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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
UNDER PRISON WALLS.
A Torch Light Procession In Honor
of Wilfred Blunt.

DUBLIN, Jan. 22.-An attempt was made
last night to serenade Sir .Wilfred Blunt,
confined in prison at Galway. The police in
terfered and ordered the musicians away,but
the latter embarked in boats and held a
torchlight procession on tho river beneath
the walls Of the prison. Seamen from the
warship Banterer gave chase, but failed to
capture the serenaders,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
fire at CulIford.

BANGOR, Jan. 21.-Fire broke out Friday
night at u o'clock in G. f. NeNbegin's store
at Gulford, destroying the store and stock.
A family living over the store lost all their
household goods. A dwelling near, occupied
by two families also burned, but their con-
tents were saved. The night was intensely cold
with high winds. The loss on stock is $10,
600; insurance, $4,000. Loss on buildings,
91000. insurance G1600
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Petitions for PEACE.

A memorial from the Massachusetts COM
mittee of fifty, recently formed to cooperate
with the British deputatiou of peace and ar
btration, representing 233 members of the
House of Commons, which visited Washing
ton in November, was presented to the Pres
ident today by Edwin ID. Mead of Boston,
representing the committee. The memorial
is signed by the governor of Massachusetts,
the mayor of Boston, President Elliott of
Harvard University, President Seelye of
Amherst College, Edward Everett Hale,
Phillips Brooks, Joseph Cook, Andrew 2.
Peabody, Levefett Saltonstall, Alexander Ii.
Rice, Charles Theodore Russell, and many
leading scholars and business men of Massa--
chusetts. The President, while conscious of
certain practical difficulties, expressed warm
sympathy with the general cause and his be-
lief that the time could not be distant when
unnn THAR pracant cUctam of wars
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23

Mean daily bar. :. 3O.33' Maximum ther... 12.4
Mean daily ther.. OF Minimum ther,. lob
Mean daily dwpt-1O. Max. vel. wind -. IL
Mean daily hum. 57.7 Total precip...... %
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
(Jan. 22, 1888, 1000 P.M.)
Observations taken at the same moment of time
a ALL stations
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Some Low Records.

Low temperatures are reported at;
Utica, N. Y, 26o below zero.
Antwerp, y. Y, 500 below.
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, 18o below.
Vassar College, $50 below.
Rhinebeck, 22o below.
Hartford, Conn.,, 10o below.
Suburbs of Hartford, 12o 70 zoe below.
East Windsor, Conn.,, 22o below.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Forty Persons Narrowly Escape
Death.
In Other places.

In Montreal, Saturday, Borgeau q Heron's
coffee mills and the premises occupied by the
Dominion Art Furniture Company. and
Menard, the hat and cap block manufacturer,
were burned. The loss Is estimated at $780,
600. The underwriters will ask the City
apparatus.
The great shipyards at Granville, near
Havre. France, have been burned. The
sheds and the entire plant were destroyed.
Eight hundred worKmen were thrown out OF
employment by the eonhagIati0n.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Jan. %.
The indications for New England are
slightly rising temperature, light to fresh
variable winds and fair weather.
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. 22 1888
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan. 22-John Crock
cry was found on the sidewalk late last night
unconscious. with bad cash in his head. bis
hands, ears and feet were badly frozen. He
died two hours later; it is supposed that he
fell while drunk and fractured his skull.
.John +. Burns was found ON East street
meadows at midnight badly frozen. lie eyi-
dently wandered off while drunk. His condl-
tion is critical.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23

. New YORK, Jan. % = The bay at sunrise
was solid mass of ice from.Staten Island
shore to Long Island. The health officers ON
the boarding tug succeeded with great diff
Guilty in plsughing their way to the incoming
steamers. Steamers City of Berlin, Slayonia
and Bermuda, especially the first named,
were mass Of ice up to the fore yards:
They report heavy gale from the northwest
with intense cold for as hours. The weather
at quarantine is intensely cold and the ice In
the bay so thick that it is barely possible to
get through it.
This has been the coldest day in this city
since January "a, 1888. At a. m. 1t was 2
ahoya zero.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Innpasaahle Drifts.

