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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
TO STOP GLOVE FIGHTS.
Resolution Passed by Hartford Police
 Comm sSiOnprs

Resolution Passed by Hartford Police
 Comm ssioners.
 The Hartford police commissioners, in secret session, have passed a resolu- tion concerning glove contests in that city. The resolution is sweeping one and orders the arrest of spectators as well as principals where the law re- garding prize fights is violated. The commissioner who introduced the reso- lution said that he had consulted legal authority and he had received an opin- ion that it was all right The resolu- tion was as follows:
 Resolved, That the chief of police be and he is hereby directed to detail a sergeant or other capable policeman to attend any public boxing or sparrng | contest in this city, and in case it ap- pears that the decision of the contest is to depend upon marks made upon the body or blood drr Wn from the body, or any bodily injury or exhaustion of cith- CT parties in action, the said sergeant or other officers shall be instructed to stop the contest forthwith and arrest and hold the parties to such contest and the spectators thereat for violation of the statutes of this state relating to prize fights"
 The statutes provide that every per- son who shall be principal or second in any prize fight in this state shall be inn prisoned in the state prison not more l than five years. Every person who shall be present at any prize fight shall be imprisoned in the state prison not more than two years.
 There was never boxing contest | given where the decision depended 1 upon marks made upon. the body, eX- l cept where the gloves were blackened | for white men or Whitened for black men. One of the commissioners said 1 that this was what the resolution prob 1 ably referred to. Blood upon the body | never influences decision. The only | part of the resolution that is pertinent
 to glove contests is he reference to | bodily injury or exhaustion. The action of the commissioners is
 the result of the conference the com missioners had with the amusement committee of the common council. The
 chairman of the committee told the
 commissioners that they did not have
 the power to stop boxing exhibitions that were licensed, unless the law was
 violated
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
THE MERCHANTS MEETING.

In Reference to the Trading Coupon
 Stamps Matter.
 The gentlemen in charge of the work of arranging for a general meeting of merchants next week to consider the trading coupon stamp matter find that they cannot obtain Warner hall on any night but Monday.
 The committee wish to arrange for an evening that will accommodate all the merchants. It is thought however, that the Monday following Christmas will not prove very busy and therefore, unless MT. B. F. Bristol of S54 Chapel street. secretary for the committee should receive a large number of pos tai cards from merchants naming some other evening, the meeting will be held on Monday evening, December 27, at S:30, at Warner hall.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
A CLERGYMAN TAKES A FALL.

Dr. Thomas K. Noble, walking down countered coating of ice on the side walk. near the Morrison tenement, and sat down. His hat flew off and the doc tor, crawling on his hands and knees to the. fence, with what dignity he could slowly arose.
 A passer cried out: Doctor, if I had taken that tumble, somebody might have remarked about the wicked not standing in slippery places"
 Repartee is one of Dr. Noble's strong points. Clinging to the fence for safe ty. he very soberly replied: My friend your quotation is not accurate. The wicked can stand in slippery places;' can't. t."-Norwalk Hour
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
PHILADELPHIA BANK CLOSED.
Chestnut Street National Shuts It

Chestnut Street National Shuts Its
 Doors-An Exciting Time.
 Philadelphia, Dec. 23.-The Chestnut Street National bank closed it's doors this morning. When the action of the banks officers became known a big crowd gathered outside and clamored for admittance. It was reported yes- terday that the bank was in trouble, but the report could not then be veri- fled.
 The president of the bank is William M. Singerly, owner of the Record. The bank has a paid up capital of S500,000, and it's individual deposits ranged from s2, 300, 900 to S3,OOO,0 with loans run ming up to S3,000,0OO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-To-day's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balances, s237,- 15O, ,53O; gold reserve, $159, ITO, 735; net silver, $14, 257 ,05S; United States notes in the treasury, $45, ,41O; treasury notes of 1890, $3,OO5, TOP: total receipts this day, $9O2, $50; total receipts this month, $44, ,7S1; total receipts this year, S192 743, ,616; total expenditures this day, $6S4, 900; total expenditures this month, S22, ,s660OO; total expenditures this year, s2O3, ,436, 119; dep6sits in na- tional banks. S46,622,277.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
INDIANAPOLIS MONETARY RE-
 PORT,

New York, Dec. 23.-George Foster Peabody is to preside at dinner at the Metropolitan club on the evening of De- cember 30, at which report of the committee on currency reform, appoint ed by the Indianapolis monetary confer ence, will be read. Senator Edmunds will be the guest of honor at the dinner and many of the leading bankers and financiers of the country will be pres ent
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
A BETTER TALKER.

