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The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

1t is reported that when the next season Of
produce selling opens New York marketmen
and wholesalers will sell their produce by
weight instead of by measure. This looks
ike another victory for the newspaper para
grapher. for box of strawberries with the
large ones at the bottom will weigh as much
as one arranged in the traditional style.
Some enterprisiDg dealer however will prob
ably invent process of growing stone hearts
In vegetables and fruit, and make up for his
tender conscience In that way.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

Sawtele had chance to go on. the witness
stand and tell the story that he is now telling
to the reporters. He did not avail himself
OF it, and the only possible reason for his
refusal was the fear of cross-examination.
But man who intends to tell nothing but
the truth Is not likely TO be afraid of cross
examination. No sensible person will take
the slightest stock in the tales he is now
telling. They are told in the hope of Great
Ing doubt in the public mind as to the
Justice OF the verdict. which may tell in his
fayer later on.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

The substitution for petroleum oil fuel for
natural gas and coal seems to be an assured
fact. In the west, notably at Pittsburg, oil,
mas been forced into the empty gas pipes and
being delivered to the iron and glass furnac-
es In the form of fine spray, is ignited and
burns with even more intense heat than the
gas Itself. Experiments have been in pro-
gress for several weeks at the fremont and
Suffolk mills in Lowell with the oil as sub
stitute for coal under the steam boilers and
entire satisfaction is expressed with its per-
Torrance. The apparatus necessary to fur
nish the supply is simplicity itself being only
a perforated pipe resting on the coal crate.
Ii any accident happens to the supply the
pipes can be taken out and the furnace
charged and heated with coal In half an hour.
The Lowell steam mill men are enthusiastic
10 regard to the new fuel, calling 1t cheaper
and better than coal, and declaring that
within very short time, perhaps year,
coal will be done away with in the Lowell
mills. There may be much for Maine man.
ufacturers in this new idea and it is not i'm
probable that within few years the fuel
account will be reduced from so many dollars
per ton to one or two cents per gallon, and
that trains Of tank cars will replace coal
trains on the railroads. This change will in
turn result in reduction in the price of
steam manufactured articles and cannot
fall to be beneficial,
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
TAPE WORM.


D r., No. FoxCRoFT, Feb. 10, 1890.
the many you have had from ali over the country.
most certainly believe it a duty that not only
owe 70 you, OSt anst owe S to suffering humanity,
no other cause than which have lust been re-
lieved by. the use of True's PHI Worm Elixir. /
Heg ~, taxing snS ehxlE a6r Dasam, having
manner as balsam, and besides, relieving me Of
quantity Of pin worms and tape Worn he
eighths Of an inch in the widest place. For 10 5n
expended In True's Pin Worm Elixir, 1 have heen
restored from the most miserable state Of heath
lof which 1 have suffered for years. to perfect
health and happiness. ] cannot recommend too
highly True's Worm Elixir, and am ready at any
time to answer any questions that may be asked
10 my case and to furnish scores of witnesses to
this testimonial.
Placing my name alongside Of the many al.
ready enrolled who have had good reasons for
saying God bless DR.. True, am,
Yours very truly, A. r. BRAGG
Foxcroft, Me. 12eod&w1ycS
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

Canadian papers are greatly disturbed over
the accounts recently published of prepare
tions for an emigration of 1900 Canadian
Frenchmen to the abandoned farms of New
Hampshire in the spring. The Toronto
Globe, free trade paper, slames the pro-
teetive tariff of Canada for the exodus, say
ing that 1t is not possible to pen up nation
or community by tariff laws. In the same
article French government minister is
quoted as telling the assembly as long ago as
1865 that 1t was the want of highways and
railroads that drove the Frenchmen across
the border for farms. With due allowance
Tor the wisdom and learning of the Globe, it
nevertheless strikes us that the government
minister is nearer the truth than the calamity
editor is.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
Notice of Dissolution.

