davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
Portland & Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, R. R.
STATION FOOT OF PkEBLE STREET

On and after Sunday. June 80, 1895,
Passenger trains will Leave Portland:
For Worcester, Clinton, Ayer Junctions
Nashua, Windham and Eppfng at 7.30 a.
m. and IL 30 p. In.
For Manchester, Concord, and points North
at go q. m. and 1890 p. m.
For Rochester, Springvalo. Alfred, Water
boro and Saco River at 73o a. m. 1880 and
$50 D. m.
For escrharn at 7.3O and 945 a. NJ, 1880,
800, $50, and go .. m.
For WeStbrooA. rmberiand Mills, West
brook junction and Woodford's at 7.3O.
9.45 a. M. l2.30. SOC. $50. and
6.20 p. m.
Sunday trains leave Portland for Rochester al
6.15 p. H.; arrive from Rochester at $50 a.
M.
The 1890 p. m. train from Portland connects
at Aver junction with "Hoossc Tunnez
Route" for the West and at Union Station.
Worcester, for Providence and New York,
via providence Line" for Norwich and
New York, via Norwich Line" with Boston
& any r. II. for the West. and with the
New York All Rail via "Spr ngfielG."
Trains arrive at Portland from Worcester
at 1.3O p. M; from Rochester at $50 a. m.
I.3o and b.4Sp "a; from Gorhsn
4.16, UanG 5.4S p. 10.
For through Tickets to all points West and
South, apply to +. II. COLLINS. Ticket
Agent, Portland. Me.
J.w. PETERS. supt.
ie29 DIFF
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
Portland & RuInfOrd Falls R'y.
In Effect June "a, 1895
DEPARTITRES

In Effect June "a. 1895
DEPARTURES.
$50 A. NJ. s LOS P. M. From Union Station
for Poland, Mechanic Falls. Buokfeld, Can.
ton, Dixfield and Rumford Falls.
$50 a. m, l.05 and 5.10p. m, From Union
Station for Poland Springs. Poland AMI
Mechanic Falls.
Saturdays only train leaving Portland SO p.
m. connects with train on P. & Il. F. R'y runs
ming through TO Rumford Falls
8. 80 and Ill 10 a. M, LOS and $40 p. M, for
Poland Springs.
Stages connect at Poland Springs Station for
Poland Springs and at Rumford Falls for An-
dover and Rangeley Lakes.
Through passenger coaches between Union
Station, Portland and Rumford Falls.
Through tickets ON sale for all points
ON p. Il R. F. R'y.
R. G. BRADFORD, G. 2. & 7. Agt.
Portland, Maine.
L. L. LINCOLN. Superintendent,
Feb1Odtf Rumford Falls. Mains
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

q WO0h SOl6lIdu liSsd kudGGcIOu ~, duu
he at once became eager to communicate
the key to General Rosscrans. who had
superseded Buell. in command of the
Army of the Cumberland. After good
deal of watching Coleman found the
means of communicating his secret to
his friend.
81 want you," he said to Snow, ''to
get through to the Union lines as soon
as possible, certainly before the pending
battle comes of, and, once to the other
side, make your way to your old home
in Massachusetts and stay there till the
trouble is over. We are suspected, and
when it is discovered that the Union
signal msn are reading our code sus-
picion in our case will become certain
ty. If you never come back, will re-
gain the confidence which feel have
partially lost. d"
But do you propose to remain with
the Confsderates till after the WARP"
asked Snow.
mo, was the response. II shall
keep on for awhile longer, and when 1
can go through and be cf use to our
friends they will find me with them.
Knowing the danger of carrying pa
pers about his person if he failed in his
purpose, Snow committed to memory
the facts communicated by his friend
and then waited for his chance.
On the goth of December General
Bragg visited his extended lines, and
darkness found him about a mile to the
south Of Laverne, which was then held
by the First Michigan engineers. Snow
accompanied the general on this tour
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26

