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Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
Sixty Feet Under the Sea.

"I was once diver-not wrecker, but pearl diver-and hard business 1t was, recently observed the Captain of Spanish brig to a reporter of the Cali- fuania 7Enes. eve worked off the Mexican and Panama coasts, principally on the Pacific side. Sometimes we worked alone, but generally on shares, and sometimes for pay. We went to the grounds in small sailing vessels then we took to the small boats and covered as much ground as possible. Each man had basket weight and knife. For for it is almost impossible to swing the arm with any force under water. The best weapon is 8 short spear. When you reach the ground you strip, put your feet in big sinker, take the basket that has rope for hoisting, drop over, and soon find yourself at the bottom. Then your business is to knock off as many oysters as you can and pile them in the basket before you lose your wind. It IS terrible strain, but I could stand 1t in those days for six minutes, and I have known some men who could stay down ten but it is sure death in the long run.
 eff the ground is we'll stocked you can get twenty or more shells, but it is all luck. When the basket is full it is hauled up, and after you come up for your wind down you go again, the sinker being hauled up with small cord for that purpose. It was on one of these strips that ran afoul of the animal that gave me lasting fright. You will smile when say it was only star-fish, but that it really was. I went down sixty feet with a rush, and, landing on the edge of big branch of coral, swung off into a kind of basin. The basket went ahead of me, and as I swung off to reach the bottom something seemed to spring uE all around me, and was in the arms oi some kind of monster that coiled about my body, arms and legs. I tried tc scream, forgetting that I was in the water, and lost my wind It was just as if the plant had sprouted under me ant then threw its vines and tendrils about me- There were thousands of them coiling and writhing, and I thought had landed in a nest of sea snakes.
 " I gave the signal as soon as could and made break upward, part of thu creature clinging to me, while the rest, could see, was dropping to pieces. The, hauled me into the boat, when I reached the surface, and pulled the main part o the animal from me. It was oval, abou three feet across, and the five arm seemed to divide into thousands c others. I probably landed on top of tha one, which at that time was the larges I had ever seen. I afterward saw tn
 body of one that was washed ashore O
 the isthmus that must have had sprea of thirty-fve feet. Their power ( grasping is considerable, but touch thel certain way and they throw off the arms in regular shower, and are 500 reduced to an oval body"
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
A Statesman's Story.

"Once in Washington" said 8 we'll known statesman, "a gentleman dined with me for whom I had conceived a warm liking; and I wished to serve him. knew he was worthy, and that there were few, if any, public offices which he was not competent to fill. During the dinner, observing that he had not yet turned either of his wine-glasses, filled one of my own and passed it over to him; and then, filling another for myself, I proposed to him that we should drink to our better acquaintance. His lip quivered little, as he looked me steadily in the eye, and asked me:
 "'I am free man here, of course?'
 1T told him, certainly
 "'Then, said he, would it notanswer every purpose, and would not the pledge be as sacred, if drank my portion of it in Natures own beverage, pure water?'
 " Yes, said I and I'll be with you. I'll fill with cold water, too
 And when we had drank the senti- ment in that curious fashion-a fashion which, at that moment, seemed very tasteless and even chilling to mel asked him how long he had been thorough cold-water thinker. He told me, in reply, that he believed he might say al his life; but he had been self-pledged boy and man since his eleventh year Said he, with considerable emotion:
 "'At that time I saw an intoxicated man. He was good man at heart-one of Natures noblemen-and I saw hin then-O! so much lower than any brute Two men took him to his home, to his wife and children. I saw him as he lay then, a. But I cannot express 1t Words fail me. When you have said, ( drunken man! what can you add to darken the picture? I saw in that houl what intoxicating drink could do to strong, true-hearted man, and resolved that I would never touch it to my lips. And never have, to my knowledge.
 "He remained silent for little time until he saw me push my glass away, ant move the bottles to a far part of the table Then he added, tremulously:
 "'I may as well finish my story, s' that you shall know the full measure o the influence that has governed my lift in this respect. That man, whom I say so fallen, was my own father. But, thanl Heaven he never-never-was intoxi cated again I will not avow that h became total abstainer from that time but I know that he was so in the evening of his days and that his son has been s all his life ?"
 An ! if the narrator on the occasion o which I speak could have been influenced in the same direction, and to the sam extent, it would have been better-far far better for him
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
Spanish Philosophy.

