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The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

general government in 1885. The original
act imposing the direct tax levied the tax
upon land, but authorized the states to as
sumo 1t and collect it and credited states so
doing with 10 per cent of the amount as
sessed for collecting it, 1t is urged that the
money will never get back into the pockets
of the landholders who paid it in increased
local taxes in 1862. This seems to be con-
sideration wholly without the question at
issue. When the direct tax was assessed
portion only of the states paid it, the dis
loyal states refusing to bear their share. The
states that paid their money into contribu-
ton that turned out not to be general, very
properly want their money back if their
neighbors are to be relieved of their obliga-
lions. Whether the states will make good
use of the money will depend upon the people
of those states. They will be the rightful
possessors Of the money, and what they shall
do with it is not the business of Congress.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The desirability of becoming the winter
port for the shipments of the products of the
Northwest is apparent to many cities beside
Portland, and some of them are very much
alive to their own interests in the matter.
Montreal, for example. has a delegation of
citizens travelling through the Northwest
representing to the great shippers of that
region the advantages of Montreal as port
of shipment. This delegation were In Min
neapolis the other day and visited the great
Pilisbury Mills, which are now controlled
by an English syndicate. These mills grind
nine and half million bushels of wheat a
year, and ship one hundred and fifty cars
per day, Ono half of this goes abroad, and
the Montreal delegates were assured that If
they would provide the requisite facilities
they could get the trade eyond question.
The Montreal delegates are continuing their
pilgrimage to other cities aud other indus
tries. with the fixed determination of adding
to the export trade of their own city. Mon
treal is of course only summer port, and
can handle what traffic she may get only
half the year. But Portland is handy aud
might take care of 1t for the rest Of the time.
Our city is already handling much of the
winter business of Montreal
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
Oct. 81, 1889. Mr. Titon is in good health al
this date.

We can trace the decline of American women
more to Constipation than we can to Dyspepsia or
any other disease. Constipation Is recognized as
only habit, even if it Is Inherited
In many cases it is, and with the second genera.
ton it is disease, and the third brings death.in
infancy or youth in many cases, or ia mature life
we find the An9mic, then consumption follows
How can it be otherwise, when we know the
necessity of regular body? And If not so, the
composition generates gases that pass through the
blood aud body and weaken the blood, and il not
stopped blood poison generates, from which few
recover. Look among your young friends and see
how large the per cent. of Anamia we find COM
pared Nth the parents, and them with the grand
parents.
Beware of counterfeit preparations offered by
some druggists, paying larger profits When not
Kept by your druggist, deliver, free of expense
by express, @. y: ID. Remember all counterfe
preparations are Tonies not Foods, when Liquid
American Medical Associations as the OILY pure
condensed Liquid Food, free from insolubls
matter, known.
Any case of any disease that has not yielded to
medical treatment, we will carry, free OF expense
until cured or made better.
The Mass. registration Report Of 1881, shows
that the following diseases have increased since
1872;
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Juror Culver, who is generally supposed to
be responsible for the lenient verdict against
Dr. Cronin's murderers, called upon States
Attorney Longenecker the other day. His
reception was warm in one sense, but it was
far from cordial. Mr.. Longenecxer informed
him that he was either fool or dishonest.
charged him with maligning the States pros
ecutors and the States witnesses, and with
al poured out the walls of his wrath on the
jurors head SO lavishly that Mr.. Culver was
glad to beat vigorous retreat.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

For some time to come every case Of infiu-
enza which breaks out In this country will
be looked upon asthe advance guard of La
Grippe, the disease which has set all Europe
sneezing. New York has had several cases
which are viewed with suspicion, and now
Hartford, Conn.,, thinks that it harbors case
of La Grippe within Its limits. The sus-
pected cases may or may not be cases of the
European epidemic, but 1t is not at all prob
able that we shall escape modicum of the
sneezlng that Europeans have experienced
for some weeks past, unless the germ cannot
survive a salt water voyage. Fortunately
La Grippe is not dangerous disease. and so
we can view its coming with comparative
equanimity,
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS
AtchiSOR Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company.

