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The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
The CHICAGO STRIKE.

The present strike Of the employees of the
west Division Street Railroad Company at
Chlcago is the outgrowth Of strike which
TOOK place some time ago. That strike was
for an increase of wages. 1t succeeded,
The pay of the men was raised in accord
ance with their request. But the members
OF the committee which presented the de-
mands OF the strikers were promptly dis
charged from the service of the company
The present strike grows out of the dis
charge of this committee The strikers saw
that the committee acted merely for them in
presenting their demands to the company
and consequently they believe it to be their
duty to stand by them. This is q position
that does the men credit. Had they desert
ed their committee and suffered the members
Of it to be discharged without protest, they
would have been guilty of base ingratitude
1t was right for them to seek by every law
full means in their power to induce the com
pany to retain these men. 1t was. right for
them, if they saw fit, to leave the service of
company in body, and to this point public
sympathy ought to have been and would
have been with them
But unfortunately they did not stop when
they had exhausted their legal and moral
rights They went further, and undertook
to coerce the company into taking the men,
bers of the committee back by destroying it's
property and stopping its business. They
became ruffians, assaulting men with sticks
and stones, blocking up the streets and
abridging the rights of the innocent public.
Their present attitude is one of rebellion
against law, and ought not to be excused or
eXtenuated in the slightest degree The acts
they are committing now are offences against
the State. The merits of their quarrel with
the horse car company are of no consequence
at this juncture. The men are performing
now as rioters and not as strikers, and the
first and only thing to do is to compel them
to submit to the law. The suggestion of ar
bitration at this time is entirely out of place
and the President of the company very prop
erly rejected it. When the strikers return
to obedience to the civil law an effort to am
icably adjust their dispute with the railroad
company may be in order, but as long as they
continue to defy the laws of the land efforts
at Cancellation will be misdirected. The
first duty of the authorities is to crush
the rioters and compel them to obey the law,
no matter at what cost After that is done,
if Mayor Harrison has any recommendation
to make in regard to the settlement of the
original dispute it may not be out of place to
offer it, His business, and his only business,
at this juncture is to preserve the peace, and
| if he cannot do it with the force at his CON-
mand he should promptly call on the Govern
or for aid. Temporizing with mob is dan
gerous business in any city, but it is doubly
dangerous in city where rufianism and
socialism are so strong as in Chicago
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

The British Liberals are very uneasy over
the result of the recent parliamentary cleo
ton. Contrary to general anticipation the
Conservatives have made gains. A great
many of the newly enfranchised voters are
so Indifferent to the privilege conferred upon
them that it is doubtful if they will take the
trouble to go the polls, and the agricultural
laborers, it is now feared by the Liberals, will
be controlled by the country squires who are
almost all Tories.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Thirty six persons died in London last
year from starvation.
There is yet ice at the foot of the Ameri-
can fall at Niagara.
Melons are to be brought this year from
Georgia to the Ohio river at a rate of one
cent per ton per mile.
The editor who said "A large number of
Georgia watermelons are in our midst" has
everybody's sympathy.
Ben Hogan, the converted ex-prize fighter,
is preaching at Chicago. He was poor
prize fighter, and seems to be poor preach
er.
An Oregon man has followed out the
stump of a huge tree in the fashion of a
room, cut door and windows in it. and
has there taken up his abode.
The largest shaving ever made by wood
working machine is forty-two inches wide,
seventeen feet long, and of uniform thick
ness.
A colored wash lady, who died in Brooklyn
the other day, left fortune of $780, 900, ac-
cumulated in her business She made no
will, and, as there are no heirs, the money
will go to the State.
Everybody in London who has daughters
to marry gives ball, if possible, inasmuch
as, if they do not, their girls, unless possessed
" cOlllC dGbldCJlOH Vi very
high rank, receive scarcely any invitations to
such entertainments.
The obeliSk in Central Park is said by
such good authority as Professor Eggleston
and General di Cesnola to be rapidly dis
integrating. 1t was only the Egyptian at
mosphere which preserved the relic of a past
age so long.
A battle extraordinary is reported from
Japan. A Toxic journal says a fight be-
tween immense numbers of frogs took place
in the fields in that vicinity short time ago,
and that 200 frogs were left dead upon the
ground
A Georgia swain, frugal but eager, bribed
rival to desist from making love to his
sweetheart. Twelve peaches were enough
to prevail upon him to desist. That relieved
Georgia lover now smiles when he reads that
the peach crop is failure.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

