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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-06
Forty Fourth Congress-First Session
SENATE

SENATE
WASHINGTON, May s.
The resolution accepting the invitation to at
tend the opening ceremonies of the Centennial
on the 10th inst, and providing that when
Congress adjourn on Tuesday it be to Friday
the 18th inst, was taken up and adopted.
After the impeachment business was con-
Guided several House bills were referred to the
appropriate committees, after which Senate
went into executive session and at o'clock ad.
journed.
HOUSE.
The Committee on Public Buildings reported
resolution appropriating $4,000 for securing a
more thorough ventilation of the hall of Rep
resentatives. Adopted.
About sixty private bills were passed.
Mr.. Blount of Georgia, from the Appro pra-
ton Committee, reported the naval appropria-
Monday next The bill appropriates $12,806,-
S55 1t contains provision looking to the sale
of naval hospitals at Annapolis and Washing
ton, and directs them to be closed during the
next fiscal year; also provision looking to the
sale OF navy yards at Charleston, Washington
and Pensacola, and to the recession of the nav
al station at New London; directs the establish
ment of naval rendezvous at Tybee Island or
or Cookson. in Georgia. 1t orders the stopping
OF enlistments in the navy until the number of
enlisted men is reduced to 1900.
Mr.. Hunton of Virginia, from the Judiciary
Committee. reported back favorably the Senate
amendments to the House bill permitting Judge
McCandlers of Pennsylvania, to retire on full
pay. The principal amendment is one requir-
ing his resignation to be made within six
months.
Mr.. Holman of Indiana, moved to lay the
bill and amendments on the table as extending
the limits of the civil pension list, which was
antagonistic to the idea of Republican govern.
ment.
Without action on the bill the House at 40
o'clock adjourned.
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Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK. May 5-Evening UNCHANGED
receipts IO77S bbls; sales 14,o;bbls; No2 N ~
$50; superfne Western and State at 10 q %; ex
ira Western and State at 80 a so; good to choice
do at 5 % q 8 O White Wheat Western extra at
Is a ZOO; Fancy White Wheat Western at Of D
extra Ohio at 80 @7 co.; extra st Louis at 25 n,
90; Patent Minnesota extra at 30 a 7 So; donhIe
extra at 40 "a So; Southern at so q 90. RIVE
-four is steady at 10 q Is. CornmeaI is steady at
275@365. Wheat-receipts 900 bush; sales of
$4,000 bush the market is 1c better with brisk eS
port demand, largely for continent, also some little
milling inquiry; 95c for grade Spring; 10 for No
Spring; 20 for old No North Western in store !:
q a 80 for No Spring, latter very choice; OK
for no grade Winter Red Western; a for White
Michigan; SO for White Canada in store in bond ::
Is for soft soft Mo- Minnesota; II for Mixed
Spring and nominaly; Is q 1 10 for No2 Chicago.
Rye more active. Barley unchanged. Corn-recei5ts
$4,000 bush sales lbs, 900 bush the market is 6 1e
lower with fair business doing in export and home
use; SOC for no grade Mixed 60 q e2tc for steamer
Mixed; 62a q CSC for graded Mixed; So a 64sc for
ungraded new Western Mixed, latter Kansas; GA "a
65c for new Yellow Oats lc better and more active
receipts 707 bush; sales 900 bush 81 a 800 for
Mixed Western ana State; Az "a SIC for White Wes-
tern, including rejected at 81 % 3sc; No2 Mixed
New York inspection at Al a 42c; No White at 44A
g 45c: No Chicago in store and afoat at ii a 43c
hay is steady Coffee is quiet and steady ;cargoes at
ISL @ 1slc gold job lots at 15s q 1890 gold. Sugar
quiet and unchanged at 9-1G q 1316c for fair to
good refining; 15l6c for prime. Moasses steady at
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MINOR TELEGRAmS.

