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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30
A CARNIVAL OF THIEVES.


Thieves are at work again in this vicinity
Mr.. Lorenzo Moulton OF S. Parsonsfeld had
horse, wagon and harness stolen from his
stable, short time since, and last Saturday
night VIM. ID. ID. Churchill had wagon,
harness and robe taken from his carriage
house at his place in Parsonsfield. The
wagon was new and the robe was valuable
one which he had lately purchased. The
same night some one entered Mr., Amos
Blazo's stable in this village but 1t appears
they did not find what they were looking for
as there was nothing taken.
Mr.. Wilbur d. French and wife have got
q situation at Portland. to work for Sheriff
Webb to do the cooking for the family and
prisoners.
Mr.. Irving Towle raised two pumpkins on
one vine, one Of which weighed SO pounds
and was six feet In circumference and the
other weighed 81 pounds and was six feet in
circumference.
Mr.. Frank p. French and John Rice are
painting the inside Of the school house that
they are building at Kezar Falls. When
completed 1t will be one Of the best in the
county.
Bad colds are very prevalent In this vicin-
ity. Quite a.number are on the sick list.
Mr.. Henry French and Miss Katie French
were married October 18th, by Rev. A. G.
Davis. Both are of this town.
Mr.. James Linscott ana wife have moved
on to VIM. ID. ID. Churchill's farm 10
ParsnnsfiaId
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30

An Apt Definition.
Belle-Who is that young fellow that comes to
see Carrie so often?
Julia-Her beau, of course He's an engineer
on the and road
Belle-Oh. yes, 1 SEGA spark from locomo-
tive.-Burlingt0n Free Press.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30
Fairfield.

Two dollars per barrel is the price paid for
apples by buyers and some are so fortunate
as to have fair crops. r
After season OF vexation over the wire
cable running across the mill pond to the
Journal Office, the proprietor, Mr.. Mayo, has
now decided to resort to water and put in
motor supplied from the city service pipes.
The Methodist Society are now in hopes
that they have their pastor in view. They
expect a returned missionary, a young man
Of ability will be sent to labor with them
during the winter.
The Waterville and Fairfield Horse Rail-
road Company is doing large and increas-
ing business. Many thought when the new
was worn off the business would drop to its
legitimate dimension. Instead it seems to
be growing towards its proper place, the
travel being increased over the first year.
Among the improvements to be added to
the village In another spring is a suostan-
tial two-story brick building The business
OF the national and savings banks has out
grown the limited quarters of the present
structure and a modern building with all the
latest improvements is confidently expected
In the early spring time.
One great want still remains, that is pub
lie reading room.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30
She Couldn't be Expected to.

La Republica 1oc cigar, New York's favorite.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30
TICKET OFFICE.
IS Exchange ST., and Depot Foot Of India Street.

Lowest fares from Portland, Yarmouth Junction
and Danville Junction, as follows: To Chicago
$1,000 and s17.7b; Detroit sl5.25 and sik.76;
aud s26.75; Sc. Louis via Chicago s26.5O and
S23.65; San Francisco, Cal. 5000 and s62.b0
JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager.
WIN. EDGAR, Genl. Pass. Agent.
j. STEPHENSON, Supt
Portland April 20, $3.50 Iu20du
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-30
CENTRAL R. R, on NEW JERSEY.
NEW ROUTE To

