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The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The Atlanta Constitution says it has been
definitely settled that the gauge of all the
railroads in that section of the country shall
be changed on Monday, May 81, and Tues
Gay, June 1, to the gauge of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad-namely, feet inches. AS
nine-tenths of the mileage of the country has
a gauge of 4 fit. 81 in. a compromise wheel
gauge has been adopted, so that the cars of
all the broad-gauge roads in the land will be
interchangeable after the first day of June
The change of gauge in that section will en-
brace 10, 1913 miles of road, made up as fol-
lows: South Carolina, 1920 miles; North
Carolina, $50; Georgia, 2,413; Florida, 1850;
Alabama, 1903; Mississippi, TIC; Louisiana,
313; Kentucky, LIS; Tennessee, 1856, and
Virginia, 9S1. 1t will be the greatest change
of gauge ever simultaneously attempted in
this or any other country. AT the close of
the first day of June there will not be a
mile of fve-feet track in the country, out
side of few scattered and detached switches
and abandoned track.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

A bill has already passed the Connecticut
House, and promises to become a law, that
will be source of great inconvenience in
the sale Of oleomargarine and butterine in
that State. 1t requires every person dealing
in these goods to display sign, "Oleomar-
garine Sold Here" or "Butterine Sold
Here" as the case may be. Hotels, board
ing houses and restaurants are also required
to post notice where all can see it if oleo-
margarine is used. Every baker, too, who
mixes any of the stuff in his cakes, etc, must
hang out sign, and if he peddles his wares
in cart, the cart must bear a like sign,
"Oleomargarine Used Here" And in case
a person should innocently enter store or
shop or bakery to buy butter or cakes and
should not happen to see the sign, to prevent
this person from being defrauded, the bill
requires the shOpkeeper to repeat orally to
this customer the fact that 'oleOmargarlne
is sold here" The penalty is fine Of from
So to $50 or Imprisonment for thirty days,
and in cases of a second offence the penalty
is doubled.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

Senator Frye is still at sea with regard to
the date when he will get chance to deliver
his long promised speech on the fisheries.
The army bill, the bill for the admission of
Washington Territory, the enabling act for
the repeal of the civil service law, and iany
appropriation bills the committee may have
got into shape are all likely to take more or
less of the SenateS time, to the exclusion of
the fisheries report, which, owing to the well
known temper of both houses toward the
commission project, is not considered at all a
pressing matter
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

A correspondent of the indianapolis Senti-
mel reports that the friends of Secretary La
mar are alarmed at his physical condition
From the best authority it appears the secre-
tary is in many respects rendered unable to
attend to the duties Of his office. For the
past few days it has been secretly talked
among his friends in Congress of the impoS-
sibility to get any business transacted in the
interior department, so apparently affected
is the mind of the secretary. No one seems
to fully comprehend the action or cause Of
his ailment
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

Some of the Pacific coast newspapers are
very earnest in favor of the retention of the
reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich IS
lands. The Alta California says that its alb
rogation means the destruction of commerce
worth $12, 100000 year to San Francisco,
and warns California Congressman that if
they dance to the DOWNFALL of the treaty,
they will have to answer to their constitu-
ents for this loss.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The government statistics show that the
value of the exports of the United States for
the first eight months of the current fiscal
year was $84, S79,627 less than for the CORE
spending months of the fiscal year 1886,
and that the imports for the first eight
months of the present fiscal year were, S., 222, =
261 more toan in the corresponding months
of the next preceding year. These figures
are worth considering. They indicate loss
of trade which is not inconsequential, be-
cause the falling off has been due almost en-
tirely to want of demand for our agricultu-
raj products. Just so far as these figures go,
they show waning ability on the part Of
the farmers of the West to purchase goods;
that means continued depression in the Eas-
tern and Middle States in the degree to which
the West is affected.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01
CURRENT COMMENT.
A LABoRER's WISDOM.


