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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-02
OBITUARY..
william Buxton.

Mr.. William Buxton of White Rock.
North Gorham, died at his home yesterday
morning, aged seventy live years. For half a
century he has been prominent citizen of
that town. He was native of Cumberland
For 12 years he was agent for the Oren-
tai Powder Company of South Wiudham.
He served many terms on the board Of
selectmen of Gorham and declined the nom
nation this spring because of his advanced
age. He was postmaster for number Of
years.
Mr.. Buxton was prominent Mason. He
was member of Harmony Lodge at Cor
Portland COmmandery. He leaves two sons
George III. Buxton with III. S. Melcher & Co
of this city, and w. S. Buxton of White
Rock. The funeral will take place from his
late home at White Rock at 2 o. m. Thurs.
day.
Charles f. DAILY died at Glenwood Spring.
Col, after long illness. He was a membe21
of Atlantic Lodge of Masons and ST AIhan
Commandery of this city. He was at ono
time a resident Of Denver Col, and is said In
have lost a handsome fortune by the faiIure
of a Western bank. He had many friends
here outside of his family He was abont
48 years of age.
Obituary Notes.
A Paris despatch announces the death OF
Gen. Ambert.
r. ID. Lincoln, an eminent Ohio iurlst died
in Cincinnati yesterday, aged rs years. He
leaves fortune of S1,000,000.
Congressman Wiloer, of New York. is
dead.
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Local Weather Report.

PORTLAND, Me-, April 1, 1890.
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In the Senate yesterday the House bill,
authorizing the Mississippi river commission
to purchase or hire boats cecessary to rescue
the inhabitants of the overfowed districts,
was laid before the body and passed i'm
mediately.
The public debt decreased $11, ,3S9, 1857. .48
during March.
Representative Merrill of Kansas, yester-
day introduced In the House bill providing
in all claims for pensions allowed, or here
after allowed. under section 4707 of the Re-
vised Statutes. the pensions shall commence
at the date of the death of the soldier.
A bill has been introduced in the House to
establish a national banking CODE.
A new England Congressman tells the cor.
respondent Of the Boston Journal that
"Unless something unforeseen happens
Reed will gavel himself into the Presiden-
tial nomination in '92. BY all
odds he is the most con-
spicuous man in the Republican party today,
and If the National Convention were to meet
next July Reed would be nominated"
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Total excess in precipitation during the
uuOutu
Total excess in preclpitat on since January
iSt. .o.ZI
Number of partly cloudy days............... 6
Number OF cloudy days. s........................ II
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The City Of Paris.

QUEENSTOWN. April 1.-Divers have stop
ped the ingress Of water into the City Of
Paris to great extent, and the extra steam
pumps which were put at work yesterday,
succeeded in clearing the engine rooms and
other flooded sections Of the steamer from
water.
As the water was pumped out the steamer
rose, and she is now up to her usual draught.
1t was decided to tow her to Liverpool, and
the voyage began tonight.
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Settled by Michael payltt.

LONDON, April Michael Davitt has
compiled terms for the settlement Of the
Liverpool dock strike. The two sides have
agreed to resume work Immediately.
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To Project the Seals.

OTTAWA, Ont, April 1.-Hon. G. II. Tup-
per proposes to amend his fisheries bill by
inserting provisions making it misdemean-
or to kill seals, porpoises, whales, or fish of
any kind by means Of rockets, explosive ma
terials or explosive instruments, or to allow
chemical substances, drugs, poisonous mat
ter, dead or decayed fish, as well as sawdust
and mill rubbish, to enter streams frequent
ed by fish.
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2 Monthly Weather Report.

Z Mr.. N. d. Lane, of the Signal Service fur
nishes the following summary of meteoro-
logical observations at the Portland station
in the month of March:
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TOTAL PRECIPITATION (IN INCHES AND HUN
DREDTHs) FOR THIS MONTH IN
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Madame TscnebrIckova's Fate.

