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The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15
DEATHS.

In Rockland, August 18th, Mrs. Abbie E. Leach
aged 80 years, 3 months % days.
In Saco, August 9th, Nellie Milliken, aged p
years. 9hs
In Saco, August 9th, Maria, daughter of Ashton
Woodman. 10
In Biddeford, August 18th, Milton son of S. F. and
Abbie Spoford, aged 2 years months.
SO years.
In Steuben, August sth, Lois H. wifeof Charles g.
Cleaves, aged 81 years. ~
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s sAILED-Brig j B Brown, for Boston, in tow of
tug c NJ Winch.
Ship Paramita went to sea Wednesday.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Portland Daily Wholesale Market.
PORTLAND, Aug. IA.
The following are to-day's quotations of Flour,
Grain Provisions. &c,
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15

The Delaware Hudson Canal Company sold at
auction Wednesday $4,000 tons of Lackawanna
coal divided up as follows: 1880 TONS CRATE at
81, IL, 500 tons egg at S2.121@, and $4,000 tons
stove at $2.3212.
The last sales of this company's coal was on the
9th of April last when the prices obtained were as
follows: Crate $685. egg S2.45 and stove S2.7O.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15
CAUCAUSES,
LIME AND CEMENT

Land and Calcined Plaster for sale by
A. ID. WHIDDEN ~ co..
ap1d6m ~ Union Wharf
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SPOKEN.
July 7th, lat "a N, lon 30 W. ship Olive Southland,
Busby from New York for San Francisco.
Aug 18TH lat SO So lon IA 40, barque Alfred,
Crosby, from Havana for Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15

LONDON, Aug. 14-123OP M-Consols 81 ZIG
for money and 81 1a for account.
American securities-United States bonds, new
5s 105as; new 41as, 1OS1s, ex-in; As, at 1o4%s
Erie 287s. ss+
LIVERPOOL Aug. 14-12. 80 P. M.-Cotton market
-Middling uplands at esd; Orleans 7-16d.
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Receipts Of Maine Central II. X.
PORTLAND, Aug. 10.
For Portland, % cars miscellaneous merchandise;
for Connecting roads, 40 cars miscellaneous mer-
chandse.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15

Manila Straw Hats reduced to 1925 and $3.50.
Mems Mackinaw Straw Hats S1.00, S1.25
and $3.50. All our other Straw Hats
reduced in the same proportion.
Boys and Children's Straw Hats selling very
cheap. A good Straw Hat for Boys so cts.
Hammocks, Fly Covers for horses,
Linen Robes, Trunks and Bags
selling cheap to close.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15
EUROPE.

Loss will reach $500 600; insurance $4,000
Parker House was damaged $4,000 by water.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15
Daily Domestic Receipts.

BOstOm STOCK Market.
.Sales of the Brokers Board, Aug. IA.
30 Eastern Railroad. ........... 1874
Second Call.
200 Eastern Railroad. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 15%
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15

me following i are todays closing quotations of
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-15
FOREIGN PORTS.

--latest by European steamefs.l
Passed Flintrannan July 10th, Almira Robinson,
Givan from Soderbamn for Bristol.
Sid I'm Liverpool Aug LIST, ORIENT Allen, New Or
leans.
off Lowestoft July goth, Ella S Thayer, Fulton,
from Kotka for Bordeaux.
A rat Yarmouth Aug 9th, sch Parago, Eastport
Port Mulgrave NS-Passed North, barque VIM w
Thomas, Portland for Pictou.
Ar at Pictou, 18th, sch M A Brewer, Cocaegne,
NIB.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
VanderbiIt's Great Rival.