And now, my dear children, what do you suppose Balaam did when he re- turned home?"
 Please, sir, l guess know.
 Well, what was it, Johnnie?-
 He traded off the ass for parrot, sir.'-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
WILLIAM TERRTss' ESTATE.

London, Dec. 23-The estate of Will liam Terriss, the actor who was mur- dered by Richard Archer, alias Prince at the stage door of the AdeIphi thea ter on the evening of December 16. is estimated at between e40,O0O and 95O,. 900.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
Messengers Nottce.

Office of tie Sheriff OF Cumberland County
State of Maine; Cumberland IS. May
THIS is to give notice that on the 18th dav
of May, A. d. 1897, a Warrant in
Insolvency was issued out OF the Court Of inso-
yency for said County OF Cumberland, against
the estate of
LEWIS f. DYER, of Cape Elizabeth,
adiudged to be an Insoly s; Debtor, on petition
filed on the 18th day of May. A. D. 1897
to which date interest on claims is to ne
computed.
That the payment Of any debts to or by said
d nsPor OF AND anv pronerty bT an hm
hidden by law.
debtor, to prove their debts and
choose one or more asslgnees of his estate. will
be held at a Court of Insolvency TO be hoIGen 81
Probate Court room in said Portland. in said i'd
County of Cumberland ON the nth day nf
June, A. D., 1897 at 10 O'clock in the
forenoon.
Deputy Deputy Sheriff as Messenger Of the { Court Of
insolvency fol said County OF Cumberland
may1 1926
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To the Honorable Court of County
Commissioners for the County of
Cumberland:

Respectfully represents Samuel S. Toothaker
and others OF Harpswell in said County, that
upon the petition OF him the said Samuel S.
TOothaker and 80 other citizens of said Harps-
well, the Municipal officers of said town on the
twelfth day of December. A. D. 1896, after due
proceedings were first had. did legally lay out
town way for the use Ca said Samuel S. Tooth
aker and others as proposed, three rods wide.
beginning at or near highway road on Great
Island, (West Side at the'foot of Gray's Hill, SO
called and running across land of Dyer Broth
ers, North II degrees. West7 rods 4 feet to a
stake; thence South 40 degrees. West 5 rods,
ETC., through land of VIM. II Trufant to land
of c. E. Trufant, to land of Frank E. Stevens,
by house of said Stevens and near houses OF
A. 5. Benson and Mrs. L. M. Chesley, over
land OF A. B. Snow to a stake on Highway
Road near Long Reach being one mile long,
more or less; and a written return of the pro-
ceedings, containing the bounds anu admcas-
urements OF said way, and the damages award
ed to the owners of said land, was duly made
and filed by said Municipal Officers of said
town within the time appointed by law.
Your petitioners further represent that at a
legal town meeting of said town legally called
afterwards by warrant containing an article
March last past, said town unreasonably re-
petitioners are aggrieyed thereby.
Whereby they pray this Honorable Court TO
proceed and lay out said town way in the man.
Eer provided by law.
Dated at Harpswell, May 8, A. D. 1897.
SAMUEL S. TOOTHAkER,
and thirty-two others.
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STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, IS.
AT the Court of County Commissioners
begun and holden at Portland, within and for
1le County OF Cumberland, On the first Tues
day ofJanuary Ammo Domini 1897, to wit, at a
regular session thereof on the first Tuesday of
May. Ammo Domini, 1897.
On the foregoing Petition it being SATISFACTORY
~ shown to the Court, that the Petitioners are
responsible, and that an inquiry into the mer-
Its is expedient, it is hereby ORDERED, that
the County Commissioners will meet at the
house of Frank L. Stevens, in said town of
Harpswell, on Wednesday. the sixteenth day of
June A. D. 1897, at one o'clock in the after
noon, and that the Petitioners give notice to
all persons Interested, by causing an attested
copy OF said Petition and this Order Of Court
thereon, to be servedsupon the Town Clerk of
said Town of Harpswel and also by posting up
copies of the same in three public slaces in
SAID town, and publishing the same once a
week for three weeks successfully in the Port
land Daily Press, newspaper printed in Port
tions, and each of the other notices. to be at
least thirty days before the time of said meet
ing; at which time and place, (3fter 1t has been
satisfactorily shown that the above notice has
been duly giVenO the Commissioners will pro
coed to view the route set forth in said Pc
titlcn, and other routes and roads connected
Herewith, and after such view. they will give
a hearing to the parties and their witnesses at
some convenient place in the vicinity, when and
may appear ana show cause if any they have,
why the prayer of said Petition should not be
granted.
ATTEST, B. c. STONE, Clerk.
Copy OF the Petition and Order Of Court
thereon.
ATTEST, B.C. STONE. Clerk.
n1ayl3 d1aW3WUh
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MISCELLANEOUS.
-
INVESTIGATE THIS.
It's at Home-Right Here in Portland
anybody Can Verify 1t.

