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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-02-18
MANSON G. LARRABEE.
j. R. LIBBY.

Linen WAEEDNEsDAY WE
Sale. No. q. WV SHALL hold our
Second Spring
Linen Sale. This will
have some attractions
that our January Sale Of Linens did not
have.
Linen Damask, Napkins Table Covers,
Towels and ToweIings, at remarkably low
prices.
Sale begins Wednesday morning at e.I5
O'Clock.
]. r. LIBBY.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

voted FOR, The highest vote cast on
county officers was ISL, and the bonds,
while receiving two-thirds majority
of the votes cast on the bond PROPOSE
ton, did not receive a two-thirds ma
jority of all the votes cast at
the election, although the rec
ords as filed with the State
Auditor, and also the county records,
so far as they relate to the bond trans
action, fail to show this, simply giving
the figures on the bond proposition,
The county also set up defence that
the bond issue exceeded the limit of 10
per cent. of the assessed valuation of
the county. Judge Shiras held that the
county, having received the money,
could not go behind the official record,
which was the only guide to the valid
ity of the bonds of which the purchas-
ers were bound to take cognizance.
This decision takes some account of
common sense and common honesty
1t is to be hoped that it will do some
thing to check the tendency toward re-
pudiation in some parts of the West
where it has been discovered that it is
one thing to borrow money and another
to pay it.
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Highest of all in Leavenng PoweLates US Govt Report
@&:A!l! RRskiGs
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Why, 1t wasn't nothing but gamble
from the time boat left st. Louis till
1t reached New Orleans. I've seen a
faro game, three poker games and
monte running in the cabin, and the
deck hands playing at chuck-a-luck.
The gamblers would come in disguised
In hayseed clothes to skin the passen-
gers. Maybe there'd be four or five on
the boat. When passenger would
squeal, the captain would ask him to
pick out the man who robbed him, and
the gambler if nabbed, would have to
give up the stuff and get off the boat
anywhere the captain chose to run her
in. The boys used to have false whis-
kers and wigs for these occasions, so
that when the kick was made they
couldn't be picked out under their dis
guises Many a time I've known them
to jump off the boat into the water be-
fore the boat landed to get away before
the kick was made and the victim
could look at the passengers and find
his man. I've swan ashore myself
many time. There wasn't much
prosecuting then if fellow was
caught. The captain was boss, and he
made the man give up, put him off the
boat, and that settled it. They didn't
judge a man right away. They were
great old times then, and they'll never
come back"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16
AGAINST REPUDTATION.

Those who have been foolish enough
to invest in bonds issued by Valley
county, Nebraska, will be somewhat en-
couraged by what the courts have to
say concerning the attempt to repu-
date S32, 900 of the bonds of the coun-
ty. The bonds in question were issued
about fifteen years ago. For twelve
years the County Commissioners regu-
larly levied tax and with the pro-
ceeds paid the interest upon them
Three years ago the board refused to
levy a tax for that purpose, and sue
eeeding boards have taken the same
course. The proposition to issue the
bonds was submitted at general cleo
ton in which county, officers were also
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16
PERSISTENT AND CONSISTENT.

There are some very persistent things
in this world. For instance, the open
smile of a girl who has fine teeth; the
talk of a man who has the gift of
gab;" the headache of a boy who wants
to stay at home from school; the ten
dency of a woman to notice what an
other woman has on; the Mckinley
boom. And so forth and so on. But
there are few things in this world more
persistent than the Discrimination OF
some men to pay an honest debt. This
disinclination often makes those who
have it and those who suffer from those
who have 1t great deal of trouble.
But it persists in very discouraging cir
cumstances Frequent and savage calls
from collectors, numberless please re-
mits," parades by men in green uni
forms and all the other ingenious and
forcible devices of exasperated credit
tors fail to weaken it in many cases.
In some cases a term in jail will not
overcome it. And there is occasionally
| a case where not even the fear of death
will destroy the ruling reluctance. A
remarkable exhibition of the power of
the principle which animates some of
"the debtor class" has just been given
by a man in Fall River, Massachusetts,.
A creditor in that town who had waited
for his money as long as he could made
I'D his mind that he would get either
| the money or, at least, a promise to
| pay, So he took the man who owed
| him and held him by the heels out of a
fourth story window. The real nature
of the debtor came out strongly while
he was in that precarious predicament.
He refused to even promise to pay, and
| the foiled creditor finally had to pull
| him in and spare his Improbable life.
The persistency and the consistency
| of this debtor mark him as the chief of
his clan and entitle him to immunity
from further assaults by his creditors.
A man who will not even promise to
pay when hanging head downward in
danger of immediate death is debtor
| from whom it would be base and futile
dattery to try to collect any little bill'
he may happen to owe.
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is used for cap and apron, the latter's
bib being bordered with lace

