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Evening journal., 1895-12-07
HiEh school and Penn ohartet Game.

To the c5ld winds At RIvervieW v yester-
day afternoon the Penn Charter school,
OF Philadelphia, defeated the WilminE-
ton High school football eleven Id the last
game OF the season By soors OF 90 TO o.
At the conclusion of the game Captain
d Lindsey. Jr.. OF the Penn Charter
team, entertained the players at dinner.
Lindsey is Wilmington boy aud one OF
team has ever had.
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

ONCE Seventh and hiaK. Phone 545.
Fl. I. Sergeant dealer In coal and wood
k5S-LarRe psA coal FOR family use
sE- Hickory wood for open CRATES.
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

Now Is the time to order your picture
frames at the old reliable stand, Harry
Yergers. No 4I9 Shipey street
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

You get ticket for those beautiful
dolls II you buy candy at Hollis's, 2s7
Market street
Evening journal., 1895-12-07
ATLANTIC CIrY. N. j.
GAN MARCOS HOTEL,
NOW OPEN.
Pacific aud Massachusetts, Avenues,
..... I'M. -. ~

After thorough houeecleantng and renova-
tion has been reopened Tor the winter under
the personal supervision OF Mrs. Annie Grub,
formerly proprietress OF the kenilworth
Inn.
Steam Heat Hydraulic Elevator, Sun Par
lor. Baths. all conveniences. Write for rates.
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

Court reconvened at o o'clock this
morning Mr. Bradford and Lynch
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

NOTICE-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
IN St.Mary's Beneficial Society viii be held
at their rooms. Seventh and Market streets
on Monday ev- ming At 7.30 o'clock, Decemb I
9th. full attendance Is required. by order
of the President.
IL To all our customers
we give one l6x20
CrayOn Portrait
Freel Freei Feel
WILMINGTON PHOTO CO.,
40l16 Market street, Wilmington, Del.
All are invited TO sec our samples.
Evening journal., 1895-12-07

Judge Lore (after a conference with
bis asssociates) -"Gsntlemen, allow me
to read the two statutes bearing
upon this case (cssds the law Now it is
the conclusion of this court, judging
upon the testimony now In. that there Is
reasonable doubt OF this man being
an accessory. The Law clearly sets forth
that q prisoner, prior TO indictment.
must be released on demand for bail bond
IL no malice has been shown and his
guilt is In doubt Mr. Bradford. you
can prepare your papers for s. 600
bail. 4t-f
Gave Bail This Morning.
Court reconvened at o'clock this
,ro~rt~~ NJ p-aIfo~d .rd Tvr.h
Evening journal., 1895-12-07
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sUsGnBss oARDs.
CAPEs MADE OUT OF PLUSH COATS
~ at KINGS. 6l5 Orange street.
AhW1Ner MAOuINns,
~ O'DONALD. i2 East Seventh street,
leads them all In low prices
Brand new $50 machines reduced to SIC,
SIS and go All makes to select. from.
Singer, Wheeler q Wilson, New Home. Do
nestle, White, Standard and AL other makes.
ANY machine sent on trial. free,six months for
cGeh, two years on instauments. Send postal.
j. II. O'DONALD,
No. u East Seventh Street.
Any machine repaired. 30 cents up.
WILMINGTON FURNITURE
STORAGE EXCHANGE.
All kinds Of Furniture bought, sold and ex-
ohAI1Red. Stoves and heaters repaired, oil,
gas and gasoline stoves called for. thoroughly
overhAuled and returned at a moderate cost
Stoves taken down, stored for the season and
put up in the fall Address or call,
1905 ORANGE STREET. Wilmington. Del.
N HOEGELsBERGER. NJ. d.,
IL ei6 MARKET STREET,
Made TIE EYE HIS SPECIAL STUDY
IN Che Universities OF Vienna, Austria, and
New York City, in the Philadelphia Poly
clinic and Wills Eye Hospital.
lie EXAMINES EYES FREE and guarAn-
Tees satisfaction.
GOLD GLASSES, $500,
STEEL GLASSES. so CENTS.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

