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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-10

North Troy.
Peter Trudell has moved into the
house with his father.
C. P. Stevens & Co., have finished
the house on the new road.
j. S. Woodward has been doing
considerable repairing on his house.
Fred Miller is sick with typhoid
fever.-C. R. Wiley is Threatened
with fever.
The many friends of A. Gustin
will be pleased to learn that he is i'm
proving IN health.
Charles Gamblers broken leg has
SO much improved that he is able to
be out of doors on crutches.
WestmOre.
Mrs. Warren Pierce has recently
knit pair of stockings from wool
that was clipped in June 1888.
Frank Cleveland has his mill near
ly finished and is waiting for the ma
chinery; he expects to commence
running soon.
Rufus Averill has engaged to work
for Yields, Richardson & Co., of
Burlington, the coming winter; he
expects to go to Iowa.
There is some talk of a telephone
between this place and Barton Land
ing, If the people of East Browning
ton and Evansville are disposed to
engage in the enterprise we may soon
be within speaking distance of the
| railroad.
The village school closed Saturday,
Nov. 1st. 1t was taught by Miss
Josie Averill and was success the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
A Deserted City.

1t is not often that an American town Is
doomed to defamation, but Virginia City.
Nevada, affords one instance, at least. Eight
years ago Virginia City and Gold Hill, adjoin .
ing each other and practically one town, had
$4,000 population. 1t was the largest COM
munity between Denver and San Francisco.
There were merchants doing business with
million capital. There were private
houses that cost 100000 to build and fur
nish. There were stamp mills and mining
structures that cost $500,000 each. There
were three daily newspapers, and hotel
that cost 100000. 1t was teeming, busy
and money ey-making population, and among
the people were score or more men worth
from $500, 900 to $40, ,O00, 600. Mackey and
Fair both lived there. There were three
banks, gas company, water company, q
splendid theatre and costly court house.
Eight years have passed and the town is
wreck. The 35, 900 people have dwindled to
5000. The banks have retired from busi-
ness. The merchants have closed up and
left; the hotel is abandoned; the gas COM
pany is bankrupt, and scores of costly resi-
dences have been taken to pieces and moved
away or given over to bats. Real estate
cannot be given away for taxes. Nothing
can be sold that will cost its worth to move
away. The rich men have all gone. Those
who remain are the miners, their superin-
tendents. and the salooon men and gam
blers. The latter are usually the first to
come to mining town and the last to leave.
The cause of this decadence, which has
swallowed up millions of capital and wrecked
the worldly ambition of thousands of per-
sons, is the failure of the Comstock mines
to turn out additional wealth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
A Monster Engine.

There is mammoth locomotive In proc
ess of construction at the Central Pacific
shops at Sacramento. The name is Ell Cob
ernador. The total length of the engine and
tender is 65 feet and s inches; driving-wheel
base 10 feet and inches; five pairs of driv-
ers feet and inches in diameter, with
four-wheel truck in front; water capacity of
tender, 5000 gallons; cylinders p inches in
diameter, with 96-inch stroke; total weight
of engine, 70 tons; weight of drivers, GA tons !;
weight of tender (light), 50,650 pounds; to-
tai weight of engine and tender llight) 96
tons and $50 pounds. There are two six
wheel trucks under the tender, making a
total of twenty-six wheels under the engine
aud tender. The valve gearing, designed by
A. ]. Stevens, is something entirely new,
there being nothing like it in the country. It
is said to be the largest engine in the world.
1t is for use on the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains, and it is expected to do more work
than two of the engines now used, with less
consumption of fuel. The heaviest engine
now in use on the Central Pacific Railroad
has hauled nineteen cars, loaded, up 49,
foot grade. Its dimensions are: Weight of
tender (light), 60, 900 pounds; weight of en-
gine, 123, 900 pounds; water capacity of ten
der, 5000 gallons. 1t has eight drivers of 4
feet s inches each; driylng-wheel base, 10
feet 8 inches; total wheel base, So feet II
inches. Some of the old railroad men have
doubts about the success of such a monster,
and entertain the idea that the weight of the
engine will spread the track and crush the
metal into the ties.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Business as she Different Seaporrs Some
Suggestive Statistics.


