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The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12
CURRENT COMMENT.
ARE ANY OF THEM FIT
Boston Transcript.

The increase in the price of licenses, fixed
by our Board of Police, cannot have other
than a salutary tendency. 1t will facilitate
the wedding out process among llquor sellers,
whereby DarWins theory OF the survival Oh
the fttest will be practically illustrated.
WISDOM AND NUMBERS.
Philadelphia Press.
If the Knights of Labor only increase in
wisdom as they do in number-and there is
reason to believe they will--their OrganiZa-
ton will speedily become the strongest and
best defenders of the mutual interests of la
Dor and capital.
HOME OPINION.
Buffalo Express.
Mr.. Cleveland's ignorance of governmental
usage. his lack of reticence and dignity, his
bumptious self-assertion are qualities which,
however inditferently well concealed they
may have been heretofore, are revealed III
and by his special message beyond further
hiding.
HE CAN WAIT TILL 88.
Kansas City Times.
The New York Tribune thinks that when
the dying Democracy breathes its last, no
filter man can be found to deliver tne tuner q1,
al Grafton than Congressman Reed. When
the Democracy breathes Its last the sugges-
ton will be acted upon: AZ tlle SAINT llllle
to interfere with any plans ne may nave
made for few ensuing weeks.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston Traveller.
The town meetings Of this week have af-
forded further evidence OF increasing hoStil
ity to the liquor traffic. Several large towns
that favored licenses last year have voted
mo by good maiorities. Everywhere in
the State public sentiment seems to have
turned in that direction 1t has been most
conclusively shown that men holding lcen-
SEES habitually violate the laws, and that their
sympathies are with those who sell without
licenses.
FALLEN INTO INNocUoUs DEsUETuDE.
N. Y. Sun.
Telegraph Editor Democratic paper-I see
Bill Jones Democrat has just been APP
pointed postmaster by President Cleveland.
Managing Editor-Is that so? Tell the
foreman to put in those large ROSTERS in the
morning.
Telegraph Editor-Yes, sir.
Managing Editor (thoughtfullv)-And Mr..
Lightning, be sure and tell him to dust them
thoroughly before he puts them in the
forms,
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

Arbitration, always when it is possible,
strikes, only as last resort is the principle
laid down by Grand Master Powderly, the tenn
perate and judicious leader of the Knights of
Labor. Working ON this rule, according to
Mr.. Powderly, the Executive Board, since
the first of January has settled $50 cases
which would otherwise have resulted in in
furious disturbances, very good record,
and one that rebounds to the credit Of the
organization. And it is by enforcing this
idea that the knights of Labor as a body,
can be of incalculable benefit both to the
employer and the employe That judi
ciously conducted strike is sometimes an
effective weapon will be admitted. But it is
too often and, in many cases, too hastily
adopted. Many workingmen are themselves
learning by experience that, in the majority
of cases a strike is wasteful expenditure of
force, breeder of lawlessness and results in
nothing but chronic hostility between en-
ployes and laborers. Before adopting the
dangerous expedient it is well worth eonsid-
ering whether the existing difficulty cannot
be settled by arbitration. In this connec-
ton Mr.. Powderly gives this timely advice:
II many Of the men who are striking would dis
play little more common sense and use little
more patience they would get all they are striking
for and save their time ana money III the bargain
If they would exercise proper moderation in their
negotiations with their employees and submit their
claims, firmly made and properly represented, to
arbitration am iree to say that am sure that
nine ont Of ten cases which end i'll a strike could
be as satisfactorily arranged without resoTting to
such an extreme and generally doubtful eXpe-
dent.
This is temperate and sensible language
Coming from the head of the organization it
speaks well for the intelligence of the men
who chose him.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

A majority Of the voters Of New Hamp-
shire have decided in favor of a constitution
allc0nyention. The chief points aimed at are
change in the time of holding the annual
session of the legislature and a change in the
method of paying the members of that
body. At present the legislature meets in
June, obviously very bad time Of year in
an agricultural State, and the Legislators are
paid SO per day. 1t is proposed to hold the
session in the winter, and pay the legisla-
tors by the session instead of by the day, as
We do in Maine
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE.

