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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31

GOVERNOR Grant, of Colorado, in his first
message urges the Legislature to return to
September elections, and gives as his rea-
sons that in November the mountain regions
are blookaded with snow, and many Of the
voters In remote districts are unable to reach
tie polls;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31
DIRIGO.
Fac Frauco-Americau ror,n

Ehe ErancO-Amer1can Form.
A VARIABLE DIAGRAM for cutting and fitting
IA DRESSES for LADIES' and CHILDREN as
well as all GARMENTS depending from the Shout.
der. The Diagram is very simple, being all figured
it is adapted equally to PROFESSIONAL aud
HOME use with printed EXPLANATIONS; and il
especially arranged for beginners Itcan be learned
perfectly with less practice than is required by any
other SYSTEM. 1t is also based upon the original
tailor system. Full Instructions gwen and after
Jan. 9th at the MILLINERY Store of Mrs. A. L.
NASH, 46s Congress st. Portland Me.
MRS. NJ e. ALLEN, Gen. Agt. 3
AGENTS WANTED jan1Od1ms
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31
THAT SETTLES IT.
Brought into Competition with the World
the best Carries off the Honors.

Brought into Competition with the World.
the best Carries off the Kzonors.
At the great Centennial Exhibition Of 1876. the
leading products of all the branches of the Worlds
industry were assembled at Philadelphia. To carry
off prize in the face of that tremendous COMPETE
ton was a task of no ordinary difficulty. Inven
tons and preparations for the alienation of pain
and the of disease were present in the
possible variety representing the skill and the pro.
foundes study of the age and it may be Of vital i'm.
portance to you personally, to know that the high
est and only medal given to rubber Porous plasers
was awarded to the manufacturers of BENSoN'S
CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER, by the following
jury.
DIR. VIM. ROTH, surgeon-General, Prussian Army.
j. n. THOMPSON, A. NJ, NJ. D.. Washington, D. C.
c. B. WHITE. NJ. D., New Orleans
ERNEST FLEISCH, NJ. D.. Austria.
The decision was afterwards confirmed by the
medical jury at the last Paris Exposition. Knowing
the value of such high and unbiased testimony, the
medical profession, both in the United States and in
Europe, quickly threw aside the old slow-actiuq
plasters they had been using, and adopted Benson's
in their regular practice That physicians and sur
geons of the broadcast regulations did this distinctly
proves the intrinsic merit of the article.
1t IL no more than just to add that the average
physician of to-day is not dominated by the preju-
dices which retarded the progress and modified the
successes of his predecessors of not more than twen
ty-hve years ago. He accepts hints from all quar-
tiers and endorses and adopts demonstrated healing
agents wherever he finds them.
The right of Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster to
stand at the head Of all external applications what
soever, for the mitigation cure of disease, is no
longer questioned.
Let the purchaser, however, be on his guard
against limitations. The genuine has I'll word
CAPCI.,E CUT in the middle
seabury Johns0Es chemists, New York.
JANIS WS&w2wA
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31

1877; weekly papers, 1921 800; semi weekly pa
pers, 1854; tri weekly papers, 1880; Sun
day papers, 724 671; German daily papers 321,-
2O4; German weekies, 4S7,798. Annual ag-
gregate of daily papers circulated, LILY 1897 1885,
weeklies, etc., circulated, 2l6,763, $50. New
York leads in the line of newspaper publica-
lions. The daily circulation is 981 600, and the
aggregate for the year, 331 099 346 The sg-
gregate annual circulation of weeklies in
New York is 1929, JOB, The census
bureau does not guarantee the correctness Of
these figures, owing to the difficulty of secur-
Ing accurate information from propfietors and
publishers. The figures, however, have been
carefully revised, and Mr.. North, the special
agent, thinks the methods adopted have Sc
cured closer approximation to the truth
than has ever before been reached. While the
average cost to the subscriber is % cents per
copy the average retail price per copy for the
countryis Al cents, the largest average for q
State being Nevada where it is II cents, and
the lowest Delaware, where it is Il cents per
copy. The total number of daily journals in
the country during the census year is placed
at 1852, which includes the so daily newspapers
which were suspended and the ia which were
established.
INCREASE IN FARMS AND PRODUCTIONS
The number of farms in the United States in
1850 was 1,449,073 1860 2,O44, O77; 1870, 1885,
9S5; 1880, 4,00S, 907. The rate of increase in the
last decade was 81 per cent. New Yorks in
crease was IL per cent. The greatest increase
was in Dakota, 914 per cent. The compare
tive production of cereals in the aggregate
forms an interesting exhibit:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31
INCREASE IN FARMS AND PRODUCTIONS