The day after my arrival at Vittoria, says Hannibal Hamlin in a letter from Spain, I went to a shoemaker's to get some repairs done to my boots. There was nobody in the shop; the master was on the opposite side of the street smoking his cigarette. His shoulders were cov- cred with mantle full of holes, and he looked like beggar, but Spanish beg gar, appearing rather proud than ashamed of his poverty. He came over to see me and I explained my business. "Wait 0 moment, said he, and immedi- ately called his wife. "How much money is there in the purse 9 "Twelve picet- tas" (fourteen francs, forty centimes). ''Then I shan't work" "But," said I, F'twelve picettas will not last forever. , "Who has seen tomorrow" said he, turning his back to me.
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13

IN PRINT.-There's nothing like get ting ones name in print--for some people. The editor of the Saranac (Mich.) Local is advertising for sale the accounts of his delinquent subscribers Some people dearly love to see their names in print.
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
A Slaughter.

In 1881 18,67O persons were killed by snakes in India, and 2,757 by wild an- imals 43,609 head of cattle were de- stroyed by snakes and wild animals, dur ing the same year; 254, ,96S snakes and 5,274 wild animals were destroyed, and and 102, ,s1O rupees were paid by Govern ment in reward for their destruction,
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13

PROF: elf you attempt to squeeze any solid body, it will always resist pressure" Class smiles and cites exam ples of exceptions which prove the rule. -COLaty11b5z iS1Dect0tOr.
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13

DE man what keeps Monday in his heart and Sunday on his shirt front aim got my idee ob 'igion. Ir0Ueler.
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13

HOUSEWIFE" Before I employ you | must ask, Have you lover ? " Ser ysnt-maid-" cone? should smile !'a
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13

"IN choosing wife," says an ex- change, "be governed by her chin. ," The worst of it is that after choosing 8 wife one is apt to keep on being governed in the same way.
Connecticut western news., 1882-12-13
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Personal.

Mr.. Charles FL. Rich of this city will act as
j. M. Arnold and e. A. Sheldon of Hart
ford, Conn.,, are at the Preble House.
L. A. Gray has been elected President of the
alumni of Obe-lin College.
Grand Commander Burnham will accom-
pany St. Alban Commandery on its excursion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine will go to Paris this
summer to bring back one of their daughters,
who has been pursuing her studies there.
Mr.. John L. Shorey of Lynn, Mass, the we'll
known publisher, was at the Falmouth Satur-
day.
Mr.. Emerson Higgins of Cape Elizabeth is
suffering from blood poisoning, and, it is
feared, will lose the fingers OF one hand.
Mr.. William Richards is going back to the
Rolling Mills, and Mr. William Atwood will
return to Ligonia.
Rev. J. X. Smyth, late of Portland, began
r's pastoral duties over the New Jerusalem
9edenborgian) society in Roxbury, corner OF
Warren and St. James streets, yesterday.
Mr.. Fl. P. Winter, General Secretary of the
Portland Young Mems Christian Association
leaves to-day for New Haven, Conn.,, to attend
the twelfth annual conference of the General
Secretaries of the Y. M. G. A. He will be alb
sent one week.
Mr.. j. L. Stoddard. the popular lecturer
who is now making another European tour tc
secure material for lectures, accompanied by
Mr.. j. W. Black, the Boston photographer, il
| having a pleasant and successful trip. Or
May 10 he was at Arnheim, on the Rhine. In
| Brussels Mr.. Black secured some foe photo
| graphs. The party at last accounts were head
| ed for Norway.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Sudden Death.

