The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-02-16
The News.


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CLARK 81. BARRIER.
The News.
Secretary Schofeld has discharged one Of
the Oldest clerks in the War Department for
an abuse of the ranking privilege. The clerk
had been using the frank of General Hum
phreys of the Engineers, and a package thus
sent was returned by the officers of the Post
Office Department. as covering unofficial mat
ter.
Washington paper says the choice for
Secretary of State under the new administra-
ton lies between Charles Francis Adams and
Mr.. Motley, and that Gen. Grant will certain
ly select one or the other
St. Patrick's Day isto be celebrated with
much display in Boston.
The mails from Europe bring accounts Of
prevalence there of the extraordinarily mild
weather which rules here. Some potent electric
or magnetic influence seems to have affected
both continents, dissipating the cold and en-.
gendering benignant warmth.
Advices from Washington are to the effect
that Gen. Grants acceptance speech has Gre
ated much CONSERVATION among professional
politicians.
The civil action brought by Mr.. Phillips,
of Jamaica, against Gov Eyre, for assault
false imprisonment, and other personal iujn-
ries, was decided, in the Court of Queens
Beuch, on January 20, in favor Of Mr.. Eyre.
The meet ng of the members os the New
York bar to take action touching the death of
the late James T. Brady, was very large. 1t
was held in the General Term Courtroom.
Coz. Hoffman was present, and all the judges
Of the courts not in session. Hon. Daliel P.
Ingraham, Justice of the Supreme Court, pre-
sided. Resolutions warmly eulogistic of the
genius and character of the deceased orator
and lawyer were adopted, and touching ad-
dresses were made by Mr.. Seward, Mr-Ies.n
Sexton, Mr.. A. Delafield Smith, Mr.. Jno. Nc
Kean and others.
The advocates of woman suffrage have had
hearing before the Rhode Island legislature
Lucy Stone was the principal speaker and
an impense crowd was in attendance.
Vfscount Monck, late Governor-General of
Canada, has accepted the position OF chairman
of the Board the French Transatlantic Cable
company. vacated by Mr.. Lowe now Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer.
The number of persons that compose the
Penobscot tribe of Indians is four hundred
and ffty-two. The census lists, says the agent
in his annual report to the Governor, vary
from year to year more on account of the abb
sence and return of different members of the
tribe, than on account of births and Deaths
Many of the Indians are of a migratory djspo-
sition, and extend their wanderines through
the different Provinces and through the
Northern and Western States, and prolong
their absence sometimes TO three and four
years. The general health of the tribe is about
the average of that of previous years.
Hon. s. S. Marble. Register of Bankruptcy
for the Third District, Informs the Somerset
Reporter that only 100 parties have applied to
take the advantages of its provisions.
The omnibus railroad bill is dead. The de-
cease of such monsters will be frequently
chronicled after the fourth of March.
John G. Breckenridge is receiving many at
tentions from the people of Baltimore. He
was one of the benefciaries of the late Jail de-
livery.
When Mrs. Harper, the notorious confidence
woman, was before the Superior Court at Mid
dletown on Tuesday, for the purpose of re-
ceiving her sentence, one of her counsel said
that her arrest and conviction was due not so
much to the officers of the law as to the infor-
nation respecting her and her crimes scatter
ed broadcast over she country by the newspa-
pers.
A foot pedlar committed suicide at the lodg-
ing house of Mr.. William Hubbard, in East
Cambridge, Mass, last Friday night. He is
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there was found in his pocket an Internal
Revenue license, dated Mexico, Me-, October,
1867, and granted to George Bodfsh. He was
about b years of age.
Steam navigation is to be introduced in the
lakes about the city of Mexico. One steamer
is already afoat.
Several new pronunciamentos in favor of
Santa Anna are announced from Mexico.
Friday night one of the lunatics confined OBJ
BlackwelPs Island, New York, female, killed
her sleeping companion, young woman 26
years OF age, by striking her on the head with
an oak tub, which formed the only movable
article of furniture in the CELL The maniac
scooped out tho brains of her victim with her
fingers, and then laid down beside her. The
affair was discovered the following morning by
the keeper.
Boutwell,, Of Massachusetts, favors the con-
concurrence OF the House in the Constitution
al amendment adopted by the Senate
Sol Smith, once famous theatrical mana
ger, died Sunday morning in ST. Louis of con.
gestion of the brain. He was about 6s years
old.
A convention of the members of the South.
ern press will be held at Mobile, Ala, on the
18th inst, to which the representatives of the
Northern and Western journals are invited.
The formation of Southern Associated Press
will be one OF the grave questions to be dis
cussed.
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press says that in recent conyersa-
ton between General Grant and prominent
politician the General spoke very frankly of
the efforts of certain of the Democratic papers
to produce-a breach between him and the Re.
publican party, and added that any man who
would undertake such task, after Andrew
Johnson's attempt, would be mailman in
deed.
Refined sugar has advanced IL cents a
pound within few days owing to political
troubles in Cuba.
The Choctaw Nation, already far advanced |
in the arts and sciences of civilized life. has |
sent to Washington delegation consisting Of |
Wright, Governor of thel Nation, Mr.. Leffore |
and their Attorney General, to present to the |
government of the United States the desire of |
the choctaw Notion to abandon their separate
political existence and to become State of the |
Union.
Reciprocity with the Sandwich Islands is
abandoned for this session of Congress,
The colored people of Washington seem to |
sustain the Presidents veto of the District |
school bill.
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal Of Saturday says the |