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The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23


The convention OF Young Peoples societies
of Christian EndeaVor which opens at Kirk
street church, Lowell, Mass, to-day and holds
through Thursday will not be- a ssctarian
affair. The societies which will be represented
are connected with almost every Protestant
denomination. Todsy's programme will be
as follows:
8 "A. M.-Devoional meeting.
1870 Organization and business.
11-Reports of president and treasurer
113O-Dlscussion: Experience meeting, Rev. S.
W. Adriance.
2-Discusson: DISTINCTIVE features of the society.
Rev. f. Z. Clark.
2.45 d scusson: Uniformity of name and con.
sttutipn. Rev. c. A. Dickinson.
3.30-D scu-sion: Y. P. 5. c E. as means of
home evangelizatiOn Rev. j. L. Hill.
,4-Discusson: At what age may children join the
church? Rev j. j. Hall.
4.30 Discussion: How may children be trained
for membership. Rev. a. T. Dana.
730-Secretaries' reports.
45-Ad1resses: Rev. A. H. Plumb D. D.. and
Rev MichaeI Burnham of Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
GatarrI1 Cured

Catarrh is very prevalent disease, with
distressing and offensive symptoms Hoods
Sarsaparilla gives ready relief and speedy
cure from the fact it acts through the blood
and thus reaches every part of the system.
s'I suffered with catarrh fifteen years. Took
Hoods Sarsaparilla and am not troubled any
with catarrh. and my general health is much
better'' /. W. LILLIs, Postal Clerk Chicago
s. st. Louis Railroad.
81 suffered with catarrh or years tried
many wonderful cures, inhalers, ETC., spend
ingnearly one hundred dollars without benefit,
tried Hoods Sarsaparilla, and was greatly
improved" M. A. ABBEY. Worcester, Mass
Hoods Sarsaparilla is characterized by
three peculiaritieS 1st, the combination of
remedial agents; I'd, the proportion, Sd, the
process of securing the active medicinal
strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown.
Send for book containing additional evidHnce
"Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my system,
purifies my blood, SharpenS my appetite, and
seems to make me over" J. p. THOMPSON,
Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
is worth its weight in gold" l. HARRINGTON:
$50 Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists 81; six for $5. Made
only by c. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
400 D0se9 One Dollar.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
Blaine Pioneers AT ention.

Every member of the Blaine Pioneers is request
cd to be present Sorers' Rink THIS EVENING,
Oct. 23d, at o'clock, in uni'orm) to attend the
grand skating party.
Per order, GEORGE r. BE AN, Capt.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
Attention Blaine and Logan GIee
Club.

Every member is notified that a meeting will be
held this "WEDNESDAY Eveung. Business of
Importance. fult attendance is requested.
Portland Oct 23rd.
Per order, W. P. OSBORNE, Capt.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23

ID. = Circui, aonr1.

Anderson Guards are requested 10 meet at the
corner of oxford and Anderson street. at 71a o'clk
for parade. F. HANSON, Capt.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23

ELOCu IION AND VOCAL CULTURE.
wiss sarsh Laughten,

graduate of the National School of Oratory, Phil
adelphia, will receive pupils at Miss sErgenps,
14S Spring Street, after Sept. 10.
Miss Laughton refers by permission to Moses
True Brown, Prn of Boston School of Oratory and
Prof. of Elocution at Tufts College. Henry Dixon
Jones, Instructor of Elocution, Harvard College.
w. j. Corthell, Prin. Western Normal School, Cor
ham, and Thomas Tash, Supt. of Schools, Portland
sep6 tjay1
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
Horses, Carriages, &c.

For Asthma, Neuralgia, Rheumatism end
all Lung troubles use the Pine Hygienic M&t-
tress Price $8. SO snd S10 j. a. Gaabsrt
Manufacturer and Proprietor, 203 Middle
Street, Portland. may27dti
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
TEMPERANCE AND THE REPUR
EECAN PARTY.
Gen. BOWS Letter TO Temperance
Worker i'm New Hampshire.

Gen. Neal Dow writes as follows to a prominent
temperance worker in Concord, N. H., who has long
relied upon the good judgment, sound advice and
temperance methods of this eminent friend of the
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23
Street, Portland.

You will find today at Kendall & whitney =
some choice Chrysanthemum Plants.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-23

ITO LET-Rooms, in singles orta nice suite; Cor
Il Cumberland and Pearl Sts. Call between 2
and 4, or and 9P. M. oct23-1
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
Record Of Casualties.