is used for cap and apron, the latter's
bib being bordered with lace.
Little girls that are well out of their
first long dresses are being attired more
than ever like their mothers. Their in
terest in the ruling fashions is strong
enough, be sure of it, and your miss OF
seven or eight years should not be
deemed precocious If she possesses a
lot of wisdom concerning styles. 1t is
pleasant to note that short dresses rule
almost till q girl Is "out" Pretty ging-
hams in dark stripes are made up with
a touch of velvet and it must be said
that the effect is good, though, in gen.
eral, it is unwise to put unwashable
stuff on washable goods
A very pretty model for loose after
noon dress has an under gown of white
that is drawn in at the waist by sash
belt. This belt passes through spaces
in the side seams of an over gown and
around the back of the latter, fastening
at the back in a big bow with long
er DIS. The fronts of the over gown
hang loose hnd free, turning back in
levers that reach to the hem and that
at the shoulders blend into sailor col
lar. The neck is finished by the collar
Of the under gown. Even in very sim
PIE material-wash silk or even muslin
tor the under gown, and cotton Grape
for the over dress-the result is charm
ing. The one described was Of rose COL
OF cotton crepe over wash silk in white,
the sashbeing the pretty dresden taffe-
Il in white with crush all over it of
roses and DjnkS and with a border of
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16
The COLORADO REPUBLICANS.

The Colorado Republicans appear to
be in favor of an "irrepressible con-
f1ict" at the st. Louis convention. They
made Senator Teller the leader of the
delegation to the national convention
by unanimous vote. They declared that
1.-THE free coinage Of silver and gold at
ratio of 16 to is for the time being
of paramount and controlling impor-
lance, and the most pressing question
connected with our political duty and
action" They declared that Senator
Teller is the "ablest living exponent of
the true principles of American finance,
and the most fearless and intelligent
advocate in public life of the financial
system which will lest promote the
comfort and prosperity Of the whole
people and the whole world And they
directed the delegates chosen to act in
harmony with the views of Senator Tel
| Ter as to the course to be pursued by
| the Colorado delegation at the national
convention.
Senator Teller having been made full
boss by the Colorado Republicans it
| becomes important to know what his
| views" are. In a speech the other day
he said: am frequently asked what
will do If the political party with
which I am connected, and whose
record I am proud of, adopts the gold
standard and puts itself in line with
those who are demanding that gold,
and gold alone, shall measure the values
of the world. I have no hesitation in
saving here as have said before, and
shall say again, that, whenever the po-
litical party to which 1 belong ceases
to represent my sentiments and my
Judgment, I will cease to act with it.
When the Democratic party, in which
was brought up and educated, became
the party of oppression and wickedness,
got out of it. I should despise my
self if should lift my hand to put in
power any one who in the executive
chair would use the slightest influence
to maintain the present system OF
| finance.
/ This seems to mean that if Boss Tel
ler can't have his way at st. Louis
he will bolt. It is not likely that he
will be allowed to have his way. If he
is there will be a bolt of voters thai
will at least equal in magnitude and
power any bolt that he can lead.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

aldermen. He has since obtained per-
mission to carry q revolver to protest
himself from the Republican negroes
who daily threaten him, His wife has
deserted him because Of his vote, being
influenced in this action, it is said, by
her pastor. The negro preachers have
great political power among their con-
gregations. One night recently Miller
was waylaid by several negroes, who
struck him on the head with stones and
sticks, and he is now confined to his
bed.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

