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The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
THE SOUND DISASTER.

Capt. Young Appears to Poor Advantage
NEW LONDON, July 27-The Narranansett
investigation was resumed today. The most
significant testimony was given by Capt.
Young.
Capt, Young said he remembered no CONVEX
sation with Mr., Finckle before leaving New
York as to the absence of the engineer. He
subsequently contradicted this statement by
this subject. Capt. Young was asked if he did
not consider it dangerous to let boat go with
only oneeengineer. He replied that he did not
think much about it at the time. He was only
temporary captain and did not consider he had
much to say about the matter. He admitted
that before the Narragansett left Stonington
for New York he had reported there was only
one engineer and had an assistant procured,
but said that when the same state of things oc-
CURED before leaving New York he did not
procure an assistant because he considered it
Finckle's duty to do that. He understood the
oilers and assistants in the engine room were
first class and reliable men and did not con-
slider there was any danger in running boat
that trip with only one engineer. He would
swear positively there was no bell rung to
have the boat 60 ahead after the bell was rung
for her to stop. (Fickle, the engineer, testified
that such bell was rung within 30 seconds af-
ter the bell was rung to back.) If the Iengineer
got any such bell the bell must have caught
Capt. Young was examined at considerable
length. He appeared to very poor advantage,
contradicting himself frequently and being un-
able to assign any good reason for leaving the
steamer when large number of passengers
remained on the hurricane and promenade
decks.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
MAINE.
GARFIELD AND ARTHUR.

Flag Raisings at East Machias and Wa
- terville.
Especial Despatch to the Press.l
EAST -MAcHIAs, July 27.-The Republicans
raised an elegant Garfield and Arthur flag to-
day. There was very large and enthusiastic
gathering of Republicans, who listened to a
stirring speech from the Hon. Eugene Hale.
ITO the Associated Press.]
VAUDEVILLE, July 27.-The Republicans of
paign flag to the breeze this forenoon with the
names of Garfield and Davis thereon.
The Remains of Policeman Carville.
LEWISTON, July 27.-The remains of Jno.
Car vile, the policeman murdered by roughs
at Leadville on the 18th, reached here last
night. The funeral occurred today. Carville
was formerly Deputy Marshal here.
Hon. Joseph L. Hobson Seriously Injured.
SACo, July 27.-Hon. Joseph L. Hobson, the
lumber manufacturer, while engaged at his
mill today was caught by the edging machine
and forced against pile of lumber and both
legs were broken.
Fusion in Oxford County.
NORWAY, July 27.-Oxford county Green
pack convention coHVeHeu mere To-Day. 1ner0
were Is delegates present. The following
nominations were made
Senators-Lewis W. Childs, Milton planta-
ton; Chas. B. Smith, Denmark
Sheriff-Seth t. Holbrook, Oxford.
Commissioner-Daniel S. Hastings, Bethel.
Register of Probate-Noah Hall, Peru.
Treasurer-Solon Royal, Paris.
The platform of the state convention was
adopted.
made the same nominations. There was
stormy time. &
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

1t is feared four men who left Gloucester
vessel to set travis on the banks have been
lost.
The Egyptian obelisk is to be placed in Cen
trail Park opposite the Art Museum.
Anthony Comstock of New York. III COM
pany with an attorney, went to Dnke Centre,
Pennsylvania, and had doctress named Hop
kins alias Mrs. Merton arrested for sending
obscene matter through the mails.s
The Philadelphia Times states that there
are 70 cases of small pox in Camden, New
Jersey, and fears that it will become epidemic.
A Greensburg, Penn, dispatch says that at
a preliminary hearing yesterday, twelve of the
circus men involved in the Burkett girl alb
duction and outrage, were held for trial.
The annual report of the insurance COM
missioner of Massachusetts shows large in
crease in the volume of life insurance.
A horse car was smashed in New York yes
terday by fire engine and seven persons
slightly injured.
A Halifax dispatch says there is no founda-
ton for the statement that pleuro-pneumonia
is prevalent among the cattle in Pictou.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
boston Transcript
Forney's PROGRESS"

