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The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
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polls will be closed at noon. This will great
ly expedite election proceedings.
Saturday morning 1t was announced that
Charles III. Lord, a much respected citizen OF
Springvale and a member Of the Free Bap-
tist church, was dead. Four weeks ago Mr..
Lord had pneumonia and had so far recov-
cred as to be about the house. Sunday
morning he got up as usual, ate light meal,
and was smoking a cigar, talking jocosely
with the family. when he fell dead on the
floor without any premonition.
Charles Benson was waylaid by a couple
Of tramps Saturday night on one Of the Bid
deford bridges. Mr.. Benson made motion
as II to draw q revolver and the fellows sud-
denly discovered that they had business else
where.
The Saida, an Austrian war ship, will
visit the Kittery Navy Yard the coming
summer.
N GENERAL.
Petitions are being signed all over Maine
asking that Calvin Page Of Portsmouth, be
removed from the position Of internal Teye-
nue. collector for the district comprising the
states Of Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont These petitions emanate from tenn
perance people and organizations not alone
In Maine, but in the other two States Joined
In the collection district.
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27

Mean daily ther....245 Max. vel. wind..... 16
Maximum ther.. 1877 Total precip.... %
Minimum ther....l5.9
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT
March 26, 1889, 800 p. M.
Observations taken at the same moment of time
at all stations.
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27

The council have under consideration a
petition for the pardon of George Parker Of
Portland, who has served out all but eight
months OF four years sentence in the State
prison for assault.
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
Railroad Taxes.

AUGUSTA, March 26.-The Governor and
Council have assessed the following taxes
against the railroads doing business in this
State:
Grand Trunk Railway. way..................s11,5o ,5o2 s5
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
PALPATION OF THE HEART.

Persons who suffer from occasional palpitati0n
of the heart are often unaware that they are the
victims of heart disease, and are liable to die with
out warning. They should Danish this alarming
symptom. and cure the disease by using DR..
FLINT's REMEDY. Mack Drug Co.. N. Y.
mars eodl stp1y
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
THE STATE.
ANpRoscoaaIN COUNTY

ANOhOSCOGGIN COUNTY.
The big Lewiston dry goods firm of b.
Peck q Co., have bought the entire property
known as the Frye Boarding Blocks. The
buildings will be removed and a handsome
business block erected ON the land. The
purchase in the heart of the city.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A special dispatch to the Boston Journal
says that certain parties in Boston have pur-
chased large tract of land in the State of
Maine. including one of the most valuable
water privileges. 1t comprises about $4,000
acres and takes in the whole township of Je-
rusalem, near the terminus of the Megantic
railroad. Prominent lumbermen say that it
has from 150,0O0,O00 to 160,0OO,OO0 feet Of
stumpage, mostly spruce.
KNOX COUNTY.
Miss Mehan, who was elected supervisor
of schools in Thomaston, Is a graduate Of
Smith College and young lady Of culture
and refinement, with large experience in
pduealianal Nark-
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
A Mall Steamer Lost.

MANILA, March 26-The Spanish mail
steamer Mindanao has been sunk by collis-
ion with the Spanish steamer Visayas.
Thirty of her crew and passengers were
drowned. The Visayas has arrived at Man
lila in a badly damaged condition. Both yes
sells were engaged in the local trade.
Fire In Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 26.-The four
story brick building ON Market street, owned
by I NJ. Walker & Co., and occupied by
Houghton & Fraser. dealers in mattresses
and upholstery goods, was the scene OF an
| exciting fire this afternoon. The damage
was chiefly to the stock. Two iiremen were
overcome BY, smoke, but recovered on being
| taken into the air. Houghton 81 Fraser 8
loss is $1,000; on building $1,000; insurance
on stock $500, on building, $5,0OO
The Beaver Mills Burned.
KEENE, N. H., March 26.-Fire broke out
tonight in the South Building of the Beaver
Mills, occupied by the Keene Furniture
Company and Cheshire Chair Company, and
| burned nearly two hours before it was got
under control. completely riddling the upper
| and part of the second stories. The losses
as estimated are; Keene Furniture Compa.
| ny, $4,000; Cheshire Chair Company. SiO.
600; on building, $4,000. All the property
| is insured.
Dead on the Engine.
GOSHEN, Ind, March pa Lake Shore
train at II O'Clock last night, five miles West
struck buggy containing Robert McCaffrey
and Miss Della Love. When the trair
stor ped both were found on the pilot of tn,
engine, dead.
A Shower of Molten Metal.
prrrauupa March 26-A friQhtful aooi
dent occurred at ten last night In Schoenber
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
Wanted for FIourIshIng a Revolver.

