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The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,

IHE IOh kLAND UAlL1 fRESSs
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
At 81 EXCHANGE STREET, PORTLAND, ME.
TERMS: Seven Dollars Year. When payment
Is made strictly in advance the price will be Six
Dollars.
RATES OF ADvERTIsING-On IIch space of
the length Of column, or twel lines n0npdreJ
constitutes square"
$l.50 per square, daily first week; 75 cents per
week after; three insertions or less, 81 90; con-
tinuing every other day after first week. 80 cents.
Half square, three insertions or less, 75 cents.
one week, $l.00; 80 cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, one-third additional.
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs" and "AUCTIoN
SALES" $500 per square per week; three inser-
tons or less, $1.60.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
Published every THURSDAY MORNING, at S26O
year; If paid in advance, 81. 90 year.
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in every
part OF the State) for 90 per square for first in
sertion. and 80 cents per square for each subse
Quent insertion.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
The French Tariff.

PARIS, o tober 20.-M. Roche, minister of
commerce introduced In the Chamber of
Deputies today, the general customs tariff
bill. 1t provides maximum tariff applica-
BILE to products imported from countries not
and minimum tariff reserved for countries
consenting to customs regulations calculated
to benefit French trade. Agricultural pro-
ducts figuring exclusively in maximum class
will not be considered in any arrangement
those will be exempt from duty which are
indispensable to great manufacturers. Pro-
ducts thus admitted free include raw silks,
woods, raw hides and raw cotton
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
PromInent smueeIeys cauoot

WARSAW, October 2O-A sensation is
caused here by the trial of three merchants
named Holtsberger, Rittenberger and Kahan
ON the charge Of long continued Smuggling
silks from Germany into Russia. 1t Is un@
derstood that they smuggled these goods to
the amount of 10000 pounds. Bail was fixed
at &C, 900 roubles.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
Honors for Gladstone.

LONDON. October 20.-Mr. Gladstone will
be accompanied by his wife throughout his
tour of Scotland. They left Liverpool this
the railway station at Wigan, and Mr.. Glad
stone was heartily cheered. The crowd
shouted that they did not want him to make
a speech, but wanted him to reserve his
voice in order to be able to speak in Mid
Lothian and demolish the Tories. Mr.. Glad
stone nevertheless made a short speech,
thanking them for the reception.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21

Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND, Me-, October 20, 1885.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
TO LET.

ITO LET-Up stairs rent of six rooms, at No.
u 1873 Pearl street. GEO. G. HOPKINS,
SSh Exchange street. 2Ol
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
Town offers a Reward.

NORWAY, October 20.-The town of Nor
way offers $500 reward for the arrest and
GS.onyiction COZ OF the parties breaking into Ell
nots and Bucks stores Sunday.
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21
William 8. Fisher.


LONDON, October 2O.-Capt. Sir Richard
Francis Burton, well known for his explora-
tion In Africa and other countries, died to-
daV
The Portland daily press., 1890-10-21

DOR sALE-The best 10c cigar in the city.
IL 1t is called Ways Imperial and can always
be found at WAYS drug store, Cumberland cor
ner Myrtle streets 3 for 25c. bunch of 20 for
$l.60; 100 for $500. III
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
HEROES. ALL.

