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NATIoNALrRApERs BANK.

TVlHE shareholders of the National Traders Bank
Of Portland. are hereby notified that their an
nuaI meeting will be held at their banking room,
on Tuesday the twelfth day Of January next, at II
O'clock a. M, to choose five Directors for the en-
suing year and to act on any other business that
may legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier
Dec IL 1885. dec11d1m
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otITUATION wANTED-By girl to as
= sist in general work will 60 fof small "a wages
work GOOD reference. Apply at 2281a Middle ST.,
over Nj. e, Palmer's store, ROOM No. /. 81
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BREAD is the staff of life" and good bread eau
always be made by using the Congress Yeast Pow
der which was never known to spoil a batch of
HOur
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cNTORE No. At Exchange street, now occupied
- nv t. g. Young; possession given October l.
Streaet - aug29dtf
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rpO LET-New house, Just finished; situated on
contains rooms and BATH room, cemented cellar,
new furnace; immediate possession; desirable IN
All respects N. S. GARDINER, NO. 40 EXCHANGE
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Foreign Ports.

Ar at Sydney, NSW, 18th inst, ship VIM Camp
bell, Hathorn, Tacoma.
Passed st Helena Nov TO- barque T ] Carlton,
Amesbury, noilo for New York; 15th Bl Captain
Sewa, Calcutta for do.
Sid fin Nanamo Nov 29th ship Rosie Welt for
San Francisco.
At Hastings Mills Be, 1st inst, ship Corsica,
Purington, for MonteVideo, ldg
Ar at Wanna Nov 4th, barque Nicola, Brown,
New York via Boston.
AT Monteyideo Oct 5. barque Will w Case, Der
mott for Boston; Henry A Litchfeld, Davis, unc
AT Rio Janeiro Nov H. barque J r Rabel, Saw
yer, unc
At Miragoane Nov 9th, sch Mary Douglass,
Perkins, for New York next day.
Ar at Barbados goth, sch Maud Briggs Young,
Bangor
All at Cardenas sth, barque John Marsh, Whit
tier, Portland.
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WIT AND WISDOM.
Always call for Coigan's Taffy Tolu.

Buffalo firm advertises to "to alter the shape
OF your nose" John L. should sue for infringe
manf
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Spoken.

SPOKEN.
Sept 20, lat 80 S, lon 32 E, barque Albert Rus
SELL Kane. from Macassar for Amsterdam.
Nov 20, lat 20, Ion 70 80, brig Stockton, ALLEN,
from Boston for Gonaives.
Dec 5, lat 80 so N, Ion ~ 15 w, sch Geo Walk
err Wright from Anse de Hainault for Delaware
RreallWater,
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vsyO IET-A first-class tenement of or more
rooms; Sebago water and everything conyeIl-
lent. Inquire Of THOMAS j. FQSILEfh al r4 snS
TER NORWAY, Maine. OIL
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Hale,s Honey the great Cough cure 25c. SOC
and 81. sslenn's Sulphur Soap heals & beau
tiies. 25c. German Corn Remover kills Corns
and Bunions. HIPS Hair and Whistler Dye,
Black and Brown, SOC. Pixies Toothacke
Drops cure in one minute, 25c Deans Rheu-
matte pills are sure cure soc
jan16 eou1upS"iyniin
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FElO LET.-Up stairs tenement at No: 10 Hen
nv St. rent SIG per month. Inquire OF l..
REDION 1872 Middle st. 3O-2W*
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Boston Produce Market.

