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The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
Canadian License Law.

Canada has new temperance law, called
the Dominion License Law. It does not In
any way abrogate or set aside the Scott act
by which county if it 30 elects may secure
absolute prohibition, but 1t applies simply
and only to localities desiring license. To
such it says, you may have one license to
every 500 Inhabitants, you may not sell to
minors, drunkards, nor between the hours
of 7 p. m. on Saturdays till a. m. on Mon
days. It also forbids the issuing OF licenses
to grocers or any other than actual liquor
shops, and all existing licenses OF this char
acter are arranged to lapse within limited
period. This law is uniform throughout the
provinces. Heretofore Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Manitoba and the rest have had
their own particular license laws. Now all
over the Dominion one-third of the tax pay
ers are necessary to petition for dram shop
license, and when issued it's conditions are
everywhere the same. 1t is regarded by
thoughtful temperance people as great
gain in legislation, az 1t will reduce the
number of licenses nearly one-half in some
of the provinces, and will shorten the hours
of sails, closing the saloons at II p. m. on
week days, and entirely ON Sundays. The
hotels are also prohibited from opening their
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

No one will dispute Prof. Francis Way
lands assertion before the American Social
Science Association, in an address on capt.
tai punishment, that the more intelli-
gent man is the more averse he is to tax
ing life. But it does not follow that States
which retain the death penalty are there
fore lower in the scale of intelligence than
those which have abolished It from their
statute books. For good many years
Maine was practically without the death
penalty. Last year it was restored; but it
will be found contrary to the fact to con-
clude that therefore there has been decline
of intelligence in this State. The chief pur-
pose of punishment for murder is to repress
murder. If it were shown that imprison-
ment for life would accomplish this purpose
as well as the gallows it would undoubtedly
be evidence of low state of intelligence for
a State to retain the death penalty. But the
statistics on this subject are not conclusive.
In some cases they show one thing and In
others directly the opposite. The advocates
OF capital punishment make out as good y
case from statistics as their opponents. The
public mind, therefore, is left In uncertainty
as to which is the more effective means Of
REFRESHING murder, and legislation is based
to very large extent on the absence or
frequency of murders in the COM
munity which it affects. If muir
ders have been of frequent occurrence
imprisonment for life is likely to give place
TO the death penalty, while if the contrary
be the case, the less violent punishment b
substituted. But it can be fairly argued
that the restoration of the death penalty in
the one case is as much thesresult of aversion
to the taking of human life a. Its repeal in
the other.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
Reform is Necessary.

The Communication IN another column
narrating the marrow escape OF agentleman
from serious Injury on account Of being
tripped up by ladder left on the side walk,
calls attention to the practice of occupying
the sidewalks for improper purposes, a
practice that has become much too common
and causes Inconvenience and danger to
those who are entitled to have an unencum-
bered passage. This occupation 10 not on
account of carelessness but is done deliber-
ately. a portion of the sidewalk is seized
upon by abutters for the purpose of display
Ing, or storing, the wares they have for sale.
Especially is this true in Commercial and
adjacent streets devoted to wholesale BUSH
ness. There is place In Pearl street, which
is passed by many hundred people on their
way to the island boats every day, where the
sidewalk is almost blockaded by molassss
hogsheads, so that persons have to go along
in single file. This is but one of many
places where the rights of pedestrians are
unreasonably interfered with. In streets
devoted to the retail trade some dealers have
appropriated good part of the sidewalk for
business purposes, filling it up with impede
ments of various kiuds. OF all these prac-
tees perhaps none is worse than that of
hanging articles from awning frames over
the sidewalk. There Is no right and no
justification for such occupation of the part
of the public highway reserved for pedes-
trians, and the practice has grown to such
proportions as to demand the attention of
the proper authorities. As for the offence
of leaving ladder, or any similar obstacle,
on sidewalk where there is constant pass
ing, it deserves to be ranked with leaving .
loaded pistol where children may play with
1t and with other forms of carelessness i'm
periling life and limb.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
Water Supply Of Washington, d. C.
Proposals for Constructions Of Dam, Tun-
mel and Reservoir,