CALAIS, Jan. 21.-A foot of snow fell at
Calais, Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Since then heavy northwesterly gale has
prevailed, piling the snow in impossible
drifts. Stage lines are abandoned for the
present. The country roads are completely
blocked. Travel other than by rail is sus-
pended, but trains are moving, though sew
eral hours late. The wind is still blowing a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23

Tower, Mimi, Jan. 22.-Fourteen men
perished in the boarding house fire Saturday.
Seven bodies have been taken from the ru-
ins and seven persons in addition are miss
ing The stairway was very narrow, and
she men became so involved In the struggle
that none got ont
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
DR.. R. c. FLOWERS
GREAT SCIENTIFIC
Liver and Stomach Sanativ8

Quickly regulates the liver, invigorates
the stomach, and vitalizes the general
system. 1t is the one great, absolute
Specific for liver and stomach disorders
that the nineteenth century has produced.
Price, $l.oO bottle. For sale by all
druggists.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Contagious Diseases.

Especial TO the Press.1
AUGUSTA, Jan. 22.-Cases of contag-
ious diseases were reported to the State
Board of Health during the week ending
Jan. 81, as follows:
Typhoid fever Castine !, Houlton /, Leeds J,
Scarboro ] Wimantc /.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1, Bangor, /, Buxton, 1,
Caribou 2, Castine > Linneus /, Portland B.
Scarlet fever-Bangor ] Buxton 21 mild cases,
Cumberland ] GoTham 2, Portland 3.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23

VIM. Ii. Barnum, chairman OF the National
Democratic Committee, was in Chicago Sat
urday. and tried to have his visit unknown.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
THE STATE.
HANCOCK COUNTY.

The Cranberry Isles correspondent of the
Mount Desert Herald says all hopes OF re-
covering the body Of the late Abraham Q.
Stanley have been given up. Diligent search
Nothing has been found TO prove where or
how the accident occurred.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
"HOW'S YOUR
LIVER ?"

Those who have seen that popular
comedy, "The Private Secretary" will
never forget the wealthy uncle from
India, who has suffered thousand deaths
from a torpid liver indeed, his misery
has been so terrible and so prolonged,
that it has become the nightmare of his
life. Every one he meets, whether it be
maid or man, is abruptly asked, elbows
your liver ?" Although in many in
stances and circumstances the question
may seem out of place, in view of the
startling amount of misery, disease, and
death that springs directly from a slug
gish liver and an enfeebled digestion,
this question should be brought face to
face before every one. With healthy,
active, vigorous liver, almost every dis
ease can be thrown Off With diseased
liver, and the baleful results that follow
in its wake, viz. indigestion, malnutri-
tion, headache, heartburn, constipation,
etc., disease readily gains foothold, and
rapidly brings about fatal results.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
POSTAL REGULATIONS.
What May and May Not be Done
Under the New Law.

The Post ONCE Department issues the fol-
lowing, in conformity with the provisions Of
the new postal law. which was signed by the
President Friday:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
A Speech by Senator Frye.

Senator Frye is preparing to make tariff
speech in the Seuate on Monday, which will
be an elaboration of the speech he made at
the Home Market Club in Boston last fall.
The Democrats are sending out the Presi-
dents message by the ten thousand all over
the country, and the Republicans feel that
acter than Sherman's to go with the latter to
meet the President before the people. Mr..
Frye is expected to furnish a speech which
can be distributed to advantage east and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
Bullion Certificates.

