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The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mrs. Celia Thaxter, who lives in summer
| on the Isles of Shoals, has returned to Bos-
ton where she will remain during the win
| ter.
Jenny Lind -Goldschmidt's daughter, who,
according to rumor has inherited her moth
| er's voice, will shortly be heard in the United
| States
When the port of Boston was close before
| the revolutionary war and there was distress
| for food, the first contribution received was
| 100 barrels of flour from Charleston, South
| Carolina.
M. Chevreul, the great French chemist,
who recently celebrated his one-hundredth
birthday, has never used wines, spirits or
| tobacco. Soups, beefsteak and coffee are his
meet and drink.
Mr.. Joel c. Harris (''Uuncle Remus') who
has had months vacation from the Allan
ia Constitution, ON account of his health,
does not improve, and has gone into the
mountains for another month He has a ner-
vOus affection which has so far resisted med
ical treatment
The German-Austrian schoolmasters be-
lieve that the Austrian children have spoiled
since flogging in the schools was abolished
and petition the government for the restora-
| UIOU Ol Ullo TOQ. bub ClC government VIII nOb
grant the petition.
Mr.. Uriel Crocker, of Cohasset, Mass
who has lately completed his ninetieth year,
enjoys alone the distinction of having as
cended twenty feet above the top of the
Bunker Hill Monument, being used as a test
weight to try the tackle that was to put the
capStone in place. Through his efforts $40,-
600 of the monument fund was raised.
ba 10 ont
by the New York Times has named river
in that region the George Jones river, in hon
or of the proprietor of the Times. At this
hostile and envious papers in New York aver
that the river is appropriately named, as it is
short. shallow, muddy, and with very wide
mouth.
"The Prince of Wales" says London
Truth. sis very far from sharing this Queens
enthusiasm for the Battenburg interest,
while the Duke of Edinburgh is furious on
the other fide. The. only royalties who are
really with her Majesty are Princess Beatrice
andher husband"
The Caucasians of Bossier Parish, Louisi-
ana, are so incenSed by marriages between
blacks and whites that they have decided to
boycott all such couples. In other sections
of Louisiana the partners in these marriages
have been brutally whipped. Marriage be-
tween the two races is not forbidden by the
laws of Louisiana.
Peter B. Sweeney is back in New York
where he proposes to reside permanently.
There are in Washington two brothers of
the Taylor brothers who are running for the
governorship of Tennessee. Both of them
are clerks of the government, and both of
them say that if they were in Tennessee
during the coming election they would vote
for neither Bob nor Alf. A gentleman from
Tennessee says that such of the speeches of
the candidates as are of set character were
written by another brother, named Jim, who
is the smartest member of the family. Jim
wrote the speeches and made his brothers re-
hearse them before him, down in the barn,
previous to the present joint tour.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The city of Hartford, Ct, has sensation
similar to the one that is agitating the people
Of Portland. George M. Bartholomew has
been one of the most prominent business
men of Hartford. From 1858 to 1867 he was
director of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad, being then associated with Samuel
j. Tilden and William B, Ogden. The posi-
tions Of honor and trust which he had held
and was holding at the time his Irregularities
were discovered, have been with many of the
most important corporations in the country.
He has been in business in Hartford for fifty
five years, and until within few days, had
lived the seventy years of his life with the
respect of his associates. Now he is fugi-
tive, having embezzled more than three hun
dred thousand dollars, and left liabilities to
the extent Of two million dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The Massachusetts, State Board of Arbitra-
tion has organized and is ready to lend its
assistance in the settlement of disputes be-
tween labor and capital. The first case
which comes to its attention, however, is not
very promising one. A strike has been
going on for several months in the Chelsea
rubber works The employees, having filled
the strikers places, so that the business is
going on as usual, deny that there is any
ground for arbitration. The strikers, how
ever, have called on the Board of Arbitra-
ton, devoting themselves in the meantime
to intimidating the men who have taken
their places. This makes a very unpromis-
ing case for the first action of the new board.
But perhaps they can give the strikers some
good counsel that will make the situation
more peaceful.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The negotiation of new treaty for the
settlement of the fisheries dispute will be
looked upon with both hope and anxiety by
our fishermen. They are hopeful that the
petty annoyances to which they are subjected
In Canadian waters may be terminated: and
they cannot help being anxious lest America
may fare no better in this treaty than she
has in others. The final acceptance of any
treaty. however will rest with the Senate.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
STATE POLITICS.
MIR. MARBLES CANDIDACY.
Rncton Tnr,rnoI


