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The Republican journal., 1891-10-29
Obituary..

Died near Heneyville, Cal, Oct 4th 1891, Mrs
Lorena A. Blanchard, widow of the late Simon W
Blanchard. and oldest daughter of the late JOIN
and Lucy Robinson of Belfast, Maine, aged G.
years ii months and ID days. Besides hosts of
friends, she leaves to mourn their loss three sons
Edgar W., Albert S. and Simon j. Blanchard, one
daughter Mrs. Laura E. Patterson, five small
grand children. two brothers. John A. Robinson
Of Red Bluff, Cal, and Arthur w. Robinson OF
Belfast. Maine. and two sisters, Mrs. NJ. III. Black
OF Alameda, Cal, and Mrs. Mary j. Griffin of Sis
son, Cal. tribute to the memory of the de
ceased from local newspaper will be published
next week.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs RIA lph Emery
were deeply grieved Mt the tidngs of rs. Emery,
death, which took place at Detroit, Mich, Oct 23d
after BRIEF sliress. Mrr ETe-- Ca, 2 an 81 a.
Of two weeks. She had twice vi sited Capt. anJ
Mrs X. T. Emery of this city, ano while here lie
a large and pleasant acquaintance, who extend
their sympathy to the bereaved husband.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

WlNlEIFOEr. Hon. Seth L. Millikcn, Of Bel
III 81, dchlclcd MS popular lecture The CRU
sades at Union Hall, Wednesday evening TO a
very appreclatlVe audience Both the speaker and
his able lecture are too well known to need further
comment. Suffice it to say that the gOodly number
OF people who attende, We're we'll repaid for their
trouble. MIR. Milliken was accompanied bv mis-
daughter Miss Maudc, ana they were entertained
at Hon. Fred AtW0O0's After the lecture unite Il
large number of people called on them ana spent
a very pleasant social hour with music and con
vcrsation. Miss Mihiken favored the company
with several solos, which were gr ATTY euioytd ~
all lhe lecture was 'lNen in the interest of Union
ilai corporation and Ill probably be followed by
otHefS later on,...AI entertainment consisting Of
stcreoptcon views of Heroes and Battle Fields of
the Civil War, described by Charles Thomas Of
Boston, was given i'll Union Hall Thursday eve
nlng under the a spices of Warren Post, and was
said to be very line. 1t was followed hy a dance
and supper ...Miss Clara Cushman's lecture on
Home llfu IN China, at the Methodist Church
thursday evening, drew a crowded house and was
very Instructive and interesting 1t Is seldom that
II lecture OF the Kind brings out great number
or Is so well received by the people,. DR.. c. f.
Atwood has had the Old ell torn away from his
house and Is having new one built IT,. Mesers
Benz Atwood and /. j. Dunham returned from
Their trip Monday, bringing two fine deer -. Mr.
Manly McAuline lost horse Monday morning !.
Miss lottie +. Staples, who has been spending a
week with her aunt, Mrs. j. 4. Holmes, has re-
turned to her home in Belfast wv. T. Bragdon
who mas been spending hir vacation here has re.
Benz. Atwood have returned from their visit to
Boston and vicinity 1.-The ONE Of Mrs Joseph
Arey was the scene of very pleasant gathering
on saturday evening" oct. "A, the occasion being
the marriage of her daughter Helen l.. to MI
Joseph IL. McAuline, of Bangor. Following the
Norton, ice cream, cake, hot coffee ana fruits were
served.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

Oscar Strauss, aged nine years, set fire to
as he said, "to see the horses kick when their
tails were burning" He was sent to jail for
40 days. He ought in addition to be famed
with slipper that he might realize the fate he
had planned for the horses.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

They say the Food and Health Exhibition In
Boston was an object lesson In the art of stuff
ting. The distribution of free sample. Of foods
aid drinks brought in crowds Of greedy receipt
en's. 1t was the biggest free lunch on record
The Boston Globe calls Mr.. Mckinley the
salt and sugar candidate. But neither salt mol
sugar will save his Democratic opponent, judg
ing by recent advices from Ohio.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

