The Portland Daily Press (Portland, Me.)
January 5, 1884

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PORTLAND DAILY 4MMDBHH3SSBBSK.1. Vy»MP3a«BBaBnBMaHM«MaBnMMBmMnM«»™**l*l»ainelBi|BIB™llllllllllllBMIHalllllll,,lllll,IBBIlaillll:a,,lliaaBi^^ ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862—YOL. 21. PORTLAND, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1884. PRICE SPECIAL NOTICES. INSURANCE. W. D. LITTLE ft CO., 31 Exchange Street. ESTABLISHED IN 1843. Reliable Insurance in Grst-class American and Foreign Co’s at Lowest Kates. Losses promptly ad justed and prompt attention given to business. sepl8 TELEPHONE 701. snly Lace Curtains -FOR 10 and 12 1-2 cts. per yard Cleansed and done up like new AT FOSTERS Forest City Dye House 13 Preble SI. opp. Preble House Orders by express will receive prompt attention. Send for circular. dec20sneodtf OWLS, Herons, Peacocks, Deer Heads, Fine Screens, Game Placqnes, &c., are always accepta ble for Holiday Presents WRITE FOR PRICES TO E. S. BOWLEBS, ISO MAIN ST. BANGOR. dec22 sntf Silk Manufacturers. DRESS SILKS VP* b1UU'1 VAVVlivJll 111 IjUailUJ and finish. Serges and Satin Linings for Gentle men’s Clothing. TIOSIEH.Y, SEWIHG SILK, MACHINE TWIST, Embroidery Silk and FLOSSES, “SUPERIOR” Pare Thread Knitting Silk. MILLS. Rockville, Conn., Northampton, Mass., Montreal. Canada. OFFICES. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Francisco. ADAMS CURTIS, Agents., 105 Summer St., Boston. Goods for sale by the trade. octl8 d3m WEATHBR INDICATIONS. Washington, Jan. 3. The indications for New England are fair weather, followed towards night by local snow, variable winds, shifting to northerly, slightly warmer, rising followed by falling barometer. LATEST MARINE NEWS. Schooner I.osi and Two Men Frozen to Death. Pbovidsnce, B. I., Jan. 4.—Two-masted schooner Adrianna, of Bath, Me., Capt. B. E. Nobrega, Elizabethport, N. J. to this city with oo»l, went ashore on the Northwest side of Block Island, at II o’clock last night, in a Northwest gale, aud with heavy sea running. The captain and one seaman were saved. The mate, who was from Maine, and the cook, the names of both unknown, were frozen to death. The vessel is full of water, and will probably be a total loss. MASSACHUSETTS. The Executive Council. Boston, Jan. 4.—At the meeting of the exe cutive council today, Governor Eobinson in the chair, the rules of the council of 1883 were adopted as those of 1884. The Governor an nounced the committees: Pardons—His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, Councillors Wales, McLean, Lilley and ’.Bourne. Finance—His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, Councillors Hall, McGuire, Crane and Bourne. Charitable Institutions—His Honor the Lieuten ant Governor, Councillors Wales, McGuire, Craue and Tar. Prisons—His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, Councillors Hall, McGuire, Craue and Tar. IT,a Military Affairs—His Honor the Lieutenant Gov ernor, Councillors Hall, McLean, Craue and Tar. Warrants—Councillors Hall, McGuire and Bourne. Accounts—Councillors Wales,JMcLean and Lilley. Among warrants passed were those entitling omcers ot me oiaie jjoara oi jxeaun, lunacy and Charity to draw the money dne them in compensation for their services since last April The amount that each may thuB receive is $1,666.66. A warrant was also passed under which $500 is to be paid to each member of the committees that sat daring the legislature re cess of 1883, except to its chairman and its secretary, to each of whom $100 additional is to bo paid. Edward J. Hanlon of NewtoD, was re-ap pointed executive clerk. William 0. Jarvis of Lynn was elected messenger to succeed Alexander P. Burton of Lowell. Under a Bus pension of the rules these nominations were confirmed, the council adjourned until Tues day. Preliminary Report of Insurance Com missioner Tarbox. Insurance Commissioner Taxbox, in a pre liminary report to the Legislature regarding matters in his department, recommends the Imposition of a penalty upon domeBtio compa ~niea for insurance in unauthorized companies. He urges the necessity of appro priate legislation in regard to organizations do ing business under the co-operative assessment plan, that careful consideration should be giv en to the new system /fidelity iosuranoe, in matters of prudent ranf^'t premium and suffi cient reserve for protection of policy liabilities. The cc-operative concerns which he says hold policies in force to excess of $190,000,000 are without the pale of the law and cannot be reached for examination, as they should be, under the present statutes. Mr. Tarbox closes with a vigorous defence of his actions while commissioner, which have been entirely under the insurance laws o’ the State and be refers all controversies thus engendered to the Legis lature, earnestly urging repeal of such laws as are at all hurtful or inexpedient Trouble in the Baptist Church at Leom inster—Fire members Expelled. FrrcHBtJKa, Jan. 4.