Hon. S. S. Marble of Lincoln county is
most generally spoken of as the President of
the Maine Senate. When Mr.. Marble be-
came the Republican candidate for Senator
in his county in 1882 no one thought he
would be elected, but he was, and in the two
subsequent elections Lincoln county has TAX
en- place with the reliable Republican
counties
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The elder Rogers has sold out his Pan
Electric stock for a dollar and a quarter
share. realizing therefrom the sum of twen-
ty-six hundred dollars. As the stock was
worthless before action was taken by the
law department of the government the price
received by Rogers measures the extent to
which government action has doomed the
Pan Electric Company. If it is not up to
the expectations it is because Mr.. Garland's
influence has not been so effective as ex-
naotad
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
ParlOr Lectures on English Literature.

On Wednesday Afternoons at O'clock at Mrs.
CaswelPs school rooms, 96 Park street, beginning
Wednesday, Nov 8, Mrs. John A. Bellows
Illustrated by reading from the authors. Subjects
4, Chaucer; 2, Spenser; 3, Shakesperian
Dramafists; A, Shakespeare; 8, Lyrical
Cowper; 8, Wardsworth and Coieridge; o,
Shelley, Aeats and Byron; 10, Tennyson
and Arnold IL The Rrowuinss; 12, The
Pre-Raphaelife Poets. Course tickets $500.
Apply at 96 PARK STREET, between 2 and 3
O'Clock p M on Wednesdays, before Nov. 1.
Sen22 diff
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. "a.

We do not read anonymous letters ana coF5 n;in
cations. The name and address of the writer are
ia all cases Indispensable, nothecessarily iol pub
ication but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The discovery of the defects in the plumb
ing in Secretary Manning's private office in
the Treasury building in Washington may
explain the i'll health that has attended sew
eral OF the Secretaries of the Treasury. Sewer
gas pouring into an Office through an unob-
structed pipe is not likely to make healthy
atmosphere. In eastern lands officers of the
state have to look sharply after the bow
string; in this country the neglect of the
plumbers seems to have been nearly as effec-
tual in making vocancies in one cabinet posi-
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

The Republicans of Dakota have called
out again for admission to the Union. But
so long as there are too many Republicans
in Dakota and too many Democrats in Wash
ington the cry will be unheeded.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
RAILWAY MATTERS.
MEETING OF THE GENERAL RAILWAY PAS
CENnEp AnENTc

MEETING OF THE GENERAL RAILWAY PAS
sENGER AGENTS.
The General Railway Passenger Agents met
at Hotel Brunswick, New York, Tuesday and
among the 70 United States and Canada
lines represented were the following: New
York, Providence & Boston; Concord, Cen
tral Vermont & Old Colony Steamboat Com
pany; Providence & Worcester; Boston &
Maine; Boston & Albany; New Haven &
Derby Burlington 6 Lamoille. Boston S
Bangor Steamboat Company; Providence s.
Stonington Line; New Haven, Northamp-
ton, Fitchburg & Connecticut River d. j.
Flanders of the Boston & Maine; HI. Monett
of the West Shore; o. w. Ruggles of the
Michigan Central; w. II. Thrall of the Chr
cago d Northwestern, and j. L. Taylor of
the Savannah, Florida & West were selected
as committee to report OIL the plan of maxi
ing uniform system of coupon through
tickets. The present system of coupon tick
cts is objected to on the ground that it is
sometimes difficult to distinguish first class
and emigrant tickets on different roads. The
compendium of rates and divisions which is
to be published by W. L. Bailey of the Penn
sylvania road was adopted as an official au-
thority. A committee was appointed to
draft resolutions on the death of j. w. Cory,
formerly General Ticket Agent of the Lake
Shore. The next meeting will be held at
Washington, d. c., on the third Tuesday of
March, 1887
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
CURRENT COM M EMIT.
A MUewUMP VIEW OF THE MAINE ELE,
runN