AS If to further stimulate the interest
with the spring exhibitions of our great
cities, the Review of Reviews for May
presents timely sketches of two living
artists whose careers are well worthy of
study. Mr.. John La Fargo, who has been
honored by the French government with
junction with the Salon OF the Champs
de Mars, is described as representative
American artist-at first as an illustrator
in black and white. then as a painter,
and last, hut by no means least, as a
worker in stained glass tan art III which
American skill is recognized all over
Europe, but which, strangely enough,
was not given the slightest recognition
in the Art Department of the Worlds
Fair.) Passing from American to
British art, the Review publishes char
acter sketch of Sir John Everett Millais
from the pen Of the late John Underhill
Both articles are elaborartely illu strated
with portraits and reproductions of pic
lures. There is one peculiarly effective
portrait of Mr.. La Fargo, made from a
photograph taken for the Review very
recently. There is also a miniature re-
production of Mr.. La Farge's famous
painting in the Church of the Ascension.
New York city. Several of his stained
glass windows are represented.
The Arena for May is an excellent
number, and the high character OF it's
contents is one of the enco ouraging liter
ary signs of the times. The place of
honor is given to scholarly but scath-
ing criticism of Remains Life of Jesus,
by John D. Mcpherson, of the United
States Supreme court. 1t is written from
the orthodox point of view and will be
widely read and discussed. James Realf,
Jr., in a paper called A Poet of the
Northwest, introduces new American
poet, Jonah Leroy. Robinson, to Ameri-
can readers. e j. Buell. gives his views
on A Partial Solution of the Railroad
Problem. Adeline Knapp paints strong
picture in a short story called The Veal
er; A Story of the Times. Rev. T. e. Allen
a leading memb Der of the Boston Society
of Psychical Research, writes an analy-
sis of the strange case of Mollie Fancher
of Brooklyn. which he believes estab-
fishes the fact of clairvoyance.
The brief feature of the May Popular
Science Monthly is an article by Herbert
Spencer, which is announced AS the first
of a series OF ten or twelve on Profession
al Institutions. In this first paper, deal
ing with Professions in General, Mr..
Spencer points out the distinguishing
characteristic of the professions, and
shows that they are derived from the
functions of the early priest or medicine
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
The Monetary Unit.
,a Editor of the PRESS:

To the Editor of the PRESS:
Mr.. Horace White of New York, dis
tiguished writer upon financial topics,
has fallen into a singular error in assert
ing that the silver dollar was the none
tary unit in this country before 1882,
but never afterwards"
The law of 1892 which he quotes pro-
vides for the coinage of Eagles" each
to be Of the value Of ten dollars or units +"
Dollars or Units"-each to be of the
value Of the Spanish milled dollar as
the same is now current and to contain
371 IA grains of pure silver.n The dollar
Mr.. White refers to as adopted by the
resolutions OF the Congress of the Con-
federation in 1855 and 1856 was Spanish
coin containing 375 64-100 silver. The
dollar of the United States, made the
unit of value by the law of 1899, was de-
ternined by the average weight of the
Spanish milled dollar, which was largely
current in the States at the time of the
passage of the law. AS these coins were
more or less abraded, the average weight
of them did not equal the weight of a
fresh minted Spanish milled dollar. s,.ss .,s.s.
The whole question is thoroughly dis
cussed in a memorandum by Mr.. Jefferson
written in 1888, and in Alexander Ham:l-
toms report on the establishment of a
mint, written in 1891, which were made
the basis of our coinage law of 1892. The
fact that the silver dollar OF 371 Ia
grains pure silver was never largely cir
culated does not injure it as "a unit OF
measurement as one would infer from
Mr.. Whites paper. The gold dollar since
1878 has been the legal unit of value, but
it has never circulated and is not even
coined.
When the ratio between gold and silver
was changed in 1884 from Is to l to 16
TO 1, the new ratio WAS esta ablished by
diminishing the amount of pure gold in
the gold coins, and leaving the unit of
value unchanged.
Our unit of value must have been
either the gold or silver dollar from 1892
to 1873. That it was not the gold dollar
is shown by the fact that the gold dollar
is fixed by the law Of 1873 as the unit.
In the discussion of the subject of the
"honest doIIar' and "sound currency"
the determination of what was the unit
of value up to 1878 is a most important
and fundamental one, for all debts and
obligations contracted prior to 1873 must
have been payable in money based upon
that unit of value. The funded debt of
the United States for example was con.
tracted before the law of 1873 was enact
ed, and instead of being payable in gold
rs the "honest dollar" men would have
it, seems to me to be not only legally but
equitably payable in dollars containing
81 IA grains of pure silver.
A double blow was struck at silver by
the characterization act of 1S73-it not ony
was deprived of free coinage. but the unit
of value was shifted from silver to gold.
Mr.. Atkinson, in paper in the Anril
Forum calls down curses upon the heads
of those who at the present time destror
or remove the present gold monetary
landmark, hut has nothing to say Of
those who in 1873 despoiled the nations
by legisating out of existence the silver
landmark, the dollar of 81 IA grains OF
pure siiver.s6
S.W.T.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
CITY OF DEERING.
NOTICE OFF HEARING

