The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-11
News and Other Items,

A New Hartford magnate, who experiences
great satisfaction dwelling upon the fact that
he is a ''self-made man." is given to pokiBe
sticks right and left without regard to polite
ness or propriety. The other day in a crowded
store he commenced bantering a ne'er do-wel
of doubtful antecedents, who drifted into town
some years ago, winding up his remarks as fol
lows: 'Say. now, did you ever have father
or mother?" "Sartin's you live," came back
the reply, like shot, "I'm none of your self
made men"
The conference between the Postofice De-
partment and the Canadian Office has resulted
in mutual agreement, by which 'request let
ters," SO called, that is, those bearing on their
face request to bs returned to their writer if
not called for in given time, passing between
the two countries will be at once returned to
the places from which they were mailed with
out being held. as formerly, for return through
the dead.l letter Office.
Harry Mainjoy, colored man, of Exeter, N.
H., who died recently in the Slst year of his
age, had remarkable history He was born
In Africa, about a weeks journey on foot from
Senegal, and was stolen from his home by
slave traders in 1906, who took him to Senegal
and sold hi n for $25 to Emery of Exeter, who
brought him home, taught him the English
language, and gave him good school privileges
until he was q years old. He was an indus
trious and useful man and brought up family
of childreH, who survive him.
The court of appeals of Knetucky weighs 861
pounds Chief Justice Lindsey weighs 232
pounds; Judge Elliott 22O pounds; Judge Pry-
or 20S pounds. and Judge Cofer 201 pounds.
The average weight is 2154 pounds.
The New York courts have decided that a
man must pay his wife's funeral expenses out
of his own pocket, even if she leaves money
enough to do it with. If, however, the wife is
not of his religious denomination, he can charge
her estate the extras due to church FORMS
such for instance, as wakes.
Andrew johnson is said to have preserved all
his papers, leaving them in the upper story of
a shop in Greenvile Tenn. He took to Green
vile complete files of three daily newspapers
of New York. city covering his Presidential
term OF telegrapbic dispatches alone, he left
more than bushel. He remarked once how
little space folded letters took up. what small
trouble it was to save them and how important
they sometimes became
n Howard Grose, correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, has been held in $1,000 to answer the
charge of libelng the firm of Drexel, Morgan
& Co. The court takes the ground that, while
there may have been no animus. the statements
published were likely to affect the credit of the
firm.
The Japanese are beginning to taste the
fruits of civilization. Their first serious rail-
way accident occurred en- the evening of the
9th of October, and took the form of collision
between two night trains. Three Japanese
were killed, and several persons were injured,
among them the two engine drivers, who were
foreigners.
woman in Geauga county, Ohio, refused to
pay her taxes because of misrepresentation,
bat one of her knd-hearted neighbors came
forward and discharged the tax, saying, "We
think great deal of Miss f down where she
is known. She is doing this from principle,
and don't know but she is half right after all.
will pay the tax, and then, after explain the
matter, she will be willing to pay me, but she
would never pay an officer"