Mr.. P0wderly'S word is, Organize. He LAYS
down his programme for labor with great
judgment and undeniable justice. and it is a
plan which has never yet been tried. But
the foundation for the experiment is Organi-
cation. The knights should stick closely to
Powderly; then the public will be apt to
stick to them.
HOW THEY BEGAN,
N. Y. World.
General Master Workman Powderly. it
seems, began his working life as switch
tender. Mr.. Hoxie, manager of the Gould
system of railroads in the Southwest, was at
one time hOstler in hotel near Des MOines.
Afterward he became chairman of the Re
publican State central committee and United
States marsuBl of Iowa. Mr.. Gould himself
earned his first money as map peddler.
WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS.
New York Herald,
Mr. Cleveland ought to understand that
the American people will bear with ignor-
anee, with mistakes, with graver faults even,
in their public men; but they do not like by
pOcriSy He ought to read Senator Harrl-
sons speech from beginning to end, and then
he ought honestly either to pull up his cur
tains and expose the Representatives, Sena-
tors and others who have led him too easily
into very dirty waters, or else he ought 10
announce formally and officially that ne mas
been humbugging the people and Will mere
after do so no more. Let us come upon an
honest basis, as Senator Harrison SAID
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The Teachers Tenure of Office bill, which
has excited so much comment in Massachu-
sets within week, is measure intended
so to amend and enlarge the powers of school
committees that a more permanent tenure of
service of teachers in the public schools of
the State may be secured. Under the pres
ent law, teachers must be elected or re-
elected, every year. The new amendment
proposes to allow the committees to 'hire"
their teachers during good behavior. Of
course, the committees are to retain the pow
er of dismissal for cause at any time.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


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The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The Bell Telephone Company's net earn
ings of 81, 500, 196.4S forms at least basis for
the conclusion that 'the outlook is encourag-
ipu
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01
PRESS.
.,DAY MORNING, APRIL 1.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
n all cases indispensable, notnecessarily for pub
LEGATION but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

They have half hour waits between the acts
of Mikado in Boston. Down here only ten
minutes are required-the result perhaps, of
prohibition.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS
No INTERMEDIATE PROFITS!
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
FACE TO FACE!

Special Bargains in MEMS BUSINESS SUITS at 49, $40 $12
sizes 35 to A. These patterns
tally desirable in OOr quality fit and prices as will be found
inspection.
Genlemen's fine in Sack only
EACH Special Bargains
GentIemens SPRING OVERCOATS carried from last
$S $40 $22 marked down $2
Also fine line of Spring OyercOa in the latest styles and cOlOs
ali grades
Several BOYS CHLDREN'S SUITS carried
from last that especially desirable and will closed
at BIG REDUCTIONS prices suitable Spring
and Summer.
Our Spring Styles CROUCH AND TUMBLE KNEE PANT
SUITS for Boys attracting much attention Duplicate orders
have been sent in twice for these goods thus far this They
the stOutest suits got up for Boys
BOYS STAR SHIRT WAISTS Numbered only each,
and handsome patterns, sizes to Ii years.
1000 dozen Boys Cambria Waists at only 20 cents to
Mems Pants at ST. upward, in all Wool qualities.
Mems Odd Vests cents, ST. 90 and $780, half prices.
few All Wool Youths Suits left carried from last and
81 and S. under former prices, great bargains.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

Greatness is getting to bea dreadful burden
to Miss Cleveland. Other members of the
administration, however, are not troubled in
this respect.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The secrets of the executive session are
fast becoming thing of the past. The
Senators themselves are apparently begin
ming to get tired of the farce.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

The chances are now that the new recorder
of deeds in the District of Columbia will be
confirmed much to the disgust of the De-
mOcraey.
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

Now that both Mr.. Powderly and General
Manager Hoqie have given their assent to
the principle of arbitration there will proba-
bly, not be much trouble in settling the de-
Anil
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

Eugene Higgins rises to remark that the
civil service law isn't bothering him much
The Portland daily press., 1886-04-01