—The council called by several members of the Baptist Church in Leominster to advise them in their unhappy circumstances caused by the alleged immorali ties of Kev. O. D. Kimball, their recent pastor, report; First, that the evidence of three ol the aggrieved brethren as to their complicity in a gross crime must be accepted as .their testimo ny is strongly against themselves. Second, that said brethren shall confess to the church and ask forgiveness for sinful conduct. Third, that the church call a mutual council to settle all difficulties between the members. Fourth, if the church will not call such council within a reasonable time, such as cannot walk in fol lowship with the church ask letters of dismis sion and recommendation to some other Bap tist Church. At a meeting of the church on Thursday evening five members—M. A. Ledg %jt, Cecil H. Lawrence, A. A. Lyon, Or. A. tJanes and Dr. F. E. Kims—who testified at the council to immoral conduct with liev. O. jl>. Kimball, were expelled by the friends of Mr. Kimball, the vote standing about 60 to 30. GENERAL NEWS. James L. Rollins and A. J. Rogers, conduc tors on the Pennsylvania Railroad, aud Wil liam B. Pettit, Pullman car conductor, were arre; ted iu Philadelphia yaaterday ou charges of embezzliug tickets and money. The Now York broker of Sperry Barnes, New Haven pork packers, said yesterday that the loss of that firm by the absconding of their exchange clerk, E. H. Kobbe, would not ex ceed 85000. Thursday Digbt the storehouse of H. Trick at Oakdale, Tenn., was blown up by kegs of giant powder. Mrs. Mary Carver, in whose house at Lake vilie, Mass., Patrick J. Cartlin was found dead last Monday, while being taken to jail confessed that during a drunken altercation between Cartlin and Charles B. Staples at her house, last Sunday, the latter felled the former with ft siting shot and h© died three hoars later. Mrs. Carver’s husband had no complicity in the act. All of the parties con cerned are in jail. Mr. VV O. Grover of Boston, who had before Riven $2000 to Roanoke College at Salem, Va., recently sent bis check for $3000 to be applied to the endowment of that institution. Roanoke College has received considerable assistance during the paBt six years from Boston aud oth er northern cities. The whole number of deaths in the city of Providence, R. I., iu 1883 was 2328. The Irish societies of Boston last night voted to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by a parade, THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. Published every day (Sundays excepted) bv the PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY, At 97 Exchange St., Portland, Me. Terms: Eight Dollars a Year. To mail subscrib ers, Seven Dollars a Year, if paid in advance. Rates oe Advertising: Ono inch of space, the length of column, constitutes a “square.” $1.60 per square, daily first week: 76 cents per week after; three insertions or less, $1.00, continu ing every other day after first week, 60 cents. Half square, three insertions or less, 76 cents; one week, $1.00; 860 cents per week after. Special Notices, oue-third additional. Under head of “Amusements” and “Auotion Sales,” $2.00 per square per week; three insertions or less, $1.60. THE MAINE STATE PRESS. Published every Thursday Morning, at $2.60 a year: if paid in advance, $2.00 a year. Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State Press (which has a large circulation in every part of the State) for $1.00 per square for first insertion and 60 cants per square for each subsequent inser tion. Address all communications to PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. MAINE. Fire in Kennebtinirport. [Special to the ProSB.j Kennbbunkport, Jan. 4.—Tbe two story dwelling house and barn of James Cameron, between the village and the town house, were burned yesterday from a defective chimney. Loss about 81400; insurance on the house 8800, barn 8200. There was also an insurance of 8500 on furniture, clothing and provisions, most of which were saved. Report Thai Judge Barroive Will Decline Reappointment. (To the Associated Press.) Biddeided, Jan. 4.