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The Portland daily press., 1882-01-28
prasunonscot PARK Association

Presumpscot Park Association.
At the annual meeting, held yesterday after
noon, the following officers were elected:
PresideEt-W. G. Davis.
Secretary-John @. Small
TreasureI-Dr. G. w. Bray.
Directors-W. G. Davis, Ammi Whitney,
W. II. Milliken, J. f. Libby.
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sAGApAHoc COUNTY.

The Times says that Mr.. Elbridge Randall
of Topsham, has collection of old sleighs and
other vehicles. He was offered 800 for a
sleigh over one hundred years old, formerly
owned by his father. 1t is hung on leather
thoroug6-braces He has a family carriage
Eva aid
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FOR SALE

NOTICE. All persons are hereby forbid trust
In ing or harboring my wife. JANE SHAW, on
nv account as she has left my bed and board with
out cause provocaton, and shall pay no bills con-
tracted by her after this date. NICHOLAS SHAW,
Dated at Portland, Jan. 81, 1882. JANIS d1w+
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STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY

ANDuOoSOONAN SOONAhs
The Journal gives the following summary oi
the shipments of boots and shoes from the Au-
burn factories the past week: Total number
of cases is 1869, and weight of leather 151 ,254
pounds. Last week the number of cases was
1906, and weight of leather 127 057 pounds. In
the corresponding week OF 1881, there were
shipped 1445 cases, and 81 054 pounds of leather
were received.
The French Canadians of Lewiston have al
ready commenced arrangements for 2 three
days convention of the French Canadians OF
Maine, to be held in that city, commencing on
st. Johns Day, and to be similar to that held
in Waterville last year.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Republican says the two Maine Central
surveying parties met at Patten, last Thursday.
Mr.. Oak reports very favorable route, espec-
pecially on the Aroostook end of the line, and
as passing over excellent settling lands. The
distance from Presque Isle to Dover, as sur
veyed, is about 172A miles, which will be re-
duced on locating, five per cent.
The grist mill and 1000 bushels of wheat be-
longing to Stephen E. Phipps of Fort Fairfield,
were burned Monday. Cause unknown. Loss
$4,000; no insurance.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Pennington Herald says Messrs. j.
H. Bonney g. Co. of Farming6on, will start
their second shipment of apples for Houston,
Texas, this week. 1t will consist of two car
loads containing about 450 barrels. They send
by rail and in charge of man in their employ.
This is new enterprise and is doubtless a
profitable one.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
The new pension office in Augusta will be
opened the first of next month. Mayor j. ID.
Myrick will be chief clerk under pension
agent, Selden Connor.
The Augusta House has changed hands.
The parties purchasing are Mrs. E. Manson
and her son, Mr.. A. c. Manson, of the st.
Cloud House, Old Orchard. Mr.. Manson has
been head clerk at the Augusta House for two
winters past, and is popular with the travel
ing public.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Free Press says the birth of child to
Dr. and Mrs f. E. Hitchcock of Rockland,
make the fourth generation now living in their
home. Jonathan White, his daughter, Mrs,
Case, her daughter, Mrs. Hitchcock, her
daughter, Baby Hitchcock, and neither of the
three families have ever lost member
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Bath Times says the wife of Captain
Thomas Colby of schooner Nellie Starr, from
Boothbay, worked like a seaman to save the
vessel from a total loss in hurricane. The
hands were at the pumps for three days. and
Mrs. Colby worked all night.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The Times says that Mr.. Elbridge Randall
of Topsham, has collection of old sleighs and
other vehicles. He was offered 800 for a
sleigh over one hundred years old, formerly
owned by his father. 1t is hung on leather
thorough-braces He has family carriage
seventy-fve years old.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Sentinel says there are twenty-eight sar-
dine factories on the Maine coast situated as
The Portland daily press., 1882-01-28

We cannot at this time
specify the various bar
gains to be offered at this
sale. But will only say that
encouraged by the great
success that has Eattended
our former annual sales,
we have made much larger
purchases for this, and feel
confident our customers
will be highly pleased with
the variety. prices, styles,
materials and superior
workmanship of the goods
we shall offer.
The Portland daily press., 1882-01-28

