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The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25
The Democrats and the Tariff.

This week the Democrats will try through
the agency Of cancus to come to some
agteement on the Morrison tariff bill and it
Is not safe to predict that they will not sue
ceet, although the chances appear to be
strongly AGAINST success. 1t ia quite certain
we suppose that Mr.. Randall and number
ofhis sssocisies-how many is not yet clearly
apparent-will never consent to the MORRISON
bill - itstands. They do not believe in it
and they will oppose 1t, caucus or no eau
eus, and they know that their constituent
sies viii stand By them In opposing 1t. But
they are not o majority of the Democratic
party, and whether or not they are enough,
voting with the Republicans who will OPP
pose the bill, TO secure its defeat 10 an nm
solved problem. Mr.. Randall himself is
hostile to any legislation on the tariff at this
session; bat IL is not go certain that others
would not support some modification of the
Morrison bill.
VIII 1t be modifedP We Judge not. Doubt
less Mr.. Carllsle's speech at the New York
festival of ffee-trsders was intended to be
an authoritative announcement that the
friends Of the bill as it is would stand firm
without further yielding. Indeed they think
they have already yielded too much. Will
SHAN Atfampt to make support of the bill q
test Of party fealIy? Unquestionably that is
what the earnest friends Of the bill intend
II 10 understood that the late defiant pro-
naneIsmentos Of Mr. Watterson were de-
spstchsd to his paper from Washington after
they bad been submitted TO the leading sup
porters Of the Morrison measure. This be-
Ing so, IL must be thought that they are de-
termined 70 force the issue at all hazards
and make support of the Morrison bill test
of soundness in the Democratic faith. 1t is
reported thai, even il Mr.. Morrison were him.
self disposed to do 80, he would not be allowed
to amend his bill in any substantial point.
The ultra men of the revenue reform
faction viii stand no nonsense of this kind.
They are resolved to sink or swim with the
bill SO 1t is, and they are not ignorant that
In the present state Of the public mind their
party is likely to remain out of power. They
console themselves with the reflection that
II 10 better to be right than to have the
Presidency. That they may be utterly
mistaken as to what is right does not occur
10 them.
II they should succeed in doing something.
or agreeing to do nothing, by which an open
rapture in the party can be STAYED off for the
present, it will not avail. The taking of
some position on this question, or a confes-
sion of inability TO do SO, cannot be postpon-
I'd longer than until the meeting of the Ma
tionsl convention In any event. How that
convention Is to complete its work without
planting the germs of disruption does not
appear. II tho famous facing-both-wass
resolution OF the Ohio convention of last
year had not been invented 80 soon it might
have served to plscSte the factions of poiti-
eiana II not to deceive the people; but it has
lost Its virtue at this date. The conditions
are changed. Everybody knows that Ran
dali and Csslisla cannot agree upon any
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25
State Quarantines.

NJ Office is hereby given that we have taken pos
~ session of the cattle upon the farms of Lemu-
ell Rolf, of Deering and j. l.. Whitehouse Jas L.
West and JAS. l.. Pierce of Falmouth together with
one animal at j: A Smiths, at Alle' Corner, and
II persons are forbidden entering the buildings on
these farms until further notice.
All persons in charge of infected cattle are also
required TO Keep on their own premises, and not
leave home without changi their clothes The
G eat Importance of preserving the public health
render IL ,ecessary that these REQUIREMENTS and
regulations should be rigidiy enfo ced any notice
OF any violation OF these, should at once Re lodged
with the proper authorities
The Sc ling or disposal of any hay straw milk or
other products of these farms is strictly prohibited
during the period of quarantine.
Sec 81 The mum, ipal officers of the town shall
canse all cattle therein infected with lung murrain
ease or which have been exposed to infec ion to be
secured or collected In some suitable place or
places therein, and kept isolated, and when taken
from the possession IF their owners onefth OF the
expense thereof shall be paid by the and four
nj his by the state, such isolation to continue so
long as the existence of such disease or other cir
cunstances render it necessary; hey may direct
the owners thereof to isolate such cattle upon thu r
own premise, and any damage or loss sustained
thereby shall be paid as aforesaid.
Sec 44.-W hoover disobeys he orders of said
municipal officers or commissioners made in con-
iormity with sections 40 and Al, or drives or
transports any neat cattle contrary to the regula-
punished as provided IN section 49,
sec, 4o.-Whoeyer knows has reason to sus-
pect lhe existence OF any fatal contagious disease
alnong me eaIte, IN his pos ession or under his
care, snail forth with give notice thereof to the
municipal officers AID for failure to do shall be
punished as provided in section As
GEO. H. BAILEY, V. s.. Cattle Com
z. A. GILBERT missioners
,.. VIM. B. FERGUSON, of Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

