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Protesting Against Persecution.

CHICAGO, May Pa largely attended
meeting of Jews was held tonight to protest
against the treatment of their brethren in
Southern Russia. Over 81 600 was subscribed
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ST CATHARrNEs, Ont, May 26.-A young
girl named Sarah Potter, while walking yes
terday on the railroad track near here
was waylaid by six rufiians, bound with ropes
and outraged. She died this morning
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The Boston Knights Templar IN Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va, May 26.-The Boston
Knights Templar decorated the statue of
Stonewall Jackson in Capital Square today
with flowers, this being Memorial Day. The
event was impressive and sincerely apprecat-
ed by the Vrginans, whose guests they are.
Tonight the Commanderyiare participating in
a grand banquet.
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EurOEesn Markets.

By Telegraph.)
LONDON; May 26.-Consols at 102ssG1021z Tor
money and l021a@1O25s for account.
LIVERPOOL, May 26-12.3O P.M.-Cotton mai ket
steady; Middng uplands at 15-1 Cd Orleans at Cd
sales 10000 bales; speculation and export 1000;
futures steady.
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FATAL ACCIDENT

From Lighting q Fire With Kerosene.
PITTsBURG, Pa, May ga fatal explosion
of kerosene occurred this afternoon. Mrs
Egler attempted to start q fire when an ex-
plosion followed, setting fire to her clothes
and to the house, which was burned to the
ground. The husband while endeavoring to
save the children was badly burned. He for
got one child, who was burned to death. Egler
has become insane and docs not know the fate
of his child nor his wife's condition. She will
scarcely survive. One fireman was badly in
injured by the explosion of Babcock extn-
guSher
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Boston Stock Exchanged corner of Middle and Elk
change streets:
New yorn stool. nn.is,ouev svarhs,.

NEw York. May observation-disclosures market
easy at So on call, and closed at 3. Sterling Ex-
change is dull at asa for long and 4S6 for short
Governments strong and "a higher for As and
41as, 5s rose 1s, extended IS unchanged. State
bonds in light request Railroad bonds generally
strong and higher. The stock market closed strong
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggregst-
cd 429,095 shares
InIa,l,nu .dnu,s niosi,,n t.,,n-nt-o.. 81
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-27

NOTICE. Ladies now using cream tartar and
soda in baking will have better results by using
Congress Yeast Powder. Try it in biscuits, cake,
doughnuts, pie crust etc.
SHADES ENGLISH MUSTARD is sold by all gro
GERS,
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MAINE.


Fire IN East NeWpOrt.
NEWPORT, May 26.-The buildings owned by
oseph Sanborn, of East Newport, were burned
to the ground this morning. Loss $500; in
suranoe $1,000. Cause unknown.
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MARRIAGES..

In this city May 25. by Rev. A. Dalton. Edwin NJ.
Shaw and Mrs Mary j. Steinburn.
May &c, at the residence of Peleg Barker ESQ
by Rev E. Y. Iincks, George W. Eddy and Miss Eva
Barker.
In Bath. May Fl, Frederick Mclean of Bath and
Miss Sarah Godfrey of Boston.
In Bath, May %, VIM. f. Cahill and Miss Hattie
r. Dingley.
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Grain Market.

PORTLAND, May 20.
The following quotations of Grain were received
by telegraph from Chicago to-day by A. w, Jordan
157 Commercial street,
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DEATHS

In Bucksport, May 8, William Ballard, aged "a
years months.
In East Dixmont May Ia, Rev. Ebenezer Allen,
aged SO years.
AT Bar Harbor May 10, Capt. David RodicE, aged
GA years 8 months.
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The following quotations of stocks we're received
yesterday by Woodbury. & Mouton tmembers of the
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FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Cid at Queenstown Goth, ship Annie II Smith,
Bartlett, (from San Francisco for Havre.
Sid I'm Bremen 25th, barqgue Adolph Euglcr.
Merriman, United States.
Ar at Reval prev to 25th inst ship Scioto, Flow
ers, New Orleans.
Ar at St Jago 9Th, sch Ada Barker, Edwards, I'm
Barannuilla.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Port.nnu Dail, Wholesale Market.
PORTLAND. May &c.
The following are Io-day's quotations OF Flour
Grain. Provisions. sc.
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Receipts of Maine Central,
Rally DOmesric Recein.s

uo, ,,ox.,o, oe PORTLAND. May 25.
Tor connecting roads SO cars miscellaneous Nor
chandise. 1i'o'
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SAILING BAYS OF STEAMSHIPS.

