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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
Providence Print Cloth Market.

PROVIDENCE. April 1.-THE printing cloths market
was more active during the past week and price were
little rmer close; sales of the week foot up 107,
$50 pieces 81 for good standard Gas for July toOc
ober; 81 5ac for future delivery; 81 standard
and extra spot goods.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portland Wholesale Yyarlxers.

SATURDAY, April 1.-THE market shows no change
in prices. Grain is still firm with an active demand.
There is fair supply on hand. Flour is firm and
the sales have been large. Pork and lard are firm
and the supply is limited. Sugars show no change.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19

Sufferers from dropsy and kidney disease can be
cured by using Hunts Remedy, the great kidney
medicine, purely vegetable and used daily by our
best physicians in their practice. deod&w1w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ONE PRICE AND NO VARIATION !

e. r. ELDEN &c co.
Have received and now offer to the trade, either a
WHOLESALE Or RETAIL.
One Case Arlington POplins, all cOlOrs,
Retail price 81 cents.
10 pcs Lyons POplins, all the new shades,
Mt Less Than j obbers' Prices.
One case Black, Stripe and Fancy Silks.
at decided bargains
81 pieces new shades Dress Goods
for d cents ward, actually worth 3S cents.
All of our Black Goods
at very Low Prices.
One Case more Bates Quilts
9J cents each.
Onecase new styles Percales and Prints,
marked Al, don't measure but 5.s yara
Town; oUH rKICE is I-s,jus' look
at them.
100 DOz. of Clark's o. N. I. Thread, on
White SpOOls, best Thread ever made.
Our Retail Prices 20 cents Dozen.
We have this day opened full line of
DRESS BUTTONS, BRAIDS AN
TRIMMINGS,
ut Low Prices.
$40 ParasOls and Sun Umbrellas,
Much Under Price.
80 Dozen BaIlingham Hose,
FL cents pair.
73 Dozen English do,
IA cents werth rs cents.
Full Line Misses and Children Hose
mt Equally Low Prices.
HOUSE KEEPING GOODS
mt Way Down Prices.
E. T. ELDEN &c 60.
5 FREE STREET. PORTLAND
ja2S sh'i
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19

have been arrested at Montreal on the CHARGE
OF forgery. Extradition papers are being pre-
pared.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
MARRIED..

In Hallowell, April 8. v. G. jackson and Miss Alice
j. Smith.
Eveline Sawyer, both of Buxton.
In West Buxton. April 4, Frank II. Palmer and
Miss Rosa b. Haynes, both of Hollis
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19


LONDON, April 17-12.30 P. M.-American securi-
ties-United States $685. 1861 1903; IS, at 1929.
Erie Railway at 274 q z7a; do preferred $751;
LIVERPOOL, April 17-12.3O P. M.-Colton market
is dull and unchanged; Mddling uplands at Sd; do
orleans 81 q sd; sales 5000 bales, including 1000
for speculation and export.
FRANKFORT, April 14.-United States 5-2Os, 1862.
at 9S5.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Please tell the people that you saw their
Advertisement in the PRESS, the circula'
ton of which, per month, exceeds 100000.

personal NOTICE.-An officers sailors
j. and soldiers, wounded, ruptured injured in
the late Rebellion, however slightly, can obtain
Pension by addressing DR.. E. B. JACKSON, Late
ers St.. New York City. Communications prompt
Iy answered oc29sn1y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19
DIED.

In this city, April 18th, Mary Ann, only child of
Thomas and Jane Fortune, aged years months and
days.
In Powna April 16, Mrs. Joanna Walker, aged 76
years months.
In Augusta, April 7, Miss Margaret Hamlen, aged
~ years months.
In Waterford, April O. Mr.. Samuel Cobb, aged u
years.
In Gardiner, April 0, Mrs. Mary B., widow OF the
late VIM. B. Grant, aged so years.
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F OR E IG N.


