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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05

A meeting of newspaper correspondents in
Washington held yesterday denounced
Speaker Kefer for refusing to afford them the
right secured to them by rule OF tne a use
in regard to the admission of their fam lis to
the gal cry of the House and the insulting
In which the refusal was expressed,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
New York stock and Money Market.

(By Telegraph)
NEW YORK, Mch. 3.-Money on call closed at 4a
per cent: prime mercantile paper 6G6la. Ex-
change quiet and steady 4.51@4 S11s for long and
Asa for short.
The following are today's closing quotations OF
Government Securities:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05

The Brooklyn Union has passed into the
ma ds OF the Young Republicans Of that city
an will De managed by Mr.. Ford, late OF the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
RAILWAY NOTES.
Railway Enterprise in Maine.

1t is reported that narrow gauge railroad
from Bangor to Milo, forty miles in &
northwesterly direction, Is contemplated By
party Of capitalists and constructors. The road
would be two feet gauge and pass through Six
Mile Falls, Kenduskeag, Corinth, Charleston
and Atkinson. and connect at Milo Junction
with railway to Katahdin Iron Works. The
road would cost but about S50O0'a mile.
James Gordon, who was one of the contrac-
tors for building the European and North
American Railway, has q 100000 contract
from the International Railway on Lake Me-
gantic, and has az the present time 300 men
and 80 horses at work, and about one-third OF
this force is at work In Maine. 1t is expected
that about 20 miles of that part of the road In
Maine will be graded this year, and that the
road will be completed to It's connection with
the European and North American Division
OF the Maine Central in 1885.
That Eastern Lease.
The revival of reports concerning the leasing
OF the Eastern to the Boston and Maine is at
tracing considerable attention In New Hamp-
shire. The Portsmouth Chronicle says: "The
question occurs, then. are the people of New
Hampshire ready to have their representatives
in the Legislature legalize monopoly, which
once brought into existence, may last for all
time. and cause the manufacturing interests Of
the town and cities along the line of these
roads to be as helpless as those in regions
where Vanderbilt or Gould rules supreme?
This is subject which comes home to all busi-
ness men, Boards of Trade and manufacturers,
as we'll as shippers and receivers of freight be-
tween st. John and Boston, and the responsi-
bility seems likely to rest upon the representa-
tives IN the Legislature from the territory en-
N ri ~otl
which the Boston and Maine Road runs In
New Hampshire between the State lines of
Massachusetts, and Maine.
Grand Trunk.
1t is officially announced that the accounts
of the Grand Trunk railway for the period be-
tween Aug. IL and Dec. 81 show balance suf-
hcient to pay full interest on the first and
second preference stocks, and 3 1-2 per cent on
the third preference. This represents a divi-
dend OF 3 Ia per cent on Great Western ordi-
nary stock.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05

Stock Market.

The following quotations of stocks are reported
and corrected daily by Woodbury. & Moulton (mem-
bers of the Boston Stock Exchanged corner OF Mid
die and Exchange streets.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

AUGUSTA, March 3.
The resolve referring to the Governor and
Council matters in reference to the cost and
methods OF repairing the State House was re-
committed.
A bill was reported for the taxation of in
surance companies.
Legislation inexpedient was reported ON an
order relating to certain portions of the capital
stock of companies.
A statement was received from the Commit
tee on Revision of the Statutes that they were
working as rapidly as possible in incorporating
the legislation of the present winter into the
Revised Statutes, and it could be done without
much delay to the Legislature as regards ad-
iournment.
The following were passed to be engrossed:
Resolve to authorize the county of Knox TO
procure loan.
A bill to amend chapter IS of the Revised
Statutes relating to abolishing juries in road
cases.
resolve establishing the valuation of
Presque Isle.
A bill to incorporate the Bethel and Umba-
cog Telegraph and Telephone Company.
Resolve to apportion the State for Senator's
Bill relative 10 the forecl sure of mortgages.
The Senate adjourned to II a. m. Tuesday
HOUSE.
Legislation inexpedient was reported on an
order relating to more uniform examination
of teachers for public schools
A bill relative to foreclosure of mortgages, a
bill incorporating the Aroostook Improvement
company and bill to amend the insolven
laws we're passed to be eDgrossed.
The House adjourned to Monday at eleven
o'clock.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
European Markets.

