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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

Maps were invented by Anaximan-
der, Greek. about B. c. 56s.
woman in Tanner. w Va, gave
birth to her twenty ninth child = few
days ago.
A grouse recently flew into a store
At Eugene. Oregon. and was cap
tured alive.
Four rings were used in the mar
riage ceremony of Mary Stuart TO
the unfortunate Darnley.
The preliminary surveys for the Pa
cific Railroad required four seasons.
and cost over 81 ,ooo,oo
The first woman's face represented
on coin was that of Pnlcharia. the
Empress of the Eastern Empire
The Largest known species oi night
flying insect is the Atlas moth. a resi-
dent of the American tropics. which
has a wing spread Of over foot. ~
A New York ca, whose teeth hal
been knocked out by drunken ruff
fan, had a false set made for il hy
dentist and wears them comfortable
A bar OF steel costing 81 may bo worked
up into 1850 worth of needles. made
into knife blades il Is worth Si265:
made into balance-springs for watches
the same bar would bc worth $3.50 o0e.
The natives of Botorudes. one 81 tbs
hottest regions of the earth. believe
that heaven will be land oi cool
streams and shady groves entirely
cleared of all underbrush and cac.
fuses.
The only genuine skeik is the 4;ov-
ernor of Medina. His office Is sail -
date from the time of the Prophet |.
is now generally applied as an homer
ary title TO the head man Of an Arab
| village.
The watch that Admiral Farragus
| carried through the war is now III tho
possession of California cadet nj An
napolis The citizens of Vallejo gave
the timepiece to Farrasnt in 1865.
when he was a naval captain.
| Baron Fielder, of Vienna, haz occu-
pied his time for many years in gath
ering rare butterflies. Recently he
sold his uncommonlv beautiful AMI
almost perfect collection to Lori
Rothschild for the sum OF f50oo.
Apecnliarly severe punishment in nss
among the Chinese IL the loss of sleep.
The criminal is kept awake hy his
gusrd'until he dies. The sufferer lives
two weeks under the torture, and
almost always becomes u raving ma
MAC.
The original designation Of the Rus.
sian ruler was autocrat. term bor.
rowed from title Of the Greek en-
perors. The title ear vas taken first
| by Autocrat Vladimir about l12o. The
Russian rulers were called czart or
grand dukes until the sixteenth b century.
when they claimed the title ot Emper-
or. \
The censor had charge Of Roman
morals. aud was always kept busy.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02
In his Yea, Book Of the Universltie

In his Year Book Of the Universities
of the World Doctor B. hukula states
that there are now LAT universities
That in Paris leads with a2lostudenis,
followed by Vienna with e22o and
Rarlin with 55T. The smallest on the
list is the university 1t Fourah Bay,
Sierra Leone Africa. with twelve
students and hve instructors.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02


The varieties Of sleigh bells this sea-
son will be larger than ever, announces
tn" Chicago Herald. and manufacture
rs viii cater more TO luxurious tastes
As one can now pay 500 or more for a
whip, SO can he give $40 for body
strap Of bells. For that he can get a
strap covered with Alaska sealskin.
with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel
bells, the metal not being, OF course,
80 precious rs the names indicate.
Somewhat cheaper straps are made of
beaver or mink, wool seal, kangaroo,
oozc calf or Persian lamb. Or if the
pleasure seeker wishes, he can initiate
the tastes Of the Russian, the Lap
lander or the Tartar In foxtail
plumcs he can find the upright the
dropping and the hanging plumes, or
some elegant horse hair plumes, for
$50 per palr.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02

Ihc peace Of Europe is, in the
rnipn Of the New York Herald.
threatened by Italy, which, practically
i,ant~1pt, her people poverty stricken
~ ~ 'l.aontented, might find at least
j. rar} salvation in war.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-12-02

o-ea nank in Arizona has issued
III. falo"ing notice: This bank has
-. busted; 1t owes the people 33e, 0OD :;
tA' people owe it s55, 900; it is the
lepp'e Y 10 arc busted; when they pay
ue'Il pay"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
We OFFER FOR SALE
Municipal Security
COMPANY
5 1-2Per Cent Bonds
DUE 1888.
Especially secured by Municipal, Evidences
az Indebtedness, deposited with the Trustee.
The par value of snah deposited debts and OBJ
legations, exceeding by ten per cent. the par
value Of the outstanding bonds issued by the
Security Company.
D1RDCToR$-


