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The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
What has Been Done During the Past
Year.

LEWISTON, Oct. 17.-At today's meeting
of the New England Sunday School conven-
tion, when State reports were called for Rev.
B. P. Snow of Willard, reported for Maine.
Mr.. Snow spoke, in preface, of the salts
faction that the State of Maine felt in the
coming of the convention to this State. He
said that the condition of the Sabbath School
work in Maine was improving every year.
In the way of statistics he stated that there
are 244 Congregational churches in Maine,
10 local conferences, 21.161 church members
26O Sunday Schools, 1900 families connect
ed with the Congregational Sunday Schools,
$4,000 officers, teachers and members of the
Sunday Schools of the church. The popula-
tion of the State of Maine is about 65O,OOO at
the present time. The Sunday Schools at
the best and most liberal estimate have only
about 104, 900; the Baptists have about 1900
officers, members and teachers, and the Meth
odists p, 900 in the Sunday Schools.
Maine has about $4,000 children between
the ages of four and 81, and only about 1O4,-
GOO of them in the Sunday Schools; and this
leaves 900 who are not in the Sabbath
Schools Of the State. The schools of Maine
are so widely scattered and the territory SO
great that it seems harder here than in other
more thickly settled States. Distance does
not lend enchantment to the view in this
case.
Rev. Mr.. Snow, in conclusion, said that he
thought the condition of the Sunday Schools
OF Maine very hopeful, and far brighter than
In times gone by. He knew that there is
room Tor Improvement, but felt that there is
no cause for discouragement
The committee on nominations, through
DR.. Meserve, reported the following list of
officers
President-Hon. David N. Camp, New Britain,
Conn.
Vice Presidents-Hon. Nelson Dingley Lewis
ton, Me-; Hon. Frank Fairbanks st. Johnshurv
Vt; Rev. j. G. Vose, ID. d. Providence. r.. T. M
Hall, Dover, N. H; Samuel b. Capen Boston
Mass; William II. Hall. West Hartford Conn
Secretary-Rev. Il. Hatch Monson Mass
Statistical Secretary-George Beal, Boston.
Mass.
Treasurer-F. G. Jones, Pennington. Conn
Executive Committee-Maine, A. e. Dewey
Portland; Rev. G. M. Howe, Lewiston Neyw,
Hampshire, Rev. Cyrus Richardson, Nashua.
Rev. q. ii. DeBevoise Keene Vermont Rev 7
III. Barbitt, West Brittleboro Rev. c. III. Merrill
st. JOhnsbury. Mas Sachusetts, Hon. T. W. Rick
nell, Boston; Rev. Smith Baker, Lowell Rhode
Island, Rev. j. H. McIllyaine, d. d., Providence:
j. w. Danelson, ESQ.,, Providence. Connecticnt'
w. r. Burnham Norwich; Rev. Graham Taylor
D. D., Hartford.
These were unanimously elected.
The next session of the convention will he
held in Boston. M. G. Hazard addressed the
convention on the grading of the Sunday
schools. He was followed by Rev. A, II.
Winship of Boston, who spoke on the teach
ers' work in the class. This evening. after
the vesper service, Rev. S. l.. Blake spoke on
the Bihlp.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
They Favor Arbitration.


At the beginning of the morning business
In the Senate today the Republican side Of
the chamber was represented by eight Sem
atOrs and the Democratic side by 10.
Twelve pension yetoes were received and
and referred in the House today.
A pOstofice has been established at Lex
ington, Somerset county, Me-, and Alvin Al
bert appointed postmaster.
Senator Frye will soon leave for a stump
ing tour in New Jersey, New York, Connec-
ticut and New Hampshire which will last
for the rest of the campaign. Mr. Dingley
left today to make a series of speeches In
Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The Supreme Court has refused to release
Prof Gefficken, who Is under arrest for fnr-
nishing the Deutsch Rundschau with the
extracts from Emperor Frederick s diary.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
ITEMS FOR HoRsEmEN.