MINlArGRE ALMANAC. 27.
Sun rises. ......4.22 High water, a M)..1O.46
Sun sets. ;. .........7.32 Moon sets. ....,,,, PM
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Dry Goods Wholesale Market.

The following quotations are wholesale prices and
corrected daily by Storer Bros. G. Co., Dry Goods,
Woolens and Fancy Goods, "a & Sc Middle street:
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Stock MARKET.

By water conyeyance-lOOO bush Cornmsa, 10 q
w. True u Co. w VI
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OF PORTLAND. ME.

This circular is presented by the I'M
dersigned, Wholesale Dealers and Manu-
facturerS of Portland. The Merchant
and Manufacturer will here find c0nyen-
iently classified and indexed, general
merchandise and supplies of every de-
scriptiOn, which are offered to the
Trade by firms whose facilities, expert
enee and enterprise have given this City
an honOred position among the Whole
sale Markets of the country.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-25
al Man Of MnscIe.

In Upper street, Islingtoh, London,
the Dukes Head was remarkable, toward
the middle of the last century, on &c
count of its landlord, Thomas Topham,
''the strong man of IslingtOn." he was
a carpenter, but abandoned it soon after
apprenticeship expired When he had
attained his full growth, his stature was
about five feet ten inches. The first
public exhibition of his extraordinary
strength was pulling against horse,
lying upon his back and placing hls tee1
against the dwarf wall that divided Up
per and Lower MOorfelds. He afterwaIu
pulled against two horses, and 1t was the
opinion of DIR. Desaguilers, the eminent
mechanic and experimental philosopher,
that, in a proper position, he might have
kept his situation against the puIilh8 OF
four without Inconvenience. ...
Among the curiosities OF the British
Museum is a pewter dish marked April
3, 1877. Thomas TOpham, OF London,
carpenter, rolled up this dish (made OF
the hardest pewter by the strength ,ot
his hands in the presence Of Dr. john
Desaeuliers, etc" He broke pieces OF q
tobacco pipe by the force Of his middle
finger. having laid them on his first and
third fingers. Having thrust the DoWi
Of a strong tobacco pipe under his garter,
his legs being bent, he broke 1t to pieces
bv toe tendons of his hams without alter
ing the position of his legs. Another
boWI of this kind he broke between his
first and second finger, by pressing them
together sideways He took an iron
kitchen poker, about yard long anu
three inches round, and bent it nearly to
a right angle by striking upon his bare
lft arm. between the elbow and the
mist. Holding the ends OF a poker o.
Ike size in his hands, and the middle OF
s. against the back of his neck, ne
brought both extremities OF 1t to8ethl'esf
of.,ra him: and. what was yet more an
...pt pulled it almost straight again.
J lTc iroke a rope of two inches III crcum-
ference.l
He lifted. stone of eight hundred
! raoulals' weight. standing above II, ana
lsfalriaq hold Of chain fastened thereto.
V'1a,Islnn exhibited the exploit OF hitlhg
/ tlira,. hogsheads of water, Weighing l, POI
7Du DIS. in Ooldbath Fields, May =,
/ I7tJ II. .comnlemoration of the taking OF
Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon, In the
presence of the Admiral and thousands
Of spectators Topham had a loose Wlie'
In. 4 fit OF frenzy, after beating ana staO-
biDr her in the breast, he inflicted
several wounds upon himself, and dled
in the flower Of his age, August To- Ii45'
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-25
Friends and Onnonents.

