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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-17
FreShotS in Alabama

MOBILE, March 16.-Specials from Rome and
Selma say there are oyerfows all round and
both towns are seriously threatened Before
many hours water will be in Selma. Indica-
tions point to a worse overflow than in 1871 or
or 1875. At Rome the water is up to the bat
terry room of the telegraph company and still
rising.
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Boston Sugar Market.
Boston Stock Market.
New York Stock and Money Market.
nv Telapranhl

New YORK, March 16-Evening. Money market
loaned up from to per cent. and commission on
call and closed at 6; prime mercantile paper at
@6 per cent. Sterling Exchange firmer at 484s4 a
485 for long and 1874 @4S8 for short. Govern
ments quiet but generally steady. In State bonds
La. consols closed at 50A.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggregat-
ed 346 500 shares.
Inc Following to-day's closing quotations of
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Havana Market.

by Telegraph
HAVANA. March 17.-Sugar is rising No IL d at
at 9a9A reals gold per arrobe; Molasses Sugar No
to 10 at TAGS reals; Muscovado Suagr common
TO fair TAGS reals; Centrifugal Sugar SO deg po-
larizatlon 912 Clio reals. Spanish gold 233023314
Exchange declining on United States 60 days gold
at 3A 94A prem; short sight do at 4s4 @l5A prem.
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Heavy Forgeries.

PROVIDENCE, March 16.-Wm. D. Hilton,
formerly Superintendent of the Providence &
Worcester railroad, confesses he has issued
forged papertto the amount of $4,000.
Hilton was for ten years master of transpor-
tation on the P. b W. railroad, and subses
quently for twelve years superintendent which
position he left two years ago.
He was also a prominent worker in the tenn
perance cause and superintendent of the First
Universalist Sunday School. The amount of
forgeries is not known. Hilton places it at
$4,000 but it is thought to go even higher
Hilton says none of the money has been used
for vicious purposes, but has all gone in as
sisting others, in paying heavy interest and in
trying to build up his business. No arrests.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-17
MARRIAGES
DEATHS.

In this city, March 10, by Rev. j. McWhinnic,
Cyrus Kindrick of Litchfcld and Miss Susie p.
Howe of Rumford.
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METEOROLOGICAL,

L..
INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TwENTY-FOUR
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIaNALl
OFFICER, Washington d. c.,
March II, l A. M.
For New England,
Cloudy weather with light rain or snow, fol-
lowed by fair weather, colder north-westerly
wind and rising barometer.
Cautionary signals continue from Macon to
Woods Hole.
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Overflow Cumberland and Tennessee
Rivers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 16-Steamboat
Bransford has arrived from above. Captain
Armstrong, says the entire lowland for 200
miles up the river is flooded. He reports
rise coming down that will swell the river
here to at least At feet The Tennessee river
is out of its banks at Decatur and Johnsonville
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FREIGHTS-The past week has been rather quiet
owing to the scarcity of vessels for Coastwise trade
and there is no disengaged tonnage in port. Ice
freights are very active and rates strong Lumber
freights about the same as for the previous week
Net much doing in foreign and rates are low The
following charters were made for the week end
ing March 10th:
Schrs Izetta and Ellen Perkins, Portland to New
York, ice so. ~
Schrs Kate M. Hilton and William Martin, Port.
land to New York, ice so,
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Receipts of Maine Cenral,
Daily Domestic asece;,,..

