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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28
Review of Trade,

NEW YORK, Jan. OR. G. Dun
& Co., in their weekly review, say :,
Business throughout the country is
rather quiet, even for the season.
Fairly active jobbing trade is report
ed at several points where wholesale
business is distinctly dull, and pre-,
vailing feature seems to be indispo-
sition to take quantities in view of
the unusual uncertainties in many
markets caused by strikes. by specu-,
lation, and by legislative speculation
deliberations.
Collections are fairly satisfactory
at nearly all points and money gen.
orally is in fair supply, though rath-
er close at Denver and Cleveland.
Though actual deliveries of anthra-
cites are larger than for the same
weeks last year, operators and re-
tailers vie with each other in putting
up prices. Poverty of miners causes
a serious apprehension among trad
ers, who remember that their losses
after the strike of 1875 were three
fourths of their account. But for &C.
tivity in ship, bridge and car build
ing, the iron trade would be less
hopeful. The Thomas Company has
sold No, 2 boundary for pipe at SIT.
and sales of 10000 tons of rails are
reported, but prices do not change.
In wool, the little improvement re-
Gently seen has vanished and the
market favors buyers again. The
demand for wooden goods is moder-
ate, but more frequent inquiry gives
hope, and the range of prices, is, on
the whole, but little below those of
last year.
Nearly all the speculative markets
have been weak. Stocks weaken in
spite of large reported railway earn
ings and an advance of 10 per cent in
east bound rail rates. The Reading
strike and reported liquidation of a
pool in the stock have caused some
decline, and in other stocks the alb
sence of any public demand is felt,
The average price is $3.50 per share
lower than week ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28
legislature Notes.

In the House bill has been intro
duced to reimburse Garrett county
for an installment of the State school
tax withheld in 1887, and authorizes
the comptroller to apportion the in
stallment known as the April INSTALL
ment for 1888, being the apportion-
ment made to that county on the 18th
of March in each year. Delegate
Friend, who introduced the bill, ex-
planned that Garrett county was not
asking for an appropriation, but the
apportionment that was already due
the county. Garrett county. he said
had paid her proportion of the State
school tax into the State treasury,
and was EMIT led to her share of the
school fund. The county, he said,
was poor on account of having built
her courthouse, Jail and new school
buildings had become involved, and
was unable to keep her schools open
seven and a-half months, as required
by law.
Rev, DR.. Charles Baldwin, of
Washington. and Rev. John M.
Davis, of Oakland, were at Annapo.
lis Friday of last week. in the inter-
est of the Mountain Lake Park AS
ISOLATION, of Garrett county, of which
Mr.. DAVIS is the Superintendent.
Two bills were given in charge of
Senator Browning. One of them
provides for municipal incorporation
of the town of Mountain Lake Park,
and to exempt certain property from
taxation on the ground that it is used
for religious purposes the other
smends the charter of the association
so as to change the time for election
of Stockholders from September to
July.
Senator Browning was robbed of
his twenty-five dollars worth of
postage stamps during the weekly
recess.
From the information at hand the
bills before the Legislature affecting
this county, in addition to those al
ready noted are as follows:
To appoint county treasurer. By
whom the appointment is to be made
we are not Informed. but take it as
a matter of course that it will be by
the Governor, which is the only way
to insure the appointment of a Dem.
ocrat.
To provide for the appointment of
school commissioners by the Govern
or. The bills to reduce the
fees of sheriff and States At
torney will have passed both houses
by the time this paper is issued.
We do not know the provisions of
these bills. nor of the bills in relation
to the compensation of Surveyor
and Court Crier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28
PrOpagating and Protecting Fish.

