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The Portland daily press., 1889-05-10

HOUSE FOR sALE-Situated in Var
Ii mouth, within 10 minutes walk Of Yarmouth
Junction, desirable location for anyone doing bus
mess in the city and wishing for a home in the
country; house, ell and addition all two story
built In 'S1 house contains IL finished rooms
convenient for families; tenement OF rooms up
stairs which rents for enough to pay taxes and
keep house in repair, go acres of good land con
nected with house, all or part of which will be
sold with house II desired. For further particn-
lars enquire OF q. II. PULSIFER, PROPRIETOR
Auburn, Maine, or VIM. ID. PULSIFER, on the
premises. 10-4
"ANTED-Al lady bookkeeper for one of our
w Branch Stores must be fully competent to
take charge OF set Of double entry books
A azores THE ATKINSON HOUSE FURNISH
lNd w., portland, Me. 10-1t
COTTAGE LOT FOR sALE-On Great
~ Diamond Island, corner lot 1O7x1I0;
price less than cents per foot. Address A. b.
w, United States Hotel, Portland. 1o-1
EOR sALE-On very easy terms, or 10 let,
the double tenement house 81 May Street;
also the cottage OF 10 rooms, 20 Cedar Street.
M. Z. PALMER, 1877 Spring Street. 10-1
T0 LET-Cottage on Great Diamond Island.
Il Enquire at 100 EXCHANGE ST. 10-1
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-10

Et0R sALE-Two IA story houses az Pine
IL Point, Maine finished suitable % live In the
year round, no summer cottage, water In both,
sheds attached, rents readily. Inquire OF e.. II.
MERRILL, Pine Point, or L. b. 49f, Wareryille.
Maine. Is
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-10

EOR sALE-A small farm, ne asres1 eooa
IL buildings, good land, good water, plenty of
good fruit, taxes light, al within miles 81
Portland, on the Old Gray Road; terms easy.
AAsCORE, West Falmouth. Possession given
immediately. al
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-10

EOR sALE-Cottage and lot at Old Orchard
IL Camp Ground, on MsplewOod Avenue, one
minutes walk from Auditorium; rooms. En-
quire Of W. NJ. SANBORN, Peabody, Mass, or
Rev. l. Luce, Old Orchard, Me. 12-s
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
TOLD BY THE CABLE

The Norwegian ministry have re- signed.
 The leaders of the striking miners who took part in the riot at Dortmund on May 10 last have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to five years.
 Mills, the English jockey, has been killed by falling in race at Spa, Bel gium.
 Joseph R. Cox, M. P. for East Clare. has been summoned to appear before the Drogheda court on the 9th inst to an- swer to charge of conspiracy.
 The art committee of the Paris exposi- tion have awarded first class medals to Sir Frederick Leighton, Messrs. Burne- Jones, Herkomer, Hook. Orohardson Whistler, Forbes, Leader, Reed and Shannon to the American artists, Mcssrs. Harrison, Vail, Weeks and Hitchcock, and to the German artist, Herr Leibl.
 The "Berliner Tageblatt" says that England, Germany, France, Portugal. Belgium, the Congo state and Italy are making arrangements for a conference to settle the limits of their respective set dement's in Africa.
 The Hungarian delegation is debating the extra war estimates. It is announced that the Thirteenth army corps will be equipped with new repeating rifles by 1890.
 President Carnot and M. Spuller, min- ister of foreign affairs, have promised to be present at the unveiling in Paris of the replica of Bartholdi's statue of "Lib- erty Enlightenig the World"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
DlOOd-Oranges.

writer in Chambers Journal says: s'The blood-orange is a mere variety of tho sweet orange obtained by cultivation, and appears first to have boon raised by the Spanish sar- donors in Philippine Islands, from the cap- ital of which (Manila) 1t, together with the we'll known cigars. formed at one timo one of the chief articles of export. On Its first appearance in Europe it excited consider able sensation and in the last century worry high prices were demanded for the trces which bore the wonderful fruit. None, how ever, now come to us from Manila, our SUD. ply being deprived almost entirely from Malta whero great pains and attention are be- stowed upon their cultivation. It was for a long time supposed, and, indeed, tho idea Is noe yet quito extinct, thGt blood-oranges were.produced by the grating of tho oranges with tho promegranate; but there Ia not the slightest foundation for this beliet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
The Induatrloua sauirrel.

