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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26
RAILROADS.
Eastern Railroad.
Winter Arrangement will 80 into effect
ON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9Th, 1881,

Trains leave Portland.
At a. M. Daily (yigbt Pullman) for Saco,
Biddsford, Kennebunk, Kittery, Portsmouth,
Newburyport, Salem, Lynn and Boston. arriving
at 6.30a. m. special Sleeping Car VIII pc
ready for occupancy In Portland station, ct 800
p, and is attached to this train for Boston,
Sunday nights this will not be ready until II
p. m.
At g As a. IN. for Cape Elizabeth, Scarboro, Saco,
Biddeford, Kennebunk, Wells, North and South
Berwick, Conway Junction. connecting for all
Newburyport, Salem, Gloucester, Rockport,
Lynn, Chelsea and Boston, arriving at LID m.
At 1.1O p. for Cape Elizabeth, Scarboro, Saco,
Bi deford, Kennebunk, Wells, North and South
Berwick, Kittery Portsmouth, Newburyport,
Salem Gloucester, Rockport, Lynn, Chelsea and
Boston, arriving at $40 y. IN. connecting with
Sound and Rail Lines for all Southern and West
ern points.
Trains leave Boston.
At $40 n. M. and arrive in Portland at IL 80 p
IN. At 2.30. p. IN. and arrive in Portland at POO
at HOO p. m.
Pullman ParIor Cars.
On trains leaving Boston, at $50 a. m. II. 80 and
m. and !. 10 p. m. Through Pullman Sleeping
Cars on trains leaving Boston at ZOO p. M and
Portland at zoo o. ny.
Through tickets 90 all points West and
Soulb may be had of j. NJ French, Ticket nj aster,
Eastern Railroad Depot and at Union Ticket ONCE
40 Exchange street.
Pullman Gar Tickets for Seats and
Berths sold at Depot Ticket Once.
LUCIUS FUTILE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
dec5 DIFF
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26
A Forlorn Hope.

OttoJ. Doesburg, proprietor Holland City
News, Mich, writes:-"A bad cold settled on
my side and back, kidney trouble, liver and
rheumatism combined; suffered terribly,
though was obliged to move about and attend
to business, tried local doctors, but received
no relief, and as forlorn hope tried your
THOMAS EcLEcTRIc OH; have only used half
fifty-cent bottle, and feel as we'll as I ever
did in nv life"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26
DOMINION LINE

<sun~.-. The steamers of this Line will
.A.Mn srun during. the winter season
EzeAzS&zss fortnightly between this port and
60 Liverpool. The vessels are Cly de
bui t. full powered and have superior accommodate
ton for cabin and steerage passengers. Prepaid
of bringing out their friends Dates of sailing from
Portland to Liverpool.
DOMINION, Opt Reid. ..............9t 9th Dec.
BROOKLYE, Capt. Lindall. Esd Dec.
ONTARIO, Capt Williams. 18th Jan.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Cabin ........., .......-. $4,000 Gold.
Cabin return. ..... 500 90 Gold.
g. CO. General Agents, Grand Trunk Freight ofh-
ces, foot OF India street. dec5 dtnay1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26

The grip of Pneumonia may be warded off
with HaIe's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26
CancersCured

NJ o knife, no poisonous plasters mercury or
IN other poisonous medicines used Relief guar
antead in every case as have % different modes
for euriug ancers and can meet every case. No
charge for consultation only for medicine until
the cure is effected Can give the best of references
as to skill and medical standing from some OF the
lead ng physicians of Boston, also sworn certificates
of cures Send full history of your case with
stamp to O. G RANDALL NJ D., 60 Day street
Boston Highlands, Mass If you CALL take the ia
maiea Plain Horse Cars dec23eod3m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26

Health, hope and happiness are restored by
the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1t is positive cure for all those dis
eases from which women suffer SO much. Send
to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkhams233 Western Ave-
nue., Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-26
The Unloved Wife.
CHAPTER I.

