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The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
SPAIN.
Abatement of Duties ON American ves-

sells.
New YORK, Oct. 31-Minister Lowell tel
egraphs that the Spanish government will not
assess any differenta duties in any Spanish
port, peninsula or colonial on American ves-
sells. A circular to the custom collectors will
be issued today, saying in pursuance of the as
surance that American vessels in Spanish ports
shall pay no other or higher duties on tonnage
than Spanish vessels hereafter only 80 cents
per ton tonnage tax will be collected on Span.
ish vessels in American ports. Collectors of
customs are directed to transmit certified
statement in all cases of exaction at their ports
under protest of tonnage tax on Spanish yes.
sells at the rate of so cents per ton, in order
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Review of the Portland Markets.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 81.
The general tone of the market this week is dull
with but little change to note in prices. There is
very sluggish feeling prevailing and jobbers do not
care to stock up very heavily until the trade opens
little more brisk, This is particularly true of bread
stufs of all kinds. The moneyimarket is firm and
loans abundant low rates of interest on good
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

lumber.
MATANZAS. Schr G Berry-476O hhds shocks
and heads sos bbls potatoes 10000 hoops 100 empty
casks, 20 drums Goldfish, % do bake.
WESTPORT, MS. Schr Sea Hound-49 bbls flour,
10 do meal, do pork, do onions, 400 Tbs arp 14O
gals oil, 80 lbs cheese, 200 yards cotton 25 Tbs tea
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
BULGARIAN CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, Oct. 31.-A despatch from Pera
yesterday to the Manchester Guardian, says
that it is reported there that Orchanie is cap
tured with Chefket Pasha and several Thousand
troops. IT this were so we should probably
have had report of it from the Russian head
quarters.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
For New ENGLAND

ram areas. followed by colder clearing weather.
nV nart;oSy winds and rising barometer.
as, Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry Cape Nav, A t.
iantic city, Barnegat, Sandy Hook. New York.
New haven, New London, Newport. Woods
Hole. Boston, Thatcher's Island, Portland and
Eastport.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
Providence Pr,n. Cloth. Market,

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. 31.-The printing cloth
market-There was slight movement in Print cloths
to-day with sales of ex 81 "a at lilo cash less
per cents but the bulk Of best grade held at that
nrice without discount.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A Missing Man Re-appears and Tells a
Strange Story.
MILFORD, Oct. 3l.-Hu tch inson, the missing
man, returned at 1 o'clock this morning. He
says that when he went out, he found parties
around his premises, and tried to shoot them.
Exploding both caps of his gun he then tried
throwing stones. Thought he hit and killed q
man; then he became confused, and knew
nothing more until he found himself at Con.
cord. He then purchased some clothing and
started for home on foot.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
mETEOROLOGaOAK,,

INDICATIONS FOB THE NEXT TWENTx-FoUB
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNALl
OFFICER, Washington, DC,
Nov. l. Il A, MY
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

P.F. Lynch and wife were badly injured at
Wilkesbarre by the explosion of kerosene
lamp Tuesday night.
Sam Douglass, an old resident of Suffolk,
Conn, was killed yesterday In an attempt to
cross the railroad track in front of train.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
F0REIGN PORTS.

