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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
London's Postal Service.

The postal service in London, the best
and most rapid in the world, is an inter
esting study, with it's 5000 employees
The average wage of the 1000 assorters
and stampers in the general office is 80
shillings week. Most of these are mar
ried men. We hear that the best hope of
the laboring classes must ever depend IN
the skillful administration of their earn
ings and the right investment of their saw
ings. But how can man, who has as
many children as he has dollars week,
have any savings to invest? The men work
eight hours on divided time-for instance
from to s a. m. and to 8 p. m. They
stamp /, 800 letters an hour by hand and
5000 by machine The average daily turn
over at the office in ST. Martins lie Grand
is more than 5000, 900 letters and papers
The foreign branch is curiosity shop
where 500 men handle letters curious in
shape, color, address and language, going
to and from every part of the world, even
to her majesty's ships. They employ a
special artist 60 copy artistic and curious
ly addressed envelopes and keep them in
large books of 'kudiorous Forms. Mil
waukee Sentinel
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
DEERING.
RoUGHs ON THE ELECTRIC CAR
PROMPTLY SUPPRESSED

oOOOdS ON The ELECTRIC CAR
promptly SUPPRESSED.
1t has been long time since there has
beens such a tussle with drunken men on
Deering car as occurred Monday night on
therlO3O from Portland. Four intoxicated
fellows got on the car at the head of Preble
street They work in the Duck Pond Pail
factory and were going home.
Thaynwent inside the car and soon be-
came boisterous and OF jeotionable Con-
| ductor Moses told them to keep squiat, sbut
by the time the car approached Woodfords
they had reached stage of uproar,
when with many oaths they dared the
conductor to come into the car, threatened
TO lay him OUT etc.. There were several
ladies.insthe car and they. were naturally.a
good deal rightened. The language of the
men was outrageous.
Conductor Moses went into the car and
selling one Charles Roberts, .the worst of
the crowd, told him to leave the car and at
tempted to force him. He resisted, and the
others helped. This was just at the Woods
fords crossing, and motorman Joe Parsons,
of the other car, that came along just in
time, rushed to Moses assistance, seized
Roberts and with one powerful yank landed
to pieces. All four of the roughs and Moses
and the motor men were piled up together
In the end of the car. Roberts and another
man were put off, while the two others,
who had been less active, were allowed to
ride to Morrill's Corner.
A GIANT FISH HOOK.
'Slippery as an eel,'' is assignificant state
ment, but there is fishing apparatus in
Back Cove just at present, from which no
eel, however slippery. can escape. 1t is the
huge dipper of the dredge, for when it
reaches down and bitesof large sectionsof
the bottom. the eelssthat are snugly slowed
away therein for the winter, have got to
come too. When the cook on the dredge
wants some cells for dinnerr, which is quite
frequent nowadays. he simply goes onto
the scow, and as the dipper deposits its
burden of mud, he stands ready and soon
secures all the cells he wants. Some of them
are from two to three feet long. Plenty of
CLAIMS also are dug for the cook in the same
way
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
Daughters of Rebecca.

The M aine Central brought west yes
terday two cars, full of Daughters of
Rebecca, who had been attending the
state convention at Belfast. Many got
off at Brunswick, Others at Winthrop and
still more came to their ONES in Port
land The next annual st ate convention
will be held in this city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
Law students, CIub.

The Law students' Club will meet at
Woodman and Thompson's office on Ex-
change street this evening at 730 o'clock.
Hon. G. F. Libby will lecture on s'Study of
law" After the lecture there will be a
mock court, pl esided over by Mr.. Libby,
and the case of Petite VS.. Small Will be
tried. K. Greenleaf, counsel for plaintiff,
and F, Laughton, for defence.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

In q hovel in Clifton, "a few miles
from Bangor, live two families, says the
kennebec Journal, drunken brawler,
with demented wife an IL xcbildren, and
his pephew and family They all keep
full, chat is the adults. and the children
filth. dirt and vermin, some clothed in
part of "a meal bag and some running
naked upon public highway. Just
think of a twelve-years-old girl running
at large for months with nothing On but
the remains of cast-of overcoat,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
Probably Drowned.

The schooner Planter brought 1000 Holsters
to Skillings & Co., yesterday. The captain
reports that ON Wednesday last a man
named l. Collamore went out of Burnt Coat
rbor, Swan Island in a dory and has not
been seen since. The weather was tenn
pestuous at the time. His body has not
been found
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

At New Haven, Conn.,, Stephen ellis of
Derby, was sentenced tc a year and SIX
months in the state prison for perjury.
ellis was a witness in the famous Hurley
small pox case.
AT Belfast. the Supreme court. Judge
ST out presiding, commenced yesterday.
There are few cases for trial, and the term
will be short.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

Mr.. W. P. Hutchins's dry goods store in
Oakland was again entered Saturday
stock. Well founded suspicion points to
certain jewellers in town as the offenders
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
Found Dead in Bed.

