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Notes.

Senator Libby of Portland, occupied the
c'air of the Senate during portion of yes
terday's session.
Ono hundred and forty-eigtt is said to be
the number of Portland Capital movers in
this city Yesterday. There appeared to be a
belief among them that strong pull would
land the capital building in the Forest CITY.
The people who know most about the State
House have always regarded it as a pretty
substantial builcing constructed of the best
quality of granite. with an excellent water
-ystem, thoroughly heated by steam, lighted
with gas an electricity very we'll furnished
throughout snd in excellent repair
thought to be very good buildins in Iced.
There is no better pIumbed building in
Maine today, aud experienced builders who
hsv. examined it say that in no place has the
line masonry of its solid granite walls
started hair. The building is today bet.
ter one than it was when first erected, for it
has been improved every year and IL sup
pl ed with ma y modern convenience lii
today better capital building than
10 owned by any New Eng
land state with the exception of
Connecticut. If it 10 not large enough for
the requirements on it there is abundant
space in the rear Of it for an addition which
may oe maue a. smdil expense, and which
would provide ample space for all possible
purposes. Such an en- agreement would pro-
vide an excellent hall for the House of Rep
resentatives, plenty of room for the. State
library, and ezra committee rooms. All
these things have appeared to those who
have ,andidiy looked into this State capitol
question Ii r. NAMED for the capitol movers
from the Forest city to discover what a hor.
rible ''barn" the present capitol is; what
terrible miasmas prevade is
halls, what cruel winds whistle
through its corridors, how outrs geously
crowded is Offices are. how prejudicial
to health its atmosphere is. what an unsafe
structure it is. How many men must have
found within its walls the pestilential mi
crobes of horrible disease. and gone home
with shattered constitutions to lay them down
and die-in excruciatius agony. All these
things were, discovered within very few
minutes by these Portland visitors-indeed
their facility of EXPIRE ,sing it almost engen-
dered the belief that the various descriptive
superiatives had been manufactured for the
occasion some time in advance. Their vehe-
menee provoked many snils but Otherwise
no damage was done.
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Am e H. dor.
h ~ 10 oelock q night n teAnnsuU
anuannfz. vho occupy . room On ths sscond
npr 4 . Trurons sersse boarding house> noe
fnr from worcsseH arsst. were about TO ~
sarA rhey supposed he rap v0 uads y
sns school erisnd end accordingly shoussd:
.Coms in'
n door slowiy opsnsd and revealed ths
outlines Of Q gaunt figure IN whisA n fncs
vas xhassly paiA
n boys sprAng TO their fest Ihs dguEs
elidsd into the room. and faint voice gaspsd'
1Hsno, boyl"
Astounded. nonplused. almost speechle9
ths boys recognized the face and voice OF .
frisnd whom they supposed to b lying n bis
hons, q half dozen miles away. critically VI
with delirious fever,
us that you. -r
"Yea,- replied the weaker voica
How, for heavens sake, did you get In
here In that sarbT
well. boys hardly know. I'u Try to tell
ysu about IL" and he sunk into chair.
shivering with the cold They wrapped him
IN overcuatA, and be went on to say IN q cra1ed
sort Of . way that the last be remembered
w. dropping to slsepin hisowu bed At home
Suddenly be was awakened by something
striking him on the head. and BE- found him
self In . strange house. cropping about the
hallway In bis night robe
He heard voices He went down hight OF
Stair and listened at door
He recognized the voices They were thoss
Of friends at the Institute Hearing Them
BE- knew where be was and raped At the
door
But how did you get into the houseT
~ don't know have no recouection OF
anything more than ! have told YOU, and,
overcome with bis exertions, he sank back in
. sfupor. Tho boys apphed "hat res.ors'
nves they had a hand' and, bringing nun
partly 70 himself. they Clothed him IN gar
menn from their WARRIORS AND carried nun
home. he hved M houses away, IN tns
same block They walked nun up inc s'eps
and rang the bell Tho party was usnefeo
INTO the nas oy Ine servant anu 'ne'e 'ne
nvaiids motnef CONFRONTED nes son' whom
she supposed TO % lying asleep IN oeo up
stAiFA
The Technology boys explained a. far Is
they were able Inc amazed ana thoroughly
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A venerable white haired clergyman
in one Of the city churches recently
preached in Norristown. He had hardly
got home from the church before the
door bell rang and a charming girl Of 10
asked to see him. He received her. they
talked about the sermon and other thipps
until finally she asked diffidently:
. "Oh. won't you please give me a lock
Of your hairS'
Certainly. my child" said the old
gentleman. hattered at the request. IN
send it to you tomorrow" and he did.
On his return to the city he had five
more requests Of the same kind. and he
proudly boasted to his wife that he was
glad to see that he had not yet lost his
power to please. He declared his trim
had been most charming. and all went
well until his wife received this note:
my DEAR Mis-. K: Won't you please
AJAX your good husband to send me lust a
httie lock Of his hair? We have ali been
taking lessons In making hair flowers
So many Of the other girls asked him and
be sent 1t to them. but thought would
rather ask you to get il for me. Now.
wont you please do this for me. IL h m
hard to get white hair for Lilies Of the
valleyy
This was terrible blow, and the lea.
now said about locks Of hair in the mar.
ned gentleman's presence the better
Philadelphia Press.
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GARDINER,

