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The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
Bismarck Hurt.
Desperate Encounter with Black
FLAGS.

PARIS, Dec. 15.-Gen. DeCourcy, commander of
the French forces in Tonquin, telegraphed the
War Office today that Gen. Negrier has cleared
Black Flags and pirates, capturing number of
fortified caverns and large quantity OF arms and
ammunition stored in them. One cavern was deS-
perately defended and fully one hundred pirates
were killed before it could be taken. Several vii
lagos were also ably defended but the French
routed the pirates. The country has been
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
National GUARD Association.

The fourth annual convention of the National
morning at the Ebbett House. The association
consists of five delegates from the militia of each
State and eighteen States were represented at
the meeting. President Gen George W. Wingate
of New York made the opening address. Gen.
Taylor of Colorado was elected recording secretary
in place of Gen. Alexander of Des Moines and Col.
Chas. e. Bridge of New York was elected cor
responding secretary.
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Eoboes from the ohio election.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 15.-The Supreme Court
this morning, on application of the Attorney Gen
eral granted peremptory writ of mandanus to
compel Clerk Dalton of Hamilton county to make
a return of the election abstract.
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MUSIC EVERY EVENING BY CHANDL ER'S BAND.

Admission-Matinee 10 cts; Fair Evening,
25 cts; Promenade Concerts, 80 cts; Afternoons
Except Saturday,, Free
COMMITTEE-M S. w. Fletcher, Chairman;
Mrs. C. N. Lang, Secretary; Mrs. F. B. Jordan,
Mrs +. G. Rich, Mrs. 7. j. Murphy, Mrs. H. P.
Ingalls, dec12dt23
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THE WEATHER.

LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. 15, 1885.
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NJ | x A . O.;


Or ihe Town of Titipu.
Mr.. Stetson would respectfully remind the
musical public that this will be the only author
this city. the exclusive right to the original orehes
ira, score and libretto, together with the
original models of the scenes and the designs for
the wardrobe, armor and properties from the
Savoy Theatre, London, having been legally as
signed to him by the author and composer through
New York, Boston and the New England States.
The opera will be presented with an admirable
cast, complete chorus and grand orchestra, con-
stitlting in every detail an exact counterpart of
the famous original productions at the Savoy
Theatre, London, and the Fifth Avenue Theatre,
New York.
The sale of seats will open Tuesday, Dec. 18th.
Prlces-Reserved seats, 81, 10 and 80 cents;
gallery. 80 cents. dec14du
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Dec. 15.-The body of Mr..
Eims, mate of the schooner Fred A. Carle, which
went ashore at Quonochontaug Beach last week,
was found on the beach today
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
PROMENADE CONCERT AND TEA PARTY.

City Hall win be deliberately decorated by Boston
Decorating Co.
Useful and Ornamental Articles will be offered
for sale every afternoon and evening.
Donations to tables of articles will be most
cheerfully received. Goods can be sent to the
Committee or they will call for them
Refreshments for sale in Reception Hall. Con-
tribution of refreshments solicited. Contributors
,,ile aud oh %. lftn
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Relief for Indians.

The President to day transmitted to the House
of Representatives report from the Secretary OF
the interior upon the condition of the Northern
Cheyenne Indians upon the Rosebud and Tonqui
rivers, Montana, the inadequacy OF the approprl-
legislative authority for the use of certain funds
indicated for their relief. He says Congress
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
The BODY Recovered.
Eound ON the Beach.

RocKPoRT, Dee. 15.-The body of George
Youngs son, who was drowned in Goose river
Yesterday. was recovered at o'clock this fore
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Two FOULS were called upon the Bijous con-
sequent of false starts by the rush.
BIJoU SKATING PARLoR.
This afternoon at the Biiou will be eompli-
mentary party to the lady patrons. There will be
first class music at the session commencing at
2.30 In the evening there win be general skat-
ing. By request of some of the patrons, the sur
face of one Of the promenades viii be kept clear
for waltzing parties.
GRANITE efRRe-
In q league game of polo in Augusta last night
between the Granite Citys and Lewstons the
former won by a score of 3 to 1.
NOTES.
Patrick McAuliffe of Rockland has signed with
ha COmhrdop cluh
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The Massachusetts State Grange P. of H. as
sembed in their 18th annual session In the town
hall Mt Grafton yesterday Worthy Master James
Draper presiding.
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G.. LIEBMANN,
Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A
MAIN G.