There continues to be good movement in Woo
and prices are firm.
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sswhat is usually the nationality of a bootblack
my dear?" asked Mrs c. of her husband.
"0h, 1t varies" he replied sometimes they
are Polish and sometimes Shinese."
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mo LIGHTHOUSE No. ITO Neal st. For full par
ticulars inquire of FRED n. DOW, rooms
and No Q Market So. OctlU-u
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Buffalo firm advertises to ito alter the shape
OF your nose" John l.. shoulu sue lor lhirihge-
ment.
Always call for Cogan's Taffy Tolu.
A correspondent wishes to know what is the
proper width of a frieZe. Generally speaking,
This matter is governed by the size of the mans
ears.
Mrs Joseph Heap, the wife of Constable Heap,
of this city was troubled with rheumatism for
ave years and could not use her arms. Four doses
of the Athlophoros cured her ID. r. Smith, drug
gist. 1876 South Main street. Fall River, Mass
ssWhat is usually the nationality of bootblack
my dear?" asked Mrs c. of her husband.
"Oh, II. varies" he replied. sometimes they
are Polish and sometimes Shinese."
The Three Outlets of disease are the bow
els, the skin and the kidneys. Regulate their &C
ton with the best purifying tonic, Burdock Blood
Bitters.
Flatery is like colone water, tew be smelt ov'
not swallered.
If there ever was specific for any one COM
plaint then Carters Little Liver Pills specific
for sick headache, and every woman should know
this. Only one pill dose.
Piety IL like beans, it seems to do the best on
poor slle.
My friend look herel you know how weak and
nervous your wife is, and you know that Carriers
Iron Pills will relieve her, now why not be fair
about it and buy her a box?
She-"Don't you think something ought to be
done toward uplifting the stage?'
He-"Yes! or perhaps something toward the
lowering of the bonnet would serve the same pur-
pose."
BREAD is the staff of life" and good bread eau
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If there ever was specific for any one COM
PLANT then Carters Little Liver Pills specific
for sick headache, and every woman should know
this Only one pill dose.
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DIR. z. q. REED.
NOTICE.

TVVHE subscribers having leased the Casco Dye
4 House. 10 Plum ST., and having putin entire
ly new machinery, now prepared to do all KINDS
Of Dyeing in perfectly satisfactory manner. Old
and new patronage respectfully solicited. All
work left with us will have prompt attention.
no24d1m* STEWART & GREEN. ProUrietors.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.
Grain.

PORTLAND, Dec. Il, 1886.
The following are to-days quotations for Flour
Grain, Provisions, &C.:
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WAN T ID.

DY wholesale dry goods house in Boston,
ID salesman to sell dry goods in the state !, 81
Maine. one who has an established trade IN thls
line. None others need apply. Address
decedtf p O. BOX No. 1850
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
IMAGES IN EUROPE.

The volume of consular reports on the
condition of ''labor in Europe" furnishes a
great deal of valuable information. The
first impression which is made in turning
over the leaves of the volume which has
just been issued is the low rate of wages in
Europe everywhere when compared with
the United States. The next impression
is the large degree of comfort which wages
purchase in this country. The following
are some of the facts cleaned from this
source: In the district of Esen, Germany,
which is the iron and coal district, first
class iron and steel workers get from Is to
20 marks week, equal to from S3.75 to
S4.76 per week. The hours of work are
from o'clock a. IN. until o'clock p. IN, with
intervals for meals. The miners earn from
IS cents per day down to as low as As cents
per day, according to the production. 60
cents per day being high average for the
year. The cost of living is as follows:
Two rooms in the country and half acre
of ground, S35.70; clothing for family,
S57.12; fuel, S13.56; taxes, SO. is; food.
S17S.7S; schools books, S4.7 &c; miscellane-
Gus, S4.76. This is one sample case. The
average expenditure for each member of
this family is SIS cents per day. They live
wholly On bread and vegetables, and rarely
taste meat.
In England the same class of work Is paid
little better. Iron workers in rolling
mills earn from IS down to as low as 81. 80
per week. Puddlers get as high as SO. IA
per week. Forge hammers get $3.50 per
week. In cases where man has wife
and daughters who work in a weaving mill.
they are able to live more comfortably, and
have meat once or twice a day. but where
the only wage-earner is the man the hard
ships and privations Of life are extreme.
Women are put TO the coarSest kinds of
labor throughout all Europe. They work
in the fields and in the factories like
men, and often in the mines, and vet
their wages are universally lower
than those Of men. The deductions
which one Of the consuls draws after a long
examination into the facts are as follows:
That ''no class of labor in England is as in
telligent as the corresponding class in the
United States. In consequence of this. the
laborer is not so valuable to his employer.
lie is less receptive and less retentive of
ideas, requires more oversight and atten-
ton and accomplishes less in day. His
wages are less than in the United States.
There is not corresponding cheapness in
the price of commodities. Rent is cheaper;
but if the laborer spends less here in other
directions, it is because he does without or
buys inferior articles, and not because the
necessaries of life are cheaper than in the
United States. The employment of women
is more general than in the United States
There is some female member contributing
to the support of almost every laborer's
family"
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
MEN Or NOTE.