FElHE co-partnership heretofore existing between
Il the undersigned, under the firm name OF
George 81. McKenney & Company, was dissolved
on the first day Of December, 1890. All claims
due said firm should be paid to Winfield s.
Sanborn, who will continue the business at So
and 81 Pearl street; and all liabilities against
said firm are to be settled by him.
Dated at Portland, Maine, this first day Of
December, A. D. 1890. GE0. II. MCKINNEY,
dec30d1ws WINFIELD 8, SANB0RN.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

The abandoned New England farm still
continues to give our free trade brethren
great consolation. Three thousand of them
in Maine is suggestive commentary, the
Springfield Republican thinks, upon the eff
feet OF protective tariff. Now the aban-
doned farm may be of great significance or it
may be Of very little. 1t may mean that the
protective tariff has been hurtful to agricul.
ture, or 1t may mean nothing at all about it.
The difficulty is to find out its meaning. To
say that the protective tariff has
been inimical to agriculture simply be-
cause some farms have been abandoned
since 1t was enacted is good Geal like say
ing that sanitary reforms are ilmical to hui
man life because people have continued TO
die since they began to be inaugurated. If
1t were possible to compare the state of
agriculture during period of twenty wears
under free trade tariff with its state
during period OF twenty years under pro,
tective tariff, the other conditions being SUBJ
stantlally the same, then the effect of the two
kinds of revenue policy on the farmer could
be determined with some conclusiyeuess
But such comparison is not possible.
Therefore the assertion that a protective
tariff is hurtful to agriculture and that a rev.
enue tariff is advantageous, or vice versa,
based simply on the condition of agriculture
today, amounts to very little. Three thousand
abandoned farms exist In Maine today under
protective tariff. But who can say that an
equal or even greater number would not
have existed had the tariff been of the free
trade variety? The abandoned farm. even
II 1t Indicates the decadence of agriculture,
does not by any means indicate that protec-
tion has been the cause of or has contrib
nted to it. But the existence of abandoned
farms. even three thousand of them, does
not necessarily prove that there has been
any decadence in agriculture. II A builds a
mill at some point In Maine and subsequent
~, finding better location, abandons his
hrst mill, and builds another in the more
eligible spot, the abandoned mill does not
show that there has been any decadence in
manufacturing. When the number of mills
abandoned exceeds the number of new mills
built then decadence is indicated. So with
farming. Ii the land abandoned in Maine
exceeds the new land put under cultivation,
then OF course decline in agriculture ia
shown. But the mere fact of the existence
OF abandoned farms prove very little about
the condition of agriculture in the State of
Maine. When the census supplies us with
the figures Of the number of acres under Gull
tivation In Maine today, so that we can COM
pare the present situation with that Of ten
years ago, then we can form some intelli.
gent opinion as to the changes in the last
decade, whether they have been for the bet
ter or worse. But the mere isolated fact of
5000 abandoned farms in Maine shows very
little. 1t doesn't show even that agriculture
has declined in Maine in that period. Much
less does 1t show that the protective tariff
has been hurtful to the Maine husbandman.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

There is certainly great deal of circum-
stantial evidence pointing to deal between
the Silver senators and the Democrats to
put aside the elections bill for bill for the
free coinage of silver.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 1.

we do not read anonymous letters and coinmu.
n'cations. The name and address OF the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
Farmers on the Rampage.

Maine farmers are as a rule conservative
Neople, and the ideas they enunciate are
uerally founded on honesty and common
o. But the majority Of the so-called
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

1t is certainly within the power of every
Southern State to impose upon its voters an
educational test which shall cut off its igno-
rant population from the suffrage The
constitution Of the United States simply for
bids discrimination against citizens by rea-
son OF race, color or previous condition of
servitude. There is not the slightest diff
Guilty in South Carolina in DISTINGUISHING
the great majority of the negroes in a way
which will be perfectly legal and to which
no exceptions can be taken. If it is igno-
rance that the intelligent whites of that
State fear, why not impose an educational
qualification? Why take an illegal way of
suppressing ignorance when a legal way
would be just as easy and more effective?
The only possible answer is that the legal
way would cut off from the ballot not only
great many negroes, but also many whites.
In other words, it is not ignorance that tho
ruling classes in South Caaolina want to
discriminate against, but color. Senator
Walcott is undoubtedly right when he says
that II large mass of ignorant voters should
swoop down on Colorado the intelligent
people would discover some way to
prevent their becoming controlling fac
tor in the government But the means they
would adopt would, we believe. be the legal
means of an educational test, and not the
illegal means of bnlldozing, ballot box stuff
fing and fraudulent counting. Nobody
blameS the South for objecting to be gov
erned by ignorance. What is complained of
is that 1t does not adopt the easy. legal
means of DISTINGUISHING that ignorance.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
NOT KEEPING UP TO TIME.
rSrinofiald Mass Trn;oo

The anti-tin plate organs are not humping
themselves to keep the run of the concerns
which ade getting ready to make tin plates
Of American material by American labor.
we have mentioned several which will be in
1ull blast within a few months, and here
comes the biggest of all, Mathai. Ingram e
GO. OF Baltimore, who have heretofore i'm
ported 100000 boxes of tin plate annually,
with plans to manufacture their own tin
plates and save nearly S1,50O,O0O yearly to
American labor. This is one of the fruits of
protection and 1t is sample of what is going
on all along the line.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.

THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
= Merchants Nat. Bank, of Portland, Me-, for
the election OF seven directors for the ensuing
year, and the transaction of any other business
tnat may legally be presented, will be held at
day of January, at 10 o'clock a. m.
j. Z. GILMAN, Cashier.
Portland, Me-, Dec. IL, 1890. decI3dlm
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,

THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of
= the First National Bank, of Portland, will
the thirteenth day Of January, 1884, at 10 O'clock
a. M, for the choice of Directors for the ensuing
year and for the transaction of any other business
that may legally come before them.
JAS. L: WENGREN, Cashier.
A.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
Cumberland National RAM,

THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Il Cumberland National Bank, of Portland,
will be held at their banking room on TUESDAY,
a. M. for the choice of directors for the ensuing
year and the transaction of any other business
that may legally come before them.
W. III. SOULE. Cashier.
Portland, Dec. IL. 1890.
decl2 dim
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
CHAPMAN BANKING COMPANY.

oxford Building, ISL Middle 81,
CORTLAND, MAINE,
Respectfully announces itself as organized and
prepared to
TRANSACT GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
DEAL In CHOICE INVESTMENT SECURITIES,
NEGOTIATE MUNICIPAL AND CORPORATE
LOANS,
SELL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXCHANGE AND
LETTERS OF CREDIT.
1t VIII receive the accounts OF Corporations,
Firms and Individuals on favorable terms, and al
low liberal rates on tins deposits. It has set
aside. and placed In hands OF Trustees, a Special
Guarnsiy Fnnd OF 100000 for the exclusive
Attention Is herewith called to the following
list of choics securities now offered for sale, and
recommended TO conservative investors:
$1,000 City OF Columbus, Ohio,
$4,000 City Of Newark, Ohie, street.
Refunding improvement. ............ SIS
IS ZOO Haskell Conaiy, Kas.. Refaad- .
81 600 81. Mary. Town.hip, Ka.., "
$4,000 Colorado springs, Uoi., Rapid
. Transit Railway Co., I.t Mort. :...... Is
Railway and Power Co., Ist Mort. IS
S25,00O CrawfsrdsvilIe, Ind, Water
100000 scioto Water Co., of nIarioa,
$4,000 Pierre water Work. CO., OF ~
$1,000 beaver De- nv Water Co., Of Denver, O
$40 1000 Deiroi, Bay City aaiiroad
$40, 200 Cape Girardian soaih iii
Railway Co., Consolidated. ........... 6's
Prices on application. Correspondence invited.
G. @. CHAPMAN. CHAs. J. CHAPMAN.
RoBERT CHAPMAN.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01
cuRRENT COMM emit.
MONEY WELL SPENT.

MONEY WELL SPENT.
Lowell Morning MALL
1t cost New Hampshire $4,000 to convict
Isaac Sawtelle,-a Massachusetts man who
had been pard0ned from the Massachusetts,
state prison,-of the murder of Massachu-
sets man found dead in Maine, but the
money was spent in good cause
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

Cumberland County Agricultural and
horticultural Society.
THE annual meeting Of the Cumberland
i County Agricultural and horticultural Society
will be held at Hardings Hall Gorham, on the
First TUESDAY in January, 1891, at 10 O'Clock
a. M, for election of officers for the ensuing
year, and to transact any other business that NAV
legally come before said meeting
Per Order, d. F. WHITTIER,
uecZSuzW* Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-01

MEETING NOTICE.

ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE.
nlHE Proprietors of Union Wharf Corporation
Il are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting
Will be held at the office of the wharfnger on
O'Clock In the afternoon, to act on the following
articles, viz: 1st.-To choose a President. Ind
TO choose Clerk and other officers for the
ensuing year. 3rd.-To act ON any other business
that may legally come before them
NATHAN d. ROBERTS, Clerk.
Portland, Dec. %, 1890. dec23dl3t
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-10-14
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.

