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The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21

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The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21
NOTICE.

The M. G. NJ. Association Library will be open for
the delivery of books, SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
Aug 21st. Per order of
aug10sn2w LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21
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HAVANA, August 20.-The Sugar market is firm
No II d s 15h q Is reals per arrobe
The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21
sPOK ZEN.

for Quebec. '''''
Aug TO- lat IS s., Ion "a S. barque Neversink, from
Shields for New York WIN
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MINORS TEL E6KAEfs
Edwin Booth will be able to play in Octo

Edwin Booth will be able to play in Octo-
Der.
Nelson Magee commission merchant re-
siding in Brooklyn, gave testimony Thursday
before the Commissioners of Charities of King s
county, describing the conduct of the keepers
towards the inmates of the lunatic asylum as
brutal and atroclous.
The amount of national bank notes received
at Washington yesterday for redemption was
$3.50, 600; customs receipts 100000; internal
revenue receipts 100000.
The steam saw mill of Bray, Richards & Co.
at Minneapolis, was burned Thursday. Los
$4,000; insurance ST., 900.
It. Commander Yates Sterling is ordered to
the receiving ship in New Hampshire as exec
ulive officer.
the government has appealed to the Su-
preme Court from the decision of the court of
claims which awarded S4S000 in gold to the
State National Bank Of Bosten, and has also
appealed from the decisions of the court of
claims in seventeen cotton awards involving
100000 or 100000.
The British ship Horseman which cleared
yesterday for Antwerp takes 4S0,919 gallons of
refined petroleum, which is said to be the larg-
est cargo ever shipped from Baltimore.
Two thousand two hundred and fifty boxes
of peaches were received at one wharf in Balti-
more Thursday.
Mr.. Raster of the Chicago Stats Zeitung
has announced that his paper will support
Grant on hard money platform against any
candidate on rag money platform. If there
are two hard money candidates, the Zeitung
will support the one opposing the Republican
party.
The most violent shower Of tie season vsi-
ted Manchester yesterday. Many cellars
were flooded and the crops in the vicinity
damaged. The boiler room of the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company was flooded fires
extinguisked and steam generated which bad
ly scalded several men before they could es-
cape.
A child answering the description Of Char
lie Ross has been discovered at Schuylers
Falls, near Plattsburg, with colored family.
The brig Thomas Owen, from New York
for Havana, while anchored off Sandy Hook,
was run into Thursday night by the steamship
Crescent City, also bound for Havana. The
brig was struck amidships, cutting her
down nearly to the waters edge and damaging
her so that it was necessary to return for re-
pairs.
News comes from Arichat, Cape Breton,
that the fishing schooner Hattie M. Lyons OF
Gloucester, Mass, was stranded at Cape Ha-
gar Thursday. There is no possibility Of
Saving her. she was valued at $4,000; in
sured for SS42S3 on the vessel and $500 on out
fits
johnson and Coyle swim in another match
Tuesday next from Lazeretto to Gloucester,
three miles less than in the first match.
The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21
EnhaiafiOn.

A great amount of suffering may be prevented
by the use of DR.. Morses Medicated Inhalations.
In Throat Disease it will give relief in few
minutes. 1t is sure preventive of Diphtheritis,
disease which has caused so much anguish and be-
reavement 1t renders breathing easy. 1t arrests
the progress of disease in the lungs removes tuber
ces by absorption. proongs life and keeps the pa
tent comfortable in hopeless cases, and effects
in durable cases. G. MORSE, M. D.,
au7snd&w3m 70 Free St., Portland Me.
The Portland daily press., 1875-08-21
METEOROLOGICAL

PROBABILITIES FOR THE NEXT TWENTY FOUR
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHEFSIGNAL)
OFFICER, Washington. T. G.,
August 81, Il A. M.))
For New England.
The Middle and South Atlantic States, warm
and clear or fair weather.
IinI1Ois Business Men en- the Currency.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-The Tribune publishes
to-day series of interviews on the currency
question, with prominent bankers. merchants
and citizens of Chicago. With hardly an ex-
cepton they express themselves strongly OPP
posed to initiation and faaor resumption. All
believe specie payments can be resumed in
four wears.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31
pENDLETON.