In April last. we asked you to to intrust to
US your proxies, to be used at the annual
meeting OF the company in May. This re-
suited In change OF management, the intro
duction OF reforms and economies, and a fl.
nancial reorganization of the company that
has met general approval.
During the progress of this reorganization,
1t has been frequently suggested in the public
press and by numerous and large holders of
tne companys securities that 1t would give
greater stability to the reorganized company
II management committed to the success
ful working out of the plan of reOrganiza-
ton, and absolutely in the interest of the
property, could be secured for several years.
consulting our own inclination and con-
venience, we would prefer to leave the man
agement OF this good property to others but
we recognize the force of the suggestion and
the necessity of some such arrangement, and,
as many shareholders believe that great adj
vantages are likely to result to the holders of
all classes OF the company's securities from
such cooperation, we have consented to act
in the matter.
Holders Of Stock Of the Atrhisoa, Topeka
Santa Fe Railroad COMPANY may deliver
tneir certificates, assigned upon the back
In favor Of George G.. Magoun. Thomas Bar
ing, Oliver w. Peabody and John J. McCook
to the BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND
TRUST COMPANY, 81 Milk street. BOSTON,
subject to an agreement that the site 70 Sucn
Stock and the voting power thereon snalt ue
vested in our nOmineses or their successors,
also to be named by US, for ten years, or I'M
til July l. 1909. N, ,.s,,o s,o.,. r..
Certificates emitting M tpo ADVANTAGES bslong
inc to or growing out Of the deposited shares
and To the return Of like number of shares
when the term of the trust has expired, un
less the same shall be further extended by
the respective parties in interest.
Applications will be made to have tie
Trust Certificates above referred to listed
upon the New York, Boston and London
Stock Exchanges.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The question now agitating English socie-
ty is whether the late Robert Browning was
Jew. Some of the names in his family are
of Hebrew origin. and an uncle was en-
ployed by the Rothschilds in the days when
that firm generally employed none but men
of their own race. On the other hand, there
is strong authority to the effect that Brown
ing's family is English, of Dorsetshire
origin
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The Belfast Age seems inclined to favor
the adoption Of high license resolution by
the next Democratic State convention. 1t is
not so strenuously in favor of it, however
as was the same paper year and half ago
due probably to change of management.
An attempt. it will be remembered, was
made to adopt such resolution In the last
convention, but it failed ANONYMOUSLY.
That was in a presidential year, however,
when there was general reluctance to try
any experiments. 1t may be, therefore, that
next year an attempt of the kind will get
more support from the leaders of the party.
The rank and file from the rural districts are
pretty certain to defeat 1t.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE STRONG NEWSPAPER.
CAroaofOotr 1rtr,.ao

A newspaper is strong with the public
tions solely for public reasons and never for
private rewards. When the people come to
know that newspaper is printed to be
newspaper and not machine to get its pro-
prietors public offices or personal honors,
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The Vancouver World publishes an inter-
esting account of the mode of life of five hun
bred persons, residents of that city, who re-
side along the water front in floating cabins,
built upon scows or floats eight by ten feet'
or some of them little larger; and who exc
out living as best they can by picking up
odd jobs and by the fiotsam and jetsam of
the moment
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The Parnell Commission is about ready to
report. Since it was constituted, however,
public interest in 1t has greatly declined, and
whatever it says will probably attract little
attention When the Parnell letters were adj
mitted to be forgeries the only subject which
thepublic cared for its opinion upon dropped
out General disquisition on the state of
Ireland or the responsibility for its condition
long ago ceased to be interesting.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Chairman Cooley, of the interstate COM
merce Commission, has left Washington and
gone to Ann Arbor. he is very feeble. both
in body and mind, it is said. The suicide of
Gowen, with whom he was intimate and
with whom he lunched the last time the lat
ter was in the dining room Of the hotel
where the suicide occurred, greatly affected
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The relatives of the late Henry Ward
Beecher are very much dissatisfied with the
statue of him that is to be set up in Prospect
Park, Brooklyn. They say thatit bears but
faint resemblance 10 him, If any. That
would seem to be good ground for dissatis-
faction.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The strike in the Shaw shoe factories has
been settled, and both sides claim substan-
tial victory. tits to be hoped all are as well
satisfied as they profess to be, for then the
settlement is likely to be permanent.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The attempt to defeat Judge Brewers
confirmation, If any was made, did not
amount to much. He had plenty of votes to
snare
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The Republicans lost their quorum in the
House the other day, and the Democrats Inn
mediately resorted to filibustering The
performance is one that they take to as natu-
rally as the duck does to water.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 20.