| BROOKS. Mir. George A. son Of the late Jacob
| Roberts of this town. is now in the grocery bust
ness IN Portland and is located at31 tlantiC St
| Edwin Lang with his family has been visiting his
| father, John w. Lang ESD, in Bowdoinnam .
Mr.. Alfred Morse of Havcrhill, Mass, with his
wife Is Visiting at VIM. D. Hogan s. Henry Ron
| erts has moved into the Weber Simpson house
recently occupied by w. Il. Mason He is the son
OF Jonathan Roberts who formerly lived at South
frooks. He Will work in some of the clothing shops
| of the place ...Ots w. Lane, enterprising
tinsmith has put furnance into the house of eX
| Senator Rich The Doctor keeps large family
about ant. he is bound to have everything nice and
! comfortable. -. Robert Mc1aggart has obtained
rent i'll the house of Dudley simpson, 50 he and
Fila are keeping house. Geo. W. Burkett of Bel
last displayed his line of outside garments here
! last week. Mr. Dow keeps a good assortment of
| the latest styles i'll these goods and finds ready
! sale for them. C. E. Lane has returned from a
| business trip to Boston. Mrs Lizzie Chase was
at the village school house in No this (Thursday)
evening to arrange for singing school to be held
here by Mr.. Rollins of Unity ...E Elmer Roberts
and wife have returned from Il trip to the White
Mountains and points of interest in Massachu.
sets.
NINALnANES. Horace Hobbs, of Rocklan,l, who
was stating j. 5. Blacks house, fell, Thursday
from the staging, distance of about 20 feet. lie
struck Oh picket fence, one of the pickets going
into the heshy part of his thigh, making a very
bad wound, besides making many other bruises.
He was taken up inscnsible and doctor summon
a later report says that MIR. Hobbs was thrown
from the roof by his son, who insane. The
young man has been sent to the asylum at An
giSta.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

ways been regularly turned cut of power af-
Ter single term. The present Dcmocla attic
Administration seems to have combined all the
evil qualities of its predecessors, and for will
full expenditures, incompetency and fragrant
partsanship, towers above them all. With
such a record, 1t Is not surprising that the best
efforts of the Democracy are being applied to
prevent an overwhelming defeat Of both State
and Legislative tickets.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

1he Railway commissioners were brought
here last week on what proved a fruitess err
rand. The Idea that the company which pro-
poses to build an electric road from Belfast to
Northport would be permitted to go 1t blind,
regardless OF private or public interests. was
Of course too preposterous for these officials
to entertain. While this road, if built, would
be public convenience 1t should not be per-
mitted to destroy Northport avenue nor to in
jure property holders along its route. In this
connection the communication from Captain
Coombs, published elsewhere, will be read
with interest. 1t Is certainly important that
the city should be represented at the adjourn
ed hearing in Augusta Nov. %, and the prop
erty owners on Northport avenue would do
well to have representative present.
The Republican journal., 1891-10-29

VAN HoUTEN's CoCoA-The original, most solu.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
THE CASE OF JUDGE FRIER, WHO SUI
FERED THIRTY YEARS.
SLEM Or Arr

STEM, Or, April 10,
hereby certify that have been troubled
with disease Of the stomach and kidneys
for the last thirty years, and that after
using four boxes of the Oregon Kidney
Tea have found great benefit and relief
from it. A. H. F'RIER.
Late County Judge Of Polk Coudty. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
GouLp's wATEREp STOCK

Since Jay Gould's return from the west
reports regarding his health have been
alarming-that is to himself and his imme-
date family rather than to the general pub
lie. There was more or less doubt as to
whether he was i'll at all, though no doubt
whatever as to his ability to make some
other man very sick whenever he INDUCES
in what rhetoricians call vein of specu-
latlon. The opening for paragraph about
him afforded the opportunity to print
for the thoussudth time that he is worth
sl00, 100000. 1t may be, but he would find
it difficult to turn his paper property which
with some coal mines is otherwise we'll
watered railway and telegraph stocks into
one-half that amount of cash. The present
hard of the Aston family, young William
Waldorf Astor, is reckoned to be worth
$50, 100000, and it is land, houses and hotels,
solid, tangible. literally real" property
and he would be a fool if he were willing 10
swap it for Jay Gould's alleged 81, 600, 900
JOHN A CocKRILL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20