NEW ROUTE To
Philadelphia. Baltimore. Washington and The West
Shortest and Quickest Route. va
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Philar
delphfa and Reading Kailroad, and
Baltimore and ohio kaiirond.
Time Table of June 30, 1850.
Leave New York station Central Railroad OF
New Jersey, foot Of Liberty street, N. H., for
Phiiadelp hia, at 400, 7.45, s.3h $50, 100
q. m, 100, 2.3o, 3.15, 400, 800, 6.30, 7,SO
3.15, 500, ESQ., 1900 p. m. For baltimore and
Washin gton daily, at $50, u1.o0 except Sun
Connecting tickets on sale at principal points.
Drawing Room and sleeping Cars.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The Texas cotton crop is estimated to
be worth SS4, 100000 this year.
English iron-workers are agitating "no
Sunday work" and "fve days per week
with Monday Off"
D. j. Charbonneau, of Williamstown,
KY, has hen that is fourteen years old.
She has laid no eggs for four or FIVE years,
bat is sound and hearty.
Tennyson's epithalamium on the Duke
and Duchess of Fife seems to have been
written after all. Two hundred pounds
have been offered for its first publication.
General GrenfelI, the British COM
mander in the war against the slave
traders on the Nile, is forty-seven years
old, man of handsome presence and lit
erary tastes.
4 tree at Jamesburg, n. j., it is asserted,
produces three kinds of apples and one
kind of pears. The apples ripen at differ
ent times, and one crop follows another
through the summer.
A very old pear tree is now standing on
the grounds Of w. II. Smith in Richmond,
Me. Its exact age is not known, but its
identity can be traced back for $50 years.
1t still produces fruit.
The tin mines of the Black Hills. Da-
kota, are beginning to attract general at
tention. 1t has long been doubted if we
had any good tin ore in this country, but
these new mines are likely to rival those
of Cornwall and Bolivia and Peru.
Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court of
the United States has recently made a
tour through Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
lana and Texas, and has found, he saws.
notable industrial progress almost every
where.
The papers are printing with great glee
that between Ionkers and Poughkeepsie
''there are sixty-three millionaires, whose
aggregated wealth foots up 100000, ,000,"
and yet they will need but sixty-,hree
cotiins for the whole crowd
All the monuments erected at the bat
tletield of Gettysburg to mark the posi-
tions of the Pennsylvania troops will be
dedicated on September 1lth and 18th OF
the present year, and there promises to be
great reunion of the veterans Of those
days.
A sharp fakir is making a good income
by advertising sure method of killing all
insects. When you send him fifty cents
you will receive printed card on which
are these words: Get your insects to
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
Standing of the Clubs.
A "Rocky" Game at Santa Rosa.

SANTA Rosa, September 1st-The Santa
Rosas badly defeated the Burlingtons to-day
in five-inning game. McNelty and Rox-
burg, the battery for the visitors, did not
arrive, and King went in to catch. His
backstop was of the ''rockiest" order ever
put up here, and his general playing was
indifferent. The Burlingtons could do
nothing with Callen's delivery even after
the game was won and he slowed down in
his speed. PAGES backstop work, throw
ing to bases, and batting was gilt-edge.
The Burlingtous played rank fielding
game, and their throwing was especially poor.
The score was: Santa Rosas, 10; Burling-
ton, 6. Batteries--Santa Rosas, Callen and
Pace; Burlingtons, Cassidy and Walters,
and King and Fable. Base hits-Off Cal
len, 5; off Cassidy and Walters, 10. Struck
out-Santa Rosas, 2; Burlingtons, 3. First
base on balls-Ssnta Rosas, g. BurIingtons,
2. Passed balls-King, 5. Wild pitches
Callen, l; Walters and Cassidy, each
Umpire Il. Donovan. Scorer-Frank
Brown.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
RIGHT OR LEFT.
Were the Ancient Hebrews handed
PeOple ?


The question as to whether our ancestors
were what We call "dexter" handed NAV
be answered emphatically in the atfirma-
tive. All are agreed on this point. But
were the ancient Hebrews left-handed
people? DIR. Erlenmeyer has given an in
teresting and learned lecture to prove that
they were. Most of the Aryan peoples
write from the left to the right of sheet
of paper, and in their books the lines run
in the same direction. Most of the
Semitic people, on the contrary, write from
right to left. Instead of regarding this
essential difference as mere characteristic
of habit, kept up by that reverence for ira
dition which is deeply rooted in the
Semitic mind, DR.. Erlenmeyer thinks that
the direction taken by the hand of a
Semitic scribe was due to physiological
cause-namely, that the left hand was the
better of the two-and insists that the
writers of the Old Testament, and prob
ably the early Talmudists after them.
naturally wrote with their left hands, and
would have found it difficult, if not i'm
possible, to write with the other hand.
DIR. Erlenmeyer says he has found strik-
ing confirmation of the theory in the Tai
mud, and cites passage which insists that
certain special prayers and inscriptions are
always to be written with the right hand
and not with the left. As the execution
OF this exceptional work was difficult, and
required time and patience, it is implied
that the process of writing with the right
hand was departure from the ordinary
method then in vogue.
History, however-as was pointed cut
soon after the publication of the doctors
lecture-does not supported this ingenious
theory. The most ancient forms of Semitic
letters within our reach are the Pheniciau
characters of the Moabite stone, which
characters date from about the year 900
B. c. The inscription in this instance
reads from left to right, as we do in the
present day. So also do the following
Semitic records; The inscription on the
tomb of Eshmunazer, King of Sidon, 600
B. c.; the tariff of fees in the Temple of
Baal at Marseilles; the inscription from
the metropolis at Tharros, in the Museum
of Cagliari, Sardinia; the Carpentias in
scription from Carthage. Having quoted
this list, learned correspondent of the
British Medical Journal proceeds to state
that the practice of writing from right to
left came into use about the time of Ezra,
when probably the square form of the
Hebrew characters began "The earliest
Greek inscription, nearly allied with the
Ph@nician, are" he adds, sometimes
written from right to left; others from left
to right. Others, again, show how the
difference between the two methods was
bridged over by the immediate practice of
writing alternately-hke an OK plowing-
and therefore called Boustrophedon writ
ing."-Good Words.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
SCIENTIFIC HINTS.

