The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-30
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The Paris journals to-day announce that the
Emperor has requested Prince Pierre Roma.
parte to leave the country. 1t is reported that
he will 60 to America.
The rope of the shaft in Hendricks coal
mine near Shenandoah City, Pa, broke Tues.
day morning, precipitating four men to the
bottom and instantly killing them. Their
names are unknown.
The French conspiracy affair is assum;no
more Importance Orders have been issued
for the arrest of twenty persons therein nam.
ed, including Joseph Mazzini, Felix Pvat
Louis Blanc and others, not now in the conn,
try. -
A banquet was given in London Monday
evening at the residence of Mr.. Motley The
American Minister, in honor of the Oueen of
Netherlands. Among the guests were Charles
Dickens. Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hughes Rob.
ert Browning, Mrs. Caroline Norton. jaime.
Anthony Fronde, George Grote and manv 9th.
er celebrities.
The news of the death of Major Gen. Thorn.
as occasions intense sadness in army circles in
Washington. Gen. Sherman first received
the intelligence upon reaching the War De-
partment where the telegram to Adj. General
Townsend, received about o'clock Monday
night, awaited him. The President has adj
dressed telegram of coincidence to Mrs
Thomas, who is in San Francisco It is under
stood that the remains of Gen. Thomas will be
taken to Troy, N. Y, for interment. The body
will be escorted from San Francisco by the off,
GERS of his staff.
Gen. Martindale will deliver an grafton be-
1r L..
on the 9th of April in PHILADELPHIA. Pre,i-
dent Grant, Secretary of War Belknap and
Gen. Sherman will be present at the BANQUET,
The Fall River line will furnish tickets to SOL
diers from Boston to New York and return at
reduced rates.
About daylight Tuesday morning the train
on the Erie road which left Jersey City at g. 80
Monday night, met with an accident at Wells
burg, caused by broken rail. Two coaches
ana sleeping car were thrown from the track,
but the extent Of the damage was not ascer-
tanned.
The rag boiler connected with Rce's paper
mill at Newton Lower Falls, Mass, exploded
Tuesday morning, demolishing the building.
Fortunately people had not commenced work
and nobody was hurt.
The damage by the storm of Sunday was
very severe at Haverstraw, on the Hudson.
Between that place and Grassy Point, at the
southern entrance to the Highlands, no less
than ten sloops aud schooners were sunk by
the gale. So far as has been ascertained no
lives were lost the crews all making their es-
cape to the shore. Nearly all the vessels were
sunk on the west side of the river. At Haver-
straw, immense damage was done to the
wharves and the buildings on them. The tide
was higher than it has been in many years,
AMI the force of the waves in Haverstraw Bay
about four miles in width, was terrific At
Fishkill Landing the hurricane deck was torn
completely off the barge Huguenot, by the
force Of the gale, and hurled into the river. In
the dwelling houses on the long wharf occu-
pied by the hands of the Ferry-boat Union,
the water was twelve inches deep on the first
floor. .-a.
A Paris letter says the authority for the an
nouncenfent of the serious illness of the Pope
is lady profoundly devoted to the Holy See,
who has just been received by Pho Nino, and
who found his Holiness erievously changed for
the worse. His glance has lost its vivacity,
and his voice has become feeble. Attempts
are made, it is said, to conceal the facts, but
great anxiety is felt at the Vatican.
A car load of salmon brought to New York
from Sacramento cost, on the Sacramento
river, from five to ten cents per pound, and the
freight from ocean to ocean eighteen cents per
pound. AT New York they are easily disposed
of for about fifty cents per pound at retail.
The consignees' profit was about two thousand
dollars.
The BOURBON DUEL.-Full particulars of
the fatal duel between the Duke de Montpen-
sier and Prince Henri de Bourbon, near Mad
rid, have come to hand by mail The encoun-
ter took place in the open country, in field
about 200 metres distant from the little town
of Alcoroon. On the morning of the 18th the
Duke de MOntpensier, accompanied by his Sec
onds, repaired to this spot; the Prince de
Bourbon was also promptly on time with sec
onds and surgeon. The weapons chosen were
pistols, and, according to Continental fashion,
lots were drawn as to which of the champions
should fire first. The toss was won by Don
Henri. Two shots at ten metres were ex-
changed without effect; two more at nine me-
tres with like result. The combatants were
then placed at eight metres (say twenty -four
paces) Don Henri fired and missed, and the
next instant fell stone dead, his skull pierced
| by the Duke de Montpensir's buller.
! 1t is told that the Prince was very DESTROYS,
in accordance with his republican ideas, Of
fiuding an American wife. His friends we're
negotiating a marriage between him and a
Western heiress, and when about to leave
a Boston lady who had promised to make up
the match, and said, putting his finger on his
forehead: Miss - must not refuse any other
offer for me, for have presentiment that be-
fore very long a bullet will cure the feyers of
this poor ardent brain. am 60 convinced
that violent death stares me in the face, as
to beg you will transfer your friendship to my
poor little girl, whom have been obliged to
leave in a convent in the Fauborg St Ger
main" Prince Henri de Bourbon was in his
children