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The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MARRIAGES..

In this city, May 8, by Rev. j. Mcwhinnie, Capt.
| S, Strong of Portland,
In Saco, April 90 Benjamin 6. Milliken and Lot
| tie Libby.
Saco, April 20. Thos. H. Berry of Buxton and
| Lizzie A. Deeering of Saco
In Liberty. April 25th, John NJ. Wellington and
| Miss Lizzie T. Pinkham
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

POrtlan. DAILY WhOlesnIe Market.
PORTLAND. May 8.
Sugar is active and stronger at 97s C for granulat-
ed and SAC for Extra G. Flour is steady and firm
Corn and Oats are in good demand and unchanged.
In Produce, quotations without material change
but trade is very good. Fresh Beef is firmly held at
the recent advance; hind ours. selling S@11c
and fore ours at 6@7c P h. At Chicago to-day
the Cattle market was excited and the best prices
for years were generally obtained being SOC higher
than week; common to fair sold at oO@5 so,
good to choice at 1906 90 and exports at 2O@
6 30. Pork and Lard were also off. Lard dropped
in New York 4c.
GRAIN Provisions Nc
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
European Markets.

BY Telegraph.l
LONDON; May 9.-Consols 1O2H@1O25s tor
money and 102@1O3 for account
ALoNpoN, May 9.-American securities-United
States bonds. As, 11914; 41ss, 117N.
LIVERPOOL, May 9-12.3O P. M.-Cotton market
easier; Middling uplands at 57sd; Orleans at 10
d dood;ssles 500 bales; speculation and export l.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

Grain Market.
PORTLAND, May 0.
The following quotations of Grain were received
by telegraph from Chicago to-day by A. W. Jordan,
157 Commercial street:
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

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. ~ o.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MEMOIR ANDA.

Brig Merriwa, Downes, from Philadelphia for Car
denas, while at anchor off Reedy Island 9th, was
BILE damage.
Sch H Billings, of Ellsworth, which recently
sunk in Lazy Gut Passage, near Deer Isle, will be
raised. Divers, with wrecking apparatus, are now
at work raising the cargo.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
Base Ball.

At New York-Metropolitans, II; Athletics,
At Washipgton-Ea Nationals, 2; Atlantcs, 0.
At Cleyeland-C!! eyelands, 3; Chicagos, 2.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
BY TELEGRAPH,
MARINE NEWS.
a Missing Bark

a Missing Bark.
HALIFAX, May Bark Kismet of Liver
pool, from Bahia for this port with sugar. now
80 days ont, is supposed lost with all hands
The Kismet is 5S2 tons register and built in
1877
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

EXON MERCHANTS EXCHANGE,
Ar at Philadelphia Sth, sch c j Willard Wallace,
Philadelphia.
Ar at Delaware Breakwater 9Th, brig George w
Chase, Apalachicola; sch l. A Orr, Orr, Cape Hayt
Passed Cape Cod 9th, IL AM steamer Eleanoia
from New York for Portland
Ar at Liverpool 7th. barque Edward l. Mayberry
Knight, Salavery; brig Lucy W Snow Stone, from
Boston.
Ar at Bremen 9Th inst, ship Lizzie Moses, Cox,
New Orleans
Ar at Cardiff 7th inst, ship Occidental, Dunphy,
Havre.
At Buenos Ayres April 8, barque M Russell,
Nichols New York.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
"Lord,, Courtenau Apain Arras.ad

SALT LAKE, May 9.-"Lord" Courtenay has
been arrested here and will be taken to Eng
land via New York on charge of forgery.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

New York Stock andM0nev Market,
iBy Teegraph.)
NEW YORK, May 9-Eysning:-Money market
tile aper 4941a. Sterling Exchange dull at 4.8b
for long and 4S51a for short. Governments are
strong and generally higher. State bonds are dull
Railroad bonds strong. The stock market closed
with buoyant tone and advanced from ~ to 3.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange ayerepat-
ell 462.476 shares.
1ue rolIowlng are today's closing ouotatonssof
GOYarnmnnt securities 'H--Ss0'
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EISHERlIEN.

