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The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

New Work Stock and Money Market.
(By Telegrsph)
New YORK, Oct. A-Evening. Money loaned up
to per annum and rs per diem, closing at highest
point lowest was prime mercantile paper 51s q
61a Exchange steady at 47A12 for long and 483
short. Governments weak and ss lower for 412s
and as e, IS rs higher; 5s strong. State bonds
moderately active
rhe transactions at the Stock Exchange aggregate
ed 333 372 shares.
The following are to days closing quotations of
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05
MARINE d EWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

TUESDAY. Oct. 4.
Arrived.
Steamer City of Portland, Pike, st John, NIB, vi
Sch Speedwell. Dyer Richmond, Va-coal to Port
land & Rochester RR.
Sch Reno. Ackley. New York coal to E H Sargent
Sch May Wyman, Sawyer, Boston, with loss of
mainmast, lar 1st)
Sch Brunette. Babbidge. Boston-molasses to W
Sch Tiara, Chatto Bluehill-paving stone.
Schs Canton. Gray and Elect, GRAY, Bangor. with
lumber to H & R Gotten.
Sch Provincetown, Gray. Bangor-lumber to ii
& A Dotten.
Sch Decatur Oakes Baker. Belfast for james
Sch j Stinson, stinson. Deer Isle for Boston.
Sch James Lawrence, Babbdge, Deer Isle for
Boston.
Schs Arizona Glover, shore with 300 bbls mack
erel; Esperanto, Gross do. ESQ; Lucy j Warren.
Stinson, do. $50; Dora Brown, Brown. do. 200; ID K
Rhodes, Decker. do, 270.
cleared.
Brig Cascatelle Allen, Kennebec, to load for Bal
Sch Ariadne, Dyer, Cardenas-Phinney jackson
Sch Ira D Stnrgis, Adams. Wiscasset, to load for
New York; NickersoD & Son
Sch Teaser. Wallace, Kennebec, to load for New
York; Nickerson & Son.
Ser Geo Hatch; Murphy. KenneDec to load for
Sch Odell Winslow, Bowdoinham, to load lumber
for New York-Gallagher & Co..
Sch Susan Frances, Smith. Sullivan-N Blake.
Sch Emma Ward Addison-N Blake.
Sch Traverse Lane, Brook Nm Blake.
Sch Sarah, Hamlin. Deer Isle-N Blake.
SAILED Barque Mosetta Mcneil; schs Odell,
and Isaac Orbeton.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
wISCASSET, Sept 30-Ar, sch Hope Haynes,
Carnage. Portland.
Sid, sch Etna, Delay, Galveston.
Oct lar. schs Thomas N Stone. Pitcher, Boston;
Smith futile, Blagdon, dol Albert Daley, Gold
thwaite Saco
BOOTHBAY Oct lar, sch Harmony, Mitchell,
Lubec for Boston, with loss of fore and mainmasts.
with all attached. off Seguin. Ttowed in BY schr
Geo w Pierce.
Oct 2-Ar. sch Mary Elizabeth Dunton. Portland.
Sid, sch Australia, Baker, Boston; M j Elliott,
Sargent, Portland.
LAUNcHED--At Bath LIST inst. by B W g. f
Morse sch Gearge Moulton, 400 tons, owned by the
builders and others of Bath. The keel for another
three masted schr was put in her place.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

Drv Goods Wholesale Marker.
The following quotations wholesale prices and
corrected daily by Storer Bros. Co., Dry Goods,
Woolens and Fancy Goods, "a & 56 Middle street:
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

The following quotations of stocks were received
yesterday by Woodbury. s. Moulton members of the
Boston Stock Exchange), corner Of Middle and Ex-
ebanpe streets:
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1914 all year; No Red Fall at 1914; No 4 do
at 3 "a Corn unsettled and lower at WAC Tor
cash; 67s4 for October 7Us4c November; 7l%sc
December, 72Hsc January. Oats lower at 4Fs4 Ior
cash; ATM October; 4812c Novemb r; 4912c TOT
December. Pork lower 10 3d. Lard nominally at
IL 10.
Keceipts-4,O0O bbls -four, 1900 bush wheat,
81 600 bush corn, 81 900 bush cats, 1000 bush
rye, $1,000 bush barley.
Shipments-5, 900 bbis -four, 5000 bush wheat,
Al ,O00I bush corn, 1000 bush oats, 10000 bush
Barley 0,000 bush rye.
DETROIT, Oct 4.-Wheat unsettled; No White
for cash and october at Al; November at l 1914 !;
December at 49s4; all year A; No White at
/ Al; No Red at l 481a.
Receipts $4,000 bush shipments Al 900.
NEW ORLEANS, DC. 4.--Cotton is easy; Middlins
uDlands 1880.
MOBILE, Oct. 4-Cotton weak; Mlddling uplands
at lac
SAVANNAH, Oct. 4,--Cotton quiet; Middling up
lands lie.
MEMPHIS Oct. 4--0otton is quiet; Middling up
lands at 11Ac.
Eurerean HEaxlxesss
Bv Telegraph
LONDON Oct. 4.-Consols at 80 11-16.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 4-12.3O 2. Motion malket
firm; Uplands at Tad; Orleans at 714d sales l2,-
o o bales; speculation and export 1000; futures
quiet.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05
ssocR maTstes.

