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The Portland daily press., 1881-04-04
Schooner A shore.

The schooner Grace Greenwood of Lockport,
Capt. Hiltz, went ashore at Spring Point
Ledge at . o'clock Saturday morning. She
had but a small cargo. consisting of moasses,
aud beside her crew. carried six passengers,
two ladies and four men. She fioated off at
high tide with little injury.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-04

Forty years experience Of an Old
Nurse. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING
SYRUP is the prescription of one of the best
female physicians and nurses in the United
States, and has been used for forty wears with
neyer-iailing success by millions of mothers for
cures dysentery and diarrhea, priping in the
bowels, and wind-colic. By giving health to
the Child it rests the mother Price Twenty
five Cents a bottle. nov27SMTVS,wcmo'
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Executive Council.

The Executive Council adjourned Wednes-
day to assemble again on April 10Th. At the
next session the tax on telegraph and express
companies doing business in the state, will be
assessed. The Council rejected the nominal
ton of George R. Perrigo for Judge of the
Municipal Court in the city of Rocklsnd, and
also the nomination of Andrew Hammond for
agent of the Penobscot tribe of Indians. Gov.
Plaisted notified Hon. j. W. Spaulding of
Richmond, reporter of decisions Col. J. W.
Porter of Burlington and Col. Henry s.
Osgood of Augusta, inspectors of prisons and
jails, by letter, that they were removed. Hon.
j. w. Spauldlng has replied in a very spirited
manner, denying the power of the Governor to
remove him without concurrent action on the
part Of the council, and stating that he should
continue to discharge the duties of his office.
The council have made up a case on the
removal of Mr.. Spaulding, which they intend
to submit to the Supreme Court
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A New Social Departure.

Mrs. Secretary Blaine has added an import
ant amendment to the code of etiquette adopt
ed at Washington when John Quincy Adams
was Secretary of State, and henceforth the
wives of cabinet officers will have their regu-
lar reception days, but will not return the
visits then paid them. The visitation of every
one who saw fit to call at the house of Secre-
tary and leave card has grown to be heavy
burden, and Mrs. Fish, who was conscien tious
about it, used to drive about Washington
"from early morn to dewy eve," calling on
scores of people every day in whom she took
no interest, simply because they had called
upon her. When the ladies of the cabinet
officers had agreed to this new departure, Mrs.
Dahlgren, the author of Etiquette in Wash
ington," was invited to dine at Secretary
Blaine's, when the matter was broached to
her. 1t is said that it met with her approval,
and it has been announced by Mrs. Grundy, 50
that it may be regarded as fixed fact, and .
good one at that ~
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Municipal Court

BEFORE JUICE KNIGHT.
SATuRpAY.-Eva Coob. mtoxcation-2d offence
Ninety days in couney Jail at labor.
Annie Marshal. 1ntoxication. Thirty days in the
House of Correction.
henry fshman. Intoxication. Fined So and costs
James III. McGlinchy. Search and seizure-two
cases. Fined 500 and costs. Appealed
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Messrs. Ira G. Chase and Philip Fl. Hub
bard of New Gloucester have sold to the Cen
tennial Mineral Spring Company of New Jer-
sey the homestead farm, with the buildings
thereon, situated in New Gloucester. This
farm scontains the well-known Centennial
spring, so called, OF mineral water, and the
price paid was $4,000. The deed of sale was
recorded Saturday at the Registry of Deeds,
and the papers were left with the Register by
Mr.. d. III. Mundy, the well-known general
passenger agent of the Vine street ferry, Phila-
delphia, and agent for t'1e Centennial Mineral
Spring Company. The property sold en-
braces the property conveyed to Messrs. Chase
and Hubbard by Josiah A. Buchanan by his
deed of March 18th, 1873, reserving two lots,
however, one of twenty-five, and the other of
ten acres, more or less.
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4. y. BAILEY & Co. will sell at 10 o'clocl,
to-day at house S1S Congress corner Ellsworth
streets the furniture consisting of parlor SET
carpets, B. w. and painted chamber sets.
Also the entire kitchen furniture. See auction
foluInn
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HARpER's BAzAR.-This beautiful weekly
publication is a welcome visitor to the narlor
circle. The number for the ensuing week has
been received by N. G.. Fessenden, Lancaster
Hall, and ID. Wentworth, 553 Congress, corner
of Oak street.
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Spanish I.itararu Club