Saturday evening Mrs. Bridget Sheehan.
who resides at No. % Tate street, not feeling
we'll, procured some Jamaica ginger, and, TAX
ing it home, swallowed a large Dose She
then went out again, but was suddenly taken
with a fainting spell and fell to the ground
Mr.. Evans, who was passing at the time, as
sisted her to rise and helped her to her house,
near by, where, with the assistance of her hus-
band she was laid on lounge, neither of the
men thinking the matter any more than a
temporary ill-turn. A little while after Mr..
Sheehan went into the room to see if his clock
was right by the 8 o'clock alarm, and was as
tonished to find his wife had not moved On
examination he was alarmed at finding he
could not rouse her. He summoned DIR. Shan
non. The latter notified the police station of
the state of the case. DR.. Palmer and Coroner
Gould were at once sent to the house, and on
examining the case decided that the woman
was dead, caused by an overdose of Jamaica
ginger. On hearing these facts Coroner Gould
decided an inquest unnecessary. The woman
leaves family of five children, three grown
up, and the others at home. She was about As
years of age,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA
NOTES.

NOTES.
Henry Irving will come to America under
Mr.. Abbey's management for the season OF
1924, commencing Oct 20. The engage
ment includes Miss Ellen Terry and the whole
Lyceum company. The complete scenery and
properties of the theatre will be shipped to
America.
Maurice Grau has secured Mile. Theo for his
prima donna for the coming season in this
country.
Mr.. Charles Barron of the Museum, Mr.. Ar
thur Chase, Mile. Rhea's manager, Mr.. Kit
Clarke, late manager of the Mastodon Min
strels, and Mr.. r. L. Weed, manager OF the
Syracuse opera house, will catch trout at the
Rangeley lakes in Maine, during the next
fortnight
Miss Bartlett, Mrs. Ada Cary Sturgis, Will
Stockbridge of Portland, and A. e. Bradbury
of Turner, with Homer Norris OF this city,
will give concert at Turner, the 18th inst.
Miss Annie Cary has now fixed the dates OF
her charity concerts: June 23d for the Maine
General Hospital, and June 9th for the Bates
College, both having been postponed on &C
count Of her illness. Speaking Of her sick
ness the favorite contralto said day or two
ago, "You know singing is my bread and but
ter, and should not, simply from whim OF
caprice, throw up engagements which would
lose me $1,000 in few months. That is the
amount have had to lose since February last,
by reason of being unable to sing. DIR; Eli
bridge is attending me. and he knows how bad
ly my throat is The worst OF 1t Is can
scarcely make people believe l am as bad as |
am Physically, feel and appear in good
health. / eat 1arge-sized beefsteaks IN the
morning. My throat doesn't feel sore. There
appears to be irritation, but still must sit
around here and be idle. 1t is dscouraging
and tiresome."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Worcester Lign Infantry.

