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The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21
ART PICTURES AND pANroMIMEs.

Portland heartily welcomes again Mr.. Bart
lett, who takes the familiar tableau and
illumines it with the light of genius, and last
night good house greeted him at the Port
land Theatre. The statuary is always striking
under his plastic hand, and the tableaux, such
as Cleopatra and her dark-eyed beauties, the
Return from the Carnival, charming boat
scene, and the Exies, are full of color and
life The Art Pictures are figures shown in
frame, and the effects are exquisite. The
Rovcr;es of q Bachelor, with the dream of fair
women, closing with q wondrous blonde who
throws rose to him, was finely conceived.
The Gems from the Dresden Gallery gave
some superb pictures, among them Titian's
Daughter and the Chocolate Girl; and Art
Studies was series of admirable studies.
Catawba was girl with bunch of grapes
and wonderful hair, and the Spanish Lady, Di
Vernon and the Pride Of the Market were
pictures to be remembered. Several panto-
mines and operettas were injected in the
entertainment. Little Jack Horner brought
down the house with his hornpipe. Clochette
was a capitally done burlesque operetta. Bobby
Shaftoe was an operetta given by young folks,
~daintiIy conceived and exceedingly well rem
dered. The Fan drill was given by young
girls, and was received with hattering atten-
ton The Countryman at the Art Gallery
was burleSque, and the two severe statues
taking his arm and walking off with him was
fine touch Ia Don Giovanni 1t would be
better if the audience would be little more
spontaneous in their applause, as it helps the
effect of the artistic hits.
The following will be to-night's programme:
Return from the Chase
Statue-The Sculptor's Monument.
Innocence.
The Queen of Sheba.
Too Late for the Stage.
Diana Vernon
Jack Horner.
Drifting
Statue-Cassic Grouping.
Rustic Coquetry.
Consolation.
Bobby Shaftoe
Boadcea.
The Child's Dream of Nursery Lore.
Clochette
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

FELLOWS Compound Syrup of Hypophos-
phites is not only the most reliable remedy for
consumption, but it is a specific also for Bron-
chitis and Asthma oc21TF&w
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21
The Salem Cadets.

CELEBRATION OF THEIR 94TH ANN
VERSARY.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

A AIDES wishing fine plain sewing, or dresses
4 finished will find a reliable person who wishes
work at 81 Winter st. oc2ld3t
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

Miss SAVERS SALvE, the original and
genuine, % cent size, beats all others.
my13 eod&w6m
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21
TO Ladies.

Five Rooms no. as Tying Street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21
For SaIe.

TN Lawrence. a large stationery and fancy goods
Il business; fresh stock good location rent low and
will be sold at a bargain, as the owner wishes to
change on account of his health Address Box So,
Lawrence, Mass. oc21TW&Th, MT&W*
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Administrators sale.
Wanted.

NURSE and Cook. An experienced nurse to take
IN the care of two children, age and two
years. Also good cook. Call at COB Congress st.
between and 2 1a o'clock p. NJ, Tuesdays Thurs
days. and Saturdays, or address, II. j. LIBBY.
oc21tf Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

Such is the title OF the play in which Warren
will appear at the Portland Theatre tomorrow
night The Boston Traveller says:
Mr. Warren as "Chawles" was simply per-
lection. The various phases, from the AFRO
CANT servant to the miserable man suddenly
come into a fortune, and occupying a position
which, from his unfttedness, is a burden to
him, is marvelously portrayed, and shows the
depth Of study, care, and attention which the
great comedian must have bestowed upon his
picture,
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

We have already given the cast of this beaut-
full opera of Auber, which will be produced at
Music Hall tonight. Mr.. Stetson has gener-
ally favored Portland with first-class entertain
ments, and this will be no exception to the
general rule, for no expense has been spared
to make it as complete an organization as pos
sible. Tickets should be procured during the
day
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

Tickets are now ready for the London Opera
Company's performances at Portland Theatre.
The sale of seats for the performance OF the
Emma Abbott Opera Company will begin at
Army & Navy Hall tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
The Ideal Opera Company will produce
Fatinitza at City Hall the first of December,
with all the principals who appeared here in
Pinafore, chorus of fifty voices, and an
orchestra of twelve pieces.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