For some time past there has been desire
on the part of Americans in this city who are
DESTROYS of perfecting their knowledge Of
Spanish, and Of those Spaniards and Cubans
who wished to become proficient in English, to
establish club by means of which these ends
could be attained. Saturday night the initia-
tory steps were taken by giving dinner at
the City Hotel after the Spanish style. A very
pleasant party gathered, and about 8 O'Clock
proceeded to the dining-room where Mr. j. X.
Martin, the proprietor of the house, had pro-
vided an elegant banquet embracing many
favorite Spanish dishes, to which the company
did full justice.
After the cloth was removed at the sugges-
ton of Mr.. Ernesto Ponce, it was voted to
form society for the promotion of the study
of the Spanish Language and literature in this
city The following officers were chosen:
President-H I. Robinson.
Vice President-E. S. Osgood
Secretary-Enrique Fox
Treasurer. H.Lamson.
Executive Committee-Manuel Almagro,
Ernesto Ponce, Enrique Collado
The Executive Committee were empowered
to secure a room suitable for the wants of the
society, which it was decided to call 1.-THE
Spanish Literary Club"
After the business of the society was con-
cluded pleasant hour was passed in social in
tercourse. The party reflected great deal of
credit on its projectors and cannot fail to
prove of value to those desiring to acquire the
Spanish or English languages
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CITY AND VICINITY,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN,
New Portland Theatre--Sol Smith Russell,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Annual meetings. Society P. G. to A.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Last Gun-C. d. B. Fisk & Co,
annual meeting-Portland Dspensary.
Geo. p. Rowell & Co.
Wanted.
Business-Wm. H. Jerris
Mrs. Z; R. Fowle-Millinery opening.
In insolvency..
AUCTION COLUMN
1hrsc car loads horses-F. o. Bailey & Co.
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No family that has any regard for domestic
safety and comfort can afford to be without
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup in the house. Price
% cents bottle
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ChiIdren's Ball.

The annual exhibition of Mr.. Gilbert's
dancing school at City Hall Saturday after
noon was one of the prettiest spectacles ever
floor of the hall in front of the stage was
rallied off, and the remainder filed with
settees all of which were occupied with the
friends of the pupils, as we'll as the galleries,
and stage, except that small portion of the
platform devoted to the orchestra. When the
grand march struck up the children fifty
nine couples-marched into the hall present
ing beautiful sight The little couple at the
head marched with the time and self possess
sok of old veterans. The girls were all pretti-
ly dressed and their bright dresses contrasted
favoraby with the sombre garments of the
boys. All the fashionable danles of the day
were executed with precision and grace, show
ing the results of the faithful instruction of
the teacher.
The fancy dances were happily designed
and admirably executed That of the Turkish
March and Spanish Line, with its complex
figures, the girls carrying tambourines and the
boys accompanying the dance with clappers,
used for castanacts, was one of the most at
tractive features ever attaching to an exhibit
ton in this city. There were sixteen master
and misses, who took part, and their move
Wents were especially graceful So delighted
was the audience thta a repetition was imper-
atively demanded. The Hong Kong dance by
two little tots. in Chinese costumes, was also
encored, and was as ounni6g and bewiaching
as it is possiben.to imagine. The braiding of
the May-pole and the Sailors Hornpire were
both excellent features and the latter was re-
peated. One thing in particular Mr.. Gilbert is
entitled to great praise for. He is teaching
Portland girls how to walk; no mean accom-
plishment. The affair was an immense sue
cess. Among ct hspectators was Mr.. Andrews,
leader of the Bangor Band, who has a very
fourishing dancing school in this city.
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I'm Insolvency.
Court of Insolvency for the County of Cumber
land, State Of Maine.
APRIL 4th, A. d. 1881.
In case of OLIVER D. RICE, Insolvent Debtor.
VyHIS is to give notice that on the second day
i of April, A. D., 1881, warrant in In
solvency was issued by Henry c. Peabody, Judge
of the Court of Insolvency for said County of Cum
berland, against the estate of said Oliver d. Rice,
of Portland, in the County Of Cumberland,
adudged to be insolvent debtor petition of said
debtor, which petition filed on the second
day of April, A. d. 1881, to which date, in
terest on claims is to be computed;
That the payment of any debts to or by said debt
or, and the transfer and delivery of any property
by him are forbidden by law;
That a meeting of the Creditors of said Debtor,
to prove their debts and choose one more assig-
nees of his estate, will be held at a Court
room in Portland, on Monday, the eighteenth day
of April A. D. 1881 at ten O'Clock in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above written,
GEO. w. PARKER,
Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger of the Court of Insol
vency for said County of Cumberland
apr4&11
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AUCTION SALES.
House Furniture Fer Sale.

