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The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

have used Ely's Cream Balm for Hay Fe-
yer, and experienced great relief most cor
daily recommend it as the best of all the ma
ny remedies have tried.-T. B. JENKs Law
yer, Grand Rapids. Mich. Price fifty cents.
Twas severely afflicted for eleven years with
Hay Fever. after trying almost everything
without avail, gave up all hope of being
cured, when purchased a bottle of Ely's
Cream Balm. To my surprise, after few ap-
plicat'onS, was entirely relieved-R. WAT
SON HARRIS, Letter Carrier, Newark, N. J.
Fifty Cents.
I have been Hay Fever sufferer for three
years; have often heard Ely's Cream Balm
spoken of in the highest terms; did not take
much stock in it because of the many quack
medicines. A friend persuaded me to try the
Balm, and did SO with wonderful success
L. S. GEER, Syracuse, N. Y. Price fifty cents
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5AIEe
| Turks Island.
" hhd.( (bd.)2 00@2 30
! Bonaire ....2 00@2 8
| CadiE. du.pd2 00@ 2 80
Cadiz, b'd1 1 75@ 2 90
Liverpool.
Duty paid ! 70 az 90
In bond ] 60t01 10
Grind butter. 16 y box
| Liv. tine sack. 1 26G1 70
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

"Ever had a cyclone here?" asked Kansas
man who was visiting a country aunt in the
East. "A cyclone? oh, yes," said lis aunt
deacon Browns son brought one from Bos-
ton spell ago, but law! he couldn't ride it.
Tumbled off every time he tried"
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
New York Stock and Money HEarAe
lRy TelePranhN

NEW YORK, Sept. Money was easy at 1@l "a
per cent on call; closed prime mercantile pa
per al 61aa61a per cent Foreign Elk hange STEADY
at SO for long and So for snort sight. Govern.
ments easier State bonds dull. Railroad bonds
firm. Stocks closed firm.
ed 182. 800 shares.
fne following are to-day's closing quotations oi
Government Securities:
rnit hnYdH RS llJ1s
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PROPO SAILS.

UNITED STATES ENGINEER Or
No. 33 Pemherton Souara

No. 81 Pemberton Square,
Boston. Mass, Aug. 20, 1884.
SEALED PROPOSALS. in triplicate, addressed to
- the undersigned will be received until IL
O'Clock, noon, on Monday, the 9th day of Septem,
Der, 1884. for the improvement of Newburyport
Harbor, Massachusetts, to witt
1.-For delivery of II 900 tons of rubble stones
2. For removing 81 cubic yards of sunken
lodges
Persons desiring to make proposals for this work
are requested to apply to the undersigned at this
Office for specifications instructions t. bidders, and
the requisite blanks and such further information
may be desired concerning the same.
CHAS. W. RAYMOND, Major of Engineers.
auP30 d6t
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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP co.
EastpOrt, Me. Calais, Me-, st. John, Ne
B., Halifax, N. s. SC.
SPRING ARRANGEMENTS.
8 TRIPS PER WEEK.

ss~.ys ON AND AFTER MON
.>iat5SNaf, : DAY, MAY 5th. steam-
k-,a@Sg9zestsSS sSSHSS$ ers of this Line will
sssSzSs=ss7s ss5SS5zSs Leave Esniiroad Wharf,
foot of State Street, every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 6 p. M. for Eastport and st. John, with
connections for Calais, Robbinston, St. andrews.
Pembroke, Houlton, Woodstock, Grand Menan,
Campobello, Dgby, Annapolis, Yarmouth, Wind,
sor Halifax, Moncton, Newcastle, Amherst, Pictou,
Fairfield, Grand Falls and other stations on tho
New Brunswick and Canada, Inter-colonial Wind
sor and Annapolis, Western Counties, Rail Roads,
and Stage Routes.
EB-Freight received up to p m. and any in
formation regarding the same may be had at the
Office of the Freight Agent, Railroad Wharf.
For Circulars, with Excursion Routes, Tickets,
State Rooms and further information apply at
Company Office, 40 Exchange St. First National
Bank Building, corner Middle and Exchange Sts.
mays dtf
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Railroad Recent,
Foreign Imports.