at Padang Aug 81, brig Ned White Thombs, from
BATAVIA, ar 10th, for New York, ldg.
At Malaga 18th, barque Abby Bacon, Merrill, for
New York; brig Kennedy, Spauldng, do.
Sid FIN Antwerp Oct 80, barQus Mary Z Chapman,
Wyman, Charleston, SC.
at Bahia Sept 81. ships franklin, Has ell, and VIM
NJ Reed. Prince, unc.
at Montevideo Sept 18th, barque Lisbon. Dnnnng,
for New York; brig Anita Owen. Pettengill, for do
Ar at Buenos Ayres Sept 3D. barque Formosa,
Pierce. New York; 9th, Carrie Taylor, do.
Sid Sept 6, brig Belle Prescott, White. Boston.
In port Sept IA. barques Formosa. Pierce; Lepanto
Bunker; Alice. Dyer; Blanche How. Hussey, and
W Gem, Collins, unc; j s Winslow, Morton, for
New York; Lincoln. Thorn, for Havre; brig Jennie
PhDney, Brown. unc.
Ar at Pernambuco Goth, sch Etna, Sawyer, from
New York.
Ar at Halifax 2sth. barque Alice Dickerman,
Turner. Cardiff 20 days.
Left in tow 2sth, brig Eliza Morton, Leland, for
Sheet Harbor, Ms.
AR at st John. NIB, 29th, schs Pacific, Look New
ark; Nellie Clark, Clark. Perth Amboy; Lucy Ham
mond, Robinson, New York; Almeda, Smith. and
Olive, Batson, do; Lizzie Major. Gerrish, Salem
Riverside, Price. and N e Porter, Jones, Bangor;
Village Belle, Riley, Damariscotta; NJ L st Pierre,
Haley. Sheepscot.
Cid 9th. scbs Nellie Doe Trask, Wilmington, Del
10Th, Fred Q Holden, McRae, Calais; Addie L Per-
kins, Thompson, Castine.
SPOKEN.
Sept g. lat 10 SO N, lon 81 80 ship Reunion Curtis
from Liverpool (Aug 10Y for Wilmington, Cal.
Oct 10, lat A. Ion %, barque Addie e Sleeper, FIN
New York for Genoa.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

The Standards Paris correspondent saws
Duke 'Aumale has written to President Mac
Mahon protesting against the report that he ia
candidate for the Presidency.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
Clearing House transactions,

The Clearing House of the Portland Banks report
the transaction Of business as follows yesterday:
Gross Exchanges $780, 7s9 80
Net Balances. Observation-Disclosures. 21,264 "a
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

The story that Richard Grant White had
been sued for breach of promise is denied.
Boston police officers have gone to New York
with requisition for the Cambridgeport bank
robbers
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

= IoaIoS dI IAt DIUK6r 3 BOaru, UCt. 81
$1,000 Eastern Railroad ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
% Eastern Railroad, N. H,,,,,,,.,,,,,..,,,, 30
III Union Pachc Railroad. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 67a
Second Call.
5 Boston & Maine Railroad. .....,....,,..... s3A
Sales at Auction.
Laconia Manufacturing Co.................415
rs Portland. Saco 81 Portsmouth Railroad .....65
- Boston q Maine Railroad. ..93 q 933
United States $685. 1868. a, .............. 109s
$1,000 Maine State 6's, 1880. .103s
$500 Rockland (Nfe) Is, 1902. 1929
$129 Eastern Railroad scrip. 81
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

KIDNEY DISEASES, DRopsy, and all Diseases of
the Urinary Organs, are cured by HUNTS REM
EDY. Hundreds who have been given up by the
Physicians to die have been cured by HUNTS REM
EDY. Ali Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and
Urinary Organs are cured by HUNTS REMEDY.
CLARKE's TooTHAcHE DRoPs-cure instantly.
oc29 eod1w&w
ECONOMY. The Oldest baking powder sold in this
market is Congress Yeast Powder. To try it is to
like it-it being cheap and heathful, and especially
good for Dyspeptics when used in making biscuits,
dumplipgs and doughnuts. All should use it.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
MARRIED.

