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Ladies' at the Polls.

ROCHESTER,, N. H., March 12.-The annu-
al town election today elected II. NJ. Kelley
and George i. Hayes, selectmen; F. l.
Chesley, clerk; G. ID. Newell, treasurer; F..
l. Decatur, collector. All are Republicans.
There was no choice for third selectman
Ladies were present at the polls the entire
day.
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wilson Holds over.

WHEELING. w. Va, March i2.-The Su-
preme Court of West Virginia this morning
decided in the Goff Wilson gubernatorial
case that Gov. Wilson is entitled to hold ov-
er until such time as the contest between
Fleming and GOtf shall have been settled.
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soldiers Monument.

The executive committee of the Soldiers
Monument Association received yesterday
from Mr.. Simmons photograph of the
model representing the army, which is to
form portion Of the monument. The COM
mittee are much pleased with the design. but
will recommend few small changes.
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Forty-two Drowned.

MADRID, March 12.-The government has
received despaches announcing the loss Of
the steamer Remus, which had a Spanish
military expedition on board. The vessel
was wrecked of the Philippine Islands.
Fortv-two persons were drownded and i2T
qavad
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Marching 70 the Coast.

BERLIN, March 12.--Private letters re-
ceived here from Zanzibar say that Stanley.
according 20 native reports. is marching rap
dly toward the east coast OF Africa.
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WASHINGTON, March l2.-Senators, Frye,
Dawes, Hlscock. Davis, Morgan. Butler and
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SPRING BIRDS, SPRING FLOWERS
SPRING MUSIC.

Are just at hand.
MUSICAL SOCIETIES and Choirs do well who
round off the season with the practice of CANTA-
TAs or Glee Collections.
Among the many good Cantatas, we publish
Thayer's Herbert and EIsa, Csc, 1912 doz
Romberg's song of the Bell, (6oc, S5.4o doz
Bucks l6rh Psalm, Isl 90, $500 per doz.)
Rutte. fields BeIshazzar, (s1.00, 5000 doz.)
Andertsn's Wreck of the Hesperus, (35 cts.
$x.7b d0Z.)
Bucks Don Munio, (S1.4o, $3.50 per doz)
Trowb' idge's Heroes of ,76, Isl, SO per doz.)
Hodges Rebecca, (65 cts, 5000 per doz)
Andrews' nth and Boaz, (65 cts, 5000 doz)
School COMMITTEES. Supednisndents and Teachers
cannot do better than adopt our NeD, Tried and
true school Music Books.
Emerson's Song Manual, (Bk. 1, 80 cts. So
aoz. Bk 2, 40 cts, s4.2o doz. Blk. 3, so cts $3.50
ooz) thoroughly good graded series. United
voices, 100 cts, $3.50 doz.) Good School Songs
song Hai mony, 6oc, $500 doz.) For High
ocnoos. chiidren's School Songs, (35 cts,
$3.50 doz0 Charming boolsfor younger classes,
ana many Others. ANY book mailed post free for
retail price.
Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston.
MARI eTsT 90,
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BRUNSWICK, March 12.-Rev. George +.
jenkins of Bowdoinham, has accepted a
call from the Baptist church in Topsham, to
begin May 1st.
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PALPATION OF THE HEART.

Persons who suffer from occasional palpitation
OF the heart are often unaware that they are the
victims OF heart disease, and liable to die with
out warning. They should Danish this alarming
symptom. and cure the disease by using DIR.
FLNT's REMEDY. Mack Drug Co.. N. Y.
mars eod1 stp1y
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THE WEATh Err.

THE WEATHER.
SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR Dept,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March II, 1889, pm.
Indications for the next "a hours for New
England are fair weather, followed Wednes-
day night by colder southwesterly winds
GtcAL WEATHER REPORT.
PORTLAND, Me-, March ~, 1885,
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Fire at Waterford.

NORWAY. March 12.-The buildings of
George w. Tracy at North Waterford,
burned today; loss 500; insured for $500
The cause is unknown. The furniture was
mostly saved.
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Mean daily ther....32.5 Max. vel. wind..... IL
Maximum ther....46.1 Total precip.... %
Minimum ther POP
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
March IL, 1889, 8.OOsP. NJ
Observations taken at the same moment OF time
at all stations
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[coNTINUED ON FOURTH PAeE.l
The Republican., 1889-03-02
Divorces in England.