A New Postmaster for Rockland.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-William P. Hurley has
been appointed postmaster at Rockland, and Hi
ram B. Hooper at Hollis Centre
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Death Caused by Exposure.

CALAIS, Dec. 15.-At the coroner's inquest, held
today on the body of the woman found yesterday,
the body was identified as that of Susan Robert
son, of Robbinston, aged As. She had been of
rather simple mind for some time past. The YER
dict WAS that her death was caused by exposure.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
HOUSE,

In the House today, Mr.. Harrison Of Illinois,
offereda concurrent resolution providing for a
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
PORTLAND THEATRE.

Two Nights and Saturday Matinee Friday and Satur-
day, Dec. 18th and 18th.
First and only representation in this city, by the
DOYLEY CARTE OPERA COMP'Y-50 Artists
Boulder the management of Mr.. John Stetson
of Mr.. W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sulliyan's
latest work. the new japanese opera in two acts,
entitled th =
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q disastrous Charivari.

THoMAsToN, Dec, 15.-While serenading a
newly married couple at Port Clyde last night, a
musket burst in the hands of Nelson Benner,
blowing his hand to pieces and bruising his arm
and fann lnndlr
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Cen. Robert Toombs Dead.
FOREIGN.

WASHINGTON, Ca, Dec. 15.-Gen. Robert
Toombs died here this evening, at 6 O'Clock.
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Mustered Out

WINTHROP, Dec. 15.-Samuel Webb, aged
about 70 years, who died at the Soldiers Home
today, was native of Winthrop, and brother of
the late Hon. Z. f. Webb, previously county attor-
ney for Kennebec, and S. L. s. E. G. Webb, for
merly shoe manufacturers. He returned recently
from Dakota, where he formed a township and
named it after his native town. He had been de-
mented for several months
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
Ex- Members of the Maine LegisIa-
ture in Massachusetts,

Boston, Dec. 15.-The meeting called this af-
ternoon at the Quincy House, of exmembers of
the Maine Legislature and Executive Council in
Boston and vicinity, who are interested in attend
ing the legislative reunion at Augusta, was called
to order this afternoon by Mr.. L. L. Wadsworth.
Judge Carter was chosen chairman, and Mr.. Har-
rison Hume secretary. A committee was appoint
ed to make arrangements for the attendance of
the Massachusetts delegation at the reunion, and
this committee was composed Of Messrs. Harri-
son Hume, L. l.. Wadsworth and W. Fl. Kilby. A
committee was also appointed to deal with the
question of forming an association of the Sons of
Maine, similar ito the New Hampshire Club.
Messrs. Hume, S. H. Hamilton and Peter S. J.
Talbot were appointed on this committee.
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Died at Sea.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-During the voyage of the
ship S. F. Hersey (Nickersonl, of Searsport, Me-
from Manila, Walter Keeman, seaman, died
and was buried at sea Dec. 18TH Capt. Curry of
Seatsport aged sc years, died of Inflammation of
the bowels, and his body was brought to this port
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-16
French Troops Disperse Black Flags
After a Desperate Battle.
Terrible Story Of Massacre Of Chris
tians in China.
ARRIVAL of a disabled shIp.

LONDON, Dec. 15.-The British ship Palgraye,
which sailed from Cardiff, November 80, for San
Francisco, (and before reported spoken disabled)
has arrived at Queenstown Her main and mizzen
masts are gone. Two of her seamen were killed
and five others were badly injured.
The Pope III.
LONDON, Dec. 15.-It is reported that the Pope
is i'll.
Bismarck Hurt.
BERLIN Dec. 15.-Bsmarck was painfully in
jured today by the stumbling of his horse. In the
effort to save himself from falling the muscles of
his legs were so severely strained as to interfere
with his walking, and he is confined to his resi-
dence.
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peatl of the Oldest Resident.

WINTHROP, Dec. 15.-Mrs. Hannah Dorman,
aged 80 years, the oldest lady in town, died to-
day. She was a woman of remarkable vitality,
retaining her faculties excellently. She had been
doing the work for her household until recently.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
THE FORTUNATE ISLES.

