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The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
letter Carriers, Report.

The following is the letter carriers report
for January, 1856;
Delivered Collected
Letters. rs........................17 .170,603 123,01S
Postal cards. 4Ozol zosOJO
Papers ers..................., S3,634 16,9O1
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
RAILWAY MATTERS.

ROME, WATERFOWL AND oGDENsBuRG.
The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg road
makes the following statement for December and
for the first three months of the fiscal year, end
ing December 31st:
December. 1886 1884. Increase.
Gross. 56,092 S13S,5S9 S17,502
Expenses =. 800. 104270 92,962 11,307
Net...-.;....:...... 51,S21 1926 6,194
Since Oct. l.
Gross. s..............S .S5o5, ,79s s471,31 s34,479
Expenses. ...... 309,977 293, ,450 16,527
Net................. 195,S2O 177,S6S 1882
The company is increasing its equipment and
recently purchased 6 passenger coaches, bag
gage, mail and express, $50 box cars and so gon-
dolas.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Fourth January. SITE, 900 S169,00O Inc. $4,000
January. y.......... 4970 424,O00 Inc. 73, 600
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

Senator Miller of California, who has been san-
yeronsIv I'M for some weeks in washington was
fjttie more comfortable Saturday.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
FOREIGN.

iyanoff, the Noted Nihi!ist, Captured
in ST. Petersburg.
Scheme by Which the Russian Gov
eminent Tries to Crush Revoiu-
tion.
King MILAN Preparing to Renew the
War in Servia.
Leaders OF the Carthagena Revolt
Sentenced to Death.
Additional Appointments Under the
New English Government.
Sensation Caused by the Elevation
of a Laboring Man to the Ministry.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

A letter from Shelbourne. N. S., reports in
that port on January 4th, the British
schooner Neskleetra for which anxiety has
been felt.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

fears are entertained for her safety. She
carried crew of fourteen men, shipped at
this port. She was built in 1885, and is own
ed by. the Messrs. Locks of Loekport, N. s.
She is Of one hundred tons measurement,
and is insured in provincial offices.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
FIRE...INSURAACE /!

Nothing can equal the sense of
security felt by those who procure
DrODer insurance OH property liza
bIe 10 loss or damage by fire. DO
not ecOnOmiZe by taking the risk
of insuring yourself. The best
companies may be had through
this agency.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
Result of the Strike in the Coke Re.
gionS.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. Furnaces Nos. l
and of the Cambria Iron Company, situated
at HollidaysbuIg were banked down yester-
by the prolonged strike in the Collinsville
region. This suspension throws 300 men out
of employment.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
In the Coke Regions.

Pa. special says that the strikers held meet
ings at different places throughout the coke
regions to-day and decided to march in
body to Scottville tomorrow to attend a
meeting. A number of men who have been
working in the pits have received letters
warning them to stop work Immediately un-
der penalty of death. At noon yesterday
about forty strikers discovered three men at
work loading stock coke at the Bridgeport
the strikers gave chase and fred at them.
The pursuit was abandoned when satisfied
the men would not attempt to return to
work. The night previous when the cars
strikers, armed with guns and revolyers, lay
behind the ovens nearly the entire night to
prevent any attempt at resumption Of work.
The miners are thoroughly posted on every
move of the operators, being in constant
communication with friends in Pittsburg.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
PORTLAND. Me-, Feb. z, 1886.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

b. A.lKINNEY,
Private, Signal Corps, U. s. A.,
Temporarily in charge.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
suppressing Republican Meetings in
SPAIN

MADRID, Feb. THE police today sup
pressed meeting of Federate Republicans
because one Of the speakers referred to
state of monarchy as Insecure. Two of the
leaders of the recent revolt at Carthagena
have been sentenced to dea til and another to
10 years Imprisonment
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08

A petition has been circulated in Ellsworth ask
ing the city authorities to exempt from taxation
for fifteen years any capital to the amount of
$4,000 or upward which may be invested in that
CITY in manufacturing pursuits
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Mugwunnps Worried About Sem
ator HaIe's RepubIicanism.
Letter Carriers Want Their Status
Under the Eight Hour
Law Defined.
How the Treasury Departments
Forty HLaborers" Earned
Their Pay
rSpecjaI TO the Press. |


WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-The senior Senator
from Maine seems to be an object of much
worry to the Mugwump and Democratic
press just now. A short time ago the New
York Evening Post took occasion to speak
sneeringly and slightingly of him, and now
the New York World has made a discovery
concerning him. In recent number of that
paper it is stated:
senator Eugene Hale Of Maine is one Of the
uncertain quantities with which the Republican
majority in the Senate is very much troubled just
at present. Senator Hale's support OF Republican
political associates are afraid he will desert them
altogether. Senator Hale has been decided dls-
appointment to his political brethren"
This is indeed piece of news. 1t is likely
that the Senator's republicanism will be
found to be of pretty strong kind before
the season is over.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
The Rise of the Circus.

