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stores of:
John Chisholm. l !,, Congress street.
W. +. Goold. 405
N. G. Fessenden, 526
W. Fl. JeWett. 504
q. Dasilva, 221 Spring street.
j. J. Beardworth. 81 India street
L. II. ErSkine. As Middle street.
j, w. Peterson, 2 Exchange street.
H. G. Todd, Cor Commercial and Park
sts
w. a. Golden. rs Exchange street.
Westman & West, 80 ana 50 Commercial
street.
Miss Norah Pearl. / 80 Bracket street.
John III. Allen, 3S1 1a Congress street.
Dennet& Co, the Florist, GAS Congress street
60; Hodgson. ee3a Portland street.
I. NJ. Glendening, Long Island.
i. L. Brackett. Peaks Island
Il. l.. Littletield, 1879 Congress street,
\ NJ, A, Parker. Libby's Corner.
HI. c. Berry 937 Congress street.
Forest City News Co.. 422 Congress street.
Mrs. Bradbury. cor. Spring aud Bracket
Streets
Mr.. Wyer, As Portland Pier.
John Cox, % Monument square.
Also at the new stands in the Famoutd
Preble and United States hotels, and Gran
Trunk and Union Depots. 1t can also be OBJ
tanned OF Chisholm Bros, agents on all trains
of the Maine Central, Grand Trunk and Port
land 4 Rochester railroads and OF agents vn any
OF the Boston TRAINS
The PRESS can also be found at the following
places out side the city:
Auburn. Z. Haskell
Augusta. i. Pierce,
Bath-John O. Shaw.
Berlin Falls, n. H.-C. S. Clark.
Biddeford-;AA. n. Bnrnham.
Bridgton-A w. ingalls,.
Brunswick-F. z. Shaw.
Cumberland Mills-H. e, Starr
Camden-Fred Lewis.
j. H. Gould.
Cornish-E. L. Brown.
Deering-N. j. Scanlon.
Damariscotta-E. W. Dunbar.
Fairtield-E. Fl. Evans.
Farlnington-H: ?. White & Go.
Freeport-A. W. Mitchell.
Fryeburg--A. c. Frye.
Frveburg-J. T. Whitmore.
Green's Landings W. Fifield.
Gorham-I4. J. Lermond.
n HIS. NJ. Leavirt & Son.
Kennebunk-J; II; Otis;
Eennebunkport-C. E. Miller
Livermore Falls-C. Newman.
Observation-Disclosures q Winship.
Long island-Hughey Bros.
Iimerick-S. A. Grant
Mechanic Falls-F. J.. Merrill.
North Stratford. n. HI. G. Huchtins.
Norway-F. p. Stone.
Richmond-Geo. L. Ames.
Rumford Falls-H. L. Elliott
&C. A. Clifford.
Rockland-Dunn s. Carr.
&c A. j. Huston.
Sanford-F. H. Wingate.
Skowhegan-Bixby & Buck.
South P0rtland--J. +. Merrlman.
South Windham-J. w. Read
South Paris-A. ID. Sturtevant,
South Pars-F. A. Shurtleff
South WaterbOro-G. c. Downs.
South Portland-A. Campbell
Saeo-H. B. Hendricks y Co.
l.. l.. Prebe.
South Bristol--N W. Carnage
Thomaston--E. Walsh.
VnaI HaveE-A. i. Ninal
Waldoboro-Geo. Bliss.
Waterville-W. ID. Spalding.
Westbrook-W. B. Boothby
Woodfords-Chapman & Wyman.
Yarmoushvile-G. Howard Humphrey.
Persons having any difficulty in obtaining
pa pers at any of these places win confer favor
by reporting the matter at once to this Office
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FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL
Quotations Of Staple Products in the
Leading Markets
New York Stock and Money market.
by Telegraph

by Telegraph
NEW YORK. Feb. Is.
Money easy at HAP per cent; last loan at
I1s per cent, closing ia per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper was quoted at 3la "a per cent.
Sterling Exchange firm, with actual bust
ness III bankers bills at 97a4 STA for CO.
day bills and Ss14 "a 8Slls Tor demand; pos
ed rates at s71ata4 SO; Commercial bills, 60
days at s6ta4 3e1a Government Bonds
firmer. Railroads weaker.
Bar silver 5912.
Mexican dollars As.
Silver at the Board 595s bid.
The Portland daily press., 1895-02-16
CLASSIFICATION OF MAIL MATTER.


