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The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

The following incident related by Bucks
port citizen shows that old Jed Prouty is
not quite forgotten there yet. ut was at
the now historic Orthodox steepIe fire.
The intrepid firemen had got a bend on
the fire fiend and from the bell deck we're
pouring barrels of the Silver lake aquarium
water into the heart of the blaze. But
alas, the flames on the tip-top f1ickered and
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
GRAND OPENING SALE.
s. j. Murray's Horse Exchange. Nos.
1870, 1872, 1874 Federal St.
s, j. MURRAY. PROP.

Private Sales and Exchanges Every Day.
Auction Every Friday, rain OF shine.
On Friday, October 2s, at 1890 a. NJ, I
shall sell 30 head of draft. driving,s trotting
and general purpose horses in matched
pairs and single, weighing. from 1000 to. 1900
pounds each. These horses, AS in all my
sales, each and every horse, Will be honest
ly described andstruthfully represented at
sale and will positively be sold to the
highest bidder regardless of cost or value.
A trial of "A hours will be allowed, and if
not as represented, return the horse and
your money will cheerfully be refunded.
SPECIAL: At p. m. shall sell some
Included in this lot is chestnut horse that
can road IL miles an hour, sound and kind.
Also sorrel horse, well. bred, fearless of all
OBJECTS and an elegant driver.
roadster and froffer, THORNBURG, 2.2l.
This horse has wide spread reputation as
a roadster. and for c1everness it is hard to
lind his equal. Also a number of accli-
mated. sold for reasons explained ut sale.
The following horses unsigned by Stock
No. !. Roam mare Seminole" years
old, sired by Babcock, dam Lady Curtis,
stands l4-2 and is sound and kind. This
mare is a good driver and fine cross country
+. runner.
2. Bay gelding s'sultan.'' years Id, by
Babcock. dam French mare Java. stands
knee action and a good saddler and jumper.
g. Bay FLY Ida, ? years old, by Babcock,
dam French mare Mocha, stands 15-2, sound
and. kind and splendidly pIoportioned for
her age.
- Roam geldiHg Dandy.a beautiful animal,
high spirited and very stylish. safe for lady
or child to ride or drive
5. Brown pony. Holly. stands IA hands,
sound. kind and fearless of all objects,
broken to harness or saddle,
b. Chestnut brood mare s'Tita, - in fOal to
Babcock, broken single or double sound and
kind and good STYLE
These horses are i pledged for absolute
sale
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

Roscoe Swan. of Norway, was recently in
1ured In peculiar manner at Greenwood. He
attempted to pull skunk from stone wall
by the tail. During the strugg le the animal
discharged its defensive weapon into the
boys face. almost sufocating him. Since
the episode he has been gradually failing
from what the doctors term bad case of
internal poisoning.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

The starch factory at Sherman has be,n
doing large business this fall. Although
the factory cellar has been enlarged and
thousands of bushels of potatoes stored in
barns near by. there was not room enough,
and hauling had to be suspended several
days at a time.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
Sale of Real Estate.

Yesterday the residence at No. 11e
Emery street was sold at auction by F.
o. Bailey 3 Go. The lot contains 300
square feet of land, and the house is
two and one-haif story with nine rooms
The house brought S4O75.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

Lewiston is congratulating herself that
building enterprises in that city this year
will probably foot up to the neat little sum
of 100000 or more. The Doyle building.
the Cobb Divinity school. the Garcelon
building. S. Peters monastery. together
with the completion of he elegant new gov
eminent building, come first.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

Mr.. f. H. Francis of Belfast, is doing
creditable work in regard to preserving the
fish in Swan lake. 1t is claimed that much
OF the small fry escape through tie. waters
OF the harbor. Mr.. Francis has put up
wire netting to prevent their escape.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

The other morning party of seven Bar
Harbor sportsmen went to Egg Rock and
Turtle Island to slaughter sea birds, and in
the ATTEMPT were successful, and about
noon the! returned with about $50 birds.
This is cliimed to be the largest number
ever brought into Bar Haroor by one party.
The gunnsrs and birds-were photographed
upon thei return.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
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The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

Mr.. Joseph Cate. the Augusta dry goods
dealer, has assigned to Mr.. Hayes. trayelI-
ing salesman for Milliken. Ceusens & Short
of this city.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

To match the story of the Buxton man
who popped his corn before he planted ii
comes one from Cape Porpoise. 1t is to the
effect that an old farmer there bought split
peas at a store, expecting to raise that yari-
ETY..
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