BY MRS. E. D. E. N. soUTHwoRTH.
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Ocean Insurance Company.
ANNUAL MEETING

yEyHE stockholders of the Ocean Insurance Compa-
nv are hereby notified to meet at the office of
said Company in Portland, on MONDAY, the second
day of January A d. 1882, at three o'clock p. M,
for the purpose of choosing seven Directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction of any other
business that may then be legally acted upon.
r. o. CONANT, Secretary.
nao 10 1891 dec1 2d3w
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
Confederate Bonds.

Chicago, "A new York firm print;
al. advertisement hare Offering 81 50 pei
81, 600 FOR from 81 900 to 81, 10000 con-
federate bonds maturing in 1865.
London, 2.-Tbe Pail Mall Gazette
says there is no truth whatever in the
statement that there is large amount OF
money in the Bank of Enkland, depos.
tied by the confederate government and
available for the payment Of confederate
bonds. We believe it does not hold 6
single penny, and doubt whether there il
any such money in any bank in THU
country. The whole story is q gross
fabrication and fitting product of s
speculation that hiss no substantial foun
dation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
TELEGRAPHIC
TeIegraPhlc Ticks

San Francisco, "a signal station, in
communication with the United States
meteorological bureau, will be estab-
liihed on holland Kilauen, Sandwich
Islands, and series of. observations
taken.
Boston, 1.-The executive committee
on the worlds fair met yesterday. En-
couraging assurances were given by mem
bers of the committee. Subscription
books will be ready on Nov. Sd.
San Francisco, 1. - The Australian
steamer brings thirty-five boxes Of specie
and eight boxes of bullion, value not
stated; consigned to San Francisco
banks. All will probably go to the mint
here.
Washington, 2. = The President, to-
day, commissioned Stratham postmaster
of Lynchburg. Va vice Wilson, suspen-
ded under the tenure of Office law.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed Frederick Frelinghuysen re-
ceiver of the Mechanics National Bank,
Newark, and L. NJ. Prior attorney.
A party Of distinguished mea, consist
ing in part OF Secretaries Blaine and
Window, Senators Bayard, Davis,
Mcpherson and Augustus Schell, w. p
BarLum, Gen. Sickles and Coy. Hamil-
ton Md have gone to West Virginia to
examine undeveoped lands, with view
to making investments.
Toronto, 2.-Hallan goes to California
to play star eng 4gement at $500 for
each OF six APPEARANCES. Plaisted goes
out on salary. Both men have their
expensts paid hv Cantain Mullett.
Bolton, q The French visitors are
guests of the city to-day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03

VIII Sell Goods or Production Consigp-
ment; Buy or Sell Real Estate and
Mining Property; Make Collections
or transact other legal business.
Has for sale very desirable property IN
st. George, Washington and Silver Reef
Good Teams, Stock and Merchandise
accepted In part payment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03

A Beautiful Variety Of PRO
GRAMME CARDS, suitable Tor the
Rallroom. at HERALD ONCE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
CRSUaltioSa

San Francisco, 2.-The trans-Austra-
liam bark Prince Vsctor WAS dismasted
and foundered $50 miles off Cape Hawke
in gale. The crew took to the boat:
and after great suffering effected land
ing. except two who died from privation
Fihy-six pounds of dynamite exploded
in the house of miner at Redfern
blowing the building to pieces and dam.
aging those nosr by.
Bordeaux. BY the sinking of 6
ships boat at Pannslic thirteen persons
were drowned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
Arthur and the Star Route
Cases.

Washington, 2.-The President. with
a great many others, has been annoyed
at the apparent delay in the star route
prosecutions, and to-day sent for one Of
the persons actively connected with the
prosecution, and is reported to have SAID
to him in substance, that he did not wish
any further delay in the matter. There
was an impression becoming current that
counsel were dilitory in this. He de.
cided to have the cases Immediately
pressed to trial and conviction if govern
ment had any case, and if it did not have
any case he desired to acknowledge il
and let the matter drop.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
No Reply.

Liverpool, 1.-The COwrier's London
has good authority for stating that Lord
Granville, British foreign secretary, has
drawn up no reply to Secretary Blaine:
note relative to the Panama Canal and
the Monroe doctrine. There has been
it says, an exchange of views between
Granville and the French minister Of
foreign affairs, but no joint reply i!
likely to be made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
President Arthur.

