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a Yeungster from New Mexico Trav-
ling North Alone.

Boston, March 10-An S-year-old boy
stood in the waiting room of the Boston &
Albany depot this morning fighting offa gang
of South Cove gamins and protecting a big
basket full of food and big Indianlblanket
that was rolled around his personal effects
The little shaver contended against the great
odds with much GOODNESS.
First one and then another of the South
Cove youngsters would make an attempt to
secure some article either from the basket or
the blanket. But their efforts were uniform
ly unsuccessful. The little Swear. old
would fight vigorously whenever the
gang would get too near him or his belong
ings.
1t was a display Of great pluck, so that
when Segeant Thomas of station entered
the depot and drove off the gamins, he was
not so much surprised at the note which he
found pinned ON the little fellows coat as he
would have been otherwise. The note read
as follows
To whom 1t may concern:
The little traveller came from New Mexico.
Please direct him to police Headquarters so he
can be sent from there to his uncle, who lives In
Boston.
A NEW YORKER
The statement in the note that he was
from New Mexico was true. Ills uncle,
however, does not live in this city, but In
Nashua, n. H., and was to have met him on
his arrival here.
The boy is exceedingly intelligent for his
years and can speak three different Ian
guages- English, SPANISH and Indian. He
says that his name Is James Stamsiaus Me-
McGregor. and that he came from Galloupe,
N. Nj. He was born in South Carolina, and
has received something of an education at
Columbus, o. His father Is carpenter and
lives in New Mexico.
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Staples's majority 375.
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MoUNTAIN OF ILLITERACY.
Senator Higgins Thinks That the
Blair Bill Will Level 1t.

WASHINGTON, March 10.-ln the Senate
today Mr. Hoar offered resolution. which
was agreed to, instructing the committee on
rules to report rule defining the extent to
which senators may be at liberty to revise
their remarks for publication in the Congress
sional Record
Mr.. Plumb offered resolutions, which were
agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the In
terlor for statement as to the causes of
withholding patents for lands within the
limits of the Union Pacific land grants; and
also 1or copy Of the compilation n recently
made respecting the legal status of the In
tory.
AT o'clock the educational bill was taken
up Mr.. Higgins addressed the Senate in
advocacy OF the bill. He said il the view he
took OF II was correct it was the l. ost inn
portant measure now pending before Con-
gress. He regarded the measure as lending
to the hnal eradication of the differences be-
tween the two sections and the making them
one people. 1t seemed to him that if The ac-
tual condition of the agricultural section of
the South was compared with the Condition
of other states of the South, enioying the
benefits of manufactures and commerce. to
say nothing of comparing it with the great
North the enormous disadvantage would be
seen under which they rested in meeting the
problem of the education OF the people and
of the removal of the mountain of illi.eracy.
The bill went upon two great facts; that IL
literacy existed, and that the South was not
possessed of means adequate to meet 1t. He
pointed to the fact that localities received
state aid for common schools, and states
themselves received large aid in public
lands from the general government without
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A HARBOR FOR Big OCEAN LINERS.
Result of Uncle Sans Mud Digging
in Casco Bay.
Contemplated Operations Along the
Water Front of Portland.
Work in Progress at other Points on
the Maine Coast.
Special to the Press.l

WASHINGTON, March 10-The House COM
mittee on rivers and harbors is now making
up the appropriation bill, which will be COM
pleted in two or three weeks. The amounts
which will be given to individual places have
not yet been determined, but it is reported
that the committee is making up skeleton
bill in which the amounts asked for by
the engineers in each case are scaled down
one-half. They will see how large an aggre-
gate this gives, and then. perhaps, there will
be some more pairing. Maine is quite an i'm
portant state, from the standpoint of the
rivers and.harbors that have to be provided
for from the fund for improvements. In tfe
last river and harbor bill, Maine got about
100000, and the estimates of the engineers
and the estimates of the chief of engineers
would give it still more this year. if the rec
concentrations should be carried out The
places provided for and the amounts given
in the last Congress, and the estimates of the
chief of engineers for the present Congress
are shown in the following table:
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ND, MAINE, TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH Ii, 1890.