The Declaration of Independence was
adopted against the opposition of some
who had favored the cause Of the colonies.
| They regarded it as premature and
therefore inexpedient. Among these was
John Dickinson, the author of the
! Farmers Letters" which contributed
much toward the American Revolution.
| Mr.. Josiah Quincy tells us, In his re-
miniscences of John Adams, that he once
| asked the venerable ex-President AN ex-
| PLANTATION Of Dickinson's course.
''He became discouraged, replied Mr..
| Adams, F'and for some time was one of
the most violent opposers of the Declara-
ton of Independence. He had wife
and mother who were both Quazers,
and they tOrmented him exceedingly,
telling him that he was running himself
and his country by the course he was
pursuing. ...
eff had had such mother and such
a wife, believe / should have shot my
self IF they had opposed me, it would
have made me so very unhappy. 1 could
not have lived had [ not pursued the
course I did. ...
cone day in Congress, 1Iifiin, a rela-
tive of Dickinson, had dispute with
him. a.r g..
dickinson had said, in the. course of
speech, that, in driving a team of
horses, it was necessary to rein In the
most forward and to encourage the slow
and tagging. .
s'NIi1flin got up and said, Not so, Mr..
President You had better knock the
dull and lazy horses ON the head and put
them out of the team. It will go on
much better without them. -.
''The circumstances of his family and
his own timidity made Dickinson take
the course he did. He was man of i'm
1nense property and founded college in
Pennsylvania, -.s ...5. .r...
1t is a singular fact that while some of
the lawyers and merchants who were
members of the Continental Congress
opposed the Declaration, the clerical
members all supported it. The leader
of the clergymen was John Witherspoon,
President of Princeton College. .t
He was a Scotchman, and in his youth
had led a corps of Highlanders to the
Battle of Falkirk and fought for the
Pretender Entering with all his soul
into the cause of the colonies, he became
leader in those measures which brought
about final separation between them
and Great Britain.
Congress a deep stiffness pervaded the
hall. Every heart was awed. Wither-
spoon, of indomitable will and peerless
courage, spoke first /
- -''AIr. President" he began, in clear,
bold tones, ''that noble instrument on
your table, which insures Immortality to
its author, should be subscribed this
very morning by every pen in the house. |
although these gray hairs must !
descend into the sepulchre, 1 would in
finitely rather they should descend |
thither by the hand Of the executioner
than desert at this crisis the sacred cause |
of my country"
''The country is hardly ripe for such a
bold movement" suggested a tinid
'In my Judgment" shouted Wither-
spoon, eve are not only ripe, but rotten"
The names of five clergymen are found |
among the Declaration. They repre- !
sented the feelings of their brethren.
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g Solid Comfort. 1"

A lady in this city noticed her colored
''help" chewing pins and needles. The
lady, thinking the amusement was a
dangerous one, recommended that she
desist.
81 No, chile, " she said. CThe mistress
was much younger than the servant. }
''In de slabe times I had heab Of
trouble I sought comfort in whisky,
but dat glib me headache in de mo'nin'.
SO tried smokin' That was de berry
same. Then chawin' I tried. But that
was no good. Hap'ly one monin' 1
thought ob pins and needles. / puts a
bunch of pins or needles in my mouf,
chaws them, and they gabe me heab
-ob solid comfort. So now when ever I
feel wearied oh de de trials oh de trials
Of dis wuld puts pins and needles iu
my mouf and chaws them You hab no
idee what solid comfort there is in pins
and needles q"
"Don't you ever swallow any by ac-
cident ?" the lady asked
Guess do, chile, guess do; for some
nights I go to sleep with mouf full, and
they're all gone in de mo'nin. '"--Cjnctn-
natl Gazette s.at g.
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Ono FoOling.D

