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The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01

ParadoxIcal.
Hicks-No, generally speaking, don't be-
| lieve in haunted houses; but my house has
been haunted by my creditors for the last six
weeks.
Wicks-R Rather paradoxicaI but l suppose
| that is because the ghost doesn't often walk at
| your house.-Boston Transcript.
| Arouse the faculties, stimulate the circula-
ton, purify the blood with Ayers Sarsaparilla.
All or nothing.
"No," said Charley Cashgo, 81 would never
try to break my fathers will don't believe in
it,"
"Hnmph," growled his father 81 should say
you didn't. You believe ia breaking The old
man himself ana having done with it."-Wash-
ington Star.
had catarrh of the head and throat for FIVE
years. used Ely's Cream Balm, and from the
first application was relieved. The sense of
smell, which had been lost, was restored after
using one bottle. l have found the Balm the
only satisfactory remedy for catarrh, and it has
effected cure in my case.-H. l.. Meyer, Wav-
| erly, NY.
His Bad Habit.
First Drummer-What hotel cid you stop at
when you were in Schenectady?
Second Drummer-Pye forgotten the name.
Hold on! Let me look. think have the key
of my room there in my pocket.-Lowell Citi-
zen.
Dyspepsia, tue root OF innumerable evils, is
readily cured by taking Ayers Sarsaparilla.
A Saving Man.
1--WE only want economical men in our EN-.
ploy," said the railroad superintendent to an
applicant for conductors place.
"Oh, that's all right" replied the applicant
eontidentially.. 81 can save $4,000 year ON a
81 200 salary. detroit Free Press.
The proprietors Of Ely's Cream Balm do not
claim it to be cure-all, but remedy for
catarrh, colds in the head and hay fever. is
not liquid or snuff, is easily applied into the
nostrils. 1t give relief at once. soc.
Use For All OF Them.
Foreigner-Zay tell me you hat nearly dree
hundred tovsand words in your langwich. How
effer can you use so many?
American (att0rney at law)-Hubi We use
all OF them, my friend, every time we draw up
an indictment-Chicago Tribune.
nDandruff leads to blanching and badness
Cure it with Halls Hair Remover.
"Sam," said high toned gentleman, "you are
honest. Why do you put all the good peaches
on top Of the measure and the little ones on the
bottom"
FOR de same reason, sab, dat makes de
| front OBJ your house, marble, an de back gate
chiefly slOp bar'l, sah."-Texas Siitings.
T. H. - . W
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01
RAILROADS.
Boston & Maine r. r.
In Effect October 4, 1891.
WESTERN nIVEaI0N.


Trains leave Portland Union stationl for
senrbero Reach, pine Peina. Zoo ioIh
a. M, $50, 5.15, 6.15 D, m: Ola Orchmra
Be9eh; sace, Biddefsrd, I 90 s.l5' io.i5 a.
M; 10 ~ 9'oU, o;io, 615 ?. M; Ken1ebunk.
zoo, $40 m, lz.4O, $50, 5'16. eI5 %. m:
Wells Bench. 7.O., s.45 az m 4 al Us ~ ~
m. /; Nerlb Berss teh, S-Feaf walls. Dayer.
100, a. s.45 a. m, 12.4o, $50, sis D. M
WoIfbsro, $40 a. M, 12.4c, $50, D. M,
worcester (via Great Falls and Rochester{
ZOO a. M; Manchester and Concord VIA
So Newmarket Junction. 700 a. m, $50 p. m. /;
JanctIon, n xeser, HaVerhiIi, Lawrence,
Jewell, Boston, 100, tS.4o am, sl2.4o,
$50 p. m.
Bo-,ou for Portland, 7.so, $50 a. M, 100,
400 p.m m.
Sunday Trains from Union Station, for
Boston and way stations, 1856, 4.I6 y. m.
RAsTERN DIVISION.
From Union Station. For Cape Elizabeth,
BOO a. m; Amesbury, 900 a. m. 800 y. m.
Biddef0rd, Portsmouth,, Newbarypsrt,
salem, Lynn, BOSTON, (f2.00 a. m. daily
tSo0 a. m, p. m. daily 1900 p. m,
m.daily) 1880 p. m, (7.OO .. m. dailyJ
FROM COMMERCIAL STREET STATION.
For Portsmouth, and way stations, 4.4O D.
m. tconneets with Rail Lines for New York,
South and West.
sConnects with Sound Lines for New York.
tWestern Division from No. Berwick Sun
days only.
sWestern Division from Dover.
Through tickets TO all points South and
West for sale at Union station, Congress street,
and at Commercial street station.
JAMES T. FURBER,
Vice Pres. and Gen. Man, Boston.
ID. j. FLANDERS. q. p. ana T.. A., Boston.
NJ I: WILLIAMS, zen. Agt. at Portland.
oct3du
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01
Grain Quotations.

NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
CORRECTED BY PULLEN, CRoCKER 81 90.
SATURDAYS quotations,
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01
While MeaaIalas and Quebec Line.
PORTLAND, MT. DESERT and MAtHIlS
ATEAmROAr IN

Steamer City of kichmond. Capt. VIM. K.
Dennison weather permitting, leaves Portland
for Rockland, Bar Harbor and MachlaspOrt, via
usual landings. Tuesdays and Fridays at IL D.
m. returning. leave MachiaspOrt Mondays and
Thursdays &C 4 a. M. connecting at Portland
with early morning trains for Boston,
PAYSON TUCKER,
Vice Pres anu General Manager.
Y. K BOOTHBY, Gen'L Pass. and Ticket Agent.
Portland, Nov. 20, 1891. EOy24dtf
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Portland wholesale m.,kat.

PORTLAND. Nov. 81, 1891,
The following are todays closing quotations
of Provisions. Produce, Flour, etc.:
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01

A ner'n y fb l00ll
Manliia.... IL @l2
Manila Bolt HOE Ii
RusSl Co.....l70lS
Sisal.. -. 7h % SM
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-01
FREEPORT STEAMBOATCO.

CTEAMER PHANTOM will leave Portland
- Pier Tor Freeport, touching at talm l,o.,i
Foreside, COusens'. Great Chebeague anu L hi
Johns Island and VOLTS Point, at p. m ualy
(Sundays excepted). RETUkNlNG. VIII i, leave .
South FreepOrt at a. M. touching ny an 'Aiiu-
senoitf n. d. SOULE, Manager.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
Oancerous Eczema.

For many years 1 have been sorely
afflicted with Eczema on my face.
The eruption was in large splotches,
and Cancerous nature. / mad treat
ment from a number of experienced
physicians, with little or no benefit,
and only ola temporary nature. AT
ter other treatments had failed /
bought seven bottles Of s. s. S. from
Messrs. Tennille & Holland, of Troy,
Ala, and it cured me. l feel like a
new man, my painful troubles and
apprehensions are all gone, and now
at sixty years of age l am once more
restored to health, and it is due en-
tirely to s. S. s. My Post Office is
Orion, Pike County, Ala.
HIRAM THwEATT.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mail
ed free. SWIFTSPECIFICC CO.,
Atlanta. Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

pension appropriation bill by the
House. The Senate made the attor>
ney's fee for all future increases Of
pension So, instead of 81, as the
House had it, and upon motion of
Mr.. Quay the new fee is only appli-
cable to applications filed after this
bill becomes a law. That motion, if
not interferred with by the House, is
estimated to be worth more than
5,OOO,OOO to the pension attorneys.
Mr.. Harrison is still wrestling with
the army of hungry republicans, each
of whom wants to be Secretary OF the
Treasury.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