Byron ID. Verrill, President, Attorney-at-
Law. Portland, Maine,
Weston Lewis, President hlalneiruss ana
Banking Company, Gardiner, he.
stephen j. Young, Treasurer Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Me.
L. L. Keith, President Machiss BANK ana
Treasurer Machias Savings Bank, Machias,
Me.
Theodore G. Woodbury., of Messrs. Wood
bury 8 Mouiton, Bankers, Portland, Me.
$500 and 500, bearing 51a Per Cent interest
payable semi-annually at the Company's ONCE
In Portland, Maine. ).
Security and can recommend these bonds for
Trust Funds as we believe them to be per-
fectly safe security. based as they are ON the
promise of Company in sound financial stand
ing, and secured BY Municipal Obligations.
We shall be pleased to give further informal
ton In regard to these bonds upon application.
Price par and accrued interest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

and upon every topic which has con
cerned the people. The reports OF the
early colonists, the grim theology OF
Jonathan Edwards and the withcraft
and wonders credited by Cotton Mather,
the labors of the trainers of the Consul
tuition and of jurisprudence, biography,
fiction, poetry, wit and humor, and noted
sayings, are some of the divisions under
which the matter is grouped. The adj
mirable and scholarly indexing is due to
Mr.. Arthur Stedman. The whole is
done with mastery grace and with per-
feet justice of method; each author is
allowed to speak for himself without
comment from the editors, other than
the simple tribute of admission into so
worthy company.
As home educator, this Library is
peerless; for it offers to young people
an immense field where they may safely
be trusted to gather such knowledge as
most attracts them and is best fitted to
their individual wants. 1t would be i'm
possible to spend the same amount OF
money in any other way to educational
advantage equal to that afforded by the
eleven volumes of the Library Of Ameri-
can Literature. The value of this use
full, authoritative and delightful work
cannot be overestimated.
1t is prophec. likely of fulfilment
that some boy who in these times, saves
his ten cents day in order to buy the
set of volumes of this library will be one
of the presidents of the Unite d States in
the twentieth century. For in these
pages the incentives to nobility and
greatness, such as in all ages have In
spired men are exemplified by the lives
and writings of American citizens.
E. CAyAZZA
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

The address of the Maine Pedagogical
Society, which is published elsewhere,
argues with great force the superiority of
the town system over the district system,
and if argument was certain to prevail
in this matter there can be no doubt
but the legislature would abolish the
district system. There is really nothing
to be said in favor of the continuance
of that system. except that it is old
and has come to be revered simply on
account of it's age, and that it gives OPP
portunities to people to acquire little
prominr nce-something which is always
dear to the American heart. AS regards
the proposition to establish State board
of education, the address is not SO success
full. Some of the reasons offered
are no reasons at all. For instance
it is no reason to establish a
thing that it doesn't cost anything.
That merely removes an objection to es-
tablishing it, and is negative rather than
positive in character. The assumption
that a board of several men would be
subjected to less political influence or be
less likely to yield to it in the selection
of a superintendent of schools than one
man, and therefore that a board would
be more likely to choose a fit man for
that place than the Governor, is open
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
The stedman Library of American Litera-
ture.
10 the Editor Of the Press:

10 the Editor Of the Press:
As your readers are aware, an agent OF
Messrs. G. r.. Webster 81 Co. OF New
York is now visiting Portland in behalf
of the Library of American Literature,
edited by Mr.. Edmund G. Stedman and
Miss Ellen M. Hutchinson.
Will you allow me to say few CRATE
full words about these volumes, invalu-
able as thorough and critical represen-
tation of the whole range of American
literature and history, from Colonial
days up to date; as a reference cyclope-
dia upon vast variety of topics; and
for instructive and enjoyable reading in
schools and homes. Mr.. Stedman is TN
surpassed as critic; he possesses in a
peculiar degree the high gift of recog-
nizing the finest t.aits of every writer
whom he considers. And the editorial
tact of Miss Hutchinson is we'll known
to readers of the New York Tribune.
So that in the Library of American Lit
erature arranged by their care, may be
fonnd the best wo Of the best authors,
ordered so as to give complete general
view of the development OF Nationalist.
tiers. This is indeed whole library in
itself, including examples of writing
from all sections Of the United States,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