House Furniture For Sale.
A 7 AUCTION, Monday, April 4, at 10 n.
"A M, the entire furniture in house No. 8lS
Congress street, corner of Ellsworth street, con-
ssting of Parlor Suit in hair cloth, Lounge Easy
Chairs Oil Paintings. Steel Engravngs Ornaments,
Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture, Refrigerator,
Chamber Sets. Beds and Bedding, Tapestry and
Ingram Carpets, Stoye &c.
r. o. BAILEY a. CO., Auctioneers.
mar31 dtd
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Letter Carriers Report.


The following is the letter carriers' report
March, 1881.
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The following failures in Maine are reported
the mast weak.
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and cordially invite the entire public to call and crit
PRICES. We desire to thank a generous public for
past favOrs and hope in the future to merit con-
tinuance of the at New Store 233 Middle st.
Mussey's Row, Next below Shaw's Tea Store.
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Nothing Finished 4!

| once had the curiosity to look into
little girls work-boX. And what do
you suppose foundp ---.
Well, in the first place, / found
"bead purse" about half done; there
was, however, no prospect OF its ever
being finished, for the needles were
out. and the silk upon the spools was
all tangled and drawn into complete
wisp. Laying this aside, | took up
nice piece of perforated paper, upon
which was wrought one board of Bible,
and beneath it the words, Il love-;
but What she loved was left for me to
guess. Beneath the Bible board found
a sock, evidently commenced for some
bahu-fnnt. hut it. had come to a stand
seemed doomed to remain. Near to
the sock was needle-book, one cover
OF which was neatly made, and upon the
other, partly finished, was marked:
ITO my dear" ..s. s.a...f
need not, however, tell you all that
| found there; but this much can say,
that during my travels through that
work box | found not q single article
complete; and silent as they were, these
half-tinished, torsaken things told me
sad story about the little girl.
They told me that, with a heart full
of generous affection, with head full
of useful and pretty projects, all OF
which she had both the means and the
skill to carry into effect, she was still
useless child-always doing, but never
accomplishing, her work. 1t was not a
want of industry, but a want of perse,
verance.
Remember, my dear young friends,
that it matters but little what great
thing we merely unoerta6e. Our glory
is not in that. but in what we accom-
ptiSh. Nobody in the world cares for
what we mean to do; but everybody
will open their eyes by and by to see.
what men and women and little children
hare DONE Chiidren' s Friend. ..a..
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The New Sir Roger TichbOrnes.

Apparently we are never to hear the
last OF the Tichborne case. Two new
claimants have appeared, one at Win
nipeg and one at San Francisco. 1t may
be thought that there is safety in num-
bers. If each of three claimants finds
it easy to make out a good case, no
mere good case will seem deserving of
attention. The Winnipeg pretender
cancels him of ''Frisco," and he dis
poses of the unhappy nobleman Ian
gushing in Dartmoor. So people may
think who know not British credulitv,
and how great is its swallow. The
strong point of claimant number one
was that he posed both as butcher and
a Baronet Popular sympathy with
butchers and Baronets united to honor
him, and his friends forgot that he
could not be both. What is to prevent
reasoners of this sort from accepting
triad of claimants? They are three
honest men. kept out of their own by a
heartless aristocracy. Or if Il romantic
mind cannot take this view, it will ar
que that for so much smoke there must
be some dame. liza real Sir Roger were
not alive there could be no personality
to cast three shadows OF Sir Roger The
San Francisco claimant, too. is said bv
good authority to be either the real
man or "a most adroit impostor. Let
us honor his genuine character in the
former case or his adroitness in the Sec
ond, and, perhaps, more probable event.
One more, and there will be as many
false Rogers as there were false Deme-
tris.-LOndOn AetOS. ..
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81 missed their noise" said my aunt;
'they have been cunning enough to 90
out nutting'
Yes" said poor Josh. "Thev are
very cunning, mem; l know so much
about them" .
Either the indignity of the raid upon
them, or the find of the hickory-nuts,
was too much for the squirrels; shortly
after, they disappeared. Ny aunt was
reminded more than once of their in
gratitude, but all she said was
"Wait.n
A cat was proposed for pet once
more. "No cats!'' my aunt said.
looking severely at Josh. who went out
to the barn Immediately.
When the spring came, and the lilac
bushes bloomed, went to my aunts-
the old kitchen was my delight. We
sat on the doorstep in the afternoon
when the sun-rays left the lane, and we
could rest our eyes on the deep, cool
green of tree and shrub. My aunt
watched the way of the wind. where
the birds flew, and the coming blossoms,
| and l watched her. Once, when l
happened to be inside, heard a sup
pressed, wondering cry from her, which
made me hurry back; saw her atten-
| ton was fixed on the path below the
| step, and looked also, to see the most
cunning procession that ever was.
My aunt's gray squirrel was trotting
toward us with tail curlcd up, and ac-
companied by four little ones exactly
like her, with their mites of tails curled
up alsO-two were on her back and two
trotted beside her. She came up to my
aunt fearlessly, and the little ones ran
about US. Her motherly Joy and pride
We're plain to be seen. Then we heard
a shrill squeak from the lilac -bush--it
came from her companion, the father OF
che family, who watched the reception.
My aunt sent me for pumpkinseed, and
to see them shipping the shells and
feeding on the meat was fine treat.
The babies were about a fingers length,
but their tails had as stiff a curl as their
mammals, and never got out of place.
Many day afterward the mother pa
. raded the young ones ON the doorstep,
and carried home her pouch full OF
pumpkin but the father never put
his dignity off to come any nearer than
the lilac-bush.
"Now, youunbe]ieving Josh" called
my aunt, once, what do you say?'' p
"Say, men, looking up at the raft
ers. 81 say q cal might have druv them
away. "--EGzabeM St0ddard, IN So.
Nicholas. .''
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CHAPTER II.