BIDDEFoRD, March 26.-A warrant for the
arrest of Special Inspector of Customs Rich
ard M. johnson of this city. has been placed
in the hands of a Biddeford lawyer, with in
structions to place johnson under arrest, the
first time he shows up. The warrant is is
sued by Isaac Mclaughlin, trial justice of
Presque Isle, under the date of January 81,
and the charge is that of assault with dan
gerous weapons committed upon George E..
Robinson, citizen of Fort Fairfield. in
Aroostook county.
1t is alleged that johnson while stopping
at Fort Fairfield, got into an alteration with
one, George E. Robinson, and that he drew a
revolver and chased Robinson from the office
in which the trouble occurred, across the
street into grocery store, where others in
terfered and put an end to the quarrel.
johnson is now in Halifax.
off the Track.
AUGUSTA, March pa portion of a train
on the Dexter road was thrown from the
track mile from Newport Junction at IN
m. No one was injured. The cause was
frost in the road bed at curve. The slow
running of the train prevented serious ac
cIdent. Five freight cars left the track.
The Portland daily press., 1889-03-27
Railway mall superInrendents.

WASHINGTON, March 26=The Postmaster
cenarni tossv &rresr4~s 4S~ s~f,1sss.,.,
named division superintendents of the rail-
way mail service: w. ii. Bigelow, first di-
vision, Boston, Mass, vice George L. Dame,
resigned K q. jackson, second division.
rigned; CIV. Vickery, third division. Wash
ington, vice Eugene Darlington, resigned L.
M. Terrell, fourth division, Atlanta. Ga
vice b. M. Turner, resigned; Geo. w. Pep
per-. ninth division, Cleveland, Ohio, vice
L: y. Dodge, resigned. With the exception
Of MI. Pepper they were displaced during the
last administration. Mr. Bigelow in 1885.
honored by Englishmen.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The British au-
thorities and forces participated in the fun
eral ceremonies of Rear Admiral Chandler
who died at Hong Kong, February 10. More
than 700 Highlanders marched in tine pro,
cession followed by 1000 sailors attached to
the English men-of-war, each having creme
band on his sleeve. A company of the
Northamptonshire regiment Of marines and
marine artillery preceded the governor and
his staff, heads OF the government depart
ments, consuls and number Of residents.
who brought up the rear.
Mr.. New will be Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-John C. New
appeared before the Senate committee on
commerce today to answer TO the charges
made against him yesterday Ex-senator
| Mcdonald of Indiana and K. w, Halford
| the Presidents private secretary, appeared
| In behalf Of Mr.. New. The committee de-
| termined unanimously on favorable renor,
| on the nomination of Mr.. New as consnl
| general at London.
Yesterdays Nominations.
| WASHINGTON. March 26.-President Har.
son sent the following nominations to the
Senate today
Francis Warren of Wyoming governor Of Wv
BEN Benjamin F. White Of Montana, governor o,
Robert " Bell of Maryland, assistant eor,m,s
| sioner of Indian affairs.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, March 2e : The treasury
department has decided that log lines, sigma,
lines, lead lines and cod lines composed ~
hemp are dutiable at the rats OF three ant
one-half cents per pound, as untarred cord
age.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13
MILLIONS INVOLVED,
Important Decision Favoring the Mime
sofa ThreSher COMPANY.