A MUewUMP VIEW OF THE MAINE ELEc-
TION.
Harper's Weekly.
1t would seem to be fair inference that
the distinctive Prohibition movement is not
so strong as has been supposed, and that
Republican Prohibitionists are disposed still
to be counted as Republicans rather than
Prohibiti0nists.
THE DEBT TO THE NEWSPAPERS.
Boston Herald.
The New England papers rise to the occa-
sion. When Springfield, and Portland. and
Providence had their quarter millennial and
similar celebrations this year, the newspa-
pers of each OF those cities issued extra edi-
tions, enlarged and illustrated, which did
nonor 70 thelr towns. Inc special editions
field Union and Republican, and of the Port
land PRESS and the Argus of the same city,
c fail to excite pride in the bosom Of
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
~ man who ever lived in either of these

any man who ever lived in either of these
cities
Dedham gives us the newest development
Transcript has issued special number, IL
lustrated by more than a dozen handsome
cuts of buildings, old and new. This "spe-
cial anniversary edition" printed on fine pa
per and adorned by, fine pictures Of the Old
landmarks, as well as of some of the new
structures which help in keeping the town
up to the standard, ranks well with the
Providence, and Portland, and Springfield
papers of which we have spoken. Does any,
body know Just how much our towns ard
cities owe to the enterprise of their news
papers?
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
THE LIMERICK ROAD.

A crew of thirty men will arrive in Reck
land Thursday and begin setting poles for
the new line of telegraph wires along the
route of the railroad, which is to supsrcede
the line that follows the old stage road. The
change of route is only between Rockland
and Wiscasset. the remainder of the line to
Gardiner being rebuilt in the same track.
The change will lengthen the line about four
miles, and will cost about $4,000. After this
job is completed the line between Rockland
and Winterport, which is in very dilapi-
dated condition, is to be rebuilt. New poles
will be set and the wires transferred. j. w.
Plaisted of Portland, will superindend both
iohS
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
Mrs. CasWeII's ParIOr Glasses
School for Young Ladies and Misses,
No. SO Park Street,
WILL REOPEN SEPT. l5, 1856.

Special attention is given to the common and
higher English Branches, ARITHMETIC, Bookkeep
ing, etc. Mrs. CaSwell will conduct the classes In
Composition, Readin g, Art History, Cen
eral History, English LiterBture, and Bot
ta's History of Universal Literature. Girls
who have already finished High School course
can in one year combine the study of General Lit
erature with the analytical reading aloud of the
HAD the Odyssey. the Enead, Paradise Lost,
and the Inferno and with any two branches of
Art History, Architecture, Sculpture, and Paint
ing. The class in composition will meet twice
week and will begin with "Greene's Analysis" as
special attention will be given to the technicali-
ties of English construction. Classes will recite
four times week each in Astronomy, Physiol-
ogy, French and German. Special students
will be received IN all these classes. English pro-
nuncaton specially in every class. So far as
consistent with the plan of the school, the discip-
line of the public schools is smaintained. Seats for
day pupils and places in the family may be Sc
cured by personal application after Sept 1st. or
by letter at any time. No Seats will be Re-
served unless previously engaged.
Miss H. r. Creighton will continue her classes
in Drawing and Painting and will also re-
ceive private pupils. China Painting spec
ialty.
Miss Lizzie c. Shirley will receive pupils in In
STRUNENTAL MUSIC.
Special rates in Music. Drawing and Paint
ing to pupils of the school. Apply for terms, &C.,
at SO Park street.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
THE GREAT CoNUNDRUM.
N Y. SIM.