Danbury farmer points 10 the souirrol ls according an instance of agility, quick aess and hard work. Last fall he stored several bushels of butternuts in the second story of his corn house. and recently he noticed that they were disappearing much fnstar than the legitimate demands for his family supply warranted. He discovered soon afterward that squirrel, a small red one. which the farmers boys call "chip- munks," had found a hole under the eaves ot the building, and was stocking hcr store- house with the nuts tho far mer had gath cred.
 As an experiment to learn how rapidly the squirrel had worked, he removed all but twenty of the nuts and set a watch upon those. Six hours afterward every nut was gone. The dis ance from the corn house to the tree where tho squirrel had its nest was just eighty rods. In going for a nut and re- turning with 1t the sprightly little animal had to travel distance of l6O rods. Con- putation showed that the theft of tho twenty nuts required just ten miles of travel.
 But this did not include all Several ttmes dogs frightened the squirrel, and 1t had to turn back. and twice the family cat got after t, requiring it to take oircuitous route to .each the storehouse The nest was exam. med soon afterward. and big, fat, lazy male squirrel was found snoozing quietly while his little mate was performing q prodigious feat to supply him with food.-N. Y. Sun
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
Smells, but No Sights.

A traveller, who recently returned from Pekin asserts there is plenty of smell in that city, but very little to sec. Most of the show places such as the Temple of Heuven and the Marble Bridge have one by one been closed to outside barbarians, who cannot even bribe their way. The houses ale all very low and moan, tho streets are wholly unpavod and are always very muddy and very dusty, and as there are no sewers or cesspools. tho fllthiuess of tho town is inde- scribable. He adds that tho public buildings arc small and ill decayed and tumble-down condition, and the nearest one can get to tho emperor's palace Is to climb to the top of some building outside tho sacred enclosure and surreptitiously peep over the waA through an opera glass. Even then ho docs not see much.-N. Y. Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
KILLED IN 4 WRECK
q EriEhtful Railway Smash-up and
 Firo in vlrginia.


 Firo in vlrginia. LIBERTY, Va, July 3.-A fearful catas trophe occurred about q mile west of Thaxton. 20 yesterday. on the Nor. folk and Western railroad, by which about forty passengers wore killed. The accident was caused by washout on high fill.
 The following is list of those known to have been killed:
 Capt. Rowland Johnson, conductor. Pat Donovan, engineer. Fireman, colored, name unknown. J. J. Rust, Abingdon; postal clerk. J. w. Livesay, Petersburg; train dis patcher.
 W. c. Stead, Cleveland, Tenn. Alvin James.
 Among tho injured arc: Maj. J. C. CasselI, superintendent of the Lynchburg division, seriously in- jured.
 L. B. Summers. of Abingdon, postal clerk, bruised.
 - Ford, baggage master Bishop Alpheus E. Wilson, of M. E. church, South. Not seriously hurt. Thirty passengers are also reported as killed. but it Is impossible to verify theee reports. as tho frcshets of tho past week have cut off all direct communication.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
NR. DAVlTT TESTIFIES
The Clan.na.Gael, He Says, Never
 Authorized Murders.
PEN MEANT REvoLvnR
At Least When Davitt Used 1t i'm One
 of He Lotters It Dld-Parnellis Feel. Aa9s Ovcr thc PhGnix Park AIur.

or Ills Lotters It Dld-Parnsll's Feel.
 isgs Ovcr sho Ph@nix Park Mur-
 derA-sllent as to Cipher Dlspat tohes.
 LONDON. July 3.-At yesterdays >ses- sion of the Parnen commission Michael Davitt was placed op the witness stand. He denied that the account given by Le Caron. the Times' witness, that John Devoy's proposals were submitted to Mr. Parneu was true. Mir. Parnell, he said. had nothing to do with his Davitt's) visit to America in 1878. It was the witness intention to revisit America and to raise money for the agrarian movement in Ireland.
 He declared that the Clan-na-Gael never authorized murder. He paid high tribute to Alexander Suflivan's character. Mir Davitt said he disliked agitation, and would willingly abandon 1t If he saw some justice done to Ireland.
 The witness said that he saw Mr. Par nell on the Sunday following the Phoenix park murders. MT. Parnell was utterly broken down over the terrible crime, and said to him: II shall send my resig- nation to Cork to night. I refuse to stay in the movement when we are responsi- ble for men of whom we know nothing, and who con come behind our backs and pouoO1d dtc 6uCA uSSuS us LQlS,
 It required all the witness influence to dissuade MT. Parneu from resigning his seat in the House of Commons.
 Witness stated that he believed mur- ders had been committed by members of the Clan-na-Gael. but he did not believe that these were sanctioned by the gov erntng body of the organization or its leaders. He admitted that in a certain letter which he wrote ho used the word ''pen, meaning thereby revolver Whom questioned as to the names of the person to whom this letter was written MT. Dayitt declined to answer, stating that to divalee his name might possibly reeals III eeiious injury to the man, and witness aM not wish to wrong him.
 5HstHs Aannen, being appealed to to com pei tEis witness to disclose the name of Ais fSfFess?ondent, stated that while he r6sPeetaa shs motives for reticence which hettate4 the witness these could not be aeeers&4 ia court of justice as absolv- tns a wltlesS from his obligation to tcs- ufy. He directed the witness to answer.
 Mf. Dayllt explained that the letter was written to Q man, a member of the league, who harbored an intense hatred for anothcr member and wished to mur- oor him. Witness wrote to the man ap- podring to sanction tho murder, but in feallty his purpose was to gain time, so thnt he might write to the mans superior officers in the league. He did at once wr!to to two of these officers asking them to dissuade the man from his purpose.
 Ono Of these two men to whom he wrote was dear friend who Is now in America. Witness now took tho op- portunlty to publicly appeal to him to permit witness to divulge his name.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
OUR TREATY WITH J.dPAN.
England Desil es Equal Privileges-IIe
 Position in. samoa.

