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The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Mrs. Virgins Reading.

Everybody who has read those charm
ing stories by Mrs. Wiggin. 1.-THE Birds
Christmas Carol'' and Timothy s
Quest,' will wish to hear Mrs. Wiggin
read from her own works, and will have
an opportunity to do so next Thursday
evening at Kotzschmar Hall. Speaking
of the lady's writings, the Manchester
Eng.) Courier says of her Cathedral
Courtship,'' Amusing in the extreme
perfectly delicious. Anyone
who begins the book is sure to read to
the last word. Like Dickens, whose
readings of his own works, were treat,
SO tits reported Mrs. Virgins readings
of her own works possess.sa most sub
tie charm
Mrs. Wiggin will be assisted by Mrs.
Henry ST. John Smith, who will favor
the audience with several songs. and also
by Mr. Barnard, while Miss Cobb will
oficiate as accompanist The tickets
can be had at Loring. Short & Harmon's.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
The Worlds Fair!

Take it all in all the world is fair. That is,
its judgments are pretty generally Just NC
doubt it has formed many incorrect con
illusions from the time the caravels OF Column
bus appeared off the shores OF San SalTadoi
to the present year of celebration. but there
are instances fits fairness which can be citeo
unquestioned 1t has, after comparative tests
given it's award to Hostetter's Stomach Bit5efs
for efficacy in cases of malarial rheumatic ano
kidney disorder, dyspepsia, liver compliant
constipation. nervousness ana ueD o ~,
Among positive facts without any DOUBT I.ils
verdict deserves a prominent place. ne
experience of u generation justlfies. ana tne
concurrent testimony OF hosts OF emlien'
physicians. bear out its truth. Give the 6lItefs
a fair trial and verify it,
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16

Portland District Ministerial Association.
The Portland District Ministerial AS
ISOLATION will meet with Congress street
M. E. Church this evening. The pro-
gramme includes:
Monday-73O p. M, sermon by Rev.
w. Fl. Barber; alternate, Rev. Thomas
| Whiteside.
Tuesday-S.30 a. M, devotional exer-
| cises, Rev. L. H. Bean; 900 a. M, or
| ganization; 9.l5 a. M, revival work.,
appropriate seasons, Rev. F. w. Smith !;
| 2, agencies to be employed, Rev. F. Gro
venor; 3, how secure the cooperation Of
the church?SRev, M. E. King; 1890 a. M,
| the Sunday evening service, Revs. E. L.
House, W. S. McIntire, /. G. Ross, G.. F.
| Millward; Ills a. M, How secure a
| more thorough distribution of Metho-
dist literature? Revs. I. Luce, j. Gibson,
R. Lawton, d. Pratt; 1.30p p. M, dovo-
tional exercises, Rev. A. S. Staples; 200
p. M, What changes in our annual con-
ference proceedings are desirable? Revs.
D. B. Randall, o. o., b. Freeman, John
Collins, J. H. Trask; 8. Is p. M, Woman
home missionary meeting, under direc-
ton of Mrs. G.. J. Clarke; 100 p. M,
How utilize pur young peoples organiza-
lions? Revs. Walter Canham, G. Lowe,
W. P. Lord, w. Fl. H. McAllister, w. NJ.
Edison: 7.30 p. M, revival service, under
direction of Rev. III. B. Mitchell, with
preaching by Rev. A. A. Lewis, alternate
Rev. E. G. Strout.
Wednesdays 30 a, M, devotional ex-
ercises, Rev. E. w. Kennison; 900 a. m.,
The Methodist Social Union, what of it?
Hon. H. H. Shaw, Revs. H. Hewitt, NJ S.
Hughes; 1000 a. M, MethodisminM Maine
| can it be improved? how? Revs. c. F. Al
len, D. D., 0. S. Pillbury, c. Munger, j.
Moulton; HOO a. M, Is more faithful
enforcement of our discipline desirable?
Reys A. W. Pottlc, T. n. Kewley, Nv.
| Wood, E. A. Porter
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
The Life-saving Service.

Lieutenant John bennett, of the Unit
ed States Revenue Marine Service, was
in Portland Saturday, having returned
from visit to the White Head life saw
ing station, which he found in excellent
condition for the winters campaign. The
station at Cape Elizabeth was also found
in apple pie order, and all right for the
winter season. Lietenant bennett is in
spector of all the stations on the New
England coast. He thinks the bill re-
Gently introduced in Congress providing
for opening coast stations September LIST
and closing them June Both, having a
close of only two months instead of four,
as at present, a very necessary piece of
legislation, and one which will probably
meet with no opposition.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
RlGBY PARK.
a Grand Horse Fair To Be Held Next
August.