PORTLAND Mch TO-
For Portland, 33 cars miscellaneous merchandise:
for connecting roads, 103 ears miscellaneous err
ehandse.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Portland DAILY Wholesale Market.
PORTLAND. March. 16.
The following are Ioday's quotations of Flour,
Grain, Provisions &c.
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Closing prices at Portland Mining Exchange by
7. H. Mansfield Co., brokers, 81 Exchange street,
Portland Me-, March g..
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In.port l4th, schs Marion Draper, Bailey Port
land for New York; John Sanford Berry, Booth
bay for Philadelphia; and the arrivals 18th.
PORTSMOUTH-Below 18th, schs Skylark from
Boston for Bath; Com Kearney do for Calais: Han
nan Grant, do for AIilSrdge; Bowdoin do for Rock
port w Il Emerson, do for Crland; Mary Steele FIN
Portland for Norfolk; Metropolis. Vinalbayen for
Boston; Mansur Cakes, FIN Portland for Phiiadel-
phia.
Most of the above sailed 18th.
EOREIGN PORTS.
Sid FIN Yokohama Feb IL, ship Titan, Berry, for
Manila.
At Yokohama Feb 16, ships Kate Davenport, NAL
ar 2Sth
At Hiogo Jan 81 ship Golden State Delano, from
Yokohama for Manila.
Sid I'm Hong Kong Jan 81, barque saml d Carl
In port Feb z, ship Hecla Day, for San Francisco,
ldg; barque Alice Reed, Kelleran, and Mabel, Hal
lett, for New York, do; W A Holcomb, Dunton, FIN
Ar at Bombay Feb 20, ship Brown, keazer,
Cardiff
Ar at Batavia Jan 2e, ship Pendleton, Nickels,
Sid FIN Palermo Feb 25, brig Maria W Norwood,
Magune, Cuba
Ar at Bordeaux LIST inst, VIM G Davis, Cheney,
San Francisco
Sid I'm Havre 18th inst, ship wachusett, McGil-
very, Cardiff.
Sid FIN workington 18th inst, barque Kate Hard
ing, Watts. Baltimore.
Ar at Glasgow 18th. steamer Nebo, Portland.
Ar at Queenstown 18th, barque Minnie NJ Watts
Watts SOurabaya.
CID at Yarmouth, Ms, 18th, sch C d Oliver, Morey
Ar at st John, NIB, 13sh inst, schs Elyra Watts
Jonesport; Olive Frye Machias.
Cid 18TH schs Virginia. Armstrong and f NJ Saw
yer, Falkingham, New York.
SPOKEN.
March 10. lat 80 80, Ion -, barque Josie Mildred
CHM, from Havana for Philadelphia.
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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

PORT OF PORTLAND.
TUESDAY. March 16.
Arrived.
Steamer New Brunswick, Thompson, st john NIB,
via Eastport for Boston.
Sch Com Kearney, Thompson, Boston-molasses
Sch Candour, Br) Geldert, Boston.
Sch Hannah Grant, Pickett, Boston, to load for
Millbridge.
Sch Augusta Herrick Herrick, Boston.
Sch Bridget Ann, Parker Gloucester.
Sch Moonlight, Brown, Gloucester for Eastport.
Sch Abby Weld, Gardner Eastport-general cargo
Sch Jerusha Baker, Chase Machas for Boston.
Sch Alice Dean, Watts. Pembroke ior Boston.
Sch Clara Dinsmore, Chase Whiting for NYork.
Sch Judge Low. Smith, Whiting for New York.
Cleared.
Sch Elya E Pettengill, York, Cardenas-Nutter,
Kimball g. Co.
Sch Fair Dealer, New York-Berln Mills Co.
Sch Nellie Star, Poland, New York-D W Clark
s. Co.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
WISCASSET, March 12-Ar, schs Fanny Barney,
Wallace Rockland; Adrianna, Snowman, Bath.
March 13-Ar, sch Thos Borden, Cherbuck, Bos-
ton Annie P Chase, Pool, do.
March 12-Sld, sch Sylph, Rines. Horse Island.
March 16-Sld, sch Thos Borden, Cherbuck, for
Philadelphia.
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Whining Stocks.

By water conveyance-1OOO bush Cornmeal to G.
W. True & Co.
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MEMORANDA.

Chief of Rockland, collided night of 18th off Cross
Rip. The American Chief was struck on stern and
badly stove, had boat smashed, mainsail TORE and
mainboom broken. The Yankee Blade carried away
jbboom and headgear, and knocked overheard two
men who were on the boom. They were rescued.
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Supertine.. a 1896 25
Extra Spring. IS 5O96 90
Xxx Spring: ..6 5O@7 90
Patent Spring
Wheats. ...8 50@9 30
Michigan Win
ter best. ~ OO@7 25
Low rade
Michigan. ...6 OO@6 80
st. Louis Win
ter fair ....6 5O@6 rs
Winter good. II 00tg7 so
Winter best. II 1908 90
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DEPARTURE OF OCEAN STEAMERS

MINIATURE ALMANAC ........ MARCH II.
Sun rises ............6.07 High water. 247
Sun sets. 6.09 Moon sets...... OPS
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Grand Trunk Elevator.

The following a statement of Grain at the Grand
Trunk Elevator, March 16:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
The Women OF Lima.