President Cleveland's letter to Tammany
was probably not exactly the kind of letter
Tammany hoped to get. That organization
it is safe to say, is not half so much inter
ested in "a pure, free and just government
as it is in clean sweep and a new deal, which
will put good many of the Tammany crowd
into fat Offices
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

the President las deviated from the spirit of
his civil service letter, it will be its business
to compel him to retrace his steps. The
hypocritical mask which the administration
is wearing it will be the duty of the Senate to
too of
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

The New York Sun reads with much salts
faction the semi-official announcement that
in case Mr. Kelley is rejected by the Govern
ment of Austria no minister will be appoint
ed to that court, and would like to know
what is the need of Minister to Austria
ANYWAY.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

A late publication is the New York Elite
Directory, containing the names of 10000
families. We have heard of ''the upper TO-"
but never of the upper 10000. At this rate
it viii soon be fashionable to belong to the
common herd.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

Mrs. CaSWeII'S ParIOr Glasses
AND
SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES & MISSES,
NO. SO PARK ST,

VIII reopen Sept. 10, 1885. Special attention Is
given TO the common and higher English branch
es, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, etc. Classes will
recite twice week in the History of the Eng
Iish Language as a supplement to theastudy of
English Literature and English History; twice a
week in the History of Art, beginning with the
subject of Architecture; three times a week In
General Literature, beginning with the Odys-
sey and reading analytically the Had, the Eneid
Paradise Lost the Inferno, ETC.; four times a
week in Physiology; three times a week In
Geology, and one lecture week in Miner
aIOgy, with the study and free use of a collection
of 300 specimens and models; four times week
in Greek, beginners class fitting for college;
three times week each in French and Ger
man. Special students will be received in all
these classes. A large collection of photographs
will be used in the teaching of history, mythology
and geography. English pronunciation a spe-
cialty in every class. So far as consistent with
the plan of the school the discipline of the public
schools is maintained. Seats for day pupils and
places in the family may be secured by personal
application until July LIST and after Sept. 1st or
y letter at any time. Children under twelve
years of age will not be admitted unless they can
enter existing classes. Number of pupils limited.
Letters must be addressed to SO Park Street.
je27 eOdtoc1
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
CARPET DEPARTMENT.

Ten Thousand Yards all ALL WOOL CAR
PETS, latest patterns to be sold for 60 Goats
per ynrd.
Some of the patterns are controlled in this max
ct exclusively by us. We carry in stock full line
OF WiltOns, MOquettes, Brussels and Rex
bury Tapestries, together with a large assert
ment of Rugs and Mats.
DECORATED DINNER SETS, BA-
BY CARRIAGES, REFRIGERATION RS
AND OIL STOVES I'm GREAT VAREE-
TY, OF WHICH LACK OF SPACE
FORBGDS MENTION IN DETAIL.
We can and do under one roof, furnish complete
outfits for hotels boarding houses, private dwell
ings and restaurants either for cash or install
ments. Catalogues and terms of household goods
sent by mail upon application. Orders by nail fol
any of the above goods promptly attended to.
No charge for packing Goods delivered In
Portland free of charge.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

There were 6,0O4 mercantile failures during
the first six months of the present year, an
increase of 1874 over the number that occurred
the first six months of 1884
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

The Dominion government has very
promptly removed the duty on Newfound-
land fish, and now of course Newfoundland
will take off the duty on Canadian products
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

The total number of deaths from cholera
in Spain so far this season is 5000. The
death rate is about four in nine.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
PARLOR SUIT DEPARTMENT.

