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The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
STOVES AND RANGES

We believe we are perfectly safe
in asserting that we are headquarters
for these necessities to our comfort, and
that we carry the heaviest line in New
England. We are using car load every
two weeks which fact tells its own story.
Come and see the line and remember
that we will use you just as well If you
do not want to pay all cash down. we
sell on our Special Contract System and
record no documents at City Hall. Amy
Of the goods in our enormous stock, let
Suit, Range, pair Of Drapery Cur
tains, Hair Mattress, Woven Wire
Spring, Roll Top Desk, SidebOard, Chef
fOnier, Book Case, Extension Table, Sew
ing Machine, Washing Machine, or any
thing we handle we will sell for a quar-
ter down and the balance ON weekly or
monthly payments. Our system is fair
and honest. We make out the contracts
in duplicate, the customer gets one and
we keep the other, and anyone buying in
this way can tell in minute how they
stand, and In cases of sickness or hnan-
cial trouble we are always willing. to
wait. Come and see US. Carpet that
$500 per month. Buy the Parlor Suit
you have been talking about so long, pay
$1,000 down and $500 per month; You
will soon pay for 1T and never miss the
money. Decorate and make your homes
comfortable; the young folks will appre-
ciate and help pay for 1t. 1T pays every
time to keep the young folks at home
and surrounded by good home influences.
The goods shall be just as represented In
every instance, and delivered in your
houses free of charge. We have an en0r-
nous stock to select from at
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

The subcommittee of the Republican gen
eral committee of New York city, which has
been investigating the charges made by the
New York Times that the Republican dis
trict leaders sold out the Republican county
ticket at the late election has made its re-
port. The case against some of the district
leaders was prind fdcie strong one, for
while Mr. Davenport polled 1864 votes, Mr..
Jacobus, the Republican candidate for sher-
if, received but 65,506. Governor Hill, on
thesother hand, received only 123606, while
the combined vote of the two Democratic
candidates for sheriff was 1860 This dis
crepancy of over 5000 votes, it has been al
legged, was due to trading" on the part of
Republican workers Save in two or three
minor instances the investigating committee
hnd these charges unwarranted The COM
mlttee believes that over 1000 Democrats
voted for Mr.. Davenport and that this fact.
together with the unusual exertions made
by the rival Democratic organizations TO Sc
cure votes for their county tickets, EXPLAINS
the discrepancy in the vote on the state and
county tickets without alleging Republican
treachery. If the Republicans of New York
city would select for leaders men who arc
above suspicion investigations of this kind
would not be necessary.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
ALL WOOL CARPET

at So cents, 62 1.2 cents, SIS cents and
upwards. We believe any person think
ing of buying would be well repaid to
call and see the styles, look over the
stock and note the quantity we carry.
We are pleased to show our goods. 1t
costs you nothing to look. Body Brus-
sells carpets, prime in N every eve r, respect,
member what we say, we are Selling at
Winter prices.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

The Belfast Age declares that it believes
that the sentiment of the people throughout
the State is in favor of license law, and
that the majority would so vote if the ques-
ton were presented; and furthermore it is
of the opinion that ''the time has come for
the Democratic party of the State, openly
and emphatically, to endorse the plank of
the national Democratic platform, which de-
clares opposition to sumptuary laws" Not
withst.lnding the Ages belief. it may be
safely predicted that the Democratic party
will continue to let dare not wait upon |
would
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

For unadulterated impudence Congress-
man Symes of Colorado takes the cake. He
rose on Wednesday ostensibly to speak on a
bill to purchase the old produce exchange in
New York, and proceeded to harangue the
House on silver. Hereafter silver and not
brass should be the synonym for cheek.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

We observe that in some of the newspa-
pers the fishermen are represented as very
angry because Secretary Bayard made an
arrangement with the British minister by
which their right of fishing within the three
mile limit was extended. That is not an in
genuous statement of the case. What the
fishermen are angry about is because Secre-
tary Bayard pledged the support of the adj
ministration to a new commission to make a
permanent arrangement with Great Britain.
The fishermen do not want any arrangement
with Great Britain. They are willing to
forego the privilege of fishing within the
three mile limit. All they want is to be let
alone. If England wants to give them the
right to fish along the Provincial coast, very
well, but if she wants to sell it to them they
reply that it is of too little value to pay
anything for. What they blame the
administration for is for having under
taken to make them pay for a privilege
which they think is not worth anything, for
that is really what the commission means.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Senator Vest is reminded of the glass
house adage. He should not accuse the
people of Dakota of being revolutionary.
Trying to get into the Union is not so reyo-
lutionary as trying to get out.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