The speech Of Geo. H. Pcndeton at Gallip
oils, Ohio, last week, is such a different in
terpretation of the Ohio platform from thai
given by the inflatonists generally, and, al
all events, presents Mr.. Pendleton's own tinan
cial position in light so different from that
in which we have been taught to view il, tha,
we feel 1t both a pleasure and duty to state
what his exact views are as thus newly ex
pounded
Mr. Pendleton declares that he is "hard
money man." and that return to specie
payment should be kept steadily in view"
that the democratic party of Ohio" as he
understands the party, points to the middle
path OF safety" avoiding both contraction
and initiation. He states that the measure
for the volume of the currency is the wants
of trade,' and that this is to be determined in
the judgment Of the governments" that he Is
in favor Of "Coin as the basis of currency,
and that paper currency should be conver-
l5le into coin at par
There is some darkness mot TO say absur.
dity) IN what he utters about measuring the
volume Of currency by the wants Of trade"
for if there is to be such gauge of the vol.
ume, then a good part of the rest OF his argu-
ment against further cantraction at present
would fall TO the ground for nothing is plain
er than that the present financial condition
proves that this volume of currency just now
is in all the leading cities in the country
largely in excess of the wants of trade" Ii
is not more currency the country wants, but
more trade. Instead of bringing up the vol.
ume of currency, the effort just now should
be to increase the volume of trade
However, barring his nonsense about the
volume business, we can get along with
Mr.. Pendeton pretty well If he Will stick to
The text as far as he has gone, and take no
other departure from what we now under.
stand to be his financial platform, to wit:
|. Retire the national bank notes with green.
backs; 2. Make greenbacks redeemable in
gold or government bonds with gold; and 8,
make greenbacks equally with gold receiv-
.ble for duties on imports and all other pub
ic dues.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31
NEWS ITEMS.

Stupendous and visionary as the project
may seem the tunnel undcr the British chan.
mel is being treated as hoth practicable and
sensible enterprise. The British House Of
Commons has passed bill granting a char.
ter to the undertaking and the Lords will
doubtless approve it; while the French As
sembly have acted tavorabIy on . similar
bill
The wife of a farmer named Adam Fox,
living near Dwight, Livingston county, com
mittcd suicide on the 23d inst. b. drowning
herself She put her head into barrel Of
water and held it there until lite.was extinct
Family troubles are assigned as the cause
People who imagine that all their kid
gloves are imported will be surprised to learn
that there is large manulactory OF those ar
ticles IN NJ. Pleasant, Iowa, whence ,grge
quantities are shipped to New York.
News received at Washir Iton from Key
West Florida, shows the yellow over still
prevailing there in an epidcmic form; also at
Barrancas, where the Heath, are four or five a
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BIG FAILURE,

Wednesdays dispatches from New York
somewhat startled financial circles by an
nounciHg the failure of the great banking
house Of Duncan, Sherman & Co., for thirty
years regarded as one Of the very staunchest
banking houses in New York city. Their H.
abilities are placed at six millions, and cou-
sidering their almost unlimited credit all over
the world, the failure is as notable as that of
Jay Cooke Il Co., that precipitated the great
panic of 1873. Happily, however, this fail
ure is not likely TO bring any such wide
spread disaster IN its tram. The relations of
the banking house of Duncan, Sherman &
Co. were mainly with Europe, and very few
banks of this country find themselves in the
least involved in the disaster. The most Sc
rious sufferers among our own people, it is
said, are those who are travelling in Europe
and carry letters of credit from this firm
Many OF these, finding their endorser slipped
from under them, will doubtless have to en-.
counter many annoying if not serious embar.
easements, and may be expected to make
tracks A0meward by the very first available
steamer.
The house IS said to have made too heavy
advances on cotton, and to have been badly
scooped in an attempt to bull the gold mar.
ket during the recent rapid decline of that
metal IN Wall street. While however, the
disaster will have no immediate seriously
disastrous effect on this side, it must add
greatly TO the already more than serious fnan-
cial distress in London.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

board of trade operator. lie married young
Michigan girl, by whom he had several chill
dren; then died, leaving his family pennies.
They became 50 reduced that the oldest Of the
chlldren--a boy-kept body and soul together
By turning bootblack and peddling newspa,
pers. Now the news comes that this Bellay
was a real French Marquis and that all his
vast estates in France ard title have descend
ed to his family in America so that the wild.
ow becomes marquise or marchioness and
and the son a marquis
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