! Lima, says an exchange. is called the
paradise of women. They are called
beautiful; so they are, if you admire
black eyes and ebony tresses-not the
dreamy black eyes of the harems, nor the
sparkling black eyes of the Syrians, nor
the liquid black eyes of the Egyptians,
but the black eyes that easily reveal the
different types of character. They are
generally occupied but do not work;
they look upon labor as degrading.
They rise early, take a cup of tea and
go to mass. Their toilet requires but a
few moments. Their walking suits are
neat and pretty; in this respect they
surpass us. The dress is black and
never touches the ground; there is no
fussing or fumbling with trains. A
white skirt is sometimes seen a little
below the dress, with deep hem and two
tncks and always white and clean.
Prunela CATERS are generally worn; and
hands are bare; the manta is thrown
over the head, falling gracefully down
almost to the bottom of the skirt. The
subject of dress claims most of their
time and attention.; their ball dresses
and opera and soiree suits are magnif-
cent. Their boots, especially. are beau
tiful. No people have naturally as small
feet as the Peruvians. The Peruvian
made boots are too small for foreigners.
Peruvian ladies are not very intelligent;
as soon as they pass beyond the school
girl period they care little for books.or
literature. Many learn to play the
piano when young, but do not care to
continue when married. They are ex-
cessively courteous in their manners
but we are not to be misled by appear
ances. Their mode of salutation is
more of an embrace than anything else
and they always say: 90 My house and
all that | have is entire at your disposal
and we are to be as one family" They
are always wealthy in imagination-at
least they never speak of poverty. They
love to smoke. Although handsome
when young they scarcely turn twenty
when they begin to fade. One thing
always lasts with them and that is their
gait. Their movements are gliding and
graceful; the same is true of the men.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
A Joke on Melon Thieves.

The party of young men who went on
a baseball tour to GAINESVILLE last week
had an interesting experience. The
crowd went down in a wagon and on
the road kept a sharp lookout for water
melon patches to be "raided" on their
return. Near Miner they saw on the
roadside a promising patch, over which,
however, stood guard an old gentleman
whose general appearance reminded
them of the old party in the spelling
book who had chased small boy up a
tree. On their return the crowd made
a sortie on the melon patch and each
one carried off and devoured a melon.
AS the party were riding on a small
wag in the crowd, to play practical
joke, suddenly fell over and began to
groan in a very distressed manner, say
ing he thought the melons were pois-
oned. At this dread suggestion each
melon thief began to feel sick at the
stomach and in few minutes the old
mans melons were thrown out. After
this exercise the joke was disclosed
much to the Indignation of the unfortu-
nate victims. Griffin (GG.J Ne1os.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
A Big Telephone Scheme.