Honor to whom honor is due. The
daring deeds performed by the soldier
boys of the First Minnesota regiment
in their brave efforts to rescue the pas
Sengers of the Inflated Sea Wing eX-
cite the highest admiration. The heart
of every Minnesotian must throb with
pride at the recital of the heroism of
these soldier laddies, for it shows the
kind of stuff our state guard is COM
posed of.
There was more true valor displayed
at Lake City last Sunday night than
was ever exhibited on battle field.
When a soldier goes into battle he has
the inspiration of his cause and the ex-
element of the occasion to sus-
tain his courage. But the exhibition
of heroism on Lake Pepin that
fateful night had no motive or
Indictment except that godlike quail
ity of unselfshness in human nat
ure which prompts a sman to put his
own life in peril for the salvation of
fellow being. The gallant soldiers of
the First regiment, who had been driven
from their camp by the pitiless storm,
no sooner learned of the disaster on the
lake than they rushed to the rescue of
the helpless victims of the storms fury
who were struggling with the mad
waves. Wherever boat could be
found it was speedily manned by the
soldiers. and willing hands propelled
the frail craft over the angry waters
ard through the tempest's roar on its
mission of mercy and salvation. There
could be no sublimer exhibition of.hero-
ism, and the name of every man who
was among the rescuing party should
be placed on the roll of honor.
Where all did so nobly it would seem
invidious to mention any single instance
of heroism, but the GLOBE deems it a
duty to speak word of praise for Gen.
MULLEN, under whose direction. the
rescuing party operated. He displayed
a GOODNESS, courage and the quality of
self-abnegation which stamps him every
inch hero. Neither the darkness nor
the tempest had any terrors for him
when he knew that the saving Of human
lives depended on the efforts of himself
and of the brave men under his COM
mand. He was among the first to reach
the capsized steamer and to bring away
the first cargo of human freight that
had been rescued from watery grave.
All night long he stayed at his post, di-
recting and assisting in the humane
work. Minnesota has reason to be
proud of Gen. MULLEN and the gallant
First regiment boys, and our citizens
should manifest their appreciation of
their hnroism
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
THE OLD PRINCIPLE.

1t is great thing to be independent
and Saucy. and not concerned as to how
others like the style. No great power
can better afford, perhaps. to play this
role than the United States. Ii other
nations don't like to put up as de-
manded for chance to trade with this
country, they can keep their goods. The
United States can manufacture or pro-
duce all it needs. The objection to this
view is that it can produce a good deal
more than it can use, and wants
England is the largest and best Gus
toner this country has for its surplus
agricultural products, and it isloSing its
good nature over the lack of mutually
in business relations. There is con-
slant effort in parliament to inaugu-
rate retallatory measures. The passage
OF the MCKINLEY bill will give
this effort new vigor. France is
putting up the fence too high for the
American hog, and will not allow the
corn growers chance. Germany finds
occasion to debar the seller of these ar
ticles, and Austria and Hungary are pc
titioned by their merchants to "take re-
prisals for the high duties imposed in
the tariffs of the United States" Spain,
Cuba, Mexico and other lands are dis
couraging traffic with this country.
Even fossiliferous China is waking up
enough to begin toget mad and threaten
to retaliate for the unfriendly attitude
toward Its. stray people. Perhaps it
would be we'll to isolate the United
States from the rest of the world and go
alone absolutely; but if it is to be in
the world, it had better preserve COM
mercjally amlcable relations with the
other factors of it. All the advantages
cannot be expected to be on one side,
The agricultural interests are specially
involved in this matter. They must
have an outlet for their surplus.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
IS THERE RIAME?

There is some division in pub lie opin
fon as to what responsibility attaches to
the captain of the steamer Sea Wing for
the horrible disaster on Lake Pepln last
Sunday night. On the principle that
our hindsight is better than our fore
sight it is easy enough now to see that
Capt. WETHEREN made mistake IN per-
uniting his boat, with its precious cargo
of human freight, to venture upon the
lake while a storm was threatening.
And yet he did precisely what
any other steamboat captain would
have doEe under precisely SIM
liar circumstances. The hour for
~ the departure of his vessel had ar
rived, and with that punctuality which
must ever be part of safe navigation
he loosed his moorings, and started his
boat Oh the return trip. The sky was
threatening, and storm was imminent,
it is true; yet it must be remembered that
the boat was under contract with its
passengers to return them home by a
certain time. Besides. the boat was not
so far from land but that cautious
commander would have felt justified in
taking chances on landing his craft with
safety in case a violent storm ap-
preached. Possibly no one apprehended
a cyclone; and, least of all, the captain,
who had made so many runs on this
arm of the Mississippi without ever en-
countering a storm of such violence as
swept the lake that night. His own
wife and child were part of the pre-
cious freight lie had in charge, and it is
reasonable to suppose he would not
have been reckless under such circum-
stances.
1t may have been misfortune that
CAPT. WETHEREN was not more timid
or that he did not have better foresight,
but we think it unjust to attribute to
him either willful neglect OF disregard
of the rules that ordinarily apply to
steamboat navigation. 1t is clear to our
mind that he was doing his duty in the
light that he saw duty; and, whatever en-
ror of Judgment he may have been guilty
of, right grievously has he paid for it,
In all great calamitieS the unthinking
public are always eager to find some one
upon whom to fix responsibility, and
about as often do injustice to the inno-
cent. just as weak human foresight
was Insufficient to warn the jewellers in
those cottages by Lake Gervais of i'm
pending doom, so it was in the case of
the officers and crew of the Inflated Sea
Wing. Nothing short of an Almighty
power and Almighty wisdom could have
averted the calamity in either instance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