To follow intelligently the debate now 60
ing on in the Senate over the refusal of
the Attorney-General acting under the direc-
ton of the President to furnish the papers
in the case Of Mr.. Dustin it is essential to
bear in mind the precise point at issue be-
tween the Senate and the Executive There
is a disposition on the part Of the Democrats
to make it appear that the controversy grows
out of demand on the part of the Senate
the Presidents reasons for making re-
moval and refusal on the part of the Exec
utive to comply with this demand. Such,
however, is not the fact. The Senate has
not asked the President his reasons for re-
moving Mr.. Dustin. 1t has simply asked
that the Attorney General transmit to it all
documents on file in the department OF JUS
tice relating to Mr.. Dustin's conduct in Of
fee Had the Senate asked the Presidents
reasons he might very properly have replied
that he was under no obligations to give
them But the Senate asked simply for doc
uments on file in one or the departments,
and the President replies that he considers
all the documents filed i'll that department
relating to Mr.. Dustin's case private docu-
ments deposited there merely for safe keep
ing, belonging to him personally, and to be
inspected by nobody except by his permits
sion. Mr.. Cleveland is the first Ex-
ecutive who ever conceived the idea
of making the files of the department
of justice depository for private
papers. Heretofore the files of that and
every other department of the government
have been open to the inspection of both
houses of Congress. No person has ever he
fore contended that the files of the DEPART
ments were safety vaults for the deposit of
private papers, to be held in trust until the
owner called for them. Heretofore the con-
troll Of Congress over these files has been
recognized rs supreme, and no document
that once got on to them could be removed or
even copied except by authority of that body.
But Mr.. Cleveland virtually contends that at
the close of his Presidential term he can go
through the files of the departments and re-
move such letters and communications adj
dressed to him in his official capacity as he
may deem proper and carry them away; for
that is the logical result OF the claim he sets
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

up that parts the papers there are private
and part are public, and that he has the sole
right to decide which are the former and
which the latter
If the President is right in his view of the
matter and the Senate wrong, then the Pres
ident if so disposed, can keep almost any
paper on the files from the inspection of Con-
gress by setting up the claim that it is not an
official paper, and at the close of his term
may carry off a large part of the documenta-
ry history of the government during his term
nf oannn
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12
MUSIC BY CHANDLER

Tickets so cents each. To be obtained OF
the Executive Committee and at the stores OF Q. j.
Harrington, f. Il. Harrington, Owen, Moore & Co.,
Geo. G. Shaw & Co., w. S. Banks, Mcclellan,
MOsher & Co., and at the door. mar12d1w
csR@AdVertiSer cOpY.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

In another column the Hon. George Walk
er gives the text of the letter he wrote
to Tabulator Chase during the count-out,
which the latter has left with the Senate
finance committee There does not seem to be
anything very wicked about the letter, and if
this is a fair specimen of the endorsements
which the Tabulator received his letter book
willnot create much of a sensation. Still
Mr.. Walker apparently repeats his letter
from memory, and it may be that his mem
ory is treaeherous and that he has forgotten
some OF ii
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

MUSICAL DIRECTOR, Mr.. f. W. Zaulig
Tickets, including reserved seats, reduced to so
and 70 cents. Admission 50 cents. Matinee, 80
and 80 cents. Admission % cents. Sold at
Stockbridges, Saturday morning, March 18th, at
8 O'Clock Numbers given out at z O'Clock. Half
fare and special trains on the Maine Central,
Grand Trunk, and Portland and Rochester Rail
roads. mar11dtd
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

The fact that China has paid the United
States S735,OOo for injuries resulting to
American citizens in China from Chinese
lawlessness, is cited by the Chinese Minis
ter in his appeal for compensation for the vi
olence done by the Rock Springs mob.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

Secretary Manning refuses to appear be-
fore the House banking committee and
answer questions orally, but is willing to re-
ply in writing The committee says he
distrusts his own knowledge and wants an
opportunity to consult Assistant Secretary
Eairchild
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

