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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-24

Pennell's annual excursion from Saccarap-
pa took place yesterday and about 200 took
advantage of it. The party chose Peaks Island
for their destination, and visited the various
places of amusement to their hearts con-
tent.
The following are the late arrivals at the
Peaks Island House:
John T. Scott and wife, Boston: Miss C.
nj. WEIGH, Bath: Thomas Briggs and wife,
Portland; 5. b. Kelsey and wife, Portland
Mrs. G. 5. Harmon, Portland.
The Granite Spring Hotel, Long Island is
more popular than ever On the I'd of Sep
TENDER the Knights of the Golden Eagle to
the number Of at least 200 will take dinner
there. The knights were wise In deciding to
90 to the Granite Spring.
Seaside Lodge, 1. o. G. T. of South Port
land accompanied by the Juvenile Temple
went to Long Island yesterday on the Merry
coneag. There were about 100 in the party
and the affair was a success. eV9
WOrkmen are employed at Fort Gorges,
painting around the port holes red color. :
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-24
Weak and Weary

Describes the condition of many people debilitat-
ed by the warm weather, by disease, or overwork,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is just the medicine needed
to overcome, that tired feeling, to purify and
quicken the sluggish blood and restore the lost
appetite. II you need good medicine be sure to
try Hoods Sarsaparilla Z.
"My appetite was poor, could moot sleep, had
headache great DEAL pains in my back, my bow
els did not move regularly. Hoods Sarsaparilla
In short time did me so much good that feel
like new man. My pains and aches are relieved,
my appetite improved" GEORGE F. JACKSON,
Roxbury Station, Conn.
"My health was not very good for some months.
did not have much appetite, nor sleep well. I
also had frequent sick headaches, and had ne
ambition to do anything. was recommended TO
try Hoods Sarsaparila. And though have not
taken all of one bottle as yet, feel like new
person. highly recommend it to ALL" MRS. w.
A. TURNER, W. Hanover, Mass.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists 81 ; six for IS. Prepared
only by G. 1. HOOD s. CO., Apothecaries, Lowell,
Mass.
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ISLAM NOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There
Among the Gems Of Casco Bay.

The cottagers on Little Diamond have u
bright weekly paper, the Gumville Gossip.
which is edited turn and turn about.
Some original poetry has appeared in its
columns which has been very striking
The steamers of the Casco Bay line are so
pushed by work that time cannot be taken
for painting them and for making other nee
essary repairs. In consequence islanders
aud others were surprised to see man sit
ting in boatswain's chair, over the side of
the Cadet. calmly painting the hull and ap-
parently unconscious that the boat was NOV
ing.
The following will be the cast of dot,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-24

VIANTED-Gir for general homework, must
wv be able to cook, in family Of three. APP
ply at SO ST. LAWRENCE STREET. 2o-1
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TO LET.

1.-TWO nice tenements in house No. 153 Frank
Il lin street. House has been thoroughly re-
paired and newly painted and papered through
out. Win lease them to responsible party for
five years. Rents S23 per month. Apply to
au2Idtf CHAS. PERRY, P. o. Box 1918.
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LOST AND FOUND.

IL Hill street. pol
II OsT-Monday, Aug. 10, between High st.
IL and the Union Station, lady's Black Cloth
Jacket. The finder will be rewarded by leaving
it at 237 HIGH STREET. 2O-I
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ROOMS.

DOOMs TO LET-Pleasant, sunny, front
HI and back rooms, carpeted il wanted. on first
floor also two furnished rooms on second floor,
bath room connected. Address L., Press Onice.
Cpl
, 1889-03-07

There is a constant demand and a
growing necessity among our people
for residences. Our capitalists know
it and our builders are aware of the
fact, yet their knowledge does not in
fluence them to take any action to-
wards increasing the number of bus>
iness blocks or dwelling houses IN
the city. The absence of suitable
homes for people who want to settle
in Port Townsend tends largely to
keep people away. We believe that
if few of our wealthy men could be
prevailed upon to erect number OF
cottages that they could be rented
before they were finished, and at a
rental that would bring a handsome
return on the amount invested. Such
a step would not only add largely to
the comfort of the very many fami-
lies who are now obliged to live in
rooms, but would also add to the ap-
pearance of our city. This is of
course a matter of private enterprise
but the dwellings, would long remain
monument to the men who-we
might almost call it a.spirit of phil
snthropy-were prompted to build
them
, 1889-03-07