sofa ThreSher Company.
Three million dollars is the amount in
volved in suit decided at ST. Paul recently
against the creditors by the Supreme Court
The suit is that of the State ex rel. Moses
e. Clapp, Acknowledgement, relator, VS..
The Minnesota Thresher Manufactu ring
Company. This case has been in the courts
for a long time, and was argued before the
Supreme Court last January The legal pa
pers made book of two hundred printed
pages, and the amount involved in the liti-
cation was the entire plant, assets and bust
ness of the Minnesota Thresher Company.
The grounds of this action were that the
company had violated the provisions of the
act under which it was organized and
had exceeded it's powers in the issu-
ing of bonds and stock and in the pur-
chase OF the assets of the insolvent
Northwestern Car Company of Still
water and of the defunct corpora
tion of Seymour, Sabin & Co. The
attorneys for the thresher company
claimed that the real object of the proceed
ing was to prevent the company from en-
forcing it's claim against the stockholders
named Information in the suit was filed
by the Attorney General and to this the
respondents filed an elaborate answer, to
which the counsel for the State demrred
The Thresher Company claimed that there,
was no grounds for the forfeiture of -
respondents franchise shown in the in + =
nation, but that the Supreme Court, be \ te
which the case was brought as q couTv OF
original Jurisdiction, had no jurisdiction to
decide the case. On the other hand, the at
torneys for the State maintained that the
court had Jurisdiction, and that abundant
grounds for forfeiture were sustained in the
information, and also for the appointment
of receiver for the company. The
Supreme Court, through Judge Mitchell,
holds that 1t has jurisdiction, but refuses to
forfeit the franchise Of the company. The
legal points in the suit were many and in
tricate, and the decision is rendered by
Judge Mitchell, Chief-Justice Gllfillan TAX
ing no part In the case
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13
A GiDDY COUPLE,

Two Octogenarian Inmates of a Cl,ari-
table Institution Ensnared by Cupid.
Patrick Mulligan, spoony swain Of
seventy-nine years, and Hannah H. Call, a
giddy girl of eighty-four, inmates of the
Ramsey County poor-house, eloped the
other morning and went to St. Paul, in
tending to get married When their fight
was known at the poor-house the police in
st. Paul were notified and an officer of the
union depot squad arrested the aged
couple as they stepped from the suburban
train on the Duluth road, which they had
boarded at Gladstone Mulligan has been
an inmate Of the poor house for two
months, but he was paying for his keeping,
and has little money left to ste.rt house.
keeping. Miss Call has been at the poor
house for more than two years. She has
worked in the kitchen, and was peelins
potatoes when Mulligan first saw hor ana
hoc0lne enamOre1
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13
CHINESE BURIAL PLOTS.
How the Colestials Of Now York Dispose Of
Their Dead.

How the Colestials Of Now York Dispose Of
Their Dead.
Few of the Chinese of New York are
wealthy enough to have their bodies
sent back to the Celestial Empire after
death, but none are too poor to receive
a respectable Confucian burial, so to
speak, with due rites of taper-burning
and funeral baked meats. The Chinese
own plots in Greenwood and the Ever
green's, on Long Island, and New York
Bay Cemetery, in New Jersey; and
their dead buried in these three places
number altogether several hundreds.
The Chinese plot at the Evergreens is a
lonely wooded knoll on the outskirts OF
the cemetery, where many simple
mounds and headstones are grouped
around a large slab, standing upon a
spacious platform-base. This serves as
a species of altar, where wax tapers are
burned and other rites performed when
a burial takes place-the mourners
coming in carriages, following the
hearse, in the conventional fashion.
Sometimes the personal effects of the de.
ceased are burned upon his grave. The
custom of depositing dishes of food, with
chop-sticks, as we'll as symbolic trinkets,
upon the tomb, also prevails; but the
surrounding neighborhood is a rough
one, and the burying- ground is free.
ly desecrated by the local "hoodlums. I"
The Chinese plot at the Cemetery of the
Evergreens is the temporary burial.
place of the late Ii Yu Doc, the Black
Flag Chieftain, who died in Mott street.
New York City, last year.-Frank
Leslie's Weekly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13
THE Powers THAT BF

AUSTRIA has $4,000 boilers and 1880 loco
motives.
GERMANY has $4,000 boilers, 10000 locomo
tives and LOO ships boilers.
FRANCE has $1,000 stationary or portable
boilers, 1000 locomotives and 1900 boats
boilers.
in the world have been constructed during
the last twenty-five years.
THH force equivalent to the working
steam engines represent, in the United
States, 1880, 600 horse power, 100000 in
Germany, 9.O0O,0 in France and ], 500, 00C
in Austria,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13
SCHOOL APPORTIoNMENTs.
Vhe Amount Aggregates Third of a
Million for Six Months.