WARRINGTON, Jan. 4.-From tables prepared
at the Treasury Department the changes in the
amount OF foreign commerce done at our diff
erent seaports can be clearly seen. Some strik-
Ing Illustrations are seen by comparing the
tg1res ge for the years ending June 80, 1880 and
1868, as our commerce these years was nearly
the same, amounting in 1880 to ST. ,503, ,593, ,404.
and in 1888 to 81, ,547 ,020, ,3l6. In both wears
New York was first, Boston second, and New
Orleans third, but the two former excelled in
their imports. and New Orleans in exports In
1880 New York did 56.7 per cent of all our
foreign commerce, but in 1883 fell off to 554
per cent, while Boston increased at the same
time from ID to 81 per cent, or in other
words. from 127 to nearly 1856 millions. Al
though making an absolute increase, Balti-
more fsil from fourth to sixth place., changing
with San Francisco. Charleston, s. c., and
Wilmington each gained point, Calves
ton two, while mobile shot down from the
twelfth to twenty-fourth position. OF the lake
ports, Oswego is thirteenth, Buffalo fifteenth,
and Chicago twentieth in the amount of
foreign commerce down. The tendency is to
concentrate it in few large ports capable of
floating large vessels, and then distributing by
railroads.
Nine-tenths Of our exports 90 from eleven
ports, and eleven-twelfths of our imports are
brought in at eight. Thus the Southern ports
snow y large preponderance of exports raw
materials chiefly, while the Northern custom
houses show the volume of imports. New Or
,,0enc' 1oiSlAiohS, 0slNestou, SAVANNAH, Ouar-
lesion, Norfolk, Wilmington, Richmond, Mo-
DIE, PENSACOLA, Brunswick and Yorktown ex-
ported merchandise valued at more than $685.
00O,OO0 Their imports were less than $29 00o-
600. On the other hand, New York, Boston,
Oswego, Burlington, Niagara, Ogdensburg,
New Haven, Bangor. Providence and Glouces-
ter show an excess Of imports amounting to
over $171, 100000.
Outside of Boston the commerce of New
England IN 1883 was about the same as in $780,
amounting last year to $10,471 ,213, and in 1880
to $40, III, ,416. OF this more than half is at
aud Eastport. In the three years New Haven,
Providence, New London and New Bedford
show large falling off, while Bangor has in
creased nearly eightfold. Gloucester, Bath,
Salem and Newport made large gains. These
changes are shown in the following table:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
SUBURBAN NOTES.
Ferry VILLAGE.


Thursday evening Ocean View Command
cry, No. 233, of the Golden Gross, elected the
following officers for the ensuing term:
Noble Commander-George f. Henley.
Vice Noble Commander-Mrs George w.
Orne.
Worthy Prelate-Silas w. Pierce,
Noble Keeper of Records-Mr5. Hattie NJ.
Richards.
Financial Keeper of Records-Albers A.
Cole.
Treasurer-W William T. Studley.
Worthy Herald-Edward L. Harmon.
Warder of the Inner Gate-Mrs. Mary 8.
Robinson.
Warder of the Outer Gate-Augustus P.
Richards.
Trustees for One Year-Michael s. Small,
Silas W. Pierce, Augustus P. Richards.
Delegate to the Grand Commandery-Cha
A. Tilton.
The Ferry Village Band rendered a,serenade
to Mr.. and Mrs. Upton Thursday evening.
Yarmouth.
Hutchins, Stubs & Co. have contracted to
build for James Boutwell, g. Co. OF Boston,
Mass, a frst-cass cent.s-board schooner Of
about 400 tons burden, to be off in June Capt.
Oliver @. Lumbard Of Georgetown is to COM
mand her. A.
Yesterday morning, about o'clock, it was
discovered that the depot Of the Portland and
Rochester road at Gorham had been broken
into during the night, the safe blown open,
and the contents taken. 1t appeared that
window had been pried open with crow-bar,
which had been stolen from the company's
yard, by which the burglars entered the sta
ton. They then proceeded to bore hole in
the safe, which they filed with powder, at
tached long fuse, and blew the door of.
The contents or the safe, said s6ah have been
some 5000, were taken. The burglary left
their tools behind them. There is no clue to
them but they evidently were posted as to the
fact that the first of the month the station
agent. Mr.. Rolfe, makes his return of receipts
to the company. The evening previous gem
tlemen saw two rough looking fellows about
the station.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
GENERAL NEWS.