1t is reported that the Interstate
Telephone Company, having a capital
of 500, 900 and composed of New York,
Boston, Providence and Hartford CAPT
talists, has been formed for the purpose
of connecting all the large cities in the
East with New York City by telephone.
This company has secured from the
American Bell Telephone Company the
exclusive use of its apparatus between
Boston and New York for a term of
seven years from the first of July last.
aud its proposed scheme will soon be in
operation. Boston and Providence will
be first put in communication with each
other and after that line is in good
working order, two lines will be ex-
tended from Providence. one to New
York, by way of New London, New
Haven and Bridgeport. A spur line
will run from Providence to Hartford,
Waterbury and other towns in the
Naugatuck Valley to Bridgeport. Lines
from Springfield, Worcester and other
cities will be constructed, tapping and
acting as feeders to the main line. The
company also have the right to con-
struct lines from New York to Wash
ington by way of Philadelphia and Bal
timore. When the lines are completed
subscribers to the local telephone can,
it is said, for a small fee in addition to
their local rates, talk with people in
any of the cities which have the tele-
phone system. London (COnn. }
Telegraph.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist ministers of Boston
have requested the city authorities to
intermit giving free concerts on Sun
day in the public parks.
Forty common-school teachers in
Hardin County, Kentucky, had their
/ certificates revoked for failure to attend
the Teachers Institute, as required by
law.
The New Orleans schools remain
in miserable condition as to finances.
The city is endeavoring to conduct the
/ schools at an expense of 100000 a
year, when its income is only $500, 900.
The gospel tent 'Glad Tidings,"
which is supplied with one thousand
folding chairs, is to be pitched in Sara
| toga for gospel meetings in charge Of
ID. L. Moody and other evangelists.
Missionary work is earnestly called
for in the valley OF the Yellowstone
River. The difficulty is to find men
who are willing TO go; yet a church now
vacant in Brooklyn, N. Y, has thirty
seven candidates on record already.
"A service was recently announced
at St. Matthew's, Sydenham, London,
50 for children of the upper classes"
Upon which an exchange makes the
pointed suggestion that the words of
Christ should be amended so as to read.
Suffer little children of the upper
classes to come unto me-"
Several years ago a benevolent
Frenchman named Jeanson bequeathed
a million of dollars to the City of Paris
for the creation of school in which the
children of the Sixteenth Arrondisse-
ment could receive a classical educa-
ton. The work of building this new
edifice, which will be one of the finest
in the capital, was begun few days
ago.
Some wealthy Presbyterians, princi-
pally from Ohio, are talking of forming
a colony on Lake Chautauqua, close be-
side the Baptists. The Baptists have
erected a spacious Tabernacle, with
room for 5000 people. If the Presby-
terrain colony should be formed It will
be with an arrangement for the use of
this building for public services at times
when the great Baptist gatherings are
not in session.
Housewife, Pa, was busy oil town
but declined to such an extent that St.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church
lost nearly all its members. The build
ing was good one and there was need
for it at Bradford, which is now the
center of an active oil business. There
fore it was taken down, carried piece
meal to Bradford and there rebuilt. 1t
has now been dedicated and is an ele-
giant and commodious house of worship.
The Esquimaux of Little Whale
River, Hudson Bay, have a new church.
1t is an iron building, twenty feet by
forty, and was sent from London in sec
tons ready to be put up. 1t was nearly
two years on the way, but on arrival
was put together in couple of weeks.
Eight Esquimaux members have been
added to this church by baptism, and
thirty more are under instruction with
a view to admission. Baptism by i'm
mersion is not greatly in vogue among
the ESuuimaux
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
Thinking Birds.

The Central Prison at Agra, India, is
the roosting- place of great number of
the common blue pigeons; they fly out
to the neighboring country for food
every morning and return in the even
ing, when they drink in tank just out
side the prison walls. In this tank are
a large number of fresh water turtles,
which lie in wait for the pigeons Any
bird alighting to drink near one of these
turtles has good chance of having its
head bitten off and eaten, and the head
less bodies of pigeons have been picked
up near the water. The pigeons, how
ever, are aware of the danger, and have
hit on the following plan to escape it:
A pigeon comes in, and, as it nears the
tank, instead of flying down at once to
the waters edge, will cross the tank at
about twenty feet above the surface and
then fly back to the side from which it
came, apparently selecting for alighting
a safe spot which it mad remarked as it
flew over the bank; but, even when
such a spot has been selected, the
bird will not alight at the edge of the
water, but on the bank about yard
from the water and will then run down
quickly to the water, take two or three
hurried gulps of it and then fly off to re-
peat the same process at another part
of the tank till its thirst is satisfied.
l had often watched the birds doing
this and could not account for their
strange mode of drinking till told by
my friend, the Superintendent of the
Prison, of the turtles which lay in am
bush for the pigeons. Nature
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
The Latest Abstinence Feat.

Mrs. Chattermug, a lady living on
Nevada Street, got excited over the ac-
counts of Dr. Tanners fast and an
nounced that she would refrain from
talking for forty days. She began at
nine o'clock in the morning and at
1880 her pulse was so feeble from ex-
haustion that her physicians feared she
would die by noon. At eleven her heart
beat but twenty six a minute, and her
respirations were hardly noticeable.
Her friends here urged her to discon-
tinue her terrible task and told her
some gossip about a neighbor On
hearing it she Immediately rushed from
the house, and going across the street
met a lady friend and talked until $50
at night, and is now fully restored.
Her record of nearly two hours and a
quarter of absolute silence now takes
its place at the top of the list. Con-
gratulatory letters are pouring in from
all sides and she has had several offers
to take the lecture field. CARSON NeU.
appeal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
Yassar CollaGa-