OFFICE OF THE WASHINGTON AoUEDUcT,(
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 20, 1888. I
GEALED PROPOSALS, in triplicate. for the
Of toe city Of Washington. in accordance with Ky
Act OF Congress approved July 18th, 1882 will be
received at this Office until IL o'clock noon on Fri
day October 9th, 1888, when they will be publicly
opened; the work to be done comprises three differ
ent classes viz:
CLASS A.-DAM CoSsrRUcTIoN.-This consists
9s0 Of raising the present masonry dam across the
MARYLAND Channel of the Potomac River at the
Great Falls, BY coping 16 inches thick; cd the
extension of the dam across Conn's Island by a
masonry structure about 1920 feet long with an
average height of about feet and (3d the further
extension of the dam about 450 feet across the
hlled with stone and substruc ure Of masonry to-
gether with about 800 feet of masonry dam TO make
connection with the Virginia shore.
GLASS B.-AQUEDuCT EXTENSION being the ex
tension of the Washington Aqueducr by q TUNNEL
about 20 1925 feet long with section Of about
~ square feet most II not ALL of the tunnel will be
CLASS C.-REsERyoIR CONFERENCE.-The
work will consist mainly of earth excavation and
capable n
Separate proposals, In triplicate, must be made
for each class Parties proposing to bid viii apply
and all information. being careful to state for which
class or classes of work blanks are desired: but
they will be furnished only to such parties as show
prima facie evidence that they able financially
and BY experiences, to undertake the work on which
they propose to bid
Each piuusr must submit with his proposals writ
ten evidence on which he relies to establish his
capacity to perform the work reference being had
TO HIS experience on work OF like character TO the
plant 81 his disposal and which he proposes to use
and TO his financial ability to do all that il necessar
ry for rapid prosecution of the work. Before pro
posals are opened each bidder must certify to Abe
UNDERSIGNED that either personally or by q duly
authorised agent he has inspected the natural feat
ures of the locality in which the work is located and
examined the drawings on file in this ONCE
The right is reserved to reject any and all bids or
parts of bids. G. j. LYDECKER,
au3ld6t Major Of Engineers, U. S. Army
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

The above words are from. Mr.. LEWIS KEEN, No
Highland Avenue Maiden, Mass, April 20, $685.
He says: 81 have been troubled for years with kid
ney and liver complaint, followed by gravel with
severe pains in my back and g-oins. had great
trouble in passing water, It being scanty, and &C
companied by ter ible burning, the vessel being
coated with brick-dust deposit. 1 was recon-
mended to use Hunts Remedy by friend who had
been completely cured of similar trouble. pur-
chased bottle at the druggists, and commenced to
improve at once. have used but two bottles and it
has done wonders for mono more kidney trouble,
no more pain. 1t has gwen me new life, and
would not be without Hunts Remedy at any price
1t is AL that it is recommended to be- and cheer
fully give this testimony for the benefit of the many
sufferers from kidney disease and grave.''
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

John K. Lynch, chairman of the Republic
can executive committee of Mississippi, in a
letter to the Washington Republican, points
out that Gen. Chalmers game In that State
Is to get possession of the Republican party
in order to use it for his own selfish pnr-
poses. This programme Mr.. Lynch objects
to, though be, asIwell as the other Republi-
cans OF Mississippi, are ready to enter into
any coalition with the Democrats who are
opposed to Bourbonism which does not in
volve sacrifice of principles. Mr.. Lynch's
position is the correct one. The Republi-
can party wants no bosses Of the Chalmers
stripe.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
BAD BLOC D
SCROEUlOUS.
INHERITED.
unnnWnus .
CONTAGIOUS.

TN 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on NV BODY
L until my breast vas mass OF corruption
Some of these Ulcers not less than one and
one half inches In diameter, the edges rough rag
Eod, and seemingly dead, the cavity open to the
bsns and filled with offensive matter Everything
known to the medical faculty was tried In vain.
Gradually the bono itself became diseased and then
the suffering began in earnest. Bone Ulcers began
TO take the place of trose hitherto on the surface
became . mere wreck. For months at . time
could not get my hands to my head because of ex-
Teme soreness. Could not turn In bed. Knew not
what 1t was to be an hour free from pain H ad
reason to look upon lite itself as q curse In the
summer OF 1880, after ten years of this wretched
existence. began to use the CuTICURA REMIDIEs
and after two years. persistent of them the last
Ulcer has healed The dread disease has sue
eumbed. All over the breast whore was once mass
Of corruption Is now healthy skin. My weight
has increased from ons bundled and twenty-three
to one hundred and nftysix pounds, and the good
work 70 still going on feel myself q new man
and all through the CurIcUhA REMEDIES.
JAMES E. RICHARDSON
Custom House, New Orleans.
Sworn to before United States Commissioner
II IN Urn 81
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