A meeting of the Rigby Park directors
was held at the Preole House, Satur-
day afternoon, President Burnham in
the chair.
Great qualification was expressed at
the successful opening of the Park. The
attendance was fully up to what could
have been hoped for with two days of
stormy weather aid the fact that these
were the first races trotted there.
1t was voted to hold grand horse fair
at the Park the third week in August,
1894, at which every known breed of
horse, from the smallest pony to the
great Clydesdale and Norman Percheron
stock shall De exhibited, liberal prem
iums to be offered 1t is intended to
make this the largest horse fair that has
ever been held in any part of the world,
the premiums to be SO large as to form a
great inducement TO horse breeders and
owners to ship their coicest animals
from Europe as we'll as all parts of Amer
lea. There will be large stakes for colts
from one to four years old, and races for
trotting and pacing in all time classes.
Vice-President Tucker of the Maine
Central agrees to run trains so as to ac-
colnmodate the fair. 1t is expected that
a great deal of the Bar Harbor travel
will naturally be attracted to the fair.
From conversation with Mr.. Farnham
it was learned that an agreement has
been reached whereby circuit compris-
ing Mystic, Saugus, Old Orchard and
Rigby will be formed next season and
weekly meetings held at each track ev-
cry month during the season. This will
make splendid circuit and will be of
inesti mable benefit to the two new
tracks. The principal beauty of this
circuit is the fact that all four tracks are
within hundred miles of each other
and they are excellent courses.
Every stall which is now constructed
we have received applications for next
year," said Mr.. Farnham, land we shall
go to work on the construction of hun
dred more at no very distant date. We
expect to have from three to five humid
red horses here next season. Among
those who will be here are MI. Nelson
with string of 40 horses; M. r. Pooler
of Skowhegan with 10 and perhaps 20;
Frank Jones of Portsmouth and Mr..
Russell Allen Of Boston, with several
horses each; H. Wesley Hutchins of
Auburn; the Muster Hill Farm of New
Braintree, Mass. George W. Leayitt of
Boston, and half dozen other promi-
nent breeders who do not care to have
their names published at present"
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Physiology of Reproduction.

The Ladies' Physiological Institute of
Boston will open the season of 1884
with course of eight lectures on the
physiology of Reproduction, to be
given sjointly by A. NJ. Beecher, M. d.,
and Salome Merritt, NJ. D. The Beecher
Club of Portland are to be congratulated
upon having so talented woman for its
founder ard adviser. Dr.. Beecher, OF
Miss Beecher as she prefers to be called
will give the same course of business
talks to the Portland Beecher Club that
she will, later in the season, to the Bos-
ton Beecher Club. They will be given
liz the Falmouth Hotel pariors Thursday
and Friday afternoons and Saturday
forenoon of this week.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
odd Fellowship.

Tonight, at 7.3o o'clock, at Odd Eel
lows Hall. the Past Grand Represents
tives' Association of Maine will meet.
At Ga. m. tomorrow, the Grand Lodge
will meet, and in the evening. at 7.30, the
Grand Encampment. 1t is understood
that the many friends of Mr.. Orrin B.
Written, P G. M. and P. G. Rep, will
present his name as candidate for the
office of Grand Secretary. Mr.. Written
has had large experience in the official
work of the order. He was Grand Sec
rotary from 1868 until 1872, and was then
elected deputy grand master and pro-
NOTED to grand master He has served
four terms as grand representative and
transacted important business on the
floor of the sovereign grand body.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Messengers Notice.

Office of the Sheriff of Cumberland County
State of Maine. Cumberland IS. October
IA, A. ID. 1893.
yglHIS is to give notice. that on the 14th day OF
October, A. d.. 1898. a Warrant in lnsol-
vency was issued out of the Court of Insolvency
for said County OF Cumberland, against the es-
tate of
RANSOM d. PALMER, of Portland.
adjudged to be an insoivent debtor, on petition
of said debtor, which petition was filed on the
i4th day OF October, A. d. 1898, to which date
intereston claims is to be computed. That the
payment Of any debts to or by said debtor, ana l
the transfer and delivery of any property by
him are forbidden by law. That meeting OF
the creditors of said debtor, to prove their
debts and choose one or more assignees of his
estate, will be held at a Court Of Insolvency to
be holden at Probate Court room in said Port
land, in said county of Cumberland, on the 9Th
day of November, A. D. 1893, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above
written. SAMUEL D. PLuMMEK, .
Deputy Sheriff as Messenger Of the Court Of
Insolvency for the said County of Ctnoberld,ld.
oct16&23 .
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Arrested on Suspicion.