Brown cannet read, but she can
count money, and every month she
calls on her tenants and collects her
rents. She cannot understand the
modern system of banking, and has
no faith in banks. All her money
she keeps in the house in purses knit
by her own hands.
In the shed room of the little cot.
tage there is an old fashioned spin
ming wheel, and occasionally Aunt
Nancy spins a brooch, as she says, to
remind her of old times.
She cannot be induced to visit the
great industrial city which has grown
up where only few years ago she
saw tangled woods and corn fields.
She has been told of the wonderful
inventions of Morse and Edison, but
she refuses to believe the story. Some
years ago her son bought sewing
machine and presented it to her, but
she refused to touch it She rays
she lived happily many years with
out knowing anything about these
modern inventions and she does not
care to see them now. She will not
even allow q cooking stove in tho
house. Aunt Nancy says she wants
to live and die as people did ia the
good old times of long ago. She is
in excellent health and her eyesight
hearing and memory are unimpaired.
, 1889-03-07
DYNAMITE BOMBS FOR NAVAL
WARFARE.

Admiral David D. Porter. y. S. n,
in an article on THE Naval Wars of
the Future" in the February num-
ber Of the North American Rerie,u,
says of dynamite:
Here is new element that has
not been used in battle. but there is
little doubt from experiments made
IN this country with the Graydon
shell against iron turrets, that a new
aspect will be given to futue wars
by the use of this powerful explosive.
The value Of the Graydon shell has
been demonstrated by experiments
that should satisfy the most skepti-
cal Perhaps two or three small yes
sells. each armed with one long range
dynamite shell gun, will soon be able
to destroy the largest armor clad of
the present day."
A target, in every respect like
turret built of steel of the heaviest
proportion used on monitors, was set
up at long range. The gun used was
a seYen-inch Ames wrought iron
muzzle loading rifle weighing twenty
three thousand pounds, and the
charge of powder was twenty-three
pounds. The projectile was of steel,
open at the rear and closed by a
bronze plug; its weight being one
hundred and twenty-five pounds, and
the charge OF dynamite exploded be-
ing but two and two-thirds pounds.
The first shell struck the target a
glancing shot, not point on shot.
as was desired TO tell the penetration
but it exploded with great violence,
lifting off the roof of the turret, and
breaking seveA bolts, each one and
three-feurths inches in diameter.
used to bolt the plates together at
the front and rear, and five bolts
three and one-fourth inches each in
addition. 1t also made a crack ten
inches long in the first plate and
eighteen inches long in the rear.
these plates were seven inches thick
Of tested steel. The wreckage was
almost complete. The roof of the
turret, which weighs thirty thousand
nine hundred pounds, being torn off
aud blown twenty-five feet in the
rear by actual measurement.
Ii glancing shot with only two
and two-thirds pounds of dynamite
can produce such an effect on a tur-
ret, what would point blank shot
from a Zalinski gun effect on the
broadside of an ironclad with bomb
containing 200 pounds of dynamite?
1t would simply knock the heaviest
armor-clad vessel Of the day all to
pieces; it would anuihilate her.
The knowledge that forts to be con-
structed at Point Wilson, Admiralty
Head and Marrowstone Point have
each battery of dynamite project-
lies will be sufficient to keep an ene-
my's feet at a respectful distance.
We could, to use Admiral Porter's
words, ''infiict on an enemy so much
damage that it would not be worth
while for any one to meddle with US"
With this new and powerful adiunct
our coasts could could speedily be
rendered impregnable and enable US
to keep an enemy at bay while We
our navy to be on the ag-
gressiye. The Samoan difficulty
, 1889-03-07

naval forces and to have induced
both parties to vote liberal appropri.
ations to increase the navy and forti-
fy our coasts.
Admiral Porter, who is the chief
authority on naval affairs, thinks that
dynamite will be the chief factor in
the wars of the future. He says:
1T may possibly be that Americans,
who are at present so far in the rear
in naval matters, will, ere long, come
to the front with inventions which
will give them the supremity."
When the entrance to Admiralty
Inlet is fortified, as it will be, and
the naval station be placed IN
this bay, with the proposed canal to
connect with Oak Bay, we can have
a collection of the combined military
forces of the United States which
will make this the Gibralter of the
northwest.
, 1889-03-07
THE STATE CONVENTION.