(By Telegraph)
LIVERPOOL, Meh 9-12So P.M.-Sotton markst
o,OUO bales speculation ard expert 1890 sssss, f-e
lures steady.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
DRY Goods ~ao,e-ase Market.

The following quotations are wholesale prices and
corrected daily by StoTer Bros. q Co.. Dry Goods,
Woolens and Fancy Goods, 144 to 162 Middle street:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
FISTULA AND PILES

Cured without the Use of the Knife.
WILLIAM READ on. D., Harvard, 1842), and
ROBERT NJ. READ IN. D., Harvard. 1870, A.
to the treatment of FssTUEA FILES AND
ALL DssEA~ES OF THE REGTUM,
without detention from bus ess. A" "undant refer
ences gi en-. Pamphlets sent on application.
Office Hours-12 to 4 O'Clock, P NJ. except Sun
days). feblOd1yr
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-05
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portland Daily Wholesale uarker

Portland Daily Wholesale uaFkeE.
PORTLAND, Meh. 3.
There is no change to note in the market here for
food staples but trade is generally very quiet and
prices firm. AT Chicago to day Wheat was quoted
att osss for March. 1 o91s for April and 141s
Ior May; at the same market Corn was selling at
oI3.e for March, 5s1485ssse for April and 6214
oz7se Tor May with Oats at 42ssc for March ana
fork 10 II4s for March and Lard II 323s March,
while at st Louis, Wheat was higher at 1 12 bid
casn and March with Corn higher at 64Hs cash and
BID for March.
Tie following are to-dAy's quotatl ms Of glour.
Grai1. Provisions &c.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Thomas McElrath, Horace Greeley's
FIRST partner in the publication of the
Tribune, is said TO be writing a history
of New York journalism.
The sixteen daughters of Mary
land ex-COngressman have the repvta-
ton of being the handsomest ladies ~
the State. One of them-the first Of
sixteen-was married recently.
Mr. r. V. Gurney claims that he
and Mr.. Charles I'll. Mckenzie, both of
New York City, are the only known
survivors in this country of the gallant
six hundred who made the charge at
Balaklaya, October %, 1854.-M Y.
Sun.
johnson c. Whitaker, the colored
cadet who acquired notoriety three years
ago in connection with a charge of hav-
ing mutilated his ears while at West
Point, is now filling Professors chair
in the Avery institute, at Charleston, S.
C.-ChicdgO Journal.
Rev. f. f. Hale, of Boston, was
sailing down the harbor on his way to
Europe, to attend his sick daughter,
when cable dispatch was received an
nouncing that she was better. The
good news could not be communicated
to him.-BoSton Transcript.
The late Charles w. Foster is said
to have been completely absorbed for a
dozen years past in the political fortunes
of his son, the Governor of Ohio. His
ruling passion had been to see him made
Chief Executive of the Nation, and he
was often heard to say: Gould l but
see Charles President | would die
happy. - GeUeland Ledder.
Senator Morrill, recently celebrated
his seventy-third birthday. He is hale
and hearty yet, but it is probable that
he will expect to retire after the expira-
ton of his present term in 1885, which
will make for him term of thirty years
service as a member of Congress
twelve years in the House and eighteen
in the Senate. Boston Herald.
In his new volume on American
topics Mr.. Freeman, the historian,
makes the following observation on an
cient wooden churches that came in his
way while he was here: II have seen
old-fashioned wooden churches in Amer
lea for whose details of course there was
nothing to say, but whose general eff
feet was good deal more venerable
than that of an ancient English church
on which a modern architect has been
let loose to play his tricks" On the
whole, it lis thought in England that Mr..
Freeman enjoyed his American tour
n. Y. Herald.
John b. McMaster, author of the
new History of the People of the
United States,' was born at Brooklyn,
l.. l., June 30, 1852. His grandfather
was Robert Bach. a prominent Brook
lyn merchant in the days when that city
numbered 5000 souls. His father was
James McMaster, native of New York
State, and, till the war opened, bank
er and planter at New Orleans. Mr..
McMaster earl y years were spent in
New York. Here he was educated in
the public schools, and graduated from
the College of the City of New York in
1S72.-N. Y. Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
Temperance Items.

