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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-07-27
Queer Patients.

A person with . diseased imagina.-
ton finds no difficulty In being sick.
Commenting on the general tendency
ofhumanity to indulge In fancy dis.
eases, q well known doctor Of Phila-
delphia says that half his patients
were not In the slightest need OF med.
icine. Some Of them, he said, wero
tired and worn out, but all they need.
cd was u little rest, and ifhe refused
to prescribe he would surely be dis.
charged. lie has u special remedy
for all such cases, and while the pro.
scription looks formidable, the
apothocary understands 1t as a little
bread with just enough soap added to-
give 1t flavor and to keep the bread
In the form OF II pill. That doctor
knows his business. He does not do.
stroy his patients with medicine, but
keeps them alive to pay for being
doctored.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-07-27
A Physicians Last Resort.

my doctor is a real joker" said q.
Lewiston lady. II didn't know that
my talking bothered him when he
was writing prescriptions until yes
terday. He never mentioned 1t, and
l always asked him oil sorts of ques.
tions while he was writing them out.
Yesterday he examined me and sat
down to write something. l kept
talking. Suddenly he looked up and
said: How has your system been?
Hold out your tongue l put out
that member and he began to write.
He wrote and held out my tongue,
and when he got through he said:
That will do But said !, you
haven't looked at it. NO. said he,
i didn't care to, ] only wanted to
keep 1t still while ! wrote the pre-
crlption.'"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-07-27
A GIG FISH STORY.
Acres Of Perpelsss and . Whale One
Hundred Feet Lone.

Hu0oeoo rect Long.
Captain J. @. Baker, OF the fouf'
masted steel ship Kenilworth, re.
Gently arrived at New York from
Honolulu. brings to port with him q
fish story Of heroic proportions, that
will make an ordinary sea-serpent
seem trivial in comparison.
The ship was about 15O miles east
OF Cape Henlopen when a school Of
whales was sighted about mile
away on the starboard quarter. Cap
tain Baker declares there were
twenty Of them, OF varying sizes.
Some Of them were splashing
water and playing sort Of deep-sea
leap frog. Others were doing ..
series OF giant acrobatics, which
would make the fortune Of any sum-
mer resort. Captain Baker Is usu-.
ally an unimpressionable man, but
Us he watched the demonstration he
exclaimed, "Great Goshp But that
was not the only surprise he was to
meet.
At night the ship sailed into q
strange looking sea. II was cut up
InVO 0ulbll uuuuuuVChOs 0uu WuCu WIZ
Kenilworth trembled, shook and
jolted, the boatswald said, Were
gone ashore" But he was wrong.
Captain Bakers keen eye ut once
discovered that tho ship had sailed
into o great area OF porpoises. Por-
poises, porpoises, as far as the eye
could reach, blowing" themselves
and making merry. It seemed Us
though the ship was riding on their
backs.
The moon came up, and Captain
Baker said he never before saw such
q sight In his life. The backs OF the
fish showed before him in tho glisten-
ing spray for acres. 1T seemed"
said he, ''as though we had run
aground on porpoises. But still
there was more In store for Captain
Baker.
He had sailed the sea for years, but.
he solemnly avows that he never saw
such o whale as was sighted OF
Barnegat. It was just to leeward,
and lashing the sea and spouting In,
an awesome manner. It was Of tho
sperm species, and che captain says
That at o conservative estimate 10
must have been ut least 100 feee
looQ.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-07-27
A Blind Catfish.

Ernie Russell, aged l3, caught a
catfish Weighing forty pounds on his
trout line, at Buena Vista. The fish
had been on a hook years ago, and
half the lower jawbone and all the
upper one Is gone. But the strange
thing about the fish Is that IL Is to-
tally blind in both eyes. The eye.
balls have run out. and little holes
exist where the eyes were. The fish,
though presumably blind Cor years.
vas tut aa1 In ~. s..~...un
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
WESTBROOK.
CITY GOVERNMENT MEETING.

