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The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

The members and families of Governor
Burleigh's executive council of 1912
and OF Governor Cleaves for 1884 bad an
excursion to the Isle of Springs Wednes-
day. Every member was present, and
most OF them had their families or wives
with them, At Gardiner the party was
joined by the city government of that
city, on IAN excursion to Capitol Island
with Monaghan's orchestra. AT the Isle
oftSprings a salute was fred. Dinner
was served at the Nekrangan House.
Councillor King presided, with Cover
nor Burleigh on his right and ex-Gover-
nor ROBBIE on his left.
Mechanic Falls lacks a water work
system, and it is said shoe plant, do
ing business of $500, 900 per year, is
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

The low prices of cotton have driven
southern farmers to raising more corn
and hogs, with the result that the South
is just now, agriculturally speaking, in a
more independent position than for
many years. A single crop. whether it be
cotton or wheat, has been shown TO be a
poor dependence for any people.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

New Bedford splnners intend to resist
cut in wages by strike. They have
$4,000 in their treasury which they
propose to use in bringing their en-
ployers to terms. If the strike is not
ended when this money Is gone, there
will be the tale of another Homestead
or Pullman.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

Orono people are quite elated over the
prospect of Massachusetts, people estab-
fishing pulp mill there, at a cost of
half million of dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

The woman suffrage amendment has
been defeated by large vote in the
New York constitutional convention
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

Il is not the purpose of the PRESS to
waste much time trying to teach the
Argus the common and we'll known facts
in regard to history or government. We
once wasted several columns of space
trying to convince our Eeighbor that
the Bell and Everett ticket in the cam
paign of 1860 was the Constitutional
Union ticket, and not a Republican
ticket. The Argus still clung to its
error, and no doubt clings to it now.
When the PRESS pointed out that Mr..
Reed had obtained for this District in
the eighteen years of his service 1928, 500
for river and harbor improvements, or
more than half of the entire sum of
about ST. 100000 that has been expended
for those purposes in the district since
the foundation of the government, the
Argus was silent on the subject for wv O
years; but now comes forward with the
very confident assertion that Mr.. Reed
had very little to do with getting these
appropriations. We shall not attempt to
convi ice the Argus that he did, if it
has really decided that it will not be
convinced. Yet 1T is very well known
that when river and harbor improve
ments are desired hereabouts Mr.. Reed
is asked by the citizens to use his in
fluence in the House to secure the con-
sent of that body to them. He does use
his influence, with the result that this
District and especially Portland has
been greatly favored with government
improvements 10 the claim of the
PRESS that Mr.. Reed secured the pass
age OF the bills providing for the return
of the direct tax to the loyal States, aud
for the payment OF the adjudicated
French spoliation claims. the Argus re-
plies with the crushing argument How
absurd One of these measures had
been waiting for passage quarter of a
century, and the other almost a full
century. but the Southern men in the
House had always opposed because the
money would go to Republican States.
They could not have passed the Fifty
first Congress if they had not had the
active friendship of the Speaker, and if
that Speaker had not been able to put
down tie Southern filibusters. AS we
have said above we do not expect that
Ehe Argus will be convinced on this
point. We rather expect that tomorrow
morning it will declare that there never
were any flibusters, and that the
South wanted the loyal States to get
back the direct tax.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

A Pittston lady informs the Gardiner
Journal that she is the owner of an en-
ergetic biddy that for several weeks has
laid an egg every day and every nighr,
ing up brood of chickens. Who can
beat that?
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

There is an unusually large number
of idle sailors in Bath this summer.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17
FRIDAY, AUGUST II.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Henry B. Cleaves.

FOR SENATORS,
GEORGE M. SEIDERS, Portland.
CHARLES M. WAREHOUSE. Westbrook.
WILLIAM M COOK Casco.
MATTHEW @. MORRILL,. Gray.
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY.
CHARLES A. TRUE. Portland.
FOR SHERIFF.
SAMUEL D. PLUMMER, Scarboro.
FOR CLERK OF COURTS,
BENJAMIN c. STONE, Portland. !.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS.
@. FRED MURCH, Westbrook.
FOR NTY.TREASURER,
DANIEL D. CHENERY, Deering.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
NATHANIEL H. SEAVEY, Harrison.
REPRESENTATIVES TO The LEGISLA-
TURE,
J. HOWARD HILL.
SETH L. LARRABEE.
ARTHUR w. MERRILL.
WILBUR C. WELDON.
FREDERICK d. WINSLOW.
WILLIAM. KNOWLTON.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

consequently prevented from locating
there.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