The simplest way to fumigate room is
to heat an iron shovel very hot and then
pour vinegar on it, drop by drop, the steam
arising being disinfectant.
An inch of rain" means a gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly two
square feet, or fall of about one hundred
tons of water on an acre of ground.
The Rerue Scientific says DR.. Kaufman
has been successful in reducing petroleum
to solid state for fuel. 1t burns steadily
but slowly, without smoke, producing in
tense heat.
The teak wood of Africa is singular
sylvan production, weighing heavily from
the silex in it. 1t also contains an oil
which prevents the iron in contact with it
from rusting.
1t is stated that Russian wolves will not
pass under telegraph wires, and that the
Cars Government are utilizing the dis
covery by clearing large districts of coun-
try from these brutes.
1t is well known that three-fourths OF
the moss on trees grows on the northern
side. Thus early pioneers. lost in the
woods, could find their way out by follow
ing the proper direction, guided by the
Ooalc
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

The recent Commercial Conference in
San Francisco has demonstrated that there
is at least unanimity Of opinion on these
subjects-that the long g-and-short-hau
clause of the interstate commerce law is
positive injury to the Pacific coast, and
visits unfair burdens upon us; that the
competition of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road is not fair competition, and must be
met by decisive action on the part of the
Federal Government in protection of
American transcontinental roads; that the
interests of American railroads, American
commerce and American protection are
mutual, and that any warfare or attrition
between them is to their mutual detri-
ment.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
Best Bait for Black Bass.

Some fishermen on Lake Keuka at Ham,
mondsport, n. Y, began to be annoyed by
hosts of minute insects, which they at first
supposed were s)me species of black fly,
and within few minutes after their ap-
pearance the surface of the lake was COW
cred so thickly with them that for long
distances they concealed the water COM
pletely from view. From Hammondsport
the lake was covered in this way by the
insects from shore to shore for distance
Of ten miles, and where the rays of the
setting sun slanted upon them they ap-
peared on the lake in great patches OF
delicate purple, forming most remark
able picture in combination with the sur.
rounding scenery. When the insects first
began to drop down upon the lake black
bass were hitting freely along the rocky
shores and bottoms, but, as the water be-
came alive with the struggling winged
ants, no bait the fishermen tried could
tempt the bass further but the constant
breaking of the water all along the shores
showed plainly that this strange visitation
of insect life exactly suited the epicurean
palates OF the fish.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
NO LONGER A TERROR.
Modern Treatment that Cures
Consultation.