1t is customary to throw stones at
the United States for the numerous
divorces which take place among its
people, but statistics show that the
percentage of divorces in England is
growing with alarming rapidity. Since
the Divorce act was adopted by Parlia-
ment, thirty years ago, there have
been no fewer than 1902 suits brought
under it; and in 7.295-more than half
the court has put asunder those
whom the church has joined together.
The showing is worse still when the
three decades of divorce are compared
with each other. In the first, 1858 to
1867, there were 2,1S9 applications for
divorce. In the second, 1868 to 1877,
there were 1922, an increase of so per
cent. In the third, 1873 to 1887. there
were 4,761, an increase of about rs per
cent. In the next decade the increase
will be, say the lawyers. fully 100 per
cent.-Toronto Mail.
The Republican., 1889-03-02
Kissing Under the Mistletoe.

Respecting the question of kissing
under the mistletoe, a correspondent
writes to London Notes and Queries:
"One would suppose, from the part
played by the mistletoe in Scandinavian
mythology, that this custom was COM
mon to all northern peoples. Baldur
was slain by u mistletoe dart at the in
stigation of Loki, and in reparation for
the injury the plant was afterward ded-
icated to his mother, Frigg, so long as
it did not touch earth. Lo!zi's empire.
On this account it is hung from the
ceilings of houses. and the kiss given
under it signifies that it is no longer
an instrument of mischief. The fetes
held in commemoration of the sacred
mistletoe survived in some parts OF
France into tho sixteenth century.
The plant was credited with many
talismanic properties, and its festival
attracted immense gatherings OF peo-
ple." ........... .4,
The Republican., 1889-03-02

quIvered and the tears sparkled into
her eyes.
IL am very sorry." said she.
"Will you forgive me?"
And then and there the feud was
made up. Isabel went to the CORN
husking that night with Dick Linfield,
to Miss Deals immense amazement-
and just six months aftesxxrd they
were married.
"Our tastes are so similar, your see."
said Isabel to Miss Crutchett the viii
lage gossip. 1--WE are both so fond of
flowers - and poetry - and and -
cdtsr ..
And when they returned home after
their unpretentious little holiday trip
they found Jet purring on the hearth
stone. Y. Ledger.
The Republican., 1889-03-02
A Model Philanthropist.

1t was one Of Joseph w. Drexel's
greatest pleasures to secretly help
the poor. His philanthropy was not
warped by narrow prejudices, and
he would not refuse to open his purse
even at the appeal of an ex-crininal.
Indeed, he even went so far as to en-
ploy Il man who was once clergyman
in this city to visit the police courts
and take the addresses of thosewho
had been sent TO prison for stealing.
Then he would have the case investi-
gated, and if he found that poverty
had been the means of driving the man
or woman-to crime he would be
especially generous and considerate.
Many unfortunate families were debt
ors to his charity, and he has helped
many, who would otherwise have been
wholly destitute. to honest employ
ment and comfortable homes. His pet
philanthropy was his 200-acre farm at
Plainfeld, N. j., where he kept, fed
and clothed a number OF frien1less and
penniless tramps. If they turned out
well ne transferred them-"promoted
them" as he would jocosely remark
to his fine Maryland estate, where he
would put them in way to acquire
farms for themselves. He spent prob.
ably $4,000. am told, in his scheme
to establish fve-cent lunch-counters.-
N. Y. Star. ....t. ......s
The Republican., 1889-03-02
A FATHERS vow.
" Just One Glass" Nearly Cost His Little
Boys Life.