If the reports which come from Tonquin
are correct, France is not to be left to enjoy
the fruits of her victory in that peninsular
in peace, The Chinese troops which have
been massed on the frontier have been sud
denly and without warning put in motion,
and are marching on Haidoung. This means
of course that France is involved In war
with the Chinese empire, and that the
chances are that long and bloody war is
inevitable. While no match for her Euro
pean adversary in military knowledge and
skill China enioua tl>a-as-a->..a-----.ss-z-z
ness to the seat of war and q population
from which to draw troops almost as count
less as the sands of the sea.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
MEASLES AND FEvERS.

We can have no better authority for the
cause of the great mortality from Measles
and Fevers than Professor II. Demme, In
his essay the changes of the blood in the differ
eut stages of Measles.
From the Boston Medical Journal, dug. IL
tions on the increase and decrease of the red cor
puscles of the blood in twenty of measles and
the relation between the red and white corpusces
he found that occasionally In the begi ming Of the
fever age there WAS a slight increase Of the red
corpuscles, while on the development eff ths erup-
ton there was decrease which lasted for twelve or
forty-eight hours after the fever so that the red
corpuscles sank to half the normal number. After
eight or ten days the number gradually increased
with frequent variations, The spectroscope showed
IN the be ginning increase and after the appear
ance of the eruption decrease of the hssmogobine.
The decrease of the red blood corpuscles occurred
also in case Of measles where there an intense
eiorescence, but fever. An absolute increase of
the white blood corpuscles found in the course
OF the disease during the fever stage, and usually
before its Decline"
Murdock's Liquid Food will make blood faster
than all foods or preparations known.
lis value consists in supplying the system with
red corpuscles which the life of the blood and
1T is the only food or prepare ion that will do it.
confirmed by the fact that it is the only raw food
known, and when used in fevers prevents the pa
tient from having relapse, which mary have and
In many cases the patients left feeble for fe or
death follows augS1T&wtf
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

Mrs. Mary Whitney Westcott, of Dewitt,
Nebrask-, is preparing a history of the
loyal Women Of the Civil War;" and re-
quests letters, records and accounts of wo-
mans service to her co.ntry, whether at
home, in the hospital, In the field or in the
Sanitary Commission. 1t is intended that
this work shall place the patriotic women of
the civil service on record with the volunteer
soldiers and create funf for the Ladies'
Relief Corps of the G. A, r.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

Missouri is making progress. Slade and
Mitchell have just left its confines for fear
OF permanent residence in the penitentia-
ry, and the Governor seems to be making a
sincere fight against the rum shops. Two
things are lacking yet, however, to make her
model community. One is the conviction
and confinement of Frank James, the des-
perado, and the other the defeat of the
Democrats at the polls.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

Ex-Gov. Sprague threatens to resort TO tho
shot gun to prevent the new president Of
the Quidneck Company from taking posses
sion of the company's property. Only few
months ago this man, who is thus ready to
resist with force the execution Of the de-
crees of regularly constituted courts, was
running as reform candidate for Governor
of his State.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

1t is announced that the Democratic CAM
paign in Ohio is to begin this week in earn
est. This means, we suppose, the Demo-
cratic campaign against the Republicans.
To make the campaign amongst the Demo-
Gratis more in earnest than it has been since
Hoadly was nominated would require the
introduction of the shot gun,
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
WHAT THE MEDICAL PRESS SAY