Fish Commissioners G.. w. De-
lawder and E, w. Humphreys make
an elaborate report for the year ended
December 81, 1887. They say their
principal work is in the propagation
of shad, rock, perch and herring
though brook trout and German carp
are largely Matched and freely dis
tributed throughout the State. Be-
sides Druid Hill Park for trout and
locked salmon and carp, three other
hatcheries are kept up for the other
sorts of fish and located respectively
on Tuckahoe river, Caroline county,
on the Nanticoke river, and on the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

Wicomico at Salisbury. The report
claims that the work'of the Commits
sion is no longer experimental, but a
necessity. But for this work the
shad would be unknown in our wa
tiers. The commissioners think it is
surprising that any st1sd ever reach
ed the spawning grounds. consider
ering the great number of and i'm
proved methods of catching them,
beginning at the mouth of the bay
and continuing. to. the head thereof,
and on every yiYer OF she Eastern
and Western Shores. They say that
in spite of these numerous enemies
the numbers Of skad have largely in.
creased, as is evidenced by the great
er numbers caught every year, and
that the numbers Of roe&6sh and
perch caught have also largely in
creased, AS for the herring, they
have been 80 numerous that acres Of
them were stranded on the Eats of
the Susquehanna, and that it was
not profitable to catch them. The
commissioners ascribe all this to the
work of the fish commission and es-
innate the product of the fish taken
every year in our watesat 81. 100000
annually. Without artificial aid
every species of fish that run up the
rivers would in a few years disappear
entirely. The report complains of
the large increaselof fish traps, pound
nets or fykes, and recommends that
the size of meshes in nets should be
regulated by law; that the sale of
small perch and rockf5h should be
prohibited in the markets /; that all
fishing should be prohibited on Sat-
urday sand Sundays of each week
during the months of April and Mays,
that more efectiys protection should.
be adopted for the upper Potomac,
where Wardens should be appointed
to destroy all fish pots and other de-
vices of the sort placed in the river.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

The estimates, as made at Yank-
town of the loss of life throughout
the Territory of Dakota by the biz
card figure up over 1000. The coun-
ties where the casualties were the
largest are Bonhomme, 100 !; Hut
Crimson, IA; Lincoln. 10; Beadle, %;
Sphinx, 70; Hand, 10; Ward, 10. The
northern and central parts of the
Territory have not been heard from
fully.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

There is a regular stampede of
Georgia colored people in the direc-
tion of Athens, Atlanta and other
cities where the free school system
prevails. Many farmers are being
deserted by every hand. and one
farmer in Oglethorne county, who
runs forty plows, has not a colored
hand to-day on his farm. the last one
having left for Athens. Whole neigh
borhOods have been deserted by the
blacks, and every shanty in the cor
porate limits of Athens swarms with
half-starved colored people. There
is nothing in Athens for them to do,
there being more men than there is
work or room for. The farmers say
that they would not listen to PROPOSE
tions looking to contracts for another
year, but intend all to- move to towns
where their children can be sent to
school the year round without any
money,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

Additional names of victims of the
late storm are received each day, and
the number so far known to have
persisted is 237. South Dakota shows
the longest list, North Dakota being
apparently outside of the storm belt.
and the number of fatalities there be-
ing comparatively few. What will
be revealed by the melting of the
snow no one can tell.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

Clergyman's Wife lat an evening
party)-I am glad to see, my. dear,
that you do not dance.
Omaha Maid-I am afraid to.
"Yes, indeed; 1 wouldn't take
such risk for anything. When did
you determine to stop?"
"When l found my hustle was
loose"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28
SATURDAY, JAN. %. 1888.

The Women's Christian Temper.
ance Union is securing signers to a
petetion praying the removal of the
internal revenue tax on whisKey,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28

Old lady VERY much shocked);
Little boys, what are you playing
shiny for on the Sabbath day ?"
Little boys "We're playin' fer fl
cents a game"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
The WRECK AT MARANocooK.
Damage Not AS Heavy as at First
Supposed.