Nme Tschebrickova, the Russian lady who
recently wrote letter to the Gar calling at
tention to the political situation Of the coun-
try, has been secretly conducted to Siberia.
Another report received here says she was
released by order Of the Gar. and that the
Gar wrote upon the letter sent him by Nine.
Tschebrickova, "This is bitterly written
nevertheless the author can be let alone"
Disorders among the students at the mill
itary academy and the institute of mines
and forestry continue, and further arrests
have been made.
The Gar and Czarina recently paid visit
to the military prison. The Car ordered
the release Of GO prisoners, and a reduction
of the sentence of 60 others
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Patents for Maine Men.

been granted to the following Maine men,
Millard A. Bates. Princeton, harness pad,
George W. Brown, Portland, grinding machine.
Charles III. Dickson, Portland. coasting Sled
henry F. Lane, Bangor, lock for extension
cases.
Irving Osgood, Ellsworth snow plow.
Charles II. Nelson. Portland. radiator.
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The Railroad commissIo n ners.

AUGUSTA, April 1.-The railroad commits
sioners in session here today decided to COM
mence their spring examination of railroads
the 10Th of April, taking the Portland &
Rochester railroad first, and the other rail-
roads in the western portion of the state.
They also fixed the second Monday of every
month as regular term day, commencing in
May, when parties wishing to be heard can
be present. A set of rules will be adopted.
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Found In a Nunnery.

MONTREAL, April 1.-The Grey nuns to-
Ouge of Manchester, N. H., his seven year
old daughter. Mrs. st. Ouge left her hus-
bands domicile four months ago, taking the
child with her and leaving it at the GREY
nunnery here where the husband has Just
found it. -
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ocean Patrol Recommended.

WAsHINGToN, April 1.-Representative
the House a joint resolution for the better
protection of human life on the Atlantic
Obean. 1t recommends the establishment of
ooaan notro1 w nj patinnc
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Rx a strict Party Vote.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The Senate today
confirmed the nominations of Judge Sprague
the northern district of Florida, after an
executive session of five and one-half hours.
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Foreign Notes.

1t Is understood that the betrothal will
soon be announced OF Princess Victoria, sis.
ter of Emperor William. to Prince Albert OF
-Altenburg. Prince Albert Is a widoWeI.
The Vienna correspondent OF the New
York Herald says the, Emperor OF Aestia te .ha
Pope as a residence. and is awaiting an ans
wer. ,...,.., N,ooda,, ,i,bt
"a Saiu oiioitons mo for the welfare of the working
cyasses. lie said that the decisions Of the
Tiabor Conference will be great stride for
Germany. but In only a few minor points
will they ADVANCE French legislation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
PONIES OF THE POTOMAC.
A Race of Splendid Little Animals Raised
by Peculiar People.

A Race of Splendid Little Animals Raised
by Peculiar People.
There is little island about $50 miles
down the Potomac called Chincoteague,
says Representative Brown, of Virginia, IN
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. This island
is Inhabited by a strange race OF people
and race of the greatest ponies in the
world. The people of the island fish and grow
oysters, and are a hardy, primitive race who
fear God and attend strictly to their busi-
ness. Hundreds of these wonderful ponies
roam the island, living in the summer on
the rank, coarse grass. In the winter they
subsist on seaweed. and in the spring are
mere frames, in consequence of the diet.
These ponies are unlike any ponies in the
world. They are about II to 1871 hands
high, nearly all sorrels or bays, and are
fine bodied and neatly limbed. They have
the head and eyes OF the Arabian. and the
superstition is that originally the stock came
from some thoroughbreds that swan ashore
from some wrecked vessel. What is more
remarkable about them is that they trot and
pace fast and are possessed of remarkable
endurance. In the spring you can purchase
a good pony for S25 and upward. The colts
are not gelded and stations predominate.
When the weather is bad and the waves in
undate the island scores of the little fel-
lows are swept into the water and are lost
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SELF-lGADE DEPEW.
How He Achieved Success without the Aid
of His Father.