Mrs. Julia Hartnett of Cherry Hill, Nd, was
gored to death bya bull.
Edward Pulser, a brakeman on tho Manitoba
road was killed recently at Reynolds, a station
on the main line near Grand Forks. He fell
from a freight train and was run over and
crushed. He lived at Pelican Rapids, Mimi,
but his body was aiken to Grand Forks, where
it was viewed by the coroner. Pulsor was a
single man.
The steamer Captain Sam, plying between
Montgomery and Selma, Ala, exploded her
boiler at Hadnot's bar. The boat was badly
wrecked. About twenty-five people were on
board. Capt English was hurt and several Of
the crew. Five people are missing, including
q little daughter of the captain. A passenger.
d. McNeilly, who had both legs broken, died
recently.
Local papers in the counties of Virginia Wis
tied with the fatal scourge make only brief
mention of its rayages, butinvestlgatlon shows
that former reports are not exaggerated. The
Gaysville Times, Wise county, says that 40
deaths occurred in that county. The disease
spreads over a considerable section, but is
worse in Wise, Lee and Buchanan counties.
Rains have fallen there during the last two
days, and the water supply, which is supposed
to have caused the trouble, has been replen-
ished, and the disease is abating.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29

One of the most interesting questions
before the Grand Plenary Council OF
the Catholic Church now in session at
Baltimore, is that Of introducing the
n law into the government of the
church in the United States. At pres
ent the bishop of a diocese has the pow.
er of removing a priest at pleasure, but
for some time there has been q dispo-
sition among the clergy to bring the
church in this country under the
law, when a parish priest would hold
his position during life, or good behav-
ior. The parish priests would then
have o right to nominate their W
bishop. It is also thought that some
action will be taken in the matter of
mixed marriages between Catholics and
Professionals, a matter that has been for
some time a pressing question, the i'm
portance of which is fully appreciated
BY the prelacy. Educational questions
will also doubtless he considered, but
The conclusion arrived at by the Coun-
eli will probably remain unknown for
some time, as it is understood they
must await the action of authorities at
Rome before being promulgated.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
The Jewels in European Crowns.


The crown of England is believed to.
be the finest piece of regalia in. the.
world. The lower part of the band is:
a row of 1919 pearls, the upper part of,
l12; between them, in front, is a large.
sapphire; behind is a smaller sapphire.
with six others and eight emeralds. Be-
tween the two great sapphires are orna-
ments containing 2S6 diamonds. Above
the band are eight sapphires, sur
mounted by eight diamonds and eight
%festoons, containing 100 diamonds. In
the front of the crown is the ruby Civ
en- to the Black Prince by Pedro.
King of CASTLE. This is set I'M Maltese
o and forming the cross are seventy
five large diamonds. Three other
crosses are round the upper part of the
crown. containing altogether 1856 dia-
monds. Between the four crosses are
four ornaments with four rubies in their
.'centers, and containing respectively
elghty-four, eighty-six, eighty-fve and
eighty-seven, diamonds. From the
Maltese crosses rise four arches COM
posed of oak-leayes and acorns, the
leaves containing 728 diamonds. The
thirty-two acorns are each of a single
pearl, and are set in cups made of fiftr.
-four diamonds. Above the arches stands:
the mound, containing .54S diamonds,
The value of the whole is ~variously es~
timated, but is commonly believed to be-
about 81, 500, 900.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
Report Of the Commissioner Of Aerioul.
ture.

ture.
Thu commissioner of agriculture in his an,
nual report pays a compliment to Prof. Dodge
,statistician OF the department, for diligence
and ability. His work and valuable monthly
reports, he says, attracted great attention not
only IN this country but in Europe. The re-
port of Prof. Dodge shows that between 1860
and 1880 the value of meats increased from
$3OO, UO,0W to $500. 900, 0O0; corn from $780,
6SO,e7S to 694,S7S,3H; wheat, from 1924, 635,-
A5 to $50: e!US, 4G3; hay, from $152, GIL ,1GS
to to-, Sap sfo 49, ~, 7s3; dairy products from
in proportion-more than doubling the ag-
gregatu value, and increasing it from 81, 600
WO,UOO to $3,G0O,0GO,WU in round numbers.
With good prices current the production of
agriculture of the United States can be little
snort OF s4,Wo,009,Wo, and the values are
those OF nome markets and not Eastern COM
mercial cities or ports of expectation. The
commissioner says:
The Wheat area is so much beyond the re-
quirements of consumption in this and other
countries as to depress the price to a point I'M
tain points the use of wheat feeding or pork
production. The cause of this superabundance
Is two-fold: first the extension of settlement in
the northwestern prairies and dry plains of
the Pacific coast; second, the extraordinary
period of comparative failure of European
wheat for several consecutive years. The
progress of settlement must be less rapid
hereafter, and already lean years in Europe
have been followed by comparative plenty.
These facts, products, and prices point to a
sharp necessity of adapting production to con-
sumption, to supply food products now i'm
agricultural labor, and food in variety and
cheapness to consumers.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29