One south Paris dog has secured 80 wood
chucks this season, and he hasn't pedigree
either.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

The Poland Paper Company are negotiat-
ng with the selectmen of the town with a
desire to connect their steam pumps with
the pipes laid by the Poland village corpora
tion. They are doing this, hoping to save
the 25 per cent. insurance which. has been
added to. insurance rates of their property
the last month.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
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The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

The Gay-Woodman Co. of Lewiston, the
large shoe concern of that city, has as
signed to Hon. Geo. 9. Wing, with Iabili-
ties OF 100000. The company has been los
ing money, owing TO the financial depress-
ion, and the capital stock mas been much
impaired. The president has been absent,
and also lost money in other ventures. The
company was incorporated in 1890. with
Sl5o,o00 capital, and employed between 400
and 500 people.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
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The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

A bottle was picked up on the beach at
Camp Ellis, containing a scrap of paper,
on which was witten, 'sDr. Hudson of Man
chester. N. H.. and DR.. Schamhier Of Lewis
ton. Me-. lost in the sea while fishing Mon
day, Oct. s, '94.'' On the other side of the
scrap of paper was printed by a rubber
stamp, Henry Schamhier, merchant of
medicine, 122 Blake sire at, Lewiston, Me-"
1t appears that DIR. Schamhier has sister
named Mrs. Rinfret living in Lewiston, who
says her brother was very fond of fishing.
and she is fearful that he is lost. He is
about 25 years of age.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

A humorous incident occurred at restau-
rant in Bangor one day this week that will
not soon be forgotten by the parties who
were in it. A number of we'll known men
were taking dinner in one of the small
apartments, and their table was loaded
with the good things that go to make lie
worth living. They were in the midst of
an animated discussion about the cyclones
of the West, when bang came big bull dog
into the apartment and landed squarely on
this back in the middle of the table. Such
an uproar was never heard! The dog scram-
bled to get on to his feet , and he smashed
dishes and knocked all the food off on to
the floor. The men made hustle to get
out, and they bumped their heads and had
hard time generally. The cause of the COM
motion was young man who was swinging
the dog around outside, and whether he
let him fly in Intentionally or not is yet.a
mystery.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26
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The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

sputtered and the extinguishin element
reached it not. We've got to have six
feet more hose yelled the chief to the hose
man on the ground. Up through the smoke
ana rain came the caustie reply, What yer
glvln' us! This amt no Jed Prouty play"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16
LATEST FROM RIO.
Americans Paid OT-Da Gana's Portuguese
Asylum.


Copyright: 1894: BY the United Press
RIO DE JANEIRO. March l5.-The
Americans who helped man the govern
ment's war-ships were paid off to-day.
They will leave the city on the first ship
sailing from this port TO New York. T. A.
Brlndley, who commanded the crew OIL
Tho dvnamite-glin aboard the Nictheroy
was disrated at Bahia because he kept the
cun out of order The government officers
snsnected him Of being n traitor, ana pur-
poseIy rendering the gun useless
THE French war-ship. Magon, on winch
ADMIRAL Da Cana sought refuge Just
nrior 10 the surrender OF the insurgeht
feet cruised OF the coast Tor snort
time and then returned to port. she trans
ferrad Ia Cana and eight other insurseht
otncers To the Portuguese war-ship ana
,hen mt out again. Several hours later
t,ranch mail-steamer was stopped as she
-, wing mort. probably because the
FEDERAL authorities suspected that she car
ria5 the insurgent admiral. Her captain
,,roved to the satisfaction OF the bra~n-
isns however that none OF the Insurgents
were aboard her. co.,ro, ora
President Peixoto ana MS Sao
considering whether or not ,he' VIZ
mand from the Portuguese 'ne 80, -,
OF pa Cana. 1t is known thal 'ne ~,
surgent Admiral was more anxious W hvs
an asylum under the BRUSH nag, wnlen n
has hen more or less at his service since
,he beginning of hostilities lie applied
Tor massage aboard a steamer Oh tne
Rovau Mail Steam-Packet COMPANY
wbos.. vessels ply between South Ameri-
can ports and Southampton, put the Cap
tain declined TO carry MN.
The Nictheroy's dynamite-gun is 10 Dc
mounted at Fort Santa cruz.
The United States warships VIII san On
SATURDAY.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16
ODD INDIAN GAMES.
Amusements of the Small Redskins De-
scribed by au Educated Sioux.


