The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-21
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among the English sporting men the ouoS
are against the Cambridge crew in the coming |
race with the Oxfords.
H. b. NJ. Consul, the Marquis Lousada, died |
at his residence in Boston on Saturday after |
noon, at 43O o'clock.
The Senate was no. in session Saturday. |
The House met for the purpose of discussing |
the tariff bill, but wonderful to relate no men,
Der desired to speak and the House adjourned.
Benz. A. Smith shot himself Friday night
at the st. James Hotel, Boston, where he |
boarded. He LETT a net. stating that his family
were in New York, and that he was frendess,
penniless and discouraged, and desired to have
his body inferred at Mount Auburn.
A singular phenomenon occurred at the COM
mencement of the storm at st. John, N. B..
Friday morning. A rambling noise was heard
and Immediately attera portion of the bottom
of the harbor OH the Carleton side sunk bodily,
80 that where before low tide there was beach
there are now twenty feet. of water. Several
wharves were destroyed and lumber carried
off
We are requested to state that the regular
weekly Cliniques at Brunswick will commence
this year earlier than formerly, the first being
| held in the Medical College next Saturday
| forenoon at 10 o'clock. All examinations in
the presence Of the class are made without
charge, and all operations are performed with
| out charge, except to those able to pay.
| In the Nova Scotia Assembly Friday petit
tition from the fishermen, merchants and in
habitants of Cape Canso was presented, COM
planning of the encroachment of American
fishermen and asking the government to bring
l A. Co nod in ho 70 tba
of the Dominion authorities, and to urge the
adoption of measures for protecting the fisher
les by armed vessels.
Recent advices state that another insurrec-
ton has broken out in Hayti. The Piquets in
the southern department are in arms against
the new provisional government and the parti-
zans of the late President Salnave are joining
them. The government has sent reinforce
ments to the army in the field, and several
war steamers have recently been dispatched
! to the South. Thus Saget is hardly in his seat
Loro. ~ - 80 a -s'.-e,,eh tiae-e.
periences of his predecessor, Salnave.
. Relative to the disappearance of Collector
Bailey of New York, it has been ascertained
that the Collector was last seen on Tuesday
at the Fullerton trial, in which he testified as
a witness. He did not visit his Office on We'd
nesday, and on that night his principal depu-
ty, Mr.. Vail, received a note through the mail
stating that he was about to leave the city;
that he was very sorry to do SO and wanted to
bid his friends good bye The next day his
Office was taken possession of by the agents o.
the Internal Revenue Bureau, and an exami.
nation of the books at once began. These off
Gals state that so far the accounts are all cor
! rect and they are at loss to account for Mr.
Bailey's fight. ss...-.n
:, The school-book publishers of the country
after three days convention in New Yorl
| adjourned Friday night. A Board of Trade
> was organized with the following officers TO-
b the ensuing year: VIM. H. Appleton, Presl
d dent; Smith Sheldon, Vice President; Johr
L. Barnes, Secretary; G. G. woolworth, Treas
urer, all of New York. For Executive Com
mittee, Robert s. Davis, Boston; Chss. Serb
ner, New York; e. H. English, Pittsburg. Ar
:. bitration Committee, j. A. Harper, New York
o Henry Iyison, New York; T. M. Brewer, Bos
!, ton; S. A. Potter, Cincinnati. The retail
: prices of all school books are to be fixed b.
{ the respective publishers, from which maxi
| mum discount has been fixed by the board
Terms of sale, cash in 30 days. All field agent
and commission accounts are to be withdraw
\ | on or before July LIST. ~
+ r. R. Wilmarth, champion of Massachusett:
n Charles Dignon of New York, and Clark E
% Wilson of Pawtucket, played a match game Q
- billiards in Providence Friday afternoon, fiv
hundred points up, carom, push-shot barred
Wilson won by 1873 points, Wilmarth scorin
1868 to Wilson's sol.
l. Mr.. Gulian c. Verplanck, the we'll know
e author, politician and philanthropist, died il
New York Friday morning, in the 84th year
his age. Mr.. Verplanck was born in Ne,
York graduated at Columbia College in 1870
a took up the study of the law, and was admtte
. to the bar. In early life he entered into pol
h tics, and was elected member of the Ne,
York Assembly in 1920 Shortly after this b
q accepted the position of Professor of the Ev
ia dences of Christianity in the General Protest
n ant Episcopal Seminary Of New York city. I
40 1926 he was elected member of Congres
d which position he held for each years. He wa
e engaged in many literary pursuits up to 1874
f. peare's works appeared, which was publishe
l. by the Harpers and completed in three volume
n octave. He was several times member of th
e Senate of New York, and President of til
l. Board of Commissioners of Emigation of Ne,
Il York State since its organization in 1876. H
j. was also one of the Governors of New Yor
It Hospital, and filled many other important Of
# fees of truth.
J.. Capt. Slocum, of schooner Sala1in, of Wind
sor, N. S., arrived at New York Friday fror
{ Jacmel, reports that on Saturday mornin,
{ 18th inst, saw an object in the water five mile
v distant, supposed to be a wreck; hauled vi
d and at half-past A. NJ. came up to it, and al
r peared to be a species of whale APPARENT
h sixty feet long, with two forks to its tail abou
l. four feet long; talso had two feet or fins like
/, sea turtle, of light substance, and sat yer
d light on the water, twenty -four feet across til
back, which was oval shaped, had ridges rur
ming from its head to tail, each ridge bein
= two inches in depth and four inches apart; ha
h white back and brown sides, and was goin
a East about two knots; was seen 10 latitude
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