WE print on another page today an
interview with one of the newly
elected Democratic Congressman from
Ohio, in which it appears to us he
gives very clear and sensible view
of the free coinage question. If the
government will put 100 cents worth
of silver into the silver dollar, less the
actual cost of coinage, there could be
no objection to free coinage, but il
looks to us like very bad financial
policy for the United States to take
the silver of the world and coin ii
into seventy-five cent pieces and give
them legal tender value of one dollar
each. Mr.. Harter's ideas appear to
us to be correct ones, and it will be 8
good thing for the country and the
Democratic party if the free coinage
measure now before Congress fails Il
get through.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Alabama must have a level headed
legislature. On Tuesday last the con-
vict lease system was "wiped out"
and hereafter that state will take
charge of her own cOnvicts. If Ten>
nesSee would do the sensible thing
she will follow in the footsteps of her
southern neighbor. For years the
Wing has favored the abolition ofthe
lease system and the employment of
our convicts in road building. Twelve
or fifteen hundred convicts could
build many a mile of permanent
gravel road in year and the state
and the people could not possibly
make a better investment. Knox
and Shelby counties got some of their
best and cheapest roads through their
work house labor, and why not try
the same successful plan with peni-
Tertiary labor?
The above suggestions are good, but
what is needed is some practical
scheme for working convicts on the
roads without an outlay of more cash
than the roads would cost to build
by contract with private parties. II
is an easy thing to condemn the lease
system, but the state should find
something better before it makes a
change. The management of fifteen
hundred convicts is a great big prob
lem. If they could be worked on the
roads, to advantage, the whole state
would reap more benefit from them
than in any other labor they could
possibly be put at, and they would
come in conflict with free labor les.
than any where else. If the Whif
will devise a practical plan for carry
ing out its suggestions, we believe
the Legislature will accept it and &C
upon it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

If THE penitentiary must be res
moved, and no one questions that the
best interests of the State prompts its
removal, why not divide it up and
build two, or even three, new pris-
ons-one in each grand division of the
State? Should the state ever ahan-
don the lease system, the convicts
could be handled to better advantage
in three separate prisons than in one,
and should the state ever attempt the
working Of the cOnvicts on public
roads the three prisons would aid
materially in a successful working OF
that plan,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
STANDARD MohIINNVnLE TENNEssEESATURDA FEB a. 1901
Hon. JrpPv S,,,psoN tho usock.

Hon. JERRY SIMPSON, the "sock-
less statesman" from Kansas, has be-
Come quite famous of late for various
peculiar freaks, conspicuous among
them being his refusal to wear socks.
But the latest and altogether newest
idea he has advanced is one bearing
upon the financial problem. We
quote from an exchange the following
brief outline of his idea:
"In an address to large audience
at Wichita last Saturday the Hon.
Jerry outlined his views. He an>
nounced that he was not "stuck" on
the precious metals as circulating
medium. He liked "bit of paper'
best, and he would leave the gold
and silver in the mountains, for they
belonged there. If he had his way
he would have appraisers appointed,
and they would make estimates OF
all the gold and silver in the ground
in the United States. When they re-
ported the exact amount he would
issue certificates against it to the full
amount"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Chattanooga Times: A Constitu-
tional Convention would, beyond
question, enlarge the scope of NUM-
cipal taxation in a way to empower
the people to build streets on the
most modern and best approved plan.
The people of all the towns and cities
should favor a convention on this
ground, if there were no others de-
manding it; and there are many 9th.
ers equally important to both The
city and rural populations.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
Over the Danger Line at Chatta.
nooga.
Special Press Dispatch.

Special Press Dispatch.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Feb. %, Up. m.
River rising at the rate of three
inches per hour. Gauge shows SO
feet above low water mark at 8
o'clock tonight. This is three feet
above danger point. All low parts
of city under water. The river will
go over forty feet. So far no great
damage done. Mills and warehouses
have taken precautions. Railroads SC
far all right, but trouble is feared
Raining here and at head waters.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Last Saturday the members of the
Legislature took a recess until next
Wednesday. If they had adjourned
sine die, the people would not have
been Observation-Disclosures Com.
mercial.
A great many alleged funny para~
graphs similar to the above are per-
petrated by the press of the state.
Had the Legislature adjourned sine
die the people would have been very
much disgruntled. Such an adjourn
ment would occasion a storm of com,
plant which would sweep the state
like a cyclone from its lofty eastern
mountain peaks to its fertile plains
which dip into the turbid waters o.
the Mississippi. There is enough i'm.
portant legislation before our General
Assembly to keep it very busy every
day of the short time allotted to it
and we believe this Assembly will
accomplish more good work thar
any other one which has gone before
it in the last decade.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