The Rochester Express denies foolish story
started in Washington that Senator Conkling
was dscreditably concerned in patent lock
case.
Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned yester-
day.
The jury in tho Fehrenbeck whiskey case at
San Francisco disagreed and were discharged.
The jury is now being investigated. !
Judge Ell. S. johnson died at Santa Fe sn
Thursday.
The jetty officials at New Orleans claim a
depth of II feet of water in the channel.
The Boz I'd of Appeals of the National Trot-
ting Association has decided that trotting for a
purse for the exhibition of speed does not con-
stitute race.
Hon. Geo. G. Peavy the blind lawyer of
Strafford, N. Y, died yesterday.
Base bal-St. Louis Browns i, Chicago
Whites 0; Hartfords 4, Mutuals 8.
By direction of the President the original of
the Declaration of Independence will be ex-
hibted in Independence Hall throughout the
exhibition.
The Methodist Conference at Baltimore
thanked the commissioners for closing the
Centennial buildings and grounds on the Sab
BATH
A mass Sunday School convention and teach
ers institute will be held at Hartford, VT, May
10th and 11th
1925 per day has been fixed as the standard
rate for the Ottawa brick layers aud the ma.
sons.
Everything is now quiet at the coal mines
about Cleveland.
Judge Brady of New York yesterday reLder-
ed decision expellng the Relief Fire Com
pany for insuring steamboats, at less rates than
those fixed by the Fire Underwriters Board. n
Dom Pedro arrived in Chicago yesterday
Several of the mill cOrporatons of Fall River
are affected by the failure of Harvey Arnold &
Co., of North Adams, the whole amount being
little short of $4,000.
The SANDER case of Rev. r. f. Parshall VS..
z. Ii. Sumner, both of San Francisco, has re-
suited in verdict of $4,000 for plaintiff
Invernal revenue receipts yesterday $3.50, 1852;
customs $25S, 156.
No further trouble with the Chiricuaua' H.
dams is apprehended.
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er. The people rose on the 14th of April, when
the troops joined them, and by the advice OF
the American and British consuls, the Presi-
dent resigned. Some 5000 troops were with
in thirty-fve miles of Port an Prince on the
18th.
When Gen. Largalt went to that city in ad-
vance of his army, the mob accused him OF de-
signs upon the presidency, murdered him,
threw his body into the street and horribly
mutilated it. The cry was then raised to at.
tack the palace.
The French and Spanish consuls offered the
President and Vice President the shelter of the
consulate, and accompanied by. the two consuls
the executive officers started for the French
consus house, but were met in the street by
the revoutionists and one of them shot the
Vice President dead on the spot. The Presi-
dent was wounded before the party gained the
inside of the French consulate, where they
were besieged two days. Afterwards the Pres.
ident got on schooner and was taken to st.
Thomas where he is now.
The popular vengeance was then appeased,
order restored, and provisional committee,
with Gen. Canul at the head, was chosen. 1t
will be at least two months before matters
will be sufficiently quieted to hold the senate
and chamber election.
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BELKNAP'S IMPEACHMENT.
The Question of Jurisdiction Still Under
Discussion.

The Question of JurisdictiOn Still Under
Discussion.
WASHINGTON, May Sin the impeachment
trial Mr.. Carpenter for the respondent, begun
his argument on the question of jurisdiction,
After reviewing the pleadings in the case he
said that he would endeavor to show first, that
articles OF impeachment could not be entertain
ed against any private citizen in any case what
ever, and second, that whenever articles of i'm
parchment were exhibited they must set forth
every fact essential to constitute a crime i'm
peachable. He said he would confne himself
IN ms argument to legal questions, and would
be as brief as possible, and as dry as a stick.
Mr.. carpenter argued that the man who
framed the constitution never had the slightest
idea that anybody but public officer could be
impeached. The debates all showed that i'm
parchment was intended as a check upon those
in power.
After recess Mr.. Carpenter resumed his ar
gumeut. This court more than any other, was
bound by its previous decisions. In the case of
President johnson, counsel for the House OF
Representatives claimed as was claimed by the
counsel for the defence now, that impeachment
was not Intended as means of furnishing a
criminal, but removing from office an unfit or
corrupt official; such also was the uniform ar
gument in the opinion of such Senators as had
filed them in support of this statement. Mr..
Carpenter quoted from the numerous authori-
ties to show that fractions of day could be
noticed, and said he had certainly not supposed
that it would be sought to convict the defend
ant, or that the Senate would be asked to hold
jurisdiction on legal fiction. In conclusion,
he said the proceeding of impeachment was
confined to those holding Office at the time
when the impeachment was commenced.
Manager Knott followed in behalf of the
managers. He said the real question before the
court was whether they exercised the functions
devolved upon them as the highest court known
to our government by virtue of constitutional
power, or merely at the will or pleasure of the
accused. The only case in his judgment from
which legitimate analogy to the case under
discussion could be drawn was the case of
Judge Barnard in New York, and that, he
claimed, supported the position taken by the
managers, for the court had there held that
Barnard could be tried for acts done in former
term of Office.
The meaning of the constitution was not to
be judged from what some of the trainers of it
had SAID in the convention, but from what they
did, There was not solitary syllable in any
of the provisions Of the Constitution which
limited the power of the House of Representa-
tives to prefer or of the Senate to try articles
of impeachment to the time during which the
party accused shall remain in office, or to any
other time whatever.
Without concluding, Mr.. Knott suffering
physical pain, asked an adjournment, and the
Senate, as court of impeachment adjourned
till Monday.
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Grimes and Casualties