= Z.
Ger Portland, ears "a miscellaneous merchandise
for connecting roads 12S cars miscellaneous ner
chandise.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

December Corn 9.3S m n "a G. /. O2 p m 70s4 G:
December o is, $50 a m +71ac. 1890 m 46s4 c;
1.02 p M 471ac, call 47s4 C.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

Daily DOsnesssr sseceaRfs.
BY water conveFancs-100c bush ssornlneai 10 G
Vt Tryta 81 10.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-05

PORTLAND, UCJ. e.
The following quotations OF Grain were received
by telegraph from Chicago to-day by a. W. Jordan,
67 Commercial atraat.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14

worship. and was amazed if any one chose
to dissent from it; but this he did with lofty
oondescension.~ He was prophet who &C.
Guided himself from humanity, and yet in
sisted upon receiving honor where honor
was not due. His mind was filled with two
objects. nature and himself; and we are not
sure that the latter was not the greater. If
he submitted himself to nature, it was to
study effects; just as physician partakes
Of some subtle drug that he may note tho
resulting symptoms and formulate d.
Rgnosis. Given bluebird's song, or q
grove of pine trees in q wind, what is tho
peculiar emotion awakened in the bosom OF
this personal entity known as Thoreau?-
that was always the problem. The
universe revolved about him. For him
alone the stars shone and the winds blew.
The birds sang only to his ear. He never
dreamed that the others saw and heard and
understood, perhaps mora than he, the har-
mony of nature. Neither need we 20 far
to prove that his observation of nature was
uperticial-using the term in it's larger
meaning. 1t is true, as we have said, that
he saw keenly what lay about him. But
it is also true-sadly true-that he did not
interpret what he saw in its highest sense.
To him the whole universe was simply
Thoreau writ large. He dwelt in his little
corner, and made the varying phenomena
that came within his ken interpret his own
thoughts. The faint glimpses he caught of
the outside world only confirmed him in
the belief that it was utterly vulgar and
trivial.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
SclGntl11c Notes.

The London Times says: 1T can scarcely
be doubted that all London, along it's main
thoroughfares, will discard gas for the elect
ric light within the present century. The
really cautious and hesitating progress of
the invention must remind not q few of the
equally cautious and hesitating progress Of
gas
A mechanic of Rochester, N. Y, has, &C.
cording to his own statements, just COM
pleted duplicate of the celebrated astron-
omical clock of Strasburg, in which city he
was born and lived for many years. The
only difference between the workings of the
two clocks is in their seize and in the form
Of the astronomical portions. The case for
the main part of the Rochester clock is ten
and one half feet high, while it is in ali
clock seventy five feet high which it imi-
tates.
A writer in the London Globe says that
lead pipes placed in contact with lime are
so corroded and eaten in the course of ff-
teen or sixteen months as to become porous
and brittle, and eventually useless for the
purpose intended If this be fact it is q
highly important one in a sanitary point Of
view. Plumbers and house builders who
habitually use lead pipes imbedded in NOR
tor and cement containing lime ought to
investigate this matter, and, if the pipes de-
ter1orate when SO situated, change their
plans.
The method by which the Brush Electric
Light company proposes to il!umin ate the
CITY of Cincinnati, if the board of public
works accepts the offer, is to erect towers
200 feet in height and place on top of them
lamps with capacity Of from $1,000 to 49,
600 candle power and on seventy five foot
posts lamps of 30 o to 4 900 candle power.
A central station has been estab bshed, five
machines, with total capacity Of 20S, 900
candle power, are now being manufactured,
and the company expects to be ready to
commence operations within month from
this date. According to the contract, tho
cost is to be rs per cent. less than the price
now paid for gas.
Professor Bowditch, of Harvard College,
having examined the measurements of some
25. 900 Boston school children, finds that
the growth of children takes place in such
wav that, until the age of eleven or twelve
years, boys are both taller and heavier than
girls Of the same age, but at this period OF
life girls begin to grow very rapidly, and for
tho next two or three years surpass boys Of
the same age in both weight and height
boys then acquiring and retaining size
superior to that of girls, who have now
nearly completed their full growth. He
inds that children of American born par
ents are in Massachusetts taller and heavier
than the children of foreign born parents;
superiority which seems to depend partly
on the greater average comfort in which
such children live and grow up, and partly
| upon differences peculiar to race or stock.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
Henry Ward Beecher and Bob lngelsoll

