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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-27

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SUNDAY TRAINS.
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/ anu Leoanon, see time tables at all stations.
A. N. WILSON. superintendent.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
ON THE IsTHMus.
Tranquility Prevailing in Chill Poll
tics.
General Caceres the Popular candi-
date for President of Peru.

PANAMA, Feb. 25-Tranquility prevails
among the political parties in Chill, not
Withstanding the presidential election Is the
all absorbing topic. The budget passed
proved by the council of state, and President
Santa Maria has issued decree terminating
the extraordinary session of congress- A
law has been passed fixing the number of
troops in the republic at 5547 The navy is to
consist of two war frigates, one monitor,
three corVettes, three cruisers, six pont0ons,
nine torpedo boats, also a marine artillery
battalion Of 900 men.
An Argentine company has been formed
for the purpose of founding German colony
in the vicinity of Nahuelhaupi Lake. The
capital of the company is said to be $500, 900,
besides large area OF land. Communica-
tion between the COLONY and Chill is to be
maintained via Valdivia.
PANAMA, Feb. 16.-G General Caceres is still
the popular candidate for the presidency of
Peru. The election is to take place next
month. Ex-Dictator Don Nicolas de PierOla
has issued manifesto in which he says:
'Those in power have changed since his de-
parture from the country, but not princi-
pies" He feels himself evidently too weak
to oppose Carceres for the presidency, and it
is doubtful whether he will do so, though he
does not deny his readiness to become dep
uty if elected
A bill will be introduced in the next Con-
gress providing for the establishment of free
public schools throughout the republic of
Peru.
Another fire has occurred on the line of
the railroad at Culebra, a village. Twenty
houses We're DESTROYED and their owners
and former occupants rendered homeless.
Gen. Santo Domingo Villa, appoint
ed governor of the district of Panama,
will arrive here today. On his arrival at Co
Ion from Bogota he was received with mill
tary honors He visited the United States
steamer Tennessee to pay his respects to Ad-
miral Jouett, and was saluted. His appoint
ment to Panama is most important, and in
dicates a long era of peace The state of the
public health is highly satisfactory
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
FOREIGN.
Joint International Movement Pro-
posed In Aid of Laboring Men.
Agitating the Temperance Question
in England.
How Cranky Frenchnan Attracted
Attention in the Chamber
of Deputies.

PARIS, Feb. 25.-In the Chamber of De-
putles this afternoon a strange man in one
of the galleries arose excitedly drew revol
yer and fired it twice with downward aim
then coolly threw letter toward NJ;
Clemenceau. The man was quickly seized
and hurried out by the police. When the
excitement had subsidized the fattened bullet
was found at the foot of the President of the
Chamber. The prisoner said he was sol
der and had been so i'll treated by his
superiors and ignored by the officers of
justice that he reSorted to the desperate ex-
pedient of creating sensation in the Cham
Der of Deputies in order to secure attention
to his grievances.
The prisoner gave his name as Pairier, and
said he was an officer in the French army.
He asserted that the letter which he threw
toward Clemenceau contained an offer to
give the government the names of the be-
trayers of Metz. When the man was first
seized he exclaimed, 81 have written to NJ.
Investigation showed that both bullets were
fired into the air and not at any person on
the floor occupied by the Deputies. The let
ter which the prisoner cast at NJ. Clemenceau
was found and delivered to the President OF
the Chamber
LATER.
In a later declaration made by the prisoner
he said that in no other way so well as that
he had chosen could he attract so much at
tention to himself and to what he desired to
tell the public He wished, he declared, to
have attention drawn to his trial because at
it he would greatly add to the information
now possessed by the French people about
the surrender OF Metz and the presence OF
German spies in the French army. The cul-
prit's name is now given as Peronnier. He
is undoubtedly insane He served in the
French army in the Franco-German war.
Aiding the Sufferers,
LONDON, Feb 25.-Childers, Home Secre-
tary, will introduce in the House of Com
mons tomorrow a bill to compensate suf-
ferers by the recent riots in London.
Temperance In England.
LONDON, Feb. 25.-A committee of the
temperance party in the House Of Commons
has prepared two memorials to the govern
ment, one demanding that the government
support Sunday closing bill and the other
.favoring local option under Chamberlain's S
county government bill. The memorials are
receiving numerous signatures and it is ex-
pected 800 members of Parliament will sign
the local option memorial
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
THE CARNIVAL.
The Festivities at Burlington at Their
Height.

