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The New York Erenisg Post. a VERY
conservative paper which was recently
honorei by the Upton Coas.rudtir.
10 the extent OF long editorial copied
with approval, reviews the Prs>iden-
tial qu e>tion in ali il hearings. A.
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gal. rather than q sentimental settle
ment-it concludes that the contem-
plated plan Of the Democracy would
lie both sentimental and revolutionary:
the legal settlement being in counting
for Hayes the l>5 votes which he has
received. 1t believes that influential
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TO this result.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-12-21

The Mississippi election has not been
Investigated yet. and there i no incli-
nation on the part of the Democratic
House TO have the subject opened up.
But fefore the Senate Committee
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two Of bright light will illuminate the
darkness
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
The Holiday Recess.
THE ARCTIC WAVE,

EAsTPoRT, Dec. 17.-Intensely cold; mercury
IL below zero this morning.
BANGOR, Dec. 17.-Saturday forenoon the
weather was mild and agreeable. In the after
noon squalls of wind prevailed, the tempera-
ture falling rapidly and the cold became in
tense. At - o'clock at night the mercury stood
at II below zero; at 8 o'clock Sunday morning
IA below; att, 20 below. During the day it
ranged from to IL below.
BATH, Dec. 17-Weather is clear and cold.
Mercury at sunrise this morning was Is below.
The Kennebec river is open and navigable to
this city.
WooDsvILLE, Dec. 17.-This has been the
coolest day this season, with the wind blowing
q gale. A freight train north on the White
Mountain branch of the Boston, Con cord g.
Montreal Railroad, collided with car which
had been blown from side track near White
field, demolishing the car and damaging the
engine considerably. No one was injured
CLEVELAND, Dec. ia large number of
houses were unroofed by the gale last night.
and in some instances the sides of buildings
were crushed in The steeple of the St. Ma
lachi's church, one of the highest in the city.
was blown entirely off. A part of the roof Of
the Weddell House was blown off No loss of
life. -0'' VI
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18

NEW YORK. December 1916 90 p. M-Ashes are
unchanged with moderate demand at rs for potts.
Cotton quiet and steady; sales liza bales ordinary
uplands, Alabama, New Orleans and Texas at 101;
ordinary stained 10 middling uplands 12sc; do AL
ALBANIA at 124 do New Orleans and Texas at IL 5-I6;
do stained III: delivered contract 400 bales: fu-
lures are quiet at LIE advance. receipts $3.50
bbs; the market isdulIand prices generally without
decided change though the tendency is in buyers ia
vor; sales $4,000 bbls No at 80 q 80; Superfne
Western and Stateat 10 @ 5 80; common to good
extra Western and State As q 65; good to choice
Western and State at rs q 5 rs; common to choice
White Wheat Western extra at 5 80 q 90; Fancy
White Wheat Western extra at 05 a 8 90; common
to good extra Ohio at As 9 90; common to choice
extra st Louis at so a 25; Patent Minnesota ex-
ira good prime at 80 q 80; choice to double
ira at IS q 60, including 2l00 bbls Of low grade
extra at As q 55 $50 bbls medium extra at 60 a
25; 2200 bbs OF Minnesota at 70 q 80; 1400 bbs
City Mills extra at 5 so q 3O the market closing
dull Southern flour quiet and dropping; sales 90
bbls; common to fair extra at As q Is; good to
choice do at so a IS. Rye -four is dull; sales of
$50 bbls at 35 q 10 per Dbl for superfine. Corn
meal quiet and unchanged; sales 1900 bbls; Western
Jersey and Penn at 80 a 8 10; Brandywine at IS.
Wheat-receipts 6S 400 bush; the market is shade
frmer owing to advance of Railroad freigtts from
the West; port demand limited and some little
speculative inquiry; sales $4,000 bush 10 a 25 for
ungraded Spring; 25 for No 3 Milwaukee; 81 for
soon; / 30 tor fancy Amber Indiana and nominally;
No Chicago at 80 q "a; No 2 Milwaukee 1 IS a
80. Rye dull and declining at so @ "a for Western;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
MINOR TELGERAMS,

