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The Portland daily press., 1884-02-22

Advertisements appropriately coming under this
head and not exceeding forty words in length tci be
inserted one aceek for ticenty.ve cents, If paid in
Advance. When payment is not made in advance, reg
aar rates scH be charged. The large circulation of
the Press makes 1t the best medium for these ADDER
tisements.
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MARIN e N EWS.
POET OF PORTLAND.

THURSDAY, Feb. 81.
Arrived.
Steamship Sandman, (Br) Dutton, Liverpool
passengers and mdse to H & Allan.
Steamship Sarnia. (Br) Lindell, Liverpool
passengers and mdse to u florence q Co.
Steamship New York, (8r) McNicol, Glasgow
passengers and mdse to II & A Allan.
Steamer City of Portland, LaTcom, Boston for
Eastport and st John. NIB.
Sch V MiDott. Hathaway Machias. - cedar
posts to j II Blake.
Cleared
Steamship Sarmatian, (Br) Graham, Liverpool -
& "A Allan.
Barque Louise Adelaide, Orr, Bucnos Ayres-
Frank Dudley.
Sch Moses Tower, Maxwell, Nassau. Mp Chase,
Leavitt Il Co.
Sch Jnlia s. (Br) Wilson. St John, NB-Ryan &
Kelsey.
Sch Harriet, Gipps Calais-N Blake.
SAILED-Barque Florence; brig H Wright;
schs M Peters, Fred Chase, Elizabeth DeHart
and others.
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Foreign Imports.
LIVERPOOL. ENG. Steamship sarnia-24 cases
organs to Hodgden Bros.
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Our poor relationship stories we tell in an
embarrassing WAY.
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FOR SALE.

4 FhRR| NtHR GURHAM VILLAGE, ME.
CONTAINING 10 acres, cuts so tons hay an
W nually, pasturing for 10 COWS good buildings,
and dwelling house, wooihouse, barn and stable,
near schools and churches. Inquire of JOHN @.
PR0CTER, 50 Exchange st. feb15dtf
The Portland daily press., 1884-02-22
LEAVE FOR PORTLAND AND BOSTON

From Halifax, $40 a. M, 6.15 p. M; 81. John.
$50 a. M, 900 p. M; EEouiton, $50 a. M,
B.30 p. m; st. Stephen, 1915 q. m,
$50 p. M; VaRceboro, LBS a. n. 1.30
p M; Bucksports $40 a. m. 1.30 p. M;
Bangor, 7.15 a. M, 745 D. m; Dexter, 700
am. 5.1Op. NJ. Belfast, $50 q. M, 3.o5p p. M;
sk0whegan, 500 q. m. 3.15 p. M; Water
Vile, OLD a. N, LBS and 1000 .. M; and on
Mondays at 5.15 q. m. Augusta. 900 q.
N. 1000 o.. M, 2.45, and 10.65 p. M;
and lila p. M; Bath. 6.55 9. m. LOO a. M;
400 p. m, and Saturdays only at IL 30 p. m.
Brunswick, 7.26 and 11.30 .. m, 80
Pm. 12.sb q. m, lnight9 Esckland, s.15 a. M,
4:15p. m. 10 pm; Phillips, 6.65 q. m.
ERrmingt0n, 30 Q. M; Winthrop, 1O.1Sa.
m. being due in Portland as tollows:The morn
ing trains from Augusta and Bath S.36 a. m.
Lewiston, $40 q. m. The day trains from
Bangor, and all intermediate stations and con-
Meeting roads at 12.4O and 12.45 D. m. The
afternoon trains from wsterviile, Augusta, Bath,
Rockland and Lewiston at $40 D. The
Might Pullman Express train at 1.5O q. 70.
Limited Tickets drsa and second class Ter
~. John and Halifax ON sale at reduced
rafess
PAYSON TUCKER, GenI Manager.
f. K. B00THBY, Gen'. Pass. & Ticket Agt.
Portland Oct. IL. 1883 oct12
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RAILROADS.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.