TRAMPs.-Ouawa has seen enough Of the
tramp nuisance lately dear knows, but as
there has been q good deal OF building going
on here and some demand for labor, they have
doubtless kept clearer Of US than some other
places. We infer this to be the case from the
fact that they have been apparently so much
more numerous elsewhere. The Mendoza
Ners Of the 23d says
Last Tuesday, a gang Of these tramps, nun
bering C2, boarded and took possession of a
freight tram near Tonica, on the III. Cent. r..
X, and would not pay their fare, and would
not be put OIL and compelled the conductor
70 bring them AZ tar rs Mendoza. where they
unloaded. Marshal Forristal was OF the plat.
form, and pursuaded numbers of them 10
strike out into the country to seek work, and
most Of them went
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Cen sherman, in his book, says Gen. Gran
was not drunk at Shiloh, and that he believes
it could be proven that there was nothing
there to be had to get drunk on. Gen Sher.
man would only need to prove the first prop.
osition. The second would be conclusive.
Wiley Galloway, aged l3 years, son of
Mr.. Frank Galloway, residing in the village
Of Tonica, was drowned on Saturday last,
while bathing IN the Vermilion river near
Lowell
a young man named Dunlop, at Marissa,
Ill., last week, while binding wheat in the
field, was bitten by a rattlesnake in the foot,
and before relief could be given him the poi
son had passed so far into his system that he
died in less than eight hours afterwards in
great agony.
Rev Peter Green, Methodist, preached a
sermon in Scotsvile, Illinois, and invited
any dissenter from his doctrine to reply.
Mr. Olbert, Baptist, accepted the invitation
Brother Barr, an adherent of the clergyman,
commanded Brother Gilbert TO stop talking.
n quarrel ensued, then fight, and the meet
ing ended in confusion. Tie factions met
next in court, where they fought with canes,
stones, knives and pistols, but nobody was
more than slightly hurt
The imitation Of prices ana wages in Ger
many consequent upon the war of 1870, IS
having its legitimate effect in stagnation of
business and increase of rents Many men
are out OF work, and Berlin has become q
more expensive city than London, while MANY
large manufacturing establishments are shut.
ting down and others closing altogether.
Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has been in.
tervewed on the subject Of the next Presiden
cy, and while he modestly disclaims all aspira
tions in that direction himself, expresses the
opinion that Grant will be the republican
candidate on a hard money platform, and
Judge Davis, of Illinois, the candidate op-
posed to him, on Il soft money or initiation
platform. As Judge Davis is quite as sound
a hard money man as ever Grant was, one
would be inclined to gdess, in rough way,
that political vaticnation or forecastng is
hardly Carpenters best hold
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

La Sale had three days pigeon tourna,
ment this week. The biggest match was the
sweepstakes or Wednesday afternoon, for
$l3O. There were 13 entries ten shots each.
Geo. II. Coleman, of Peru c. f. Austin, of
Clinton, Iowa; Mr. Wells and Louis Taylor
shot 10 straight birds each Doxey, of Geneseo,
Mr.. Sherman, W. T. Mason, OF La Sale,
Hitchcock and ClarEson, each o. Butterteld
and Cool, each s; and Grant, of La Sale,
g. In shooting of the ties in this match
Austin got away with first money, Doxey cep.
tured second and Stock, pertorce, contented
himself with third.
In the editorial contest between Stevens, of
the La Sale Press, and Ruggles, Of the Men
dota BUl,etja, the former suffered an inglor
ious defeat scoring only one bird TO his OPP
ponent's four. Oh Steve!
The wet weather on Tuesday and Wednes
day interiered a good deal with the tourna-
mcnt, so that 1t was far from as successful as
it would otherwise doubtless have been
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Fisher, the L. S. attorney for the District
of Columbia, had to succumb to the inevi.
table, in spite of the potent intervention in his
behalf of Boss Shepherd. When the Presi.
cent sent his dispatch to Pierrepont ordering
him to "hold on" about Fisher, Plerrepont,
Jewell and Brlstow got together and told the
President that if he proposed TO be controlled
by the advice Of Boss Shepherd rather than
of his own cabinet ministers, they were ready
to resign THIS scared Grant-he left Long
Branch in hurry and came to Washington
held a cabinet council, and the result was
poor Fisher was bounced, though he pleaded
hard to be allowed to hold on long enough
10 vindlcate himself. AS that would probably
occupy the rest OF his natural life, the cabinet
were unwilling to grant the time.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

