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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-10
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press.
Gray.
WEST GRAY.

WEST GRAY.
Mr.. r. A. Allen, S. L. Adams, E. P.
Foster and Others of West Gray attended
the hearing on the proposed new road
round Blackstrap Hill, held Monday at
Piscataqua. The proposed road will
be great benefit to citizens of Gray and
Windham saving rise of about 100 feet,
and also shortening the distance con-
siderably.
engaged in harvesting their winter APP
PIES The crop will be about n average
one. and the quality above the average
of most winter fruit.
Mr.. George Kelley OF Portland is stop
ping at R. A. Aliens this week.
Mr.. Gowan of Old Orchard is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. A. G. Frank.
Mrs. DR.. Marshall, of South Windham
was the guest of Mrs. R. A. Allen on
Monday last.
Miss sAdams of Deering was at her
sisters, Mrs. w. P. Shaw, last week.
James Seeley is stopping with his
mother, Mrs. Julia P. Crockett.
Miss Laura Allen is reported to be no
better, and is still quite i'll.
Miss Sadie Perham is working at
Franklin Maxield's.
Buxton.
Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin will assist
by reading from her works the enter
tainment to be given by the Congrega-
tional people at Sanderson's Hall, on
the occasion of the annual Harvest Sup
per. which is to be held at Mrs. Sander
sons on the evening of the 18th inst
The festivities of the evening will be
supper as1usual reading, singing and
recitations
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-10
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

In the basement of certain Lewiston
church live bats that never 90 out, but
exist upon the micesthey can catch there.
The 1anltor says that dozen Of them
appears swoop down on him. and after a
lively little battle, he is conquered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-10
NO. 4sss.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
CHAPMAN NATIONAL BANK,

at Portland, in the State Of Maine, at the close
of business. oct 3D. 1894.
Commenced business October I'd, 1898.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

WITH thisissue we commence volume
twenty six No. l. For twenty five
years, this faithful recorder of passing
events has weekly visitc \ the homes of
patrons in nearly every State in the
Union, and of course hundreds of homes
in this and adjoining counties. Cam
paign papers and mushroom periodi-
Gals now and then swindle the people
by getting a years subscription in ad.
vance and then suspend for want of
support or other cause, but the old re-
liable Herald and Tribune still waves
in triumph, and now enjoys the honor
of being the Oldest continuous Repub-
lican paper under the same name pub
lished South of Mason and Dixons line,
We are here to stay, Democratic hard
times to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
AND YET THE TIDE SWEEPS ON.
WARD.

1t was a grand round up after
Growers Irritation with the royal courte-
san of Honolulu, his cuckoo hunt in
Dismal Swamps, his manifestation of
a Wall Street scorn for ''the dollar of
the daddies" and the unwearied dis
play of his chronic and constitutional
aversion to everything that bears the
semblance of we'll doing and pros
perity.
They slid and slid beautifully-an
avalanche from the Matterhorn of
Pennsylvania, another from the Jung
frau of New York, combining and
dashing their whirling masses to the
foot of the Green Mountains, across the
broad plains of the farm mortgaging
West and down to the council cham
bers of the capitol where Cleveland
and his coterle sit and pan and plot to
devastate and destroy.
In recounting the unbroken series of
defeats that have overtaken the artif-
GERS of ruin and woe, we hardly know
where to begin and where to end. The
Republican victories of last November
are so far distanced Icy the revolution
airy Republican majorities in the recent
elections that they are hardly worthy
OF count. Maryland, ashamed of her
immemorial prostitution did herself
nobly in the effort to free herself from
the Democratic manacles. Laurel, the
home of Senator German, where his
autocratic power has v before been
challenged, wheeled into the Repubii-
can column with many other Demo-
cratic strongholds of the State. Iowa,
Michigan and Connecticut, who had
strayed from the faith, returned with
tears in their eyes, penitence in their
hearts, and with majorities that surely
indicate a lasting separation from the
Democratic harlot, Illinois, which
was lured away from the principles of
Abraham Lincoln by the sirens of
.Cievelandism "came on back" with
her old time majority. Colorado, which
joined the Populist column in so and
has since been a lost ship f~oundering
IN the breakers Of unknown seas, found
her true course and the old Reuubli-
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
GOOD OUT OF EVIL.

