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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
One Danger of Rlua Glass.

1t seems that the excitement about the cura.
tive properties of blue glass, which filled up 50
much space in the newspapers little while
ago, has bren productive in certain instances OF
more harm than such periodical epidemics, ii
we may call them so, usually are.
That blue glass has any curative properties
remains yet to be proved; but that glass of that
color will concentrate the rays OF the sun, in a
lesser degree, as the common burning glass
does, was known before General Pleasanton' s
book was printed and made so much of by the
newspapers. A gentleman of Brooklyn suffer-
ing from weakness of sight was recently led by
the advice of we'll l-meaniDg friends to use spec
tacles of blue glass, such as certain opticians
are selling just now. The result was that his
eyes, already too weak to be used much in or
dinary circumstances were exposed to a terri
BILE glare and heat, which in less than q week
entirely destroyed the eyesght of the sufferer.
He is now totally blind. This is fact, and the
gentleman would doubtless be glad to have 9TH
er sufferers from weak eyes know of his case
and draw a moral therefrom. Another similar
instance has come under our observation, a
young lady being in this case the dupe of the
blue glass enthusiasts.
1t is worth bearing in mind that the only
property in blue glass that has been proved is
its power to concentrate the rays of the sun
and produce extraordinary heat. One of the
most efficient methods employed in Siberia to
blind political prisoners is to pass before the
eyes OF the captives bright steel blade heated
to red heat; but it seems likely that with the
march of civilization the Russian iailers will
adopt another method which will produce ex.
actly the same result that is, they.will try blue
glass.-N. Y. Post.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
HOSPITAL Sunday.

1t is very fitting that the day set apart by
the Christian world for the special service of
Him who healed the sick should be selected
by the churches as the day on which offerings
may be made for the relief of those afflicted
by disease. The beautiful custom of Hospital
Sunday is in the very spirit of the teachings
of our Lord and its wider observance is sig
nifcant of the growth of Christian charity.
The usage was instituted in England many
years ago, and one Sunday in each year is set
apart by clergymen of all denominations for
the presentation of the claims of hospitals
upon Christian sympathy and support. 1t
has crossed the water, and has been adopted
in many parts of this country.
Last year the practice was begun in our
city churches in aid of the noblest and most
extensive charity in the State, the Maine
General Hospital. This year the practice
will, it is hoped, become more general, AMI
be observed by the.pastor of every church in
Maine. The claims of this institution upon
the people are strong. Its doors are open to
all men who need its ministrations, the SER
vices of the physicians and surgeons who
have charge of its wards are rendered with
out compensation and the number of poor pa
tients treated within its walls is already con-
siderable. 1t is doing much good, but its ia
cilities for charitable work are yet small be-
cause of its limited pecuniary res sources.
Applications for admission are almost daily
made from persons who are victims of severe
and protracted suffering, and who require,
for restoration or relief, not only skil,ful sur
gerry but subsequent hospital treatment.
These persons are unable to pay the fees
which the Hospital is obliged to
to ask in order to provide for it's
maintenance. But small proportion of
those applying for gratuitous treatment can
yet be received, though twenty-six free pa
tients occupied beds in the institution during
the last year, exclusive of those supported by
contributions from private sources. 1t is for
the benefit of poor and deserving patients
like these that contributions are solicited.
1t is believed by the directors that by sim
ultaneous action in our churches, funds
enough can be obtained to provide annually
many free beds Tor the benefit Of the deserv-
ing poor. The smallest contributions, such
as may come within the means of all, will, il
only large in number, aggregate enough to
pay the necessary expenses of many patients.
But "whatever the amount realized, such of.
ferings," as the directors point out in their
appeal to the curches, ''whether large OF
small, would not fail to do good in directing
the public mind and heart to the object it.
self, which is one of the most important and
the most bene6cent in its results of all Chris.
tian charities" With this belief they have
set apart the second Sunday in June, next
Sabbath, for the Inauguration of Hospital
Sunday in Maine, Let the appeal be heartily
responded to, and the churches of the state
endeavor to mitigate in as great degree as
possible the terrible suAerings of the impov-
erished sick.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