Sam Jones says: ''If I don't get to
heaven will be one of the worst disap-
pointed men on EARTH" Sans diSap-
Dointment is going to be something
wonderful to behold.
An Owosso, Mich, firm advertises a
job lot of tombstOneS, and advises pe0-
pie to hurry up because there are only
few of them left. Here is golden
opportunity for people about to die to
secure bargain.
The hot weather has been the means
of killing a Chicago book agent while in
the act of selling a book to deaf and
dumb man. This is certainly an in
stance of the survival of the tittest.
Many cities that clamored for re-
count are now satisfied with the first
figures.
John r. Mccall will accept the Re-
publican nomination for governor OF
Tennessee, but it is unnecessary to
state that he will never be called upon
to fill the gubernatorial chair. 1t will
be case of called back with Mr.. Nc
Call.
Joseph Shannon, the Pennsylvania
man, says the Detroit Free Press. who
was beaten out of $4,000 by three card
monte men, says he had read the trick
in the papers hundred times, but sup
posed it was something put In to fill up
on. He was filled up pretty full, and
he will believe every word in the pa
pers after this.
The peach crop still remains failure.
Henry Willard believes that in five
years every kind of machinery will be
driven by electricity. This will be dire
full news for Philadelphia. Her pace
is little too fast now.
The Fresno, Cal, Republican says
with emphasis: Correspondents are re-
uuested not to write On cO!ored paper,
such as the backs of dodgers or brown
wrapping paper with gObs of butter and
Shreds of beefSteak on the reverse size.
The printers can't read it and the editor
won't.
Mayor Cregier suggests that Chicago
secure floating morgue. In the Ian
guage of McGinty, what's the matter
with her present one?
The meanest thief on record halls
from Lyons, LII. He entered the resi-
dence of an editor and secured several
hundred dollars worth of yaluableS.
He-is probably the only editor in exist
ence that had so many valuableS con-
cealed in his house, and he Will not be
guilty of it again.
In the new German reichStag twenty
six editors will hold down chairs.
The pen is playing an important part in
foreign countries these days.
Gen. Boulanger is writing drama.
If he is to be the star, and the star dies
in the first act, he has not lived in vain.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
TO PRODUCE RAIN.

Uncle JERRY RUsK is being guyed
extensively over his scheme to produce
rain in the dry regions by the explosion
of dynamite in the air. The theory is
not his, so far as it means that pound
ing the air will induce the conditions
needful for rain. 1t has been the gen.
eral observation that rain follows bat
ties where heavy artillery is used.
Capt. POWELL, as scientist, found
evidence that atmospheric conclusions
do cause precipitation. The philoso-
ply of the thing is immaterial. Uncle
JERRY is not concerned about theories.
The facts and water are what he is
after. He is to have small appropria-
ton for his experiment., and if he sue
ceeds in bringing down the fertilizing
moisture at will he will have the laugh
on his critics. 1t is presumed it will be
necessary to explode his dynamite up
in the air, where the clouds form, and
perhaps kites and balloons may be used
Possibly he may inaugurate new era
III the regulation of the elements.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