James L. Rollins and A. j. Rogers, conduc-
tors on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Will
liam b. Petit, Pullman car conductor, were
arrested in Philadelphia yesterday on charges
of embezzing tickets and money.
The New York broker of Spery & Barnes,
New Haven pork packers, said yesterday that
the loss of that firm by the absconding of their
exchange clerk, e. Fl. Kobbe, would not ex-
ceed $1,000.
Thursday night the storehouse OF II. Trick
at Oakdale, Tenn, was blown up by kegs of
giant powder
Mrs. Mary Carver, in whose house at Lake.
vile, Mass, Patrick J. Cartln was found
dead last Monday, while being taken to Jail
confessed that during drunken alteration
between Cartlin and Charles b. Staples at
her house, last Sunday, the latter felled the
former with a slung shot and he died three
hours later. Mrs. Carver's husband had no
completely in the act. All of the parties con-
cerned are in Jail.
Mr. W O. Grover of Boston, who had before
given $1,000 TO Roanoke College at Salem, Va,
recently sent his check for $4,000 to be applied
10 the endowment of that institution. Roauoke
College has received considerable assistance
during the past six years from Boston and 9TH
or northern cities
The whole number of deaths in the city OF
Providence, r. l., in 1883 was 1928.
The Irish societies of Boston last night voted
10 celebrate ST. Patrick's Day by parade,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
PRICE TKREE sAENTAN

was much needed by the pe6pl& @psei&by9y
the people Of cities. Wsl& 3rkRiHx
has been introduced at gfeate Sroublf3
and expenses, and In spite OF no littie> pessf5e
effort justifed2 Yes, think SO. And the ekssA
suits satisfactory? No, not yet. And why?
Because industrial education through drawing
alone is work only half done. The other half,
modelling, carving, anything having in it the
constructive element, has hitherto been want
ing. Delineation and construction are two
parts of one whole; neither has full education
al value without the other As work in the
chemical laboratory is needed really to posseaa
ones self Of the chemical knowledge which 10
only symbolized in the formulas OF the book,so
work at modelling and construction Is needed
to give precision and endurance to that knowl-
edge of forms which drawings merely SYM
bolize.
There is a lesson to be learned on this point
from certain schools OF design established
some years ago In England. The schools are
said to have failed because they did not teach
their pupils to work out in material and fabric
the designs they had made on paper There
were at the same time some schools OF design
in France which fourished; and the reason
was that they taught their pupils not only to
make beautiful designs on paper, but also, and
quite as carefully, to work ont their designs in
the finished product The French industrial
artist does not think his work done until he
own hand "conformed the outward show OF
things to the desire of his mind" Hence his
success as an industrial art instructor
In many Of the polytechnic schools of conti-
mental Europe workshops were provided to
iamiliarize the students with the actual pro-
cesses of manufacture after experience had
proved that o mere drawing or modelling
school was not an adequate means OF forming
skillful manufacturing workmsn. Thus the
inference from varied experience seems to bo
that shopwork Of suitable kinds may be rec
commended as the needed complement to the
industrial instruction now given under the
name of drawing alone. AS in the kinder
garten construction comes frst, and it is the
necessary basis upon which drawing is taught,
and as in higher technical schools technical in
struction through drawing alone is found to be
nugatory, so in the elementary schools, gram
mar and primary, drawing needs to be associar
ted with the construction Of tangible objects Ia
order to fully realize the benefits desired
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
SPAIN AND THE UNITED
STATES.
New Commercial Agreement Between the
Two Countries.

LONDON, Jan. "A despatch from Madrid
says: SIT is announced that a commercial ar
rangement will shortly be concluded between
Spain and the United States, by which Spain
will agree to apply the so-called third column
tariff to imports from America into Cuba and
Porto Rico, which is tantamount to the sup
preston of flag and differential duties Spain
will agree also to abrogate the special duties on
live fish imported into Cuba in foreign bot
toms, and to suppress consul and tonnage du-
ties on vessels leaving the United States for
Cuba and Porto Rico. The United States will
abolish the 10 per cent. ad valorem duties on
imports from Cuba and Porto Rico under the
Spanish flag. Complete equality of treatment
will be established between Cuba and Porto
Rico on one hand and the United States on the
other. American custom house officials will
also furnish Spanish consuls with statistics re-
garding the quantity of sugar and tobacco i'm
ported from the Antilles. This arrangement
will come into force on March l, and will be a
prelude to complete treaty of commerce and
navigation between Spain and the United
States.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
BITTER COLD.
satd to be tine COldest Day ina tho West for
25 Xears-Twenty Cars of Live Stock
showed Under.


