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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-08-12
FINANCIAL.

Angfher Wall Street Bank Closes Hts
Observation-Disclosures of CASHIER the
Cause.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Wall street bank this
morning closed its doors owing to Irregularities on
the part of its cashier The bank will remain clos
ed until matters are investigated The president is
Thomas W. Evans and the cashier John P. Dickin-
The bank is No. 10 Broad street and is State
bank. When its last annual statement was issued
in September 1888, the paid up capital was $780,
600, the surplus S65, 197 and the undivided profits
SAT ,7s6. The vice president of the bank states
that the clearances will go through the clearing
swept away: Depositors will eventually be paid in
full 1t is likely that 90 per cent will be paid them
by the end of this week.
later dispatch states that the cashiers shortage
amounts to 5000 900 and that the bank has $50
600 of bad debts. G. f. Simpson, prominent
broker says relative to closing the bank that the
trouble arises from the fact that the cashier had
been loaning money freely on insufficient securities
and securities which at the present time have very
little market value The bank owes the house of
G. +. Simpson & Co., small and insignificant de-
post. The banks deposit will be paid in full and
the bank will be able to straighten out its AFFAIRS
F. Simpson and G. J. Osborne, directors, on
Saturday night and Sunday made most thorough
examination of its affairs and decided in justice TO
all parties not to open the institution this morning
The result of their examination in round figures was
as follows Deposits. 81 900; call loans, ST.
100000; good business paper, $3.50, 900; cash on
hand, $1S5, 200.
WASHINGTON, Aug Hit is learned at the
treasury that in September, 1883. the hank exam
liner in New York found evidence of over certifca-
ton of checks on the part of officers of the Wall
street Bank The evidence was laid before the Sec
Rotary and by him referred to the Attorney General
The result that the teller of the bank was in
dicted for the violation of the bank law. Efforts
also being made to indict other officers of bank
when the bank went into voluntary liquidation
and soon after was reOrganiZed under the laws of
New York. Its suspension therefore calls for no
ton on the part OF the national authorities.
Henry Cews said that Charles j. Osborn who is
worth several million dollars and director in the
Wall Street Bank had expressed willingness to
help the bank out in the present emergency. The
rumor prevailed that the deficiency would reach
$780, 1000 and that Dickinson had been in the ha bit
of charging on the books for larger loans than he
actually made and pocketing the difference. The
latter however did not receive general credence. j.
P. Dickinson is 80 years old and is a son-in-aw of
Chas. F. Simpson, vice president of The Wall Street
Bank.
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Senator and Mrs. Frye arrived ia Lewiston
Saturday from Squirrel Island. Mrs. Frye is
getting better.
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SUBURBAN NOTES.
ROyverY ReacIl.

Monday morning, and a dense fog.
Ever since dog days began the Maine coast has
been enshrouded, the major part of the time in a
dungeon of fog.
The several fogsignals within hearing distance.
together with the various passing steamboat whis-
ties, all pitched at different Key sound at times,
ike Barnums steam organ manipulated by unskill-
cd hands. The alternate lifting and dropping of
eIe Ioggy curtain reveals ever shifting and ever
pleasing scenes on old oceans vast panorama,
Sunday was most perfect day and visitors in
great numbers sought the cool sea breeze always to
be obtained from the Cape headland where the
Two Lights rear their lofty and luminous domes.
Upwards OF nifty teams entered the station grounds
during the day. Among the visitors were Hon. L.
D. M. weat, f. H. Hartford, editor of the Sentinel
and Walter Allen.
Hon. Lewis B. Smith and family picniced on the
grounds one day asst week, and Saturday Hon. D.
w. Fessenden with his family and friends canned
for a day IN "Sprucs Park" near the station pre-
misses.
Every available sheltering roof on the Cane .shore
this season seems to be eagerly sought by peope de-
sirous of Ia few days sojourn by the 'nninhabited
seaside. Another family from the city has moved
into one OF the Cape pilot houses and the Younger
members CT the family of Eliphalet Robinson. ESQ,
chaperoneu by MISS NJ Il. Dyer, are out for weeks
indulgence In sea baths seabreezes and other ocean
benisols.
Messrs Shaw Sabin and Morse, the two former
members OF The house of Geo. G. Shaw & Co. pro-
yided with canned clans for bait went out fishing
and sailing master. The senior member of the afore-
said firm WAS the only one of the party who cnupht
anything worth speaking of.
Atthls season of the year, immense fiocks of sea-
gu are dairy seen lazily winging their way toward
Mr.. osgood, proprietor of the Ocean House re-
ports that favorite hotel well filled with summer
guests. M
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.


PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 1.-THE police found eight
pocketbooks on Saturday in a sand heap at Brough-
tons wharf. near the steamer landing, which had
evidently been placed there by pickpocksts after
their raids on the crowded steamers during the
Greedy reception The pocketbooks had been rifled
in them four thought to belong to the following
named: P. O. Henrique, G. F. Towle, W. A. II.
Goodwin South Berwick and Joseph B. Lord,
(Yarmouth). The latter contained several tax bills
all in the name of Lord, while the pocketbook itself
is marked Washington Dow, 1888" The remain
der contain nothing by which to identify them, but
all are welsworn.
City Marshal Entwistle has during the past week,
received many inquiring letters from parties who
lost their watches and chains and other valuables
but satisfactory answers cannot be returned any
case as none of the stolen property has been found
much less traced, as yet. The raiders, who were
adopts In the business, made large and profitable
haus here during the Greedy celebration and they
will probably appear in force at Newburyport dur.
ing the approaching festivities.
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GENERAL NEWS.

Henry L. Butterfeld of Brookfeld, Mass, died at
Warren. N. H.. Sunday He was a prominent shoe
manufacturer, member of the Democratic State
Central Committee, etc.
At Lone Oak, Texas. six surviving brothers of
Benajah Dick, an alleged cattle thief, who was un-
justihably killed last week by Sheriff Davis and a
posse, in Chambers county, hunted up three of the
Davis posse Sunday, hung them to trees and rid
died their bodies with bullets.
Early yesterday morning, while car of the
Broadway Street Railroad Of Brooklyn N. Y, was
crossing the Manhattan Beach railroad track at
East New York, it was struck by train and thrown
20 or 80 feet. VIM. Mccullough, conductor of the
car, was instantly killed. Rudolph Schmidt, VIM
H.. Ugsman, Richard Seward, Albert Smith and
John McCann. passengers, were injured.
The eighth annual encampment of New Hamp-
shire Veterans will be held at Weirs, Aug. 18th.
and continue four days.
Ex-Mayor Cooper Of New York, has resigned the
position of chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee. Ill health and pressure of private bust
ness are among the excuses offered.
A telegram was received at the Post Office De-
partment yesterday from 7. ]. Robinson postmas-
ter at Bamberg, s. c., stating that he had been at
tackled, his life threatened and he had closed the
1880 49,
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DYSPEPSIA.

Sedentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudence in eat
ing or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed by general
arrangement of the liver, kidneys, and
stomach, in which the disorder of each
organ increases the infirmity of the others.
The immediate results are Loss of Appe-
tite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Flat
ulence, Dizziness, Sick Headaches, failure
of physical and mental vigor, distressing
sense of weight and fullness in the stomach,
and increased Costiveness, all of which are
known under one head as Dyspepsia. =
1nevery instance where this disease does
not originate from scrofulous faint in the
blood, AYERS PILLS may be confidently
relied upon to effect cure. Those cases
not amenahle to the curative influence of
AYERS PILLS alone viii certainly yield if
the PILLS are aided by the powerful blood
purifying properties of AYERS SARsAPA-
RILLA.
Dyspeptics should know that the longer
treatment of their malady is postponed,
the more difficult of cure it becomes.
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LoCusTs IN MEXICO.
Terrible Ravages of the Pests i'm YHcaIa
Fears of Famine.

Terrible Ravages of the Pests i'm Yncalan
Fears of Famine.
VERA CRUZ, Mex. Aug 11.-Locusts have invad-
ed the country about Amatian, State of Vera Cruz.
Between twenty and twenty-five fanegos equal to
about busheD of them have been killed. but the
number seems constantly increasing. At Comalteeo
in the jurisdiction of the PInal, the farmers have
experienced very heavy losses to their CROWN e
crops from these pests The municipal authorities
as last resort have imposed upon each resident in
the town limits as task, the presentation of one
arecoba twenty five pounds) of dead locusts The
result has been quite satisfactory thus far About
ninety arec0bas of Ocusts have been brought in al
ready. From Yucatan 1t is reported that locusts
have been traced as far as Maxcanu and Jicul con-
tinuing the work of destruction among corn fields
which were the only hope of warding Off famine
from that State. 1t is feared that great distress
will prevail among the people of Yucatan during
to be fifteen leagues long by ten leagues wide,
lighted upon farms In the neighborhood Of Calkins
and within two days all the growing grain in that
region had been destroyed. At Sisal another cloud
of ocusts arrived from the east on Aug 3d. spreat-
ing over territory four leagues long by one league
wide Although the farmers did their utmost to ex-
terminate them, their efforts met with but little
success. The locusts are gradually working their
way north, having moved over 100 miles from the
section in which they originally appeared In large
portions of Yucatan he earth still swaims with the
Larvae, millions breeding daily Never in the history
of Yucatan and Southern Mexico has the locust
present. Thousands of poor families depending up
small crops, will have to be fed and sustained by
the government during the six months of the rainy
and winter season.
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WEST INDIES.
yellow Fever ut POto RicO-A New Presi.
ideut of DOminica-Trinidad Sugar Crop
cholera mt st. Lucia.

