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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

Taking their cue from an address re-
Gently issued by the Democratic national
committee, all the Democratic organs,
both great and small, are setting up a
great hue and cry over the alleged dan
ger of the defeat of Cleveland by the
corrupt use of money. Our esteemed
contemporary, the Argus, sounded a
note of warning of this sort the other
day in one of it's editorials, while in
another it gleefully remarked that the
s'New York Worlds Western campaign
fund had passed the $4,000 mark"
This shout of the corrupt use of money
by the Republicans is the old-fashioned
tactics of the thief shouting stop,
thiefr' in order to divert attention from
himself. Not only are the Democrats
well provided with money, as the para
graph in the Argus about the Western
campaign fund shows, but they are also
well provided with the means of classifying
the result of the vote. In New
Jersey to be sure they are
somewhat handicapped by the
fact that about 100 of their professional
ballot box suffers and repeaters have
just been committed to the penitentiary
for services to the Democracy in the past,
but in New York, by virtue of law
passed by Hills legislature, they have the
counting in all the large cities in their
own hands, and are not liable to be
watched, even. In every State south of
Mason and Dixon's line they have
complete control of the count, and the
ability-and experience has shown the
disposition also-to count in whomever
they like, in spite of the character of the
ballots in the boxes. One of the great
est dangers which beset Republicans is
the control of the count by the Demo-
GRAFT, and it is to be feared that the hue
and cry the latter are making about the
corrupt use of money is simply to divert
attention from their own corrupt pur-
poses. Democrat never needs watch
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CONCERNING BOOKS.
BY E. CAvAzzA.

Autobiographia. Walt. Whitman. By
means of special arrangement made dur
ing Mr.. Whitman's lifetime, Mr.. Arthur
Stedman was enabled to include this vol
ume of characteristic extracts in the
Fiction, Fact and Fancy series. The Sc
lections, chiefly from Specimen Days, No
GENDER Boughs and the farewell work,
Goodbye, My Fancy, are combined by
Mr.. Stedman with great skill and apt
ness, affording rapid and just view of
the personality and biography of the
good gray poet" In a certain sense
everything that Whitman wrote was au-
Biographical. He could not dismiss or
disregard for moment his conscious
identity. For himself he was the repre-
sentative of the entire creation. Of a
starry July night, he records:
There in abstraction and stiffness, the copi-
business, the removedness, vitality loOse-clear-
crowdedness of the stellar concave spreading
overhead softly absorb'd into me- rising so free.
Unfortunately high, stretching east, west, north
southland /. though but a point in the centre
below, embodying all
This extraordinary spirit of universal
democracy, the identification of him,
self, not only with all men, but also al
things-has really separated Whitman
from popular sympathy. 1t was too de-
liberate, too formally announced an atti-
tude to win confidence and comprehen-
sion. Whitman will never be accepted
as the peoples poet by the people them
selves, but only by critics who theorize
about them. Indeed, in his declaration
of good fellowship with the whole cosmos
there is something of the electioneering
tone. 1t lacks the Inconsistencies and
insincerity Of intellect and ofaffections
that won for the poetry of Whittier and
of Longfellow a world of devoted read.
ers. The extracts contained in the vol
ume sketch slightly, but with excellent
proportion, the course of Whitman's life
The story-and-a-half homestead of his
fathers, on Long Island, still holds up
its short timbers among groves of black
walnut and apple trees, and near it is
the billy burial ground of the family.
The memories of his home life and the
good mother whom he adored; records
of newspaper work in New York; of
charitable ministrations to the soldiers
in the hospitals, at the time of the war of
theRebellion;of famous persons whom he
met, and of aspects of nature which he
observed combined to form a series
of instantaneous self-portraitures of an
extraordinary man. The style of his
prose is like that of his poetry, a strug-
gle of strenuous expression, often rough
and involved, to detain and define mo-
ment of intense but vague emotion. (New
York: G. L. Webster & Co. Price, Is
cents.
The West from a Car Window. By
Richard Harding Davis. Those critics
who insist that journalism is not litera.
ture must be somewhat puzzled to know
upon which side of the line to1look for
young Mr., Davis. Because his literary
achievements always have flavor of the
newspaper STORY and his reporting
as in the Western sketches-well de-
serves the permanency of book form.
The charm of his writing is its vitality.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