WINTHROP, Nov. 27.-Two wrecking trains
with large crews are today clearing away the
debris of the wreck of the freight tlain,
which shot into Lake Maranocook yesterday,
as rapidly as possible. Waves from the lake
are washing the track upon the east side,
while the west side is overfowed, making it
dstficut to work.
More will be saved from the wreck than at
first expected. The cars were not much
damaged and have been pulled back upon
the track with the freight uninjured. The
cars loaded with hay and leather were all
saved. The shingles floating about in the
water have been sold to local dealer, taken
as they are. Many of them will be saved. A
car of starch was injured but it is not known
to what extent. A car of pulp may be spoil
ed while one of canned corn will be partially
saued- The four forward cars were thrown
completely into the lake and are valueless.
Much of the miscellaneous freight however
will be saved All of it which went into the
water is more or less injured, but not entire
ly spoiled. The damage to the engine is not
known as 1t still lies under water. A rail
penetrated the fire box, but may not have en-
tered the boiler. 1t is impossible TO estimate
the entire damage.
are expected to be running tomorrow.
The employees who were injured are as COM
Portable this morning as could be expected.
The point at which the wreck occurred, al
though not dangerous, is. peculiar. On the
northeast side of the track is thelbroad lake.
A northeast wind such as yesterdays gets
long sweep and when blowing gale kicks
up quite sea. On the west side is small
extension of the lake. When the water is
high, during the spring freshets and the
heavy rains of the fall, It often reaches up
to the rails and sometimes even entirely
covers them. There is nc current whatever
aud consequently the roadbed is not in much
danger. But Sunday nights storm was so
severe that the action OF the waves weaken
ed the foundation of the track and thus the
wreck was caused.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
a RAILROAD TRUST.
Comprising Lines from Chicago to
the Rocky Mountains.

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-The morning papers
say the object of the conferences at New
York for several weeks past. between Jay
Gould, c. P. Huntington, Charles Francis
Adams, w. b. Strong, Chairman Midgeley,
of the Southwestern Railroad Association,
and other railroad magpates interested in
Western railroads, is the formation of gil
gantic railroad trust, comprising all the
roads between points west of Chicago and
Milwaukee on the east, st. Paul and Mime
apolis on the north; Colorado, New Mexico
and Wyoming on the west, and Arkansas on
the south. All existing freight and passen-
ger associations, with the association named,
will be abolished and merged in new trust
There will be an executive board of three to
manage the affairs of the scheme. 1t is un-
derstood that the chairman will be Mr..
Midgely, who, under the terms of the agree
ment, will be greater man than Commits
sioner Fink, virtually having full control of
the management as far as Office affairs are
concerned, Of all the roads between Chicago
and the Rocky Mountains.
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-In reference to the
reports from Chicago that big scheme was
on foot to form vast railroad pool west of
that city, Mr.. Depew today said, that story
has probably only existed In somebody's i'm
agination. | hadn't heard of it BEFORE"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
FROM BoAT TO BOAT.
A Scramble for Life in the Darkness
Over Sinking Canal Boats.


New YORK, Nov. 27.-The wrecking of the
tow of fifteen canal boats and barges in the
Lower Bay early Sunday morning, proves, as
additional facts come to light, to have been
even more wild and disastrous scene than
was at irst supposed. 1t is little less than
miracle that no lives were lost. d. c. Chase,
the superintendent of the Delaware a. Rari-
tan Canal Steam Towing Company, who was
on the tug Bordentown when the disaster
occurred. gave reporter. last night lively
description of the scene, in which he said:
when we started from Perth Amboy, the
tug Bordentown had in tow 10 canal boats,
tall loaded with cOsl except two, which were
loaded with wheat. On the boats were their
captains, many of whom had theii wives and
children with them. The tugs Willie and
Winnie were assisting. and we were making
for New York. When we passe out of the
Kills the weather was favorable, and as the
Mabel, with a tow of hoats was steaming
away TO New York just ahead of us, we
Thought we could iall0w. But we were sad
ly mistaken, for while tic Mabel just escap-
ed the storm, 1t struck us with its tull fury.
We had heen out only few minutes when
the sea began to rise. The violence of the
wind and the fury of the waves increased.
"The boats crashed together with terrific
force, and IT was impossible to control them.
Then one Of the ''hawser-boats" of the Bor-
dentown went down, and this left the barges
almost completely at the mercy of the waves,
with the storm rising every moment The
one hawser left was of little use and it was
not long before the whole tow was broken
up. The violence with which the barges
struck together was too much for them to
stand, and as two would strike together the
captain and his family would jump in the
darkness from the sinking boats to the 9TH
ers, and thus made their way from barge to
barge until finally they reached tug The
tugs had all they could do to save the lives
of the people, without paying much attention
to the barges. BY the time all the captains
with their wives and children had reached
the tugs, nearly every barge had sunk or
tent of the disaster yet, for the storm is still
violent and the tugs are looking up the miss
ing barges 1t is almost another blizzard
down the bay"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
ANXIETY FOR the PILOTS.
Fears In New York for the Safety of
the Ocean Guides.