HAVANA, Aug 1.-THE English steamer has ar.
rived from San Thomas, bringing advices up to the
9th inst On the first inst, owing to the prevs-
lence of yellow fever at Porto Rico quarantine of
three days was ordered against all vessels arriving
at San Thomas from that port.
SANTo DOMINGO. July 22-Gen. Francisco Bill
Ini has been proclaime President of the Domi nj
can Republic.
TRINIDAD, Aug 5.-The gathering of the suguar
is finished. 1t exceeds 81, 900 hogsheads At Tor
lula President Dyett was drowned while On sailing
excursion. The boat was capsized. A malignant
fever prevails at Demarara.
ST. CRoIX, July 2l.-The labor question Is caus.
ing the planters much anxiety An agricultural as
ISOLATION has been formed to discuss the labor ques
ton and the present crises in the sugar market.
ST. LUCIA, Ang. 3.-The British steamer Braca-
dale, from Calcutta, June 4, arrived here today,
with emgrants from that city. After the steamer
left Calcutta, thirtyone of cholera appeared
and twenty patients died. No fresh cases have oc-
CURED on the vessel for twenty-nine days. She
was placed in quarantine here.
Recent advices from Tabago state that the pros
poets of the planters very gloomy the failure of
Gillespie & Co.. having brought matters to crisis,
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schoaner i'm Callahan.


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11.-Schooner s. P.
Hitchcock, at this port from Bath, Me-, re.
ports that while anchored at Bombay Hook,
Delaware Bay, yesterday, she was run into by
schooner E. W. Schmidt, Philadelphia for
verify. The s. P. Hitchcock lost her lib
boom, etc. The Schmidt lost her forward rig
ging and sustained other slight damage She
put into Wilmington, Del, for repairs.
The Lydian Monarch Again Disabled.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. H. Barkentine
Belle, of Exc, just arrived, reports passing the
steamer Lydiap Monarch yesterday noon, off
Bay-Buls, again disabled
There Is no further intelligence OF the Lydi-
an Monarch. She has not been seen by the
telegraph station at Cape Brayle. Tbs wealth
or has been fine and clear all day, and she
should have passed close to shore and been tel
egraphed by the station. She must have set
sail and gone to sea after being passed at noon
by the Belle, apparently disabled.
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soLoN CHAsE's POSITION.
His Letter 10 the Lewiston J0urnaI-He
Will Vote for Mr. Blaine.
LEWISTON, Aug. 1.-THE Journal today
publishes the following:

CHASE'S MILLS, Aug. IL.
To the Editors ofthe Lewiston Journal:
AS am constantly in receipt of letters from all
over the Union, enquiring what position 1 am to
take in the political canvass now at hand L feel
easier answer these inquiries through the jour
nal than otherwise. l have never wavered in my
original idea of currency reform and shall have to
be changed by arguments more convincing than as
vet adduced. regard the decision of the United
States Supreme Court final settlement of the
currency question. The decision of the court af
frming the fundamental Greenback idea that Con-
gress has the right to make legal tender paper
money in times of peace or war, is step ahead of
one hundred years. and will tighten the burdens of
the toiing millions for generations to come.
AS the Greenback party has dropped out, am
called upon to decide between the two old parties.
am for that party whose policy is to stand by our
home industries. to protect labor aud elevate Amer
lean citizens. Tnere need be no doubt as TO my po-
sition on these matters, believe all my public
and private utterances have been the side of hu-
manity and am of that large majority of the human
family which earn their bread by the sweat of the
brow. hold that the prosperity of our country
depends not on how many great scholars and mil
ionaires we may produce, but on the prosperity of
the great productive masses, should be untrue to
myself should by my silence allow my position Oh
questions of vital Importance touching our varied
industries, be misunderstood. l shall vote for JAS
G. Blaine. He will be the first President of the
United States taken from civil lite, who was not
bred lawyer. believe him to be the great Ameri-
can commoner, and the friend of the great army of
wealth producers, and one in whose policy these
can safely coDfida
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THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
His Bad Record i'm the Senate During the
War

