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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21

not realize anything like satisfactory
sum for the creditors.
The Institutions ''Boursier'' interest
was nil. Its nominal capital was only
6,250,000 francs. Its clientele was entire
The directors were men of no financial
mark. NJ. Ducouran, who Thursday,
blew out his brains, had been victimlzed
by his colleagues.
More Trouble for the Sick Man.
LONDON, March 20.-A constantinople
dispatch says it transpires that the Rus
sian ambassador, by threatening to leave
Constantinople compelled the Sultan to
surrender man accused of being the
murderer Of NJ. Vulkovitch, the Bulga-
| rian agent. Bulgaria now contemplates
the suppression of her payment of trib-
ute to Turkey as protest against the
surrender of the murderer, who is alleged
to have committed the crime in the inter-
est of the Russian liberals in Bulgaria.
Should tribute be stopped, Turkey will
be obliged to take steps to enforce the
sovereignty she claims over Bulgaria and
serious consequences could hardly be
| averted.
Anarchists Active.
PARIS, March 20.-An internal ma
chine with burning fuse attached was
found in a letter box in Rue Taibout to-
| day and another in Rue Temple.
| BRUSSELS, March 2O.-At Liege, to-
| day, the patrols discovered an internal
| machine on the threshold Of the resi-
| dence Of the first commissary of police.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
Lively Blaze in Richmond.
ESpecial to the Press.1

RICHMOND, March 20.-Fire was dis
covered in S. O. C. Calls furniture store
on Front street about 11.30 o'clock Sat-
urday night. The wind was blowing at
the time and the building was nearly
Quilted before the fire was subdued. j..
G. G. Farnham's store, adjoining, was
somewhat scorched. The fire is sup
posed to have caught from the furnace.
This is the second time this building has
been burned out. Mr.. Call started in
business there in December. His loss is
$500; insured for $1,000. The build
ing is owned by Carleton Handlette and
is insured.
Where College Boys VIII Play Ball.
BRUNSWICK, March 10. - Managers
Merryman of Bowdoin, Nichols of Colby
and Little of Bates, met here today and
formed the Maine Intercollegiate Base
Ball Association.
Manager Freeman of the Maine State
College was also present, but the other
managers voted not to admit that college
to the league this year, and the triangu-
lar agreement consisting OF Bowdoin,
Bates and Colby was made.
The schedule of games has been an
nounced as follows:
April 27, Bates VS.. Colby at Lewiston.
April 80. Colby VS.. BowdOin at Wateryllle.
May 4, Bowdoin VS.. Bates at Brunswick.
May 7, Bates VS.. Bowdoin at Lewiston.
May IA, Bowdoin VS.. Colby at Brunswick.
May 18, Bates VS.. Colby at Lewiston.
Nav 21 Bates VS.. BOWdoin at Brunswick.
May 25, Colby VS.. BOwdoin at Waterville.
May 2S, Colby VS.. Bates at Wateryille.
June 4, Bates VS.. Bowdoin at Lewiston.
ALI postponed games and all tie games
are to be played off.
The York County Show.
SAco, March 19.-The directors of the
York County Agricultural Society have
decided to hold their next annual fair at
the Saco Driving Park, and have chosen
September 20, 21 and % as the dates.
The following list of races and purses
has been made up:
Tuesday, September 2o-Purse No. /, $125
for three minute class; No. 2, $l75, for 2.3e
class.
Wednesday, September 21-Purse No. 8, $15C
for ZAP class; No. 4, 5000. for 2.33 class No.
5, $1O0, for fOur-year-OldS and under.
Thursday, September 22-Purse No. z, SIZE
for 2.5O class; No. z, $500, for 2.27 class; No
8, $75, for three-year-olds and under.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
Rainhill Murderer's Identity Now
Fully Established.
Won CAPRIvI IS STILL AMONG
WILLIAMS ADVISERS.