Mr.. Gould's millions now crowd close
to those of Vanderbilt. He is man of
finer texture than the old Commodore's
son. He doesn't run to fine houses,
costly stables, and blooded steeds. At
night when he dismisses his operators
from the telegraph offices in his own
house in Fifth avenue, and enters up
in little book the telegrapEic receipts
of the various railroads which he owns,
he does not go to club to carouse, to
banquet to steam up with champagne,
or to theater; he retires to the recess
es of a peaceful: library, and with his
young sons about him, reads the Latin
classics, the world forgetting, but not
only by the world forgot-by large
majority. The next morning early he
has the telegraph doing lightning serv-
vicesand he is sending an electric shock
through Wall street as soon as the bulls
and bears come into that field for pas
ture. Mr.. Gould is liberal man, al
though when he makes bequest he
does not have the information written
in manifold and sent to all the news
PNPC4os ; AO III ou lOWo NOW AOIh Abu
of his gift to the Memphis sufferers of
$4,000 came from Memphis, as did the
news of the second gift Of $4,000.
Mr.. Gould, being small man of lit
tie physical prowess, is naturally not
disposed to put himself recklessly in
the way of the horns of the bulls and
the claws of the bears. There are some
men in Wall street, as Mr.. Gould has
reason to know, who wish to resent
their losses with their fists, and are dis
posed to follow Major Selover's exam
pie and to pitch him bodily down into
a convenient area. Accordingly Mr..
Gould keeps his office guarded by a
stout Irishman, who prevents the in
trusion of visitors, and he has usually
a private way to get out into the street.
He has, too, it is said, a big italian
bookkeeper who accompanies him on
many of his business trips about town,
and stands ready to protect his million
aire employer.--M 7. Cor. st. Louis
ReD2IbLSCGn,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
II He Would Stop There.

The shrewdness of a Boston youth is
much commended. He was receiving
q salary of $500 a year. On the first
of January his employer made him a
present of $50. He consulted his uncle
as to what he should do with the
amount. That prudent gentleman ad-
vised him to put it in the Savings Bank,
but as the money had come easy, he
would do nothing of the kind. He in
vested it in stocks. By streak of
good luck the $50 brought him in $4 500.
This he put on deposit. His uncle
praised the shrewdness Of the nephew's
stock transactions, but expressed the
belief that he would (" turn out to be
gambler" This is just where the dan
ger lies. There are many instances in
this city of persons making a fortune the
first venture, and being flushed, pur-
sued the business of stock dealing until
they were financially ruined. One of
these was so notable as to deserve
mention. Some eight years ago, when
the stock market was very much in
fated, a young married man, who held
life position in the army, where he
had achieved some distinction, had
5000, with which he purchased arapidly
rising stock. Five days afterward he
could have "cleaned up" as the phrase
has it, $4,000. His friends advised
him to withdraw. But no. They in
sisted that he should secure at least
one-half the sum, and let the balance
90 as a risk. "Not a cent would be
taken from the hands of his broker
until the amount reached $100, ,000."
On the contrary, he went in for several
thousand more on margin" In
the elatiOn of his feelings he wrote his
resignation in the army, and forwarded
it to Washington. A few days after
ward the crash came, and the young
man was next thing TO a bankrupt.
The last we heard of this unfortunate
he was at the Capital of the Nation,
endeavoring to procure a situation.
If those who realize largely on first
stock operation would be content, and
retire from the lists, many men would
be in good circumstances, who now
find themselves reduced to poverty.
But few do so, for there is a fascina-
ton in this sort of speculation which
leads them deeper in as their game in
creases, until the inevitable day comes
when all is lost, and when suicide
often follows to close out a life which
has nothing before it but q dark
future. 1t would be useless, however,
to offer advice on this subject. The
history of the Stock Board is repeating
itself every day, and will 60 on repeat
ing so long as such speculatiOns are
held to be respectable by those who
engage in them,-SGH francisco Call.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

should be hooted and stoned if it were
known who we really are. viii you
keep my secret@
Certainly sLammered the curate;
"and trust
"That / shall keep yours. Rest as
sured of that, Mr.. Grosvenor. / will
forget that anything has happened this
morning beyond the ordinary inter-
change Of courtesies between clergy
man and parishioner."
She smiled and bowed, and passed
on.
He walked back slowly to the church
muttering to himself, "What an es-
oape-who'd have thought it?'
The Rev. Charles Grosvenor is still
the curate of Chumleigh, and Miss
Smith and her mother still live at La
burnum cottage. The parishioners, how
ever, notice that the visits Of the clergy
man to the cottage are few and far be-
tween, and that when he calls he is
generally accompanied by one or other
of his lady visitors.
And old Dame Turvey, who knows
everything about everybody, and is a
great authority on village matters, as
sures everyone that she can't make it
out at all, for at one time she was quite
sure the parson was sweet in that
quarter, and she quite expected that
Miss Smith would have presided at the
parsonage tea table.
Something must have happened
very unexpected to break it all off,
concludes the worthy dame, for it
was all altered like in minute"
Dame Turvey is right for once.
What happened was very unexpected,
and it made such an impression on the
Rev. Charles Grosvenor that he will
remember it to the end of his life.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
Mems Fashions,