Representative Dunn of Arkansas today
obtained leave to have printed in the Record
the following amendment which he proposes
to offer to the Wilkins banking bill. That
hereafter any national bank may deposit
gold and silver bullion with the treasurer or
assistant treasurers in amounts not less in
value than $4,000 and receive therefor GER
tilicates in denominations of $5, SO, $40,
$50, 500 or $500, as the depositor may elect,
fractional pa It's of $40 or any deposit of bull
lion to be paid for in coin. Such certificates
shall be receivable for all public due, and
shall be legal tender, except where payment
in coin is expressly stipulated, They shall
be redeemable in coin, ON presentation at the
treasury or at the sub-treasury in New York
That the value or ratio to gold at which
certificates shall be issued on silver bullion
shall be its actual ratio or market value at
the time of deposit to be determined by the
Secretary of the Treasury for each calendar
month by taking the average selling price of
silver bullion as expressed In gold dollars In
preceding month, which price shall be the
value or ratio to gold at which certificates
shall be issued during the succeeding months
provided, that certificates shall not be issued
in silver bullion at value above the ratio of
silver to gold as now fixed by law for stand
ard gold and silver coins. That when any Of
the certificates are redeemed in coin, they
shall be cancelled and destroyed, but certif-
Gates received for public dues, or in exchange
for lawful money, shall be held as cash, and
may be reissued.
That on the taking effect of this act the
monthly coinage of silver shall be stopped,
and in lieu thereof the Secretary Of the
Treasury is authorized to coin standard sill
yer dollars and gold coins from the bullion
deposited in amount sufficient to supply any
demand that may arise for coin for circula-
tion or that may be required to pay the coin
obligations of the government; provided,
that concurrently with the coinage of any
bullion for which certificates have been is
sued, certificates shall be destroyed equal in
value to the bullion so coined.
MIR. Mason's Bill.
Mr.. Mason's bill, providing for an investi-
cation of trusts and combinations, was taken
up by the House committee on manufactures
today, and after short discussion, which
disclosed the fact that the committee is unan-
imous in its support, favorable report was
Ordarad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
FROZEN TO rEArs.
A HostIer In Fitchburg, Mass, Killed
by the Cold.
A Traveller Tells Of some Of the
Things he Witnessed.
While Journeying in the Track of the
Terrible Storm Out West.

BosToN, Jan. 22-From all parts Of New
England comes reports of intense cold. In
upper New Hampshire snow fell this morn
ing and drifted so badly that trains on the
Boston, Concord and Montreal road were
blocked and delayed from seven to ten hours.
The mercury was 2O' delow zero at Warren.
and 35o below at st. Johnsbury, vt. North
Adams reports 20' below In the Hoosac tun-
mel, 1000 feet from the west portal, it was 81
below, something unprecedented. AT Fitch
burg, Hugh Larkins, hostler, was found
dead in barn; it is supposed he was frozen
to death. At New Bedford, Mass, 1t was z
below and the bay was frozen across twelve
miles all along the coast the cold is intense.
In this city 1t was 80 below this morning, to-
night it is 40 above; suburban towns report
from 10o IN IKE below
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09
A Resolution

Declaring IL necessary to improve Main and
High streets. from the west line OF Market
street TO the east line Of Limestone street;
Market street, from the south line Of High
street TO the north line Of Main street, and
Limestone street from the south line of Main
street 10 the south line of Monroe street. By
paving them with stone blocks.
Resolved. bv the council Of the city Of
Springfield, Ohio, two-thirds OF the whole
number elected thereto eoncurring. That 10 10
necessary and that IL intends tOimpr0ye Main
and High streets from the west line OF Market
street to the east line Of Limestone street,
Market street from the south line Of High
street TO the north line Of Main street. and
Limestone street from the south line of Main
street TO the south line Of Monroe street, by
constructing the necessary foundations and
making necessary excavations for same. FUR
pishing and paving the roadway with stone
blocks. furnishing and setting new eurbs, re-
dressing. rejointing and re settiug old eurbs,
in accordance with the plans and specifics
tions therefor on fiie In the ONCE Of the city
engineer.
One-fiftieth Of the cost and expense Of said
improvement, together with the cost and ex-
pense OF 80 much of said Improvements as may
be included In the crossings or intefsections
of said streets, to be paid by said city. and the
remainder of the cost and expense OF said I'm
proyement to be assessed per front foot upon
the parcels of land bounding and abutttng
thereon. in the manner provided by law the
assessment therefor to be payable IN Install
ments and collected as provided by law and
In the assessing ordinance hereafter 70 oe
passed. Bonds shall be issued In anticipation
OF the collection of the assessments. unless
the property owners pay their assessments
before the same are issued and within the
time prescribed in said assessing ordinance.
The city clerk Is hereby directed to have
this resolution published for two eonseeutiye
weeks. and Sergeantat-Afm5 X. M. Gelwiekn
to serve the notice required by law.
Passed by Council July ). A. d. 1888.
GEO. W. NETS. Vice President
Attest; Us SHKwALrxR. City Clerk. l5szn
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