When the people get through the
present severe pinch and the seyerer
stringency and deprivations yet in
store for them, they will have mastered
the great problem, always before the
poor and unfortunate, the science of
personal economy. They will have
discovered that many of their expendi-
lures in the past were not only un-
necessary, and, as they only gratified a
infu pride OF an unworthy ambition
TO surpass and outshine others around
them, were criminally extravaganza.
They will have learned practically.
not what exhausted but a
higher and better nature would and
should have taught them, the manly
and sturdy principle of proper self
denial.
The people have lavished the treas
urles OF minis on mistermed arts,
superficial education, the grotesoue
contrivances of fashionable folly and
indecency and the meretricious pomp
OF luxurious ease and abandon. and
now when they must face the disasters
their improv violence has wrought.
they PROSTATE themselves in groaning
despair and helpless impotency. The
peasants fare must ~supplant the ter
rapln and wine, coarser textures take
the place of 1.-THE purple and fine
linen, " and the sleek lordling and his
dainty queen fall into the procession
OF the common herd" Only the
Immensely rich can pass through the
crisis unscathed.
n panic has its uses as well as its
woes. There will be a compensation
In the fact that it will strip the masses
of the means they would waste in per-
nicious pleasures and designations. and
place before them the most impressive
object lessons of prudence and eau
ton. pride goeth before destruction
and a naughty spirit before a fall"
will be pictorially illustrated before
their very eyes. They will be con-
WINGED that no race, however self re-
liant and independent, can endure the
waste and rot of Babylonish life: that
misery and hopelessness are surely be-
fore those who do not carefully hus-
band their u and accumula
tons. These object lessons will teach
them that u forefathers and fore.
mothers lived we'll and died we'll,
ignorant of the carking cares, bunting
inanities and giddy whirl of modern
society g charmed circles, and that the
ennobling and beautiful simplicities of
their quiet and useful lives can be
carried along profitably and conven
iently with the march of mind and
progress of civilization in this marvel
Gus age. ut is an i'll wind that blows
nobody any good and the good com
mon sense of the American people will
serve them now and in the future as it
often has before, and annealed and
purified by the fiery scourge they will
be stronger for having passed through
it, and will pluck the flower of safety
from the nettle of danger
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
30 WN.

Vegetation is putting on its mantle of
green; wheat looks promising now. S.
K. Barley, was the proudest man in
this section. says he is a thousand dol
lars better off because he has another
boy at his house and says he is going
to crowd the Republican ranks; we are
afraid he might be mistaken-on his
wife's side they are all full blooded
Democrats. B, NJ. Bowman is going to
build a blacksmithshop. E. D. Brab-
son, of Matuta, is building a new barn.
The farmers are improving their fences
other Improvements are in view. Will
Sellars, Dug Splitter H. NJ. Sherfey,
have been for nearly two weeks max
ing the saw of Sellars' sawmill sing
from early morn till dewey eve. The
people are not crying hard times here
IN this section, the way Improvements
are going on. Great many people try
to climb the mountain before they get
to it, consequently hard times catches
them before they get there. Ms. Laura
Mcmillan and family, of Midway, have
been spending several days with her
father, Ben Morrow. of Bowmantown.
Capt. j. NJ. Morrow, of New Market, Is
in this neighborhood. Candidates are
thick in the Seventeenth District for
the Intermediates. Unison Williams
was buried at Oakland church last
Sunday. Sacramento services WAS
acid at Oakland Sunday. Prof. Will
loughby, Of Washington College, con-
Quoted services at Oakland Sunday. 4
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
BOON,S CREEK.

The recent Geld weather has killed
about all of the fruit in this section and
injured the wheat to some extent. Corn
planting is the order of the day with
the farmers. A goodly number of our
people took in the show at Jonesboro
and johnson City. The young people
of Hales School House have organized
a young mans prayer meeting which
is resulting in much good. The prayer
meeting and Sunday school at Chest
nut Grove is increasing in interest.
Prayer meeting at Marvin every We'd
nesday night; Sunday school every
Sunday morning and preaching the
second Sunday in each month. Prof
Lusk is plastering the new school house
known as Valley View. Messrs. Nc
Clure and Bolton, of Johnson City. are
doing the work. Mrs. John Susong,
who has been sick for sometime, is inn
proving at this writing. Tom Archer
has moved in his new house. George
and Decatur still wants to learn the
carpenter trade. BOB.
Farmers are getting along very we'll
with their spring work. The young
folks prayer meeting at Hale's School
House is getting along nicely; new
ones are coming to the front most
every meeting. Rev. White, Baptist
preacher from near Flourville, preached
for the peopleat Hale's School House
Sunday night last. Perhaps it might
be of interest to those who contributed
to the necessities of Joe G. Archer to
know that they have gone to house
keeping again, very we'll fixed. They
have had a nice amount of grain made
up for them, also meat and clothing
enough to do them until grain is har-
vested. They have also received from
$50 to S25; bedding, a new stove,
dishes, hay and so on, and think Mr..
Archer ought TO be very well satisfied
that he has a host OF good friends.
GOOD Boy.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

