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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-15
CALIFORNIA HooDLUMs.
DisgracefuI Scenes Before the Grand Op
era House in SAN Francisco.

DisgracefuI Scenes Before the Grand OPP
era House in SAN Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.-The sale of tick
cts today for PATHS appearance on Tuesday
next, resulted in a rush grester than that of
Wednesday. A crowd, over 800 strong burst
in the doors of the Grand Opera House and
smashed all the plants and pictures in their
way. The fury of the crowd was so great that
young boy who happened to be in the way
was picked up by man and hurled through
side door of the vestibu le, being badly hurt.
Mems coats and women's dresses were torn
from their backs, aud several women were se-
riously injured aud many tainted. The crowd
threatened TO tear down the box Office and gut
the whole building unless the Office was opened
At this time the spectators suddenly appeared
offering $5 tickets for SIS, but the crowd gave
them quickly to understand that they had bet
ter not repeat the offer unless they wanted
to be torn in pieces. Then the mob smashed
in the window of the box Office, bat the agent
escaped and sent for detachment of police.
After hard struggle, many persons were ar
rested and order established. The announce
ment was subsequently made that purchasers
would have to step into the Office one at a time
to obtain tickets. This was too much for the
exasperatee crowd, and majority walked
away disguised.
Col. Mapleson who was arrested for violat-
ing fire ordinance, has been released on bail.
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LATEST MARINE NEWS.
TOugh Experience of the Grew of the
EeIem W. S51unu0rs

Tough Experience of the Grew of the
EE ellen w. Simmons.
PRovINcETowN, Mass, March 14.-Capt.
Dillon and crew of the schooner Helen NJ.
Simmons arrived home yesterday. The Sim
mons left Salt Key, Turks Island, February
20. for Belfast, Me-, with a cargo of salt.
February 23d at 7.30 p III. the vessel sprung
a leak. The crew we're unable to keep her
free with pumps and at II p. m. were COM
pelled to abandon her, taking to their boats
and having only two small loaves of bread and
two kegs of water to subsist upon. After four
days and nights of hardship and suffering in
an open boat they were picked up by the bark
Emita, Capt. Crowley, of and from Machiss,
Me-, for Havana, where they were landed.
Capt Dillon and crew were on board the
Emita nine days and speak in the highest
terms of the kind treatment received from
Capt. Crowley. After arrival at Havana the
men were cared for by the American consul
and were sent home by him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-15
The Circui, Court Judpesbip.

A petition to the President is in circulation
among the members of the Cumberland bar
requesting the appointment of Sewall @.
Strout to the vacancy occasioned by the re-
sigDstion of Judge Lowell, upon the bench Of
the United States circuit court. 1t has been
signed by Hon. Bion Bradbury, Judge ]. W.
Symonds, Judge Nathan Cleaves, Hon. A. A.
Strout, Attorney General H. B. Cleaves, Hon.
G. F. Libby, Judge T. Il. Haskell and other
leading members of the bar. 1t is understood
that Judge Webb would decline the appoint
meut il tendered him.
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Indu.trinI school for CsirI-.

Eleven hundred ana fifteen dollars Of the
Zoo required for the building fund OF the
Maine Industrial School for Girls, was sub
scrbed, as stated in yesterdays PRESS, by citi-
zens of Portland, through Mrs. l.. NJ. n. Ste
vens. The following were the contributors:
Geo s. Hunt, James P Baxter, j. S. Kicker,
A. w. Fl. Clapp, Capt. Benz. Webster, CAPT.
L. s. wymau, Mrs. Geo. S. Hunt, Mrs. An
drew Spring. Mrs. Geo. f. Snepl7y, Mrs. Hem
ry s. Psyson, H. ST. j. hn Smi b, Miss Maria
e. Hersey, John e. Dewitt, Charles Nc
Laushin, Rufus Deering, Mrs. VIM. Fem,
Mrs. Charles Green, and A Friend.
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lEinor MATTERS.

A Berlin despatch says that trichinoss en-
gendered by eating German pork and due in
no wise to the American prod0ct is ravaging
various parts of Germany.
A slight earthquake shock was felt Friday
morning throughout Alicante, province in
southeastern Spain.
The chamber of commerce of Lyons protests
against the embargo on American pork.
A Copenhagen despatch states that me-
chanic named Jens Nielsen who has just been
imprisoned for life for arson, confesses also to
having set fire to the Victoria Dock, London,
in 1891
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-15
Mr.. Blaine's Forthcoming Book.
same Interesting Extracts From the Ad-
vance sheets.