My self-reliant friend did not stay long
in Cincinnati. He started off to make
tour through Ohio, and to look out for
a chance to enter some remunerative
business, in place where there were
fewer young men out of employment.
1t was lengthy period after our part
ing that heard any detailed news of
him, and shall give intervening adven-
lures in my own words.
In pleasant village on the banks of
the Ohio lived, at that time, lady of
the old school aristocracy. She was q
widow-wealthy-and descended from
one of the cavaliers who assisted to form
the first colony at jamestown. The re-
suit of these circumstances of birth and
money was painful. Mrs. Bland was so
terribly select-so eXquisitely aristo-
cratic-that she could not find any So
ciety good enough for her The little
town where she lived was like most other
country places, and contained no very
alarmingly exclusive circle. The doc
tor, the minister, and the principal of
the female seminary, with their families,
formed the most fashionable circle; but
they were eminently provincial, and
Mrs. Bland could not descend to their
level. The DOCTORS father had been a
blacksmith, the minister's wife ate with
her knife, and the head of the seminary
was poor as one of those proverbially
impoverished birds-the turkeys of job.
So the proud, handsome, high-bred,
polished, selfish, fascinating old lady
dwelt all alone with her fair daughter,
in the ancient house that had been in
habited by her branch of the family ever
since white faces were first reflected in
the Ohio River. Her daughter was as
proud, as handsome, as high bred, and
as fascinating as she had ever been, but
not so rigidly, frigidly conventional in
her ideas of social position. She fam
cied that lady ought to have heart,
and show it-that to be lady, one must
be woman and something more. The
widow, on the contrary, thought that
the lady and the woman should have no
emotions or expressions in common. So
the mother and daughter had good
many pretty severe talks, which ended,
generally, in the submission of the
young girls sense to the matron's edu-
cational prejudices.
The house, which, as I have said, was
quite old, began to need repairs, and
after some inward strug gles, Mrs. Bland
submitted to a general tearing down
and rebuilding of some portions. Just
as the carpenters finished, young man,
stranger newly arrived, opened a
paint shop on a limited scale in the viii
lage. As the only painter employed by
the townsfolk lived at another place
some miles away, this newcomer re-
ceived considerable patronage, and Mrs.
Bland, having inspected his work, en-
gagged him to paint the new wainscoting
in the hall and dining-room of the old
house.
Flora Bland, with the instructive Gu
riosity that all young women have con-
corning the other sex-even to those in
dividuals who are far below them in the
social scale-looked at the house-painter
as she passed through the hall from her
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Women are not so badly of in Tur-
key after all. A wife may abandon her
husbands house for just cause, cannot
be compelled to labor for her husbands
support, can demand that he shall sup
port her, and can borrow in his name
or sell his property if he refuses to
furnish her with funds. 1t is q penal
otfense for him to insult or ill-treat her;
mis- oath is no better than hers on an
accusation of intidelity, and whatever
property she may have possessed be-
fore marriage continues to be her own
so absolutely after marriage that her
husband cannot touch IT,
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soNNETs FROM TIE AFGHANEsE