Washington, 2. - President Arthur
goes to New York tomorrow, and will
not return until the middle or last o.
next week. He will then 90 direct tc
the White House and remain there. He
will not go to the Soldiers Home. When
at the White House yesterday, he sell
ected his room in the northwestern pOr'
ton Of the house.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
Good Gift.

Edinburgh, I.-Inhuential supporter.
of Professor Robert Smith, recently sus.
pended from teaching his classes at Alb
erdeen University. yesterday presented
him with books valued at $1,000 Il
was announced that sum had been
raised Sufficient to secure Prof. Smith 8
larger salary than he received before
ousted from his Aberdeen professorship
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
UTAH CONTRACT COMPANY

oflcs Nc. 12S4I, First South St, Salt
Lake City. P. o. Box 4S1.
Undertake and execute, on tia loves.
terms and In the shortest time either or al
Of the work of locating, grading, bridging,
OF other RAILWAYS; Loeating and con-
ItructinR RagoR roads, canals, reservoirs,
sGueducts. dAmS etc.: laying out and gradiDe
streets 5Ss sias9sIks. parade grounds and race
tracks: excsvatibs for building founcstioss;;
cellars, drains, etc., as wen - sve5y ana az I,
nh, gfaYaIi ceuent stone. etc. etc.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
Impertinent Query.

Pansms, Oct. a. The Star says:
What does DeLesseps mean by favoring
the employment of conviets from New
Caledonia to work on the canal here? We
have criminals enough as it is among
our population. Thera are hundreds OF
people guilty of murder who are running
unwhipped from justice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-03
Gambetta's Policy.

Paris, 2.-It is expected that Gambetta
will shortly make an. important state
ment regarding his policy, either during
the debate on the interpolation with ref
arence to governments TuDisian policy,
or previously at q meeting of the na-
jority.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19
"SELF-MADE' MEN AND
WOMEN,

Self-made men of President Gar6eld's
type are often justly claimed as being
among the finest fruits of our institu-
tions. There is another class who also
deserve well our praise-those who have
had to overcome, not so much their ear
ly disadvantages, as what many people
would consider their early advantages.
They did not surmount poverty but to
surmount wealth-not to rise out of ad-
versity but above prosperity. They
have had to learn to sympathize with
those in need without ever having shar-
ed their necessitous condition; to es-
pouse radicalisms when they had every
thing to lose by change. 1t is hard. at
any rate, to get good work out of those
who are born to inherit what others
have earned by working; how much
harder when their career is destined to
involve not merely work. but the loss of
early friends and perhaps of all the
special delights of the society in which
they were born. To accept these condi>
tions. and to do it knowingly and cheer
fully, is to be self-made man or wom-
an indeed.
A rich young lawyer was once told
by an older one that the way to success
was this: To spend his fortune then
to marry and spend his wife's; after
which he could hope to succeed at the
bar. But to achieve really independ-
ent position-to be indeed a salf-made
man or true man at all-implles more
than success at the bar, for it needs not
only intellect, but the highest aims be-
sides. To accomplish this in spite of
early advantage" is in many respects
harder than to rise out Of what is called
obscurity. To begin with, it WINS far
less sympathy during the process. Ev-
erybody is interested in "The Romance
of Poor Young Man." Those of the
class from which he came, whatever it
be, are apt to cheer him on; and to re-
joice, with almost tiresonIe repetition,
that he was once rail-splitter, or a
tanner, or a hat-boatman. After his
career of distinction is once begun, he
has every inducement to make the most
of these circumstances in his career ;
they are counted to him for merits. and
be is tempted to exaggerate them. like
| the character in Dickens Bleak House,
| ("Hard Times ?'') whose main stock in
trade lay in his early struggles, and
was put to shame at last by the dis
covery that be came of worthy and we'll
to-do parents. But the man who tries
to elevate himself into independence of
character out of fortunate" surround
ings is apt to find himself unfortunate
Those of the class he is leaving do not
urge him on, but are more apt to Gen.
sure him or satirize him and where
this is true of a man 1t is twice as true
of the other sex. | remember one oc-
/ casion when lecture was to be deliv-
cred in Newport, by one of the most
accomplished women in New England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19
THE SPIDER AS AN
AERONAUT.