lily, uil0 AAuluOlCA3 Wt9o sNSoe~iAA OoAoAS oAAS
magistrate today. The prisoner entered
the dock with jaunty air but became
nervous and fidgerty during the reading
of the charges. After giving formal evil
dance in regard to his arrest, he was re-
manded. Deeming's luggage has been
examined. Among the articles found
were card certifying to the member
ship of Emily Mather in the Rainhill
Band of Hope, a time table of trains be-
tween Rainhill and Liverpool, an auto
graph album belonging to Emily Mather,
book of addresses of persons in Eng
land, a pocketbook bearing the mono
gram ssB. f. Dr. masonic aprons similar
ly lettered, "a silver card case and a prayer
book containing the name Emily" :"
Among the addresses noted are ''Mc-
Donald, Birkenhead," Marshall, New
York" others of persons in Hull, Liver
pool and Hartlepool proving the identity
Of Williams, Deeming, Lawson, etc.
Deeming declared his name was Swans
ton. Evidence is daily accumulating,
showing that Deemings past life was one
of constant fraud and robbery, carried
on under the pretense of wealth and
bonhomie.
A telegram from Cape Town, South
Africa, states that Deeming became
notorious in johannesburg in 1889 in con-
nection with extensive jewelry swindling.
Some mysterious murders occurred there
at about that period.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
Belfast Has the Fever.
rsnecial to the Press.l

BELFAST, March 20.-Belfast is very
enthusiastic at present about the Aroos-
took Condensed Milk Company, and
seems to be very desirous OF having a
factory located here. Many of the lead
ing citizens, who, being also stockhold-
ers in the company, as Hon. W. P.
Thompson, Hon. J. Fl. Williamson, DR..
S. Il. johnson, Hon. F. r. Dunton, Col
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
ESTABLISHED JUNE 2s, 1se2---voL. 80.
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Page 1.
General telegraph news.
Weather indications.
Pages
State topics of interest.
Maine towns.
Wasbington news.
Page 3.
New York letter.
Cooperation In road building.
Page 4.
Editorials.
Home topics
Page 3.
Deaths and marriages.
The Offices.
Cumberland County Agricultural Society.
Debt raising at the First Baptist church.
An Historic Episode.
Page 6.
Wit and Wisdom.
A city of libraries.
Fine dairy products.
Page 2.
Financial and Commercial.
Maxine News.
Brief Jottings.
Personals.
Obituary.
Caught in the breakers.
The Belknap injured.
The worlds fair.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21

Mean daily ther. .27. .0lMaX. vel. wind 80 SW
Maximum ther. 81 0ITotal precip.... 90
Minimum ther 23.0l
P. C.-Partly cloudy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND, Me, March 20, 1892.
sA. M. P. M.

Barometer. .l29.585
Thermometer r.............. ..l3O.
Dew Point. ................. 15.
Humidity. .................l So.
Wind .......... .lSW
Velocity, ................. IA
Weather ...lP z G
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
MINING Production.

The review Of the mining industries of
the United States for 1891, published by
the Engineering and Mining Journal,
brings out three points of especial interest
at this time. The first is that the silver
production of the country amounts to 5S,-
600, 900 ounces this year. 1t thus appears
that the amount of silver which the United
States Treasury is directed by law to buy
and stack away falls short of all the silver
produced in this country. There are
1900, 900 other ounces to be cared for, and
in order to protect the silver producers
from the hard alternative of being COM
PEELED to sell that percentage of their
product to be used in the arts the law will
have to be changed and the storage capac-
ity of the Treasury still further enlarged.
Another point is that while silver pro-
duction has increased about per cent the
gold production has increased over 25 per
cent to a total of 100000 ounces, with a
value of S33, 200, 900. If this relative increase
Of production continues, the time may
come again when gold will be the cheaper
metal, and if we should before that estab-
lish the silver dollar, the advocates of the
cheaper standard might demand the return
to gold. That is good distance in the
future, however; and the more cogent de-
duction from the figures is that this coun-
try need not suffer from any lack of gold
unless it is driven to premium by coming
down to silver basis
The third and very important fact is dis
closed by the figures to the effect that the
coal production of the country is more i'm
portant than that of gold and silver COM
bined. The total value of the gold and
silver product was about 500, 900, 600;
while the production of anthracite and
bituminous coal will have a value at the
mouth of the mines nearly if not quite one
hundred per cent greater. There were
AZ, 839, 900 tons of anthracite mined during
the year, Notwithstanding the efforts of
the great companies to restrict production,
and 5000, ,0G0 tons of bituminous
1t is not only the value of the product
in which the coal industry greatly exceeds
the gold and silver interest; but the differ
ence in public value is many times greater
in the employment given to labor and
the material furnished to other in
dustrieS. This being the case, why has
not the coal industry better claim on the
favors of legislation than the gold and
silver mines? The coal producers do
not ask the Government to buy all OF even
half their output and stack it away to en-
hance prices. That would be a great
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
AN EVIDENT MIsNoMER.