—It is reported at tho Supreme Court Dy an attorney in attendance that Judge Wm.G. Barrows, whose term ex pires soon, will decline reappointmeut, and an effort will be made to have Hon. Wm. L, Put nam of Portland appointed. Patents to Maine Inventors. Washington, Jan. 4.—The following pa tents have been issued to Maine inventors: Wm. D. Graves, Jr., Presque Isle, oiler for loose pulleys. John W. Lane, Portland, rice hulling and cleaning machine. Nathaniel W. West, Aina, roofing clamp. The United (States Courtou Raugor. At the meeting of the House committee on inrhViarTr fGPAnAnn Danruaimfutlna Tf^A of Maine was directed to report to the House a bill to change the June term at Ban gor, Me., of the District Court from tho fourth to the first Tuesday. Postal Matters. Washington, Jan. 4. The following changes have been made in tho Maine postal service: Fsstmasters Commissioned—Elisha F. Whit aker, Gouldsboro,; Sylvanus C. Prince, Orr’s Island; Henry Fitzpatrick, Bancroft; Jeffer son B. Brackett, Leeds Junction; Orlando Brown, West Monnt Vernon; Orren L. Stev ens, Portage. Star service between Rockland and Saiiivan has been discontinued. BIDDEFORD. The Biddeford Journal says that the convic tion of the mass of Biddeford people i3 that the so-called mystery wa9 nothing more than a low dirty row in which some persons of very doubtful reputation were engaged. The Biddeford Journal will begin the publi cation of a daily issue today. FAIRFIELD. Mr. H. E. Tuck, collector of taxes for the town of Fairfield, has finished his labors for the year 1883, having collected and paid over, making a settlement in fail on the 31st day of December. The total taxes for Slate, county, town and Village corporation amounted to $18,401.02, and was collected without a single abatement or mistake. FORT FAIRFIELD. John Case was arrested on Saturday after noon of last week, in Fredericton, under a warrant, for the robbery and burning of the F. B. railroad station at Fort Fairfield last fall. KITTERY. Mrs. Oscar E. Blaney is living in her moth er’s house, tho scene of the recent murder. Mrs. Simpson, of Eliot, is with her, sha being under the doctor’s care. Mr. Robert Nowell, of York, has charge of the farm. One of the Portsmouth witnesses in the BaVrows murder case, on Thursday received notice from the county attorney of York county that the case will probably not come before the grand jury this week. LEWISTON. Rev. W. T. Chase,formerly of Lewiston,was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Minneapolis, Minn., on Dse. 27th, at a salary of $4,000 per year. Rev. Mr. Chase is a native of Rockland and a graduate of Colby. His first pastorate was Dover, N. H.; his second was Lewiston, where he served as pastor during a term of Beven years. It is announced that a hospital and asylarn on an elaborate plan, will be erected the com ing spring by tho Sisters of Oar Lady of Lourdes at Lewiston. A foundling system will be attached to the hospital, and the insti tution will be open to all nationalities and sexes. The site and a large sum of money have been donated by Rev. P. Hevey, formar cure of St. Peter’s. Kev. H. M. Sawtelle, pastor of the Lebanon and North Berwick Baptist church, tendered his resignation last Sunday, Dec. 39 th, to take effect the last of March. oxford. A public library was established iu this town some eight or ton years since by the magnificence of Freeland Holmes whose name it bears, he having left by his will the sum of six hundred dollars on condition that the town should appropriate a like sum. Tho money has all been expended and the result a free circulating library of 1000 volumes of carefully selected books. The town makes an annual appropriation to pay the expense of conducting the same and repairing the books. PALMYRA. Samuel Hackett, the veteran banter of Pal myra, has trapped one hundred and six musk rats the past fall, besides mink and other fur animals. 6PRINGVALE. The family of Joseph Shaw have been deep ly afflicted; two of their youngest daughters have died of diphtheria the past week, aud at the present writing three more of his children are dangerously sick with the same dread dis ease. UPPER GLOUCESTER. Darius A, Ingraham, of Portland, lectures at Centennial Hall, Upper Gloucester, this evening, on the subject, "From the Tweed to the Tiber." Ou Sunday evening be lectures on Pagan and Christian temples. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Why n 91-000 Christmas Present Was Not Received. Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 4.—At the time of the recent accident on the Eastern railroad at Greenland, a sealskin sack, valued at 81,000, was lost or stolen from the American Express Compauy car, the sack being in transit as a Christmas present. A detective of the express company has been investigating the loss, and the sheriff here ha9 also been at work for the road ou the case. Last evening, between 8 aud 9 o’clock, Irving W. Hall, a brakeman on the Dover branch, as he arrived on the last train from Dover, saw a loose package near the baggage room door of the depot. It was done up in a copy of the Police Gazette, aud upon examination it was fonnd to be the lost seal skin sack, aud had been returned to the ex press company. The theory is that whoever bad it, bearing of the investigation, placed it where it would be fo#bd by some reBpOBsible party. _ NEW YORK. Telegraphic Change. New York, Jan. l.—D. H. Bates, resigned his place as Assistant General Manager of the Westsrn Union TelegraphCompany to takejthe place of General Manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, made vacant by the retirement of Geo. P. Frick. Western Union officers say that Mr. Bates’s retirement was sodden and nnlooked for. Mr. Bates is one of the oldest telegraph men in the conntry, and was nrominently identified with Gen. Thomas T. Eckert and Jay Gould in the Atlantic and Pacific and American Union Companies, as well as the Western Union. FINANCIAL. The Week’s failures. New York, Jan. 4.—R. G. Dun Co., re ports 319 failures in the United States during the week, and 24 in Canada, probably the largest number ever reported in 7 days. The increase id in the west and south and in New York city. A Henry failure. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 4.-JIenner Moore baukers at Morris, Minn., Tailed to-day for 5100,000. _ FIRES. Two Children Burned to Bcntli. Bradford, Pa., Jan. 4.—The dwelling of J. V. Garner, near Duke Centre, was burned to day, and his four children, agod from one to six years, perished in the flames. State Coach Bobbery. Galveston, Jan. 4.—A special dispatch to the News from Lampa says the San Saba mail coach was robbed last evening near Sentertit by three unmasked men. The amount they secured is unknown. THE BATH MURDER. Yesterday’s Proceedings in the Wilkerson Trial—Testimony for the Prosecution Ail In—The Prisoner Upon the Stand. (Special to the Press.) Bath, Jan. 4.—Court came in at 9 a. m. The court room was crowded by an interested audience. (The space devoted to the bar was occupied principally by the ladies, includ ing the wife and daughter of the late Officer Lawrence. A portion of the court room had to be roped off, while backs of settees and rail ings and every place a foothold could be ob tained was occupied. Detective J. R. Wood of Boston was the first witness. The objections made by counsel for defense, last evening—that the reported confession of the prisoner to the witness should not be received—were overruled and excep tion noted. Mr. Wood testified that the pris oner at the barconfessed to him voluntarily. He testified that in the City Marshal's office in Bangor he asked prisoner Ms name. The prisoner replied “Ward.” Witness immedi diately turned to himjand said, “Oh! no; your name is Wilkerson and you are wanted in Bath for breaking jail. Isn’t that so?’’ Wil kerson replied, “Yes, sir; you seem to know more about it than L do.” Witness then said, "But you are now arrested on a more serious charge, that of the murder of Police Officer William Lawrence. The prisoner was then taken to the cars. On his transportation from Bangor to Bath on the Pnllman that night— September lS*h—he made a full confession to Detective Wood that he committed the deed. What brought on the confession was that wit ness said to him, “I know ju6t who you are. You are the fellow lliat threw the can of pow der in the rear of the junk store.” On this the prisoner turned to the detective and said, Oh! no, it was the other fellow did that. Witness then testified how the prisoner ex-, plained the commission of the deed. He— Wilkerson ana Eliot—were prying open the door with an iron jimmy and wedging it with a piece of wood. This wood was clipped oil a piece of plank on their way down from the place where they stopped to the city. They stopped at a cave two or three miles from the city. When disturbed by the officers they j a--:tk ji... i: n,A%v> Eliot went straight np Commercial street. Wilkerson came to the drag store and saw the passage way leading behind it, and in he went. When they started to run the officer called to them to stop or ho would fire at them. They kept right on aud the policeman fired at them. At the moment the policeman fired he, Wilkerson, drew his revolver from his pocket, cocking it as he ran. After going behind the building he, Wilkerson, remained there a few moments and then issued on Broad street. He went up Broad -l Jit!