that they will give 1t up more readily than
any other fashionable folly to which they
have ever been addicted They never
liked it, and many ladies, with great credit
to themselves, refused absolutely to yield
to the absurd decree. The majority Of those
who did consent to drag this fashionable
ball and chain, did it under protest. A
woman's dainty tastes in the matter Of
gowns reyolted at the suggestion of dress
dragging over the filthy streets, aud she
drops the train, as one may say, with posi-
tive pleasure. If she cares for the approval
of mere man in such matters, she has it
without reserve.
OUR WELL PAID DOCTORS.
Absurdly extravagant stor es are told Of
the enormous incomes derived from their
practice by leading physicians in this city.
At least twenty are named whose annual
fees are said to aggregate from SO 200 to
$4,000. In point of fact it is not probable
that there aye ten of them who make $780, 600
year, nor twenty, all told, who run up to
$4,000. Some of the richest, like DR..
Thomas Adds Emmett and DR.. +. S. Dennis
are rich by inheritance or by marriage
apart from their practice. DIR. E. E. Marcy,
as the leading homeopathic, ma a
large fortune, which he considerably
enlarged by real estate specula-
ton, particularly by the increased
value of his Orange property, a large
portion of which was sold for cottage and
villa sites to his own rich patients whom
he advised to live, in summer at least,
where they could breath pure air." DR..
| w. l.. Polk, whose favorite extravaganza
is imported fine spans of carriage horses,
has grown rich strictly from his profession
| within a very few years. DR.. jacob with
his wife, who is daughter of the late G.
P. Putnam, the publisher, and is herself a
very distinguished physician; Drs. Jane
way, Loomis, Bryant Gillett and perhaps
half dozen more run up to 10000 prac-
tice, or perhaps little more. To Offset
| these there are hundreds who are happy
with from 1000 to $4,000 and other hun
dreds who have hard scratching to make
their board and washing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
OLD DAN RICE REDIvIvUs.

occasionally see that relic OF early cir
Gus days, Dan Rice, knocking about the
city. One of my earliest recollect,ous is
Dan Rice's circus in southern Ohio, with
Daniel as clown and the trained horse Elk
celsicr as the chief attraction. Uncle Dan
is at least seventy years of age. Nobody
knows how old he is. He is as bright and
active as q man of forty five, and is even
now endeavoring to raise capital to start
season of old fashioned one ring
circus in the Madison Sausre amphithe-
atre. When l saw him the other day he
danced dozen steps of jig just to show
me how springy and agile he really was.
He expects to be rich when his wife comes
into possession of her Texas lands,
but just now fortune is giving the
veteran Snowman decidedly cold
shoulder. His stories of early
circus days, when Joe Pentland was the
clown of clowns and Tony Pastor was just
learning to sing in the ring are decidedly
interesting. He was contemporary with
Sands and Nathan and Spalding and Rog-
ers and Barnum and Lent and Van Am
berg, and he knew them all. One good
story he tells on himself. He says when
l used to visit Louisville, KY, with my
show, George D. PRESTIGE, the great editor,
came to see me every night. He was quite
chum of mine. One night one of his
friends SAID to him that it was rather re-
markable to find him at the circus every
night. Well said Prentice, you known
Dan Rice has the reputation of saying
good thing; want to be on hand when he
says it,"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
ANOTHER BIG INSURANCE sALARI.


In former letter gave some current
insurance gossip to the effect that Henry
B. Hyde, of the Equitable, received q
salary of 800, 900 year as president of his
insurance company. 1t was stated that
this is supposed to be the largest sum paid
to any officer of a corporation in New York
or in this country purely as q salary, and
it undoubtedly is. Since that publication
have learned that William H. Beers, the
president of another big life insurance
company, was last year paid Sl25 200 by his
highly appreciative company, of which he
is an important part The insurance COM
panies do not make large publication of
these facts, but they have way of
getting out. For the information regard
lug MIR. Beers the public is indebted
largely to quarrel now going on between
him and New York newspaper. Theo-
bore NJ. Banta at that time cashier of the
company, but since removed for too much
loquacity, stated to a reporter that MIR
Beers salary was SIS, 600 year. In addi-
ton to this tidy sum, the editor of an in
surance journal is authority for the state
ment that the trustees of the company
voted him $50, 900 last December as a
Christmas gift. and have been In the
habit of doing some generous thing like
this every year for some time. The pub
Tic is apt to concede these to be very
handsome salaries, even emitting consid
GRAFTON of the Christmas gift, and won ier
at the same time, with the large profits
which they indicate, that insurance is no,
furnished to the people at cheaper rates.
The record-union., 1891-03-09

