The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-12
News and Other Items.

Two Illicit stills and thousand gallons Of
mash have baen captured in West Virginia.
The subscriptions to the 4 per cent loan yes
terday were $1,2S5. .45O
The liabilities of Clark, Adams & Co. Of
Boston are SIS. 900, with assets of S172,O0
John A. Campbell has returned from Basle,
Scotland, where he had gone as consul, on ac-
count of i'll health.
The q. S. board of trade hold their annual
convention at Masonic Hall New York, We'd
nesday.
Capt. Bailey,I who has been on . cruise to
ment are well protected there.
Hon. N. B. Judd died in New York yester-
day of paralysis. He was minister to Berlin
under President Lincoln.
The New York police say they expect to
capture the robbers of the Manhattan savings
bank soon, and recover the stolen bonds.
William Andrews, owner of the dory Nau-
titus, which is still on exhibition in Paris, has
realized some $4,000 out of the admissions to
see the famous little craft.
In the Superior Court at Lowell yesterday
John Devine Of Cambridge was sentenced to s
years in the house OF correction for killing two
persons with pistol, the jury returning q YER
cict of manslaughter.
pious French priest recently gave out an
announcement of q procession to take place
the next day as follows: "If it rains in the
morning the procession will take place in the
afternoon, and if it rains in the afternoon the
procession will take place in the morning."
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, has TAX
en out patents in England and in the United
States for process of turning limestone into
marble, by pressure and moist heat She
also claims to have discovered practical meth
! cd of using the permanent magnet as q motive
power.
Boston woman induced her rather weak
minded husband to will all his property to her,
and then locked him up in woodhouse to die,
while she received the courtship of the man
whom she intended to marry when she became
widow. In her absence, the husbands
| friends msde search, and found him emacia-
ted, drugged, and nearly dead. She was
arrested.
scrap of the skin Of Anne of Austria, wifs
of Louis XIII, Of Fraoce. is soon to bs sold in
France. This historic relic is about four
| inches broad and eleven inches long, and
strongly resembles, both in color aud substance,
II
the favorite Partisan gaats de Suede Anne's
body was buried in the Church of Val-de-
Grace, which was founded by her as thanks
| giving for the birth OF Louis XIV. aud the
morsel of skin was taken from her right arm
in 1900 by physician, and has been carefully
preserved in the family until, the last de-
scendsnt having died, his property is to be
/ Sold
King Luis reception of the ex- President of
the United States was very cordial. His
Majesty offered the General the highest docora-
ton of knighthood known to the kingdom.
General Grant thanked the King, bat said
that he was compelled to decline the honor, as
the laws Of the United States made 1t impossi-
BILE for an officer to wear decorations, and
although he was not now in Office, he pre-
ferred to respect the Law. He thanked His
Majesty heartily for the honor intended. King
Luis then offered him copy of his translation
of Hamlet into Portuguese, which General
Grant accepted with many thanks.