On and after MONDAY, Oct.
10th, Passenger Trains will rum
as follows
Leave Pornaad for Dexter, Bangor
Vanceb0rO, Sl John, Halifax and
the Provinces, si.Andrews, 80. stephen,
Fredericton, Aroestosk County, and ali
stations on II. & PiscataqUis ss. r., LBS
p. M; 1:s0 p. m.,, Hills p. mi
for skowhesnn and BeiKast 1.26
Waielviiie, ZOO a. m. i.a5 PM 1.sa
p. m. IL 10 pm and on Saturdays at 6.16 p. In
Augusta, EaLiowell. dssriinera nd Bruins.
wick 100 a: m. 30 i.so 3; M: 5:l5;
D. m. snd on Saturdays only at Ills p. m.
Roclland. and ADex a Eincein R. r.,
TOO a. M, 1.3O N. Auburn and Lewis
ton. 8. Is .I.25 p. ~, 500 p. m. Lew
islon vi 6answick 7.o0s. M, tl1.l5 p.m.;
FarpirGten. Monmouth, Winthrop,
Oakland and North AnsoH, LIS pm. Far
miBgtou. via Brunswick, 7.o0 a. m.
1.-THE Ills p. m. train Is the night express with
sleeping car attached and runs every night Sum
days included but not through to Skowfegan on
Monday mornings or to Bucksport and Dexter or
beyond Bangor on Sunday mornings.
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WANTED.

V0U can have work at your own home in new
Il business, where peddling is required from.
81 to $40 a day can be made; dozen samples sent
free that will do to commence work on. Send 10
cents for postage and advertising and address
HUNT & CO.,
feb21d1w w. Acton, Mass.
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Stock Market.

Tho following quotations of stocks are received
daily by telegraph:
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European Markets.
(By Teleqreph)
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 81 --12.30 P.M-Cotton market
steadier; uplands % 16d. orleans 5-l6d: sales
10000 Interpretation and export 1000 bales.
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The elegant new steamer FREMONT and tavs<ns,
steamer FOREST CITY will alternately leave
FRANKLIN WHARF, Portland. at O'Clock p =.
and INDIA WHARF. Boston, ut 5 o'clock y. N.
Sundays excepted.
Passengers by this line are reminded that they -
cure comfortable nights rest and avoid the en-
pence and iaeonvenience Of arriving In Boston iAss
at night.
Tickets and staterooms for sale at D. n.
YOUNG'S, 272 Middle Street.
Through Tickets to New York, via the vartcxs
Rail and Sound Lines for sale.
Freight taken usual.
j. Ii. COKLK, Jr., Genernl Agent.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Portland Daily W-helesnie HarIEet.
PORTLAND, Feb 81.
No change reported in the wholesale market to-
day. Business was fair and prices steady.
The following are to-day's closing quotations of
Flour, Grain, Provisions, &C.
The Portland daily press., 1884-02-22

NOR SALE. have choice houselot situated
Il at Saccarapps, on which will build to order
of the purchaser for IA cash down, five years time
to pay the remainder. @. j. FOSTER, Contractor
& Builder. feb7k
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TOR SALE.-Large house, 10 rooms, good
Il barns, lots of fruit, spring and well water,
1000 sugar trees, 80 acres if wanted, village
and depot. Would make splendid Summer resi-
derce. Price low. Terms easy. F. A. LELAND,
johnson, Vermont febI4*
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Grain.
old R.M.C Corn, car lots.75
new do, car lots. 65168
Corn, bag lots. ...@75
Oats, car lots. CAT "
Oats, bag lots. -. 1850
Meal :" .........72
CottonSeed, car lots 20 90
CottonSeed, bag lots30 90
SackedBran car lot.
20 00@24 90
do baglots24 00@24 so
Mids, car lots.
$25@26 90
do bag lots ...26 so
En.AuS@E Sarra
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
The Crew of the NiserO.

Advices from the Far East indicate
that the situation of the crew OF the
wrecked British steamer Nisero is pre-
carious. The British Cabinet is consid-
ering steps to effect their escape.
About four months ago the steamship
Nisero, of Sunderland, afIer experiencing
very severe weather, which made it i'm
possible for the captain to take observa-
tions, got out of its course and was cast
ashore on the coast of Acheen, in the
island of Sumatra. The captain and
crew went ON land as soon as the state
of the sea would permit, and were at
once confronted by horde of natives,
headed by the Rajah of Tenom, who
conducted them to neighboring village
of huts made of bamboo, with mat cover
ing aud open sides. The whole of the
crew, twenty-five in number. were there
put under guard and allowed meagre
supply of raw rice night and morning as
their only food. From the snfferings
imposed upon the captive sailors and
the threatening attitude of their captors
it appeared that the Raiah's people
sought to make this an opportunity of
extorting some considerable ransom from
the Dutch, with whom they have long
been on terms of resentment. The cap
tives we're removed to the interior. Early
in March the captain of the Nisero
reached London, and brought word that
the crew were still alive and that the
Rajah would set them at liberty for a
ransom of 1000. Captain Woodhouse
contrived with difficulty to preserve his
ships papers by binding them around
his body underneath his clothing. He
also succeeded in keeping his watch,
but other members of the crew were not
so fortunate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
High Life in England.