journal LnaG she Is the owner OF an en-
ergetic biddy that for several weeks has
laid an egg every day and every nighf,
and at the same time il carefully bring
ing up brood OF chickens. Who can
beat that?
The first heirse owned in Brunswick
has been stored for many years in the
barn at the town almshouse. 1t is a
sort Of two-sboried affair. and recently
it was purchased by two Canadians, who
covered it with old canvas. put small
cooking stove and their blankets into it
and Harvesting up their old horse started
on tour to Canada.
The captain of the schooner Ogden.
which has arrived at the Commercial
ice houses in Gardiner, says that while
on his passage TO that port he observed
pigeon, which fingered about his vessel
SO long that he got his gun and shot
the bird which fell to the deck. 1t
proved to be a carrier pigeon, and had a
| gold ring tied on his left leg, which the
captain secured. There was no message
| of any kind, and the captain says that
| be will advertise til e ring on his return
to New York.
Through the courtesy of Governor
Cleaves, "a party of veterans on their
way to ttend the reunion of the 32d
Maine at Waterville. Wednesday. went
from Augusta in his private car. Among
the boys" were Ray P. Eaton of Bos-
ton, formerly commissary of subsistence
of the Toaus Home; Major Anderson,
treasurer of the same institutions; State
Pension Agent E. G. Milliken and his
father, B.Milliken of Bridgton, and O.
Q. Stetson, NV. leighton and F. Wing
Of Augusta.
The mileage coupon case came up at
Bucksport Tuesday. This was the case
where II. d. Eaton of Wateryile brought
action of trover to recover mileage cou-
pons valued at 40 cents. He asked the
conductor to take the coupons from the
back of the mileage book, but the con
| ductor. Mr.. Putnam, claimed he did
not hear Eaton until hu bad the cou-
pons nearly torn out, and that he did
not return them because they were
! punched and must be returned to the
/ company's office. Judge Chase decided
in favor of conductor Putnam, and Eaton
i appealed.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

In another column will be found full
account of the income tax provisions of
the tariff bill, including the methods
which will be taken to assess and COL
lect it, Assuming that the President
will make the bill law this will be the
second time in the history of the govern
ment that an income tax has been levied
The first tax was laid to meet the ext
gencies of the civil war and collections
under it were made during the year S
from 1866 to 1874 inclusive. At first it
assessed three per cent. on all incomes
between 5000 and SO, 600 and five per cent
on all over $4,000. On the dividends
and surplus payments Of banks, trust
companies, railroads, etc., a tax of five
per cent. was levied. From these vari-
GUS sources revenue of from about ssS3,
900, 900 in 1868 to $40, 600, 600 in 1866 was
derived. After 1865 the taxes on indi-
yidual incomes was removed: but on cor
porations it was continued until 1874. In
1878 the income revenue had dwindled
to about $4,000, 600.
HAo iifSOthN uts-e w cc AOu pOPdidli but
was submitted to as war measure.
Taxing all incomes over S6e0 it of course
affected larger class than the present
bill will touch with Its provision to tax
only incomes over $4,000. But that tax
was fair upon all, and did not ssingle
out any particular class for the inquisi-
torial visits of federal agents. OF
course the idear that the rich are having
to bear the burden will be more or less
popular, until it is understood that the
rich will simply turn about and take the
tax out of their tenants and customers.
The Inquiries which will he made into
the details of the business of firms and
corporations is one of the worst features
of the tax; and will Ee principal item
in making the measure unpopular, :.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-17

Merryconeag House all for One Dollar.
Take Harpswell steamers from Portland
Pier. ask for dinner tickets. iu22tf
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07
WHY NOT TRY THIS?N


We assume that what the gentlemen
who are conducting the present liquor
agitation are after is results: that their
objects are not merely to "sassn officials.
to get square with somebody or to ac-
complish more or less occult political
schemes, but to put down the rum
traffic That being the case, it is to be
presumed that they stand ready to
avail themselves of any honorable means
of accomp lishing that object which the
statutes. of the State furnish them. 1t
has seemed to US that the acceptance of
Sheriff Grams proposition to appoint any
two men whom they might select to
have charge of the enforcement of the
law promised good result s. But it has
not commended itself to Mr.. Hughes
because it places too great responsibility
upon outsiders. We might point out
that the responsibility of recommending
good men for office, especially in such
an emergency as the present, was one that
sincere men, anxious concerning pub
lie morality, ought to be willing to take,
but let that pass. Inasmuch as they
don't want to take it we will point out
another method which involves no more
responsibility than they have been volun-
tarily assuming for some weeks past.
Section 90 of Chapter 20 of the Revised
Statutes provides as follows:
Upon petition and representation of
thirty or more well known taxpayers
in any county that chapters seventeen
and twenty-seven are not faithfully en-
forced by county or local OIL Is, the
governor and counc Gil shall inquire in !.
to such representations, and if, in their
governor, with the advice and consent
of the council, shall appoint two or
more constables for such county. who
shall diligently enforce said chapters
and for this purpose such consta bles shall
have like powers and duties as sheriffs
and deputies. For such services such
constables shall receive the same COM
pensation as sheriffs and deputies.
Here is a complete remedy for the con-
dition that is alleged to prevail in this
county, and there are none of the oner-
GUS conditions attaching to it that made
Sheriff Grants proposition unacceptable
to Mr.. Hughes. Not even are the COM
pldlHdHtS ooA1ou uPOA W IcCouueuu con-
stables All the responsibility is put
upon the Governor ana Council. All the
compliments have to do is to represent,
and sustain by testimony, that the local
and county officials are not; doing their
duty. This involves no additional re-
sponsi bility to what they have been
taking for some weeks past. If results
are what they are really after it is diff
cult to see how they can neglect to avail
themselves of this means.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07
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The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