AS in Chamber Sets, so in Parlor Suits, we dis
play some Parlor Suits of our own new and frosh
designs, and early purchasers will have the best
ment.
We have new pattern upholstered in Genuine
Embossed Mohair Plush in one color or in q com
bination of cOl0rs, or in Notified Illuminated Plush
as the customer may desire. This set consists of
adouble,back Sofa gents large Easy Chair, latest
improved noiseless platform Rocker, large Reeep-
ton Chair, Corner Chair and extra large Sitting
Chairs, for
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

To suit other tastes in Parlor Suites we offer
still another style, upholstered in first quality Hair
Cloth. Like the Suites just mentioned, the design
is entirely new and the frames, which are of Solid
Black Walnut are of the very best make. 1t con
sists of two-part black Sofa, Gents Easy Chair,
large Arm Rocker with Western Spring attach
ment, large Window Chair, Centre Chair and 2 ex-
ira large Sitting Chair. Our price for this suit is
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
CURRENT COM MENT.
THE LATEST DEFINITION.
Chicago Infer-Ocean

chicago lnter-Ocean.
The lamb that stood below in the running
stream and muddied the water that the wolf
was drinking was an offensive PARTISAN
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN MR.. ARNoLD's
OPINION.
The Citizen.
Mrs Josephine Mcdonald, wife of ex-Sen-
ator Mcdonald of Indiana, was pronounced
by Matthew Arnold the most beautiful
woman in the world.
THIS WAS BEFORE HIS FATHER WENT INTO
THE CABINET.
Exchange.
L. @. G. Lamar, Jr., son of the Secretary
of the Interior, is commercial traveller, and
busies himself in selling boots and shoes to
his Southern customers.
AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW.
Providence Start
"The cleanest city in the country" is the
first sremark of almost every stranger who
visits Providence. OF course it is kept SO
only by efficient, constant work
HOW TO GET THE DOODLE IN OHIO.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
There is not going to be great deal of
money in the Ohio campaign, but the Wav to
get a fair share of what little there may be,
will be to negotiate as political Prohibit
zionist with the Democratic committee
SERIOUS ERUPTION IN CALIFORNIA.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The crater of long seemingly extinct vol
cano in California spreparing to belch again.
Denis Kearney announces his intention to
make six months campaign as the work
ingmen's candidate for governor.
THE FRIENDS OF TWO GREAT MEN.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
One by one the friends of Emperor VII
liam are dying. Two by two the friends of
Carter Harrison are going to the Peniten-
tiary. There are two great men undergoing
sad and simultaneous bereavement.
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE LoCUsTs.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Democracy comes once every twenty
four years and the locust once every seven
teen; AS the locust has an appetite for ev-
erything that is green, and the Democracy
has an appetite for everything on earth, we
hardly see the wisdom of Providence in plac-
ing the two pests seven years apart. WHY
not turn them both loose at once and let
them destroy each other.
TEXAS IS BIG STATE.
Kansas City Journal
To sum it up, Texas is a great State, and
does nothing in half way, even when out
cotton fields, the biggest corn fields. the Bic.
gest herds of cattle, the biggest f1ocks of
sheep. the biggest cactus, more COWBOYS.
more mustangs, and can get up bigger hang
ing bees than any other State in the Union,
anu has poeH uolHg IL ever since III begged It's
way into the Union in the first instance, and
was whipped back in the second place.
THIS TALK AT 500 A NIGHT.
[John P. st. John.
This attempt of the Republican party to
keep up sectional hate should be frowned
down. All the war issues are dead. The
negroes down South have the right of the
ballot. OF my own personal observation
and knowledge | assert that the social and
political civilization Of Danville, Va, and of
Copiah County, Miss, is as high and as
States, and that the charge that there is any
bulldozing, fraud, intimidation, or violence
at the polls there is false
THE VICTORIES OF RownoIN ,,r-sCrp
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY Z.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
in all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pub
lication but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
THIS TALK AT 800 A NIGHT.
TJohn p. st. John.
THE VICTORIES OF BowDoIN MUSCLE.
Lewiston Journal.l

If the Bowdoin crew had crossed the line
ahead of their nearest competitors, their
achievement on the Fourth of July would
have been more satisfactory. AS It's, they
exceeded the expectations of their friends BY
winning the lion share of the honors of the
regatta, and adding another trophy to the
ed the base ball championship OF Maine and
to have triumphed in the American intercol-
legiate boat race in one season, is more glory
than ever fell to the lot of Bowdoin muscle
befOre-perhaps a little too much for the
benefit of BoWdoin brain,
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
$4,000.