PRESIDENT BUeHANAN's MOTIVES AND WEAK
NESS.
There could be no doubt in the mind of any
one that the destruction of the Union would
be deplored by Mr.. Buchanan as profoundly as
by any living man. His birth and rearing as
Pennsylvanian leave no other presumption
possible. In the original Union, Pennsyl lvania
was appropriately dominated the keystone OF
the arch, supported by, and in turn supporting
the strength of ALL OF the "od thirteen"
there were six free States north of
her, and ak slave States south of her.
She was allied as warmly by ties of friendship
aud of blood with her Maryland and Virginia
neigbborS on the one side, as with those OF
New Jersey and New York on the other. Her
political and social connections both sides
were not more intimate than those of a busl-
ness and commercial character. As the Union
grew in power and increased in membership,
Pennsylvania lost nothing of her prestige.
She held to the new States as intimate rela-
tions as she held to the old. The coOhgure-
tion OF the country, and the natural channels
of communication have bound her closely to
all sections. Her northern border, touching
the great lakes, connected her by sail and
steam, before the era of the railway, with the
magnificent domain which lies upon the shores
of those inland seas. Her western rivers,
whose junction marks the site of a great city,
form art of the moss exits nsive system OF IN
terror water com DmuDlcatlou en- tn6 glOD6, al
fording a commercial highway twenty thous-
and miles in leng IA 4, thro' gh seventeen states
not inclu led in the original Union. Patriotic
tradition increased Pennsylvania's attachment
to the national government II was on her
soil that the Declaration of Independence was
proclaimed. II was in her legislative halls
that the Constitution was formed and the
'more perfect Union of the States ordained.
From geographical position, therefore, from
material interest from inherited pride, from
every association and sympathy, from every
aspiration, and from every hope, Pennss lvania
was for the Union, inviolable and indissoluble.
No threat of its destruction ever came from
her councils, aud no stress of circumstances
could ever seduce her into calculation Of its
value, or drive her to the conte mplaton of its
| end.
With all this attachment to the Union, Mr..
Buchanan had been brought under Influences
which were hostile to it. In originally cobsi-
| tutipg his Cabinet, sinister agencies had con-
| troled him, aud far-seeing men anticipated
trouble when the names were announced.
1t seemed extraordinary that out Of
seven Cabinet officers four should be given to
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SPORTING.
Entor-ColIegia,e Bnsc Bnll A.socia,iou.

a"EVE'OOIEtsIute hsAsc sbNIk kAHsUclHtIoms
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 14.-The follow
ing CLUBS were represented to-day at the
annual meeti G of the intercollegiate Base
Ball Association: Amherst, Brown, Harvard,
Princeton and Yale; and the following officers
were chosen: President, Adams Crocker,
Harvard; Vice President, N. G. Williams,
Yale, aud Norman S. Dixie of Brown; Secre-
tsrY and Treasurer, G. W. Wentworth, Am
herst. Dartmouth was reinstated in the asso-
citation on condition that all games except
with Amherst aud Brown shall be played on
the home ground of the opposing CLUB. The
application of the Catholic college at Rose
Hill, N. Y, was rejected
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LONDON, March 14.-Degaieff, the Russian
Nihiiist, who is believed to have been the
leader of the party that murdered Colonel
Sudeikin, arrived in England rece ntly and has
departed for New York.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 14.--Colonel Dob
rinski has been appointed successor of Colonel
Sudeikln as chief of the department in the
military governorship of Sr. Petersburg for
the preservation of order, A large secret fund
has been placed at his diposal.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.