We do not read anonymous letters and commp-
nlcations. The name and address Of the writer
are in all cases Indispensable not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith,
We cannot undertake TO return or preserye
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The New York Sun is busily engaged in
demonstrating that the Australian ballot
will slaughter the Democratic party That's
mot n bad recommendation for 1t.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Editor Grady's Boston speech seems to
have been thoroughly satisfactory to his
Atlanta friends, inasmuch as they are pre-
pairing to give him banquet in recognition
nf IN
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

1t is urged against the passage Of the
measure that the money will go into the
treasures of the states, and will probably
prove source os waste and corruption as In
the case of the money paid the states by the
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Mayor Hart of Boston is not cutting down
the poles of the electric light companies as
they are in New York, but he is cutting
down their prices.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

1t appears that the people of Aberdeen,
Mississippi, took deep umbrage at Secretary
Proctor's reply to the despatch of Mayor
Shakespeare of New Orleans, and proceeded
to relieve their feelings by hanging the au-
thor of ii in effigy. On the breast of the
dangling figure which represented the Secre-
tary was pinned placard with the inscrip-
ton, "Red Proctor, the Coward (Mr. Proc
tors Christian name being II, dfield). Next
morning lad named Fans cut the
rope and the efigy fell to the ground.
The subsequent occurrences are
thus narrated by an Abtrdeen man
(of Northern antecedents) In private
letter. forwarded by the st. Louis man who
received 1t to the Cleveland Leader:
The men who had hung the Secretary of War In
tngy took offense at his action, md one of them,
j. +. McDonal. armed himself with horsewhip,
and when Fans, the timer. came down at 12ni.,
Mcdonald assaulted him with The whip In the
most savage and brutal manner, administering
about eighty or hundred ticks on his back, head
and shoulders. The city marshal, +. K. Stewart
and Policeman Drake came mp, but the bystand-
ers caught and held them until the boy had been
whipped as much as he could stand, He was
ordered to leave the city at once. He is now at
the Tochudi Hotel, unable to go. There were
seAeral men from the North who witnessed the
affair. There are some good men here who do
not approve such conduct, but can do nothing
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
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least observant and most prosaic person can
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The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

The direct tax bill which Mr.. Cleveland
vetoed, has been introduced again and is
more than likely to pass this Congress. Under
1t the following amounts would come to New
Enuland.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
We are anxious 10 see il worse
case than the following of
ECZEMA

Mr. John G. Tilt0n OF Boston, whom many OF
you know, as he has been treated for Eczema for
the last nineteen years by sixty-three different
physicians of Philadelphia New York. and New
England. and continually growing worse From
January to July of SS1 he was covered from his
head to his feet with Eczema and was raw from
was unable to wear anything but sheet, hanging
loose from his neck. He was shedding in his bed
about one qnart of scales daily his legs and water
ordered Murdocks Liquid Food to be taken, four
teaspoonfuls each day, which he has done. In
flesh and water normal in color. He was able to
work. aod could walk four or five miles daily,
which before he had not been able to do ana he
Is still gaining in h. alth and strength. He never
had Eczema previous to being vaccinated.
ROStnn. Aup 1882.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Inc Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,
Edited, with Notes, by John Bigelow. This
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iul lie OF Franklin, told in his entertaining
way makes it exceedingly interesting to old
ana young. In its present new and beauti-
ful dress it is gift book worthy of the sea-
son. New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
$1.00)
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20


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The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20
AMUSE lkENTs,
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Glass in Dancing

III Eclair" will be taught on Friday Evening;
easily leorned by expelienc dancers 10 one les
son. decl Stf
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Each of these diseases can be traced to a want
of Nutrition that the system can utilize aud IL not
supplied death must follow.
Murdock's Liquid Food furnishes Nutrition free
from insoluble matter, Is Raw and Condensed, and
can be retained by any stomach See ESSAYS on
all of these diseases.
The Portland daily press., 1889-12-20

Again the mortality the last five years compared
with last years the increase has been In diseases
of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
TIE NEWS.

New and startling developments are
expected in the London triple murder
and suicide case. Sheriff Mitchell and
DIR. Blackmar, of Albert Lea, will start
for the Bohemian settlement at once.
1t is possible that Joseph, the murderer,
poisoned an old lady named Franciska
Kubiska 10 get her money.
Senator Washburn writes r. o. Swee-
ney, of Duluth, that he will do anything
in his power to further Duluth's sugges.
tons and wishes in connection with the
fish commission on Lake Superior.
The action of the state senate in re
ferring the bill creating an additional
Judge in the Duluth judicial. district is
severely criticised in Duluth.
J. G. Woolley, the temperance apostle
of Minneapolis, has commenced weeks
series of gospel meetings at Austin.
A lively contest is promised at the
coming city election at Anstin in March.
The Minnesota Ex-Postal Clerks AS.
sociation held a meeting at st. Paul SUM-
day in Sheriff Beams office. The asso-
cations purpose Is to put the postal SER
vice on an efficient basis and incidental
ly to have the present Minnesota super
intendent and his assistant ''fired." The
following executive committee was ap-
pointed: L. S. Bean, st. Paul; G. III.
Furman, Mankato; T. A. Jackson, Mn
neapolis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
DUR N~EIGHBORHO0D.
MAPLEToN, Feb. Is.