Itseems that one of the most recent rulings
of society is that the circus is not vulgar
1t appears tha' it is 'good form," as our
British cousins say or quite "chic'' to use
the French phase, to attend the circus.
Those who scan the varied Washington
correspondence of the leading New York
journals may have noticed how reference is
made to the popularity of this amusement
among the Senators and the Senators ladies.
All Washington society go TO see Barnum
and his horses.
Tuesday last in Paris "the nobility of
France was in the arena" Always looking
for something new, the idea of charity cir
Gus has been developed as the latest Paris
ian social attraction. The Cumte de Roche
foucauId in silk tights executed 'brilliant
and pertlous acrobatic feats." Two young
noblemen, whose ancestors were officers of
the French Royal Guards at Fonteoy, en-
gagged in Japanese wrestling, and flung one
another into the water.
The trapeze Gowns of noble lineage tLen
Appeared, and were succeeded by other no.
blemen, who fenced on thoroughbred
horses with great eclat
The sixty stewards who ushered the au-
dience to their seats all wore scarlet dress
coats and the amateur ring attendants were
clad in gorgeous scarlet TUNES with blue
facirgs, buskins aud top boots. This anna
teur performance certainly surpassed any
professional one. The riding was better, the
horses were better, the gymnastics better,
and the clown business was reduced to that
happy point where it could amuse without
boring.
Describing the pei lormauce the New York
Herald said ~
The Duchesse Uzes' grand charity ANA
teur circus performance came off yesterday
at the Nouveau Cirque with splendid eclat
No circus in the world ever contaiued a
more aristocratic or a more fashionably dres-
sed audience than that wAich assembled last
night to witness the athletic representatives
of the French aoblesse disporting themselves
in silk tights on bareblcked horses, parallel
bars and ia mid air.
And in regard to company present some
idea MAY be gathered from the follow
ing -
In the boxes and faunteuils were their
Royal Hghnesses. Prince Henri d Orleans, the
Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Du-
ohesse Uzes, the Duchesse de la Roche
foucauld, the Duchesse dc MALTA. the Du-
cheese de la Tremouille the Duchesse de
Ricbelieu, the Princesse de Sagau, ths Ouch
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
A Feeling of Sadness,

The querulous regrets of the Delaware COL
lege ReUieo0 over the loss of "Co-education"
are indeed touching. Our esteemed cotem-
porary would receive our sympathy but for
its own Inconsistency. But it must be with
held.
How can we mourn or mingle our tears
on this occasion of bereavement when cur
bright Newark cotemporary sings aloud in
such Inconsistent, even ncoherent strains-
This is an end that has been wished for,
for some time past, butnow it is accomplish
ed, feeling of sadness steals over u.s. and
we forget all its discomforts aud remember
only its pleasures. When it was first intro
duced ilto our midst how gladly it was
thought that new and better era had dawn
ed upon our school. Foe a while all went
well. But soon the novelty wore off and all
the evils Of a mixed school became oh ious
to those not disposed to view them with
favor. 1t was then that the struggle against
co-edncation commenced, the Reoteao origi.
-asting and taking an act We part in it. And
now it has been succe ,sfnl. But we do not
feel the pleasure that such triumph ought
to inspire. We forget tlI9 gum or feel but
the less. How void the interest will be col
lege life without the faigfmaidens to give it
chains. yl,,S dun taa Siass-rdon without
female faces to lend it giaae and beauty. No
longer v i'll th2re bs sweet smiles to drive
away our cares, and happy, cheerful faces
to m st u1 at IN 'rnjng prayers. Yes, they
our pleasure anl incentive to study. No
longer will failure be SO greatly cared as
there Will he no ladies' to see us fail, nor will
the professors frown bc,so hard to bear for
no ladies will! witness our disaster. And yet
the female smile more than balanced the
professors frown, and we will bid or. ow-
ful farewell to you, O fIir Co Education. +"
Our contemporary has naught to blame but
itself for this rendng de<oafio Of the edi-
torial heart. -9-. "..-
II "the fema'e smile more than balanced
the plo essor's frown" we wonder that it did
not unbalance the austerty of the pl,tonic
scribe.
M, brethren, you deserve no sympathy
from vii ningt,n. Sush hardbearoedness
as yours is neither understood nor tolerated
here, You are left unmeicifully to your
sorrow as Penelope who would not be COM
foltea for the loss OF Ulysses
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
The Metric System.