heir national force being lost or strength
I'd vigOr emasculated AS to the question
} constitutionality, he had no trouble about
It.. From the Northwestern ordinance of
II ITO the present time public lands and the
proceeds of public lands had been granted to
new states for educational purposes. 1t
seemed to him, in the light Of the facts, that
there was the largest equity on the side of
the South in saying that they should be help
against their own will and by the will of the
nation.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas, said the legisla-
ture of his state had instructed her senators
to vote against the bill, and he should obey
those instructions. He had no difficulty as
to its consttutionality. The question of its
passage was one of expediency. Schools
and school books would help to solve the
race question; but they were not the most
powerful agencies. There would have to be
moral uplifting of the negro; and this
would be-, Of necessity, slow. work. If the
negro could be taught to think, he would
learn that when he was moderate and con-
servative his white neighbors were with him
He would learn that those who undertook to
incite him to murder and arson were his
worst enemies; that his best friends were
those who employed him, but who would
not be ruled by him; that the intelligence of
the country must govern it. When the negro
had been taught that a great kindness had
been done him, he would be shown the only
practical way of working out the interests of
both races at the South.
At the close of Mr.. Jones's speech, the
Senate proceeded to vote on the amend
ments proposed by the committee, and they
were seveIally agreed to. The bill was laid
aside, and the Senate, after an executive
session, at 4.35 adjourned.
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condemned and destroyed at an expense
Of 1854, and 10 horses were
peuse Of 81, 800 so, making total Of 81. 1856 81
As compared with 1887, 48 herds Of cattle
were inspected, and 10 head Of cattle were
destroyed at an expense of $500 10,
while IL horses were destroyed seven
Of them tslng trace traced to Ssse one u lumber %6s
ing total Of S936.25. The decrease In the
number of horses destroyed for glanders Is
due to the salutary change In the law 1887,
which now provides that no. compensation
shall be allowed for an animal destroyed un-
der the provisions of the present act, that
may have been brought into the State with
in one year of such animals showing evil
dence of such disease.
The present number of cattle in the state
Excluding Portland, from which no returns
have been received Is 304,969, OF which 15O,-
000 are milch cows, while the horses number
127, ,346 Since 1880 the number of cattle in
the state has decreased 18,600 and since 1870
39,072; while the number Of horses hrs in
creased 23,347 since 1880. and 55,S32 since
1870. These figures are exclusive Of Port
land, which would decrease the number Of
cattle and Increase the number Of horses
materially. The cattle production of the
west account for the decrease in the former,
while the increase Of the latter speaks vol
umes Tor the foresight and intelligence of
our horse breeders.
An account is given Of the proceedings Of
the National Conference of the State Boards
Of Live Stock Commissioners and State Vet
erinarians which DIR. Bailey attended at
Springfield, Ill. This conference resolved
among other thing that tuberculosis
among cattle was a dangerously
contagious and infectious disease,
destructive to human life when the
meat or milk of animals so affected was used
for human food; that all parsons exercising
the calling Of dairy men should be required
to procure certificate from a competent
veterinarian that their cows are free from tu-
burculosis before being allowed to sell milk;
that states should pass laws for the suppress
sion OF the disease, and that when such laws
exist they should be rigidly enforced. Pre-
Yi0us to the passage of these resolutions the
state veterinarian OF Illinois had given 1t as
his opinion that the meat and milk of ami
mails affected with tuberculosis. even slight
ly, was dangerous to human beings. IL Is
said 81 per cent of the high bred herds Of IL
linols are affected with tuberculosis, while
in Maine the Commissioners do not know of
single case. New Hampshire has passed
law for the suppression of the disease, but
in Massachusetts IL is not interfered with,
though it Is said that 25 per cent Of all the
cattle in that state have the disease. APP
pended to the report proper Is an interesting
and important paper upon tuberculosis, its
prevalence and danger, by Mr.. Francis
Blake of Boston; and c0pious extracts from
the proceeding Of the United States Medical
Veterinary Association, bearing on the dan
gers OF the disease and the measures that
should be adopted to stay its progress and
prevent its communication to man through
the medium Of diseased milk or meat.
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PORTLAND, Me-. March 10, 1880.
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AGAIN IN LUDLOW STREET.
Another Desperate Scramble from a
Blazing Tenement House.

