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The Portland daily press., 1896-09-07
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.J


Damariscotta Mills, September 6.-The
storm today caused heavy damage to
highways. Five culverts on the Maine
Central railroad near here, were washed
away, rendering the road impossible.
Portsmouth Cellars Flooded.
Portsmouth, September 6.-For the last
IS hours it has rained almost incess&nt-
ly. The fall has been the greatest in
years. Cellars in all parts Of the city are
flooded, In some the water is i've feet
deep.
Railroad Tracks Submerged
Newburyport, Mass, September GA
heavy rain storm visited this city this
morning. The street oars were delayed
The Boston & Maine railroad tracks were
undermined in several places. Streets
were torn up by the water and cellar
flooded.
Lightning Wrecked Church Organ.
Waldoboro, September 6.-Lightning
struck the belfry of the Old North Con-
gregational church at noon today, badly
wrecking the building. The pipe organ.
valued at $1,000, was probably ruined. asd
The damage to the buildings 10 5000
The insurance on the building $500;
on the organ $500.
Roads Badly Damaged
Derry, N. H., September Cover four
| inches of rain has fallen here since last
night. 1t will cost several Thousands
of dollars to repair the damage to road q
| In this and surrounding towns. EIn San
down there were 80 dry wells and the
| farmers had to GO to the ponds and
| brooks to get water.
The apple crop will be the largest in
this section for years. Fruit will bring
as high a price rs usual. The potato
crop Is practically failure on account
of dry weather. Potatoes will bring q
good. price.
| Fruit Trees Damaged BY Wind.
Salem, Mass, September 6.-During
the storm last night and today heavy
wind did considerable damage TO fruit
trees by stripping them of fruit. The
rain badly washed the streets, doing
much damage.
House Struck By Lightning.
Bangor. September GA terrific rsir
today did great damage to the streets,
flooded cellars, washed out tracks, ano
placed the country roads in bad oondit
ion, doing much damage. The house
of John Cusham, in Brewer, was struoh
by lightning, during the heaviest of the
storm and burned. Loss about $1,000.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-07
DOWN POUR OF rain.
Fleodgates Of Heavens We're Let
Loose Yesterday.
PRECIPITATION EVERYWHERE
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED.

Schooners Ashore at Vineyard Haven
Boston g. Maine Tracks Submerged
Church Struck By Lightning Bad
Washout on Maine Central at Damaris-
Gotta.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-07
Roads Badly Damaged.
Fruit Trees Damaged BY Wind.

Salem, Mass, Septem ber 6.-During
the storm last night and today heavy
wind did considerable damage TO fruit
trees By stripping them of fruit. The
rain badly washed the streets, doing
much damage.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-07
Portsmouth Cellars Floode,

Portsmouth, September 6.-For the last
Is hours it has rained almost incessant-
ly. The fall has been the greatest in
years. Cellars in all parts of the city are
flooded, In some the water is five feet
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-07

Damariscotta Mills, September 6.-The
highways. Five culverts on the Maine
Central railroad near here, were washed
away, rendering the road impossible.
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The History of Auctions.
From the london Telegraph.

interesting disquisition on the history
and practice of auction sales was given
last night by Mr. James f. Field to the
members of the Auctioneers' Institute, at
their rooms in Chancery lane. He pointed
out that the profession was one of the old
est in the world, for description Of wife
auctions was given by Herodotus. The
system appeared to have been the very
reverse of the way in which moderns dis
pose of valuable chettels. The fairest
were first put up and knocked down to the
highest bidder; then the next in order of
comeliness, and so on to the damsels who
were equi-distant between beauty and
plainness, while those destitute of attrac-
tions were given away gratis. The word
auction was acclimatized in England
about the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury, and since that time many forms of
conducting sales had been used; sometimes
by sandglass, sometimes by burning an inch
of candle, the highest bidder before the
flames expired being the purchaser, and
now by the hammer. The methods of
bidding have been and are still equally
singular Que gentleman, well known to
many an auction hall, seldom enters COM
pletely saleroom, but, leaning round the
door jamb, signifies his desire to acquire
bargain by wink which is certainly un-
mistake Others open their mouths 81
lently and give signs of apoplexy most
alarming to behold, Others smile, frown or
trembIe, and indeed, the methods of some
are perplexing; Others simply cry Eyes. =
A nod is, however, the common method.
The most singular auctioneer of whom Mr..
Field ever heard was a silent female, who
handed glass of brandy to every bidder,
and he who got the last glass was the
buyer. Probably this bears somewhat on
the custom for 50 many years in vogue of
induIging purchasers and hangers-on at
auctions with potations, He was glad to
notice that this system is dying out.
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The Country Editor.
From the New York Dispatch.