lmaglnes that the enviable voyagings OF
Mr.. Scollard are part of his plan of
equipping himself for his poetic office:
and although his themes appear some
times sought for, and there is more than
a suspicion of deliberate intent to place
himself in scenes and surroundings apt
to evoke emotions, it is not less evident
that he understands the necessity of en-
riching the imagination and OF training
the means of expression. Mr. Scotland
is already sane, tasteful and brilliant
writer from whom much is to beexpect-
ed in the future. An Antique Lamp
may be cited as an example of his deli
cate workmanship:
Deft was the patient artisan
VINO moulded thee in such way
That thou hast long outlaSted man,
Thy brother built of Trailer clay.
Dim ages since for mortal eyes
The purple dark thou ddst Hume;
But they, these feeting centuries,
Have known the light beyond the tomb.
Forever quenched thy f1aring fire,
And vet, to us. thou see INST to cast
The ghost-f1ame OF some dead desire
From out the yistas of the past.
Boston: Houghton, Miffiin and Co.;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price: S1.00.
The Merrimack River, Hellenics and
other Poems. By B. W. Ball. Mr..
Balls verse is intellectual rather than ar
tistic. 1t is evidently inspired by an en-
thusiastic love of literature, and by a
speculative and energetic mind. The
graces of metre and rhyme are not
natural to him, nor has he taken means
to acquire them. He appears to lack
the fine sense of the innate music and
color of some words. and of the prosaic
and cold quality of other words. Nor is
he easy and direct in the construction of
his verses. AS whole, the rather bulky
volume may be said to contain copious
quantity of respectable poems, which
lacking magnetic and artistic attraction,
show degree of acquaintance with a
very large range of subjects. A heavy
eulogy in the form of an introduction by
Mr.. Frederic 4. Aver does not lead to the
belief that an author who permits such
wholesale and vociferous praise to preface
his volume, will be likely to be harmed
or helped by adverse criticism. The i'm
piled degree of dissatisfaction would
prove coat of mail impervious to pen
thrusts! New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons; Portland Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price: $500.
Gold of Pleasure. By George Parsons
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

The New York anti-snappers seem to
be determined to run an Independent
municipal ticket whether it hurts Cleve-
land or not.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

Songs of Sunrise Lands. By Clinton
Scollard. Mr.. Scotland deserves his
popularity as poet because he has I'M
derstood that poetry is an art like an
other and requires not less faithful disci-
pline. He has ear and voice; he does
not lack sentiment and impulse, although
they are not as yet the most conspicuous
qualities of his work. The general effect
of his poetry is that of extremely prom
Using apprenticeship; an undeniable
talent in process of intelligent training,
concerned with technical studies, on the
way to full artistic development One
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-12

Gold of Pleasure. By George Parsons
Lathrop. This romance by popular
writer does not fail in the elements of
popularity. The scene changes from the
severe coasts of New England, and the
simple folks who keep the light
house upon perilous rocks, to the
spicy shores of Ceylon, where ro-
mantle adventures await the ship
wrecked hero. There is some care
full drawing Of characters; the interest is
varied and well maintained. On the
whole, Gold of Pleasure is an average
novel, without qualities which require
especial comment. II It is published in
paper covers, in the American Novel
Series. philadelphia: J. B Lippincott
Co. Price so cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22

RICHMOND AND WEST POINT TER
M1NAL Co.-United States Judge Bond
signed an order in Baltimore yesterday
authorizing Mr.. Walter G.. Oakman, re-
cciver of the Richmond and West Point
Terminal Company, TO institute pro-
cecdings 60 secure the cancellation of 4
contract by which the Terminal Com
pany purchased So, 100000 of the capt.
tai stock and =, 1920 of the collat-
eral trust bonds Of the Georgia Com
pany Mr. 0akman is also authorized
to institute suits to recover money the
Terminal Company is alleged to have
lost III the transaction. The order is
similar to one previously passed in
New York. The stock and bonds in
question have been deposited with the
Central Trust Company of New York
rs part security for the issue of ST.
100000 five per cent. bonds by the Ter
minal Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Scott Bailey, a New Orleans long
shoreman, was mysteriously murder
ed last night within square of the
police station.
Gov. Brown, of Maryland, has changed
the time for Tie execution of the con-
demned murderers of DR.. Hill, in Kent
county, from December 80 to January
10.
About o'clock this morning fire was
discovered in the Patriot building, in
Harrisburg, Pa, and before the flames
were extinguished the structure aud
contents were damaged to the amount
of $50, ZOO.
On December 1st the Baltimore and
& Ohio R. r. Co., will take charge Of
the entire chain of railroads extending
through central West Va, and known
as the Camden System. The system
comprises nearly 800 miles ofline and
will give the B. s. o. complete control
of central West Va.
In the future the Carnegie Company,
at Homestead, intend to treat with its
employees as individuals. Each man
employed is required to sign an agree
ment, in which he pledges himself to
refrain from belonging TO any labor or
ganization and to be governed entire
ly by the rules and regulations of tie
company. The new men are leaving
the works in groups Of five and six.
Some few are discharged, but the
greater number arc leaving OH their
own accord, having become dissatis-
fed, and will seek employment else
where
This is the second day of the Salvation
Army congress in New York. At to-day's
session there will be made a transfer Of OFF,
GERS in different parts of the country. At 5
O'Clock this afternoon there will be q banquet
ut the Lcnox Lyccum and afterwards march
of 4 900 or 5000 members of the army to
Carnegie Music Hail for religious exercises.
Mrs Ballington Booths threc-wcells-o baby
will be dedicated Tonight.
Harry S. Cummings, cx-city councilman
from the eleventh ward, Baltimore, and the
only colorcd man elected to office in Mary
lind. has been arrested for failure to obey the
summons of the grand jury to testify in
gambling case
Miss Helen scwcll, daughter of cx-U. S.
Senator VIM. J. Sewell. and Mr.. Charles Borie
son Of Beauycau Boric, the Philadelphia
banker and broker, were married at Camden
n. j., to-day
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22
TACK EZlvl 4 NJ ARSHALL
DRY GOODS.