The date for the masquerade ball in G. A.
R. Hall. in this city has been changed from
Feb. 20 to March 5.
The Knickerbocker Company is building o
large addition to its buildings IN Fsrminedale
The new house will hold 5000 tons, and will
increase the storage capacity of the houses
ct Farmingdale to IS 900 tons.
The music for the first evening of the Odd
Fellows fair will be furnished BY the Tosu,
orchestra of ls pieces.
The 4th of March has been selected n the
date for the nezt assembly in the course
given by the q. II. s. Seniors.
A valuable colt belonging to Fred Hsy.
mon, who resides on the Brunswick road had
4 shoulder broken. yesterday. DR.. Bailey
Of Portland vas sent for and arrived vesse,-
day afternoon.
Mrs Henry Z. Merfi m gives q I've o,cloch
tea Al her home on River avenue this After.
noon.
Some Of the benevolent ladies are dis
cussins the establishment of an Old Ladies
Home in this city.
Next Monday evening the Sons Of Temper
ance lodge in this city holds it seventeensh
annual anniversary.
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Now York Produce Market.

NV YORK, Feb. a.
FLOUR Receipts. 9.f65 packages; exports. ssaf
go City mill extra, t5 0sats rs: 1880 fine 81 IN
g %; 300 superine. o. sost3 IS extra No. p
- 5]ast IS, 500 winter wheat extra a. aoas3 rs
iotie Minnesota extra. q 3saes IS; Southern 6oui
du. barely steady: Ry. -four in mod.rat. demand
WHEAr-Receipfs. 500, exports, ~ 900: ssles
.pc quiet but steady; No. spring nominal lbs
No. hard, 10, Nc red, 80 w. elevator. q: fob'
white nominal, w. w. ""
RyE---dulI.
BARLEY firm and quiet
CosS-Receipts, n 800, exports, g. 80: sales 10.
oo'; dull and weak; steamer, 4ii: No. = IsisIas.
sfors and elevator, az delivered.
OATs-Receipts, ~ Doe, exports 200: saIes %
900; lower. Noa. 10 do white sois5i No. eo,xai1.
90 White. sais3sa: No. !. nominal: do white. 40:
Mixed western. 3iaa9. white do alaj0 ~
CoFFEEfair; Rio. dull, ia.
srGAR--dui, refined, dull
PETRoLEuN---steady, united. 81
PoRK--steady.
BEEY---quiet.
,LAhp.steany; western steam, o. s0ass Is:
e. =. .,, -, sfy steam, % 20. refined quoted
BurTEg--hrm, demand fair
call. !" '"erpoo'
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wAlrIW FER THE CAT TO DIE.

LAwyyi don't rickollect
That ere old swing In the lane!
Right and proper. I expect
Old times can't come back again;
But want to state, ef they
Could come back, and I could say
What my pick nd be, y jingl
I'd say: Gimme the old swing
Nunder the old locus trees
On the old place. ef you please.
Danglin' there with half shet eye,
Waitin' fer the cat to del
I'd say: Gimme the old gang
OF barefooted hungry. lean,
Or'n'ry boys you want 10 hang
When y0oFre growed up twicet a. meant
The old gynrden patch. the old
TnIants, and the stun we stoledi
The old stompin groun' where We
Wore the grass of. wild and free
Az the swoop Of the old swing.
Where We uset to climb and ing,
And twist roun'. and fight. and Ito
Waitin fer the cat to diel
Pears like most allus could
Swing the highest Of the crowd
Jes sail up there tel | stood
Downsde up. and screech out loud,
Ketch my breath. and Jes drap back
Fer 70 le, the old swing slack,
Yit my tow head dippIn' still
In the green boughs, and the chill
Up my backbone taperin' down.
With my shadller on the groun'
Slow and slower trailin' by
Waitin' fer the cat to diei
Now my daughters little James
Got kind O baby swing
On the porch. sos when Il rains
She kin play there-little thingi
And I'D limped out t'otber day
With my old cheer this away,
6wingin her and rockin'. TOO.
Thinkin' how INSET to do
Al her age. when suddenly.
Hey. gran pap" she says to me.
why you rock 30 Slow SaysL.
"waitin' fer the cat to de-
Jas. whitcomb Riley in Harper's Magazine
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Military Committee
Notes