The above does not represent all the names
secured, as some of the original members have
not presented their lists.
The committee will call upon our citizens
for further memberships in the society.
The Portland daily press., 1882-01-28
port1ona soe,a.u os a =,

This society is proceeding with its organiza-
tion under very favorable auspices. The fol-
lowing is list of the original members:
The Portland daily press., 1882-01-28

The Bath Times says the wife of Captain
Thomas Colby of schooner Nellie Starr, from
Boothbay, worked like a seaman to save the
vessel from total loss in hurricane. The
hands were at the pumps for three days, and
Mrs. Colby worked all night.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22

No more brick will be laid by Albert
Weigmsn, Of Chicago. He could not
cure himself Of a-thirst for whisky by
any OF the remedies he adopted, SO he
tried the pistol, and the contents from
it that he sent into his head decided
the argument.
The property assessment Of Illinois
amounts to $3.50, 800 900, being over
$4,000, 600 in advance of the previous
assessment.
Over n years had come and gone
with MI. Alfred Guthrie, and then
Chicago knew him no more, Death
summoned him away yesterday, and
his joss is mourned by thousands who
knew him to be a man of many virtues
and few faults. He was a son of the
celebrated Samuel Guthrie, who in
vented percussion caps and discovered
the virtues of ehloroform. The
son inherited the inventive facul-
ties of his father. He leaves
a highly respected family to
weep that be is no more among
them. Thus, one by one, the pioneers
of ChicsgO are dropping into eternity,
leaving vOids hard to fill.
Aud John G. w. Bailey, another
prominent Ckicagoan, has passed into
the sbadowy land, leaving behind a
host of mourning friends. He was born
in London, England, in 1903, and
came to Chicago in 1856. He was a
Mason of high standing, and the pub
Usher Of many works in behalf of the
Order, a9
Lumber has taken another upward
turn in prices, and Chicago builders
are wrathy.
Of the 6S,768 immigrants who ar
r we'd at Castle Garden, New York, in
May, 10.968 came to Illinois.
Miss Fannie Sunderland, that was,
has figured in-the papers of the coun,
try lately as the runaway wife of Mr..
White, of Chicago; then as being di-
vorced from him; then as the wife of
a scapegracc named Boone, with whom
she had run away; afterwards ia the
role of the deserted wife; then as being
rescued from poverty in New York by
her indulgent father, etc. Now, the
rascally Boone has put in an appear
ance, and, to all appearances, has
been received into the bosom of his
wife's family.
William Arndt is a youth of whom
Chicago is not proud. Occasionally
he amuses himself by throwing his
aged maternal parent out Of the win
dow Of her own house. He is now in
the Bridewell.
A swindle of a unique character
was attempted a few days ago in Chi
cago. A business looking young fell
low called at a residence, inquired for
the lady, and when she appeared be
presented a parcel, apparently from
the express Office, on which we're
charges amounting to So The lady
had no change, but would have her
husband call at the office and redeem
it. When be did call, he found no
such package as described OF course,
it was a dodge to collect the asserted
charges"
Weather summary, for a wonder, to-
day in Chicago. NAYR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22

agree; or suppose the case was con-
tinued BY the State. What would be
the result? The prisoner would be
remanded to the contractor, and six
months more of hard labor extracted
from him. Suppose, then, upon final
trial, he was discharged, or possibly
the Grand Jury failed to find an indict-
ment in his case, to whom could he
look for redress2 Absolutely no one.
The law makes provision to deprive
him of his liberty, to rob him of his
hard earned labors. but makes no pro-
vision to indemnify him for the ont
rage. He must quietly submit, if a
poor man, and under the prov;s;sas of
this b~ene6cent act no remedy is
afforded him.
As our contemporary, the Journal,
says, it sis the only law that has
appeared on the statute books in two
hundred years that consigned a citizen
indefinitely to criminal servitude
before. conviction" 1t is a relic of
barbarism unworthy of the enlight-
ened era of the nineteenth century,
and should consign to oblivion the
author and every man who supported
its passage in the Legislature.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
An Infamous Act.
ArkanIaR City Mail. Ia