How He Achieved Success without the Aid
of His Father.
In an address before the Railroad Branch
of the Young Mems Christian Association,
of New York, Chauncey NJ. Depew gave an
incident from his early life. Said he:
1.-THE best thing I remember connected
with myself is, that when 1 graduated from
Yale 1 thought L would lead life of
scholastic ease. I thought I would read
and write a little, take it easy and have q
good time. I had hard-headed old father
of sturdy Dutch ancestry. He had money
enough to take care of me, and knew it:
and when he discovered that knew it. and
intended to act accordingly, it was a cold
day for me, and he said to me: You will
never get dollar from me except through
my will. From this time forth you have
got to make your own way
"Well, 1 found had hard lot of it-no-
body had harder one-and the old gentle
man stood by and let me tussle and fight it
out. 1 bless him tonight with all the
heart and gratitude have for that. If be
had taken the other course what would I
have done? 1 would have been up in Peeks-
kill tonight nursing a stove, eursing the
men who had succeeded in the world, and
wondering Dy what eAceptlonal luck tney
had got on; but having my way to dig
alone, got beyond everything my father
ever dreamed OF; but it was done by Il
hours; or 16 hours or 18 hours' day, if
necessary. 1t was done by temperance, by
economy.
"When you make dollar, spend 70 cents,
and put the other 25 cents by. No man can
stand still. When God created us he did a
fortunate thing for US; he made us SO that
we must either go backward or forward. A
man knows more to-day than he knew yes
terday, or he knows less. A man who bot
toms chair gets up and goes to his meals,
and then goes back again and bottoms a
chair. and then to his meals again, in the
course OF FIVE years will be the biggest Ounce
in the community, and his opinions will not
be worth knowing. He will lose his power
for work, and will not be worth cents an
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AMERICAN BEET SUGAR,
1t is Already Up to the Standard of the
Product of G Germany.
Ht

1t is Already Up to the Standard of the
Product of Germany.
st. Louis GLOBE Democrat
81 have just received a sample of beet
sugar from the new mill at Grand Island,
Neb," said Prof. Wiley, Uncle Sans
chemist the other day. ''It is as fine sugar
as can be made in Germany or anywhere
else. It polarizes 99.9, and is, therefore,
near perfection according to the test. L
believe sugar-making will pay in Nebraska
and Kansas. Indeed. the bounty provided
by the Mckinley bill is better than the old
duty for the American grower, and if it is
continued few years the industry ought to
establish itself SO that it will pay without
either bounty or duty"
"Of course, it is expected that the bounty
Is only temporary, but it ought to be re-
tanned at least five years. By that time the
manufacture of beet sugar ought to be per-
manently and safely established as a paying
industry; and believe that ir five years
the sorghum sugar industry will have sue
cessfully and finally passed the stage of ex-
pertinent. The United States is fully compe-
tent to grow her own sugar, and if the pres
ent conditions are not disturbed for a few
years the desired end will have been accom-
plished."
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THE NATIONS PARK.
Scenes in the Two Thousand Acre
Tract in Rock Creek Valley.
FAMOUS FOR NATURAL BEAUTY.
Rich in Historical Associations and Fine
Old Battlefelds.
PLANS OF THE FIVE COMMISSIONERS

