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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25


The post Office department il the govarn.
uen. bureau nearest to the great mass of the
people and consequently comes in for the
largest share of abuse. Scarcely day pass
es without an attack on the postal service in
some ofits branches and no one thing is
more criticised than the provision of law
mat the lower grades Of post offices shall he
Kept In private places of business, the pro
prietors whereof are the postmasters. Ev-
erybody has distinct idea of the majesty
OF the government ard its departments and
feels that 1t is in measure weak point in
the system to allow private business and the
business of the United States to be mixed
up together. But as matter Of fact this pro,
vision of the law is a wise provision as this
item taken from the Pestigo uche, n. B., Pi.
oneer indicates:
Some weeks ago the postm;stress at Flatlands
resigned her position, but The z. o. Department
mas not yet accepted the same. The salary is so
small that the department cannot get anyone
there to accept the Office and the result is great
Inconvenience to the many strangers In that DIS
trlct. stamps are not to be had any nearer thah
Metapedia.
The trainers of the United States postal
laws doubtless had some such cases as this
In their minds eye and they constructed a
law effectually curing the defect. Il is
doubtful If fourth, fifth or sixth rate post
master on this side of the line ever resigned
because his official emoluments were too
small to allow him to live. By our wise law
he is not obliged to live on his Office, simply
acting as the agent of the United States to
further its postal business in his vicinity as
any insurance or other company might en-
ploy him. taking Only portion of his time,
as rule paying him we'll for 1t, and mean
while allowing him to attend to his own
affairs at other times. People who criticise
the postal system should take warning of
the Canadians and think several times be-
fore they advocate the replacing of pretty
good system on the whole, by one that ad-
mits inconvenient gaps and vacancies at the
most unfortunate times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
TUESDAY, Tho 18Th day Of August, A. D. 1890
Ar ngnIneIr "a. sha Rnu.wn~u

to nominate candidates for the following officers
-Four senator's; county attorney; clerk Of courts
sheriff; county treasurer; register of deeds; one
county commissioner; and also to choose county
committee for two years, and to transact any
other business that may properly come before the
convention.
n 1.-THE basis for representation will be one dele
gate for each city and town, and one additional
delegate for each seventy-nve Republican votes
cast for Governor at the last State election, and
one delegate for each fraction Of forty votes.
The delegates have been apportioned upon the
foregoing basis MS follows.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
CURRENT COM MENT.
HE MAKES THEM FEEL BETTER.
rSprinpfield HMM

HE MAKES THEM FEEL BETTER.
[Springfeld Uniun.1
Bishop Potter is very much liked in Eng
land. His pessimistlc views of American
society and politics are well calculated for
consumption in the British Isles.
THE YoNNG MANS AMBITION
Howell Cftizen.1
The Boston herald asks where are the
young men" That's so, where are they
Not at the summer resorts, surely; but stay
ing right here at home, pegging away in the
hope that some day they may have sufficient
means to marry as they would wish to marry
FULL OF PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
CKennebec Journal
The letter written by our N mister to Swe-
den and Norway, Hon. w. W. Thomas, jr.,
in answer to an invitation to attend the
twentieth anniversary of the settlement OF
New Sweden, which appears in another col
umn will be read with great interest. 1t is
full OF patriotic sentiments and Is such as
will help to make all residents of New Swe-
den more In love with the land of their
adoption, while in no wise surrendering any
loyalty to the "Fatherland."
HE EARNED IT ALL ONCE.
lChicago Times.1
General Sherman receives a salary OF
$15,000a year and doesn't do anything, u
says a New York newspaper Well, Uncle
Billy did good many useful things once
upon time. Ii Uncle Sam could only com
pei number OF men in Washington who
never did anything useful in their lives Il
accept $4,000 year and keep their hand.
In their own pockets he would be "a heaI
sight" better off,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