PORTLAND, Sept 4.
Received by Maine Central Railroad, for Portland
30 cars miscellaneous merchandise; for connecting
roads "a cars miscellaneous merchandise.
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SUMMER ARRANGEMENT,
commencing Friday, june @7.
STEAMER LEWISTON
STEAMER
CITY OF RIEHMOND'
rAEaT WWN H DRNNEaRN

commencing SATURDAY, JUNE 2S,
.r-~u7s will leave same wharf every Mon
h, HMA Vsday Wednesday and Saturday
ssgss5sss9 Evenings at l1.l5, or on arrival
Szsz5 $50 of s. Steamboat Express Trains
from Boston, for ROcIslaud, So. West and Bar
HarbOrs, (Mt. Oesert). Connect at ROckland
with steamers for Bangor and River Land
ings. Connections made at EsOcklaad with stea-
meT for Blue Esiil, Surrey and Ellsworth,
on Mondays and Wednesdays trip. AT Bar H5ur-
Dor with steamer for GOuldsbOrOs A4amOine,
Hancock and Sullivan.
RETURNING, will leave Bar HarbOr at
100 a. m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
touching at So. West Harbor and ROckland
arriving in Portland about 5 p. m, connecting with
trains for Boston, arriving at 1000 p m. Also con-
meet at Rockland with noon train via Knox & I'm
con r. r., for Portland and Boston.
For further information and staterooms apply 70
GEORGE L DAY.
e26dtf Treas and General Ticket Agent.
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AM5f Il EJb. II Q
lEsia IL "a
Manila. ..I6 CIT
Mauilla Bolt II
Rope. 1612@
Sisal. ..,,I0 M1l
nntYN rrzF Dvns
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Eastern Railroad.
Tralns leave FortIau0


At . a. ~. Dsily CNight Pullman) ZOE sacs,
month, Nswburyport, Salem, Lynn a1a Bos-
ton, arriving at 6.2Oa. m.
At As a. m. for Cape Elisabeth, Scsrboro, Saco,
Biddeford, Kennebunk, Wells, North and South
Berwick, Conway junction, connecting for al
stations on Conway Division. Kittery, Portsmouth,
Lynn, Chelsea and Boston, arriving at l.15 p. m.
At l.K5 p. na. for Ssco, Biddeford, Kennebunk,
CONWAY junction, K1ttery, Portsmouth, New
burypoFt, Salem, Lynn, and Boston, arriving at
6.10 p. NJ, connecting with Sound and Rail Lines
for all Southern and Western points.
At 500 D. na. mixed train for Cape Elizabeth,
Scarboro and West Scarboro.
At 900 p. m. Express) for Boston and principal
Way Stations, arriving in Boston at $50 ?. M,
connecting with Rail Lines for New York.
Sundays at 2.00p. m. Express for Boston and
principal Way Stations, arriving at Boston $50
York.
Trains Leave Boston
At 7.3O, 500 q. m and arrive in Portland at IL SO
am. and IL. 80 ps m. At 80 p. m. and arrive
In Portland 500 p. N At 100 m. Daily,
and arrive in Portland st 11.OO p. m.
Pullman ParHOr Cars
On Trains leaving Boston am, 1890 and 90 p.
IN. and Portland S.45 o. M, 1.15 and 600 p. m.
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars
Un Trains leaving Boston at TOO p. m, and Port
land 200 a. IN.
Through Tickets to all Points South and
West for sale at depot office, j. M. French, ticket
agent; also at 40 Exchange street.
June 23rd, 1884.
sPAYSON TUCKER,
d. W. SANBORN, General Manager
Master of Trans LUCIUS TUTTLE
je24dH aen'l Pass'r Agent.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

A New Orleans girl who had an offer of
marriage from Mr. Moore, wrote him a note
asking time to consider the matter, closing her
communication with "No Moore at present."
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

at seems to me that the lard is diminishing
rapidly, Mary" said the mistress to the SER
want girl. "Yes'm," was the reply of the
maid; "but then you knew when you bought
it that it was shortening"
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

ST PIERRE, MART. Schr Brizo-382 hhds 304
bbls sugar to Geo Hunt & Go.
CHESTER,NS. Schr British Tar-l287 boxes of
canned Holsters to Portland Packing Co.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
Wit and Wisdom.