AN enormous engineering work is in pro-
gress to provide Baltimore with water, the
present supply being bad in quality and inad-
equate in quantity. The new source is the
Gunpowder river, nine miles from the city,
and the water is to be brought through tun-
mel seven miles long, cut through a noun
tain. This will be the longest tunnel in
America, circular in shape, and twelve feet
in diameter. Five miles of the distance is
very hard rack, and the drilling is done by
manual labor, power drills being impractical
BILE in such small space. The rest of the
way will be bricked. Fifteen shafts have been
sunk. The cost is estimated at $3,O0O,O0O.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

TRINITY College is in the midst of de-
cided unpleasantness over its colors. The
present green and white fails to please the
Hartford bellies, whose compilations are made
to look "just horrid'' by such unsympathetic
colors, and in spirit of gallantry which does
honor to the students, meeting which was
held on Thursday voted to change them to
blue and silver gray. But on Friday second
meeting was held, and the vote rescinded by
small verdant majority. Consequently par
ty feeling runs as high among the blue and
grays and the green and whites as it former
ly did among the famous blues and bluffs of
Eatauswill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

GRAND Duke Nicholas intends to enter
Constantinople, to make the Turks feel that
they are crushed, but does not intend to stay
there. But there is no law against Grand
Dukes changing their minds, especially when
their own dispositions are controlled by a will
superior 20 their own. So when the Grand
Duke enters the Ottoman capital he may find
it a much pleasanter place than he autici-
pated, and though ne may not feel like yield
ing to the allurements of the Seraglio or con-
tinuing his grip of the Golden Horn longer
than is necessary for the exemplary humili-
alton of the Turks, it is still possible that his
retiring disposition may be overruled by the
Gar, provided, always that a way can be
found to cut the claws and draw the teeth of
the British lion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS. FOR FUEL, FORAGE
AND STRAW.
Posr OuARTERMAsTER's OFFICE, No. l,

Posi- QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE, No. l..
1859 High Street, Boston, Mass, May 81, 1917.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in trplicate, subject to
- the usual conditions will be received at tins
office until II o'clock, noon, on june Y, isI7 at
which time and place they will bo opened IN the
presence of bidders, for Fuel, Forage ana straw,
required at the following posts:
Boston. Mass, Fort Independence. Mass, Fort
Warren, Mass, Fort Preble, Portland, Me- Fort at
Andrews, Sewall, Phoenix. Mass; Portland Forts
McCleary, Knox, Sullivan, Popham, Gorges, Maine,
and Fort Constitution, N. H., during the period
commencing July ist, and ending December 81, 1877.
Payment for the supplies depends upon future
appropriation for the purpose by Congress.
preference will be given to articles of domestic
production.
Blank proposals and full information as to the
manner of bidding, conditions to be observed by
bidders, and terms of contract and payment will be
furnished on application to this office.
Envelopes containing proposals should be marked:
proposals for ----" as the case may be, and
addressed to the undersigned.
A. G. ROBINSON, Capt. and A. @. M.
ju6 Q5tSSW lW22
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

A LARGE increase in the quantity and
value of manufactures of cotton exported in
the month of April, 1877. as compared with
the corresponding exports during April, 1876
is reported BY the Chief of the Bureau o.
Statistics. Ttis is a movement in the right
direction. The period for combining American
expectations mainly to raw products, and fo,
sending immense quantities of cotton to Eng
land, to be there manufactured and subse
quenty either sent back to our own consum
ers or to nations that should be made custom.
ers for the diversified and superior fabrics Of
our own mills, cannot be prolonged indef.
nitely, land each substantial advance beyond
this stage of industrial and commercial deg
radiation should be hailed as a national tri-
umph.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