The Sandman has.arrived at Halifax.
Elkanah Ingalls, and wife of Providence were
suffocsted in their bed yesterday morning.
Ex-GOv. VIM. G. Cozzens died at Newport
yesterday.
st. Joseph's Catholic church in HayerhilI
was dedicated yesterday.
Byrt q Bullen's tannery at Chicago was
burned Saturday night. Insurance $4,000.
The st. Charles Hotel at Toledo was burned
Saturday night with loss of $40 900.
The gambling houses in Washington were
closed Friday night in anticipation of q raid.
The New Hampshire constitutional conyen-
ton has adjourned.
Dennis Mahoney was killed at Lowell Satur-
day on the Boston & Lowell railroad.
Friend & Co.'S paper lnill at Carlton, Ohio,
was burned Saturday. Loss S25, 900.
Two large barns belonging to the estate of
Samuel Herbert in Concord were burned Satur-
day night. Loss $50OO
Eleven buildings, including the U. S. land
office in Fargo, d. T., were burned Saturday
Loss not stated.
House of Mrs james Hennessey in FIusbino.
L. l., was burned Sunday night and her child
persisted in the flames.
Edwit A. Condit, the sender of the bogus
Vanderbilt despatch, was remanded for trial to-
day without examination.
Steamship Bataria which arrived at New
York Saturday, brought 9201, 300 in specie
from Liverpool
Schooner President was wrecked on the New
foundlad coast Monday night, A sailor named
Eugene was drowned.
There is some question of the eligibility of
one of the Pennsylvania electors, it being al
legged that be was never naturalized.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18

Post office, telegraph office aud one store in
Sassnoire, Z. @ were burned Saturday night.
Loss $4,000.
Geo Marshall s. CO. saw aud planning mill
near Greenfield,s Ia, was buried Saturday.
Loss $4,000.
Gen. William f. Bartlett died at Pittsfield,
yesterday. His funeral will take place We'd
nesday.
A passenger believed to be j. Marriott jumped
from the steamer Seavy on the passage from
Baltimore to Norfolk, Friday, and was drown
ed.
The gunboat Gettysburg has made further
examination of the recently discovered coral
reef and full reports have been forwarded to
the navy department.
Capt. Collins of the schooner Howard, was
struck by lightning on the 18th inst; one OF the
crew named Geo. Miller was washed over
board.
1t is rumored that the differences betwe
the various managers of railroads have been
settled and that all have signed an agreement
that will preclude further hostilites
Giovanni Giovachna who in Boston killed
Nicholas Avignone, his bed fellow, in july
last; was sentenced Saturday to Imprisonment
for life.
Senator Morton has gone to Indanapolis,
lie had brief conversation with Gov. Hayes
on the way. The Herald says the rumored
western Democratic conspiracy is the reason
for his trip.
Rev. Isaac M. Lee, pastor of the Wicklffe
Slicce IItSDyterldQ CnurCn IN Newark, mas
been arraigned before the Newark Presbytery
for allowing woman to preach from his pull
pit
Senator Morton's friends say that his trip
West was for purely private business. 1t is ru-
mored, however, that it had some connection
with the alleged Democratic movement and
was to counterfeit it.
Representative Stephens of Georgia, over his
own signature, says the statement that he is
advising a friendly acceptance by the people of
the South of the Inauguration of Hayes, is ut
terly unfounded
A large meeting of prominent business me
of New York of both parties was held Friday
night. 1t is considered an initial movement to
wards adopting some pIen to be submitted to
the country to obvIate the present. difficulties In
the interest of business men of the country.
In Julinxton, Burlington county, N. j.,
John Hageman, storekeeper and conspicu GUS
resident was shot Friday night by one Pancrast
constable, who charged him with illicit intl-
macy with his wife. Hageman will probably
die. PancraSt was arr rested
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
Daily Domestic Receipts.

