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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
STATE OF MAMIE.
A PROCEAM ATEON
BY THE GOVERNOR,

Faith in God is the foundation stone upon which
our forefatherS raised the superstructure of our
free institutions. Succeeding generations should
recognize this vital truth by humble acknowl-
edgement of their dependence upon Him and by
conscientious observance of all other Christian
duties.
The sanctifying of particular days for that pur-
pose is especially enjoined upon us in the Bible, a
command which has been sincerely obeyed by an
honored ancestry.
therefore, by the advice and consent oftbe Ex-
eeutive Council, appoint
Thursday, the Cpd Day of April,
next, as day of public fasting, humiliation and
prayer.
And do urge that it be kept in the sanctuary
at the nreside and in public places according to
the original intention. By the performance of
these duties, and by confessmg and forsaking our
SINS the best welfare of the people is advanced
their faith assured their comfort increased and a
higher Christian civilization secured.
"Sanctify We fast call a solemn assembly, gath
er the elders aud all the inhabitants of the land
into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto
the Lord"
Given in the Council Chamber at Augusta, this
twenty-third day of March, In the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six,
and of the independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and tenth.
FREDERICK ROBBIE.
By the Governor
ORAMANDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
LOOSE TALK.

Mr.. G, Morgan of Fryeburg writes to the
Argus that
Statistics show the bonded debt of the cities and
towns of Maine to be 500 per capita being the
highest (saye one) of any other State in the
Union.
Where Mr.. G. Morgan found the statistics
which show that we do not know. The prob
ability is that he evolved them out of his in
ner consciousness. If Mr. Morgan will look
In the census report for 1880 he will find that
the population of Maine was at that time
Gas, $50 and the total debt-state town and
county-$22, 406,S50 or something over 1874
per capita. Since then the debt has been de-
creasing. At the close of 1888 the Secretary
of State reported that the total debt-state,
county and municipalities $13,4o3,0 H.17 or
about 1927 per capita. We presume that
neither Mr.. G. Morgan nor the Argus will
contend that during the past two years the
debt has increased from this figure to 800 a
head
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

The return to work Of all the horse rail
road drivers and conductors but those en-
ployed by the Third Avenue road shows
that the men who control the Empire Pro-
tectiye Union have not entirely lost their
senses-that they are wiser than Martin
Irons and his followers, inasmuch as they
know enough to take back tracks when they
have committed a blunder. They only cor
rected a part of their blunder, however.
Not only should the men on the other lines
have been ordered to resume work, but those
on the Third Avenue as we'll. 1t is no use
for any man or set of men to try to estab-
fish again in this country any system of
slavery; and that is really what the Empire
Protective union is trying to do when it
seeks TO compel the discharge of a man be-
cause he does not belong to labor organiza-
ton. Men must be left free to decide in the
matter as they think best. They must
be coerced neither by capital to keep out of a
trades union, nor by labor to go in. If the
the Empire Protective Union succeeds in
carrying its point in this particular instance
its victory will be short lived. This is free
country and must remain so.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

Our Carpet Floor is the largest, lghtest and best
in this country, and we are showing the best goods
for the smallest amount of money that we ever
had to offer, but we cannot guarantee the price
only from week to week. That these trades are
appreciated can be seen by the crowds of people
who have visited our store the past week. We
ask call and we will trust the quality of the
goods and the price on them to do the rest. One
thing we will add. You have no conception of the
extent of our establishment or of the beautiful
goods we handle unless you call. This is no ghost
story, but solid facts which win be borne out to
your entire satisfaction if you will come and see.
We keep open every evening until o'clock, and
have electric lights on 3 floors. Any of the goods
we handle we will sell for cash, or quarter down
at time of purchase and balance So per month if
the amount be $50 or under, and $40 per month
if 500 or under. To make it more plain we will
sell $40 Plush Set for 1000 down and 500 per
month; $50 Chamber Set for 800 down and 500
per month; a $50 Carpet for 500 down and 800
per month; $50 Range for 500 down and 800
per month; $12 Baby Carriage for 800 down
and 1 90 per week; $12 New Perfection Refrg-
orator for 800 down and 100 per week; COME
and see us, see the stock, see our building ride
on the elevator up and down from floor to floor
We guarantee you the fairest and most honest
treatment that can be accorded to customers
Respectfully your obedient servants,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

MISCELLANEOUS
.CUNOkESS p cHHa
RECOMMENDED FOR WHOLESOMENESS AND EFFICIENCY
PROF. RICHARD c. STANLEY, A. NJ. Ph. D.