NoekamiXon township, Bucks county,
Pa, boasts of four-legged duck, which
uses them all in way that is sight to
see.
A Bangor. Me-, woman was taken
sick on the cars. The car was switched
off on side track and lett there by the
train.
Mrs. Eva B. Hart, who died near
Syracuse, n. Y, recently at the reputed
age of 113, smoked as far back as her
children can remember.
A Washington attorney offered to get
the editor of the Charlotte, Mich, Trib-
une a pension. The editor was ten
years old when the war broke out.
A twelve-year-old girl living at Cros-
well. Mich, fell into a butter crock, in
which there were but four inches of
water, and was drowned before help
reached her.
A Waterville. Me-. man was placed in
the lookup for being drunk. When he
awoke in the morning he discovered that
he had been sleeping with corpse all
night.
Waterville is proud of several things,
among them lady'S orchestra, in which
the little fiddle. the big fiddle and the
horn are all manipulated tremendously
by maidens young and fair.
"Dsisy," the veteran war horse which
carried Capt. William A. Hill, of Bos-
ton, through the battles of Gettysburg
and Antietam, died on Monday. The
horse was thirty-four years old
Flies lit on horse at Lapier, Mich.
and when the owner tried to drive them
away the horse kicked him in the face,
smashing his nose and bruiSing his face.
He will be disfgured for life.
John McGlynn, shoemaker of Kings
ton. suffering from an absceSs on the
neck, died suddenly on Sunday even
ing. At noon he said to his wife: Il
want good dinner; if l do die l don't
want to die hungry"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
HELP.NEEDED.

The GLOBE calls the attention of our
open-hearted citizens to the fact that a
relief fund is necessary for the help of
some of the cyclone sufferers. A num-
Der of farmers in the neighborhood of
Little Canada are left i'll sad plight.
Their houses, with the household goods,
were blown away, and. worst of all,
their crops were destroyed. They have
nothing to live ON. Most of them are
the owners of small farms, and have
no resources left for the immediate sup
port of their families. They need help,
and it is the duty of our people to see
that they get it. We have so much to
be grateful for Oh account of our escape
from the cyclones wrath we should all
the more forcibly realize the duty we
owe to those who were it's victims. A
large amount is not needed: perhaps
$4,000 or $1,000 would be sufficient; but
whether the amount needed be large or
small, it ought to be contributed. Who
will take the good work in hand of rails
ing fund for the relief of these suffer-
prS2
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
THE CENSUS CASE.

The arrival in the city to-day of the
assistant attorney general of the United
States will probably straighten out the
snarl between District Attorney HAY
and Special Prosecutor BAXTER. 1t is
understood that the assistant attorney
general will give his attention to the
census proceedings while here. For
some ineXplicable reason Mr.. HAY has
failed to understand the tenor of his in
StructionS to take a back seat while the
investigation was going on. He has got
himself so mixed up with the govern
ment in Imagination that he seems to
think the department of justice can't
move unless he is in command. The
United States authorities have taken
hold OF the matter, and as they are the
proper ones to dispose of it, the attorney
general has acted wisely in sending his
assistant to the scene of action. And
when the distinguished official arrives
we hope that he will be impressed with
the fact that all the good people of
either city want is an honest count and
the punishment of all raScals, if there be
any such, who have tried to make a dis
honest count.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16