Their Reception by the Mechanic Blues.
Yesterday was made memorable to the citi-
zens of Portland by the visit of the Salem
Cadets, body of citizen soldiery of whom the
old Bay State is properly proud. The Cadets
were organized in 1885 and, with the Boston
Independent Corps Cadets, constitute the only
cadet bodies known to the militia of Massa-
chusetts Their record is proud one. Estab-
lished in one of the Oldest cities of New Eng
land, a city whose record is historical wher-
ever the English tongue is spoken, the COM
pany rolls bear the names of men most dis
tinguished throughout the United States.
Stephen Abbott was the first commander, and
since his day the list of officers embraces
the most celebrated in all the professions. The
corps in olden times served as the escort
for Washington and Lafayette and for all
the Presidents who have visited Salem. Not
a celebration has taken place in Boston, of any
importance, in which this corps has not partic-
ipated
Some six years ago veteran organization
was formed and of the corps, which numbers
300 men, Gen. William Sutton is commandant.
That gentleman was detained at home by i'll
ness, an General Coggswell is in command
OF the twenty-eight members of that body,
however, who were present, we noticed Gen.
Coggswell, Col. J. A. Dalton, who joined in
1S34-former Colonel of the 40th Massachu-
sets, whose two sons are respectively the CO.
lionel of the Actives and Captain of COM
pany, and all of whom served i'll the war, to
get her with two nephews-Capt. Richard
Skinner and Capt. d. H. johnson of the 40th!
In fact, all Of the veterans are veterans in
deed, for they all served throughout the rebel
lion.
The Actives are composed of men of the best
material. Yearly the Massachusetts, militia
are subjected to a severe inspection and it is
with no little pride that the Cadets point to
the fact that Co. A stands No. /, and Co. b
No. 2, on the list of the whole seventy mill
tary companies in the state for excellence in
discipline, drill, personal appearance, care of
dress and equipments. Eight out of twelve OF
the officers were in active service during the
war.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-21

Their Reception by the Mechanic Blues.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
The Future Center Of Commerce and
Culture.

As Mr.. Gladstone has thought that
the commercial center of the world
may shift from London to New York,
so M. Littre, the famous French lexi-
cographer, thinks that the center of
culture will move from the Seine to the
banks of the Hudson. This gentleman
is of opinion that the ruling language
of the future will be Anglo Saxon, and
its chief seat of learning will be in the
United States. As regards population
that race comes first; its numbers in a
generation or two will probably reach
400,0e0,000 of the human race. After
them comes the Chinese, equal in num-
Der, but, as a static people, unworthy to
rank with Western races as a factor in
the worlds development. After the
Anglo-Sa1on, as governing races, M.
Littre pats the Russian, and then the
Spanish, to whom he comedies in the
future the greatest part of the South
American continent. The capacity for
expansion of the United States and
Russia may possibly menace the indie
pendence of old European states; but,
in this respect, M. Littre argues that
the security to human life Individually,
which has followed in the wake of civil
i~zation, will also be accorded to the
states, and that Russia and America,
unlike the ancient Babylon and Egypt,
will develop without injury to the ma.
tions upon whose frontiers they may
touch.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Palace of the King Of Rome.

Soon after the birth of the King of
Rome, Napoleon contemplated erecting
q palace for him upon the banks of the
Seine, nearly opposite the bridge OF
jena. The government accordingly
attempted to purchase the houses stu
ated upon the ground. They had OBJ
tanned all except the dilapidated hut of
a cooper, that was estimatedto be worth
$3.50. The owner, q mulish man, find
ing tho possession of his hut quite es-
sential to the plan, demanded $4,000.
The exorbitant demand was reported to.
the Emperor. He replied: at is ex-
orbitant, but the poor mar will be
turned out of his home; pay it to him"
The man, finding his demands SO
promptly acceded to, immediately de-
clared that, upon further reflection, he
could not afford to sell it for less than
$4,000. ALI expostulations were in
vain. The architect again appealed to
the Emperor. HThis fellow" said Ma
poleon, "trihes with us. But there is
no help for it. We must pay the non
ey." The cooper now increased his
price to $4,000. The Emperor, when
informed of it, said Indignantly: "The
man is a wretch. Twill not purchase
his house. 1t shall remain where it is,
q monument of my respect Of the law
The plans of the architect were changed.
The works were in progress at the time
of Napoleon's overthrow. The poor
cooper, finding himself in the midst of
rubbish and building material, bitterly
lamented his folly. The Bourbons, on
their return to Paris, threw down the
rising walls of the palace, and destroyed
their foundations.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
A Sagacious Newfoundland Dog.