Ar at Gloucester 7th, sch Frank Skillings, from
Western Banks.
Sch Woonsocket, of Portland, with 100 bbls of
mackerel, was ashore ON Romer Shoal 7th full Of
water.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

The following quotations of stocks were received
Saturday by Woodbury. & Moulton (members of the
Boston Stock Exchange), corner of Middle and Ex-
change streets:
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
PORT OF PORTLAND

MONDAY, May o.
Arrived.
Steamer Falmouth, Hall, Boston for PASSPORT
and St john NIB.
Sch City of Augusta, johnson, Baltimore coal
to Maine Cent RR.
Sch Mail. Merrill, New London-sugar to Geo
Sch A Townsend, (B1) Hill, Summeryille. Ms
140 tons plaster to A d Wnidden & Co.
Sch Avon, (Br) Melanson, Port Gilbert Ms
Sch n Harvey, Bunker Observation-Disclosures to W
Sch Banner, Bickford. Gouldsboro
Sch Teaser, Wallace, Bangor for Bridgeport.
Sch Emma w Day. Derry, Bangor for Hartford.
Sch Merriam. Smith, Bangor for Welfeet.
Sch A Elliott, Colson. winterport for Boston.
Sch r P Chase, from Calais for Providence
Sch Harriet, Perry. Calais for Boston.
Sch A Staples. Coleman, Bath for Boston.
Cleared.
Steamship Lake Nepigon Br) Campbell, Liver
poolIThompson. Murray s. Co.
Libby.
Sch Louisa Frances. Thorndike, Rockland-Ken-
SAILED - Barque Star of the West; steamship
Lake Nepgon.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
MACHIAS. May 3-Ar, schs Chalcedony Thomp-
May AR. sch Jerusha Baker, Chase, Portland.
May 7-Sld, sch Chalcedony, for Portland.
MILL BRIDGE. April 25-Ar. brig Shannon, Saw
yer. Boston; schs Helen NJ. Bray, Portland: steamer
c Mansfield, Mitchell do
May lar. sch Adde j, Leighton, Portland.
BOOTHBAY, May Sid, sch Mariel Wheeler,
Boston.
May BAR. schs Mary Elizabeth. Dunton, Port
land; Australia, Blake Boston.
May Gar, schs Warren, Billings from Green's
Landing for Boston; St Leon Perkins, Pcnobscot
for Boston.
Sid, sch Emperor, Brewer, Bangor
May SID. schs Cabinet. Leach (from Bangor
for Boston; Billow, Smith, from Calais for do.
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Foreign Exports.
LIVERPOOL, ENG. Steamship Nepigon-37-
600 bush wheat IA, 7O3 do peas, 644 ours beef
Receipts OF Maine Central.
PORTLAND, May z.
For Portland, % cars miscellaneous merchandise:
'or connecting roads, 70 cars miscellaneous mer.
chandise
Daily Domestic Receipts,
by water conveyance-lOOO bush Cornmeal to g
W. True & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
FOREIGN PORTS,

SPOKEN.
March II. lat n Ion 26 w. ship H McGilvery,
from Cardiff for Hong Kong.
April 80, lat 43, lon 63 SO, ship VIM Campbell.
Hathorn, St John, NIB.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
From the New York Evening Post

From the New York Evening Post
"Mamma," called out little boy the
other night, after he had been snugly
tucked up in bed, and was supposed to
be far on the way toward sleep
''mamma, Pm afraid my blouse hangs
by the window and it puts things in
my head that frighten me -
"YOu are not afraid when you know
it is your blouse that puts the fears in
your mind 9'
Eyes and | can't help it mamma"
There were two ladies sitting in the
room below who heard the boys
words. One said ''How perfectly
absurd What won't a child do to
get his mother to come up stairs to
him really think he ought to be
punished for making up such story
as that " The other, happily, was the
boys mother, and she said-but with
out going to him: "If you are afraid
of the things in your mind you may
get out of bed, light Your candle, and
take the blouse down you can look
after you put the light out and see that
there is nothing at the window to
frighten good boy"
She remembered, as if it were but
yesterday, night, "A great many years
ago, when she lay a trembling, Mortified
child, whose mother was dead, and
there waa no one in the wide
world to whom she dared to say that
the lights and shadows made by the
moonlight coming through IA broken
slat i'll the blind were so frightful to
her that she could not sleep, but lay
hnlIInar hnt. hTnofh a,,1 nlp
ering heneath the clothes. She felt
sure that her own little siX-year-O
boy was suffering from this same un-
reasonable terror, at which he would
laugh in the morning when he would
awake and see his blue blouse waiting
for him. The child, taking his mothers
advice and lighting the candle which IA
kindly freak Of fashion allowed him to
have, removed the cause of his terror,
put out the light and went back to his
bed, and i'll very few minutes a pro-
found silence indicated that he was
fast asleep,
One can easily feel sympathy for
what may seem like an absurd whim
in child if he or she has paid any
attention to the literature of nervous
ness, and knows anything of the many
ways in which strong-minded men
have been afflicted by hallucinations,
or have been annoyed as was the old
carpenter who, when sick, called his
son to his bedside and asked him to
make Il shelf that was i'll the room per
fectly true, and when the son remon-
strated, he said, with an expression not
to be denied "TrOuble's trouble
that shelf must be changed" 1t is to
he deplored that mothers, and all those
who have the care of children, do not
possess their complete confidence, and
so can encourage entire Outspokenness
and be enabled by the knowledge thus
gained to prevent morbid condition
of the mind, which it may take year.
to outgrow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14