The country editor is combination of
the entire staff of city newspaper. His
sphere of usefulness, although not so
ubiquitous, is quite as important as that of
the great contemporaries. His single
weekly paper is in miniature the seven
issues per week of the great dailies. His
constituency is often the most moral and
high minded to be found in the domain of
history He reaches the homes of brain
and Drawn that send to the colleges and
cities the great, well balanced men of the
age, He may not uproot scandal, expose
corruption, tear down religious or political
parties, create empires or crush dynasties
but he reaches and influences the majority
of the army of boys who, in after years,
fight the great battles of life in the pulpit,
at the bar, in the hospital, and even be-
come his most distinguished co-workers in
journalism.
The country editor may take wood and
potatoes for his subscription price, but he
never lies about his circulation. He may
mention in detail the process of construc-
ton of country barns and the intervisita-
ton of unimportant pumpkins, but he
makes no attempt to build his fortunes on
scandals, broken homes, nasty twaddle,
and undue prying into private life. He
may write wretched English and deplor-
able grammer, but he never talks about,
'.innocuous desuetude' and ''masterful eff
forts He may publish three pages of
patent inside to one of original matters but
he never steals the news and brains of
others because a geographical difference of
time favors his location. He may set his
own type and turn the crank of his own
press. but he never scales down the wages
of his employees, nor treats printers like
cattle nor pays starvation wages to report
ers He may deplore certain local usages
and want of appreciation of his columns by
business men, but he never pursues people
who have no means for reply with vindic-
tive hate, with vile cartoons and outrageous
persecution to the grave. He is not a life
wrecker, nor family wrecker, nor a scan
dal monger, nor party political poltroon,
nor bribe taker, nor a washer of dirty
linen. Whatever his mistakes, trouble
and ludicrous exhibitions at times, the
country editor is an honest, painstaking
citizen, one Of the most potent factors in
the higher civilization of the age.
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Ten Wonders of Labor.

The Stone Trade News considers the
ten most remarkable works of human labor
l. The pyramids of Egypt, the largest of
which, near Cairo, known as the great
pyramid, built by Cheops, King of Egypt,
took $50, 600 men twenty years to build.
2 The artificial reservoir-Lake Mo
eris-built by Amenemha, of the twelfth
dynasty, which serves to store up the
waters of the Nile during the season of
floods and distribute them over the land
during the dry season. Its circumference
was 3, 900 furlongs, and on its being al
lowed to fall into ruin the fertility of the
region became TO serious extent thing
of the past.
3. The Tai Mahal, tomb erected at
Aga, in Hindoostan, by Shan Jehan, over
his queen, Moor Jehan. 1t is built of the
purest white marble and yet seems so airy
that when seen from distance it is like
fabric of mist and sunbeams, with its
great dome soaring up, silvery bubble
about to burst in the sun, and even after
you have touched it and climbed to its
summit you almost doubt its reality. 1t
cost over e3, 600, 600,
f. The temple of Baalbec, in the erec-
ton of which stones sixty-two feet long,
twenty feet broad and fifteen feet thick
have been used-more prodigious masses
than have ever elsewhere been moved by
human power and much exceeding in size
the stones used in the pyramids.
s. The temple of Karnkak, described
by Ferguson as the noblest work of arch
tectural magnifcence ever produced by the
hand of man. It covers twice the area Of
ST. Peter at Rome and undoubtedly is
one of the finest buildings in the world.
6. The great wall of China, 1920
miles in length, 1t is 20 feet in height
and in thickness 25 feet at the base and Is
feet at the top.
Z. The Eiffel tower, erected in the
grounds of 1899 Paris exhibition, 984 feet
high.
s. The Suez canal, with So miles of water
way connecting the Mediterranean and the
Red seas, and forming the principal route
to India Il cost more than Ell,
900, 900, and 1876 out of 399, GIT
shares were purchased by and belong tC
the British government
8. The railway bridge (the largest cen.
tilever bridge in the world over the Forth,
with two spans each of 1,7O0 feet, erected
at cost of nearly 94, 900, OOO
10. The leaning tower of Pisa, which
deviates thirteen feet from the perpen.
dienlar
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Niagra,s power in Buffalo.