The House committee have agreed unani-
mously to report unfayorably Congressman
Seney's bill to repeal the civil service law
1t is case where congressman consulted the
wishes of the people rather than their own.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Strange as it may seem under a Democrat
ic administration, the theory that the whole
world is going wrong finds more believers
among Democrats than among Republicans.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
PARLOR SUITS,

in endless variety; Cherry, Walnut and
Ebony frames, and upholstered in Hair
Cloth, Silk Push, Mohair Plush, Petit
Point, etc. A very handsome piece Hair
Cloth Suit and ParlOr Table with Marble
top for $4,000. Now don't allow your
self to believe that we shall give you
little small cent table. On the con-
trary, it will be solid walnut, best Ital-
have beautiful MOhair Plush Parl0r
Suit, all one color or combination Of
cOlOrs, for $500.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY go.

We DO not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
all cases indispensable, notnecessarlly Tor pup
location but as a guarantee OF good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Mr.. Canda, just appointed assistant treas
urer of the United States at New York is
the financial agent of Samuel j. Tilden, and
is we'll known in Wall street. The admins
tration probably took the precaution to find
out if he would accept before it nominal
ed him
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Mr.. William A. Cromwell, whilom chair
man of the Democratic State Committee, is
fully satisfied that Collector Chase will never
be confirmed 1t is safe to infer that Mr..
Cromwell is happy.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

The lockout just inaugurated by the New
York cigar manufacturers throws at least
10000 men and women out Of employment at
the most inelement season of the year. The
controversy is aboutwages, though the diff
ference between the employers and the
workmen was slight and might probably
have been adjusted had not an exceedingly
bitter feeling grown up between them from
other causes. The cigar makers are backed
by the Cigarmakers National Union which
agrees to support the locked-out workmen as
long as they are out of employment But
the expense of supporting 10000 people,
many of them with families, is enormous and
it is not probable that the Union will be
equal to the task for any considerable
length of time. All the employers, however.
have not joined in the lockout, several of
the largest of them still keeping their facto
ries open, and this fact gives the employees
great courage. They predict that the firms
in the association will not be content a great
while to see their business going into the
hands of the shops that are still open, and
consequently will desert from the combina-
ton,
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
B. 4. Atkinson
& Co..
Corner Pearl and Middle SB.,
would respectfully call the attention Of
all the hOusekeeperS to our enormous
stock OF House Furnishing Goods at this
our Branch store, which we are Offering
at
WINTER PRICES.
Never In the history of the business
has there been time when we were so
well prepared to offer genuine bargains
In every line. In our
Carpet Department

we shall continue to sell for few days
more the goods we offered some days
ago, as we shall close out all the pat
terms We cannot duplicate. We have
still few reIls of 10 wire goods which
is the finest fabric in the market, that
we shall sell at 70 cents, and we posi-
lively assert that this is the best bar
gain in Tapestry Brussels Carpet ever
offered by us. They are very desirable
patterns, but we cannst get any more
Of the same pattern, and do not
want on our shelves what we cannot
duplicate. Then we have few rolls of
a prime Tapestry Brussels which we are
selling at rs cents, and still another lot
that we are selling at 81 cents, and the
cheapest grade at So cents. Our line of
ALI Wool Carpets is now complete, and
we believe we can show larger line
than can be seen In any other store In
the state. We have made the prices
right and are cutting up very fast. We
shall offer for while prime
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
Here is an opportunity for the Maine office
brokers.

