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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
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While le.aing tie minority several
years ago sreiker heei made one q ms
famous eeores, that went straight to
the All erican heart. 1t WAS just tie
Kind of lum inous common sense that
tie ext erienced citizen and especially the
PRACTICAL business men, wanted to &c
reackei in Congress and to tie read all
over the country. That day marked
Mr. Reed s mere than firm hold upon the
resIeot and admiration of the people
VINO make American character aud
American progress. Never was their con-
tidenoe in him stronger than it is today.
TLe7 recognize in him tie ore represen-
tatiye in CONGRESS who understands witt,
the thoroughness of a man of affairs and
the bresdth Of craftsmanship the real
business needs and conditions OF the
oluntry. His work in the last session
show ed how thoroughly they can rely up
on him fer guiding the course OF leglsla-
tion 10 safe channels.
1t is to SLeaker Reed, therefore, that
the business nen and the conservative
citizens and tie real Interests of tie
country look in TIE action that may be
taken on the resolutions to play with
war and arrest the business revival 1t
the Senate passes the resolutions offered
By SeDa.or Cameron and rep0rtel by
the foreign relations committee, Ii ill
lie tie duty Of the House 10 hold them
up until the present CONGRESS is at al
end. TIE whole question should he left
10 the new administration. That will
undou htedly Re done, and in tire mean
while it is simply dist lrhing the bust
ness of the country to tie playing " 18th FIRE.
We feel sure that SIeiher Reel will
not eisappnint the ext ectations of the
country. he is patriot and a man who
knows the sense Of the reople and the
welfare Of the nation, and he ill do
what is best.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
captain william IT. swasey.

San Francisco, Cal, December &c.
Capt. William +. Swssey, one of the old
est of the California pioneers, died sud
denly yesterday of heart disease IN this
city. He leaves widow and four chill
dren.
Capt. Swasey was one of the most 70
milinr figures among the old pioneers
Born In Bath, Me-, in 1923, he started
in lS45 with man named Ide to lead 0
company OF gold seekers across the
plainH to California. During.the tumul
tuous days following the ceding of Cali
fornia by Mexico to che United States,
Capt. Swasey served On Gen. Fremont
staff in the capacity of assistant commits
sary. Tho captain was the last survivor
of Gen. Freemont's staff.
AT tbs breaking out of the civil wal
he enlisted in California regiment and
served until the surrender of Lee at Ap
pomattox While in the army he attained
the rank Of captain. A few years agt
Capt. Swasey wrote book entitled
EARLY Days IN California, in whiol
he recorded much that was afterwards
used by historians in writing the history
of ths state.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
DOWN FROM A BALLOON.
a are chutist Tells of His Daring Adven-
lures.
(From the Cincinnati Commercial T'ri-
bune.

| (From the Cincinnati Commercial Iri-
| Edward Boaltz Of Buffalo Is a famous
parachuist. He is twenty eight years
old, small Of stature, weighs about 100
pounds, and appears to he bunch of
muscles and nerevs. He talks very mod
estly of his aerial adventures, nos at all
hoastingly or with vanity. His danger
Gus work brings him an income of S2c0
| to $500 week, and 1T is estimated that
he has earned between $780, 600 and S75, COO
by his flights into cloudlana.
"The sensation of going up in bal
looD," he snys, sis rather peculiar, and
different from what most peopls imagine
1t to be, for instead Of experiencing the
sensation Of being dragged through
space, you feel that You are stationary
and that the earth itself ia falling away
from you. The earth appears to be float
ing, the atmosphere becomes lighter and
more exhilarating, the trees and other
objects rapidly become specks; but about
that time haven't much time to make
close observations of what the inhabi-
tants look like at long range.
"My sole thoughts then are about my
balloon, parachute, and how to get bsok
upon the earth without getting injured
or killed.
"For the first 200 or 1900 feet up i'm
agine the aGcent must be at velocity
equal to mile or two q minute.
"My first parachute jump was in Ken
lucky, in 1886, within few weeks after
| Baldwin tried it successfully.
zone of the livliest adventures l ever
had WAS at Carolina Beach. about fifteen
miles from Wilmington, N. C., a few
years ago. There WAS good breeze
blowing up above, and after I was up
about mile my balloon drifted out over
| the ocean. ! fell into the ocean with my
parachute about a mile from shore, near
the fishing banks. Fortunately, l am a
good swimmer, and as the sea was calm,
| I managed tn swim ashore.
| "Some men came to my rescue in q
boat, and l sent them after my balloon
and parachute, which were drifting ont
to sen.
ooh, I don't know that 1t requires
much nerve to drop with parachute,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
Suit Over Colorado Mines Heard il
Connecticut.