II really does not seem as if enough notice
had been taken Of Colonel Forney's departure
He has gone, he has fled, he has escaped, he
has broken away; no more shall he sit in the
Republican councils planning the nomination
of Grant, and prophesying the nomination of
Tilden; but not for handful of silver, nor
for ribbon to stick in his coat, did he leave
us, but simply to write the life of Winfield
Scott Hancock; and as the Republican party
did not rush out in body to pursue him as he
fed along the Appian way, breathing mild
Philadelphian fire and slaughter he pauses in
his headiong career to tell Sunday Herald
man all about it. He is Republican still, it
seems, the same kind Of Republican as
Lincoln and Wilson and Sumner, who are
dead and consequently not likely to contradict
him. He thinks that the quarantining of
twenty years will put the Democratic party on
its good behavior, and he is as confident that
Hancock will be triumphantly elected and
peacefully inaugurated as he was that Grant
would be nominated. He is also sure that
Haneock's administration will be one
country, although he has not had the
two terms Of experience which Mr.. Forney
has again and again shown are necessary to
make truly sage President. Still, remem-
bering what the Democratic party was in the
days before he Joined it, he thinks that Han
cock presence in the army and consequent
isolstion from party politics was what kept
him true to the Union, but he says that
Hancock was interesting to Mr.. Lincoln, and
that when young he was content to listen to
what his elders had to say. The country cannot
be too grateful to Mr.. Forney for bringing out
this interesting trait in General Hancock s
character, for it explains his delay in
writing that letter for which his fol-
lowers long, as pants the hart for cooling
streams. He is waiting for what his elders
have to say, Mr.. Tilden among the rest, posi-
bly,. He is waiting until the former friend of
General Grant hides the files of Progress from
the eye of the profane, publishes the
life Of the candidate, and obeys the
summons to come up higher in the
party to which he has been driven by the fail
ure of his former comrades to attain to his lofty
standard of probity and virtue, and by a per-
sistent swinging of the bloody shirt General
Hancock is waiting for what his elders have to
say. Forney ipse diret.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28

PANAMA, July 27.-Latest dates from Lima
are by mail to June 30th and by telegraph to
July 4th. CHILEAN Admiral Riveros announced
ms intention to lombard Dina and has noti-
ned the diplomatic body there to that effect.
notification has also been conveyed to the
foreign ministers intimatng that the Pacific
steam Navigation Company's ste mers will be
permitted to enter Calico harbor up to July 8th
and receive all foreign families and women and
children who desired to leave the city.
:. The Gillian admiral has already threatened
that Lima when taken shall be given up to
destruction and ravages of the troops as were
Mallendo and africa, because the Gillian
oincers cannot restrain their men. The Peru
Vans are preparing to take the women, chill
dren and household valuables to Tarna, a
little town situated beyond the impene-
trable rampants of the Cordelleras. In
view of the critical state of affairs in Lima
the dictator "Pierola'' has decreed every man
between 16 and 60 excepting the clergy medi-
cal profession and a few government emplyes,
shall present himself in full uniform and to
drill every day from II to L.
The Archbishop of Lima has placed the
treasure of the church at the diposal of the
government.
An official telegram dated Lima, July 4th,
states that the Chlian transport Amazonas
was on the day previous blown up by torpedo
in Calloa bay and sank Immediately
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
STABBING ARRAY.
A Man Mortally and a Woman Danger