President Cleveland wears a white Derby
hat.
The Prince of Wales Is feet inches in
height.
Americans have s1e5,OOO,OOO invested in
Mexican railways.
Judge Geddes is looming up as the probable
Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio.
Mayor Low of Brooklyn recently van
quished his secretary in a six-mile swimming
race.
A good base ball player in Rhode Island
gets bigger salary than the governor of the
state.
Col. Couch. since the death of Payne, the
leader of the Oklahoma boomers" Is u ma
tive of Wisconsin and a ''Forty-niner."
OF the l22 members of the graduating class
at Yale this year fifty-eight are free-traderS
and forty-four protectionists.
Emperor William health is almost restored,
but weakness in his legs prevents him from
walking much. Hc takes an hours drive
twice daily.
1t is believed that Minister Pendleton will
eventually succeed in convincing Prince Bis
marck that American pork-tails make the
best whistles.
AAN fASSSAN A4OAo IONNA1 IL
in England, not by his speeches in parliament
but by the quality of the jam produced in a
factory which he owns.
Mr.. Masatala Yamanak Of Japan. for six
years a student of Franklin and Marshall col
lege at Lancaster, Penn, a college belonging
TO the Reformed church, graduated last week.
and was Immediately engaged by the Japan
ese legation in Washington, ID. c., as secre-
lary
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
WILL NOT ABDICATE.

There is not much reliance to be placed
in the rumor that Queen VICTORIA in
tends to retire from the throne on the fif-
tieth anniversary of her accession There is
abundant reason why the good old lady
should desire TO be relieved of the cares
and responsibilities of royalty after a half
century's experience on the throne of one
of earth's greatest nations But her mai
esty's attitude in regard to the recent
ministerial changes does not indicate a
weakening of her powers or an abate-
ment of her interest in her official du-
ties. There has hardly been a time in
the history of her long reign when she has
taken more prominent part in public affairs
than she is now doing. 1t is hardly proba-
BILE that under such circumstances she is
preparing voluntarily TO lay down her scep-
ter. On the contrary there Is every evidence
that she proposes TO continue TO be the mis-
tress Of the realm until life's close. The
queen of England and empress of India is
not the kind of woman TO relax power be-
cause she is growing old
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
THE OHIO CANVASS.

The nomination of DIR. LEONARD for
governor by the Ohio Prohibitionists is Civ
ing the Republicans of that state any
amount of worry. They begin to realize
that mistake was made in renominating
FORAKER. The expectation was that he
would capture the temperance vote of the
state, and upon that theory they had thought
to kick the German vote out of their
calculations altogether. Now that the Pro-
hibitioniStS have determined to make a
straight fight and will submit to no alliances
with the Republican party, the leaders see
the folly of FoRAKER's nomination. indie
pendent of this fact, they recognize in DR..
LEONARD formidable candidate. He is
a man of unbounded popularity and is held
i'll high esteem by the Methodist denomina-
ton, In which he is distinguished minis
ter. There is no doubt but that he will poll
a larger vote than any Prohibition
candidate has ever received in the
state. And most, if not all, of
his increased vote will come from the Re-
publican party. 1t may possibly terminate
that the real contest will be between
LEONARD and the Democratic candidate,
whoever that may be. The disposition
manifested by the Greenbackers to form a
coalition with the Democrats makes the out
look all the more discouraging for the Re-
publicans. The result is that Judge For
AKER has deemed it necessary to take off
his coat and wade into the canvass before
the Democrats get their ticket in the field.
A long campaign, however brilliant it may
be, will do Judge FORAKER no good if
the Greenbaekers coalesce with the
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
BIG BEARS CAPTURE.