According to the San Francisco dailies a
remedy has been discovered that with almost
unerring certainty overcomes constipation.
1t is the new laxative principle in Joys Vege-
table sarsaparilla- The papers are full of re-
cent occurrences confirming its efficacy, and
we give place to their last sensation, card
from San Francisco's wen known lady mani
cure. She says: "a am willing to relate the
following experience. have for years had
weak stomach attended with constipation,
and never found but one preparation that
helped me and that soon wore out and lost
Its effect, and / was again sufferer till
tried joys Vegetable sarsaparilla. 1t has
thoroughly reorganized me. had one of the
most sensitive Of stomachs and was in con-
tiuual distress, but can with the aid of joys
Vegetable Sarsaparilla now eat any and every
thing with my old accustomed freedom. I
am both surprised aud delighted, and gladly
recommend it'
CLARA MELVIN, Manicure,
1a6 Kearney street, s. F,
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE
sACRAMENTos SCORE.
They Could Not Hit WehrIe, and Were
Stupid at Base Running-An
Awful Whitewashing.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1st.-The
Capital City team was as helpless to-day in
the hands of the Oaklands as mouse in
the paws of cat. They could scarcely hit
Wehrle at all, and when at times they did
manage to bat him an Oakland fielder was
generally in the way of the ball. The base
running of the Sacramentos was very
stupid, and they seemed to be afraid of
Stallings, who was behind the bat. Nc
Laughlin failed to show up, and Lohman,
of the Colorado State League, caught
Zeigler. He did very well, under the cir
cumstances.
The Oaklands played an errorless game,
and shut out their opponents with but
little difficulty. Newbert's heavy batting
was sadly missed. The score was:
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
Two Gnnd Reasons

A man from Indiana called at police
headquarters the other day to make in
quiries about his wife, who had eloped
and headed this way, and whom he be-
lieved to he in the city.
''She ran off with another man did
she?" queried one of the detectives.
eyes, she did"
"Well, don't you think it foolish to run
after her?'
"Foolish? How?"
"Why, she can't love you"
'Well, perhaps not"
"And she'll probably try it again at the
first chance"
eyes, she may"
"Then, why do you follow her?'
"Wall, in the first place." slowly replied
the man, after due reflection, ''she either
went off withF FHezekiah Smith, John To-
bias or Erwell Green, and kinder want
to know which one it was, and in the next
place, thought if l found 'em and blus-
tered right up strong l might get damage
money enough to pay my taxes and fix up
for winter Detroit Free Press.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
StimuIants and the Voice.

Tobacco, alcohol, and fiery condiment.
of all kinds, are best avoided by those who
have to speak much, or at least they
should be used in strict moderation. Like
tippling, the effect of cigarette-smoking is
cumulative, and the slight but constant
absorption of tobacco Juice and smoke
makes the practice far more noxious in
the long run than any other form of smok-
ing. Our forefathers, who used regularly
to end their evenings under the table,
seemed to have suffered little of the we'll
known effects of alcohol on the nerves,
while the modern tippler, who is never in
toxicated, is being whose nervous system
may be said to be in a state Of chronic in
fammation. In like manner cigarette
smokers (those at least who inhale the
smoke and do not merely puff it "from the
lips outward" as Carlyle would say, are
often in state of chronic narcotic poison
ing. The old jest about the slowness Of
the poison may seem applicable here; but
though the process may be slow, there can
be little doubt that it is sure Even if it
does not kill the body, it too often kills or
greatly impairs the victims working
efficiency and usefulness in life
The local effects of cigarettes in the
mouth must also be taken into account by
those whose work lies in the direction of
public speech The white spots on the
tongue and insides of the cheeks known as
smokers patches are believed by some
doctors with special experience to be more
common in devotees of the cigarettes than
in any other smokers this unhealthy con-
dition of the mouth may not only make
speaking troublesome, or even painful, but
it is now proved to be predisposing cause
of cancer. All fiery or pungent foods,
condiments or drinks tend to cause conges-
ton of the throat, and if this condition
becomes chronic, it may lead to impair
ment, if not complete loss, of the voice.
The supposed miraculous virtues of the
mysterious possets and draughts on which
some orators pin their faith exist mainly
in the Imagination of those who use them /;
at best they do nothing more than lubri-
cate the joints of the vocal machine SO as
to make it work more smoothly.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

THE railroad from Jafia to Jerusalem, of
which we remarked some months ago, is
to be an accomplished fact. 1t will be a
remarkable one in the history of Palestine,
and the results of the advent of the loco
motive will be the basis for most inter-
esting study. The construction really has
deep meaning, for it indicates that pro-
gression that is rapidly setting the things
of old, and establishing of the new upon
basis of permanency.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
VERY BAD BALL.
stockton Makes Miserable Showing
With the San Franciscos.