From the New York Evening Post
The Niagara power transmission enterprise
has entered upon the last stageof its develop
ment. Electric power in large quantities is
already being delivered to factories at Mag
ara Falls and to the electric railway, and
now measures are being pushed forward for
the delivery of the current in Buffalo, The
contract entered into with Mayor Jewett.
of Buffalo, is for term of sc years, and
requires 10000 horse power to be fur
nished in the city by June II, 1897,
10, 900 horse power per year being count
ed upon for each of the succeeding four
years. No price is set for the power, but
the company has to pay to the city after
certain time portion Of its receipts in re-
turn for its franchise Contracts have
now been made for the pole line from the
Falls to Buffalo About two thousand
poles of Candian cedar will be used, all Of
them eight inches in diameter at the top,
ranging from twenty-five to fifty feet in
length. The average use viii be fifty to
the mile, but in windy, bare places one
hundred win be planted, so as to resist the
strain. Current will be transmitted on the
three-phase system at a potential of 10, 900
volts.
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poetrp.
THE COMING O. THE GREEN.
From The Spectator.

Now the spirit of the food is awake,
And the spirit of the wood is stirred,
And the spirit of the air is beautiful and fair,
And so is the song of the bird.
Aud there cometh a whisper of Spring,
And its football is light on the sea,
And it cometh from the South, with jewel in its
mouth,
And it bringeth blessing to me-
And the bare bough is rustlng with leaves,
And the dark earth is glistening with gold.
And the land is all sheen with the coming o the
green,
And new world is born of the old.
And it is not the work of a man,
Who pleth his task here and there;
Not in single bud and flower but universal bower,
1t cometh, mighty Spring everywhere
And the hawthorn is snowy in the brake.
And the dear lark is singing up on high,
And the young things sprouting, the young
children shouting.
And the old tears awake In the eye.
For earth Paradise once,
And life all a jubilee then.
But the glory once seen in the coming O. the green
Departs when we come to be men.
For sweet is the lily in the bed.
And sweet is the flower on the wall,
But sweeter the tear and the pity of the dead,
For the old things were sweetest ofal
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Put on the Check Rein.
Rer. 7. l. curler. in be Evangellst.


One of the besetting snares of these
times is to try to grow rich rapidly.
'sSlow and sure are out of fashion In
that direction lies peril to the soul They
who make haste to be rich fall into tempta-
tions and snares and many hurtful lusts
that drown men in perdition Greed for
gold drains away the sweetest and holiest
affections of the heart; it dries up Christian
benevolence; it robs God of His due. My
long observation has been that when money
flows in rapidly grace is apt to flow out,
and as a Christian mounts up as to his in
come he rarely rises in piety with it.
There are some happy exceptions, but they
are the men who keep eheck-rein on the
grasping, greedy spirit of covetousness.
Ny good brother, it is no easy thing to
keep up high tone of spiritual life amid
all the atmospheric pressures that surround
you; to do it you have got to take time to
eat and to think aud to read your Bible
and to pray, and to do some good work
for your Master and for your feIlow-men.
IF You are running your life at too fast a
rate for all these vital things. then en-
treat you in. God name to PIT on he
check-yets'
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A LFRED PEATS FAMOUS
$1,000 PRIZE WALL PAPER


The Chicago Tribune saysi 'They will be
in great demand by people of artistic taste.'
The New York World. ''None so beautiful,
so perfect, or offered so cheap" Don't buy
old shop worn goods, when every sample |
have is of the latest design and coloring.
Price of every pattern stamped in plain figures
by the manufacturers, therefore | can neither
open nor close yonr eyes. You can see, and
make the calculation for your rooms, for your
self, if you choose. / can save you 50per cent.
PRICES.-Prize Designs, 10 cents per roll,
up. Colds, cents per roll, up. Other New
Patterns 3 cents per roll, and up. Nearly 800
samples shown at your home if desired All
work guaranteed. and l mean it. In CRAY
ON PORTRAITS and PICTURE FRAMES.
defy competition. Don't be fooled by mer-
chants offering Portraits Free, You can de-
pend on paying for it in the price you pay for
the frame.
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Buffalos in Japan.
Clarence R. Falt, in Milwaukee Journal.