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

We have between l5 and %
Misses and Children's Cioaks.
HayeIocks and Newmarkets, IN
all ages from 2 IL to 10 years,
worth from $500 to sl2. so. that
will be closed out regardless OF
cost. Also about Is Ladies'
Wraps. Newmarkets and Short
Wraps only.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

complete line of novelties in Pas
lnslteres, Marabout, Silk and Che
|Hs Fringes, which we will sell at so
Etsnt. on the S1.00.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

fifth couatar--sl OseTcoats, All told, IN
eludlng chilnren's, boys, soutbs' aud Mems
These win Dc sold W your price
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

, Va Feather Trimming, in
both blaok and oolors, 4oc. yard,
reduced from 75c,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

m 1T AN wool and assorted col.
N sis alHited and ruled, actual cal
III 80 each, and VAL close out AZ
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

L%
Forth ~. I pieces, silver and Nu-
A 81 tris Otter WINNING; sold all the
|a.yl season a; s!.s5,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08
Gen. West. Pass. Agt,

Among the tented shows that travel
through the country none occupies 4 higher
or better place in the estimation of the pub.
lie than the one managed by Burr Robbins,
and which is billed to exhibit at Ottawa, May
10th 1t is one Of the few circuses that
could return week after il had exhibited
at a place and again receive good patronage.
There is an absence of dccetful humbuggery
about it, and it does its work in such an hon
est, straightforward manner as to commend
it TO the people This season il comes to us
by rail, travelling by its own special train,
and bringing large and satisfaction giving
exhibition which will draw full houses to
each performance. The menagerie attached
TO il is large and varied, containing valuable
specimens of almost every animal known to
the naturalist, and among them are many
rare ones to be seen in no other geological
collection, The circus is one of the very
finest that exists, and presents some OF the
most famous arenc celebrities Of this and
other countries The street pageant is long
varied, In its features and calculated to please
and divert all who see it, Burr Robbins and
his great show are well and favorably known
in this vicinity, and when he comes here his
tents will be crowded with those who love
The good old fashioned circus.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

Washington has been plagued of late by
a visitation Of huge bugs Professionally which
cOngregate in immense numbers about the
electric lights. They are bred in ponds,
where they remain during the winter, la
the spring they emerge, often in immense
numbers. and fly about; after little time
the females return to the water 20 lay their
eggs, and the plague disappears These
big bugs, between two and three inches
long, are harmless, but can, and will, bite
sharply on provocation. They are carniv-
orous, feeding an other insects, and often
catching small frogs and fishs in the water.
They have been quite as abundant at the
capital heretofore, but never so conspicuous.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08
Few People Escape

The faint of scrofula in the blood. With
many it is hereditary; but it may also be
acquired from want of air, lack Of exercise,
from improper food, or any cause which
brings about weakness of the body and i'm
purity of the blood, The disease is char
acterized by running sores, assesses, swell
lings, enlarged JOINTS sore eyes, etc. No
medicine has been so successful in curing
scrofula as Hoods Sarsaparilla The most
terrible running sores gradually disappear
under the purifying and strengthening in.
tlHences of this great medicine. If you
are sufferer from sCrofula and desire more
evidence as 10 the wonderful success of
Hoods Sarsaparilla, send to c. |. Hood Il
Co, Lowell, Mass, for book containing
many remarkable cures
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

If you are suffering with low and depressed
spirits, loss Of appetite, general debility, dis
ordered blood, weak constitution, headache
or any disease of bilious nature, by all
means procure a bottle of Electric Bittcrs,
You will be surprised to see the rapid i'm
provcmcnt that will follow; you will be in
spircd with new life; strength and activity
will return; pain and misery will cease, and
henccforth you will rejoice in the praise of
Electric Bittcrs. Sold ut fifty cents bottle
by d. LORI aux
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08
At st. John, n. b, there are nineteen

