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The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
MINOR TEI.EaRAMs.

George William Curtis has declared against Fol-
ger and advised a revolt.
DIR. Pyncham has resigned the presidency of Trim
ity COLLEGE.
Elisha S. Converse has been nomi ated for Cou-
gress By the Sixth Massachuset etts Republicans.
Six persons were killed in railroad accident near
Hutchinson, Kansas, yesterday.
The Paris Figaro reports an attempt on the life
Of the Pope. The report is discredited n London.
New York anti-monopalist endorse the Demo-
cratic nominations.
The Philadelphia Prcsbytery has. by vote Of IL
to 6, condemned the use of instrumental music in
churches.
The Massabesc boat race was IoEed yesterday.
Neither Plasted, Con ey. Hamm or Elliot were
present. Hosmer the single scull, and the
West Ends the four-oar ed race. Then the race
broke u in row, and passengers on the returning
aims We're pillaged.
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04

Maine Central Bridge Burned.

BANGOR, Oct. 3.-The accommodation train last
evening oesr the Maine Ceutral two hours late.
The reason was an accident to a bridge between
waterville and West waterville. The sleepers
caught fire and it is understood that the iron bridge
then gave way. Passengers were transferred
around the broken bridge.
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
TO LET.
Store Nos. liz &ll9 Middle st.

71ELOW the Post Office where all the large
D Wholesale 1obbing Houses are located in dry
goods Fancy and other Glasses of goods. Fitted up
with two Counting rooms, Brick and Iron Safe, Ele-
Vatoe, Counters, Tables, Gas and Water with light
and airy basement all in perfect repair. Heated by
a furnace. Inquire of II. E, THOMPSON J64
Brackett st. where the keys may be found.
oct2 diff
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
FESTIVE FARMERS.
In Oxford County.

NORWAY, Oct 3-The oxford County Agrieultu-
raj Society opened its annual exhibition to-day on
tdeir grounds between Norway and South Paris.
The four-years-old race was won by Norway Knox,
and the threeyear old by Clarence.
Knox County.
CAMDEN Oct 3-The Knox agricultural fair open
ed at Rookport village today The display OF
household end ornamental goods was fine, The
needle work paintings and decorative art work were
very fine and above the average The vegetable ex-
hibit was below the average but the assortment Of
apples was very COOP The air holds three days and
the cattle show occurs Wednesday
In Lincoln County.
DAMARIsc0TTA, Oct 3-The 9th annual fair Of
the Lincoln Coudty Agricultural and horticulture
Society opened to-day and continues through Thurs
day The entries tonight indicate a fine show in
nearly every department The stock exhibit is prob
ably about double the average The attendance
promises to be large
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
STRONG
FACTS/

A great many people are asking
what particular troubles Browns
IRON BITTERs is good for.
It will cure Heart Disease, Paral-
ysis, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Con-
sumption, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, and all similar diseases.
It's wonderful curative power is
simply because it purifes and en-
riches the blood, thus beginning at
the foundation, and by building up
the system, drives out all disease.
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
METRoROLnGInA1.

METEOROLOGICAL
INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT rwENTY-FoUR
HOURS
WAR Dept OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL
OFFICER, Washington, ID. C.i
Oct 4. a. NJ.
For New England,
weather slightly warmer, southwest TO northwest
winds, lower barometer.
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
Kidney Disease Cured.

Christisnsburg, Va, 1881.
Suffering from kidney disease,
from which could get no relief, |
tried Browns Iron Bitters, which
cured me completely. A child of
mine, recovering from scarlet fever,
had no appetite and did not seem to
be able to eatat all. gave him Iron
Bitters with the hsppiest results.
]. KYLE MONTAGUE.
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04

Lost.
nN Sunday, an Onyx and Pearl Bracelet The
~ fnderswill be rewarded by leaving the same at
80 Chestnut Street. oct2I I3t*
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
REAL ESTATE.
LOST AND FOUND

LOST.
st. Julian Hotel Ledger. The finder
will please return the same to C. p.
MATTOCKS, 81 1.2 Exchange Street.
oct2 div
The Portland daily press., 1882-10-04
Heart Disease.