In our judgment it would be wise
for our citizens to begin to agitate
the question, who shall represent US
in the convention to form our state
constitution It is not necessary to
wait until the last moment, and then,
without due deliberation, select the
men that are to represent US. Let
the discussion of the competency of
our most able men begin at once. In
selecting the delegates we do not
think that the question, whether they
are Republicans or Democrats
should be considered. The one ques.
ton of vital importance is, are the
men qualified to give US a constitu-
ton such as our needs requirei No
man should 60 to the convention
trammeled by partizan ideas. A
delegate who will permit his politi-
cal creed to influence him in the for
nation Of our constitution, is untitled
to remain a member of decent COM
munity. We have, or least we should
have, one paramount object in view,
and that-the aggrandisement and
welfare of the future State of Wash
ington.
Let no petty spites or iealousies
weigh with our leading men, but let
all strive to make a constitution that
will be an honor and glory to the
name we bear.
, 1889-03-07
THE MAILS.

Ne hope that the new administra-
ton will listen to the cry from all the
lower Sound of the outrageous neg
lset OF duty that has continued at
the Seattle postoffice these many
ysars; ever since the distributing Of
fee Was removed from Tacoma. The
air has been full of complaints day
and night, but nothing is done. The
southern mail from California and
Oregon, and the Tacoma mail which
is Of particular Importance to our
merchants, is often delayed from 3 to
5 days. Letters of Importance mailed
at Tacoma for Port Townsend which
should be delivered here is twelve
hours are often six days in the tram
sit, and our merchants are forced to
use the express at an extra cost.
Now all this could easily be rectified
by having our mail made up at Ia
coma as it used to be. This would
relieve the Seattle Office which is
oTercrowded with work which causes
this deleay. There are large num-
ber of subscribers in this city for the
Daily Oregonian; sometimes it Genes
and often is delayed. Yesterday the
mail brought last Thursdays papers,
and letters a week old. We hope the
Oregcnian and the Tacoma papers
will join US in urging on the postal
department to have the California,
Oregon and Tacoma mail for Port
Townsend put in mail bag at Taco
ma and sent through to Port Town
send direct Our business relations
with Portland and Tacoma which are
Increasing demand that we should
have this request granted when it
san so easily be done without extra
cost to the government.
, 1889-03-07

President Cleveland attended by
CockrelI, followed by Senator Cul-
lum. Private Secretary Halford, at
tended by Gen. George B Williams,
brought up the rear While the
procession was moving through the
corridors, Senator Edmunds met Mr.
Cleveland and greeted him with great
cordiality. Reed of Maine also e1-
changed pleasant salutations with
the retiring chief:executive.
Deafening cheers and demonstra
tions of applause again greeted the
party as they descended the senate
steps, and continued until they were
seated in their carriages and took
their places in the procession, which
Immediately began to move.
, 1889-03-07
THE NAVY.

The Haytian and Samoan compli- |
cations have directed attention to /
the American navy, and impaired a |
powerful impulse toward increasing |
lis efficiency. The work of substtu-
ting a modern feet for the antiquated
wooden ships was undertaken by the
last Republican administration.
Strenuous opposition was encoun-
tered from Democratic enconomists
in the house and meagre approprla-
tions were voted, by which four Ves-
sells of moderate size and fair speed
were authorized. When the Demo
cratic administration succeeded to
power in 1885, these four vessels
were disparged. and a partisan at
tempt was made to discredit every
one who had anything to do with
them. The Republican minority IN
the house might have retaliated if 1t
had been unpatriotic. 1t might have
opposed appropriations for new yes
sells as the Democratic leaders had
done when IN minority.
The record of the last four years
shows that the Republicans on every
occasion favored the most liberal pro-
visions for the reconstruction of the
navy. Indeed, as Mr.. Boutelle re-
marked in his spirited speech the
other day, the minority has sought
to go beyond the lead of the majority
in promoting the speedy restoration
of the naval supremacy of the United
States. Recent occurrences these
words, coming as they do, from
man born in the South, may sound
harsh. Nevertheless they are true.
To still further emphasize his
meaning, MIR. Hanson said: Il new
er intend to vote for any man to fill
any Federal position who does not
represent what / believe to be sound
Federal politics touching all ques-
tlons affecting the prosperity, the
power and the glory Of the country"
This representative Southerner
clearly sets forth in his speech the
purposes of the solid South, or rath-
er the ruling whites. 1t is their aim
to reduce, if possible, the duties from
imports below the prospective point
and to permanently establish the in
famous system of internal revenue
Mr.. Hanson frankly admits that such
programme, if carried out, would
be as ruinous to the South as to the
North. II the race question could
only be put to one side he believes
many moro Southerners would take
the ground he does and bodily sup
port the Republican party. bat race
prejudice have made towards of
those who believe in protection, and
the free traders continue to misrep-
resent even manufacturing districts
| of the industrial South.
, 1889-03-07
Edison On Aerial Navigation.