The advance in production amounts to near
ly one hundred per cent. for all kinds taken to-
gether. while the increase from 1860 to 1870
was but twelve per cent. The apparent in
crease in corn is 1873 per cent, the three great
souri-producing more than the entire country.
The Gotten States show gain of about forty
per cent. since 1870 The increase of wheat
growing is seventy per cent. California and
New York produce one-half of the barley crop.
per cent, showing adecline in production in
proportion to population. Two-thirds of the
crop is the product of New York and Penn
syiyauia.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
Sonrna! arta GOnrisr.
Saturday. November A. 1888.
A Rna1ARKABLE SCHEME.

Tho Danish government has taken the first 1 step in an experiment. whose progress will be
 watched with great interest by all interest ed in social problems. bill has been laid
 before the legislature by the government which provides for the wants and require nents of. the poor when they are old and un- able to take care of themselves The bill Is intended to mako U. people independent of the poor laws by offering enough money for l simple people to live on when they can no longer work. The minor objects of the bill consiGt in making wage-earnsrs more hope ful and more seIf-rslisnt, and in making them look to the government rather than to un- lawful socialism for their supplies and their to accomplish this object by establishing company conducted by the government and supported in the main by taxes. But the company will not make any payment of gra- tuities, premiums and life rents save to such persons as have contributed however little toward the fund of the company. Any man, woman or child, if Danish subject, may so contribute, and will receive in return, as 8 minimum, the capital paid in and compound interest at the rate of per cent a year. But after certain amount has been paid, the person who has made the pay msnt is entitled to the choice of consider able life rent, or to lump sum far in excess of what life insurance companies can possi- ply pay. Moreover, this right can be trans ferred to natural heirs, relatives, and some other persons who have valid claims against the policy-helder. The company is to begin with large capital furnished by the govern ment, and if the original draft of the bill Is adopted every Dane will be able to "ses 8 profit" in joining the company.
 It is probable that the bill, or, at least 8 modified form of it, will be adopted. The Boston Advertiser well describes the true na- ture of the scheme when it says: ''The en- tire scheme is clean piece of State social ism, which taxes the rich for the benefit of the poor, and the providsnt in favor of those likely to fall under the meagre sway of the poor-laws. Denmark proposes to do away with poorhouses and indoor-relief by giving to everybody, on a very slight consideration, enough to ksep the wolf from the door. In other words, Denmark is the first country to consider a government scheme of socialism on 6 very large scale" It is not at all prob able that the plan will be permanent sue ceas
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