A gentleman put a marked shilling
under a stone by the roadside, first
showing it to his Newfoundland dog.
The gentleman then, with his friend,
rode for three miles; and then the dog
received his signal from his master to
return back for the shilling. The dog
turned back; the gentlemen rode home;
but, to their disappointment and sur-
prise, the hitherto faithful messenger
did not return during the day. 1t APP
.peared he had gone to the spot where
the shilling was deposited; but, the
stone being too weighty for his strength
to remove, he had stayed bowling at the
place till two horsemen, riding by, and
attracted by his seeming distress,
stopped to look at him, when one of
them, alighting, removed the stone,
and, seeing the shilling, put it into his
pocket, not conceiving it to be the OBJ
ject of the dogs search. The dog fol-
lowed their horses for twenty miles, re-
manned undisturbed in the room where
they supped, followed the chamber
maid into the bed chamber, and secreted
himself under one of the beds. The
possessor of the shilling hung his
trousers upon a nail by the bedside;
but when both travellers were asleep the
dog took them in his mouth, and, leap
ing out of the window, left open on ac-
count of the sultry heat, reached his
masters home with his prize; when,
from memoranda in the pocket, every
thing but the shilling was enabled to
be returned to the owner, and the sim
gular circumstance elucidated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Mimetic CRYSTALS.

Let any one examine the delicate
fmbriated petals of the purest white
belonging to that dainty little blossom
of our Northern woods, Miletta nuda,
and he shall see the ful6llment of a
prophecy made in the depth of winter
by, snowflake, which in the symmetry
of its six compound crystals exactly
prefigures it.
Nature, indeed, in the great, variety
of the six-rayed star spangles of the
snow, seems to find patterns for many
such flowers Of endogens as when ex-
banded are fiat and .radiate. The min
eral kingdom shows at least aprefgure-
ment of life and living forms. Crystal
upon crystal clusters in graceful and
symmetrical accretion, until the dull,
hard, indurated mineral or chemical
salt spring forth fairy-like- fronds into
arborescent forms. Their purity, and
the translucent brilliancy of their c%olors,
render them the blossoms of inorganic
nature. Again, as the crystal is the
mineral flower, the flower is the veget-
able crystal. The geometrical proper
tions of crystals reappear in the SYM
metrical arrangement of the parts in
vegetation. Trigous and tetrigous
rhomboids, as, for instance, they appear
in the fir cone before it opens, belong
equally to minerals and vegetables;
even the cube is represented in the
pretty little early spring blossom the
Adoxa m~oschatellina, and triangles, CYL
inders and ellipses in tho delicate little
organisms of the Desmidi@.-J. C.
Beard, i'm Ha7per's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Il IMPORTATION.

To VENT1LATE ARooM.-To ventilate
a room without draught, make a hole
through the room to the outer air, in a
corner of the room just above the skirt
ing. Through the hole put one arm of
a tube three inches in diameter, and
bent at right angles. The arm of the
tube reaching to the outer air should
be in length equal to the thickness of
the wall, and the other arm should be
two feet long, standing vertically in the
corner of the room; if desired, it ear
be covered with paper of the same pat
tern as that on the wall. A tube of the
diameter given above is sufficient to
ventilate a room of moderate size.
A SIMPLE Rat AND MICE ExTER-
MNAToR. "A German newspaper gives
the following simple method for exter-
minating rats and mice, which, it states,
has been successfully tried by one
Baron Won Backhofen and others for
some time past: "a mixture of two
parts of well-bruised common squills
and three parts of inely-chopped bacon
is made into q stiff mass, with as much
meal as may be required, and then
baked into small cakes, which are put
around for the rats to eat Several
correspondents of the paper write to
confirm the experience of the noble
Baron and his neighbors in the extirpa-
ton of rats and mice by this simple
remedy.
CRows.-Crows may be kept from
corn by first pouring hot water on a
half bushel of the seed, and then a pint
of tar, stirring it quickly. Every grain
will become coated with a delicate var
nish. of tar, and, if then rolled in air
Stacked. lime before planting, no crow
will touch it. But, should this remedy
come too late in the season, another
equally eficacious may be used, and
this is the common one of stringing the
field. No crow will enter an angle
formed by two suspended strings
stretched on poles. A curious illustra-
ton occurred some years ago, on a long
strip of sowed corn (for fodder which
was protected by a zigzag string running
from one end to the other. Within the
angles formed by the string not a bundle
was touched, but close without them,
at each end, the whole crop vas de-
molished. A crow is a remarkably wise
fool, and this is a complete mode of cir
cumventing him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
Miiitary MYTHS;