SSepticism is allowable when you are
asked to endorse a statement published
in Portland of q case of kidney complaint
cured in Buffalo. 1t is not allowable
when the case is local, the citizen we'll
known and her reputation above par
Doan's Kidney Pills invites you to 1nyes-
tigate all published accounts. Turn on
tho cathode rays if you wish-the more
searching the enquiry the more truth will
be unearthed We don't know what the
residents of Portland will think of the
statement that follows, but we do know
that if any one reads it who has any
thing wrong with their kidneys and does
not act as Mrs. Clara J. Sherburne acted
they deserve to suffer, and depend upon
it they will. The longer the delay the
greater the suffering. The lady in ques-
ton lives at 40 Wilnot street, and IS q
professional nurse with a wide expert
enee in Minnesota, as well as amongst
patients of the leading physicians OF
this city. Anything more added to her
not strengthen it. Read it. Il only wish
that those who suffer from kidney all
ments would try Doan's Kidney Pills.
They would like me, be surprised. My
back troubled me for years, physicians
who diagnosed my case stated that 1t
arose from my kidneys. When Grippe
was epidemic I was worn out with con-
SOAASA~NOeSNN ~
myself it left me in a very serious con-
dition. During severe attacks I could
not stoop for the pain in the lumbar
region. l could not straighten up or do
the most trivial act without being in
torture. The kidneys were too active for
the secretion was too copious. 1 knew
wha5 was wrong-how to right it was
the mystery. 1t seemed odd for profess
sional nurse who had great deal of ex-
perience in medicine to read newspapers
accounts of Doan's Kidney Pills and it
may appear more singular that | went
to H. II. Hay q Sons at the junction of
Free and Middle streets for box. / did,
however. Had anybody told me before
that it was possible for one to get relief
as quickly as L did, would have been
10th 20 believe it, You can send anyone
who wishes to know more minute partic-
ulars to me and L will be only too glad to
tell them personally. AS long as l live L
will always be firm friend and advocate
OF Doan's Kidney Pills u
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents,
or mailed by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffa-
10, NIX, sole agents for the U. S.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
The Ballot and the Nursery.

Home duties" are alleged by most of
the Indifferent or opposed to woman
suffrage as preventing women from ta-
king part in public affairs" How if it
can be shown that ''home duties'' cannot
be properly performed until they are
treated as public affairs?''
| The care of the health, the morals, the
education of chNdren-these surely are
shome duties.'' Just as surely do they
come under the head of public affairs, -
because none of them can be maintained
and improved to the utmost without adj
ministrative power.
Health is not a private matter. Until
the public health is preserved by proper
systems of sanitation, by thorough, hon
est, scientific, well-enforced methods of
plumbing, sewerage and the destruction
of waste matter, including garbage; full
and pure water spply; proper ventilationl
and provision Of light and air in all
buildings; pure food; and wise and full
provision for bathing, exercise, etc.-un-
til the public health is thus insured, pri-
waite health cannot be protected by al
the mother love in the world. Mother
love cannot detect microbes, but the milk
inspector can; and, though we may con-
slider the milk question as ''outside the
home" remember it is inside the baby. -
The education of our children is pub
lie question. Who shall teach them, what
they shall be taught, how the teachers
shall be trained and paid, how the build
ing in which SO many youthful years are
spent shall be planned, furnished, deco
rated; these things are in the hands of
the voters of America.
AS to morals, if any question in life is
public question, it is that of morals. If
the moral status of the community is
low, the mother may pour out her life
like water in her effort to keep her child
rem pure, and fail. When the power of
combined motherhood, acting through
the legitimate methods of free govern
ment, sees to it that the community is as
safe and clean as the home the individual
mother may breathe easier about her own
precious ones. No man liveth unto him
self nor dieth unto himself and no wom-
an either. The interests we hold nearest
to our hearts, the most personal, the most
sacred, these of all others, most need tn
administrative action of our combined
intelligence.
We admit the force of free institutions
in the more superficial and mechanical
matters of life, and leave these vitality
important functions of maternal care to
be managed by the feeble and primitive.
methods of unorganized, uneduoated,
ungoverned, private enterprise. 3o';G
The best motherhood requires the ballot
to enforce it's will.-Charlotte Perknsi
Stetson, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE ON FOOD and
DIGESTION,