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tey.-Domestic mail matter,-that is
mail matter sent in the mails from some
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ter sealed or otherwise closed against inspection
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legitimate list oil subscribers. and must not
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ng the same.
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Departments of the Governments or from
the Smithsonian Institution.
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at the pound rate is not subject to the four
pound limitation. .
ply to matter in foreign malls regulated By
postals conventions.
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from orR CORRESPONDENCE.

ROCKPORT. Feb 14-Are sch Edw S Stearns
Heal. Boston; /. v Bebe, Wilson, and Everett,
do; Ella May, Gre9nlaw, New York; Mary FL
len Piper Portland for Winterport.
Baltimore; sch Anna Shepherd, Greenlow, for
Boston.
BOOTHBAY HARBOR. Feb 14-Sld 14th,
sch Paine, st Andrews, NIB.
Passed west, schs Sabine. st John, NIB; for
New York; Chase, PASSPORT for do.
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nxnnANer DISPATCHES.

Sid I'm Liverpool 14th, steamer Vancouver.
Williams Portland via Halliax
BoWden. Philadelphia.
Al at st Lucia FEB 49, sch Mamie Swan, Hig-
gins, Philadelphia.
Ar at Port Spain 14th lnst' Darque Grace Lyn-
wood Gilkey New York.
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Cotton Markers.
BV telegraph

FEB. 70. 1896
NEW YORK-The Cotton market to-day was
easv unchanged; sales = bales, middling
uplands at 55s G: middlng gulf o7sc.
NEW ORLEANS-The Cotton market to-day
fl m; mddling Lice.
CHARLESTON-The Cotton market is firm !;
middling 51sc.
sAvANNAH-The Cotton market is steady:
middling Sc.
ding &c.
MEMPHIs-The Cotton market steady; mid
dlings 51sc.
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European Aiarke: S.
(Ey Taleoranb

European Markets.
CBy Telegraph
LONDON, Fb. 15, IS95.--Consols IO4 l1-16d
for money and 1O4s4 d for the account.
LIVERPOOL. Feb. Is 1ss5.-The Cotton
market is quiet; American mlddling at Sd
estimated sales 5000 bales: speculation and
EXPORT 500 bales.
Spring Wheat at 5s 31ad95s 4d.
Corn As 1ad.
Cheese at ATS for white. ATS Sd for col.
Pork 56S Sd
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MARINE NEW s
PORT OF PORTLNAD.

PORT OF POKILNAU.
FRIDAY, Feb 15.
Arrived.
Steamship Manhattan. Bragg. New York-pas
sengers and mdse to j 3 Coyle.
Steamer Cumberland, Thompson, st John, NIB
via Eastport for Boston.
Sch Carrie l. Hiz, Rogers, Disbursement to
Carlton Bros.
Sch Pemaquid. Wheeler, Boston - fertilizer
to Carlton Bros
Annie L. Wilder, Greenlaw, Boston--fertilizer
to Kendall & Whitney.
Sch Rosa L, Stone, Georgetown.
Sch Frank l. Racklitf La Have. with 25,0OC
lbs mixed fish.
Cleared.
Sch Laura g. Marion, Eastman, Harpswell-
j III Blake.
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Railroad Receipts.

PORTLAND. FEB. 70.
Receipts by Maine Central R. R.-For Port.
and, 155 oars miscellaneous merchandise; for
connecting roads 115 cars.
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ORDER OF THU iron HALL
Local Branch No. 2S3.