A. A. Bonner, of the New York Ledger,
spent few days in Chicago recently. being
en- route to Lexington. He has lately pur-
chased the handsome and fast stallion Vol
mer, 224l, and while in Kentucky he will
make arrangements for this great Hamble-
tonian stallion to make the next season
at one of the well known stock farms Of the
blue grass region. Volmer Is a dark bay,
with no white, is 9years old and 1921 hands
high. He was sired by Gambetta, he,by Vol
unteer, dam Ulster Queen, by Hambletonlan
10. Volmer's record was made in the fourth
heat of race.
William Blowers, Wilkes Valley Stock
Farm, Waterloo, Iowa, has sold to A. c.
Bruce. of Minneapolis. Mimi, for $1,000, the
yearling colt Credo, by Adrian Wilkes, dam
By Mambriuo Patchen.
Dwyer Brothers stake and purse winnings
for the season, up to the beginning Of the
Jerome Park meeting, were S1l6930 Sir
Dixon has won S37, ,040; Kingston, S17,57O; ;
Bella b, S14,105; Oregon, S10219; Bessie
June, $3.50; Aurania, S7,195.
u. ). Williams, af Deer Lodge, Mont, has
bought Of w. s. Buckner, OF Paris, KY, the
yearling brown filly Brown Silk. by Baron
Wilkes, dam by BeIlwood, for $500.
d. J. Mccarthy & Brother have sold to
French 4 McDermott, Brooklyn, N. Y, for
$1,000, the two-year-old chestnut colt Tibu-
ron. by Duke of Magenta, out of Imp. Queen.
F. e. Perkins, Of Providence, r. L., has
bought OF Charles Barclay, Leesburg, KY,
the two-year-old bay flly Merle Moores By
Victor Won Bismarck, dam by Lightwood, for
$780,
Old Joe Bunker, 219t. is still at work, and
trorted a mile In 2.33 at Wyoming, o., the
other day. He may yet be trained for race.
A. j. Cassatt has purchased from Richard
Pryor. for $1,000, the two-year- old brown colt
Maidstone, by Vanderbilt, out of Nina Tur-
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Acting in Dead Earnest.

New YORK, Oct. 17.-Margaret Mather
Haborkorn was the cynosure of all eyes in
Justice Andrews chamber of the Supreme
Court, special term this morning.
The occasion was the trial of suit brought
by Mr.. Hill for an injunction to restrain
Miss Mather from carrying out a contract
made with Manager Gilmore and from en-
tering into any contract with any other man =.
ager.
President Foster, of the Board of Alder
men, for Mr.. Hill, read the complaint alleg-
ing that the actress had prior contract with
that manager. Judge Dittenhoefer, for Miss
Mather, read a paragraph of the contract,
Hill was dissatisfied he could claim re-
lease from the contract
The lawyer claimed that this was inequit-
able. and asked that the snit be dismissed.
The motion was denied.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
An Old Family and an Old Landmark.


Mr.. G. w. Standish of Flagstaff Planta-
tion, is the only remaining son Of Miles
Standish, who was the direct deseendent Of
Miles Standish of Puritan times, the eighth
in the line. Mr. Standish Is a stalwaTt rep
resentatiye of the family, 50 years Of age
His only brother who bore the family name,
Miles, died seven years ago, but &c left a son
Miles who is % years old, and G. w. has a
son. Miles, who Is four years old. so his fam
ily name will be kept good. Mr.. Standish
resides on the farm covering the ground up-
on which Arnold camped on his Quebec ex-
pedition, and where he erected a flag staff
from which the plantation received its name,
The original flag staff was cut down many
years ago, 1t Is said, by Mr.. Luke SAWYER,
when the country was wilderness. and the
fact OF Us being flag staff was not discov-
ered until " was felled to the ground. Four
years ago Mr.. Standish erected flag staff as
near the spot where the original one stood as
could be determined.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
War over Man,s EVOLUTION.

COLUMBIA. S. c., Oct 1.-THE bitter fight
of Observation-Disclosures over the evolu-
tion question has been renewed. Rev. DR..
James Woodrow, while professor of natural
science in the Columbia Theological Semi
nary, contended that the supposition of the
of evolution of man was not inconsistent
with the Bible. For this he was removed
The Charleston Presbytery last week passed
resolution, 2 to i, prohibiting any one
within the church writing upon or criticsing
the decision of the general assembly at Balti-
more which condemned DR.. Woodrow's
teachings. The state synod, now in annual
session at Greenwood. has adopted resolu-
tions condemning the action of the Charles
ton Presbytery as unconstitutional. irregular
and unwise. The synod directs the Charles
ton Presbytery to convene at once and cor
rect its irregular proceedings. This is vic
tory for the Woodrow evolution element 1t
is probable that the whole matter will be
taken before the general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
AFamous French chateau.