FOR AUDITOR GENERAL.
GES. DAVID Mon. GREGG, of BsTkA
FOR STATE TREASURER
CAPT. JOIN ". MORRISON. Of Allegheny.
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Four Bodies Recovered.

PorrsvrLLE, Pa, October 3.-The bodies Of
four Of the Richardson oolliery victims were
found at Glen Carbon last night. Shortly
before midnight, at about IL o'clock, District
Superintendent Kealy gave the signal to
hoist the gun-boat up the slope, and when il
appeared at the surface it contained Mr.
kealy and The bodies of John Purcell and
Joseph Shields. About an hour later the
bodies Of John Lswlor, miner, and John
Salmon, driver boy, were taken out. The
coroner, after viewing the bodies pronounc-
ed them in good state Of preservation. He
adjourned the inquest until the arrival OF
Mine Inspector Gay to-day. After the in
quest the bodies will be taken 10 their home.
The men were all caught in the rush of
coal and buried beneath it, being crushed TO
death. The bodies of Michael Welsh and
Thomas Clancy have not vet been found.
1t was expected they would be found near
the other bodies, but just after Iswler and
Salmon were taken out another rush Of coal
took place, piling up several hundred tons
in the gangway and blasting all hope Of
finding the men until this mass is cleared
away.
The news of the finding of the bodies
spread like wildire to the surrounding vii
lages, and thousands of people flOoked to the
mine. A force Of coal and iron police had
to be put on 20 keep back the crowd Pur-
cell will be buried tomorrow at No 3
Catholic cemetery, Pottsville
Clancy and Welsh, the last Of the vic
Tins, were taken out Of the Richardson col
liery this afternoon. They had been buried
under mass Of coal 1t is now known that
the other men died Justification from mine
Gas.
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AS From the Dead.

BEAVER, October s.-A brother of Capt. d.
NJ. Donehoo, postmaster Of this place and Of
Capt. II. NJ. Donehoo, of Rock Point, who
left the old homestead near Burgettstown
fifty years ago, and who has not been heard
from since that time, astonished the family
OF Capt. d. ". Donehoo by stepping into
the residence about O'Clock last evening.
For many years the relatives Of the miss
ing man thought be was murdered. He
tells singular story. He is married and
resides at some place in Alabama, and has a
son and daughter grown up. He wrote a
letter after letter to Burgettstown but says
ne never received any answer, and supposed
bis fathers family were either dead or scat
tered off to other places. He looks hale and
hearty.
As Capt. d. NJ. Donshoo is absent there
was no opportunity to get any further par
ticulars about this long lost brother.
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The case of Bishop pubs.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct s.-To-day's executive
session of the General Conference of the
Evangelical Association of the United States,
which was held in Christ Church, was
probably the most important that the body
will hold.
Bishops Bowman and Esher were expelled
from the Church, and Bishop Dubs, who was
found guilty Of certain charges by the Trial
Conferences, came out ahead of his enemies,
the General Conference having reversed the
finding Of the Trial Conference, and ordered
that he should be restored to all the rights
and privileges of the bishOpric.
ISDIAEAFoLIs, Oct. s.-The Committee Of
the German Evangelical Conference to in
vestigate the case Of Bishop Dubs. has re-
ported, sustaining the charges against him
The report closes thus: mot only his sus-
pension is ratified, but he is hereby deposed
from his Office as bishop and preacher in the
Evangelical Association and expelled from
the Church" The report Of the committee
was thea put to vote, and Bishop Dubs
was unanimously depOsed and expelled from
the Church.
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Mob's Bloody Work.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct l0-Wolves who's
chops were red with The blood of their yict
inns were never fiercer than the mob of mer
who beat down the jail doors here last night
and killed Joe Coe. Coe was colored man
and had been locked up for assaulting Lizzie
Yates, 5-yeur-old girl, who died. As soon
as the news of the outrage spread through
the city mob that had witnessed the ex-
cntion of Ed. Neal during the day assembled
at the jail eager to see more human blood.
Captain Cormack, of the Police Depart
ment mounted the steps. and showing gilt
tering revolver barrel in the face of the lead
er OF the mob said Another step and you
die
The mob then rushed to s rear door and
battered it down, and then broke through
four steel doors to the prisoners cell. The
police made no resistance At midnight
COe was reached. BE begged for mercy, but
was kicked and cGffed and knocked sense
less. He was dragged out and was dead be-
fore his body was hauled up TO an electric
light pole
Joseph Newshoffsr. who led the assault on
the county jail last night, has been arrested
and will be charged with murder. the only
Nebraska statute covering lynching prescrib-
ing that as the charge.
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Magee sees Victory.

