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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Bowdoin College.

The medical school begins February 4th.
DIR. Stephen Fl. Weeks delivers the opening
address. Subject-"Pr Prosecution of Medical
Study"
Professor Robinson lectured before the
Bath high school last Friday evening.
Mr. E. c. Plummer is frequent contribu-
tor of poetry to the Portland Transcript
The following students have formed col
lege orchestral Butler, Burpee, Torrey,
Bradford, White, Preston and Stacey.
Choate 'S7, Thomas '88 and Preston 'S9 took
part in the play "Esmeralda," given here
Monday night for the benefit of the public
library
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FAMINE IN IRELAND.
equalIed by Any other Part of
the West Coast
Appeal Received by the Gable News
Agent in New York.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S-Father NJ Colleran,
who is administrator of Innisbofin island,
on the west coast of Ireland, has sent Man
ager Schoonmaker of the Cable News Com
pang in this city further pathetic facts of the
very great suffering and destitution among
the poor fishermen there. He said that the
distress in Innisboffin is unequalled by that
of any other part of the west coast There
are $50 families on the island, and that OF
this number not more than 80 will be able to
get along unaided.
"If | Gould only get them supply of even
the worst food" he writes, ''and some Indian
meal and seed potatoes for the spring. in
order that they may have the chance of a
good harvest next year, this is all would
ask. You are the first to lend us. helping
hand, and we hope that you will continue
and tide us over the coming trying months" J"
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RowdoIn Alumni Reunion.

The annual reunion and dinner of the
Bowdoin alumni, to be held this evening at
the Falmouth Hotel, will prove as usual a
highly interesting event Philip H. Brown,
Esq, president of the association, will pre-
side George F. Holmes, Esq, will give the
Grafton, and H. W. Ring will be postmaster.
President W. Dewitt Hyde of Bowdoin will
be present and speak for the college. As
dinner begins promptly at o'clock, mem
bers will assemble at the hotel as early as
645 p. m. to be present at the informal re-
ception to be given to President Hyde
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
WESTERN BLIZZARD
Nine Persons Reported Frozen to
Death In the CnoctaW Nation.
I ZOO :hsad of Cattle Lying Dead
on the Prairie.

Fort SMITH, Ark, Jan. 2S.-News from
Sans Bois, Choctaw Nation, is that January
Sth two families of rovers, consisting of nine
persons, were caught in the blizzard of that
date in a vast prairie about twenty miles
from Sans Bois, and all were frozen to death
in their wagons, and four horses were frozen
in harness. They were travelling In the di-
rection of MuskOgee. Nothing was found in
their effects to tell who they were.
FORT ELLIOTT, Tex, Jan. 2S.-It is esti-
mated that fully $1,000 head of cattle lie dead
on the prairie within a radius of seventy
miles Of this place. The prairie dogs. are
nearly all dead. Several persons were bad
ly frozen. The lowest recorded by the mer-
curry was 100 below zero.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Yale Law School Loses Its Lady
Pupil.

Three months ago Miss Alice Jordan, re-
siding in small village in Illinois, applied
for admission to the Yale Law School Her
examinations were highly creditable, and,
after some debate by the faculty, she was
formally enlered as a pupil of the junior
class. The faculty decided, however, that
official notification to this effect. Miss Jordan
left the school Tuesday. She was the only
female pupil the Yale Law School has ever
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Bates College.

so is increased by three new members.
Mansur, 'SS, who has been out teaching
two terms, is again with his class.
A large coal stove has recently been put in
the well equipped gymnasium, thus supply
ing long felt want
The Student for January, which is the
first number under the management OF tne
class of 1877, was issued Wednesday. IL mas
q new cover of very tasty design, renecstlns Stis
much credit upon the artist, Mr. John Stnr,
gis. 'S7. All its articles show careful tnought
and are Of high merit. .4 80. -.
turned from teaching, the day o. prayer ior
Stead of the last Thursday in January as at
many of the colleges.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
OHIO LEGISLATURE,

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 2S.-The conference
committee on the part of the Republican
continue their work A mutual understand
ing was arrived at, and the joint Senate adj
journed at 10 a. m. to give the committee
further time. All is quiet today, and the
spirit of compromises is uppermost.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
s9,24O.59