Connecticut.
New Haven. Conn, December 26-ln
she United States court today before
Judge Townsend, the case of the Empire
Milling and Mining Company of Maine
against the Tomb Stone Mill and Mining
Company of Hartford, was heard on de-
murrer and motion for more specific
statement of the cause of the action.
The suit is for $3.50, eco damages. The
companies Own adjoining mines In
Colorado. 1t is alleged that thu defen-
dant company. which is owned largely by
the stockholders Of the Travellers In
surance Company of Hartford, agreed to
develop the plaintiffs mine for $40, 600
a year and that instead Of performing its
part of the contract it is alleged the de-
PENDANT corporation took out $3.50. 900
worth of ore from the plaintiffs mine
and disposed Of it. Judge Townsend
granted the motion for more specific
statement.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

The extension of the civil service rdles
to the pension examining surgeons would
seem to be of doubtful utility. The ex-
animation of applicants for these posit-
ions unless 1t lie made by a board Of ex-
perts, can throw little light on their
qualifications. and an examination even
by experts to amount to any thing must
he very elaborate and searching. There
are other simpler and more satisfactory
means of determining the applicants
competency. If he is graduate Of a
medical school in good standing and has
reputation is good In his community, IL
is pretty safe to infer that he will make
a compe emit examiner. An opinion
founded on these facts Will be worth
more than one founded on an examina-
ton. The new rule may serve to keep in
most of the present pension examiners,
and if it was designed for that purpose
it viii doubtless accomplish it, but If
she expectation was that vacancies would
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
statement.

There is more Caterrh IN this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
uounced it local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, ana by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment pronounced it incurabe. Sci
ence has proven caJarrh to be constitutional
disease, and, therefore, requires constitutional
treatment. Hall's Ca.arrh Cure. manufactured
by F. J, Cheney & Co., Toleuo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market 1t is taken
internally in doses from drops to a teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
Il. j. CHENEY Sc CO., Toledo, o.
ER-Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

The chairman of the Pennsylvania
State Democracy says that the gold boil
tiers will not be allowed to come back
until they have brought forth works
meet for repentance. There were about
40, 600 Democrats of that stripe in Penn
sylvania in the last election, and II they
are to he kept cot Of the party the De-
mocracy of Pennsylvania, which has new
er been n very impressive body, will not
be of much more account than the pro-
hibltionists.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

1t is said that not single Democratic
member Of the New York legislature
win vote for Hill when the Senatorial
eleotion comes up. Mr. Hill is app rent
IL destined to find that sitting on the
fence all through the Presidential cam
1aign was not profitable occupation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

Dick Croker is mani ts ing disposition
t lace himself at the heal OF Tam
saany once more. That means that Tam
many Is not SO dead as the public could
wish. Mr.. Croker is not man whu
would undertake to galvanize a corpse
into life.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

If the next Senate passss tariff bill
soma Of the Democrats OF silver Senators
will have to vote for it, III all probabili-
ty the straight Republicans will not
have majority even with the vote OF
the Vice President.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

John wanamaker, who is running for
Senator from Pennsylvania, finds it nee
essary to deny that the fact that he Is
an importer would in the slightest de-
gree weaken his allegiance to the doc
thine of protection.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

Err T. L.. Dingley, editor of the Lew is
ton Journal, tells the Bangor CONNER
cial that in his opinion, the thing TO re
most thankful for at this Christmas sea
son is the "decline of damfoolishness as
recorded November 5th." 1t moderates
our joy good deal, however, TO know
that there is a lot Of 'damfoolishness'
loft
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

When Comptroller Eckles told the di-
reotors of the oefunct Illinois state bank
that they had heen negligent, he put the
cnse in mild way. 1t looks as though
such negligence as they were guilty of
was SO grave in its character as to he
criminal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

If Bran, the defendant in the Herbert
Fuller case, has impressed the jury as
favorahly as he has the reporters, his
chances for getting clear are good.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

g The effort to warm over the West End
railway strike will fail. Strikes are like
eggs, they won't hatch If they are
reunited to get cold after they have
bsen placed in tho incubator.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

Bryan's managers demand $4,000 q
night. And people who have heard him
lecture says that is an awfully Zig price
or the goods By and By, after he has
gone out of fashion. lie will probably be
put on the bargain counter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

