The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-01-11
NAMs and 0ther Items.

Secretary Evarts has been re- elected Presl-
dent OF the New York Bark Association.
Bertha Won Hillern accomplished the walk Of
100 miles in 26 hours in Baltimore, with an hour
to spare
Congressman Jones of Portsmouth carries
back to Washington protest against the Bland
bill signed by all the banks Of that city.
The Supreme Court has settled the famous
McGarrahan case by decision that McGarra-
han has no title to the New Idria mine.
A Dubuque woman met slander by hang
ing her marriage certificate on a street corner
lamp.
1t strikes the Kansas City Times as being
very strange that the President did not veto the
silver wedding.
woman was licensed to practice law in
North Carolina Wednesday for the first time in
the history of the state.
One of the ladies who received New Years
calls in Washington last week was the vepera-
BILE widow of Jackson's Secretary of War, Gen.
John Eaton. She is still hale and hearty
Julia Smith, one OF the Glastonbury Sisters
whose age is SO years, was one of the speakers
at the Female Suffrage Convention in Wash
ington, Tuesday.
Senator Patterson denies that he is going to
resign. He says being sick and drawing $13 a
day is better than being sick and drawing moth
ing.
Resolutions endorsing the silver bill and the
repeal OF the resumption act were virtually de.
feated in the Pennsylvania House of Repre-
sentatives Monday, by being referred to the
committee on federal relations.
At Concord, KY, Tuesday, the Underwood
brothers, noted horse thieves, were arrested af-
ter desperate resistance, in which an officer
named Ruggles was shot dead, and both the
Underwoods woanded
The Supreme Council of the Order of the
American Union, in session at Bridgeport, CT,
passed resolutions of respect to the memory OF
Victor Emmanuel. The resolution will be sent
to the new King.
The Okla Indians were arraigned in Montreal
on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty, demand
ing Q jury, half French and half English, claim
ing the latter as their language. The trial be.
gan Thursday. Great interest is felt 10 it, and
eminent council is retained to defend them.
The rage for artistic decoration has reached
the dealers in teas and sugars at New York. In
the windows of many stores may be seen lions,
unicorns and other beasts in bas relief Of white
sugar, against background of dark muscova
do.
a lodger in Simmons block, Essex street,
Lawrence, Mass, put hot brick in the bed
Wednesday night The consequence was fire
which endangered the building and the lives OF
its occupants. The fire was extinguished be.
fore much damage was done. One lodger leap
ed from his window and broke leg
The national cemetery at Antietam is now
legally held in 16 lots by sixteen different states
of the Union, and though 1t has been transfer.
red to the general government, no money can
be expended on it, according to law. until the
titles shall have been transferred, which re-
quires action by the legislatures os those states
Congress has been asked to modify the law SC
that the government may make expenditures
upon the property without waiting for the per.
| fection of the title.
The following story is told by Gen. Harry
Heth: One day General (now Senator) Gordon
| and were ordered to attack Gen. Grant lines
| near Petersburg, and we accordingly moved out
toward the front. Gordon, you know, is a
| preacher, and man of pious devotional habits
Just before the action began he said, General
before we go into action, would it not be well tc
engage in prayer?' Certainly" replied
and he and his staff retired into little build
| ing by the roadside, and and my staff prepar
ed to follow. just then caught sight of my
brother, who was with some artillery little
way down the road, aud thinking to have him
join us l called out to him by name. Come, >
said pointing to the building we were JUS
entering. "No, thank you," he answered, 50
have just had one."