On the 31st day Of October, 1885, the Coun-
ty Commissioners leased to William b. Drew
and Albert N. Whitney, of Portland, the
Jail workshop, and authorized the employ
ment of all such of the male prisoners as the
attending physician at the jail decided were
able to labor, who were then under sentence
to labor and all such as should be hereafter
sentenced to labor, between said 31st day of
October and the 31st day of October, A. D.,
1886. Said Drew and Whitney obligating
themselves to pay into the treasury of the
County Of Cumberland the sum of S2,505, in
monthly installments, for the rent of said
premises, and to reimburse the county for
the expense of heating, making the neceSsa-
ry repairs upon said shop and machinery,
for the salary of an overseer and for such
other expense as the county might be sub
iect to, in carrying out in good faith the sti-
pulati0ns entered into by the parties thereto.
During the past year, previous to October
31st, the time of leasing the shop to Drew
and Whitney, there has been 513 different
men employed therein, rendering to the coun-
ty 10, ,445 1-2 single days labor, with daily
average of 81, which resulted in the manu-
facture of the following articles, to wit:
4,115 pairs of heels, S610 sheets of heeling
and 325, ,035 pairs of inner Soles.
All of which, together with the odd lots
and remnants of manufactured stock, which
has accumulated during the time the shop
has been running, has been disposed OF, with
the result above indicated.
The sum given above, as expense upon
county bridges, includes the amount paid for
repairs, the salaries of draw-tenders at the
bridge at Martins Point and at Portland
bridge, the cost of lighting such of the
bridges as are lighted, together with what
ever sum has been found necessary for snow
ing the one which is covered. The larger
part Of this amount, however, has been ex-
pended upon Portland bridge, in planking
anew with southern pine the easterly side of
that portion of the bridge south of the draw.
In doing this it became necessary to replace
many of the old stringers, which were found
to be rotten, with new timbers.
1t should be stated in this connection,
however, that S6S5.47 of the above sum came
over from last years operation. as the bill
for which that charge was made could not
be obtained in season to be included in the
expense of that year.
At court of County Commissioners, be-
gun and held at Portland, within and for
the county of Cumberland. on the first Tues
day of December, A. D., 1884, to wit: on the
31st day Of said month, an estimate Of the
sums necessary to defray the expenses which
have accrued, or may probably accrue for
one year from said day; and also like esti-
mate for the succeeding year in said county,
was prepared in manner and form as follows,
to wit, for the year A. D., 1886:
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Boston Vacuum Dredging Company

The Boston Vacuum Dredging Company
has been organized with the following Off
GERS:
President Simeon Snow.
Treasurer-Shepard D. Gilbert.
Directors Simeon Snow, S. d. Gilbert, Law
renee b. Gray, Harry Dutton.
Capital, 100000; paid in $40o.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
THE MAINE STATE PRESS,
MAIN e.
Fire in North Edgcomb. +.


WIsCAssET, Jan. 2S.-Last evening the
store and cook house in connection with
Merrills ice privilege at North Edgcomt
was destroyed by fire. A great many stores
and clothing belonging to the workmen
were in the building at the time. 1t is be-
lieved that an overheated stove was the
cause of the fire. 1t had been left but a
short time when flames were seen issuing
from the roof, and before it could be checked
the building was wrapped in flames, The
building and contents is a serious loss.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Full Statement of Its Financial
Condition.
Reports Of the Treasurer and Com
missioners.

The County Treasurer and County Com
missioners have just finished making their
annual report for 1885, which has been clear
ly and neatly printed by VIM. NJ. Marks. We
give the figures in full as follows:
COUNTY TAX.
The amount authorized by the. Legislature
for the county tax Of the several towns in
the county, for the year 1885, was $30,00O.OO
which was duly apportioned in the month of
March as follows:
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S112.30 S29,597.7o S3O,0OO.O0
COUNTY TREAsURER'S REPORT.
Cs,a,,,f,, T,,ar fo, 1 QQE


RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE COUNTY
TREASURER FOR THE YEAR 1885.
Receipts.
Balance in Treasury Dec 81. 1884. s45,72o.1e
ss4ea Gss4 -. a..o. :. o's 24729O1
feis Of 1855 Isl -. .'s... @ 5.so44s
fGssss fines and DC costs so. ' 15,s24s7
Received ON account Clerk of Conrts,
official fees. S.......................... l,4ll.1o
Received on account Municipal
Court, Portland, fines and costs,:... 36O6.OO
AeSslrtu Court. on a'.ons M 9lo. 10000
nTsiigd paid iailor. or ae.ou.. nne. ' .Os. 44se1
Received ON account appeals, blanks 80
sold, etc., in Municipal Court t........ fzo.oo
Received on account admissions TO 1900
Cumberland Bar ar..-......--...s I4O.UO
Received on account jail Workshop. 7305.65
sonrces on a'eoun. 4............... 2222s
S1O5,S12.82
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rsli,nnlea ReceinLs lor 1sse.
s5s,1oo.oo

The above estimate for county tax, with
the estimated receipts for the year 1856, and
treasury s at the end of the present year, was
then deemed by the Commissioners sufficient
to meet all just bills which would probably
be presented against the County, and we are
in hopes non that it may prove sufficient (;
minished receipts from, the Municipal
Court in Portland, render that result in
measure doubtful
Given under onr hands at Portland, this
thirty-frst day of December, A. d. 1885.
DAVID I. CHAPLIN County
HENRY NUTTER, Commissioners of
VIM. L. PRINCE. Cumberland Co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
NOTES.

The report of the Concord-Lewiston game
in Lewiston Wednesday evening, was incor-
rect. The Lewistons won the game, 3 to 1,
in nine minutes. Scannell played fine goal,
and Caviss did some brilliant work for the
Lewistons. The Concords were outplayed
at every point
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Court House Account.
Municipal Court Account
s10.195.49

The several items in the Municipal Court
account, for officers fees, witness fees,
dummy warrants and for posting libels, are
for the last six months in the year 1884 and
for the first six months in 1885, owing to the
fact that these bills are rendered semi-an-
nually; the bill for theIllast six months in
1885 not being presented 70 the Commission
ers for auditing until after the date OF this
report.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Earl carnarvon cheefed in Dublin.

DUBLIN, Jan. 28.-Earl Carnarvon and his
wife left for London today. Large crowds
of people congregated in the streets to wit
ness the departure of the vice regal
party both here and at Kingstown.
Enthusiastically cheered all along the
route. The enthusiasm displayed was
phenomenal, and seldom has retiring Lord
Lieutenant been accorded such hearty DEM
onstrations Of the peoples goodwill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
Burglars in Ihorndike.

BANGOR, Jan. 2S.-Burglars blew open
two safes in Thorndike last night. One, be-
longing to the American Express, contained
nothing of value, but from the other, be-
longing to O. J. Farwell, $50 were taken.
The Maine Central depot was also entered
by burglars and a small sum of money taken.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29

s14,s44.O5

Included in the amount of Jail account is
the sum of S634.46 as board of prisoners from
other counties, which sum, augmented by its
proportionate part of the expense incident to
the confinement and employment Of our own
prisoners, will be paid to the county of Cum
berland by the counties from which the men
were sentenced; thus reimbursing the county
to that extent for the expense Of maintain
ing its Jail during the year.
SOtb doIy ~ Novamhar N 92A 100
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
BASE BALL.

Tho poston Post says: Tim Murnaq will proba-
blv decline the nattering offer from Washington
and remaIn I'm Boston to manage the new club In
the New England League.
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Excess of resources.
JAMES NJ. WEBB,
County IRE.
DILLs AUDITED BY COUNTY co

BILLS AUDITED BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
The bills audited by the County Commits
.ioners during the year 1885, upon the vari-
olis accounts, amount to the several sums as
hereinafter set forth. 1t should be remem-
bered. however, that the gross amount of
the bills paid from the, treasury may not be
precisely the same as the amount of bills au-
dited by the Commissioners, as some of the
bills audited this year may not be paid until
next wear
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,

Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
AT 81 EXCHANGE STREET, PORTLAND, ME.
TERMs-Eight Dollars Year. To mail sub
scribers, Seven Dollars Year, If paid in advance.
RATES OF ADvERTIsNe-On inch Of space
the length of column, or twelve lines nonpdreit
constitutes square"
$1.50 per square, daily, first week; 75 cents per
week after; three insertions or less, $780, con-
tluing every other day after first week, 80 cents.
Half square, three insertions or less, 70 cents
one week, $1.00; 80 cents per week after
SPECIAL NOTICES. 0ne-third additional.
Under head OF "AhIUSEMENTS" and AUCTION
SALES" $500 per square per week; three inser-
tions or less, $3.50.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS,
Published every THURSDAY MORNING, at 90. so
year; If paid in advance, $500 year.
Advertisements inserted in the 'sMAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has a large circulation in every
part Of the State) for 100 per square for first in
sertion, and 90 cents per square for each subse-
quent insertion.
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
The English Cabinet question

LONDON, Jan. 2S.--The Evening News
says il has authority for stating that Lord
Salisbury has advised the Queen to summon
Lord Harrington to form Cabinet.
The Queen has summoned the Marquis of
Salisbury to confer with her at Osborne.
He will dine with Her Majesty this evening
and be her guest until tomorrow, when he
will return to London.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
IN THE Kinks.
RIdou SKATING pARLoR.

Tonight will occur the game between the
Concords and Bilious, the former club hay-
ing challenged the latter not being satisfied
with their defeat of last Tuesday. Special
attention is called to the advertisement of
the wonderful horse Dolly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29
q I}ss!
.IlIs s!II 'giIl s|EA
ian7 aod}i
MEXICAN OUTRAGE.
United States Troops Fired Upon by
CreaseYs."

Capt. Crawford Fatally Wounded ant
Others Injured.
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KILLED BY A BURSTING GRIND
STONE.

Sad Accident in an Oakland Scythe
Shop.
WATERv1LLE, Jan. 2s Stephen R. Green,
employed in the Dunn Edge Tool Company's
scythe shop at Oakland, was killed this
morning by the bursting of grindstone.
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Balance ia treasury, Dec, 81, 1885,. s2s, ,so492
Due from county tax of 1884. 551.3S
Due from county tax of 1885,. 24,67S.97
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
QUEER

,"ost of our English flat fish lie con-
stantly on one side, and that the left;
they keep their right eye always upper
most. But the turbot and the brill re-
verse this arrangement, having the left
side on top and colored, while the right
side is below and white. Two other
fish, known as the fuke and the me-
grin, but not received in polite society,
follow the example of their fashionable
friends in this respect. But in no case
I these habits perfectly ingrained;
now and then one meets with a left
sided sole, or a right-sided turbot,
which looks as though a great deal
were left to the mere taste and fancy of
the individual fiat fish. Some have
taken to lying most frequently on one
side, and some on the other; but it is
interesting to note that when a nor
mally right-sided individual has hap
pened to lie with his left side upper
most that side becomes colored and
distorted, exactly the same as in his
more correct brethren. This shows
how purely acquired the whole habit
must be. It points back clearly to the
days when fiat fish we're still merely a
sort of a cod, and suggests that their
transformation into the unsymmetrical
condition is merely a matter Of deliber-
ate choice on their part. Indeed, there
seems good reason to believe that many
young fiat fish never undergo this
change at all, but swimming about
freely in the open sea, ssum that pc
culiarly elongated and strange form
known as leptocephali. don't mean
to say that all leptocephali are orig
inally the offspring of fiat fishes, but
some probably are; and SO O word or
two about these monstrous oceanic
idiots and imbeciles may not be out Of
place. Lolling about lazily in the open
ocean a number Of small, long, ribbon
like fish are frequently found, quite
transparent and CLASSY in appearance,
with no head at all to speak of, but fur
nished with a pair of big eyes close be
side the tiny snout. They are languid,
homeless, wormlike creatures, very gel
atinous in substance, and looking much
like pelucid cells without the skin on.
For a long time these leptocephali Gas
they are called were supposed to be q
peculiar class of fishes, but they arc
now known to be young fry of various
shore-haunting kinds, which have
drifted out into the open ocean, and
had their development permanently az
rested for want Of the natural en-,
yironment. They are in fact fish idi
OTIS, and though they grow in size, they
never attain real maturity. Il o11ehA
Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
Deacon Budd,s Experience.

