The President has appointed Judge William S. Woods judge of the seventh district (Indiana), to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Gresham, now Postmaster-General.

Base-ball games yesterday - New Yorks, 3; Bostons, 2. Providence, 4; Philadelphias, 1. Buffalos, 3; Clevelands, 0. Whiting & Sons, 11; Tufts, 4; Chicagos, 5; Detroits, 3; Phillips Academy, 13; Lowells, 5. Metropolitans, 2; Baltimores, 1. Cincinnatis, 12; St. Louis, 1. Athletics, 8; Alleghanys, 4. Atlantics, 10; Yales, 8. Amherst, 13; Bowdoin, 0.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, partly cloudy weather, with local rains, southerly veering to northwest winds, stationary or lower temperature, followed by rising barometer.

Commodore R. W. Shufeldt has been appointed superintendent of the navel observatory at Washington.

The President is said to be experiencing much difficulty in determining on a successor to Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum.

At the special cabinet meeting yesterday the civil service regulations, as prepared by the commission, were agreed upon without sub-tantial change.

Congressman P. B. Thompson, Jr., who shot and killed Walter H. Davis at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on the 27th ultimo, has been indicted for murder.