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The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
FIRES.
Oshkosh, Wis, in Flames.
Destruction Of Most OF tile City.
Several Lives Lost.

MILWAUKEE, April 2S.-One-third of the
CITY of Oshkosh is now in ashes. The engines
have all stopped, and the last one was burned
up. They arr now blowing up buildings, hop
ing to save some part of the city.
Second Despatch.
About 80 O'Clock this afternoon fire broke
out in Morgan Bros mill, on the north bank of
the river in Oshkosh. high wind prevailed
and the flames swept onward with irresistible
force The portion of the city consumed at
the time of writing embraces the leading bust
ness blocks and some of the finest residences
in Oshkosh. The Beckwth House and Hard
iug's Opera House are among the buildings
consumed Both OF the telegraph offices are
burned, and there is great difficulty in securing
dispatches. Engines were called in from Fond
du Lac and Rlpon. 1t is rumored that pow
der magazine blew up and five or six men per-
iShed. Loss estimated at $4,000
Third Despatch.
OSHKOSH, April 2S-9 p. ma terrible fire
has been raging all the afternoon. All the
newspaper offices. banks, telegraph offices, the
Harding Opera House, postoffice, Uniyersalist
church, all the hotels but one, and nearly all
the business portion OF the city are gone. Two
men have been killed by falling walls. The
City is in the widest state of frenzy. The
burnt district is nearly mile wide
CHICAGO, April 29-12.4O A M-The only
news reported b. specials to the morning pa
pers in regard to the Oshkosh fire, and which
has not already been sent in press kilograms Is
that The Northwestern Insurance Company OF
Milwaukee has lost $4,000 The meagreness of
the It ports obtained is due to the fact that the
telegraph offices were destroyed at an early
period of the fire.
Minor Fires.
Haskells steam mill in Cavendish, VT, was
burned Tuesday. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
The Baptist church near by was also destroyed.
Insurance $4,000.
Grahams wooden mill in Ludlow, VT. was
totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
Loss heavy.
The Industrial Companys Works at Spring
field, VT. were bnrned yesterday. Loss $4,000;
insurance $4,000.
The Bellows Falls, Vt, Chair Co.'S buildings
were damaged by fire to the extent of some
$1,000 yesterday morning.
The dwelling house of Mrs Hannah Peavy,
in Durham, N. H., was destroyed by fire Tues
day night. Loss $4,000; partially insured.
The residence of James Neehan, in Wob urn,
Mass, was destroyed by fire Tuesday mig ht
Nearly all the contents were destroyed, the liz
mates narrowly escaping with their lives. Loss
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000, and only
partially covered by insurance.
Beede & Van Duzen's livery stables in New
burg, N Y, were burned Tuesday night. Eight
horses persisted in the flames Loss $500; in
sured.
There were three fires in Albany, N. Y,
Tuesday, all incendiary. The first was in
Martins Opera House, damage slight; the Sec
oud in Netherlands pop corn mandatory,
damage $4,000; the third in McDonald's car
rage factory. loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Staples & Berry's paint works at Moosehead
were burned Tuesday night. Loss $1,000; in.
Snrance S5000
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29

crimlnately all estates belonging to Cubans
and SpanIards to lay waste the country and
deprive the government of resources for carry
ing on the war. When the wa is over Cuba
VIII De IN RUNS aud it will take many years OF
hard and patient labor to restore it to its pros
porous condition 1t is feared revolution may
break out In Havana any day, as dissatisfaction
IS general among all classes. Taxes grow
heavier and more numerous every day, while
the means of satisfying them are diminishing.
Cuban Rebel Executed.
HAVANA, April 2S,-Antonio Luaces, rebel
surgeon, was executed at Puerto Principe, on
the Goth inst
Foreign Notes.
The Marquis of Tayistocl (Libera) has been
elected 10 tne British Parliament for Bedford
shire without opposition.
Lord Hobart, Governor of the presidency of
Madras, died yesterday.
Legal proceedings have been commenced by
the PrusSlan government for the removal OF the
prince bishop of Breslau for violation of the
ecclesiastical laws.
AS final act Of reparation for the Gustav
affair." the Spanish commander at Guetoria has
saluted the German flag.
The race for the 1000 guipeas stakes at New
market was won by Cambello Yesterday
Steamship Hibernian from Portland has ar
rived out.
PROCLAMATION by Valmaseda.
HAVANA, April 2S.-Captain General Val
maseda has issued proclamation offering par
don to rebels who surrendered before May 80,
1870. The pardon is unconstitutional for all
except deserters from the Spanish forces, who
will be required to serve in the vanguard of the
army till the end of the war. The proclama-
ton declares that enough loyal bayonets remain
in Spain to make those Spanish soldiers bite
the dust who continue in close union with in
surgents shedding the blood of their forner
companions and brothers,
violent demonstration has been made
against Don Alfonso, who is residing at Gratz.
Several rioters were arrested
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
The Wool Market,