D-r-ll,- ~, - rru f4l, -
BURLINGTON REP zo'-!ne iourtn Gay
of the carnival opened auspiciously, and to-
day and tomorrow the feativities of the week
Iii Io - tLo;r 1,o;o,,t Tbo ot+a,do,,oo
N,n oo "O 'i'oii heisn'' "''olio'il0o'
which has already been very large. is con-
stantly increasing, and promises to fulfill the
most eanqpine ovnactotione Of tba citizens
,Aloss ''.r7 r,s ulsio - NY e
mere. me lve mlie sKaIlng race lor !ne
goldl. ana SILVER medal LOOK pace at tne lS ICE
sskaIing IlnK Yesterday uterho91 r& pow WIZ I1. tne
ioliIoWlns eiIIrles; Oooley o. o1eIuoh, Pacon a4
OIL oonlerNllie !, ne anu M QIysusle anu Lee VI MOL
tIeal & Al Al put Sng Two 1ateeI uIopPeu I5 oug
peI9re the 4nlsIli Drysdale taxing the soiu
meaal neg, anu I,1i,i Lee tale sllveI ms9al' oa
ne Lnoss WHEN mas ocGIlteu e;
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
THIEVES cAcED.
An Old Portland Offender in Limb.

An Old Portland Offender In Limbo.
WORCESTER, Feb. 25.-Frank Howard was
sentenced today to one year for the larceny
of two watches, one of them from j. E. Bat
tey of Oxford. After stealing the watches
he went to Portland and fraudulently OBJ
tanned S75 money order from the post office
and for this offense he will go into the custo-
dy Of the United States officers as soon as
his term has expired.
Fred Willett, another thief, was also sem
fenced to one year. Willett was seen by
Detectives O'Day and Colby staggering
along the street with a load of clothes under
his arm as they were bringing Howard to
the station yesterday afternoon. As he was
known to be an old offender, he was taken
on suspicion of stealing the clothes,
and it developed that they were
all stolen from John p. Clune, a
that Willett and Clune were on huge drunk
together, and Willett brought Clune home
and put him to bed. He then packed up all
the goods in the taller shop, and what he
could not carry off he left for second trip.
He also stole $22 from the old man, and this
money was found in his boots in the morn
ing.
Willett is a well-knOwn thief and has just
been discharged from a years service at
Cambridge jail, where he was sent for steal
ing Bowler Brothers team. Old man
Clune did not know of the robbery until to-
day. Howard came here from Maine and is
said to have police record in Portland. The
Marshal of that city wrote to the local police
when]he came ON here some time ago that a
bad man was coming amongst them.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
CALIFORNIA RAILROAD WAR.
A Cut so Wild that the Companies
Cannot Afford 70 Keep il up.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The indications are
that the California Railroad war will end
this week. The cut is so wild that the roads
cannot afford to keep it up. Freights are
taken for song and passenger rates are
about one-third what they were. The exec
tive and administrative officers of the differ
ent roads are now scattered all over the
country, but they have been comforting with
each other by wire, and an early adjustment
of the differences is probable.
There never was such railroad fighting as
is going on now among these transcontinen-
tai roads, None of them know just what
they are doing. They don't stick to one rate
long enough to get the news over their whole
line before they make new one Half Of
the ticket agents at the western points don't
know what rates to make.
Yesterday there was no change in passen-
ger rates. They are $40 to San Francisco,
first class. In the freight rates there is the
utmost Generalization. There is cut of so
per cent, but there is cutting besides, of
which the outsiders are kept in the dark.
The Missouri River roads do not give the
shippers any rates. They simply send them
over the transcontinental roads, and these
latter make the rates. The Missouri River
roads do not even know just what proportion
OF the rates they are to get; whether they
are to stand part of the cut or not. "a ship
per-" said the Rock Island commercial agens,
"came in here this morning to make arrange
mentS for 100 cars. | sent him to the Union
Pacific, and told him to say that he preferred
to use the Rock Island as far as the river.
don't know what rate was made on those 100
cars -
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
Mental Arithmetic.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
70 the .Editor 81 the Press:

~ UtC EUttO " UtS L 1000
l was very glad to see in Thursdays
PRESS The sound and forcible editorial COM
ment upon paragraph in the report of our
Superintending School Committee. 1t is
with great regret that / learn, from that re-
port, the backward step taken by the COM
mittee last summer, in restoring mental
arithmetic to the primary schools. The
opinions expressed in the report of March,
1876, were not formed hastily, nor founded
simply upon a priori reasoning; they were
based upon long and exceptionally success
full experience in the guidance and direction
of common schools; primary, grammar and
high schools. Some of them were not car
ried into effect in our Portland schools; but
those which referred to arithmetic were
adopted to some extent; and the result has
been decided Improvement in the schools.
In the report for 1886, published in WedneS-
days PRESS, there are two paragraphs
which hold up mental training" or training
"the mind in the habit of clear and accurate
thinking" as the most valuable of any
that can be used in primary school" But
this is the very error which has injured edu-
cational efforts from the beginning more
than any other error. All the highest
authorities of recent times admit its erron-
eous character. 1t leads invariably to pull
fiower-always failure. 1t leads to intro
version of the mind, to neglect of external
facts; to an awkward, ill-balanced develop
ment
In regard to arithmetic, the true course, as
proved by actual experiment, is to follow the
natural order; teaching the first principles
of number by few beans, counters, tooth
picks, or other tangible things; then giving
perfect familiarity with the four funda-
mental operations, in whole numbers and
decimals This is enough to occupy the
child fully during all the primary years.
And if it be thoroughly done, the child has
learned the language of numbers; he has
acquired skill in the use of his tools; he is
ready then for mental arithmetic. But no
attempt should be made to teach him to
reason about numbers until the four funda-
mental operations are as familiar to him as
the days of the week; or as counting up to
twenty. The reasoning powers are the
latest powers to be developed; and the at
tempt to use them, as by mental arithmetic,
in the primary school, seriously Injuries the
reasoning powers themselves in the later
part of the course, beside interfering mis-
chievously with the powers of observation
and of imagination. The art of ciphering is
one of the very highest practical utility; the
art of analyzing problem in vulgar frac-
tions, after the pattern of an analysis al
ready given, is of not the slightest practical
utility, and is of very little worth as mental
training. THOMAS HILL.
T3S Congress street Feb 25
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
GENERAL N EWs.

At meeting of representatives of the
State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry of
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
and Connecticut held in Boston, Wednesday,
resolutions were adopted earnestly protest
ing against an increase in postal rates for
fourth class matter, and heartily approving
a bill creating national bureau of agricul-
ture and labor with its secretary a member
of the Presidents cabinet.
A house and barn with their contents, all
the property of r. Frank Alley, of New
market, n. H., were destroyed by fire We'd
nesday night. The loss is $4,000. Alleys
mother, aged SO years had a narrow escape.
The great cooking main which has been
going on in Dallas, Texas, for three days,
between Dallas and ST. Louis birds was won
by Dallas after a series of exciting battles.
The committee appointed in Chicago to ar
range for the approaching meeting of the
American Fishing Society in that city has
fixed on April 1916 as the dates for holding
the convention.
In New York city yesterday. Ernest Har-
yer was appointed receiver of the property
of BARLEY Campbell, the play wright under
the judgment for Bernard Brady
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
WHAT MR.. BLAINE us DOING.
a Chat With General Hall of the Pine
Tree State.