An example of the persistent inability
of most people to accurately understand
the wrong of the combinations to suppress
competition, known as 'trusts, " is afforded
by the reports concerning an ''orange and
lemon trust in California. The press
dispatches speak of it as "trust, while
the brief statement of facts which the
same dispatches contain show concluSively
that it has not, and never can have the
essential characteristics of monopoliStic
combinations known by that name.
In order that a combination can either
raise prices, suppress competition or re-
strict production, it must control either
the great mass of the production of a
staple CT the agencies by which it is dis
tributed from producers to consumers.
Anart from the utter impossibility Of
either organizing combination of this
sort which will take in all the present and
future citrus growers of California, and
the even greater hopelessness of sup
pressing the competition of the
Florida and Mediterranean growers,
the dispatch shows that this organi-
zation makes no such attempt. 1t
does not even seek to include
all the growers of its section. 1t is simply
an association of some of the owners of
the finest groves, who, the dispatch
says "intend to make speciality of fine
packing and thus establish a permanent
reputation for their brand" In other
words, instead of seeking to perform the
impossible task of suppressing, the associa-
ton is legitimate one, inspired by the
competitive force to gain business by the
improvement of the quality of their out
put.
1t would have been a slight matter if
some orange. growers of Southern Cali
fornia had been stupid enough to essay
the impossible task of setting up monop-
olistic combination in an industry that
can be pursued anywhere in the tropics.
But since their association is one for the
praiseworthy purpose of legitimate CON-
petition, it is an illustration of the shallow
ness of the time to find esteemed Eastern
contemporaries parading it as a monopo-
listlc trust.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
PIrTsBURG. SUNDAY. JANUARY IL.
THE CHILEAN iNBRoGLIo.

War spirit is running high in the new
DISPATCHES. The present outlook for a
reasonable and pacific solution of the diff
Guilty between the United States and Chile
as represented as very nearly hopeless. As
a general rule it has been a safe principle
of action to disbelieve the greater part Of
what is published on this subject; but the
drift Of public opinion and the prepara-
tons of both Governments show that the
great calamity to both countries of a naval
war may ensue.
Every thinking man who has followed
The course of events, and who is able to
conceive the cost and miseries of war will
agree that this calamity should be pre-
vented. The worst feature of such dis
aster to civilization and commerce is that
a wise and conciliatory course might have
prevented it. The war spirit has been
steadily cultivated in both nations by the
inconslderate, who wish war for the fun of
the thing, and by the interested, who
are after promotion or spoils. This has
led to Misrepresentation and perversion,
so the truth has been difficult to obtain.
But enough IS known to disclose the mis-
representation and TO show that with a
wise and conservative representation Of
the United States at Chile a settlement
would have been arrived at such as the
national honor requires
Whether the belligerent spirit on both
sides has not been inflamed TO height
shat viii carry the two Governments into
w5r despite themselves is serious ques-
ton. So long as the matter remains a
diplomatic enc it is the duty of the press
to show that we should not require more
OF Chile than of ourselves in the New Or
leans matter; and TO insist that We be not
miSied into tie error Of an inglorious and
possibly disastrous war hy the misrepre-
sentations which have already been ex-
posed. Up 10 the very eve of actual hos
tilities, Thoughtful and disinterested opin-
ion will not cease 10 urge the avoidance of
that unfortunate result by conservative
and absolutely fair-minded policy
But when The first act of war is COM
mitted there can be but one party and one
wish in this country. 1t should be under
stood that up TO the outbreak of hostilities
the SOBER sense of the country is opposed
to the war. But if i mnst come there can
be but one object for the whole nation
to urge it to a sharp and successful con-
clusion as soon rs possible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
ODD MISS HOUSE.
A Young Girl Who Possesses Clairvoyant
Sight.

