The Portland daily press., 1876-06-21
News and Other Items.

Key West, Fla, receive annually for her CT
gars about 81, 100000.
The electors of Colorado will vote on the
adoption of state constitution on the first of
July.
New Orleans proposes to inflict fine of 81
on persons throwing fruit peel on the side
walk.
Dom Pedro pays S25 per day for two Pull
man cars, exclusive of the cost of tickets for
the party and the expenses of the table.
A young colored lawyer of Washington has
been dismissed from Baptist church for the
heinous offence of playing croquet.
Dan Rice. the Snowman, is again in trouble.
The appurtenances of his new circus were
seized for debt in Catettsburg, Ky. a few days
ago, Immediately after performance
They say that Gov. Hayes uncle, who left
his money, always insisted that his nephew
would be President.
Mrs. Lincoln's estate, which consists mostly
of United States bonds, amounts to about $780,
600, besides which she receives quarterly
pension from the government of $3.50.
The New England Journal of EIuca ton is
offering free tickets from Boston or Chicago to
Philadelphia and return as premiums for get
ting clubs
Pennsylvania physician told a sick lady
that she couldn't live a month. She died that
night from excitement, aud her husband sues
for $4,000 damages
The will of William B. Aster has been prov
ed in England, where the personal estate is
e4OO,OOO, which appears to have been invested
in British consos.
An exhibition of the different models for the
statue of Byron will be given in the South
Kensington Museum in October. The fund
now amounts to $15,O 900.
A woman is to be hung in Buffalo on the Dist
inst, and the sheriff declares that he ''would
rather NOV ten acres of grass than to hang
her,
Mr.. Baird, the great iron master Of Cart
sherrie, Scotland, who has already given ST.
900, 600 to Presbyterian uses, contemplates an
other gift of an eqnal sum for the same pur-
poses
Governor Irwin Of California has taken off
from one to four years each from the sentence
of 100 convcts in the state penitentiary. be-
cause of the good conduct Of the body of con-
victs at a recent fire in the prison.
Mr.. Bramwell the we'll known English en-
gineer, asserted recently before the Society of
Arts, that railway accidents are frequently ag-
gravated by applying the brake power too
sharply.
An English reporter lately recovered $4,000
damages from man who called him a public
nuisance. And BOW that man is irritated and
importuned by other reporters, who agree ac-
cept the ignominious epthet for half price,
In view of certain difficulties caused by the
late discovery of relationship to Mr.. Stewart,
the Rochester Democrat hastens to remark that
Commodore Vanderbilt, our second cousin,
was better yesterday.
Rose Eytinge, the popular actress, tried to
commit suicide at Milwaukee, where she has
been playing, last week, by taking laudanum
and her life was saved with great difficulty.
Family trouble is supposed to be the cause her
life having been wrecked since she married
Nephew Butler.
On the 4th of July there will be placed in
position at Carlisle Pa, monument over the
grave of captain Moll Pitcher the woman
who displayed great bravery at the battle of
Monmouth on the 2Sth of june 1878, and who,
in a well known picture of the conflict, is rep
resented as handling the ramrod of cannon.
Her grave has hitherto been unmarked