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urANTED-Dressma and others inter-
w ested in perfect fitting garments, to lnves-
tgate Foiett's sleeve indicator and new square
system, by which garments cut 70 measure , ale
sleeve indicator sold separately for one week: f.
p RFDFIELD Of Casco street. 2
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EOR sALE-S3oo buys a irst-class manutacs
Il turing business, secured by patent; one OF
the best openings ever offerrd; bargain tor any
IVY. y ISL
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WANTED = A medium sized rent for small
w family, in good location. e. L. HARLOW,
5241s Congress street. Reference, John +. Proc
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Gunpowder-ShOt.
Blasting. % 5094 0o
Sporting. ..6 25@6 5C
Drop shot. -. 8
Buck. z
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ITO LET-A very desirable up stairs rent on
Pine near Carlton street. Price $500. Ap-
NV TO II. S. PRIDE, Cahoon Block. 29-l
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DARTNER WANTED-A lady OF good ad'
eltv business; must have small capital to take an
Interest in the business; good chance TO make
money; no trifers need answer. Address D. I, L.'
Press office. I-I-
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Portland wholesale Prices Current.

Corrected for the PRESS 70 July II I00O'
Lead.
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The following New York stock market is re-
ceived daily, by private wire, by Pullen, NrocKef
q % No 22 Exchange street, Portland, ME-:
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TO LET.

rent of five rooms on first floor, consisting Of
front room. kitchen and three sleeping rooms all
on same floor 1U-l
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WANTED A situation as janitor, butler,
w Waterman, headwaiter or captain in no
tel Inquire for JANITOR, First National Bank
building. References 81
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WANTED - All those who would like good
w easy Boot or Shoe, one they can take comfort
in to call at the new shoe store, 555 congress,
GEP 49, 81
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TNOR SALE-Boarding house, near Boston,
II close to steam and horse cars; 20 rooms,
furnished mostly in black walnut and tapestry;
the place has one acre of land, rent only 500 per
month: the furniture will be sold low as the own
err must 20 to California. POND & BRITAIN, 339
Washin9tOn ST. Boston, Mass. 30-1
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TNOR sALE-Paints Paper Hangings and Ar
10 lists materials store in enterprising town; an
hours ride from Boston; fine stock OF fresh and de-
sirabe goods will sell at appra isal, about $500;
only store of the kind in the town; grand chance
TO buy paying business. POND & BRITAIN,
339 Washington St. Boston, Mass. IL
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SNATCHED FROM DEATH.
Remarkable Experiment of Physician Upon
Woman Supposed To Be Corpse.

ATLANTA, Oct ia restoration to life is re-
ported here from Montezuma, which is creating
considerable interest among the doctors. DR.. R.
O. Engram. of that town, was called in to see a
colored woman who had congestive chill
When he reached her side he saw that sheTwas
extremely ill., Turning to her husband, he told
him the woman would be dead in ten minutes
At the same time he prepared decoction Of
brandy and aqua ammonia, to be given hypoder-
mically, for immediate relief
When he turned to his patient her pulse had
ceased to beat; her heart was motionless, and she
was dead. Instead of placing the hypodermic
syringe in her arm he inserted 1t in her body, i'm
diately over her heart and pressed it in slowly
until it touched that organ and then discharged
a portion of the brandy and ammonia. In few
seconds the heart made struggle to perform it's
functions, and it was not long before the pulse
was perceptible. The patient is now GONZALES
cent
DR.. Eneram declares that the woman was dead,
and that his treatment was purely an expert
ment If the brandy had not been convenient
the woman could not have been revived.
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The knights and the Press.

