The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-09
News and Other Items

Liquor dealers in Dover, N H., have closed
up and there is now not an open bar.
The case of Moulton VS.. Beecher is set down
for Thursday.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon has declined an invitation
to lecture in this country.
young woman in Somerset county, N. j..
who took chloroform before submitting to a
surgical operation. two weeks ago, has ever
since been blind, deaf and dumb.
Stephen B. Lonaro, the founder of the Oswe-
go Gazette and Representative in Congress for
four years, died in Os wego, N. Y, yesterday
morning.
The coach craze still holds in New York
Crowds gather daily around the Brunswick
house to see the "wehicle'' start The driver
and guard both expect twenty-five cents in sill
yer as fee.
Bismarck is now as high in Germany as Ban
croft. He has been chosen a knight Of ''The
Order of Merit on the death of DIR. Schnorr
Won Carolsfeld, the wel-known illustrator of
the Bible.
1t is not really necessary to have a lamp
burning to break lamp chimney. The chin
ney Will snap if the lamp be not lighted. The
only way to avoid these accidents IS to keep the
chimney in an empty room by itself, securely
lock the door and stand outside day and night
with drawn sword.-Da,abury Ne,os.
News from the grasshopper regions of Min
nesota is extremely favorable. Very few signs
of another crop of the plague are to be seen,
and there is good reason to hope that no de-
struction of crops from grasshoppers will fol-
low this seasons seed time, or if so, that it will
be limited to very small area
The English sculptJrs will not be so we'll rep
resented at Philadelphia as the English paint
ers. The misfortunes of Mr.. Acton Adams.
who had statue smashed to pieces at Vienna,
have deferred them. They do not know how
much more gentle is the American than the
Austrian baggage smasher.
The Rev. Mr.. Carver writes from Mexico to
his brother in Poweshiek county, Ia, saying
that they are having perious times. The Cath
olic Bishop has issued an edict against him and
his wife, and mob has twice tried to force en-
trance to his house. He dare not 90 out with
cut guard of police.
Henri Rochefort is in exile, living at Geneva,
and very much to be pitied of course. But for
all that he is said to be making $4,000 year
by the contraband sale of La Lanterne
A@SS
Droits de pHomme, radical newspaper, which
has circulation in the faubourgs of Paris Of
100000 day. far more than that of any Eng
lish or American journal.
curious will case has lately been decided in
Washington. A testator gave and bequeathed
to his daughter his dwelling house, "she pay
ing for two masses every month for the repose
of my soul as long as she lives" Doubt was ex-
pressed as to whether it was life estate or an
estate in fee simple which was vested in the
daughter, but the court decided that the words
of the will conveyed an estate in fee simple.
An experiment is soon to be made on the
British man-of-war Thunderer to test the eff
cacy of net work of iron wire with which it
is proposed to encircle the iron-clad war vessel
of the future for purposes of protection. The
netting is to be supported by booms at dis
tance Of % feet from the sides, aod kept rigid
to below the depth of the keel by heavy weights.
Tie danger to be guarded against is the fish
torpedo, one species of which can be unerring-
ly propelled under water for a mile, and will
then sink a ship if it strikes her.
wealthy Chicago merchant being ill, the
other day, clerk sent to the house to get the
number by which the combination lock of his
safe was opened, and received the reply 1876
The clerk labored on it till he was tired out,
and then sent up again, receiving the same re-
ply. Finally, he went to the merchants house
himself and asked him if he wasn't mistaken.
Mistaken he replied. 'Does this look as if
was Mistaken" and he showed the clerk his
notebook, in which was written: "Nomber of
| Saf eighteen hundredi and seventy-six-
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