The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-07

The proposed decorations for the Boston
Coliseum are from entirely original designs,
and calculated, when put up, to give the inte-
rior of this immense structure a novel and
pleasing appearance. mathematical designs
of Peace and Harmony will adorn the walls,
while the arches will bear the appropriate in
sigma Of the various States, and portraits of
the leading composers will appear The mot
toes will be in unison with the object of the
festival.
Large quantities of arms are being purchas-
ed in New York by the Spaniards and forward
ed to Havana.
The British steamer Salvador cleared at Key
West, Wednesday, for st. Thomas, via Mas
sau. She had neither arms nor ammunition
on board. There is much excitement IN Ha-
vana in regard to her, as it is believed she is
engaged in some way serving the insurgents
A letter from Rome says there will be only
one political question presented at the forth
coming Ecumenical Council in December,
which will be the endeavor OF the Pope, as
The head of the United Church, to persuade
the different nations of Europe to disarm their
present enormous and costly armies and fleets
and submit their differences to arbitration.
Nom Catholic as well as Catholic Powers will
be urged not to break the peace, and to give a
guaranty or promise that they will not do So
There is almost civil war n Rhode Island
The Mayor and Chief of Police are quarrsling
over the detail OF police to attend the primary
meeting preceding the municipal election in
which the strength ofSprague is to be tested.
colored man has been appointed postmas-
ter at Andersonville, Georgia.
Women are employed in the New York Gus
tom House to examine ladies' baggage. Eleven
hundred dollars worth of point lace was re-
Gently found in the stuffing of single dress.
The Faculty of Colby University, Water
vile, will examine candidates, for the West
Point cadetship at the college chapel on the
26th inst.
The Lewiston journal says that while the
question as to whether women ought not to be
admitted into the colleges of this country, is
being agitated, and the proposition gaining
strength, Bates College, the new and rising
institution in our city, has solved the question
theoretically at its Inauguration by opening
the institution to both sexes, and practically
by receiving two young ladies into one of the
classes several years since, one of whom is in
the present Senior class and participated in
the Senior and Junior exhibition on Monday
evening.
The Times of India says there is still Sc
we're famine in some locations in Central India
especially about Sepree Hundreds are said
to flock to che station in every stage of starva-
ton. There are some 1900 paupers, many
of whom are past work, Day by day bodies
are found of those who have tainted and died
before they could reach the relief house which
the few English have started. At Goona
similar scenes are going on.
An Indiana husband advertises his runa-
way wife, saying that she "has left him Just as
the summers work is beginning, notwith-
standing he has had the expense of wintering
her.
1t is reported that a large number of Eng
tend the ecunenical council. They desire to
return to the bosom of the Catholic church, if
certain obstacles can be cleared from their
path.
Miss Kate Field seems to be ''the coming
woman just now. Her lecture in Plymouth
church, Monday night, where she was intro
dueed by Mr.. Beecher, was attended with the
same success that has crowned her previous
efforts.
In the Spanish Constituent Cortes, on
Wednesday, the article of the national con-
stitution guaranteeing liberty of worship was
adopted by vote of 164 to 40 against
Serrano, the prime minister, strongly urged a
postponement of the proposed ministerial
changes until the form of government had
been definitely settled upon, which after an
interchange of ideas was agreed to.
The citizens of Chicago have determined to
celebrate the completion of the Pacific Rail-
way on Monday or Tuesday next. In the eve
ming there will be addresses by Vice President
Colfax, Governor Palmer, Mayor Rice, and
others, at Farwelrs Hall also grand illumi-
nation, and business will be suspended.
Robinson, the Maine soldier who saved Sec
rotary Stewards life, and who has been en-
ployed as clerk in the Quartermaster's de-
partment, recently received gold check for
$500 from citizens of Nevada.