A Man Mortally and a Woman Danger
ously Wounded.
NEW YORK, July 2-Last night Edward
Hogan OF Brooklyn returned home with his
wife from New York. He quarreled with her
in the house and drew weapon, presumably
a razor, and started for her. Mrs. John Burns,
sister of Mrs. Hogan. rushed between them
and was cut by Hogan in the arm, nearly sew
ering it just below the elbow. Hogan ran
down stairs and met some young men near the
door. One of them, John Thompson, asked
him if he assaulted woman, and Hogan re-
piled by cutting him with the weapon in his
hand The blow was struck downward with
tremendous force, and cut from the upper part
of the left breast down to the naval, cutting
into the lungs and intestines SO that the stom-
ach and intesuines protruded. Both parties
were taken to the hospital and Hogan arrested1
Thompson will die, and Mrs. Burns is danger
ously wounded.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
A Negro villain Lynched.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-John Diggs the
negro who brutality outraged Mrs. James
Md, was caDtured last night and lodged in
Rockville Jail. At 4 O'Clock this morning so
men appeared at the Jail and one of them de-
manded admission ON the plea of identified
ton. Sheriff Kilchner refused admittance to
any, but the crowd forced an entrance and
took the prisoner towards Dainstown. He was
calm and willing to die. He consesled to the
crime but refused to relate the details. An
opportunity was given for the villain to make
his peace with his Maker, although he appear
ed callous to this proceeding. His hands and
arms were pinioned and moose was placed
around his neck, and willing hands lifted his
body from the ground. He made but little re-
sistance. The body was left hanging. Sheriff
Kilchner states that Digs made full confess
sion of the crime to him previous to the Jail
being forced
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
Burdette's Boy.

Bob Burdette has got two year old boy.
He is a smart boy, at least his father thinks SO,
for this is what he says Of HIM
The boy runs about $50 miles day, and
wouldn't quit then if it didn't grow dark. He
is very busy. He has all the care of me, and
in addition to his regular routine duties, he
manages thousand things no one else would
think of. Yesterday morning before ten
O'Clock he picked and ate, regardless of ma
turity or color, pint of wild Strawberries,
followed a wagon half a mile down the road
got lost in the woods, choked up the fountain
with gravel, fell out of hammock, stung
himself with bee, ate some strange looking
berries that his mother knows are deadly poi
son, played with mad dog (his aunt says she
knows it was mad) talked to tramp who came
to kidnap him, lit was an honest farmer COM
ing in to the circus, but the boys aunt and
mother united on the tramp and kidnapper
theory stepped on red lizard, built a dam
and fell into the brook. helped him build
the dam; in fact, confess that I built the
greater part of it, and enticed the prince to
assist, but he fell into the brook himself, and
all statements to the effect that pushed him
in, and laughed at him and encouraged him to
enjoy it, are simply campaign stories, circu.
ated for political effect
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
The Relief of the Arctic wnalers.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The revenue cutter
Corwin arrived at Ownalaska, june 9th. Capt.
Hooper proposed to sail on the following day
and make his way northward to Norton s
sound, thence to Cape East in the vicinity of
which it is proposed to rendezvous in case
Behring's straits are full of ice, but if the
passage through the straits was clear he would
push on into the Atlantic ocean in search of
the whaling schooners and if he succeeded in
finding and succoring them by the 25th of
August he would then make an effort to COM
municate with the Arctic exploring expedition
on the Jeannette.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
Watertown Cattle Market.

WATERFOWL, July 27-Beef Cattle receipts 3
41s market at last weeks quotations. sales schoice
Beef Cattle ut 25G7 SO; extra at 8 1897 90; first
quality 0o96 so; second quality at 0065 so;
Oxen b pair $1,000 $3.50; Mich Cows and Calves
at S20oS 45; Farrow Cows at S12d$26; fancy $50
laSG0; yearlings at S7a$14; two years old at SIG
S24; three years old s20dS37; Western fat Swine,
live at 5Ha5s4c " fb: northern dressed hogs ga
Sheep and Lambs-receipts Bats head; supply is
increasing from the NoIth but quality quite ordna
ry; sales of Sheep in lots at 2 25d4 90 each: extra
at 5o95 90; Spring Lambs 514a7; Veal Calves
2Li 65M
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
WHO WAS ZADIG?