Wv mali H.
MI. John Davis left for Helena on
Friday evening, having in charge a
colored man named Henry Wilson.
consigned to the contractor for the
conviets Of this county. It appears
that Wilson was arrested on the Wad-
dell place, in Rec Fork township. on
the 18th Of July, charged with grand
larceny. After a preliminary exami,
nation, he was bound over in the sum
OF 800 to await the action of the
Grand jury. Being unable to rive
the bond, he was ordered to be placed
In the custody of the contractor Of
county convicts until the action Of
the Grand Jury and the pleasure Of
the court.
A more infamous or barbarous pro.
ceeding it would be difficult to con.
celve. Here is a man, without trial
and without conviction, sentenced n
penal servitude on a charge of which
he may be entirely innocent. It wifi
not do 70 say that the evidence Il
strong against him; that every pre-
sumption points to his guilt. The
law holds every man innocent until
proved otherwise, and the assumption
Of his guilt by a Magistrate or The
County Judge is az outrage upon the
rights Of every citizen.
. Suppose, for instance, as has often
been tho case, some impeachment should
prevent the holding Of the regular
term Of court; suppose, il a term Of
court was held, the jury failed to
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
CATTLE
How Independent Fortunes
Have Been Acquired in
a Single Season.


With the present high prices of beef,
and the COW literally jumping over
the moon, Wyoming cattle men are
reaping a rich harvest, and many of
them will make almost independent
fortunes this summer. The rise has
been so rapid, and transfers are made
SO easily, that large transactions are
mace every day, in which the buyer
does not sec a hoof Of his purchase,
and very likely does not actually use
more than one half the purchase
money in the trade before he has sold
and made an enormous margin in the
deal, A year ago a Laramie plains
cattle mar was offered a large Utah
herd and ranch for $4,000, which
offer was accepted at the moment. but
later rejected. Since that the Utah
man sold $4,000 worth of the herd,
then sold the ranch for $4,000. after
ward put $4,000 more into the
bunch, and last week sold it for $140,.
900. La other words, the Utah man
is to-day ahead over $4,000 be.
cause his last years offer was not
accepted.
Several years ago, one of the most
prominent cattle men in Wyoming,
who can to-day easily command
81, 100000 for a cattle trade without
impairiDg his business, came to Boston
to negotiate a loan with Massachu.
sets capitalists. He met an old man
who knew more about cent per cent
than he did about Wyoming and Col.
orado cattle, and began to talk business.
He said that he was making large
profits on his present investments, and
therefore, he wanted to rut more cap
ital into the business, very naturally,
to increase his income. Mr.. Money
bags asked what security would be
given.
Il would secure the loan by mort
gage on my herd, sir"
Where are your cattle?'.
Some in Wyoming, some in Ne
braska and some in Colorado"
How much land have you under
fence?"
"None."
How much land do you own?'
Not a foot"
Whose land does your stock Craze
on?"
"Gsyernment land"
How often do you see your cattle2'
Once ayear.'
Don't you have a herder viii
them?'
mo, sir"
swell, young man, | would as sooI
loan you money on the herring il
Boston harbor."
A Cheyenne man who don't pretend
TO know a maverick from a mandamus
has made a neat little margin Of $1,000
this summer in small transactions, anC
hasn't seer a COW yet that he haI
bought and sold. Cheyenne is wilC
over the m Irket, and Sixteenth stree
is a young Wall street. Millions ar
talked Of as lightly as nickels, and al
kinds OF people in all professions ar
dabbliDgin steers. The Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court has recently
succumbed to the contagious excite
ment and gone to purchase a $4,000
herd. Everywhere the excitement i
as bad as it ever was in mining stock.
in the old palmy days of Comstock
How long this thing will continue is
matter ofpure speculation. Whethe.
the laboring classes Of the States
will eat porterhouse steaks when the!
taste like a government bond, or qui
all at once and knock the bottom ou
OF the Chicago market, no man know
to a dead moral certainty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
A ~uMprUOu BOARD
Scrambliug Around for Every
Copper In Sight.
Specialize Cincinnati Commercial.