The regular monthly meeting of the
city council was held at the council
rooms, Monday evening, President Has
kell in the chair. Mayor Cutter was pres
ent Absent, Alderman Woodbury..
| Records of the last meeting were read
| by Clerk Webb and approved. Mayor
Cutter made a few remarks in regard to
the fire Saturday night, and that he had
left the investigation of it in the hands
of the chief of the department., so that
the laws of the last legislature would be
complied with.
| President Haskell read an order appro-
priating $500 for replanking the Bridge
Street bridge, had it's second reading
and final passage.
| Alderman Riggs from the committee
on street lights said the Electric Light
and Power Company would give the
contract lately made with the city Of
! Deering.
| Alderman Woodman from the finance
committee asked for more time in look
ing over the collectors accounts.
| President Haskell read the license of
| Herbert Hartman as ordered by the com
mittee. 1t was recommended that the
petition be granted
Alderman Woodman read communi-
cation from the Maine and New Hamp-
shire Granite Company in regard to the
return of the boiler thas the city loaned
them last year, and as the boiler was in
very bad condition when they took it,
and after an outlay of considerable money
to make it SO to use, they asked the city
for rebate as the city asked for the
return of it so soon after. After dis
cussion by Aldermen Hopkinson and Yer
rill no action was taken.
President HASKELL read petition for
a sewer on Pleasant street signed by T.
S. Burns and G. l.. Andrews. Referred to
the proper committee.
Alderman Cloudman presented the pc
tition of S. D. Warren & Co. in regard to
the crossing of several streets with their
steam locomotive and that the city should
not be responsible for damages; had its
first reading.
EnnA Alderman Cloudman moved that the
above petition be referred to the city So
licitor for his opinion legally passed.
Adjourned.
Mr. Fl. L. HERMAN is putting up
booth connecting his store with the post
office where he will furnish New Eng
land dinner on the Fourth.
The committee on sports for the
Fourth, request all those who wish to
enter any of the contests to leave their
udUl6S du ". ID. WOOuludu QrtS SUOf6.
The entries must be in by l O'Clock. We'd
nesday, July Sd.
Mr.. A. A. Melvin, proprietor of the West
brook Chronicle, has issued a book OF 10
pages, giving full programme of the ex-
ercises to come off July 4th 1t is quite
thickly interspersed with illustrations
of Wostbrook' public buildings and man
ufactories. 1t is a very oreditable piece
of work.
The regular meeting of the ". G. 7. u,
for the month of June will be held at the
home of Miss Ellen Winslow on Spring
street, this evening at T. 80 O'Clock. All
members are earnestly requested to be
present.
Leonard G. Holston of the east end,
sailed from New York last Saturday for
three months European trip.
Mr.. Charles Walker and Mr.. Charles
Carleton of the east end, students to the
Norwich MILITARY College, Northfeld,
VT, are home during their vacation.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
Arown No MORE.
Brighton Once .Incorparated but now
Somerset County olantation.

The K6nnebeo Journal says Up in
Somerset county is tract of land, far
from being fertile OR productive of the
prolific crops raised in many >other rpor-
tions of the Pine Tree State, where the
virgin soil yields bounteous hasvests to
the hard working husbandmen.
In the year 1916, May II, town was
incorporated there and it's name was
North Hill. On Jan. 80, 1927, the name
was changed to Brighton. The inhabi-
tants of this muoh-out-of -the-way place
have for many years struggled hard
against the gaping jaws of Old Poverty
and many have been the law suits the
town has endured on account of it's pau
pers Near Brighton is West Athens and
| these poor people would move from one
town to the other and then back SO that
trouble ensued between the towns.
In 1850 the population of Brighton was
748 and has decreased each decade until
in 1890 it was 454. 1t is reported that
there are 81 paupers in that town. At
the last session of the Legislature the fol-
lowing act was passed:
Sec. I. All acts heretofore enacted for
the incorporation of the town of Brigh-
ton, formerly called North Hill, in the
county of Somerset are hereby repealed /;
provided, that the corporate existence,
powers, duties and liabilities of said town
shall survive for the purpose of prosecut-
ing and defending all actions and causes
of action to which such town is party,
and collecting payment of all claims and
demands now existing in favor of or
against said town, and all needful pro-
ceSseS growing out of the same.
Sec. II. In case plantation is organ
lied within the territory and embracing
the limits of such town of Brighton,
such plantation may, at a meeting legally
called by warrant and containing an arti-
Gle for that purpose, by vote, assume all
the outstanding liabilities of such town
on the day when this act takes effect,
and in case such plantation SO votes they
shall have authority to raise money by
loan upon plantation orders or notes,
which shall be valid claims upon such
plantation, with which to discharge such
liabilities, and thereupon all property
and assets of such town shall become the
property of and vested in such plantation.
Sec. III. This act shall take effect
when accepted by a majority of the legal
voters of Brighton present and voting at
any legal meeting of said town. This act
was approved March 6, 1895.
+ On April 16, 1896, the town was organ
lied into plantation and now the pau
pers will be cared for by the oldest in
corporated town adjoining which will col
lect from the State the expense incurred.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