make her. When she is to use them at the
 opera she has four men sent by Inspector
 Byrnes to take charge of them She gives
 them card with 8 password to the hotel
 cashier, and they get the diamonds from the
 safe. The men carry the diamonds in small
 satchel. and take 1t to the Academy in any way which they think proper, but always 20
 by new route on each trip. They stand behind the scenes and keep the diamonds in their possession until they are want ed, as in the second act of "Tra- viata," then they hand the dia- monds to Pstti's maid. The detectives fol- low Patti to the stage and watch her while she is on 1t, to see that she does not drop any of the ornaments. When she leaves the stage she returns the jewslry and 1t is all examined to see that none of the stones are missing
 Colonel Mapleson says that Patti told him that on last Friday night she dreamed that the opera chorus stood over her with knives shouting that they wanted her diamonds. She awoke bathed in cold precipitation. She said thai nothing -cnnld induce her to keep. the diamonds near her. When in England she keeps them in the Bank of England.
 "Blsck Bart' is the latest s'hero." He has been a stage robber, and is known to have ''held up" twenty-ssvsn stages since 1871, when he gave up school teaching in the northern part of California. having been re- moved for playing draw poker. He was tracked and caught through laundryman's mark on 8 handkerchief that he dropped while hastening from the scene of his latest robbery. All the clothes on his person had the tell-tale mark. He Is over fifty years of age. He was living in San Francisco and was supposed to be 8 miner whose business called him out of the city occasionally. He does not either smoke or drink, and the pro- ceeds of his robberies have been used In sup porting himself. They call him the poet rob ber, because he has always left at the scene of one of his exploits slip of rhyme in dis guised handwriting, signed 'tBlack Bart, Pc s." He wore mask and flour sack over his head and an old long linen duster over his person. In attacking 6 stage he sprang out and shielded himself in front of the lead horses. He has not taken human life. On the contrary, he is polite, exceed ingly SC to the lady passengers. He travelled on foot and got his food in cut of the way places, and never slept In house that was occupied. He is now in jail, and If he gets his deserts will stay there some time.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
WARM.

'Im going to make it warm for you" as the husband remarked when he got up on 8 cold morning to kindle the fre.-Oi City Blizzard.
 'sH0w old would you take me to bs3" asked bewigged and superannuated coquette. Several years older than your hair, madam, ," was the remoEseless answer.-Brooklyn Eagle.
 Conversation through the telephone: 'tHello! hOllol Hows your baby7' "Oh. he's a spanksr" Indeed; thought your wife was the spanker. Geod day.'-LowelI Citizen.
 When VIC read of the recent accident to Spanish man -of-Mar in Which twenty mon were drowned, VIC find some consolation in the thought that as we have no navy we are not liable to any such misfortunss.-Bosto on Times.
 A little bird sat on . bough,
 Beneath the tree there stood cough,
 And close at hand there was Q scugh.
 They sAid "How happy are we ncugh-
 We'll all pitch tn and have rough
 -on City Derrick. A Kentucky blue glass belle says that for her part she hasn't the slightest curiosity to hear Mir. Arnold lecture, and she doesn't see how the traitor can have the face to staAd up before the American peopIe.-Cincinnati Sat- urday Night.
 s'Saml J. TiIdsn of New York city has 8 new $40, 900 dining room and an old 10 cent appetite" F. S.-This brief note was sent In by reporter on daily paper, who has a 10 cent dining room and $40, 900 appetite. Merchant Traveller.
 An exchange says: "Eve didn't lose much time because she had no looking glass to be running to every half-hour." 'If we believe tradition, grandma WAS Q rather good looking lass herself, remarks Burdctte aS he softly chuckles to himself.-Nsw York Commercial Advertiser. If the proposed plan of numbering the hours from one to twenty-four is adopted it will sound funny to hear such talk as this :: 'Here it is nearly half, past ninetesnl Yes terday night it was twenty minutes past sWenty-one when you came home and the night before you never came near the house till twenty-five minutes past twenty three. This is got to stop. If you can't get homo at hAlf-past thirteen or quarter to fourtee n, I'll let you have the house to yourself and go back to mother. r."-Somerville Journal.
 DE MEFoDIs MULE.
 I'se got on de back of the Mefodis mule,
 Sinner doan' ye stan dAr lookiu like g fool De bridle bit sm siIber, de saddle an gold.i An Ise boun' fur to go to Aberham'a fold.
 An I'll ride,
 Yes, I will
 Am I'll ride ride right on to gioryl
 sesunk my sins in the ssvtn' pool,
 An got on the back of de Mefodis mule;
 Am here stick like big black leetz,
 I'll de ole mule stomp on de golden street
 An HI ride,
 Yes, will
 An I'll ride right on to glory.
 oh! come from de chu'oh an' ds Sunday school, An. see me ridtn' on de Mefodis mule
 An'IM make dem Pistoble hossss bloWI
 An'rn ride,
 Yes, will
 Am nride right on tc glory
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Harper's for December is an extrAordinari- ly fine number. There Ia a charming Christ mas title page. MT. George William Curtis writes about Christmas in his best manner In the Drawer" Charles Dudley Warner also has something to say about Christmas Whittier's "Ths Supper of St. Gregory" is illustrated by MT. F. s. Church. Mrs. Fran ces l.. Mace contributes fine poem entitled ''The Kingdom of the Child" delightful sketch of Tennyson by Anne Thackeray- Ritchie, the great noyeliSt's daughter, is based on material furnished by the poet, her fath- CTS friend. Among the Illustrations are nm published sketches by Thaokeray and Rosetti The stories of this number are in keeping with it's unusual character. Mir. Edward Everett HAle's "Colonel Ingham's Jour ney," which bears the reader to the North Pole. Mr. Charles Reads's 'sThere Many 9 Slip 'tHixt the Cup and the Lip, is in his familiar vein; Mir. HowelI's di- MT. G. H. BouRhton, the artist and Mrs. P. Y. Penber, the latter ghost story, enliven the pages. Mir. William Black has an inter- sstiRg letter about the West HiRhlandsrs. MT. B. F. Roe begins a serial. MT. c. F. Holden has an article on t'Nest Builders of the Sea-" which will be read without fail There are more poems, by Mir. Austin Dob- son, Mir. R. s. De Oordova and Mrs. Julia 0. R. Dorr. MT. De Oordova's is set to music by Mosenthsl. Anybody who buys the Christmas number of Harpsr's will get all he pays for.
 The North American Review for December opens with strong argument in behalf of a government telegraph, by Gardinier G. Hub bard. Prof. J. Laurence LsushIin, of Har- yard university, shows the Evils of the Sub-TPaNRurN SvskAm GGThM nmw nF Tudo- ment,' by Gail Hamilton, is . caustic review of the less amiabIe traits of Thomas Carlyle. Henry George writes of 'Overproduotion." General ". B. Franklin sets forth the views of naval and military experts As to what Is absolutely needed to insure the National Dsfense.'' An article on ''Railroad and Pub lie Time.' by Prof Leonard Waldo, of the Yale college observatory, explains the system of uniform time standards now being intro duced into the railroad service of tho United States. Finally there is discussion of the question of Morality Without Religion" i" by +. A. Rider and Prof. A. A. Hodge, of Princeton college.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