Iu the Seuate on Friday last during the
debate upon the Diplomat; aud DusuIar ap-
preparation bill, question arose as t., the
propriety of allowing 50, 270 the amount ask
ed as the contribution Of the Uui.ed States,
among some score OF 80 Of other atoms to-
wards the International Bureau Of Weights
and Measures whoss avowed purp ppses aye
to disseminate and eventually establish the
metric system throughout the " orld, and in
this instance its propagandispn in Che United
States.
In speaking ag Gnst the appropriation San
ator Couger of Michigan amons Iii, remark
said -
"rne result Of it j, to pay nut the monty
of the people Of the Ua ted States, SO far as
understand it, to make the UIited States a
party to the bureau ur convention or con-
gress representated from the different nations
in which the French metric system has a
preponderanGe of representatives, and 10 aid
that insidious, persi>telr, and attacking
most every bill where there is an opportuu-
ty and provides for unknown weIg ats aud
unknown measures by Mans rs the measures
and the weights Of the people pf the United
States. 1t has crept id one form and an lher
until running through our bills and our laws
now, inadvertently and without much
thought on the part Of Legislators appre.
hend, but no. without having caused me
considerable alarm to people who desire the
old weights the old ME Isu,es, the ui inch
the folt, and the rod anil the rod, aud all
the forms which our ancestors have b en-
accustomed to and which have become a
part of the common language OF the country
are provisions for changing over to gramnes
and meters aud kilometers and all that in
Vulnerable system of outandish and F,ench-
flied and heathenish names which certain
body of people in the Uuited States have
been attempting from the time VIII N JOHN
Quincy Adams made his celebrated report
upon the propriety of preserving to an En-
glish-speaking people, as FIR as might b., in
our laws the weights aud tia measures aud
the names of those weights and measures
with which our people had been familiar in
the Old World for thnus md years and in
this country since the establishment of So
ciety here.
In one form or another there are contnu-
ally efforts made by those who are insid-
iously attempting to ingraft upon our Ian
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12

present contest with that feature-a feature
which, it is reiterated, is entirely foreign to
it, aud, as regards the action of the gentle
men referred to in seeking to lay an embar-
go upon independent suffrage within the
party lines cannot be looked upon as other
than high-hauded interference.
We yield to none in the State of Delaware
in entire and answering. loyalty to a full
and unquestionable belief in the success of
the great future unfolded to the citizens Of
Delaware under the enlightened, business
like, free and progressive leadership of the
worthily popular Chas. b. Lore, but we
have yet to discover that that admiration is
liable for lien or garnishee for sheriff S
dues.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
Under Which King.

"The question arises here, how can all the
fee holders We all want share of the
printing and advertising, but many will be
disappointed. AS we are not in the ring or
declared for either Democratic or Repubi
can principles, we expect nothing. 1t is not
pleasant position to fill to be independent"
Newark Ledger" June g.
"It looks as though our worthy contempol-
ary The Newark Ledger will soon discard its
neutra ality and fall on the Democratic side
OF the fence. It will not have very far to
jump, however. "-(Elkton appeal" June
81
These are not the piping times OF peace
Why then does our esteemed Newark CO.
temporary harrow the hearts of its readers
with such portrayal ofindiffereutism which
it affects and claims such virtue for
We have always been inclined to credit
our doughty Newark neighbor with the pos
session of a weighty pen aud enviable influ.
ence in its surroundings and locality.
Strong men do not stand aside at moment
when the most important questions demand
explicit statement of individual idea.
Questions OF constitutional and CONNER
cal affairs are of greater importance than
the patronage of office-holders. Such ques-
tions agitate Delaware at this moment
The citizens of the State of Delaware
look o the press, and to no part Of the press
with greater solicitude than that which has
carried faithfully the legend of independence
as its motto. Wilmington looks outside its
city limits for aid in breaking the shackles
of aristocratic rule in this state. The metro
polls of Delaware is striving hard for free
dom and untrammeled action in business
aud commercial lines. Where Wilmington
succeeds Delaware succeeds. Let the indie
pendent press of the State endorse and advo-
cate live men for office whose past record has
demonstrated them awake to the needs of
the day and independent of ancestral baina-
Giles. Let the patronage go where it will
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12