trade throughout the United States
and into foreign countriea, all attest
her growth and prosperity. Too much
credit can not be given to the st. Louis
Fair for the grand achievements in the
Industrial life of the Mississippi Valley.
Business was never before SO pros
porous, never IN such a solid, perma-
nent foundation, and there is not a
business Or an industry which is
not benefited by the healthy, stimulat-
ing influence of this grandest of public
enterprises. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate the results yet to be accom-
plished. Millions of wealth and thous-
ands of population will be attracted by
its influence.
The Mississippi Valley constitutes
all that part of The United States lying
between the Alleghanies on the east,
the Rockies on the west, the Gulf of
Mexico on the south and the Great
Lakes and the Dominion of Canada on
the north. 1t ia the great agricultural
region of the country, where nine
tenths of its grain, meat and cotton
are produced, and is destined to exert
a controlling influence as to the
wealth and population of the United
States, and that at no distant day.
Politically, financially, socially and
morally it will control the whole
country. The many and varied ad-
vantages and possibilities of this val
ley as an industrial center are un-
rivaled. Nothing could be done which
will tend more to develop its resources
and insure it's solid and permanent in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
81 Am INNOCENT u
Mrs. DR.. Hearne Did Not Want to Be
Stared At in Hannibal.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, September TO-
Since it has been decided to try j. G.
Hearpe and wife for the murder OF
Amos J. stfr.e1i &C a specnaf serAs,.o o.
the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas,
to be convened on Saturday, Decem-
Der IA, in this city, the interest in the
case seems to have increased. 1t is
well known that Col. r. E. Anderson
and George NJ. Harrison, two Of the
attorneys for the defense, want the
case tried in Hannibal, and it is hardly
probable that they will be overruled
BY Col. Dryden. The Hearnes were
taken back to Palmyra Jail last even
ing, no motion having been made to
release them on bond. Col. Dryden
left last evening for his home in st.
Louis. 1t is said that one-half of his
fee, $4,000, was paid him yesterday in
cash and that the other half was well
secured. His fee in defending the
case is 8 5000 unconditional.
DIR. Hearne and his wife were
driven to the station last evening in a
closed carriage on a side street in or
der to avoid the crowd. This was
done at the special request of Mrs.
Hearne, who said to the Sheriff who
had her in charge. 81 do not want to
be gazed upon Is a common criminal,
for I am innocent
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
TO ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.
The Sound Money Bureau Issues an
Address on the Silver Issue.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE Democratic
State Literary bureau, of which Ben
r. Gable is chairman, has issued an
address to the Democrats of the state,
in which he says that, Notwithstanding
the action of the May convention,
there r many Democrats in the state
"a large majority of the voters, they
believe-who refuse to accept it's dec
larations as the true sentiment of the
Democracy of Illinois. 1t is commended
that authoritative declaration of the
belief of the party in the currency OF
with any national question can come
alone from its representatives in ma
tional convention.
The committee says: "We each ant
all favor the use of silver as money
hut we are convinced that the fire..
and unlimited coinage of silver at
ratio of 16 to / by this country alon'
would result in disaster to the bust
ness and commercial interests of tn
nation, an opinion in which we ar
sustained by the most eminent au
thorities on finance in all parties ant
| in all Countries
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
ITS RELATION TO THE INDUSTRIAL
FUTURE OF THE FERTILE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
The Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition Begins on
Monday October 7, 1S95--Biqqest Fair
in the World--Enjoys an Inter-
national Reputation--Some
of It's Possibilities.