New YORK, March lO.-Ludlow street
awoke once more in the early morning to the
cry Of fire. 1t came from familiar corner,
1877, human beehive, six stories high and
sheltering 80 families in its front and rear
buildings. Policeman Baker found the
basement on fire at $3.50 o'clock this morning
and save the alarm. Halls and stairways
were filled with smoke and tenants we're
forced to take the fire-escapes without stop
ping to put on any clothing. The iron lad
ders became checked at once. Around their
lower ends the flames began TO play. The
fleeing tenants were driven to the rear, only
to find the fire roaring up there as through a
real chimney, making descent impossible,
5. Hirscherchon threw his baby from the
second floor fire escape into the arms OF
fireman who caught 1t, and lowered his wife
and three other childred to the street with a
rope. The most desperate climbed over the
edge OF che roof and made ready to Jump,
saved.
The whole damage by the fire was scarce
ly $1,000. No one knows how 1t broke out.
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SUSPECT TO INDICTMENT.
Judge Webb's instructions to Alder
man Carmacne of Riddeford.

When Alderman Garmache of Biddeford
was before Judge Webb in this city Saturday
to be naturalized, the court said that it had
not ruled upon the power of any court ex-
cept the municipal court of Biddeford, but
the ruling would be the same with regard to
every court which is organized under the
same provisions as those establishing the
Biddeford court. The court further said
that persons who had voted heretofore with
out having their attention called to the in
validity of their naturalization papers might
be technically guilty, because ignorance of
the law is no excuse, but that probably no
prosecuting officer would wish to proceed
against them with severity in view of the
fact that they had manifested a disposition
to proceed correctly, but the court further
said, thatJ being aduiSed that their certif-
Gates acere inualid, they then roted, there
could be no excuse and such persons would
be liable to indictment and sentence to the
severest penalties of the law in the State or
Federal courts, according to the Circumstance
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SALISBURY TO PIcoTT.
Mr.. Sexton Declares that He Has
Such a Letter.

LONDON, March 1O.-After further debate
In the House Of Common this evening on Mr..
Gladstone's amendment to the Parnell Com
missions report, the amendment was re-
Iected. In the course of his speech before
the vote was taken, Mr. Sexton said he had
letter marked ''private" from Lord Sails
bury to Pigott. Mr.. Balfour declared that
yller ealumny was never uttered than the In
slnuation that Lord Salisbury was connected
with the forgeries. He had the Prime Min
lsteI authority to challenge Mr.. Sexton to
to read it.
Mr.. Sexton retorted that he was ready to
submit the letter and others with 1t to com
mlttee OF inquiry.
Mr.. Balfour, continuing, denied that the
government assisted the Times to procure
evidence In America. He accused the Par
nellites OF withholding from the Commission
every source OF authentic evidence The
government made no charges az inst the
Parnellltes, and he failed to see why the
government ought to apologize.
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sEen IN DREAMS.
Ocean creyhounds Crossing the Sea
In Three and One-Half Days.

QUEBEC, March 10.-From America to Eu-
rope In three and one-half to four days. This
Is the dream OF number of English and
Canadian capitalists who are seeking incor-
poration at the hands of the Dominion Par
lament. Their aim is to reduce the length
OF the Atlantic voyage to something like
1,7OO miles, as against 3,052 between New
York and Liverpool. This they propose to
accomplish by constructing a railway along
the north shore Of the river and gulf OF st.
Lawrence, from Quebec TO st. Charles bay,
on the Labrador coast, distance Of 844
miles. With vessels steaming 20 knots an
hour, the promoters Of this scheme calculate
upon the sea voyage between ST. Charles bay
and Milford Haven, distance of 100 miles,
being made In three days, Is hours, as against
the average Of six days, eight and one-half
hours from New York to LiVerpool.
Quebec Is over 500 miles nearer to Liver
pool than New York Is, but there are no
ocean. greyhounds on the Canadian route,
and so 1t happens that with much shsrter
course the Dominion steamers not infre-
auently take two or three days more than
those sailing to New York to make the cross
ing.
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The Murder of CLAYTON.