The campaign against Platt might as
well have been deferred until after he
was elected. 1t would have done just as
much good then as it will now.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
NOTICE OF LEGISLATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the United In
IN durated Fibre Company of New Jersey
will apply to the next Legislature for authority
to transmit compressed air or electrical power
by proper underground, eo y. or overhead
appliances, from its point OF generation at its
scot river, in the county of Cumberland, through
Gorham, Westbrook and Deering, TO and Into
the City OF Portland, with the right to generate,
territory aforesaid, for manufacturing and other
lawful purposes.
UNITED INDURATED FIBRE co.
of New jersey.
By Jesse Peterson. President dec25d2w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28

he filed with better men under the new
process than under the old it is doomed
TO disappointm ent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, DECEMBER %.

Liliuokalani is going to England. Now
lookout for reports that she is after Eng
lish aid to restore her to the throne.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-28
FOR EITHER SEX

j. H Hammond. Cor. Free and Centre street
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Dissolution Of Co-paYtnsrship.

The partnership heretofore existing
under he name and syle OF p. L. Fernald 6
Co is this day dissolved BY muta ,l consent
and the business continued at the old stand
by j. D. RIA DALI.
Portland, Dec. 10, 1895. dec21d1w
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
Villages Built in Trees.

People who live in trees or employ
them as places of refuge are apt to be
particularly miserable specimens of
the human family, for their choice OF
a home invariably implies that they
are not strong enough to meet their
enemies on the level. The tree village
recently discovered by Sir William
MacGregor in Guinea is the most re-
markable that has been reported ina
long while. Some ways inland he
found a wretched, half-staryed rem
nant of the Veiburi tribe. In one of
their settlements all the villagers live
in a single enormous tree, on whose
wide-spreading branches four houses,
with two stories each, had been con-
structed. Wide platforms a g built in
front Of the houses on which, are piles
of stones, kept to hurl a. intrusive
persons. This wretchdd people are in
process Of determination by a power
full and warlike neighbor. The most
numerous tree villages that have been
found are along the Qua branch of the
Mangala River, north of the Congo.
The explorer who discovered them last
year says the natives are the poorest
and most wretched people he has seen
in Africa.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
A Ships Cargo Fl0ated Ashore.

The big three-masted schooner, laden
with South Carolina pine planks, to
be used in the construction of the new
steel walk, arrived off Atlantic City
Tuesday, and is lying at anchor a few
hundred yards from the shore. The
experiment of floating her cargo to
shore was made and proved a complete
success, as q large PORTION of the
heavy 3lanks were piled upon the
beachoo,y evening. The method used
in unloading the cargo is a novel one.
The tackle used is an endless ROY lor
cable, which runs through a block "a
the schooner, and two blocks on shore,
which are about a quarter of a mile
apart. A piece of rope about eighteen
inches long is attached to each plank
with a staple, and then this short rope
is securely tied to the endless cable,
when the planks are thrown over
board. Two two-horse teams are at
tached to the cable on shore, and keep
it in motion continuously. As the
planks reached the beach two men cut
them loose from the cable, and they
are carried up out of reach of the tide.
All day long large crowds watched the
progress made by the e method
Baltimore American. ID
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
the chapel and separated from it by