England Desil es Equal Priviieges-I1er
 Position in. sam amoa.
 LONDON, July 3. - In the house of commons last evening Sir James Fergu- son, parliamentary secretary to the for eign office, in answer to an inquiry, stated that the new treaty between Japan and Mexico had not yet been ratified. Tho treaty between the United States and Japan, which was signed Feb. 20, would go into force on Feb. II. 1890. The govern ment. he said, would shortly begin nego- tiations with Japan with tho object of se- curing for England equal privileges with all other countries.
 In relation to the treaty agreed upon by the Samoan conference at Berlin, he said 1t would not be proper to divulge any of its provisions until 1t had been ratified by tho United States senate. The statement, however, that England had agreed to retire from her position as one of the three protecting powers at Samoa. and act only as an umpire be- tween the United States and Germany, was unfounded.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
A MIDMAN'S PLUNOE.
0. w. Ilowo's Drop from . Window
 to the Street.

0. w. llowo's Drop from . Window
 to the street.
 CHICAGO. July 3.-Persons passing along State street in front of the Palmer house yesterday afternoon wore mortified at seeing @ man, clad only in sheet, climb out of @ window and walk along tho projecting cornice. Suddenly, with @ shriek, he fell to projection below.
 A ladder was procured and an attempt was made to rescue him., when, shriek- ing, he threw himself to the pavement below, fracturing his skull and receiving other injuries which will probably cause his death. He was evidently insane. and proved to be G. w. Howe, a prominent young civil engineer of Leadville, Col. Ho was on his way home from Washing ton, where he had been in attendance as a delegate to the Convention of the Pa triOtic Sons of America.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
1ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

All the laborers in Duluth, Minn., about 1000 in number, struck yesterday for $1.75 day, an increase of 25 cents
 Eben Pilgrim and John Kellaher of the town of Warwick, Orange county, N. Y., quarrelled Monday evening, and Pilgrim drew 0 pistol and shot kellaher dead. Pilgrim escaped.
 Charles E. Keeler, New Yorker, who forged the name of MT. Curran, member of parliament to several checks, pleaded guilty yesterday in Montreal, and was committed for trial.
 Tho Canadian department of iusti co will likely issue a warrant next week for the extradition of s. G. Kollmeyer. of forgery and uttering forged paper. The prisoner was committed for extraditIon @ few days ago.
 Charles 8. Gill, Belgian consul at Bos- ton for the past fifteen years, has been made chevalier of the Order of Leo pold. and has just received the royal dec- oration from his Majesty Leopold H.. king of Belgium.
 The semi-centennial celebration of the founding of the oldest normal school in America, that at Birmingham, Mass was held there yesterday. A large number Of graduates and others were present.
 MIS- hahnan olaAtn' ageu o1 years, mas been at Troy, N. Y., sentenced to sixteen years in the Albany penitentiary, for arson in the first degree. She set fire to a building in which thirty persons were living late at night on Dec. B, 1888.
 Three negroes were killed by the acci- dental sinking of a ferryboat at Hatchers 8 ferry on the Tallapoosa river, Ala Two wagons loaded with merchandise for Wetumpka merchants were also lost. The accident is said to have been caused by carelessness.
 Travel on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad to Washington is cut off. No train south has passed Stony Run for some hours. The track is washed away for fifty yards. From the Patapsco to Stony Run the country Is under water. Construction trains are busy repairing the damages.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
PEACE, YE WORKIN6MEN.
Povderly and Other Labor Giants Call Upon Unions to Cease Fighting.