Richmond Special in Philadelphia Press.
1t must be admitted that the whole method of
dealing with the public is both unsatisfactory
and autocratic. Here is a vast body of men
who propose to take an active part in American
politics and arc asking for the support of Ameri-
can voters to redress their wrongs, yet they re-
fuse to enlighten the public on the action of their
most important convention by exercising CEN
sorship over the press reports such as the Car
of Russia does preferring that the news should
gradually leak out through the paid traitors in
their own organization than by legitimate meth
DDS. such as those adopted by all patriotic polit-
ical organizations, feeling themselves strong
enough and their cause just enough and their
methods honorable enough to take the public
into their confidence. The result of this unfor
tunate course has injured the knights of Labor
ncalculably. The absence of legitimate news
mas resulted in good deal Of speculation on the
part of newspapers throughout the country, and
the average knight thinks the newspapers of the
land are all against the order
On the contrary the newspapers have treated
the Knights of Labor far better than the Knights
of Labor have treated the newspapers. Take
the city of Philadelphia and do not know of
prominent journal that is not willing to sustain
this organization in every reasonable effort it
makes to advance the cause of labor. Yet a
representative OF a journal in that city, whose
proprietor is known throughout the land for his
average Knight of Labor regards newspaper men
their natural enemies, and that, with the
ception of few of the more intelligent lie aders
they were not even civil to representatives of
the press, who are generally referred to as
''those lowlived reporters" This is the test
nony of one of the most experienced and accom-
plished labor reporters in Philadelphia. The
correspondents here are treated very much in
this way, and newspaper man who undertakes
to talk to any of these airy delegates here runs
rie 0f hai rcI1lta tad
Powderly tells them to avoid reporters and
newspaper men Of all kinds. The majority fol-
low his orders literally. though for consdera-
ton some of then are being bought every day to
furnish accounts of occurrences inside the con-
vention and to give inside views of the situation.
There is feeling among some of the more intel
ligent members favorable to open sessions or at
least that official report of some K nd be pre-
pared for the press The absurdity of Mr.. Pow
derlv haranguing twenty newspaper men twice
day in the reading-room of the hotel for ten
minutes and presenting them with few unim
portant kilograms from people and societies anx-
ious to stand in with the knights of Labor while
all discussion indicating what the Knights of
Labor are aiming at and thinking about is kept
secret is apparent to sensible and women.
A farce of that kind cannot last long,
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More Wabash Litigation.

CHICAGO, Oct 1L-Thomas b. Atkins. Henry
K. McKarg, jacob Short and Hughes III. Thayer,
bond holders of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific
railway, east of the Mississippi, presented pc
tition to Judge Gresham. to-day, for leave to file
a bill to foreclose mortgages on the property of
the road, and for q receiver. The
mortgages sought to be foreclosed are
on the Toledo, Wabash & Western
railroad for So 61O 0OO on thea Wabash for $2,-
000 600, and ten Others representing $l5, 900 000
all of which are prior to the mortgage under
which the Wabash system was foreclosed and
sold by the federalFcourt at St Louis. sep
arate and competent receiver is asked in addition
to the foreclosure. Judge Gresham set the mat
ter for hearing on Oct. l9.
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A Modern KNIGHTS Gallantrv.

Richmond Letter in Philadeph Press.
The street-cars here are drawn by two, and
sometimes three, mules, but there are no con-
ductorI The steep grades make it almost i'm
possible for a woman to deposit her fare and
difficult for man. Stepping in one of these
bob tail conveyances the other afternoon OBJ
served very pretty and modest Virginia girl
hand a quarter to Knight of Labor who sat
near the fare box and ask him to get it changed
for her.
The man replied, rather gruffy, "Im not the
conductor" The young lady looked embar-
rassed, and gladly accepted my proffered servi-
ces obtained the change, and put the fare in
the box, whereupon the noble knight and his
two companions loudly informed me they had
their. opinion of me for acting as conductor
for a miserable corporation. | was obliged to
confess that the act was performed solely to
oblge lady, and with no intention to aid and
abet a grinding street-car monopoly. In the
meantime the three Knights had refused TO put
their own fares into the box. and gallantly in
vited the unhappy driver, who was struggling
with the three mules in front, to put off the
three Knights. 1t is needless to say that the
task had its difficulties, but was finally settled
by the Knights giving their fare to the driver.
and the driver requesting a less punctilious
passenger to deposit the money in the box. /
quite indorse the principle the boys were fight
ing for, though they were not kniehtly in their
conduct to the lady, and in this 0lr. Powderly
would agree with me.
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THE CHICAGO STRIKE.
A Prospect for ComprOmise-Waiter Girls
BOycOtting Pinkerton Men.