agent for the L. S. and Governor of the terri
tory, never in any OF his reports to the gov.
ernmcnt, or even in any address in the taber-
nacle, remotely alluded to it, and any unior-
tunatc Mormon caught "blabbing" on the
subject was quietly got out of the way.
For fifteen years afterwards the courts of
the territories were more or less under the
control of the Mormons, so that no effort to
institute judicial investigation OF the mas
sacrc or to bring the murderers to trial was
regarded as worth being made. OF late, how
ever, the gentlles have got possession Of the
courts and there is a sufficient gentle popula
ton at Beaver to insure an honest jury, 50
that now, for the first time, it has been re-
garded as practicable to have the matter judi
caly Investigated and have fair tr of
such of the participants in this bloody tragedy
as may still survive.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

For once, at least the agents of Uncle Sam
uel were too sharp for Wall street 1t tran
spires that, while it was well known that in
July the |. 5. Treasury would need large
sums of gold TO pay the interest on the pub.
lie debt it was also known in Wall street,
that SO far as the published figures showed,
the |. s. Treasury had no such amount of
gold nj its command as would be needed \
pool was accordingly formed in Wall street
to get up II corner in gold, so that, when Bris-
tow came around 10 buy the gold he needed,
he could be blcd without mercy Duncan,
Sherman u Co. were at the head Of the pool
and bore the brunt of It. They bought many
millions at rs, l. and even as high as Is per
cent premium. But when Bristow's pay day
came, 10 the utter amazement and discomt
ture ofthc pool, he had all the gold he needed
1t seems, without the knowledge of Wall
street, he had for weeks before been privately
selling L. ;. ) per cent. bonds for gold, as he
claims he had right 20 do under the resump-
tion law of last spring, and thus easily got
all he needed The result was that gold at
once went down 10 II, the pool gamblers lost
millions, and Duncan, Sherman X Co, went
up the spout
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

The money in the |. S. Treasury has now
been twice counted-once just before old
Spinner retired and again when Mr.. New
took possession Of the Office. BY Spinner
count the treasury owed HIM one dollar and
Mr., News coun, agrees with Spinners to a
penny. This don't, however, restore to the
Treasury the forty thousand dollars that were
stolen from Spinner month before he retired
nor does it account for the one thousand dol
lars stolen a week ago from Mr.. New
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Decatur, in this state, is in whlrl of ex
citement over the discovery Of gold mine
in that vicinity. 1t seems certain that gold
particles have been found in side hill and
brook in that locality, and an old Australian
miner, who has examined the indications, is
said to express the opinion that the gold exists
in paying quantities. A company has been
formed to prosecute investigations until the
extent and richness OF the deposits can be as,
CartgIreI
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

NATURAL GAs.-says the Mendoza Ne,rs:
Mr.. Blanchard, three miles 5. W. OF Men.
dota, utilizes gas from natures casomeier.
made down in the internal regions OF the
earth. HIS g. well, one Of the wonders of
the world, connected by a gas-pipe with his
house, furnishes abundant, gas 10 light and
warm his entire house. lie expects soon to
extend pipe to his cooking stove so the good
cooking of that house can be done with gas.
It's great saving Of fuel, gives intense heat
and is 50 clean. II COS, only $50 10 fix up
these home gas works Of his and yields profit
VI nearly that every years. good per cent. on
capital inyes,ed"
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

