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The Indian Question.

Our readers will see by the report in an
other column that the Maine Branch of the
National Indian Association resolved, at a
recent meeting, to memorialize the LegisIa-
ture in behalf of the Indians. A series of
resolutions, therefore, has been prepared,
and will be presented to that body. The
main object sought is citizenship for the In
dams. There may be some who are unwill-
ing to confer this right. The resolutions,
however, only ask that citizenship shall be
given to those who desire it,
The Indian who understands sufficiently
the protection which citizenship affords,
may well be entrusted with its possession.
They who fear the extension of the suffrage
to race not yet wholly prepared for it, will
do well to remember two things: first, that
the number of Indian males, in comparison
with the population of the United States, is
quite small; second, there is 10 other equal
ly strong measure of protection against
those who would invade The rights of the In
dams.
They who study the long history of the
wrongs against the red men committed by
white men feel burning indignation against
all opposers of speedy help. The National
Indian Association, enlisting the active CO.
operation of large number of prominent
citizens throughout the country, now de-
sires to secure the recommendations of State
legislatures to Congress in behalf of the
measures it has in view. The legislature of
New York has already passed favorable res
olutions. We believe that The people of
Maine will be glad to have their legislature
do all it can to help the Indians. We ear
nestly commend the petition about 10 be
presented, to the favorable consideration of
that honorable body
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Loved bv the South. %

The zeal and heartiness with which the
Southern Senators rallied to the defence of
jeff Davis against what they considered the
aspersions cast upon him by Senator In
gals and Senator Sherman throw u food of
light on the sincerity of the talk we have
heard frequently of late that the election of
Cleveland had worked regeneration in the
hearts OF the Southern people, and that they
are now tn e truest friends of the Union to
be found in the country. OF course it was
TO be expec' ed that the Southern brigadiers
on the floor of the Senate, who aided. Davis
In his attempt 10 break up the Union, would
mildly resent any reflection upon the loyal
ty of the head of the confederacy, inasmuch
as they were in the same boat with him, and
any reflection upon him was an indirect re-
feciion upon them. But it was not to be ex-
pected that just at this time, when 1t is the
fashion for Southerners to pirate about their
devotion to the Union, that one of their
most conspicuous representatives on the
floor of the Senate should declare with a We
hemence that showed his heart was in his
mouth that the Southern people still sympa-
thized with and loved jeff Davis; and that
another, even more conspicuous, should pas.
sionately proclaim that no man should call
jeff Davis traitor in bis presence without
his responding with "stern and emphatic
denial" These things, we say, were not TO
be expected, not for the reason that they are
not true, for abundant and conclusive evil
dence has cropped out from time to time
that these expressions fairly voice the senti-
ment of the Southern people, but because 1t
was supposed that the spokesman of the
South were too shrewd and too level-headed
to haunt the real sentiments of their section
10 the face Of the country. They would
have been before election, but it is probably
felt now that there is less need of caution.
Had Davis been brave man, had he
shared lke sufferings and privatious of
Southern soldiers in the field, the South
might well love him for his personal quail
ties. 1t is easy to see how men can rever-
ence Lee and Jackson and still abbor the
cause for which they fought They we're
brave men; they made voluntary sacrifices
for the Southern people. But Davis was
not brave mau and he made no sacrifices
that he could not help. While he was Pres
ident of Confederacy many of the best of
the Southern leaders distrusted him and
his popularity with the masses was not
great. 1t seems obvious, therefore, tina. the
affection which the Southern people bear
him springs not from any admirable per-
sonal qualities which he possesses, for he
possesses none, not from any sacrifices he has
made in their behalf. Davis, however, is to
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Rare and Curious Pennies.
A Complete Collection of Specimens of All
thO Gents Coined in the United States.