If THE press of the state voices the
sentiments of the people, and this is
a generally conceded fact, there is a
remarkable unamimity of opinion in
this state against the creation of an
other railroad commission. About
seven or eight papers out of EVERY ten
in the state have spoken out in oppo-
sition to a commission at present.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

IN AN election held in Nashville
for Mayor last Tuesday, only 543
votes were polled. The cost to the
city for the registration and election
was $500, or nearly five dollars for
each vote polled. The American
thinks now that the registration act
should be repealed by the present
General Assembly.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

LENT, the, forty days. fast observed
by the. Episcopal church, began
Wednesday, and will close with Eas>
ter Sunday, which occurs this year on
March 29th.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE constitutional convention ques-
ton will not down. The papers and
the people keep urging it, and it is
more than probable that the present
General Assembly will have the OPP
portunity of either passing or reject
ing a bill for calling a convention.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

WHILE we believe the force bill is
dead and buried beyond all hope of
resurrection, yet it will be just as well
for the states to hold up with their
appropriations for exhibits at the
Worlds Fair until after the 4th of
March. Some snakes are said to
strike very vicious ticks with their
tails long after their bodies are dead.
The force bill was a very venomous
reptile, and there may be danger in
its tail yet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
Cyclone in Alabama.

"a cyclone visited portions of Ala
bama last Monday evening, destroy
ing many buildings, and wounding a
number ofpersons. The towns struck
by the storm were Helena, Coaling,
and TalladegC, all in the eastern part
of the state. No persons are yet res
ported as killed outright, but several
of the injured may die.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THERE is a mighty struggle going
on in this country between capital
and la-ziness. Capital represents in
dustry. Laziness represent nothing
else on Gods green earth but lazi-
ness. Is it hard to prophesy which
will win in this struggle?
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

ALL of the Nashville papers are
very jealous in their advocacy of a
removal of the penitentiary from the
city of Nashville, but there is lin>
gering suspicion in the minds of a
good many people that should the
Legislature take steps looking toward
the removal of the penitentiary to
some other county of the State, the
Nashville papers would object vigor-
ously. The Nashville papers and
Nashville people would like to have
the penitentiary removed from their
city limits, but probably not outside
the limits of Davidson county, Nash
vile has enjoyed its benefits, as well
as borne with its disadvantages, long
enough, and when it is removed it
should be taken to some county to
which it will be of more relative adj
vantage than to Davidson. We be-
lieve it would be Of vast advantage to
Warren county, and would like to see
it brought here.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE heavy rains of the last two
weeks have put the Tennessee and
Cumberland rivers up very high.
The Tennessee has already passed the
danger line at Chattanooga. A boom
in the Tennessee at Loudonlbroke last
Tuesday, loosing several thousand
saw logs, the loss on which is esti-
timated between $4,000 and $4,000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

ONE more Tennessee town has as
serted its dignity and decency-Mur-
freesboro has passed hog law.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

The papers are making much ado
about meeting between Cleveland
and Hill in New York, some days
ago, and have magnified it into much
more significance than it possesses.
The meeting was quite likely neat
move toward Democratic harmony,
but too much newspaper comment
on it is calculated to defeat the very
purposes for which it was brought
about.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Are abundant; but the one best known for
its extraordinary anodyne and eXpectorant
qualities is Ayers Cherry Pectoral. For
nearly half century this preparation has
been in greater demand than any other rem
edy for colds, coughs, bronchitis, and pull
monary complaints in general
81 suffered for more than eight months
from severe cough accompanied with hem
orrhage of the lungs and the expectOration
of matter. The physicians gave me up, but
my druggist prevailed on me to try
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Hon. JAMES PHELAN, Member Of
Congress from the Memphis District,
died at Nassau, New Providence,
on the Both Of January. His body
reached New York on the 7th
inst, was carried to Washington and
placed in a receiving vault to await
the arrival of his wife, when arrange
ments will be made for the final in
terment. He was "a years of age,
and had achieved remarkable success
as a journalist, a politician and an
author. He was a profound scholar,
and personally genial and pleasant
gentleman.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE General Assembly reconvened
in Nashville last Wednesday after an
eleven days recess. Gov. Buchanan's
first message was read in both houses
and large number Of copies order
ed printed, together with his inaugu-
raj address. The message is strong,
forcible and sensible doeu en- t
throughout. He urges prompt legis>
lation on matters tending toward the
states progressive march in educa-
tiOnal, agricultural, industrial, and
general business matters. The Cow
ernor seems to have taken a clear and
comprehensive view of the states
general condition and needs, and
strongly recommends broad and
liberal policies, with sufficient apprO-
priations to carry them out in man.
ner commensurate with the proud
position of our grand old common
wealth, The message is highly cred
liable to Mr.. Buchanan, clearly show
ing that he has strong and sensible
convictions, with the courage to adj
vocate them vigorously. If the Gen
eral Assembly will put the Govern
or's recommendations into well
considered statutes, and thus give him
the opportunity to execute them, we
feel assured that the states progress;
under his administration will be emf
nently satisfactory to all classes.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE President has not yet appoints
ed a successor to Secretary Window.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14
Ayers
Cherry Pectoral.