A Prospect for COmprOmise-Waiter Girls
BOycOtting Pinkerton Men.
CHICAGO Oct 1.-THE situation at the stock
yards is absolutely unchanged. The beef-pack
ers in Swifts and Morriss houses went to work,
while the other places were shut down. The
report that District Assem- bly 81 had ordered tho
men to report for work this morning failed to be
substantiated by facts There were at least as
many men out to-day as there were Saturday.
and in addition to these are the few men from
the other houses, who have cleaned up the
benches and have now joined those on the out
side. The mon themselves scarcely knew what
they would do to day, and many gathered in the
vicinity of the houses with their dinner-pa on
of strikers should go back, but this was not
done, and the men took their dinner pals home
again.
Almost ali the strikers seem contented to
main in their homes and only the younger
crowd hang around the houses. At 8 o'clock
this morning all the beef men at Fowler's quit
work, and soon after the beef leaders at Ar
mour's house, as well as about fifty of the beef
killers, refused to go on. It was thought that
all the beef men in the yards would be out At
10 o'clock there was an immense crowd In the
vicinity of the packing-h house, but Captain
Markey and his men kept splendid order.
Messrs. Butler and Barry, who were sent here
by the Richmond convention to effect settle
ment of the packers strike, held a long confer
ence this afternoon with Messrs. Bettford and
Hately, representatives of the packers. After
the conference, Mr., Barry stated to q reporter
that the packers insisted on a return to the ten
hour system, but there was prospect of COM
promise on nine-hours pay for eight hours
work, or ten hours pay for nine hours work.
When the conference ended no time was set for
future meeting, as the representatives of the
packers wished to confer fully with all the rest of
the packers and said that it would take several
days TO affect settlement.
The strikers had az open air meeting in Pack
ingtown tonight, which was addressed by Mr..
Barry and other speakers, who counseled moder-
alton and urged the men now working eight
hours to remain at work, and those who had left
any unfinished work to return until the houses
had been cleared.
Last Saturday night the girls at the Transit
House absolutely refused to serve the Pinkerton
men, and q compromise was effected by the head
walters, by hitting on the expedient of putting
the provisions on the tables before the men en-
tered, and allowing the men to help themselves.
The girls agreed to All the platters and take
away the soiled dishes. To-day, the girls de-
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BLIND TOM.
Judge Donohue Denies an Application for an
Inquiry as to His Mental Condition.


NEW YoRK, Oct. 11.-Judge Donohue. of She
Supreme Court, has denied the application of
Mrs. Charity Wiggins the mother of Thomas
Virgins, known as "Blind Tom," the wonderful
pianist, to have his mental condition inquired
into and his estate cared for. Toms fathers
name was Mingo. He is dead. Both father and
mother were Georgia slaves. Tom was born in
that State in 184G. When he was four years old
the whole family were sold as slaves to James
". Bethune, with whom they remained until
freed by the war Under an agreement, Tom
was placed in control of Bethune for FIVE years.
until May 1870 when he would be Of age This
was approved by S. F. Bayne, superintendent of
freedmen, at Augusta, Ga. Without the parents
consent Bethune took Tom out of the State. and
put him on exhibition as pianist In 1876 Tom
became a citizen of New York. While on ex-
hibiton in Virginia, Tom was declared lunatic,
and Mr. Bethune's son, John G. Bethune, was
declared committee of his person. The latter
acted as Toms manager till 1884, when he died.
The elder Bethune was then appointed In the
meantime, Mrs. Virgins removed to this city.
She brought suit against Bethune for the serv
ices of her son and an accounting of the profits
of the exhibition since 1865. That suit is pend
ing in Alexandria, Va. The old lady has twelve
children, the oldest sixty years old and the
youngest twenty eight, all born in slavery, and
therefore not born in lawful wedlock. Tom has
no heirs. His mother is next of kin, unless the
court decides the other children as relatives.
Hence, the application to Judge Donohue The
afidavts state that, though possessed of wonder
full musical ability, he is an idiot. The appica-
tion was denied. on the ground that proceedings
should be instituted in the State where the COM
mittee was first appointed.
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THE YEARS CROPS.
Figures Showing the Average Yield of Wheat
Corn, Oats and Other Farm Products.