How sacredly the files of the department
have been guarded in the past, and how fully
the control of them by Congress has been
recognized by the executive is illustrated by
a circumstance related to the PRESS the
other day by an officer in one of the Massa-
chusett resiments. Some time during the war
he forwarded to the war department for a
certain purpose, a paper marked private, to
be returned" The paper was not returned.
Some years later he obtained permission
to examine the files of the department, and
among others he found this paper bearing
the words he had put upon it. Yet not only
did the Secretary of War refuse to surrender
the document, but he also refused to allow
a copy to be made of it without the authori-
ty of an act of Congress. Here was a docu-
ment which showed on its face that it was
private paper sent to the government mere
ly for temporary purpose; and yet once
having got on the files of the department it
could not be removed except by special act Of
Congress. President Cleveland, however,
contends that he and not Congress has con-
troll of the department files.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

We have trade with China amounting an
nually to one hundred millions of dollars. If
this is worth saving it is worth while to no
tice that while American citizens are en-
gagged in mobbing Cinnamon the British
army is quietly engaged in establishing a
new route to China for the products Of India.
England always makes use of such opportu-
mites.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

If the Knights of Labor only increase in
wisdom as they do in number-and there is
reason to believe they will--their organiza-
ton will speedily become the strongest and
best defenders of the mutual interests of la.
Dor and capital.
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12
Grand Chorus! Orchestra Of is Musicians

Chorus of School Girls, Mobiles, Guards and
Coolies
The Portland daily press., 1886-03-12

The Kentucky treasury is empty and some
of the members of the legislature are unable
to get their salaries. This insures an early
adjournment
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1886-04-27
3m Samfe

fiible id mid ohne oieie glr;nei nitt iifer.
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leibSleiocn ergrtfien, baS mir nift 81 beilen
pcrmodten. Nir perillften piele Seilntitz
tel, aber eS tuliroe iIrlmer idlimrner, uno
Sulett mar oaS Siro 10 absefallen, SaS es
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fuerben fouite. Gtuer Der aer;te badte, Die
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1886-04-27
(Sortiebung foIqt.)

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1886-04-27
TinDet Sib

tn Gper's SariapariIa. Nftr bat fte bic
@ciinobeit polltommen ipieoer bergeiteat."
SameS Srenh bon Itdiion, SaniaS,
itreibt: ALLEN, bic at Der 9eber leioeu,
empfeble i6 oringenb 9lper'S Sariaparilla.
SD ipar beilabe Spei Sabre lang nit elmer
Grfranfung Der Seber gequdlt; oa rietb mir
ein Srelno ~ oieier Irsuei; unS iie Der.
i6affte mir iogleih Grleifterlrg, ultb bette
mid Snlett polltdnoig." Srau 8. 81. Sios
Der, Al 8migbt Ctr, Bottom, WfaIi., idreibt:
rSeit mebreren Sabren gebralhe i6 aper's
Sariapartlla in meiner 6amilie, uno ielbit
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1886-04-27
dts GlMMR

bat MIR ba iein Serbleiben, no &5rper unS
@eiit polfommen seiuno itrtb; urS bss fam
man erlangen, uenn man ietn 8lut 6urb
Gper's S%ariaparila reinigt uub ftdrft. 6.
If. Soparo bon Nepport, q. s., idreibt:
Sabre lang lit ij an Sfropbelr. 9as
bette Wittel aeael 0ieie Granfheit
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Manning continues to i'm
prove slowly. 1t is thought that he will not
resume his official duties at the Treasury
Department until next autumn
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended May "A
was S435, 500. The issue during the CORES
ponding period of last year was S262, 49S. The
shipment of fractional silver coin since May
/ amounts TO s30l, 703
Miss Lydia Miller, daughter Of JUS
tce Miller, of the United States Supreme
Court and A. L. Touzalin We're married at
the residence OF the BRIDES father, in Wash
ington.
The House Committee on Territor es
has voted to report adversely all bills relating
to the admission of Dakota as a State except
that introduced by Mr.. Springer, providing an
enabling act for the admission of the whole
Territory, which will be favorably reported
1t is reported from Washington that
the Senate Commerce Committee is dissatisfied
with the river and harbor bill as il passed the
House and will probably report new measure.
Gov. Swineford of Alaska, Mr..
Turner of the Signal-service Bureau, and Mr.
Dahl of the coast survey addressed the House
Committee on Territories in advocacy of the
right of Alaska to a full territorial form of
government
The House Committee on Indian
Affairs has under consideration bill to refer
all claims for Indian depredations committed
subsequent to 1sfS to commission to be APP
pointed 10y the President 1t is estimated that
the aggregate amount of these claims will be
about sl4,0OO,o00
Antonio Nardello was executed at
Washington for the murder of Carmine Ro-
tuno, from whose pockets he took $50.
A favorable report will be made to
the House on the bill authorizing the incor-
poration Of trades unions in the Territories
and the District of Columbia.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
Grated Varieties OF Fruit Trees.