In speaking to representative of this
newspaper of the intelligence displayed
by birds and beasts, Mr.. Seth Green ar
gued strongly in favor of the reasoning
power of insects especially, and related
from his own experience the manner in
which spider constructs balloon. If
you anchor pole in body of water
leaving the pole above the surface. and
put a spider upon it, he will exhibit
marvellous intelligence by his plans to
escape. At first. he will spin a web
several inches long and hang to one end
while he allows the other end to float off
in the wind. in the hope that it will
strike some object. Of course this plan
proves failure, but the spider is not
discouraged. He waits until the wind
changes, and then sends another silken
bridge floating off in another direction.
Another failure is followed by several
other similar attempts. until all the
points of the compass have been tried.
But neither the resources nor the reas-
oning powers of the spider are exhaust
ed. He climbs to the top of the pole
and energetically goes to work to con-
struct silken balloon. He has no hot
air with which to initiate it, but he has
the power of making it buoyant. When
he gets the balloon finished he does not
60 off upon the mere supposition that il
will carry him, as men often do, but he
fastens to it guyrope, the other end Of
which he attaches to the island pole
upon which he is prisoner. He then
gets into his aerial vehicle, while it is
made fast, and tests it to see whether
Its dimensions are capable of the work
of bearing him away. He often finds
that he has made it too small, in which
case he hauls it down. takes it all apart
and constructs it on larger and better
plan. A spider has been seen to make
three different balloons before he became
satisfied with his experiment. Then he
will get in, snap the guyrope and sail
away to land as gracefully and as su-
premely independent of his surroundings
as could we'll be imagined. Mr.. Green
stated that he had repeatedly witnessed
such actions by spiders, and that he
feels convinced that it is reason, with
which the Creator of all things endowed
the animals, that enabled them to free
themselves from their prison.-ROcheste'
Democrat:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19
THE ERUPTION OF
MAUNA LOA.

The great eruption of lava from Mau-
ma Loa in Hawaii. had continued, at the
latest advices from the island, for nearly
s IL months. The mighty mountain
had poured forth from its upper vents,
near Mokuaweoweo, the summit crater,
a river of lava. about fifty miles long
and varying from half a mile to four
miles in width, which was approaching
Hilo. threatening to destroy the town
to fill up the harbor, and probably, as
on former occasion of eruption, invade
the Pacific Ocean. and add many thous-
and acres to the area of the Archipelago.
This body of lava consisted of two main
streams, one flowing toward Mauna Kea,
the other toward Kilauea. Between
these streams others of very liquid pal
hoehoe have divided and sub-divided on
the side of the mountain, on the plains
below, and in the great forest between
the mountain and the sea.
In one of his latest letters from Hilo,
DIR. Coan says: "SOme parts of the fiery
line are still operating in the woods
about five miles distant, but the south
eastern wing has come through in force,
and from this wing the stream which
now threatens US has advanced four
miles from the main body. Should its
speed increase it will soon enter our
town in the channel which cuts the
beach about in in its center and enter
the harbor. But as the body of the fiery
fusion is too large to be confined in the
water channel. it will probably spread
on both sides and consume many build
ings. 1t is amusing to see the children
and even older people gathered at the
lower end of the flow and along its mar
gin, all eager to collect specimens from
the viscid streams. moulding with poles
the plastic mass, as the potter the clay.
into various forms of cups, vases, birds,
fishes. etc. These are readily sold at
various prices to strangers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19