"I never contract bad habits" said Robinson
to his wife mo, dear, you generally expand
them,'' was her reply.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

NEW YoRK--Ar Cd. barque Nellie Rumball,
Coffin, Cardenas via Philadelphia; sch Wyer g Sar-
gent, Sargent, Laguna.
A L Mitchell, Franklin; Matte Holiness Bangor;
Ida del Tore. Walls. Providence.
AR 3D. schs SpeedweIl, Webster, Richmond. va;
B.L Eaton. Grierson. Calais; David Torrey, Wins
low, Portland; VIM Rice, Gregory and Ella Pres
sey, Pressey Rockland; Alpha, Wooster, Sullivan;
Wareham.
Cid I'd schs Abble Bursley. Hamilton, Boston;
A l. Butler, Eaton, Cardenas.
Passed the Gate Sd. echs Mary e Oliver, NYork
for Wiscasset; S NJ Bird. do for Boston; Hall,
Hoboken for Boston; Richd W Denham. Ambey for
Augusta.
PERTH AMBoY-Ar I'd. brig Stockton, Allen
NEW HAvEN-old I'd, sch Sarah Potter, Ksene,
NEW BEDFoRD-Ar Sd. sch Daylight, Hodgdon'
Philadelphia; E Gates, Freeman New York.
VINEYARD-HAVEN-Ar I'd, schs Henry Whit
ney, from St John, NIB, for New York; Fred Smith,
Frankfort for do; Fannie Whitmore, Portland for
Philadelphia; Stephen Morgan, and M Grahan,
Saco for do; Vineyard, Boston for Charleston.
SID schs Henry Whitney, NJ Graham Fine
Simmons, Alice Oakes. VIM Deming, Vineyard, ana
Ringdove.
B0STON-Ar Sd, barque H Burnham, York.
New York; schs George l. Dickson. Harding, Baltl-
more; Telegraph. Gilchrst, Elzabethport; Key
stone, Wilder, Amboy; Lugano. Clark, Port John,
son; Yreka, Drisko, hoboken; Union, Dix. ana
Emma Crosby Campbell, do; Maggie Mulvey, Hart,
do; Alta .Vela, Alley, New YORK; Lucy Elizabeth
Pray, Sullivan: Walter G Hall, Mason, and JOSIE.
Randall, Machas; Luella. Murch Ellsworth; Ex-
change, Buckmnster. Deer Isle; Express, Hodgdon,
and Phebe Ann, Clement Bangor; Ellis Rogers
Moore, Westport Sadie Corey. Marshall Winter
port; Alsatian, Legard and Mentor, Hinckley,
Bath.
CID Sd. schs Lamoine. Handy, Guadalupe; Jane
L Newton Stover, Amboy.
Cid 4th, barque Payson Tucker, Tucker. Philadel-
phis; brig Lucy W Snow, Burgess Cape de Verde
and West Coast Africa
Sid 4th ship F Hersey.
LYNN-Ar Sd, sch Gamecock, Robinson, from
Calais.
GLOUCESTER-Ar Sd. schs Emma Cutting,
Howe, Bath; Medford, Jones, and Edw /, Warren,
Oolson, Bangor
PORTSMOUTH - AR I'd, schs Senator Grimes,
Martin, and Mary Amsden, Ashford Port John
son; Isaiah X Stetson, Trask. Amboy; Alabama,
War;, Elizabethport.
Sid Sd. schs Lyra, Low New York; E M Storer
Wade, Philadelphia; White Foam, Farrow, from
Ranpor
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

Sept 2, lat 81, Ion II, barque Jose More, Carl
isle. from Havana for Boston.
Aug 80, lat 81 80, Ion IA "a. sch Thos Pills
bury, from Rockport for Key West.
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PACIFIC MAIL 8. s. co
q 10 CALIFORNIA,
80 lsssesSassts$ 5APAN, CHINA,

ssEayyIsh sssanas, New Zealand sanS
Australia
Steamers sail from New York for AspinwRn On
the 1st, 10th, and 2Oth OF each month, carrying
ports.
Steamer OF 10th does not connect for San Fran
cisco.
Japan, China and Sandwich Islands, New Zealand
and Australia.
For Freight, Passage, sailing lista and furthei
information, apply to or address the General Eas.
torn Agents,
@. Il. 8ARTLETT a. co.,
EAS State Street, COrs Bread St.. Beaten
or to W. ID. LITTLE & CO.,
Sb8dtf 81 Exchange St.. POl'tlai d.
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Eur0PeaG Markets

LONDON. Sept. -Consols 100 11-16.
LONDON. Sept. 4.-U. S. 4s, 1885.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 4-12.3O P. M-Cotton market
business good;0plands at 3-16d; Orleans I6ssd;
sales 1900 bales; speculation and export 1000
halAs.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