BOSTON, April S.-lReported tor the Press. THE
following is list of prices quoted this afternoon:
Domestc-Ohio and Pennsylvania pck-lock 30 a
SIC; do choice Xxx So q SAC; do fine 80 q 55c me.
dunn So a 5Sc: coarse so q SIC; Michigan extra and
Xxx so q 53c; fine 40 a 5Oc medium 81 q SIC; COM
mon il q 4Sc; other Western fine and Y 40 q SIC /;
medium 80 a SIC, common 45 q 4Sc; pulled extra
40 q 55c; superne 40 a 30; No |, 25 q 35c; comb
ing fleece 60 "a &c, California 10 q 4Oc; Texas 25
q 42c; Canada 40 q 55c do cOmbing IS q 70; Smyr-
ma washed II "a 33c do unwashed, IA a pc; Buenos
Ayres IS a 3Sc Cape Good Hope SO q SIC; Austral-
ian As q SEC; Donskc 20 q SIC; Mestiza pulled so
IL S23c.
There is no improvement to notice in the Wool
market. Medium grades of dome stic continue to
command full prices bat fine ieeces saleabe only
at low prices compared with other kinds. Liberal
supplies of California are near at hand, and manu-
facturers purchasers only to supply present
wants.
In New York the market still lacks that degree of
activity which is usual at this season. Manufacture
ers instead of beng busy on fall goods, are running
short time, and their purchases are made with
view of keeping their machinery going, so as to
tain their empl yees.
IN Philadelphia t.ere has been very little change
in the maj aet. The medium grades of fleece, of
which the stock is light command ext enc
prices, but fine grades neglected. Clothing and
carpet Woods are also attracting little attention. and
the prospects for an early Improvement do not seem
to be encouraging. Fine Woods again dull and
lower. Manufactured goods are as dull as ever,
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
RY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS In MAINE.
Attempted, ruiciSse.

Attempted p urcf1e'
LEWISTON, April % "A young man named
Greene, aged seventeen, attempted suicide this
afternoon by cutting his throat. He made
three gashes, but the wounds probably will not
prove fatal.
Sad Brewing Accident.
RocKLAND, April % "A sad and fatal acc-
dent occurred at Dix Island last night. Three
stone cutters, Lawrence Madigan, jeremiah
Cowley and Michael Carnes, were out in
small boat and in returning about half past IL
o'clock, the boat was upset few rods from the
shore, and Madi gan and Crowley were both
drowned, Carnes succeeded in getting on
shore. Crowley was twenty-five years OLD, I'M
married. and belonged in Charlestown, Mass
His body was recovered and will be taken to
his family. Madigan belonged in Boston, was
about twenty-four years old, and has no fami-
Iy. His body had not been recovered when the
steamer left
Fire i'm Auburn.
LEWISTON, April 2S-The dwelling house of
Jerry Donovan. in Auburn, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire last night. Loss $500; no in
surance.
A Pedestrian Feat
INC pcteoIfidu, CompiCcCu hio
match of one hundred miles last evening; time,
twenty three hours and fifty minutes.
Death of a HIaine seaman.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-The bark Mendoza of
Bath, Maine, from Batavia. reports that John
Wolfe, the second officer, died on board Febru-
airy 18th. The vessel lost and split sails and
had her decks swept in the recent gales.
Sons of Temperance-Fire.
AUGUSTA, April 2S.-The Grand Division OF
the Sons of Temperance held session here
today. The attendance was light and business
uDimportant.
The dwelling house and barn of Mrs. Enoch
Stevens in Chelsea, opposite Hallowell, were
burned this morning. Loss $500; insurance
S40n
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News and Other items.