PROFESSOR Henry A. Ward of Rochester
University has recently returned from an ex.
tended scientific tour in Europe, Asia and
Africa, in the course of which he has trav.
elled nearly $4,000 miles, and collected speci.
mems that fill 176 packing boxes. Fourteen
of these boxes contain the framework of re-
production of the great Stuttgart mastodon'
measuring 261 feet in length and sixteen feet
in height. The tusks are twenty-five feet
long. When the mastodon was found in the
far north the bones were imbedded in ice at
great depth from the surface, and the entire
frame was in an excellent state of pres
ervation, even the hair of its hide being un-
disturbed, and much Of the flesh in such per-
feet condition, after remaining for ages in
its bed of ice, that wolves and dogs were
ready to devour it when it was unearthed.
Professor Ward worked with divers in the
Red Sea and made a remarkable collection of
corals and sponges.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 2.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

There was only cigar left in box, and there
were two young hopefuls struggling for it.
The first little boy clutched it, but he said con-
solngly to his brother. "Never mind, Dick,
I'll smoke on it till get sick, and then you
can finish it." And the heart of the other lit
tie boy was comforted.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

1t is perhaps needless to say to tramps that
hearty victuals are not healthy this time of the
year. A cup of water and stalk of pie plant
are enough for tramp weighing 200 pounds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersgned by Stanley 7.
Pullen, Editor. ALI railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

1T was reported short time ago that Pope
Plus intended to celebrate the semi-centen-
tennial of his episcopal conservation by re-
constituting in Scotland the Catholic hier-
archy, as had been done in England in 1850.
Considering that Presbyterian Scotland is
about the most anti-Catholic country in the
world, this intimation causes no small excite
ment therein. Three weeks ago, however,
the matter was explained. A body of Scot
tish pilgrims waited upon the Pope on May
12. There are archbishops and bishops,
241 priests, and 233 places of worship belong
ing to the Catholic Church in Scotland. The
Pope told the pilgrims that he rejoiced at
finding himself surrounded by Catholics be-
longing to glorious country which had given
many saints to the Church. He spoke in
praise of Edinburgh, which, he said, was Just
ly called the modern Athens. The Pope add
ed that when the number of Catholics in
Scotland had sufficiently increased, he would
comply with the request of Bishop Strain in
his address, and reconstitute in that country
the Catholic hierarchy, as had been done in
England. The steady increase of Catholics
in Scotland is owing to the large number of
Irish constantly settling there.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

FoURToU, the new French Minister of the
Interior, proposes to carry matters with a
high hand according to cable despatch
which accredts him with the intention of
issuing decree prohibiting gatherings for
twenty persons. This is sort of free Gov
French people to a dangerous degree.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

Emerson says, "An eye can threaten like q
loaded and leveed gum" He means when
cooked. of course. This has no reference, we
trust to the strabismal defect in the orb of q
famous lawyer-general.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

The fly that curiosity has led to explore the
inside of the chimney of lighted lamp, acts
when it gets down to the burner very much
like young woman trying to sell young man
a ticket to church festival
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
Cap and Bells.

Ladies' Maid-enumerating her qualifications
for the place ~ may likewise hadd, mem,
that Railways manages to marry my young
ladies very satisfactory
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07
CUSTOM HOUSE, COLLECTORS OFFICE,
pnrtlan Mo LIMA Etl 1917

Portland, Me-, June 9TH, 1871.
SEALED proposals in duplicate to furnish sub
- sistence supplies, embracing meats, fish, flour,
groceries, forage fuel ice, ETC.. for the of the Ma
Tine Hospital at Portland during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1878, will be received at this Office
up to the twentieth day of June. 1877, at noon.
Schedules of the articles and quantities required will
be furnished upon application to DR.. G. S. ID. Fes
senden. surgeon in charge. The United States re-
serves the right to reject any Or all bids.
By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
LOT M. MORRILL,, Collector of Customs.
ines eod3t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

Florence: "Ihave news for you dear; Harry
Burton has got the command of the Spitfire' -
Estella: "And who on earth is Harry Burton?'
Florence: "Who? Why, you were dying for
him when he sailed two years ago." Estella:
Two years! My dear girl, one dies great
many times in two years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