CONCORD, March 14.--No action was taken
on the Great Falls murder case to-day. Judge
Blodgett who held the term ia STAFFORD coun-
ty states that new grand jury will probably
be summoned within a short time and an in
dictment reported against the young man
Boudor who returned from Canada after his
father had been found guilty of the crime by
the iury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-15

The executive committee oil the proposed
Cumberland County Hisioric-Gt nealogic'l So
G ety met at 4 p m. yesterday in the Librarians
room. CITY Building. After some discussion
II was decided to appoint Hon. G. F. LIBBY,
A. f. MouItou, esq, and Judge F. M. Ray,
comnittee to prepare the necessary papers for
incorporating tue organization, and to report
at an adjourned meeting to be called at the
same place April I'd at 4 p. m.
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NATIONAL BANKS.
A New Project Advocated by PhiIadeI-
phia Banks,

WASHINGTON, March 14-Representatives
of Philadelphia banks made an argument be-
fore the Committee this morning in support
Of their new project for a permanent fund.
The scheme embraces plan for the perpetua-
tion of the national bank system, independent
of U United States bonds and its features are:
First, the creation of a contingent redemption
fund from the tax on circulation, after paying
the expenses of the sys9em, and also from the
gain from lost bank notes. Second, the devo-
tion of he 8 ner cent reserve fund, now main
tanned by the.banks in the hands of the treas
urer of the United States, to the redemption of
the notes of any insolvent bank. These means
of security would be in addition to the reserv-
cd fund now required by law, to the lien on
the assets of the banks and the individual liza
bility of shareholders for on amount equal to
the par value of their stock.
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Published every day tSundsys excepted bv the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Ar 81 EXCHANGE ST.. PORTLAND. ME.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WASHINGTON, March Is.
The indications for New England are
colder, cloudy weather with rain, but in the
interior partly as snow, increasing north
easterly winds, lower pressure followed Satur.
day night by clearing weather, northwesterly
winds and higher pressure.
Cautionary signals from Kitty Hawk to
Eastport.
METEoRoLoGICAL REPORT.
[11.27 P. MI
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The Farmington Blockade Raised.

The blockade on the Maine Central between
Lewiston and Pennington has been raised'
Saturdays return train from Farmington
reached Livermore Wednesday night, taking
iv. hours to come the last five miles, from Jay
Hill crossing. The train was received oy ioui
hurrabs from the large crowd assen oleu at
TGvarmora who manifested as much interest as
thew would have in seeing the first train over
III ha road
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THE FLOODS.

NASHVILLE, March 15.-The river is steadily
rising and not less than 5000 people have been
compelled to abandon their homes.
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WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Wholesale Drug Store Burned.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March ID The whole
sale drug store of Woodward. Faxon & Co., on
Union Avenue, West Kansas City, was burn
ed this morning. Loss 5000; insured. A
young man sleeping in the building jumped
from fourth story window and received fatal
Injuries.
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FINANCIAL.
The Weeks Failures.

New YORK, March lathe business failures
of the last seven days throughout the country,
as reported by R G. Dun & Co., number for
the United States 174, and for Canada and the
Provinces AZ, total of 2l6 as compared with
272 last week.
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BERLIN. March 10 The Lasker incident
caused ripple Of excitement in the Reichstag
again today. Herr Stoecker, court chaplain,
who is widely known for his anti Semitic ao-
tivity made a sighting allusion to Herr
Lasker
DR.. Haenel characterized the allusion as in
famous whereupon he was called to order by
the nrasidAnt
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TONOUEN.

PARIS. March 14.-Gen. Millot, commander
of the French land forces in Tonquin, tele-
graphs as follows:
PHANGHoA, March 12-Marched this morn
ing to Bacninh, the first brigade proceeding
via Chi, and carried in brilliant manner the
heights of TsuDgson, which were protected by
five earthv orks. The second brigade support
ed by fiotlla rapidly carried the defences of
Valbuoi and Dam Laobuer and resolutely pur.
sued the enemy to the heights of Dapcan
which were occupied by con- bined move
ment. The details of the operations succeed
ed perfectly, and the troops marched admir-
ably IN spite of difficult ground.
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AUGUSTA.

Augusta is to have another skating rink 60 K
$50 feet, to be opened May day.
Col. Darius Alden, in company with the
New England directors of the Mexican Central
Railroad, will be present at it's formal opening
May 4th special car will convey the party
from Boston.
FoXCRoFT.
Mr.. Gilman B. Blood, of Foxcroft, while
splitting wood with a hired man a few days
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CAUCUSES.
Narlh Yarmouth.

The Republicans Of North Yarmouth are request
ed to meei at the Town House in said town, Sat
urday, March Is. at 3 p. m. to nominate candidates
for town officers for the ensuing year
Per Order Town Committee.
North Yarmouth, March 5, 1884.
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THE OLD WORLD.
New by Cable from Different
Countries.
Further Particulars OF Osman Digna's
Defeat.
I'm THF sOrDaN.