Hpeclol 10 O|lnClnndJ OOmmeFclAl.
WASHINGTON, August Is. -The
National Board Of Health does not
seem to have known hat it was at the
end Of its string when the President
had given Secretary Folger the control
Of the special epidemic fund of $780,
600, and First Comptroller Lawrence
had said that while the control of the
$4,000 appropriated at the same time
rested with the National Board Of
Health, yet it could not use a dollar
of it for its own purposes, but solely
in aid of State and local Boards Of
Health-so it turned around and asked
First Comptroller Lawrence to decide
whether the President had not ex.
ceeded his powers under the act Civ
ing him the special epidemic fund,
when he turned it over to the Secreta-
ry Of the Treasury, and, therefore, of
course, to the Marine Hospital Ser
vice (the hated rival of the Board),
First Comptroller Lawrence read the
long letter which the National Board
of Health sent him, in which they set
forth most deliberately their functions
and claims, and before he got out Of
his chair again had written a most
learned and lengthy opinion, in which
he announced that the word "Presi-
dent" and National Board Of Health
were not convertible terms.
This would seem to etfectually dis
pose of the National Board of Health
upon any money in the Treasury for
its special purposes, other than the
$500 expressly appropriated at the last
session for the miscellaneous objects Of
the Board.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22

Can a Person be Killed by Touch
lug AN Illuminating Wire?
Philadelphia Press.

The possibility Of an accident occur
ring in Philadelphia similar to that
which on Sunday last caused the
death of two Paris workmen, who in
climbing over the fence of the Tuile-
ries Garden thoughtlessly caught hold
of an electric light wire, induced a
Press reporter yesterday to investigate
the subject with a view of ascertaining
what dangers, if any, exist from the
use of the electric Illuminating system
in this city. The introduction of the
wires into stores and public buildings,
where contact with the deadly conduc.
tors is at times unavoidable, and the
perilous situation in which the munic-
ipal iremen would be placed when
obliged to cut or handle the electric
light wires during a conAagration,
would be sufficient cause for alarm,
provided the system of constructing
the circuits were the samei in this city
as in Paris, where the unfortunate
wOrkmen neither death. According
to the statement. however, of Superin-
tendent Law, of the Brush Electric
Light Company, which furnishes the
lights of Chestnut street, who ex.
planned to the reporter the protective
appliances used by his company on all
their lines, the dangers from electric
illumination in Philadelphia are re-
duced to a minimum, and accidents
can result only from grossest careless
ness. ,hau
I'm the first place" said Mr.. Law
lit is impossible to receive a shock by
contact with one wire, unless that
wire has a ground circuit, and that is
never the case under our system Of
lighting. Even if it did happen that
one of our wires should become
grounded, the shock under those cir.
eumstances would probably be very
light; and moreover, we would be
aware of the grounding of the wire as
soon as it occurred, and the current
would be Immediately shut off from
that circuit. The two Paris work
men who were killed on Sunday last
must have been in contact with two
wires forming q complete circuit; 9th
erwise the accident could not have
occurred. The wires, moreover, mus
have been uncovered, as the electric
fluid cannot pass through the heavy
coating used on aproperly constructed
conductor, Every wire used by US il
street lighting, as we'll as those intro.
dueed into buildings, is protected by {
coating of n-coDdueting material
enclosed in an outer cover of woven
fabric, which uot only ~insulates the
wire, but effectually prevents the
current from passing into the body Of
any person who may have come il
contact with two wires forming +;
circuit. If the wire should break, ant
some thoughtless person attempt t
unite the several ends, there woulC
even then DO little danger, as thu
break would occur beneath the cover
ing, and this could only be removed
from the ends by the use Of a knife Of
some instrument. The contingenc,
arising from a break in the wire could
not occur in the street lines, however
because it would be impossible t
bring the two broken ends together
the wires being very tense, and the
height of the poles p~recluding any
thing of that sort"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
TICKET.
Tnr exports Of breadstufs from

TnE exports of breadstufs from
sixteen ports and cities in this coun-
try, icr the month Of July, 1882,
amounted 10 SIG, 294,474, and for the
month of July, 1881, to sl9,976,767, a
falling off of 1862, 2S9. The total
values OF bread,tuffs exported during
the seven months ended July 81, 1882,
were sSl ,l5O,7l and for the seven
montl s ended July 81, 1881, $l3l ,957,-
6S4, a falling off of s5O,SO6,96O. The
term breadstuffs includes barley ex-
ported only from San Francisco Indian
corn, Indian cornmaai, oats, rye, ex-
ported only from New York, wheat
aud wheat -four.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
Browns Iron Rttters.