Just One Glass" Nearly Cost His Little
Boys Life.
A rush OF little feet, and the kitchen
door is flung open. Get me ready
quick. mamma! Papa's going to take a
load of wheat to town, and says may
go with him."
A pretty picture the child made to
the loving mothers eye as she helped
him to dress for his ride. Small for
his age, six years, with laughing blue
eyes and sunny hair. which still hung
in ringlets on his shoulders, Harry
Golden was the pride and joy of his
mothers life. And since the death OF
her little girl, several months before.
the mother-heart and mother-love
seemed to inclose him more and
more, until she felt she could scarce
Iy trust her boy, her only one, from
her sight.
Clarence Golden, his father. was a
farmer, and since his boyhood days,
when he had "sown his wild eats, he
had been victim of intemperance.
lime after time had he tried to free
himself from the coils he felt gradu-
ally tightening themselves around
him, and time after time had he failed.
Sometimes months would pass in
which he would not touch q drop of
liquor. Yet all the time the craving
for stimulants was gnawing like very
demon within him, until it would be-
come so strong that he would fall un-
der it, only to rise from the depths Of
remorse and despair, and try again.
He often took his little boy with him on
his trips to the neighboring city where
he went to sell his farm produce, in the
hope that it would be a help to keep
him out of bad company and the saloons.
1t was with fear and trembling that
the mother saw her boy depart,
perched high upon the load beside his
father. Yet why should she have any
uneasiuess? Had he not returned to
her safely many times before? And it
had now been almost four months
since Clarence had drank. He surely
would take good care of his little boy.
Pc haps, who knows, he would never
drink again. Had he not sworn most
solemnIy never to touch another drop?
Alas! but the thought that not once,
but many times, had he SO sworn.
would intrude itself, and she must be
more than human, loving wife though
she was. not to let the thought trouble
her. For we'll she knew where her
husbands weakness lay. He pointed
to other men, respected by all, many
of them being church members, who
were moderate drinkers, and said: ''lf
they can drink glass of liquor once
in awhile, why can't Ip There's Dea-
con Brown, whom every one respects,
I've seen him walk up to the bar and
call for drink, as if it was not the
first time, either"
Slowly the hours crept by to the
anxious wife and mother. But now it
is almost time they were home. She
sets the supper table with unusual
care, putting thereon the little dain-
ties she knows will please her loved
ones, and placing by her own the little
high chair. She glances again at the
clock. 1t is surely time they were
home. Perhaps she can hear the
wagon coming. She listens, no sound
greets her ear. Something must have
happened to detain them. She tries
to reassure herself with the thought
vet in vain, for her heart is filled with
J forebodings of evil te .-..&
The Republican., 1889-03-02
A LABOR SONG.

I'm going home," the refrain came,
In Joyous accents ringing.
paused beside window pane
Where sat woman singing.
She, bending o'er her humble work, :
New courage seemed to borrow;
Her voice rang through the twilight mirk;
I'm going home tomorrow"
Then all about that dingy room,
Through all its grimy witness,
There shone light that made the gloom
Glow with celestial brightness.
And from the singers careworn face
Passed every line of sorrow,
AS sung she in that gloomy place:
I'm going home tomorrow"
o, chorister, OF faith and hope,
In labors by-paths lowly,
Why should 1, weary, doubling, grope!
Your psalm of life is holy.
Why, then need l, from day to day,
Much useless trouble borrow!
Why not sing your gladsome lay?
"Tm going home tomorrow"
Mrs. N. L. Payne. in Detroit Free Press.
The Republican., 1889-03-02
A CULTURED MONARCH.
King Oscar III. as q Gifted Poet Orato
and Musician.

and Musician.
A correspondent writing fromStock-
holm gives an interesting description
of King Oscar II. of Sweden and Nor
way. Being the third son, says the
writer, he probably never dreamed
that he one day would wear the crown
of Sweden and Norway. In the year
1872, however, he succeeded hisoldest
brother, the beloved Charles Ky The
second brother, Gustaf, had dready
been dead for many years. Onhs ac-
cession to the throne Osca was
already forty-three years old, aSgas
not then very popular. The hoAsr
used to say about her two reraining
sons, the polite, considerate Prince and
the rather reckless King Chares: "Os-
car does every thing in his bower to
gain popularity; Charles dos all he
can to lose it, and neither seems to
succeed"
Judging from the intereS shown OF
late in Oscar H., both. at home and
abroad. it would seem tblt the King
had at last obtained what he Prince so
long pursued in vain. Vow, at the
age OF nearly fifty, and ater reign OF
sixteen years, he has become rather
popular, especially in Sweden, though
less so in Norway, AID is widely
praised throughout Europe as an ac-
complished gentleman, a cultivated
student and an able orator.
Every body who has ever heard the
King speak compliments his voice,
style and manner. His 'speech from
the throne" resembles il no respect
similar efforts in other European
capitals. When arrayed in snow
white ermine, red and gold mantle
over his shoulders, golden crown on
his head and a scepter glistenipg with
jewels in his hand, Oscar appears
before both houses OF the Legislature
to deliver his address, his magnificent
voice fills without an effort, the large
Throne Hall, and his hearers hang de-
lighted on his words. l have not had
the pleasure of being present on one
of those occasions, but l am assured
that the King is no ordinary orator.
King Cesar is more than a gifted
speaker. He is also a poet. as was bis
brother who preceded him to the
throne. When, in 1882, he and his
Queen celebrated their silver weddirss
it was remarked that His Majesty las
also been faithful to the MUSES. for
twenty-five years. For it was in 1857
that the Swedish Academy awarded its
annual prize for poetry to collection
of verses which, when the sealed
envelope containing the authors name
was broken, was found to have come
from a royal pen. Among his poetical
productions are translations of Goethe's
'.Tasso" and Herder's Cid" The
best known of all his poems is col
lection of manly and euphonious songs
about the Swedish navy. They have
gone through four Swedish editions.
two German and one Danish. All the
poems of Oscar Frederic na1pe
in literature-have been published in
Germany as well as in Sweden. King
Oscar is Furthermore musician. His
talents in this department of art we're
recently very highly praised by the re-
nowned German critic, Hanslick. who
visited this city afew months ago. The
rapid growth of the Swedish Academy
of Music is in large measure due to
his activity when Crown Prince. He
was then President of the Academy for
several years. Denver Republican.
The Republican., 1889-03-02