81 have given the Congress Yeast Powder thorough chemical
animation and find it to be of full weight entirely free from A
Ammonia Lime and the PhOsphates and ABSOLUTELY
PURE BREAD-RAISING PREPARATION, EVERY WAY TO BE
RECOMMENDED for INCONSISTENCIES and EFFICIENCY.
The valuable constituent such preparation CarbOnic Acid
Gas which will set free in the baking the Congress Yeast
Powder gives analysis 1878 cubic inches CarbOnic Acid Gas
each of powder temperature SIS deg F. at cooking tenn
peraure 22 deg F.. this would be about IT'S inches.
Ihaye examined i'm this respect other baking powders the most
prominent market that Yeast Powder
gives Acid to the than other such
ton am acquainted with"
RICHARD c. STANLEY,
Professor Chemistry and Geology Bates College, State Assayer of
Maine, from 1875 to 1888
Bates College, Lewiston, Me-, Feb Is, 1886.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

The Central Labor Union of New York
has passed resolutions denouncing Justice
Duffy 'for his unmanly action in intimidat-
ing male and female pickets in the perform
ance of their rights and duties as American
citizens" The ''pickets' referred to, or
some of them, are-the full-grown men who
hung around Mrs. Gray's bakery urging
people not to patronize her because she
would not compel her workmen to join the
bakers union or discharge them. 1t will
strike most people that if anybody's conduct
has been unmanly it is not Justice Duffys
but the pickets
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

The Boston Post learns that the Maine De-
mocracy are in 'healthy and hopeful con-
dition." There are signs that its informa-
ton comes from the Portland custom house
and postofice. Well, 1t is doubtless fact
that the Democracy who are located there
are in healthy and hopeful condition. =
But they constitute very small fraction of
the Maine Democracy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 90.

We do not read anonymous letters and eomhiln-
cations. The name and address OF the writer are
n I'll cases indispensable, not necessarily LOT plp-
iicatioh but as a guarantee of good faith
We cannot undertake 10 return Or preserve
r., io,ntuicatieps that are not Used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

The Hon. George w. Ladd, ex-Congress-
man from the fourth Maine district, tells a
Washington correspondent that the Demo-
Gratis can carry this State if they are united
and the campaign is well managed" Mr.
Ladd's hopefulness is accounted for by the
fact that he has been in Florida all winter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

Today according to the official programme,
is day of fasting, humiliation and prayer
Probably the programme will not be adhered
Tn Strictly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
CURRENT COMMENT.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HOME LINES.
N. Y. Tribune.
The post Office department paid the Ameri,
can line for carrying the mails to China and
Japan last year only $500, or $500 per out.
cents per mile; and only 1892, or $31 pei
outward trip Of $500 miles, or one and one
third cent per mile to the Venezuelan line.
At the same time the department paid the
White Star BRITISH line, $1103 per trip OF
1900 miles
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

1t is not pretended by anybody that the re-
duction Of the tariff on sugar in hogsheads
one cent pound would increase the price of
that article to the consumer. Its effect
would be simply to revive the dropping coop
erage industry, in which the people OF
a large number of States are interested
which gives employment to good deal OF
labor, and which is now declining because the
Cubans under the present condition of the
tariff find it cheaper to use bags OF English
manufacture than hogsheads made in the
United States. Yet when Mr.. Reed present
ed to the ways and means committee propo-
sition to make this reduction every Demo
cratic member voted no. Every one of them
had previously voted to remove the tariff on
fish, which would kill a iourishing business
that gives employment to large number OF
men, but every one was hostile to removing
a tax when it would revive an American in:
dustry. Such is Democracy, the professed
friend Of American labor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

MasOn's PianO Technics $3.50, are con-
stantly increasing in favor, most valuable aids
to practice. All teachers should use Them
Any book mailed for retail price.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

The final passage Of the bill to make twelve
hours days work on horse railroads by the
New York legislature, and its signature by
the Governor, ought 10, and doubtless will,
ameliorate materially the condition of the
conductors and drivers on the horse cars of
the metropolis. There is no doubt but in
the past these men have been the victims of
a heartless oppression. The companies have
paid enormous dividends, yet they have
screwed down the pay of their employees to
the lowest possible point and given them
hardly sufficient time to eat and sleep. 1t
was high time for the State which had en-
acted laws to protect the dumb beasts of
these companies, to do something to
ameliorate the condition of their human ser
wants
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

Easter Music, in quantity. Send for lists.
Orchestral parts furnished when desired.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

Winners Ideal Methods, leach 10 cents)
are famous and really good cheap Methods for
Violin, for Flute for Accordion, for Cornet, for
Banjo, for Guitar, for Fife for Clarinet and for
Flageolet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

LibrettoS full and complete, of 80 operas, for 20
cents each. Cheap editions, 10 cents each.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

INV z S T M Z N T S
FOR APRIL DIVIDENDS.
City of Portland, 6s
!" Chicago, rs
s. Urbana, Ohio, 5s
6 GAINESVILLE, Ohio, - As
Darke County, Ohio, IS
Allen County, Ind. 5s
Portland Water Co., IS
BiddefOrd & .SacO Water Co., IS
Putnam, Conn.,, Water Co., IS
Taine Central r.. r., rs
And other securities.
FOR SALE BY
II. M. PAYSON & CO.,
april Sc Exchange Street. eodtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
THE BOYCOTT.
Boston Advertiser.