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
WASHINGTON, November 8.-Five men,
with 81 200, 900 to their credit in the vaults
OF the Treasury. have of late been cantering
their horses day after day over the roads
along Rock creek, the beautiful little tribu-
tary to the Potomac that divides Washing
ton from Georgetown. They are the COM
missioners appointed to buy ground for a
great park-General Casey, Major Robert,
General Boynton, Mr.. Ross Perry and Prof.
Langley.
The pretty valley begins close to the fash
ionable part Of the city, and two or three
years ago, before the ruthless speculator had
seized on the landscape to parcel it out in
square feet, it was possible to step in the dis
tance of few rods from the city's asphalt to
the widest labyrinth of sylvan wilderness.
Six bridges span Rock creek now within
the city limits, where but one stood when
Washington visited the Capital City. A
brisk walk soon takes one out of the city
and under Kalorama hills.
IT'S A GREEK NAME.
Joel Barlow, whose authorship of "The
Columbia had clouded his real merits as
the writer of "The Hasty Pudding" bought
this romantic spot in the fall of 1907. He
named the place, taking the Greek equivo-
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lent of Belair and Belvoir, common in the
nomenclature of country seats at that time.
A patch of sugar-corn in the valley is rust
ling In the afternoon breeze. 1t recalls
Barlow's lines about the stalks that
Shoe. the tall top-gallants to the sky,
Tine sucking ears their silky fTinges bend,
And ripening fast their swelling coats dis
tend.
John Howard Payne as a guest strolled
about Kalorama. Jefferson and Madison
rode up under the Kalorama oaks to chat
over a national university, farming, the
war with France and sundry other topics.
Robert Fulton came here to live with Bar
low, and in the winter Of 1907 planned and
built pretty summer house overlooking
the creek. On the pond back of the house
he first tested his invention.
THE FIRST STEAMBOAT.
In his velvet blouse, rufaed shirt, and
knickerbockers he spent many DAYS here
trying the first working model of the Cler-
mont. Tradition speaks positively on this
point and declares that with a rowboat on
the surface of this pretty pond. stretching
perhaps so rods to the North, nowhere
hundred feet wide or eight feet deep, the
first practical demonstration was made of
the mighty power of steam to sail the earth.
Upstream is the spot where John Quincy
Adams used to own and run grist mill.
He bought the place in 1927, paying SIC, 900
for the "a acres. Then there stood upon it
large stone mill 5ox75, of which now there
is hardly a vestlge lett. There was also two
stone houses, in one of which the Old Man
Eloquent spent frequent intervals OF respite
from public toll. A group of magnificent
beeches lining the road to the mill must
have afforded him favorite strolling place.
Just below the mill dam is a large, deep
pool that is now, as it was 80 years ago, a
favorite bathing place. The old man here
INDUCED in his favorite exercise of swim
ming.
SOME WILD SCENES.
All this is within the borders of the new
Geological Park. The creek describes a
mammoth 2 iu passing, and is everywhere
very swift. The farther we go the wilder
grows the scenery. The creek tosses itself
back and forth from one rocky side to an
other. Boulders appear now and then in
midstream, breaking the CLASSY current into
snowy spray. Huge oaks tower into the
sky, rock-studded promontories jut out into
the water course, high cliffs rise lichen-
covered like the perpendicular walls of a
mountain canyon.
The road to Pierce's mill winds along an
overhanging precipice, where a solid wall
stands between a sale and charming pros
pect and chasm so feet down. On the right
bank lie the beautiful country homes built
by Isaac and Joshua Pierce, one of them
built 100 years ago. The Younger of them,
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BRUTEs LOVE OF MUSIC.
Cattle and Swine Entranced by Strains From
German Band.

Cattle and Swine Entranced by Strains From
German Band.
American Naturalist.]
Opposite a house was a large field in
which some Il or 13 cows were put during
the summer. One day German band COM
menced to play on the road which divided
the house from the field. The cows were
quietly grazing at the other end of the field,
but no sooner did they hear the music than
they advanced toward it and stood with
their heads over the wall attentively listen
ing.
This might have passed unnoticed, but
upon the musicians going away the animals
followed them as we'll as they could on the
other side of the wall, and when they could
get no further stood lowing piteously. So
excited did the COWS become that some of
them ran round and round the field to try
and get out, but finding no outlet returned
to the corner where they had lost sight of
the band. and it was some time before they
seemed satisfied that the sweet sounds were
really gone. 1t seems strange coincidence
that both pigs and cows were charmed by
music produced by German band.
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TREES oF FOREIGN oLIMEs.

Mlny trees in this part of the valley are
foreign to its particular fora. The miller
at Pieree's mill was soldier in 1872, and
when he came home from the war brought
in his knapsack seeds OF various trees, the
horse chestnut, purple beech, balsam, white
pine and holly. These he planted and gave
to later generations.
Isaac Pierce settled in this part Of the
valley in 1892, and built what is known as
Pierce's Mill. In those days a gristmill
was fortune. Farmers came from dist
ance of 20 miles to have their wheat ground.
Now all that business has vanished, and
while Pierce's Mill still rumbles busily,
grinding wheat raised In Minnesota and
Dakota, manv an old Rock creek mill has
crumbled and rotted away until its site is
hardly knowp. Peters Mill seat three
quarters OF mile above Pierce's Mill, can
he found only on ancient maps. This
property belonged to Robert Peters, General
Washington's nephew. The millrace, over
grown with laurel and filled up with huge
masses Of rock cleft by frost can be traced,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
BACTERIA A BLESSING.
Though an Element of Danger They Are
Indispensable in Butter Making.