According 10 the most reliable advice from
the Black Hills there are now about 1000
miners at work there gathering gold, few OF
them gathering over twoor three dollars worth
aday ana many not that much while the new
arrivals average % a day. As the military
are preparing for general movement against
the aggressors, tits likely tnat soon there will
be some pretty lively times among these bold
advent1rgrs.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Col. T Lyle Dickey, Of Chicago, has issued
q circular to the member of the 4th Illinois
Cavalry, the regiment which he raised and
commanded during the war Of the rebellion,
notifying them that the Second Annual Re
union OF the regiment will be held at Bloom
ingtoD, ILL.,, on Wednesday, August 2jth, 1915.
Those wishing further information can ad.
dress Col, 7, Lyle Dickey, at Grand Pacific
Hotel Chicago.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Avery thc.chIcfclerk ofthe treasury depart
ment at Washington who was recently indict
ed by Us. grand jury at StLouis for taking
pay of the whisky ring has, like his friend
Fisher, received the grand bounce, without
having been allowed to hold on to office long
enough to "vndicatc" himself James Gil
fllan, a clerk long employed in the trea, ury
department, takes his place,
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Several Of the large city dallies, on the au-
thority of Springfield correspondent, have
been publishing something like the follow
ing in reference to the revised statutes of 1874:
And now Il difficulty arises about the dis
trihutiOn. 1t is provided that the county
clerks shall keep them for sale at two dollars
per copy, but no provision was made to pay
the expense of transportation. Thus the
clerks naturally object TO pay express char
gcs out of their own pockets, and so the books
lie in the Office Of the secretary Of state. Com
plant having been made to tins officer he
has appealed to the attorney general, whose
opinion in the case being interpreted is to the
effect thai If the clerks will not obey the law
there is no way to make them. So if any
body wants To know the law of this state they
must find ii out the best way they can.
Our County Clerk has found a section (sec
81, page 1904, in the law in reference to the
printing and distribution of the Revised Stat
utes by which he is entitled to collect his cX-
penses out of the county, doubtless "A section
overlooked by this Springfield wiseacre But
the expense is SO tritling anyhow-(not over
slX or eight dollars for as large county as
La Salle)-that the county clerk must be Il
small pattern indeed who Is not willing to
pay that much Tor the public convenience.
This is not, however, intended as an apollo
~ on our part for any of the real blunders of
said Revised Statutcs-which, in whole and
in part, are probably the most bungling piece
of work Of the sort ever perpetra,cd in this
country. A number of the chapters are in.
operative on account of their Incompetent,
sible or contradictory provisions, Il striking
example of which Is this law itself for put
ting the statutes in force and providing for
their printing and distribution. 1t was so
bungingly arranged that while the statutes
took effect on July 1, the law for their publ
cation did not take effect until that date,
though the printer was required to have them
printed before that datc-before there was
any law 10 authorize the printing!
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

The last Illinois Legislature, now that the
exact figures nave been ascertained, turns out
10 have cost the state $207.202, while the pre-
ceeding republican legislature, no longer in
session and composed OF the same number of
members, cost the state more than double as
much-tha, IS, s4s9,G3s Illinois will do
vel enough IL she never has q worse legisla.
lure than the last.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Chicago has a verijable romance in real
life by one of her city gamias suddenly turn
ing up a French Marquis. \ Frenchman
named Bellay was well known there for years
as eking out a precarious subsistence as
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

Thursdays New York dispatches say:
Messrs Duncan, sherman Il Co, have ar
ranged with a London house e. take up their
letters OF credit now IN the hands of Ameri
can tourists in Europe. This will prevent "A
good deal Of hardship, and quiet the appre-
tensions felt here by friends OF these unior-
tunates.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31

The Aurora Heruld claims the location of
The ~ 54is>*assy :iJcia4at place on TIC ground
<1Ns( aurora ca, W finly furnish bigger
quota Of ilmo," sSny other city of its
sLle ID the s'RL. AHNhtOubt
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-07-31
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Ottawa, ILL.,, Saturday. July 81, 1873.
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