Whereas the following persons have petitioned
the City Council to lay out new streets as fol-
lows:
OF John M. Adams, to lay out and accept
what is now called East Oak Street, running
from Ocean Street to Back Bay.
of H. Noyes and Others to lay out and ac-
cept what is now called Bryant Street running
from Sawyer, to what IS now called Thomas st.
OF Richardson Land Co. and others. to lay
and accept what is now called Thomas Street,
running from Ocean street to the line between
land owned by them and Francis Bailey.
OF Henry r. HAYNES and others, to lay out
ami accept what is now called Alba Street.ruil-
ming from Smith Street to land owned by
E. Vinton Earle.
OF G. c. Brown and others to straighten the
North side of Central Avenue. from Leland
street to Stevens Plains Avenue.
Notice is hereby given the committee on law
ing ont new streets will meet on Wednes ay.
MAY. Is, as follows:
Al the corner of Ocean and the proposed
street. at 8 o'clock p. m. At the corner of Bry-
ant and Sawyer Sts., at O'Clock, p. M At the
corner of Thomas and Ocean Sts.. at 4. 80 D. m.
At the corner of Smith ana the proposed street
at o'clock p. m. At the corner of Stevens
Plains Avenue and Central Avenue at
5.3O n. M, and will afterwards pro.
ceed to determine and adiudge whether public
convenience and necessity require said streets
to be laid out for public use;
w. W. MITCHELL, Mayor.
HUGH C. COBB.
RUEL SMALL,
HENRY J. DAVIS, Committee on
A. f. BERRY, Laying Out
A. w. PIERCE, New Streets.
CLARENCE w SMALL
FRED II. LIBBY,
apr24 laWSWW
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
PIANOS
ORGAN

We are not ''way backs' or "has beens."
Older the seed. poorer the crop in nature.
We are of today. Up to date. Our factories
are among the largest in the world. Any
one can see them, they front on three
streets in Boston, George, GiraId and
howard, have total area of over six acres.
We have the largest Piano House in America
at 200 iremont street, Boston. and agents
almost everywhere. We think we are selling
more Panos and Organs than any house in
America, and we believe we nave more
rented. The public seems to appreciate our
WldeaWaKe. present day business methods
You cannot buy of us without money and
w1tEout price, but You can almost il you are
worthy. II you are an expert, skilled to
ueclue on merits, come and see us, or call
on our local agent. it costs nothing to look.
II you are not musical artist, bring with
you competent judge. We court compari-
son. We have slightly used of all makes at
all prices, in short any thing and everything
yo1 can possibly want. We will rent high
grace l-3 octave upright al $40 for 8
months; favorable terms by the day. week
month or year.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
FINANCIAL.