A Detroit lawyer had call to 60 into
the country a few miles TO attend a case
on. trial before country Squire, and,
while jogging leisurely along in his
tuggy, he saw man come running
across the fields at the top of his speed.
Directly behind him, and armed with O
stout stick, was woman, and it was q
nIp-and-tuck race to the fence. The
man reached 1t first, however, and, ns
un dropped on the highway-sde, he
called out to the lawyer:
8 Stranger, for Heavens sake give me
lit down the road for half a mile 70
'' What's the trouble here ?" asked the
lawyer
- Wife and have had another falling
.ut y WAS the reply, as the man rolled
toWn steep bank to the buggy.
The woman at this moment reached
The fence, and, as she was climbing
oyer, the lawyer inquired of the hus-
BAND:
Are you fooling or in earnest ?"
. II You think I'm fooling Just wait
second !" gasped the woman, as she
plunged down the bank, rolled over and
over IN the road, and rose up with a big
stone In each hand. H
Squat! yelled the husband, as he
circled around the horse, but the lawyer
wasn't quick enough. One of the stones
bit him in the back and the other Rrazed
ms car and hit the horse, and five or six
more were coming as he struck a trot
and moved of, the husband hanging 10
the vehicle and running behind. When
Il safe distance away the lawyer halted
and looked back. The woman stood in
the middle of the road shaking both fists
at him, and the husband wiped the
beads of perspiration of his checks and
chm, and said
Stranger, Hammer and me never
l'avo any fooling. When she's good
aatured l git one shirt week and two
Ieais a day. When she's mad one of us
mas got to light out, and / wish next
,nno you come this way you'd tell me if
there is anybody in Detroit who can
make me pair Of wings"
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This industry in the United States Is
assuming large proportions. The fol-
lowing estimates are approximately cor
rect Missouri has 1900 acres Of the
vine in cultivation, producing last year
800, 600 gallons of vine; Sandusky,
OHIO. and vicinity Cncluding the Lake
Erie Islands), 1000 acres producing 49,
600 0O0 pounds Of fruit California 60, 600
acres in grapes, representing in money,
alcludiug land, $500, 100000 Vinicul-
ture in this country is yet in its infancy;
Int the increasing disasters to the vines
az wine grapes in Europe is yearly bring
ihg It into greater prominence. The
runlity of American vines moreover, Is
steadily improving through experience
and the incrgnsiI g amount Of capital en-
llayed. and frum present indications the
wine Industry ,f i.lis country Is destined
~ attain ycry large proportions In the
& distant future.
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How to WEte Vel.

We believe that the whole of this
method is mistake; that there is no
single system of n2ec0njque for writing,
and that a child belonging to the edu-
Gated classes would be taught much
better and more easily if, after being
once enabled to make and recognize
written letters, 1t were let alone, and
praised or chidden, not for its method,
but its result. Let the boy hold his pen
as he likes, and make his strokes as he
likes, and write at the pace he likes
hurry, of course, being discouraged
but insist strenuously and persist
emily that his copy shall be legl-
bic, shall be clean, and shall ap-
proach the good copy set before him,
namely, a well-wIitten letter, not n
rubbishy text on single line, writ
ten as nobody but writing-master
ever did or viii write to the worlds end.
He will make muddle at first, but he
will soor make a rassable imitation of his
copy, and ultimately develop a char
acteristic and strong hand, which may be
bad or good, but will not be either
meaningless, undecided, or illegible.
This hand will alter, Of course, very
greatly as he grows older. 1t may alter
at II, because it is at that age that
the range of the eye is fixed, and short
sight betrays itself and it viii alter
at IL, because then the system of tax
ing, notes at lecture,. which ruins most
hands, will have cramped and tenn
.porarily spoiled the writing but the
character will form itself again, and
will never be deficient in clearness or
decision. The idea that it is to be
clear will have stamped itself, and con-
fdence viii not have been destroyed by
worrying little rules about attitude
and angle and shape which the very
irritation of the pupils ought to con-.
vince the teachers are, from some per-
sonal peculiarly, inapplicable. The lad
will write, as he does anything else that
he cares to do, as well as he can, and
with a certoin efficiency and speed. Al
most every letter he gets viii give him
some assistance, and the masters re
on his illegibility will be
attended to like any other caution given
in the curriculum. = e Learning to
Write, (" in Popular Science Monthly.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-25
Tndians' Love for Their ChiIdren.