° corner of Front street. When turning ch eighty-five per cent, is of the requisite size and of the necessary nt il,n I House committee on commerce, will call a meeting of this committee early next week, and will endeavor to proceed immediately to the consideration of the inter-State commerce 1 bill. His committeo is supposed to be more harmonious on this question than it was when 1 he was last chairman of it. He, himself, 1 maintains that Congress has entire jurisdic- J lion over the subject of inter-State commerce. He would deprive railroads of the power to t discriminate between places or to charge ruoro lor a shorter than for a longer haul. He has proposed to make the carload a unit. He in- slats that there can be no difficulty in deter mining what inter-State commerce is, as that Is clearly shown by the shippers’ labels. A package shipped within a State to a point be- pond a State, is, he thinks, clearly inter-State commerce, and should come within the juris diction of federal law. TheOreely Relief Board. Dr. Emil Bessels, chief of the scientific i jorps of the Polaris expedition, gave the Gree- i ly Relief Board to-day his opinion respecting the proper course to be taken for the relief of I Lieut. Greely. He favored an expedition in a vessel to Payer Harbor, Cape Sabine, and from that point, in case the water should not be i apen, so as to permit a farther advance North- i ward by the ship, several boats should be i sent up along the West coast of the sound, i These boats should bo accompanied by “remi- 1 acks,” light wopdeu frames, covered with 1 leather, in going up the vessel should make a careful search for the Greely party along the 1 -oast of Greenland. i dir. Bessels described the cairns made at Po- 1 laris Bay* by the Poiaris, but was unable to 1 state the amount of their present contents, not knowing how much the English expedition bad taken from them. He thought Greely would not be able to cross tbe sound to make nse of these supplies in any event. The Po laris people made several attempts to cross from Polaris Bay Harbor to Lady Franklin Bay, but were unsuccessful. SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. New Commercial Agreement Between the Two Countries. London, Jan. 4.—A despatch from Madrid says: “It is announced that a commercial ar rangement will shortly be concluded between Spain and the United States, by which Spain will agree to apply the so-callod third column tariff to imports from America into Cuba and Porto Rico, which is tantamount to the sup nrpnfiinn of finer nnrl rlifFArnnt.ial diitina Qnn^n will agree also to abrogate the special duties on live tish imported into Cnba in foreign bot toms, and to suppress consul and tonnage du ties on vessels leaving the United States for Cuba and Porto Rico. The United Statss will abolish the 10 per cent, ad valorem duties on imports from Cuba and Porto Rico under the Spanish flag. Complete equality of treatment will be established between Cnba and Porto Rico on one hand and the United States on the other. American cnstom house officials will also furnish Spanish consuls with statistics re garding the quantity of sugar and tobacco im port9d from the Antilles. This arrangement will come into force on March 1, and will be a prelude to a complete treaty of commerce and navigation between Spain and the United States. _ Movement for a World's Fair in Han Francisco. San Feancisco, Jan. 4.—A meeting was held at the Grand Hotel last evening to make arrangements for holding a world’s fair here in 1887. It was the most influential meeting ever held on the Pacific coast. General Stoneman presided and read a letter from the Pacific coast delegation in Congress promising their Bnpport. It was resolved to provide a guaran tee fund of 81,000,000, and when this is ob tained to petition Congress and the State Legislature for appropriations. The feeling was strong and unanimous to carry the project through aud no doubts about it are enter tained. The Qallewa Eastman, Ga., Jan. 4.—Jim Crumiudy was hanged today for the murder of James Mitch ell at Chauucey. Baton Rouge, La,, Jan. 4.