A MAN offered $4,000 for a license to
sell liquors at wholesale in Westtield,
Mass, for five years, but the authorities
refused.
A LIQUOR DEALER in a Massachusetts
town received a postal-card reading:
please attend the funeral of man you
have been ten years in killing,
A TEMPERANCE SERMON comes from a
pawnbroker's shop in Pittsburgh. The
pawnbroker has found that ninety-nine
per cent. of the money he lends is spent
for strong drink.
ATAvERN-KEEPER in Schuylkill Coun-
ty, Pa, is said to have died of grief be-
cause of failure to secure license to
sell liquor. Many men have died be-
cause licenses were granted, and it is
time the rule should work the other
way Indianapolis Journal.
DICK SAVAGE, the rough who was fa-
tally shot by an Adams (Mass.) saloon
keeper, called his son to his bedside be-
fore his death yesterday and gave this
parting advice: Never go into a sa-
loon, and if you do go in never get
drunk. You can see what saloon has
done for me" Troy (N - Times
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31

came out again soon after at the ROYAL
Astronomical Society in London. One
of the party, too, produced an absurd
child's toy, hoping to make his oppo-
nents look ridiculous. For he had
therein set up doll dressed as mill
tary general in the center, and put
figure of a soldier, with his face to the
general, on the end of lath revolving
around that center; when, of course,
the soldier kept his face obediently
toward his chief during the whole
of q revolution around him. And
then said party showed that the
soldier, having been firmly fixed by two
nails to the lath, could not possibly have
turned on an axis at all. mo, not with
regard to the lath," said a Cambridge
man; "but as you continue to revolve
him by means of the lath, he rotates
round my finger" as he held that down
over the little soldiers head from above
and from outside all the doll machinery;
or as from a region representing infinite
space, where directions, as of the car
dinal points, are everything.
In other words, if one celestial body
revolves round another, keeping the
same lace always TO II, the former must
change its faces at the same time with
respect to circumambient outside space;
and in such space, which is astronomi-
cal space, a body rotates on an axis
when it changes its surface directions
continually towards any fixed point in
such outside and infinitely removed cir
cumference; equally, too, whether the
said body be in general movement
through space or not-that is revolving
round another or not. Whence we may
draw the happy final conclusion for the
rising and learning generation that all
the known textbooks on astronomy by
astronomers in every country are per-
fectly correct when they state, in spite
of logicians of the school of Simplicius,
that the moon rotates on its axis once
in each of its revolutions round the
earth.-Prof Razzt Smyth, IN Cham
bers' Jour1lal.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
What Canon Farrar Demands.

Now, drink corrodes the heart of
Nation and the sons of any people,
and nothing can make them strong
except temperance, soberness and chas-
tity. We, therefore, shall not join in
any wall which has been raised by the
friends of the liquor traffic about the
diminution of the revenue, but, on the
contrary, we shall go on more and more
pressing upon the Legislature what are
our just demands. We shall try and
make them listen to what we require.
Why, ladies and gentlemen, if we only
succeed in getting what Scotland has
had long ago, what Ireland has now got,
what Wales has now got, what York
shire, and Northumberland, and Corn
wall are now demanding we get only
that, we shall at least have got some
thing worth having. But we want to
get, for instance, Sunday closing. With
our Sunday closing we want to get
five or eight mile, or, as in some of
our Australian colonies, ten-mile
limit, to prevent the abuse of the closed
public-house by that curious and
unreal sort of publican's ghost, that
bogus individual-the bona fide travel
er. Then we want to prevent passenger
vessels being made into floating gin
palaces. Then we want to prevent,
to prohibit altogether, the payment of
wages in public houses. Then we want
to prevent altogether the great and
perilous abuse which is often made of
public houses at times of election. Then
we want to have society protected from
the pauperism and the vice of drunken
ness. Then we want all those who are
habitual and notorious drunkards to be
in some way checked, or at any rate
prevented from buying iquor-which
is also rule in some of our colonies.
Then we want the closing of public
houses at ten o'clock in the evening,
and, if possible, at two O'Clock on
Saturdays. have not done yet. We
want to have individual members of
Parliament prevented from blocking
bills which are demanded by the voice
of the country, and which are re-
quired by the happiness of hundreds
and thousands of people; and then, be-
sides all that, we want veto, protected
by scheduled voting papers, by which
we shall be enabled to veto all new
public houses, to diminish to any extent
we like the existing number of public
houses, and if in any district it is the
strong wish of such district to put an
end in their limits to the liquor traffic
altogether, we want to have for them
also the vote which will enable them to
do it. The reason that we want this is
because we do not wish to see thrust
upon people, to their misery and demor-
alization, without their consent and
against their will, any number of public
houses. We want these things and de-
mand them all in the name of justice, in
the name of freedom, in the name of
morality, and in the name of religion.
We want, and we have right to have
all these. and / think l may say in your
name that sooner or later we mean to
get them.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
The Drinking Habit in England.