AAA~ 1A.noulC Aggregates Ihlrd OF q
Million for Six Months.
The State school apportionment, which
settles the disposition of the State school
FUND, was completed recently. The amount
OF the fund for the six months, from March
to October, Is 1928, 1880, of which $l4S, 719 80
Is drawn raw from the general school fund and
$75, 900 from the one-mill tax. The total
number of scholars entitled to apportion
ment Is found to be 2l3,oG6, giving each
scholar $l.O5 as his share of the fund.
Twenty-tour new school districts have been
formed since last October, the number of
new scholars in each count being as fol-
lows:
Booker, 81; Benton, 20; Jackson, 10;
Ii -Qui-Parle, 45; LIE Sueur, 21; Marshall,
81; Otter Tail, SO; Polk, "A; Swift, %;
Traverse, IL; Yellow Medicine, 10.
The apportlonment for the State, by
countless together with the number Of
schools in each county, is shown in the fol-
1OwinO tAhle.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13

Il want stone steps to this house."
she said to the architect, as they were
discussing the plans.
"Yes'm, but stone steps are danger,
GUS in winter" ,..
Il don't care. Mrs. Blank has stone
steps to her house, and I'll have to
mine" =t4.. 1919
Eyes, but she fell on them and broke
a leg the other day"
'sThen I'll fall and break both legs,
I'm not going to let her crow over nle!''
Detroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13

man, when on the 7th, upon his motion to
reconsider the bill giving Duluth an addi-
tional judgeship it was taken up and pass
ed by vote Of ~ to 10. Senator Day re-
marked that 1T was Whiteman's tears
that doated the bill thr ough." Senator
Brown called up the resolution fixing the
day of final adjournment at April 5th It
was amended to April 10th and then adopt
ed. Senator Scheffer's bill to punish
drunkenness was carried by almost unan-
imous vote, but three senators voting
against it, Mr. Swenson introduced
measure preventing the clipping of horses
between the month of October and April
An attempt by Senator Buchanan, to have
the Duluth & Winnipeg land grant bill
placed on general orders without refer
ence to committee was defeated. Senator
Whiteman's bill provides for amendments
to the existing election law, providing for
machinery for voting on the Australian
system Senator Days bill allows in
mates of the insane asylums certain priv
ileges Of correspondence without censor
ship.
he first break in the monotony of the
routine of the house proceedings was the
appearance of the Secretary of the Sen.
ate who announced that the body had
passed a resolution to adjourn sine die on
April 10th and asked the concurrence of
the house. The hour of II having arrived
Mr.. Diment moved that the house go into
a committee of the whole for the consid-
GRAFTON of Hompe's bill submitting an
amendment to the constitution prohibiting
| the sale of intoxicants. Mr.. Hompe was
the first member recognized by the chair
and he spoke for three quarters of an
hour in advocacy of the measure Hoyt
of Goodhue said he favored temperance or
any law that would induce the same but
he thought the number Of voters who had
petitioned for the passage of the bill was
so small that he considered it an indca-
ton that the people of the state did not
want the measure enacted.
Mr.. Forbes, of Lyon, favored
the bill enough to vote for it, but his idea
Of temperance legislation was local option
by counties and the converting of license
fees into the county instead of the NUM-
cipal treasury. Temple favored the sub
mission. Lane, Of Hennepin was vigor.
ously opposed. At the close of Lanes
speech the house took recess until $3.50
p. m. The afternoon was devoted almost
entirely to discussion of the bill
and it was nearly 8 o'clock before vote
was reached. Young, Anderson, Elling-.
son and Fathers spoke favorably. Fle6-
ing, searle, Eastman, Ives, Hay and
Smith opposed the bill upon the same
grounds taken BY Hoyt in the morning
VIZ: That the number Of petitioners was
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13

n France Juggling is taught for the ben.
en- OF the health. It brings the muscles
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-13

Most of the time Of the Senate was &C.
hupied on the 5th with Whiteman's bill
Creating an additional judge for the Du-
Iuth district and the contest ended in a
sharp exchange Of personalities between
Senators Whiteman and Edwards. The
measure was finally lost by vote of %
4 yeas to IS nays. Senator Kellar presented
bill fixing the salary Of county attorneys
at $4,000, and Mr.. Dura1t measure
amending the laws relating to the national
giaard, Mr.. Truax to repeal chapter
l46. General Laws of 1885, establishing
the board Of steam vessel and steam boiler
inspectors A measure to provide for the
appointment of committee to attend the
anti beef trust convention at St Louis was
offered by Senator Pope. Mr.. Edwards
Introduced q bill to amend the state re-
aSnrp school not to provide for the trans
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02
DEAF AND DUMB EDITORS.
The Kind of Newspaper That the Pupils
n Texas Asylum Publish.