Otis W. Sargent, a Boston cigar store keeper,
committed suicide yesterday by shooting.
The amount embezzed by cashier Soloman in
$1,000.
William Brown, charged with setting fire to
two houses in East Cambridge, was held for
trial yesterday.
House and barn of S. E. Jacobs at Amherst,
N. I'll was burned yesterday. Mr.. Jacobs and
two children had narrow escape.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday night, mould.
eers were attacked and beaten on their way
home, by twenty or thirty strikers, and one ia
tally shot. No arrests have been made.
.Addie Sherman, young girl, living at Sea-
view, who had been betrayed by her lover,
drowned herself Thursday,
Frank Shevlin has been arrested and identi.
fed as the person who robbed President Apple
ton of the Haverhill Bank on the 3Oth of
March.
Ezra s. Goodwin and William Fogg were
convicted in Boston yesterday of blackmailing
Ferdinand Geldowski
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NEW YORK.
The RaiIr0ad wur


NEW YORK, May 5,-The railroad war still
continues. The companies are suspicious of
each other and state that the freight tar iff has
been violated.
The Grand Trunk Railroad propose reduc-
ing largely the rates of freights and passengers
between Buffalo and Detroit, IN few days,
thus forcing matters. Eastward bound freight
rates are down to Is and 20 cents today COM
pared with % cents ten days ago. Six hundred
carloads of freight averaging 20 cents, arrived
today by the New York Central, and 26O car
loads were despatched westward.
Various Matters.
The demand for silver in exchange for frac.
tional currency was somewhat heavier to-day
than for three days past and $4,000 were paid
out up to noon.
No cable dispatches Eto the associated press
have been received from London since ten
o'clock last night.
Half million dollars in gold were paid out
up to noon today for interest on bonds due May
LIST.
Justice Downing is speechless and his early
death is probable.
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The Louisiana Disturbance

NEW ORLEANS, May 5.-Acting Governor
Antoine has offered $4,000 reward for the arrest
of the sCoushatta assassin. Advices received
at the State House report that Senator witch
ell is still living, but is in precarious condi-
ton. His left arm has been amputated and
the right arm is so badly shattered that the
doctors propose to take it off also
Communications received this morning from
West Feliciana parish state that Weber, State
Senator, Dula, Parish Judge, and Armstead,
ex-member of the House Of Representatives,
have been driven out of the parish by regula-
tors and compelled to take to the woods. Their
fates are unknown.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
The WinsI0w Case in the III 0use of Com
mons.

mons.
LONDON, May AIN the House of Lords to-
night Lord Derby IN replying to the question of
Mr.. Granville in regard to the Winsow case,
said the government had sent despatch to
the United States which could hardly have
reached Washington yet and until the result of
the pending negotiations was known. it would
be inconvenient to put all the papers before the
House.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, conservative
member for Christ Church, announced that
he would ask Mr.. Bourke, under Secretary
for the Foreign Department, whether the Unit
ed States had given notice of the abrogation
of the extradition clause of the Ashburton
treaty.
LONDON, May 5.-In the House of Commons
last night, Attorney General Sir John Halker,
replying to Mr. Gourley, said that the papers
in the Winslow case are now being printed and
will be presented as soon as the correspondence
with the United States, which still continues,
is completed. The papers will contain full in
formation on the subject. He hoped, under
the circumstances Mr.. Gourley would not
press for a further statement.
Mr.. Bourke, under Secretary of the Foreign
Department, answering a question by Mr..
Puiester, said he had nothing to add to the
Attorney Generals reply.
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HURRICANE ISLAND.
Calderwood House, e. A. CaIdcrwood,
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THE CENTE NNIAL.
Accommodations for the Press-SaIe of
Liquors, etc.