cru get it over" he said to himself.
with . sigh, as he sought for his UNI
brel1a in the stand. It took him some
time to find it.
"Bless the umbrellaw he cried at
length, fumbling among the heap. "Is
that it? No! Nor this. Why, what's
this! Well I am dashed!"
Only the word which he used was a
stronger one. and one which seldom.
ever i II moments of irritability, escaped
him. But now, at the sight of a sun
shade in the umbrella stand, he solemn.
~ repeated it twice: "Well 1 am
dashed!"
Then he stood in the hall for some
minutes whistling softly to himself.
This done, he went rather slowly and
th%ouehtfully up to the dra wing room.
and stood on the heart rug.
"Wer you at Oxford when I was
there on the 8th of last month? 2"
"Yes," answered Maggie, horribly
frightened, and yet relieved at getting
the matter off her mind. She had moi
confessed simply because she was afraid
OF increasing her uncle's anger against
Tom. eyes, I was, uncle. You said
you were going to put Tom to the test.
and L was afraid he might be doing
something to displease you. I went to
var him."
"And You were in his rooms while I
was there?"
/. Eyes. 1t was foolish of me; you fol-
lowed me so closely, and I was afraid
to face you. Tom put me in the Scouts
Hole, as he called it."
$50 you deceived me between 0 ?a
said he harshly.
"No, sir; 1 did. Tom knew nothing
of my coming. He was afraid for me
not for himself"
Did he tell you what I was angry
about ?"9 ~e'
"After you were gomez"
"Of counsel" snapped M. Bulstead.
poking the fire vigorously.
Il think" said Maggie timidly, for
now it was Toms favor was at stake.
che said it was about bills. He had
nothing to do with my journey to Ok
ford"
and q MICE, ladylike thing you con-
slder it, l suppose, gadding about to
young mems rooms. Very we'll. Since
you seem inclined to mix yourself up
With his affairs, you will write to him
at once and tell him to come up to
town tomorrow and call here. When
you are both together I'll tell you what
[ think of it. A pretty pair Of foolsw
And Mr.. Bulstead fumed his way out
of the o. with much outward heat
and an angry expression of ~countenance.
But the butler, who watched his exit
with awe, and opined that there had
been stormy weather upstairs, was
amazed to hear him mutter with an au-
dible chuckle as he reached the darkest
angle OF the staircase, "Good lad! Good
:lad!"
Tom, of course, came up US fast as
the Great Western would bring him;
and when they We're both together Mr..
Bulstead told the culprits what he
thought Oft. No happier trio sat down
to dinner that day in London than the
party presided over by our friends but
Ter. Somewhere in the old gentleman's
nature was a large lump of the chival-
rous. and, for the sake of Toms gallan-
try, Maggie's deception was forgiven.
In no long time he did visit his lawyer,
but it was upon business more pleasing
both to himself and to that professional
gentleman. "For a really paying piece
of work." the latter has often been
heard to say in confidence, "give me-
a marriage settlement"
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
The Criminal Calendar.

At Red Cloud, Neb., Joseph Cook, murderer,
who was cut down when half lynched, has be-
curlously insane.
Adispatch from Winnipeg says that G. A. O.
Smith, the colored pugilist, knocked McKeown
out in the second round
Miss Lorisa c. Lorrick, a teacher in the En-
porla, Kans., public schools, committed sui
by an overdose of morphine, caused by
mental depression.
Polly McQuade of Boston and George Nor
rs of Birmingham, England, fought to q finish
with hard gloves in New York Thursday.
McQuade won, after a fierce and sanguinary
tight, knocking Morris senseless.
Louis and Edward Guild, French men, aged
thirty-two and thirty-s six, respectively, arrived
at New York, and went to an emigrant board
ing house on Greenwich street, where thew en-
gagged rooms. Wednesday afternoon Iouis
shot his brother in the head, inticting a NOR
tai wound, and then killed himself.
The Omaha white lead works are informed
that I. H. Reid, a discharged employee of their
company, has been travelling among it's GUS
toners in Minnesota and Wisconsin claiming
to represent that concern and obtaining con-
siderable advances of money on the strength
OF his claims. The company d%enounce him as
a swindler and warn the public against him.
A convict named Fanteux escaped from the
St. Vincent De Paul penitentiary Montreal, af-
ter a plucky conflict with guards, one of whom
he shot through the leg. He was traced and
located in a house of ill-fame. Detectives
Gladue and Lapointe proceeded to arrest HIM.
The latter officer had just entered the room,
when Fanteux drew a revolver and shot him
in a cheek. A second shot, aimed at Gladue,
missed him, whereupon Gladue shot Fanteua
through the heart.
In a sequestered portion of Marshall county
Ala, o triple tragedy was enacted recently.
John Howard, a young man, armed himself
with a double -barreled shotgun and proceeded
to the home of a neighbor named Henry Peak,
to settle an old feud. When Howard entered
the house, u%nannounced, Peak seized a rife
and shot him through the abdomen. He man.
aged to stand up and fred at Peak, killing him
instantly. Peaks wife attacked her husbands
slayer with a billet of wood, and Howard free
tho remaining barrel at the woman, killing hel
hours.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
Germany has universal suffrage and