The announcement of BIG BEARS cap
ture in yesterdays GLOBE is confirmed by
our Winnipeg dispatches this morning. This
brings an end to the Indian troubles in the
Northwest and relieves Gen. MIDDLETON
and bis troops Of the unpleasant duty of re-
naming Oh the frontier in a sort of needle
in-the-hay-stack hunt after BIG BEAR and
his rowing band. Starvation did what MID
DLEToN failed to do, and the willy chief
has been compelled TO surrender because
his band had nothing to live on. The Can
adian government is to be congratulated
that the Northwestern trouble has at last
been brought to a conclusion. 1t has cost
the Dominion great deal of money and
some bloodshed. The policy for the Cana
dian government now to pursue is one of
justice in dealing with the Indians in the
future and thus prevent the recurrence of
any more outbreaks. Gen. MIDDLETON
left Battleford last night and is expected to
arrive at Winnipeg next Sunday. One of
the saddest features of the campaign is the
death of Col. WILLIAMS, who fell victim
to fever just as the war is terminated.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
LOSING MONEY,

Canada begins to find out that the policy
of setting up her chief towns as cities of
refuge for fugitives from the United States
is not a paying business. The flow of sum-
mer tourists from this side has been a
source of good deal of revenue TO the
Canadians. It's likely to stop. as American
travellers do not care TO be constant objects
of suspicion, and as constantly annoyed by
being shadOwed by detectives. A we'll
hammered gentleman from Chicago, who
recently visited Rideau lake on fishing ex-
cursion, was drugged, kidnapped aud
spirited away bya couple of detectives, who
imagined that he was an abscondng
cashier, and adopted these outrageous
means for bringing him back to New York,
with the hope of earning the s.. 600 reward
offered for his apprehension. People who
go out in pursuit of pleasure do not care TO
visit locality where they are liable TO be
subjected to such unpleasant complications.
1t is TO Canada's interest TO have a new eX-
tradition treaty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
WIDOWS BENEFIT
Kansas Crops BADLY Damared.

PooK, Kan, July 5.-Another heavy
rainstorm visited us last night, being con-
tinuous all through the day. 1t seems gem
eral through Eastern Kansas and Western
Missouri, and this is the sixth day of almost
continuous cold rains. The work of gath
ering the wheat crop is brought to COM
plete standstill. Wheat in stocks has been
ruined and estimates place the loss in Kan
sas at /, ZOO, 600 bushels, besides the damage
to grain yet on the fields. Corn will prob
ably sustain little injury, but is backward
twenty days as compared with the latest
season for twenty years. The state boards
latest estimate of 100000 bushels of
wheat was based on an alleged improve
ment in Southeastern Kansas, which was
expected to partially offset disasters in the
great wheat belt of the center. This eSti-
mate took no account of this weeks storm,
and the immense damage to stacked wheat
in the more favorable locality. Further
west there is no wheat to be injured by the
storm or anything else. Fears are now en-
tertained that potatoes will rot in the
ground. Minor crops suffer in like ratio.
1t is not drouth but too much rain ana cold
that Injuries Kansas this year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
A BUsHEL OF WHEAT.

The farmers of the Northwest will be in
terested in the estimate given in Yesterdays
GLOBE, and which will reappear in our
weekly edition, of the cost of a bushel of
wheat from the sowing until it gets into the
bakers oven. The figures given in the
article referred to were the careful estimates
OF gentlemen who have made it their busi-
ness to know such things. The estimate
furnished by Mr.. DALRYMPLE was abso-
lutely correct so far as his own experience
goes, for, as he says his books are kept ac-
curstely. and he can tell to the cent what
it costs to raise a bushel of wheat on his
bonanza farm. where he seeds 30. 0OO acres
annually. Mr. DALRYMPLE figures up the
cost o. Il bushal Of wheat from the sowing
to the time il IS delivered on board of the
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
THE CLOSING PAGES.