Flows from the Maximum Mineral Fountain of Sar-
atoga Springs and is in the opinion of the most emil
Constipation, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Hn-
active Conditions of the Kidneys. and a most
salutary Alternative in scrofulous affections. With
ladies, gentlemen, and bon vivants everywhere it
has become the standard of dietary expedients, for
tifying the digestive functions and enabling free
of wealth, intelligence, and refinement testies to
Its sparkling naturally pure, and delightful quail
ties as the beverage Incompatible, and accredit it
with being the surest and speediest of clear
compilations, high health, and exuberaut spirits.
HathOrn Spring Water is sold only in glass
bottles four dozen pints packed in a case. 1t
may be obtained at all hotels and of druggists wine
merchants. and grocers everywhere. my5d6m
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
TunneIfux Volcano,

Some enterprising Yankees have bought a
volcano in Mexico, and are running tunnel
into it about half way up the crater, through
which they expect to draw off an enormous
quantity of sulphur. Volcanoes in the human
system take the form of pimples boils and car
buncles. They proceed from weak and impure
blood, which Browns Iron Bitters strengthens
and puriies. Mr.. Shank, of Petersburg, Va,
says, SIT caused the eruptions on his skin to
entirely disappear.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
PORT OF PORTLAND.
FRIDAY, Sept.

FRIDAY, Sept. 4.
Arrived.
Steamship Franconia, Bennett New York-mdse
to B Coyle. Jr.
Steamer Forest City, Colby, st John, NIB, via
Eastport for Boston.
Barque Brio (Br) Pepperen, Martinique. with
sugar to Geo Hunt & Co. Vessel to Chase, Lea
witt g. Co.
Sch June Bright. Barter. Wilmington. NC-hard
pine to Deering, Richardson g. Ce.
Sch Helen g King, Aylward, Raritan River-clay
to Portland StoDeware 20.
Sch British Tar. (Br) Evans. Chester Ms canned
lobster to Portland Packing Co.
Sch Snow, Griffin, Rockport. Mass.
Sch Lion, Snowman, Bremen.
Sch Emperor, Brewer. Boothbay.
Cleared.
Brig Giles Loring. Evaas, Buenos Ayres-W & G
Millken.
Sch Nellie Star. Soule, Black River. Ne- W
Jordan & Go.
Sch Kate NJ Hilton, Johnson Baittmore-Chase,
Leavitt & Go.
Sch Perseverance, Willard New York Emery
g. Furbish.
Sch Minott, Hathaway, Machias-N Blake
Sch Myra Scars, Tyler, Saco-master.
Sch Mary Elizabeth DuntoD, Boothbay-Dan'I
Choate.
SAlLED-Brig Giles Loring.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

Editors are proVerbially cautious in lending
the Endorsement of their names and influence,
but Mr. John T. Hearn, of the Valley Sentinel,
at Sidney, Ohio, sends a voluntary testimonial
to the merits of Athlophoros He writes,
THE medicine you sent me has given my wife
more relief from rheumatism and neuralgia
than anything she has ever tried, aud she has
tried everything, having been a sufferer for
fifteen years. 1 have let other sufferers here
have the medicine, with much benefit"
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
FOREIGN POas rs.

Ar at Yokohama Aug Is. parque Colin Mcneil
Campbell, Boston.
AR at Yokohama previous to I'd inst, harque EN-
ma Crowell, Pendleton, New York via Nagasaki.
Ar at Malaga prev to let inst, barque Bristol
Robinson, New Orleans
AR at Victoria. BE- Aug %, ship Edw O'Brion,
Libby, San jose.
At Valparaiso Aug 2. ships John DeCosta. Robin
soB. for Victoria Be; q Blanchard, Mcintyre,
uncertain.
Sid fm Iquique July IL. ship Norris, Barstow, for
Pisagua; 21st barque st Lucie Erskne, for United
States.
Ar July %, barque T L Swett, Knight, Callao.
CID at Windsor. Ms, 28th, schs Beta, Pratt, Port
land; 1st inst, Fo.tina. Philbrook New York.
Ar at st john NIB, Sd inst. scbs Wclaka, ,Cottrell,
Pensacola; Nellie Clark, Clark Boston; Wallulu,
Keast, ROckland.
Cid Sd, barque Antioch, Hemingway, Boston; sch
Speedwell Gale do.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
sTEA1s EBSs
MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY
For New York.