MAPLEToN, Feb. Is.
NJ 'pleton enjoyed a real treat Sunday.
Two boy preachers from Winnebago
Free Baptist College preached IN the
Baptist church here. Mr.. Basford and
Mr.. McColley. Mr.. Basford has preach
ed a few times before. His sermon in
the morning was good and was listened
TO with attention by a good audience.
Mr.. Chas. McColley, son of Mr.. AIonzo
McColley, of Delavan, preached his first
sermon in Medo in the afternoon and
his second here in the evening to a large
and appreciative congregation. His
headings were clear and well defined
and his manner of delivery very sympa-
thetIc, which bespeaks for him a grand
future in his chosen profession. They
preach here again in four weeks from
last Sunday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
.WAITING FOR THE XERpICrn

WAITING FOR THE VERDICT"
Is the title of a popular novel, and may
be interesting to read of, but is very uni
pleasant in practice. The judge and
court officers get weary waiting for the
jury to come In, but the strain comes
hardest on the prisoner at the bar, on
trial, it may be, for his life. Whether
he shall be free, suffer a long time in
prison walls, or take a leap into the great
unknown, depends on the verdict, and
he waits for it in such alternate hope
and fear as cannot be described. ''The
Burlington" has long since passed the
point of waiting for the verdict-that has
been rendered by the public, and is to
the effect that it has the smoothest track.
the finest equipment, makes the best
time, and Of right is the favorite route
North, South. East and West. For
maps, time tables, and any information
call on local agents or address w. j. c..
Kenyon, Gen. Pass. Agent, c. B. & N.
r. R., st. Paul, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
MINNESOTA EDITORS.
semi-Annual Meeting of North Star Quill
Drivers at st. Paul. L.


semi-Annual Meeting of North Star Quill
Drivers at st. Paul.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 21.-The Minnesota
Editorial association held its semi-annual
meeting at the chamber of commerce
yesterday morning. There were a
goodly number Of editors present from
all parts of the state. President Heat
wole called the meeting to order and de-
ivered q short address. Routine bust
ness was transacted, a legislative COM
mittee appointed, and resolution
adopted that 90 cents should be the price
for publishing delinquent tax lists.
Joel p. Heatwole was unanimously re-
elected president; L. p. Hunt, first vice
president; e. II. Dearth, OF the LIE Sueur
News, second vice president: @. F. Mac
donald, st. Cloud Times, third vice
president; g. 8. Pease, Anoka Union,
recording secretary; Maj. T. N. Newson,
corresponding secretary; ID. Ramaley,
treasurer: H. p. Hall, E. E. Adams,
Fergus Falls journal; T. e. Hoard.
Monticello, members Of the executive
committee.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22

TIE joint legislature committee on the
re-apportionment is considering its
thankless task The subject pondered
upon just now seems to be whether or
not the basis of the new districts should
be the vote of 1888 or of 1885. The SUBJ
committee report gives the average pop
ulation of a district, according to the
census of 1885, as %, 7S2, or based on the
vote at the last election as 1928; also
the average number of voters to each
senatorial district as 5,57S, and for each
representative district, 2,546. The esti-
mated population of the state is given as
1,2S4, 426, based on the vote of 1888, with
four as a multiple. With this estimate
of population and the present number
of both houses, the apportionment would
be one senator TO every 1928 of popu-
lation and representative to every l2,471.
There is a great deal of divergence OF
opinion on this matter of whether the
vote or census should be taken as a
basis. Mr.. Barr is quoted as saying: 81
think the change should be based on the
census figures. The membership Of the
senate should not be more than 80, and
of the house not more than no." The
proposition TO make the vote u basis is
certainly a new proposition and hardly
to be commended as satisfactory. Ac-
cording to this system of figuring Blue
Earth would be given 25,Ss4 population,
whereas in the census of 1885 we had
26,462. Taking the ub.committee's fig
ures we should have to import a few
more people to entitle us to two repre-
sentatiyes.