The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-04-20
News and Other Items.

Citations aggregate nearly $4,000, 600.
Saratoga man killed 96 feet of snakes the
other day. There were 1S of them.
Cincinnati is to have a colored baby show,
and eighty entries have already been made for
it,
In New York they talk of a duel between
M. H. Throop of the Express, and E. G. Price.
Cause, cowhide.
conscientious member of the Dominion
parliament resigned because his business firm
had $4,000 worth of trade with the government.
His virtue is to be rewarded by reelection.
1t is estimated that the locomotives of the
United States consume annually an amount of
wood equal to the growth on $4,000 acres of
land for % years.
The Montreal gas company claims that the
leakage of gas, owing to the severe climate and
other reasons, is about one-quarter of the whole
manufactured.
Wellington Watson, Detroit photographer,
has killed himself with poison because his wife
got divorced from him and married again the
next day.
Kate Claxton is said to have been offered an
engagement at $l0O night, besides her ex-
penses bya Boston manager, to play as
STAR as ''The Daughter of the Flames"
A San Francisco brokers' wife suddenly
came home from Europe. A French lord had
offered for 100000 to marry her daughter. and
she started at once to consult her husband
They took up the offer, and she went back to
Paris with the stamps.
Gov. Hampton, one reads, is 80; has been
married twice and is a widower. He had three
children-two sons and daughter. His eldest
son, Preston Hampton, was killed at Gettys-
burg and the second, Wade, Jr., lives in
Washington county, Miss. His daughter,
Margaret, is the wife of COL Johu Hascall of
South Carolina.
A Nashville man of a statistical turn of mind
who has had chills and fevers for four years,
estimates that he has taken during that time
1900 grains of quinine, 1000 grains Of arsenic,
500 grains of chincona, 500 grains Peruvian
bark and considerable quantities of nitric acid,
without apparently disturbing the chills at all.
He thinks of Shaking" the town and seeking
more congenial cline.
A bomb shell was ploughed up in Morgan
county, Tenn, a few days ago, which had been
fired from one of Gen. George Morgan's canon
during his retreat from Cumberland Gap, in
1862. The finders, to test the keeping qualities
took it home and put it in the fire. A man
about two miles away on hill reports the ex-
pertinent as highly successful, but the imme-
diate actors in the scene have not yet been
heard from.
1t is asserted that two men and horse have
died from the effect of bite of cat in Brook
lyn, N. Y. 1t was at first thought that the
two men died from fear, although there were
symptoms of hydrophobia. Those who hold to
the idea that the deaths resulted from fright
base their opinion on the ground that the death
of the second man occurred soon after that OF
| the first, although he was bitten three months
previous. That cat, certainly, should be dis
| pensed with.
| A lawsuit over an election bet has been pend
| ing for some time in st. Louis. A Democrat
| and Republican bet on their respective candi'
dates for President. and suit was brought by the
| Republican, when Hayes was inaugurated, foI
| the amount of the wager. The election returns
| from Louisiana, Florida and Oregon were put
| in as evidence and at the latest reports the
| Judge was still considering his decision, being
| undecided, as he said, on the point whether
| Hayes was elected or not.
| A curious application for an injunction was
recently made at Stafford, England, the party
enjoined being vociferous cock OF the Shang
/ hai breed, whose salutations to THE morn wer
won't to rouse the entire neighborhood at thre'
| o'clock IN the morning. The authorities replied
that though there was commandment tina
'thou shalt not be awake by the barking o
thy neighbor's dog" they could find no recort
| that the Growing of a cock came under the at
tention of the law, and the application was de
MED.
Candidates for office who endeavor to win by
| the use of money can get an instructive warn
ing Of the way most of their funds go from tn
experieuce of Mr.. Barnaby, late Democrat
candidate for Governor of Rhode Island. ii
| gave Mr.. Bracket, one of the Democratic loca
leaders in Lincoln, in Lincoln, in that state
$3.50 for strictly legitimate election expenses
the payment of the taxes of the Democrats
registry voters. OF this sum $SS were paid TO
taxes, and Brackett is charged with pocketin
the remaining $27O, and has been arrested
They do things in amarvelously peaceful
way out West. In Central Wisconsin Tow
this spring, the election was tie. A ne'
| meeting could not be held for some weeks, an
| it was absolutely necessary to have lot
town business attended to right Off. SO I'd
citizens assembled and appointed an intlueDtli
citizen to assume the duties OF the whole boar
until they could be elected. And then VINE
the town meeting was Eeld they endorsed tn
mans action in all things, and petltioned ID
Legislature t. make it legal. NO need or trool
| in that town.