Vine ST., Harrisburg, Pa.
Dec. ?, 1881.
After trying different physicians
and many remedies for palpitation
of the heart without receiving any
benefit was advised totry Browns
Iron Bitters. have used two bot
ties and never found anything that
gave me so much relief.
Mrs. JENNIE Hess.
For the peculiar troubles to which
ladies are subject, Browns IRON
BITTERs is invaluable. Try it.
Be sure and get the Genuine.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
The --latest John Brown and Queen Vic
toria Story.

a great many stories got afoat from
time to time, of which Victoria's SER
want. John Brown, Is either the hero or
the subject. No doubt most of them
are indebted to whole piece of cloth
for their manufacture, though nov and
then an authentic one gets out. l can
tell you one about him that is in
measure apropos of the subject just re-
ferred to, and also combines the virtues
of recent occurrence rs to its incidents,
and undoubted authority as to its re-
cital, my informant of the facts being
none other than one of the Queens
equerries. Prince Frederick Augustus
of Schleswig Holstein, the elderly Ger
man who some years ago married the
Queens third daughter, the Princess
Helena, holds the position of Ranger of
Windsor Park. The office is of course
a sinecure, fat income, and fine res
idence in Windsor Park (called Frog
more) being given the incumbent for
doing nothing. 1t seems that during the
Ascot races, when the neighborhoOd of
Windsor was thronged with the elite,
the German prince was DESTROYS of CIV
ing garden party. His house being
within the limits of royal desmesne, it
became his duty, in accordance with
the sovereign's prerogative, to submit
the list of his intended guests to the
Queen for her approval before an invi-
tation could be issued. Her Majesty,
who, where her rights are concerned, IS
more exact and precise about small OBJ
servances than many people suppose,
read over the list with care. Then she
sent for the prince, and told him that it
had her appreciation with but one ex-
ception. 1t did not include the name of
John Brown. She desired that he should
be invited. The prince said nothing,
but bowed low ard took his leave. On
the appointed day the party came off,
and Mr.. Brown was there; but he was
the only guest. The prince had obeyed
the royal command, but had invited no
one else. The Queen heard of it, of
course. but thought it wiser to say moth
ing. The recent appointment, how
ever, of the Duke of Teck as her special
parliamentary reporter in place of the
prince might possibly indicate desire
to show her displeasure.-London Cor
respondent.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
A Modest Hero.
An Incident of California Mine Disa tor.

An Incident of California Mine Disa tor.
The terrible breakdown in the Idaho
mines incline, that caused the death of
Thomas Williams and the serious injury
of Richard Carter, Frank Johns, and
Richard Johns, called forth acts of cour-
age and daring and heroism on the part
of their fellow workmen that have rarely
been equaled even by men who risked
their lives for glory and renown. These
were simply deeds of self-sacrificug de-
votion without thought of praise that
men would have for them; they thought
only of their friends being in danger.
The cave occurred about $40 feet from
the bottom of the incline shaft. Fortu-
nately, there were no men in that incline
at the time. If the cave had occurred
an hour earlier, when The men were 60
ing to work, there might have been n
dozen killed, for Us the mass went
down it increased i'm volume and veloc-
ity, carrying everything before it. Some
parties who were at the stations Of the
levels rs the mass went by saw that it
left blaze of fire, caused by the friction
of the rocks, and was terrible to see
when they knew it was rushing down
on four helpless men. William Mayor
deserves particular mention. He was
in the 1900 level and was informed that
the cave had occurred and the mass had
gone down upon the shaftmen. He hur-
ried out to the 300 station, and with
out stopping TO consider the very great
danger he was in made his way down
the shaft, although the dirt and rock
had not stopped falling. When he got
near enough to call to the men below,
Frank Jones, who was severely wound
ed and fastened down in the debris, an
swered Mayor and told him that he
(Magor) had better get out and save
himself, as by staying there he would
surely be killed. 10 this Mage replied:
'Never mind me; we will have you all
out or we will die together" Soon
Mayor was joined by Richard Eva and
Jerry Angove, and soon all the miners
came to lend willing hands to save their
fellow-miners. Then came the long and
apparently insurmountable.t task of get
ting the dead and wounded out of that
awfully dangerous place. These hurt
men had to be pulled and carried up to
the 1900 level, and no one knew at
what moment another cave would come
and sweep them all to the bottom. AZ
ter they were brought up to the 1900
level they had to be carried up to the
1900 level and then up the backs to the
1.l00 level, and through the backs again
to the 1000 level and to the cage shaft.
1t hardly looks possible that men so
badly hurt rs these could be got through
such places rs they were. Grass Valley
(Cdi) Clad 1idinqs.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03