Pursuant to the order of the Supreme
judicial court in the case of Benjamin E.
the Older of the Iron Hall, in equity, the
undersigned hereby gives notice that all
claimants upon the funds of Local Branch
hands of the Receiver. who have no. here
tofore proved their claims upon said fund
Before Wilfred 6. Chapman, Master. must
PR So an NJ sos
Maine. by the first day of March, A. H., 1895,
and all claims not heretofore. or. ty that
date, presented and proved will be forever
barred.
MILFORD G. CHAPMAN, Master
Dated February 4th. 1895. feb5d2w
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Portland wholesate Market.

PORTLAND. Feb. ID. 1896
The business situation shows Improvement
with prices generally steady. Oranges higher
Eggs lower.
The followIngare to-day's quotations OF Grain.
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Retail Grocers sugar Rates.
Portland market-cut loaf at &c ;confectione.s
&c ;pulverized. C; powdered, &c; graduated.
DC; coffee crushed. 519ci yellow. -@5c.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
VyHE NOW WELL KNOW ISLAND OIL
Ed Z: r MI UDA

WITH GABLE COMMUNICATION.
Is reached In forty-eight hours from New
York, by the elegant steamers of the Que
of these islands south of the Gulf Stream
renders FROST UNKNOWN, and the porous
coral formation PREVENTS MALARIA
Highest class passenger steamers are dis
patched every ten days for Santa Cruz,
and the principal West India islands,
atfording a charming tropical trip at cost
Of about four dollars per day.
For all particulars apply to
ARTHU R AHERN, Secy Quebec, Canada,
or A, E. OUTERBRIDGE & CO,
Agents, 80 broadway, New York.
THOS. COOK Sc SONS.
1awI3wS
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Shin Edward O'Brien, 1862 tons, built at
| Thoniaston in 1863. has been sold at San Fran
cisco TO The Pacific Mail SIS Co for S65oo
| Bath, Feb lathe dismasted schr r Wood
| side was sold by auction to-day fort$5720. She
was bid in by Herbert G Hall Of Boston, who
will have her repaired.
| Baltimore Feb 15-Schs Alma Cummings,
Can't Cummings. from Port Royal for Boston,
with hard pine, and the Marion Sprague, Capt
Hatch from Norfolk for Providence. with coal,
were abandoned 18th inst 100 miles L of Cape
| Charles. Crews rescued by steamer Queens
town from Liverpool. and brought to BalIlmore
| Both vessels were owned at Boston.
New York Feb 14-Sch Louis Place, which
went ashore at Lone Hill, is breaking up
Proviucetown. Feb 13-Sch Thos H Lawrence
from Po0PS Landing Tor charles City, is here
repairing foreboom, gaff, ana sails.
Boston. Feb 14-It is thought that the wreck
ace which washed ashore at Matinicus Maine,
1 til inst came from brig Morning Light, from
Boston Feb s bound to Annapolis. Ms. She
was partly loaded with flour. pork, and kero-
sene.
Boston, Feb 15-Sch John j Hanson, from
Boothbay for Philadelphia, went in the dry dock
to stop a light leak. The leak was stopped and
she is ready to proceed.
Sch Mary Eliza, from Winterport for Boston,
ashore at Point Shirley, is to be sold as she lay
Her cargo of hay was sold 18th for 25 cts per
bale
Beaufort, Feb 14-An unknown schr is sunk off
Cape Lookout. The life savers cannot get to
her on account of the extreme gold.
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Mackerel large No. 8. SIS so; small nom,
Cod. jobs, large G'g and shore, 75G$7.
Cod, dry bank, Pge, 2595 50; med 70.
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aI0iseases eaf Men.

n Sufferers from Night Emissions Sexual Decay Var
Ecoeele, Nervous Debility and diseases arising from
Eyouthful ndscretions, cured The symptoms ntl-
erous the sufferers termination always the same, viz
loss of memory, imbecilty, Iunaey, consumption and
death. You may be cured quickly by Old DIR.
Hal1ock's Electric Pills. 81 per box, boxes g.
send free regular 81 box receipt of 10 cents
to cover postage. Dr. Haliock will give written 4
else will? Nobody. 10000 cures in 40 years.
Write freely and frankly, everything is confden- u
tial All private diseases treated. Address DR.#
HALLOCK, ITO Court st, Boston, Mass ESzAN
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Grain Quotations.
Boston stock Market.