Crooks barber shop at Berwick was
broken into Friday night, and razors,
shears and clippers stolen. Saturday, a
man offered razors and a pair of clippers
for sale at the Preble House barber shop,
saying he was barber out of work. He
was directed to Curriers' pawn shop,
where he sold some of them. The po-
lice were informed and Officer Firth az
rected the man Saturday. He told such
conflicting stories that he was held.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
From Biddeford in the Mud.

A man and his wife walked in from
Biddeford Saturday, making good time
over the bad roads, and through the rain.
They had been working at Clairmont N
H., but the mills shut down and they
were driven to try to find something to
do elsewhere. They both seemed to b5
willing to work, but the great question
with them was where to get the work to
do. The man said he was mill hand,
but had worked as a mason's helper, and
was ready to do anything. The woman
said she could scrub, cook, or do almost
any sort of work. They had eleven cents
when they got here, and started at once
on what seemed to be the hopeless work
of trying to find job
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Tho Death Rate.

The number of deaths for last week
was IA, from the following causes: Con-
sumption, Wards /. and 6, one each
heart disease, Ward /. /; inanition, Ward
5, l; intestinal tuberculosis. Ward 5, l;
overdose of opium, Ward 6, !; paralysis.
Ward 5, |; phthisis pulmonalis, Ward 4
/; pneumonia, Wards 2 and Z, one each
surgical shock, Ward 7, 1; still born,
Ward s, |; tubercle Of larYnx. Ward 2. l.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
VIII Recover His Team.

A few days ago, Mr.. Jewell, the livery
stable keeper, lost team that had been
hired by man for few hours drive.
1t appears that the man who hired it
took the team to East Rochester and left
it at a livery stable in that place. MI.
Jewell will recover his team.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16

when Baby was sick, we gave her Castorsss
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
Wien she had Children. she gave them csstoria
dec11 endSs1wy
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Fire on Washington street.

The alarm from box % about 8 a, m.
yesterday was caused by chimney on
fire on the house No. 152 Washington
street, occupied by Daniel Heaphy.
There was no damage done by the fire.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
Accid Tents.

During the gamo OF football between
Colby and Portland High School Satur-
day afternoon, Purington, quarterback
for Colby, in tackle with one of the
High School team, had several of his
ribs broken. DR.. E. F. Vose attended
him. and he is as comfortable as could
be expected
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16

The fashionable ladies' corrective tonic is
Angostura Bitters, the world renowned tonic
OF DR.. j. G. B. Siegert & Sons. Ask your drug
gist.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16

The New York Academy of Medicine has
honcred with its approval Bugeaud's Wine,
both as tonic and febrifuge. AT leading drug
pistS
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
j. r. LIBBY.

~ M 1uo0 rs
magic that Cash in merchant
Of new fresh goods
Time swhen Of neghbor
his competitors opportunity
up his Bankrupt Stock
And sluggish by Hurahng
neighbours relics!
method.
Bankrupt stocks their power 0 charm
conjure wi tn them.
parts Skim milk YIELD
mol longer
may churn onth vigorously vocierousy
But don't come!
goods
Is the in these days
We confess tempted 0 again try the old methods
bankrupt stock but after figuring and lookngit
We turnedi down.
days golden opportunities
VAST MASSES OF NEW GOODS HOT FROM LOOMS
The pepration of Custom fingers hardly dry
That turned backs weloome
the novelties.
No fossiam among them.
Gloves Sizes
no back number Styles everything charming
And the beauty it all that prices
scould be thought for ~
Then selling prices
quick.
Bargain middle counters where YOU
prices value
We call Midway
centre
Cashiers Desk.
frs thing that your eyeis
A limited
Novelty Goods at cents yard.
These only the lot
broken and some coors sold and
ing space
Do
Two-case Novelty Dress Goods that we
selling for II cents?
Docked of their price yard.
This price will be bye en-
step Or two beyond,
will call Diagonal Serge Goods
Double width.
Saturday they yard
Bargain price today II CENTS
this they slip away split quicksilver anywhere
everywhere.
Wool Flanncls FL CENTS
Henrieta Henrietta
(Not the girl but the goods for her)
So inches wide he colors
Yesterday golden opportunity
There IS difference between this and French All
everybody wouldn't notice it first glance, p cts yard.
thin easy touch
Serge paered spotted shotted with minute
rd-shot dots
Very effective
You'd handle only yard
1t wasn't Saturday. It'll today
Twenty buys here
Dependable Wool Serge, inches wide,
Blue Green Garnet Tan yard.
Thiry-nine
Fine, WoolT
No wardrobe S complete good
9cents.
One day sold these French Wool Popins
Today they l. yard.
the price only thing changed
to wide, Turn
like a--'s politics.
Whip Cords, bright nd brisk p-ash snapper
Worth ado 2
Step efarthe along the aisle,
See ebeautu
could worship commandment
MOI n oil &c. 31inches
Novel, attractive and
You wouldn't believe 5ocents.
justn now
Another handle lot Mongians
shades effects.
done by the ilkworm, poisher,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14