to question. A very strong argu-
ment can be made in support of the
directly opposite view, namely, that
one man upon whom is the whole
responsibility and who cannot escape it
or share it with others is more likely to
resist improper influences and considera-
lions than Board where the RESPONSE
bility is shared by a number of men.
The experience of our municipalities has
shown, we think. that when the full
responsibility of the selection of subordi-
nate city officials is placed on the mayor
the results have been better than when
that responsibility is distributed among
the members of Board of Aldermen.
1t may be that board of education with
extensive powers of supervision could
improve the condition of our schools.
The probability is that 1t could. But
the attitude of many of the towns
toward the district system indicates a
public sentiment which would oppose
giving the board powers enough to do
much of anything except to write once
a year dissertations on what our school
system ought to be. There may come
time when it will be wise to establish
state board but we do not think it has
yet arrived, and the Maine Pedagogical
Society, we believe, will accomplish
much more for the good of the schools
by letting that question drop for the
present and concentrating all their
energies on the establishment of the dis
trict system, than by pressing both
measures at this time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

DR.. Jenkins, the health officer of New
York whom the New York Chamber of
Commerce pronounced unfit for the
place, has telegraphed a Tammany mem
Der of Congress that no national quaran-
tine bill must pass. jenkins is the
brother-in-law of Richard Croker, the
great Tammany boss, and of course this
telegram is equivalent to an instruction
from the boss. Having got full control
of the New York State and city govern
ment, Tammany is now reaching out
for the contro of the national govern
ment, If its successes in New York are
an earnest of what it can do in Washing
ton it will not be long before Croker will
be king of the country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET
December 3Ist, 1899.
ASSETS.
Stocks, bonds, cash and cash
assets (net) .......:...... s1,173,22o.1
First mortgage bonds, at par
value. deposited with the
American Loan & Trust Com
pany, to secure collateral trust
5 per cent bonds ..............:: 4,7o7, 10000
$3.50. 72O17
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
MAINE STATE PRESS.
Rzfaa

E2AIIN IN AsA1SA~
Subscription Rates.
DAILY On advance) So per year; So for six
nenths; s1.5o quarter; 30 cents month.
The DAILY is delivered every morning by
carrier anywhere within the city limits and at
Woodfords without extra charge.
DAILY CNot in advanced. invariably at the
rate of 81 year.
MAINE STATE PRESS. {Weekly) published
every Thursday So per year Isl for six months;
SO cents quarter; rs cents for trial su5scrp
ton of six weeks.
Persons wishing to leave town for long or
short periods may have the addresses OF ther
papers changed as often as desired
Advertising Rates.
In DAILY PRESS s1.5o per square, first
week; rs cents per week after. Three inser-
tions or less, Sl.OO per square. Every other
day advertisements, one third less than these
rates.
Half square advertisements $1oo per week.
first week; half price each succeeding week.
"A Square, is a space of the width OF
column and one inch long.
Special Notices, on first page. one third ad-
ditional.
Inducements and AUCTION Sales. $500 per
square each week. Three insertions or less
$1.6o per square.
Readssg Notices in nonpariel type and classed
with other paid notices 20 cents per line each
insertion.
Pure Reading Notices in reading matter type
% cents per line each insertion.
Won't, To Let For Sale and similar adj
vertisements, 25 cents per week, in advance,
for 40 words or less. no display. Displayed adj
vertisements under these headlines, and all adj
tisements not paid in advance, will be charged
atregular rates.
In MAINE STATE PREss-Sl.oo per square
for first insertion, and 30 cents per square Tor
each subsequent insertion
Address all communications relating to sub
scr1ptions and advertisements to PORTLAND
PuBLIsHING Co., 81 EXCHANGE STREET,
PORTLAND. ME-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21