This opportunity to grow different
kinds of fruit on one tree imparts a new
and delightful interest to the orchard.
The proprietor can always be on the
lookout for something new and fine,
and the few moments required in graft
ing or budding makes it his. The OPP
Grafton is SO simple and easy that he
can learn to perform it himself, and
there are always plenty of adopts in
the rural vicinage to give him his initial
lesson. While he will keep the stand
ard kinds for his main supply, he can
CRAFTY his taste and eye with some
pretty innovations. know of an apple
tree which bears over hundred varie-
ties. A branch. for instance, is pro-
ducing Yellow Bell-fowers. At GER
tain point in its growth where it has
the diameter of a mans thumb, it may
bo grated with the Red Baldwin.
When the scion has grown For two or
three years its leading shoots can be
grated with the Roxbury Russell, and
eventually the terminal bough of this
growth with the Early Harvest. Thus
may be presented the interesting spec
tacle of one limb of tree yielding four
distinct kinds of apples.-E. r. Roe, in
Hdrper's Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
POLITICAL.

The Hon. Roswell p. Flower has
been appointed Electrical Subway Commits
sioner for New York City
The Prohibitionists of Indiana held
their State Convention at indianapolis, and
nominated State ticket, the Rev. J. H.
Hughes, of Wayne County being named for
Secretary of State The State Central Com
mittee organized by electing John Raelef, Of
Grant County, Chairman.
A State conference of anti-saloon
Republicans was held at Trenton, n. j., at
which resolutions were adopted approving of
a strict enforcement of the existing laws.
The municipal election at Petersburg.
Va, which is claimed az victory for the Citi-
zens' ticket over the Republicans, will be con-
tested under the management OF Senator Ma
hone and Captain John s Wise, who charge
fraud in nearly every ward.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

Company was burned The loss will approx
mate 81, 100000
The belief is expressed that the Wis
corsin Centrars new line to Chicago will be
opened July I.
Contributions received at the Chi
cago police headquarters for the victims of the
Haymarket riot have reached s47, 500, in add
ton to $4,000 subscribed by members of the
Board of Trade
John @. Henning was hanged at
Crawfordsville Ind, for numbering Lottie
Vollmer at Rockville, Oct "a, 1886. Henning
spoke for half AN hour from the scaffold in a
calm and self possessed manner, smiling and
nodding 10 acquaintance below him. He re-
viewed his life and trouble, and said no was
ready to die for the murder.
A Chicago dispatch says "A receiver
in this city has just forwarded to a shipper in
Nebraska exactly flee cents per 6ashel as his
share on a consignment of corn Improperly
had been sold in store here at twenty seven
cents per bushel, twenty-five of which went to
pay railroad cost of transportation, the storage,
and commission. In another case this week
the Nebraska shipper received the magnificent
sum of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents, be-
ing the whole amount coming to him from the
sale Of q carload of some five hundred and
fifty bushels of corn, the railroad freight on
which TO this city was one hundred and forty
seven dollars and fifty cents. The average of
charges on these two parcels VAS five times,
and the warehouse charges alone one quarter,
the sum RENTED TO the country shipper of the
corn"
Near Greaterville, A. t., L. p. Wem-
pie superintendent for Chicago washer com
pany, was killed by Indians. Three of band
of Indians who attacked Jones Brothers ranch
near Hooker's Hot Springs, A. T., were killed
and scalped, and the others driven Off
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
in session at Minneapolis, changed the name
of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of
the Northwest, of Chicago, to "The McCor-
mick Theological Seminary of the North
west"
Gross extravaganza of the board
managing the County Infrmary at Cincinnati
has been unearthed. In The item of coal ii is
shown that the board paid for 275 tons more
than were hauled there by the railroad.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