Inc worcester Spy OF SATURDAY says, tno ar
rangements for the Light Infantry excursion
to Portland today have been nearly completed.
The active members met Saturday night to
make any final arrangement thought necessa-
ry The company will probably muster be-
tween forty and fifty men, and it is hoped that
there will be about thirty members of the Vet
eran Association and considerable number OF
the honorary members in the party. The Ca
det band will accompany the excursion.
The company will leave for Boston this after
noon at 5 o'clock. upon the express train, and
upon arrival there will march to India wharf
where they will embark upon one of the Port
land Steam Packet Company steamers. Sup
per will be served upon the boat, and the party
will arrive in Portland at a. m. Tuesday. At
O'Clock they will be met by the Portland
Light Infantry, and escorted to the Falmouth
Hotel, when breakfast will be served. AT 10
o'clock the party will be taken by the Portland
company down the beautiful harbor for sail.
A stop will be made upon one of the islands
for clambake. On returning to the city
lunch will be served at the Falmouth Hotel,
and rest of an hour will be taken. At $50
street parade will be made, in which the
Blues, Guards, Artillery and both Cadet COM
panies will join. Dress parade will take place
on the Western Promenade. In the evening
complimentary banquet will be given at the
Falmouth Hotel BY the Portland Light Infan-
try, commemorating the 10th anniversary of
both companies at which many prominent
guests will be present. Hon. W. W. Thomas,
Jr, will preside with Clarence Hale, Esq.
postmaster. The next morning the Worcester
party will be shown around the city, dinner
will be served at noon, and at 2.15 they will
leave for home upon special train, over the
Portland and Worcester route, arriving about
o'clock Wednesday evening. Gov. Long of
Massachusetts will be represented by Asst. Adjt
Gen. Kingsbury and four OF his staff. Col. ].
d. Washburn, Alderman McCaferty, Theodore
C.Bates and the City Marshal will represent the
City of Worcester. Gen.W. S. Lincoln, Maj. ].
P. Mason, Levi Lincoln and some thirty others,
will represent the veteran organization: and
General Josiah Pickett, Colonel W. S. B. Hop
kins, commander of the Worcester Continen-
tails, and some ten or twelve Others, the honor
ory organization. The veterans will wear the
becoming veteran uniform and new and hand
some badges.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
STATE NEWS.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
Sarah Deering and Ida Hank, two girls from
st. John, N. B.. narrowly escaped suffocatior
at the Dewitt House in Lewiston Friday night
Fortunately an open window in their room
saved their lives.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The athletic sports at Bowdoin College have
been postponed to Wednesday afternoon next
June 7th.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The exercises of the fourth annual field day
of the Colby Athletic Association took place
at Waterville Friday. The weather was fine
and large and interested crowd was in at
tendance at the park. The judges were Pro
SUM instructor. The referee was Professor A
w. Small. A ball in the Town hall in the
evening wound up the sports
The Waterville Sentinel says: 1t is rumored
and not without good reason, that ten SET
wooden mill is to be erected at West Waterville
on the sight of the old dam below the cascade.
We understand that Hon. Seth L.. Milliken Of
Belfast and Mr.. Mayo of Foxcroft are the prin-
cipal men interested.
The Journal says 1t is probable that the
Sprague property in Augusta will be sold at
public auction about the LIST OF July, II not dis
posed OF before by private SALE
The Maine Central has quite crew OF men
at work on the west end Of the railroad bridge
at Augusta. New granite piers are to be built
and about $25, 900 expended in strengthening
the structure.
PENoBSCOT COUNTY.
Joseph Baker of Oldtown was drowned in a
stream in the vicinity, on Tuesday.
PIsCATAoUIs COUNTY.
The Observer says the scarlet fever, whoop-
ing cough and measles have prevailed at Dover
to some extent lately.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Giles M. Wentworth of Calais, was thrown
from carriage SATURDAY, and sustained very
serious injury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Ross and Hanlan.

Ross and Kennedy leave to-day for Winnie
peg, where Ross is to pull against Hanlan July
Sd. Ross is in excellent condition. Under
their agreement, the men must meet and select
a referee on the 18th inst Ross will take two
boats along, and, as these will be as many as
can be conveniently handled by the two oars
men from Portland, Kennedy will let his shell
rest on the boat rack at Portland, and Will row
in Wallace's spare boat The New Brunswick
sculler has done excellent trainings land is light
er than at any time for several years, his
weight being ITO pounds. weeks rest will
do him good, and, by the time he has fairly
settled to work at Winnipeg, he will have
gained sufficient flesh to allow him to train of
comfortably before the day of the race.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05


Saturday morning, at 1870 o'clock, Mrs.
Mary A. Skillings, wife of Charles 81. Skill
ings, carpenter, 149 Newbury street, commit
ted suicide by shooting herself through the
head with revolver. Mrs. Skillings has been
out of health for some time, and was probably
not responsible for the act. About week ago
her son went to Boston, and she packed his va
lise, taking out five-barreled revolver which
belonged to him. Saturday morning she sent
her husband to the market for mackerel and
some cunners for dinner, and on his return he
found crowd around the house. The unfor-
tunate woman had gone to her room after his
departure, and shot herself through the base Of
the brain, the ball killing her instantly. She
was about 60 years old. Coroners Gould and
Hall were called, but deemed an inquest un-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
ART.
The Coming Exhibition by the Society Of
Art.