Boston Stock Market. &
The following were to-day's quotations oil
stocks in Boston: t
Mexican Central As. ................ 561a
Atch1son. Topeka & StanJa Ee R....... as
Bosten & Maine R..... 1861
DO pfd
BIalne central.
New York and New England h.... 80
Bell Telephone. ..192
American Sugar. common. .............. 9O14
Y. MASS, p1d. l1A
do common. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO
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New York Stock INNINGS.

New York Stock Mining.
.(By Telegraph.)
NEW YORK. Feb. Is. 1s95.-The following
are to-day5 closing quotations OF mining stoaKs
Hooking Coal. ................. 3H2
Homestake. lS
Ontario ........... SM
Quicksilver INSTRUMENTATION. 1 90
do pfd. Is
Mexican
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!1lGlLlG. 2OiNOU
Paints.
Lead
Pure grounds 2565 rs
Red. 10 25@5 II
Eng Ven Red3 M31s
Am Zinc -. % CO@7 90
Rochelle. -. s21a
Rice
Domestic -. 4 az
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flour.

IHc IVItU " IIis1 III . 70 41e'J
Provisions. Produce. etc.:
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Saleratus.
Saleratus ..s.5@51a
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" taA1 PV " OsCA f59- OSs
Blasting ...3 5O0A 0c
Sporting. e bOG6 so
Drop shot.25 us. i 80
Buck. 3. BE.
I. TT. T.. L 10
Eay.
Pressed. .S12@14
Loose Hay SlO@S12
Straw. car lots .S90l0
Iron.
Common. .16s OLA
Refined. LEA a.
Norway. 31A @3sA
Cast steel. -. SOLO
German STEEL. .@31a
Shoesteel az
She's. noR-7
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Il. G. .41a@5
Gen. Russlal3 ~ @14
Ameri'cnRussia11 2
GalV.. :. ....512@7
Leather

Leather
Nam W1n1-
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THEDAiLY PRESS

Can always be found at the periodical
stores of:
Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-02
ART AND ARTISTS.

THE great Spanish painter, Federico Madrazo, who died recently at Madrid, was the son of an artist and was born at Rome in the year of the battle of Waterloo. For the past thirty-fyc years he had been director of the Royal gallery at Madrid.
 AN exhibition of paintings involving a new idea has just been opened in London. It contains only one hundred and twenty pictures, selected from the best in the French salons of the preced- ing spring, showing the London public what France has done during the year
 AN exhibition of The Flower in Art" will shortly open at Petit's gal lery in Paris, On the committee in charge are Mime. Madelaine Lemaire, Armand Sylvestre and Dr. Vitmorin, the botanist. The exhibition will con tain representations of flowers iu needlework, textiles, porcelain, sculp- ture and painting.
 TIE Art institute of Chicago has re- ceived from Harriet Hosmer the cast she made in 1853 of the clasped hands of Robert Browning and his wife. This is the east of which Hawthorne wrote in the Marble Faun:n Ut symbolizes the Individuality and heroic union of two high poetic lives" The autograph of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rome, May, 1853, is on the wrist of one; Robert Browning, Rome" on the wrist of tic other Miss Hosmer re- fused in England an offer of five thou sand dollars for this unique cast
Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-02