good hand Every man who ever ran
on the river knows that these old
planters used to play in their body SER
wants, valuing them all the way from
three hundred to fifteen hundred dol
lars. I saw little colored boy stand
up at three hundred dollars to back his
masters faith in a little flush that
wasn't any good on earth. The mig
gers didn't seem to care particularly
about it, and it was so common that
nobody noticed it particularly. Gam
bling was commoner then.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16
MISSISSIPPI RITER GAMBLERS.
In the Palmy Steamboat Days-Reminis-
cences of an Old Reprobate Living in


Colorado.
California Letter in New York Times.
Among the old people who have
come from northern and colder CHI
mates to spend their remaining days in
this land of sunshine and flowers is
Daniel Kimball. He has chosen Pomo-
ma valley as his abiding place, and eve
ry day he may be seen sitting amid the
magnolia trees and orange groves on
his little ranch place. He is seventy
seven years old, and is probably the
best known professional gambler in
the Mississippi river region, and in his
day was one Of the most famous in the
whole west. He has calls almost daily
from present members of the PRO
fesh," as Daniel calls his old-time oc
cupation, who are either spending the
winter in this semi-tropic region or
have happened down this way from
San Francisco or st. Louis. The late
Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago
said, when he was in Los Angeles sew
eral years ago, that Dan Kimball was
thirty-five years ago the most princely
and bonanza-like gambler ever known
from New Orleans to St. Louis, and
that he himself had seen Kimball make
ten and twelve thousand dollars In one
nights operation. The old man has
been worth seventy-f1ve and one hun
dred thousand dollars several times in
his life, but now he is reduced to a few
thousand dollars, and it is only by ex-
treme care of his dollars and unusual
domestic prudence that he and his aged
wife make ends meet throughout the
year.
There amt no more gambling now, :"
said old Mr. Kimball the other day,
and no gamblers, either. Look at
what they call gamblers now-kids-
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FASHION NOTES.
Too Young for Dress worries.
to pay it.

Too Young for Dress worries.
While the wearer of the dress that is
shown in full length in the accompany
ing picture has no thoughts for fash
ions, mighty lot of thinking is ex-
pended on her simple robes, which are
not necessarily very simple anyhow.
Thisone may be copied in white MAIN
sock or lawn, and the yoke should be
alternate stripes of the goods and of
valenciennes. The yoke is finished
with a frill of lace, tiny lace ruffies fin
lsh the sleeves and a wide lace frill bor-
ders the hem. The nurses gown is of
dark blue foulard made very simply
and with tight sleeves. A band Of
white null is put inside the plain
standing collar and the same material
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each IN
sertion. Five cents word for full week
(seven times.l
Display Advertisements-Pe inch, one IN
sertion, $l.20; each subsequent insertion, 40
cents; one week, $3.50; one month, $40; ono
year, $40.
Obituary notices, In prose or verse, ID cents
per line. Notices Of births, Marriages, Deaths
and Funerals, so cents each. Local notices,
10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
immedite business (all matter to be unob-
iectionabe), and their contracts do not in
clude Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
Discounts-On two inches or more one
month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

China is finally waking up. A recent
issue of the ''Peking Gazette" contains
an official edict declaring that the EN-
peror has decided to encourage rail-
roads in every way in order to make
them an accomplished fact in the En-
pire The construction of two lines is
at the same time specifically sanctioned
by the decree. One railroad is to con-
meet Tien- Tsin with Picking, and is to
be built at the cost of the government
The second, which is to run across Gen.
trail China from Picking to Han-Ko is
to be constructed by a syndicate "of
wealthy men and rich merchants of the
provinces traversed by the road, the
syndicate in question having already
subscribed a capital of 100000 taels
toward the expenses Of the undertake
Ing"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

The Pennsylvania Supreme court has
decided that restrictions upon the use
of land, made in the selling of the same,
are valid. The point was raised in the
case of plot Of land on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, sold with a re-
striction in the deed that no building
higher than ten feet should be erected
on it. The owners decided to tear
down the ten-foot building and to erect
one one hundred feet high. Their con-
tention was that the restriction was
a vexatious burden on the lot, and was
to be construed as determining upon
the tearing down of the building now
upon the lot, but the court held that
the restriction ran with the land not
with the building; that its purpose was
to prevent the cutting off of light and
air from the adjoining buildings, and
that the court had no right to set it
aside.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16
OUTSIDE.