its color is blue-white and almost per-
feet. 1t has one black spot in it,
which, however, the owners state, will
cut ont. It's value, of course, can not
now be stated, but, writes CORE
spondent, think if $3.50, 900 were
offered for it now, or even double
that amount, it would not be accepted
Some declare that it will be worth
$2, 500, 900. 1t was found by Kaffir,
who was working in the mine, shortly
after blasting. The Kaffir, in this
case, was talking to his overseer,
when he saw something shine, and
he put his foot over it until his
''boss" had gone away, when he picked
up the immense diamond and put it in
his pocket.
Afterward, in the compound, he
handed it over to the manager, Tor
which he has been given $3.50, horse,
saddle and bride, and has gone home
in, no doubt, perfect happiness An
extraordinary circumstance is that
some gentlemen were under contract
to buy all stones, good, bad or in
different, at so much per carat. The
contract terminated on the 30th of
June and this stone was almost, if not
quite, the last stone found on that
day.
The model shows that the stone is in
the form of a sloping cone, fattened
on two sides and standing on an oval
base, SO flush as almost to appear to
have been cut. It's height is about
three inches and it's width is about
two, while the fiat base measures
nearly two inches by one and
quarter. The diamond has been named
the 'Jagersfontein Excelsior F"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14
Big Runpus over sheep

There Is trouble on the Mexican
border over the attempt Of Mexican
officers to drive flock Of 5000 sheep
from the United States to Mexico.
A telegram received at the war de.
partment from Gen. Wheaton, COM
manding the department Of Texas,
states that two troops of the Fifth cav.
airy with scouts will march from Fort
Ringgold For Havana, the scene of the
trouble, to support the twenty meu
under Capt. Furbush, who have the
Mexican officers and sheep In charge.
The telegram also states that the
commanding officer at Fort Kinggold
has received unofficial information
that Col. Metro of the Mexican army
is coming up the Rio Grande to Ha.
vana from Rsynosa with force of
men.
The war department Is making an
effort to secure detailed information
as to the ownership Of the sheep and
its action will depend upon the result.
Should the claim of the Mexican au.
thorities that the flock belongs to q
Mexican citizens be proved, the sheep
will be allowed to cross over the Mex.
lean line. Pending q settlement Of
the military aspect Of tho. affair, the
state will hold the matter in abeyance
and then demand Of the Mexican gov.
ernment an explanation of the action
OF its customs officials In sending an
armed force to make o seizure on
United States soil.
The question of whether the strip Of
land on which the sheep are located is
in Mexico or the United States by res.
son of change in the direction Of tho
Rio Grande, will also be subject to
diplomatic arrangement.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14

Greenwich observatory comes next,
ana then the 27-lnch instruments in
Paris and Vienna and the 26-inch
glasses in the University of Virginia
and at Washington, d. G.
In the matter of mere size even the
Yerkes instrument is little compared
to the huge rejecting telescopes in
various observatories. Lord Rosse, at
Blrr Castle, Ireland, has reflector
IL inches across; the Bessemer refiec-
tor in London is "a. inches in diame-
ter; the Herschel and Melbourne re-
Electors measure 48 inches across, and
the one at Paris AT inches But re-
fracting telescope is SO much superior
to a rejecting instrument in power
and general adaptability that the
Yerkes telescope in the Manufactures
Building is called the largest telescope
in the world.
It's tube of hard steel is GA feet long,
and without any accessories or glasses
weighs four tons. The steel has a
varying thickness of from five-six-
teenths to one-eighth of an inch, the
thickest steel being in the center,
where the tube is hung. The tube is
somewhat cigar-shaped, for it is SO
inches in diameter in the center and
gradually tapers to AZ inches at the
object glass and SO inches at the eve
end. With all the rods, arms, finders
and other accessories the tube weighs
seven tons. The column or pier upon
which the telescope is poised is made
OF cast-iron in five sections, hav-
ing an aggregate weight of forty-two
tons. The lower section or base
proper flares out to IL by IS feet and
weighs Is TONS At the floor level the
pier is 81 by II feet and gradually
tapers to the ''head" casting, which
rests on top of the column and which
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14