Messenger-"Sire, six thousand of thy brave
men have been slain in the last assaultr' Czar
-"Ho, then! Telegraph to all the foreign pa
pers at once that another Turkish monitor has
been sunk by our torpedoes, and that not a man
escapedP' Aside: 81 fiatter myself know
how to run this war;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

When you see man who has been owing
you S. of borrowed money for year past skip
ping home with brand new shiny plug hat on,
and big basket of early strawberries daintily
carried in his right hand. it does indeed make
you feel that there are cases which the law
doesn't reach, or where man is fully justified
in being his own avenger
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

Brton 1-'OO's this Hamerican as the lord
mayor o Lunnon is dining?" Briton 2
"Hi ear is name is Grant, hand that 'es in the
harmy. but Hi cawn't say" Briton 1-"Well,
Eli never thought Hi should see the day wen a
mere Hamercan would be an hattraction in
Hold Hengland. Wot if the Hempress was to
'ear of t2''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

We learn that "a life-sze statue of Esculap-
ius' with both arms gone and broken nose, has
just been unearthed at Athens From this we
only can infer that Esculapius made some un-
accountable blunder in putin e up a prescrip-
tion for use in the family of Hercules or some
other old Hellenic hoodlum, and that the ag-
grieved individual regarded the existing
statutes as insufficient to cover the case
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

"Who's that man?" asked the Gear of his
aid the other day, pointing to a chap with
chunk of bareback in one hand and note
book in the other, who was hanging around
headquarters cycling him rather closely.
THAT" said the aid "Thats an American
newspaper correspondent from Chicago"
'Shoot him at sunset" replied his Imperial
Majesty, retiring within his tent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

A Mr.. Pott boiled over in Peoria, last week.
aud called at the office of the National Demo.
crat to thrash the editor on account of an art-
Gle that appeared in the paper The pot valiant
ipvidual successfully lodged the Office inkstand
but when the editor started to pot him with q
revolver, Pott simmered down, and thought he
would change his spot to one outside. Pottery
is at discount, now in Peoria.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

The season has arrived when the private ora
tions at the ''junor exhibition at our colleges
is announced, something after this fashion:
"1he Destruction of Jerusalem the Direct Re.
suit of the Dorr War;" Henry McFrelinghuy-
sen Smith. "The Effects of Organic Protoplasm
on the Eolic Dgamma.," Thaddeus Warsaw
Stubbs. Samson as Courthouse Architect"
William Epaminondas Pipps.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-07

journal.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-10
10 ~ Il.a'J ~ II T-TT-II z .f ' '
TRENTON'S TAX RECEIVER.
He is Found a Defdulter in the Sum of
]. tE ~ }li 'S26 600 ileI IA t1ri.ti >

% Z. % Cd.
He is Found a Defaulter in the Sum o,
'.'L ~ 'It S2d, 900. h'-4h t1-''t'
Trenton is In ferment of excitement
by the discovery that ber Republican
City Receiver of Taxes, Walter +. Bart
lett, is a detaulter to the extent of some
5000: He,sthe proprietor of the well
known American House, which has been
the Republican headquarters for num-
Der of years. Bartlett was elected for a
term of two years in the spring of 1876,
and reelected last April by the lavish ex-
penditure of money. He was promi-
nent politician, contributed literally of
the city's money at all the elections, and
occasionally made Investments in other
irregular channels. He has been lead
ing candidate for State Treasurer against
j. L. Sooy, who beat him on each Iocca-
sion. The, Finance Committee appoint
ed by the Common Council, who are stiIl
exaIning tile accounts, have discovered
deficiencies amounting to SIS, 800, with
probably more to follow. Bartlett was
arrested on Wednesday forenoon and
taken before Charles w. Street, a justice
of the peace who demanded $4,000 bail.
The accused asked until 2 O'Clock to pro-
cure it, but up to 10 o'clock he was unable
to find sureties and was locked up in
Jail, where he remained until yesterday
evening, when, having given the reqdis-
ite security he was released. He admits
the defalcation, but claims that it is less
than appears from the investigation. His
bondsmen are Imlah Moore, Fl. G. Scud-
der, p. e. Fell. G. Rulon and JIM. Smith,
all of whom are well-known business men,
The penalty for his crime is fine of 81,
900 or imprisonment for five years.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-10
STRAY WAITS.