did so, and soon began to improve; my
lungs healed, the cough ceased and be-
came stouter and healthier than have ever
been before. would suggest that the name
Of Ayers Cherry PectOral be changed to
Elixir Of Life, for it certainly saved my life."
r. j. Oliden, SaltO, Buenos Ayres.
"a few years ago took a very bad cold
which settled on my lungs. | had night
sweats, racking cough. and great soreness.
NY doctors medicine did me no good. /
tried many remedies, but received no benc-
fit everybody dcSpaired of my recovery. l
was advised to use Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
and, as last resort, did so. From the first
dose obtained relief, and, after using two
bottles of it, was completely restored to
health. - f. Adams, New Gretna, n. j.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE correspondent who sent out
the report from Knoxville last week
that there were only five pupils to
each teacher in the State University
at that place, has been convicted by
later reports of wilful and malicious
Misrepresentation of the condition Of
affairs there. He is the son of a
former steward of the institution who
was removed for good cause, and
loses no opportunity to vent his per-
sonal spite on the institution and its
President, DIR. Dabney.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

THE Chattanooga Times seems to
be engaged in an effort to work up
sympathy for Judge Warder, evident
ly with the purpose of getting him
removed from the hospital cell Of the
Jail to hotel or private house. He
has been guilty of the double crime
of drunkenness aud murder, and de-
serves no more consideration than
the poorest man in the state would
have under similar circumstances.
There are scores of criminals in our
state prisons who are faring no better
than Judge Warder, many of them
probably not as well.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

TOUCHING the railroad commission
agitation the Crossville Sentinel says /:
"The people of this county have suf>
fered great extortions from the rails
roads in matter of profits, and would
like to get relief in a proper way"
AS Cumberland county has only
about eight or ten miles of railway,
we presume the "proper way"
through which the Sentinel desires
relief is more railroads, and railroad
commissions are not reckoned as
special promoters of new railroads.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Mardi Gras was celebrated at New
Orleans and Mobile last Tuesday.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-14

Subscribe Cor the STANDARD. ST.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-01-23
The Axiom Holds Good.

Four or five of us bought tickets OF
Louisville for Nashville, recently re-
marked traveller, and as we walked
about, waiting for train time, young
man about twenty-four years of age,
who was travelling for q Richmond
house, broke into q chuckle and asked:
DO you fellows believe that honesty
is the best policy?"
Certainly" we replied in chorus.
$50 do lon certain occasions. This
isn't one Of the occasions, however"
We asked him to explain, but he told
US to wait till we were of. When that
time came he said:
THE ticket agent made mistake of
just S4 in my case, and l think 1t is all
right to beat him. Tho agent in Gin
cinnati once beat me out of SIS, so am
hardly even"
AS he explained the case he pulled
out wad of bills and counted them,
and all of sudden he turned pale,
jumped to his feet and gasped:
Great heavens! but I'm left!'
'1Iow?"
"Why, | gave him twenty instead OF
ten, and instead of me beating him
out of S4, he's knocked me out of SS
Some body hold me, before l break
loose and do awful damage?'