There will always be strange melan-
choly association connected with the closing
pages of Gen. GRANTS book. They were
written while the shadows of the Dark Val
ley were gathering thiclIly about him.
Each passage of the closing pages is per-
meated with the agony of a deadly ulcer
gnawing at the very heart-strings of the
writer. No other writer has so interviewer
the sufferingS of death into his book. Other
authors have depicted the sufferings and
death of other people, but the pages of
Gen. GRANTS book are crimson with the
hearts blood of him who held the pen. In
future years, as the leaves are scanned by
those who are familiar with the declining
days of the veteran, there will
be presented constant suggestions
of horrible gasping for breath,
of the despair which came when the
authors eye was dimmed with the shadows
of night: there will be hints, too, of the in
domitable energy which struggled on when
Death stood over him with upraised dart.
These pages will recall the restless nights
when fitful sleep tortured rather than
rested. They will tell of darkness which
was full of frightful visions. And between
the lines will be the story of a nation,
which bent sadly and reverently TO catch
the feeble heart-beats TO learn if there
might be another hour, another moment of
life for its hero. Nothing from the pen of
composer or brush of artist could ever pic
ture so effectively the sentiments, the fleet
ing hope, the despair, the failing vision,
the torture and agony as are inseparably
mingled with the closing pages of Gen.
GRANTS book.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
The "First Ludy,, rs Housekeeper

TlIIuutIphIu Ilnts.
Miss Cleveland has settled in a common
sense, practical way the much discussed
question of who is the first lady in the land.
Several days ago the necessity for some
house cleaning supervisions having arisen,
she routed her social opponents by tying a
towel around her head. and, in unprotentious
dress, personally directed the corps of ser
wants as TO the manner in which the work
had 10 be done. The leading lady in the land
ought 10 be able 10 lead in the matter of over
seeing homework as well as i'm the more fash
ionable but less useful occupations of dane
ing a german or disseminating the latest so
ciety gossip. Somehow there is streak of
homely common sense running through the
Cleveland family that stamps them as being
very American in their ideas.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06

THERE is man living in Kanawha county,
West Virginia, 1l2 years old, and who is the
only living person that ever saw GEORGE
WAsHINGToN. The latter was large land
owner in the Kanawha valley and was known
10y the individual now living when in that
valley making a survey of some lands. The
old Virginian says that WAsHINGToN was as
straight as an Indian. He was six feet two,
and was padded with muscle. He wore No.
IL shoes and weighed 2l0 in his prime. His
cold light grey eyes could look stern and
angry, but seldom smiled. His strength was
immense. He was fastidious as 20 his dress
ana had servant TO comb his hair every
morning. His breakfast was a light one of
corn cakes, honey and tea, but his dinner was
aheavy affair. He usually drank six glasses
of Madeira wine at this meal. He took a great
deal of outdoor exercise, and while he didnot
treat his slaves cruelty, he made them work
hard. In his active days he enjoyed dancing
and the theater, and other worldly pleasures.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
Little Reform Needed.

Red Wing sun.
There is good deal Of nonsense being got
OF about special session of the legislature
the coming winter. Minnesota has had
enough legislature TO answer for some two
years NJ least. As far a redistricting on the
new census 10 give the northern part of the
state a greater representation, that portion
has no reason 70 complain of the treatment
of the last legislature, besides our Legislators
ought TO be broad enough 10 legislate for the
whole state, and not for a section The num-
Der of representatives and senators ought to
be cut down one-half at least for the best in
terests OF the state. Both bodies are getting
too unwieldy for efficiency, economy or intel
ligent action.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-06
Republican Tribute 10 Biermnnn.

hOcneSVer rust
Since it must be Democrat, we can dis
cover no good reason why the appointment of
our fellow citizen, Mr.. a. Hermann, TO the
Office OF collector OF internal revenue for
Minnesota is not one eminently 1T and proper
TO be made. We believe that the educational
attachments and clerical practice Of Mr.
Biermsnn abundantly qualify him for the
faithful and intelligent discharge OF the du-
ties Of the position TO which he has been ap-
pointed. Besides this, If we recognize and
allow the validity of claims for party work
done, Mr. Hermann is entitled TO respectful
and generous consideration at the hands OF
the Democratic party.