1t is to be noted that the boycott is fast be-
coming odious with the people The right
to strike is everywhere admitted and the
public ispatient with the exercise of it when
the stopping of street cars and the like
causes serious inconvenience, and even
sometimes tolerant in a curious way, when
there come law breaking and violence; but
boycotting is different matter, and is COM
ing to be sharply condemned upon all hands
The boycotts start for all sorts of reasons,
and often for no reason whatever, and are,
at best attempts, to coerce people and corpo-
rationS in their own business, and an out
rage upon principles which are generally
consideredIsacred. The popular feeling in the
matter is seen in the.expressions of the better
grade of newspapers, some of which have
begun campaigns against it, and is seen very
sharply in cases like that of Mrs Gray of
New York, where resistance gives an oppor-
tunity for expressions of sympathy. Mrs.
Gray is making money by. hundreds Of dol
lars because of the prescription; a Chicago
butcher is doing the same thing from the
same cause, and similar cases are reported
elsewhere. Nine times in ten a boycott in
wolves tyranny. The members Of trades
unions, like other people, will find that real
and permanent power can never rest upon
anything but fair play.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL.
Hartford Times fDem,l

can be educated-and the parents, in nearly
all the tribes, are becoming more and more
ready to let their children go to this, to them,
far away school among the white men-the
fact will necessarily exert a powerful intlu-
ence for thepeaceful settlement OF the e! Indian
treasure and so many lives. 1t will be seen,
sooner or later, that it is bad economy to ex-
clude the Carlisle school. 1t is going back
wards Better forego some of the larger and
less useful appropriations. Mr. Holman's
the never ending schemes to deplete it, is
much to his credit. But in this particular
case it will be better to grant the moderate
allowance on which Captain Pratt has de-
pended to carry on his unique and highly
useful and important school.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

Operas. The best and most complete editions
Aida, (S2); Bells of Bonneville ($1.50);
BOccaciO (S2) Carmen 1927 Fatinitza (S2);
LaiSme (S2); MaritanR 1922: MelstOfele
($2); Mignon (S2.50); ZenObia (S2) and
many others.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22
MUSIC BOOKS.

Three holy Children. (S1), by Stanford, is
new CANTATA of great power and brilliancy.
Richter's Harmony, (S2); Richter's
COunferpOint, (S2) and Richter's Fugue,
(s2), are three standard books on composition, by
an eminent German Harmonist.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-22

By the Governor
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-05-25
Missouri Steam Washer,

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-05-25
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QDuiiiana @5tate Qotterp So.

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partisen Staatseoufitution, a-ngencmnaea am
2. December 1879.
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Dienfag ben 10. Stunt 1886.
100000 1idets ja $40 iebes.
9albe s.. 6anftel 81. 3ehntel 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Farm and Garden Notes.

RATS and mice will not gnaw har-
nesses or machine belts if they are
rubbed lightly with castor oil.
Is your poultry house snug and
warm? Does the roof leak and will the
snow drive in under the shingles? Go
see.
If you are to improve your flocks and
herds now is the time to get rid of the
poor animals, before you have waste
winter feeding upon them.
CANADIAN official figures show that
our northern neighbors send us an
nually 14,OO0,000 dozen eggs, worth, at
twelve cents per dozen, 81 $780, 900.
A LITTLE manure helps grass won
derfully when spread on the surface in
the fall. 1t will keep the grass from
running out and fairly create new
crop.
IN many districts within easy reach
of suitable markets the production OF
early lambs engages the attention OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
The Mcclellan Apple.

"We find here" says Brother Cheever
of the Ne,0 England Farmer, reviewing
the Maine Agricultural Report, " a par
agraph from DR.. Hoskins of Vermont,
describing an apple that originated in
Woodstock, Conn, on or near the Nc
Clellan farm, the birthplace of General
George b. Mcclellan of national mill
tary fame. We have seen this apple
on exhibition at Woodstock and other
Connecticut fairs and find it highly es-
teemed by the farmers of the state.
What we are wondering at now is why
DR.. Hoskins and j. j. Thomas, in spell
ing the name, do not follow the orthog-
raphy of the family. Must the apple
lose its old name and be spelled Nc
Lelan because the General didn't get
to Richmond on time?" Well, we took
the name as we found it in the books.
Any way, the apple has merits enough
to be no discredit even to "the young
Napoleon " of 1862.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Questions Answered.

