at the dis
cretion of this officer, in small quantities, very
much as deadly nightshade and nux vomlca are
doled out by London druggist"
In London under the new liquor law the pub
lie houses have to close from - Saturday until
Sunday, and on Sunday night from III until
o'clock Monday morning. The Sunday hours
Of closing in the provinces are set at IL, and
from 1Oep. m until Mondays Upon Other
nights Of the week the hours of closing arr
from 10 until 6. Houses near places OF amuse
ment may receive special licenses, enabling
them to remain open later. Violations OF these
provisions is published by fine OF from 4lo tt
eco. Travellers may be served with liquor a
inns at any hour, but the landlord, if calico
upon. must be able to prove the person bona
fide tra7 eller. ..'s-...r En- e.. ..... d. b.