The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-06
News and Other Items.

Commodore John j. Young died in Brooklyn
Thursday. aged 81.
William S Bodgett, well known in New
York art circles, died Thursday night, aged 80
years.
John Corliss has been arrested In Philadel-
phia, charged with negotiating forged Erie city
water works bonds.
McGrath, the counterfeiter, was arrested on
the steamer Indiana yesterday, just as she was
leaving Philadelphia for Europe.
Ira Goldthwaite committed suicide at Nash
ua yesterday, by taking poison. 1t was caused
by the death of his wife.
The eastern division of the st. Joseph & Den-
yer Railroad has been sold to the purchasing
nmttee appointed by the bondholders, for
$1O0 600.
Several deputy marshals made a raid on illc-
it stills in Brooklyn Thursday night but were
driven off without capturing any of eonse-
quence.
A large black beetle having emerged from
the ear of Mrs. Herman Hunt of Conneaut
Township, Penn, she has emerged from the
Dixmont Insane Asylum in sound mind.
A noble Omaha mastiff has saved the lives
Of three children within month pas t, and Bit
ten fourteen men who called to sell a patent
clothes pin.
Cant you spell the word saloon?" was ask
ed of a cockney. Certainly" said the Lon
doner, with look of triumph. "There's
hess. and hay, and hell, and two hoes, and
heD."
About 100 requests for prayers were made at
Moody and Sankey's meetings yesterday. After
the services Mr. Moody said that to-day's meet
ings would be for dissatisfied Christians, and
those who were satisfied might stay away.
Sliding down the side of Mount Washington
by the Glen road is the amusement the United
States signal operators are having these No
vember days. The snow is about an inch
Deep
Charles d ckens' son has been reading from
the great novelst's works-from ''Pickwicl''
iu pal ticular-at an Interlacken hotel, in
manner, according to correspondent inf
nitely superior to his father"
A Hartford woman's husband was brought
home dead, having hung himself in tue barn.
The sad news was told to the heart-broken wife
and she was asked what disposition should be
made of the body. ''Well,'' said she, 81 don't
know what you can do with il; have just got
done house-cleaning and can't have it brought
here"
Six busts of the finest white marble, repre-
senting the first six Roman emperors, have
been placed in the Louvre recently. They were
discovered in Africa and although evidently
many centuries old, they are as perfect as If
chiseled yesterday. The modelling of the faces
is said to be very fine, the profile of the Au-
gustus especially so.
Two nests of 'bumble bees" have recently
been sent from England to Canterbury, New
Zealand, to assist in the propagation of the
common clover plant Experiment has proved
that the honey-bee, owing to lack of strength
and shortness of proboscis, is unable to pene-
trare the clover blossom far eaough to deposit
the pollen-grans of one flower upon the stig-
ma of another.
The other day, while Texas grand jury was
in secret session, member rose his seat aud
addressed tbe concave: "Gentlemen, haven't
had man indicted yet. Now. there is mer-
chant in this town who is always sending me
insulting bills, ard want him indicted for ar
son or something of the sort" Gas toou as we
get through with the.prisoners iu the Jail we
win attend to private grievances" responded
the foreman; making a memorandum of the
merchants name.
A sample Of coodensed milk weighing about
102 pounds was recently exhibited at the rooms
of the Society OF Arts in London. and an in.
teresting experiment made thereon. This nam
moth piece of sol'cified fluid was prepared by
Hooker's process. II has been tx nosed to the
action OF the air for four years and three
months, yet its quality was so excellent that in
few minutes it was resolved, by cburGng, in-
to good fresh butter The trial was ouly ore
of series made at the International exhibi-
ton, South Kensiu zion, tad eisawh'fe. 10
each case toe same satisfactory result Mas cO-
tained.