gu ige and upon our laws some OF these
Frenchjfed names aud notions with which
our ps pile, thank God, are as yet unfamiliar
and venture to say that there are not five
Senators here. with all their diversified ac-
qurements and knowledge both of languages
and of measures, who can understand and
explain without time to refer to tho tables
and to the dictionaries the meaning of words
which are now in our laws. Somebody may
know what glamme is. Laughter. see
with what avdity some of my friends seize
upon the word Of corresponding sound which
has reference more to the throat than to the
measure daughter. j.
The remainder Of Mr. Conger's speech was
plea for the retention of old terms and Gus
toms as used among English speaking peo-
pies. He questioned the right of the differ
ent bureaus Of their present method of using
neurological terminology in their official
reports and records aGs cited the habit as an
innovation. lie questioned also the accept
ability to the cit zans OF this country of the
newly adopted method Of using the metric
system in the reports ofgoyernment scienti-
fic departments.
Mr. Conger, however, was defeated all the
Senators present, foIty in number, voting in
favor Of the appropriations Mr. Conger alone
opposed.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
Thanks.

At a regular muster of DuPonts Post, G
A. r., on Thursday evening vote of thanks
was extended to the following parties fol
flowers, I. A. Mills, st. Pauls' NJ. L. Sunday
School, Mrs. D. Coyle, Ms. Thcs. johnson,
Mrs. Pyle, Mrs. Armour, Mrs. E. Blackburn,
Aionzo Beck, Alice Hancock, Garrett
Mcdowell, Harvey Mcdowell, Willie Han
cock, Eddie Hancock, Mis-. Black burn, Miss
Matte RICHTER, M SIS Lille Blackburn, and
all others, also the members Of tie post and
our friends at DuPont's Banks, for flowers
and the splendid dinn'r serve to US on dec
Grafton day.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
The High School Jaunt.

Professor Graham shows himself practi-
cal teacher in encouraging such excursions
as that to the Reading foundries.
Level-headed citizens will appreciate such
a style of teaching for their children espec-
tally for the older boys. 1t is in line with
what is done elsewhere among those who are
alive to the present needs of their respective
communities.
We had an example Of this the other day
when the Cornell students paid visit to
Harlan & Hollingsworth, Pusey s. Jones,
aud other manufacturing places here.
If we could only instil into the minds OF
Of our young men the practical advantage,
nay necessity at the present day, of learning
trade, uncalculable advantage will be
gained.
The professions are over-crowded. A
large percentage of lawyers and doctors
barely make living, while men having the
oretical and practical information in the
manufacture of raw material into the COM
melcial product are always IN demand. They
are in demand at high salaries and still are
scarce. Many are yearly imported on prom
Use of good pay for term of years.
Anything that promises possibility of the
conversion of our young generation into this
needed class Of citizenss hould be carefully
and vigorously endorsed. --.-.
What Professor Grahm has essayed in this
direction. Only last winter Harlan & Hol-
iingsworth established a most successful
school of design here That is an another
instance of future promise.
How much better it would be if we. could
obtain some of these lucrative positions in
factories, shp-building yards and found
ries for our American youth We own to
grudging feeling against foreigners
whose practical acquaintance with the secrets
of trade and mechanical business obtain for
them the best positions while our own young
men can find naught for their hands to do
but to dance attendance at counter or GO
West.
This is not fattering ending after a full
course Of high school teaching and gradua-
tion. Better far for those yonng men to
have graduated at the desk or COUNTER when
at the age similar to that at which they now
have their high school graduation they
would fnd themselves earning sufficient to
pay for their individual support p!
The nearer Professor Graham assimilates
his method of teaching to that of technology
the greater advantage 90 the community are
the possibilities Of che High School term and
the more practical an exchange will the State
receive for the large appropriations made for
educational purposes out of which fund the
cost of High School education makes suoh
big bite.
And, after all is not chronological teach
ing just as legitimate as that Of Greek and
Latin in our schools? 1t is Just as legiti.
mate but has much greater possibility Of
future advantage.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
"The Altered Priscilla. y