Montairo, the Norwich murderer, cried like child when the officers were about to start with him for Wethersfeld, where he goes for 20 years. Just before the train started his anger grew intense and he shout ed, 'sMe no die. Ne come out in 20 years. Gut him throat, " at the same time drawing his cIaw-like hands across his scraggy neck in way that boded ill for the enemy he had in view.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

A bill has been introduced in the Mexican Congress for the compulsory burning of the bodies of all persons who die of contagious diseases in the seaports. The bill ought to pass, and other countries than Mexico might very properly adopt Q similar measure.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

Ths National Republican treats the fVindi- cation" of the white Democrats of Danville rather sarcastically. IL has discovered that Cain really killed Abel in ''rios'" melted by AbeTs fnflammatory conduct in the manner of offering sacri6ces.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Governor Butler of Massachusetts is said to be worth as much ss $12, ,000. GOO. He ought to be able to sympathizs with ths poor Rerkingman.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

The New York Evening Post ''talks sense' when 1t says: Workingmen may rest assured that As long as the methods of trades unions
 are criminal and anti-secial they will not per
 nansntly or considerably improve their con dition. These methods may now and then
 extort temporary and small rise in wages,
 but more than this they cannot do. They
 cannot raise the laborer in social scale.
 There is, in this world, DO future for either force or fraud. If they had nothing else to
 fight against, they would be foiIed by the
 social instinct of the race, which in the long run and on the whole reserves the good things of this life for those who tell the
 truth, respect their contracts and do as they would be done by.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
ALE,