Gen. James A. Hall, who is in New York,
was met Wednesday evening by Tribune
reporter, to whom the General said with his
usual robust earnestness of manner:
''Well, isn't this a pickle2 These fellows
who were so pure that they wanted the ras-
Gals turned out and themselves turned in
where are they now? Harper's Weekly hits
the nail on the head when it says that if the
Garland scandal had happened with Mr.
Blaine as President it would have ruined the
administration. 1t has ruined this ad-
ministration. don't see how Garland
can stay in the Cabinet Then l see you
New Workers have Whitney 'on the list l
shouldn't feel like hitting these men-I
should regard it as more of a misfortune, a
thing to cause pity-if they had not been so
ferOcious and immaculate"
Have you seen Mr.. Blaine recently?"
Il saw him two or three weeks ago. He
volume off his hands. Now he has time for
something else"
will it be politicsW
''For the present he is looking over his
old letters, that have accumulated through
thirty wears in public life. He showed me
about Governor Foster Of Ohio. Blaine was
speaker. Foster had just succeeded in being
elected to Congress in Democratic district
against overwhelming odds. Greeley wrote
to Baine that as Foster was young man,
his success clearly indicated that he had
either great power and talent, or else he had
q social position that was remarkable. He
had never met Foster, but advised Blaine to
watch his development"
Glow do Democrats regard the admins
tration?"
'They are not outspoken in Maine, but we
know they are very sore. A leading Demo-
crat said to me that Cleveland would go into
history as the greatest fool who ever oecu-
pied the White House."
''What are Republicans going to do In
1882
''The old ticket is the thing. Nominate
Blaine and Logan, and there will be no
need of brass bands, or speeches, or parades,
or fireworks, or even of committees. They
would walk into the National capitol
almost without opposition. Even Harper's
Weekly would support them, | do believe.
There is no other man than Blaine who can
be elected. Sherman and Logan both have
friends who favor them for President, but
Blaine is matchless in strength, in and out
of +he Marty as a Ranuhlicon -
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
SAILING UNDER FALSE coLoRs.
How a Bangor Mans Name Figured
In a New York Romance.

The guests of the Sheridan House, Eliza
beth, n. j., had their sympathies aroused
few days ago by the pitiable plight of a
young and pretty blonde bride, says the
New York Herald. She had come to the ho-
tel with her husband in a carriage, with
large amount of baggage, and they were ap-
parently on a joyous wedding tour. The
groom, handsome young man, registered
their names, giving as his own that of
prominent young business man of Bangor,
gor' for some time. He offered to pay for
three days board in advance, but his great
amount of baggage and genteel appearance
deceived the clerk, and his offer was declin-
ed. The most expensive suite of ro Jms in
the house was given to the bridal couple.
At the end of five days the groom, who
had been acting very nervously, was asked
to settle his BILL now amounting to little
over $50 He said that he was expecting
check from a ship lying at New York, OF
which he was first mate. The following day
the young mon left his bride. She bore up
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
Death of a Prominent Citizen OF
Dover, N. n.


DOVER, N. H., Feb. 25.-Frank Freeman
of this city died Suddenly of heart disease
shortly after o'clock this afternoon. He
was born in Wellfeet, Mass, August B. 1924,
and came to this city in 1912. He was in the
oyster and grocery business until 1869 when
he became an insurance agent He was
overseer of the poor in 1868; was member
of the common council in 1871 and 1872, and
was elected city treasurer in 1879, which po-
sition he has since held, being also treasurer
of the public library trustees and treasurer
of the public school fund. He was Mason,
being a past master of Strafford Lodge, a
past high priest of Belknap Chapter, Il. A.
NJ, and member of st. Paul Commandery,
K. T. He was alsoa member of the Baptist
Church, and leaves wife and FIVE children.
The deceased was a man of considerable
property and will be greatly missed.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
In the Interest of Laboring Men.