rs Years-Twenty Cars of Live Stock
showed Under.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-To-day has been the
coldest of the winter, the thermometer stand
ing IA degrees below zer at p. M; at Omaha
17o below; at Dubuque 26o below and at
Minneapolis 30o below at noon, the lowest in
20 years. All trains are greatly delayed.
Eleven miles southwest of the stock ards on
the Wabash road stands train of 20 cars of
live stock. This train was showed under
Tuesday night since which time the animals
have been without food or water. Although
several engines were sent down the train
could not be reached and the party returned.
Several of them we're badly frostbtten. 1t is
believed the stock have perished to-day.
LAcoNIA, N. H., Jan. 4.-Lske Winnie
crossed yesterday from Lake Village to Weleh
Islands.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. 4.-Steamer Wis
consn, which left here for Grand Haven,
Wednesday evening, failed to reach there, and
after terrible exposure for forty hours to a ter
rife gale and severe cold, made this port again
at noon to-day, covered with ice three inches
thick. Her captain says he never encountered
a like gale on the lakes. The thermometer at
o'clock this evening stood 23o below zero.
ST. PAUL, MINI, jan 4.-The GOODNESS of
the weather along the lines today is indicated
in the following figures On the Manitoba
the Northern Pacific, 42o to 800 below; from
st. Paul to Fargo ON the Dakota division, 40s
below; on the st. Paul and Duluth, $50 to 25o
below, the latter for Duluth; on the Omaha
line, eastern division, st. Paul, 800 below,
New Richmond 500 below; northern division,
400 to 800 below; St. Paul division, $50 to 22s
below; at Brainerd, Mimi, at noon, 320 below.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
FOREIGN.
The Pone Threnaened.

ROME, Jan. A. The Pope's secretary today
opened letter from America addressed to
cleo XII" containing Fenian threats against
the Pope should he continue to support Eng
land against the national cause in Ireland The
letter also states that the protection which the
Italian government gives the Pope, who is now
the only sovereign who is safe from dynamite,
will be OF no avail against the operations of
the Fenians. The Pope is warned that
there are priests whom he is bound to receive,
who win obtain access to his presence and who
will sustain the cause of the Irish against oppo-
sition-
A New Book by Queen Victoria.
LONDON, Jan. 4-The Athenaum announc-
es that new book has been written by Queen
Victoria, entitled 'More Leaves from Jour-
nal OF Life in the Highland from 1862 to
1882"
Bad Outlook for Spain.
A despatch fiom Paris correspondent says
it is doubtful whether King Alfonso, in event
OF the dissolution of the Cortes, could depend
for support upon the Spanish army. The cor
respondent concludes that the alternative will
pc soon presented between anarchy and 9pso-
lutism with probability that independence
and freedom will succumb.
Dehomg's Remains.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 4.-The bodies of De-
Long and companions of the Jeanette passed
through Tamsk yesterday. Wreaths were laid
down along the path OF the procession through
lno City. 1n6 Iuueral C0rb6g6 was met Dy
military band and escorted through the streets
and printed account of the loss of the jean
nette was distributed among the public.
A Decision Asked From England.
CAIRO. Jan. Egypt has sent letter to
the Government of Great Britain, poin ting
out that the present state of things cannot con-
tinue and asking that final decision shall be
given on the Soudan question. If England re-
fuses the assistance asked the Khedive and his
ministers have determined to abandon to Tur-
key, eastern Soudan and reduce the Egyptian
tribute to the Porte. Egyptian troops would
giving force of $1,000 men to protect the
frontier without the aid of the English army.
Sir Evelyn Barring thinks that 1900 men
would be sufficient for that service.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
Education in the Hen.Coop.
IUuOeSVAOH III O10 A1OA-O -OOOPs
How an Auburn Woman Trains Her Bid
dies.
ILewiston journal. !

A North Auburn woman has flock of
hens. They are plump, well-fed Brahmas.
The woman has taken unlimited pride in
them. Last summer she devoted herself to
teaching them a thing or two about conven-
ience in laying. Probably there is no
trouble so great in hens as nest-hiding.
Hunting eggs may be fun for boys, but not
for fat woman of $50 pounds ayoirdupois.
1t is work, and back-breaking work, too.
nest is not found in a jiffy. Approaching
the Importance of this, the lady keeps box
half filed with straw, in the kitchen.
When hen wants to lay she 1.-THE hen)
walks in dignifed manner up the steps
and clucks outside the window. The North
Auburn woman puts out the box; the hen
lays and clucks again, and the box is taken
in. They are all trained. No hen, as .
rule, goes back on the contract. The lady
finds a growing pride in her hens, and
thinks that spirit of rivalry has been
awakened among them as to who shall ini-
tiate the performance that is conducive TO
eggs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
THE DOMINION.
A Years RHorlali.y i'm tEonsrenl.