The Earl of Euston, the future Duke
of Grafton, is about to begin the much
talked of suit for divorce from his wife,
on the plea that the Iady's first husband
was living at the time of her second mar
riage. The Countess will submit in de-
fence that when she married her first
husband she supposed him a widower,
but he proved to have another wife. and
when she learned this she abandoned
him. The case promises to be exceed
ingly interesting.
Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy,
eldest son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy.
fell in love with a woman known as
"Kate Cook" She was handsome and
stylish in person, and her matured
charms were quite sufficient to captivate
the youth of twenty-three. Unknown
to his father, who was Equerry to the
Queen, he married her. Most chronicles
of the peerage ignored the marriage.
Others described the bride as the daugh-
ter of John Walsh and the widow of
''NIr. Smith" In 1882 the bridegroom's s
social position changed. Lord Augustus
Fitzroy succeeded his brother as seventh
Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy be-
came Earl of Euston. The widow of
'Mr. Smith" became Countess Euston
and the future Duchess of Grafton. But
troubles had already come between her
and her husband. They separated by
mutual agreement. No fault being
proved against the Countess since her
marriage, the Earl in vain sought an ex-
cuse for divorce. The mysterious 'Mr.
Smith has now appeared and the ex-
cuse is found.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
The Texas Terror.

ssThe Texas Terror is found in al
1s4e,-et .s~,ersr t-s>~ra-the bad, bold man
who spills blood, hot blood, and eats
tenderfeet for breakfast every morning,
but he stays around the bar-room fire
generally, and awaits invitations to
drink from strangers for whose benefit he
''shoots off his mouth. He is usually
from Bitter Creek or Rattlesnake Run,
where they raise bad men; the farther
up you git the wus they be, and I'm
from the headwaters," is his autobiog-
raphy. Sometimes he is the "Red-
headed Terror of-Tom- Green County," :"
and sometimes "Apache Bill" He slips
up to the bar when asked to ''irrigate, !"
and says to the barkeeper "Give me
suthin' powerful, pard; suthin' as will
warm up the cookies of me heart; I'm
the toughest man in Tom Green County,
but I'm sort O. low down this mornin' j.,
an amt smelt blood; I'm a reckless
devil when get started, and feed on
devastation and turmoil, but I'm kinder
quiet now and mean no mischief. Times
is changed sence came to Texas fust,
and the people is as quiet as kittens
gimme suthin' that'll make me feel as if
the tornado of the prairies brought the
smell O. blood. They used to call me the
king of the cowboys down on the
Pecos, but they've no use for fightin'
men thar now." And he will go on in
this strain as long as anyone will listen
to him, but while his words are fierce,
his acts are mild, and he takes the place
of the yarn-spinner who is generally
found in the village saloon of the North.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Knew What Was the Matter.

A couple of young elephants which
were recently provided with home at
the st. Petersburg Geological Gardens
were fed with cake and other good things
to such an extent by visitors to the gar
dens that their health greatly suffered
and it became necessary to interfere.
The public were requested to be less
generous in their offerings, and the re-
quest being not generally attended TO, a
notice to the same effect was painted on
a metal plate fastened above the entrance
of their house. This failing to attain
the object in view, and visitors continu-
ing to feed the elephants with pastry, an
official was stationed at the entrance to
call attention to the notice. The animals
observing that whenever the latter raised
his hand to point to the sign, buns and
cakes about to be given were withheld,
drew their own conclusions and acted in
their own interests. When their keeper
looked in upon them one morning he
found the sign on the ground in such a
damaged condition that a new plate had
to be procured and placed out of the
animals reach.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
The Arabs at El Teb.

1t is stated in English reports of the
battle of Ell Teb that 'the Arabs
charged repeatedly, under cover of fire
from their works, which killed and
wounded a few of the British; but they
never could get through the formation,
the bullets moving them down as they
advanced. The British at last reached
the works and carried them with the
bayonet, the Arabs resisting iercely,
and leaving 900 men dead ON the
ground. A brick building used as a
mill was next carried, and then the cav
airy swept down on the enemy, who met
the charge without finching, and struck
at the horses as they passed through
them. At length, after three hours
fighting, the Soudanese who had, as it
was afterward ascertained, lost 2,3OO
men, certainly fifth of their whole
number, and probably a fourth, fed,
most of them going to Dubba, their
storehouse, which was occupied on the
following day. The British loss was only
80 killed and 142 wounded; but the ac-
ton was, nevertheless, severe. All wit
nesses, including the general in COM
mand, testify to the splendid valor of
the Arabs, who met death with a kind
of pleasure, and to the steadiness of the
British soldiers, who never once broke
their order, or finched under the rush
of far superior numbers"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
A Singular Superstition.