The continued existence and steady growth
of any institution of learning proves two
things: First, executive ability of the high
est order, which makes itself felt not only in
the upper stratum of collegiate affairs, but
throughout the structure down to the feeblest
bylaw; and second, that spirit of hberality
and far-sighteGRess which tends to keep
abreast of to-day.
The munifcence Of the founder of Vsssar
College would have been vain without these
conditions, and that she is what she is, proves
the worth of those shoulders upon which fell
the responsibilities born Of this generous
philanthropy. The college situated at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, bears the same relation
10 the higher education of young women, as
do Yale and Harvard to that OF men. A
glance through the catalogue discovers a
course of study male possible for young
ladies only by the founding Of this institu-
ton. Standing amid her two hundred acres,
with miles Of walks, her lake and other
facilities for out of-door exercise. her newly
erected laboratories and cabinets, her
library and reading room, museum of nstur-
al history, astronomical observatory and her
gallery of art, she is q monument alike Of
the srlendid liberality Of her founder and the
equally splendid achievement on the part of
the Vassars of to-day.
Clifford's Febrifuge, In the cure of Fever
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09

In the accounts of the recent great
races of st. Julian and Maud S. at the
Rochester Driving Park there is very
confident dealing with those exceeding
ly small portions of time known as quar-
ter seconds. When tens of thousands
of dollars change hands, as at Roches-
ter, on quarter seconds, and, as else
where, on eighths of seconds, no wonder
that some men find that it takes very
little time to lose a great deal of money.
No wonder, also, that they sometimes
question the accuracy of subdivisions of
time so minute that the eye, the hand
and the mechanism of the watch must
all act with absolute perfection in order
to avoid the error of at least an eighth
of a second.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09

-"Oh, yes, Charley's nice fellow
enough; only little green you know. "
You should remember, Tom, )" replied
his cousin Lizzie, casting significant
glance at the young mans nose, in which
the red was slowly but surely eclipsing
the white-''you should remember that
green is a sign of safety and red a danger
signal. ''-BoStOn transcript.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09

"A company with capital of 81 ,000,-
coo is being organized at Cincinnati to
supply steam for heating purposes to
that city at an estimated cost to con-
sumers of 90 to 80 per cent. less than
they now have to pay for their own fires.
The company propose to erect twelve
immense steel boilers on the bank of the
river, and to run pipes from them under
all the principal streets. Each house
desiring supply of steam for heating
and cooking purposes will secure it by
making a connection with the street
main; this will give it connection with
the steam reservoirs and supply it with
all the heat it requires. Each consumer
will determine the amount of steam and
degrees of heat he requires, and the
gauge will be regulated accordingly. 1t
is said that the company expect to be
able, not only to supply all households
in the city with steam for heating and
cooking purposes, but to furnish motive
power, also, for all manufactures. The
subterranean pipes for distributing the
steam have been ordered at Pittsburgh
and it is expected to have ten miles of
pipe laid this fall.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
Tho +roons which comnosa VIII.

The troops which compose what
may be called the regular army of China
consist, it is estimated, of only 140, 1000
men. These receive monthly pay at the
rate of from SIS to IS, and daily ratis n
of rice. They are lodged in barracks,
and supplied with arms by the Govern
ment; but they have to provide their
own clothing. The remainder of the
men, who swell the nominal effective of
the Chinese army to 100000 infantry
and 227, 900 cavalry, can hardly be re-
garded as regular troops, since they
have to maintain themselves by cultiva-
ting ground allotted them by the Gov
eminent. Most of these men are mar
ried, and their sons at their birth are en-
rolled as future recruits for the army.
The organization and conditions of serv-
ice of the cavalry are similar to those of
the Russian regular horse, to whom they
are admitted, even by Russian writers,
to be in no way inferior. On the other
hand, the artillery of the army is miser-
ably inefficient. The number of guns
is large, but they are of Indifferent man.
ufacture, have neither range nor accura-
cy, and are badly served. The number
of Notifications in China is extraordi-
narily great. No fewer than LOG
towns are fortified with walls and ditch
es, while thousands of fortified posts are
scattered over the country. Most of the
latter, however, consist only of brick
walls with bitches, and would not be
capable of withstanding the fire of even
light field pieces. The only fortifca-
tons in China which can compare with
modern European works are those con-
structed for the defence of Peiho or FOR
the protection of other estuaries, and
which are armed with ordinance pur-
chased in Europe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-09
rClereland ohiol Plain nenIer.1

Capt Henry NJ. Holzworth, Chief Detective
Force, Cleveland, o., says: St Jacobs oil
gives surprising relief, does world Of good
and conquers pain. 1t completely cured me
of Rheumatism