Mrs. Sophia M. Gould. widow of the late
Moses Gould, was found dead in her bed at
her home on North street yesterday morn
ing. She retired last night apparently in
good health. She was seventy-five years of
age and leaves six children. Her husband
died suddenly a year ago.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GEO c. SHAW & GO.
Importers dFnyGr
FINE. CIGARS
GEO G. SHAW & co.

REALIZING the growing demand for strictly High Grade
CIGARS, at POPULARPRCES, have opened department
the front center OF finest stock Of
Havana Key West and American that bought
market and prepared supply purchasers of boxes
broken packages with vorie brands
found only in Boston and New York.
Mr. CHARLES Ii. FOSTER, for several years salesman
entire time supplying the of buyers these goods
Soliciting your patronage are
Respectfully yours, GEO. c. SHAW & co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

John Lepinte, of South Auburn, went
cunning the other morning. He saw
something move in the bushes aud
thought tia partridge. He found a dog
writing on the ground. He took it up
to see what name was on the collar, and
the dog bit him terribly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

Last weeks gale deprived Eastport Of
one gifts old landmarks, the tall balm
OF gilead tree on Fort Sullivan, which
for go or 70 years has stood sentry in
front OF the commandments house.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

Superintendent Merrill, of the fish
hatchery at Lake Auburn, is building
several new ponds to keep small fry in,
dam IN the brook that he may have
better control over the water, and max
ing other preparations to feed more trout
and salmon next year than he has this.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

The annual meeting of this association
will be held in the High street church Mon
day afternoon, the 22nd. at ; o'closk Rev.
VIM. G. Pudderfoot, secretary of the Aneri-
can Home Missionary society, will. address
the evening meeting at 7.3O O'Clock.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

There is family in Rockland consist
Ing OF father, son and daughter, whose
aggregate weight is 624 Ia pounds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Vanceboro enjoyed a brisk snow storm
Monday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
RATES OF POSTAGE.

On First Glass Matter.-The rate o
postage on matter of the first class is as
follows:
except that specially authorized to pass at
third-class rates and on sealed matter or matter
otherwise closed against inspection, two cents
per ounce or fraction thereof.
:. On postel cards one cent each, the price
fol which they are sold.
g.. On "drop letters" two cents per ounce or
fraction thereof when mailed at letter carrier
post offices, and one cent for each ounce or
fraction thereof at Offices where free delivery
by carrier is not established.
On Second Class Matter. The rate Uf
postage on second-class matter when sent by
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The rate of postage on newspapers excepting
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17

The Maine Branch of the Women's Indiar
Association.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-17
1 PER 1000

Caporal, Sweet, 20s .,..-.. ............$ 4.CO
Richmond Straight Cut, No. 1........... 700
Egyptian Deities, No. s., los, Per 100, So f'R
Monogram Cheroots, los. ....,,......... Is. so
s,.,.s 80 " Per box. Is cents.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29
WICHITA INUNDATED.
Stock Yards Under Water and Boats Float
ing Over the Public Park.

Stock Yards Under Water and Boats Float
ing Over the Public Park.
WICHITA, Kan, June 23.-The Arkan-
sas river broke its banks here last
night and portion of the city is fool
ed. There is great alarm among the
colored people near the levee and hun
dreds of them are fleeing. At midnight
last night the water was higher than
It has been since the great food of 1877.
The body of man with valise
hoated under the Douglas avenue
bridge few minutes before II o'clock,
and it is supposed that the rise caught
him while he was crossing stream.
The body could not be rescued at that
hour.
Reports have come in from the coun-
try to the effect that many houses are
under water between here and Hutch
inson, and the loss Of stock and
grain is very disastrous. One
farmer, miles north of here,
had thirty-two fat hogs swept
away and six head of cattle. The
floating debris that is passing through
here indicate heavy losses to the
farmers. The stock yards in this city
are completely under water and boats
are floating over the favorite public
~ rIr
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Bradstreet's Weekly Repcrt shows = Bette1
Condition Of Trade