The sailor slyly winked at the lawye
on the other side, and he took in the
situation in an instant and made no
objection. The ex-iudge stood with
his back to mantel on which a little
clock was quietly indicating the time
to the sailor, who lay facing it.
"Aye, aye" the sailor said and re-
manned silent.
After three minutes had passed, the
ex-judge became impatient and ex-
claimed, "See here, are you going to
keep us here all day ?" But the sailor
made no answer. As five and six and
seven minutes went by the lawyer be-
came almost wild in his assumed anger
at the man for keeping them so long
beyond the time. But not until the
hand of the clock was on the exact
notch of 10 minutes did the sailor
speak. Then he said carelessly.
''Guess the time must be bout up"
The judge put up his watch and
sank back in his chair. "Well," he
said, "Of all men, dying or alive, that
| ever saw, you can measure time the
best
1t is said that the eX-iudge does not
even yet know what made the other
lawyers double themselves over with
laughter as they did at that last re-
mark of his.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
True Marriage.

| have in my mind a couple united
in holy marriage December 10, 1903.
Their Christian names were Old-fash-
iOned, like themselves-David and
Catherine. Legal contract, of course !;
but most of all, the heart married them.
They lived to celebrate their crystal
wedding, their silver wedding, their
golden wedding and nine years beside.
Over three children's graves they wept,
but through all struggles of life they
kept the Christian faith. They lived
for God, for each other, for their chill
dren and for everybody but themselves.
Their hair whitened, and their steps
grew shorter, and their voice trembled
in the church psalm, though once they
had led in the village choir. The one
leaned heavily on the staff which
have in my house, but heavier on the
arm of that God who had never failed
him. These two married ones were
well mated. What was the joy of one
was the joy of another what was the
sorrow of one, was the sorrow of the
other. At last they parted. Three
years precedence did the Lord give
her. Though a deeply sympathetic
man, never saw my father cry but
once, and that was on the day of moth
er's burial. You see, they had been
together fifty-nine years. In her last
moments mother said to my father,
''Father, would it not be pleasant il
we could both go together ?" But the
three years soon passed away and they
were remarked. Their children are
gradually joining them, and soon we
will all be there. But that vision OF
my parents married life will linger il
my memory forever. Together in the
old church at Summerville on tn,
morning they both professed Chris
before their marriage day together
in all the vicissitudes of long life
together in the quiet village grave.
yard together in heaven. ''In tn,
cave that is i'll the field of Machpelah
which is before Mamre, there they
buried Abraham and Sara, his wife
there they buried Isaac and Rebecca
his wife, and there | buried Leah."-
Rev. De Witt Talmage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
A Big But Lawful SwindIc.

Frederick county, Md, is suffering
from one of the queerest swindles on
record, for while it is not uncommon
for man To make himself out sim
pletOn for the furtherance of sinister
ends, it is Il novelty to see the courts
of Justice made the chief means, and in
such a wholesale way. Ii is not ap-
parent how long Harrison Wagner,
"the professional litigant," has lived
in Frederick county, but it was long
enough for him to have been consider
ed harmless lunatic when he began
his operations two years ago. He had
studied an eccentric habit of action
and speech, and when i'll the fall of
1879 he went before an obscure county
magistrate and entered several hun
dred suits for damages against leading
citizens in all parts of the county,
many of whom had never even seen
him, everybody laughed and right
away forgot all about it. Hundreds of
other suits were brought from time to
time, and those, too, were regarded as
the harmless amusements of IL lunatic.
Wagner disappeared i'll the spring of
1880, and with him it was thought his
suits had dropped from view. But i'll
tnt ldll Jle community was UllGOWI III
to a Juror of excitement by the knOwl-
edge that Wagner had begun proceed
ings to enforce judgment in 1900 of the
suits. Then it was learned that while
the people had slept and had failed to
appear before the magistrate to answer,
judgment had been entered i'll each
case for the amount claimed ranging
from seventy-five to one hundred =
that Wagner had shrewdly kept quiet
until the year in which an appeal
could he taken had expired, and that
now each Judgment was indOrsed 'By
default' and ''No appeal taken" The
citizens then began to dispute pay
ment on the ground of fraud ; but the
courts have now decided that they
have no redress, and within a few
days most of the victims have paid up,
as the judgments were, of course, a
lien on their property. A great deal of
suffering has resulted, and in one case
where the husband had died since the
suit was brought, leaving $500 to his
widow and three little children, Wag-
ner's claims amounted to $4,000. The
county is too hot for him, and he has
for some time kept in the security of
New York city.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
for the Dousehnld.