Infidel scoundrels in Missouri congregation,
hearing that the collections made by deacon
were invariably short, examined his hat, and
found it covered with shoemakers' wax inside.
Gen. Marcus j. Wright of Tennessee and
the Confederate army has been offered the
Adjutant Generalship of the Egyptian army,
with a salary of $4,000 year, and will probably
accept.
Gen. Joe .Hawley of Connecticut made the
highest score at Creedmoor, L. l., Saturday, in
the competitive rifle practice for the select ion
of the American team for the international
rife match at Dublin, Ireland, in June.
Rev. Glendenning preached on Sunday at his
jersey City church, for the first time since his
famous trial for improper intimacy with Mary
Pomeroy, last fall, and had big congregation;
his church has paid all his lawyers bills and
given him his salary right along.
Political independence seems to have reache
a rather startling development at Red Wing,
Mimi, where, at a receht municipal election,
out of a total vote of one thousand only twenty
sunscratched" tickets were found in the ballot
boxes.
DIR. Bacon of New Haven, the M. D., states
that since the beginning of the Beecher trial
cases of eye diseases have been unusually fire.
quent, and in every case which came under his
knowledge the patient had been sitting up
nights reading the trial reports.
A rival to the celebrated suit of the heirs OF
Anneke Jaus, for the recovery of the property
of Trinity church, has arisen in the claim of
some heirs of Baron Waldron to lot of land
that was granted him by Gov. Stuyvesant over
200 years ago, and by recent Improvements has
come to be worth some sixty millions.
At the funeral of Rev. DR.. Asther Wright,
venerable missionary among the Seneca In
dams, who died recently at Buffalo, six of the
Seneca tribe oficated as pail bearers. and as
the coff was borne up the aisle of the mission
church they sang low chant in the Seneca
tongue.
A doctor of Athens, Ga, has negro patient
who is in state of rapid decline, under the
deluson that she has a large snake in her
throat. Whenever she is approached, she
opens wide her mouth, and imagines the snake
is shooting forth his head with Kissing sound,
in defence of his hiding place.
Political circles in Philadelphia are intensely
excited by the refusal of State Treasurer
Mackey to open his books to the examination
OF the committee appointed by the last Legis-
lature, and allow an expert TO revise the
accounts This refusal will do much to en-
barrass the prospects of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania in the election, this year, and
will increase the suspicion of malfeasance in
the treasury.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Review of Portland Markets.
Wrr1r ENDrNc Anvil 90 1o-e

NEbh fhpil 20, 1910.
The general tone of the market is firm with good
sales. The spring trade is now fairly opened. The
river ports that have been closed to navigation for the
last few months are open and orders are coming in
rapidly. The dry goods market shows no change
from last week. The money market is steady and
money is easy Gold closed Wednesday, April 2sth,
at lis.
Apples are very plenty and the best lots can be
had for So per Dbl. Beans very firm and the sup-
ply but fair Butter little dull and prices have
allen off one or two cents per ID on large lots.
Cheese shows no change from last weeks quotation.
Coffee is very firm and an advance is looked for.
Cooperage is dull. Copper and cordage in good
demand and prices show no change. Drugs and dyes
are without change with the exception of opium,
which has fallen off to So 25. Duck is very firm and
the sales have been quite large the past week. The
fish market is nearly bare, and prices very firm
although they have not advanced yet. The -four
market is strong and winter wheat has advanced;
the stock of old -four is SMALL while there is good
supply of new. Winter wheat in the South and
West promises very poorly and tits said that in Cal
iforna it will not be more than half crop. Hay Is
quite plenty and sells freely for ST. Iron shows no
change from last week. Lard is very firm and the
market nearly bare; the best lots command 173c
The Leaf her market is firm with change in prices
Lumber is active and prices have advanced slightly;
Molasses is firm and the stock hand is very SMALL
nearly all the cargoes brought here this season have
been bought up by the boilers Oils are active. Lin
is worth zoe. boiled 75c and lard 81 Is a So.
Paints are in good demand. Eggs are quoted at l6 q
17c potatoes quite plenty and large lots are of
fered at 60 q CSC. Onions have fallen off slightly.
Salt is unchanged. Seeds are in good demand. Su-
gars are very strong and in goo1 demand. Teas are
very firm. Tobacco shows change from last weeks
quotations. Wool is unchanged.
FREIGHTS.-Freights are dull this week and we
have bnt few charters to report: Sch. james ODon-
ahue, hence to Charleston, S. c., with hay $500;
back to Boohbay with phosphate, So %. Sch. 7. j.
Traitor, Baltimore to Boothbay with coal, So 10.
Briggs Jennie Phiuney and Bella Prescott hence to
Buenos Ayres with lumber on p.t. Sch. Eta A.
Simpson from Georgia to Bath with hard pine, So.
Brig Sarah Harris to st. john N. B., with -four 14c
on gold.
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ulSu Will ulLu, as hS h"'SA SSSN w eViJ
one The precise methods of his operations
The loss OF tone. quality, character, in the
upper notes of the piano-forte scale, is q
thing patent to every one, but few, probably,
have more than casually wondered why it
is So \ writer in the Boston Transcript
explains it by the fact, now grown quite
familiar to musical people, that no single
tone in music is pure in the sense of being
simple. Every note of the piano forte is COM
posed of a group of other notes that always
sound with it. The key represents one note,
for instance, and the ear appears to hear one
tone ca lied G. 1t is difficult to comprehend
that there is more than one at the same time;
the ear apprehends number of tones forming
group, though it cannot resolve the group
into single notes. Tone color is the result OF
the grouping together of these overtones. In
the piano-forte there are about nine over
tones to every note. Sound and the ear
hears the G above, the G above that, the next
G, the next E above that, and so on. Sound
any key, and similar relative and shadowy
group of overtones is heard. Difference in
tone color depends upon the number and posi-
ton of these overtones. The wailing clarinet
the violin has its own particular set, the flute
has its own, and every voice differs from all
other voices in sounding its own individual
group of almost unheard overtones There is
a limit to the sense of hearing. The ear can
not recognize sounds outside of a compass OF
ten octaves. This is the limit of the pipe organ,
and above and below the ear fails to hear any
musical sounds. Now, if tone color is the result
of the grouping together of these overtones that
are placed above the principal note, it is plain
that il we GO up the scale we must come to tonal
darkness, or a partial loss of tone color, long
before the last octave is reached. Touch the
keys in the middle of the piano. Here we
have the true piano-forte color. Touch the
keys one after the other to the right The
higher we 90 the less marked the tone color
til. in the last octave the instrument loses its
character. Touch the last few notes of any
number of piano fortes and they will all
sound alike. The reason of this loss OF color
at the right hand end of the scale is evident.
The groups of overtones standing above the
notes in the higher octaves are in the dark.
The canpot be hard because they have
pushed up beyond the limit of hearing. Only
the first one or two, and in the tenth octave
none of them, are in bearing, and the notes
being shorn of overtones all sound alike. They
lose their tone color and with it the individual
character whereby they are Known.
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SOUTHERN FEELING.
Gen. w. r. Bartlett Supplements III
LeXluyI0m . neeCh.