The st. Louis Fair is q result of en-
terprise, push and stability of purpose,
and is an exponent of q sound and
liberal business policy which has made
for that city a well-deserved national
reputation.
The st. Louis Exposition with its
brilliant attractions ,herV eiled Prophet
with his grandeur and Incompatible
retinue of wonders, her dazzling
beauty during the gala week, are all
the outcome of the st. Louis Fair.
The Thirty Fifth Annual Fair in st.
Louis begins October z, 1895. While
other institutions throughout the
country, of like character but not so
well advertised or SO ably managed,
have either dwindled into insignifi-
canoe or suddenly collapsed this one
has grown materially better and more
famous; it's management has become
more successful from year to year I'M
til to-day it stands without a rival as
the greatest agricultural fair and the
most attractive aggregation of exhibits
in the world. 1t is more than this: il
is an exhibition embracing magnifi-
cent and varied displays which are OF
interest to all classes and kinds of
men. Each year adds new and meri-
torious attractions, more numerous
and elaborate displays, o interest
ing, worthy and permanent features.
The management is intelligent and
progressive, sparing neither time nor
money in an endeavor to make the st.
Louis Fair what its most ambitious
friends would have it. The result is
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
W AND SEEDING
Delayed in Missouri by the Chinch Bug
and Hessian FLY.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE
weather crop bulletin for the week
says:
Flowing and seeding have been
stopped in a few counties on account
of dry weather, while in others the
work has been pushed and in some To-
calities seeding is well advanced.
Chinch bugs r very thick in a num-
Der of counties and some farmers are
delaying seeding on that account; the
work is also being delayed in some dis
tricts on account of the Hessian fly.
Tobacco is being cut, potatoes dug
and sorghum making is in progress
with a good yield generally. In a
anns5YEsser of the southern counties there
is complaint bat apples are rotting
badly and in a few loca1frfoaeean.11Surop
damaged by high winds. At the
close of the week pastures were badly
in need of rain in some districts andin
a few localities stock water is becom-
ing scarce. The conditions were fav-
orable for showers on the 18th, how
ever, and late reports indicate that
good rains fell in o number of the
central counties at least,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Laat U.s. Govt Report
@A!!a!l! kaxiRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
FREE SILVER NATIONAL TICKET
Bimetallic Leagues Consolidate and
Prepare For a Convention.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 19.-The free
silver forces of the United States will
be consolidated and headquarters will
be established in Chicago. Gen. A. J.
Warner, President of the National
Bimetallic League, win be the Presi-
dent of the consolidated body, and
Secretary Edward B. Light, of the
American Bimetallic Union, will oc-
cupy q similar position IN the new
body. This much was agreed upon
at the conclusion of the conference Of
the silver leaders at the Auditorium
last night.
The new consolidation perfected its
organization to-day, and q committee
of nine was appointed to take charge
of affairs and to keep the headquar-
ters in Chicago open. The COMMITTEES
promptly launched a bomb in the
shape of the following resolution:
ssThat it is the sense of the commit
tee that an early conference of BIZ
metallists from all states which are
willing to place the cause above party
be called to meet and formulate a plan
toward holding a National Convention
to nominate candidates for President
and Vice-President of the United
States upon a platform with the sole
plan and favoring independent BIZ
metallism for the United States"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
A Few Simple Questions.


In the wake of Mr.. BANDS recent
speech at Laclede the following ques-
tions arise, and they should be IN
swered by every thinking individual:
1. If this government should indie
p~endently declare for the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver at the
ratio of 16 to / would the property of
bullion owners be doubled In value,or
would the purchasing power of our
silver dollar be limited to something
near ne-half-and would not one re-
suit or the other be inevitable?
9. In the event of the former re-
suit would not the classes be enriched
at the expense Of the masses and
would not this country pay dearly for
the worlds stock of bullion?
8. And in the event of the latter
r snlt in question (1) would not the
monav ieSdsys in view of the same
the foreclosufs $500
and the collection of debts Der
depreciation occurred and after tEa1
country had fully adjusted itself TO
the new standard would two 50-cent
dollars purchase any more or less
than the original dollar OF 100 cents?
a. If q piece of metal worth, com
mercially, So cents a be made
dollar by the placing of the govern
ment's stamp to that effect upon it,
with no redemption guarantee, could
not 25 cents worth of metal BIO made
one dollar in the same way, and, fol-
lowing the same line of reasoning,
could not 2 cents worth of paper be
made q dollar by similar treatment?
5. Would not the Inauguration of
State banks securely backed by the
National Government secure a means
by which our circulating medium
could be increased without especially
favoring any class or necessitating a
sudden depreciation in the value of
money thus issued?
We simply submit these questions
for the readers of the Bulletin to an
swer for themselves.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26