To plunge headlong into the delicate
mysteries of the toilet: Colored under
clothing and Isle thread stockings of
every hue, worked with silk embroidery
in various devices, are dictated by the
present fashion. Collars are of every
shape and size, but most of them are
standing collars open at the throat.
Quite a number of men wear the mill
tary collar, that meets, in fact almost
laps over, in front. There is wide
range for individual taste in cravats as
far as colors are concerned, though the
universal shape is the fiat scarf that
covers the whole shirt front. Upon the
varied background of these variOusly
beautiful contrivanees can be displayed
all sorts of pins, according as good
taste dictates-that is from none at all,
or scarcely any, to horseshoes studded
with the diamonds, whips, spurs, frogs
on ladders, plain gold or silver balls
and horses made of three horseshoe
nails. The fashion of mems outer gar
ments has undergone decided change
for the better-sO the delighted young
men say. No longer does one see the
huge check and tremendous plaid.
Plain dress and subdued eOlors rule.
AS women vie with and dress at each
other, so they say do men, but the
women have the advantage of being
able in many cases to alter their own
clothes, and by adding a piece of vel
vet here and a bit of fur there produce
new lamps for old. Men, it is said,
cannot do this. As his clothes are
made so must he wear them or not at
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

all, and whatever may be the truth as
to buttons, men, it is believed, do NOT
venture to take in tucks in the slack Of
their trousers, or alter the cut of their
coat lapels. There are said to be bril-
liant exceptions to this rule. 1t is re-
ported that a certain man recently
made bet that he would not only make
himself suit of clothes, but would
wear it at his club, and thatit would not
attract attention by any popularity Of
cut or mistake in sewing, or lead to
researches in his family history. This
bet was taken, and the suit was made
and passed the ordeal. Upon close ex-
animation afterward, however, it was
discovered that the pockets had been
left out.
The run on some of the tailors up
town this year is almost unprecedented.
One man is happy over orders received
this fall for sixty odd dress suits, not to
speak of the innumerable sack and cut
away suits for morning wear and the
dignifed frock coat for taking the
afternoon airing. Men seem to be
laying ina stock of clothes of all kinds,
as if they thought that the present
prosperous times would not last for
ever. Nearly all the orders received
by tailors have been for sack suits of
one color or material, or a dark mixed
cloth, or of some quiet pattern. In
afternoon suits, such as frock coats and
three buttOned cutaways, the trousers
are of different material and color from
the coat. At afternoon weddings,
"gris'' pearl gloves are worn by the
groom and ushers, and by whosoever
takes a prominent place in the cere-
mony, but ordinarily the yellow or red
dogskin glove is worn in the street.
The dress that men have for a long
time been wearing in the evening"
namely, black "clawhammer, "
" swallOwtail'' or" spiketail, =" and the
rest of the suit of the sombre hue, with
the inevitable white lawn cravat or
black satin tie (the latter not considered
quite such full dress)-is stillin fashion.
A few years ago there was some talk
of strike against this dress, and
it was proposed to retain the same
pattern for the coat, but substitute for
broadcloth velvet or dark blue cloth,
and in place of trousers kneebreeches
and silk stockings. These lacked
hero to face ballroom full of ladies in
this guise, and SO the plan went a-gly.
Canes are more in demand this year
than ever, and a bamboo stick with
either a silver cross handle with a
match box on it or an agate or tortoise
shell is popular. N. z. World.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
A Strange Tragedy.

A curious tragedy was recently
enacted at Littowk, on the Russian
frontier. Two Jews, father and son,
had long lived on very bad terms, and
at last the son hired a peasant for twen-
ty-fve pieces of silver " to facilitate the
old man from the vale of tears" On
the day fixed for the execution of the
crime the peasant repented, and going
to the intended victim, confessed all
that had passed. The father made him
promise to pretend to his employer that
the crime had been committed, and he
then went to the Rabbi Joseph Beer,
before whom he laid the whole matter.
After due deliberatiOn the rabbi deter
mined to see the son, inform him that
his murdered father had appeared to
him in a dream, and he asked his MUIR
derer whether he would appear before
a terrestrial or celestial jury. The son,
quite overwhelmed, chose the former
tribunal, which was accordingly formed
and consisted of ten influential parish
toner's. The father was placed behind
a curtain. The prisoner having been
placed at the bar, the Judge rose, and
the rabbi solemnly invited the spirit of
the dead man to bring forward his ac-
cusation. Hardly had the son recOg-
nized the voice of his father when he
was seized with terror and fell dead.
The Procurator of the Province, on
learning the facts, at once caused the
rabbi and the other members of the
court to be arrested.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

three, heavily armed, boarded the ves-
sci. Under the Captains orders they
arrested the two mutineers and put
them in irons.
The ship then sailed to Key West,
and the mutineers were brought before
the British Consul. BY the latter they
were remanded to the United States
Commissioner, in whose charge they
now are, awaiting the demand of the
Canadian Government -NeaO Orleans
Times.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
ABRAM MORRISON.