Clarence R. Falk, in Milwaukee Journal
The buffalo is used as beast of burden
in Java Everywhere you see them graz
ing lazily in the fields, or dragging carts
and ploughs. 1t is clumsy animal.
Thick folds of superhuous fat and skin
hang about its neck and limbs, and con-
slant stream of perspiration runs from its
almost hairless body A beautiful pair of
crescent-shaped horns adorn the forehead
of this tropical horse Flocks of famin-
goes and white cranes strut and fly in and
out among these beasts,
On one occasion | saw a beautiful fam
lingo parading up and down upon the back
of buffalo COW, which was lying almost
immersed in mud hole by the roadside.
This bird was feasting his tropical appetite
by picking insects and other unwelcome
visitors from the shining back Of this nam
moth beast. This kind of thoughtfulness
on the part Of the Aamingo is much ap-
preciated by the COW, and am convinced
there exists between them pure platonic
friendship What peculiar thing this
world is, for what is torture and a mem
acesto the buffalo is choice morsel much
appreciated be the acute palate Of the crane.
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MO. s41e EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County,
in Equity.
Jacob schmitt, Assignee, vs.. Yost Martin aud
wife, Morigagors.
Ordered this 25th day of April, in the year
1896. that the sales of the property mentioned
in these proceedings made and reported by Ja-
cob Schmitt, assignee, be ratified and confirm
ed. unless cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the LIST day of June, next;
noryided sopy of this order be inserted in
Some newspaper printed in Carroll county,
once in each of three successive weeks before
the 25th day of May next
The report states the amount OF sale 70 pe
1885,. so. ,no1rSr c,a.t
True copy,-Test: c-
may 2 Il Benz. +. GROUSE. CIerk.
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NEVER BREAK A PROMISE.

Kate CLYDE. in Golden Days.
If you want to be respected.
And to gather many friend,
There's simple rule to follow,
That will bring the wished-for end.
II is this: Be very careful
How your promises you make;
And promise, once It's given,
Never. never, never break
Keep engagements to the letter;
Let this praise to you belong;
"Oh. his word is just as binding
As would be his legal bond ~
Thus your name will e'er be honored,
Everywhere it may be heard,
Ifyou never break promise,
And you always keep your word.
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THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
IT'S PAST HISTORY.

The Origin and Causes that Led to its Adop-
ton-An Outgrowth of the Holy Alliance
of Europe-England Primarily Responsible
FORTS Birth-The Struggle of South Amer
lea for Independence-The Sympathy of
the United States-Finds Expression in the
Famous Paragraph Of the Message of Pres
ident Monroe in December, 1928.
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In the treatment Of children, to op-
pose violence with violence, to attack
passion with passion, is to try to put out
fire with boiling oil; punishment in such
cases may do more injury than the sitting
of the flames warrant
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a442 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County in
Equity.
David Stoner, Mortgagee, vs.. Michael Wertz,
Mortgagor.

Ordered this 9TH day of May, 1896, by the
Circuit Court for Carroll County in Equity, that
the sale of the mortgaged personal property,
mentioned in these proceedings, made and re-
ported by David Stoner, Mortgage, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the Sth
day of June next; provided copy of
this order be inserted in some newspaper
printed and published in Carroll county, once
in each Of three successive weeks, before the
lst day Of June, next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
SilS.S5.
BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk.
True copy Test.
may9 at Benz. +. Grouse Clerk.
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a STRAWBERRY and Ice Cream
IA Festival will be held at Pleasant Grove
NJ. +. Church, Sandyville, on Saturday after
ternoon and night, of MAY Both. If it
should rain on that evening ii will be held
the following Tuesday evening. may 9st
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Fine Job Printing a Speciality.

When you want anything IN my line do not
place your orders until you have inspected my
samples and prices, and | will prove to you
that what say is true.
EDW. P. ZEPP, Artist and Decorator
Manufacturer and Dealer in Portraits and
Picture Frames, Pleasant Valley, Md. Lock
Box 49,
If not convenient to call mail postal card
to above address. inay2 am
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COMMISSIONS RECEIVED.