of the Free Hospital far Women and In
fants supported by the Murdoch Liquid
Food Company, Ro.ton.
lFrsm the Ne'o England Medical Monthly, July 10
"a hospital containing over seventy beds has re-
Gently BEEN started In Boston by the Murdoch Lid
uid Food Co. This is noble charity, and ons that
reflects great credit upon its projectors. If the sue
ces OF this institution is great the food they
make is valuable, we predict for it magnificent
detetic preparations In the world. We speak from
long and extended experience in our practice and
in our own family II it could only be made to taste
little better 1t would be perfect"
[From London Health, July 81, 1881
Household Necessities ssMurdock's LIQUID
Food" may be specially mentioned. This extract
has attained a high reputation in America, and
from knowledge of its use in the wasting diseases
especially Of children we are prepared to say that
1t has hardly an equal in respect of its speedy di
geston and strength In general debility this Food
disease under their care should give this Food
trial.
lFrom our Hospital Reports.l
miss X. has for many years been suffering bad
from chronic loss of voice. and growing year.
ly, caused by scrofula sores, general debility,
yous prostration and severe nervous Affection Of the
heart and was so reduced last May that her life was
despared of and her physician could give no relief
thinking she must leave us her father and moth
er had several years ago. as she inherited their dis
eases. With six weeks treatment she was able to
return home feeling confident that she would re-
cover her health by continuing the use of Liquid
Food
Ladies. read the JolIosoisg letter from a leading
physician in Boston ito whom refer) in rela-
ton to his own wife, who has always been q great
sufferer being unable to retain her food nourish
her children:
Boston, Ang. IL, 1882.
Gents-I am pleased to intern you that found
after trying all other prepare for years with no
avail, that my wife was able to retain your Liquid
Food and also able to psrtake of common food, ana
to enjoy herself in walking, riding and visiting as
often she desired all of which she was unable to
do with our first two children and we were Obliged
to bring them up by hand.
With our third child he relieved of all these
troubles, and has nourished 1t with no trouble or
sickness to herself or child by taking your Liquid
Food which she will continue doing until tho child
is year old.
4 is with pleasure that advise you Of what great
benefit your Liquid Food can be to ladies that can
not retain their food noursh their babes, as the
liability from cholera infantum is 200 20 300 per
cent. greater when babes are brought up by hani.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

The Count de Paris was sensible enough
to forego his claim of precedence at the fu-
neral of the Count de Chambord, and to a.
low the wishes of the widow, who was
averse to allowing her husbands funeral TO
be turned into monarchical demonstra-
ton, to prevail.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

DR.. Green has for the most part proved
pretty glib witness, but the watering of
Western Union stock was q subject which
even he did not care to talk about.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
II II e Pr II 9 9
WEDNESDAY MORNING. sEP. 5.

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all eases indispensable not necessarily for publica
ton but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
muRieations that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF REPAIRS.
U. s. MARINE HOSPITAL. Portland. Me-

UFFItE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF REPAIRS,
U. S. MARINE HOSPITAL Portland, Me.
August 81, 1883.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the
- undersigned, at this Office, until IL O'Clock on
Tuesday, September 18th, 1888. fdf supplying the
labor and materials required In the Repsirs etc. to
the . 5. Marine Hospital bulldogs at this port,
ing work etc. Separate bids must be made for the
different classes of work required
Specifications and all information relating to the
work can be obtained on application to Marine
Hospital Office, at the Custom House in this city or
at the building
The right to reject any all bids Is reserved.
sep1d3t r. L. FOGG, Supt OF Repairs
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

There are signs that the Democratic press
is beginning to hedge on Ohio. The New
York Sun argues that the result In that
State will have no significance as regards
the Presidential contest Of next year.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

bars on Sundays, and no guest can be fur
nished liquors in his room. The law simply
allows the supplying of liquors al two prin-
cipal meals of the day, and then only in the
dining room.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

An effort is to be made to keep Butler out
of the Massachusetts Democratic convention
for fear that he will "slop over;' but he has
made so many ''sIop overs" the past year
that one more will hardly be noticed.
ysttU give the cold man chance" to IRE
Il speech to please the "boys."
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
THIS WEEK
NOTICE.

w. D. AMES has bought the exclusive right of
w the Eureka Lamp Stove, for Cumberland and
York Counties Anyone canvassiug In said Coun-
ties.for the Eureka Lamp stove not authorized by
me will be prosecuted. Agents wanted.
W. d. AMES,
2eMnrkst Square, Portland, Maine
ju2 3pdtf
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

Frank James is to suffer some punish
ment, even if the jury does not convict him.
The lawyers are to talk ten hours apiece.
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
TO CLEANSE THE BLOOD