You sail and you seek for the Fortunate Isles,
The old Greek Isles Of the yellow birds songi
Then steer straight on through the watery miles.
Straight on. straight on and you cant 60 wrong.
Nay not 10 the len, nay not to the right,
Bot on, straight on. and the Isles are n sight.
The Fortunate Isles where the yellow birds sing
And life lies grit with golden ring.
These Fortunate Isles they not so far,
They lie within reach Of the lowliest door,
You can see them CLEAN By the twilight star,
You can hear them sing by the moons white
shore
Nay, never look backi Those leveled grave
stones
They were landing steps; they we're steps unto
thrones
OF glory for souls that have sailed before,
And have set white feet on the fortunate shore.
ind what are the names Of the Fortunate Isles?
Why Duty and Love and large content.
Lol these are the Isles Of the watery miles,
That God LET down from the armament.
To. Duty, and Love. and a true mans trust;
Your forehead to God and your feet n the dust;
Lo. Duty, and Love, and sweet babes smiles,
And these o friend are the Fortunate Isles.
Joaquin Miller.
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SPEAKING ONES MIND.


philadelphia .Pos.-l
81 always speak my mind" observed
Mrs. Jones to a neighbor, in making
call, land then I'm no longer responsible
for what happens" Poor womani
Now, this speaking ones mind is the
cause of more mischief in life, and more
unhappiness in many homes than bad
breeding, bad manners, smoky chimneys,
and disordered nerves Half of it Is moth
ing but temper. The occasion does not
call Tor what is said, and it is uttered in
such key as to make it scolding under
false pretenses.
The household in which the mistress
speaks her mind once or twice week,
year IN and year out, is by no means a
model establishment Everything goes
by fits and starts. To-day, ali is storm
and hustle; tomorrow, all is sulkiness
and exhaustion. The bits of mind given
in this way would be much better re-
served. Advice, counsel, and reproof
need not be presented in so Objectionable
form
Given calmy and sweetly, and at the
right moment, in few words real bits of
mind are always effective But scolding,
as such simply aggravates, and does no
good.
"You can lead me mum, but you can
not drive me, says Mary Ann, with more
true wisdom than we generally find in
such common saying
To be always speaking ones mind is to
run the risk of endless contradictions, be-
cause, as we have said, there is so much
temperin this particular form of utterance.
As rule, there is nothing more unneces-
sary. 1t ought not TO be required, as be-
tween intimate associates, and il is chiefly
with them that it takes place.
Mrs. Jones maid ought to know her
mistress mind without so many deliver
ances,o it is but a poor sort OF mind after
all.
Mr.. Brown cannot have lived half a
century with the partner of his home and
board without knowing every nook and
Granny OF her understanding; her tastes,
her antipathies, her set forms of express
sion.
The occasions when one can do good
by speaking ones mind are rare, and
if due advantage be taken OF them they
will be rarer still. a word in season"
is worth a hundred at the wrong mo-
ment.
81 shall never forget the few words he
said to me-" remarks the boy of his
fathers tender and timely advice. 81
would rather he had thrashed me at the
time" But the thrashing would not have
been half so effective
The hurry to speak ones mind, regard
less Of consequences, is a sign of an un-
balanced temperament.
Speech is silven, but silence is gol-
den" The bits of mind we scatter about
us are often as sharp and as dangerous as
bits of broken glass
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words he often used; let him keep 1t on.
THAT is one instance of how these little
changes for the better creepin."
where do you obtain all your ideas
for costuming historical play?"
Chiefly from reading and experience.
| have library of works on the subject,
and of general literature, l wouldn't take
$1,000 for. Yes, plates help Us a great
deal in getting the color. We can't gain
much information from the ordinary
novelist He isn't definite enough, Now
there is one thing don't think everyone
has noticed about Henry Irving's cos
tunes and those of his company. He
owns and designs them all, as you know,
but there is hardly one of them that has
any gold or silver ornamentation, except
little on the cloaks. He has the very
richest stuffs, and the actor has no choice
but to take what Irving gives him. /
consider Irving one of thevery best stage
managers we have ever had"
''Do the star actions, as a rule look after
the costumes OF their company"
"No; the costumer and the stage mana
ger attend to that. Lawrence Barrett, |
believe, designs many costumes, and is,
perhaps, more particular than most of
them. The lady stars have all they can
do to look after their own wardrobes.
Sarah Bernhardt, though, is simply a
marvel of stage manager. She will
dodge behind the scenes and set six diff
ferent persons going in different direc-
tons all at once, step into her dressing
room and change her magnificent cos
tunes so quickly you can hardly believe
she has done it and reappear on the stage
smiling. Janauschek, too, when she
brought out Brunhilde here for the first
time, procured a lot of copies of the Ger
man stage setting was the original
Brunhilde in Germany-and the scene
painter made up all his scenes from them
and they were of course, accurate. Take
it in Hanlon's 'Fantasma, for instance
The artists sent us word that in one scene
we must use only silver and white to
match this scene, and then we knew just
how to go to work"
eyes, the Germans have the finest
stage settings in the world, simply be-
cause they have schools where the bust
ness in taught But look at usl We have
nothing of the sort. We have great deal
to learn yet"
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FORESTS STAGE MANAGER.
He Contrasts the Present with TIE Past in
Stage Decoration.
IBostcn Globe