In his speech in the Senate on Wednesday
Senator Morrill, disposed of some of the spe-
cious argument by which the silver men have
been seeking to preserve the present coinage
law. He showed conclusively enough that
the tendency of this law under existing con-
ditions was not to bi-metallsm, but to silver
mono-metallism, and that if the folly was
persisted in we should eventually find our
selves in the position that Mexico is to-day.
But the silver men are not in a mood to be
convinced, and it is doubtful if anything
less than financial disaster will open their
eyes. Perhaps the payment of $10,00O,000 of
bonds in silver would furnish an object les
son that would make some impression.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Col. Chas. w. Wooley, who was one of
Mr.. Tilden's leutenants in 1876, and is thor
oughly acquainted with the Democrats of
Ohio, gives it as his solemn conviction that
nineteen out of twenty of the officials APP
pointed in Ohio on the recommendation of
Senator Payne and Governor Hoadly ought
to be in the penitentiary. Speaking of the
election of Senator Payne he says it was
''the nastiest, dirtiest and most dastardly
piece of treachery to the public that has oc-
Cured in any parliamentary country since
the days of Walpole." He believes that ev-
cry Democratic candidate in Cincinnati at
the last election was defeated by from 5000
to 5000 votes. and that those who are holding
Office now are doing so by virtue of the
blacklist frauds.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

AS a post-mortem novel writer Hugh Con-
way is more prolific than successful
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22

Here are three advertisements taken from
the Washington Evening Star of last Mon
day:
A lady, being financially reduced, will give
one-haf Of her first months wages to any one
procuring her position under the government,
ten per cent. of her wages afterwards Address
TO, Star office.
$50 will be given by lady for position in the
Government Printing Office or other department,
and ten per cent of salary as long as position Is
retained. Address L. b. T.. Star office.
A stranger in this city will give good percent
age of his salary as long retained, for place
as carpenter or Waterman under the government
or elsewhere. Address WATERMAN, Star
office.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
DRAPERY CURTAINS.

A beautiful line to select from. 20
different patterns. Prices all the way
from 81 per pair to $25.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
FINANCIAL.

WILLIAM H. LONGSDORF & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers, t6 Broad Street, New York.
CtOUND INVESTMENT Bonds furnished
y to Executors, Trustees of Estates and Indi-
vidual Investors. DEFAULTED BONDS OF States,
Counties Cities and Railways bought and sold.
Coupons and dividends collected, and infOrma-
tion furnished relative to securities of all kinds,
without charge. Horse Railway and Gas stocks a
specialty jay22eOd1m
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
CHAMBER SUITS,

Walnut, Ash, Cherry and Pine. Prices
$40, $1S, $50, and up to $500. Mark
what we say and come and see the best
Solid Cherry (nO imitation Chamber
Set with best Italian Marble top for
$45, and Walnut for $40, ever shown in
this country.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF ART.

THE annual meeting of the Society of Art, for
Il the election of officers and the transaction of
any other business that may legally be presented,
will be held at the Soeietys Rooms, Wednesday,
January 9th, 1886, at 7.30 p. m.
Jan2Odtd CHAS. G. HAINES, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
HAIR MATTRESSES,
Feather BEDS,
SPRING BEDS,

and every description of House Furnish
ings at prices that will move our goods,
as we do not intend that even a Maine
Winter shall keep our store quiet. We
keep the same number Of statesmen that
we have in the busiest season, so that
customers will get better attention now
than VIXEN the rush of business comes in
the Spring.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
LOUNGES FOR THE MILLION !

Don't forget this because we are SELL
ing them lower than ever before, and
you have no excuse for not buying at our
Winter prices because you save money.
The Portland daily press., 1886-01-22
InternatiOnaI Steamship Co.

rHIHE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
l. International Steamship Co. will be held at
tnelr once t steamboat s WnaI On ISL Ah
choice of Directors and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before them.
FL. J. LIBBY, Secretary.
Portland, JAN 18th, 1886. jan19dtd
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
The Largest Clock in the World.

