The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-22

! Civ women doctors graduated in New York
last week.
| Hartford, Conn, has the Office OF Inspector
| of Lumber and Onions.
Henry Ward Beecher has nearly completed
his second volume of his Life of Christ
Gen. Rufus ingalls,, late Quartermastar Of
the army, leaves on special mission to Eurone
shortly.
The first female graduate of the University
Oh Michlgan has just married enc of her class
mates
ooi' Drake, the first man who ''struck OIL"
Is living in Bethlehem, Pa, in bad health and
worse circumstances
ihe frlnce OF Wales is believed, from his
frequent attendance at the House of Lords, to
De taking course of political training.
A wholesale Jail delivery occurred at Wash
lngton, Penn, Saturday evening Among the
prisoners who escaped was Briceland, the muir
derer Pursuit was made in all directions and
intense excitement prevailed.
colored messenger in the Custom House at
New York has been promoted to $1,000 clerk
ship under the civil service rules He is tho
first colored man to serve as a clerk in the GUS
toms service there
The pending suits of Mrs. Gaines, the New
Orleans Pacayu'ae says, arc nine in number
and will require some two years to arrive at q
final judgment in the United States Supreme
Court
A Pittsfield Teuton, disguised with the dis
respect of Good Friday by the Yankees, ex-
claimed: sMein Colts! Mein Gottsl What
country! What beplcs! Only two holy days.
and one is Fourth of July and the other
April Foolsr'
A county commissioner in the western part
OF State, on inviting some lawyers to in
spect the new court house. quoted the solemn
lines of DR.. Watts:
I'VE living men come, view the ground
Where you win shorty lie!"
There was panic in the Haverhill City Hall
Sunday evening among large audience col
lected to listen to temperance lecture, grow
ing out of the belief that the hall was on fire.
There was general stampede, but no one was
injured, and the assembly was finally queted,
The anniversary of the fight at Concord on
the 18th of April, 1775, was noticed at Concord
Saturday. in very quiet manner by the ringing
OF bells, firing of guns and display of flags. In
the afternoon the military company made n
public parade with the Concord Band.
jamestown, Va, the first settlement In yir-
ginia, forever associated in the mind with onr
first geography, Pocahontas and John Smith
has, after 206 years of existence been granted
post office. Since the war it has grown.
for the first time since its early history.
1t is reported that a ring of Costa Rican Gov
eminent officials, after raising two loans, one
for five million Of dollars, and the other for
twelve millions, in England, for railroad pur-
poses, divided thirteen millions among them
selves and squandered the rest The money
was obtained by false representations as to the
resources and population of the country.
A Louisiana paper asks in distressing tone.
eff we can't raise the sweet potatoes we eat. in
in heavens name what can we raise?" As
they have been raising the devil in that State
for year past says the Pittsburg Commercial,
very successfully, we don't see the necessity of
inquiring any further.
Dispatches from Minnesota state that Gen.
Custer has been obliged to abandon his camp in
consequence Of the recent severe storm, and with
his men take shelter with the citizens of Yank-
ton. He lost fifty horses, and it is feared that
several Of his men were frozen to death. The
floods and storm in the Red River country were
very severe, and the settlers ON Wild Rice
River fled to Fort Abercrombo to escape
drowning.
STATE NEWS.