The strike has reached the violence
stage. Every strike of any considerable
size gets there unless it is Immediately
successful. The leaders always caution
the men where they go out against acts
OF violence, but in spite of the caution
the men always commit acts of violence
before they have been out very long.
The manifestation of violence is generally
contemporary with the appearance of
signs that indicate that the strike is
likely to fail of its Ipuprose Indeed the
latter is to large extent the cause of
the former. AS long as the employers
business is tied up and there are no
signs of getting it united, as long as per-
suasion will suffice to keep the men away.
nothing worse is resorted to. But when
persuasion begins to. fall then come
threats, and when threats are ineffec-
tual comes actual violence The advent
of the violence stage almost always
means that the strikers see defeat staring
them in the face Violence and destruc-
tion are the last resort of the despairinp
men. The burning of cars in Chicago.
the tearing up of railroad tracks, the as
saults upon men who have remained at
work or have taken the vacated places.
are all signs that the prospect of a sue
cessful issue is on the wane. They mean
that new men are rapidly taxing the
strikers places, and that unless they can
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

4 Talk about the city for modern i'm
provements and conyeniences A man in
Strong has attached bell to his sheep
pen, and one of the ewes has learned
how to pull the rope and ring it when
she wants anything.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

Maine probably has many od ~
shaped farms. but we doubt If one can.
that in the east part of Dexter, formerly
owned by pioneer blacksmith, Elijah
w. Sprague. This was eight rods wide
and half mile long, with the highway
cutting it Mt right angles into unequal
portions. The Inconvenience of so
narrow farm, with the pasturage and
woodland at one end, is Obvious to any
one, but III this form it has continued
from the days of the forefathers to the
present time, in use as a farm ali the
time. A farm only twenty rods wide
and about half mile long was in use a
great many years near Pennington Falls,
and may be SO used yet for all t he
writer knows. but the Dexter farm beats
it by nearly two thirds fer narrowness
and general oddity.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

& Probably Mayor Hopkins of Chicago
meant well in sending his telegram to
Mr.. Pullman requesting the latter to
submit the dispute between his company
and the employees to arbitration and
thus end the strike, but the only effect
it was likely to have under existing cir
cumstances was to encourage men who
are destroying property and in various
ways defying the laws of the land to
continue their law less conduct. The
same may be said of Gen. Altgeld's tele-
gram to President Cleveland protesting
agains the sending of United States
troops of Chicago. Its chief effect was
to stimulate the lawless element among
the strikers by furnishing them good
reason for believing that the Governor
was disposed to extend to them very
tender treatment In Altgeld's case in
view of his past acts and his well known
affiliations with the social lstic and com
munistic elements of the Illinois popu-
lation, there is good ground for believing
that this obvious effect of his telegram
was intended.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

A story is told by an old resident of
Dexter of how one of the pioneers shrewd-
~ purchased wood farm for mere
song. The plan of the town based upon
the first survey showed certain lot to
be nealry all covered by the waters of the
lake, comparatively insignificant cor
ne ne, being all that was not submerged.
The pioneer noted this fact and inyesti-
gated on his own account after which
he came to the. proprietor's agent and
bought that lot, giving all Chat was
asked for it, which was not much more
than enough to pay for making the
deed. Next thing new survey in that
locality was in order, which readiusted
the lines SO that the I" lot" was taken ont
of the pond and covered some of the
best land in the township. The old
settler was bear hunter, but he had
science enough in his head to discover
the bungling work of the first surveyor
and to profit by it purchasing, before
others discovered the true condition of
things.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07
100000
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
SINKING FUND
GOLD G \ BONDS,
DUE FEB LIST, 1905.
PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY.