A correspondent writes us that dur
ing the visit of Gen. $ at the White
House, an incident happened which
exhibited Gen. Garfield as an Obedient
son. 1t was the practice of the presi-
dent to run his eye over the morning
papers while eating his breakfast. On
the morning after Gen. SIS arrival,
while at breakfast, the president, treat
ing his guest as an old familiar friend,
began reading the newspapers. The
customary act annoyed his venerable
mother, whose notions of courtesy are
of the old-fashiOned sort.
"Jamesl James !" she exclaimed,
"put away the papers. Gen. s. is
with us.n
ayes, mother" smilingly replied the
dutiful son.
eyes, James, continued the old la
DIV. "Gen. $ does not come every
day, and the papers do"
The papers were not read that morn
ing at the breakfast table.
Roger Sherman was one of the old
fashioned great men which Connect
cut was in the habit of producing some
eighty or one hundred years ago. He
WIS DIouBhb up W icdi Oou anu hohOi
his parents, then considered essential
traits of good education. After Mr..
Sherman had become a great man, his
widowed mother came to live with
him. One morning, at family prayers,
little son of Mr.. Sherman's, refusing
to stop misbehaving, was boxed on the
ear by the father. The old lady was
childish in her love for her grandehil-
dren, and their punishment always
reused her. Rising from her seat, she
hobbled over to where her son was
reading from the Bible, and giving
him "a slap on the ear, said:
'If you box your child, I'll boz
mine"
Mr.. Sherman went on reading Tia,
scriptures, as if nothing had occurred
But to his own children his quiet man
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
The too Smart Judge.
From the New York Tribune

rom the New 4 OrE lflDune.I
A good story, told at the expense of
IL well-known ex-judge, is going the
rounds of the lawyers offices, and il
is heartily appreciated by those who
best know the irrascible but good
hearted disposition of the old gentle
man. 1t was an admiralty case, where
he is most at home. The deposition OF
IA sailor, who was soon to die, had to
he taken at his bedside in Brooklyn
one day last week. ''How long," the ex'
Judge snapped out as the first question
on cross discrimination, "do you think il
was after the vessel left the wharf be
fore the collision occurred 7"
The sailor was himself something of
a character, and not so near death but
that he appreciated the vital import
ance of "getting back ON" "A cross-ex-
amining lawyer. ''Waal," he drawled
out" "'bout 10 minutes, sd Judge"
.'Ten minutes Ten minutes ~ ex-
claimed the lawyer, jumping up. "Man,
how long do You think I'D minutes t.
be ?"
''Jest bout 10 Minutes" was the un-
muffied reply.
''HOw do you generally measure II
minutes ?" persisted the lawyer.
The old sailor turned slowly in bed
and eyed his questioner. Then h'
turned back again and said Indifferent
ly: "Waal, sometimes wild watcl
and sometimes with a claack."
This made the lawyer little mad
He jerked his watch from his pocket
and said in querulous, high-pitehed
voice "Oh, you do, do you 7 Well
I'll tell you when to begin, and you tel
me when ten minutes are up"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
Forcing Children TO Beg.