Henry Ward Beecher and Bob lngelsoll.
Col. Ingersoll lately lectured in Brooklyn
on Liberty, and the president of the club
wrote to Beecher, at Ingersol's request,
extending to him an invitation to be pres
ent, and assuring him that nothing that
could be distasteful to him from a religious
standpoint would be said. Beecher's reply
was as follows:
DEAR SIR: Thanks for your note Of
March 26. also thank Col. Ipgersoll for
intimating that it would give him pleasure
to have me present at his lecture of Tuesday
next, am sure that he knows could af-
ford to listen to any sentiments which he
sincerely felt that it was needful for him to
utter, however much might differ with
him as to their truth or importance, but I
have been under an engagement for weeks
to preach an ordination sermon on that
night. If Col. Ingersoll could only come
and hear that, he would be in the same po-
sition, doubtless, that should be at his
lecture, though could not promise not to
say anything "distasteful'' to him. hope
you will have large audience, and 7 have
no doubt you will have splendid lecture.
Very truly Yours,
HENRY WARD .BEEoHER.
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Literary Treason In Boston.

The Literary World, Boston publica-
ton, has the boldness or presumption-its
local critics will think the latter the proper
word to smash three idols in it's latest is
sue. One of these is Thoreau, and the
others are John Fiske and the Atlantic
Monthly. After conceding Thoreau's
marvellous gift of observation, it dilates on
his equally marvellous egotism. 1t says:
Thoreau regarded himself as a separate
planet. His isolation made him provincial.
He had none of WORDSWORTH modesty Of
contemplation: He boasted himself to be
q high priest Of the inner temple, where.
secluded from the vulgar gaze, he swung
his censor and uttered his alteration with
an intense Inconsistencies. 1t is true
that he described his particular method Of
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
High Rents in New York.
Letter to Phil. Times.

Letter to Phil. Times.
There is rise in rents. Offices in the
lower part of the city have risen from twen-
ty to one hundred per cent This is be-
cause more people want Offices than for
merly. There is more of the sort of bust
ness transacted which calls for offices
than in former years. Men who used to
keep their offices in their hats or on the
curbstones have felt the boom of general
prosperity and have hired rooms and fur
nished them with gorgeous trimmings Of
vanished walnut and mahogany, made ell
egant with big panes of etched plate glass.
Gigantic building are erected on whose
ninth and tenth floors tenants, hoisted up
by elevators, are made happy by paying
any rent that is demanded.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
The New Manager ofthe Northern Pacific.

Gen. Herman Haupt, who has been ap-
pointed general manager of the Northern
Pacific railroad is one Of the most promin-
ent civil engineers in the country, and as
a constructor of railways and bridges he is
said to have no superior. He was born in
Pennsylvania in 1916, and graduated from
West Point in 1885. He was assistant en-
gineer of public works Of the state of Penn
svlyania from 1886 to 1889, and afterwards
became professor of mathematics in the
Pennsylvania college, which Office he re-
tanned until 1847, when he became chief
engineer of the Philadelphia & Columbia
railway, of which he was appointed super
intendent two years later. Subsequently,
he was the principal engineer of the works
connected with the railway travel through
the Hoosiac mountain. He was brigadier
general during the war, and was entrusted
with the general supervision of matters
connected with transportation.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
GLADSTONE AND IRELAND.