| AS long as the New York press consider
that there is some likelihood Of the Priscilla
making good running in the coming yacht
races this season metropolitan papers speak
of the New York iron Yacht Priscilla aud
talk of our New York; 'altered Priscilla"
But when, as in the recent instance of the
brush between the Atlantic and the Priscilla
in which the latter did not do as well as her
rival, New York yachtsmen speak of the
Wilmington n-but boat.
Now we should like to know whether the
Priscilla is New York boat or a Whining
ton boat. Citizens of Wilmington are ready
TO take all the risks just now. We believe
in the Priscilla and expect her to come out
victorious in the coming races. We are will
ing to stand by her from the first and right
through the season till the finish as we are
confident of her ability to make record in
ferior to none.
1t is amusing to notice the temper of the
journals referred to. WIlmingtonians must
be ready Immediately there comes news of
the Piscilla's making some good racing to
hear the New York Herald speak of their
splendid New YORK iron sloop Priscilla and
of the great confidence New York yaehtsmen
always had in her.
Now all this is very inconsistent and un-
sportsinanlike. The yacht should be stood
by in fair as we'll as foul weather, in good
luck and in bad.
The Wlmingtonians, as has been said, are
proud of the yacht built here and are ready
to take all chances upon her. Let her then
be always called the Wilmington boat.
The following is the programme ard ar
rapgements, which have again been sud.
IDENTIFY changed, for next week e.
"The appearance of the Atlantic Yacht
Clubs programme for the regatta of next
Tuesday has been unavoidably delayed Com
modore Hogins informed Herald reporter
yesterday, however, that in the special class
created for the big sloops the restrictions in
the clubs sailing rules referring to sails and
crew had been removed by the Regatta Com
mittee, and that the Puritan, Priscilla, At
lantic-and the Mayfower if she comes
can carry any sail they choose and any num-
ber of men when competing in The clubs re-
gatta Of next Tuesday. These, the restric
tions in the regular rules of the club. have
been removed, the Commodore said, for the
sole purpose of having, if possible, thor
ough test of the big sloops, and the liberal
spirit of the club in this matter cannot be
too highly commended. The big sloops, too
will finish at buoy No. Is instead of at the
starting line, where the club yachts finish.
This change is made to give the accompany
ing steamboat, with the clubs guests, a
chance to view the performance of all the
yachts, as the probability is that the big
sloops will finish sooner than the other
yachts, and the shortening of their course
little will afford view of their finish as well
as the race of the fleet up the channel and
through the Narrows.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
Rugby.

Thursday evening next Jane 18th is the
d4to for Rughy commencement.
The Pr ggamme of exercises at the Grand
Opera House include most attract We ar
rLngement Of Essays, Music ami R.citat 'ons
military drill, aud, ia conclusion award of
diplomas.
Among the name' Of those who take part
in the exercises ate Frank W. Bigger, John
s. Littell, f. e. Chur1hman, G. T. r. Bates,
D. F Disfendorf Charles E. Buck Jr., and
othe,s.
There WIN be violin solo by Miss Eva
Kempa, cello solo by Miss Helen Kempa,
and piano 10 by Herr Kempa.
The II 10. I. n. Williams, State Superin-
tendent or Public Instruction will make the
dill ma awards.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-12
PRICE TWO CENTS.

eise d'Albufera, the Princesse de Brancauan
the Marquise de Gallfet, the Comtesse de
Montesquiu, the Comtesse de Benedict, the
Vicomtesse dc Grefulhe, the Baronne Solo
mon de Rothschild, the BAronne Alphonse
de Kothschild, the Comtesse de Ponrtaes, the
Comtesse de Potockta aud all the grandes
mondaines of Partisan society.
The circus is not necessarily debasing
experience. 1t is undoubtedly thoroughly
enjoyable. Extremists in morals fihd it
easy to point out Objectionable conditions.
But is not that the general iule that inau-
ences all mundane matters? If pernicious
influences exist, they are not apparent.
They may be discovered il sought out. The
wrong is in the seeking or looking for them.
Among the masses the circus will always
be popular. 1t is an acknowledgement Of
the general healthy tone that leavens the
tastes Of the masses when what are called
the higher social grades tacitly follow in
their wake when question is made of choice
of amusement.