Midst the men and things which viii
Haunt an old mans memory still,
.Drollest, quaintest of them all,
With boys laugh / recall
Good old Abram Morrison.
=
Irish OF the Irishes,
Pope nor priest nor church were his;
Sober with his Quaker folks,
Merry with his quiet Jokes
On week days was Morrison.
Back and forth TO daily meals,
Rode his cherished pig on wheels,
And to all who came to see:
''' Aisier for the pig an me-
Sure it is, said Morrison.
Well we loved the tales he told
"Of country strange and old,
Where the fairies danced till dawn;
And the goblin Leprecaun
Looked, we thought, like Morrison.
ALI his words have perished. Shame
On the saddle-bags of Fame,
That they bring not to our tune
One poor cOuplet Of the rhyme
When on calf and fair First Days,
Ratified down our One-hOrse chaise
Through the blossOmed apple-boughs
To the Quaker Westinghouse,
There was Abram Morrison.
Underneath his hats broad brim
Peered the queer old face of him;
And with Irish jauntiness
Swung the COat-tails of the dress
Worn by Abram Morrison.
Still, in memory, on his feet.
Leaning DER the old, high seat,
Mlngling With solemn drone,
Celtic accents all his own,
Rises Abram Morrison.
On his well-worn theme intent,
Simple, child-like, innocent,
Heaven forgive the half-checked smile
OF our careless bOyhoOd, while
Listening to Friend Morrison!
After half century's lapse,
We are wiser now, perhaps, %, s
But we miss our streets amid
Something which the past has hid,
Lost with Abram Morrison.
Gone forever with the queer
Characters of that old year!
Now the many are as one;
Broken is the mold that run
Men like Abram Morrison.
OhR G. Wbtttier, IN ST. Nicholas for December
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
rO CORIREsPONDENTs.

All communications for this paper should DO accom-
panied by the name Of tho author; not necessarily OI
publication, but as an evidence Of good faith on the
part Of the writer Write only on one side Of tho pa
per Bo particularly careful In giving names and dates
10 have tho letters and figures PLAIN and distinct Prop
ernameS are often difficult To detphOr because OF thf
'areless manner IN which they ara written
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

IT is curious to note how a flaming
new silk handkerchief will struggle up
from the deepest breast pocket into the
light Of day and linger there, while the
soiled cotton one skulks at the bottom,
making only now and then a hssty
sally into the open air.-ROcAesteF E1-
prssS.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The Oshkosh Christian advocate
SAYS it is too late for a boy to be good
and repent of his Gins when he finds
himself on thin ice,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-17
AUCTION SALES,
FUTURE DAYS.