Stockton makes M1Serable Showing
With the San Franciscos.
STOCKTON, September 1st.-The San
Franciscos defeated the Stocktons with
ease to-day, both out-batting and out-field-
ing the home team. Harper and Ebright
were failures as a battery. Harper was
very wild, and in the second inning Eb-
right was hit on the finger by foul tip,
and in the next inning gave way to De-
psngher.
Harris was thoroughly disgusted with
the work of his club, and substituted Hu-
nolt for Harper. He was hit hard.
Levy played a great game at left, max
ing two difficult catches, on one occasion
jumping into the air aud pulling down the
ball with his left hand. Perrier and Smith
also made difficult catches. Whitehead
had an ''off" day. making three errors out
of six chances The score was.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

Earned ruus-Stockton, 4; San Francisco, 4.
Home runs-Depangher and Shea. Three-base
hits-Cahill and Levy. Two base hits-Levy,
Whitehead, Perrier and SWEET. First base on
erroTs-san Francisco, 4. First base on balls
Stockton, A. San Francisco, 5. Double plays
Levy, Hanley and Donahue. Stolen bases
Harper, Perrier and Sweet. Hit by pitcher
SWEET and Powers. Struck out-By Harper, s;
By Meegan, 2; by Hunolt, l. Wild pitches-Har-
per, g. Hunolt, l. Passed balls-Ebright, l.
Umpire-Chipman. Scorer-Kelly. Time of
game-Two hours.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

Earned ruus-0akland, 4. Three-base hits
Donald and Thompson. Stolen bases-Long,
Hardie (2), smalley (2, O'Neill (3, Dooley Stall
ings (2) First base on rs-Oaklands, T.
First base on called balls-Oaklands, /. Left
on bases-Oaklands, s; Sacramentos, 6. Struck
out-By Wehrle, 5: by Zeigler, s. Hit by pitcher
-ONeill. Passed balls-Lohman, 3. Time of
game-Two hours Umpire-Sheridan. Scorer
-StaDlet0n
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
NOTICE.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SToCKHoLD.
ers of SACRAMENTO BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION, for the election of three
Directors, TO hear the reports of officers and for
such other business as may be brought before
it, will be held at the office of the Secretary.
No 1914 Fourth street, Sacramento, on MON
DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER q 1859, at
o clock. PETER BOIL, President.
a. LEONARD, Secretary. aul9tdlp
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast. outside Of San Francisco, that receive
the full associated Press dispatches from all
part, of the t0orld. Outside of San Francisco,
they hare no competitors either IN influence
home asd general circulation throughout the
State.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

THE formation of Coast Chamber of
Commerce is proper step. 1t delocalizes
questions that need broad consideration
and corrects the feeling that the Chamber
of Commerce of San Francisco is not the
proper body to pass upon coast topics
affecting other localities; that it is not
given to it alone to speak for all the peo-
pie. In the very nature of things it could
not be thus commissioned, since its mem
bership lives in the atmosphere of a single
city, and however desirous of being impair
tial, must be swayed and rendered timidIy
cautious by local interests.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

A process has been invented by means of
which photographs can be printed almost
as fest as a newspaper, and without de-
pendence on sun or light. They are said
to be of the first quality. That of course
would make photographs much cheaper.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

THE California blood horse has demon
strated again his ability to lower the
worlds record for speed. The triumph of
Mr.. Winters Ell Rio Rey is all the more
gratifying because it is credited as Sac
ramento horse. We will not need much
longer to repeat-since all the world is
coming round to that way of thinking
that the blue grass of California is going
to do more for this State than has the
blue grass region of Kentucky for that
favored locality.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
I. p. Fishers, room 21, Merchants Exchange,
California street, who is also sole Advertising
Agent for San Francisco; the principal News
Stands ana Hotels, and at the Market-street
Ferry.
81 Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02

A REMARKABLE exodus is going on from
North Carolina. The best elements of the
colored population are emigrating to Mis-
sissippi. The people of the former State
are much alarmed at the magnitude of the
exodus, and it threatens to cripple the in
dustries Of the State very seriously. There
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
To Aid the Deaf soldiers to Hear Free.

WASHINGTON, September 1st.-Arrange-
ments have finally been completed where
by the Surgeon General can furnish free
the sound discs invented by H. A. Wales,
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, to those who are re-
ceiving pensions for deafness, or are still in
the army
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
WE are disposed to give no credit to Ii

WE are disposed to give no credit to the
rumors from Samoa that the Germans still
dominate there, and maintain their old
policy of subjugation of the natives. Ger
tainly the return of old Malietoa from his
enforced exile is not susceptible of such
an Interpretation.