WASHINGTON, Aug. k11.-Inquiries have been
made from various quarters as to the record OF
Hendricks in the war measures, Secretary McPher-
son of the Congressional Republican Committee has
answered some of these inquiries in detail His
ures which passed during his term of service He
also voted against the Supplement- to the enrolment
act passed in February, 1864. This bill he antago
nized in every shape. He WAS one of the ten Sena-
tors who voted against its original passage through
the Senate and was one of the sixteen who opposed
II when on final passage after amendment and re-
port by committee of conference of the two
houses. Thus he opposed the only legislation
passed by Congress during his term of service
which proposed to draft into the service of the
United States as the public exigences should re-
quire: He generally antagonized the legislation of
the Lincoln administration and was unrelenting in
ms hostility to its antl-savery policy, TO the en-
poyment Of coored troops and to the perfection of
the civil rights of the colored people"
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A Fatal Explosion,

MADISON, Ind. Aug 1.-THE propeller
Mamie Glass" exploded its boiler this morn
ing in front of this city. Engineer George
Keller was frighttully mangled aud instantly
killed Joe Licheyt ter was knocked into the
river and lost and Comm nder Wolf was blown
with the pilot house so feet in the air but broke
bis way out of the debris in the water and
though bruised he is not seriously hurt.
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Boston Reserves o I sOx-7
Biddefords. ............0 2 o 0 g. 6
Struck Out-Boston Reserves 8, Biddefords 6.
Two-base hits-Duffy, Brown.
Base on balls-Bostons 3.
Wild pitches -McOonough l, Daniels l.
Passed balls Barrett q Brown 3.
Tme-2 hours, 15 minutes
Umpire-Connor of Boston Reserves.
UNIONS IA, BOOTS AND SHOES IS.
A closely contested game was played on the horse
car grounds, Saturday afternoon, between the Un-
ions of Cumberland and the Boot and Shoe team of
Portland and although the Boots and Shoes did
The best batting they were defeated by the follow
ing score:
UNIONS.
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PROPOSALS..
Proposals for River and RarbOr
improvements i'm Maine and
New Haunshtre
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
Rnrtlnnd Moinn A ,,nL,nst z 1884

UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
Portland, Maine, August 7, 1884.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in duplicate, addressed
- to the undersigned, will be received at his
office in Portland. Maine, until o'clock P. NJ, on
Monday, the 25th of August, 1884, for improving
the following named rivers and harbors, to wit:
Lubec Channel Maine, about AZ, 900 cubic yards
Of dredging.
Moose Bee Bar Maine, about 27 600 cubic yards
of dredging.
Rock1and Harbor, Maine, about 81, COO tons rub
BILE stone.
Portland Harbor Maine, about $4,000 cubic
yards of dredging.
Saco River Breakwater, Maine, about II, 900
tons rubble stone.
Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, removing
about 600 cubic yards submarine ledge.
Persons desiring TO make proposals are requested
to apply to the undersigned at his office in 4531a
Congress Street, Portland, Maine, for specifications
instructions to bidders and contractors and for fur
Their information concerning the same
aug7d6t G. f. BLUNT, Colonel of Engineers
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OPPOSED TO CLEVELAND,

Ono Hundred Democrats in Fitchburg,
Mass, who will Not Vote for Him.
FlTCHBURG, Aug. ia meeting of Demo
Gratis opposed to Clevelaud's election was held
tonight, about 100 being present. Speeches
were made by John Kearns, Jr, of Boston,
Thomas Murray and G. K Morris of Fitch
burg. Considerable enthusiasm was manifest
ed The names OF about 100 Democrats who
oppose Cleveland have been obtained in Fitch
burg, most Of whom will vote for Mr.. Blaine.
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ATHLETIC SPO RTS.
Base Ball.