In Paris, as in nearly all great cities,
where mendicancy is largely carried
on, it is a well-knOwn fact that chill
dren are subjected to the most cruel
treatment for the purpose of driving
them to beg more earnestly. In one
of the touching works of the talented
novelist, H. Hector Malot, namely,
''Sans Famille," several chapters are
devoted to the description of the man
ner in which the little Italian beggars,
once so plentiful in the Paris streets,
are made use of by men who provide
them with barely food enough to live
and force them to bring certain sum
home every evening, beating them
cruelty, starving them, and sometimes
disabling them, when they fail to sue
ceed in their daily attempt. Nothing
could be more curious than the de-
scriptiOn of those schools of mendican-
cy, as it were, and it strikes one as a
most shocking thing that such abuses
should be carried on in the heart of
civilization. We believe that the EN-
ployment of Italian beggars in Paris
has been almost done away with. but
there is still much that is horrible un-
derneath the begging system. 1t is
painful to reflect that nearly every
child who pursues one in the street
with his demand for aims is merely the
fool of some cruel man or some heart
less woman, that the mendicants them
selves are arrant impostOrs in nine
cases out of ten, and, in short, that
mendicity in general is such a shan
and such deplorable social sore, that
perhaps it were better for the authori-
ties to prohibit it absolutely, and trus
10 private charity and administrative,
assistance for the alleviation of realI,
meritOrious cases of distress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
The Telegraph and the Indians.

"The telegraph line to the Pacific
coast must be kept up at any cost"
Such was the imperative order of Gen.
Pat Conner, the noted California In
dian fighter, to the veteran patrol upon
the old California trail on the North
Platte during the last year of the civil
war. Men were scarce and the Indians
were more numerous than ever before
Conner was organizing the largest mil
itary expedition ever sent into the hos
tile Indian country. He had determin-
ed to open a road from Fort Laramie,
through the Big Horn, TOungue River
and upper Yellowstone country, to
Bannock and the Montana mining re-
giOns; and to obtain a force large
enough to insure success, nearly every
military fort or stOckade ON the tele-
graph line was depleted of fighting
men. 1t was the summer of 1865, and
times were very exciting in the East.
kilograms were eagerly sought for in
California, but the difficulty in keeping
open an uninterrupted electric line
through five hundred miles of hostile
Indian country was only realized by
the brave but scattered military patrol
engaged in that duty. Wherever the
redskins crossed the line they tore
down the wire, burned down the poles
and in many instances carried away
the wire, and after coiling it up would
throw it into the nearest creek or river
The three hundred miles of line be-
tween Fort Laramie and South Pas
were intrusted to the care of thirty
young men of the Eleventh Ohio Cav
airy, under command of the late Ed
ward Creighton of Omaha, then super
intendent of the overland telegraph
line. 1t was to him and his small
band of cavalrymen that Gen. Come
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
SquibS.

A preachers face is kept sober by
the force of gravity.
The saddle horse knows enough of
arithmetic to carry one.
There are yet persons who are look
ing anxiously for verification of
Mother Shipton's prophecy, and who
dodge every time they hear loud
noise.
''What do | mean by advising your
boy to drink and gamble ?" said Gala
CHER to Ragbag. "Simply this. i am
interested in the boy. | want him to
be "A great and good man. Folks never
do as they are advised.
Dressmakers predict velvet season.
Unlike Vennor's, the prediction of the
dressmakers can be depended upon.
Reports are coming in from Marvin's
eighteenth wife. Brigham Young, if
he hears of this, will turn over in his
grave i'll envy.
General Grant is said to he invest
ing in Illinois farm lands" Grant
| Grant Let's see, wasn't it a party of
that name for whom "A subscription was
raised only little while ago Same
name, surely, but of course he must
have been another person.
An exchange innocently speaks of
''the bustlen in Vassar College on the
day the fall term commenced. Girls
will be girls, and it may be taken for
granted that there is always more bus
| tie in Vassar than can be seen in any
boys cOllege-albeit the boy has the
reputation of being the nOisiest animal.
/ Norristown Herald.
One day Capt. Lee was talking with
Spotted Tail and others about honest
people and the keeping of ones word.
'.There's no such thing as an honest
man." said the captain, .iOkingly.
''There used to be, however. In form
er times honest men always used to
have "A bunch of hair growing i'll the
palm of the right hand. | don't see
but a few punches in my hand" Spot
ted Tail stepped up to him, and shak
ing hands with him said : GLOW J
How used to have great big bunch
of hair in the palm of my hand, but 1t
has all been worn off by shaking hands
with the whites"
Astronomy is beautiful science.
i We are told that if a railway was run
from the earth to the nearest fixed star,
and the fare was one penny for every
100 miles, aud if yOn were To take
mass of gold to the ticket-Office equal
to twice the national debtor S3,5lU,-
OOO. .OOO-it wouldn't he sufficient to pay
for "A ticket to the nearest fixed star
aforesaid. If this he the case, 1t mat
ters very little to us whether such "A
railway is ever constructed. 1t would
be discouraging to 90 to the ticket