Our esteemed contemporary. the Argus,
seems to be basing its advocacy of license
chiefly on tbs ground that thereby fund
might be raised with which to educate the
rising generation. The fund might be en-
larged by including gambling saloons and
bfothels In the scheme.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

The Brooklyn Standard Union has been
turning its search light on the warning
States Of Central America in the hope OF
discovering the cause. The search has not
been overwhelmingly successful. In regard
to the cause the Standard Union says
There is no telling what 1t is. but the thing
is easily enough accounted for. In Spanish
America there are two Democratic parties to
each country, and one is as much as can be
endured, and the only safe way with that is
to keep it out of power" We hardly like to
say 1t In so many words, but it appears to us
that there is imminent danger of war In
this State. The symptoms that accompany
q war to the south of us are all with us and
there is no telling what the approaching
dog days may bring forth. 1t is about time
for another Democratic war in this State
anyway, being now ten years since the mill
tary were last called out on their account.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
PARALYSIS.

March. 1884, Miss w. is quite a singular "A
case, being one OF six sisters, all afflicted In the
some manner losing the Of their limbs gradual
y to the age OF seven or eight years. and after that
time having little control ever them. Two sisters
died. The brothers are not thus afflicted This
sister has had these symptoms increasing upon
her since her eighth year. Is now twenty-seven,
and for the last year has not been able to walk
without two assistants. She suffers no pain The
sisters have all had the best medical advice that
money could procure, but In no case has the
disease yielded to treatment.
The second week of Miss WIS stay In our hos
pital she said her stomach was relieved Of faint
ness she had always felt She was taking four
tablespoonfulS Of Liquid Food daIly Fourfh
week, able to walk about the yard, and 20 up and
down stairs alone. Eighth week. color improved.
eyes bright and clear, much more cheerful, gain,
Ing In weight and health. Eleventh week, has
gained eight (S) pounds In weight able TO stand
alone on the scales to be weighed goes up and
down stairs daily alone, goes alone to the carriage
70 take her drive, is cheerful and takes great IN
terest In everything that Is going on about her
sews, reads, makes many little fancy articles Tor
friends, and is gaining daily.
May, 1880, called ON Miss w. nj her
home, and she is in good health, able IN
perform light duties, and enjoys life daily.
10 A. L.. mURDOCK,
JeoO MW&Ftf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
PARALYSIS.

Reasons why 1t will not yield to medicine
1t comes from exhaustion Of the nerves and
muscles by their being weakened by extra labor
and not being able to utilize sufficient nourish
ment to preserve them in health.
Murdock's Liquoid Food will restore atIent:
to health suffering from paralysis, as we have
never in ten years known Of case that we have
not done 1t, as new blood gives new life, and BY
1t the limbs and speech recover their former OF
partial use for many years.
We Illustrate by two Of many cases that have
recovered during the last 80 days in Boston, as
well as the celebrated case that drew so much
attention OF the medical profession and press
six years ago, being the case of Miss Walkup Of
Pennington, Mass.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

Southern threats to boycott Northern mer-
chants in case Of the passage Of the Federal
election bill will not retard the progress of
that bill an atom. There was time when
Southern buster was potent at the North
That time has gone by. Instead Of retard-
Ing the bill such threats are more likely to
accelerate its progress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

The Boston Globe thinks IL the disturb.
ance Of the Baldwin Whang- Doodles had
occurred in the South it would have been
paraded over the country as evidence of the
lawlessness Of that section. The complaint
against the South is not that distu rbances
occur there, disturbances are liable to occur
anywhere. but that the participators in
them are net punished. The Baldwin
Whang Doodles were promptly arrested
and punished. The South Carolina ruffians
who recently hanged four negroes are. how
ever, still at large, and the worst of it is
nobody is pursuing them. 1t is not so much
the outrages Of Southern ruffians that the
North complains Of as the connivance In
them by the "best people,"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