WASHINGTON, March 1O-ln the House
today, Mr.. Lacy, of Iowa, from the commit
tee on elections, reported a resolution for
the appointment of sub committee to make
a full and thorough investigation Of the con-
tested election case of Clayton VS. Breekln-
ridge. At the request Of Mr.. Breckenridge
OF Arkansas, Mr.. Lacey offered a. amend
ment directing the subcommittee to investi-
gate all the events relating to the contest
arising therefrom after the election. MIR.
claimed that the death OF Col. Clayton was
intended to affect his rights TO seat on the
floor, 1t was due the community in which
the event occurred, that a full inquiry be
made into the matter. His idea had been to
broaden the inquiry so theHouse would have
the fullest possible information on eyery
thing relating to the matter, directly or in
directly. The amendment was agreed to.
and the resolution. as amended, adopted'
The House at 5.15 adjourned.
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THE BLUES NO MORE.
Company q DIsbanded- Captain of
the Cadets to Enlist a New Com
pany.

AUGUSTA, March 1O-The Portland Cadets
of Portland and the Sheridan Guards Of
Lewiston, NJ. Il. NJ, are ordered disbanded,
and their officers and men are honorably dis
charged. Company b, First Regiment of In
fantry. NJ. V. NJ, Of Portland, Is disbanded
for falling below the standard of efficiency,
and the enlisted men are honorably discharg-
ed. Capt /. III. Baker Of Portland is au-
thorized by the Adjutant General to organize
new company to take the place of Com
pany d.
This action by the Adjutant General is
to enable the Portland Cadets, which have
hitherto been in the reserve. to enter the
regular militia. Captain Baker, who is au-
thorized to enlist the new company, is the
commander of the Cadetsl.
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Both the Republican and Democratic votes
were smaller than last year.
The Democrats carry every ward. electing
the aldermen and councilmen. The follow
ing are the majorities for aldermen in each
ward: Ward /, 81 Ward 2, 81, Ward 3, 61
Ward 4, 65; Ward 5, &c; Ward 6, So; Ward
7, 40.
There will probably be contests over many
of the offices and the election will undoubt-
edly be reviewed by the courts.
The sheriff's prisoners were all released
from Saco Jail tonight, sureties being furn-
ished by two prominent Democrats. The
deputy sheriffs were released from the
Biddeford police station on bail, furnished
by prominent Republicans. Deputy Sheriff
Parker of North Berwick was arraigned in
the Biddeford municipal court charged with
assaulting City Marshal Tarbox. He gave
bail for his appearance at trial tomorrow.
The hearings Of the other parties will also
be:held tomorrow. The Democrats celebrated
the. victory by public meeting in City Hall
tonight
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THE MINE BECAME A GREAT TOMB.
ono hundred and sixty Probably
Dead In Welsh colIlery.
Gas Drives tho RescuIng PARTIES
Back From the Workings.
Mr.. oladstone's Amendment Voted
Down In tho Commons.

LONDON, March 10.-An explosion occur
red today in the Morsa colliery at Glamor-
ganshire, Wales. 1t is reported that 800
miners were entombed: Many we're rescued
from the workings nearest the main shaft.
Most OF these were taken out unhurt. Sew.
eral received fatal injuries. Heavy falls Of
rock prevent the explorers from reaching the
more remote workings. The choke damp Is
spreading. 1t is estimated that at least 160
lives are lost. Eight bodies, shockingly mu-
tilated, have been recovered from the mine.
The rescuers are constantly succumbing to
the effects of gas, and are .obliged to make
speedy retreat.
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the STATE.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.


The Monmouth Ice Company has lust
been formed. 1t includes several prominent
wealthy Monmouth and Winthrop parties.
All that can be cut on Lake Cochnewoggan
has been sold In advance through New York
parties. A ballding with a capacity Of
10000 tons will be erected at once. Il. W. q
ii. +. Morse, widely known Bath Ice opera
tors, are cutting a large amount of Ice on
Lake Maranacook, which Will be shipped in
cars to Bath.
YORK COUNTY.
Mrs. Shumway, the woman found last
week In destitute circumstances In Biddeford
and whose brutal husband was said 10 have
hailed from Portland, Is dead.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Theological Seminary have
Just Issued their seventy-hrst annual cata-
iiogue' The eatalogued number OF students
Is as Iolows: Seniors, 13, middle class, 8,
JunlOrs, IL; total, 80. The library has re-
celved number OF gifts within the past
year, among which was $500 given By b. d.
thatcher, Esq, one of the trustees, as
memorial to his father, Geo. a. Thatcher,
Esq. Books have also been received from
Mr. James III. Crosby, aud from the library
OF the late DR.. Cushing. There are students
from all over the United States, and every
year the classes are larger.
The new mill at Flanders Mills, Dexter,
soon starts running at its full capacity
which Is four sets. There Is a great de-
mand for this kind Of goods which are first
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AIN G..
Barque Reported Lost.