The provisions of the new registration
bill for testing the educational qualifica-
ton of voters under the constitutional
amendment adopted at the last election
are as follows:
SECT IS. Applicants under examination for
registration shall be required, unless prevented
by physical disability from SO doing, or unless
be had the right to vote, on the fourth day Of
January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, 10
read in the English language other than the
title, SO much as may be necessary. from an
ner as to show that he Is neither prompted nor
reciting from memory. and to write his name in
a book kept for the purpose. Inc name OF the
applicant If admit ed to registration. shall be
announced in a clear, audible and distinct voice
before entering his name on the register.
SECT. 10. Any applicant for registration istT ton
herein required, excepting those isixty years OF
age and upwards at the time said test became
operative, must declare under oath that he was
legal voter in this State on the fourth day of
january, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
and If required SO to do furnish such other and
further reasonable evidence OF the truthfulness
OF his statement las may be satisfactory to
majority of said board.
SECT. SO. Any member of said boards who
shall refuse or willfully neglect to require any
applicant for registration to whom the same Is
Applicable. to raead portion satisfactory to
majority of said board, other than the title,
from some official edition of the constitution, in
prompted nor reciting from memory. or to re-
quire such applicant to write his name in book
kept for the purpose, unless he IS prevented by
physical disability from SO doing or who know
fngly shall prevent or seek to prevent the regis
tration of any legal voter. or who knowingly
shall register the name OF any person not quail.
fed to vote, or who shall be guilty of any fraud
or corrupt conduct In the execution of the du-
ties of his office, shall for each offense be pun
ished by fine not exceeding three hundred
dollars or by Imprisonment in the county Jail
not exceeding six months.
1t will be seen that hereafter every per-
son who applies for registration, who at
the time of registration is not go years of
age, or who was not legal voter previ-
GUS to the fourth of January, 1898, will
have to read a part of the constitution
and write his name. No discretion is
allowed the Board. They must apply
the test to all alike.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, JANUARY Fl.

The resignation of Mr.. Carlisle from
the Senate makes it certain of course
that he has accepted the position of Sec
rotary of the Treasury in Mr.. Cleveland's
cabinet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
United Electric
Securities Company
7sE.sss. Cumulative PreferredStock
Total amount authorized. 81 100000.
Amount of Present and First Issue,
$1,000, 900.

At special meeting of the stockholders
of the United Electric Securities Company.
held December Goth, 1892, an issue Of pre-
ferred stock was voted, the terms of pre-
ference and issue being substantially q
follows: ls-s
A dividend at the rate of seven per cent. per
annum to be cumulative payable semi-annual
~ IN preference to any dividend on the common
stock.
No dividend to be declared or paid on the
common stock unless the company shall have
at the time net surplus SUFFICIENT in amount to
pay all dividends to accrue within period of
three years on the preferred stock then issued
and outstanding.
In case of the liquidation or winding up of the
business of the Company, the preferred stock to
be paid in full, atpar, before the common stock
receives anything.
Preferred stock be issued only as the total
interest actually received during the year next
prior to any such issue, from the bonds deposit
ed by the company as collateral security for the
payment of its own outstanding collateral trust
3 per cent bonds, shall exceed the Interest &C.
crned during the given year on said collateral
trust bonds, by an amount at least nifty per cent
more than os one ny Years dividend a On The
the time.
The company makes the following statement
of its business;
Actual difference between the annual
interest at the present time upon
the company's collateral trust per
cent bonds and the annual interest
upon the bonds deposited to secure
the same -. $1Sl,zSo
This difference will be increased
within thirty days by. the issue of
the ninth series of the company's
collateral trust bonds TO. .;;......... 1925
Annual dividend required
on $1,OOO,0o0 preferred
5oper cent surplus required $4,000
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-21
F. 0. BAILEY & CO., : Austlonssrs.
RECEIVERS SALE.


THE undersigned. Harry R. Virgin, receiver
4 and trustee of the DEMO Automatic Alarm
Push Button Company, hereby gives notice that
he will sell at public auction to the highest bid
der at his office, No 396 Congress street, Port
land. Maine, on THURSDAY, JAN 18th, 1893.
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, all his right title
and interest as receiver and trustee as afore-
said, and all the right title and interest which
said DEMO Automatic Alarm Push Button Com
pany had at the time Of its dissolution, in and
to letters patent of the United States for an I'M
provement in electric signalling and alarm ap-
paratus, numbered 397 ,s3s. and bearing date
February 18th. 1889, hereby giving notice to
the purchaser that Louise A, Demo of Roches-
ter, New York, claims a royalty of 2 cents up.
on each push button made and sold under said
letters patent, by virtue Of contract made be-
tween said Louise A. DEMO and said company,
bearing date October 4th, 1882. And said rs=
caiver will also sell at the same time and place
all his right title and interest in and to $4,000
sets of shells for push battors.
HARRY r. VIRGIN,
Receiver and Trustee of DEMO Automatic
Alarm Push Button Company.
janis div
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26