"Ah! now | have named her. which 1
did not mean to do pas Warrington"
once said of the same person, after ap-
plying to her a somewhat similar epi-
thet. "Only think !" said one of the
little queens of our little society, as she
read the announcement, "that woman
was lady once !''
! well remember when boy, to have
only heard of Lothrop Motley as the
handsomest fop and tfaneur in Boston
the manager of fashionable assem-
blies. the leader of the dance. Wen
dell Phillips in his Cambridge grafton
the other day, described the process of
change which transformed Motley into
an author and then into a reformer;
and made his pen worth a dozen diplo-
matists to his country when the opening
of the war found the United States al
most without friend in Europe Of
Mr.. Phillips's own career | need hard
ly speak nor of that other orator, who
with his new Harvard honors upon him.
praised Phillips at the Phi Beta Kappa
dinner in words almost as eloquent
as his own. Whatever be their errors
or shortcomings. | never thinkH of men
and women such as | have named-and
the list might easily be made longer,
without recalling that fine passage in
which George Colman, in his once fa-
nous ''Looker-On," describes Sir Phil
lip Sidney-putting the language, be it
observed, into the mouth of a woman.
This is the closing paragraph:
''This bright and accomplished cava-
lier night, if he pleased. in his day,
have set the fashion of shoetie or al
tered the shape of any mans peruque in
the country; but he thought 1t more
beseemIng his manhood and his great
ness of soul, to hold out brave exam
pie of virtue and religion. While all
were looking up to him as the sample
of courtesy, of elegance and gallantry,
he was bethinking himself of his Para
phase of the Psalms. He fell fighting
for his country, and died in an act of
Christian charity"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19
from me &?

"LIKE A FEARFUL DREAM."-''I have
been so much better this summer" writes
lady who had used Compound Oxygen.
'Every time think of it feel as if words
would not express my pleasure or my
thanks to you for what you have done for
me. l shall never forget it. 1t seems
like fearful dream, when think of two
years ago. l dreaded to have night come,
for l knew there was no rest for me- but
that l must bear the pain and sickness as
well as | could until another morning,
which l dreaded to see, for was so weak
it seemed as if could stop breathing just
to get a little rest. Now it is so different.
l sleep good the most of the time, and am
well compared with what 1 was then. "
Our treaties on Compound Oxygen, con-
tanning large reports of cases and full in
formation, sent free. Drs. Starkey
Palen, 1l09 and I'LL Girard street, Phila-
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19

HARD TO PLEAsE.-Some people are
never content with their lot, let what
will happen. Clouds and darkness are
over their heads, alike whether 1t rain
or shine. To them every incident is an
accident. and every accident calamity.
Even when they have their own way,
they like it no better than your way i;
and. indeed, consider their most volun-
tary acts as matters of compulsion. We
saw striking illustration the other day
of the infrmity we speak of in the con-
duct of a child about three years old.
He was crying because his mother had
shut the parlor door. ''Poor thing"
said neighbor compassionately; 'you
have shut the child out" "It's all the
same to him." said the mother; '.he
would cry if I called him in. and then
shut the door. It's popularity of
that boy. that if he is left rather sud-
denly on either side of door. he con-
siders himself shut out, and rebels ac-
cordingly."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-19

Why THE PRAIRIEs ARE TREELEss.-
A curious and interesting explanation of
the absence of trees on the great west
ern prairies was given at the meeting of
the Academy of Natural Sciences BY Mr..
Thomas Meehan. Numberless theories
have been advanced by students in natu-
raj history why the great feeding grounds
of the buffalo should be without azores
cent vegetation, the principal one which
is supported by DISTINGUISHED authors
being that of climatic influences. Mr..
Meehan's theory is that the absence of
trees is due to artificial causes altogeth-
er. Taught by their necessities the ear
ly Indians made it practice to annual
ly fire the high grass of the prairies,
which had the effect of making the growth
more luxuriant and consequently more
inviting to the vast herds of buffalo, on
which the aborigines depended for their
sustenaDce. 1t has been concluslvelY
settled that no vegetation save the hardy
prairie grass. will appear on the ground
over which fire has swept until another
season. so that the yearly prairie fires
extended the area of the plateau until
they had become almost measureless.
Mr.. Meeban cited several instances
where trees had grown when the firing
had been discontinued. The hypothesis
was both pleasing and plausible. and has
excited some discussion aD"rg the
sayants.