The real cause of most of our diseases ia
simply an inability to digest food. This
induces thinness, weakness, loss of flesh
and fat, loss of vitality, wasting away.
Loss of flesh and vitality means constant
liability to sickness. Wasting away is con-
sum ption.
If getting thin is what ails you, there is
only one thing to do-get fat. The only wav
to do it is to take something which will
help your stomach and stimulate it to do
its work.
If you are tired out you do not like to
move your legs or arms. If your stomach is
tired it does not like to digest; it cannot do
It's work.
To eat, or even to eat with relish, does not
necessarily mean that one is being
nouI1shed. Strength, vitality and flesh are
the true indications.
Getting thin is a sign that you need the
SHAKER digestive Cordial. You would not be
ge t thln II you could digest your food.
The shaker Digestive Cordial not only con-
talns art1hclally digested food, but it will di-
gest other foods in the stomach.
single 10 cent bottle will show whether
or not II IS going to meet the conditions of
your case, and if so, its continued use may
be depended on to effect a cure. All drug
g1sts keep it in stock.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
Condensed Testimony.

Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manufac.
turer's Agent. Columbus, Ohio, oertifles
equal rs Cough remedy. J. D. Brown,
Prop, st. James Hotel, Eft. Wayne, Ind,
testifies that he was cured of a Cough
of two years standing, caused by La
Grippe. by DR.. Kings New Discovery. B.
E.. Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass, says
that he has used and recommended it and
never knew it to fail and would rather
have it than any doctor, because it always
cures.
Mrs. Hemming. 1922 E. 25th St, Chi
cago, always keeps it at hand and has
no fear of Group, because it instantly re-
lieves. Free Trials Bottles at II. p. S.
Goold's Drug Store, 577 Congress st, I'M
der Congress Square Hotel.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25

north side OF the house owned end occu-
MED by Mr.. c. A. Getchell.
Miss Alice Douglass, of Gorhan snent
last week with her aunt, Mrs. r. r.
Maddox.
Quite number of the young people at
tended the dance at Benny Eagle last
Friday evening.
Mr.. Wilbur Partridge had narrow
escape last Wednesday evening, while
assisting to fell tree, which in some way
swung round and knocked him senseless.
No bones were broken and he was able
to be out next day.
PERU.
Peru, May 24-The new school room
under the Town hall at the center of the
town, is finished The seats and forms
nave just been put in place. They are of
the latest design and finish. The walls
and ceiling overhead are sheathed with
Georgia Pine and form q nice finish,
elegant and attractive. The room is very
pleasant, commanding sunshine at all
hours of the day Its first term of school
Is being taught by Miss Ada Gerrish, a
natlVe OF Peru and a graduate of Farm
lngton Normal School. She has had con-
siderable experience as a teacher here in
town with good success
MANY OF the farmers about here are
plantlng sweet corn for the factory at
D1lx1ield, owned by Burnham Il Morrill,.
Inc planting began the ed, and will con-
tlnue several days. 1t is usually done
with horse power by some one in the
pelghborhood having a planter. Henry
II. hn1ghi5 serves the farmers here.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
BRICK RESIDENCE
FOR SALE,

NO. 1O7 Pine street. Nicely located or
sunny side of the street, ana a good sized
lot i'll connection with'fruit trees in fine
bearing condition House has thirteen rooms
and bath room; all the modern conyen-
fences; nice cellar; wash room, and new
combination hot water heater put in within
q year. Also several cottages at Great
diamond Island, which are well known to
be among the best there This includes NV
summer residence, with spacious grounds
ahd all the house furnishings ready for oc-
cupancy. Also some of the choicest build
ing lots OF one-quarter acre each, on the
island, including shore property. Apply
soon as the owner is about to remove from
the city and the offering uts some very de-
COOLING, 100 Middle street. 17-tf
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND SIS.
Municinal Co,1rt.