There is only one thing lacking in the
doleful article in the Portland Press" rs.
marked q member yesterday.
What is that"
at fails to tell its readers that for
twentieth part of the sum necessary to erect
new building every one of the matters it
speaks of could be adequately provided for
by an addition to the present substantial
bull ling
And this appears to be the prevailing
opinion.
Photographs Of the Portland idea Of an
elegant new State House were circulated
among the members of the legislature yes
terday. 1t did not seem to meet with much
favor, however. 1t was modelled in front
very much after the present Capitol but was
q much homlier building, and compared with
the picture Of the present State House i'm
proved, which hangs over the Are place in
the office of the Secretary of State, it show.
up very poorly. When the time shall come
some years FROM now, for the Stat. to erec,
q new Capitol, it will be . far different look
ing structure from the one shown in that
photograph.
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New advertisements.

IRIS WANTED.-The Colchester Rubbe,
~ Company, offer situation- to f. males between
70 ana ~ years TO make rubber shoes; viii nay tho
board OF beginners and furnish piece work soon a.
instructed in six weeks, ditlgeni hand. IN carr
more than their board AMI g'aiuaiiy Increase until
cording to skifulness. Boarding houses orcupi,d
oy females, exclusively. kept in the very bes, man
nes, competent housekeeper-, pleasant locations:
FURNITURE, beds and carpets ar. entirely new An
plicaiions to GEORGE wATkINsUN, President.
iepou ."fR Colchester, Conn
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A Serious Case.
Old Doctor called in for consultation
Tut. tut! You'll worry yourself sicker
than your patient il you are not careful.
Don't be 30 anxious. 1t isn't good for
your health.
Young Doctor-But isn't my patient
dangerously ill7
He is. I told you three months ago
you could only prolong his life; he can't
be cured"
MY, myi Oh, myr'
Goodness me! The idea Of q doctor
allowing himself to worry that way over
ono case"
"Ahi But he's my only case. When
hs dies Ill starve. Philadelphia Record.
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Aailroaos 4 Steamboats,.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Arrangement of Trains ~ Effect
Dec. 81, 1883.


Cn'n further notice trains lcays Augusta as fol.
GOING WEST-6.2o A. M. for Lewiston. Rock
land Portland and Boston; sa5 A. NJ for Hal
lowell and Gardiner: l06 forLewistou, Far,
mington Rockland. Portland aud Boston; 200
7. u for flallowell and Gardiner; s.Os L. M
Tor Brunswick. Bath, Portland and Boston.
ioo r. NJ for Bath. Lewiston, and Portland; g. Is 4.
for Halloween and Gardiner, 10 So T.. VI. (night
fuiiman) for Lewiston, Portland and Boston, and
for Bath Saturdays only.
GOING EAST AIS A. NJ. (nisht expreas) for
Skowhegan, Bangor, Bar HarDor, st. Stephen
ST.; John and Aroostook County: 9So
A N. for waterviiie, skowhegan. Bangor and Green
VIE; $50 L. NJ. for Skowhegsn, Belfast, Dex-
ter, Bangor. st. Stephen, 81. John and ARGOS.
TOOK County; 7.<o 7. M. for Watervilc ON Satur-
days only.
The Night Pullman Trains run each vay every
night, Sundays included, but not TO Skuwhegau. on
MOn.al mo- ung-, vi to belfast and De Stpr or he
yond Bangor, on sunday mornings.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leave. ,ardtner f,,
Augusta at 745 A. NJ, 20 and 5.0sP ~ iiulIoxeit
al s'o2 A. M, Las and 5.2s /. n.
fKEiGhl TRAINS for Portland 7.cs A NJ, ana
l2ls T: NJ. for WateTyille asd y.,neeboro. Il. p
n. and 80 r. Nj; due froiu Boston, l2.2s and A. IL
N. and 1905 p. NJ. ' M
Through tickets to California and all points South
and West may be had of t.. II. " alker ticket agent
Augusta, the only office selling via all routes apo
cneoklnS baggage free Of expense.
PAYs0N TUCKER. GenI Manager.
y. u. BOOTHBY. GenI Pass and Ticket AIT.
Portland. Dec. "a. 1858.
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Ths rsmsdy against sors throat q vsrue
= NV threads Of Berlin wool around she
tafoas = hid 70 sct By kssping up belt Of
n. action aad - acsiag - cosnsr mi
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New York Money Market.

