The Portland daily press., 1881-11-09
A GRAND SCHEME.
How to Secure Princely Fortune.

The friends of progress and improv ement in
this community will be pleased to learn that a
new organization has been established under
an incorporation act for the manufacture OF
moonshine. 1t has long been fact that the pro-
cess of nature in furnishing light for the mil
lions is altogether too slow for this fast age,
and ought to be remedied. We are pleased to
announce that by a recent discovery Monsieur
Lunier of France has invented process by
which moonshjne can be manufactured by
chemical process, which, besides furnishing
all the light needful and thus dispensing al
together with ordinary moonlight is suscepti-
BILE of being bottled up and transported from
place to place to meet the convenience of every
too at cost that defes competition As
Maine has offered remarkable facilities for Or
ganizing important business enterprises under
her liberal corporation act the discoverer of
this wonderful process proposes to inaugurate
here in Portland his plan for comforting this
untold blessing upon humanity. A company
has accordingly been formed with a capital of
one hundred millions of which ten cents in
cash has already been paid in. Monsieur
Lunier has associated with him Hon. Alexan-
der Revere of Boston, defendant of the
historic parsonage of that name who was
skilful electrician in the days of the Revolution
and who at present is largely engaged in the
manufacture of notions for the children born on
Beacon street and at the West End for which
he holds an exclusive privilege. Roger
Williams Screwall of Providence is also one
of the company "a distant relative OF the
founder of the State of Rhode Island who
especially felt the need of an artificial light
when he quite suddenly left Massachusetts, for
a terra incognita) al d is at present sole owner
of screw stock which has enriched the people
of that land beyond me asure, besides owning
all the rolling stock on railroads for the
transportation of the celebrated Pain Killer
which has been such blessing to our common
humanity. A third member of the company
is Mr.. Nicodemus Liburnum of Hartford,
Conn.,, great great grandson OF the original
inventor and discoverer of wooden nutmegs
whose fame has long since been world wide
for having furnished our mothers and grand
mothers their spices during the dark days of
the embargo and for which he received special
thanks of the Hartford convention, blessed be
its memory Other gentlemen OF like distinc-
ton are interested in the enterprise, who
contributed their full quota to the aforesaid
cash capital paid in, and it may be stated that
General b. f. Butler has been retained to de-
fend the patent, which is based on the fiat
princinle with which he has shown himself to
be very familiar. This contribution of cash
capital is deemed by the company ample
equivalent for the corporate franchise, since
duty of ten dollars is required to be paid to
the State for the privilege it receives and
prestige it enjoys under her broad seal with
Dirigo inscribed upon its charter. The prin-
cipal operations in the stock of the concern
will be conducted outside the State, largely in
the Boston stock board where so many Maine
enterprises are already represented and in
which there are said to have been millions.
We shall keep our readers well advised OF the
progress of this benefcent scheme, having
been promised daily column advertisement
at one dollar per square, and two dollars line
for each special notice in our reading matter
we'll mixed in. Although the business of this
concern will be conducted abroad it is needful
that majority of the directors should reside
in Maine, under late statute, and an efice
will accordingly be kept open constantly on
Ram Island which can be communicated with
at all hours by using single bottle of the
manufactured article which in addition to
furnishing light also possesses, we omitted to
say, an inherent power of propulsion whittier
soever the once weary and darksome traveller
may cast his now sharpened vision. We shall
be pleased to give any further information in
L. 4, rot,n for
we wish it distinctly understood that there is
nothing mean about us. Meantime we will add
for the information of large number of families
and individuals in this city, that the huge
accumulation of beer bottles at their hands
will now find ready market and at price to
reconcile them in some measure to the con-
slant tribute paid to the trade of Boston and
Portsmouth