statement touching the tar IF that is not
meaningless and an imposition.
81 cieally Ii appears that it was great
good fortune for the Republicans that The
Democrats carried the elections of 1880 and
are obliged to exhibit their incapacity to do
the business of the country in a safe and
creditable mannerl A party which has no
policy, which has no competent leadership,
which has no positive convictions, is in its
worst plight when in power and obliged to
disclose its weakness under conditions Of
responsibility.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

There was organized in this city last week
IN association the object of which is to as
sist the constituted authorities in enforcing
obedience TO the Iawso Of the State. There
has also been organized another association
the Objsci Of which Is to Boycott every
merchant sho openly unites with the first
one. 1t strikes us this is game the other
party can play quite as effectively If they are
in earnest. The action Of those who want
liberty to violate the law is challenge.
Suppose the citizens who believe in prohibi-
tion should determine to have no dealings
with any business man who does not unite
With the Law an order league?
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

France proposes 10 make China pay the
eest OF the war ON the Tonquin peninsular.
Tbs French argument Is that had China not
given moral support to the Annanese they
you'd have submitted without a conflict, and
therefore she ia responsible and ought TO in
aennify France for the latter's outlay The
French ciain Is $4,000 600. If China has
TO choose between lighting and paying she
will probably prefer the latter. She has
shswA herself exceedingly reluctant to re-
ssrt to the former,
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

Gen. II. C. Neigs in communication to
shs New York Tribune suggests as the
cheapest and moss effective method Of put
ting down the rebellion in the Soudan, the
sailding of . railroad from Suaklm or Mas
ssurgh to kerber and thence 10 Kkartoum.
bni until osmsn Digna's forces are dis
per.sd II 10 going to be pretty difficult to in
auss men to engage in such an enterprise.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

Ths House COMMITTEE seems to have tried
very hard to let Keifer down easy in the
matter ofths appointment Of stenogrspher.
Nevertheless he has suffered jerk which
will probably dIslocate his political neck.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH e5.

We do Aos read ANONYMOUS .ertsrs conaInuni
cations Tie name and address Of the writer are In
all sasss Indispensable not necessarily for publica
lion bat a. guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return preserve com
muniestions that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

Minister Sargent has not only been per-
nitsed TO dine With Bismarck. hut aisa to
attend soiree at the Emperor's palace.
Ths Chaucellor seems to be anxious to make
amends for his past ugliness.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25
FINANCIAL,
AssESSORs, NOTICE.

TUIHE inhabitants of the Town Of Deerng, and all
IL others liaoie to be taxed therein ar hereby
required make and bring in 10 u.s. the assessors of
said town, true and perfect lists Of their polls and
all their esta es III real and personal which they
may be possesse OF on the first day Of April Dext
lexcep ing such ss may he exempted from taxation
by lswl, and each person will be expecte9 to IN Ike
oath, that to the best of his knowledge said list
contains all his taxable property. and those wno fail
to bring In as above directed msy expect no abate-
ment by the assessors
The assessors will be in S ssion at the following
places on the foil wing days to wit:
At Seectmen's office on Tuesday April LIST from
8 to IL m and from 2 till 3 M; on Wednes-
day, April I'd. at Cobb & Leighton's store Abbott's
Corner from to 2 a M; at Post Office, MorrilPs
from 2 to 4 p. M; on Tn rsday, april 3d. at Office
of Almon Lrach Wood ford's from 8 to IL q.
M, and from t. p.
GEORGE B. LEAVTTT Assessors
DANIEL ID. CHENERY, of
LEMuEL W. DYER Deering.
Dated at Deering, March 21st, A. D., 1854.
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The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25
q n - e
OPP Y

To buy out Shoe Store with a
thriving business in Saco. For
particulars inquire of O. p.
GREENE, So Main st., Saco, Me.
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The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25
Proposals for Jet

UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE.l
PORTLAND, MAINE, March 20, 1884.
PROPOSALS in duplicate, addressed to the I'M
IL dersigned will be received at his office in Port
land, Maine until 3 O'Clock P. NJ on Tuesday, the
9th Gay of April, 1884, for 1900 tons, more or
lie $, of rubblestone. for jetty In Lubec Channel,
Maine.
are requested to apply to the Undersigned at his
'ffire 1914 Congress Street, Portland. Maine, for
specifications, instructions 10 bidders and contrac-
tors and for further information concerning the
same. G. +. BLUNT, Colonel of Engineers.
MARIO d6t
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-25

The New Food Dispensa i0B.-H ralth and
H"ppiness 81 small Cost. Fashion TO the
fore George Fuller, his paintings and
the lesson of his Life.-J. Il. Trow-
bridges Sorrow and Genius.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
The Yankee In the South.

The impression still obtains that the
Southern people cherish such deadly
hatred to Yankees that they will neither
smell, taste, touch nor handle anything
contaminated by Yankee hands. This
is most gorgeous error. The South
ern people love the Yankee and they
show this affection in thousand differ
ent ways. When they retire at night
they inhibition Yankee buttons to Yankee
made coats, WaistcOats, pantaloOns,
shirts and drawers. They pull off
Yankee boots with Yankee boot-jacks
and divest their feet of Yankee socks
They march to Yankee bed-steads,
turn down Yankee coverlets,
Yankee blankets, PROSTATE them
selves on Yankee mattresses and lay
their heads upon Yankee pillows. The
beddngs are the only things not made
by Yankee hands and imported from
the land of the Yankees. On rising in
the morning we tread Yankee carpets,
stumble over Yankee chairs and sofas,
build a fire with Yankee coal taken
from Yankee scuttles, in Yankee CRATES,
catch the ashes in Yankee pans, and use
Yankee pokers, Yankee shovels and
tongs. We repair to Yankee wash
stands, pour water from Yankee pitch
ers into Yankee bowls and wash with
Yankee soap; then use Yankee towels
and Yankee tooth brushes. Next we
march to Yankee bureau, stand be-
fore Yankee glass, and use Yankee
combs, Yankee brushes, Yankee pow
der, Yankee cologne, in Yankee bottles.
We sit down in a Yankee chair to a
Yankee table, covered with Yankee
cloth, Yankee knives and forks, Yankee
dishes and feed upon Yankee food We
call for Yankee toothpicks, seize Yankee
hats from Yankee racks, turn the key
to Yankee lock, open a Yankee door,
enter Yankee buggy, seize the Yankee
reins to Yankee harness and repair to
our place of business, and spend the
day in trading on Yankee industry.
The South is rich in resources, but our
people are so fond of the Yankees that
they lavish their wealth upon Yankee
enterprise. Memphis appeal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
The Efficacy of Vaccination.

DIR. Buchanan, taking the metropolis
alone as the field of his investigation,
adduces evidence of a still more strik
ing kind. During the fifty-two weeks
which ended on the goth of May, 1881,
the deaths in London from smallpox
were, of each age of the vaccinated
class, including all ages, ninety per
million; while the deaths In the unvac
cinated class were $500 per million.
Under 20 years the deaths In the vac
cinated class were sixty-one per million,
against 4, $40 In the unvaccinated, and
under 5 years the deaths were 405 in
the vaccinated class, as against 5, $50 In
the unvaccinated. The word vaccinated
is used In it widest scope, to embrace
even an alleged performance of the
operation; and DR.. Buchanan points
out that the population London, under
10 years of age was 916,7 S4 on the CEN
sus night of 1881. The population
divides, in round numbers, into 5000
unvaccinated and SCI 900 vaccinated.
The actual mortality from smallpox
during 1881 among children under 10
was 7S2 among the $4,000 who had not
been vaccinated, and 125 among the
SCI 900 who had been vaccinated. Upon
equal numbers of both classes, there
fore, the mortality from smallpox
among the unvaccinated was about q
hundred-fold that among the vaccinated;
and this degree of protection was given
to children under 10 by the current
vaccination, good and bad, of the
metropolis. If the vaccinated children
had died of smallpox at the same rate
as the unvaccinated, the mortality
among them would have been, instead
of 49, more than Il, 900; and if the I'M
vaccinated children had been preserved
In the same proportion as the vaccinated,
the mortality among them, instead
of being 782, would have been only
nine.
DR.. Buchanan purposely confines his
observations to children under 10, be-
cause he does not wish to complicate
the question by any consideration of the
need for or the efficacy of revaccination
at some stated period. He claims, and
with good reason, that in the single
year 1881 the existing vaccination law
was instrumental, In London alone, in
saving the lives of II, 900 children, who,
but for its operation or but for the
practice which it enfOrces, would have
died of smallpox. On the other side
of the question he finds that in the same
year the deaths of twelve children were
registered in London as having been
due to cow-pox, or disease occurring
after vaccination. Inquiry into the
cases showed that the cause of death
was, with hardly an exception, erysipe-
las, and that its dependence upon vac
cination was at least doubtful, but,
taking things at their worst, we have
clear gain of /, 600 lives for each one that
was sacrificed. Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
What Next