Terms of credit on the two above Parlor Sets to
residents of Portland SIS to 81 down and SIS to 81
per month until paid.
We carry also 20 other patterns in Parlor Suites
at correspondingly low prices, and are prepared
to manufacture anything desired at short notiee
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

The managers of companies owning tele-
graph, telephone and electric light lines in
large cities are rapidly making up their
minds that sooner or later their wires must
go under ground. At the same time there is
great force in the argument of Capt. F. V.
Green, who has charge of the streets in
Washington, that it is impossible, by an or
dinance of any CITY council to get rid Of the
nuisance of overhead wires in day, or in a
week, or in month. 1t is necessarily
question of time, and not a short time either.
1t is perhaps, as good time now as any to
remind people of Mr.. Clevelands celebrated
letter to Mr.. Curtis, in which he spoke of
certain offices "outside of the operation of
the civil service rules which should be filled
on tests of personal merit alone, regardless
of political belief or pejudice. 1t is also
worth mentioning now that the President
has been making appointments for about
four months and no such place has been
found Those offices are few and far be-
tween.
1t is really too bad that Kelley hasn't
sense enough to resign If the only objec-.
ton Austria urged against him was the fact
that his wife is a Jewess, it might be proper
for him to stick. But Austria has other OBJ
jections. Her pride is touched, and naturally
enough, at having a man sent to her court
who had been rejected by Italy. Reasonably
enough she thinks if Kelley isn't good enough
for Italy he isn't good enough for her Kei-
ley is now in Paris apparently working hard
to screw his courage up to endure the
snub which he is destined to get when he
reaches Vienna, if he ever does.
The only avowed candidates for the Port
land post office were Mr.. j. S. Palmer and
= Gen. j. j, Lynch, though it is generally I'M
derstood that Mayor Deering could have
been induced to have accepted the office.
Gen. Lynch never had any chance. He is an
Irlshman, and Democrats never have any
use for Irishmen after election day. Mr..
Palmer, who carries off the prize, belongs to
the kid glove wing of the Democracy. He is
citizen of Deering but carries on the insur-
ance business in Portland. Personally he is
an agreeable and popular gentleman, but his
politics are very much against him. AS soon
as he is indicted into office, however, he will
of course put aside all his offensive parti-
sanship" and perform as nou-partisan pa
triot along with Capt. Chase.
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07

These are full sized sets of 10 pieces, well made
and attractive looking
1B- Terms of credit on above sets, to residents
of Portland 81 down and 81 per week until paid
We have 40 other different styles of painted,
Enameled and Mahoganized Sets constantly on ex-
hibition in our ware rooms. The above sets are
manufactured from entirely new designs expressly
for our spring trade, and are not shown anywhere
else in Boston
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
PAINTED ENAMEL CHAMBER SIT


Dark and light paneled with landscape mirror
combination panels and handsome Ornamontation
The Portland daily press., 1885-07-07
ADJUSTMENTS.
STATE ST.PARISH and SUNDAY SCHOOL
IN and OUT OF ANDERSONVILLE.

Frank w. Smiths Benefit Lecture,
Wednesday Evening, July =, nt ". VI. "A.
Hall, with readings by j. c. Newton "Charge OF
the Maine Regiments and ''Welcome Home"
written by Mrs. Kate BrOwnlee Sherwood, Ad-
mission % cts; Children cts. Copy of Smiths
a 25c ticket. iy7d2t
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19
:aollsa AGRICULTURAL LABOR.