In connection With aerial nsyigs-
ton recall conversation which I
had one evening with Mr. Edissn.
L do not remember his exact words,
but his idea is submitted. He be-
ieved that the time would come
when transportation through the air
would be the order OF things in that
line. Many persons in talking OF
this sort of transportation and the
erroneous notion that an air ship, or
car, or whatever it would be, must 20
up u mile or more. This was nos
necessary. If it were no higher than
ths ordinary building that would
suffice.
when the time comes for it 70 b
put IN operation" he said, There
will be q drawback to it, and that 10
the ease which it will afford Grimm
ais in making their escape iron
whatsver point their crime was eUms
mitted. There will be no danger Of
their being Intercepted by wire 81 ID
the case now. 1t may be that sans
science which will give us this sors Oh
navigation will provide something "
SO by which criminals, who maks
their escape through the aiE, VII "
overtaken. But this will take hns
In my opinion when We shall Es's
aerial navigation We shall see m0fs
crime. Chicago EdiL
, 1889-03-07

Several letters from visitors to
Port Townsend have been received
at the ARGUS Office concerning wharf
age charges on trunks or ordinary
hand-baggage taken from the steam
er and remaining on the wharf for
even few minutes. We have now
a letter from passenger on the
Edith who also showed US bill for
wharfage on five trunks amounting
to seventy-fiye cents. We also met
in restaurant the other day a gen.
tleman who was paying an express
man for bringing to the hotel two
small sample cases, about the
size of an ordinary satchel, the
wharfage bill on the two cases was
fifty cents, and they had been on the
wharf about three hours; probably
not so long as that. This may be a
source of considerable revenue to the
owners of the wharf, but is it wise
thing to impose such a tax upon the
people who come here to visit their
friends, or who come to transact bus-
iness with our merchants? The ed
iJor of the ARGUS does not pretend to
see further through a milestone than
the average man, but, through his
spectacIes this wharfage charge on
personal baggage removed from the
wharf within twenty-four hours is
the matter little bit too
far, and the custom will tend to keep
travellers away from the
city or 10 force them to take a boat
that will land ut n wharf wbers fhara
, 1889-03-07
SAUGUKATIoN DAY IN PORT TOWN
SEND.

Yesterday, March 4th, was the in
auguration of the president of the
United States and the new officers of
Jefferson couAty. In honor of the
former, the flags of the United States
and the foreign consurs were dis
played on the various flag stats in
town, and in honor Of the latter Capt
Tibbals constructed rustic chair and
bower OF madrone and cedar boughs
and Oregon grape and tea vine, which
hs placed in front of the Y. NJ. c. A,
reading aad coffee rooms, corner of
Adams and Washington streets, and
all the new county officers came over
from the court house and took their
seats in Tibbars bower. and the
special oaths of office, for this occa-
sion only, were administered by
Judge Whittlesey, the retiring pro-
bate Judge. Capt. Delgardno,
Wreckmaster. was the first who took
his seat in the rustic chair although
some thought he should have been
the last so that he could have wrecked
the bower after the ceremonies where
concluded. Then the auditor, treas
urer, probate judge, chairman of the
county commissions, sheriff and con-
stable, all listened to the eloquent re-
marks Of Judge Whittlesey and were
duly installed into office. 4 vote
of thanks were gwen to Capt. Tib-
balls for his patriotic work. Inaug-
aration day will be remembered as a
time when all party rancour was laid
aside, and republicans and democrats
Joined in a hearty recognition of the
day when the president of the United
States was installed into his high
Office.
, 1889-03-07
ALWAYS DRESSED IN CALICO.
Eocentricitics of an Alabama Cen
tenarian.
Birmingham tAia., Con-. N. Y. Sun.