that Leidermann suddenly became in
sane and was placed III an asylum at
Nice. That night the two Germans left.
The body of DR.. Leidermann was after
wards found as described. The spine OF
the murdered man was puncturcc by q
pin similar to those used in prici.ng
cards at the gambling tables at Monte
Carlo. The pockets of the dead man had
been rifled.
1t was evidently the intention of the
murderers TO give an idea that the de-
ceased had been ruined by gambling at
Monte Carlo and i'll desperation had COM
mitted suicide.
The police sent n photograph of tho de-
ceased to Monte Carlo. There it was re-
membered that man of that description
had gambled there in company with a
reputed Polish Countess and her German
paramour. These two have been ar
rested and sent as prisoners to San Reno.
1t is supposed that the Countess decoyed
Liednann, but it is uncertain as to
whether the man, her paramour, was
aided III the killing. The police are in
clined to the belief that large gang are
implicated in the crime
The record-union., 1891-03-09
Wreck of a Fast Passenger Train
at Havana, Illinois.
THE FIREMAN KILLED AND MANY
PERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Unprecedented Rains Reported in the
With Enormous Rapidity = YaZoo
City, Alabama, Partially Inundated,
and Many Families Driven From
Their Homes.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
PEORIA Qll.), March S.-The Jackson
vile and Southeastern fast passenger
train, which left here at 1:30 this morn
ing, met with terrific accident at
Havana, Ill. The train consisted of a
baggage car, coach, chair car and two
sleepers, and was an hour and half late,
owing to a terrible storm raging.
AT Havana there is a sharp curve mile
and a half from the depot, and the engine
struck the curve at the switch and left
the track. All the cars followed, piling
up in great confusion.
The half-dressed passengers clambered
out of the windows and through the roofs
of the demolished cars. and fastened,
barefooted, through the sleet, over the icy
roads, for the nearest houses. The pas
sengers who were in the coach eXtricated
their injured companions.
Under the engine was fireman Saddler,
who was instantly killed. By the side OF
the engine was engineer Birkenhead.
with one arm and leg cut off.
The other injured are: Edward HON.
NETT. of Peoria, burned and badly bruised;
Walter Conover, of Manito, ILL.,, fatal in
luries; Charles Mulvaney, of Streator,
ILL.,, back and head crushed, and will die;
Miss Emma Rushton, of st. Louis, seri-
Ously bruised; express messenger Bates,
left foot torn off and badly bruised;
Frank II. Lewis, of Peoria, seriously
jammed in the breast; conductor Ken
nedy, of Eureka, H., and brakeman
Hughes, severely injured.
The wreck Immediately took fire and
burned with great rapidity. 1t was with
the utmost difficulty that some of the
passengers were rescued, and one or two
were severely burned.
A wrecking train was sent out from
Jacksonville at once, but when it reached
the scene the fire had swept the debris
away, with the exception of the iron
work and the engine.
1t is thought the wreck was caused by 8
broken rail or lee on the track. The loss
to the company, including death and ac-
cident claims, will not fall short OF
100000.
The people in the sleeper were not in
jured, but had to make their way for a
mile, through a terrible storm, to shelter.
TWO MEN sUFFoCATED.
TRINIDAD Coli, March S.-When the
freight train on the Fort Worth road ar
rived here last night, smoke was seen
issuing from refrigerator car. The door
was broken open, and two men who were
stealing a ride were found lying in the
straw suffocated. The fire is supposed te
have started from lighted pipe.
The record-union., 1891-03-09
HOUSEKEEPING IN FRANCE.
Belief That the Government VIII Re
Scind the Law Against Betting.

Belief That the Government VIII Re-
scind the Law Against Betting.
PARIS, March Sowing to the heavy
rains the race-course at Auteuile early in
the day was almost deserted. In the
afternoon few hundred onioolsers were
present, chiefly engaged in watching the
movements of the large force of police on
the ground. Only few racing men were
present at the weighing-in. A number of
bookmallers entered bets without being
interfered with by the police.
While the races proceeded there were
isolated cries of '.Down with Con-
stans," but otherwise there was no dis
order. Two persons who were made
more especially prominent by their de-
nunciations of the Minister of the Inte-
rior, were placed under arrest The po-
lice appeared to be acting under orders TO
enforce the new anti-gambling regula-
tions in mild manner, and the report is
that current betting in various forms will
again be allowed by the authorities. At
the track to-day there were no Paris
mutual operations.
lie Temps learns that the Government
viii reconsider the whole question of
betting on horse races.
The record-union., 1891-03-09
THE SCOTTISH FISHERIES
Are Seen In Their Most Picturescu
Character at Newhaven.