BOSTON RESERVES VS.. PoRTLANDs.
Tns afternoon the Boston Reserves, who staCd
first in the race for the championship of Massachu
sets, will be here and play the Portlands on the
grounds Of the latter club. The Reserves are fine
club, they constitute the players from whom the
Boston League Club draws in case man is injured
on the regulars. The Portlands are playing fine
game of bali, and We expect to one of the finest
exhibitions of the season.
RESERVES z, BIDDEFoRDs 6.
Yesterday the Reserves played the Biddefords. in
Biddeford, and it was of the finest exhibitions
ever seen On the grounds. The battery of both
clubs very effective. total of Is base hits be-
ing all that was made by both clubs together. Fol-
lowing is the score:
BOSTON RESERVES.
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Murat Malstead,s Proiecl.
SPORTING.
Watkins Rapidly Filling Up with sport
ing Men

Watkins Rapidly Filling UP with sport
ing Men,
WATKINS, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE town is rap
idly filling with oarsmen aud their friends.
Nearly all the entries for the national amateur
regatta are here The trial heats OF singles
and fours will begin tomorrow at 10 O'Clock,
and the trial heats of the seven events on the
programme will occupy the day. The wah-
yah Tobsee four OF Ecorse, Mich, are the IA
vorites at 30 TO Is against the field.
Base Ball.
AT PROVIDENCE.
Providence. 40 0 Q o 0 O o. 3
Bostons.... ........1 o U o o o o. /
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia .....,.1 l O o o 2 0 o. 8
New YOrks. 2 o 0 O 0 L O. 3
AT DETROIT.
Clevelands. ........3 o o 1 10 o l. g.
Detroits .......... 20 o o 0 o o O.
Owing to dispute in the game between the Chi
Cages and Buffalos over the umpire's decision the
Chicagos refused to play the game out and the UNI
pire gave the game to the Chicagos by a core of
to .. The Chicagos and Buffalos then played off a
postponed game, which resulted in a tie nine in
nings being played when darkness set in The fol-
lowing is the score of the tie game:
AT CHICAGO.
Buffalos ...... all 0 o 2 3 O o O. g
Chlcagos. 30 2 2 0 0 O. 6
At Observation-Disclosures 10, Alleghenys A.
At New -Metropolieans 4. Firginias 1.
at Observation-Disclosures q Athletics o.
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NEW YORK.
The Ams,erdam's Passengers.


NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE steerage passen.
gers OF the wrecked steamer Amsterdam, some
200 in number, arrived here this morning BY
the Fail River steamer Pilgrim. Il. Jetler
was among the last to leave the steamer after
she stranded. He ba heard Complaints from
ca 9ia passengers in regard to lost articles, but
he did hoC see any cases of thievipg. The
Islanders treated them we'll and shared with
them what they had. Geo. Wilson, az Eng
lsh steerage passenger, said the sailors acted
badly; lh5y helped themselves to cigars and
wine aud did not seem to care for ANYBODY.
aud they treated the steerage passengers a
great deal worse than the natives on the
island.
Gen. aognn's Movements.
ALBANY, Aug. 11.-Geu. Logan arrived here
this afternoon route to Herkimer. He was
welcomed by 1000 people, guns were fred,
hats waved and continual cheering kept up
until the train left 20 minutes later. Gen.
Logan made brief speech, acknowledging the
reception, and left with Senator Warner
Miller.
UTICA, Aug. 11.-Gen. Logan arrived at
Herkimer this afternoon IN company with Sem
ator Miller, Gen. f. E. Spinner, Hon. Titus
Sheard aud others. There was procession of
about 1000 persons including campaign clubs
from Little Falls, Mohawk, Herkimer, Ilion
and Frankfort. reception was held lat the
Court House and brief address of welcome
made by Judge A. II. Prescott. Senator Mil
I0I lubIOuuOou G6u. Logan IN d Drl0I speech,
reviewing his military aud congressional ca
reer.
Murnt Haistead's Project.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE certificate of in
corporation of the "New York Extra Com
pany," which is to print newspapers, books,
ETC., was filed to-day. 1t has capital stock of
$4,000, and Henry Edward Kechbiel, Hugh
Frazer and Murat Halstead are the incor-
porators
Decision im the Langdon Suit.
BROOKLYN. N. Y. Aug. 11.-In the suit of
Sylvester II. Laugdon against Clinton B,
Fisk, Andrew V. Stout, Jose f. Navarro,
Charles FL. Fowler, Ford Fl. Rogers, aud the
Mack-Morvn Mining Company, Judge Cullen
this morning gave judgment for the plaintiff.
He found that the defendants in purchasing
the mine for 100000 in the name of the cor
poration, and afterward selling it for greater
consideration aud appropriatiDg the proceeds
to their own use, committed breach of trust.
Defendants are ordered to account for all stock
in the niue in excess of the price paid for the
property at first. A referee will be appointed,
who will investigate aud report to the court.