—Wilmont Rec tor (colored) was hanged ,here to-day for the murder of liuncan Williams. OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE. Dusiness at the Different Seaports Some Suggestive Statistics. Washington, Jan. 4.—From tables prepared at the Treasury Department the changes in the amount of foreign commerce done at oar diff erent seaports can be clearly seen. Some strik ing illustrations are seen by comparing the figures for the years ending Judo 30, 1880 and 1883, as onr commerce these years was nearly the same, amounting in 1880 to §1,503,593,404, and in 1883 to §1,547,020,310. In both years New York was first, Boston second, and New Orleans third, but the two former excelled in their imports, and New Orleans in exports. In 1880 New York did 56.7 per cent, of all our foreign commerce, but in 1883 fell off to 55.4 per cent., while Boston increased at the same time from 8 B to 8.7 per cent., or in other words, from 127 to nearly 13B millions. Al though making an absolute increase, Balti more fell from fourth to sixth place, changing with San Francisco. Charleston, S. C., and Wilmington each gained a point, Galves ton two, while ^Mobile shot down from the twelfth to twenty-fourth position. Of the lake porte, Oswego is thirteenth, Buffalo fifteenth, and Chicago twentieth in the amount of foreign commerce down. The tendency is to concentrate it in a few large ports, capable of floating large vessels, and then dist'ibuting bv railroads. Nine-tenths of our exports go from eleven ports, and eleven-twelfths of our imports are brought in at eight. Thus the Southern ports show v large preponderance of exports, raw materials chiefly, while the Northern custom houses show the volume of imports. New Or leans, Baltimore, Galveston, Savannah, Char leston, Norfolk, Wilmington, Richmond, Mo bile, Pensacola, Brunswick and Yorktown ex ported merchandise valued at more than §259, 000,000. Their imports were less than §29,000, 000. On the other hand, New York, Boston, Oswego, Burlington, Niagara, Ogdensburg, New Haven, Bangor, Providence and Glouces ter show an excess of imports amounting to over §171,000,000. Outside of Boston the commerce of New England in 1883 was about the same as in 1880, amounting last year to §10,471,213, and in 1880 to §10,111,416. Of this more than half is at Portland and nearly one-fourth at New Haven and Eastport. In the three years New Haven, Providence, New London and New Bedford show a large falling off, while Bangor has in creased nearly eightfold. Gloucester, Bath, Salem and Newport made large gains. These changes are shown in the following table: 1880. 18S3. Boston.§127,741,477 §134.968,824 Portland. 5,358,338 5:590,521 New Haven. 2,417,444 1,488,801 Passamaquoddy. 1,081,031 1,319,610 Providence 312,132— 245,117 New London. 241,286 127,989 New Bedford. 158,314 102,505 Gloucester. 108,264 214,101 Bangor. 98,842 679,550 Machias 94,941 71,776 Bath.. 38*745 83,795 Salem. 29,451 189,676 jrorcsmonLii. z,, i ;u» 1C, 11 x Fall River. 18,220 7,026 Belfast. 13,105 11,663 Newburyport. 6,767 10,766 Marblehead. 4,479 9,708 Waldoboro 3,688 45,606 Newport. 1,180 17,613 Of these porta only Bostom, Portland, Ma chias, Eastport and Newport have any appre ciable export trade. That of Newport, New London and Salem i3 fast disappearing. railroaeTmatters. Suit Against the Minneseta Construction Company. Jil. Paul, Jan. 4.—The county anditor yes day commenced proceedings against the construction company to recover back taxes since 1871 upon mortgages executed by Edmund Iiice, president, Rud L. Boardman assistant secretary of the St. Paul and Chicago railroad company, to Russell Sage and N. a.. Oowdry in trust, to secure the payment of $3,000,000 witli interest. The mortgage covets about one million acres of land donated for the ionstruotion of a railroad from St. Paul to Winona, a part of which had not yet been jarned by the railway compay, which had con tracted with the Minnesota railroad construct on company for coasiruction and equipment )f the road. This indebtedness in the form of jertificates is held by many persons. A Report Denied. New York, Jan. 4.