A bow-legged man was standing
before the otiics stove warming him
self. He gruffly refused to buy paper
from a boy who thrust his head in at
the door. Indignant newsboy-"Say.
mister; you're standing too near the
fire. L guess; you're a-warpiugr'-
Wasp. sa...
The Republican., 1889-03-02

doctor" said lady who want
ed a little advice gratis, 'what do you
do when you catch cold?" Il cough,
madam" was his polite reply.
The Republican., 1889-03-02
TEMPERANCE READING.
A MOTHERS REVERIE.

1t seems but yesterday sat
In my easy, old armchair;
The sunlight shining bright and warm
Upon my dark brown hair;
No burrows yet upon my brow,
No tears had dimmed my eye,
For care and sorrow IN their round
Had softly passed me by.
My home was just quiet spot
Within coZy nook;
No pillars high or stately walls
Would court q strangers look
But ahl those lowly cottage walls
Wera .he fairest l could see,
For the dearest friends God ever gave
Were gathered here with me.
Ny lit;la boy, with bounding step
So happy and so free
Came home from school upon this day,
And came right straight to me.
With sweet caress and happy face,
At once he drew quite near,
To tell his ch ldish troubles O. er
In mothers willing ear.
He was not such q wondrous boy;
In going down the street
Perhaps a dozen fairer ones
You'd be quite sure to meet;
But, with his fathers brave blue eyes,
ANA frank ana manly Tays,
often looked upon my boy
And found full much to praise.
looked upon that noble brow,
That forehead white and far,
And saw, or fancied that saw,
Traces OF talent there;
And dreamed such sweet and happy dreams
AS mothers often dream;
Nor saw across my vision bright
One shade of trouble gleam.
I thought when silvered was my hair,
Aud eyes with age were dim,
And footsteps all too weary grown,
I'd turn and lean on him;
That manly form would proudly wave
All other cares aside,
And fondly hasten home to me,
My feeble steps to guide,
SIT again in my easy chair,
Upon u summers day;
The sun shines brightly on my hair,
So faded now and gray;
The burrows, to-, are plainly seen
Upon my tear-wet cheek;
The cause-oh, ask me not to tell.
! can not-must not-speak!
Tn watching by the W ndow now;
form comes down the street,
With reeling step halts at the gate
Those faltering, weary feet
Come in the old familiar room
Not in the olden way;
For ah, my boy has wandered far
S nee that bright summer day.
That intellect is clouded now
From VIII ch hoped so much:
The brain is dazed, the eye is dimmed,
All by the demons touch.
Oh, women! all throughout our land,
Tempt not W tn sparkling wine.
Let not the downfall Of our youth
Be traced to hand OF thine.
Mrs. A. B. Mcconnell, in Western Rural.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYlTIES.