The London tEngIand) Iron and Steel
Trades Journal makes the sad complaint:
Wherever the British trader goes he Is
met by tha fierce competition Of manufac-'
turers from the tariff-protected countries,
who offer advantages which outbid the
British manufacturer. Agricultural ma
chinery affords case in point. 1t Is only
recently that Spanish farmers have discov-
cred that there are better ways of reaping
than by hand, and more economical plan
of threshing than by driving q number Of
mares round a threshing- floor. OF late
years, says Vice Consul Davies, a large
number of proprietors and farm
ers have made an effort to i'm
port plows, threshing, reaping, binding,
and moving machines. At first, English
houses held this trade, but of late Amer
lean and German manufacturers have
stepped in and obtained a large portion of
the trade. This applies to the Jerez dis
trict. but is confirmed by the report of Vice
Consul Poole, of Cordova, who mentions
that German and American firms are de-
velOpiDg trade In agricultural implements
by giving long terms for payment. Amer
lean and German manufacturers are able to
give these better terms because they are not
handicapped at home In the same way as
British manufacturers.
President Cleveland and his fellow dem
ocrats are trying to relieve their dear
friends. the British traders, and to put the
suffering on American manufacturers.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09
Notice 10 Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
Office OF the City Clerk of the City Of Spring
Held, Ohio, for furnishing the material and
doing the labor Of the following classes OF
work for said city. between the time OF enter
Ing Into contract and the first day Of Decem-
Der, A. ID. 1883. according to the plans and
specifications in the ONCE Of the city civil en-
gineer OF said city, and In accordancc with the
ordinances of said city relating TO said work,
said proposals to be as follows:
First, for furnishing and putting in curb
and gutter. per iineal foot.
Second. Tor furnishing material and laying
Dflck Sidewalks. per square yard
Third, for cutting sidewalks TO grade. per
cubic yard.
Fourth. for filling sidewalks to grade. per
cubic yard
Fifth. for graveling sidewalks. per cubic
yard.
All proposals must be for doing said work
according to the plans, pronles and specinca-
be signed by the full name Of all parties
Interested In said bid, and by some re-
sponsible disinterested person as a guarantee
that contract will be entered into. provided
the bid Is accepted, and must be On file in
the city clerks Office on or before II o'clock
noon, of Friday, the 18th day of July, A d..
1888, to be opened and publicly read tmmedi-
ately after IL o'clock of said day. In the pres
enee of the mayor. city engineer. assistant
city engineer. and city clerk, or any two OF
them, and reported 20 council at the nrst
regular meeting thereafter.
The city council reserves the right To reject
deem sufficient.
By order Of the City Council.
j. s. SHEWALTER,
154am City Clerk.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

around about you, and hundreds of feet
deep" And then they dropped their buckets
over the side of the vessel, and brought up
the clear, bright, fresh water, and put out
the fire of their thirst. So hail you TODAY.
after long and perilous voyage, thirsting as
you are for pardon, and thirsting for COM
fort, and thirsting for eternal life; and ask
you what is the use of your going in that
death struck state, while all around you is
the deep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of Gods
sympathetic mercy. o, dip your buckets,
and drink, and live forever. "Whosoever
will, let him come and take of the water of
life freely"
Yet my utterance is almost choked Mt tho
thought that there arc people here who will
refuse this divine sympathy; and they will
try to fight their own BATTLES, and drink
their own vinegar, and carry their own bur-
dens; and their life, instead Of being n tri-
umphal march from victory TO victory, will
be hobbling on from defeat TO defeat, until
they make final surrender to retributive dis
aster. o, | wish could today gather up in
mine arms all the woes Of men and women
all their heart aches-all their disappoint-
ments-all their chagrirs-and just take
them right to tho feet of sympathizing
Jesus. He took the vinegar.
Mana Sahib, after he had lost his last battle
in India, fell back into the jungles of Ihera
-jungles so full of malaria that no mortal
could live there. Ho carried with him, also,
a ruby of great lustcr and Of great value.
He died in those jungles; his body was never
found, and the ruby has never yet been re-
covered. And l fear that today there are
some that will fall back from this subject
into the sickening, killing jungles of their
sin, carrying gem of infinite value-a price
loss soul-to be lost forever. o, that that ruby
might Cash in the eternal coronation. But no.
There arc some, 1 fear, in this audience who
turn away from this offered mercy, and COM
fort, and Divine sympathy; notwithstanding
that Christ, for ell who would accept his
grace, trddged the long way, and suffered the
lacerating thongs, and received in his face
the expectorations of tho filthy mob, and for
the guilty, and the discouraged, and the dis
comforted of the race, took the vinegar.
May God Almighty break the infatuation,
and lead you out into the strong hope, and the
good cheer, and the glorious sunshine of this
triumphant Gospel.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