low madly protested and made scene
of it. 1t may be readily credited that
he abused his privilege if he had any,
and made anuisance of himself. He in
sisted that he had right there as son
of his father aud secretary of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs, but he was
marched out, all the same. He is a
small specimen of man, as his treat
ment of his wife shows. Still, incidents
of this sort are not calculated to bring
the two great men of Maine into harmO-
NOUS relations. They have not been
regarded as likely to do the Damon
and PYthias act; and, should either be
candidate for president before the
Republican convention, it is not be-
Iieved the other will volunteer to do the
nominating.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Harrison has received a present
of a silk quilt. Truly this is the pres
ent administration.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the
poetess, thinks nothing of walking
twenty miles on her poetic feet.
Providence, r. L., has a female pastor
in the person of Mrs. Anna Garlan
Spencer, who has charge of the Bell
Street church.
Gov. Nichols veto of the lottery bill
has already won him the nomination of
vice president from Boston news
paper. So shines a good deed in a
naughty world.
Mrs. Della Cross, of Brooklyn, is
owner and master of the schooner Ore
gon, and is said to be the only woman
who is master of a sea-going vessel.
Paul Clifford has discovered terrific
explosive which makes no report. ANY
explosive which promises a noiseleSS
Fourth of July should be encouraged.
Sarah Bernhard says that whenever
she has tit of anger it is Invariably fol-
lowed by sickness, and the wonder is,
: therefore, that Sarah is not bedridden
all the time.
e Five members of the Havemeyer FAM
lily have insured their lives for 100000
each. The policies were written by two
agents and the joint commissions will
amount to 100000.
Justice Stephen j. Field is the poor
est man-in dollars and cents-On the
supreme bench, and yet he is several
removes from being hard up. His EST
dence is one of the finest in Washing
ton
Ex-POstmaster-Ge General James sympa-
thizes with the striking London post
men. He says they are greatly under
paid, receiving less than half the pay
of New York postmen, and they are
to do much more work.
SO Another woman who has made her
mark as lawyer is Mrs. Ada Bitten
bender, of Osceola, Neb. She has tried
many cases before the supreme court
of Nebraska and has not lost one. Mary
L. McGindly, of Detroit, was also re-
Gently admitted to practice law.
The Emperor of China sleeps on a bed
of carved wood magnifeentIy inlaid
with gold and ivory. and yet there are
times when neither poppy nor mandra-
CORA nor all tile dr0wsy SyruDs of the
world can medicine him TO that sweet
sleep which the tramp knows who has
no bed at all.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
THE STORY OF A DAY.

Cuba has Yellow Jack.
The Des Moines base ball club disbands.
Two Iumbermen are drowned in the St.
Croix.
The missing bodies at Lake Gervais are not
found
Minneapolis Republicans issue peculiar
address.
All the public offices of St. Paul will close
at noon on Derby day.
Delegates to the Farmers Alliance state
convention gather in st. Paul.
Minneapolis and Milwaukee win the only
Western association games played.
Third district Republicans assemble at
Glencoe to renominate Congressman Hall.
The Security warehouse Minneapolis is
burned, entailing loss of half a million.
Assistant Attorney General Cotton is on
his way to ST. Paul to straighten out the cen
sus snarI.
Citizens of the Fifth ward protest against
the variety and intensity Of the odors in
their neighborhood.
There is indignation at Red Wing over the
refusal of the officers to hold an inquest over
shose who were drowned from the Sea Wing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
TO-DAY-TO-MORROW.

From the Spanish of GustaFe Becquer.]
We were together-her eyes were wet.
But her pride was strong, and no tears
would fall;
And would not tell her l loved her yet,
And yearned to forgive her al
So, now that our lives are forever apart
She thinks: "Oh, had but wept that day!'
And ask in vain of nv lonely heart:
''Ah! why did turn away ?''
When you've drunk one draught Of this rosy
wine,
To set it aside were filter;
Though the taste is sweet and the scent
divine,
The dregs, alas. are bitter.
So when passion and youth shall have passed
away,
Would we feel no sting no sorrow-
Oh, my dear. let us madly love to-day,
But say good-by tomorrow.
Fanny Henniker in Blackwood's Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-16
STRUCK A sUNKEN LEDGE.
Boston Yachtsmen Drowned OF
Rive Beach.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. July 15.-On
Saturday last the small yacht Marion,
belonging to the Bayview Yacht club.
South Boston. left Boston in charge
of Capt. Vernon Locke with E. c. w.
Kimball, F. Goldsmith and Benjamin
Cobb, of Boston, for Two weeks trip
along the coast. About 9 O'Clock Mon
day night the yacht struck sunken
ledge off Rye beach. The captain
ordered all hands into the tender,a mere
cockleshell, which capsized. throwing the
men into the sea. The four men man
aged to get astride of the keel of the
tender, where they remained two hours,
the sea continually breaking over them.
when Kimball was washed off and
drowned. Capt. Locke and Cobb tried
to work the boat toward shore, but to no
avail, and as the captain was trying to
climb onto the bottom of the boat
again he was washed away. Gold
smith and Cobb floated for some
distance when a huge wave washed
them both off. Cobb succeeded in reach
ing the boat, but Goldsmith was not
seen again. This morning, about 6
o'clock, fisherman picked up Cobb in
an exhausted condition and brought
him here. Capt. Locke leaves widow
and several children in South Boston.
The others were unmarried.