pistols, ana clothing. not uniform. The
dress is go-as-you-plcase. They get $50
a month and rations, and do good SER
vice.
Maurice Welsh, of Norwich. Conn.,,
earns his living by manual labor. and is
SO willing to do SO that he voluntarily
gave up his pension of "a month. He
wrote to the pension agent that his
wound, received in the war, had ceased
to trouble him, and that he could not
conscientiously receive any more help
from the government. An agent was
sent to find out whether Welsh was sane.
He was.
The oldest twins now living in the
United States, it is said, are Bernard
and John Kepler, who still live in the
quaint old hillside house in Plumstead,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where they
were born on March ~, 1892. They
never have been parted for day, and
have only been out of the county once,
when in 1860, they visited Philadelphia
for short time. They voted for Presi-
dent Madison for his second term, and
have voted at every presidential election
since.
The first public protest ever made on
this continent against the holding Of
slaves was made April Is, 1888, at Ger
mantown, Pa, by the members of the
Mennonite church of that settlement.
1t said: "There is saying that we shall
doe to all men lick as we will be done
ourselves;macking no difference of what
generation, descent or colour they are.
And those who steal or robb men, and
those who buy or purchase them, are
they not all alicke? Here is liberty of
Conscience, wch is right and reasonable,
here ought to be likewise liberty of We
body, except of evil doors. web is an
mother case. But to bring men hither,
or to robb and sell against their will, we
stand against"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
Our Earnings and Savings.

According to Mr.. Edward Atkinson,
but half of the 52,0O0,000 people of the
United States can be reckoncd in the
working force of the nation. The earn
ings of this working force, male and fe-
male, cannot exceed an average of 81 q
day each for the 365 days of the year,
so that the annual income of the people,
in round numbers, is $4,000, 900, 900.
He estimates that the sustenance of our
population averages As cents day for
each man, woman and child, so that 80
cents of every dollar earned is con-
sumed, leaving but 10 per cent. of the
annual earnings to maintain existing
capital and increase the nations wealth.
His opinion is that the increase in
wealth is less than $500, 900, 900 annual
ly. His purpose in this exhibit is to
encourage economy. Learn to work
more thoroughly, more savingly; to
raise as much as possible with as little
waste as possible, is his injunction. The
lesson which he teaches is the one which
of all peoples on earth the people of the
United States need to learn.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
The Fish For Farmers.

Evidence is accommodating, says q
Canadian paper, to prove that in the
German carp we have Il food-lish capa-
BILE of furnishing almost unlimited sup
plies ut very little cost. This fish is of
especial value To the farmers, for it will
live in ponds which become so warm
that no other fish can exist in them. 1t
is unnecessary to enlarge upon the
added comfort it would be to Il farmer
if he could 90 out and take from his
pond five or six pound carp, which would
give him and his family good dinner.
Any ordinary pond will do for carp. An
excavation in the course of creek,
damned at the lower end with grating,
so that q flood will not carry the fish
away, answers perfectly. The carp will
eat almost anything, and pond of four
square rods in extent will furnish all the
tish-food n family wants. Carp grow
from the egg to three pounds in weight
in one year. They multiply rapidly, a
single female yielding half million
eggs in year. They spawn in May
and June. In the winter they burrow
in the mud and remain dormant, neither
making nor losing growth. In the
spawning season they, must be fed, or
they will destroy the spawn. At other
times they need not be fed, unless there
are so many of them in the pond that
the aquatic vegetation and supplies
brought down by the feeding creek are
insufficient. There is scarcely doubt
that carp-pond would be a profitable
adjunct to nearly every farm. Mr..
Wilmot, of Newcastle, will doubtless
soon be in a position to supply all appli-
cants with young carp from the'Domin-
ion hatcheries, and we should not Won
der if he be for a few years to come
overwhelmed with inquiries.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
Longevity.