Germany has universal suffrage and
t%riennial elections for members of the
Reichstag of Imperial Parliament. The
total registered vote in the empire is
about 10000, 900, or somewhat smaller
than that of the United States. The
members of one of the numerous Ger
man parties are called "Secessionists"-
not, however, because they are in favor of
the secession of any part of the German
Empire, but because they are seceders
from the old National Liberal party,
which was not sufficiently radical for
them in its party platform. There are
ten recognized parties in Germany, all
Of which will be represented by mem
bers of the Reichstag.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
Pretty Philadelphia Girls.
Philadelphia Letter in Louisville Courier.
Journal

Philadelphia Letter in Louisville Courier
Journal.
The beautiful Philadelphia women,
from four to five o'clock each afternoon.
can be seen in vast numbers on the.
popular Observation-Disclosures street.
The complexion Of the women here-I
speak of those under thirty-is as soft,
clear and roseate as a child's. An in
telligent physician here, conversing
with me on the subject, said the reason
that Philadelphia women we're hand
somer than the women of other cities
wa from the fact that the cid less lac
ing.
Lacing, he said congresses the liver,
so that its, functions are deranged an d
the bile, instead of legitimately aiding
digestion as it should, is thrown into
the venous circulation, producing tie
sallow complexion so common among
our American women The female
gymnasts and equestriennes ere noted
AOI eAeAI Aue, Clcdi cOIup1ox1Ou, WHICH
is attributable to the fact that their
profession precludcs lacing. Instead
of curing sallownoss by removing the
cause, viz, skin fitting %corsets, they
use sugar of lead cosmetics, an ingre-
dent is nearly every face powder, and
in a few years the skin has been per-
manently converted to a color resemb-
ling sole-leather.
Again, the women here do more walk
ing than they do in almost any other.
city on the continent. In this they re-
semble the English women, who are
noted the world over for their beautiful
complexion. Not only this, but the
exercise of walking rounds the form,
and we justly claim that for contour of
face, complexion and figure women
are unexcelled.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
A.se.,,an.ous u.x. Nos...

Gov. Brown Of Rhode Island has appointeo
William s Sheffield to succeed the late Senate,
Anthony.
weavers i'll Philadelphia will effect probably
1000 persons
Michigan was an uncomfortsbly close state,
too. Blaine's plurality over the fusion %elec,or.
al ticket is less than 5000.
John Healy of Chicago, clerk of the superior
court-elect. thinking himself beaten lust after
the election, bet $1,000 on his own defeat and
lost.
David Eastman of Harlem, H., lost a $1,000
farm by betting on Blaine, and long after elec-
ton day refused an offer of $500 to draw the
wager.
Julius Blank of New York, convicted of il.
legally registering before the late election,
was sentenced to Sing Sing prison eighteen
months. Emil Godfrey, who aided him, got
two and a half years.
The supreme court of the United States de.
cided that it had no power to reverse the de-
cision of a Virginia court holding that insur-
ance companies were not liable for property
burned at Richmond at the time of its capture.
In a recent number of the New York Journal
of Inebriety, DR.. Napier SHOWS that farinace-
GUS foods are preferable to all others in the
treatment of alcoholism. Maccaroni, beans,
dried peas and lentils, III his opinion, antago-
nize in a marked degree the appetite for alec
hol.
There arrived at St Paul depot recently in
charge of George H. H.. Moore, a special car
belonging to the United States fish commission
containing a large plumber of small fish for
distribution throughout the Northwest, and
1,oOO spawn for the Minnesota hatchery, near
st Paul.
In a contest for a purse in Helena Boyd Dick
inson, of the firm of Hagdman & Co., and
Thomas Murphy of Blake & Myers were the
contestants. Fifteen sheep were dressed by
each man IN an hour. But Murphy was al
work on the sixteenth when time was called,
and about one minute ahead SO was therefore
declared winner, and the money, about $3.50 in
all was turned over to him.
The suspension of the banking house O,
Hyatt, Levings and Co. of Washington, Davies
county, Ind, announced recently has created
much alarm throughout that section, as the
establishment was considered in frst-class
condition and the stockholders gilt-edged.
Inc institution was a private house, and a
large part of the business men of Washington
deposited with it. J. G. Billheimer, one of the
assignees, states that the liabilities will proba-
bly, reach sl22,00O, and assets about $4,000.
B.. c. Winston & Co., dealers in hard wood
lumber. with main office in St. Paul, have
turned over their property to three trustees,
e.. c. Long, Sardinia, N. Y, D. Tozier, Still
water, and W. A Culbertson, st. Paul. The
firm consisted Of B. c. Winston, st. Paul, and
s. r. Stimson, Saltwater, AMI succeeded to the
business of Long Il Winston in September;
1885; Tbs Liabilities are placed at $4,000 and
assets $1,000 OO.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29