We had some quiet plays which we
aIternated with the more severe and war
like ones Among them were throwing
wands and snow arrows. In the winter
we coasted much. says the narrator In 81.
Nicholas. We had no "double-rippers."
nor toboggans, but six or seven OF the
long ribs of a buffalo. fastened together
at the larger end. answered all practical
purposes. Some times strip OF basswood
bark four feet long and half foot wide.
was used with much skill. We stood on
one end and held the other using the
inside of the bark for the outside. and
thus coasted down long hills with re,
markable speed.
Sometimes we played medicine dance"
This to us was almost what playing
church" IL amorg white children. Our
people seem to think II an act of irreve-
renee 10 initiate these dances, but we
children thought otherwise: therefore, we
quite frequently enjoyed in secret one of
these performances. We used TO observe
all the important ceremonies and customs
attending 1t, and 1t required something of
an actor to reproduce the dramatic fea-
lures of the dance The real dances
usually occupied a day and a night, and
the programme was long and varied, 80
that 1t was not easy TO execute all the de-
tails perfectly, but the Indian children are
born imitators.
| was often selected az choirmaster on
these occasions. for l had happened to
learn many of the medicine songs, and
was quite an apt mimic. My grand
mother, who was a noted medicine woman,
on hearing OF these sacrilegious acts tas
she called them. warned me that II any
Of the medicine men should learn of my
conduct they would punish me terribly
by shrivelling my limbs with slow disease.
Occasionally we also played white
man." Our knowledge of the pale-face
was limited, but we had learned that he
brought goods whenever he came. and
that our people exchanged furs for his
merchandise We also knew. somehow,
that his complexion was white, that he
wore short hair on his head and long
hair on his face. and that he had coat,
trousers, and hat. and did not patronize
blankets In the daytime. This was the
picture we had formed of the white man.
So we painted two or three OF our num-
Der with white clay. and put on them
birchen hats, which we sewed up for the
occasion fastened ii piece of fur TO their
chins for a beard, and altered their cos
tune az much as lay within our power.
The white of the birch bark was made to
answer for their white shirts. Their mer-
chandise consisted of sand for sugar wild
beans for coffee dried leaves for tea,
pu.verized earth for gunpowder, pebbles
for bullets and clear water for dangerous
.'freyater" We traded for these goods
with skins of squirrels, rabbits, and small
birds
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16
Ruskin's Bed-ChaInber.
ClcClure's Magazine.)


Into this room let us peep for just
moment. II Is surprisingly small-hardly
more than IL or l6 feet square; nor Is the
floor space very ample when the en-
croachment OF the furniture Is deducted.
a little table stands before the little VIM
dow: a little wash handstand and smaii
wooden bedstead flank the little fireplace;
n chest of drawers and book-caSe-the
last named the most important item Vi
furniture, containing, too. some WONDER
ful missals, a collection OF the Work OF
his well-loved Walter scott ana otnei
most highly-treasured volume@'-these llhe
the room. A glass Of flowers on the ta-
pestry-bordered mantelpiece, coai-scut-
n. NJ ancient Sort and a chintz-covered
chair complete the inventory. But the
waIIs-the walls are the wonder or Brant-
wood For they are virtually covered
with the finest masterpieces in water
color that ever issued from turner
Observation-Disclosures worth probably at ieast
a thousand pounds apiece. each eNqulslte
I'm itself. every one a well-known epoch-
marking work. from the earliest, when
the great landscape painter was quite
how To the last, which In his age ne
painted TO Mr.. Ruskin's order. anu
amongst them. with entirely character
istic taste and reverence, above the hre-
place. are a beautiful fruitpiece by VIZ
liam Hunt-'hanging among the rest IKE
a brooch" he will tell you--and water
color view Of lake and mountain heeho
by Ruskins own father.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16
SIMPLE CURE FOR HlccoUcHS.
a Pittsburg Physicians Prescription Which
Costs Nothing But the Taking.