Landlady-Wh part of the turkey
will you have, Mr.. Newboarder?" "A
little Of the outside, please. Life
Watts-I wonder what kind of shirts
these can be that are advertised at 30
cents, Potts Married men's.-Indian-
apolis Journal
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Baseball cranks in this vicinity feel
that % to is worse than 16 to l.

r. H. Roberts has resigned the editor
ship Of the Salt Lake Herald Dem.) be-
cause, being a Mormon, he could not
subscribe to the policy announced by
the paper that it will not concede tc
any church that it may dictate or ad-
wise who may or may not engage In
politics, or become candidates for Of
fee"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

Southern negroes haven't any great
reason to love Democrats, but they go
e little too far if they do as an Ashe-
vile North Carolina) correspondent of
the New York Evening Post says they
do. In many parts of the South, says
the correspondent, it is very dangerous
for negro to vote for Democratic
candidate for office He is liable to lose
his life by assassination, and in nearly
every section of the South the offender
is boycotted in a business way and
made a social outcast. AT the city cleo
a respectable negro man, voted for the
pAnnonratic- candidates for naayor and
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1t is related that at the recent cele-
bration of Jefferson's birthday at Mon
ticello most of the visitors wore but
ton, on which We're the letters N. A. D
c." This mystified one man who was
present, and, turning to bystander
he said: 'I suppose all these people
down here celebrating Jefferson's BIRTH
day are Democrats, and am somewhat
puzzled to see SO many of them wear
ing those buttons. What does it mean?
'"Those letters stand for the National
Association of Democratic Clubs, and
nearly all of those present belong tc
that organization, replied the bystan-
der. "Oh!' said the spectator, as he
prepared to walk away, II was labor
ing under the impression that the let
tiers stood for Not a D. Chance"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

Electricity will probably soon take
the place Of steam on many railroads.
Several Boston capitalists are interest
ed In a projected southern railroad, the
construction Of which will be commence
ed this summer or fall, that for nearly
five hundred miles will run through a
territory in which are unfailing water
powers Of large capacity, sufficiently
near to each other and to the surveyed
route, to enable the company to gen
crate all the electric energy that may
be required to propel its trains. Elec-
tricians who have gone over the route
are sanguine that, in SO far as motive
power goes, they can be run at less cost
than any now in operation Engineers
and other experts who have watched
carefully the work of the electric en-
gines in Baltimore concur in this opin-
ion.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-16

DELIVERED ny CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10
CENTS A WEEK, t0CRNTs A MONTH, 50 FOR
Elk MONTHS, s. A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS
BY MAIL.
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THECARRINGToN PUBLISHING co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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F. M. BROWN & CO.

THIS PICTURE
represents the result off sim
gle Napier Seidlitz Powder
1t is worth more than gold-
sometime when you feel as
ifthe certainty ola silk dressi
or Delmonico dinner had mol
charm. take just one ofthose
Seidlitz Powders and the sky
will clear, the birds will singj
and you will forgive your
worst enemy.
We offer them tomorrow a
pkg O 2 '0r fOc|
Another Napier Remedy to
have in the house,
Cholera Mixture, $50 bottle
16 oz.bottle pure witch hazel. 1sc
COZ. bottle Petrolio vaseline, %
Tooth Powder, %
White Glover Cream, %
Bottle Hunyadi water, 1Sc
Violet Ammonia 1Sc
Hygenique Fluid, 42d
West 6tore. Ma1n TlooeI
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-05-01