DAMARIsCoTTA, March 10.-The barque
Nellie May. built in this place some 80 years
ago, is reported lost on the Pacific coast. She
left Port Madison, lumber laden, for San
Francisco in January, and has not been
heard from since. She was commanded by
Capt. Artell Austin Of this place. She was
thoroughly equipped with life RATS and
boats. Although she has been overdue 45
days, the owners are confident she will come
in all right. Justin E. Perkins, also of this
place, was with Capt. Austin.
Captain Washburn Buried.
LIvERMoRE FALLS, March 1O.-The body
of Captain Samuel B. Washburn, who died at
Avon, NY, last Tuesday,was brought to:the
Norlands, Saturday, for burial. The funeral
services were held Sunday. Rev. Charles
Hayden of Auburn officiating. Capt. Wash
burn won distinction in the navy during the
war, serving under Admiral Farragut. The
deceased was one of the seven famous
Washburn sons, of whom William D., the
present United States Senator from Mime
sofa, alone survives.
Thinks Railroads Nuisance.
PENNINGTON, March 1O.--T. Emery Oakes,
who has been convicted of obstructng the
track of the Franklin e. Megantic railroad,
now denies his former story duplicating
Doyen and Buzzell, and owns that he invent
ed it, hoping to get out of the affair more
easily. He says he wanted to throw the
train off because he thought railroads were
nuisance anyway.
Gift to Coburn Institute.
WATERvILLE, March 1O.-The widow of
late Prof. Moses Lyford of Springfield,
Mass, has just given to Coburn Classical In
stitute the sum of $4,000 for the purchase
of an astronomical outfit and to place a dome
in position upon an observatory tower in the
building. The sum is sufficient for the pur
chase of full working outfit suitable for all
practical school purposes.
Drowned In a Sluice way.
RoCKLAND, March 10.-Edward Robbins,
young man IS years of age, son of J. Rob-
bins, was drowned in Chickawaukee pond
yesterday. He was trying the strength of
the nights freezing in a sluice way to an ice
house when he broke through, and before
help could reach him life was extinct.
Fire in Foxcroft.
FoXCRoFT, March 10.-Fire in the house
of Addison P. Buck, yesterday, caused $1,000
damage; insured. Mrs. Buck, who is sers
ously ill. was carried out on mattress.
Elmer Nickerson occupied the upper story.
Most of the household goods of each family
were removed.
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The brokers WIN Fight.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., March 10.-Today
City Marshal Rowe, acting under lnstIuho .hs
tions from the Board Of Aldermen anu le sne
Mayor, served notice on ali the STOCK oIoAess % as
doing business In this city TO close theI es-
tablshments ON or before Saturday next. .
The brokers propose TO continue business n
the same as usual. ~ LII asht In theI hitter
bitter end
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Swollen Tides in the south.

New ORLEANS. La, March 10-The river
in front OF the city has passed up over the
high water line Of 1874, and is now at the
highest point on record. 1t is rising from
Cairo 20 the Gulf
News was received here list evening of
break which occurred In the upper end OF
Chicot county, Ark. The river was a foot
and half below the tops Of the levees at the
asse is now forty feet wide, and growing
deeper and wider. The whole river front
from the crevasse to the Louisiana line
will undoubtedly be flooded within twenty
four hours, and also the whole of the Texas
and Louisiana basin, including five parishes,
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Alfred Republicans.
rSnecial to the Press.1
Quiet at North Berwick.

At the adjourned town meeting yesterday
one selectman, l.. w. Dyer and supervisor
f. G. Robbins were elected. Another at
tempt to elect the remaining five will be
made ON Wednesday, March II. A business
meeting of the town will be held next Mon