—The report circulated his morning that Messrs. Endicott and Cool dge, who recently joined the Oregon Naviga ,ion and Oregon Transcontinental directors, lad succeeded in prevailing upon these compa res to abandon the construction of their line :o c connection with the Union Pacific and Or egon Short line. Officials of the Oregon Nava ;atiou company deny this and state that the work has been discontinued owing to a heavy mow and bad weather but in the spring the oad will be rapidly pushed to completion, rhe Northern Pacific —Mr. Villard Resign* the Presidency of the Road. The annual meeting of the Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad was held today at he offices of the company in'thia city. There vere present Messrs. Frederick Billings, Asli iel H. Barney, John Wr. Ellis, Roswell 0. Rol ton, Robert Norris, Thomas F. Oakes, .T. Jierpmt Morgan, August Belmont, J. L. itackpole, Benj. P. Cheney, John C. Buillitt nd Henry E. Johnston. The meeting caused lo excitement or snspenae on the street. The following letter from Mr. Villard was ead: 'o the Board of Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company: 1 hereby offer my resignation as president of the ompany and as a member of your board. I feel onstrained to take this step for two reasons. One is bat I am suffering from nervous prostration, which enders me no longer capable of properly discharg ig my oflicial dunes, and my physicians advise at testation from all active employment, as a condi ion of the recovery of my health. The other rea bn is that in my opinion, no less than in that of my eisonal business friends, the interests of the com any call for a severance of my connection with it. t is a sad reflection that such should be tho unjust esuit of tho years of severe labor and eonsuminir uxiety which I have spent m my endeavor to serve he company conscientiously and to the best of my bility. But my feeling shall not stand in the way f the welfare of the stockholders. I am consoled y an abiding confidence that the future will vindl ate all that 1 have done. 1 may, as soon as my .ealth permits me, ask the privilege of submitting o you a summary of my administration of the ompauy's affairs. Allow me to express to yon, in onclusion,my inceio thanks|for the cordial support ud appreciative sympathy you have at all time ex snded to me. H. Villakd. The resignation was accepted by the board f directors. The Mail cud Express says that it is said on pod authority that of the 310,000,000 Villard was considered to bo worth, he does not today iossoss ono dollar. His residence at Dobb’s ferry is said to be included among his assets nd it is believed the 3500,000 recently settled ipoa his w’fe is also to be given up. Had he leen less aur.ious to protect his honor and tha redit of the several companies of which he tood at the head it ie averred he would not be n the toils. Henry Villard made an assignment tc-day or the benefit of his creditors to Win. Endi ott, Jr., of Boston, and Horace White of this iity. He transfers to them his property and nansion on Madison Avenue, with iustrnct ons to dispose of it at public or private sale md apply the proceeds first to payment of a nortgage of 3200,000 upon the property; sec mdly, to carry out any existing contracts for iompletion of the edifice, and a provision is ilso made for tho payment of any icebtedness low owing by Mr. Villard to the Oregon R. R. md Navigation Co. The instrument further ecites that the residue after disposing of the ntire indebtedness shall be tamed over te his rife, Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard. Declines to Enter the Alliance. Chicago, 111., Jau. 4—The Chicago, Bur iDgton Quincy ltrilway Company, declines o enter into the new western railroad alliance m the terms accepted by the four other Iowa oads. This is the result of a two days confer ince between all the roads in intorest. A coun er proposition was suggested today that in irder to maintain the rates and prevent war .wo distinct pools be found covering all com jetitive business on the line of the Union Pacific road as far west as Denver, the Union Pacific and its four present allies—the North western, Rock Island, Milwankie St. Paul md Wabash, forming one pooi, and the Bur ington and its branches forming the second iool. To this the Burlington was not prepared ;o answer, and an adjournment was taken to he 17th inst. to receive the Burlington’s ulti a in m BITTER COLD. 3atd to be the Coldest Day in the West for 25 Years—Twenty Cars of Lire Stock Snow ed Under. Chicago, Jan. 5.—To-day has been the coldest of the winter, the thermometer stand ug 14 degrees below zero at lp.m.; at Omaha 17° below; at Dubuque 26® below and at Minneapolis 30° below at noon, the lowest in 25 years. All trains are greatly delayed. Eleven miles southwest of tlie stock jards on he Wabash road stands a train of 20 cars of ive stock. This train was Bnowed under ruesday night since whioh time the animals rave been without food or water. Although several engines were sent down the train could not be reached and the party returned. Several of them were badly frostbitten. It is believed the stock have perished to-day. Laconia, N. H., Jan. 4.