At st. John, n. b. there are nineteen
candidates for six seats in the Legislature.
The colorcd people in the District OF Co
lumbia have eighty churches and missions.
Marysville, Kan, has three local dram
attic companies, and the place is a very
small village.
Nevada pays her male school teachers
an average salary of $40 per month; her
females, 500.
The palmy days Of famous carnival at
Rome are past and the custom is falling
rapidly into decay.
An Iowa scientist calls attention TO the
fact that this is the year for the seyen-year
lOCusts.
one hundred persons have recently died
in New Hampshire between the ages OF
eighty and one hundred years.
The pay OF Second Lieutenant in the
French army is but $3.50 per month, and
his sword knot costs s..
Despite the increased patronage, the
Brooklyn bridge was run at a loss the first
three months of this year.
Planting oysters are being exported from
Bridgeport, Conn, TO England, at the rate
of $50 TO 200 barrels a day
There are 4 1896 paper mills In the world
OF which about l,l50 are in the United
States and 1863 in the United Kingdom.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

At the late village election in Lostant there
was an almost unanimous vote for aproposi-
ton to prospect FOR coal on the part Of the
village authorities. a correspondent writes
that 1t is intended to give the village as much
Of a business impetus as possible, and that
there are needed in the village good black
smith shop, wagon shop, four or five car
penters, two or three painters and dress
maker.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

Throat all seldom gets well of itself bu
deepens until it undermines the constitution,
wastes away health, strength and sesh' and
finally thefastens Itself on ungs, completing
the wreck and ruin of the whole man. DIR.
Bicelow's Positive Cure is the only safe,
sure and speedy remedy for coughs colds,
and all throat and lung diseases. Sold by
+. Y. Griggs at 80 cents and 81. Pleasant to
take and safe for children.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

You will notice how quickly thoroughly
successful article is initiated, and also that
the limitations are without merit, as they are
gotten up by inscriptions parties. Beware
of limitations Of DR.. Jones Red Clover Tonic
The genuine is sold by f. Y Griggs. and
promptly cures dyspepsia, costiveness, bad
breath. piles, pimples, ague and malarial
diseases, poor appetite, low spirits, head
ache, or diseases Of the kidneys, stomach
and liver. Price, 80 cents.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

Thenyou do good by communicating to
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Having suffered from debility, head
ache dizziness and loss of appetite, from
an inactive liver Simmonr Liver Regulator
was recommended by friend. Procuring
bottle, | was greatly benefited in short
time, and consider it an almost iuiispen-
sable household remedy. VI. DETr
EREa, William Penn p O., Montgomery
Co. Pa"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08
nIIin, ArniCn SAlNP.

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eruptions, and positively estcs e ne ri n
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per box For sale bv u. Lorriaux.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

BURNED OUT-'The Household Mimi
eapolis, Mimi, was burned out for the sec
ond time in six years April 18th and a
part of its largest subscription list destroy
ed. Several of the ladies employed barely
escaping with their lives
Such of our readers as do not receive the
May number promptly, should write to the
publishers giving full address, time when
subscription was made, and length of time
paid for. The May number will then be
forwarded and the name restored to the list,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

The Sabbath Association OF Philadelphia
has asked the Mayor of that city to enforce
law of 1924, which says that no places of
business shall be open on Sunday. There are
10000 such places In the Quaker city, and
the Mayor is asked TO see that the POO
policemen of the town enforce the law.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

An extraordinary fact in connection with
the Russian conscripts drafted into the
ranks in 1885 is shown by some statistics
just published. The total number of con.
scripts accepted was s41,jS7, of whom no
fewer than Al, $50 were Jews.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