naashkesn, or carriers or the deao, each at the head of long string of mules laden with the remains intrust- ed to them, The animals are led by charvadars, muleteers, and each bears two bodies, one slung on either side where the panniers would ordinarily be. The corpses, when intact, are car ried in hermetieally-closcd cases, but comparatively few of these are to be found, as a rule, among these defunct pilgrims The expense would be too great. So the pious Persian who dei sires to give effect to the last wish of his departed parents waits until noth- ng of their remains is left but the skeleton. which is then swathed in baudages, mummy fashion, and handed over to the naashkesh to be taken to the gate of paradise, which every good Shute firmly believes is at the exact spot where the sainted IIussein is buried in Kerbcla. Far the greater number of the mules comprised in our caravan are laden with such bandaged bones and swathcd skeletons slung on each side; the outlines showing dis tinctly through wrappings as they swing to and fro with the measured pacing of the animals.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-02

self-conceit, each with 4I, ana wauu of courtesy 80. Prettiness finds ob- jectors; one girl objects to man with Q "priggish sententiousness of man ner;" want of humor only counts 1, and want of punctuality is evidently con sidered women's prerogative, as it only finds objoctor.
 Here are few shortcomings with the number of times each was scored in the competition; Want of refine mcut, IT; want of courtesy, 80; want of chivalry. 4s; want of puuctuality. 1; want of will power, il; want of consid cration, 8; want of faithfulness, l2, wunt of decision, I; want of pluck, .; want of honor in little things, 2; shy ness, 1; fussiness 31; ineffectualness, l; mcauness, l5; avariciousness, l; bad language, IL; bad taste, II; bad man. ners, 27; dishonesty, l3; insincerity, ls; intellectual inferiority, 6; effem- macy, l3; moral weakness, 63; coward ice, 4l; showing off, 8; unmenliness, 24; prettjuess, 2; the covert sheer at wom- eu, l; self-coneeit, 42; inconsistency, 9,
 Nothing is said about the man who tells what his wife will be like" or the man with want of money" But we suppose they manage these things better over there
Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-02
TELEscoPIc REVELATIONS.
Terrestrial Creation only an Incl ident il
 an Eternal Train.

Terrestrial Creation Only an ncident in
 an Eternal Train.
 The glasses at Mount Hamilton, Mi Ian and Pultowa reveal worlds at the present time in all stages of evolution. They may be traced from misty nebulm to Elittering suns, from orbs in the high noon of development to those that rcpose in the sepulchral shadows of the coming night. But neither by analysis nor analogy can we conclude that the activity of the universe began only when man began to evolve on the in- consequent and diminutive sphere known as the earth, says the Pitts burgh Dispatch. We may not conclude that the myriads of scintillant suns in space-the five hundred million of orbs that the great Licl, telescope disclosed in the milky way alone-are only ce- iestial lanterns hung out to Illuminate terrestrial night, \ wider knowledge sustains the conclusion that other worlds long preceded ours and shall long continue when the frctted fabric that we call our globe shall have passed away We may, then, dismiss some of our early conceptions and grasp the fact that terrestrial creation, instead of ranking as the event in the economy of the universe, was only one in an eternal train of mInOr incidents What else may be the meaning of that illimitable and infinite field of space where glows diffusing light and heat, the countless hosts of colossal suns, which, we are compelled Co acknowl- edge, mustradiate their lightand heat, and must diffuse these into systems that must evoke them2
 And when the great Chicago telescope is completed, when we may explore the added area and possess the added in- tensity and the stellar revelations come nearer to us, and when, beyond that telescopic achievement, come others in the coming century with still farther and keener sight, we may be able to grasp but tlittle of the great significance that may be unfolded.
 The world is yet young in stellar science. It is not old in any kind of science. 1t is only in the dawn of the significance of knowledge and of mal1- ing it's practical application. We are yet before the sunrise only in the twi- light, and just behind us is the night. We are still so near our congeneric savagery that the barbarous imprints confront us everywhere; the ciyilizing telescope, even with ourselves, is al- most as nothing to the interest be- slowed on some new death-dealing device, and our greatest honors we bestow on those who are most con spicuous in the destruction of their fel- lows