Municipal Court,
Tuesday, March %, 1897.
E1ORTLAND Publishing Company a corpora
Il ton existing by law and having an estab-
liShed place of business at Portland, in said
County, Plaintiff, vs., Nerve Seed Company,
corporation existing by law and having an es-
labhshed place of business at Chicago. in the
County of Cook and State of Illinois Defendant,
and Edward L. FosS aud Lyman G. Fowler,
trustees.
Action Of asSumpsit on account annexed to
recover the sum of Twenty-fOur Dollars and
Fifty-four cents tS2454) alleged to be due
from the Defendant to the Plaintiff according
to the declaration in the writ. The writ is
1897. and made Freturnable the twenty-third
day OF March, A. D., 1897, at said Municipal
Court.
AID. Damnum Fifty Dollars $4,000.
UPON THE FOREGOING, It appearing to
the Court that the said Nerve Seed Company is
not an inhabitant of this State and has no len
ant agent or attorney in this State. and that
its goods or eSta te has been attached il is
ORDERED by the Court that the PLAIN
TIFF cause the said Nerve Seed Company to
be notified OF the tendency of this suit by pub
fishing once week for three weeks successive
ly in the PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. a news
paper printed in Portland, in the County OF
Cumberland, an abstract OF the Writ and Dec
laraticn, and this Order OF Court thereon the
last publication TO be thirty days at least be-
fore the term of said Court to be holden at
Portland aforesaid Oh the sixth day of july
4. D., 1887, that it may then and there in said
Court, appear and show cause, if any it have
why judgment should not be rendered against
il and execution issue accordingly.
ATTEST. L. TURNER, Recorder.
Abstract Of the Writ and Declaration, and
Order OF Court thereon.
ATTEST: L. TURNER, Recorder.
may21 1aw3wF
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Stable For Sale,

a strongly framed, well finished stable,
now standing in the rear of No. % Carleton
street. This stable has only been built a
few years; is arranged for two or three
horses and and with plenty of good carriage
changed over into q neat and comfortable
house at small expense. Will sell at a
great sacrifice il applied for soon; removal
of way into street. For further particulars
Apply to JAMES C. HANLEN, No. 16 Garlic
ton street, or j. H. HAMLEN & SON, 3O5
Commercial street.
Portland, May 18th, 1897. my12d2w
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Ammuaa Meeting.

T1HE annual meeting of the stockholders of
II the Portland. Saco g. Portsmouth Railroad
Company, for the choice of directors for the
ensuing year and Tor the trantaction of such
other business as may legally be presented.
viii be held on the first Monday, the seventh
day Of June, 1897, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, III the Company's hall in Kttery Me.
By order cs the Directors.
f. R. BARRETT,
Clerk of the Company.
Portland, May 20. 1897. my21dtd
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fslHIS is an unusual opportunity; wanted one
l.; a or more parties with $4,000 to become
lnoentlfied with the original incorporators:
ground floor: company capitalized $500. coo
divided into $4,000 shares, full paid and non
assessable, 1000 shares in the treasury for i'm
mediate working capital will pay three per
cent cent dividend quarterly. For prospectus con
gaming Sntormation, address, sos EQUITABLE
bU tLDING Boston, 24-1
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RuckIen's Arnica Salye.

Cuts. Bruises. Sores, Ulcers sait
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or
no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refun ded,
Price 20 cents per box. For sale by H. P.
S. Goold, ST. Congress ST., under Con-
gress Square Hotel
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25

WANTED-Anyone who is thinking of
w moving to Deering to call at our office
and see pictures of our new houses in all
parts of the new city. Our, houses are up
to date, prices low and terms to suit your
income. DALTON q CO., AIS 1-2 Congress
St. S2-1
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25

FOR RENT-House of rooms, all by itself,
Il near Butler School, rent only S14; also
house OF rooms near Maine General Hospital
yard, near Spring and State Sts., sis. Real Es-
tate office, First National Bank building
FREDERICK s. VAIL. 24l
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-25

FOR RENT-On Congress ST., above Neal, 2
very desirable rents of rooms and bath
each, having steam heat and other modern
improvements, rent moderate; also several
other modern rents in this vicinity for particu-
lars OF which apply to Real Estate office. First
VAIL. GAL