IL is an interesting fact that the En-
glish revenue accounts for 1928 show
a remarkable decline in the cohsump-
ton of intoxicating drinks during the
last half dozen years, the duties from
wine and spirits being sixteen per cent.
less than they were in the fiscal years
of 1855, and this, Notwithstanding an
increase of eight per cent. in pOpula-
ton. In other words, the wine and
spirit duty seven years ago amounted
to E23,OOO,OO0. If the same rate of
consumption had been preserved, with
the eight per cent. increase OF popula-
tion, the duty last year would have
amounted to f24, 100000. But, rs a
matter of fact, it amounted to only
f19,80O,000, a decline of f5,000.00O.
which can only be accounted for on the
presumption that the people drink so
much less of the intoxicating fluid.
That this state of things was not anti
cipated by the statesmen and politicians
indeed, that they looked for pre-
cisely opposite result-may be Judged
from an address of Sir Stafford North
cote in presenting the English budget
of 1874:
81 will refer" he says, "as one
main source of possible addition to the
revenue, to the vast increase in the con-
sumption of spirits. 1t may be said
that the time may come when check
will come; but ! ask under what cir
cumstances would it be expected that
the consumption of spirits in this coun-
try would fall off so seriously as to in
jure the revenue therefrom? 1t must be
either from some general failure of the
consuming power of the people-the
will remaining as it is-or from some
great change in the habits of the
people"
What Sir Stafford Northcote regarded
as incredible in 1874 has actually come
to pass; and the revenues of the country
are already seriously injured by a change
in the drinking habit. That it is a
change of habit, and not merely a mat
ter of forced economy on the part of the
people, is partially indicated at least by
the fact that they pay f500,000 more
duty per annum on tea than they did
three years ago. AT the same time it is
not easy to supply an explanation for
the change itself. Something, no
doubt, may be ascribed to the effects of
the compulsory education system. the
results of which first began to show in
the adult population about seven years
ago, but more probably is due to the
leavening influence of the various re-
vivalistic movements which have been
prevailing in England during the last
ten years. 1t would be strange, indeed,
if the preaching of Moody and Sankey,
the work of the Blue Ribbon organiza-
tions, the devoted labors of some of the
Ritualstic clergy, and the enthusiastic
if ill-advised-e efforts of the Salvation
Army did not bear fruit in regenerated
lives and an improved state of the pub
lie morals. N Y Observer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
Temperance.
THE KNIGHT OF THE BOWL.

rat the last Liverpool Asszes man was
sentenced to penal servitude for life for hav-
ing, when lin drink" brutally ilLtreated his
body was covered with bruises, the effects of
blows, and i'm several places the flesh was
SCARED and roasted, where the prisoner had
held live Goals thereto.l
The publican sat in his parlor so snug.
by his bottles and glasses surrounded;
Close beside him his pipe, as also mug
OF the liquor that always abounded:
happy old fellow, jovial soul,
Was this hero of mine, the Knight of tho
Bowl.
His trade was so good, and his profits so sure,
That his mind quite content and at rest,
He soon fell asleep, and developed a snore,
Most unpleasant, well say, at its best.
But lucky old fellow, a fortunate soul,
Was this sleepy grog seller, the knight of the
Bowl.
Now how long he slept there really can't say,
But on this point I'm perfectly clear
He had long dream, saw vision that day
He'll remember for many year;
And a startled old fellow, n frightened old
Was this sleepy "mine host" the Knight of
the Bowl.
Now the vision he saw was a woman, once
fair,
Lying, struggling, so hard, for dear life
In a room with scant fire, little bedding, no
chair;
And this woman mother. a wife.
Snhine-1aced Ol0 1ellOW. indignant ola soul,
Was this once careless host, the Knight of the
Bowl.
Her assailant, his customer-one of his best!
Her husband-prOtectOr, so named!
Was kicking and beating his wife with such
Zest
That he left her blind, bleeding and MANNED.
Now a saddened old fellow, a wretched old
soul,
Was this dreaming innkeeper, the Knight of
the Bowl.
Unused to much thought, still he couldn't help
thinking
What a terrible curse to our town
Is this horrible trade, which encourages drink
ing,
While thousands to ruin go down.
But moneyed old fellow, wealthy old soul,
Was this fat, chubby host, the Knight of the
Bowl
Now the publican wakens, his dream at an end;
VIII the lesson be lasting? you say;
No. I'm sadly afraid that "the trade" he'll
defend,
And he'll sell as much liquor next day.
For selfish old fellow, a careless old soul,
Is this vile compound" seller, the Knight of
the Bowl.
English Exchange.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
HUMOROUS.

