The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-20
NoxvS and Other Items.


The fruit crop of New YORK oos 'a'r 10 pe
the best for years.
The old homestead of the Astor family mas
been sold for $4,000.
Vale law student has brought suit for
libel against the New Haven Register for re-
Elections upon him in report of mock trial
in which he took the part of the criminal.
Nine. Bonaparte has been seriously ill in
Baltimore, but there are hopes of her entire
restoration to health See seems confident that
she will celebrate her Tooth birthday.
The wife of Pnchback the senatorial aspi-
rant, although classed as colored woman, is
rather whittier and purer blooded than the aver
age Louisianan.
Mr., George W. Childs of Philadelphia, is an
nounced to give reception 10 April to MIR. and
Mrs Sartoris, on the eve of their return to
Europe.
Hon. III. A. Lamberton of Harrisburg, Pa''
is mentioned favorably in connection with the
next Democratic nomination for Governor OF
| that state.
Since the passage of the civil rights bill the
| Pepnsyly ania Colonization Society mas received
applications from IS negro families OF A'apaha
| for transportation to Liberia.
The name of Senator Christancy is pronoun-
ced in three, not four syllables. In that OF Sen
| ator Herman the accent is on the first, not the
second syllable.
Old Bull, the celebrated violinist, celebated
his Goth birthday at Bergen, Norway, on the
9Th of February. The genial old master is in
| fire health.
~, oil hu Washing
ton at the council of war in Trenton in 1777,
has been deposited by Mrs. Gen. Styker in the
National Museum at Philadelphia. 1t is owned
by the Trenton Hose Co.
Hot sea water baths are to mark the season
at Cape May They are now being arranged
and constructed for Congress Hall, Mr. .. +.
Cake proprietor, at an expense OF $l0,O0O. Ho'
ocean baths at Long Branch gave great salts
faction.
A young idiot of a practical joker at Carlisle
Canada, a few days since, jerked chair from
beneath a young lady, who in falling injured
her spine so severely that commissions ensued
| and the injuries are expected to prove fatal O.
to result in mental arrangement.
| The London Telegraph thus compliments in
| telligent Englishmen: "If body OF one
hundred Englishmen' possessed Of ordinary in
| telligence and education, were to be selected
| hap-hazard, we risk little in saying that no
| five out of the number would be able to stat
off hand how many states there are in tn
| American Union
| A Tennessee farmer, who had emigrated tt
| Texas, and had solved for himself the southern
abor problem by the employment of Mexcani
| as laborers In letter to Tennessee journa
| he says that the new hands, while slower than
negroes, do their work much more efficiently
that they are steady and Industrious. and tina
the cotton raised and packed by them com
mands a higher price in the market than tina
| grown by negroes.
| Washburnes moral show exhibits in country
| villages, and travels in sleghs While crossing
| the Green Mountains from Ludlow to Rutland
Vermont, asshort time ago, the company wer
snow bound for three days in farm house
The baggage sleigh, which they had preceded
| did not arrive, and as soon as the storm abated
a search was made for it. The sleigh was over
turned in drift, and the driver was frozen t.
| DEATH