Bradsf reefs Weekly Report ShowB Betteg
Condition Of Trade
New York, June %. - Bradstreet's
Review Of the state Of trade says:
There are indications Or q moderate improve
merit in various lines and enough instances
70 render tbs fact OF some significance. A no.
tably favorable feature is the practical ending
Of the coal aud coke strikes. together with those
in related Industries which will put to work at
once or soon. more than 250Oo9 men. The
number OF the employees il industrial lines stin
on strike is estimated at about 5000. There
are sales by jobbers in staple lines for future
delivery where nothing but a hand to mouth
business has been reported for weeks.
At points tributary to Kansas City and St.
Louis grain harvest Is under full Roadway.
The condition Of the wheat Is excellent and the
demand for money 60 move the crop marked
and the supply abundant. Western steel
works recently started a report OF DISPOSE
tion by capitalists and others TO push new en-
tcrprises. Nothing indicating increased de-
mand fer staple goods or tendency TO antici-
pate wants is reported from any New England
city. Compare lively large shipments Of shoes
from Boston are due to heavy consignments
south. based on cut freight rates. Shoe facto-
ries at Philadelphia, on the other hand, are
largely idle.
The settlement of the coal strike produces
more hopeful feeling in Pittsburgh. Baltimore
merchants report the south withholding orders
more than previously. Eight western cities
circles and that the outlook for improved fall
trade has increased. This is true at Cincin-
natl and Detroit, where good weather has stin-
ulated sales In dry goods and other lines and
at Louisville. which reports corresponding
Improvements and sales by jobbers for future
delivery. st. Louis advises that seasonable
goods are In better demand and that the end Of
the strike has resulted in a better feeling.
Kansas City jobbers in dry goods report Q
better demand, but expect little other inn
CT -
vices are received from Milwaukee and ST.
look and sales for later delivery have In
larger at Duluth and the demand has improved.
At Cleveland business is only fair in leading
lines, although receipts OF ccal are increasing.
The volume OF business in dry goods and
kindred lines at Chicago IS smaller than in the
take stock. Distribution of merchandise from
Omaha is only fairly steady, and no material
gain is expected until August.
The Nebraska corn acreage is said to be 30
per cent. larger than ever before, while the
acreage OF oats is only one-haif and that OF
wheat only 40 per cent. of an average.
Exports Of wheat, -four included, both coasts,
amount to only 100000 bushels this week,
against 2.254y009 bushels last week, 3553,000
bushels in the third week of June, 1898, and p
457 900 bushels in the like week of 1897 There
were I95 failures throughout the United States
this week. against 227 last week, 800 In the
third week Of June, 1893 (when the financial
disturbance was beginning to make itself felt
with some severity and 159 in the like week
of 1892
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29

HA1BCeA10mGOu3s
A cotton seed oil mill with a capital Of
S25, 600 has been organized in Chattanoo-
ga and will erect factory buildings at once
at Alton Park, a suburb Of Chattanooga,
on the line of the Chattanooga Southern
railway.
The site for the main prison has been
purchased. It is within five miles of
Nashville, and is one Of the finest farms
in Tennessee, and contains a magnificent
site for the penitentiary, which has al
ready been selected. The title has been
perfected, and the State has paid for the
land $4,000 The site selected for the
mines is Brushy Mountain, near Harri-
man. and contains 1900 acres of land,
for which the State is to pay $4,000.
The State Centennial celebration is to
be held at Nashville from September
to November 10, 1896 The money is to
be raised by subscription. The. capital
stock is placed at 100000, in shares Of
$25 each, with the privilege of $500, 900.
Twenty-Five per cent. is TO be paid in
cash. the balance 10 per cent. monthly.
The exposition is to have eight depart
ments-agricultural mechanical, manu-
featuring. live stock, sanitary, forestry,
geological and woman's.
Isaac Capshaw. who murdered Noah
Adcock on the 18th of April, last, and
who was confined IN the county Jail at
Smithyille awaiting his trial, was killed
last week by Jesse Drake, who was IN
charge of the Jail. Capshaw was en-
deavoriDg to escape, and was advancing
upon Drake with a piece of lead pipe he
had wrenched from the waterworks in>the
jail. Drake shot him once, the ball taking
effect near the heart After being shot
Capshaw struck Drake twice, but pro-
duced no bad wound, and then ran about
twenty yards from the Jail, where he was
found dead.
For the third time jury has placed
value upon the property Of w. +. Ford
and others in condemnation proceedings
by the government, which seeks TO obtain
the old Sherman earth works, near Chat
fanooga. for purposes of a National Park
and for the third time both the owner and
the government are dissatisfied. The
valution this time was $3.50 per acre
w 3. Ford, owner, will take an appeal
if the government does not now announce
that it will make no further effort but
abandon the scheme, which ii viii probab-
" do.
Taxpayers in Hamilton county ask for
a 40 per cent. horizontal reduction in as
sessmeDts-
A severe wind and hail storm swept
over Henderson county about two miles
west Of Lexington. doing great damage 70
timber, fences and crops. The storm
blew down very nearly all Of the beautiful
growth Of large timber around Hinion )
Springs. where some fifteen or twenty
persons we're picnieking T. d. Muse and
his sister, Mrs NJ. Callnm, Of Hender-
son. were attempting to drive ont Of the
timber when large tree fell on the
horse and killed him instantly. The en-
tire party vera badly frightened, but none
Of them seriously hurt.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29
CONDENSED TELEGRAM.