The body of an unknown man was found
in st. Louis, yesterday, near where the
body of Anna Weiss was recently discov-
cred.
1t was decided, yesterday, that the next
sangerfest of the Scandinavian Singers of
America should be held at Minneapolis,
july 4, 1890.
Yesterdays session of the National Tail
ors' Association, at Chicago, was occupied
mainly in the discussion and illustration
of technical methods. Fifty new methods
were admitted.
Several 'longshoremen were discharged
recently in New York. Since then three of
the men who took their places have been
lnysteriously shot while at work, and the
. inference is that the shooting was done by
the old men, though the police have been
unable to find the guilty persons.
A three-year-old child fell off steamer,
near Paducah. KY. on Tuesday. Henry
Shelton lcolored) sprang into the river and
caught the child, but it clung to his neck
IN such way that both were drowned.
Shelton's body was recovered, and sub
scription was taken to give it burial.
Wm. P. Hills. brakeman was shot and
kllied on passenger trim, near Macon.
Mo-, Monday night, by Louis Hughes. They
got into a fight over the rate of fare, and
the shooting occurred when Hill undertook
to eject Hughes from the train. Hughes
claims TO have shot in self-defense. The
coroner's jury returned verdict that the
shooting was not justihable.
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The Coaches Thrown Down a Ten-Foot En-
bankment, and ALI the Passengers Hurt,
Ten Persons Being Seriously Injured.
Two Runaway Cars Dash Into a Train
Loadof Miners with Frightful Results.
Two Persons Killed Outright and Many.Fatal-
ly Injured-Six Hundred People Thrown
tothe Ground by aFall of Circus Seats.
JUMPED THE TRACK.

Nearly q Dozen Persons Badly Injured In
Wreck Near Mount Carmel, III.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
VINCENNES, Ind, July 17.-At IL o'clock
to-day the Cairo IL Vincennes north-bound
passenger, No. 2, met with almost complete
demolition, two miles south of Mount Car
mel, Ill, in which twelve to fifteen passen-
gers were seriously injured. The passenger
train was rushing along at speed of about
thirty-fve miles an hour, and was composed
of freight car loaded with fruit, baggage
car and two passenger coaches. The freight
car jumped the track and threw the re-
mainder of the train into the ditch and
down ten-fo0t embankment. The passen-
gers were thrown around in every direc-
tiOn, and perfect pandemOnium ensued.
For some time it was next to impossible to
do any work toward rescuing the passen-
gers. as nearly all those on the train were
more OF less injured, or so badly frightened
that they were helpless. The more seri-
ously injured are:
Ill, left ear cut Off and head cut, seriously
hurt; baggagemaster Cook, bruised all over
body; Mrs. Porter, of Terre Haute, badly
bruised and injured internally; Mrs. Dan
internally; Mrs. Mcmahon, Carmi, ILL.,, seri-
ously injured internally; son of Mrs. Nc
Mahon, cut in head; Miss Luella Cox, of
Greene county, Indiana, hip dislocated and
injured internally; Mr.. Morgan Cox, Jones'
boro, Ind, body bruised; w. G. johnson,
Vincennes, side and back injured.
Most of the passengers were extricated
only by cutting into the coaches with axes.
The locomotive did not leave the track. No
blame can be attached to the railroad, as
the wreck was the result of an unforeseen
occurrence that could not be avoided. The
officials at Mt. Carmel did all they could
Immediately On notification to relieve the
sufferers, and medical aid was sent to the
scene of the wreck within an hour. The
property of the railroad company is gener-
ally demolished
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caved in, with hundreds of people theron.
The performance had hardly begun when
one-thIrd of the seats on the entire west
side of the tent gave way, containing six
hundred people, and fell with crash.
Several persons were badly hurt, and hun
dreds more or less bruised. Physicians
were summoned, and the broken seats and
injured people removed. The performance
had Just been resumed when half of the
reserved seats section, with 200 more spec
tators, fell in. This created panic, and it
was with much difficulty that order was
restored without serious injury to more
people. 1t was found that the supports of
the seats in the wet ground had been
forced down by overcrowding. In the
second accident no one was seriously hurt,
but many We're slightly cut and bruised.
those badly injured are: Peter Fahey,
aged sixteen. of Milford, thigh broken;
Mrs. Stevens. of Hopedale. ankle broken;
Mrs Keith, of Milford, injured internally;
Mrs. Porter Shields, injured internally; a
boy named Butterfeld; of Hopdale. badly
less jammed, cut and bruised.
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Will Build Steel ships for Lake Use.

CHICAGO. July 1.-THE statement is pub
1ished here that the Illinois Steel Company.
recently incorporated as consolidation of
neighborhood, has decided to go into the
business of building steel vessels for en-
ployment in lake commerce. 1t is under
stood that the ship Yards to be created are
10 be located at South Chicago and Duluth.
On the 10th inst. the Minnesota Iron Com
pany voted to place its 81, SOC, 600 surplus in
the hands of the directors. This company
is controlled by the Illinois Steel Company,
and the voting of this surplus was to put it
at that company's disposal w. 1. Babcock.
superintendent of the Union Dry-dock
Company, of Buffalo, has been selected as
the head of the mechanical department. of
the proposed new yards.