New YORK. Nov 27.-The venturesome
little tugs that usually defy any storm
Rugged the piers closely yesterday, and
wherever the contrary was the case and they
undertook to do any towing they had to give
1t up, as the water, even in the harbor, was
too rough. The police boat Patrol had steam
up all day. and lay at Pier A, ready to re
spond to any call for help that she could get
The only intimation, however, of vessel in
distress was received about 8 o'clock, when
the tug Leonard Richards, of Jersey City,
came up from the lower bay and said that a
schooner was flying signals of distress on
the Outer Middle" just off Sandy Hook
As the Patrol is wooden side-wheel steam
er, built for smooth water, and as the waves
where the schooner lay were running moun-
tains high, the police boat remained at Pier
A. The captain of the Richards said that
the unknown schooner seemed to be all
right, and probably only flew her signals to
get tOwed in, as she feared that in the gale
she Nigh drag her anchors. But no tug ven
tured out to her.
About noon the schooner Robert Myham,
from Bristol for this city, was towed through
He'll Gate by tug of the Chapman Wreck
ing Company. The vessel went ashore dur
ing the heavy blow on Lloyd's Neck. Her
cargo was seriously damaged and the vessel
somewhat injured.
Much anxiety is felt at the office of the pi-
lot commissioners in Burling slip lest some
of the little pilot boats now out should be
lost. Two of these boats were lost in the
great blizzard of March II. The West India
steamer Prinz Friedrich Heinrich, bearing
advices from Hayti, is among the vessels
now several days overdue at this port.
Today IL is hoped to have communication
restored with the lookout at Sandy Hook by
way of Philadelphia, and something may
be heard of the vessels due, which may have
been blown out to sea by the gale The in
coming transatlantic passenger steamers due
here yesterday which will experience the full
fury of the storm are the Gallia and Arizona,
from Liverpool; the Egyptian Monarch and
terdam; and the Anchoria, from Glasgow
Besides these, the Ailsa, from Port Limon
is also off the bar somewhere.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28

sons were picked up in the streets unable to
make their way against the storm.
The steamer PomeTanian, bound for Liver
pool, which was stuck at Sorel, by the aid of
four tugs, made an attempt an reach Quebec
Sunday She got as far as Batiscan, 85 miles
this side OF Quebec, where she anchored for
the night. Yesterday morning not only the
steamship. but the tugs too, were frozen in
She will not get through this season. Her
bows are badly cut by the ice, and she may
become total loss. The Allan Steamship
Company, who own her, will lose more than
S300,000.
At Quebec the iron ferTyboats that ply be-
tween that point and Point Lewis were
caught In the ice, which threatened to crush
them. The steamship Polna, bound from
against the gale and ice in the gulf off Fame
Point, 800 miles below Quebec, at daylight
yesterday morning. She suddenly disap-
peared; and has not been seen since. There
are fears that she has been lost. She had 40
passengers, crew OF 80, and a general car
easterly gales, and the Gulf packed with ice.
A similar report comes from River Du L0up
So miles below Quebec. A telegram says
that a schooner commanded by Capt. Owing
ton, bound up by the Saguenay, was caught
lives ee II The sD schooner r. Tremblay. % M bound
for Mile Vaches, is ashore, and If not cut
to pieces by the ice will be smashed by the
rocks: Point Magnereau signal static n
reported brig caught in the
ice, powerless in the gale, and
flying signals of distress. Telegraph wires
are down everywhere, and all railroads are
badly blocked. At Newcastle six schooners
were caught and crushed in the ice, and a
similar fate overlook ten vessels at Chatham.
Five vessels were caught opposite Quebec.
They are expected to be crushed before
morning.
The steamer Powerful. while on her way
from Boucherville, Saturday, was caught in
the gale near Nelson's Island and was driven
ashore. The night was piercingly cold and
men and horses were nearly frozen. Sun
day was also spent on board, and it was on
ly yesterday forenoon that their plight was
discovered. The steamer Longueull ran out
from the south shore, but the men, more
than half dead. had to pay an extra tlre be-
fore the captain would take them ashore.
When the Longueull was returning to the
south shore she, too, was caught In the ice
and several of the blades of her propeller
were smashed,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
THE DEATH OF MULvERHILLs VICTIM.
Jurors Find 1t Caused by Blows on
the Head.
The roung'AssaiIant to be Arraigned
for Mans,aushter,
And then Probably Examined as to
His Sanity.
Especial to the Press,