Lexington Speech.
RICHMOND, Va, April % "A large number
of ex- Confederates including Gen. Field and
staff officers, serenaded Gen. w. f. Bartlett,
formerly of Massachusetts, to night at his
residence in this city, in acknowledgment and
to return him thanks for his speech at the
Lexington centennial celebration. Gen. Brad
ley johnson. on the part of the Confederates,
addressed Gen. Bartlett in complimentary
terms and returned him thanks for his mani.
and courageous speech on the above mentioned
occasion.
Gen. Bartlett responded, saying: "While l
appreciate deeply this mark of your esteem
and approval, l cannot allow you to give me
undue credit. cannot allow you to suppose
it required any courage to tell the audience at
Lexington the truth that came to my lips.
Had it been my lot to tell them unpleasant
truths that might mar their joy or excite their
indignation, had been forced to admit that
the war was not over yet, that northern man
could not live peaceably at the South and be
true to his convictions. that the men Of the
South having appealed to the direct arbitra-
ment of the sword had, regardless of honor,
refused to abide by its stern decree. then l
grant you my task would have been heavy, my
courage would have been tested. But sir the
truths uttered were the most welcome tidings
they received on that day of jubilee, and what
you now approve and confirm has already been
most heartily endorsed by the people and press
of the North. l only spoke the hopes and feel
l0gS Vi my peUpl6. IDe CIlOTu Oh love ana mar
mony was there, and only awaited the touch.
The chief defect in the great fabric of our
Union, which, while it existed, rendered a
perfect harmony of interests impossible, has
been rudely swept away, leaving structure
more permanent, more full of glorious posi-
bilties, than our fathers dared to hope for. To
cement this Union on a sOunder foundation
and avail ourselves OF the promises of the flu
ture is a solemn task, well fitted to the cen
tennlal year.
As soldiers who fought the battle out in good
faith, you can WELD the strongest influence for
peace and right Your worst enemies at the
South are the few men here and there who
talk more bravely than they fought. and it is
the same at the NORTH but the people there,
,red those politicians whose voice is S ill for
war. are fast replacing them by men of less
>eltisb PURPOSES whose views are bounded by
h,, narrow lines of state, or section or party,
T T%. 10 desire justice and prosperity for all;
an nd n moS through which we passed developed
0nu on both sides the noble qualities OF
once foes nophood. 1t has left to US soldiers,
fought fields OF e ansa rSofs If FL heroic
va'or, and has taught y %s..-sssa,.aha~.ran
mitted to our chiIdreI itssOu .
terrible, united we are IL, divided we were
Gen. Bartlett was freqpo, nvlnclele
hearty applause. 'terruptea ny
Mr.. Whtworth (LiberaD has pes,.
Parliament for Kilkenney. 81 10
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29