Can man reach and pass the age of
one hundred years? says the Popular
Science monthly, is a question concern
ing which Psychologists have different
opinions. Button was the first one in
France to raise the question of the ex-
IRENE limit of human life. In his Opin-
ion man, becoming adult at sixteen,
ought to live six times that age, or to
ninety-siX years. Having been called
upon to account for the phenomenal
ages attributed by. the Bible to patri-
archs, he risks the following as an ex-
plination: Before the flood the earth
was less solid, less compact than il is
now. The law of gravitation had acted
for only II little time; the productions of
the globe had less consistency, and the
body OF man, being more supple, was
more susceptible of extension. Being
able to grow for longer time, it should
in consequence live for II longer time
than now.n
The German Heusler has suggested
on the same point that the ancients did
not divide time rs we do. Previous to
the age of Abraham, the year, among
some people of the East was only three
months, or Il season; so that they had u
year of spring, one of summer, one of
fall, and one of winter. The year was
extended so as to consist of eight months
after Abraham, and of twelve months
after Joseph. Voltaire rejected the
longevity assigned to the patriarchs of
the Bible, but accepted without question
the stories of the great ages attained by
some men i'm India where he saws: 'It
is not rare to see men of one hundred
and twenty years" The eminent French
Psychologist, FIourens, fixing the COM
plete development of man at twenty
years, teaches that he should live four
times as long as it takes him to become
an adult. According to this author, the
moment of complete development may
be recognized by the fact of the junction
of the bones with their apophysis. This
junction takes place in horses at five
years, and the horse does not live be-
yond twenty-five years; with the OK at
four years, and it does not live beyond
twenty years; with the eat at eighteen
months, and that animal rarely lives
over ten years. When it is effected at
twenty years. he only exceptionally lives
beyond one hundred years. The same
Psychologist admits. however, that hui
man lifemay be exceptionally prolonged
under certain conditions of comfort,
sobriety, freedom from care. regularity
of habits, and observance of the rules
of hygiene; and he terminates his study
of the last point with the aphorism:
"Man kills himself rather than dies. !"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03

The Fun of the Fair Trying TO
catch husbands.
+If Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham has
not really discovered the Elixir Vitae
which the ancient alchemist sought
by SO much patient research and
persistent experiment, her medicine
scenes, at least, likely to command
an immense sale and universal popu-
larity in the future. If rapid pro-
gress and eminent success furnish
any basis for correct judgement,
Mrs. Pinkham is most promising
competitor for such honorable dis.
tinctiou as The alchemists failed to
achieve.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
StuRng an Elephant.

The carcass of an elephant, who last
year figured prominently in "A circus, is
now being prepared for exhibition in
the National Museum ut Washington.
All the bones have been preserved and
have been cleaned, and are now being
carefully articulated. When this is
completed, the elephant in his bones
and the elephant in his skin will be set
up, side by side, on pedestals in the Ma
tional Museum, and an unprecedented
public can Judge as to the respective
merits of these costumes for summer
wear The method employed in pre-
pairing such huge mass as this ele-
plant for the museum is very inter-
esting one. AS the bones were to be
used, another skeleton had to be made.
This was effected by building a wooden
framework of the proper dimensions.
Over this framework tow was spread,
and on the top was placed q coating of
soft mud. The skin was then drawn
over, and the pliable mud foundation
preserved all the irregularities of the
skin, SO that it looks exactly as it did
when on the live elephant The trunk
hangs in natural position. with the
end slightly curled up from the ground.
The eyes, made by celebrated opti-
clan, are exact counterfeits of the nat
ural eye; SO that, when the elephant
gets mounted on its pedestal in the mu-
scum, it will look deceitfully alive.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03

A. traveller was leaning ut night
against a railing at the Harpers Ferry
railroad station. "A locomotive came
along, and he sprang lightly over the
rail to escape possible danger. He
thought it was n meadow on the other
side, but knew his mistake when he
struck in muddy stream forty feet be-
low. On being rescued he was asked
his name. 81 wouldn't tell You for a
thousand dollars" he replied; describe
me simply as fool"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
An Internal Machine,