Warren Gee, of Spring Lake, Mich, is the
possessor of one of the most complete and
finest collections of United States money in
the country. The collection of cents en-
braces specimens of every coinage from the
first to the last, all in fine condition. The
first United States cent bears the date of
1913, and cents have been coined in every
year since then, with the sole exception of
the year 1915. The first cents had on the
diverse female head with loose, flowing
hair. The head faced the right, not the left,
as do the heads on cents of the present day.
In 1906 what is called ''the fllet head" was
adopted, the hair being loosely tied. This
'fillet head" appeared upon ali the cents I'M
til 1903, when a head known among collec-
tors as "the turban head'' appeared.
The "turban head'' faces the left. The
word Liberty appears upon the GEMS
of this class, but what is distinctively termed
''the Liberty head" with the hair bound
with band bearing the word Liberty" is
first seen upon the cent of 1916, running
through all the rest of the series Of large
copper cents, the last of which was issued In
1851. In 1856 the coinage Of what is known
90 ZIG CaStO NOhb COULucuCeu. lpIS ID q
small nickel cent bearing upon the diverse
the figure of 1ying eagle. Eagle cents
were coined in 1856, 1857 and 1858. The
eagle i'll 1859 gave place to a female head
wearing an Indian headdress of feathers.
In 1864 the material of the cent was
changed from nickel to copper This was
the last alteration. The rarest of the cents
are those OF 1893 and 1864 The former is
valued at S. to $25, according to condition,
and the latter at $500 to $500. Mr.. Gee
remarked, 81 saw an unusually fine 1904
cent sold in New York month ago for
5000. 1t was an uncirculated cent, which
had been kept in box of cotton, and was
perfectly bright. There was competition at
the SALE" The cent of 1909 is another rare
cent, ordinarily well preserved specimens of
which are worth 81 so to S.. IA uncircu-
lated specimen would bring $40 to $15. Any
of the cents prior to 1900 is worth in good
condition from 81 80 to S. The large cop
pers of dates from 1896 10 1857 range in val
ne from 10 cents TO 81 apiece. The eagle
cents of 1857 and 1858 are common and M
maDd no premium, but that of 1856 is rare.
In uneirculated OF proof condition it is
worth from So to S..
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A Freak OF. the Earthquake.


II have just returned from the village of
Huenja," cables New York Herald cores
pendent from Granada, "where the most re
markable phenomenon of the entire vista
tion has occurred. The whole village moved
Is feet from its original position, yet every
house is still standing, though many roofs
are cracked and many walls have bulged.
To-day passed around the village and inter-
viewed the inhabitants They said that the
first intimation was on Christmas night,
while they were holding revelry and dane
ing. Many were in bed. The alcalde had
received information that band of brigands
was near the village. Consequently he was
on the alert with the police. The inhab-
tants had never before experienced an earth
quake, aud were unaware what had occurred
when chimneys tumbled, walls cracked and
the rooms were filled with dust and plaster.
All ran terrified from The houses, and re-
manned in the open air all night watching,
praying and wondering what had happened.
During the excitement the brigands sue
ceeded i'm stealing mules and portable prop
erty on the outskirts of the village. Next
day small crack was observed Oh the hill
side, but near the village. Fifteen minutes
later the water supply stopped. The people
noticed crack passing through an ancient
spring which for centuries has supplied the
town. Subsequently the crack widened and
extended entirely around TO a creek in the
valley 90 both sides. Day by day the crack
increased, aided by repeated shocks, until
some places visited to day were 40 feet clear,
while in many places cracks covered from
100 TO 300 feet The town occupied semi
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14
The Pueblo Indians.
Interesting Relics of an Almost Extiue
Race.