teeth cut in the bronze. The worm ia
OF hard steel. The telescope can also
b~ moved by hand, for on the north
side of the head are two hand wheels
by which the assistant astronomer can
set the telescope. Time is read on the
coarse hour circle, which is on the
polar axis. The circle is spaced into
twenty-four hours, with fve-minute
divisions, and is intended for approx
innate reading. The fine hour circle
for accurate reading is placed Just in
side the coarse hour circle, and is read
through microscopes by an assistant
on the balcony, which is reached by
spiral stairs. All the bearings for
moving parts are of Rabbit metal, with
means for accurate adjustment, and
self-oiling devices. So we'll balanced
is every part, and so evenly poised is
the whole thing, child can move the
instrument with the greatest ease.
The. object glass will not be ready
before the last of the year, for the
delicate work Of polishing and correct
ing the glasses requires time as well as
patience. The glass is in two pieces,
one of crown and the other of flint
glass. This is to correct chromatic
alteration or color.
When the instrument is mounted in
its observatory the column will stand
north and south. The details for the
observatory have not been completed,
but work on preliminary plans has be.
gun. With an object glass 25 per
cent. greater i'll area than any other
refractor, that much more light will
be admitted, and astronomers predict
great results from the telescope. II
will be used chiefly in spectrum analy.
sis, and the spectroscope and spectre.
graph are made and on exhibition in
the gallery just northeast of the tele-
scope. Without the glasses, the tele
scope as it stands, towering in the
main aisle seventy-tive feet in the air,
costs about $50, 900. A remarkable
feature Of it is that practically it was
designed and built since last Decem \
Der.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14

The influence of the telephone has
generally been regarded as salutary,
but the Sultan OF Turkey evidently
takes q different view of it. He de-
clines to have it in his dominions at
any price. Not only has he forbidden
telephone lines to be laid down in Con-
stantinople, but he objects to them
even in the other large towns, snch as
Smyrna and Salonica. He says his
subjects are far too ready, as it is, to
plot and conspire and make his life
burden, and he does not propose to
introduce means whereby they can
40 this twice as easily as they could
before. This feeling Of the Sultan is
SO we'll known that for considerable
time those interested in telephone mat
ters have ceased to apply for conces.
sions in the land Of the Turk
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14

specimen of steel forging IL inches in
diameter and IS feet long. 1t is re-.
sponsible for three and half Of the
seventy-tive tons. This spindle is
called the polar axis, and is always
set up SO as to be parallel to the axis
OF the earth. Upon the polar axis is
the ''declination sleeve, within which
Is the ''declination axis" steel forg-
ing II inches in diameter, 9 feet long.
weighing II tons, upon which the tube
proper is bolted. Thus the telescope
can be pointed in any direction, either
IN declination, that is north to south.
or up and down, and in right ascen-
sion, east to west.
The sdeclination circle" the large
wheel near the counterpoise weight, is
eight feet in diameter and is made of
cast-iron. 1t fits on the sleeve that is
on the polar axis, and, as the point
err" is carried by the spindle, the circle
stands still, and the pointer travels
around and reads the degrees which
are printed in large white marks and
figures on the rim of the circle. The
degrees can be readily seen from the
floor and give merely an approximate
reading. This is called the sscoarse
circle. The fine circle for accurate
reading is placed on the declination
axis near the tube, and is read by the
observer from the eye end by means OF
small telescope.
The driving clock is in the top Sec
ton of the hollow column. 1t is a
weight clock and the mechanism is such
that when the telescope is properly set
upon any particular star it is kept in
the field automatically. The clock is
self-winding, for at the proper time it
switches on small electric-motor, and
is wound up again.
Electricity is used as power for moy-
ing the telescope, and the observer or
his assistant can turn it by touching Q
button. In the clock room are three
motors; one for winding the clock, one
to give quick motion in declination,
and one to give quick motion in right
ascension. The motor can be thrown
IN or out from the balcony on the col
umn or from the Aoor. On the tube
and on the defamation sleeve are mo-
tors for giving slow motion in declina-
tlon and right ascension, which can be
switched in and out from the eye end
The application of power is made
through worm gear, of which the
wheel is u feet in diameter, weighing
II tons. The wheel is of cast iron,
with phospher bronze rim having the