A rather sad affair took place in one
OF our streets the other dav, remsrks
the Belfast (Me.) journal. A young
lady with her arms full of bundles en-
erged from dry goods store, when one
of them fell to the sidewalk without her
noticing it, just behind her was n
young man, and q Belfast young man
who is not polite is not anything, and
he quickly stepped forward and picked
it up. Now bundle done up in a
piece of paper with a dry goods adver-
tisement on it is apparently rs harmless
as mothers spanking, and there it lay
as guieless as an angle worm on side
walk after n rain. just as he stopped
to pick it up there was rustling of the
paper, the twist began to come out of
the ends, and in another instant bright
red thing, sort of cross between q
balloon and n devil-fish, flew into the
air before his eyes, and a number ten.
thirty-six inch, double ointed duplex,
elliptic, steel-bowed, hustle attachment,
dollar-and-a-half, red-headed hoopskirt
waItzed around and gyrated and opened
and shut up and fell on the walk rs flat
and thin as n restaurant pie; and the
young man Strengthened himself up,
looking as if he wished the tail of comet
No. 2 would sweep him from this fair
land; and the young lady came back
with q face that resembled a sunset on
q fifty-cent chrome; and she picked up
the wire contrivance, and then she went
toward the east and he went toward the
west, and the sun ducked his head be-
hind cloud to hide a smile, and three
or four looked on, laid down and
laughed, and doubled themselves up in
o manner that would have made mess
of green apples hang their heads in
shame
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03

There are some 100000 acres of un.
designated oyster lands in Connecticut,
about two-thirds of the whole amount,
and the oyster commission are at pres
ent very busy considering applications.
Engineers are now surveying the sound
at the expense of the commission and
the government.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03

Nashville boasts of natal Twin as
ISOLATION" which viii pay $4,000 to
each member producing certificate Of
the paternity of twin babies.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
Dressmaking.

Thanks to the excellence of the paper
patterns now sold in every city, town
and village, any woman of average in
telligence can make her plain dresses at
home. But some useful hints are well
worth offering after the paper pattern
has been chosen. The best dress-makers
here and abroad use silk for lining, but
nothing is SO durable or preserves the
material as well as firm slate twill.
This is sold double width, and good
yard of stuff may often be saved by lay
ing the pattern out and well consider
ing how one part may be cut into an
other. Prick the outline on to the lin
ing; these marks serve for n guide for
the lacking. Bodices are now worn
very tight fitting. and the French
stretch the material well on the cross
before beginning to cut out, and in cut
ting allow the lining to be slightly
pulled, so that when on the outside
, stretches to it and insures better fit.
An experienced eye can tell n French
cut bodice ut once, the front side pieces
being always on the cross. In dress cut
ting and fitting, rs in everything else,
there are failures and discouragements,
but practice overrules these little mat
ters, and "trying again" brings sure
reward in success. People of moderate
means should as rule dress in black or
dark colors, us such are not conspicuous,
and consequently do not tell their date
us light articles do. A blue dress, for
instance, or q red feather, how plainly
they speak of the wearer's identity even
ut u distance, and how glaringly they
tell of the length of time they have been
in wear A sensible suggestion is made
in regard to the finish in necks of
dresses for morning wear. Plain collars
have rather stiff appearance, tulle or
crepe lisse frilling are expensive and
frail, SO it is u good idea to purchase n
few yards of really good washing lace,
about an inch and half in depth; quill
or plat, and cut into suitable lengths to
tack around the necks of dresses. This
can be easily removed and cleaned
when soiled. A piece of soft black
Spanish lace, folded losoely around the
throat, close to the frilling, but below
it, looks very pretty; or you may get
three yards of scarf lace, trim the ends
with Fittings, place it around the neck,
leaving nearly all the length in the
right hand, the end lying upon the left
shoulder being about half q yard long.
Wind the larger piece twice around the
throat, in loose, soft folds, and festoon
the other yard and half, and fasten
with brooch or flower at the side.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-22

EVERY FRIEND OF TEN
PERANCE In WEST VIRGINIA
OUGHT TO SUBSCRIBE FOR
THE FREEMAN. THIS is HON
EST.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-22

death. The sad result embittered
his remaining days.
Kent and Lila were laid side by
side. ta
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-22

Dealer in
Groceries, Flour, Provisions, Glass,
Queensware, Hardware, No
tions, &C., also
Produce and Vegetables.
Corner Juliana and Sth SITS,
Pnrkersbury w Va