 PITTsBURe, July 9.-A treaty of peace Las been declared and issued to the working people of America from Pitts burg signed by the representatives of the leading labor organizations. It calls upon all labor unions to cease fighting among themselves. and says that while there have been differences in the past, the fact stands that there 'ffss5 never been any. real cause for serious diverg- ence of opinion.
 All labor organizations are called upon to strengthen an solidify their ranks, and leave nothing undone to make each so- ciety the power for the good it Is in- tended to be.
 The address is signed by T. V. Pow derly, John W. Hayes. A. w. Wright, John Devlin, of the Knights of Labor; $. Gompers, P. J. Mcclure, of American Federal Union of Labor; William A. Simsroth, of Railroad Switchmen's Asso- ciatlon; J. P. Sargent, Eugene V. Debs, John J. Hanrahan, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
He Bleu to Death.

CHICAGO, July 3.-Thomas Bean, 0 young roofer, and William Hutchinson quarrelled about Minnie Ray, friend of the former. Yesterday they met at Green and Randolph streets and the quarrel was renewed. A fight followed in which several of Hutchinson's friends took part, and Bean was stabbed in the left shoulder. He bled to death from 8 severed artery before physician could be summoned. Hutchinson was ar- rested several hours later.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
ALTOONA IN A FLOOD.
Much Damage Caused by the Burst
 ing Of a Watcrspout.
THE .JUNIATA RISING.
Dmngcr-The KittsninH Point Res ervolr Pouring Over I,s Ranks and Threatening to Break.

[ ALTOONA. Pa., July 3.-A waterspout broke over this city about 10 o'clock last night, doing great damage. The rain came down in torrents, overflowing the streets and bursting sewers.
 Reports from South Fork are that the great viaduct is in danger, and no trains from the west have como in since 6 o'clock. The Juniata is rising beyond bounds at Tyrone.
 Kittening Point reservoir, this city 8 water supply is expected to break, as the water is pouring over its banks. Should it go, tho city's loss will probably be $1OO,OO0. The damage by the water spout is widespread.
 Mrs. H. Nicholson, wife of the Penn sylvania ticket agent, was struck by lightning and seriously injured.
 The Pennsylvania agent at Holidays burgh, A. M. Hell, and his wife and child, were found unconscious in their house from the effects of stroke of lightning.
 Hawkes., aged 16 years, and her cousin, Mary Hawkes., aged 8 years, while swinging in a hammock at the home of IhT loCIOA 0COIBS A1dWhoS, d well-to-do farmer. were struck by light ming yesterday afternoon and instantly killed. The girls had gone out to watch an approaching storm and were swing ing in the hammock when q flash of lightning struck them and fearful clap of thunder followed.
 The inmates of the house ran to the doors to sec what had been struck.
 Mrs: Hawkes., the mother of Mary, thought of the girls and went to call them. She could not find them in the hammock, but soon discovered the bodies of the girls about twenty feet away.
 She ran to her daughter and picked her up, carrying the body into tho house. Lizzie's remains wore also taken in.
 The faces of the girls were as If they wore sleeping. Across the breasts of each was. red streak. as if the flesh had been scared with Q red-hot poker
 Tho lightning had evidently gone straight through their hearts.
 Lizzie Hawkes. lived in this city and had gone down to the farm to pass her vacation with her cousin.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
Street Murder in Uhicaro

CHICAGO, July 3.-Thomas Bean, a roofer, was stabbed to the heart and in- stantly killed by an unknown man at the northwest corner of Randolph and Green streets shortly after midnight. The trouble was on account of supposed insult offered Bean's mistress by the un- known. William Hutchison, said to be the principal in the murder, was cap tured an hour later, as were also Thomas O'Brien and James Kennedy, accessories to the crime.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03