w. l. S., Roxbury, VT, asks chow
much the droppings from a fair-sized
COW would weigh if both liquids and
solids were weighed daily?" This de-
ponds upon the food consumed. Dana's
Muck Manual" page one hundred
thirty-seven, says COW fed daily
twenty-four pounds of hay and twelve
and one-half pounds of potatoes makes
about one bushel of dung, or eighty-five
and one-half pounds, of which seventy
one and one-half pounds is water. On
page one hundred ninety-eight he says
that cord of loan saturated with urine
is equal to cord of the best dung.
He does not state the gallons per year,
but this, of course, will vary according
to food, drink, exercise, etc. He says
the urine of one well-fed COW, if all
preserved and used in connection with
the solids, is a sufficient dressing (addi-
tional to the dung for one and one
fourth acres, and is worth as much as
the dung. They arc not alike in the
proportions of the food elements, urine
being richer in nitrogen and poorer in
phosphoric acid, so that they should
both be mixed together. Even then they
are too rich in nitrogen, and, as we
have before stated, properly saved ma
nure Qiquid and solid together) would
be much benefited by adding and care
fully mixing two hundred thirty pounds
of unleached hardwood ashes and three
hundred pounds of foreground South
Carolina phosphate with each ton be-
fore applying it to the land.
w. l. S. asks how much land plaster
might be added with the ashes and
phosphate to advantage. We think
twenty pounds to the ton would be
enough. Thorough mixing is of the
utmost Importance, and is best done
daily, as the manure is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08

ment has the right at any time to dis
cover whether or not the article is pure,
and that the manufacturers of oleomar-
garine who violate the law are subject
to its penalties"
A Washington report of November
says: "The oleomargarine law has
been in operation one week. The re-
suits thus far are a surprise to the
officials of the government, and will be
a disappointment to the butter men,
who were the original promoters of
the bill. The internal revenue officials
are astonished at the amount of reve-
nue. which the government is likely to
receive from the operation of the law.
The returns for the first week have not
all been telegraphed to Washington,
and the complete returns will not be
received in the ordinary course of
business for the first month until early
in December, but according to the re-
ceipts of which the internal revenue
bureau Has kuuWlcuSC lllC luCOIuC W
the government from the tax on oleo-
margarine for the full fiscal year will
not be less than $1,000,000, and is
likely to amount to 81 100000. The
question which was so much discussed
in congress, therefore, whether the
oleomargarne bill was revenue bill
or not, cannot again be raised. The
internal revenue officials are convinced
that the farmers and dairymen were
mistaken in the theory which underlies
the law that the tax of the government
would have the effect to reduce the
consumption of imitation butter"
This is only the beginning; we
shall see what we shall see. But
we still adhere to our belief that the
way to beat oleo is to make all
the milk into high-class butter. Dung
butter cannot compete with cleo, but
the gilt-edged can and wiU.
Z" Few the ills which endure
That laws create, or laws can cure"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Gbe 40ussboIo.

" Communications for this column should be
sent to DR.. T. II. Hoskns, Newport, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Hot Water as An Insecticide.

Hot water is a clean, safe and eifec-
tive means of destroying the green fly
on pot plants. To the amateur, whose
stock OF plants might be small, or who
might not have accommodation for
fumigating, it would be found con-
venient remedy. There is a margin of
many degrees between the lowest tenn
perature that will destroy this insect
and the highest that plant will stand
with impunity. One hundred and
thirty degrees is proper temperature,
or as hot as the hand can be held in two
seconds. The plants should be plunged
into and Withdrawn from the water
instantaneously. The smaller body and
more delicate skin of the insect is more
quickly acted upon than that of the
plant. Should any one be afraid to en-
ploy the remedy, let her, if she has
several plants affected, try it on one
first, and the next day, when she sees
that it has suffered no injury, she will
have no misgivings about treating the
rest in the same way. - Farm and
Garden
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Frnit Sauces.


Dear Household To the sister in
curing about barberries | would like to
say they are very good substitute for
eranberries cooked and used the same.
If hanging on the bushes they are good
to use now Indeed, | have heard it
said that those remaining till spring
made the best sauce.
There was a mistake in this depart
ment about my way of putting up goose
berries. do not cook them at all l
ill the can with gooseberries, then with
cold water and seal, not scald. Mine
have kept nicely through the past warm
fall.
Perhaps some of the sisters do not
know what beautiful sauce can be made.
from sweet apples. Five good-sized
ounces stewed with the apple will
havor. as much as we like, three
gallon jar of apple, and five good lem
Ons will do the same. | use less than
half pound of sugar TO pound of
apple.
| was told the other day that a good
way to clean the wire strainer on my
milk-pail was to rub it with fine salt.
/ like the remedy much.
| wish some one could tell me how 10
take midew out of clothes. | tried
sour milk without success.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
advertisements.
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For economy and comfort we use Hoods
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