Malmaison. the famous chateau of the ILL
fated Josephine de Beauharnais, Is simply
going by piecemeal to the dogs, OF rather to
the rats, and it has been admirably suggest
ed that the place should be converted Into a
museum containing historical relics OF the
First Empire. In the beginning Of the pres
ent summer Malmaison was offered for sale
could be found. The park Is now let out In
small lots to builders, and hideous villas are
rising around the chateau. The two facades
Of the mansion-that Of the courtyard and of
the garden-are intact, but the interior Is
like barn. The salon Of Josephine still
exists, With its mural decorations of birds
and gilt flowers; and so do the dining hall,
the council chamber-shaped like a tent
and the library but the furniture Is all gone,
and the ''pleasure-house'' Of old is a melan-
choly wreck. 1t Is to be hoped the Paris
correspondent Of the London Telegraph re-
marksl that something will be done
for the place IN view Of the ap-
given to the State by Napoleon ILL., and was
converted into "Napoleonic Museum" dur
ing the Worlds Fair Of 1867. The spot will
be an interesting place Of pilgrimage for the
visitors to the exhibition, for Malmaison is to
many more memorable than the Trianons at
Versailles Malmaison saw the triumph, the
DOWNFALL aud the death OF the 'creole girl"
who became Empress of the French Ii was
there that Josephine presided ovcr the Con-
sular Court, and it was thither that she repair
ed on the 18th Of December, 1909, when the
divorce was promulgated at the Tuileries
which gave her place to the Austrian Arch
duchess. There, too, Josephine died in MAY,
1914, while Napoleon was at Elba; and when
the conqueror himself was defeated at Water
loo, it was to Malmaison that he repaired.
amid disaster and desolation. The property
called Petite Malmason is luckily In good
hands. 1t is the summer seat Of the Count
de Bar, brother Of the ex-King Of Naples and
Ot his Countess. The new OQpnnapfc ~
place has refurnished it in First Empire style
and has paid particular attention to the gard
den, in which Josephine used to amuse herself
by planting flowers or pruning leaves. IN
this garden Is still extant the gate through
which Napoleon passed when he left Nal
maison for ever on his way to Rochef9rt, In
order to give himself up to the English and
to embark for st. Helena.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
BETTER OFF THAN HIS NEIGHBORS.
Fruit, Candy and Luxury for a Pen
obscot County Pauper.
Matters Discussed by the Governor
and Council Yesterday.
Secretary Gilbert Tells Of the
Troubles of Maine Farmers.
Especial to the Press

AUGUSTA, Oct 17.-Governor Marble was
asked today in regard to his statement
that the State pauper law was greatly
abused. In illustration be produced bill
for pauper support from Penobscot county
town, which is wonder. 1t purports to be
for supplies furnished one man from June 81
to September 8, only little more than two
months, and amounts to $143.O9. Among the
several hundred articles enumerated are
many which are simply ridiculous, and many
which may be classed as luxuries, and would
not be purchased by one prudent family in
fifty. Among them are such articles as
Magic oil, oranges, candy, nuts, canned SAL
mon, under vests, knife, fish hooks, bird
seed, insect powder, castor oil, electric oil,
Lewis's Elixir, carbolic acid, rod irons, kid
boots and wash board. Fruit, confection-
cry and patent medicines appear very fire.
quently, and were evidently wanted often by
this State pauper.
This, the Governor said, was a sample of
the bills sent in for the State to pay, and he
did not propose to draw warrants for the
payment of them or to be party to such
frauds. Many of these of late have been cut
down, and there has been more or less
grumbling. But it is hardly reasonable to
expect that the States paupers are to live
better than the average citizen, and town of
icials will do well to bear this in mind and
make the expenses of these people reason
able
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

the farmers" everywhere, upon the active
Democratic organization to "knife" Cleve-
land in Rochester, upon the ''smash-up" Of
the Democrats in Steuben county, and the
great mistake" of Cleveland in raising the
tariff issue. 1t was remarkable despatch to
appear on the editorial page of a Cleveland
paper, and caused CONSERVATION in the ranks
Of the Democracy. 1t is no secret that Mr..
Bennett, who has recently returned home,
has sent out private and trusted agent to
make canvass of this State. The despatch
that he received and printed is the result of
this agents careful observation. Ii confirms
the result of the canvass of the State made
by representatives Of both the Democratic
and Republican State committees. 1t con-
firms the impression that is now widespread
and deepening every day that there is abso-
lutely no doubt that the ELECTORAL vote of
this State will be cast for Harrison and
Morton
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

solute distress prevailed everywhere. A
minister was living in one room with his
wife and two small children. One of the
latter was wrapped up in crib, in order to
keep warm, and the other was shivering
with cold and emaciated with hunger.
There was no fuel with the exception of a
the families have TO burn, and the only thing
they had to eat was a dry crust of bread. Mr..
Horpman says the frost which came in Au-
gust destroyed all of the wheat that there
was, as well as all vegetables.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

Judging by the way the mails are bungled in
this State of Maine, this intelligent carrier
has several second cousins on duty here.
Delays and miscarriages OF mail matter,
scarcely known under the Republican regime
have become numerous and aggravating to
an unbearable degree. what are you going
to do about it?" is the stereotyped reply to
for competent officials, high and low, and
we'll get them too
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Commercial mountaineers.