'"The stage costuming of to-dayis moth
ing as it was few years ago" said one OF
Boston's best known costumers, once a
favorite actor. He stood, busily engaged
in Transforming three bright-eyed, beard
less boys into relocated soldiers of the
queen, in one of those peculiar rooms,
ancient, medieval, and modern in decor
alton, that are so often fascinating to the
visitors eye.
IF you look at the earlier pictures of
Garrick or SiddOns in Hamlet, Lear, or
Macbeth, you will find that in every
character they are dressed in the cos
TUNES of Washington's time-the CONT
mental costumes, as they are called. They
never made any attempt to follow the cos
tunes of the period"
"Who started the reform in this mat
ter?''
at was first introduced in England by
Maccready and Charles Kean. Formerly
the actors wore either just what they
happened to have or just what the ward
robe woman gave them, and it often
made the most motley combination you
ever saw. remember once / was play
ing with Forrest, and was stage manager
also. Now Forrest was one who was
very particular about his costumes. He
would go on to play his part, and could
see him casting his eyes all over the stage
to see how his people looked, but he
never would say anything. Well, one
night we opened somewhere with King
Lear, and when went to get the cos
tunes from the wardrobe woman 1 said
"What are you going to dress the doc,
tor in?'
"a domino, of course. We always play
him in domino"
"Why, how is that?" 1 said. ''The doc
tor is gentleman, and should play in q
gentleman's costume"
"Well, he always has played in dom.
inc, and he can either use that or e
without" / went home and ''faked" w
some kind of costume of the gentleman
of the period, and we played him in il
that night.
During the play Forrest came round
to me and said:
"'Where did you get the idea of play
ing the doctor in that costume?'
"'The idea is partly historical and part
ly my own, i told him.
lisa good idea-a mighty good idea
J he said, with few of those ornamental
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THE BROOK SONG.

I'm Fastening from the distant hills
With swift and NOISY fowing,
Nursed BY a thousand tiny ril.s,
I'm ever onward going.
The willows cannot stay my course,
With 81 their plant wooing;
l sing and sing till am hOarse.
Ny prattling way pursuing.
] kiss the pebbles as pass,
And near them say they love me,
make Obesance to the grass
That kindly bends above me.
So onward through the mesds and dells
hasten, never knowing
The secret motive that impels,
OR whittier am going.
A little child comes often here
To watch my quaint cOmmotion,
As go tumbling, swift and clear,
Down to the distant ocean;
And as he plays upon my brink,
So thoughtless and 80 merry,
So full of noisy song, think
The child rs like me, very,
Through all the years of youthful play,
With ne'er q thought of sorrow,
We prattling, speed our way,
UnmiEdfui of the morrow;
Ave, through these sunny meads and dells
We gambol, never knowing
The solemn motive that impel9,
Or whittier we are going
And men come here to say to me:
Like you. with weird commotion,
o little singing brooklet, we
Are Fastening to the ocean;
Down 10 the vast and misty deep,
With fleeing tears and laughter,
We go, nor rest until we sleep
In that profound Hereafter.
What tides may bear our souls along,
What monsters rise appalling,
What distant shores may hear our song
And answer to our calling.
All who can saw through mPadS and QellS
We wander, never knowing
The awful motive that impels,
Or whittier we are goingl'
-TEugene Field
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
WHY THE WIND CHANGES.
Scientific Explanation of the Causes of
Shifting Currents and Steady Winds.
[CasselPs Magazine