A year or two ago, the daughter Of an
Indian chief, who had been educated In
New York, lGurned to the Reservation
as teacher. The tribe were reused to
envy when they saw one Of their own
number thus made, to all appearance,
the equal of the whites.
The Indians are passionately fond of
their children; and in every wigwam,
fathers and mothers schemed how they
should gain like advantages for their boys
and girls. just at this time, the pro-
prietor of travelling circus visited the
Reservation with his miserable worn-Out
horses and performers, and being struck
by the bright, eager face and fearless
riding of young girl of fourteen, went
to her father and offered to educate her
in the East and send her home a lady If
he would allow her to go with him. ~
The credulOus Indian consented. The
circus started IN the night, and the girl
went with it. It was two days before the
story reached the agent and missionary,
who sent for the girl father, and told him
how he had been duped by the Snowman,
whose purpose was undoubtedly TO train
her for the ring. The Indian stood sill
ent for a moment; then, raising both
hands to heaven, he CRIED
% God, visit not my Ignorance on my
child p i#a.
Without another word, he started in
pursuit. He had no horse, nor money to
pay his fare on therailway He travelled
four hundred miles on foot before he re-
covered his child, uninjured, though
worn to a skeleton from exhaustion and
hunger. ''N 4.'" -
We, to whom education, as a rule,
comes as freely as air or sunshine, can
have little conception of the hungry d es-
pair with which these copper-colored
brothers in Indian wigwams coYet the
oppurtunity which we hold so cheaply
There is no sight more pathetic than a
human being struggling vainly for that
knowledge which will make man of it
instead of a brute .a .s,3as~
An Omaha teacher tells us that the
children of that tribe. came last winter
to school, walking from two to six miles.
The hunt last year failed, and they had
no mocassins. Their bare feet marked
their way on the ice and snow with
bloody prints. au. ea.es a Gre y
How many white children would do
this of their own accord? ?. Two schools
at the East are now open to Indian chiIl
dren under the care Of the Government,
one at Carlisle, Pa, and theS1 industrial
Training School mt Hampton, Va 1t is.
the object of the Government to send back.
these educated youths as teachers to
ciVllize and elevate their tribes.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-25
A Good Character from His Last Place.

In Galveston, as elsewhere in Texas,
when a prisoner has no money to employ
counsel, the Judge appoints a young law
yerto defend the doomed man, very much
rs the pauper patients in a hospital are
turned over to the young doctor to learn
the profession on. Not long since quite
young lawyer was appointed to defend
man for burglary. The young lawyer,
after consulting with his unfortunate
client, said:
&C May it please your Honor, want
TINS case continued until 1 can procure
the attendance Of material witesses."
" What do you expect to prove ?"
asked the court.
q expect to prove that my unfortu-
nate client is a quiet, sober and indus
triOUs man. {"
"By whom do you expect to prove
that ?"
by the officers of the penitentiary,
where he has spent the last five years.
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I. @. II.

What were the fortunes Of the vari-
7.is Presidents, from the first ?" Wash
inctou left an estate valued at over $500
O00 +; John Adams died moderately wen
a.I, leaving about 5000; Jefferson
lied 50 poor that, if Congress had not
purchased lis library at $40, 900, he
would have been buried n pauper ;
Madison was frugal and left about $780,
600; Monroe died so poor that he was
buried at the expense Of his relatives /;
John Quincy Adams left about S55, 900 /;
jackson died worth about SSO,OOO Van
Bwen left some 100000 1t is said he
lid not draw his salary while in Olise,
Int at the expiration of his term Of SER
vice drew the whole, 800, 600: Polk
loft an estate valued $50, 600; Taylor
had saved something from his pay while
in the army, and died worth $3.50, 600 /;
Tyler married a lady Of wealth Fill
more was always frugal, and added to
his savings by marrying a lady Of
wealth, and was worth about 5000, ,OOOl;
Pierce's estate was valued at $50, 600 I;
Buchanan left $500, 600; Lincoln about
575, GOO, and Johnson $4,000.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-25
Grog in the EngIfsh Nayv.

From time immemorial it has been a
custom in the English Navy to serve a
daily ration of grog, and, in stormy
weather, after 60 reefing topsails, " it used
to be the fashion to double the quantity.
1t was this delightful break in the mo-
notony of q sea life that furnished the
basis for most of the songs of Dibdin.
But the reforming hand has struck down
upon poor Jack. The temperance So
cieties in England have been deputa-
tiOnizing and petitioning the Admiralty
Board, until at last that body, in a mo-
ment of virtue, has decided that sailors
under twenty shall have no grog; those
over twenty may have it if they wish, or
take out its equivalent in money, and be
served instead with chocolate, prepared
so that it can be dissolved in water. One
can imagine the look of disdain with
which the old grog- drinking British tar
would look upon the mixture of chocolate
It is certainly somewhat singular drink
to offer to a sailor, and one can not help
wondering why tea or coffee was not
substituted. However, such as it is, the
men in the British Navy will do well to
accustom themselves to it, for the entire
abolition of grog is now only question
of time, and short time at that.--Bo8-
ton Herald.