The growth Of military myths is q
curious yetfamiliar phenomenon. Men
who are sober and dispassionate enough
in other things, who in the general
business of life, or when dealing with
matters of science or events of ordinary
history, take nothing for granted with
out sufficient evidence, surrender all
critical faculties as soon as an incident
Of war comes on the scene. The
French, SO calm and precise when treat
ing on scientific subjects, are notoriois-
ly untrustworthy when they come to
write about military events. Victor
Hugo's romance of Waterloo was almost
equal in absurdity to Lamartine's ac-
count of the battle, in which we are
told how Napoleon stcodove a shell on
the point of bursting in order to en-
courage the army, as if the whole army
could see him perform this ridiculous
feat; and how he made his cavalry
the whole of them apparently-dis-
mount and unfasten the curb-chains of
their horses brides, in order to give a
greater impetus to their charge. Theirs
accounts, also, of any battles in which
the French were engaged are for the
most part thoroughly untrustworthy.
But the creation of myths isnot limited
to the French. We fatter ourselves
that we are a common-sense people, not
given to brag and buster; but the way
in which some of our newspapers talk
about the army is enough to make the
readers ashamed of themselves. A
newspaper, for example, in describing
the Arrangements for the Duke of Con.
naughts marriage, told how @thai
true soldier, the Red Prince" was sure
to go into raptures of delight on seeing
our magnificent Horse Guards; as if il
required one to be a true soldier ir
order not to see that magnifcence does
not consist in a horse being obviously
over-weighted by the long.legged mar
who bestrides it. It is an article of faitI
VITA most English people that the
French cavalry actually charged ON
squares at Waterloo, and were repulsed
at the point of the bayonet; and w
have been told oyer and oyer again tina;
our troops in the:.Indian mutiny went
through the campaign with compressed
lip and flashing eye.-Saturday Re
o,io1r
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
ifu,nbuersd Again.

/ saw So much said about the merits Of
Hop Bitters, and my wife Who was al
ways ~doctoring, and never well, leased
me 50 urgently to get her some, 1 con-
cluded to be humbugged again; and 1
am glad I did, for in less than two
months use Of the Bitters my wife was
cured and she has remained 50 for eigh-
teen months since. 1 like such hum
b~ugging. 81. T., st. Paul.--Pioneer
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
A Bows Advice

A man piling wood on the wharf near
the foot of Third street, yesterday, fell
into the river, and when hauled out one
bystander advised him to be more care
full in the future. A second one advised
him to take a stout drink of whisky to
keep a chill off. A third thought he
had better hurry home and change his
clothes, and a fourth cautioned him to
get the water out Of his ears. When all
had spoken a boot-black came forward
and said:
At hain't got much to say about this
ERE case, but my advice to this Teller is
to do more kickin' with his heels andles
hollering with his mouth if he ever falls
in again. Shine yer butes for 8 cents.
Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