Buffalo is to have the largest clock in
the world. The dial will be twenty-five
feet in diameter, and the centre of the
dial will be three hundred and sixty-one
feet above the street, The dial will be
illuminated by cleo ric:ty, and it is cal
culated that the time can be seen at
night from any point in the city, and
with field glass the position of the
hands can be distinguished at distance
of fifteen miles. The minute hand of
the clock will be twelve feet long, and
the hour hand will measure nine feet in
length. The Roman figures OIL the dial
will be two feet eight inches in length.
A steam engine will be placed in the
tower TO wind the clock up every day.
The clockmakers who have beeninvited to
give their views concerning the building
Of the clock all say that nobody in this
country is able TO build such an enormous
timcpiece. 1t will take whole year to
place the clock machinery in the tower
after the structure is completed. Tie
bell for the clock is to weigh between
20, 900 and 25, 900 pounds, and it is cal
culated to peal so loud that it can be
heard in distant part OF the city.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
A Russian Generals Superstition.

Vereschagin, the distinguished Rus
sian painter, in the { curse oil some rcmi-
niscences of his friend Skobelctf. notes
that the General was very superstitious.
Skobeleff had made him pre- ent Of the
flag under which he had gained twenty
two victories. It was made Of red silk,
with a yellow cross embroidered in the
middle, and it was torn by many bullets.
On leaving for his last Turkestan expe-
iition Skobeleff remembered the flag
and asked his friend either to give it
back to him or to send him another in ex-
change. Nine. Vereschagin made an
elaborate new flag, which was greatly
admired on its arrival in the camp both
by the General and his men. But Sko-
belief was just then unsuccessful. The
enemy made a sortie from Cock Tcpc,
took a number of arms, a cannon and a
flag. Skobeleff was in despair. .'Gi'e
me the old flag back, the new one is I'M
lucky" he wrote to me. Igave nothing
back. Another sortie, another defeat and
considerable losses. Another appeal
"Give back, give back, my lucky flag;
take the one away which has no luck. "
Still, L did not give it back. Finally
Cock Tere was taken, large numbers Of
the enemy were killed and an abundance
of arms and baggage fell into the trl-
umphant Generals hands. My flag re-
gained it's favor, Skobeletf and his Turko-
mans were never tired of admiring it.
To. day this "lucky" flag rests on the
tomb of the General.-PaU MdW Gaz:tte.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
Wealthy Journalists.

Mr.. Junius Henri Browne, who seems
to be somewhat sourcd with the world,
asks in the Forum if anybody knows of
solitary journalist who has gained even
the most modest competence in his pro-
fession. Conundrums, as general thing,
the Record does not care to answer, but
this is one so likely to deceive young as
pirants for journalistic fame on the pros
poets before them, that we hasten to set
the matter right.
Yes there are some journalists who be-
come independent. There are a great
many of them. For instance, in New
York there is Charles Nordoff, of the
Herald, who has grown rich on $40, 900 a
year. There is ''Joe' Howard, of every
paper which is willing to take any of his
products, on S15, 900 q year. There is Ed
mund Hudson, the Washington CORE
spondent of the Boston Herald, who is
rich man while yet young. We could
name MIR. William b. Shaw, Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, who, on mode t salary.
has accumu' ated very handsome for
tune. And take Eugene Field, the
funny man of the Chicago Nescs, who
lives in great style and spends money
like water, and Mr.. McKcan, the editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger, one of the
most thriving gentlemen Of that prosper
Gus city.
We might speak Of Whitclaw Reid,
who has made his everlasting fortune in
journalism, and Charles A. Dana, with
his $40, 900 year salary. In fact, the
woods are full of them; and coming
nearer to Boston, there is our genial
friend, Colonel Taylor, of the GLOBE, and
Police Commissioner Smart, late of the
Post, and Editor Ernst, Of the Beacon,
and numerous others who on their jour
nalistic salaries have laid the foundation
of wealth.
Young friends seeking place on a
newspaper. do not be deferred by any
such yarns as this of J. H. Brownies.
There is wealth in journalism. 1t may
not come right of, but sooner or later a
good journalist is bound to be rich-at
least in good constitution and a con.
sciousness of upright deeds we'll per-
formed. d.-Boston Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
Scissors Grin ders.