The Democratic County Convention
met In the Court House last Saturday
for the purpose of nominating a ticket
for county officers to be voted for at
the coming August election, and also a
candidate for the Legislature. The
Convention was called to order by G..
w. Willett, Chairman of the Executive
Committee and was organized by the
election of Capt. A. S. Deaderick for
Chairman and Mr.. Jackson of johnson
City and DR.. Paul w. Kirkpatrick of
this place were elected Secretaries.
After the temporary organization had
been made permanent, and the usual
committee OIL credentials and represen-
tation appointed and made their report
showing that the Convention was en-
titled TO 20 delegates, and that all the
districts were represented, the ball for
mally opened by the Chairman an
%pouncing that the first business of the
Convention would be the nomination
of IA candidate for Sheriff: Whereup-
on Abe F. Mauk of the Second District
was placed in nomination by w. M.
Odell; John Fl. Bowman Esq, placed
in nomination the name of our fellow
townsman Jas. s. Pritchett as a man
and as a Democrat that always pulled
off his hat and his coat here on election
day and worked for the success of the
Democratic ticket, and not only worked
but spent his money.
The first ballot gave Pritchett some
SO votes and Mauk some 16, and Pritch-
EFT having more than two thirds was
declared the nominee.
Next in order was the nomination of
a candidate for County Court Clerk.
Then came an awful pause, oppressive
silence, for among all the office hun
CRY Democrats in this county there
did not seem to be one brave enough
tackle Doc Leab-to waste time and
money in chasing a vain shadow. But
a Johnson City man was equal to the
occasion and came to the relief of the
party BY placing Abe F.. Mauk in
nomination. Mr.. Mauk was of course
too much dazed from the recent blow
he had just received from Pritchett to
enter a protest, hence he was nominated
by reclamation while yet in an insensi-
BILE condition. Next was a candidate
for Circuit Court Clerk, but Democracy
for n time was a unit. not one of them
could be found that was willing to let
our Silas beat him in August. But
this time the motion man came in with
his little electric Kite, and letting it
sail away out. towards Chimney Top
Mountain, he drew the lightning down
on the devoted head of Esquire Tom
Wells. Now just what Tom has done
that he should receive such treatment
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

WHEN Madge takes to the foot lights
she should take the leading role in the
Tale of Slander, and when Willie, the
Star of Kentucky, takes to the pulpit,
he ought TO take this text as the theme
of his first discourse: There are three
things which are too wonderful for me,
yea, four which know not: The way
of an eagle in the air; the way of a
serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in
the midst IF the sea; and the way of a
man with a maid: Prov. 33:1S.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

LET him that is guiltless cast the
first stone" is Col. Breckinridge's de-
fence. 1t would seem that he has
grossly violated several command
ments in the %decalogue, and his brazen
pertnessin appropriating the c~onscling
language of a f~orgiving Christ to a
trembling penit,nt will not restore
him to the respect and confidence of
those, who honor and practice virtue
Of the first diamond variety.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
What is

CastOria is DR.. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. 1t is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
1t is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feyerishness. CastOria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
teethipg troubles, cures constipation and fatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

The Democrats are powerfully strong
for a tariff for revenue only, no reve-
nue. beyond the actual necessities
of the Government, and yet we are
gravely informed by the Chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee that
the Wilson bill to i%mpoverish the
country will yield an annual surplus
of thirty millions. If the Democrats
are not swiped from the earth before
that time they can spend this excess
for ROSTERS in the campaign of '96.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

TIE Herald and Tribune is a friend
to George Stuart, and had u ideas of
q primary been carried out he would
have been declared the nominee. But
under the rule adopted he was defeated
in the convention, and pledged his sup
port TO che: ticket INFATUATED in the
presence of 5saraf hundret~goes>Re
publicans. We hear it currently re-
ported that he intends to go back on
the pledge he made to support his sue
cesstul opponent nd6eeome au indie
pendent-eandidate for Sheriff. This
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02
In his financial policy Mr.. Cleveland