To the Editor of the Press.
| In view of the fact that MANY false and
damaging reports concerning the Wis
casset and Quebec railroad project have
been circulated through the state I con-
slider it my duty as a citizen residing in
the valley of the Sheepscot and one in a
position to know something of the
standing of this corporation. to make a
statement with view of correcting any
false impressions which may at present
exist
Inc W. and @. r. r. Co., corporate
oody, under the laws of Maine COM
menced in 1894 the construction of a
narrow gauge railroad from Wiscasset,
north through the fertile valley of the
Sheepscot river to some suitable terminus
either Albion or Burnham. 1t was pro-
posed to build this road entirely from
| STOCK subscriptions, but owing to the
failure OF certain large stockholders to
meet their obligations it became necessary
10 issue Ssoo, 600 in first mortgage bonds.
For short time after the stockholders
meeting authorizing this bond issue there
| existed lack of confidence in the
probable success Of the enterprise. At the
stockholders meeting, held the Goth of
June, after hearing careful and detailed
report OF the officers of the company, con-
fidence in their integrity and business
ability was fully restored and large sum
| OF money was pledged to insure the ex-
tension of the road north Several car
loads of rails, the property of the COM
pany, have been moved from Wiscasset to
Weeks Mills, where the work of extension
was commenced yesterday.
With an increase of mileage, and a
corresponding increase of business
facilities the success of this enterprise is
assured. Large and fertile sections of our
| state which have been hitherto shut off
from the outside world will now be
developed and the unlimited water power
of the Sheepscot will be utilized.
The W. and @. r. r. Co. is not a
bankrupt corporation, as some have been
lead to believe, but its affairs are managed
by men of unquestionable business ability
and financial standing. That it will
succeed none who are familiar with it's
prospects can for a minute doubt, and by
the 18th of August trains will be running
to Albion Corner. <
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
BOIEs's SILVER SCHEME.
Proposed Plan for Restoring the White
Metal.

Des Moines, Ia, June 2S.-Ex- Governor
Boies has written long letter to a local
paper, setting forth the details of his pro-
posed plan for restoring silver. He saws
he has been misunderstood and states his
plan in brief as follows:-
]. Let Congress provide that any person
depositing silver bullion produced in the
United States shall receive silver certifi-
Gates which shall represent per cent in
excess of market value of the buIlion
Ihls would bring silver to the treasury.
2 Provide that for all silver bullion
now owned by the government the secre-
tary shall issue certificates representing
the market price of the bullion on the
day they were issued.
g. Call in outstanding silver certifi-
Gates and substitute new ones
f. Make the new certificates redeemable
IN gold within five years from the passage
OF the act.
3. Make them full legal tender and
provide that whenever the free gold in
the treasury falls below S1OO, O00, 900 these
certificates, instead of gold, shall be used
Dy the secretary OF the treasury in meet
Ing obligations of the government, the
redemption of all paper currency includ-
ed. We would then have practical BIZ
metalism at a ratio which would substan-
TALLY represent the bullion price of gold
and silver in the markets to remain in
force five years.
6: Provide that during such time. ex-
isting silver coinage should be legal ten
der in payment of claims not exceeding
$100.
z. Provide that after five years money
OF redemption in the United States shall
consist of a silver dollar to contain 412 1-2
grains of silver and of gold dollar to
contain a sufficient number of grains of
standard gold to make it equivalent in
value to the silver dollar aforesaid, at the
market price Of both metals in London
on the day the law takes effect.
s. Provide that there should be main
tanned in the treasury surplus Of 500, :
900, 900 in gold, and the same sum in sill
yer to meet obligations of the govern
ment. and whenever the surplus in either
metal fails to the limit and there was an
excess in the other, the secretary should
use the metal of which there was an ex-
cess to meet financial obligations.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

Sea Moss Farine. Tooth
some, Nutritious, Econom=
ical 25ct. package makes
10 quarts various dessert
dishes. Receipts with each
package. Write for Fairy
Story Book, illustrated.
Buy Farirle of aIiGrocers,
or package mailed on re-
ceipt OF IS cents.
Lyon Manufacturing Co.,
43 South Fifth ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
)LlMITED CAPITAL, S2,ooo,ooo)
(SHAREs $4,000 EsCAJ
Anglo-American
Guarantee
Company.
INCORPORATED