Accommodations for the Press-SaIe Of
Liquors, etc.
PHILADELPHIA, May 5.-The question of
finding accommodations for newspaper repre-
sentatives at the opening ceremonies Wednes.
day, has been settled by an arrangement for the
issuance of about 400 tickets to such journalists
as will apply for them at the office Of the Blu
reau of Revenue, No. 904 Walnut street. No
invitations have been or will be extended to
newspaper representatives. This is the extent
of thesprovision made for the fraternity so far
as relates to the opening ceremonies
The first eastern travelling annodnceme Mt
here, is by the Boston and Stonington route.
Other lines will follow.
AT the session of the Centennial Commission
yesterday, Mr.. Nye of Maine, from the com.
mittee to consider the question of the sale of
liquors at the exhibition, presented the opinion
of the solicitor of the commission, Mr.. Shoe
maker, as co the legality of the concessions that
had been granted to hundred persons for the
sale of intoxicating drinks within the EXPOSE
ton grounds and buildings Mr.. Shoemaker
sustains the action of the commission in giving
contracts for the restricted sale of liquors. No
action was taken by the commissioners.
The Empress of Brazil arrived yesterday af.
ternoOn
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Elm House, Nathan Church g. Sons, Pro-
prietors.
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A Notwithstanding Remedv

The wonderous organ that crowns the edifce of
man not only the seat of reflection and the home
ofidealty but it is the governing centre of the
GUS system. When it is overweight, unduly excit-
ed, affected by Irregularities of those bodily Or
gans with which it most closely sympathizes all the
suffer, and the general health is impaired.
The why Hostetters Stomach Bitters exercise
such soothing influence upon the brain is, that
they remove those digestive and bilious derange-
ments which react injuriously upon it and that in
relieving irritation or weakness of the great sympa
thetic nerve which connects the stomach and the
BRAIN they benefciay affect the latter organ as well
as the former. Sound Sleep clearness Of mind, easy
digestion and freedom from biousness are insured
by this prime regulative tonic and pefVine.
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CHICAGO, May 5.-Cattle-receipts 40C0 head: tbe
market is active and shade higher fair to good stock
ers 7S q %; shipping Is "a 80; fancy rs; sales
mostly at % q 4 IS; shipments $500 head.
Hogs active and shade frmer; receipts 10 .0oO
head; light 90 OF 10; mixed packers ZOO a 05:
shipping 10 q %; Philadelphia 40@ 50; shin
ments 1000.
Sheep-receipts small market is scarce and higher
and only sales at rs @675.
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MEXICO.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 5-Col. Quinta-
ma with 200 federals occupy Nueva Laredo.
Col. Fotmeyer with 800 revolutionists is out
side preparing for an attack. There is consid-
cradle excitement at Predras. The negro rev.
olutionsts with 800 men are waiting outside
for reinforcaments before attacking the place.
Most of the federal custom house officials in
Eagle have passed over into Texas for safety.
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BRUNSWICK, ME.
r.. n. Dining Rooms, w. K. Field,
Proprietor.
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POLITICAL.
Georgia Republican Convention.
A Plurality OF the Delegation for
Blaine.

ATLANTA, March 5.-The Republican state
convention adjourned at midnight after two
days session. The delegates at large to the
Cincinnati convention are thought to stand
Morton 5, Bristow 6, Conkling 3, Blaine s.
There are 13 white and colored delegates. The
convention endorsed the Administered ion of
Gen. Grant,
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The 81. Louis Wbiskev Cascs

ST. LOUIS, May 5.-In the District Court this
morning, Attorney Dyer moved sentence upon
the several storekeepers and gaugers who plead
ed guilty. but their attorney desired the privi-
lege of presenting statement of facts in writ
ing. The court granted until tomorrow to pre-
pare affidavits to that effect.
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BY BOSTON AND MAINE RAnRoAp.-Josselyn &
Co car -four, Order do flour, Union Steam Mills l
do flour, w King do -four King, Gilman & Co 1
do flour, w q G Il Milliken do flour, Norton, Chap
10 cars of merchandise, M r Is cars merchan-
disc, & OF car mercqandise, Portland Is
cars of merchandise.
By water conveyance-1OOO bush cornmeal to G.
W, Irue az Co.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS in NAME
Sudden Death.