SUAKN, March 14.-The rebels, throwing
into confusion the first square of the British
iorces entered the second square upon their
hands and knees beneath the muzzles Of the
Gatl1ng guns. They then commenced slash
Ing with their weapons doing terrible execu-
ton The British were no match for the
rebels at close quarters. The British are re-
turning to 6uakin today.
During the confusion viii ch ensued when
the Arabs made their wild rush upon the Brit
ish lines and caused them to retreat, newspaper
reporters and other Don-combatants took part
in the fray and used their reyolvers freely and
with deadly effect against the enemy.
After the battle Osman's camp and three
villages burned, Among the trophies, Os-
mans standard was taken and Tewfik Bey's
was recsptured
The British losses were considerably heavier
than at first reported. The number of those
killed reaches 100, while the wounded mum.
Der 100. Osman Dgna has fled 10 the hills.
The Arabs retired before the English slowly
aud sullenly, they were defeated but not put
to route; they walked away as if sanntering
through bazaar with arms folded or swing
ing at their sides. Many were shot down but
this did not hasten their companions speed.
Judges of native character think that the
Arabs are so allied by family ties, that the
great loss of life will appall them and break
their faith in the Mahdi and their sheiks.
1t was impossible for the British to take any
prisoners. The wounded Arabs would lie
motionless without uitering a single cry or
moan and watch their chance to stab the sd-
vancng British with knife or spear. The vic
tors walked among the wounded as among 80
many vipers. A wounded Arab killed Brit
ish marine during the night Another at
tempted to stab Colonel Stewart while his
aide de camp was giving the wounded man
water.
Admiral Hewitt has today sent out fresh
circular TO tribes warning them that if they
do not obey the summons to submit the fate
of the Arabs who fell at Teb and Tamansh
will oyertake them.
SAUKDT, March 14.-Gen. Graham and Col
Stewart with staffs have returned 10 Suakim
and the wounded will return today. The lat
ter are doing we'll. While destroying rebel
ammunition the troops uneartbed and destroy
ed 1000 Bennington rifles. Wounded rebels
state that Osman Dgna's nephew and many
chiefs were killed in Thursday fight. Osmsn
was present early in the battle but fed when
defeat became evident. Fifteen hundred rebel
corpses were found in one pit.
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ENGLAND.

LONDON, March 14.-Bradlaugh while deliv-
ering lecture at Bridgewater last night
night against Perpetual Pensions, was attack
cd by roughs and driven from the platform by
showers OF rotten eggs, fruit and fireworks.
The ronghs afterwsrds attacked and wrecked
the chairman's house.
LONDON, March 14.-Gen. Graham tele-
graphs that five officers and Sc men were kill
ed and eight officers and 103 men wounded.
Nineteen men are missing. The rebels num-
bered from 10000 to II 900. Three officers and
seven inen of the naval brigade were killed at
their guns. Over 1000 rebels were killed.
Rebels charged regardless of their great loss.
They left six hundred dead at one point of the
square.
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ago, stopped over to pick up wedge which
had fallen out of the log, and the other man,
not observing his movement kept on splitting,
striking his ak across the top of MIR. Bood's
head, penetrating the skull Mr.. Blood was in
the woods some two miles from home when the
accident occurred, and by the time he could
be got out and doctor summoned he was very
weak from loss of blood. He is now doing
we'll.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-20
A NlOnOpOlist.

The candidate Of the Anti-Monopolist
party is engaged in several monopolies
himself, and as Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
remarked, "the gentleman seems vio-
lently opposed to all monopolies in
which he Is not direcly interested"
Among them is the Washington Market
company, which is not only a monopo-
ly, but is frequently characterized as a
swindling monopoly. Gen. Butler is n
large stakeholder, and the council of the
company besides. Tho company oh
tanned valuable franchises from Con
gress, and for them contracted to
pay u certain sum yearly into the
bia. For a while the money
was paid, and it is said that the
monopoly being short of funds once
Gen. Butler advanced his notes and they
were covered into the treasury as cash.
There is no way of proving this, as the
books of the treasury, of course, con-
tain no record of it, and if it actually
occurred Gen. Butler and everybody en-
gagged in it would keep it an inviolable
secret, as they were guilty of felony.
This definition of the act, if il actually
was committed, is that of the late Judge
Black. But, as an instance of the
estimation in which Gen. But
Ter is held in Washington, il
Is mentioned as being current there and
believed by many persons. The market
| company soon ceased to pay its annual
debt to the District, and the courts have
been for years trying to make il either
pay what 1t owes or give up its charter,
which Is monopolistic to the last degree.
Gen. Butler has appeared for the market
company, and has succeeded in wardinu
oil either the fuliilment or the abandon
ment of its charter. The citizens desire
| is to break up the monopoly altogether,
| but rs an act of Congress is necessary to
do so, and as the difficulties in the way
| Of getting bill through both houses for
the benefit of the District of Columbia
are simply tremendous, Gen. Butler and
his Observation-Disclosures continue to defy
the protest of the citizens.
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MANTCn