MEMPHIS, April 2S.-Complaints are pouring
in from all the surrounding counties of the
fearful destruction of horses and mules by buff
falo gnats, Many small planters, especially
colored ones, are ruined by having their only
horses or mules killed. and being unable to re-
place them at the time when they are so badly
needed. The Ledger publishes letter from a
planter near Macon, Fayette county, which
says that not less than 200 horses and mules
have died during the past three days within ten
miles of this place. [ went down to my farm
yesterday, six miles distant, and counted thirty
seven dead on the way. I have lost four on
my farm, and DIR. Hunter five on his, while
some planters have lost as high as thirty head.
1t looks like starvation to people without
money. Some of the farmers will compelled
to turn out part of the crops planted as they
have no money to replace the stock.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
A SeIf-Adyertisinu Remebx

There are certain proprietary articles that adver-
tise themselves. Among these are Hostetter's Stom-
aeh Btters 1t may be truly said of this celebrated
remedy for disorders of the stomach, liver and bow
els and antdote to malaria that the contents of ev
cry bottle is an advertisement since its good effects
so decidedly and promptly evince themselves as in
varably to elicit favorable comment from those who
use it,. This is particularly true in rural neighbour
hoods invaded by chS and fever and other types of
malaria. for which is recognized specific. Such
disorders being epidemic, the question What is the
best remedy and safeguard?" naturally presents it.
self to everybody in this vicinity. and is made the
subject of general inquiry. A family benefited by
the Btters communicates the fact to the neghbors,
who n turn become patrons of the great remedy and
proclaim its efficacy. This explains why it has be-
come the most popular of American household medi-
cines and why its popularity is continually the
Increases.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
CUT THIS OUT,
Et May Save Your Life.

There is no person living but what suffers more or
less with Lung Disease, Coughs, Colds or Consump-
ton, yet some would die rather than pay rs cents for
a bottle of medicine that would cure them. DR.. A.
Boschee's German Syrup has lately been introduced
in this country from Germany, and its wondrous
cures asonishe every one that try it, If you doubt
what say in PRINT this and take it to your
Druggist and get sample bottle for 10 cents and try
t, regular size for rs cents. Sold by w. F. PHIL
LIPS & CO., Wholesale Agents.
SEES TTSS.eweow1v
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
Chicago Cnttie Market.

CHICAGO, April A2s-Catte are very weak and
prces tending strongly down. receipts Of 1900 head;
Yesterday 5000 head stockers 90 a rs; butchers
so 20 5O fair to extra steers so a 80; choice at
so "a 25; shipments 5000 head.
Live Hogs active and steady; receipts II 900 head
poor to choice light at 80 a 80; inferior to choice
heavy rs a IS; sales mOstln at IS q 90; ship
ments $500 head
sheen in lood demand and steady; receipts of 1900
head; Wooded 50 a rs; Shorn 50 q 3 30.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
All Quiet i'm Texas.

CORPUS CHRISTI. April 2s.-TIanquity for
+be present is resi- ored. There is no informa-
ton T Of any raiding having been dom, or crimes
in this county for several days: Capt. McNeely
hos s' oruered all companies of citizens to dis
had. which has been promptly. done, showing
the confidence pced in him All the o.tInens
az pho"Id their services be needed. He is now
scouting Su th ough the Infested districts, assur-
mo hnth the American and MexeAns that they
will be protected aud he will rid the country OF
the outlaws There are still some fears as 70
the Whereabouts of the raiders o Wiz ned U''o
from Mex co ond have not been ascerba peu'
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29

Providence. April 25.-The printing cloths market
steady at 5Sc thirty days for standard and extra 4
64s spot goods with a dull market
The Providence City, Hall bonds 100000 per
cent. gold, were awarded to Morton, Bliss & Co. Of
New York at par in currency.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
METRO BIOLOGICAL

PROBABILITIES FOB THE NEXT rWENTY-fopn
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL
OFFICER Washington ID. o.,
April 20. II A. MY
For New Eax}cnd.
generally clear weather and slight changes IN
tenn perature. with easerly to southerly winds
and stationary or falling barometer.
The Portland daily press., 1875-04-29
European sYarkRrs.

LONDON, April 2S-12 30 M.-Consols at 935 q o.
for money and account.
LONDON, April 2S-I2.30 P. M.-American securi-
tes-Qnted States 52Os, 1865, DID, at 1861; do 1867,
1889. Erie Railway q.
LIVERPOOL, April 2S-12.3O P. M.-Cotton market
dull and unchanged; Mddlipg uplands at "A a Sd;
do Orleans at Ssd sales 10000 bales including 1000
tor speculation and export.