The Portland daily press., 1869-11-01
WOMEN REFUSED ADMISSION TO COLUMBIA
LAW COIIEGE


Ali the appointments of Thanksgiving Day
yet made are for the 18th of November.
The chances of the Duke of Montpensier for
the Spanish throne are said to be increasing
The Emperor of Russia will visit France and
England this winter.
| More mineral discoveries are reported at
| Reese river, Nevada.
The extensive oil ware house of A. B. Hing
ham, at Detroit, was totally destroyed by fire
Friday night.
W. o. McCorkle, prominent merchant Of
Lynchburg, was fatally stabbed at the Virginia
State Fair Friday.
The New York papers intimate that negoti-
atoms for the annexation of st. Domingo to
the United States are in progress. .
Information has been received at the Indian
Bureau that the small pox is making fearful
havoc among the Sioux
1t is stated that Gen. Belknap is opposed to
any military interference with the elections in
! Mississippi and Texas. ....
The Emperor of Russia will spend part of
the winter at Cowes, Isle of Wight a1d Nice,
| France. BEB 4sri-1...---. .
British bark Strathspey, from San Francisco
for Queenstown, foundered at sea on the oath
of September. The crew were picked up and
carried into San Francisco.
Iii reported that the cotton crop of the
South, which has been estimated at 5000, 900
bales, will yield, at moderate average of
twenty-five cents per pound, $3OO,OOO,OOO.
| The President is reported to have turn ed
| over to Attorney General Hoar the appoint
ment Of the nine United States Judges which
are to be made by the meeting of Congress
The Hen. Washington Gilbert, formerly of
Bath, has established himself in the practice
of the law in St Joseph, Missouri, where he
has entered into copartnership with James
| Hunter, Esq of that city.
| The N. Y. Tribune has Alaska correspon-
dence proving thai the gold recently discover
ed up the Stickeen river is very rich in quali-
| ty and worth $20 per ounce. The Indian who
discovered the gold took out $125 the first three
| hours. -... ..
Washington dispatches say strong efforts are
making by the Cuban Junta and their friends
in and out OF Con- ress TO induce President
Grant to recommend in bis forthcoming mes
sage to Congress something definite respecting
the belligerent rights question.
| A foreign letter says all available iron-clads
and other war vessels in Trieste are shipping
ammunition cavalry and infantry for Dalma-
ha The excitement is great, and it would not
be surprising if all the Sclavonian race, Hun
| gary excepted, would rise to free themselves
| from the hated rule of Austria
Early Friday morning a fire occurred in
Licking Go. lnfrmary, two miles south of
Granville, Ohio. One building was occupied
by ten insane persons, and when the fire was
| discovered it was too late TO rescue them, they
being locked in their rooms, and all persisted.
| The fire originated from the furnace.
| Robert ID. Bogart, a paymasters clerk who
was recently convicted by court martial, of
the misappropri iton of So 900 has been turn.
ed over to the civil authorities, Secretary Robe
son having disapproved of the proceedings and
decided that he was not properly liable to trial
| by the naval authorities. He will be tried
again by the civil authorities in December
The Treasury Department has issued an or
der that five cent pieces will be redeemed when
presented in sums of 500. Heretofore they
have been irredeemabe. The one and two
cent pieces (nickel) are irredeemable by gov
| eminent, and the three cent pieces are only
legal tenders for sums not above sixty cents,
and not redeemable at all.
The body of the late Gov. Andrew was re-
I moved from Mount Auburn Saturday forenoon
and re-interred at bingham. Among the per-
sons who engaged in the services of re burial
were several members of the staff of the de.
ceased Governor, number of the presen,
| fafa it1ru of31 o;o Ic ael
from Post No. Is, G. A. r. ltIs
The Gloucester Telegraph says that on We'd
nesday as railroad train was crossing bridge
in Somerville, young man attempted to pass
from one car to another when the wind took
his hat, and in catching for it another flaw fill
| ed his coat and blew him from the train into
the water, whence he was rescued by some
| workmen near at hand who witnessed the ac-
| cident. III
| Mr.. Wade, the English charge d affairs, who
| succeeds Mr.. Alcock in China, is reported to
| have said recently that the Chinese had made
some progress. They had recently established
foreign office and provided for the education
| of youth abroad, and these, with the appoint
ment of Mr.. Burlingame's mission, indicated
| considerable progress. Mr.. Wade thinks that
all Of Burlingame's treaties will be ratified
| The family that was burned to death in Lib
| erty street, New York. Friday night, consisted
| of the father, mother and two children, who
occupied the upper part of a business house
near Broadway. They were literally roasted
alive. The bodies were horribly burned and
disfgured, the faces showing that death came
suddenly, and doubtless all were suffocated
The stairway was burned away, and nearly all
| hope of rescue failed before they could be
| reached by the fremen.
| The champion old man" has been found in
| Ossipee, N. H. by the editor of the Franklin
| Union. He is only hundred and sixty years
old, and was born in Scotland. He learned to
drink spirits in the Revolutionary army, and
became incorporate, and has always smoked
and chewed tobacco. About fifty years ago he
became convinced that the use of rum threat
ened to shorten his life and he concluded to
leave it off. He drinks little cider OCCASION
| ally, however, and we are glad to learn that 20
| is still able to partake of simple food
| Washington correspondents says that the
| counterfeiting gang recently broken up in In
dana was composed of two brothers and a
/
a long while When arrested the men were in
tue act OF counting their money. The coun-
terieits are very poorly executed, and such as
could not deceive an ordinarily cautious man.
The edges of many of the bills are of a reddish
color, similar to that caused by iron rust
which leads to the supposition that they have
been buried in an iron box for concealmept
until the time came to shove" them
Early Saturday morning fire broke out in
the granite block. No. &C and 6S Federal street
Boston 1t caught in the office of the Rail,oaD
Times on one of the upper foors and spread
through nearly all that part OF the building
occupied also by the New England Type Foun-
dry, S. P. Baldwin, paper box manufacturer,
and paper and Irvine establishment. The Type
Foundry loses $4,000. Clark 81 Warren, shoes
and rubber goods lose about the same amount
ana are also insured. The goods in the adjoin.
ing building were considerably injured by
water Ihe damage to the building was about
$4,000.
The telegraph reports that the Constitution
al Convention bill has been perfected in tho
Tennessee Legislature and passed to a third
reading in the House Friday. 1t will pass in
the Senate without any material alteration. 1t
provides for the election of one hundred dele
gales to be voted for by all male citizens over
IL not convicted of any infamous crime At
ter the adoption of the new Constitution it
will be submitted to the people for ratification
or rejection. The second Saturday in Deem