In Topsham, Oct. 8, Edward Atkins of Topsham
aid Miss Mary Huntington of Gardiner.
In Augusta, Oct. 81, Thos. NJ. Rumney and Miss
Ellen A. Colby.
In Biddeford, Sept II, Scion S. Andrews and Miss
Alice A Harmon.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

Philadelphia Wesley Abbott Mllliken, Bangor;
Nautilus, Coleman. and America, Trueworthy, Rock
land; Bangor, Jordan, Providence; A Pike, Noble,
AR Goth, schs N Tower. Adams, Charleston: An
COLA. Wooster, Windsor. Ms; T Arthemlus, Priest,
Taylor, Dodge, New Bedford. ""u 1AO''ei
Ar Sist sch Victor Puig. Sherman, Cape Haytien.
CID Goth, barque Tillie Baker, Boynton, London;
schs Eugene, Bunker 81 stephen, NIB; Alma, John
son. st John, NIB.
Cid Both, ship Nevada. Day, for Antwerp; barque
sebs WEBB RAVENS
nah; A Lewis, Pendleton. Pont-a-Pitre; Cover
nor. Eaton; st John, NIB; D Sawyer, Cummings for
Sid 29th barque Matthew Baird; schs VIM Fred
ercks, Fl T Townsend, and others.
Passed through Hell Gate Goth, brig Daisy Boyn-
tom Appeby from New York for Belfast; schs p
Thurlow, do for London; Forest Belle Port johnson
| for Salem; Geo kiborn, 90 for Boston; Ganges do
Boston; Victory, and Light Boat, do for do: Willie
| Martin, Baltimore for Portland; Frank Jameson,
| PROViDENCE-Ar 10th, sch Martha Maria ALLEY
| Calais.
| Ar 3Oth. sch W Richie, Freethy, Hoboken.
FALL RIVER-Ar 2Stb. schs Chas Upton, Kiei,
| and Red Rover. Springer, Ellsworth.
Ar 10th, scbs Capt John, Patten, Ellsworth Jesse
Sid soth, sch 1, HoIway, Bryant. Philadelphia.
| NEWPoRT-Ar 29th schs Lucy Lee, ingalls,. from
Musquash, NIB. for New York; Mary Helen: Jelli.
son, Machias for do; Castaia. Hail. st George for do
Carrie Hlx, Hix, and VIM Rice, Pressey, Rockland
| for do.
| VlNEYARD-HAVEN-Ar 18th, sens Geo " Ferry
| from st John. NIB, for New York; Mary b Harris
Windsor, Ms, for do Sammy Ford. Rockland, NIB
for do Lookout, Lubec for do: j W Drisko, Bangor
for do; Eastern Queen, Ellsworth for do; Carrie
Hx, Rockand for do; j @ Rogers, Bath for do; VIM
Rice, and Oregon, do for do; Kate Newman. Carver
| Harbor for do; VIM Hill. Franklin for do; joachim
| Belfast for Rondout; Kate Rankin, Windsor, Ms
for Baltimore; Helen Maria, Richmond, Me, for do
| Ella, Hatch, Gardiner for do; Bailey, Portland
| for Annapolis, Md; Aston, Bangor for Washington
| Addie Snow, Windsor. Ms, for Richmond; Maggl
Todd, Calais for Providence; Swallow, do for New
| Haven; II Eaton, do for Mott-Haven.
Sid. schs Eastern Queen, Geo ID Perry, VIM Rice
| and Carrie l. Hix.
BOSTON-Ar 3Oth, schs A H Sawyer, Cook, Calais
Celestia, Reed, Boothbay; Margaret, Clark, Mill
bridge; Addie Seavey, Seayey, Bristol; AL Fitch
Fitch, do; Mary Frances, Perkins, Bath.
Cid 3Oth, schs Alfred Keen, Heating, Charleston
E Staples, Crockett Bangor.
Ar 3Ist ship Mary Goodell, Eames, Iloilo; brig Da
vid Bugbes. Staples. Gloucester; schs Allegro. KEEL
lar, Port johnson; Rising Sun, Snow, do; Elizabeth
Sinclair, Ellsworth; Ocean Wave, whitney, Bangor
| Gulnare. Rowden. Penobscot.
| PROVINCETOWN - Sid goth, sch Richmond
Thompson, (trom Baltimore) for Eastport.
| Sid Both, scbs Wallace, Woodbury.; st Elmo
Jones' and Edward & Frank, Poole. Round Pond.
PORTSMoUTH-Ar 30th, sch Campbell, Marshall
Port johnson.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