1t would be interesting to know just what
the 1872 Prohibtionists in Maine were vot-
ing for. They have already put prohibition
into the statutes. They have put it into the
State constitution. They have made it a
part of the moral creed Of the community.
Do they want to punish the Republican
in sumptuary legislation. namely, to make
the act of drinking rum, wine or beer Grim
inal offence?
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24
POLITICAL TRAMPS
Poston Journal.

If one will take the trouble to look care
fully he will discover the seedy politicians
who boarded the third party train before the
Maine election are quietly dropping off the
platform of the rear car. The have learned
that the road has not yet been built to the
loyalty where offices are dispensed without
much discrimination.
The Portland daily press., 1886-09-24

Home School, Auburndale, Mass
NOR boys under 15 Specially adapted to meet
IL the wants of parents desiring unusual atten-
tion for their sons, both in the home and school.
sep8eod1m JAMES BIRD, A. M.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

JOHNNY, who had been sitting in the
room while his father had been reading
Bacon aloud to his wife, put his own con-
struction upon several of the passages.
He dwelt particularly upon the phrase,
Reading maketh full man." and pom
dered over it the balance of the day.
During the ensuing evening one OF the
prominent men of the place dropped in
to make short visit. During the con-
versation which followed JOHNNY asked
him:
"You must do a good deal of reading,
don't your"
'Well, yes, my little man, consider
able. Why?"
"Well, ma said you were full about all
the time"
The gentleman did not wait to have
Johnny explain the allusion, and the
young man was compelled to have his
Bacon annotated by his fathers slipper.
Commercial Gazette.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
Talking Business in His Sleep.


''The cook stove at our house." said
Major Fenwick, ''has been acting up ever
since the freeze, and I was ordered to go
to George De Cotte's and have load of
mixed wood split fine and sent up. Well,
you know the night we attended the
lodge meeting? That was the day. I
forgot all about it, and when I came
home to supper the madam asked me
about the chips and splinters, and I
owned up that business drove it out of
my head, but as I would see De Cotte's
that night would give the order and it
would be sent up in the morning. You
know we were detained at the lodge to a
late hour. Next morning at breakfast
the madam told me it was hardly worth
while worrying over the wood in my
sleep. In my Sleep I said, why, what
did I say in my sleep" More than once
in your dreams last night, said she, you
cried out, Here, give me another dollars
worth of chips
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
THE HOMESTEAD.

Against the wooded hills stands,
dhost OF dead home, staring through
Its proken lights on wasted lands
Where old-time harvests grew.
Unplowed, unsown, by scythe unshcrn,
The poor, forsaken farm-felds lie,
Oace rich and rife with golden corn
And pale green breadths of rye.
Of healthful herb and flower bereft,
Inc garden plot no housewife keeps;
Through weedf and tangle, only left,
The snake, its tenant, creeps.
A lilac spray, once blossom-clad,
Sways bare before the empty rooms;
Beside the roofiess poarch sad
Pathetic red rose blooms.
His track, in mold and dust of drouth,
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves,
And in the freless chimney's rpouth
His web the spider weaves.
The leaning barn, about to fall,
Resounds no more on husking ewes;
No cattle low in yard or stall,
No threasher beats his sheaves.
So sad, SO drear! 1t seems almost
Some haunting presence makes its sign;
That down yon shadoway lane some ghost
Night drive his spectral kline!
o. home 80 desolate and lorn!
Did all thy memories die with thee!
We're any wed, were any born,
Beneath this low roof-tree?
Whose ak the wall of forest broke,
And let the waiting sunshine through!
What good-wife sent the earliest smoke
Up the great chimney fue3
Did rustic lovers hither come!
Did maldens, swaylng back and fourth
In rhythmic grace, at wheel and loom,
DID child feet patter on the stair!
DID boyhood frollc IN the snow!
D1d gray age, In her ELBOW chair,
Inc murmerlng brook, the signing breeze,
ihe pines SLOW Whisper, can not tell;
Low mounds beneath the hemlock trees
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
1t Should be Generally Known

that the multitude of diseases Of a scrofu-
lous nature generally proceed from torpid
condition of the liver. The blood becomes
impure because the liver does not act prop
erly and work off the poison from the system,
and the certain results are blotches, pimples,
eruptions, swellings, tumors, ulcers, and
kindred affections, or settling upon the
lungs and poisoning their delicate tissues,
until liberation, breaking down, and con-
sumption is established. Dr.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" will, by acting
upon the liver and purifying the blood, cure
all these diseases.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