PLYMOUTH, n. a., Oct. 1.-THE annual
reunion and banquet of the commercial tray-
ellers was held in the parlors of the Pemige-
wasset House this evening. They organized
a White Mountain commercial travelling
mems association. Frank Cressev of Bos-
ton, is president; Harry Leslie, j. Ii. DOW
and M. Barry, vice presidents; and George
Sanders of Laconia, secretary and treasurer
The executive committee is Frank Cressey
of Boston, Ed. Blake of Centre Harbor. A
Fl. Hook and E. w. Soburn of Portland. and
j. j. Bartlett of Concord.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
JOY IN UNION.
The Town Votes to Co Into Railroad
Building.
Especial to tile Press. !


RocKLAND, Oct. 1.-THE citizens of
Union, at a town meeting this afternoon,
voted 244 to SS in favor of loanlng the credit
of the town to its legal limit of $4,000 to aid
in the construction of railroad from Union
to the Knox & Lincoln road at Warren
Mitchell q SpoffOrd, railroad contractors,
now building the Lime Rock road at Rock
land, have offered to build the road for S4l,-
00e, equip it and have it in running order
next season, and this action of the town is
the first step to meet that offer. The pro-
moters of the road have held frequent meet
ings, and the result of the town meeting is a
great victory for them. The vote was greet
ed with the widest expressions of delight.
Guns were fired, church bells rung, and to-
night the houses were Illuminated. Measures
will be Immediately taken to raise the re-
naming $4,000 Warren Hills was modera-
tor of the meeting, and l. c. Thurston, F. f..
Littlehale and E. l.. Thompson were ap-
pointed committee to contract for building
the road
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Terrible pestItution.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct I'm. j.
Horpman of this city, who was commission
ed to investigate the condition of the farmers
in Ramsey, Oak, who were reported to be
starving to death, returned last night. He
says there are 70 families who are absolutely
destitute of food and fuel, and something
must be done Immediately. The real condi-
tion of the people is beyond description.
Men, women and children are in rags, and
they have not a cent of money. Their crops
were totally destroyed, and their land, stock
and farm implements are mortgaged. Alb
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Chicago Citizens Indignant

CHICAGO, Oct. 17-Mayor Baldenweck
and committee Of Lake View citizens
waited on President Yerkes this afternoon
and made plea that the company carry out
the settlement as generally understood by
giving the old men full Employment instead
of three-ffths of the time. Yerkes emphati-
cally refused. An indignation meeting of
the residents of the North Side and Lake
View was held at the Sherman House. and
the 300 gentlemen present organized pro-
tectlve association A petition from the ex-
strikers was taken under advisement asking
aid in compelling Yerkes to carry out the
strike agreement. A new man named John
Smith had his jaw broken this afternoon by
mob and was otherwise seriously hurt.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
BASE BALL.
For the Worlds Championship.
ST. LOUIS. 8; VIEW YonKs. 0.

SA' LOSlo, o. NEW 1Ofths, "
The st. Louis turned the tables on the
league champions and whitewashed them in
the presence Of 1000 persons at New York
yesterday. Kelly umpired behind the bat
and Gaffney at bases. The Browns out
batted the giants and punched their hits In
the last inning, earning two runs. Chamber
lain was trihe unsteady in the opening
inning but pulled himself together and was
very effective. He was hit much harder than
the score shows, but the st. Louis felders
lay out pretty far for long hits. Ewing got
ratified in the second inning but afterwards
caught finely The score:
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
The Potato Crop.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct 17.-There will
be fair average crop of potatoes in New
Englands according to the New England
Homestead. The yield is below the average
in New York. and there is not a full crop
at the West. Rot is doing much damage to
the late crop in the East. Prices range from
80 to 60 cents. A considerable increase in
acreage is reported in the Provinces. The
crop in Great Britain and Europe is very
short. The Homestead thinks gradual adj
vance to 70 cents per bushel at Boston and
New York probable. Ii advises selling
steadily in small lots.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
State Pistol Shoot.
Burglary at Mechanic Falls.
Especial to the Press. ]