Aears Mortality INA Montreal.
Z MONTREAL, Jan. 4-There wers 3,766 deaths
in this city last year, an increase of 40, as
compared with 1882 Typhoid fever carried
off 106, and diphtheria 155.
Losses by the FIsod.
The river has fallen five inches since mid
night The loss to the trade by the flood will
be very heavy. J. Cartwright and w. Farrell,
wine importers on ST. Paul street, lose Sc, 600
each. The flooded area was EXTEND ed con-
siderable distance last night, the water rising
through the drains and causing considerable
CONSERVATION among the residents
The Toronto Calamity.
TORONTO, Jan. 4.-Hopes are entertained
that all of the wounded lying in the hospital
will recover. 1t has been definitely arranged
to have public funeral tomorrow afternoon.
The mayor received telegram from Lord
Melgund to-day, stating that the Governor
General would subscribe $3.50 to the fund for
the relief of the bereaved families. Public.
subscriptions are flowing in freely.
Poisoned by Eating Meat Pie.
MONTREAL, Jan. 4.-After partaking of
meat pie yesterday, sixteen. boarders and three
Sisters OF Notre Dame de Lourdes convent be-
came dangerously i'll. All but two are now
recovering Physicians attribute their illness
to tainted meat
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
Movement for a Worlds Fair i'm sam
francisco.

SAN FRANoISCO, Jan. "A meeting was
held at the Grand Hotel last evening to make
arrangements for holding worlds fair here in
1887. 1t was the most influential meeting ever
held on the Pacific coast. General Stoneman
presided and read a letter from the Pacific
coast delegation in Congress promising their
support 1t was resolved to provide guaran-
tee fund of 81 100000, and when this is OBJ
tanned to petition Congress and the State
Legislature for appropriations. The feeling
was strong and unanimous TO carry the project
through and no doubts about it are enter
tanned.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
NEW YORK.
Telegrnphic Change.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-D. Fl. Bates, resigned
his place as Assistant General Manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company to takeSthe
place of General Manager of the Baltimore and
Ohio Telegraph Company, made vacant by the
retirement of Geo. P. Frick. Western Union
officers say that Mr.. Bates's retirement was
sudden and unlocked for. Mr. Bates is one of
the Oldest telegraph men in the country, and
was prominently identified with Gen. Thomas
T. Eckert and Jay Gould in the Atlantic and
Pacific and American Union Companies, as
well as the Western Union.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-05
BETRAYED HIS FRIENDS.
A Boston Breixcr Clears Gut, Leaving
Liabilities of $4,000.

long story to the effect that Robert A. Murray,
who was supposed to be conducting a legti-
mate brokerage business in this city and who
left town some three weeks since leaves liabili-
ties amounting to some $4,000; that nearly
all this money has been raised upon forged
mortgages; that he has betrayed and misled his
best friends, being aided IN his transactions by
a woman we'll known here as an adventures
and who claims to be his wife. Murray in
herited large property from his father, who
was formerlya a well known merchant in Bos-
ton. This he soon squandered in fast living
and was compelled to ask the assistance of his
friends. The woman claiming to be his wife is
at present in the city, but refuses to say any
thing. Nothing has hitherto been printed of
this matter but the Star claims to have un-
earthed the above.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
why $1,000 Christmas Present Was
Not Received,

MOI Esece1Yeus
PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Jan. 4.--At the time of
the recent accident on the Eastern railroad at
Greenland, sealskin sack, valued at 81, 900,
was lost or stolen from the American Express
Company car, the sack being in transit as q
Christmas present. A detective of the express
company has been investigating the loss, end
the sheriff here has also been at work for the
road on the case. Last evening, between s
the Dover branch, as he arrived on the last
train from Dover, saw loose package near the
baggage room door of the depot. It was done
up in copy Of the Police Gazette, and upon
examination it was found to be the lost seal
press company The theory is that whoever
had il, bearing of the investigation, placed it
where it would be found by some responsible
party.