The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

| tennal including the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Surrender of Yorktown"
with 1000 sculptures and go engravings
Serious alarm is felt in regard to the health
| of the Pope. He has had an epelptic seizure
| lasting forty minutes. Since then he has been
| confined to his bed.
| Ten more sugar estates, valued at two mill
| lions of dollars each, have been DESTROYED in
| Cuba.
Rubensten, the pianist, is threatened with
| total blindness.
George Harvey, the Scotch painter is dead.
BY collision on the Great Northern rail-
way in England, Saturday, eleven persons were
| killed, among them them a SOB of Dion Bou-
cicault.
The Spanish election for the Cortes have re-
suited in the choice of Conservative candidates.
Only four Republicans, among them CASTELAR,,
have been elected
Spanish diplomatic representatives at the
various courts have verbally informed the gov
ernments that after the defeat of the Carlists,
which is expected in a short time, Spain has
| hopes to be enabled to quell the Cuban insur-
rection through reinforcements. No foreign
| complications are anticipated, because the
United States has distinctly repudated the
idea of annexing Cuba.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil, with a
number of intimate friends, sail for this coun-
try the latter part of March.
The London Times in its editorial articles on
American finances endorses Senator Sherman s
proposition looking to common mint for
money and account for the United States and
ifaip &c, Sc
Thursday in its financial column
Mother Stewart of the whiskey renown in
Ohio, has made her appearance in the hall of
the National Temperance League at London.
The Russian Imperial Academy of science
has elected as corresponding members Prof.
Newcomb of the naval observatory at
at Washington, Prof. Gould of the Argentine
Republic and Prof. Whitney of New Haven
The Ragusa correspondent of the Times tele-
graphs that there has been two days fighting
between the Turks and Herzegovinians, during
which $50 of the former were killed. The in
surgents lost 100 killed and wounded. In conse-
quence of the defeat Trebinje is in the hands of
the insurgents.
The Paris jury in Micaelis' competition for
plays on the subject of the American revolu-
ton award no first prize, fearing the public
would not ratify their decision. The two pieces
to which the second prize was awarded the
jury pronounce remarkable works, possessing
great merit One, entitled, A Great Citizen, is
the joint production of NM. Armand Artois
and Lafitte, the latter being the pseudonym of
of we'll known poet, Francois Coffee. The
play, The New World, is by Villeirs Lislt
Adams, and Stree America by Adolphe
Michel. A fourth production, entitled The
Patriots, is written by an American who takes
the name of Fernando Armand. 1t is described
as full of movement and life, but deviates from
the programme laid down. 1t is believed it
will have great success.
A financial crisis is reported in Russia.
Complaints are made that the Armenian
Christians are suffering cruelty from the rapac-
ity of their Turkish rulers.
THE LATEST.
Turkey is reported to have declared war
against Montenegro
Austria asked for a copy of the American
note to Cuba, but was refused.
Two houses were blown down and two men
killed by nitro glycerine explosion at North
Adams, Mass, yesterday.