1t is usual and commendable practice to
preface the discussion of the views Of philo-
sophie thinker by some account of the man
and OF the circumstances which shaped his life
and colored his way of looking at things; but,
though Zadig is cited in one OF the most i'm
portant chapters Of Cuvier's greatest work,
little Is known about him, and that little might
perhaps be better authenticated than it is.
1t is said that he lived at Babylon in the
time of King Moabdar; but the name of Moab
dar does not appear in the list of Babylonian
sovereigns brought to light by the patience
and the industry of the decipherers of cunei-
form Inscriptions in these later years; nor in
deed am I aware that there is any other au-
thority of his existence than that of the biog-
rapher of Zadig, one Arouets de Voltaire,
among whose most conspicuous merits strict
historical accuracy is perhaps hardly to be
reckoned.
Happily Zadig is in the position of a great
many other philosophers. What he was like
when he was in flesh, indeed whether he ex-
listed at all, are matters of no great conse-
quence. What we care about in a light is that
it shows the way, not whether it is lamp or
in Zadig lies in the conceptions of which he
is the putative father; and his biographer has
stated these with so much clearness and viva
cious illustration that we need hardly feel
pang, even if critical research should prove
King Moabdar and all the rest of the story to
be unhistorical, and reduce Zadig himself to
the shadowy condition of a solar myth
Voltaire tells us that disenchanted with
life by sundry misadventures, Zadig withdrew
from the turmoil of Babylon to secluded re-
beguiled his solitude by the study of nature.
The manifold wonders of the world of life had
peculiar attraction for the lonely student;
incessant and patient observation of the plants
and animals about him sharpened his natural
until, at length, he acquired a sagacity which
enabled him to perceive endless minute diff
ferences among objects which, to the untu-
tored eye, appeared absolutely alike.-Prof
Huxley, in Popular Science Monthly
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
MINE DISASTER.
. Three Men Killed by Fire Damp

Three Men Killed by Fire Damp
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 27.-John Reese, dis
trict superintendent of the Reading Coal and
Iron Co., and a gang of men, descended Kelly
Run colliery to examine the ventilator Moth
ing further was heard from them until this
morning when it was discovered that the gang
way was choked up and the men We're cut off
from the open air. Rescuing parties have
have been taken out overcome by foul
air and placed in the care of physicians In
tense excitement prevails and hundreds of
people have gathered. All work in the neigh
borhood has been suspended. Three men were
found at l o'clock, all dead. All leave fami-
lilies.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
The Death of Mrs. Wetmore.

New YORK, July pa Paris dispatch re-
ferring to the story of suicide of Mrs. Wetmore
says the story of the suicide is Beloved to have
been concocted by clique of persons in this
city of various nationalities, but of one social
class, in the hope of extorting hush money
from conspicuous foreigner, formerly ac-
quainted with Mrs. Wetmore. 1t is painful
story, and the details will probably throw
very unpleasant light on certain aspects of the
press in the French capital.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
MARINE NEW S.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