Birmingham lAiz., Con- n. Y Sun
Over on Browns hill, in the East
ern suburbs of the city, in little
log cottage, lives Aunt Nancy Brown.
Aunt Nancy, as the neighbors call
her. will be 100 years old on March
9th. In this little cottage Aunt
Nancy has lived for almost fifty-fve
years, and like its owner, the little
cottage is beginning to look very old
Standing in the door of this cottage
by day smoke can be seen curling
slowly upward from a dozen great
furnace stacks. the shriaking of the
whistles and the rumble and roar of
countless locomotives can be heard,
and at night electric lights and the
glare of furnaces ani coke ovens
light up the heavens; but Aunt
Nancy has never seen a railroad train
or furnace. For fifteen years she
has not been four blocks from her
home. 4 dummy railroad to one of
the parks passes the house OILY a
block away, and occasionally she will
walk to the door and see q train pass.
but she cannet be induced to go any
nearer. In all the 100 years of her
existence she has never been in a
carriage, or even buggy. Aunt
Nancy owns some valuable property
and has al income of several thou
sand year, but she lives in the style
of three-quarters of century sgo.
She has never worn a dress made of
finer fabric than calico, and has never
engaged the services OF a dress-
maker. Nine yards of calico is all
she will put into a dress. declaring
that more than that quantity would
be a waste of material
Mrs. Brown was born in South
Carolina on March s, 1859. She
married when about 20 years of age.
and soon afterward removed with her
husband to Georgia. About fifty
gve years ago they came to Alabama
and settled at the place where she
now lives Her husband secured 16O
acres of land from the Government
by homestead entry. When the city
OF Birmingham was founded by the
Elyton Land Company in 1870 Mrs.
Brown sold all the land except four
acres to that company. Her husband
had then been dead several years,
and her family consisted of a maiden
daughter and a married son, who is |
now nearly 10 years of age. After a |
few years. when property became
Mrs. Brown sold several |
lots, and with the money built houses
on the lots which she retained. From
.hese houses she derives an income
'f several thousand dollars year.
She would not consent to give up the
, 1889-03-07
Easily Suited.

Landlady-"Does ths turkey suit
you, MIR. McGinniss7" Boardsr-"u
is excellent, Mrs Hashwell. do be.
lieye that cook of yours could roast
side of sole-leatheruBd make it ten
der and palatable That is Feeling
confusedly that he has mads blum.
derj, I mean, of course tender enough
for me. I'm not-ab-at all partis-
ular you knowssI eaa-er-worry
down any kind of cooking. Mrs.
Hashwell." Landlady tciiyl-"Tbsnk
You, MIR. McGinnis."--C Chicago Tri.
buae.
, 1889-03-07

During the past few days our bus
mess men have been called upon by
the proprietors of a paper whose
every edition is boom one. A pa
per which is born and dies with its
first number and with a circulation
dependent entirely upon the number
of copies which the advertiser would
agree to take. The proprietors of
the paper came here for no other
purpose than to get what they could,
not caring whether the ADVERTISE
ment which they managed to get
from a man did him any good or not.
They agreed to furnish write up for
SO much money and there were
enough of our business men pat
ronized it to fill about nineteen col
umns of the sheet and the price
charged was about the same as that
charged by the ARGUS, paper read
through out the county and mailed
to subscribers in every state and ter
ritory in the union except Texas and
Utah, aud yet when our solicitor
called upon several of the people
who advertised in this boom e? sheet,
be was informed that they could
not afford to give him an add.
This, we presume, is their idea of
supporting a home paper. When
the present management took hold
of this paper. every business man
whom We talked with promised his
support, and from that time they
have generously given ito outside
papers. We have met number of
people who tell us If We "will only
print the kilograms every thing will
be lovely" If the advertisers pa
tronize the tramp newspapers. as
they have, we agree with them in
saying, ''every thing will be lovely" !"
but not for the paper that contains
the kilograms without advertise
ments; it would not take very long
to put the publishers of that paper
sin the soup" Patronize the home
papers and you will have less occa-
sion to complain of their columns
being dull. Remember that it takes
money TO run any business, and a
newspaper is no exception.