More rain.
The p. X. A. ball was success.
The Floreence's tonight at Grand Op-
era House. o'
Do not forget the soiree at the Friend
ship engine house tonight. ...l. ..1
The cheapest stock of teas in the State,
at Rigney's, No. 21e W.,Second street.
RCmember that the Shields Library
ball takes place on Thanksgiving eve.
Do not fail to read the announcement
of Russell g Northrop in another col
umn. aAt ~ 't
mFresh arrival Of fine clothing at the
New York clothing house, 221 Market
street. .t
You cannot tell them from natural ones
the artificial teeth that DIR. Gallagher
makes at No. 8 q. Fifth street. ''Tie
Those who are need of lunch tonight
should go to No. 10 e. Second street,
where there will be a grand one served
up.
Those universal favorites the Buell.
family appear at the West Presbyterian
church on next Tuesday. Do not fail to
hear thtIn. ~.
G. NJ. butcher says Kings Good Sa-
mautan Cough Syrup is the best medi-
cine he ever used for hOarseness and
cold on the lungs. '-N r
The fine clothes at the New York
clothing house in quality Of goods and
workmanship is not to be beaten in
America. Their prices are low to suit
the times. .l .'rf... g. 'i.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-10
FIRST EDITIONlI ]
TsTHBPINE KNOT BALE.

The second annual ball of the Pima
KNOT Assembly took place last niobt
at Prof. Webster's DANCING acadanv ~
the Masonic Temple. Owing to an or
DER from the managers of the hall. the
Assembly we're not allowed to, deeorate
the room, but this did not mar the rlaasS
ure OF the participants. The baiI vas
the largest one 30 far this season. boino
attended BY over two hundred persons.
About 9.45 O'clock the music started and
the grand march commenced fortv-a;Uht
couples participating, -, -
The march was led by Mr.. E, Kane
and Miss Mary Reddin, followed by his
assistants, Mr.. A Stout and Miss Lee =,
Mr.. John Taggart and Miss Trishler, Mr.
John McCaffrey and wife. The pIeasino
feature OF the march was that IL was
entirely new and original, the master of
ceremonies leading those engaged in IL
SO as to form the letters p. X. a. and a
cross. L "a. .1bi.Gaul VI .I..I l.,.IT-7' :, ''''
The ball was q success in every psrtic.
ular and Was thoroughly enjoy ed by
those present, judging from their happy
faces One OF the features of the even
ing was the dancing under the gas light
ny the -FOUR managers, of "That Trip to
trenton" 1t created a great amount OF
amusement and called forth nun,erous
remarks. Refreshments were served AZ
stated intervals, and when the time came
those present were 10th TO leave, but did
so expressing the hope that the Assem-.
ply would give another ball next year,
The daily gazette., 1877-11-10
GARRETTs SNUFF MILLS BURNED

This morning, about o'clock, bright
Light was seen by number of persons
In the southwestern horizon, which con-
tinued for about two hours, About 8
O'Clock it was ascertained that the light
was occasioned by the burning OF w. E.
Garrett 60 Sons snuff mills, situated on
White Clay Creek, near Yorklyn, about
eight miles from this city. There were
two mills situated some DISTANCE apart
and were part stone and part frame. AT
the time of the fire there was a large
quantity Of tobacco and prepared snuff
stored in the buildings. The buildings,
together with the machinery, were total
ly destroyed, but large quantity of the
stock was saved. The fire originated in
the attic OF the lower mill, and is sup
posed to- be occasioned by spontaneous
combustion Of the tobacco. The loss is
supposed to be between $50, 900 and $75,-
600. The amount Of. insurance cannot
be ascertained, with the exception Of a
$1,000 policy in the New Castle Co., Com
on the contents in the upper mill, and
also. one of $500 ON both buildings in
the Farmers Mutual, both of this city.