Inventuring to publish a few specimens Of
lately attracted the attention of the civilized
explanation, lest the reader should conclude
1LaD we Goli1o?Squiails'ns lot CabooI are too
suSP1Jiousiy i ,!5 the sang OF oar own me
IIoPoliS' on Wllldii isesIle, IN MS aohnlraDie
W. , oh ~, ,ie ooci1I Lile ana manners Oh tIe
xi tsiialss say Ihet poetry Is ruue anu
SiiiPie' iu,l ~ colioquIal phrases, anu cele,
~ altSo olly the prlhlltlVe passions ana most
Idniillar SURROUNDINGS OF ltnelf dilly me- IL
WIN ne observed that TINS remark Is emlnent-
y tiue' II the tollowfng Sonnets are faithfully
typlGai OF Ppshtaneh literature. In Translate
Ihs, nave Deeh at some pains TO preserve 9
natural atmosphere by substituting Tor the
1dIoms OF the Pushtu language some OF oul
0Wn coI.oqulansilfs as most nearly CORES.
pond IN no other way could preserve the
Sid. ...H. ,.. t...-
...,-..-. ..,.
a Welru phenomenon, - mule, ART tnou!
One pensive ear inclined toward the west,
The other sou, sou, east by a Ilttie SOU
Inc acme eXpncate OF peace ana rest.
But who can tell at what untowafd hour
my slumDellnS energy Will assert ltS luhc'
tlon, ,,,,, o,,.o,-a r., ,,o,,,er
WIN leiVlq eIoquc,uGc hlu ~ lii oPi,'nI
my .s bGG-ntt" ~ - - ~
War, Havoc and Destruction envy theel
Go! kick the stuf1ng outot Time and space!
Assert myself, thou Child of Destiny!
Jill nature stands aShast with frightened
face!
A greater marvel art thou than the wonder
OF Zeus from high olympus launching thun-
oer'
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with which he turned on his heel, and
leit tne old lady wondering if what he
said was really true.
, 1881-12-23
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Additional Lnnd Clat,ns Of the st. Joe
&: Denver lkailroai-SeAator Saunders
Nlll-A Convlct'4 Clnlns-NGr. ToN znliIl
Observation-Disclosures 1tnfferH.


d Denver rlkatIroad-sanator Sauriderrs
Nlll-A Convlct'A Clulns-nIr. Touznlin
Observation-Disclosures nEnftorn.
Special Dtspatth to 1hs Chicago 11tbuns~
LINCOLN, Nob., Doc. .sss.-The st. Joo l. Denver
Railroad has latd claim to largo amount Of ad-
dttlounl land on Its lInu OF road lit NohrIskn.
Tho company o'afms all tho odd.nurnburri sro-
lions Of Govornmont land at the tInn OF tho III
ing OF their plat. which takes In d larRc number
Of truuts occupied BY settlers who have received
patents therefor from tho Government, and
hnve until racently, supposed thotr tito porfeut.
Tho occupants OF tho land have thus fur done
but little In opposing tho rnilrond company iu
tho courta, thlnklng TINT. as tho Government
had Issued patcnts to tnom, it would protect
thom In their rights. So far Us Justice Is con-
eernod, It ls obviously on the side Of the oecu-
grcsaIonal rotof As tho shortest ns well us the
surcst WY to settle tho difficulty.
Of o Se ~ Sas
v oked not a Nttlo discussion throughout tho
state. Should the NY Decomo . y Ivy. Nobraska
Fl T. nefS ps9afftSS fSsn s IT, po'eal xssa s ass
osSese 81 the ssate. 60 On .as M heaa !ss sa.e
surplus of population ID NeGraska, over, and
enough. II added to thu population which We afc
likely 10 get II Senator baund1ra, 6ill oecones
aw 20 Kyo Us mora to9n o9- ! ha tao x,,tcs 1or
would hAve four members, iuateud OF thrco.
This Is lnattor that should By looked into with
gross. Nobvaska llas boon short ot her lesitl-
mute representation long enough"
The Iill introduced t,y Congressman Wash
bulIeut q .n,'l,y people Of thls stn.e, who 'vll
tor S proyiaus 9 .at Whonovcr ter culture ne on
try Is abandoned cancolud fur tho roAson thlt