Figures Showing the Average Yield of Wheat,
Corn, Oats and Other Farm Products.
WAsHINGToN, Oct. 1.-THE report of the De.
partment of Agriculture for October gives local
estimates of yield per acre of small grains, with
condition OF corn potatoes and other late crops
The results corroborate the previous returns OF
wheat confirming expectations of slight in
crease from the first records of thrashine, with
out making any material addition to the crop
aggregate The average yield. upon an area oil
fully thirty-seven million acres, appears to be
close to 12I bushels per acre, making the crop Of
an average of series of years. The area actual
ly harvested is now the principal object of exact
determination. The result will vary little from
an increase of 1O0,OOO.0OO bushels over the crop
of last year. The State averages of the principal
States are: New York, IL bushels: Pennsylva-
mia, 49, Kentucky, lis; Ohio, l5.7; Michigan,
1868; lndians 10 l; Illinois, 13 /; Wisconsin, l2.3
Minnesota, 1876; Iowa, y 5; Missouri, II 5; Kan
sas. H. Nebraska, 9.6 Dakota. 105; California,
lis; Oregon, 125.
The average yield per acre of oats is 266
bushels, making a crop of over GOO 900, 600 BUSH
els. The Ohio valley averages over 80 bushels
per acre, Iowa over "a bushels, With lower yields
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the earth" There were almost deafening cheers.
which were renewed when Mr. Litchman added:
And more than this, we are going to have it.
After the addresses there were bicycle races.
and tonight banquet followed by ball in
Agricultural Hall, which is progressing at this
time.
No disturbances on account of the color-line
issue. or anything else, have occurred so far
There will be but one session of the conven-
ton tomorrow. and that will be in the morning,
the Armory being engaged in the afternoon for
the Grand Army demonstration. AS the COM
mittees have been at work to-day, and will con-
tnue indusriously, it is expected that there will
be a number of propositions reported back to
the convention on Wednesday.
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Ordered to Go to Work at Old Wages.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-THE executive board
of District Assembly No. l, Knights of Labor,
this morning ordered the eight hundred striking
stove moudars to return to work at the rates in
force previous to Sept z, when the strike COM
menced. There was stormy scene at the as
semblys meeting A number of prominent
leaders in the strike were present and violently
opposed the order of the board. Their opinions,
however, were overruled, and the order went
into effect at the various stove foundres in the
city. The strikers applied for work individual
lv. and not as members of the Knights of Labor.
Not more than half Of them were taken back, as
the manufacturers said the strike had seriously
crippled the winter trade and they would not
have use for their former force.
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Losses of Canadian Banks,

TORONTO, Oct 11.--With reference to the de-
falcation of Need of the packing house of Fer
guson & Co., of Chicago, prominent official of
the Bank Of British North America stated to-
day, that their loss would not amount to any
thing like 800, 900, and that the Montreal bank
escaped scot free. He stated, also, that he
thought that Neeld would not come to Canada,
as his crime is an extraditable one.
Local Transactions of Neeld and Ferguson.
In the search for property in this county
owned by N. NJ. Neeld and J. c. Ferguson, of
Chicago, it has been found that Neeld was re-
Gently party to several real estate transfers
here The county records show that on the Both
of last June James G. Ferguson and wife trans
ferred to Neeld halfinterest in fourteen
acres of land east of the city. near the old Hill
nursery, and half interest in the old Ferguson
residence, the consideration being $15, 900. In
the deed it was stipulated that it was the inten-
tion to convey to Neeld the interest of Mr.. Fer
guson only. Soon afterward Mr.. and Mrs.
Neeld and Mr.. and Mrs. Ferguson sold to John
F. Wallick the old family residence for 500, O0O
AT the time these transactions took place it was
understood here that Mr. Ferguson was adjust
ing the accounts of the old partnership.
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clare, is the last that they will submit to doing
even this, and strike among the waiter girls
seems to be impendi8eg.
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PLAY.DAY FOR THE KNIGHTS.
Part of a Day Devoted to Music, March
ing, Speeches and Amusement.