CONTAINING PROVISIONS FOR
GUARANTEEING THE PAYMENT OF
STOCK AND CERTIFICATES OF AC-
CUMULATIVE INDEBTEDNESS OF
CORPORATIONS AND BUILDING AND
LOAN AND SAVINGS COMPANIES A N
COOPERATIVE BANKS.
S. G. GINNER, Commissioner and Agent.
HOME OFFICE:
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Building, Room 6,
PORTLAND, MAINE.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
MUNICIPAL COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE ROBINSON.

1'Er OIsE JUOGE hObI-N5O-N'
Monday-John Slane, George M. Porter,
James Caddell, George Foss, George H.
Parkes. Intoxication; each fined IS and
costs.
Thomas Peilous. Intoxication; thirty
days in the county jail.
John Slane. Resisting officer; fined $50
and COSTS
Edward M. Logan. Common drunkard
sixty days in the county Jail Appealed
John Clancy, David P. McGlinchy.
Search and seizure; fined 500 and costs
each. Appealed.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

Mean temperature for this month for "a
years. ......:.................. .64.o
Ayerags daily excess in temperature
Average daily excess in temperature
since Jan. 1st. Observation-Disclosures. 90
Prevailing direction of the wind. ..........
Total movement of wind .47;31 miles
Maximum velocity of wind, direction and
>, date ....33, NV on End
Total precipitation Qnches) ............... L 81
Number of days on which .01 inch or more
OF precipitation fell. ....................... IL
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
INSOLVENCY COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE PEABODY.

Monday-Wendell Leavitt, Portland.
First meeting. c. j. Nichols chosen
assignee
Moses Brown, Portland. Account of
assignee allowed.
8. P. Wardwell, Otisfeld, 2nd meeting.
Oath administered
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
Monthly Weather Summary.

The following summary of the condi-
ton of the weather during the past
month has been received from E. P.
Jones, observer:
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Billousness, Indigestion, Eeadache.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

greatly shortened7 Tt also promotes the
secretion of an abundance of nourishment
for the child.
Mrs. DORA A. GUTHRIE, of Oakzep Ooe,ton Co.,
Trnu, writes: When I began taking DR..
stand on my feet without suffering almost death.
Now do all my houseworlz washing. cooking,
sewing and everything for my family of eight.
Your Favorite Prescription is the best to take
before confinement, or at least it proved so with
ME. never suffered SO little with any of my
children as I did with my last"
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

mean barometer. ....... &c. .O5
Highest barometer, j. 9Th. .43
Lowest barometer, 14th. Recommendation SO
Mean temperature .-...........-..........64 "a. 90
Highest temperature. End d.................92O O
Lowest temperature, 8th. AS 90
Greatest daily range of temperature. End 27.0
Least daily range of temperature. 2S ........1. o
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
Whites /. Bankrupt /. Sale
OF -
Boots and Shoes.

We have just received a large bankrupt stock
of Women's Oxford Ties in black and russett
lot OF Women's 81 so Oxfords which we will
sall at 800 Per pair. We shall also In
clude in this sale several odd lots of vari--
Gus lines. containing therein women's button
boots and oxford ties In small and medium
sizes. Misses and children's button boots and
oxford ties in all kinds and Sizes We are &C.
rermlned to sell these goods and are prepared
TO sell at the lowest prices ever offered in the
city. je7df
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
SALE OF SHARES.

The shares of the Anglo American Guaranteed
Co., are now offered for Sale-in blocks to suit
The shares are one hundred dollars each and
the terms of sale will be made known, or ap-
plfcation, to
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
STATE ITEMS OF. INTEREST.