eight.
PLATTE CITY, Mo-, Jan. 16.-About five
miles from this city lives w. d. House, a
farmer, who has daughter with wonder.
tul power or gift. The girl is about 10 years
old, and for several years she has been con-
sidered by the simple country folks around
the neighborhood to be 'odd." She has a
dreamy appearance and is slow of speech,
but when she does talk she shows that she is
above the average of girls of her age in in
telligence. She is as well educated as most
country girls of her age who have had only
the advantages of the district school, but
her popularity is that she seems to have
clairvoyant property or second sight She
says she can read letters without breaking
the seal, and on several occasions she has
done this with letters where 1t was 1mpoSs1-
Bile that there could be any collusion with
those who wrote the letters. She can also
take book and hold it closed in her hands
and read from any designated page in the
book.
DR.. Porter, one of the oldest physicians or
this county, says that he knows the girl has
an extraordinary power and he has thor
oughly tested the matter. He says that he
wrote letter at his office and sealed it.
He took this letter in his pocket to the
house and called the girl. She came to him
and shook hands. AS she did SO he she
said: doctor, you have letter for me and
you wrote it," She then held his hand and
read the letter, which was still in his pocket.
To make further test he brought one OF
mis- medical books to the house and which
he WAS positive she had never seen. He
gave her the book and told her to read on
certain page. He had selected the page pur-
posely, it being one on which there ap-
peared a number Of long technical words.
She read the page accurately with the eX-
ception of the hard words, which she said
she could not pronounce. She says she can
not explain how she does 1t. but that it
seems to he In her head when she takes the
letters or books
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
THE RIDICULOUS BLUE LAW SUITS.

The move for the enforcement of the
Blue Law of 1894, which has been the en-
crossing topic of the week, has now got
far enough to enable the projectors to
Judge of public opinion upon it. Yester-
day one of the cases managed to reach
aldermanic Judgment, and in week or so
we will know whether the County Courts
conceive that modern progress in any way
is to affect the Interpretation of the word
''necessitv" Necessities are exempt from
the operation of the Blue Laws. Whether
the newspaper, the street car, the teie-
graph, the telephone and other things
which have become part and parcel OF
daily life since 1894 are to be regarded as
necessities, or not, will be the question for
the judges.
But before the Court of Public Opinion
there is no manner of doubt as to the
Judgment. That million of people should
be deprived of the privilege of reading
their newspapers on Sunday, to satisfy
the queer notions of half a dozen individ-
uals in whom they have no interest. is so
preposterous a proposition as to excite
only ridicule and intense contempt.
The only good thing about the prosecu-
tions of the past week is that the people
concerned in them are now ostentatlous
in declaring "there is no religion" in the
movement. Nobody supposed there was;
but it is just as well that there is formal
disclaimer. The question is narrowed
down to the simple one whether the Blue
Law of 1894 is to be interpreted in the
light of modern necessities, or only in the
light of the limited needs of the people
who lived one hundred years ago. That
is for the courts to say. But even if the
courts held to the narrow and ridiculous
view of the Law and Orderite remnant,
the Legislature would be compelled by
the force of public opinion to pass new
law
The prosecutions are senseless and the
methods disreputable; they but serve the
useful purpose of arousing the public to
firm determination to resist at all points
the compulsion of cranks and fanatics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
An Honor to Their Breed.

New York Evening Sun.1
The Pittsburg newsboys' resolutions pro-
testing against interference with the sale of
Sunday newspapers are a model of that
order of composition-terse, vigorous and
direct eve protest against being flimmed
out of our work under an ordinance passed
before the slaves were freed" There is the
nub of whole octavoes of history here. Our
Presbyterian brethren pegging away at their
Confession, representative institutions COW
ering Europe, labor organization legalized
Sunday opening OF museums all are swept
within the view of those pithy words, ''an
ordinance passed before the slaves were
freed"
Resolved, That we sell the Sunday papers
as long as we are out of Jail or until the Law
and Order people get soaked" There speaks
the spirit of Samuel Adams in the rugged
tongue of Patrick Henry. There's gameness:
1.-THE mongrel's hold may slip. While
naught but crowbars loose the bulldogs
grip" Resolved, again, that 1--WE call upon
other labor people who are older and bigger
than us to help US in our fight to keep our
rights and liberties" That sentence is
worth its weight in gold. Observe the pure
Saxon diction-old, big, help, fight, keep,
rights: observe the sound English construc-
ton "than us' instead of the American
pedagogue lingo. "than we." atv
. Those newsboys are an honor to their
breed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
SMALL HUMoROsITIEs.