Without exception, there is nc
remedy so strengthening in its effect
as Browns Iron Bitters.
lfyou wish to be strong aud TO enjoy
the full exuberance of perfect, robust
health, put your trust in Browns
Iron Bitters. 1t will not disappoint
you.
A friend writes: "For years | suf
fered from physical exhaustion and
declining health. Now | am as strong
as Iron. | used Browns Iron Bit
ters. e4aEtiIa
Depend on Browns Iron Bitters for
strength Of mind and body.
s. Mansfield 4 20. W. N. Wilker.
son & Co., and G. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
Democrats DiscOvered in Iowa,
Cincinnati Commereis


The Democracy OF Iowa have re.
solved not only that they are opposed
to all sumptuary laws, but determined
to eliminate from the constitution the
recently adopted prohibitive amend
ment. Iowa is a Republican State.
but the amendment was not adopted
by so overwhelming a majority that
the Democrats despair OF overcoming
it. The issue is squarely made be
tween the parties, and the Democrats
will necessarily enlist on their side
every voter in the State who does not
believe in probition. The brewers
and distillers are especially interested
as the permanence of the prohibition
means ruin 10 their business. 1t is
highly probable that money will be
employed in the canvass to an extent
unknown in any previous campaign.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
The Taxing District.

The late address of Calvin F,
Vance on Memphis as the Shelby
County Taxing District" delivered
before the Old Folks Society, has
been printed in pamphlet form. Il
is readable, interesting and contains
facts and sentiments worthy to be
preserved, though it is still more val
liable to send off as an advertisement
of what Memphis has accomplished
IN the last few years. On the front
page is a large and handsome litho-
graph picture by S. G. Toof & Co. Of
Hon. D. P. HaddeN President of the
Taxing District, aud on the inner
page is a sketch Of Mr.. Hadden's life,
from the Free Trader. On the last
page Of the address there is a fitting
reference to Mr.. w. S. Rogers, en-
ployed by the Old Folks at Home as
Superintendent of Winchester Gene
terry, who is commended for his zeal
and energy in securing the old burying
ground from d~ilapidation and ruin.
Those who are willing to aid in this
good work should send their COntri-
buttons to Mr., J. S. Wilkins, corner
Main and Madison streets. The
address is intended for gratuitous
circulation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22
M. BarthOldi's Great Statue for
New York HarbOr.
Courrier des Etats Uni


On the 10th ofthis month there was
a breakfast given in a very original
dining saloon. This saloon was neither
more nor less than the interior of a
statue; and not its torso or middle,
but simply the knee pan of one Of its
legs. 1t was not a breakfast of two or
three around a little table, but a little
banquet of.twenty persons and they had
plenty Of room. The statue in ques-
ton is that of Liberty Lighting the
World" destined for New York bay,
The artist, M. Bartholdi, wished to
show a few of his friends, who are
Journalists, the advanced state of the
work, They assembled the ladder until
they reached the scaffold upon which
the statue is placed. The dishes
reached them by means Of a pulley.
Overhead was the blue sky queerly
crossed by the iron braces. The por-
ton Of the statue already finished
reaches beyond the knee, and it is
about fifteen metres high. 1t will be
the largest statue that the world has
ever seen. The Colossus of Rhodes
was only thirty Two metres high. The
st. Charles Borromero Of Lake Mag.
giere is thirty-tbree metres; but Bar.
tholdi's statue, measuring from the
foot to the extremity Of the torch that
it raises with the right arm, will be
forty-two metres. II is considered a
great thing in the ST, Charles Borro.
nero that one can sit comfortably on its
nose; but it is quite another matter 10
the case Of the Liberty. Twenty peo-
pie can stand upon the big toe which
extends beyond her rebe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-22

Mr.. B. +. Porter, a rich banker IN
Utica, N. Y, says: Il have used
Browns Iron Bitters the past year,
much to the chagrin of our family
physician, for neither myself, wife mol
little girls have since suffered rem g
single days illness. IL is making us
all robust and strong"
S. Mansfield e. Co w. N. Wilker.
son & Co, and G. w. Jones & Co..
wholesale agents.