OF Scrofulous, Inherited and Contagious Humors.
and thus remove the most prolific cause of human
saherng. to clear the Skin of Dishguring Blotches,
ltching Tortures, Humilating Eruptiops and Loath-
SEINE Sores caused by Inherited Scrofuls 10 purify
and bssutiy the Skin. and restore the Hair 30 that
no trace Of dieease remain. CUTIoURA RrsoLvEST,
the now Blood Purifier, and CUTIcURA and CUTI-
CURA SOAR, the great skin Cures and Beautifiers.
are isfalible They are the only remedies that sue
coed when physicians and all other means fail
Pyfce Of CuTIoURA, small boxes, &c.,; large
boxes. 81. CurIcURA kEsoLvnNT ST per bottle.
CuTIcUkA SOAP, Zoe. CUTTcURA SHAVING SOAP,
15c Sold by ali druggists.
Peter Drug unA Chemfc.l Co., Beston.
2 sanfsrds, Radical Cure
A For the Immediate Relief of
Nv yand Permanent Cure every
form Of Casarrh from a sim
pie Head Cold or Influenza to
the loss of Smell, Taste and
Hearing, Cough, Bronchitis,
and Catarrhal CONSUMPTION. Complete Treat
menl with Inh aier. 81, at ali dru gg lists.
auR29WS&w2w36
The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05

and Catarrhal Consul
ment with Inh aier
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The Portland daily press., 1883-09-05
TO SUFFERING HUMANITY.

Is there In that VIII clean the skin
the eIicateco
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-14
Boston at the BEGINNING Of Her Intel
lecinnl EnOch.

In the quickening of thought nnd the
refinement Of manners that set in, the
smalIncss and compactness OF Boston
were advantages. 1t was little city a
city of gardens and solid brick houses
and stores cheerful, quiet, unsophisti'
Gated; with a fringe of wharyes along
the bay that supplied the picturesque
additions of a successful seaport, and
surrounded by villages smaller than it
self, of which Cambridge was an impor-
tant, but rather remote, one. Two the
aters were the most that it could sustain
in the line of public amusement, while
fashionable life conferred upon dancing
hall, imitatively called Almack's, where
strictly-limited assemblies were held.
Within stones throw of each other
we're the houses of Daniel Webster, Ed
ward Everett, Robert @. Winthrop
George Bancroft and Rufus Choatc, on
ground now loaded with merchandise,
whence the occupants, by taking a few
steps, could issue forth upon their ma
tive or adopted heath Of the Common,
under the shade of the great elm. There
still fingers on Beacon street the fine old
house Of Harrison Gray Otis, smooth,
faced and mellow, deep-roomed, and
suffused with asober ripeness Of respect
ability, which, with that of George
Ticknor at the head Of Park street, re
calls well the staid aspect OF this o.
Boston. In such place impression
spread rapidly; theories were infec
tious; phrenology, Unitarianism, veg
etarianism, emancipation, TRANSCEND
entalism, worked their way from stree
to street liks an epidemic. A ne
course ofstudy or a new thought was
exciting as news of European WI
could have been. A lady remembe
meeting another on fremont street du
ing the full glow of tho Emerson lectul
epoch, and cxclaiming, ooh, there's
new idea Have you heard it?"
"Don't talk to me OF ideas, re."rtt
her friend "Im so full OF them no
that I can't make room fora single no
one -Haper's Magosfne.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-14

The bones Of John Howard Payne,
which have lain in his far away grave at
Tunis for more than thirty years, were
taken up the 9th of January and sent to
this country Tor reburial. John Worth
ington, our Consul at Malta, who was
the only American present at the open
ing of the grave, writes an account of it
to the Chief Clerk Of the State Depart
ment. A little company of twenty per-
sons, among them two who attended
Payne's funeral, gathered around the
grave at noon, aud the coffin, which was
badly decayed, was soon laid bare and
lifted out. Little was left within it,
save the blackened skeleton, few but
tons aud some gold lace that had orna-
mented the Colonel's uniform in which
Payne was buried. These remains,
placed in q lead casket inclosed in a
hard wood box, rested over night in the
little Protestant church, where simple
service was held, and Payne's once ia
nous song, which has lived because i
appealed to universal sentiment, wa
yung