Governor Lee and Other Virgnians Fail to
Appear, and the Knights Are Forced to
Draw on Their Own Oratorical Talent.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS.

Freight Business Entirely Suspended on Two
Divisions of the n Y, p. & o. Railway.
CLEVELAND, o., Oct u.-Monday morning
found the attitude of the New York, Pennsyl
vania & Ohio railroad toward the striking brake
men unchanged. The officials are still hoping
for an amicable adjustment, and while no ar
rangements have been made with the brakemen,
it is probable that many of the strikers will
return to work. Superintendent O'Brien said
that if they will come back at the terms offered
they will find the company ready to employ
them. The road will probably run freight trains
tomorrow or Wednesday, if not with the old
brakemen, with new men. The men in the
Cleveland yards are quiet, but watchful, and ex-
press themselves as determined. The machine
shops Of the company in this city were closed to-
day.
A special dispatch from Meadville, Pa, says
that at o'clock this evening all the brakemen
of the first and second divisions and the switch
men at that place quit work. The railroad COM
pany were fully prepared for the strike An
order was sent through to move all freight as
quickly as possible and to receive none what
ever. All freight trains have been abandoned
the last train having left Meadville, east tboun6
at o'clock
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A Prospect that the Strike of Packing
House Men May Be Com promised.

Freight Business on Two Divisions of the N.
Y. P. & O. Railway Abandoned Because Of
Strike of Switchmen and Brakmen.
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PURE Popular Preparation-Red Star Cough
Cure. Price, rs cents.
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DETROIT. Mich, Oct. 11-Judge Brown, of
the United States Court, this morning handed
down his decision in the case of the United
States against John Craig, on the action brought
to penalty of 81, 600 provided for in the
assisted immigration act" of Feb. g. 1886. Mr..
Craig imported ship carpenters from the Prov
ince of Quebec during the ship-yard strike of
last spring. The defendants counsel had inter
posed the objection that the entire law against
importing labor was unconstitutional. Judge
Brown has had this question under advsement
for some time It involved not only
the Craig case, but was test upon which the
whole law to stand or fall. This morning
Judge Brown delivered an elaborately written
OF rion, reviewing each objection to the law and
overruling them all. He holds that the law is
within that provision of the United States Con-
stitution permitting Congress to regulate com
merce. To the objection that our laws cannot
punish an offense committed il Canada he an
swers that Mr.. Craig's offense was completed on
this side by the actual landing Of the imported
Canadians This is equivalent TO the law pun
lshing accessory to crime. II the crime is
not committed, the accessory is not guilty; but
soon as it is committed the accessory becomes
liable.
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and if he is found in Canada he can be tried
there for his crime, while if ne remains in the
United States he is equally liable to arrest.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-12-11
Gen. Grants Colored SERVANT.

Harrison, the colored body servant of
Gen. Grant, is earning living as com
positor in the government printing
house at Washington. A typesettcr
who has been working alongside of Har-
rison tells this story with reference to
what Gen. Grant desired should lie his
last resting place. Two or three days
before the general died, he called lIarri-
son 10 him and wrote note on one Of
the pads that he always kept at his ell
bow. II was statement of where lie
wished 10 he buried. lie was in the
habit Of writing messages Of this kind
and handing them to Harrison. and
sometimes gave directions 10 the colored
man in writing. so that Harrison felt
free, as he stood there awaiting the gen.
erals instructions. to read what he had
written. The general folded the note
and placed it in an envelope AMI told
Harrison TO deliver it to Mrs.
Grant three days after he should die.
The note was actually delivered on the
second day after the generals death.
instead of the third, because of the pres
sure that had been brought to bear on
Mrs. Grant on this subject. Harrison
refuses TO answer any questions regard
ing the contents of the note except that
when asked il the general is buried in
accordance with his wishes he replies
in the negative. New York Tribune.