the chapel and separated from it by
an oak partition is the library and sit
ting room of the people in charge of
the car. A library like that of the
average Sunday-school teacher is fitted
in the walls and arranged on revolving
book shelves. There is an abundance
OF magazines and illustrated weekly
newspapers. In towns where the car
stays for a fortnight or more thfse
books and periodicals form a ~circulat
ing library. They are lent to families
away out on the desolate plains aud in
mining camps and among the noun
tains of the West, and all the chapel
car missionaries say their influence
for good is most incalculable. The
missionaries have found hundreds of
families living in sod hotses and mere
huts in the Territories who came from
homes of refinement and means in The
Eastern States, and had seen none of
the periodical literature for years.
Beyond the library and sitting room
i~sSTs7slittle kitchen, furnished with a
range, cupboard and cooking utensils.
Still further are a lavatory and water
cooler. Beds may be let down from
the sides of the library like the upper
berths in a N sleeping Car. The
cellar for the provisions of the mis-
sionaries is beneath the car. On the
roof of the. ear is a great gong, that is
rung as a call to service, and while
there is worship going on in the coach
the Stars and Stripes are raised from
the platform as a signal to engineers
Of passing locomotives to make as lit
tie noise as possible.
When the chapel car is brought to q
town it is run upon a side track near
the station, and the sounding gong
and the uncommon appearance of the
car itself soon advertise the fact that
meetings are to be held there. In
nearly every community the interest
in the car and the fact that there will
be religious worship in it are sufficient
in themselves to draw audiences that
not only pack the chapel, but also
stand up all about the outside of the
car. Whenever a struggling village is
visited which has a few people, once
members of churches and having q de-
sire to establish a church there, they
use the car rs q nucleus for the forma-
ton of a new church society. When
the car moves on to another town the
evangelical home missionary organiza-
tions in the East are informed of this
new field for a young pastor, and some
one is sent there to found a new con-
gregation. In this way the original
chapel car, the "Evangel," has been
the means of starting some sixty
church organizations and as many
more Sunday-schools in the last six
years. in the distribution of Chris
tian literature, the four cars have put
$500 Bibles into homes where
there was none, and has given several
times that number to miners, cowboys,
plainsmen, and railroad laborers, who
said they had no Bibles. Besides,
there have been tens of thousands of
tracts, leaflets, and Sunday school les
sons distributed with discrimination
throughout the region west Of the
Mountains.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
The GroOm's Good Looks Saved Him.

Chief of Police Martin, o. Cumber-
land, Nd, received On Tuesday a tele-
gram from the chief at McKeesport,
Penn, asking that Cora Carbaul and
Paul Grafton be arrested and their
marriage prevented. The couple were
found at the Arlington Hotel by the
chief. but not until they had been
made man and wife. The girls father
arrived, and when informed of the
ceremony wanted to kill tho groom,
whom he had never seen. When he
met the couple in tho hotel parlor he
was pleased with his son-in.law's ap.
pearance, and after some talk the trio
left for their home in Pennsylvania
perfectly reconciled. Baltimore
American.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
Glddness Comes

With a better understanding of the
w transient nature of the many phys
zeal ills which vanish before proper eff
f~orts-gentle efforts-pleasant Efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge that SO many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
~ removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, andis
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
n remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. It's therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to note when you pur-
chase, thatyou have the genuine article,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep
utable druggists. .
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, then laxa-
tives or other remedies are not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrupof
Figs stands highest and is most largely
usedand gives most general satisfaction.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
The Bicycles Triumph in Washington,

The anti-bicycle husband and lover
is still carrying on the war against the
craze with overwhelming odds to con.
tend against. Metaphorically speak
ing, he is being butchered to make a
bicycle holiday. Never before was
mar so completely endorsed and
knocked out by woman. His prayers
and entreaties, his threats and denun-
citation of the craze made no more i'm
preston on the wife of his bosom, the
daughter of the house, or. if smitten,
the beloved object, than the wild laugh
of the idiot boy at play. The mania
for machines has not yet invaded the
Cabinet circle; but the Supreme
Court, the Diplomatic Corps, the
clergy, the Army and Navy, and So
ciety have come in and given up their
guns-a little stiff in the legs, but
smiling and buoyant. -Washington
Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
10000 INNOCENT Men Killed.

It is said that Nicholas H., Gear OF
all the Russias, will abolish all forms
Of corporal punishment in his do
mains. Ivan the Terrible, first Gear
of Russia, put to death so, 900 limo.
cent subjects during his reign
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
~ShadOwgraphs Now Taken.

A Paris photographer has brought
the Roentgen ray discoveries strictly
up to date by opening as photographic
atelier," where for fee lightly greater
than for simple photographs ''shadow.
graphs" are taken Of the visitors In.
ssznal eeonomya
The Opelousas courier., 1896-09-12
FOR SALE.

AssesNi.g described property, VIZ:
- HeAnS4M02 In Bellevue containing about
S%sIZ.gx Afpents, IN thoroughly fenced and
S2A win tenant house M ontbuildf1gs,
49, klAne41icn situated on the Courtableaus
Ssanlns four hundred and forty-tWo and
SzSss axpents, about sixty 4Ypents under pieu1
%Alte4onoe and In cultivation, with two good
x< noNses and o~utbNfldSnai. The TeAr OF
1 n S%aCs consists Of cypress swamp.
5000 tracts OF wood lana On the bayou
10y otuated between Coui0n's bridge and
ID Landing.
N1Soe1 for tAo year 1Sx. and Il sold I will
zlas. rat notes to purchasers.