NEW YoRk. Feb. -.
Prime paper at 4 tod
Exchange, dull and weak
Government bonds, dull and steady.
Railroad bonds, fairly active firm
Ihe Following are the closing quotations of .,
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A Suggestion.
Time-During Q rest. }

Daubins-Find it pretty hard standing
on your head. don't you?
Model-Yes, sab Say. wouldn't it be
jes ez good TO 20 to paint me stan'in on
my feet, an den tu'n de picter ober
when 20 gits it done?-Harper's Weekly.
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unrestricted for the million 10 this suffrage
which we have the privilege of enj o, ing at
the present time. This bill provided, if he
understood it, that every name which has
been suggested by every party and by every
minority of 30 or more, shall be put upon the
ballot If the voter is not satisfied with any
of these half dozen or dozen candidates he is
at liberty 10 write on the ballot the names of
his choice. Perhaps the voter has not been
accustomed to writing to any great extent
As he law is at the present time, in the
secluslon of his own home he can take a
nallot furnished by the party or any other
piece of paper, and with plenty of time To
ascertain just how the names are written,
can make up his own vote as he sees ft
Under the proposed law, an
ignorant man goes into this secret
sEar chamber On a small scale, and there,
perhaps, for the first time, he has met with
with THIS terrible array of names of all kinds
ami blanks of all kinds and upon the spur of
the moment, because he may have come in
not understanding who the candidates in
his party were before, he must make up
his ballot out OF 20 or 80 or more names and
as many blanks. 1t Was his experience that
at every election men come up hurriedly
who are not able TO leave their work or the
teams they are driving, or the occupation in
which they are engaged and want to vote in
a hurry. What do they do? They can read
and write, but perhaps they are unable to
remember all the names of the candidates
He may be ID mocrst and he wants to vote
the straight Democratic ticket. What does
he do? Why he goes to some man that he
ne can trust and says. Here,
have you got straight Democratic
ticket. 1 can rely on you. Give me such .
ticket and will throw it." And such q man
that goes TO such q man, never is deceived.
A man mas 90 into one of these boxes with
one ballot and make mistake. Perhaps, in
the excitement of the moment, he may cross
the name of a man that he doesn't want to
vote for. He can get another ballot, and he
makes another mistake, and another, and af-
ter he has made three mistakes, and taken
three ballots, and ATTEMPTED, in the excite
meDt of the moment to get up such a ballot
As he wants. then he goes to the election
officer and asks for another ballot and is
told that he has exhausted the supply tn.
the State of Maine in its benefcence intended
ed for him to have. He
couldn't kave another ballot. He
must be denied the right Of suffrage.
If any change under the sun were neces-
sary, he would be in favor Of greater pub
hcttF ratuef taAh greatet stcrecy- Lei IL De
as public as the daylight. If man doesn't
dare to walk up to the polls. and At least
throw the ballot which has been
prepared by his political party, or by him.
self, or by his friend. right side down, why
then he had better be denied the right of
suffrage. GApplAuse.
Mr.. Fox of Porter spoke in advocacy of
the bill. and said that ihs great question with
him was whether this would purify our poll
teal system. He mentioned various editor
ials which he had perused favoring bills Sim
liar to this. He thought that bribery and
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Insult Tue maHHuou VI titt otaf " cause
they came there and demanded more lesi,ia-
ton and better enforcem ent of the existing
laws for the prohibition of the liquor Traffic,
nor that the women of this State, because
they ask for better laws for the promotion
of social purity, insult the manhood and in
telligence of the State. Speaking for his
young friends who signed the minority re-
port With him, he said that they believed
they could no better promote the interests OF
the state, that they could no better be true
To their convictions of duty than by urging
the passage of . bill similar TO this.
Ii was said that lis bill practically dis
franchises the ignorant, illiterate voter. Tn,
25th section of this bill provides that the
ignorant voter can call to his assistance one
of the sworn ballot clerks which represent
both of the great political parties to assls,
him in the preparation of his ballot. Is not
the ignorant and illiterate voter. then, better
protected under the proposed system than
under the present? Now such voter 10 u
great macy cases obtains his vote from one of
the paid "heelers" and in many cases such a
man casts a vote directly opposite TO that
which he intended and thus is practically
disfranchised. Again, under the operation
of this system in Australia and Eug-
land, the pride of the iliiterate
voter has been so stimulated that in maa,
cases he has learned TO sd and
write. In other words the proposed system
10 . premium upon Intelligence, while the
present system is a premium upon ignorance
Another objection TO this bills is that 1t is
complicated aud cumbersome. aai intricate
and difficult to understand, and that il is i'm
practicable. This system, he said, regulates
the election If over es 900 600 of men 1t
regulates the elections in Italy, Belgium, of
the various states in Australia, of Grea,
Britain. of the Dominion of Cam
ada, and of Wisconsin and Kentucky,
Is tar Is relates to the two
principal cities of those States, and was en-
acted by the last legislature of Massachu-
sets. 1t would not be commended that the
people of Maine are less intelligent than the
people of those countries and states. This
Law was enacted by the British Parliament,
BY the Liberal party, under the leadership of
MI. Gladstone. in 1870, and it was enacted
in spite Of the Bourbons, and the Tories of
Great Britain. That bill has been a law in
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
Mrs. Browns Trial.