The Argus intimates that the idea 1t in.
tended to convey in its now famous sem
tence More liquor and less tariff taxa
tion would cause old Maine to bloom
and flourish like a green bay tree
was not that more liquor would con-
tribute to Names prosperity, but more
taxation of liquor. That may be so, but it is
view of the case that sadly impeaches the
infallibility of the Professor of Grammar,
who is wont to rebuke through the columns
of the Argus the violators of the rules Of
Lindley Murray.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

1otal' 1872
The committee will be in session at the Hall at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon on the day OF the con-
venton to receive the credentials of the delegates
and attend to such other business as may be nee
essary.
E. DUDLEY FHEEMAN Chairman.
CHARLES A. TRUE, Secretary.
Portland, July 10, 1890.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

The Brunswick Telegraph accounts for the
recent disasters to Maine schooners on the
ground of the doctrine of election and FORE
ordination. While this may be in measure
the case, shippers win not yet be relieved of
the necessity of keeping their side-lights
burning and wide-awake watch forward.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 25.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nications. The name and address Of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee OF good faith,
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

but 1t is quite evident that the question has
developed into more serious and dificult
one than it has in the past appeared
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans Of Cumberland County are
hereby requested to send delegates to a County
Convention to be held at
Reception Hall, City Building, Portland,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

SECT. II. Whoever goes about from town to
town, or from place to place in any town, asking
for food or shelter or begging or subsisting upon
charity SHAH be deemed tramp, and be impris
oned in the county jail for not less than sixty
days. at hard labor for ten hours each day, Sun.
days excepted. And should any person so sen.
fenced refuse TO labor In accordance with the
provisions Of this section, he shall be provided
with no food, except bread and water, until he
shall consent to labor In conformity with the re-
quirements Of this section.
These two wanderers would be good subjects
upon whom the practical operation of this
act could be tested.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25

THE PRESS yesterday in its news columns
reported the presence In the city Of tramp
begging for food from door to door, who
made disagreeable threats when his demands
were refused, and warned people to keep
their doors and windows fastened. Since
then the tramp has been seen together with
another, in the old pig-Den under the West
ern Promenade making himself comfortable.
The last legislature enacted the following
law for the especial benefit of such people:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
JULY INVESTMENTS

WE OFFER, sUBJECrTO SALE,
City OF Portland as
City OF Portland 6's
BuckspOrt 6's
DamariscOtta 4 I-2's
Arson as
KennebunkpOrt, School SIS
Dayiess County, Indiana 6's
Holmes County, Ohio 6's
Portland Water Co. 6's
Portland Water Co. as
Calais Water Co, SIS
Blddef0rd & SacO Water Co. SIS
st. Stephens Water Co. as
Palmer, Mass, Water Co. 5,s
Des MOines, Iowa, Water Co. SIS
Omaha Horse Railway LIST Mort, SIS
Cleveland Cable Railway LIST Mort, SIS
WestbroOk M'f'g Co. LIST Mort, 5's
Also Various National Bank Stocks.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Masonic Notice.

Hiram Lodge will meet in regular
annual communication tonight in
the north hall of Odd Fellows Tenn.
pie, at 1880 O'Clock. There will be
work in the Fellow Craft and Mas
ter's degrees. The presence OF
every member of the Lodge is de-
sired. Owing to the fact that the
two Lodges will be consolidated in a
few days, no election Of officers will
be held this evening.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27

not leave home often, but enjoyed his
visit very much.
Mr.. Will r. Crut cher, wife and
son, of st. Louis, are visiting rela-
tives in Bellepoint.
Mrs. John w. Gaines and daughter,
Miss Adele, returned Monday from a
trip to Cincinnati. The trip was ia
ken for the purpose of having cata-
ract removed from one of Miss Adele's
eyes. and the operation was very sue
cessfully performed
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Damaged Train.

The G. &. o. train due here Thurs
day evening did not arrive until
about 9 o'clock yesterday morning,
and was in a rather battered and
damaged condition, most of the
glass being broken out of the win
dows Of the cars by the branches of
trees on the roadside, weighted
down with ice, coming in contact
with them.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
His Address Wanted.