One of the most striking episodes
of the Sharon. Hill divorce case, with
which the people of San Francisco are
now being regaled was the production, a
few days since, of ''charm" which had
been used by the lady in the case to win
the affections of the defendant. There
was produced in court dark silk stock
ing, shirt collar, and a portion of a
shirt, all of which were Enthusiastically
taken from a mans wearing apparel.
These were exhumed from under the
coffin of newly buried and well-known
citizen of San Francisco in the presence
of nine witnesses. The grave-digger,
under whose eyes these curious articles
were buried, says that Miss Hill put
them there, with his consent, in order
that she might twin rich mans love. "
Clearly the ignorance and superstition
of the nineteenth century are not con-
fined to the poor blacks of the South
who believe in Voodooism, nor to the
fishermen of the coast who will not kill
pig Sin the wane of the moon" for
fear of ill-luck.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
DepOpulated Ireland.

The Irish papers are discussing the
recent census returns in a bitter spirit.
The Dublin Nation has an article en-
titled Bleeding to DEATH" in which it
says: '"The life blood of Ireland is being
drained by vampires. Every one who
has an interest in the country must grid
his loins against this murderous union.
The determination of the Irish people
has long been the traditional aim of the
English rulers. The present Executive's s
will is set Oh actively promoting the
murderous system which has already
robbed the country of five or six millions
of people" "
The United Ireland devotes an
article to the same subject, which it
entities "Killing Nation by Inches. "
1t says: "For all practical purposes
Ireland is suffering more awful drain
of manhood than if engaged in deadly
conflict with a first class European
power. She has lost since the Union
more men than France lost in all the
sangulnary wars OF Napoleon. At least
eight millions of people have been i'm
molated in eighty years to the demon of
English supremacy. Three millions of
people whose brawny frames supplied
the physical force of the repeal meetings
were missing in 1852 when the census
enumerators came to count them. Two
million nine hundred and thirteen thou
sand of the population who were spared
by famine have been starved or trans
ported since. The waste goes on faster
and more furiously. Within the last
year alone Ireland lost 1O8,OOO en-
igrants, 71,000 of whom were single
adults. She lost in mere thews and
muscles more valued sons than were
slain in any of the greatest battles of the
world -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Trouble for Chill.

Chill is evidently going to have some
trouble with the European creditors of
Peru. Having taken large part of
Peruvian territory, the resources of
which were pledged for foreign debts,
the foreign creditors desire to have ap-
piled the maxim that the annexation of
territory carries its burden with it. The
Chilian view no doubt is that they and
the creditors have been engaged in what
is known in the classical language of the
law as trace of diligence" in which
Don Patrick Lynch has by means of his
army and navy clapped his lien on first,
or in other words, that all foreign claims
must be subordinated to those arising
out of the conquest of that country.
The fact is that Peru is bankrupt, and
has been so for many long year, and
there are not enough assets to Ego
round" The foreign creditors cannot
ask their Governments to go to war with
Chill over the distribution, and no Eu-
ropean Government could afford to insist
upon the right of the bonds to be pre-
ferred to the war claims of a country
which has got its security by fighting
for it. The matter will no doubt be
compromised in some way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
Life Insurance in England.

The Objectionable features of life in
surance under certain conditions form a
leading article in one of the English
weeklies. 1t is directed Chiefly against
the mutual assurance associations and
burial clubs which are more common
among the working people on that than
on this side of the Atlantic. When the
person who is to receive the bounty has
no dependence for support upon the
person dying, insurance is considered
morally Objectionable. This is often the
case, for infants and aged people are
constantly insured by these societies,
and no inquiries are made as to the
cause of the death of the insured when
it takes place.
This puts a premium on getting rid of
such benefciaries for the sake of the pc
cuniary profit and it is common scan
dal in certain parts of Great Britain.
that the opportunity is often taken ad-
vantage of. Thus in the Midlands a
proyerb, 'Look out for the broomstick p
is often heard, where an aged person is
aware, or ought to be aware, that his de-
mise is hoped for by his juniors, because
they would profit byit; and it refers to
The practice of placing a broomstick
across the head of some dimly lighted
stairway, in order that grandparent
nay accidentally" fall and meet, or at
east hasten, his death. 1t appears that
his deliberate planning for the death of
N insured person is alarmingly on the
in England. York Hour.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
THE EGYPTIAN WAR.
The Rebel Lender-The Egyptian Belief
in the Wahdi.