"Have you any half-hose for gentlemen?"
she asked.
mo, madam; but we have'-began the sales
man. 80, - =, - ,
INV pGT husband has only one leg.''-JHdgc.
Two lone maids spake: 'Let's call our
As Time and Tide this year:
They wait, it's said for no man, and,
-'' -Ee,o York Herald
30, Arthur, how happy L would be alone
with you on quiet island in the distant oceanr'
.sHave Won any other wish, dearest Ella?''
s'Oh, yes; do get me season ticket for the
opera ''-Tspas SVttngs.
Mistress--sNorah, how does it happen I
find you idling away your time in that rocking
chair:''
Domestic with languid majestyl-'Tm not
fding. mem / am reposing. I'm Delsarshean,
mem. ''-C Chicago Tribune.
Hail, gentle winter, soft and midi
Hail. summers radiant, lovely childi
Hail sDicy Zephyrs, warmly blown
From some delicious tropic zoneI
Hail dandelion shoots that raise
Their golden songs of cheerful praise.
And buds that open to the breeze
Thai bends the tall Long Island trees;
And cucumbers that greenly grow,
tud brooks that purl with unchecked fowl
Hail ore and ALI I've put away
Sly oyercoat to wear in Mayl
Puck.
81 see," remarked Mr.. Stockyard, of
Chicago that the Venus de MILO is to be here dur
ing the Fair"
DE NiIo," replied Mr.. Riverscomb, thought-
fully: II dom I know that ever heard of her.
What's her specialty?''-Puck.
'Our new contralto puts on good many
airs,
Yes. but she can't come up to the soprano.''--
Netc York Fress.
An amorous wind from upper air
Begged of a maid a lock of hair.
When she refused, the teasing witch,
The wind, reyengeful, took a switch.
-Ns.o York Herald.
what kind of cake was that you gave
me?'' he asked.
''It was marble cake, ~ was the reply. 'Didn't
you know its''
Not exactly; but ever since 1 swallowed IL
rather suspected 1t. Washington Star.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
THE BLUE LAW CRUSADE.
Too Much Blanket Sheet.

New York Advertiser.l
The movement of the Law and Order
League in Pittsburg to suppress the Sunday
newspaper is not, as one at this distance
might reasonably enough suppose, dictated
by a large sense of American hunlor, which,
in its noblest expansion, has been unable to
keep up with the Sabbath day blanket sheet.
1t is serious movement, the grim tele-
graph tells MS, brought about by the blue
laws of 1894. Nor is it clear what particular
blue law of 1874 is to be invoked. The strict
New England observance Of the Sabbath day
antedates that year by considerable. In
looking over the record we find that in New
London in 1870 two lovers, John Lewis and
Sarah Chapman, were accused of and tried
for sitting together on the Lords day under
an apple tree in Goodman Chapman's
orchard, where they were "kyssynge." In
In 1852 Elizabeth Eddy of Plymouth was
fined 10 shillings for wrynging out clothes
on the Lords day, and in 1858 James Watt, of
the same place, was "publickly reproyed"
for writing business note OH the Lords
day-"at least in the evening somewhat too
soon" In 1855 Captain kemble, Of Boston,
was putt into the public stocks" for "the
unseemley kyssing of his wife publickly on
the Sabbath day" upon the doorstep Of his
house, when he had just returned from a
long voyage.
In 1859 Sam Clarke, of Norwich. for 'ihan-
kering about on mems gates to draw out
company unto him." was publickly warned
not to harden his neck and be wholly de-
stroyed AS late as l776 there was town
meeting in Belfast, Me-, to consider plan
to restrain visiting on the Sabbath. After
this the fine old, sturdy plan of horsewhip-
ping man for kissing his wife on the Sab
bath began to decline. The telegraph, which
is purely modern invention and quite out
ofall sympathy with these beautiful austeri-
ties, has got the date wrong. The Pittsburg
League has gone farther back than the lib
eral electricity will allow. 1t appears quite
incredible that the Pittsburg Sabbatarians
can have travelled so far with no other pur-
pose than to initiate the obsolete spirit of
the Puritans. For Pittsburg is utilitarian
city, and nothing il not practical. 1t is,
therefore, only fair to suppose that the Law
and Order League have some other purpose
in view than a preservation of the blue
laws. 1t is just possible that they are try
ing to protect themselves from particular
kind OF Sunday journalism, to read which
not only breaks into the whole OF the Sab
bath, but eats meanwhile into the sturdy
Pittsburg character itself. 1t is rather
nihilistic proceeding, to be sure, to launch
the law at all Sunday newspapers in order
to get rid of the worthless few. But Pitts
burg may not have yet learned the better
way which has been adopted in the East.
That way is very simple, and 1t is to take
only those papers which preserve the good
taste of our forefathers if they do not per-
petuate their intolerance.