"A Misunderstanding ones head in
the negative.
Mot hang our murtherers. Be
iabers! l should like to see the spalpeen
that murthered me hung twice. ."-Judy.
In the good old times the girls could
change color in a moment, and very
sweet it was, too. Nowadays it takes
them half an hour-and longer, for all
we know.
Jaw, hev such dwedful cawld in
me head" remarked an Ivy street dude,
as he stroked the tender tip of his nose
yesterday. Better that than nothing"
was the witty but cruel response OF a
Peachtree maiden who heard him.
Boston Post.
Castle Garden aristocracy: They
were boasting about ancestry. MY
forefathers," said John, "came over
from England on the Mayfower.
And my ancestry said Pat, kim
over from QuanestOwn on the Suntlow-
er. It's aesthetic, am, begorra. N
Y. Journal.
An old colored preacher in Allan
ia, Ga, was lecturing "a youth of his
fold about the sin of dancing, when the
latter protested that the Bible plainly
said: ''There is time to dance" ''Yes,
dar am time to dance" said the dark
divine, ''an' it's when boy gifts whip
pin for goin' to a ball"
Customer (to grocer: "How much
are these eggs dozenP" ''Dwenty-tive
cents, replied the grocer. "Why, how's S
that; Jones sells them at twenty cents. "
.'Und Wy don't you py ovJ Jones, dennP'
Because he hasn't any this morn
ing" well, will sell dem for Owen
ty cents, too, venn l don't got any. y
n. Y. NetoS.
Language. "What does
Il beg your pardon mean?' Aunt: lit
is form of apology, my dear. For in
stance, if l were to knock up against
you by mistake, should apologize by
saying: L beg your pardon Tom
my: 'Oh, mother wouldn't say that!
She'd say: Get out, yer young war
mint, or I'll fetch We sich slap o. the
head yer own father won't know We from
twopenny bus. Judy.
81 un' erstands dat yer wants ter
hire a gentleman to clean out yer
well! Salu ntSrO 10 an AThdnSdS
Colonel. mo, only want man to
clean out the well. ''Wall, de man what
tole me must hab made mistake.
Would like mighty well ter git job,
case dar amt nuthin' in der house ter
eat. Certain yer doan want gentle
man, is yer?" ''No. The work want
done requires a man." ''Wall, good
day, boss, sorry dat we can't make a
trade. ."-Arkansaso TraUeler.
Mrs Rabbit was talking about the
loss of life at the late fat-house fire. 81
think" said she, ''every one ought to
keep a rope in his sleeping-room, with
which TO make his escape in case the
flames cut off the stairway" "And i'm
what way would you, for instance, "
asked Pensill, .'supposing you were
hemmed in your bedroom by fire, make
use of the roper" What a silly ques-
toni" replied Mrs. Rabbit, with mild
giggle. ''Why, I'd tie one end to the
beadstead and the other around my
waist, and jump out of the window, Of
course. ~ Harper's Bazar.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
MIR. Nye on Current Topics.

Mr.. Edgar Nye, more widely and
familiarly known as .Bill Nye," of the
Laramie Boomerang, is spending the
week with relatives in Englewood. A
representative of the Inter Ocean paid a
visit to Mr.. Nye last evening, and found
him engaged in game of whist with
his cousins.
II should like to interview you, Mr..
Nye," said the reporter.
The funny man of the Boomerang
pulled his long blonde mustache gently
and tenderly, curled one of its ends up
around his nose, and remarked, with a
quiet gleam in his hazel eye: I'm
sorry ] didn't know you were coming.
I should have had my teeth filed, and
would have written you out an inter-
view, Questions and all correct"