Deliverable and payable on or before
June 1st, 1895.
Price los and interest yielding net
return of about AZ per cent? subject to
advance without notice.
These bonds are dated May 1st. 1893,
payable without option twenty years af-
ter date, with interest at Al per cent
per annum, payable semi-annually. on
the first days of May and November;
principal and interest payable in United
States gold coin of the present standard
of weight and fineness.
OF the total authorized mortgage,
$3.50. 900 bonds are already outstanding,
and $4,000 will now be issued for
equipping the whole system with cleo
tricity; of this $220,0 900, we shall receive
for delivery $3.50, 900 on or before June
1st, which are advertised herewith; we
shall offer no more of the bonds until
August, 1896.
The charter of the Railroad was
granted in 1860, and is perpetual. This
mortgage is a first lien on all the fran
chises, rights and property Gncluding
the Cities of Portland, Deering and
Westbrook.
The length Of track is 20.14 miles,
making the bonded indebtedness less
than $4,000 per mile.
The earnings for 1894 were as fol-
lows
Gross, $207, ,552.20
Expenses and taxes, 69,979. Is
Net, 1882. AZ
Interest, 8,622.34
Surplus, $28, ,950.0S
It will be noticed first, that the operat-
ing expenses, which included new cars,
4 motors, l snow plough, mile new
gross earnings, and secoud, that the net
earnings were sufficient to pay the in
terest on bonds then outstanding, plus
this new block of $220,000, taoice ouer.
1t is conservatively estimated that the
increase in earnings and decrease in ex-
penses (due to electricity will be at
least sufficient to pay interest on the
uhole Indebtedness, additional to the
present large earnings.
The capital stock is $500, 900, which sells
in the home market at lis to 120 and
pays per cent dividends. The surplus
is over $75, 1000.
An experts estimate of the savings to
to the road, by making the change to
electricity in 1895. over what the same
would have costin 1892, is at least $3.50, 900,
due to present low prices of rails, motors
cars, etc.
These bonds are legal investment for
Maine Savings Banks, $175,000 of those
outstanding being now owned by the
Portland Savings Bank.
We feel fully justified in recommend
ing them as particularly choice invest.
ment, returning better income than
any other home security of similar
standing.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
MAINE STATE PRESS.
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Persons wishing to leave town for long OF
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The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

The surprising announcement is made
that the promoters of the Hudson Bay
railway are SO sure of the ultimate. sue
cess OF their scheme that they are to
break ground in couple of weeks, and
that in a short time they will have
a couple of thousand of men at work
along the line They are not going to
wait for the government subsidy of which
they have satisfactory anticipations. The
justification for such prompt action is
the fact that the Dominion government
has already framed an order in council
making the required grant. The annual
subsidy will be $4,000, straight gift of
900 per mile and the govern
menG will secure itself by tax
ing a twenty years. mortgage on the
whole property, including the annual
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
WEDNESDAY, MAY s.
State of Maine.
AS Arbor Day.

recommend that the day be observed in
the planting of trees, shrubs and vines, in
the adorpment of public and private
grounds, parks and ways; thus rendering
The homes of our people and our Common
wealth more beautiful and attractive.
Heaven and earth helps him who plants a
Tree
And his work it's own reward shall be-
Given at tho Executive Chamber, in Au-
gusta, this twenty-tbird day of
April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
1--WE, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the ona hun
dred and nineteenth.
HENRY B. CLEAVES.
By the Governor,
NICHOLAS FESSENDEN,
ecsetary OF State.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

The full text of the resolutions on Sum
day observance which created such a
hubbub in the Methodist conference, and
caused one divine to declare that the
Methodists were drifting "toward hell
is as follows:
che Sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the Sabbath. Whatever
ministers TO his welfare, physically. mem
tai, moral and religious, is good. Recre
alton that brings real rest to body and
Eoul should not be prohibited. Works of
me rcy, charity and necessity are harmo-
NOUS with the works of the Father and
the Son. Whatever draws the soul up
ward into communion with God is wor-
ship, and proper to the day. Not SO
many religious services should be crowd
ed into the day as to weary the bodies
and minds of worshippers. The notion
that God is stickler as to what twenty
four hou1s of the week should be special
ly consecrated to him is belittling to God
and man. Custom and propriety COM
mend the LORDS day; historical associa-
tions endear it and enforce its claim upon
Christians. Great charity must be used
toward those who conscientiously differ
from us in their estimate of the day and
it's observance.
Thore doesn't appear to be anything in
this SO very awful.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