In his financial policy Mr.. Cleveland
is a very good Republican for a begin
ner. He will do no harm in this re-
spect, skillfully avoiding, as he does,
the immemorial and monumental
heresies of his party on the money
question. John Sherman has not lived
in vain. His own party has followed
his teachings with u~nexampled pros
perity to the country. All the financial
sense and sagacity Cleveland has, he
learned from the same source.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

THE story, now on the rounds, that
Cleveland is in favor of the repeal of
State bank tax and the restoration of
the wild cat currency system is a fabri-
cation of his enemies. He is such a
good Republican OF the money ques-
ton, that he would kick such a propo-
sition of financial lunacy sky high
even If such an act postponed the
Wilson bill indefinitely.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

The Democratic deficit for February
was 80. SOC, 900. For March a half a
million more. Cleveland was in the
Dismal Swamp wrestling with a big
demijohn of Jersey lightning when be
made his observations about returning
prosperity, and got them badly mixed
up with Gresham fish stories.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

at the hands Of his party is a thing
that no fellow can find OUTPUT any
way, Tom was hit and hit hard too,
and before he could recover from the
shock he was nominated by acclama-
ton.
Next was a candidate for Trustee,
as a matter of course there had been
no Democrat heard from that was
willing to try it ON with Albert Bacon.
So the little Kite was again floated out
into space and as it began to hover
over Mat Campbell he arose and
entered a vigorous protest. AS Mr..
Campbell had already got his satisfy"
of running for Office some six years
ago, the Convention had respect for his
gray hairs and let the lightning strike
Dr.. Dobson who wasn't here and
couldn't help himself.
G. G. Walker and Jas. G. Glaze were
then mentioned for Register; but as
Mr.. Walker is a telegraph operator and
is used TO working with lightning, the
little Kite couldn't fetch him, but not
so with Mr.. Glaze, he got hit, and hit
hard too, but nothing like the lick our
Sandy will give him in August.
The county ticket having been com
pleted the next thing in order yas the
selection of n candidate for the Legis-
l%ature, then the real fun of the occa-
sion began to grow fast and furious
and the old saying that whom the
Gods would destroy they first make
mad' was verified many times oven.
Candidates were thick and many, and
for a time the little Kite was laid aside.
The result after first ballot was Gray,
III; Devault, 2O4; Wine, 16; DIR. War
lick, %. Another ballot was taken
and still there was no nomination.
Then Esquire VIM. Bowman and John
B. Chase were brought into the ring;
Esquire Williams, of Limestone, was
also trotted in after a time, and after
some twenty five varying ballots, the
lighting hit Esquire Bowman, the
tallest among them all, and we sup
pose the most attractive to the light
ming on that account. The Esquire
accepted in a neat little speech.
John Bowman gave the whole thing
away as well as struck the key note of
the campaign when he said that "Jas.
S. Pritchett was a Democrat that al
ways pulled off his coat and his hat on
election day and worked for the success
Of the Democratic ticket, not only
worked but spent his money" Repub-
licans will please paste this in their
hats so as to remember it on election
day.
That was a right cute trick on the
part of the Bowman men to put DR..
Dobson on the ticket for Trustee to
keep him from defeating their man fol
the Legislature. Never mind they can't
keep our Ed Duncan from cleaning him
up-long as he is-in November.
Squire Bowman said in his speech OF
acceptance last Saturday that ''Coxey'e
army was the child of McKinleyism.'
Oh well, where ignorance is bliss 'tis
folly to be WISE" Therefore we can
readily pardon the Squire for anything
he may say. The voice of the people,
though, as expressed in all of the recent
elections seems to tell a different tale,
and we are always willing to listen to
the people and believe what they say
The Democrats certainly drew it very fine
When they refused to take a little good Wine
But then it would have been entirely toe
risky
To have offered them good old bourbon
whisky.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

THERE is not even a hint of the in
come tax in the Democratic Chicago
platform but it was filched bodily
from the Populists. Stealing platforms
seems to be one of the prominent moral
delinquencies of the Democratic lead
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

For the experience he has had Cleve-
land is a good Republican on the
money question. Could he recover
from his trriff lunacy and abandon his
illicit affections for Miss Lii, there
could be no serious objections to his
joining the Republican ranks.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-02

WE take no stock in the wild assertion
of Phil Thompson that the moral pol
lutions laid bare in the Pollard Brock
inridge trial only reveal the common
depravities of the average man and
woman.