BY BOSTON & MAINE Observation-Disclosures s.
True cart corn, w q Co do corn. KimbalI q
Bates do oats. Norton, Chapman g Co l do -four,
9 NJ Rice g Co do paper, John D Lord do shocks,
Geo HINT q Co do -four, Rufus Deering s. Co
do -four, Josselyn g. Co do flour, W Milliken do
-four, King, Gilman & Co do lumber, Alex Ed
monds do shingles, w y Walker & Co 8 do corn,
c Bartlett do corn, David Keazer 1 do -four D W
Coolidge Sdo -four, Kensell, Tabor s. Co 2 do corn,
WIS Sturdevant do lumber. Hill Manu'f Co do
cotton Jones q Bradford do corn, Parrot & Chase
Maine Central Railroad 16 do merchandise Portland
q Ogdensburg Railway do merchandise Portland
II do misunderstanding.
j Fiske car flour, d Keazer 2 do -four Paris
FIGURING Co do corn, John Lord do shocks, S
do flour, Norton, c q Co do flour, JosseIyn & Co
do -four, g " True q Co do -four, D W Coolidge 4
do flour, D Morton do -four, s W Thaxter do
PARROT q Chase I do corn, H Burren & Sons do
corn, Cabot Man'fg Go do cotton--Saturday.
By water conveyance-1000 bush cornmeal to G
w. True e. Co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-John l. Davenport
and Senator Morton had an interview with the
President Thursday in relation to the rumor
that the Democrats are banding themselves to-
gether for the purpose of inaugurating Mr.. Til
den on the 4th of March. On inquiry today at
the Department of Justice, the Attorney Gere-
raj said he had heard of such rumors, but that
ne had received nothing in confirmation of
them.
the last sessions Investigation into the all
legged frauds connected with the Venezuelan
mixed commission was reopened today by the
House Committee of Foreign Affairs, which
had before it as witness, A. B. Carmine, a
claims agent.
1t is quite probable that the House commit
tee on the consular and diplomatic bill will
make no change in it, although Secretary Fish
strongly favors the re-estabshment of minis
ters to Greece, Portugal, Switzerland and the
Netherlands
There were 400 employees of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing discharged today, near
y, one half of the force of the entire bureau.
About two.thirds of the victims were women,
many being press girls who have been employ
Cd oy printers Those discharged have been
eApecung IL for some time, owing to the recent
action of the government in giving the work of
printing the revenue strmps to bank note COM
panles instead of the Engraving and Printing
Bureau.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-The Herald considers
tnat surface indications in Congress point to
peace and submission to law, as soon as law
snail haye been declared.
The Holiday Recess.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Speaker Randall and
several other leading Democrats are known to
favor sessions of the House during holiday
week, and their views have been strengthened
Dy Representative Morrison's telegram from
New orleans, urging that in view Of the posi-
PIE need OF the exercise of the power of the
House against continuation witnesses. the u.s.
uaI holiday recess should not be taken
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
Foreign Notes.

Servia has appealed to Gen Ignateff to obtain
a representation at the conference.
The new Turkish constitution has received
the assent of the Gear.
Vienna correspondent Of the London Times
says many soldiers of the army of Southern
Russia are sick and chest complaints are very
prevalent.
Considerable indignation is excited in Paris
by the announcement that an alliance has been
formed between Germany and Spain.
Won Bismarck s action in severely censuring
the French government on account of the
wrong done to German commerce by French
export duties on iron, causes much indignation
in France, and is looked on as evidence of his
eumity and desire to see how far he can pro-
woke the French people.
A Pesth Despatch says the Porte will refuse
to cede any territory or permit foreign occupa-
ton.
The famine in Madras is worse than in Bonn
bay. Large numbers of starving people are
f1ockng into Madras.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
Bank Statement.


NEW YoRK, December 1912. Is p.m.-Gold opened
at luz and is now 107a Governments and and low
er. Money at per cent State bonds dull and
steady Stocks active and better. Stirling Exchange
long, 482; do short 1874,
The Executive Committee of the Gold Ercbanoe
announce that the Bank of the State of New York
made proposition to the Gold Exchange to do the
clearing OF contracts and the Committee are now in
close conference with the bank and will come to some
conclusion next week. II the proposition is accepted
the business Will be transferred to the Bank of the
State.
The Gold Exchange Bank will probably either
wind up OF reduce its capital to $25O,0OO. The Ma
tonal Bank of the Republic has reduced its capital
from 81, 900, 900 to 1900 OO
There was an animated crowd in the Lake Shore
corner of the Stock Exchange this morning, and up-
on large purchases consequent upon the announced
vanced from SO to !94. ~"
At noon the market was firm, and prices were gen.
orally higher Michigan Central rose to AS Western
Union to 12e, st Paul preferred to 533, New York
Central 1854, ex-div, and Rock Island to 1901 These
were the principal stocks in which much business
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
Forty Fourth Congressional Session.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
The House passed an amendment to the most
office approximation bill increasing the appro-
priation for the transportation of mails on
steamboats,, &c.
- Inc resolution instructing the Judiciary
Committee to say what action the House shonld
take to enforce the production of telegraph de-
spatches by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
was passed.
The House then proceeded to the special
order which was the delivery of euloges on the
Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs Ham,
llton, Kelley, Raymond, Monroe, Holman,
Burchard, Cox, Clymer and other.
resolutions OF sorrow were adopted. Ad-