ALE.
 Philadelphia Ale In bottles,
 The finest Ale made in this over half 6 century. Make . .50, quarts $2.50 per dozen.
 EDWARD E. HALL 6 SON.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

No molasses and water mixture, but con- centrated extract of the active medicinal properties of roots, barks, &c, is Hoods SarsapsriIla.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

The result of the suit brought by General Hancock against the proprietors of New York hotel is of interest to all who have to live In hotels. About four thousand dollars worth of jewslry was stolen from the gener al's apartments. The proprietor refused to pay for the things stolen, because he had 2 safe for the reception of valuables. He also declined payment on the ground that the general had his rooms by the month, and, therefore, for less than transient guests were charged, consequently the hotels liability as an insurer did not extend to him. General Hancock's counsel insisted on the hotels lia- bility, and brought up the fact that notices of the safe were not posted about the house. The first referee gave decision in favor of the hotel as question of law. The second referee decided for General Hancock. On appeal, the higher courts have confirmed the latter referee's decision, basing their conciu- sions on the fact that as notices were not dis played about the receptacle for guests prop erty, the proprietor must make the generals loss good.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

An analysis of tAe vote in New York on the proposition to abolish contract labor in the prisons is interesting. There was pop ular majority of 139 1925 in it's favor, but it received only 4Os, 4o2, or more than 10000 less than majority of the votes cast at the election and scarcely moro than ons-third of the number of tho legal voters in the State. Another thing to be noticed is that the prop osition obtained it's support almost wholly in the cities. If the vote of New York and Kings counties Is deducted from the totals, the vote stands PIG, ,23o for the proposition to PAS, ,sss against it. If the votes of the counties containing the cities of Albany, Troy. Buffalo, and Rochester axe also deduct ed the vote will stand 1854 to 229. 112, being an adverse majority of nearly 90,O0O.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
Price Three Cents
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Ea2,~- ..-2a4g MALARIA, indigestion, dyspepsia heart burn, and general ill-health relieved by Browns Iron Bitters. Fs--sssszsEIRsssss ssssssJ SPARTA, TENE.-Dr. W. B. Cummings says:"I am strongly convinced of the effi- cacy of Browns Iron Bitters and recom- mend thefn." s-,ssRss 6aaey,ssssss HUNTSVILLE, IND.-Rev. J. s. Cain says: "I used Browns Iron Bitters for nervouE prostration and found it entirely satisfae. tory" .,......e. ,. s,, .<... s.ss.-...,. ~ l.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

Poor Patti She has so many diamonds that she can have no peace. Colonel Ma pleson tells something about the trouble they
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

MT. John H. Stratford, a vsll.to do citizen of Brantford, Ontario, wants to build hos pitsl for his town in which diseases of the body may be treated. but he does not want sick souls subjected to treatment they may not desire. Therefore one of the conditions on which he will build the hospital is that no clergyman. priest, or member of religious sect, secret or other society shall hold relig ious or other services within its walls or grounds except when patient requests the attendance of such, and then only for that patients personal benefit.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

A Methodist clergyman of Albany is mskin5 . unique canvass for the position of chaplain in the next Senate of New York. He in- closes to each member-slecs specimen copy of 8 prayer and of . sermon, and urges that no other denomination has been as earnest and united in it's devotion to the Republican party as have the Msthodirts.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24

ID oBERT SMITHS n quarts and pints. country. Established note of prices. Ptnts 5
 oc29
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
PROCTOR, IIGUIRE < CD. Terrific Mark Down n Dress Goods

Owing fO tlae backward branch trade we have decided to following terrific mark showing the former and present prices of these goods: z5 pieces of Ladies' ooth woo @1 yard.
  ;presen prc pieces inches Wid former price present $1. .25 yard
  former R.75 present $2
  $5.5O; present price $4 per yard Small lot Of Silk Embroidered BIO. $3O price price $45; price $22. raid
   sanda wish noi cus
 
  and irrespective