LONDON, April 18-The Berlin government
in its last note to Belgium says Germany is
about to alter her law with view to the better
protection of foreign countries against any fu-
fure designs of German subjects, asks Belgium
to initiate her example, aud adds it is desirable
lished with all other states equally interested
An Antwerp journal says Germany is desirous
of settling the question by an international
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19

On and after Jan. 1, 1875 the chamber in second
story now occupied by T. M. Kaler & Co.. on the
corner of Cross and Middle SITS. Apply to
HENRY DEERING,
daoasntf No. Rh EXCHANGE ST.
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METEOROLOGICAL

PROBABILITIES FOR THE NEXT. TWENTY-F0UR
HOURS.
WAR Dept, OFFICE CHEF SIGNAL
OFFICER Washington, ID. G.,
April IS, Il A. M.t
For New England,
and Middle States, generally clear and contin-
ued cold weather will prevail, with n w. to
). w. winds and slowly rising barometer on
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19

April 49, Sc of Highlands 40 miles, sch Cygnus
from MayagueZ for Boston,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-19

BOSTON, April 1.-THE banquet at the Parker
House at $50 p. M to-day, given by the Com
Cabinet, was grand affair." Ohe hundred and
twenty-six guests were present, and Hon.
Alex III. Rice, President of the Club, presided
President Grant, Secretaries Robson, Belknap
Fish, Delano and Postmaster General Jewell
were present. and all the local celebrities of
sufficient caibre to warrane an invitation. The
President left for Concord at $50 by special
train over the Lowell road.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16

increase in business without Il correspond
ing outlay for wires. For this invention
the inventor was offered by that company
twenty-five thousand dollars cash and Il
yearly royalty ammounting to nearly
twenty-five thousand dollars.
In transmitting four messages over a
single Wire at the same time, -four recciv-
ing magnets are uScd-tWO at each end of
the line. Two Of these magnets are of the
ordinary kind, and respond to currents OF
a certain strength, independent OF the Iii
rection in which they flow. The other
two respond only to a change i'll the direc-
ton Of the currents independent OF the
strength. \ magnet of each kind is put
at New York and Washington, and both
are so arranged with extra magnets thar
the transmission of a weak or strong bat
terry current owe the wire from New York
to Washington through the magnets III
New York has no effect upon them. But
the current acts upon the ordinary mag
nets in Washington and a signal is trans
mitted if the direction of the current is
reversed in New York the other magnet
in Washington responds, and another dis
tinCt signal is transmitted. While these
two distinct signals are being sent to New
York from Washington the latter may in
the same way transmit two distinct signals
from New York. The action of the cur
rents in the line wire itself is complicated
yet no TWO currents pass each other III OPP
pOSite directions al the same time. accord
ing TO the inventor. Electricians differ,
however, on this point, some holding that
the currents go through the ground, and
others saying that an indefinite number of
currents can pass upon the same wire.
Mr.. Edison is not vet thirty years old /;
but for the last six or eight years his name
has been we'll known in the telegraphic
world. His many inventions of both in
strumcntS and systems have done much
to simplify, cheaper, and advance tele-
graphy.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
Curious Effects of Lightning.

DR.. PaSsOt has communicated to the
French Academy of Sciences thrse curious
eases OF men struck by lightning under
their wooden barracks in the camp Of
Satory on the 18th of May, at $50 p. m.
The first. named MOndOn, was thrown
down Just as he was raising his left arm
to take something. He remained insenSi-
bic for upward of an hour. during which
artificial respiration mad to be praCticed,
the action of his lungs being almost Sus-
pended. His muscles We're relaxed. his
heart nearly still. his pulse filitorm, and
his pupils dilated. The syncope was fol-
lowed by a delirium that lasted torty-cight
hours. On his recovery he had not the
slightest recollection of the accident. and
scarcely felt the smart of the various burns
sihle nor benumbed. The electric fluid
had passed over the whole inner side OF
the left arm, the corresponding lateral
part of the thoraX, and. by bi!ircatiOn ut
the lumbar region, had followed the p0Stc-
riOr side OF each thigh and the inner mes
Of the legs. ending at the feet. His
clothes were not singcd, nor the buttons
touched. Two days later ne was quite
well again. except a point OF Surpuratl0n
on his right leg. The second man, Toisot,
was standing when he was struck; he be-
came inseusibl, with muscular relaxation,
came 10 himself again after a few minutes,
and mad 40 recollection Of the accident.
The fluid Ind left Slight burns along the
thorax, lumbar region, and left thigh,
family singing his shirt without touch
ing his Other garments. 1t took him Il
week to recover. The third, BaudOn-
Mere. was standing at the door when he
was struck on the left TO. EARN and thrown
down. He did not lose his senses, and a
few minutes after was able to relate all
the circumstances of the accident. He
could get up and 90 TO his bed, but com
planned that he could neither extend nor
bend the fingers Of his left hand. The
lightning had pierced his jacket and shirt
sleeves. leaving a hole about half an inch
in diameter; a very slight burn wa yiSi-
bic on the corresponding spot of the skin,
with arbOreSccnt shoots extending over
the arm as far as the dcltoid, and then in
a line down to the extremity of the index,
middle, and third fingers. These mark
disappeared on the following day. To
conclude, the nervous phenomena caused
by the electric fluid We're of but little i'm
portance. But the most singular circum-
stance is thiS; that in the first two cases
it caused relaxation of the muscles, and
in the third contraction.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
The Dry Season of Brazil.