OPPORTUNITY is a good
4 thing, and no sensible
person, not even the small
boy, ever misses a good chance.
There are opportunities eX-
listing now for people to Sc
cure bargains, and the chance
may not present itself again
for a long time. All we asks
that you will call and compare
our goods and prices before
buyino. We claim that our
goo lie finest and most
varlc~ own in this city,
and we char,.lge competition
in both quality and price.
We wish to especially cali
your attention to our Dress
Goods stock, which comprises
all the newest weaves and col
orings. We are exceptionally
strong in our IS and SOC lines.
Our Black Goods stock is
also bountifully supplied.
In selecting our stock Of
Dress Goods we have not
omitted to buy appropriate
trimmings and can supply your
wants with as large a variety
as can be found in stores in
large cities. We have also a
large variety of wash fabrics,
one especial bargain being one
CD case, 5000 yards, of assort-
ed Aprons and Dress Cling
hams at 65lc, regular Ioc
goods.
The season of the year is
now upon US when housekeep-
ers who anticipate beautifyins
their homes with an appro-
pirate floor covering are ask
ing themselves where to hnd
the variety of styles and pa
terms of Carpeting, etc, at the
right prices. We can answer
by inviting you to our Carpe
Department, where you vii
find we have surpassed all for
mer efforts, and can safely say
we can suit the most fastidious
ISAAC EICHBERG.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22
Grand Rally and TOrchIight Procession.

All true democrats and lovers of constitu-
tional liberty and freedom are requested to
meet at headquarters. corner of Royal and
Cameron streets, on TUESDAY NIGHT, ut Z
o'clock, to take part in the procession. All
democrats are expected to be i'll line. Each
ward will march separately under ward mar
shals.
! he procession will move at Il o'clock.
The line of march will he as follows: Form
on Cameron street; move down Cameron to
Fairfax along Fairfax to King; up King to
Payne; down Payne to Prince down Prince
to Fairfax; up Fairfax to Wilkes; down
Wilkes to Lee up Lee to Duke; up Duke TO
Patrick; along Patrick to Prince, down
Prince to Columbus; Columbus to Duke :;
Duke to Washington Washington to Queen;
countcrmarch hack to King; down King TO
the Opera House, where there will be speak
ing by Hon. John Goode, Hon. L. L. Meredith
and others.
Chief Marshal, w. H. Smith.
Aides 10 Chief Marshal: E. E. Downham
L. Marbury, Richard Rowland and Harry
Burke
Ward Marshals-1st, ]. NJ. Hill, Harry
Burke, Samuel A. Mankin, Frank English.
ID, Il. NJ. Latham. Frank Price, Leonard
Narbury, Theo. Ballenger,
Sd, E. E. Downham, George Bontz, Marx
Norris, James ,Jayins, A. T. Ramsay, L. II. At
kinsen, j. B. Smith.
18th, NJ. p. Vincent, Richard Rowland, John
T. Sweeney, c. o. Sipple. nov1S I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22
LOCAL BREyITIES.

The new rubber suction pipe for the
Columbia fire engine arrived to-day.
Large orders for furniture are being
received and filled by the Deis Com
pany, at New Alexandria.
William Feagan, the 14-year-old son
of Mr.. S. H. Feagan, died to-day after a
short illness at his home on Pitt street.
It is generally understood that the
City Council will not meet tonight. but
that Il meeting will be held tomorrow
night.
The Land and River Improvement
Company has awareed the contract for
rebuilding the old dyke, at New Alex
andria, to the Hydraulic Dredging Com
pany at 1S5 cents per cubic yard.
As will be seen by a notice elsewhere,
the Belle Bottsford Concert Company
will appear at the Opera House ON the
Both instant under the auspices Of the
Epworth League Of the NJ. L. Church
South.
To-day two handsome cedar trees
were shipped from near Mount Vernon
to Gen. II. NJ. Sprague, of Maine. Gen.
Spraguc recently visited Mount Yer
non with Gov. Burleigh, of Maine, and
his staff
The democrats of Leesburg had a
grand celebration last night, when the
town was brilliantly illuminated. An
immense bonfire was lighted on the
mountain back of the city, the light
from which could be seen for Nlany
miles around.
The Methodist Protestant ministers of Bal
timore yesterday had informal talk on
church matters. Rev. William PoiSal. of
this city. explained what he calls "a flower
garden plan of Sunday school instruction, in
which each class is named after some flower. =
d. II. NARAMoRE will keep his Photo
graphic Studio open Thursday, (Thanksgiv-
ing Day to accommodate all who want pictures
for the holidays. See advertisement 81
King street.
George II. Bunnol. one of the most promi-
nent business men of Prince Georges county,
Nd, died Sunday, aged > years
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22