The visible supply of wheat and corn
is, respectively, 37,sl2, III and 1874, 500 bush
els. Since last report wheat has been reduced
l,77Ga59 bushels, and corn has fallen Off
2,0C33Gl bushels
A mob at Toronto, Ont, stoned
street-cars, wrecking between thirty and forty
Of those vehicles, and causing the widest up
roar. No person was dangerously hurt The
Knights Of Labor helped in quoting the rioters.
Mrs. Rel, widow of the Canadian
rebel, died at St Vital, Ont, last week
Nova Scotians are preparing to seize
some of the American mackerel catchers when
they arrive.
A cablegram states that the council
of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Brit
ain and Ireland has decided to present valua-
BILE medals for competition at the show of
horses to be held under the auspices of the
American Clydesdale Association at Chicago
next September
The publication at Halifax, n. S., Of
the opinions of public men at Portland, Me-,
in regard to the fishery dispute has caused
much ill-feeling A leading man at Halifax
says the "barbarous" treaty of 1918 is in ex.
istence simply because the United States would
not appoint commission to modify it.
Mexico has granted a concession to
the Governor of the State of Durango for the
construction of a railroad to unite the City of
Durango with the Mexican Central Railroad.
John II. Bartlett, well-known
American author il dead
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
CHASTITY BASEBALL.

AS a rule, says the New York Herald. the
young doctors attached TO the city hospitals
are ambitious and devoted TO the study of
their profession. They are also human,
and when they have an hour to spare they
like to spend it in healthy exercise. In
their college days most of them were adj
mirers of the national game, and when
luck and talent have given them hospital
practice they seek further practice in the
popular sport. Nearly all our city hospi-
tails have more or less ground attached
where the staff can play "fungo" or catch
ings."
Gouyerneur Hospital cannot lay claim to
any play ground at all. It's situation pre-
cludes the possibility of the enjoyment Of
such luxury. The absence of the prac-
tice grounds docs not, however, dampen
the ardor of the house staff for the game. A
visitor to that institution lately came to this
conclusion. 1t was 5 p. m, and the hard
and patience trying work of the house and
dispensary were over for the day. The
doctors adjourned TO their room III the top
floor, away from the wards. A game of
base-ba began. There were only three
doctors: therefore there were only pitcher,
striker, and catcher. But they played q
game all the same.
On, We of the National League, what
game was therel The bat was femur or
thigh bone of some adult and defunct mem
Der of the human race, and the pitcher said
the ball vas made from an epithelioma
taken from the ginglymus joint or hinge of
his mother-in- laws jaw. tightly rolled up
in a surgical bandage. Each took the bat
in turn aud strikes, BALLS" and fouls"
were called as IN regular game.
When he who was related TO the ball by
irriage took the bat satanic smile stole
or his face, and from the way he pounded
mat ball one would think he bore no good
will toward the original owner. IN this
manner almost noselessly this novel game
of base ball went on till shrill whistle like
that of boatswain reverberated through
the halls, followed by voice, "Ambu
lance !"
That settled the game. Quick as flash
the striker picked up his cap, slid down the
elevator cable, and away rolled the ambu-
lance on hurry call"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

Business appears to be depressed at
Racine, Wis. The J. ]. Case Company has laid
off 250 men; the Mitchell 4 Lewis Works have
been closed, and J. Miller & Company's boot
and shoe factory is shut down.
Prospects for iron manufacturers are
growing brighter, and at ttsburgh the indi-
cations are unusually promising.
The Grand Lodge of the Brother
hood of Railway Brakemon, in session at
Galcsburg ILL.,, expelled twenty of its MEM
bers for originating the strike on the Union
Pacific Railroad, and suspended thirty more
for ninety days for participating.
At session of master carpenters and
manufacturers of woodbuilding in Chicago
resolutions were adopted that the oight-hour
movement had proved failure, and that here
after ten hours shall constitute days work.
The Ohio State Convention of coal
operators, held at Columbus, instructed dele