Are Seen In Their Most Picturesque
Character at Newhaven.
NewhaveH, of Scotland, is an unpreteH-
tous port, lying almost under the shad-
ow OF Arthur's Seat and Edinburgh
Town, on the Firth of Forth. 1t has a
sleepy, old-world flavor that contrasts
markedly with Granton and Trinity on
one side and Leith on the other. Famous
for its fishermen, and still more for its
fishwives, readers of Charles Reade's
s.Christie" lit should have been "Kirsty'')
'Johnstone" will remember the spot. a
eorner off The main street of NeWhaycn
is reproduced. The corner is court.
which serves as the entrance hall to the
houses OF the fisher-folk. Downstairs a
fisher lad mends the crab nets, which the
jaws and claws of these WHY crustaceans
have torn. Close by fisher lassie is
batting the haddock lines with mussels,
which last form valuable commodity in
the Firth. In the foreground 1ishwiie,
young and comely, as many OF them are,
is exchanging words with the lad who
carried away tho supply of buited lines
i'll basket; and on the stairs leading to
the upper house stands q ncighbor fish
wife, who has returned from "Edin-
burgh toun," and who, like her friend in
the foreground, carries creel and baske
slung from the shoulders as becomes her
vocation. There is a picturesque charac-
ter about these Newhaven lassies and
wives which fairly rivals anything at
Boulogne, Dieppe, Scneveningen, or else
where among fishing towns. The elderly
ladies OF the fishing persuasion are nota-
bic for the number of petticoats they
Wear, the agglomeration OF garments I'M
parting 4 rotlIndity TO the mature figure
that is appalling TO witness. The younger
lasses wear the killed skirt, the stripes
contrasting with the dark blue OF the
cape or cloak. The head-gear is plain
white cap destitute OF the golden ornamen-
tations and wondrous brooches which the
Dutch tishwives affect. 1t is the SIM
pncity of the dress which is the charm OF
the Newhaven lassies; and visitors to the
North, one finds, always retain lively
recollection of the characteristic garb, and
note with wondermcnt the spectacle OF
even aged wives toiling up the steep
streets of Edinburgh. creel on back, laden
with the harvest of the sea-haddocks and
goldfish, skate and turbot, whiting and
founders, and in due season the caller
herring" which emphatically represent
Lives o. men,
The record-union., 1891-03-09
TALK WITH A TAILOR.
How Some Men Try to Avoid Paying
for Their Clothes.

for Their Clothes.
"Well, I've been in business q good
many years. said a fashionable tailor to
Washington Star reporter, land I've
met some very queer customers in the
course OF my experience. Have l ever
been beaten? Why, of course l have.
Every man in my business is bound to
meet with men who swindle him in one
way or another. / don't think, however,
have lost great deal of money in late
years. Before / set up in business for
myself l represented large house in
another city. / came here and made
quite trade among the clerks in their
departments. used to call upon them in
their offices with my book of samples, and
as | am pretty fair talker l managed to
get good many orders. / used to give
them credit, and will say one thing for the
department clerks, and that is that 1 lost
very little money by them. l used to
have to wait good while sometimes, but
they generally paid me in full.
FINALLY, l worked up such good line
of custom that l rented suite OF parlors
and used to keep quite number OF suits
as samples. | had several dress suits,
with different styles of trimming, so that
l could satisfy different tastes. The aver
age man, however, has no taste in dress
1 mean no individual taste. He comes
into a tailors establishment and looks
many pieces OF goods, and he don't really
know what he wants. / can talk nine
men out of ten into getting Just the
goods that I want to dispose of. The
tenth man will have an opinion of his
own. He will know what kind of goods
Will suit his figure and complexion, and
he Will know just how he wants them
made. | can size up man of this kind
very quickly, and 1 always let him have
his own way. If l didn't he would go
somewhere else. But, as I said, the other
nine men will take just 1 choose they
shall wear and will accept my dictation
as to style OF cut and trimming. They
don't know that they are yielding to my
judgment. Bless you, no. They think
they are deciding for themselves, but
they are not.
"But you want to know about the
BEATS Well, one of the worst I ever
knew was a fellow who was here for
some time as newspaper man. He was
on local paper, and it was after | had
gone into business for myself that I met
him. He came into my store one day
with two or three well-known business
young men whose trade L had possessed
for a long time. One of the party, banker,
ordered $50 suit, and | measured him
while the others ckaffed him and exam
ined my stock. About an hour afterward
this newspaper man returned and said
that he would like me to make a suit for
him of the same goods selected by his
friend. presumed he was all right.
took his measure, made the suit, sent it
to his address and waited for him to come
and settle. But he never did, and in a
short time he skipped out of town. That
was dead loss to me.
THAT wasn't as bad, however. as a
trick that was subsequently played on
me. A tall, fine-looking gentleman came
in one day, and after carefully looking
over my stock selected piece of the
most expensive goods and ordered suit