[Casselfs Magazine.
That the changing of the direction of
the wind is due to the shifting of the sit
uations of the greatest heat upon the
earth is substantially proved by the fact
that, in certain regions of the earth's sur
face, where the situations of the greatest
heat and cold do not alter the direction in
which they lie to each other, the wind
does not change but always blows in the
same direction from one to another, and
all the year round.
This occurs in the great open space of
the ocean, where there is no land to
get heated up by the sunshine OF the day
and to get cool by the scattering OF the
heat at night. In those spaces for vast
breadth OF many hundred miles the sun
shines down day after day upon the sur
face of the sea, heating the water most
along the mid-ocean track, which lies
most Immediately beneath its burn
ing rays as it passes across from east to
west.
This midway track of the strongest sun
shine crosses the wide ocean as a belt or
zone, that spreads some way to either side
OF the equator.
Throughout this midway track the
cooler and heavier air on either hand
drifts in from the north and from the
south, and then rises up, as it becomes
heated by the sun, where the two cur
rents meet. In both instances, however
in consequence of the spinning round OF
the earth, the advancing wind acquires
a westward as well as an equatorial drift
The air-current, as it approaches the
midway equatorial zone, where the on
ward movement of the sea-coyered sur
face of the earth is performed with the
velocity of a thousand miles an hour does
not Immediately acquire this full rate of
speed, and logs back upon the ocean, so
that it appears as adrift toward the west
as well as toward the equator.
On the north side OF the equator the
wind blows all the year round from the
northeast and on the south side from the
southeast, both in the Atlantic and Paci-
fic oceans. These steady and unchanging
ocean winds are called the trade winds,
on account of the great service they rem
der to ships carrying merchandise across
these portions of the sea.
In sailing from England to the Cape OF
Good Hope, through the entire length OF
the Atlantic ocean, ships, before they
reach the equator, have to pass over a
broad space, where strong winds are al
ways steadily blowing from the north
east. That is the region of the northeast
trades. They then traverse a space near
to the equator itself, where the northeast
wind ceases TO blow, and where the air is
very still and calm, and they afterward
come to region south of the equator,
where strong winds are continually blow
ing from southeast. That is the region OF
the southeast trades.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
CIGAR FACTORIES OF MADRID.
Thousands of Women and Girls Who Roll
up the Weed.
(London Telegraph


Before the every day tourist had
learned to babble of Velasquez and
Murillo, and regarded it as essential to
his reputation as man of taste to 90 in
to ecstacies over Moorish arches, the cigar
factories of Madrid were among the prin-
cipal show-places of the uninteresting
capital, which for some military or other
reasons has been dropped down in the
middle of one of the drearist areas in
Christendom.
You know you are approaching it by
the odor of tobacco, and the Babel of
voices which halls the arrival of the
"Gringo" can be compared TO nothing
except the gigantic boarding school with
all the masters backs turned TO the
pupils. Thousands OF women-young
middle-aged, and old-are busy rolling
up cigars so deity that the Impractical
eye has some difficulty in catching the
movement of the artists fingers. A
pinch of leaf here, a turn of the wrist
there, the slightest possible touch of the
tongue when the case demands it, and a
"Claro," or "Maduro," or Colorado"
is ready for the market.
Here cheroots are being turned out
by the thousands, here cigarettes by the
tens of thousands In another building
boxes are being made, labeled and tied
up, and in and around and over all re-
sound the noisy hum of female tongues
that will not be tied. But not hand is
for a moment idle.
The workers, like science teachers at
South Kensington, are paid by results"
and it requires great number Of govern
ment cigars before the madritena can earn
the wherewithal for an ola podrida, a
gay mantilla, or the measure OF sour wine
which tempers on high days and holidays
the frugal fare of the water-drinking
Spaniard.
Some Of the old crones are az hideous
as any of the ancients whom Gustave
Dore loved to draw. But many Of the
matrons are slightly ladies, while the
flashing eyes and roguish fun of the
Young ones somewhat embarrass visitor
who is unaccustomed 10 face such a
battery OF criticism without being able
to exchange a compliment with the
company who are so ready TO express
their individual opinions of the csbail-
ero.
In truth, it requires some courage to
venture into the great cigar mandatory
of Madrid, though those who are fond Of
picturesque sight and not afraid of the
smell of tobacco or the play of Spanish
eyes might wander through the peninsula
from Vigo to Malaga and not come across
a spectacle which would live hall so long
| in their memories.