The other day the New York Sun de-
clared that President Cleveland had done
more to arouse patriotism and national
pride than any other of our chief magis-
trates, and in evidence cf it pub
lished half a dozen patriotic letters
brought ont by the Presidents failure tc
yindicate American rights in controver-
sizes with foreign nations. On the heels
of this, and in the same line with it,
comes despatch from Washington which
virtually says that Mr.. Cleveland has
done more to strengthen the Monroe
doctrine than any other President by
showing a contempt for it. 1t is almost
certain that when Congress comes TO-
gether some action will be taken to OBJ
tain legislative endorsement and re-
enunoiation of the doctrine in such form
that there will never again be any ques-
tion about its contemporary validity.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

Speaking of Russia's threatened attack
upon Japan, Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, a
good authority on European politics. de-
clares that " it would take year before
the Russians could put an army OF 100,-
600 men in the field near Vladivostok.
Russia alone cannot subdue Japan, in
spite of her army of 100000 men, and
Germany can help her only with fair
words, for the Reichstag will not vote
money for war in the East, seeing that
the only profit possible will fall to
Russia. France is wise enough to feel
much the same way"
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

The withdrawal of Mr.. Massey, one of
the Republican candidates for the Della
ware senatorship, makes it possible to
settle the senatorship before the adj
journment, for if Mr.. Massey's votes can
be thrown solidly for one of the other
Republican candidates the one receiving
them will have majority. They are
liable to scatter, however. in which
case the deadlock will be prolonged sun-
til adjournment,
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

The tenacity with whick five men,
bers of the Board of Aldermen cling to
the rule which forbids the name of any
laboring man to be borne on the pay roll
of the street departent for more than one
month at time is inexplicable upon
any motive which usually governs the
conduct of rational men. If anyone had
declared beforehand that five men, in
telligent enough to represent the citizens
of Portland in their highest municipal
board, could have been found to deli ber-
ately, right in the face and eyes of the
people, support suck regulation nobody
would have believed him. Yet here are
the five. voting not once, but practically
several times, in favor of this regula-
tion, which is nothing more than a
rule to promote pauperism and indo-
lence, turn the street department into a
charitable organization and pretty poor
one at that, and make the Taxpayers foot
the bills. Not a single newspaper, not
single individual has publicly uttered a
word in behalf of the rule. except the
reputed father of it, Mr.. Peters, and his
language smacked more of apology than
defence, and yet these five aldermen are
till contriring to keep this rule in exis-
tence. The Mayors veto was unanswer-
able, and not one OF the aldermen under
took to answer it, except to say no
to a proposition to eliminate the rule.
1t would seem as if mans self respect
would revolt against committing him
self to such an absurdity as the
discharge of all laborers, good, bad and
Indifferent, at the end of every month
and the hiring of a new set. But these
five gentlemen really act as if it were
special source of satisfaction to them to
be known as the friends and advocates
of this very absurdity. They are stum-
bling blocks in the pathway of progress
toward a buslness-like administration
of municipal affairs.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

Nobody processes to know mich about
it, but there is feeling that Justice
Jackson is likely to side with the men,
hers OF the court who declared the in
come tax constitutional.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
Proposals for Quartermaster's
Supplies.
EAsTERN BRANCH, N. III. D. V. ST.
ToguS, Me-, May, lSt, 1895.

EASTERN BRANCH, N. ii. D. V. s.,
Togus. Me-, May, 1st, 1895.
CEALED proposals subject to the usual con :
- ditinns will be received at this Home until
70 o,n1nclS noon June 9th. 1895. for furnishing
the folioWing supplies for the fiscal year, com
menene me- u4e july july 1st 1895, and ending June 3oth,
1896. VIZ; Office Books and Stationery,
sboemaIker,s and Tailor's Supplies, House,
6aiI h',ticles. Coal, Hardware. Construc-
ton supplies, Farm Utensils, Corn, Oats,
Meal, shorts. etc. ,,io,, oil h;a, ,..
oini,,sr tha kind ard estimated quantities re-
6nirai 6i and conditions to be observed will be
furnished u.riI s upon application to the Treasurer
The Home reserves the right to reject any or
all bids. A. cNJ1Ttr rx
Approved: sTFPHENsON covorno,
may7dtjune6
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

rs mail subsidy, since it is not given
I'm nconditionally.
The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08
SPECIAL SALE.

We find we have more styles of Oak
CHAMBER SETS and Parlor Tables
than we can show up to advantage so we
have marked a price on them for the
next SEVEN DAYS that will move them