June 27, 1894,
Pursuant to the above notice. we have made
a contract with the Maine Central Railroad
Company for the purchase of the above 5000,
COO bonds. ,Ff7t
We offer the holders the opportunity to ex-
tend the same for he period of ten years from
February 1st 1895. without option. at 4 LIZ
per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on
the first days of February and August, princl-
pls and interest payable in gold.
These bonds are secured by sinking fund
Of $4,000 a year, which now amounts to
@i74, S02,sG, invested under our supervision
IN safe securities. which are deposited in bur
custody. as trustee.
tits calculated that the total amount of.tiIis
fund on February 1st, 1905, win be sufficient
to cancel this issue of bonds ~
In order to avail themselves of this offer.
notice of snch intention to extend must be
gwen by holders before October 1st, 1894. -
10 any holders presenting their bonds be-
fore October list, 1894 for extension the cou-
pons due February 1st 1895, will be prepaid
All bonds not extended in accordance with
me ABOVE offer will be paid in cash at par
February LIST. 1895.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

Fifteen lambs have been killed by
foxes this season on the farm of e. S.
ireland of Sebec. And it is said the
farmers in Winslow are in sorrow over
the depredations of foxes, which are very
numerous and have grown exceedingly
bold. 1t is said that, not satisfied with
killing poultry, the foxes have begun to
kill sheep and lambs. Their method is
to run along beside their victims, biting
their legs until the sheep falls from
fright and exhaustion, when the foxes
make meal of it.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

be frightened away by terrorism, or the
machinery of the roads can be so Grip
pied and disarranged that it will be
impossible to use it. the trains will soon
be running as usual, and the strike will
have failed. The last stage of strike
that is destined to be unsuccessful is
violence This stage is always brief,
because when it sets in the strikers have
not only put themselves in an attitude
OF defiance to their employers but to the
law as we'll, and they soon find arrayed
against them all the forces that the law
can command. They have changed their
character from strikers to public
enemies, the fight has ceased to be be-
tween employers and employed, and has
become one between the great ncass of
the people and comparatively few law
breakers. There can be no question of
the result of a struggle of that kind.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

The Ellsworth American is very at
tractive in it's eight page form.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

IT the great corporations were as quick
to put up the wages of their workmen
when good times come as they are to put
them down when bad times come the re-
lations between labor and capital would
be more cordial, and both of them
would lose much less money through
strikes and boycotts. If more of the big
railroads were run on the principle of
the Golden Rule there would be good
deal less trouble.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

The Kennebec Democrat has changed
it's editorial management. The new edi-
tor is G "A. Giles.
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

Sheriff Cram has publicly announced
that he will remove any of his deputies
against whom discriminating proof is
presented, but will not "upon a mere
clamor stigmatize by removal men
against whom nothing but insinuations
are made". That seems to be a reason
able position, fair to the deputies and
the people alike. Col. Dow in his pa
PER. the Evening Express. has for some
weeks now openly and repeatedly insin-
uatea that Mr.. Grants liquor deputies
have taken brides. He has tarred all
OF them with the same stick. 1t is to be
presumed that he would not have DELHI
erately set to work to blast the charac-
tiers of these men unless he was in the
possession of some evidence that carried
to his mind a moral conviction of their
guilt His evidence may not have been
evidence that would be admissible, be-
fore a court of justice under the surics
rules of evidence in criminal cases, but
it must have been of character to car
~ moral conviction, else, it is fair to
presume, heswould not have pursued the
deputies so relentlessly. AS Sheriff
Cram has publically announced that he
is ready to make any changes needed
for the good of the public service it
would. seem to be Col. Dow's duty as a
citizen to present his eliminating
proof to the sheriff and thus show clear
ly that the removal of the present liquor
deputies, all or some of them, is de-
manded by the good of the public SER
vice.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-11-29
TRINITY EPISCOPAL Cul'RCu.


The undersigned, living eight miles
east of Mineral Point, and three miles
north of Yellowstone NJ. T.. church,
having sold his farm and retired from
farming, will sell at Public Auction,
on Thursday, Dec. &, commencing ut
10 o'clock sharp, the following stock
and farm machinery:
Fifteen head Of horses, from six
months to l3 years old; 35 head of
cattle, as follows, l3 milch cows. one
two-year old steer, . yearlings, II last
springs calves; 25 shoats; full line
of farm machinery, harness, etc; so
tons of good hay all In good sheds,
500 bushels of corn, 50 chickens, some
household furniture. Lunch ut L.
o'clock.
Terms OF Sale: All sums of $40
and under cash; over that amount, one
years time will be given on bankable
note, bearing seven per cent interest
from date. URIAu JAMES.
n. X. VAN MATRE, Auctioneer.