Col. Stevenson of the bureau of ethnology
who has recently spent several months in
the West, has brought back the largest and
most diverse collection of objects ilustra.-
ing the home life, industries and religious
customs Of the Pueblo Indians ever made.
They are intended for exhibition at the New
Orleans exposition, but will also serve very
useful purpose to the national museHm in
the system of exchanges with scientific in
stitutions of the world for other articles of
interest which can be obtained in no other
way. In addition to the articles in this col
lection (which amount to five car loads and
consist of pottery, wooden fabrics, weapons,
and sione implements), photographs and
colored sketches were secured in great num-
Der, illustrating the dances, altar scenes,
games and burial customs of the Pueblos.
Many curious cave shrines never before Wis
tied by white men were explored, places to
which for centuries the Zunis have been in
the habit of making annual pilgrimages with
great ceremonyto deposit idols, plume sticks,
aud the skulls and bones of sacred animals.
A pack train party visited, under the
guidance of Zunian priests, curious salt
lake rs miles south of the Pueblo, whence
the supply of salt used by the tribe is OBJ
tanned, and from this point the travellers
rode 100 miles west to lake where accord
ing TO Zunian belief, the departed spirits of
the Pueblos are all transported. To the lat
ter place the guides could not be induced 10
go, though they pointed it out from dis
lance. The lake, which is but few miles
in diameter. is surrounded by curious conf
cal hills, formed by the deposit of matter
from innumerable springs. The springs are
now dry, except such as are beneath the sur
face of the water, but some of the cones
have open caverns, into which one can pene-
trate by covered way two or three hundred
feet.
Col. Stevenson says the Zunis, while still
a curious people, unlike any other race in
the known world, have changed considera-
bly, since he first made their acquaintance
dozen yeats ago, by reason of their more fire.
quent intercourse with the whites. They
are usually in trouble of some kind, their
unresisting nature rendering them easy vic
tins. Their cattle, of which they have had
considerable herds, are stolen by COWBOYS,
and they are often cheated by the collision
of outside parties, favorite method being
for one man to sell them wagon or some
other piece of property, and another TO come
soon afterward and claim it as having been
stolen from him,
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II seems the tramp nuisance is perpetual
ed by the justices and constables who make
good thing out of the arrest and trial of
the travelling gentry. The more tramps the
more fees. So these thrifty justices SEN
tence the tramps brought before them to
short terms, knowing that as soon as the
vagabonds are liberated they will get anoth-
err Job. By this process one tramp even can
be made TO yield a considerable revenue in
the course of the winter to an INSCRIPTIONS
constable and justice in league with him.
The prison inspectors suggest as the best
way OF stopping this business the abolition
OF fees and the substitution OF fixed salaries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

Another Interpretation of the meaning OF
offensive partisans comes from Senator
Salisbury of Delaware, who said at a Jack
sonian banque: last week that he hoped that
every mao who had used his place for par
tisan purposes to keep out the Democratic
administration would walk the plank as
soon as possible" TIL will cover every
office holder who voted the Republican
ticket
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ACCOUNTING HromnNG

and burning skin diseases instantly relieved by a
warm bath with CUTIcURA SOAP and single appIi-
cation OF CUTIcURA, the great Skin Cure. This re-
pested daily, with two or three doses of CUTICURA
REsoIvENT, the New Blood Purifier, to keep the
blood cool, the preparation pure and unrrtating,
the bowels open, the liver and kidneys active, will
speedily cure Eczema letter, RiDgwoTm, Psoriasis
Lichen. Pruritus, Seall Head, Dandrutf. and every
species of Itching Scaly and Pimple Humors of the
Scalp and Skin, when the best physicians and all
known remedies fail. Sold everywhere CUTIoURA.
90 cents; SOAP, % CENTS; REsoLVENT, $l.00.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
jams S&W&w2w
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them the embodiment of the ''lost cause"
He is the only man whose disabilities Con-
gress refuses to remove. Love for Davis,
therefore means to the Southern people rev.
erence for the ''lost cause" And this fact
it is, we are sorry to believe, that accounts
for their affection for him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

"Fruentity'' has been puzzling the news
Papers since Gen. Charles Hamlin used it in
ais speech accepting the nomination for the
speakership. No such word can be found
IN Webster or Worcester. lis resemblance
to fruition naturally raised the suspicion
that that was the word Gen. Hamlin was az
ter. 1t turns out, however, hat Gen. Ham
lin is not the first person to use fruentity.
1t may be found in J. Fenimore Coopers
correspondence with the Secretary of the
Navy, In which he discusses the veto power
exercised by President Polk when the latter
vetoed the French spoliation bill. Cooper
says, "rhe veto power is fruentitaL.D
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

LEPROSY OF THE JEWS.
Wild, burning Itch, that Strikes with n
Thoasaud Electric Itching Needles.

EDITOR ALTOONA, Pa, CALL, Il wish to say some
thing in praise of that valuable medicine, CUriCU-
had that old eprosy of which you read in the Bible
where the Jews first got it among them and did not
know how to cure it. 1t has many other English
names. have had it on my body for over sixty
years. No doctor could tell me what it was, and
probably neVerswould have known, had not seen
The advertisement in valuable paper. First it
is scsly affection of the skim next it looks like
barnacles on vessels bottom, or an old log that
has laid in the water for long time, ana Just the
same in my feet, knees and elbows, and by taking
other words, will call it ichthyoss or fish skin;
then comes on what call the wild burning itch,
that viii strike you with thousand electric itchy
needles. You cannot tell
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circular amphitheatre. The entire slope
moved in the direction of the valley is es-
timated by a provincial geologist at % me-
tiers, and this confirmed my observation.
Several fields have sunk 20 feet below the
surface. must confess to peculiar sensa-
ton in walking over river of earth and
IN cracks, wondering what the result
would be if the earth should open agaifS,
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WHERE TO SCRATCH FIRST.

