The Portland daily press., 1874-02-11
News and Other Items.


rum shops in Ohio.
Miss Smiley, the Quaker evangelist, is Great
ing great sensation at Cincinnati.
The anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln is to be celebrated in Buffalo OH the
18th inst.
Verati, a tenor singer, for refusing to sing his
part in opera at Havana, recently, was impris-
oned for eight days in Moro Castle.
The religious war in Germany is increasing
in virulence and bids fair to cause serious
commotion before it is over.
Georgia has ten-dollar poll tax yet the
newspapers cannot account for the steady exo-
dus of co!ored laborers from that State.
The question is frequently asked, "How
much is horse power?'' We saw q mon who
was kicked by horse the other day, but he is
too sick TO tell.-BrookIyn Argus
1t is said that all newspaper offices in Kan
sas have two pair of stairs, one for the editor
to 20 down, while the visitor is ascending the
other. e.
Workmen excavating near Weldon, n c..
have discovered a vast heap of skeletons, close
ly packed together, whose skulls are nearly an
inch thick
Twin colored children united by feshy
band something like the famous Siamase, were
born and died, the other night,at Tobaccostick.
Md.
"A correspondent pteously inquiries: "How
long are the people of Missouri to be robbed?"
We cannot answer, as the Legislature has not
yet fixed the day of adjournment--St. louis
Globe.
Send your prize postal cards to the postmas-
ter at Lebanon. N. H. He takes solid comfort
in counting the words on them, and. at last &C
count had found one with 1000 words on its
back.
Gen. Butler is supposed to have speech
ready in favor of imitation. and will meet bis
old antagonist. Judge Hoar, in the debate the
Concord statesman holding the opposite views
on this subject.
slave, and was porter on the steamer Columbia.
He went to school at Oberlin, and was Sheriff,
and for two years Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House of Representatives of the State which
he now represents in the Senate of the United
States. 10
The Taunton Gazette has crude notions as to
the manner in which railroad Presidents are
chosen. 1t says:
Mr.. Woodbridge of Lynn, has been chosen
President of the Eastern Railroad Co., by one
majority, he receiving II ,040 votes, while Mr.
Lothrop OF Boston received II ,039 1t was a
close shave.
G. j. Bridges, managing director of the
Grand Trunk Railroad, was on the LIST inst ar
rested for manslaughter on verdict rendered
by Quebec jury on the recent death of Pierre
Conchon, who was run over and instantly kill
ed by Grand Trunk train on the oath of last
month. Bridges was admitted to bail and is to
be tried at the next session of the Court of
Qneen's Bench
In the New York State Senate bill was in :
troduced relating to the carrying of freight by
railroad companies. 1t provides that no rail-
road company shall charge more to carry
freight over part of their road than over its
whole length, nor shall they charge more for
carrying freight shorter than longer dis
lance on their lines. The first provision of this
bill was the one which caused excit .ment last
year.
The women of Brooklyn are about to organ
ize praying bands to fight the liquor traffic. fol
lowing the lead of the movement in Ohio
They have already held several informal meet
ings, and will meet again next Friday to make
the final arrangements for the warfare. They
will find plenty of work to do, as saloons are
counted by thousands in Brooklyn. 1t is sug-
gested that Yonkers, which contains 112 sa-
looms, would be good field for the operation
of the system should it become successful in
Brooklyn.
The New Orleans Picayune, ultra Southern
always in its tone, sees in the order of bust of
fancy, the Sumner resolution in our Massa
chusetts Legislature, and the Presidents NOM
ination for the Chief Justiceship, indications
shat there is at last lull in the political
storm, and that the rights, duties, obligations
and capabilities of both the white man and the
black man will be hereafter weighed in the
balance of truth and justice, rather than in that
of partisan passion and expediency," The con-
clusion is right, whatever may be said of the
premises,