MECHANIC FALLS, Oct. 1.-THE store and
bakery of William c. Bridge was entered
last night and about one hundred dollars
worth of goods taken. The thieves gained
entrance by sliding back window, and af-
ter gaining admittance to shed cut hole
in the door large enough to thrust their hands
through and lift the latch of the door in the
main store. The goods taken were cigars,
fruit, bakers goods and silver ware.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
A Maine Boy Ruined by Love Of Fine
Clothes

lAugusta despatch to Boston Globe.l
The young defaulter, Bosworth, treasurer
oil the Stafford mill at Fall River, is an Au.
gusta boy, whose father, Richard T. Bos.
worth, was for many years prominent Gus.
tom tailor here, and who, owing to i'll health
closed UP his business and went to Califor-
MA; MA; Where he died short time after. sal
was an extremely dapper little fellow, and
Ior some Tour years was a clerk in the dry
goods house Of +. & II. c.. Brick. He was
noted Tor his love Of fine clothes and was one
OF the most exquisite young men in the city.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Not Up IN Their Po IisIoaI Du'Ies.

lGardiner Home Journal
capt. Collins. Pilot Baker, Steward Dun
puy' ana We do not know but some of the
o'n' oflcers of the Star Of the East. never
voted at Presidential election having al
ways been away from home on election dav.
aol me ooat being in Boston Tuesdays, they
eaahot vote In Maine very conveniently. but
~ ~ .ney are about equally divided in politics,
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
MAcKENzIE's WORK.
The Times Says sir MoreII Did His
Share of the Cutting.

LONDON, Oct. 16.-The Times devotes an
entire page to an impartial review Of both
DR.. Mackenzie's book and the report of the
German physicians on the illness of the late
Emperor Frederick, and after calm dissec-
tion of both decides that Maekenzieis shown
to have applied the knife in the treatment of
the Kaiser's throat oftener than did his Ger
man colleagues. The prolongation of the
unfortunate controversy does not help Mac
kenzie, except in the increase of the sale of
his book, but on the contrary swells the al
ready large number of persons who believe
that he has permitted himself to make state
ments which the circumstances do not justi-
fy and whose absolute accuracy he cannot
prove. 1t is understood that the New York
Herald agreed to pay e400 for the exclusive
use of the extracts from the book published
in the Paris edition, but it is believed that it
will now decline to pay the sum, on the
ground that the prior publication of the mat
ter In the Medical Journal was violation of
agreement. Schidrowitz, the London agent
CT the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, who is
generally believed to have furnished the un-
authorized extracts from the book, is also the
correspondent of the Berlin Tagblatt, which
paper published the extracts simultaneously
with its, Vienna and Paris contemporaries on
Friday last
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

A despatch from Beyier, Missouri. says
that the coal miners strike in that town will
probably end without further bloodshed.
Last evening the operators and miners com
mittee announced themselves ready to arbi-
trate. They met and the operators offered
slight advance, about one-thiTd OF the de-
mand made by the miners. The indications
are that the proposition will be accepted.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
Races at Mystic.

BOSTON, Oct. 17.-At Mystic Park today,
the 2'2S race was won by Gratz. with r. M.
Wilkes second The 2.34 class, for purse
of $500, was won by r. d. f.. with Cheyele-
to second time, 2.291. The 2.22 race. for a
purse OF $500, was won by Alex Boy, with
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
The Engineers, Brotherhood.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1.-THE Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers began its an
nual convention here today with 397 dele
gates. Mayor Ellison delivered an address
Of welcome and Governor Lee extended a
greeting in behalf of the State Chief Ar
thur delivered his annual address Thirty
two new divisions were established the past
year. The membership is now $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

.Tiernan hit with batted ball Mccarthy de-
clared out.
Earned runs-st Louis, 2. Two base hits
Milligan p stolen bases-Tlernan q Richard
son COnnor White. First base on balls Waite
Robinson 2 Tiernan, Richardson, COnnOr FtrSt
base on errors-New York 1. Struck Out-Ewing
Lyons p White. Double plays Robinson WHITE
COmiskey. Passed balls Ewing L. Mnliean 4 :
Wild pitehes-Chamberlain /. Umpires1Kellv
and Gaffney. Time-1 hour and As minutes.
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18

In the competitive examination in Con
gresham Milliken's district for the cadet
ship appointment at West Point, Otho w. b.
Farr, Of Oakland, was the successful eandi-
Vile Classical Institute last summer, passed
a successful examination and was admitted
to the freshman class Of Colby University.
He is II years of age and a young man OF
more than ordinary ability. He will attend
one year at Colby aud will then go to West
Point
The Portland daily press., 1888-10-18
TIme to Remove ouarantlne.

DECATUR. Ala, Oct II There were on
ly two new new cases in the last 20 hours and
no deaths. One case is dangerous. State
Health Officer Cochran says al the quaran-
tine In North Alabama should be removed.