Sunday school politics should not be
sneered at BY respectable and decent news
paper editors of either party. Honesty,
cleanliness and righteousness are taught in
Sunday schools, and .our greatest and best
men are Sunday school teachers. General
Benjamin Harrison, the republican candi-
date for the presidency, is man of this
class, and he is moreover pronounced to be,
in religious newspaper, "a prayer meet
Ing Christian 1t is about time we had
man of that sort In the White House at
Washington, by way Of q change-greatly
needed,
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

Ex-Governor st. John, in speech made
at Staten Island, N. Y. Friday night, on
bshalf Of prohibition. denounced the ''con-
tingent proposal" for the abolition of the
internal revenue system, as an ''infamous
proposition" and. declared that the repub-
lican party was wrong in proposing to
take the tax from whisky because it is
wrong to take /. ..sy from any iniquity."
The Trtb,tp6, in noticing this utterance, re-
freshec sne memory of st. John by calling
his attention to the fact that, about six
weeks ago, the prohibition party, in ma
tional convention assembled, officially de-
clared:
For the immediate abolition of the in
tsrnal revenue system, whereby our national
government is deriving support from our
greatest national vice.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

A gentleman ia workingman"D writes
to the New York Sun, quoting the following
from Henry Watterson's Harlem speech:
The tariff has no more to do with youI
wages than the Book of Mormon. 1t does
not protect you in the least against your
foreign competitor.
"A Workingman" comments on this ut
terance In this pointed style:
Now, find that Mr.. Houck, Mills bill
advocate of Tennessee, moved In the house
of representatives the other day to strike
marble from the free list in the Mills bill,
on the ground that if it was kept there II
would destroy an industry that employs
several thousand men ''in my own county,;
and he said that with free marble 1t is a
notorious fact that American marble cannot
compete with foreign
Accordingly, marble was stricken from
the free list, and an important industry in
Mr.. Houck's own county will continue to
be protected.
This is matter of fact from the record,
and the ''workingman" wishes, very prop
erly, to know why the marble men should
be protected any more than the wool-grow-
ers.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

The Ohio State Journal, of Monday, re-
fers to our editorial of Saturday. on the
needs of the city. as follows:
The Springfield REPUBLIC in lucid ar
ticle upon the "needs" Of that city enumer-
ates the following: Cheap fuel and belt
railroad line. Certainly these are desirable
things to have. IL the coal syndicate will
permit the natural law OF competition to
operate. both Springfield and Columbus can
have cheap fuel. and the coal men grow
rapidly rich at that.
As to belt railroad. if one is needed In
Springfield. still more Is it here, and the
wonder is that the enterprise and capital
necessary to build and equip one was not
long since forthcoming. An undertaking
of the kind was projected some years ago
and seemed to be IN q very hopeful condi-
ton, but it afterwards went TO sleep and
has since experienced no waking.
When our board of trade gets fully Or
ganized, let us have a special committee
appointed to look into the meaning and
merits Of the State Journals ''coal syndi-
cate" suggestion.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-09

We are rather surprised to find the fo'.
lowing paragraph in the Kenton Republi-
can, General James S. Robinson's home
organ:
When the foolish friends and managers
Of John Sharnan's candidacy in the Chicago
convention intimated that he could be NOM
mated without the assistance of BIaine's
friends. Mr.. Shernan's goose was political
ly par-boiled.