Can anyone furnish us with the
address of Prof. w. w. Wash, who
was raised near this city. 1t is
thought that he taught for time in
a college at Lexington, Missouri, but
left there and went to California.
Anyone knowing of his present loca-
ton would confer favor by leaving
his address at this office.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Christmas Gifts.

The clerks, postmen and others,
connected with the post-office, sur
prised Postmaster Jas. M. Saffell and
Assistant Postmaster Chas. w. Safel,
on Wednesday morning, by present
ing the former with an elegant gold
headed cane and the latter with a
fine silk smoking jacket. Mr.. Harry
Rogers was the spokesman for the
boys, and in presenting the cane to
Postmaster Saffell, said:
Mr.. SAFFELL: Representing the
employees of the post-office in Frank
fort, am commissioned by them to
present you with this cane as a
slight testimonial Of their apprecia-
personal friend. This hallowed sea-
son, when peace and good will
every where reigns, makes it particu-
larly appropriate that we should, in
some way, attest our sense of your
uniform kindness and courtesies to
each one of us. Be pleased to
accept it, my dear sir, in the same
spirit we tender it, with wish that
it may be many years before you
will need it's assistance in life's jour-
ney; but may it ever be near to
assure you of our highest esteem
and sincere friendship for you as
long as life shall last.
Mr.. Saffell was too much surprised
to do more than thank the boys, but
will prepare his remarks later and
publish them in pamphlet form.
The cane is beautiful ebony one,
and the head is very heavy, hand
somely decorated, and bears the fol-
lowing inscriptions:
James M. Saffell, P. M.
Presented by
The Employees of the Frankfort
Post-otfice,
December 20, 1890.
The employees of the Hermitage
Cooper Shop presented Mr.. Hiram
Berry with handsome silver pitcher
Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. G. A,
Nelson, foreman of the shop, made
the presentation speech, and Mr..
Berry responded in a very feeling
manner.
Capt. w. G.. Thompson was hand
somely remembered by the members
of the Johnson Guards and other
friends, on Thursday morning.
And last but not least, we are
wealthy; we wear diamonds. The
ROUNDABOUT, Bindery and Jour
nal force, God bless them-the best
people in the world-remembered the
old man with a handsome diamond
scarf pin. Miss Maggie Griffin, OF
the Bindery, made the presentation
speech, and, as usual, caught us
when we were least suspecting it,
and, of course, we were like the little
boy the hen ran over: had nothing to
say. May the kind wishes which
prompted the gift never grow dim
while the handsome little stone con-
tinues to sparkle.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Entertain ed the Boys.

Postmaster James NJ Saffell enter
tanned the employees of the post
office at an elegant lunch, at his
residence on the Lawrenceburg pike,
last night.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Subscribers,

Look after yOur s'sbscrike.
tiOns. On the frs Nf .E;..i-
nary, we will revise Ossr lists
and drop all delinquents.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27

will sell you a Foster patent
kid glove, in any shade, at o5cts
worth 81 50. Come and try a
pair at Ed. Harris
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

A full line of Rogers & Bro. plated
ware and carving sets at Buckeyes
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-12-27

When in search of Christmas pres
ents, do not fail to visit Buckeyes.
Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-08
SUPERVISING FAcTs.
How the Russian Government Creates
Favorable Impressions.