PARIS, Feb. 25.-The Socialist members
of the Chamber of Deputies have taken an
active interest in the case of Burns, Hynd-
man, Williams and Champion, charged with
having melted the Trafalgar Square and
Hyde Park riots in London. Today these
deputies joined in sending kilograms to the
British workmen in the House of Com
MONS" proposing a joint international move
ment in the interest of the laboring men.
The main objects of the proposed movement
are to be securing of reduction in the hours
of labor. improvement in the sanitary condi-
ton of workshops proper limits to the work
obtained by women and unions and an abso-
lutte prohibition against allowing the chill
dren of either sex under IA years of age to
work at all in shops or factories The tele-
gram suggests that the British workmen join
those of France in inviting the workmen of
America and Europe to send delegates to a
Congress to be held next September, in some
place to be hereafter designated, for the pur-
pose of discussing means to "emancipate the
Workmen of all countries"
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
THE DOMINION.
The Canadian fisheries.

HALIFAX, Feb. 25.-The Nova Scotia Leg
islature was opened today. The Lieutenant
Governors address deals mainly with local
matters. Referring to the fisheries question,
he says:
"Our fishermen are being placed at disadvan-
United States to our valuable fishing grounds,
while the products of these fisheries, when taken
by our own people, have been subjected to heavy
duties in ports of that republic. it is desirable,
in the interest of both countries that the fisher
les question be settled by treaty which shall in
clude arrangements for the largest practicable
measure of reciprocity between the United
States and the Provinces of British North Ameri-
ca, but if a settlement cannot be obtained on
terms fair to the two countries, it is of the high
est Importance that the rights of our fishermen in
their coast waters be effectively protected.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26
Meta S. Eullam.

whose funeral services will take place this
afternoon, was a child of rare promise. Her
artless and pure life, so mature, so affectlonSS
ate, so unselfsh, not only won the healIs OF
her young companions but all were drawn aWi
toward her as one of no ordinary ihtehl- all-
She publicly expressed a desire to be Shrls-
tian, and the patience with which she en-
dured the most intense suffering and the
gratitude she manifested tor the care and
dence that grace aboundsd in this yeERs
heart
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-26

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Knights of Labor in Lewiston added
about 80 names to their long list of member
ship Tuesday evening.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
George W. Collins of Bridgewater, is
building steam mill on the Three Brooks
in the western part of the town for the man
ufacture of shingles and clapboards.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Chronicle hears there is soon to be
revival of the ''old town clock fund" agita-
ton in Pennington
The Pennington Village Schools opened
Monday for the spring term under the cnarge
of the following instructors: Hlgh, =. A.
Russell; Grammar, Rose b. ColllnSi lnter-
mediate, Annie NJ Stevens; PRIMARY, hoSe
NJ. Tarbox, The attendance Monday was as
follows in the various schools; hlgn, 70 ;
Grammar, As; intermediate, 40; Primary, ~.
More are expected in each grade.
The Chronicle says that the value of the
real and personal estate of Pennington IS
81, 300, $50; total amount of real estate, ST.
I87, 7,615; personal property, $367, ,615; number
of polls, 1856. Upon the polls and estates the
selectmen assessed the sum of $26119.2l.
The total liabilities Of the town amount to
$21, ,500.54; the resources are $9,80S.S4.
Mr.. John Brown, went away from Weeks
Mills some eighteen or twenty years. ago:
For seventeen years he has not been heard
weeks his sister, Mrs. Chapman of King
field, received 2 letter from him. He was
alive and well in Victoria, British Columbia.
He went to the star Vest first, then to Cal
ifornia, then to British Columbia.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Mr.. c. o. Tibbetts of Augusta has been
fox hunting six consecutive times the present
winter and brought home brush each
time.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The peopleof Bowdoin, especially the tax
payers, feel first rate. They have paid the
last cent of their war debt, the past year,
and have balance of $716.71 in clear cash
in the treasury. The town has an able
board of selectmen and first class collec-
tor. He has turned over every dollar of the
'84 taxes and very small balance of the S5
taxes remains unpaid.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
While two lads about twelve years of age
in Madison, were engaged in playing scuf-
fe, one named Leighton, was thrown, strik-
ing in such manner as to break his arm
just above the elbow, causing bad fracture,
it being near the joint
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. H. E. Mcdonald of Belfast, lost sill
yer set on the steamer Cambridge disater
Mr.. Howes, who went down to the wreck,
found Mr.. McDonald's set and it has been
received by the owner. 1t was picked up by
parties at Friendship.