Presentations Of His Land Bill in the House
Of Commemorative Government to Attempt
to Solve the Knotty Problem on the Basis
Of Justice to Ireland.
In the House of Cammons on the 9TH
MIR. Gladstone introduced his Irish Land
bill, and spoke for three hours in explana-
ton thereof. Gladstone concluded by
saying: ''Justice is to be the principal to
guide England in regard to Ireland" He
completed his speech at Z o'clock, and was
greeted with loud cheers on taking his
seat.
It is impossible to present the bill at
length but its general features will be I'M
derstood from the following extract:
The bill does not introduce any unreg-
ulated tenant right. A provision made for
preventing it from passing into extrava-
gance and for protecting the just rights of
landlords by bringing into fair competition
tenants rights to assign, and landlords the
worth. A salient point and cardinal feat
ure of the bill is the institution of the court
to take cognlzance of rent which will not be
debarred from taking cognizance of tenor
and assignment. There are strong grounds
for making resort in this court optional in
stead Of compulsory. There may be ten
ants who do not desire the interference Of
this court. Every existing tenent might
call in court to fix judicial rent for fifteen
years, during which there could be no
change, no eviction except for certain
specified covenants. Ulster corn will re-
main as now, of the tenants o;o..ion, but the
tenant will have protection The general
provisions of the bill IRE fur controlling the
augmentation of rent. Where the rent
amounts to 9200 yearly.
THE COURT
will have final authority over all land cases.
It is to consist of three persons, one Of
whom mustbe judge or ex-judge of tn Q
supreme court. Its proper seat will be at
Dublin but an extra commissioner, and, If
necessary, sub-commissioners, may be ap-
pointed under the control of the central
commission. Civil bill courts will be courts
of the first instance. It is proposed to as
sist tenants to purchase their holdings, and
invest the courts with power to purchase
lands from landlords desiring to sell, and
resell them, retaining title as a guarantee
for payment and against subdivision. Ad-
vances will be made to owners and solvent
companies formed for the purposes of re-
claiming land, or for other agricultural i'm
provements, on condition that the advan-
ces do not exceed the amounts the borrower
has laid out on his own behalf. Advances
will also be made to assist emigration.
They will be under the control of the land
commission, subject to the consent Of the
treasury, and be made either to colonial
government or to companies. tits not pro-
posed to place any limit on these advances
beyond making them secure.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
ye~rs I'D, an engineer, but has been out of
work sia;e the first of January.

yec RS I'D, an engineer, but has been out of
work sia;e the first of January: .'
Mr: Guy Willis, United States inspector of
harbor improvements at the west of Lake Su-
rerior, has arrived at Duluth for the season
Ills first work will be the rebuilding of 100
feet OF the west end Of the south pier OF t. tie
canal, this portion being in bad condition. The
appropriation for Duluth harbor, available this
year, is $49, 900, some H9, 900 being the un-
expended balance from last season.
In the District court at Washington in the
railroad tax cases it was held that the judy
.rents were valid, Notwithstanding the title was
in the railroad at the time Of the assessment
of the land for taxation. The sales were set
aside because the required notice had not been
given In the suit against the railway company
tor damages for causing the death of Cornelius
Colling, the case'was transferred to the United
States court by the defendants.
At the annual meeting Of the stockholders OF
the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance COM
pany, the following directors were elected to
serve during the ensuing year: G. II. Bigelow,
E. F. Drake, j. L. Merriam. A. Fl. Wilder, j.
s. Prince, R. Blakely, P. Berkey, 81. N. Smyth,
W. L. Davidson, H. c. Burbank, W. B. Dean,
N. Auerbach and H. E. Thompson. The board
organized by electing the old officers, viz: C..
H. Biselow, president; c. A. Eaton, secretary
W. g. Timberlake, assistant secretary.
At Norristown, Pa, Mr.. Ryan, an eccentric,
middle-a aged man, was suddenly taken i'll, and
after lingering until Sunday, died: About AN
hour before his death he asked that lawyer
be sent for to draw upa will. The request was
complied with, and the legal document was
duly prepared and executed, in which he be
queathed to his Iowa and Philadelphia friends
various sums of money, aggregating 800
or $S, 600 Every one in the room was amazed
at the wealth of the supposed indignant Ryan,
and he was asked where the money was.
'sKnickerbocker,' gasped he, suddenly sinking
back on his pillow, and before he could utter
another word the spark of life had fed. The
whereabouts of the money is deep mystery.
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Women Spectators in New York..

New YORK Letter.
There was the Ladies' Stock and Mining
Exchange that burst into flower on Union
Square nearly year ago, and wilted very
suddenly about tbs beginning of the win
ter. The lady manager" disappeared SO
completely that no one could get even
glimpse Of her. She put notice i'll the pa
pers saying that she would reappear at tho
end of thirty days and settle with her GUS
toners to whom she owed about 100000.
but I have not heard that any Of them has
seen her since. understand that another
concern, the Ladies Stock Exchange, which
was started year ago on Twenty-fourth
street, near the Fifth Avenue Hotel, is not
at present in an encouraging condition.
The woman who set it going and has man
aged it all along wants to sell out If it
were success, this probably would not be
the case. New York has plenty of women
who speculate in stocks, but it seems they
do not care to patronize their own sex very
extensively. When they want to make
turn" they prefer to send their orders direct
to Wall street. They appear to have more
confidence in business way in men than
in woman-to trust them further and rely
more on their judgement. Whether they
are right or wrong I am not prepared to
say, but the fact is as state it. One oftwo
Ladies' Stock Exchanges started within
a year has disappeared, and the other is 60
ing, or at least appears to be going. The
inference is that women who do speculate
in stocks do not give their custom to their
own sex.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
Mother Shipton's Disciples.