pk s IN y THE a6tEr YN si
sT hER J RST WEST u 9P The "a sEXENIH
You'd hRiaaTWooib1 3 And RAibeJt AGENr g rs
ING f AND R RE M LAY AZ AND AND MR. PIh
by virtue Of deed Of trust, dated November zsz
for the District Of and By virtue 81 Ger
tSln eaeSree passed June 4th 1879 in equity cause
complainant and Bridget Fitnam ct al. defendants
and at the written request Of the party secured
ss "a n 1FoFt Of 1hs
O'clock pm all the following prescribed piece or
~ Of Washington. District Of Columbia, and kooWn
f ana being Part Of tract Of land called tbs
and bounds to Sounaed ON ane the
81 $3.50 ~esa fpe and
ands q said tract and os the Moth
by line Of Thomas Carberys land south rs degs 10
part sold off James selde to wit From ss point 81
west two and eighty-four hundredths q 81 100
pelches to a marked poplar, north a dees. west
marked hioi ory north thirty and oneGna "
toSA oegs1 degrees easttwenty-on perc1es thence
nor.n eishty.nin and onequsrter (s91 dess de.
and one quarter (364 dogs degrees east fifty one
and one quarter perches to Thomss Garberys south
Terms: 81 600 cash balance in two equal install
est rate Of eight per cent
depos at ae S Of G sse
tee reserves the right to resell the property at The
oOs' Il af R PafsSisf Trustee
W w D. WILLIAMS co, Auctioneers.
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nUNOANsoN BROS. Aucronoera.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE VILLA
EIGHT ACRES, FRONTING ON WOODLkY
LANE. NEAR THE CITf limits.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE VILLA
EIGHT ACRES, FRONTING ON WOODLkY
LANE. NEAR THE CITY LIMITS.
By virtue of y deed Of trust. dated Novem- kxA
Der lst A. D 1876 and dn.y recorded in Liber fs8
No 1856, folio 258. one of the land records for x@
the District Of Columbia and by written request Of
auction, ON the premises. on HURsDAY AFTER
neon. June 26h, 1879, at O'Clock, all that
certain piece of land lying in the county Of Washing
ton Disrrict of Olpmhis and DIES ,,ibed part OF
israer tract called Pretty Prospect" adjoining the
lands late the property of the widow Forrest called
.Rosedale aud the tract called Wooiley," late the
property Of Phlin Barton Key, dec ased; SAID part
Of Pretty Prospect being fully Described by netes
and bounds in q deed from Lewis kengia
and wife to Jane J. Nicholson. recorded IN Eber
n. O. J.. No. So, foios No; 267. 26S. and 2G9. one
trict OF Columbia, together with the improvements
ways, easements, rights, privileges and appurte-
naIces 10 the same belonsng or any W. appertain-
ing The above tract of land contains about 80
acres and Ia improved by handsome villa q story
frame), containing 10 rooms gardners houee, lodge
house, barn and out buildings. The above tract is
ip the in medate vicinity OF the farms OF DR. Busey
Mr. Middleton and others. This tract Will he sold
subject to o. 600 nots, with interest at 10 per
cent from December 7th. A. D. 1876. secured by o
deed Of trust On the property, ,.,. =,
twelve months, with interest at per cent. aud Sc
cured by deed Of trust 300 required ct time OF
eaie If terms Of sale are not com piled with in five
days the property viii be resod at the risk and cost
Of the defsultinF purchaser. Conveyancing. 80. at
p"r'n"h HWTE1aH ". BOWMAN, r-,.,...
jsl4 GEORGE +, GREEN. 4s@ss7es'
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,ov,,, c,,D,,, ~. U. 3. MAfehAls %. o.
JOBN SHERMAN, AuCtloneer. iA2-dts
TRUeTEES' BALE OF VERY vALUA BILE REAL
i EST TATE ON THE CORNER OF FIRST AND
IOTOMAC STREETS. GEORGETOWN, d. O. I;
HANDSOMELY IMPROVED

HSS1s 6Ss sIKf fEES6 SHEFSSbdzToWS. D.
3 8 S;:s 2:
decree Of the Supreme court v q TIE DISTRICT SI
Davis WAS appointed trustee in the place Of John W.
Masn enc Of the tru.tses named in said deed Of
thereby secured. the undersigned win proceed to
ts eSS sSsr On E6 e the ss
e fls sssT s4 psrs
.ishteen as and nineteen CgS. Of Old Gsorse
IolcmaO streets and, running. east with First
half ds feet 70 the sas. line Of
said Iot numbered eighty.two lsO; thence south
west one hundred and one (lOI feet snd three
Wall south S
to Prospect street thence west with Prospect street
d6.it0 Of !. foot; thence north with the west side
Of brick house and vail ninety seven (y7, feet
Wet With said s stone sa four ' "a iees i ana one
tenth Q-10th) Of foot thence south sixteen l6)
orc hundred and sixty-six Qe6) feet to the begin
ieges and sppu-tenances to the same belonging, OF
In anyw!se thereto appertaining
money In cash. Ssh. and The reseSs ia six tweivs,
eighteen and tWenty.four months, for which the
pnrchssers notes are to be gwen with interest from
the day e sale at the rate Of six per centd per an
property cold. ell cash, at the purchasers option
deposit of $500 win be required at the ims OF the
with within five days from the day OF SALE the trns-
tees the right to resell the property at the
risk arc cost of the GefaultDg purchaser after I'VE
days notice in the Evenins Stsr newspaper All con-
vtyaLc.n1 at tho purchasers cost
ROBT. l. FLEMING,
1922 18th st NV. rrns.ees
LEWIS j. DAVIS, AfoooS'
Pa ave and 10th ST.
THOS. j. FISHER CO., Aucfs,
1928 4 st. NV. 1e4dEds