Steamers leave Franklin Wharf on Wednesdays
and Saturdays az g p. m. Returning leave Pier 50 .
East River, New York, on Wednesdays and SatuIs
days at 4p.rn. j. B. COYLE, JR., Gan' As't.
san2l df
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

A little girl read composition before New
York minister the other day. The subject was
"a cow" She wrote this Complimentary SEN
tence-"A COW is the most useful animal in
the world except religion"
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
Hay Fever

Is a type of eatarrh hsv
ing peculiar symptoms.
1t is attended by an in
fiame1 condition Of the
lining membrane OF the
nostrils, tear-ducts and
throat, affecting the
lungs. An acrid mucus
is secreted, the dis
charge is accompanied
with q painful burning
sensation. There are
severe sntsms Of sneez-
ing, frequent attacks o
blinding headache,
watery and inhamo
state Of the eyes.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05

The Young man who boasted he would yet
makea noise in the world, beats gong in a
small hotel.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
RAILROADS.
Portland G OgdenSburg g. R.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing MONDAY, June 80, 1884.

Commencing MONDAY, June 80, 1884.
MONTREAL EXPRESS
Leaves Portland S.35 n. M, reaching all White
Mountain resorts in season for early dinner, ar
rives in Montreal $50 p. m, and connects at
Lunenburg with S. j. L. G. r. r. for Burlington,
Saratoga, Lake George, via Lake ChamDlainJ
and Ogdensburg.
WHITE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS
Leaves Portland 1910 p. nl., Transfer Station
LOB p. m, for all White Mountain resorts, Glen
House, Crawford's Fabyan's, Summit Mt. Wash
ington and Profile House. This train will not
stop at South Windham, White Rock or Hiram.
ACCOMMODATMON
Leaves Portland 900 p. m, for Bartlett and
intermediate stations.
ParlOr Car on Montreal Express runs through to
Montreal.
ParIor Oar on White Mountain Express through
to Fabyan's.
ARRIVALS EN PORTLAND.
$40 a. m. from Bartlett and intermediate sta
tions.
12.6O p. m. from Fnbyan's and all Mountain Re-
sorts.
6.56 p. m. from North Conway ana intermediate
stations.
1926 p. m. from Montreal, Burlington, Og-
densbuFg, ana all stations on through line.
j. HAMILTON, Supt. CHAS. II. FoYE, G. I. A.
June 9th, 1884. je28drf
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SAlLED-Brig Giles Loring.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.


GREEN'S LANDING, Sept 4-Ar. schs Nonpa-
reil, Barbour and Valparaiso, Knowlton, Boston.
Sailed. schs Black Warrior, Babbidge, and Robert
Dority, Lowe, -.
WISCASSET, Sept 3-Ar, schs Exchange, Tib-
belts Boston; Lewis French, Newman, Ports
mouth; Superior, Morse, Portland.
Sept 3-Sld, schs Douglass Haynes. Dunton, Stam-
ford CT.
oct AR. sch Cock of the Walk, Lewis, from
Portland
Tne new ship on the stocks at Newburyport is
nearly completed and will be launched next week.
She is party owned at Searsport and is to be COM
manded by Capt Amasa Field.
Sch Franconia, of Ellsworth has been newly
topped and put in first class condition the past sum-
mer and will soon be off to
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-05
kOrting'S Universal Injector.

ENOR feeding boilers. VIII lift hot water at $50
u F. The best boiler feeder in the market
Warranted. For sale by
E.sGsVES ENGINEERING CO.
"a Union street.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-14
TWINKLINGS.

Not one of the six Congressman
from California was born in the State
John H. Stephens, the first actual
settler of Minneapolis, Mimi, still
lives in that city.
A lady Of Havan, H., though now
80 years of age, has worked 10000
yards of lace in the last two years.
The Detroit Free Press say that four
tifths Of the female hired help in that
city came from the Dominion.
Chicago is to have a new opera
house, nine stories high, with three
fronts, and costing over half a million
There are II, 823 Quakers in Indiana.
Canadian vessel captains are organ
IMng a society all along the lakes.
There is great distress among the
Chinese laborers in British Columbia.
1t is said that the miners in the Do
die District, California, are organ
izlng a great strike.
Enfield Conn, boasts of well
preserved centenarian, Walter Pease.
who was born March %, 1854
Statistics show that there are at pres
ent almost million people in Great
Britain who receive charitable relief
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-14
cABLecRAms.