At a revival in Rocky Hollow, Deacon
Budd arose to relate his experience" and
gave himself q very hard name, indeed, al
though he we'll knew, and SO did everybody
else, that he did not deserve the half of it.
But it was the style for the saints to give
themselves q setting down for the benefit of
the sinners, and Brother Budd played it for
oil it was worth.
Eyes, bretheren and sisters" he said in
conclusion, I'm sech a pore, mis'able sim
ner that it's a wonder the Lord has marcy
OF NE, and lets me live. I feel as if
hain't no business in sech q meetin' as this,
and my place is in the corner behind the
door,"
Sister Briney, who was a widow, and
suspected Of q fondness for the widower,
Deacon Budd, arose and told her story,
and q sad one it was. There had never
leen such IN utterly unworthy object, such
a continual monument of mercy, as Sister
Briney, if her showing up of herself was to
be taken for truth.
"Yes, brethren and sisters" she said al
the wind-up, I'm such a pore, mis'able
sinner, that it's q wonder I'm allowed to
stand here. I feel as if my proper place
was behind the door along with Brother
Budd. "-Traueler's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
ne Proposes Not to Interfere Further
With His Wife,s Toilet.

A young married man of this city dis
covered q freshly opened box Of face pow
der on his wife's toilet table. Being op-
posed to the use of such materials he flung
it out of the open window, and it alighted
safely on the head of q gentleman who was
going to church in his Sunday best, and
enveloped him from head to foot like a
spring snow storm.
Come down and be murdered" he
yelled up to the man in the window, shak-
sscom ) up pu and dg ITl 9aSt q war wa, a"a s6e;enea
the powder magazine above.
The wife appeared as a paciRcator; armed
with a whisk broom she descended to the
sidewalk and the husband had the salts
faction Of seeing her dust off the strange
man, while she made soothing apologies in
invisible tones.
And the husband has decided not to in
terfere with his wife's toilet relations in the
future.-DetrOit Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13

anu strengthened himself more tina,
once by the memory of the scenes and
side. pe"'" oeo-
but Lincoln could not rest sat;s6ed
'hat the burial of his mother should 90
by funeral sermon or cor
aaaned" service of any kind. His
,a,her shared his feeling, and it was in
oenalf OF both that, when the spring
opened the boy wrote a letter to Elder
Elkln' who had been their neirhbor in
Their old Kentucky home, entreatine
MN to come to Carmen, and hold a
service at the loved ones grave. It
was a Journey of more than o hundred
miles. but the good Elder came-on
horseback-and all the people of the
own and the surrounding country as
sembled, and heard him preach and
pray IN the forest clearing where the
christian wife and mother slept her
last sleep. One of Lincoln's early
playmates, an old man, who related
this to a correspondent of the Chicago
tribune who visited the town last sum-
mer, spoke of the scene and its sur
roundings-the beauty of the day,
the attentive auditors, the preachers
fervor and his well-merited tribute to
the dead-with a simple reverence, as
n who repeats q sacred recollection.
Men have honored the sepulchres of
those to whom in life they failed to do
either honor or justice. Abraham Lin
coins honest grief as a mourner at the
age of 10 was the natural sequel of
years of duty as a son-and an early
sign of the tender sincerity that char
acterized his greatness. The most
trusted public leaders are those whom
childhood best illustrated home affec-
ton and devout fidelity. Of Lincoln it
it may be said, as has been written of
Washington,
And when our civil fame grows dim,
With shame Of chiefs who thrust ench other,
God save the State by men like him,
Who feared the Lord and loved his motherln
Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
4 Foolish Patient.

that mingles his passions with his
lions is like a foolish patient who
stle pills he should swallow whole.
hat carnally disturbs his soul for
pss Of his substance casts away the
i because God hath taken away
II the tree yield us good
ii will be no great loss though the
blow away the leaves. To bless
for mereics is the way to increase
to bless God for miseries is the
o remove them. No good lives
ls as that which is thankfully i'm
ID; no evil dies so soon as that
is patiently sustained.