The talk aroused concerning an old sill
yer mine in Guilford, because some Bos-
ton men recently inspected it, leads the
Piscataquis Observer to remark that ii
might be Ewell for capitalists to turn
their attention to an abandoned slate
quarry in the same town. Maine hasn't
very many productive mines of either sill
yer or gold but she has ample resources
just as profitable, as the shrewdest OBJ
servers have already discovered.
The estate of the late R. B. Dunn of
Wateryille, one of the largest ever entered
at probate court, was settled Saturday,
by his executors, r. Wesley Dunn and
said estate was as follows: Real estate,
$50, 682, and personal estate, $287, 794,
making total of 1888, 476.
Col. Harrington, few days ago, picked
up on the shore of Moose island in Moose
head lake, one-half of what had been a
hard, blue, fiint-like stone, half the size
of an egg, having a distinct imprint of a
small sea shell nearly three-f )urths of an
inch in width and another about one
fourth as large. When and where became
this shell imbedded prior to the forma-
tion Of this stone?
The Petit Manan Land Co., of Belfast
is making active preparations for i'm
provements upon their property at Petit
Manan Point. They have so men at
work there. MIR. Davis of Camden, has
gone down and will Tat once begin the
construction of a wharf 400 feet long.
Three hundred lots have been sold. and
cottage building will begin soon. A
hotel company will soon organize and
put up large building.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02
MOTHERS

and those soon to be-
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Pierce's Favorite
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mother and child, by
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The Portland daily press., 1895-07-02

II can speak In the highest terms Of
your medicine from my own personal
knowledge. Twas affected With heart
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Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-19
PARLIAMENT FIGURES.
Admirers Of John Morley Vent Their Spite on
His Opponents.

LONDON, July l9.-The polings, so far
as returns have been received, leaves the
state OF the parties as follows: Conserva-
tiyes. 25S; Observation-Disclosures, a. Totals
of Unionists, 305; Liberals, 73; Mccarthy
ties, 81; Parnellites, q; Labor, g Totals
of opposition, l38 The Conservatives
with III seats won yesterday, have now
secured a net gain Of 55 seats, giving "a
majority OF 81 I'm the new house Of com
mons. What returns have been received
from the counties indicate that they arc
following the lead OF the boroughs, and
there is every prospect that the govern
ment will have a majority of at least 100
The Unionists have gained three seats in
Wales.
Among those reelected were Sir ii. G.
Bannerman, secretary Of state for war
In Lord Rosebery's cabinet, the resolution
to reduce whose salary precipitated the
downfall of the government; Il. p. O'Con-
nor, Baron II. De Wurms and w. n.
Long.
There were riotous scenes In New
castle last night. Crowds disappointed
at the rejection Of John Morley paraded
the streets and stoned the windows Of the
houses OF prominent Unionists and Con-
servative newspapers. The mob also at
tackled persons wearing Unionist favors.
The police were Obliged to charge re-
peatedly and TO use their clubs.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-19
Holmes Has a Friend.

PHILADELPHIA, July IA French Can.
adian. stoutly built, and with short, black
whiskers, called yesterday at the Office OF
w. A. Shoemaker, Holmes counsel. II
was stated that tho stranger had arrived
here from Toronto. He said that he had
been with Holmes in nearly all the latter s
business ventures, and no would swear
that Holmes reached Toronto and gave
the Pitzel children to man named Hatch,
and that this was the last that he or
Holmes had seen Of them He says that a
complete alibi can be proved for Holmes.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-19
S0vereIan's LATEST

WASHINGTON, July 19.-The Times to-
day prints the outlines of manifesto to
be issued by General Master Workman
Sovereign Of the Knights of Labor for the
boycott of oil national banks 1t will be
addressed to the Knights OF Labor, the
Farmers Alliance, the Peoples party,
Reform club and kindred societies, recit-
ing ''the wrongs Of the toiling masses,
and their sufYerngs at the hands Of the
money making powers" and calls for a
boycott On national banks notes in all
dealings with individuals. It Is to go into
effect Sept 1.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-19
Deputies Wanted 10 FIQht.

BRUSSELS, July l9.-In the chamber Of
deputies yesterday during the discussion
of the new education bill. Premier Burlet
said that he pitied parents who allowed
their children to 'wallow In the slough of
atheism" This remark brought forth a
torrent of invectives from the Socialists
against tho ministers and insulting ex-
pressions passed between them and the
bench. Violence was only averted by the
hurried adjournment of the session.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-19
lynched by a Mob.

SCRANTON, Miss, July 10. - Andrew
Thomas, colored, who recently criminally
assaulted Mrs. Vice, aged rs, near Moss
Point, was lynched yesterday. The de-
tails Of his crime were shockingly brutal
Thomas was arrested some days ago ut
Mobile, but was kept there to allow the
excitement to subside The prisoner was
brought out to Scranton, whore he was
taken from the officers by mob and