BILIOUS, INTERMITTENT AND REMTTENr
FEvERs, to which people who live near fresh
water, during the warm and dry seasons, are
particularly subject, are largely caused by a
torpor of the digestive organs and clog
ging up of the liver. To correct these vital
organs, restore energy, and prevent these
diseases, use De. WALKERS CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BITTERs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Onion seed may be sown very early in
| the spring. in fact as soon as the ground
can be made ready to receive it. The soil
| should be we'll plowed, then narrowed, rolled
and narrowed again. until thoroughly pull
verified. 1t should then be rsked clean of
sticks, stones and clods,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Grow q crop of peas in the old orchard
and let the pigs harvest it. Sow early, two
bushels per acre, with four hundred pounds
of good fertilizer. Good for the meas. het-
ter for the pigs and best for the orchard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

The careful shepherd varies the feed of
his focks to suit their condition and appe
titles. On cold, clear days this stock will eat
nearly twice as much as on warm. wet days,
and the amount of feed should be gagged
accordingly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

In another column of this issue will be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
of attractive advertising. It is one of the
neatest we have ever seen, and we think any
one will be we'll repaid for examining the
supposed display letters in the advertise
ment of PrickIy Ash Bitters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

When land is plowed very early in the
spring the grass seed often fails to sprout
especially on heavy soils, because of low
temperature.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Thorough acquaintance with processes
of plant growth is necessary for judicious
manuring. Apply fertilizers within the
reach of plant rootlets, be it their nature to
run near the surface or down deep into the
ground.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

cart is long and time is feeting," and il
is too bad to spend half of short life dis
tressed with neuralgia, when rs cents spent
for one bottle of Salvation Oil will cure il
quickly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Who knows but if the beautiful girl who
died SO young had been blessed with DR..
Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" she might
have reigned on many another bright May
day. The "Favorite Prescription" is GER
tain cure for all those disorders to which
females are liable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Pratt Times: The farmers are all busy
blowing. A large acreage.of corn will
be planted. Our soil is naturally adapted
to the culture of corn and wheat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Common sense will indicate the certain
tendency of neglected cold to the Lungs ;
prevent such termination by using DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup for that cough. Price
Is cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

No CUT RATES ABOUT rH1s.-Only to an.
swer the constant call for good and low
priced cough and Group remedy do we now
introduce our Aliens Lung Balsam in three
sizes, 25c., &c., and $1.00 bottle at all
druggists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

keep no more animals than can be COM
fortably accommodated; otherwise they
prove an expense rather than profitable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

The Solomon city, Dickinson county,
Sentinel states with pitiful wall, that
the winter wheat crop is despaired of.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
-Onion seed NAV he sovn vorr

LYONS Patent Heel Stiffener is the only inven-
ton that makes old boots straight as new
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Sheep sick and dying on dry proyender
have had the mortality arrested when ensil-
age diet was substituted, says an exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Milk sold at 3 cents quart pays about
the same net as butter sold for 90 cents a
pound, says an eastern expert.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Look after the small things of the farm.
Larger profits in proportion to the cost of
production are realized from sales of butter,
eggs, spring chickens, asparagus, ETC., than
from the main crops.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
TennysOn's .'Niay Queen"

Eight and five-eights pounds per gallon
is rapidly becoming the standard weight OF
milk in this country and Europe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but use
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

If the ground is bare over the strawberry
bed see that the wind has not blown off the
litter intended for protection. If the COW
ering of the bed has been neglected it il not
too late to apply it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

AS toilet luxury, Halls Hair Remover
never fails to give satisfaction.
Sufferers from Bronchitis will find speedy
relief by taking Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

Ii afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it.
25c.