Sudden Death.
SKowHEGAN, May 5.-George A. Fletcher,
Register of Probate for Somerset county, died
very suddenly this morning of heart disease at
his residence in North Arson.
Memorial Day.
BANGOR, May 5.-Gen. Tilson of Rockland,
will deliver an address in this city Memorial
dow
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
The North Adams Failure,

SPRINGFIELD, May 5.-The failure of Har-
vey, Arnold. & Co., OF North Adams, print
works. crrrying down five other cotton mills, is
even more disastrous in its results than at first
appeared. The liabilities, it lis thought, will
rise over rather than fall below the estimated
81, 100000. and not less than 1900 men, women
and children are thrown out of work.
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DIED.
In Brunswick, May 3, Mr.. Abner H. Harmon, aged

In Brunswick, May 8, Mr. Abner H. Harmon, aged
46 years.
wick, aged IS years.
In South Paris, May a. Albion B. Andrews.
at Grand Forks, Dakota, Territory, of congestion
of lungs James Deering. aged 3S years-son of Ma
thaniel Deering of Portland.
In Matanzas, Cuba, April 26, suddenly. Henry Au-
gustus, eldest son of j. K. and F. f. Merrill of Fall
mouth, aged q years months
B= The funeral services of the late Rev. T. B.
Bipley will take place at 5 O'Clock Saturday after
noon. at the First Baptist Church, corner of Con-
gress and Wimot streets.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERC IAL
Portland Wholesale Market.

FRIDAY, May 5-Grain is dropping off slightly but
continues in fair demand Corn is lower and quoted
at 66c for car loads Flour is rather declining al
though prices show but little change. Sugars con-
tinue firm with no change. Teas and tobacco are
dull and quiet.
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Do you have pain in your back in the morning,
and is it with difficulty you move in your bed? Ifso
your Kidneys diseased. Do not plasters. they
will do you NO good; take HUNTS REMEDY and be
cured. HUNTS REMEDY cures Dropsy and all Dis
eases of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organs.
my2 eodSw1w
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HAyTE.
The Recent KeYOlutIOn.

New YORK, May "a merchant of this
city, recently residing in Hayti, says the revo,
wastefulness of Vice President Ramieo, to
whom President Dominique delegated all pow
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Foreign REPORTS

CORK. Brig E H Williams-2O,263 bush wheat,
II, 707 # lumber.
ST. JOHN. NIB. Br Schr Little Annie-1OO0 bbls
flour, 1925 gals refined oil.
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GALVESTON, May 5.-Governor Richard
Coke was elected q. S. Senator today.
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MARRIED..

N Hallowell, May 2, by Rev. Mr.. Tllden, Rev. W.
4. Newcombe and Miss Nellie f. Rowell, both Of
HalloweIl. "a vi
In Auburn, April %, VIM, A. Braley and Miss An
ME Rhodes, both of Lewiston.
In Kockland, April IL, Charles Wilson OF Rockland
and Miss Cloelia +. Amesbury Of Rockport.
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South Carolina Democratic Convention.
COLUMBIA, May 5.-The Democratic State
Convention today elected Delegates at Large TO
the National Convention. Delegates are unin.
structed.
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The project of establishing state home for
the aged at Concord, n. H., is likely to succeed.
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FO II E s Il Il r..

.'For long time have been great sufferer from
Bronchitis for which have tried your Forest Tar.
using the second my cough was very much relieved
and my sleep was free from that choking sensation
which made breathing difficult and distressing. Now
after using few bottles, am perfectly free from
every trace of my trouble. believe it to be all you
claim for it and much more" Thus writes Mr.. j.
W, Mcintosh, of Portland, Me. Ask your druggist
for the Forest Tar preparation.
oct15 sn9m
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Boston stock Market.
[Sales at the Brokers' Board, May 5. ]

IS Eastern Railroad. Observation-Disclosures. IL
Second Call.
Boston & Maine Railroad. .......... .1O14
llV Ldsteru hdllrOdu 114
25 .......... do ....................... III
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u. 8. Senator from Texas

Failing barometer, sonth-easteriy winds veer--
rainy weather, clearing away at night.
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Chicago Cattle Market.

Providence Print Cloths Market,
PROVIDENCE, May 5.--Printing Cloths market
steady at SIC for best 64x64s with limited sales.