 Tho Work that Nature's Chemlstvy
 Docs in Forming tho Stones.
 "No." said the chemist, "tho ruby is not called 0 ruby because itis rod, for the topas. which may be yellow or a delicate wine color. and the sapphire, which Is blue. are both ru. bies. The humble toiler consoling himself with his clay tobacco pipe, the potter mould ing tho plastic clay into shape upon his magic wheel, or the delver in damp slate quarries, probably does not know that his pipe and his clay and his brittle slate are of the very sub- stance from which hoinaming oriental ruby, the mellow topaz, tho rich sapphire are evolved; but such is the fact. They are among the most beautiful of gems, yet are but simple crystals of sillaceous oarth-. moro bits of alumina. Tho glorious blue light that turks within the sapphire Is tho chemical action of one grain of iron on every 100 grains of alumina. Tho rcd ruby owes its brightness and hue to mingling of chronic acid with the parent clay.
 Different from the oriental topaz Is the topaz from Brazil, which, beautiful as 1t is, Is nothing but compound of silica. or flint, and alumina, which also make the garnet, and largely compose the occidental em erald and the beryl stone. These two stones also contain an earth known as glucina. so called because of the sweetness of the salts discov- cred in it.
 Tho diamond is the king of gems. mon. arch blazing like the sun, and the opal Is Its moonlight queen. Yet, as every one knows, the diamond is only a chip of coal, and the opal. as every one does not know, is simply mingling of silica and water. But the dia- mond is the spiritual evolution of coal, the realization of its highest being. Ten parts of water and ninety parts of silica. combined In tho mystic crucible of nature. form the opal. the water giving to the gem that shift Ing, changeable. irridescent coloring which Is the opal's peculiar charm. Who would imagine that the fire in the opal is not fire at all, but, of all things, water And yet the silica that holds the radiant moisture cap- tive is the common flint from which our forefathers struck the igniting sparks into their tender boxes.
 "But the opal is not the only precious stone that owes its being to flint. The amethyst. the cats-eye. the Egyptian jasper-all arc ldealizations of the ultimate efforts of natural chemistry acting on Silica. What Is the lapis lazuli2 A bit of common earth painted throughout with sulphuret of sodium. And the forms it7 and how did It receive its soft. pale blue color7 The tur- quoise is phosphate of alumina. and copper in the earth gave it its lovely hue. Chrysolite is pure silicate of magnesia. Of the rare deo- orative stones and marbles, if there were no carbonate of copper the seeker after mala- chite would lind his search fruitless. and the sculptor would sigh in vain for the matchless Carrara marble if thcge wore no carbonate of ume.-N. '. Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
FED ON PRISON BREAR.

Protected Miners fin Illinois Get Sup.
 plies from Joliet.
 JOLIET. Ill.,. July S.-Warden Tierg- gercn. of the penitentiary, has forwarded to the families of the starving miners at Braidwood, nearly 300 loaves of fresh bread weighing four pounds apiece. The bread was made in the prison bakery.
 Once before in the history of the prison a warden was called upon to fur nish bread to starving people. The day after the great Chicago fire 6 carload of bread was prepared at the prison and sent to Chicago, where 1t was distrib- uted to the furnishing people along the lako shore
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
ahoe R Child Inst ca Of His s.risoner,

DAYTON, O., July 3.-A prisoner named Horlacher, who was brought here from Greenville, charged with petit larceny. escaped from the workhouse last even- ing. Supt. Martin pursued him and or dered him to stop. As he refused to do so tho superintendent fired pistol shot which missed It's mark. but lodged in the groin of John Zweisler's ten-year-old son. Tho wound is believed to be fatal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
Survivors of the Samoan Disaster.

NEW YORK, July 3.-Among the pas Aspinwall. which has arrived at this port, are the band, numbering thirteen men, of the United States steamer Nipsio, four seamen from the same vessel, and three seamen from the United States steamer Vandalia, all survivors of the Samoan disaster. All are in charge of Boatswain McLauRhlin.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
Liuhtniue Strikes OH.

WASHINGTON, Pa., July 3.-Lightning struck a 5000 barrel tank of oil at Johnston station yesterday afternoon. Johnston station Is six miles north of Washington. The oil ignited and Is still burning at this writing. So far none of the other oil tanks have caught fire. The fire seems beyond control.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03
BLOWN UP BY YElREWORES.

Terrible Explosion at the RuEgleri
 Factory i'm Paris.
 PARIS, July 3.-A terrific explosion oc- cured yesterday at the Ruggieri flre- works factory, five miles from this city.
 Six bodies have been taken out, and twelve persons employed in the factory are missing and 1t is feared have been killed.
 An immense crowd surrounded the wrecked factory watching tho search for bodies
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-03

Tho total of tho Royal Berkshires at the POO yards range were 298 against 335 or the Americans; at tho 500 range 349 against 375 for tho Americans, and at the 600 range 325 against 354 for tho Americans. Tho day was fine and the sun shone brightly.
 The visitors were given a banquet in the evening by Lord Wantoge.