The rapidity with which a Getty" is
started" along the lines of new rail-
roads IN the Northwest and the South
west has, within the last decade, been
often a matter of establishment and
amusement to Eastern people. Such
phenomenal growths seem characteristic
Of the far West, and have no parallel
In the previous history of human i'm
migration.
Take for example the new town of
McGregor, Tex. On a certain day, q
little over year ago, it was decided
and announced that the new line of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway
would cross the Texas and st. Louis
railway at a certain point.
This was in the afternoon. By 10
o'clock the next morning, the entire
section about the proposed juncture
was staked out in house-Iots, streets
and projected public squares. AS noon
that day the sale of lots opened; and in
three hours S., 900 worth had been sold.
Before sunset 442 lots, covering over
300 acres, were taken up
The next day the building of houses
and moving in of the people began, and
began In earnest. From far out on the
prairie, upon all sides, the shanties and
houses could be seen coming on rollers
Before night twelve houses were up,
and as many more had arrived Twice
this number of tents, too, had been
pitched
On the third day stores, saloons"
and "hotel" were opened; and before
night the necessity of municipal gov
eminent and a 'Elock-up" was keenly
felt and promptly provided for. Thus
day by day McGregor doomed"
Within a few weeks the new Getty"
has been spoken of as zone of the most
thriving towns" of the Southwest
frontier. It has given birth to a vigor-
GUS newspaper, the McGregor Plain
dealer, a recent number of which gives,
as an item of the towns business, the
statement that $4,000 bales of cotton
had been exported from that town
within the last two months.
Taken ss an index of human activity
and energy in the West, and as the
pressure of the current setting in that
direction, such precocious growths are
absolutely startling. One cannot help
wondering what vent this eager, tumult-
uous current of immigration will find,
when the now rapidly filling West is
full and the Pacific stops the human
tide.
At the nearest of the outlying planets
FL are full, too? Are the farms and
house-lOts thereon all sold? Is the
climate of Mars and Venus likely to
prove salubrious to Americans? And
is it not about time to hear something
about an interplanetary steamer?-
Youths COnDd72iO71.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
A LITERARY School Committee.

The town of Grafton, Mass, is no6
large, but it is able to support School
Committee, whose annual reports are
crriosities of literature. In their last
report they recommend exercises in
English composition in the following
truly surprising sentence:
Next to the pleasure that pervades
the corridors Of the soul when it is en-
tranced by the thrilling witchery that
presides over it consequent upon the
almost divine productions of Mozart,
Haydn and Handel, whether these are
executed by magician concert parts IN
deep and richly matured melody from
artistic modulated intonations of the
finely cultured human voice, or played
by some fairy-fngered musician upon
the trembling strings of the harp or pi-
ano, comes the charming delight we ex-
perience from the mastery of English
prose, and the spel1-bound wizards of
song who by their art of divination
through their magic wand, the pen,
have transformed scenes hitherto IN
known and made them as immortal as
those spots of the Orient and mountain
haunts of the gods, whether of sunny
Italy or of tuneful, heroic Greece"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
Singular Dreams.