MARYLAND POINT LIGlIr.--Notice is
given by Che lighthouse board that, on
or about December -, 1882, a light +
the fourth order, flashing white every
FIVE seconds. will be exhibited from the
structure recently erected in about II
feet of water, about the middle of the
s,ho& lying three-quartcrs Ola mile :.
+. by s. from Maryland Point, Potomac
river, Maryland, about 30 miles below
this city. The lighthouse stands just
inside near the northerly edge, OF the
southwesterly red sector of Upper Ce-
dar Point light The light will illumi-
nate the entire horizon. The focal
plane is 4ll feet above the mean high
water, and the light may be seen in
clear weather, the Observers eye 10
feet above the same level, liz miles.
The structure consists of an iron screw
pile Foundation, painted brown, sur
mounted by white heXagonal frame
dwelling, with g"ecn blinds and 4
brown roof, above which rises Il black
lantern
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22
To-SIGHr's CELEBRAuoN.-The dem.

TO-NIGHT'S CELEBRATIoN.--Ihe dem-
ocrats OF this city will tonight celebrate
the great city, State and national vic
tory over republcanism by torch-light
procession and mass meeting The
city Democratic Committee met last
night and perfected the arrangements
which have been in progress for week
past. As heretofore stated, the various
ward clubs and other organizations
which will take part in the celebration
will meet at the City Hotel at Z o'clock,
when the line will be formed The
procession will move promptly at 1850
o'clock over the route as published else
where. Capt ". II. Smith will be
chief marshal and his mounted aides
will be Harry Burke l.. Marbury, L. f.
Downham and Richard Rowland
Each of the wards will also have their
marshals according TO the published
programme. The procession will re
composed of the clubs ofthc four wards,
each member bearing a torch the Bach
elors' Club, 40 strong, wearing white
derby hats and democratic badges and
CARRYING canes the City Sports" also
wearing white hats and badges tie
Sons Of Confederate Veterans; mount
cd democratic clubs from Fairfax and
Alexandria counties; two floats-Har-
risoa and his Cabinet, and the Salt
River Boat, and a wagon on which will
be mounted the Fairfax cannon, BABY
Ruth. The democratic cannon,
John s. Barbour. will also be used
for firing sautes nj various street inter
sections. Hoiiman's band, from Wash
ingion. and the Third Regiment Drum
Corps will also be in line. The display
OF fireworks viii be the most elaborate
ever attempted in this city and rockets,
Roman candles, &c, will be discharged
al along the line The larger fire
works. however, will be set oil nj the
corner Of King and Washington streets.
il is understood that many ofthe hous'
along the route Of the procession will
be illuminated and the city during the
parade will be ;,cciow with lights After
the parade mass meeting will be held
at the Opera House which will be ad
dressed by Hons. John Goole and +.
+. Meredith.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-22

We desire to call special at
tention to this department of
our business which, under the
decidedly successful manage
ment of our last cutter, has
steadily grown in popularity.
The we'll conceded fact of the
great superiority of custom
work over the best ready-made
garments is so patent to all
who have ever given both a
trial thaf'it is hardly necessary
to dwell on this subject, but in
this connection we wish to
compare the relative cost of
the two; the difference between
the ready-made garment and
the custom does not exceed
from S. to $40 a suit. The
ready-made garment never fits
as if it were made for you, and
the result Of a few weeks
wear testifes to its defects of
imperfect shrinking and bad
work. We guarantee to keep
all garments made by us in
perfect order during 6 months
actual wear free Of charge.
We make all kinds Of suits
from good reliable business
suits at SIS and SIS to fine
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\ sInDy Hanged.

New YoEK Nov % Mrs Catherine Cal
laghan, twenty-four years old, of east 127th
stree, went TO the store this morning leaving
her eleycn-months old babe James asleep in a
BABY carriage When she returned she found
the child hanging from the carriage with the
strap about its neck and strlngcd to death
Crazcd by the sight of her dead child the
woman threw herself head-foremost from a
window opening on the air shaft and fell to
the cellar, three stories below. Her left leg
was broken and she sustained severe injuries
on the head and body.