North Row, Van Brunt's addition,
to Geo. E. Keene5 for $500. This
property is on South Front street and
is desirable location for home.
Mrs. J. M. Barclay and daughter,
Faith, have returned to Point Pleas
ant from Chicago, to remain. The
hotel and grounds will be put in read
mess for the summer season.
Judge Mead today made an order
admitting the will Of Robt. T..
Thomas to probate.
Prof. G. f. Koehler is on the pro-
gram of commencement exercises of
the Vernon Center school the evening
of May lst, for the address. His SUBJ
ject will be Education and Power"
and it will be good one.
IS. j. Wright, of the MankatO
Fruit Commission Co., reports bust
ness very good, and says that they
are we'll pleased with the outlook for
the fruit trade the coming summer.
]. J. Waddell is on the road for the
company.
Walter Thackery was arrested
on the charge of using abus-
i've and obscene language naturally
tending to provoke an assault, toward
Henry r. Kurth last Sunday. He
pleaded not guilty, and the case was
set for Saturday at 9. a. m. Tuesday
afternoon, however, he changed his
mind and entered plea of guilty and
was fined $500 aud costs.
-Gottlieb Laube, who has been en-
ployed by f. G. Heinze driving his
delivery wagon, is lying very low with
an attack of the grip, and it was
feared this forenoon that he could
not recover. He was taken sick Sun
day.
e. G. McCadden is moving his
grocery store from the Jackson street
location to 423 South Front street.
The county board meets May 9Th.
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(Above are live weight prices.)
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hay, tame $500, wild, per ton. -. 90
Hides. green, per h.. .......
Tallow, per b.. -. ........... 80
Wool, washed, per b.. 80. 800. IA
Wool, per ID ...... ......... 10
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-05-01
.LaCeS,
.EmbrOidericS
and Trimmings.

We are essentially headquarters
for everything choice and desirable in
the above lines.
Fifty pieces of New Laces, Insert
ings, and three widths of Edgings
came by express yesterday, making a
selection second to none in the state.
Embroideries, insertions. with edges
to match in Nainsook, Cambria and
Swiss, and lace trimmed Edges.
Dress Garnitures-the latest i'm
ported novelties in jetted and spangl-
ed Nets, Honiton and Chiffon Trim
mings: novelties that are found in no
other store in this city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-05-01
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.

Depart Arrive
No. % & "a Watervile and
Faribault Accommod. 6:45 am 4:05 pm
No. 21 & %, St. Paul, Min
neapolis and Redwing Pas
senger $40 am S:55pm
Daily except Sunday.
No % connects at Waterville with through
trains for Des Moines; also with free chair car
to Denver, via Kansas City and Topeka No
II connects with through trains having through
sleepers for Chicago, st: Louis and Kansai City.
Information regarding rates, routes, ETC..
cheerfully furnished upon application to
F.F. POWERS. A gent.
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Chicago & Northwestern.

EAST BOUND. Depart ARRIVE
fChicagO Mail and Passenger 6:25 am 700 am
t*Chicago express 4:05 pm 4:35 pm
TRACY d Waseca Accom'dn 3:15 pm 1855 pm
WEST BOUND.
S*Dakota Passenger 1925 pm 100 pm
fMinn. Mail and Passenger 6:35 pm ITO pm
fWaseca & Tracy Accom'dn $50 am 9:35 am
tDaly except Sunday. *Daily.
tSleepers Mankato to Chicago.
SSleepers Chicago to Mankato.
G. E. JOHN SON, Agt
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Bargains in Ribbons and
Handkerchief,
Hosiery and Underwear.

We know that every lady appre-
ciates the good things shown ia these
departments, as our sales are double
that of any former season.
SpeCial-Ladies fast black full fash
Toned Hose at ~ &c pair.
The celebrated ''Musser Iron Clad''
Hose for boys and girls.
We are sole agents for the Ray
nier" Kid Glove. Every pair guaran
teed and fitted.
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STAGE SCHEDULE.

Between Mankato, st. Clair and Minnesot
Lake.
Leave Mankato daily at 700 a. m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at 1915 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 600 a. m. Monday
Arrive at st. Clair at 81 p. m.
Leave ST. Clair daily at 2:45 D. m.
Leave Mankato daily at 6:15 p. m.
Arrive st. Clair Tuesday at IL 90 a. m.