IC1Oth:~
sntucky

L 49, --e~ ~ 4NOIIH Vtl6SOuIk
railroad, now the Wabash, was built
and Audrain county flooded with all
sorts and sizes OF shinplasters, and
when we offered them in payment of
debts the only question asked was,
"Have they pictures on them?n Hall
says from 1850 to 1860 our farm sur
plus was $401 ,0O0, 900 a year and from
fseoto fS7oftfeff or to e,ooe, goo. Hal
was then a small boy creeping, snail
like, to school and was SC far removed
from civilization that he never knew
we passed through a most terrible civil
war and had every available man in
arms and nobody to work for FIVE
years, and after that for the balance
of the decade to 1870 the land was
cursed with carpet baggers and other
skunk rulers until the odor was
strong enough to stink a dog out of a
tan yard, and Hall has the unblushing
effrontry to say our surplus products
from 1860 to 1870 e S92, DOC, 900. Dur
ing that decade the slaves were set free
~ "S hehO iuboI oSSbSln Cudu&6us
1t comes with IN i'll grace for the son
of a man who assisted in destroying
millions of property in slave labor to
allude to our product during that
ten years.
Now,we have used plain speech, but
Hall says that one of the greatest
curses that beset our people now is
cowardice; We do not dare to tell the
people when they are wrong. Apply
ing this rule to the acts of political
demagogues and would-bc leaders.
Hall "a find no fault with us.
There are mary other fallacies in
Halls speech equally vulnerable. but
IN our opinion beneath criticism. He
says We have COG, 0OO, 600 in silver now.
Clark asked how much is that for TO-
ooo,o eO people?-ss.57 a head. That
sum would not buy each n a good
sized hog to eat the kitchen slop.
His whole speech was as far from
the question of coinage of gold and
silver at some ratio as the earth IL
from Jupiter and his O
l III. Y. DUNCAN.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
THE LATE PROF. RILEY.
Astonishing Achievements of the Re-
nowned Entomologist- His Death
a Public Calamity.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, September N.-The
recent death of Prof. O. v. Riley in
Washington City by a fall from a BIZ
cycle was a calamity which might pass
unnoticed. So pardon a few words to
his memory.
Prof. Riley was easily the first en-
tomologist in our land, and SO far as
real practical work for agriculture In
concerned he had no superior in the
world. To enumerate simply the
number of insects that he has discov-
cred and those whose life histories he
had studied out would more than I'LL
your available space. Many of his
achievements wer positively bril-
liant. Some years ago a new "scele"
attae ked the orange orchards OF CAL
ifornia and threatened their destruc-
ton. Prof. Riley was called out and
by his extensive knowledge %recogniz-
ed it as an Australian species and told
the orange growers that If they would
import its natural enemy-a certain
lady-bug-it would be held in check.
This was done and the scale was "
terminated practically within two
years.
He was also the inventor of the
"Kerosene Emulsion''-thus far the
most practical insecticide known.
Prof. Riley was once the State En-
tomologist Of Missouri, but he was
not appreciated here. A queer favor,
however, was allowed him. Although
they were public documents, he was
allowed to copyright his State En-
tomological Reports, and, exceptsuch
as were distributed to public officers,
they were sold at a fixed price. He
told me recently that they now COM
manded in the market five or six
times their original price. Much of
his best work was done in Missouri
and he always felt a kindly feeling for
years the entomologist of the National
Agricultural Department, where he
might have renamed indefinitely had
he not insisted on resigning.
Prof. Riley had a natural sympathy
with the farmer and was extremely
anxious to popularize entomology
Only last winter he delivered a series
of lectures to the agricultural students
at our State University. He oncs
said to me that he wished / woult
come to Washington that ! nigh
take off of his hands some of the man,
demands that were made on him I.
write popular articles for the press.
i smiled as / thought of the pre-
sumption of the attempt on my par
to take any work off of his hands
"oh, the department would help you,'
he said.
He had a wonderful faculty fol
work and for handling men,. I founs
him busy writing once. "Sit RICH
down and talk to me-" he said, III
does not bother me at my work" III,
was a witty conversationalist.
JAMES NEWTON BAsKETT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
Is only another name for impure

La only another name for impure
blood, for no person is weak and ner-
vous whose blood is perfectly pure.
When the blood ia full of the germs
Of disease, and lacking in the red cor
puscles which give it vitality, when it
fails to properly nourish the organs
and tissues Of the body, what can you
expect but that tired feeling and ner-
vousness?
OF curse Scrofula, Salt Rheum,
Catarrh and Rheumatism are uni
yersally recognized as blood diseases,
for which Hoods Sarsaparilla, as the
best blood purifier, is everywhere
acknowled the greatest remedy.
Therefore, as Hoods Sarsaparilla
cures all blood diseases, it is the best
remedy for that condition of the blood
which causes Nervousness.
1t is a false idea to think you are
curing your nervousness when you
are taking q preparation which only
qsliets your nervesl 1t is like trying TO
"drown" your sorrows in the flowing
bowl. They are sure TO return.
We wish to make most impressive,
then, this truism:
You cannot purify your blood by
DEADESTNG or oUIETNG your nerves
with opiate, narcotic or nerve COM
pounds. Ii you take such articles
you are only THRILLING with your
troubles. There is SURE to be a REAo-
TON which win leave you worse than
you were before.
Why not then, take the true course,
follow the bee line to the state Of
health, purify your blood and cure
your Neryouaness by taking
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
Taken OH a Train.
REMOVED FROM THE CAR AND
HANGED TO A TREE.
Cotton Belt Passenger Train Held Up
by Lynchers Who Were After
a Negro.

SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. 1.-THE
startling information reached this city
to-day that the north bound Cotton
Belt passenger had been stopped last
evening at VAUDEVILLE Station, 10 miles
north of here, and a negro by the
name of Turner Barclay taken forci-
bly, from the train by a crowd of armed
citizens and lynched.
When the train left the Union Sta
ton at this place last evening, among
the passengers on board was Special
Deputy L. B. Kelly, having in chare a
negro prisoner, whom he expected to
take to Benton, La. When the pas
senger train reached VAUDEVILLE Sta
ton it was met by about 250 or more
armed citizens of Bossier Parish who
had assembled at the station to lynch
Deputy Kelly's prisoner, who had at
tempted a brutal assault on two
daughters of a neighboring planter.
The Deputy, who had the prisoner in
charge, demonstrated with the crowd,
but to no avail. The conductor and
train crew were called on by the Dep
uty for assistance, but they were pow
erless to offer help in the presence of
SO determined a crowd.
The negro was forcibly dragged
from the train and conveyed to a point
about a mile off and swung to the tall
est tree in the neighborhood. The
negro brute pleaded for mercy, but
Judge Lynch had reviewed his brutal
crime upon innocent girls, the outrage
Of whom he confessed, and determined
to lynch him, which was promptly
done.
MIR. G. Barclay was a laborer upon
the plantation of Mr.. G. w. Durdin's
place, and on last Saturday night slip
ped into the room occupied by his
employers two daughters, the oldest
being abaut 15 years old. When he
made an attempt uron the little girl
she called to her sister that someone
was in the room. The latter gave an
alarm, arousing their father, who at
once ran into the room. Barclay ran
under the bed. Mr.. Durdin pulled a
gun on him, which was out of fix and
would not fire, and made him sur
render. The captor and his wife fast
ened the negro to a post near the
house with a rope and chain. After
this Mr.. Durdin went to Borcau and
secured the assistance of L. G. Beggs
and two or three others, who took the
negro, putt rope around his neck and
took him to Bellevue. The news soor
spread far and near, and it was not
long before planters from every di-
rection were on hand to revenge the
attempted outrage upon their neigh
boris daughters.
1t was finally decided by the most
conservative citizens that the law
would better be allowed to take its
course, and the negro was sent tc
Minden, and afterwards to Shreve-
port, for safe keeping.
From here he was to be conveyed tc
Benton, La, to stand trial, but Judge
Lynch frustrated the designs of the
Sheriff and promptly swung up the
brute.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
Under the Wheels.

The St.Louis Republic of Sept. Goth
says: "Morris Drops, II years old, OF
Centralia, Mo-, while attempting to
board a Wabash train just west of
Forest Park yesterday afternoon at 5
o'clock, was knocked off the platform
of the a by a switch post, which he
did not notice, and thrown under the
wheels of the train, which passed over
his right leg, mangling it horribly.
The injured boy was picked up short
ly after the accident and hurried at
once to the City Hospital, where it
was found necessary to amputate the
leg above the knee. The shock result
ing from the accident and the terrible
loss of blood sustained before the
operation was performed proved fatal,
and the young man died of his injuries
at 1880 O'Clock last night"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26

st. Louis, on account of her loca-
ZION and solid, substantial prosperity,
is Just the city for a grand national
fair-a fair that will attract exhibits
and patronage from every State in the
Union and foreign countries as well.
The st. Louis Fair not only brings
country and city people-the farmer
and BUSINESS man-into more friendly
relations but will unite more closely
the east and the west, the north and
the south. 1t can be in Importance to
the Nation what it now is to the States
of Missouri and Illinois. "The st,
Louis National Fair"-this is a grand
possibility; in fact, applicability. I'VE
have a glorious country. Diff erent
sections, it is true, have peculiar local
interests, but we are one people hav-
ing interests in common, under one
government and one flag. Any insti-
tuition which tends to develop the in
dustries, more firmly cement the in
terests and more closely unite the
hearts of this people, is worthy not
only of a national reputation but a
national and liberal patronage. Every
patriotic citizen, every American, is
interested in such a possibility. The
writer thinks there r grand proba-
bilities in this suggestion. All hail
"The Great st. Louis National Fair"
May it come soon and come to stay.
1t is in sight.