The London Times correspondent at
Suakim says: Osman Digna's whole
relation to the revolt and the amalgama-
ton IN him of religious, political and
mercantile aspirations are hard to COM
prehend. A broker and trader, and
principally slave trader in Suakim and
Jeddah, he received a severe financial
blow when, some six years ago. British
cruiser captured two slave dhows full of
victims on the way to Jeddah. Osman
Digna's trade then fell from bad to
worse, his house property in Suakim
was all mortgaged, and he became hope
lessly involved. Being of no great dis
tinction by birth, his selection by the
Mahdi to lead a religious rebellion in
these parts is not in accordance with
the structure of Arab society and feel
ing, and is attributed to the accident
that Osman Digna, in one of his incur
sions far south for slaves, met the
Mahdi, who formed a high estimate of
his ability and of his influence, acquired
through successful trading. If this his
tory be trustworthy, passions for other
objects than holiness are the keynote of
Osman Digna's character and motives,
and it is against all probability that he
will cast his goods and his position into
the broken balance of battle. He is no |
ignorant fanatic and he cannot himself |
believe the myths which he multiplies in
order to control his followers. Still, all |
say that he will fight.
A young prisoner taken on the day
after Ell Teb was examined recently at.
Suakim. He is, the London Standards
correspondent says, better acquainted
with affairs than most of the prisoners,
as his sister is married to the Sheik
Taher, Osman Digna's principal sup
porter. He was one of the reinforce
ment sent to Teb by Osman. He said
that when he left the camp Osman's fol-
lowers were ready to fight the English,
even if they came in numbers like the
sand Of the seashore. so confident were
they of victory. In reply to question
DJ 4uOS5Li4o1l1Y bL4C 1OSA cdIA OA1t'O |
the people believed so thoroughly in
the Mahdi that they would sooner fight
to the death now than admit their error,
as they could never submit to the taunts
that they would meet with from the
other Moslem tribes. The balance of
all the evidence was strongly in favor of
the theory that Osman Digna will risk
many battles before acknowledging de-
feat. According to the Suakim CORE
5pondent of the London Daily NeaOs,
Osman Digna, in his dispatch to Mogh-
rani, writes that the latter, if he were
loyal and wise, should rather endeavor
TO convert his English friends to the
faith; that he and his fol-
lowers hope to drink the blood of the
Egyptians and their aiders and abettors,
and That the present, being time OF
great depression in religious faith
Islam, is the very time in
which the Mahdi is destined to appear
The letter is signed by fifteen sheiks be-
sides Osman Digna.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
SOudan Villages.

The recent proposal of a stay-at-home
strategist to occupy" with British
troops some of the Soudanese villages
on the Nile between Berber and Khar-
toum must have considerably amused
those who know what the villages in
question are like. Shendy, the most
important place on that section OF the
river, is more than half in ruins, and
even the houses which still inhabit-
ed can hardly be distinguished at first
sight from those which are not. As for
the smaller villages, they consist merely
of twenty or thirty mud burrows, plas-
tered with half-rotf en- straw, not exactly
adapted for military occupation. Even
these dens, however, are only tenanted
by the householders of the Soudan dur
ing the rainy season. At other times
they actually live up in the trees under
huge ''sun-shades" of intertwisted
boughs covered with straw, like the
hairless apes described by M. du Chail-
lu. Are the unfortunate British soldiers
expected to scramble up into the trees
and to "occupy" one of these straw UNI
brellas apiece?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
THE BRIDGE OF PRAYER.

Ihe bridge OF prayer. from heavenly heights
suspended,
Unites the earth with spirit realms in space
The interests of those separate worlds are
blended
For those W hose feet turn often toward tha
place.
In troubled nights of sorrow and repining,
When joy and hope seem sunk in dark
despair,
We still may see, above the shadows shining,
The cleaning archway of the bridge of
prayer.
From that fair height our souls may lean and
listen
To sounds of music from the farther shore
And through the vapors sometimes dear eyes
glisten
OF loved ones who have hastened on before
And angels come from their celestial city
And meet US half way on the bridge of
prayer;
God sends them forth, full of divinest pity,
To strengthen Us for burdens we must bear.
Oh, you, whose feet walk in some shadowed by
way
Far from the scenes of pleasure and delight,
Still free for you hangs this celestial highway.
Where heavenly glories dawn upon the sight.
And common paths glow with grace supernal,
And happiness walks hand in hand with care
And faith becomes a knowledge fixed, eternal
For those who often seek the bridge of prayer
ELLA WHEELER