As an illustration of the extreme dry
ness of the soil during the dry season i'll
Brazil, it is stated that in June all vegeta-
ton C, asses. the seeds being then ripe or
nearly so. In July the leaves begin to
turn yellow and ia off; in August an
extentofmany square leagues ~presentsthe
aspect of a European winter, but without
snow, the trees being completely stripped
of their leaves, the plants have grown in
abundance in the wilderness, drying up,
n serving as a kind Of hay for the suS-
tenance of numerous kinds of cattle. This
is the period most favorable tor the prepa-
ration of the coffee that grows upon the
mountains. The beans are picked and
laid upon the ground, which gives forth
no moieture, but OF the contrary absorbS
it, and beng surrounded by an almOs
phere possessing the same de>iccating
properties, the coffee dries rapidly with
out moulding.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
Turkish Time.

A letter written in COnstantinOple says:
One of the p%erplexing things is the com
putation Of time. The Turks reckon from
the time of the flight Of the prophet from
Mecca, and il takes five hundred and thlr-
ty-seven Turkish years to make five hum
dred and twenty-one of our years. AT
sunset of each day watches and clocks are
set to mark twelve O'Clock, and until the
twelfth hour after sunset the hands on the
dial indicate the time that has elapsed
since sunset. After that hour they midi
cate the number of hours that will inter
vene before sunset OF the next day plus or
minus the daily variation in the length of
DAYS.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
General Notes.

The following new mail routes i'll this
State have been established, in accordance
with an act of Congress:
From Shamrock to Aux Vase; LathrOp
to Mirabile; We>tphalia to Bennett Station {:
Edna to Shelbyyille; WoOdlawn TO Lees
burg: Lcsiorville to Lawson'S Store; Miami
(via LayruSvilIe) to Malta Bend; Knob Lick
(yia L~ibertyyille) to COtfman; Poplar Bluff
to DoEiphan; Cuba to Hermann: Oregon to
Wing Valley; T0unl's Store Via Bristolyille,
Dallas Mills and Arnesbur9) to Appleton /;
Appleton (via Arnesburg, Biehle and Null
heinz To Highlandburg; Marshall (via Petra)
to Cambridge; ANiIla (via Kings Point to
Greenfield; Bolivar to GoJd>On; Nettleton
Via Gould City, to Richmond; GOrdOnvillc
to Cape Girardeau; May>ville (via Sa-
Mills, Burr Oak and Elkdale) 10 Corning;
Ozark to Boston; Missouri City to Prathtr,-
villc; DelaS>uS to Iron Mountain.
The Governor has issued a proclamation
Offering a reward of two hundred dollars for
the arrest of George Turner, charged with
killing VIM. II. Burnes III Mississippi County,
OH the 18th of May, 1874. Turner is between
- and 80 years of age, five feet seven and a
half inches high, weighs 100 pounds, and is
light c~OmpleXiOned.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16

A CANADIAN exchange says: 1t has
been discovered that during the races at
Mutchmore Park 80 kegs of gunpowder
were slowed away under the grand stand.
Only a tain board partition, full of holes,
divided the powder from the smoking
room. If a lighted cigar had got in
among those kegs there wouldn't have
been Mutchmore racing done that day.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16