MASON CITY, Ia, Jan. 26.-[Special Tele-
gram to THE BEE, THE jury in the now
famous Brown case was selected and
sworn in this morning. The Judge warned
the jury against reading m of the
trial in the newspapers, remarking that the
reading of these comments was like convers-
ing with the editor. The proceedings were
begun by County Attorney Clark read
ing the indictment charging her with
murder. and during the reading
the court room twas as still as the voice of
the dead" He outlined his case and stated
that the testimony of the state would be
mostly circumstantial, but that it would
be conclusive. Mr.. Cliggitt followed and
impassively related the story of the life of
the defendant, many being visibly affected.
When he referred to the aged father of Mrs.
Brown, who sat directly behind her, a truly
pitiable picture it presented. On speaking
OF the death of Jesse, the defendant for the
first time displayed emotion.
The court room has been thronged all day
long, many ladies being in attendance.
Henry Brown, the thirteen year-old son of
the defendant, was the first to testify. His
story was to the effect that he had been with
his brother all day. His grandfather was in
his room, and they did not see him in the
kitchen, where the poison was. He also
stated that he did not see his father go in the
house after they had returned from Putsy
until they all went in to get supper. Rats
into the cupboard,
Mrs. Hattie Brown, sisterin-law of the
defendant, said that the accused had told her
that she was living n two-sided life: was not
happy with Hiram; did not love HIM, and
that jim Anderson would make a good nus
band for some woman.
The court adjourned until Monday without
concluding her testimony.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
R~ARRIsoN's VISITORS.
An Alabama Delegation In the Inter-
est of the New south,

INpIANApoLls, Jan. 26-Another southern
delegation, this time from Alabama, called
upon General Harrison to-day. They came
to talk over the new south with the general,
and present him with a memorial.
They had q very pleasant converse
ton, and the general impressed unon
them that a great part of the work Of bring
ing a better order of things about in the
south depended upon the people there, and
that he would try as far as possible to give
them an administration that would help build
up the material Wealth of the country and
would endeavor TO put only the best men to
be found in Office, that 1t was with them to
organize among their younger class a party
of true Advancement on a basis Of protection
to American industry. lis understood that
they favor Malone for u cabinet position.
Amsng the callers were II. Z. Ferry, of
Utah John u. De Young, of the San Fran
CISCO Chronicle, and MIR. Emmerson, the
messenger of the Kansas electors.
MIR. Allison's expected visit tomorrow is
the occasion of u good deal of conjecture.
1t has generally been thought here
that Allison would be the next secretary of
the treasury, but this uisit, following so
closely on the trip of Clarkson east, Is
deemed very significant. II Clarkson
should go into the cabinet 1T would
be as postmaster general, or such is
the impression here. II is claimed by those
who are nearest General Harrison that he is
very anxious to have the Iowa senator in his
official family, and the outcome of the visit
will be watched for with a great deal OF in.
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