sond1taoa OF tsse ssn gIish Farmers
MISERY az tire I.aborers.
Alfred Tumble in American Agrieulturist.]
Tie English farmers are Ike their
oois- buiit 70 last, but not to work fast.
they take things easy, and are little in
crested IN affairs of their farms. They
10 nos read many papers, and almost
heir only relaxation is found at an an
,ual fair or two, and at election time.
Of late years, the sporting farmer has
ormed an exception to the rule He
initiates the follies and extravagances
VI the great folks, goes hunting, plays
billiards, bets on the races, and
thinks his way down the road
ruin, rapidly and easily, but he is an
exception fortunately, and will remain
me. The English farmer is good
eeder. He believes in treating himself
md his household well. His house is
commonly as solid and old-fashioned as
lis tools. One Welsh farmhouse, is
more than 400 years old Its tenant is a
7ery wealthy man. but he cannot buy it,
hough he desires to do so and rebuild.
Here and there are found old manors,
deserted to the winds sometimes, at
others still inhabited They are abso-
utely sepulchral in their gloom, and
Justify the ghost stories with which
hey are one and all associated.
The condition of the English agricul-
ural laborer varies with that of the dis
riot to which he belongs. On poor
lands, he earns at the best 8 shillingS
about so a week, on good ones he rises
20 Is and even 20. In some districts,
We find him living rent free, in others
ne has to pay rent. But whether he
pays the rent in money or not, the land
ord gets its price from him, and to
keep body and soul together, he must
work constantly and put all his family
1T tasks. His sons begin to do some
<ind of service almost as soon as they
IAN walk. Then they are promoted to
The pillow, or otherwise to assist about the
;arm. If such boy can get job in
he barns or stables, his highest ambi-
lion is achieved.
The misery of the bulk of agricultu-
raj laborerS in Oyer-crowded England is
indescribable. Numbers have of recent
years been sent to Canada and Australia
oy popular subscription, but the mass
which remains is i'll no better condition
Than before Not little of this is due
70 himself. Many landlords do their
Jest to improve the condition of their
aborers, but those who should benefit
" their efforts, are SO stepped in jgnog~
ance and so unnamed By hardship, that
hey are incapable OF assisting their ben
efact0rH in their good work.
An English writer not long ago said:
Though slavery has been unknown in
England for centuries, we have, i'll the
| agricultural laborer, creature, who is
l slave in everything but name He is
vassal Of the soil He yolongs to the
same estate his grandfather did, Just as
4 Russian self belonged with the land he
tlled only, whore the surf was tied
iown by law, he is chained ny poverty,
ignorance and degradation,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19
Zee VI "ar nr s:n.ifsia Coins.
~ aTiJ M Wonders I

More than Zoo pounds sterling
worth OF silver is wasted every year in
he course O: TIE circulation OF crowns,
tiorins, shi..pgs and skip nccs, One
h.tndred SOY relgns OF the date of 1920,
which were weighed in 1859 by Mr. Mil
Ter, showed loss in weight through the
circulation which was estimated at 1
pound Is and I'd. There is, therefore,
more waste produced in the circulation
of gold and silver coins than is generally
thought Of.
A coin when turned out of the mint
brand new has a number of vicissltudes
to pass through before it is again called
in. Ii is constantly being abraded, even
by handling. An ordinary chemical
balance which will turn the II, 000th
part of grain, will not show that a
shilling has lost in weight when the
thumb has been rubbed over it; but one
of the feats performed by the induction
balance-an electrical instrument widely
different from the chemical BALANCE
has been to show that coin under
goes less even when finger is rubbed
over it. Tt will readily be understood,
therefore, that in the numberless han1'
lings coin has to submit 20 in the
course of years tie loss arising there
from becomes at last sensible to the
ordinary balance. Coins likewise suffer
much loss in weight by abrading each
other'a surface when jingling in the
pocket, and they are damaged each time
shopman rings them on his table to
see whether they are genuine or not.
Every minute particle of matter re-
moved in these or other ways lessen the
weight Of tho coins, and makes them
look old; and in the lesser coins, which
are much used, this proceeds to such an
extent that every one knows the diff
Guilty experienced in telling three-penny
from four-penny bit
Mr.. Miller some years ago made a
number of precise experiments, from
which it was ascertained that 100 pounds
sterling worth of sovereigns lost 3 pounds
8 shillings and 81 pence of their value
in hundred years; similarly 100 pounds
sterling worth of half-crowns lost 10
pounds, II shillings and S.S pence; 100
pounds sterling worth of shilllngs, 36
pounds, Il shillings and 81 pence; and
100 pounds sterling worth of sixpences
lost 80 pounds, IS shillings and 90
pence in value, or more than one-haif in
the hundred years. 1t viii be noted
here with regard to the silver coins that
the less value the greater amount OF
wear. These lesser coins are, OF course,
most used; and so in case OF It sixpence,
a centurys wear reduces it TO hall its
original volume.