EGYPTIAN securities are rapidly dcclin-
ing in London.
TEwFIH Boy and 400 followers, who
attempted TO force their way from Sin
kat TO the coast were cut 10 pieces by
I'll Mahdis Insurgents
EARL GRosyENOR, son and heir of the
duke Of Westminster, died i'm London
Of congestion of the lungs, after three
DAYS illness. lie was born April IS.
1853
TIE Nihilists have poisoned Degaietf
alias Jabionsky, the chief murderer of
Lieut.Col. Sudeikin. because of his
many double dealings.
THE Berlin and Vienna bourses are
depressed owing to the revival of the
report that the Emperor William is Sc
riously ILL.,
THE commander of the Turkish forces
has informed the Council of Ministers
that q Turkish expedition 20 the Soudan
is impossible witheut English help.
THE Arabs gave no quarter to the
panic-stricken and pleading troops Of
Baker Pasha i'm the massacre near lokar
either deliberately cutting their Threats
or trassiNing them with spears.
The Vienna police have compiled q
list of foreigners who are 20 be expelled
from the country. They have also clos
ed Jacobs printing office, at which the
socialist paper the Future, was pub
lished
QUEEN VICTORIA held a cabinet coun-
eli Monday, at Osborne. Isle Of Wight
where she Is now living, preliminary 70
the opening of parliament. The subjects
10 be considered in the Queens speech
were discussed.
NINETEEN members of Parliament at
tended the paruell conference at Dublin
Monday T. DIVER Gray presiding. Ed
ward Shiel aud John h. Redmond were
appointed "whips The meeting decid-
ed Go oppose the London municipal bill
unless q similar measure is introduced
Cor Dublin Other plans were formulated.
and resolutions of regret 40 she death OF
Wendell Phillips were adopted
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-14
He Wasn't Blighted.
Detroit Free Press

There arrived in Detroit the other
day, half an hour after the west bound
huaiu over the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee Road had departed, q
young man who was in terrible fix.
He was on his way to a village in the
interior to marmed The day and
the hour had been set, and here he
was fifty miles away and no show to
get there unless he hired a locomotive.
Acting upon the advice of the depot
policeman, the young man held an IN
teryiew with one of the chief officials
of the road, who offered the use Of a
locomotive for $40
That's a heap of money, replied
the young man, as ms enthusiasm be-
gan to doze away.
Yes, said the Indifferent official
III telegraph TO her father and
/ see what he says.
Very well let me know within am
hour.
In about an hour the young man re-
turned with a message IN his hand,
and he laid it before the official with
ont a word. 1t read
Susan changed her mind yester-
day, and was married TO Frank.
Then you won't want the locomo-
tive, OF courseE'
"Of course not. Ii was lucky I
thought Of telegraphiug, for Ina just
$40 ahead,
And you don't feel bad over being
left9"
"Wen, I've been engaged 20 Susan
for thirteen years, and when opened
that dispatch my knees wabbled bit
but I guess it's all for the best. I'm
also engaged to a Toledo milliner who
does business of $50. O00 per year
aud to girl in Columbus who ex-
poets her aunt to leave her $4,000
and I'm in hopes of pulling through
without going into a decline Sorry
10 have troubled you, sir, and III bid
YOU good day
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

JOHNNIE SIMPSON died at Red Clay,
Ga, Sunday, of hydrophobia.
GRAND HAVEN fruit growers say their
peaches are still safe from cold.
Mrs. ANN DALTON, St. Louis oldest
woman, is dead in her l08th year.
THE Texas legislature adjourned sine
die Saturday.
Or 1912 convicts in North Carolina,
S94 are negroes.
THE free school system went into
effect in Brooklyn, Monday
Ice twenty feet thick is reported by
Grand Haven boats on Lake Michigan
THE New York tug boat men insist
on a law making twelve hours Il day Is
work
THE indianapolis station house is
under quarantine, small ION having
spread from the jail to that building.
A PARTY of ten engineers are survey
ing a line from Freeport, H., TO Galena,
in the interest of the Northwestern
road.
THE Humane society of Massachusetts
has made awards Of money and medals
TO all concerned in saving life at the
wreck Of the City Of Columbus.
CHARLES A. KUEPpER. coroner Of Mil
waukee county Wis. died very sudden
ly Saturday He had held the office,
off and on, for a dozen years He was
about sixty years of age and leaves "a
wife and several children
THE wife Of Gauicon. the skeleton.
was habeas corpused away from him at
Philadelphia. The bones tainted away
at the trial, The 532-pound fat girl, the
Zulus and the Circassiun beauties were
present on the front seats.
A SUIT was brought Saturday by the
Pittsburg Exposition society against
twenty-one insurance companies. To re-
cover $4,000, the amount Of policies on
the burned building and contents.
CHARLES COPE, of Hampdeu Md. had
his nineteen-year-old son put in the
house Of refuge two years ago for mar
rying against his wishes The young
bride walked nine miles to see her youth
full husband in prison.