AUGUSTA, Nov. 27-An autopsy was held
on the remains Of c. A. Luce, the man who
died Monday of the effects of a blow from
young Mulverhill's fist, this morning. 1t
was ascertained that death was caused by
the bursting of small vein which lay be-
hind the eye, it being ruptured by the blow
This afternoon the coroner's jury completed
their inquest Frank Hart, Charles Ras
musser, A. B. Murry, w. A. Bolton, John
Mckay and Dan Sheehan, who were pres
ent and saw the assault at the town landing
Sunday forenoon, testified substantially
alike as to the manner in which the assault
was made. Mulverhill claimed that Luce
had annoyed his mother and wanted to fight.
Hart tried to drive him off and Luce said to
let him come. Hart, who was holding Null
verhill, let go OF him and he struck Luce,
who fell back and sac down upon a rock,
when the boy struch him again a heavy
blow and kicked at, but did not hit him.
The boy was intoxicated. DIR. q. w. Mar
tin, who made the autopsy, testified that the
skull was not fractured. The blow in the
eye might, or might not have ruptured the
vein. There were evidences of blow back
of the ear, and this might have burst the
blood vessel. DIR. Scott Hill, who was also
at the autopsy, said death resulted from the
pressing Of the blood clot against the brain.
The vein, he thought, was ruptured by the
blow upon the eye. The jury rendered a
verdict tonight, that Charles A. Luce came
to his death about the hour of p. m. on
Monday, the 26th day of November, A. ID. 1888,
from injuries received from blows inflicted
upon the head and face of said deceased,
either by the fist or foot, or both, by John
Mulverhill, rupturing the right ophthalmic
vein of thead, causing the formation of a
blood clot upon the brain, causing death as
above stated.
Mulverhill will be arragned for man
slaughter tomorrow, his counsel being Heath
q Tuell. He will be tried at the December
term of court, and the defence will be insan-
ity, as he is a rattle-headed boy, and his
father died in the Insane Hospital. 1t is
likely that he will be placed in the hospital
for observation as to his mental condition.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
on the Kennebec.

BATH, Nov. 27.-The rain broke up the ice
near the ice houses ON the Kennebec, and
liberated five schooners which were frozen
in Friday and Saturday. The vessels did
not stop to finish loading, but made for this
city with as much ice as they happened to
have iu, and with this will proceed south on
the return of pleasant weather. The gale
along the Maine coast, near Bath, was the
worst known for many years. Monday af-
ternoon the state of the coast was telephOned
to the officers of the ''Star of the East,''
with a warning not to think of leaving Bath
gentleman who rode up TO the mouth of
the river Monday afternoon, said that the
waves and breakers were enormous, and
Pond Island a small island about mile and
a half from the shore, and this statement is
corroborated by the intelligence telephoned
from Port Popham