Last spring, Mr.. F. M. Ownbey, of
Bakersfield, Kern county, California,
came east to Tennessee and hired three
hundred colored mento go to California.
That the farmers of the Pacific coast,
it is we'll known, have long been depend
ent upon Chinese labor. John has not
proved desirable farm hand. That MI.
Ownbey's expectations of the colored
men were abundantly met is best shown
by the fact that he just made arrange
ments for the transportation of l,1OC
more colored people from Tennessee tc
California.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29

The total tonnage of American and
foreign vessels employed in the foreign
commerce of the United States was in
1881, 15,630,541 tons-more than three
and half times IS great rs in 1858.
Since 1881 there has been O decrease
each year, and last year it was only 49,
OS5,613 tons-a falling off of nearly 20
per cent. in three years. The largest
percentage of American vessels in the
foreign trade was 71.9 per cent. in 1857,
and the smallest was 1858 per cent. in
1881. Since 1881 there has been an in
crease in the American percentage each
year, aud it reached 1924 per cent.
in 1854.
The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
washaneton Hswr.

The president has appointed E s Foster
postmaster at Audubon, Iowa
Gen. Terry called on President Arthur Thurs
day; Gen. Terry will spend next week in New
York, while waiting for the Swain case to be
Dispatches received at the state department
from Paris announce that the French govern
ment is in earnest in its proposed legislation
against breadstnffs and hog products imported
from the United States.
BY direction of the president, in accordance
with the decisions of the United States court
OF claims that they were not legally restored to
the army after having been separated there
!or Benjamin 7. Runkle, Filst Lieut. John H.
Mcblair and First Lieut., Charles ?. Miller.
The postofice department reports a quite
general tendency among postmasters to keep
hsck their receipts, As has heretofore been the
case on changes of administration. The hint
Is SENT out that they should not arouse preju-
dice on the part OF a Democratic postmaster
general.
The Garfield statue committee, consisting of
secretary Lincoln. Senator Thurman and Gen.
Barnett of Cleveland. have decided upon a site
for the statue TO be erected by the Army of the
cumberland The place fixed upon is the cir
Gle at the point where Maryland avenue reaches
the capitol grounds, westward from the build
ing
Friends of Gov. Cleveland have secured for
his use for the week preceding the 4th Of March
next. at the Arlington hotel, a suite of rooms
consisting of a parlor and three bed rooms, To-
Gated on the second floor, overlooking YER
montavenue and the statute of Gen. McPher-
son. The rooms selected have been occupied
at various times by a number of distinguished
men from abroad, among the number beng
the prince CT Wales, tue Grand Duke Alexis of
Russia, King kalakaua of Hawaii, the Emperor
Don Pedro of Brazil and Gen. Grant upon re-
turning from his trip around the world. Being
IN an annex of the hotel, the rooms combine
the privacy of a private house with the con-
venience of q hotel.
Admiral Porter submits what he thinks the
government ought to do in the next two years:
First-Complete unfinished monitors and
arm them with heavy rifed guns, making
them rams as far as the models will permit.
second-Appropriate money for all the yes
sells that were proposed to congress last win
Third-Build, as a commencement, four of
the heaviest monitors of great endurance and
speed, each to carry four six-inch rifles in tur-
rets.
Fourth-Build twenty torpedo boats of not
less than lOO tons each, with q speed of twenty
knots.
Fifth-One cruising ironclad of not less than
1000 tons.
Slxth-Have all our ships of over 1850 tons
supplied with torpedo boats, fitted with noise
less condensing engines, SO they cannot be
heard when approaching the enemy.