You then have to into the open air to get re-
lieved. Why, it is dreadful, and having so many
you, but have found the lost treasure at last II
did not take two spoonfuls of the CUTIcURA REsoL-
and bid them to hold off and it is off MY flesh is
becoming softer, my hair is becoming soft and silky
and then got to using external appiications-CUTI.
oURA SOAP and anoint the parts with CUTIcURA,
if the thousands knew the goodness Of this medicine
as do, they would not be twenty-four hours with
out it. 1t is not only adapted to my case but to all
Others and if anyone disbelieVes this let him stop
next door to the Logan House here take my micros-
cope and see for himself. JOSEPH w RIT,EY
HOLlDAYSBURG PA Nov 10 1899
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

Our esteemed contemporary, the Bidds-
ford journal, wants to know il the PRESS
considers the cities cholera proof. No, it
does not. 1t thinks State board of health
can find plenty to do in the cities. But it
does believe that there is more ignorance or
carelessuess lit makes little difference
which as the result is the same) in regard to
sanitary matters in the country than in the
cities, among similar classes of population.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

The defence of jeff Davis against the
charge of treason which has always been
made for him by his excusers is that he was
a firm believer in the doctrine of peaceable
secession. 1t appears TO be pretty conclu-
sively shown by the documents already
brought out in the controversy between Da-
Wis and Sen. Sherman that the head of the
late Confederacy was not even loyal to that
devotion. He evidently was ready to use,
and meditated using, force against any
State that might attempt TO secede from the
Confederacy. Thus even his technical de-
fence against the charge of treason to the
Union is knocked out from under him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-01-14

The latest remedy for the present bust
ness depression is war with England over
the Nicaragua treaty. The prescriber of this
dose is Western Congressman. Some RENE
dies are great deal worse than the dis
eases they undertake to cure. This is one
of that class.
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MEETINGS.
MEETING.

FNyHE Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the
H. Diamond Wrench Manufacturing Company Will
be held at the Office of the company, 224 NeWbury
street. Portland, on WEDNESDAY, the fourteenth
day of January 1885, at four O'Clock in the after
noon for the following purposes, to wit:
To if the stockholders will vote to change the
bylaws of the company, reducing the number OF
directors to five.
To see if the stockholders will vote to issue adi-
tional stock OF the company.
To elect board of directors for the year ensuing.
To act on any other business that may legally
come before said meeting.
dec25dtd JOSIAH CHASE. secretery.
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Portland & Ogdensburg II, r.. Co.

lEVHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
4 Portland Il OgdeDsburg r. r. Co., will be feld
at the Offices of the Company in the City of Port
land, Me- on Tuesday, January 20, 1885, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon. for the election of Direc-
tors, and transaction of any other business that
may legally come before the meeting
January 6, 1885. jan6dtd
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We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publsca
non but as guarantee OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return OF preserve com
munications that are not used.
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PORTLAND RAILROAD COMPANY.
ANNUAL MEETING.

ANNUAL MEETING.
FFYHE annual meeting of the Stockholders Of the
Il Portland Railroad Company will be held in the
Library Room, Mechanics Hall, Portland, Me-, on
Monday, January 9th, 1885, at O'Clock m, for
the choice of Directors and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before them.
E. A. NEWMAN, Secretary.
Portland, Jan. 18th, 1885. janl2d7t
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We are so thankful to say that our nursing baby
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"A tour to Europe that cost me $4,000. done me
"ess good than one bottle of Hop Bitters thsy also
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-13


The absorption OF the West Shore
Railroad Of New York by the Central,
Is regarded as great misfortune by
the people along these lines, as it re-
moves all hope of vigorous competi-
ton, and virtually annihilates $685.
o0o,0 900 of invested capital, Brad.
streets journal says: The moral to be
drawn from this can be found in the
tendency towards the unlimited con-
soIidation Of corporate enterprise,
and. unrestrained by law or some
other powerful iaduenee, il is quite
possible for nine or ten or even less OF
the powerful railroads corporations
OF the country, controlled by n few
men, TO combine and by the same
methods as were applied to the West
Shore 70 absorb the entire railroad
system OF the country.