TUESDAY. July 81.
Arrived.
Steamer City of Portland, Pike, st John, NIB, vie
Sch Pereaux, (Br) Nicholson, Barbadoes-molasses
to Churchill & Co.
Sch Abdon Keene, Keene Western Banks-S0O
Sch Annie Brown, (Br) Curry, CORVALLIS. Ms.
Sch Add:e, Costello, Providence.
Sch Fred jackson, Andrews, Boston.
Sch Success, Terry, Newburyport seeking
Cleared.
Brig Kaluna Allen, Philadelphia-D W Clark
& Co.
Brig Cora Green, Phillips Bangor-Ryan & KEEL
sey.
Sch Grace Cushing, Moshor, Bangor to load for
Philadelphia Nickerson g. Son.
Sch Eliza Jane, Hutchirs, Orland-S W Thaxter.
SAILED ship Constellation barque Chi
nampas; brigs Kaluna, and Cora Green; sch Con-
gress; and others.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
WISCASSET. July 2O-Sld, sch Shaw, Vain
July 24-Ar, schs Sea Flower, Lincoln, Portland;
Montana. Bassett, New York.
July 26-Ar, schs St Elmo. Humphreys, Boston;
Eurotas Stamford, Ct; Isabella, Foster, Newport.
Sid, sch E NJ Colder. Hodgdon, New York.
July 22-Sld, sch Grace Davis Davis, New York
KENNEBUNKPoRT, July 27-Ar, sch Sophia
Wiley, Ham, Portland.
MILLBRIDGE, July 23-Sld, sch Helen NJ, Leigh
ton, Portland.
FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Ar at San Francisco Goth, ship st Nicholas, Stack
pole, San Francisco.
Ar at Liverpool 24th ship Schepp, Thompson
San Francisco.
Ar at Queenstown 18th, ship America, Blethen,
San Francisco.
Sid FIN Cadiz 22d, brig David Bugbee, Stevens, for
United States.
FISHERMEN.
Ar at Canso 23d, Van, from Port Hood for Hall
fax; Julia Franklin, Torbay; Petrol, and Viking,
from Banks.
DOMESTIC PORTS.
SAN FRANCISCO Ar 26th, ship st Nicholas,
Stackpolo, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
THE FIFTH DISTRICT.

Murch Nominated by the Democrats by
Acclamation.
CAsTINE, July 27-The Democratic conyen-
ton met in Normal Hail. Hon. Chas Spot
ford was temporary chairman. . There were
two sets of delegates from Belfast Murch
was nominated by reclamation.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
Steamboa iLihelled.

New YORK, July 27.-Additional libels were
filed in the United States court against steam
ers Riverdale, Shady Side, Blackbrid, Wyom-
ing, Adelphi, d. R. Martin, Osseo and Minnie
Cornell, for violation of the steamboat laws
in not having sufficient number of life pre-
servers and life boats on board. Their owners
gave the required bonds.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
DEATHS

In this city. July 9th, Bertha, daughter of
P. Welch, aged months and 10 days.
Funeral Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock
from 222 Danforth Street,
In this city, July &c, Josephine Littlejohn, aged
20 years months
In Harpswell, July ~, Ernest c.. son of Capt G..
r. and Georgia A. johnson, aged months.
In Bluehill, July 20, Thomas M. Lord, aged rs
years months.
GB-The funeral service of the late Mrs. Loui-
sa Hovey. will take place Wednesday forenoon at
1O1a O'Clock. at No. 90 Paris street, Burial at
convenience OF the family
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
DISASTROUS FIRE.

The Old "Pine Street Church" in Boston
Burned.
Boston, July 27-The old 'Pine Street
church," corner of Washington and Pine
streets, now used for furniture storage, with
the picture store ON the ground floor, was gut
ted today by fire. Loss on building $25 900; on
stored articles and stock about $4,000
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
SPORTING.

Riley Challenged to Race with Warren
Smith.
HALIFAX, July 27.-The Halifax Rowing
Association decided to challenge Riley of Sar-
atoga to scull race with Warren Smith. dis
lance three miles; stakes, $1,000 side The
race to be rowed on waters to be settled in the
future.
Base Ball.
At Troy-Troys s. Buffalos 6.
At Observation-Disclosures 6, Chicagos 2.
AT Observation-Disclosures g. Cincnnatis 1.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
CsicngoLive stock Market.