WANTED--A PARTNER WITH uoO
capllal TO engage in an established nv
mess Address T. C. A., Herald once DuS.
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The Georgln Melon pnlche..

Atlanta Constitution: Wherever the
responsibility rests, great injustice has
been done the melon growers by the
railroads. a freight rate was establish
cd last season and enormous shipments
were made under il. The farmers were
given TO understand, Mt least by agents
OF the roads, that equal advantages I'm
rates and schedules would be offered for
this season. Under this belief very
large acreage was put i'm melons. After
the crop had been planted, and before It
was shipped, an advance was made in
inc rates, amounting, we believe, to
about 80 u ear. This rate is practically
prohibitory. 1t has required the incest
management TO make melons nav
| charges and something over,
evon under the old rate
With the rates advanced y per cent. the
risk becomes too great and the margin
OF profit too small. This policy is a
short-sighted one on the part of the
railroads. They are killing the goose
that lays the golden egg The truck
business in Georgia Is n profitable bust
ness, ana good one If IL can secure
even the freight rates of last season. At
the present rates, II will be checked and
destroyed. We see daily i'm the papers.
demand from the West for melons, nj
good prices,and the melonsheld at home
and rotting on the vines, because of too
| hlgh rates. Our railroad managers in
| Georgia, cannot fail TO see that this is a
short-sighted and narrow policy. IL is
TO- he hoped, that they can control the
western roads aud give the truck men
assurances OF reasonable freight sched-
ule for the coming season.
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City Court.

City VS.. d. c. Parker, Fred McCary
and $. S. Shields, intoXication; fined 50
each.
City VS.. s. S. Shields, abusive Ian
guage; fined 81.
City vs.. A. Hawkins, abusive Ian
guage; dismissed.
City vs.. J. Quinn, fighting; fined IS.
City vs., Alice Hillis, disordorly house;
continued.
City VS.. Joe Polser, carrying pistol;
discharged.
City VS.. f.. Walpole, permitting stock
to run at large; continued.
City VS.. John Angelo, vagrancy; fined
s..
City VS.. William Andrews, vagrancyt
fined IS.
City VS.. Eliza Sweeney, vagrancy
bond forfeited
City VS.. W. A. Jones, obstructing side
walk; continued
City VS.. b. Sheffield, obstructing side
walk; continued.
City vs.. j. Nugent, fugitive: held.
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NJ p Pollard, w + Pollard, Gilmer; + B
Manor, Files, Hill county; G w White,
Austin; NJ G shelton, Pontotoc, Wis;
Il B Osbond, Cleburne; r w Turner,
Comanche; w Vreeland, Kansas City;
l. Hamberg, Ennis; Joe Office, Terrell;
X r Denton, Silby Springs; Ben Hart,
Texas; r Smith, Palmer; l. X Allen,
Waxahachie; Ii b Wilson, Kemp; NJ
Shudt, Arlington; w Nj Brooks, Texas;
w A Calfee, WaXahachie; c II Bennett,
Kaufman; Louis Basco, st. Louis. A c
Petri, Chicago; S r Landon, X l. Low
enstein, Greenville; A NJ Richardson,
Fort Stanton, New Mexico; John j
Anderson, Fort Worth; n b Bondies,
Elmo; n Ii Mabley, Mineola; Il
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hachie; w B Akin, Elmo; II l. Tebbs,
Coleman; II w Turner, Comanche; G c
Hunt, Terrell; J c S Miller, Chicago; J
w Young, Wheeling, West Virginia; L
V Hartsell, Terrell; II + Wakefield
Waketon; n X Weaver, Pilot Point; X
l. Lowenstein, S r Ludlow, Greenville