The h1nd OF Newspaper That the Pupils Of
Texas Asylum Publish.
The Juvenile Ranger, edited by the
pupils of the deaf and dumb asylum near
Dallas, Tex, prints these juvenile produc-
tions:
Some boys have tobacco. They want to
smoke cigarettes. Some boys must not take
some matches from other boys. Some boys
will not give some matches to the smoking
boys. They must stop taking them from
other boys.
Misses Laura and Hettie Tackitt went to
Mrs. Jackson's and spent all day Sunday
with her. They had a splendid dinner.
Mr.. jackson, Laura and Hettie rode on
horseback In the evening and had nice
time.
The girls and boys were very sorry when
the horse died last Tuesday. He was loss
to this institution. The boys helped to haul
him off Mr.. Williams (stewart) will hunt
another horse in the country or town. We
hope he will find good one.
Captain Kendall's sorrel horse was very
sick. He died last Monday morning. All
the pupils and teachers were very sorry.
Some boys ran to the dead horse and gazed
at him like buzzards.
I. A. Williams went to the city, and as
he walked up Congress avenue on the side
walk he passed the laundry and saw Chi
nese woman. he was very much surprised
to see Chinese woman. He said that he
never saw one before. He said that the
Chinese woman looked very nice. She was
better looking than negro woman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02
A WHITE SPOT ON VENUS.
The Alleged Discovery Made by Some Cam
adian Astronomers.

The Alleged Discovery Made by Some Cam
Rdinn Astronomers.
From the Montreal Gazette
The Astro- Meteorological Association
met last evening in the Fraser Institute.
The President announced the discovery
during March of white marking on the
rings of Saturn. This had first been
noticed by Terby in Belgium and
later by American astronomers. Thirty
two water-color drawings of the
planet Venus, the result of Mr..
Walter q. Smiths observational work on
that planet during March, were submitted.
He explained the various interesting
changes noticed as the planet had drawn
rapidly nearer the earth. There had been
several alterations in the 'terminator, Z"
which had in ten nights been perceptibly
indented. These indentations might be due
to deep valleys or dense clouds. Projections
at the south cusp of the planet had been
visible at every observation from February
25 to March IL inclusive. These looked
similar to the jagged mountainous edge of
the full moons disk in q telescope of high
power.
A feature of even greater interest had
made Itself conspicuous on March 21, when
"golden-white" patch had mspifested
itself at the north cusp, so luminous that it
appeared-and still appears-to project
from the bright white limb of the planet
similar to snow cap-or what is supposed
to be snow cap-so often seen by tele-
scopists projecting" from the limb Of Mars.
Browning. it was stated, had recorded
a similar observation (March. 10, 1859; SO
also had two other astronomers that year.
The shadowing gray spots had grown more
dificult to trace, owing to the lessening of
the sanlit portion and the great increase of
light on the narrow crescent still illumi-
mated. On II occasions during the month,
however, faint patches and streaks had
been traceable, revealing, in all probability,
part of the planets real surface uncovered
by clouds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02
Baseball Notes.

Baseball Notes.
The Mountain Stars defeated the Clipper
nire by l6 to 5 yesterday
THE Artics beat the nine known as the W. J..
Glenns yesterday, by II to s.
The st. Pauls beat the First Ward Blues
yesterday by score of 20 to Is.
The Mt. Washington Comets beat the Hardy
mans on Decoration Day for stake Of s. a
side.
The choir nine Of the Church of the Good
Shepherd beat the Hazelwood Stars by II to 8
yesterday.
The Virginia Stars want to play any team
whose members are under IA years Of age Ad-
dress Albert Hills.
THE ]. F. Galvins want to play the Schoen-
fields or the Freeports. Address j. 8. English,
194 CHARTERS street, Allegheny.
THE Silver Bells, of the West End, beat the
BoItons yesterday by 20 to a. The winners
wart to hear from any junior club.
THE game between the freight clerks of the
B. d o. and the P. & w. on Decoration Day
resulted in victory for the B. & Os. by % to Il
THE St. Clairs have organized and want to
play any of the local junior clubs. Address ].
Croke, corner Sterling and Mission streets,
Southside.
THE Oakland Stars beat the Cracker Factory
nine at Oakland yesterday by II to 6. The
winners want to play any club whose members
are not more than II years of age.
THE Rochesters defeated the Golden Stars
by score of 81 to IL. The winners want to play
any club whose members are only 10 years old.
The Allegheny High School nine were
beaten by the Lafayettes yesterday by a score
of 16 to II. The Lafayettes made base hits
and the High Schools 9. The losers made 10
errors and the winners 2