Mother Shipt0n's Disciples.
Streator Special to the Chicago Tribune.
There is q lady here in Streator who has her
ascension robes prepared, all ready to accom-
pany Mother shipton when the worl comes to
an end next August This reminds US OF =
Millerite, who some eight years ago prepared
himself for his spirits fight aloft and, in or
der to be nearer heaven, he climbed upon
strawstack, where he soon fell into deep
stack, and when the old man awakened he was
completely enveloped in flames. He gave an
agonizing shrek and. resigned himself to the
situation, merely muttering to himself: I'm
hell, as expected" He felt very comforts
bic. however, when rescued.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14

puCtlnS MS Qelu'DelWeeu LIS 4OIt legs anu
lashing out with his heels in very vicious
looking and anything but playful" man
ner.
A general move was now made to the
front door, Kate looked at me and evil
IDENTIFY expected me to 'tput her up" but I
knew better than to attempt it, and pretend
ed to be intent on buckling strap Of the
pair OF spurs Sir Harry had lent me until
she was safe in the saddle. Gar was then
brought up for me to mount, which, after
several abortive attempts on my part, I
effected, and we all logged along toward
the meet. Contrary to my expectation Gar
behaved in most exemplary manner, and
even ventured to swing my whip with a
jaunty air without his taking the slightest
1otice. But it was too good to last. Pres
emily red coat popped out on us from a
by-lane and.th6 Cars ears began to twitch.
Two or three more horsemen overlook us,
and his tail began to describe circles, and
he proceeded on his way with q crab-ike
movement, which was ANYTHING but elegant
and eminently disconcertinR.
Almost before could realize the position,
stern voice shouted, Nov, you sir, mind
the hounds will your" and muttered oath
accompanied by an expression which sound
ed very much like "tailor,' drew my atten-
ton to the fact that We had arrived in q
field by the side Of wood, in which was
gathered some seventy or eighty horsemen
and a pack of hounds. Luckily for myself,
and also for the hounds, on whom Gar
seemed to think it fun to dance, the master
at this moment gave the signal to ''throw
off," It nearly came being prophetic in
my case. In less time than it takes to write
fox was started. I lost my hat and my
head at one and the same moment, and
nearly my seat, and the next thing that I
remember with any degree of distinctness
is clinging with the blind energy of drown
ing man to the pQmmel of the saddle, re.
garding with despair a huge fence which
seemed to approach me at terrific rate.
There was sudden rush, q tremendou 8
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-23
SHIPPING NEH'S.
FORT or NETWORK MAY - 1891.
AuuTNEn

Steamer city 81 Paris tBr. Lochead Liverpool May
and Queenstown II, NTH mlSc ana paS"cngcir to John
Dale.
steamer city Of Berlin ,llr Kennedy. Liverpool
and Queenstown 10, with cse and passengers 10
Dale.
steamer Oruoco hr Frazer Hcrmuda May 49, with pro.
Visions and paa,eugers 10 \ T. out'r bndge CO.
-teawer y KNIGHT. Chichester, Georgetown. G. and
ArNeudriq with Mdre and passcuCrs 90 J ltoomC r
Sicamer yanohf Couch llchnond, tiiy Point and
folk with ndse passengers 90 Old Dominion -
steamer Richmond stevens Norfolk, with ndse and pas.
seurcrs 10 old Dominion ~ 90.
steamer GENERAL whitney alet Boston, with mdsc II
+ UImIck. 49,.
songcrs b. IF Ames.
Bark iItcTO tNOH, Christensen Chi1stiana 40 days,
In ballast ~ Benham Pickering 4 Go.
BARK Mary Hale. Of Ellsworth Wiggins Seville ~ days
v IN cor kwood a. order; vessel 10 y Metcaf Co.
barn Folkfesen tNOri. Headand. Palermo o. days. with
fruit 10 order; vessel TO master.
Bark Ial,. Lauro Grgeuu Il days. with sulphur
60 order vessel 20 master.
Swan 3 son.
chr Henry Parker Colna Bermuda days with produce
John Mix & co; vessel 20 Staght, Bailey & 60.
schr COttringhan Campbell, Jacksonville II days
with lumber to COtter son; vessel 10 JAG Van BrInt
sUNsET-wind at Sandy Hook light sEi cloudy