Alias Summons.
PHRNTx. ARIZONA,

In the District Court OF the Third Judicial
District OF the Territory of Arizona, in and
for the County of Msricopa.
The L. W. Bllnn Lumber Company
Corporation, Plaintiff.
Emma A. Branen, Joseph Branen and
Milton Warren, Henry Warren and
l.. Gilman. composing the firm OF
Warren, Gilman Il Co., Defendant,
Action brought in the district court Of the
third judicial district OF the territory OF Arr
zona, N and for Maricopa county, and the com.
plain filed in said Maricopa county, in the
ofics of the clerk of said district court.
IT, the name OF the Territory of Arizona, to
Milton Warren and Henry Warren, defendant,
greeting; ...
You are hereby summoned and required to
appear in an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiff in the district court
OF the third judicial district of the territory OF
Arizona, in and for Maricopa county, and
answer the complaint therein filed with the
clerk of this said court, at Phoenix, In said
county, within 10 days after the service upon and
of this summons, If served in this said county,
or If served out OF this said county and within
this said judicial district, then within twenty
days thereafter, or IN all other cases within
thirty days thereafter, the times above men
toned being exclusive OF the day OF service, or
judgment by default will be taken against you.
Given under my hand and seal Of the District
Court Of the Third Judicial Dis
trict ofthe Territory of Arizona,
lsEALl in and for Maricopa County,
this 23d day OF September, A.
D., 1898.
C.H. KNAPP,
Clerk Of said nistrict Court
BY J. II. Stout, Deputy Clerk
Williams & Williams, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26
Tsr.Ialnar pr,rea.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine numbers end
ing with IS, being the two last figures OF the
number drawing the. capital prize OF $4,000
Hine hundred and ninety nine numbers end.
Ing with 90, being the two last figures of the
$2Oy000, so.
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26
stage Lanes.
Z. S. NAIL AND STAGE LINE.

Passengers from Globe, Gan Carlos, Fort
Thomas and all points below will please take
the stage at solomonville for Duncan on Mon.
making close connection vt Duncan with the
trnin from Lordsburg TO Clifton and Morencf
ALSO with the stage for Carlisle, New Mexico,
returning from Duncan 70 Bolomonville on ar
Isle on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday., ar
nying Of B0iomonville at O'Clock o. M.
keep q good corral At each end OF the route
This IL q short road free from dust and chuck
holes. Commercial men taken on any day us
NOAH GREEN,
ProDrietoE
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26
PROCLAMATION Of howard.


TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, !
RxEcUTIvR DEPARTMENT
To all to Whom These Presents Shall Come,
Greetings
WHEREAS, Information from authentic
sources has been received by me that Frank W.
Curry, citizen of Tucson, Pima county, was
murdered at ArivRca, in the said county, on the
10Th OF September, 1892, by some person or per-
sons unknown:
Now, therefore, !, Charles NJ. Bruce, acting
governor OF Arizona, by virtue Of the power
and authority nme vested, do hereby offer a
reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest
and conviction Of the person or persons who
committed the Aforesaid murder.
In witness whereof, have hsTeunto set my
hand and caused the great seal OF the territory
to be affixed. Done at Phoenix, the capital,
this twenty-frst day OF September; A. D. 1898.
CHAs. M. BRUCE,
Acting Governor,
lsEALal FB, DsvRREux,
Assn Secretary of Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26

Beware of all limitations and anonymou
schemes.
Arizona republican., 1893-09-26

Congress having lately passed laws prohibit
Ing tie use OF the malls 70 all lotteries, we use
the express companies In answering CORE
spondents and sending lists Of prizes.
The offeial list OF prizes viii be sent on appli.
cation TO all local agents, after exery drawing,
in any quantity by express, free Of cost.
The work of sending the Official list to every
correspondent begins Immediately after the
completed. Should any Of our patrons exper-
ienee any delay in receiving it, II is owing TO
their name being among the last on the list
year 1891, by the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany, In the Office Of the Librarian OF Congress
at Washington.