Most Of the scissors grinders leave
town in the summer time. They COM
men about the 1st of May, and you
don't often see one carrying his machine
around the 1st of June. They go into
the country and work in little towns and
among the farmers sharpening scissors
and razors. Once in while 81 or So
Job is picked up at one house putting
shaving tools in order and fixing scissors.
That pays we'll. Better prices are paid
in the country than for the same kind OF
work in the city, and it costs almost
nothing to live. 1t doesn't take much
bread and meat to get along Oh when
watcrmclons, canteloupes and fruit are
plenty Potato patches and roasting
cars help out q good deal, and occasion.
ally hens nest is found in some fence
corner, so you see if fellow wants to he
n live very cheap and save the money
he earns. Cold weather drives them all
back to the city, and that is why you
hear their bells jingling through the
street when the snow covers the pave
mcnts. 1 know some grinders who have
snug bank account and own property,
but you don't catch them trampina
around much in the slush and ice. When
grinder turns out packing his machine
on his back in bad weather you can bel
he is hard up and will take most any
thing you can offer him for job. II
takes cash to live in the city, and if the
poor fellows don't save their summer
earnings they have got to face the slect
and winter winds to get little ready
money to go to The soup house.-G!0se'
U,p)~~ant
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
Wasp Stings.

G.. NJ. Haskins, OF White County, Ill.,,
saws in letter to the New York World:
Wasps and their stings are a terror to
most children, and grown up people pre-
fer to give these insects q wide berth.
Occasionally, as in the stirring up OF
nest of wasps, the injuries received be-
come of a most serious nature. Two
wears ago son of mine, some ten years
old, accidentally stepped into wasp's
nest while playing about an old tree
stump. In an instant he was attacked
by numbers of the enragcd wasps. His
cries attracted m; attention, and with
the aid of others I fiaalIy got him away
from his prosecutors into the house. The.
child bad swooncd under the pain OF
some fifty or more stiugs, and as there
was no doctor at hand we sliced onions
and rubbed the juice over his hands,
face, neck and wherevera sting appeared.
This treatment we kept up for several
hours, until finally sleep came to relieve
the child. am inclined to believe that
the Juice of the raw onions applied to the
stings as described saved the child's life.
At all events, he recovered from this ter
rife attack without other i'll effects than
the suffering caused by the stings and
several wakeful, fcverish nights. Ihave
never since had occasion to try the onion
remedy, but should certainly resort to it
again in my own family if so unfortunate
as to he stung again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
The Deepest Body of Fresh Water.

A party sent ont by the United States
Geological Survey, under the command
of Captain Clarence E. Duttor, U. s. A.,
has succ: eded in reaching and making
complete survey of Crater Lake, in Ore
gon, body of water whose shores, with
The possible exception of one point on
the south, have never before been touched
by the feet of white men. The party's
boats were hauled 10J miles by mule
teams, dragged by detail of soldiers up
the snow-clad sides of the ridge which
surrounds.the lake, and lowered by ropes
from the crest to the water, 900 feet be-
low. One hundred and sixty soundings
were made, the result of which gave the
general character of the lake bottom.
Two large submerged cinder cones were
found, respectively 500 and 1900 feet
high, the rest of the bottom being fiat.
Captain Dutton believes this to be the
deepest body of fresh water on the con-
tinent. The greatest depth attained by
the sounding line was 1905 feet.
GAS regards the origin of the basin,"
he writes to Director Powell, II now
have a decided opinion. 1t has, think,
been formed in much the same way US
the great caldcras of the Hawaiian
Islands, by the melting of the founda-
rions of the original mountains, the blow
ing out of the molten mater oil in the
form of light punice and fine tufa. 1t
cannot have been formed by an explosion,
like Krakatao and Tomboro in the East
Indies, for there is no trace of the frag-
ments anywhere in the country round
about. But the pumice and tufa which
surely emanated from the crater are seen
in vast quantities anywhere within ra-
dius of twenty to sixty miles and III
quantities ample to fill tie whole vast
crater twice over. The age of the crater
is wholly post-glacial. have found at
the extreme crest Of the wall on the
western side splendid examples of 'gla-
o:ial striation, while the old moraines are
half mile to mile below. That the age
of the caldera cannot be great is evident
from the fact that, though the walls are
crumbling at very rapid rate, the talus
has not only not reached the water sur
face anywhere, but the sounding dis
closes but little OF it at the bottom"