Commissions for the following named
persons appointed to fill the respective offices
hereinafter mentioned, were filed i'll the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
county on the 2Sth day of April, 1896, and
said persons are hereby notified that unless
they qualify within thirty days from the above
date their places will be deemed vacant
Justices of the Peace.
District No. 1-Aloysius F. 0rndorf and
Henry c. Wilt.
District No. 2-.Josiah Kolb and Abraham
L. Williams.
District No. 81. William Earhart, John p.
Fuhrman and James Frock.
District No. William S. Gambler and
Jesse Magee.
District No. 5-Nicholas d. Norris, John
n. Barnes, John H. Conaway and William A.
Cassell
District No. G-Daniel L. Dubbs. Vincent
Mccullough and John w. Kephart
District No. samuel Skunk, J. Hoffman
Fuss, William Fl. Baer, W. Riley Myers,
John NJ Yingling and William A. Cunning
ham.
District No. s-Thomas Upton and Amos
c. Price.
District No. 9-Wesley Pickett and Samuel
p. Fleming.
District No. 1O-Charles Il. C. Bowman
and d. c. Warner.
District No. III. Ross Gait, Benjamin G.
Franklin and U. Grant Hitabidle.
District No. I2-David G. Ogle and Viii
liam j. Crabbs.
District No. William H. Kugler and
Joseph Gosnel.
Notaries Public.
Frank H. Seiss, Taneytown, Md.
Frank r. Cassell, Westminster, Md.
Charles P. Bale, New Windsor, Md.
Eli Hiltabdle, Union Bridge, Md.
Albert Jones, Mt. Airy.
School Commissioners.
Milton Schaeffer and John Lands.
Supervisors of Election.
Howard F. Schaeffer, Charles H. sapp and
Charles v. Wantz.
Member of the Board of Directors
Female House of Refuge.
George 7. Motter. o,,.,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
may2 3t
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Better have no eyes, ears, noses or
palates than be obliged to see, hear, smell
and taste everything that passes
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MO. a44a EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County, in
Equity.
David Stoner, Mortgage, vs.. Michael Wertz
and Elizabeth Wertz, his wife, Mortgagors.
Ordered this 7th day of May, 1896, by the
Circuit Court for Carroll County in Equity,
that the sale of the mortgaged property ,men-
toned in these proceedings. made and report,
ed by David Stoner, Mortgage, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the Sth day
of June, next; provided copy of this order
be inserted in some newspaper printed and
published in Carroll county once in each of
three successive weeks before the lst day
of June, next.
BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk.
True Copy,-Test:
mayo St Benz. F. Grouse. CLERK
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CoMMIss1oNERs' NOTICE.

The County Commissioners of Carroll coun-
tv win meet at their Office, in Westminster,
nm i the first MoSDAy and TUESDAY ana tne
third MoNpAY in May, 1896, for the tran
saction of business. BY order,
az a ~ -, Clerk.
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The only real pleasant takers are the
people with fresh ideas, and plenty Of
good words to dress them in
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Mount Shasta, the celebrated volcano
of California, Is IA, $50 feet high.
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WANTED.

STRAwBERRY FEsTIvAL.-sione
;, - Chapel Sunday school viii hold its annual
s'rawberry and Ice Cream Festival, in the
grove adjoining the church, Saturday AFTER
noon and night, June 9Th, 1896. All are
cordially invited. .apr25
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THE MODEL EMPORIUM" /"
THEO. DERR & son.

SUMMER is HERE IN ALI. IT'S GLORY
And prepared your Every
and week brings forth NEW BARGAINS you get your
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MATTTNGsl MATTINGSll

Of desirable style all
The coolest and best floor for summer
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WOOL DRESS GOODS BARGAINS.

WOOL DRESS GOODS BARGAINS.
pieces Novelty sung 38 inches wide all wool checks and mixtures
regular price yard, to close them ou
Csc a yard.
All Wool Navy Blue Wide Vale inches wide cheap soc
a yard, only
38c a yard.
This extremely popular for skirts with shirt waists
NEW WASH DRESS GOODS.
of m Ogndes opened
124c yard
beautiful Persian and Dresden designs
25c yard
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BOYS CLOTHING.

Navy in silk braid
parof Pants and Cap only
$175 a Suit.
opened big line of Boys Wash Suits Duck and Gaa Cloth
all from to years, a 81 90 and 81 %.