PTzTs5URSH, Pa, Oct. s.-Chris Mssee has
arrived home from 8 tour of the East
He was asked as 10 the prospects of the Re
publican party this fall.
Il don't think there is any question of it
The Bardsley affair has created some stir
throughout the State but this contest is Of th;
greatest importance 10 the Republican party
and ! think We viii have the usual Repnbli-
can msjority,' said Mr.. Magee. This cam
paign bears directly on the Presidential nghi
of'92. It is Of much greater Importance
than was econtest of 8 year ago, and see
no reason for alarm
What do you think Of the proposed Con-
stitu.iOnal Convention"
i don't think there win be any constitu
tiOnal Convention
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-10-14

A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas. SAYS
that Alliance Congressman John G. Otis
has prepared a bill for the consideration
Of the coming Congress which is pre-
sumed to represent the views of the ALI
ance on the money question. 1t provides
for pennies and niekels, silver and gold
coins and free and unlimited coinage of
both, and then S2,OOOOOOOOO of paper
money, each bill absolutely money and
not in the form of promise. 1t provides
that each and every kind Of money
mentioned in this section shall be inter
changeable with each other at par and
oe full legal tender for all debts, both
public and private" 1t provides further
for three treasury funds-the general
revende fund, the real estate and revenue
fund, and the national food and cloth
ing fund.
Think Of it! Two thousand million
dollars of paper money to be issued,
without anything behind it TO make it
good or with which TO redeem it! This
is the old "fat money" doctrine run
mad. Money would indeed be cheap, If
such crazy financeering were entered
upon. Like the Confederate money. a
man would have TO 90 to market with
basketball Of money to buy s vest pocket
full Of breakfast.
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Local Institute.

The following is the program for the join {
locel institute of Lincoln and Jefferson town
ships. to be held at Edie on October 81, 1891.
at $50 a m.
How TO make our Institutes interesting
Hirem Beck
Seat work for small pupils-H. D. Pile.
Penmanship, and How to Use tic. R. B.
Cramer.
Should Mental Arithmetic be taught as e
separate branch?-W. J. Moore.
Free text-books-C. c. Streng.
Select reading-W H. Howard.
Written work in school,. II. Moore.
EVENING SESSION.
The course II study and how to use it
A. Z. Fritz.
How TO interest citizens, and cooperation
Of citizens-S. J. Fit
How to make school-room attentive-E.
F. Bittner
Select Reading-Annie c. Berkey.
Moral Instructions in school-room-N. r.
Miller.
School Tactics-J. II. Schmucker.
All citizens, directors ard persons Of edu.
cation are cordially invited to attend.
COMMITTEE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-10-14

EVERY voter of ordinary intelligence
knows that the present political campaign
is but the preliminary skirmish to the
great presidential battle Of next year. II
Pennsylvania is lost next month, we will
go into the fight Of next year under very
depressing circumstances. The loss of
this election win be heralded as a verdict
againt the present tariff and against the
policy as well as the honesty of the Re-
publican party. No sane man doubts
that Pennsylvania is isathoroughly Repub-
iican State, and all know that it was lost
last year only through divisions in our
ranks. None know these facts better
than do the Democrats. Their only hope
Of success is through Republican divis-
ions or Republican apathy The Demo
erats have not word TO say about the
political issues Of the day, but they are
begging Republicans 10 come over and
help them because the Treasurer Of Phila-
delphia turned thief and is now in the
penitentiary. Let them once succeed.
however, and the shout will 20 up from
Maine TO Texas that Pennsylvania has
swung into the Democratic ranks, and
has rendered her verdict in favor of free
trade and a seveny-six-eent dslIar. IT
is the duty, as well as to the interest. of
every Republican to so to the polls, and,
If they do so, there Is not the slightest
fear Of disaster; bat if the State should
be lost by reason Of stay-ai-home voters.
when the shouts Of our victorious ene-
mies are ringing in their ears, they can
say TO thenselyes-I did il