How the Russian Government Creates
Favorable Impressions.
LONDON, March S.-The recent out
RACES committed by the Russian officials
IN Siberia upon helpless male and female
prisoners have led to inquiry on the part
of various correspondents and others
into some of the methods employed by
the Russian government to the end of
suppressing facts and creating favorable
impressions, with the result of ascertain
ing that vast number of persons of the
higher classes are engaged in the work
of representing the Russian empire as a
veritable paradise and the czar as an
angel of mercy.
The articles written by George Ken
nan and published in The Century, de-
picting the horrors of the Russian prison
system, obtained a wide circulation in
Russia until the censors succeeded in
preventing copies of the magazine con-
tanning the articles from passing
through the postoffices, but the seed
had been sown and the government
found it necessary to take steps to de-
stroy the crop, and at the same time rem
der the effects of the articles in America
as nearly as possible nugatory With
this object in view the government lately
sent to the United States fifty spies,
or agents, thirty-6ve women and
fifteen men, charged with the duty of
endeavoring to modify the impression
made by the articles ON the American
people, and also to secure the passage of
an extradition treaty looking to the re-
turn to Russia of fugitive political
offenders. These emissaries are under
assumed names, and are known only to
the secret police at st. Petersburg.
They are well supplied with money
and are instructed to hold no open com
munication with one another. The os-
tensible object of their visit TO America
is to lecture on Russian subjects, which
discourses viii he supplemented by the
publication of articles in the various
newspapers laudatory of the czar and his
government.
Ten of the fifty are directed to Wash
ington to ingratiate themselves with
both houses of congress, and to ultimate
ly gain entrance into the best American
society.
Already three of these emissaries have
arrived in America, two ladies of high
birth and one gentleman of equally high
social position, an officer in the Russian
army. One of the ladies is delivering
lecturers and giving readings on Russia
in the western states, and the other
is similarly engaged in the southern
states, while the gentleman is soiourning
in Washington cultivating desirable ac-
quaintances, writing occasional newspa-
per articles pertinent to his mission and
taking a general survey of the field
pending the arrival of his colleagues.
Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-08
A COLORADO SNOWSLlDE.
Four Locomotives Buried-A Roadmas
ter's Narrow EscaDe

-Four Locomotives Buried-A ROadmas-
ter's Narrow Escape.
WHEELER, Col. March 8.--One of the
greatest catastrophes in the way of a
snowslide without the loss of life oc-
CURED Wednesday night, five miles east
of this place, at what is known as Wall
cut, on the high line division of the
South Park railroad in which Two pas
senger trains came near being swept
away The train going west was rum
ming i'll sections. The first section got
stuck in the snow at Wall cut, and Sec
ton 2 came up with two powerful en-
gines to pull out the first section.
Roadmaster Dobbins was in front of
the head engine experimenting the
work when in an instant an avalanche
of snow came down, sweeping him
away He was completely covered by
the flying mass of snow. and carried a
distance Of several thousand feet-en-
tirely across the river-and onto the
Rio Grande tracks, where he managed
to extricate himself with great difficulty
He was severely injured.
The tremendous volume of snow was
piled entirely over the four engines, put
ting out the fires and completely bury
ing the mail cars, in which were Mail
Agent George Roberts and baggage-mas-
ter Mason. of Denver. It took some time
to extricate the men, but neither was in
jured Fireman Culbertson was badly
acalded
Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-08
LIMA OIL ADVANCES.
The Standard Though: to Have Diseov'
cred Method of Refining 1t.

The Standard Thought to Have Discov-
cred Method of Refining 1t.
LIMA, O., March S.-The Buckeye
Pipe Line company created a great stir
in oil circles Thursday morning by post
ing an announcement that hereafter the
price of Lima oil would be twenty cents
barrel, which is an advance of five
cents per barrel. 1t is the general opin-
ion that this is but forerunner of what
is to come, and that Lima oil will be
gradually advanced TO fifty cents per
barrel, which is about its true value as a
commodity.
The advance is of great importance to
this city and community, as it means
the influx of new blood and an increase
in the money spent by the producer.
There will now be an immense amount
of hustling done to obtain territory
which has not been developed.
The reason for the advance is gener-
ally understood to be that the Standard
company have finally discovered a
method Of refining the oil, and that here
after none of it will be sold for fuel oil
1t is thought this move means the equal
ization of prices with the eastern pro-
duction, and the making of the Lima
product certificate oil.