uliOOnCCAACu MALL I6 bbtUIuOy,
Major Blackburn, will be given a hear
ing on his motion for a new trial a
week hence.
Secretary ThonApsSn;s Annual Report.
R. w. Thompson, Secretary of the
Navy, in his report of the condition and
operations of the Navy Department,
says: "The condition of the navy has
greatly improved during the past year.
There are now in commission thirty-ive
vessels, consisting of cruisers, monitors,
and torpedo boats of different classes.
Sixteen can be put in condition
for sea service in a few months,
and twenty can be made ready in an
emergency. With this done, the lighting
force of the navy, which might be made
available in a very short time, would
consist Of e%ighty-one vessels of all
classes. Aud if to this number be
added the four monitors. Terror, Puri-
tan, Amplitude, and Monadnock, and
eighty powerful tugs, which can be
fitted for either cruisers or torpedo
boats, our whole effective fighting force
would consist of ninety.three vessels"
The unexpended balance of appro-
priations which stood to the credit of
tie department at the close of the last
fiscal year was $1,4l8. 285.37, which
added to the appropriation, makes an
aggregate of appr, pratt, rs available
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1880,
$14, 502, $50 81.
The table of estimates submitted of
expenses for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1881, aggregate Sl4,S64 147, showing
an excess ove the appropriations Of the
previous year If 1851 1893. This excess
is account d for by the fact that the
estimate for the pay of the navy was
reduced $106, 725 in the appropriation,
and that 800, DO will be required to set
on foot the system, of training boys for
the navy, and by other expenses in
various bureaus, which are mentioned
in detIil. For the first time, probably,
in the history of the government the
expenses of the past year were less than
the amount of the appropriation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04

Concerning the three bouanza mines
reported to exist on the Pacific coast,
and about which there has been so much
excitement recently, the San Francisco
Post says: "Maurice Hoehich. a well
known operator, arrived from Virginia
City yesterday. He brings the follow
ing verbal proposition from ] hn w.
Mackay, of the Bonanza firm, to Col.
Dean: Il will give you $500, 900 if you
find such bonanzas in the mines you
talk OF (Ophir, Hale, Norcross and yell
low Jacket}, provided yon pay for the
work for the time being, until they are
found. If you find three b~onanzas, as
stated, l will. give you back the total
amount of your expenditures, and will
pay $500, 600 as a reward for your SER
vices The above proposition was made
to Col. Dean today, and he replied:
Tell Mr.. Mackay to put his proposition
into writing, and l will accept for my
self and my friends Mr.. Hoehich has
since telegraphed this answer to
Mackay."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
The Official Vote in New York.
The following is the official vote for
State officers in New York State:


Hulse, the man who, at Cincinnati,
has been on trial for the heinous out
rage of the little six-year-old girl, Hattie
Hoeberg, in that city, last February,
has been found guilty by a jury. 1t
will be remembered that the crime was
committed on one of the coolest days
last February, and that Hattie, in COM
pany with a companion. was found ly-
ing in the now near the track of the
Marietta railroad late at night in a
helpless condition. Great excitement
prevailed at the time, and when Hulse
was arrested it was with difficulty that
he was kept out Of the hands of a mob.
He is quite a young man, intelligent,
married, and n painter bv trade. His
manne over the verdict is that of an
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
A Bruce of Coldblooded Murderers.

A recent dispatch from Virginia, ILL.,,
says that one of the most unprovoked.
and coldblooded murders ever chron-
icled was committed on Saturday, OH a
farm s me ten miles north of that
place. The victims, two German BROTH
ers named Eichenaud, were husking
corn, when John N. and Robert Taylor,
also brothers, came along on horseback,
dismounted, and saying trey were now
going to settles feud which had existed
between the families, i'm mediately be-
gan stabbing one brother, who fell with
a knife thrust through the lung. They
then turned upon The other Eichen aIo,
who, being unarmed, attempted to es-
cape They caught him and plunging
a knife into his neck. severed the jugular
vein. Both the men were killed. The
murderers escaped, but the officers in
pursuit have probably captured them
ere this.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-12-04
For bribery and Corruption.

At Harrisburg, Pa, the trial is. in
progress of ex-State Treasurer Kemble.
ex-Representative Salter and Jesse R.
Crawford, against whom. the Grand
Jury last August found true bills for
corrupt solicitation of members of the
Legislature and periuring in testifying
before the Legislative Committee last
summer. Eight others were indicted
for corrupt solicitation of members of
the Legislature, four of whom were
members of the last House. The
amounts alleged to have been offered for
votes ranged from $500 to $4,000. The
trial is the result of the Legislative in
quiry into the means used to pass the
bill appropriating 81, 100000 to pay the
riot losses of 1877.