The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-14
News by Larest Nyails.

I News bv Latest Male.
The name of Olive Coombs, step-mother 0
Isaac G. Sheppard, late a private in the q
Maine Regt., has been placed on the pension
rolls at the rate of So per month.
Earl De Grey, Lord Trenterden, Mr.. Mon
tague Bernard and Vscount Godene, of thu
Joint High Commission for the settlement o
the fishery, question, aud the Alabama and
other claims sailed from Liverpool Saturday
! for America.
The Italian parliament has declared the Ii
braries and galleries of the Vatican to be ma
tiona property. The measure was objected tt
| by the ministry.
! The English government processes TO be able
to put $4,000 soldiers in the Geld at mo
ments notice.
! Admiral Dahlgren left an estate of SIS OO0
all of which his widow and son Paul propose
to devote to the pious purpose of erecting stat
utes to the memory of the Admiral and OF Col.
Uric Dahlgren. The statutes will be placed
in Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadelphia.
Alice Carey, the well known authoress died
IN New York yesterday, after lingering ill
ness of nearly two years.
The schooner White Fawn has been released
by the Canadian authorities
An overflow of the D nube has inundated
the suburbs of Vienna
Secretary Robson is of the opinion that
there is altogether too much fnss about the
Tennessee, which could not possibly have been
heard from as yet.
Owing to poor health, the captain of the
Yale University crew, William L. Cushing
C72), of Bath, Me, has resigned his position,
and Willis F. McCook ('73), of ,Pittsburg, Pa,
has been elected to fill the vacancy. No re-
Spouse has yet been received to the Harvard
challenge, which was sent to Cambridge a
month ago, but it is understood that there is
good probability OF its acceptance.
Assistant Postmaster Taylor of New York
dropped dead at his residence Sunday night.
lie was II years of age and has been connect
ed with the post-ofice fifty years.
Navigation in the East r yer was suspe nded
by ice en- Monday and thousands crossed on
the ice.
Gen. Sckles telegraphs to the State Depart
ment that the negotiation for mixed COM
mission to consider the claims for injuries to
persons and properties CT American citizens by
the Spanish authorities during the insurrec-
ton in Cuba has been concluded and that a
messenger is on his way to Washington with
the correspondence.
The province of Ontario has voted Thirty
thousand dollars to encourage emigration and
twenty thousand dollars to build houses and
clear from three to five acres of land on a num-
Der of free graft lots. The proposition is in
tended more particularly to meet the require
meut of new settlers who have two or three
hundred dollars and willing to pay moderate
sum cash down in order to obtain an imme-
date shelter for their families and secure crop
of potatoes and other vegetables as supply for
the first winter.
Leonard Choate, the Newburyport incendiry
has been sentenced to the State Prison for life.
War Notes.
The German army will make a triumphant
entry into Paris at noon on the 10Th list. The
Emperor will proceed to the Palace of the Tu-
illeries, and after partaking of lunch with his
court and staff, will review the army from that
building 10 case the Tuilleries should not be
in proper condition for the reception of the
Emperor, he will occupy the Palace of Ulysses
The Emperor will return to Berlin about the
end of February.
A Bordeaux dispatch OF Monday says at the
preparatory sitting of the Nationa, Assembly
to-day, about three hundred deputies were
present. The assembly was formally opened
and secretaries were appointed.
Picard, Theirs, Favre and Gambetta are
elected to the assembly from the department of
Seine ct Disc, and the Duke d'Aumale from
that of Disc. Garibald is momentarily ex-
pected.
Advices from Paris state that Gen. Ducrot is
seriously ill.
Mrs. ESTHER NORRIS, of South Pass City,
Wyoming Territory, the first woman Justice,
writes letter detailing some of her expert
ences while holding that office
81 have assisted" she says, sin drawing
grand and petit jury, deposited a ballot aud
helped canvass the votes after the election, and
in performing ali these duties do not know as
have neglected my family any more than in
ordinary shopping. and l must admit that 1
have been better paid for the services rendered
than for any have ever performed. In some
thirty civil actions tried before me there has
not been but one appeal taken, and the iudg-
ment was affirmed in the Court above; and in
the criminal cases also before me there has
been no call for ajury. My family consists of
husband and three sons, all of whom have
been more ready to assist me in the perform
ance of my official duties than in my domestic
affairs. My idea OF the woman question in
Wyoming is" she says further "that while
we enjoy the privilege of the elective franchise
it. The election here and agitation of womans
voting has caused us to think, and has placed
US far in advance of what we were, and now
think that we shall be able to sustain the posi-