An old man apparently 20 years of age, who
N. A., yesterday for horse stealing.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

Ar at Delaware Breakwater 31st, barque Alexan-
der Campbell Bunker, London for Philadelphia.
Sid I'm Astoria, o, Both, barque W Cochrane,
Given, London.
Ar at Dunkirk Oct sOth, barque Nellie May, Blair,
New York.
Ar at Hull Both, barqus Edith Davis, McCarty,
Boston.
Ar at Greenock 2sth, barque Harriet S jackson,
Bacon, Portland.
Ar at Marseillea goth, brig Tenerie, Tracey, from
New York.
Ar at Aspipwall 18th, sch L A Knowles, Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

In New York there has been an increased in quil v
together with somewhat larger sales but the market
can by means be called better, holders OF fine
Woods, with view of attracting trade, are inclined
to meet buyers at more moderate views. Medium
mostly inquired for and is in reduced supply. Man
ufacturers still complain of slow sale for their
ticpate their wants beyond The present. FOREIGN ion
Clothing There is no inquiry from Canadian manu-
facturers, and home consumers as a rule substitute
the domestic article. Cali fornia-The prices asked
az San Francisco for the fall clip are considera
bly, above the views of Eastern buyers and receipts
so far this season have been SMALL the demand for
tall is fair but spring remains quiet. Texas-The
condition of the new Wool arriving is exceedingly
poor and buyers unwilling to meet the views Of
holders.
In Philadelphia the movement in unwashed fleece
and combing foot up a respectable aggregats but
values have not appreciated. Washed combings and
is very dull and &c ~ fb lower.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
DIED.

In this city, Oct. 81, Mary A. Sawyer aged 10 years
months ~ days. daughter or VIM. II. and Lydia
b. Sawyer.
Funeral services Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock
at No. Brattle street.
In Augusta, Oct 2, Mrs. Amelia Norton of Port.
land, aged 81 years.
In Augusta, Oct. %. Ira Kilgore, aged 60 years.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
Daily Domestic Receipts.


By water conveyance-1OOo bush corn meal to @
W True g. Co.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
MEMORAND
DOMESTIC PORTS.


Ship Bohemia, Delano. at San Francisco from New
YORK. reports heavy weather, stove bulwarks, boats
and did other damage.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

CRANBERRY ISLES. Oct 23-Ar, schs Starlight,
Stanley, and Relief, Holmes, fishing.
ct oath and 25th-Ar, schs Annie Sargent, Gilley,
and s L Foster, Stanley. fishing; Van, Hamor, and
Ivy. Stanley, do.
Oct GAR, sch Rozella, Stanley, with herring.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
The Wool Marker

BOSTON, Oct. 3D. Reported for the Press.1-The
following is list of prices quoted this afternoon:
Domestic-Ohio and Pennsylvania pick-lock 80 q
dunn 43 q 45c; coarse 81 "a 4Oc; Michigan extra and
Xxx 40 @ 42c; fine 40 q 41c; medium 40 q 42c; COM
medium SS a 41c, common 80 q SIC; pulled extra
80 a 43c; supertne 80 "a As; No 1, 20 125c; comb
ing fleece As a SIC; Fine deaine 80 q 55c; California
10 a SIC; Texas 20 q &c. Canada pulled s. a 45c do
combing 4S @ 81; Smyrna washed IS a 3Oc; do un-
washed 10 q zoe; Buenos Ayres 16 q 34c; Cape Good
Hope 20 q 33c; Australian ~ q 4Sc; Donskoi q q
Bic.
There is no change to notice in the Wool market,
and manufacturers are purchasing only in lots as
wanted at prices indicating no change since our re-
what neglected and only be placed at low prices;
but medium feeces and combings and delaine feeces
are steady and in demand, particularly the latter.
done,
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF Portland.