The London Tavern was offered for sale
the other day, but was bought in, after a
lively competition, for eS4,5OO, to which
sum the bidding had advanced from a first
offer OF e65,0O0. Ten years ago the
property changed pr0prie:Ors Tor efl 600.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16

Two famous Australian running horses,
managed by a Mr. Bowers, are coming TO
COMPETE for the $50, 900 purse offered at
San Francisco for the October races.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
A NEWS.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

July "A resolution was adopted, au-
thorizing the appointment OF a OF thir-
teen, consisting of one from each congressional
district in the State, for the purpose OF preparing
an address Ia the people, to be published with
the Constitution, setting forth under appropriate
headings the material changes, alterations and
additions that have been made to the organic law.
1.-The report of the Committee on Judiciary
was considered and some important sections dis
posed of.
July 5.-The Convention met and adjourn
ed, in recognition of the national anniversary.
Speeches were subsequently made by Gen.
Watkins, Col. Switzlcr, and Messrs. Letcher
and Halliburton, and the Declaration of indie
pendcnce was read by Mr.. Nolan, Secretary.
july 6.-Several miscellaneous PROPOSE
tiOns and resolutions were introduced and re-
fcrrel......Th n report of the Committee of Banks
and Corporations was taken up and several sec
tons were adopted.
July THE entire day was consumed in
the consideration of the report of the Committee
on Banks and Corporations.
July S.-The report of the Committee on
Public Schools was read and some progress made
in its consideration.
july 9.-The report of the Committee on
Public schools was further considered. .... Reso-
buttons of respect TO the memory of Gen. f. p.
Blair, Jr., We're adopted, and the Convention
then adjourned.
JULY I0.-rhe report of the Committee on
Pu Bile Schools was finally disposed of to-day.
Among the provisions adopted was one making
it obligatory upon the General Assembly to make
annual appropriation for the maintenance of the
State University and all its departments, and
another setting apart the sums realized from
fines and penalties for the benefit Of the public
school i'll the separate counties....Mr Adams
offered a resolution providing that the members
of the Convention shall, after seventy DAYS from
the beginning of the session, draw only one dol
lar per day, instead of five, as the Convention
placed the same limit on the Legislature. The
resolution was tabled by a vote of 30 to IS.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
County.

VIM. Matthews, indicted for the murder of
Kate Travis in a tit of drunken jealousy. in
February last, at the recent term of the Cir
cult Court at st. Joseph pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to % years in the Penitentiary.
Matthews is - years of age.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
Clay County.

Robert Harris. an old resident of this
County, living at Missouri City, wa shot
and instantly killed by a neighbor named
Frederick Rcedy on the night of the eth.
After the killing he told his own ana Har-
ri>' wife what he had done and stated that he
was going to give himself up. Up to The 9th
nothing further had been heard or seen OF
him.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
him.


Gen. Waddy Thompson, of Jefferson City,
has gone to Memphis, accompanied by an
officer of that city, to answer the charges OF
horse stealing, perjury and larceny. Mr..
Thompson claims that he will satisfactorily
prove his innocence when brought to trial.
Phelps County.
Revenue Collector Carroll, of the Second
District of this State, recently seized several
di>tillerics in Ozark Hills, and arrested Ham
ilton Ledbetter, Abraham Lewis, and Ed.
Gentry.
st. Louis.
Edwin POgels. aged 81 years, hung himself
in his fathers house, No. 2501 DeKalb Street,
on the 81 inst. He had fallen into bad com
pany and ~disreputable ways, and his father
refused 10 furnish him any more money to
crafty his petty vices. This is the only reas-
on known for his sudden determination to
put an end to his existence.
Carl Mussil Hierche, a harneSsmaker by
trade, shot and killed himself on the night of
the Sth, in the shop of his employer, IA Pine
Str Get. He had disease of The heart, which
incapacitated him from work at times, and
during a fit of depression on account of his
bad health, as stated by him in a note to his
employer, he resolved TO put an end to his
life.
The Saxony FIGURING Mills, on Lombard
Street, between Third and Fourth, were
burned to the ground on the night of the 7th.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-16
4 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