The Boston journal says "The fourishing
city of Portland, having achieved importance
by its commercial enterprise, has begun, ike
many other such places, to turn its attention 10
the fine arts, and boasts an influential society
whose purpose is devoted to them. This asso-
citation. known as the Portland Society OF
Art" is about to hold its first annual exhibi-
ton, which will open on June 10th and close
about the middle of August. Circulars de-
scribing the purpose of this enterprise have
been distributed, and fine loan collection of
works in oil, water colors, etchings, drawings,
etc., is already assured. A number of impor-
tant works have already been sent from this
city and New York, and the society generously
offers to transport to and from the owners,
without charge, all pictures for the exhibition,
to insure their safety from fire, and to make
good any damage that may be sustained in
transit. Contributions must be handed in by
June 9TH, and artists in Boston may send their
works direct to the Portland Society of Art,
No. 507 10 Congress street, or forward them by
Mr.. John A. Lowell, 70 Kilby street, Boston.
Among the pictures already sent from this city
are Mr.. Gaugengigl's Refugee" Mrs. Phebe
Jenks's La Cantatrice and Summer two
landscapes and figure piece by Mr.. Longfel-
low, two large works by Mr.. Halsall, an Alge-
rian view by Mr.. Waterman, an animal piece
by Mr.. Rogers, landscape by Miss Susan Hale,
and others. The exhibition bids fair to be a
very interesting event"
Mr.. Preston Powers, who has recently at
tended the exercises attendant upon the un-
yelling of statue from his chisel of Mr.. Reu-
ben Springer, the wealthy art patron of Gin
cinnati, has been prospered during his visit to
that city. He sold there the ideal bust OF
Eyangeline,' which he lately exhibited in
this city, and accepted an order for dupli-
cate, while he also obtained commission for
portrait bust. Mr.. Powers has an ideal bust in
the present exhibition of the Royal Academy
in London. Two other busts that he has re-
Gently made-one of the late President Gar
field, the other an ideal work entitled the
4" Peasant Girl ARE at present on their way
to this country, and two models of statues of
Garfield will follow them. One of these last is
an equestrian figure, the other standing one.
Mr.. Powers intends to remain in this country
only few weeks, and will then return to his
Florence studio. Mrs Powers, nee Miss Dyer,
arrived home from Europe few days ago.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Accidents.

Mr.. Martin Flanagan fell through the cellar
elevator hole at the Forest City refinery Fri
day, and was seriously injured
Mrs. Conley, Hammond street, fell down a
flight of stairs in her hsuse, Friday, breaking
her hip.
Mrs. Joseph Bradford, AZ Cedar street,
caught her heel on the stairs Friday afternoon,
and fell heavily to the sidewalk, cutting Sc
we're cash in her forehead and injuring her
shoulder badly.
At Old Orchard Saturday afternoon, limo
thy Crowley of Biddeford, while employed in
stating Nathaniel Curriers' new building, fell
distance of 80 feet, striking upon his face and
side, injuring him very seriously. He was
taken to his home in Biddeford.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
AUCTION SALES.
Extensive Sale of Real Estate by
AHffiOn

ON WEDNESDAY, June 9TH, at 215 O'Clock, we
" shalt sell at Cumberland Mills, Me-, the N. p.
Roberts property, situated on Main and Haskell
streets. This property has frontage Main street
of 300 feet and frontage on Haskell street of 500
feet. On this property is two 1s story and one 2
story houses with stables and other buildings Each
house will be sold with its lot. and the vacant land
will be sold in lots to suit This is of the best
situations in a village which has grown faster than
any in Maine in the last two years with every prog
pect of growing faster in the years to come.
At2 O'clock, previous to sale Of real estate, will
be sold the Stock, Teams. Buildings, Scales and
good will of Mr.. Roberts Coal Wood and Lumber
business. Here is rare chance for an energetic
man with moderate capital to engage IN paying
and permanent business One that will increase
every year, commanding the trade of Cumberland
Mills and Saccarappa, now one village, with every
prospect of soon being a CITY, About 80 new build
ings were built last year these villages with every
prospect of as many this. p. q r. and p. & o. X. II.
both run to the yard. The location is unsurpassed
for business.
20. BAILEY & CO., Auc,ioneers.
jul dot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-05
Collision.

Our Orrs Island correspondent writes that
Captain H. Black of fishing schooner Florida,
of Harpswell reports he was run into on the
morning of April IT, at o'clock, while at
anchor on the fishing ground called JEFF
frios, by the three masted schooner Rebecca
Sheppard, and damaged by the collision. The
cIew of the Florida were all on deck at the
time and with all the noise they could make
could not attract the attention of the man at
the wheel of the Sheppard, he being the only
person to be seen on deck until his vessel
struck the Florida.