The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-21

| 1t is generally agreed in Rhode Island that
the adoption of the Fifteenth amendment will
allow the Narragansett Indians to vote.
The New York Post, referring to the Demo
cratic talk about appointing relatives to office
cites five prominent Democratic officials in
that city who have divided among their family
connections taoenty-tsree good Offices. 1t takes
! the Democracy to do these things up IN style.
A fashionable dressmaker named Augusta
Colburn, who has been employed In "the first
families during the last five years, has been
arraigned before the police Court of Concord
N. H., with stealing various articles. She is
supposed to be a sKleptomaniac If she had
been an questionable dress. maker she would
be known as "a common thief"
Bishop Simpson Of the Methodist church has
written letter to the Equal Rights Associa-
ton taking decided ground in favor of Wo-
man Suffrage, saying that in his opinion it
would be one of the most effective agencies for
eradicating intemperance end other vices
There is rumor from Springfield, Illinois,
that Senator Yates is about to resign his seat.
Two hundred members of the Massachu-
sets Legislature visited Concord, N. H., We'd
nesday
The Boston singers who have training for
the oratorio chorus of the Peace Jubilee re-
hearsed in Music Hall Wednesday night
Three thousand singers were present
The Cubans in Washington are much de-
lighted at the reported breaking out of an in
surrection in Porto Rico.
The Irish National Republican Association,
through its General Committee, consisting Of
gentlemen in every State and Territory of the
Union, have issued call for Convention, to
be held in Chicago on the 4th of July next
The Executive Committee call upon Irish Be
publicans in every State and Territory to send
one delegate, with an alternate from every
Congressional District.
Postmaster General Creswell deter mined to
appoint Rev. Henry M. Turner, colored man
Postmaster Macon, Ga, and to appoint j. e.
Bryant, formerly of Maine, a Republican edi-
tor,ss Postmaster at Augusta, in the same State,
in place of Foster Blodgett, friend of Gov,
Bullock, who is to be removed.
The crops in Virginia promise to be almost
unprecedentedly large, but the tobacco plant
ers are discouraged on account of the low
price of that article
rotary Of the Treaaury the other day that if he
continued his present policy gold would go up
to IT'S but Mr.. Boutwell, gave no heed to his
suggestions.
Jubilee hats" Jubilee neckties," "Jubi-
lee COLLARS Jubilee juleps," Jubilee cob
blers," Jubilee cocktails and so on, are al
ready beginning to be the rage in Boston. The
New York Herald expects next to hear of "Ju-
bilee firtations," Jubilee Opponents "Ju-
bilee marriages. with few Jubilee homi-
cides,,' Jubilee rows" Jubilee robberies"
and Jubilee drunks' thrown in.
The New York Herald pronounces the COM
mercal agencies of New York City "little less
than blackmail concerns all around
President johnson pardoned 142 counter
feiters and 81 violators of the internal revenue
laws during his administration.
Rev. E. e. Hale is to be the chaplain of the
| Peace Jubilee.
The New York Tribune has at last been
forced to abandon its charge that the free-trad-
ers are subsidized by British gold" The list
of contributors to the free trade funds, for
which it has so long been frantically calling
| has been furnished to it. 1t does not appear
that Englishmen have furnished fifty dollars.
The father of a, Cornell student who sent as
an item in his cash account, I" Charity, $50, ,
replied, 81 fear that charity covers a multitude
of SINS"
John Hay, Esq, formerly private secretary
of President Lincoln, has taken editorial
charge of the Springfield I'll. } Journal.
A subcommittee of the Judiciary Commit
tee will 90 to Montgomery to-day, to investi
gate the charges against Judge Busted.
| Twelve students have been suspended and
two expelled from the institute at Fairfax
VT, for conversing in public places with la.
dies.
By direction of the President, all the depart
ments will be closed on Saturday, the Goth o.
may, TO enable the officers and employees te
participate IN the ceremonies of decorating
the graves OF Union soldiers and sailors al
Washington.
The steamer Florida has been detained in
Delaware river by order of the Secretary Of
the Treasury. Her distinction is supposed to
be Cuba.
Gen. Oliver o. Ho ward is to deliver ON ora
ton in New York on Sunday, the Both inst.
on the occasion of the decoration of soldiers
graves. 10 Chicago q meeting of Methods
clergymen has protested against the proposed
observance of the day as Dissertation.
The elections recently held in Munich hay'
resulted generally in favor of union of Nortl
and South Germany.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania are resum
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