Though an Element OF Danger They Are
Indispensable in Butter Making.
Bacteria are extremely minute, not more
than 1-3OO0th of an inch in length, and null
tiply with wonderful rapidity; they abound
in air, water, soil, in animal and vegetable
substances, and in living plants and ami
mails, writes Prof II. W. Conn. Cold hin
ders their development. Heated long as
high as boiling water they are killed, and a
higher heat kills the spores. They multi
ply rapidly in milk to sour and curdle.
They gather and multiply on the
sides and joints OF milk vessels in the
minute portions of the milk which is is
difficult to wash perfectly. Hence the i'm
portance of keeping milk, so lar as possible,
free from them by the greatest cleanliness
and of cooling milk Immediately after milk
ing to prevent souring.
But bacteria also do good, and aid in the
"ripenlng" of cream, and hence the ad-
vantage of keeping cream favorable to the
growth of bacteria. As cold retards, and
heat, up to a certain point, favors their
growth, the reason for keeping milk cold
and cream warm is easily understood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
ORIENTAL POLITENEss.

How Hindoo Clerk Apologies for Taking
aForced Holiday.
The elaborate politeness of an educated
Hindoo is something remarkable. Here, for
instance, is the way young Hindoo clerk
recently wrote to his employer;
MOST EXALTED SIR-It is with the most
habitually devout expressions of my sensitive
respect that approach the clemency of your
masterful position with the self-dispraising ut
terance of my esteem, and the also forgotten
by-myself assurance that in my own mind
shall be freed from the assumption that am
asking objectionable donations if / assert that
1 desire short respite from my exertions; in
deed, a fortnight holiday, as l am suffering
from three boils, as per margin.
have the honorable delight Of subscribing
myself your exalted reverence's servitor.
JANJANBoL PANJAMJAUR
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COSMOPOLITAN NEW YORK.

Not SO Much One City as a Conglomerate
Collection of Towns.
One OF the curlosities of New York City,
says literary exchange, is the growing
tendency to form group of cities instead of
one, for as one moves about the eastern
streets he goes from one nationality to an
other. On one street, or group of blocks,
one language is spoken, and on contiguous
blocks, another.
Mulberry street and vicinity is wholly
Italian in spirit, in speech, in sports aud
employments. Mott street, little further
on, is the Chinese home, hive Of Celestials.
There is also Bohemian. Poland, Hum
gary. Palestine, while Ireland In pretty
much all over and everywhere.
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TRYING THEIR WINGS.
How Young Cincinnati Attorneys Win Thsiz
Maiden Laurels.

Maiden LaurelS.
Cincinnati Times-StarI
One OF the interesting matters ct the
Court House is the maiden attempt of young
attorneys in the criminal courts. Nova
days no growing sprig of the law considers
himself equipped for the demands Of fame
and reputation until he has had at least one
trial of facts involving the liberty of q fel-
low man. Consequently the judges in the
criminal rooms have numerous applications
from young attorneys for assignments. The
Court, always considering the nature of the
case, usually gives the young men q trial
When the fatal day arrives the young at
torney is usually the first man on hand.
He is soon followed by all his e1-fellov
students, who watch the proceedings with
critical eye, and the young trial lawyers
future is calculated then and there The
judges are uniformly kind to the beginners
But the real sufferers are the members Of
the jury, who are compelled to sit often for
long time and listen to a pale, CHASTITY,
trembling speech that begins with Gentle
men of the jury" and ends with o dive in
the mud in the same vicinity.
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The Gar of America.

Brooklyn Life.1
Walking Delegate-Jim, we must issue q
call for more money at the next meetin'.
Jim-What for2
strikers is starvin', and what's worse, I'm
entirely out of cigars.
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A Country of Ghosts.


Only Is per cent of the total population
OF Portugal can read or write, and it is no
wonder that when the wind blows from the
southwest every housewife locks the front
door to keep out the spirit of the dead. Let
farmer dream that he saw black pig on
the highway and no one within 10 miles Of
him will change his shirt for month, be-
lisving that by 30 doing he will start an spi-
demic,
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What a VIII VIII Do.

Dinghamton Leader.l
A story at hand, describing q love scene
between the hero and heroine, says: "He
wooed her with a will" That's good
way, especially if the wooer is old and the
will is in her favor.