Costs Nothing But tho Taking.
II was Just about to send cure for
hiccoughs to the New York man whose
case has been puzzling the doctors when
l read that he had been cured by laugh
ing heartily at colored mans descrip-
ton of what seemed TO the patient a most
ridiculous cure" said a Pittsburg physi-
clan 10 the Dispatch. you hear OF nu-
morous cures for hiccoughs. such as
holding your fingers In the ears and hav-
ing some one give you a drink Of water.
holding ones breath for period. &c.
but I doubt II any will stand the test as
well as n practical cure which for twenty
years has never failed me once In all the
hundreds OF cases l have tiled IT, IL
may seem Just as ridiculous as the cure
proposed by the colored man In New
York-so ridiculous that many VIII not
think IL worth the while 10 try tilt Is
nevertheless, a sure cure. All you have
TO 90 is TO lie down. stretch your head
hack as far as possible. open your mouth
widely, then hold two fingers above the
head well back. so that you have to
strain the eyes to see them. gaze intently
upon them and take long, full breaths.
In a short time you will be entirely re-
lieyed O. the troublesome hiccoush. Now.
I have tried that sure cure on all sorts
of cases, from the simple form 10 the
chronic, and II works well with all. l
remember II was given to a man on the
way 10 New York TO consult specialist
ON his case-one OF six months standing
and II cured him In q few minutes. He
turned around and said: What do you
charge for thatr Nothing was the re-
ply, except that. you publish IL to suf-
ferers'"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16

Hail man named Hyies fell from his
perch on storm door entrance TO the
hall, striking head flrst upon the pave
rAent. and fracturing his skull. lie viii
die.
II IL said that a warrant for the arrest
OF Governor Waite has been sworn out.
tnd will be served by a posse Of deputy
shenffs tonight
y. s. TROOPS ARRIVE.
sa5 r.. M.-The United States troops
have arrived from Fort Logan. and are
under command Of General McCook. Gene
raj Brooks. OF the State troops says the
old Fire and Police Board will be given
an opportunity TO fight or quit.
The regular troops GOO strong) arrived
nj the Union Depot at S15 o'clock by a
special train from Fort Logan. The mill
tia was sent back 10 the armory. ard at
o'clock General McCook ordered the
troops to bIvouac at the depot until morn
Ing. He has held conference with Gov
ernor waite. at which Acknowledgement
Tarsrsy and BrigadIer-General Brooks. OF
the Colorado National Guard. were pres
cnt.
The monster crowds are slowly dis
persing. and the police hayc gone out on
their regular beats. No mob violence Is
UDN 0HilAiIRt"''
SITUATION AGAIN SERIOUS.
LATER.--Late tonight Governor Waite
issued an order calling out every COM
pany Of militia I'm the State. They are 10
come TO Denver Immediately. ready to act.
The Colorado Guards. consisting OF two
regiments, one with headquarters here.
and the other In Pueblo. The entire force
can muster probably LOO men. The Gov
ernor says the companies here are not
sufficient 10 cope with the crowds and the
police force. They cannot reach Denver
before Saturday. The Sheriff Will attempt
70 cause the arrest of the Governor, AdJu-
tant- General Tarsney. AMI Brigadier-Gene-
raj Brooks early tomorrow morning. The
United States troops Will remain in the
city till peace Is assured. and the promi-
ncnt men viii continue to urge peaceable
means Of settlement.
As Governor Waite seems insensibe to
arguments looking 10 arbitration. peace
can come about only by the withdrawal
of the City Hall people. or by some
action of the courts that win restrain the
Governor.
The situation now looks serious for to-
morrow.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-16
TIE RICHMoND DIspATCH-FRIDAY. MARCH 49, 1894.

a notable exception to this rule. he - %
YEAR, cid. OF dropsicai tendency, end
weighs 30 pounds. He was taken with
dizzy smells about two years ago. His
MUSE ran down to sixty. and EVERYBODY
thought no was going to die. When physi-
clans came from Chicago they found him
with : forty-minute pulse. which xoon
rank To thIrty-six and thirty.four. There
seemed 10 be no hope for Lyons who ar
ranged his temporal affairs and prepared
FOR the worst Electrical currents were
snolisd. but the pulse only Sank lower.
reached thirty. All sorts Of restoratives
were applied. They seemed to nave the
oppostte effect. Further down sank the
pulse 10 twenty-eight. twenty-four. TWEEN
ty:one.. twenty, even TO eighteen. and yet
ali This time Mr.. Lyons was, TO all APP
pearances. strong and well. For over a
wear now he has been In this condition.
his pulse wavering between eighteen and
twenty-two, and he has been at work al
most every day In his shop. He said to-
day that he expected TO live several
minutes after he Is dead. from the fact
that his heart Is getting 50 low ;ha; ifs
work will be done before he Is notified.