In almost all primitive nations,
dreams were referred directly to God
or to evil spirits. The ancient writer's
of Greece and Rome give innumerable
instances of warnings sent to man in
this way. Indeed, Interpreter of
Dreams" was a regular profession in
Athens and throughout Italy.
The high-priest of dreams was an
Ephesian named Artemidorus, who
lived in the second century. His
"Oncirocritica" is the basis for all books
on dreams in every language. The
ordinary reader would be surprised to
find how many of these books there are,
and how important a science the inter
probation of our sleeping fancies was
considered for many ages.
Most of the leading divines in the
Christian church down to the present
century believed that God still occa-
sionally used dreams as a medium of
communication with men. Calvin gave
many examples of this. Bishop Cowper
declared that dream had brought him
to his work. Bishop Ken held that
there was special dream angel.
In later days, men have been con-
tent to record remarkable dreams with
out attempting to explain or construct
a science out of them. Many of these
dreams have been brought to notice in
courts of Justice The court of Areo-.
pagus put to death thief on the sole
testimony of dream of Sophocles;
and modern courts, while professedIy
rejecting all such testimony, have some
times been influenced by it.
In Burton's Criminal Trials in Scot
land" there is an official account of the
trial and execution, in 1881, of a High
lander in Rosshire for the robbery and
murder of pedler. Fraser, the only
witness against him, swore that he was
shown In a dream the murderer and
the place where the body was hid.
A farmer was murdered near Dublin
in the beginning of this century. An
idiot boy living near started from his
sleep the same night crying, "Uleck is
killed! I saw Shamus dhu More kill
him and bury him in the new ditch!"
When Uleck was missed the ditch
was searched, the body found and
Shamus was hung.
One of the most curious fu1flments
of dream is told by Noel Pators, the
English artist. His mother dreamed
that death, in the shape of hideous
dwarf with an ak, entered corridor
where she stood with her six children.
She struggled to defend them, but he
struck down two. Three months later
the children all took scarlet fever and
these two died.
Many of these condolences can be
explained; but there are others which
lead us to doubt whether the freed
spirit in sleep does not sometimes pen
trate into that unknown country I'M
trodden by any waking soul.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-13
Monte Man vs.. Newspaper Man.

Mr.. Joseph Howard, the well-known
New York newspaper man, was coming
home from Boston on one of the big
Sound steamers one night, when he was
surprised to be taken in hand by a
hree-card-monte man. He carefully
concealed his knowledge of such wick
edness, and listened calmly to the
gambler, who put it in this way: "Now,
sir, this is a swindle, and frankly tell
you so. Here are three cards. One is
jack, and the rest are spotted. I lay
them face downward, thus; and what [
offer to bet is that you can't pick out
the jack"
"But the odds would be against me,
said Howard.
"Then I'll bet you $50 to $685." said
the gambler.
ALI this time he was laying and re-
laying the three cards In a row, taking
care to bend the corner of the jack in
the usual manner, as though by acct
dent so as to make Howard believe
that the right card could be surrep-
titiously identified. Well, having
placed them finally, with the bent card
seemingly the jack, while of course it
WdSu u, n6 SdIu' 1u6I0 Gu0y are. L
will not touch them again. You think
you know which is the jack, but I'll bet
you two to one that you don't. Here's
my $50"
"Too small an operation" said How
ard, lazily.
Make it any sum you please. Say
$500 to $3.50"
By this time a group of interested
passengers had gathered round the two
men.
Gall right" said Howard, as he
counted out $3.50 from his wallet, and
laid the money down.
"And there's my $780," said the
gambler, putting ten $50 bills on the
pile; understand, sir, that if you pick
out the jack, at one trying, the money
is yours, and if you fail, the money is
mine"
Exactly So" was the response.
The spectators thought, what a
fool!" and expected to see Howard pick
up the bent card. So did the gambler.
But he didn't. He was perfectly famiI-
lar with the trick, and therefore aware
that, by avoiding the bent card, the
chances were even that he would hit
upon the jack. His luck proved good.
He turned over the jack.
Young man." he remarked, as he
pocketed the stakes, ct did feel resent
full toward you, for it struck me that I
ought not to have been mistaken for
gullible millionaire. But forgive you.
Let there be- no animosity between us.
We will even drink bottle of wine to-
gether. And let me tell you how to
work man like me successfully. just
bend the corner of the right card, in
stead of the wrong one-see ?-and let
him boomerang himself with his own
smartness.