Barque Jennie Cobb, Small. Montevideo- Clark
Sch Cathie O Berry, Seavey, Matanzas-Isaac EN-
cry. Geo Hunt & Co, and E Churchill s. Co.
Sch Sea Hound, Haycock. Westport NS-master.
Sch w Green, Cummings, Kennebec, to load ice
for Georgetown-Orlando Nickerson.
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

MACHIAS-Ar 22d. sch Polly s. Clarissa, Ball
Portland, (and sailed 26th for dos
The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01
Important Law Sui

A case has just been argued and submitted
in the Supreme Court Of the United States in
volving the validity of $4,O0O,OOO of township
bonds of Missouri.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
THE STORY OF A MUMMY.
How an Ancient Egyptian Happens to
be i'm IL walnut and Glass Case in, Nash
From the Nashville American

From the Nashville American
For seventeen years the most curious
object in the museum of the Tennessee
Historical Society has been the Egyptian
mummy. 1t has very singular history.
In 1860 Col Jeremiah George Harris was
a purser on a United States nan-ofwar
in the Egyptian waters. He went on
shore, and was at once ushered into the
august presence of the Khedive and his
numerous household. He was walking
out one day with a member of the Khe-
dives staff, when the latter was set upon
by ruffians. Col. Harris, who is man
of great strength, interposed, and the
roughs were vanquished.
" What can [ d." asked the Egyptian
officer, Z" to show adequate appreciation
Of the services you have rendered me?o
Give me a mummy" laughingly
suggested Col. Harris.
"a mummyW repeated the officer,
holding his breath and bordering. "Did
you no know, sir, that our laws prohibit
the removal Of mummies under penalty
OF death? But never mind; your re-
quest shall be fulfilled Just before
your vessel leaves the harbor q boat will
come alongside. 1t will contain that for
which you have asked.
Col. Harris had dismissed the subject
from his mind, but just before the hour
for the departure of the ship, three
natives were seen pulling toward the
vessel. The boat contained bundle di-
rected to Col. Harris. This bundle was
not opened until the arrival of the ship
at Boston, when it was discovered that
there were six mummies instead of one
They were unwrapped, and the best one
forwarded to the Tennessee Historical
Society, of which Col. Harris was then
and still is a member.
When Prof Huxley was here he ex-
amined the mummy with great deal o.
interest, and said that he believed it to be
the best preserved specimen either in
America or in Europe.
About seven months ago a curious
visitor broke one of the panes in the case
in which this ancient Egyptian was put
in 1860. Almost Immediately he began
to show that he objected to fresh air.
Some of his toes crumbIed and hung
down over the foot in a dilapidated con-
dltlon. A new case was made. The
new case is made of walnut with black
velvet trimmings, and has a pillow for
the head, whereas before it rested upon
block. The remains were well busted,
and looked quite spruce in their new
quarters.
The mummy measures feet and II
inches, ten inches across the hips, and Is
inches across the shoulders, with hands
g. inches in length.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20

box too his bosom he fell back on his
pillow-a convulsive shudder passed
over his frame-he was dead.
Snatching the box from the relaxing
grasp of the corpse, | rushed from the
cabin and fell over Pete, the negro, who
was just outside.
"See to the captain. He is dead''-
and I sped onward, but the powerful
negro had his hand upon my arm.
"Massa doctor not go SO quick-Massa
Grierson dead-cap'n die too-doctor got
his box of jewels-give me that box"-
and the negro seized me in his grasp and
struggled with me for the possession of
the treasure.
At that moment the strength of a lion
was in me- | wrestled with my assail-
ant, and freeing myself from his grasp,
rushed to the companion stairs. | had
reached the deck, with what intention
knew not, but Pete was again with me,
wrestling with the strength of demon
for the possession of the prize.
The ship was rolling heavily, and, as
we fell together, we slid across the deck
toward the lee scuppers. With super
human effort | freed my right arm, and
with all my force threw the box over the
quarter deck ratings. 1t flew open, and
in the moonlight the diamonds fell like a
shower of stars into the black water
The negro, seeing my movement, left his
hold of me, and sprang forward to catch
the box. A heavy lurch, and | was alone
on the deck!
Can / be blamed? [ held my tongue
The captain was buried at dawn, and the
chief officer took command of the ship.
1t was clear that Pete fell overheard, and
no one suspected the share I had in the
catastrophe. In due time we arrived at
Bristol, and for my own satisfaction l
instituted the necessary inquiries as to
the individuals named by the man Grier-
son. The bank had long since ceased to
exist. | traced some vague rumor of a
man having died suddenly in stage
coach while passing through an obscure
village in Somersetshire, but could never
obtain any clue to his personalities
1t was perhaps as well that failed. I
am still poor man, but l would rather
die SO than accept the possibility of be-
coming rich at the terrible risk which at
tended that unlucky bequest of the box
of diamonds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
The Truth About Chinese Cheap Labor.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.