THE encampment of Knights of
Pythias of the Uniform Rank to be held
in Washington on August 2Sth, will be
the largest assemblage of the kind ever
held in the United States. 1t is esti-
mated that there will be 20, 600 members
of the Uniform Rank in attendance.
JOHN HANSON CRAIG. known profess
sionally as John Powers, the Kentucky
giant, died at Danville, Ind, on the
25th. He was museum attraction for
twenty years, and weighed 700 pounds.
lie was 46 years old.
THE bill to increase pensions of sur
vivors of the Indian and Mexican wars
from IS to S12 month has been favor
ably reported to the House. The cost
to the government of increases made by
the bill win be 81, 800, 632 per annum.
Rev. A. ]. HOWARD, Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, OF Anne Arundel County, Md,
has been arrested on the charge of Sab
bath breaking, in working his garden
on Sunday.
THE most severe tornado that has
visited that section in a half dozen
years swept around Tiffn, Ohio, on the
25th. The day was oppressively hot,
and the storm burst forth without warn
ing. It. uprooted trees, leveled fences,
destroyed houses and scores of orchards.
President CARNoT, Of France, was
assassinated in Lyons on the 25th. by
Caesare Giovanni Sante, an Italian, %
years old.
THE Cripple Creek (Col.) district is
suffering from a caterpillar plague.
They have eaten all the leaves of the
trees The cuts in the wagon roads are
filed with the worms, which are Of the
common gray variety.
The gold taken from the subtreasury
at New York on the 22d for export
amounted to 81, $50, COO. reducing the
gold reserve TO SCI, ,902.746
A BILL to incorporate the Supreme
Lodge OF the Knights of Pythias passed
the Senate on the 22d.
The supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared the cigarette law Of that State
constitutional.
FoRrY-FoUR thoroughbred yearlings
from Kentucky and Tennessee were dis
posed Of at auction at Chicago on the
2:sd for sll,175, or an average OF S25s
per head.
A CONVENTION intended 70 promote
immigration In the South. and to estab-
lish closer commercial relations between
New York and the Southern States, was
held at New York On the 2lst
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29
Deserted the Ofacers.

Gen. Clark, the State raider for Ken
tucky and Tennessee, with about twenty
deputy marshals, left Selmer last week
to investigate the moonshiners on the
Tennessee river, in the vicinity of White
Sulphur Springs. Hardin county. They
were ell equipped for war, each deputy be-
ing armed with a Winchester and o brace
of pistols A year ago raid was made
in that section, and it resulted in hauling
one deputy home dead. The raid last
week was practically barren of results,
only three arrests having been made. No
distilleries were found, although there are
said to be four that have been running
continually for months. The guides, who
knew the country well and the exact loca-
ton of the stills, grew timid as they near
ed the scene of prospective war and slip
ped away from the deputies, leaving them
at the mercy of the wildcatters, and not
knowing the country, the raider and his
deputies could do naught but return.
They, however, secured promises from
the men who stand close to the moon
sinners and who are in sympathy and
league with them, that there would be no
further armed resistance to the enforce
ment of the revenue laws, and deputies
viii hereafter be permitted to visit that
section unmOlested.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29
MARRlAoE CUSTOMS.
Ceremonies as They Are Enacted In Yafio'
Parts OF the World.

Ceremonies as They Are Enacted In Various
Parts OF the World.
To eat maize pudding from the same
plate, or to eat in any way together, is
a widely-distribute marriage cerc-
mony. In Brazil a couple may be mar
ried by drinking brandy together; IN
Japan, by so many cups of wine; in
Russia and Scandinavia it used to be
one cup for both. The joining of
hands among the Romans and Hindus
is common to many parts of the world.
In Scotland it is called hand fasting"
and couples live togethes after. To
sit together on a seat while receiving
friends, or to have the hands of each
tied together with grass, or to smear
with each others blood, or for the
woman to tie a cord of her own twist
ing around the naked waist of the man,
constitutes marriage in one part or an
other.
In Australia a woman carries fire to
her lovers hut, and makes a fire for
him. In America she lays a bundle of
rods at the door of his tent. a Loango
negress cooks two dishes for him in his
own hut. IN Croatia the bridegroom
boxes the brides ears, and in Russia
the father formerly struck his daugh-
ter gently with a new whip-for the
last time-and then gave the weapon
to her husband. Down to the present,
it is custom in Hungary for the groom
to give the bride kick after the mar
riage ceremony, to make her feel her
subsection. Even with all civilized
peoples the servitude Of the bride is
clearly indicated. - Westminster Re
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