By Telegraph)
CHICAGO July -Hogs-Recepts 10000 head
shipments 3400 head; market 10Q20c lower; mix
ed packing 4 50Q4 80; light at 4 5o@4 80, choice
heavy at So as TO-
Sheep-receipts 600 head; shipments ITO head
market steady; common to medium at 25a3 So
good to choice at GOA 25.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
Bank Robbery,

HARTFORD, Ct, July 27.-Several men en-
gagged the attention of the clerks of the
Middletown savings bank to-day while accom-
plices entered the vault and escaped with
$500.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28

George d. Wise has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the third Vir-
ginia district.
Thomas Curdy, David Sullivan aud jaime
Horgan were found stealing goods out of a
freight car at the Boston & Maine depot at
love Lover, " D., yesterday. Horgan escaped,
out the other two were captured.
George Bell and Henry Clearly, notorious
iorgers, were arrested in New York Yesterday
Tor $4,000 job in Baltimore.
The custom house and railway station at
Armand, P. O., was burned Saturday with
records. Loss heavy.
Tilden will prefide at the Democratic meet
ing In New York tonight
Tanner remains in the same condition.
The water at Petersburg, Va, has been rem
dered UNFIT for drinking by the drought and
much suffering is anticipated. anu
1t IS believed the bodies of the men killed
in the Hudson river tunnel will not be reach ed
before the end of the week.
Michael Maddox was arrested in Baltimore
yesterday for killing John Schala with an axe.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28

NOTICE.-For the past thirty three years,
CONGRESS- Yeast Powder has been extern
sively sold. 1t has always been made pure and
healthy and is today without rival.
n- Slade's English Mustard, and Congress Yeast
Powder, are standard ALWAYS reliable
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
WASHINGTON.
Cabinet Meeting.

WASHINGTON, July 81.
In the Cabinet session to-day Mr.. Evarts re-
ferred to the fact that Admiral Wyman's dis
patches had been furnished to the public
through the press before being handed over to
the State Department, and took Commodore
Jeffers mildly to task for this ''leak.'
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
MARRIAGES.

In Dresden. July 4, Arthur P. Alley and Miss
Elvira 1. Morton.
In Monmouth, July II, John Judkins of Wiscon-
sin and Mrs. Nancy STAFFORD of Gardiner.
In South China July II, Hadley Keller and Miss
Ella M. Smell.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.
An Important Conference to be Held in
New York,

NEW YORK, July 27.-Secretary Dorsey Of
the National Republican committee states that
the meeting of the Republican leaders here
August 9Th is to be conference. Garfield and
Arthur will be invited to meet the members
of the national committee, and the chairmen
of the different state committees, the congress
sional committee and about one hundred
prominent Republicans from all parts of the
country. The object of the meeting is to bring
together the Blaine men, the Sherman men,
the Washburn men, the Garfield men, and all
other Republicans and have general express
sion of views and allow the Republican candl-
dates to become acquainted with the leaders of
the party and arrange plan for conducting
the campaign.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
suspension of a Democratic Newspaper

RICHMOND, July 27.-The Commonwealth
Of eis man mill
Democratic party and debt payers of the state
thus lose an able advocate.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28

LIVERPOOL, July 27-12.3O p M.-Flour at los
IS edges 4d; California average at 9s 10d; club
do at 9s 9d@1Os 4d; Corn at 5s I'd; Peas 7s07s Id.
Provisions, &c,-Pork 62s; Beef at SIS Cd; Cheese
at 54s; Lard at 39s; Bacon 37s 6dd39s Cd Tallow
34s, at London Ais.
LIVERPOOL, July 27-12.30 P.M.-Cotton market
dull; Middling uplands at 6 1864; Orleans at
8 1915; sales 1000 bales speculation and export
1000.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Portland Daily Wholesale Market.
PORTLAND. July 81.
The market for PoGk is strong and SOC higher.
Lard is 1s@14c higher and very firm, which is due
to the rapid advance in the New York and Chicago
markets. Sug .r is strong and unchanged
The following are to-day's quotations of Flour,
Grain. Provisions. &C.
The Portland daily press., 1880-07-28

BARBADOES. Schr Pereaux-29O puncheons, 80
hhds and 40 bbls molasses to f Churchill s. Co.
CORNWALLIS. Schr Annie Brown--96 cords OF
wood to Whidden.