The Chinese are present in every town
and place, but they form no more part
of society than the cattle of the country.
With the negro of the South, however
black-skinned they may be, some affinity
is formed. There is some social inter
course between the races, some sympathy
which links white and blacks as individ-
uals, it not as races; but between the
whites and Mongolians there seems to be
absolutely none. The negro initiates the
whites, follows him in religion, takes on
the airs and fashions Of the ruling race,
and their aspirations are alike, even if
those OF the negro are a parody on his
master. The Chinaman has no greeting
for you, is not ostentatiously obsequious,
and never converses; he goes about his
work as silently as if it were crime to
speak, much less has he any talk for talks
sake. The ladies who have been brought
up with Cinnamon around them as serv-
ants all their lives tell me they do not
regard them as men, and there is no
more hesitancy about speaking to them
on household affairs than if they were so
many women. [ am told that there has
never been an outrage committed on
white woman by Chinaman in all their
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A Carnival of Death.

The following horrible story is COM
municated by a correspondent in the
Mysore District, India. He gives it as
specimen of the dreadful effects of the
ravages of cholera in the district, and the
shocking sights one may see notwith-
standing all care on the part of the
authorities, and alleges that the truth of
the story may be absolutely depended on.
He says: "The friend who told it to me
was marching along the main road from
morning, some few miles out from Has
san, he was surprised to come across a
string of five carts lying in the middle of
the road, their bullocks detached and
tied near, but not soul near them. A
little further on he passed a sixth cart,
halted in the same manner, with a
solitary Brahmin seated in it clothed in
little save his sacred thread, and evident
ly in terrible frightened state. The
mystery Of the deserted carts was, how
ever, soon solved. On proceeding a few
yards farther, five heaps were seen lying
on the roadside under tree, Oh one of
which vulture was perched. At frs
my friend thought these were all five
corpses, but a nearer approach produced
feeble signs of life in two of the five
heaps. These five were, or had been
the cartmen of the five carts first
passed, and had almost simultaneously
been attacked by the cholera in it's most
virulent form. The sixth man had ap-
parently deserted them in his terror, and
driving on all the carts a short distance,
halted them and remained awaiting the
future, and perhaps his own fate, in
mortal fear. Three of these miserable
wretches had died there, where they got
off their carts; on one Of the dead bodies
vulture was already gorging itself be-
fore the eyes of the two wreached sur
vivors, themselves already in state of
collapse and in momentary expectation
of the same fate. Nothing could be
done; they were past all mortal help,
and must have expired before my friend
had covered another mile of his march.
AS to burying the corpses, or indeed
hundred rupees would not have induced
a man of his camp to attempt it The
villagers themselves about Hassen
never dream of burying their cholera
corpses When cholera is raging in
one village the corpses are taken up at
night, just wrapped in the mat and
cloth they died on, and silently deposited
on the grounds of the next village OIL
course, when that village gets cholera,
the compliment is returned for revenge,
and so merrily travels the pestilence
throughout the land''