.oo, years ago | contracted blood poison
and a,,cr nine months OF treatment ny
physicians with no benefit, ! have oeeh
cured by Swift's Specific When l began
taking s. =. ), had run down IN iesh
from lsl tol32 pounds. There were three
large sloughing ulcers Us large as the PAIN
of my hand on my leg and one on my mead
Now they are all cured up, and nave
regained fifteen pounds Of my lost ieSh
am feeling throughly well and gaming
every day, Swifts Specific has also c9reu
a child Of mine of "kings evil'' OF scroiuia
after two doctors said it must die. 1t haI
large swellngs on It's neck, sore eyes, ana
II chronic discharge from one ear, II was
the cure of the child that led me TO take IL
myself and for the good OF others | am
only TO glad too have them referred 70 me
that may tell them what this W0nderlu
medicine has done for me and mine.
G. VAN HOEsEN NJ. L.
lji West Street
For sale 10y all druggists, Treatise on
Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co, Drawer ) AT
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

The most severe cough can at once be re-
moved by Red Star Cough Cure. "Give il
to your children by all MEANS says Prof.
Williams, eX-State Chemist of Delaware,
who found itwonderfully efficaoious Price
twenty five cents bottle
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

| have been selling Athlophoros about
one year The sales have been very ialr,
and in every instance the medicine has
proved satisfactory TO the purchaser in cases
of rheumatism and neuralgia. Samuel
Hastings, Il druggist Of MENDOZA, Ill.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

The Egyptian Sphinx is soon to get a
Thorough overhauling. A company has
been formed in Paris 10 aid NJ. Maspero in
carving on his excavations. II is thought
that the Sphinx is a tomb, and that under
II or inside of 1t some valuable and Interest
ing material may be discovered that VIII
add few years more to the length OF his
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

Cuba may not be very large, hut her PEG
pie do some travelling. During the past
year the street car company oi Havana
transported 5022,322 passengers, whose
fares amounted To S126, 1853. - in bank bills
and the number of persons, members OF the
company, OF the police, and for other per
sons that travelled gratis on same, amount
ed 10 g0O9l
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-08

| . A
and ,ha nrabable course of events In that
Lndr soid Yesterday; Everything seems
70 ha settljps down to long session Of
C,noross II is true that members of the
uonso ,,lk about getting away the latter
,or. If lime. bu, this is simply impossi.
~ +, ,ba first Mace. the legislation that
:, o,,solr,sIv necessary-I mean the ap.
.,,,,ior hiIls--is not in a forward state,
po'idas ,bare will be considerable discus,
,,o,, q, some Of the appropriation bills in
no Itorso and YOU may rest assured that
,,o Co,ota will take its time 70 consider
,o zimmerman. onpropriation bills and not
hrrrv i,saIf as il used to do, when the Re
n,,Jjco, moiorj,v there hastily considered
han, rolI,,,jnr the lead Of the Senate mp
nr,,,i,tinr committee i'm increasing the
aynepditure.. and Icing upheld in this by
r,ian,Iv administration.
"Wben do Won think Congress will ad-
iournyo | asked.
81 do not think we will get away before
49,, ,,il.lIo or Anu,s+ you see we have
mora n do this session than we have had
g.. yeor. Their. +, the question of
hpiIJipg mn orr navy. II is an important
question: and one in which there is some
division OF opinion. not d, to the necessity
of increasing tue navy, hat as to the details.
Thon we have +, settle upon comprehen.
siya nlan Of coast defence and make
start i, fine construction Of heavy ordnance.
Tha debo,a IN fine tariff will consume con.
siderable time both in the House and in
rbe Senate. The river and harbor bill now
efore the House is to consume some
time vet Then there will be discussion
unon the report of the commission that has
investigated the scientific bureaus, and
above all that the consideration of the per.
pleyinq labor question will help to spin
ont the session. We shall be lucky" said
ba "if we pe, away by the middle of
Aupustn
He was in favor Of Congress meeting
esrlier in the fall, say as early as Novem.
her for the long session. and IA early as the
middle Of October for the short term. He
also thought the life of Congress should
becin and end in April, instead OF March
This would give plenty of time to consider
legi.l,tiop and would give the best season
q, the wear in tli, climate
And II unite probable the date Of the
Presidents in,ug,ration will be changed
from fine lth of March tothe Both of April
cangt. to that effect seems 10 be popular
Iio;...i. O., s,.l ,,,,, nI,i.c,i,rs