Mr. Edi>on's browning discovery was
bringing o blight the fact that by a peculiar
manipulation of the electric currents four
messages can be transmitted over a single
wire in various directions at the same time.
This apparatus was called by the inventor
the Quadruplex. 1t is used by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, and ac-
cording to Mr.. Orton's last report solves
the most Il lliculC problem presented to a
telegraph muIager-h0w TO meet natura'
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-22

Lord after His entrance into JeFusalem /; 2.
Cain dFaws upon himself the curse OF
Heaven by the murder of his brother, with
the tabieaa o: Judss receiving the wages
Of his trearhery 3. Melchisedech meeting
Abraham aod offering bread aud wine, the
following tables0 representing the Last
Supper Abraham accepting the COM
maDd to sacrifice Lis stb, followed by a
tabIeau Of our Lord strengthened by the
angel in the Garden Of Gethsemane S.
Abraham receives the blessing, the tab
leau showing our Lord un the cross, between
the thieves and surrounded by the crowd
of Jews and soldiers 6 Joseph, q ruler
in Egypt, meeting b's father Jacob, the
tabieaa sbo~ing Oar Lord at the moment
of HIs triumphant ascension. This is the
programme, aud the accuracy with which
every part was rendered. absolutely with
out the slightest bitch, after only one single
reheareai, was most wonderful. / am sure
the play v ill repay any one for the trouble
of getting here who old not eee the Passion
Play. and to n Catholic il is we'll worth q
journey to Ammergau TO zee the devotion
OF the people, to hear their beautiful
Church music at Mass, and to see that .
most thoroughly Catholic village can at the
same time be prosperous and thriving,
with most happy, courteous, and contented
iphabitan ts.-I am. JOHN DEAN.
O6erammsrgau, July Is.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-22

Of the new one. where it Continued to crow
till 1879. 1t had actually crossed for 435
years The preeent clock of Strasb1rg was
finished in Iss5, and lie wonders almost
stagger belief To briefly enumerate 1T
contains n celesf;al sphere, with dial to in
dictate the sideridI time- 1t shows all the
fixed stars, more than 300, and their mo-
lions in their trne and relative positions in
the heavens, grouped into considerations !;
it Allows the precise moment of rising and
setting of all the fixed stars, and points
ont their position in the heavens at any
given time. Ii shows the procession of the
eQuinoxes, q movement 60 slow that 25 SO4
years would be required for revolution
round the sphere. Il contains n perpetual
calender, showing the months. the dates,
dominica letters, saints days and festivals
OF the Church, which are pointed out by
tWo figures representing Apollo and Diana.
IL makes allowance for all variations, such
as leap year, and the difference between
the mean and apparent equation of time.
ls indicates the rising and setting of the
sun, the apparaDt time at any moment,
the places aud apparent motion of the
moon and the eclipses of sun and moon.
The days of the week are shown by allie
gorical divinities which appear on their
respective days. IL has . dial to show the
mean time 1t shows the whole system of
the suns planets, aud the motions of the
various bodies. Not one srentieth part of
the wonders of this amazing piece of clock
work have We mentioned and We have no
space for . fuller desert ption.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-22
The Great strasburR Clock.

In. that old city of Strasburg, where
printing frst began, the ingenuity of man
has dourished for centuries. The Cathe-
dral of Strasburg 10 famous throughout the
world, not sloDe for it's own beauty, bat
for itS three wonderful olOcks. The irst of
these clocks was placed in the Cathedral
in 1852. lts hands indicated the move
ments of the sun and moon, as we'll as the
hours and their sub divisions. Near the
summit tn re was placed q statue of the
Blessed Virgin, before which, at the hour
of noon in each day, three other small
statues representing the three magi or
wise men, made an inclination Of the head,
while cock, perched on the top, crowed
and tapped his wings. There was also a
chime of bells set in motion by the clocks
machinery. The wonderful piece of
mechanism-pecuiiarly wonderful for it's
time-ran for nearly 200 years. The second
clock was finished in 1874. The cock was
taken from the old clock and placed on top