—Lake Winne pesaukeo is nearly frozen over and the team crossed yesterday from Lake Village to Welch [stands. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 4.—Steamer Wis consin, which left here for Grand HaveD, Wednesday evening, failed to reach there, and after terrible exposure for forty hours to a ter rific gale and severe cold, made this port again at noon to-day, covered with ico three inches thick. Her captain says he never encountered a like gale on the lakes. The thermometer at 5 o’clock this evening stood 23° below zero. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 4.—The coldness of the weather along the lines today is indicated in the following figures. On the Manitoba lines, all divisions, 35° to 40° below zero; on the Northern Pacific, 42° to 30° below; from St. Paul to Fargo, on tlie Dakota division, 40® below; ou the St. Paul and Duluth, 33° to 25® below, the latter for Duluth; on the Omaha line, eastern division, St. Paul, 30° below, New Richmond 36° below; northern division, 40° to 30° below; 8t. Paul division, 36° to 22® below; at Brainerd, Minn., at noon, 32° below. FOREIGN. The Pope Threatened. Rome, Jan. 4.—The Pope’s secretary today opened a letter from America addressed to “Leo XII” containing Fenian threats against the Pope shonid he continne to support Eng land against the national cause in Ireland. The letter also states that the protection which the Italian government gives the Pope, who is now the only sovereign who is safe from dynamite, will be of no avail against the operations of tho Fenians. The Pope is warned that there are priests whom he is bound to receive, who will obtain access to his presence and who will sustain the canse of the Irish against oppo sition. A New Book by Queen Victoria. London, Jan. 4.—The Athemeum announc es that a new book has been written by Queen Victoria, entitled “More Leaves from a Jour nal of Life in the Highland from 1862 to 1882.” A Bad Outlook for Spain. A despatch fiom a Paris correspondent says it is doubtfnl whether King Alfonso, in event of the dissolution of the Cortes, conld depend for support upon the Spanish army. The cor respondent concludes that the alternative will be soon presented between aDarchy and abso lutism with a probability that independence and freedom will snccumb. Deljoug’i Bounins. St. Petersburg, Jan. 4—The bodies of De Long and companions of the Jeannette passed through Tamsk yesterday. Wreaths were laid down along the path of the procession through the city. The funeral cortege was met by a military band and escorted through the streets and a printed account of the loss of the Jean nette was distributed among the public. A Decision Asked From England. Cairo, Jan. 4.—Egypt has sent a letter to the Government of Great Britain, pointing out that the present state of things cannot ccn tinne and asking that a final decision shall be given on the Soudan question. It England re fuses the assistance asked the Khedive and his ministers have determined to abandon to Tur key, eastern Soudan and reduce the Egyptian tribate to the Porte. Egyptian troops would then be concentrated in Egypt proper, thus giving a force of 16,000 men .to protect the frontier without the aid of the English army. Sir Evelyn Baring thinks that 15,000 men would bo sufficient for that service. THE DOMINION, A Tear’s mortality iu Montreal. Montreal, Jan, 4.—There were 3,766 deaths in thiB city last year, an increase of 140, as compared with 1882. Typhoid fever carried off 106, and diphtheria 155. Losses by the Flood. The river has fallen five inches since mid night. The loss to the trade by the flood will be very heavy. J. Cartwright and W. Farrell, wine importers on St. Paul street, lose 85,000 each. The flooded area was extended a con Sidttrahlfi distftnrft innfr. niirhf tha arntor viaincr through the drains and causing considerable consternation among the residents. The Toronto Calamity. Toronto, Jan. 4.—Hopes are entertained that all of the wounded lying in the hospital will recover. It has been definitely arranged to have a public funeral tomorrow afternoon. The mayor received a telegram from Lord Melgund to-day, stating that the Governor General would subscribe $250 to the fund for the relief of the bereaved families. Public subscriptions are flowing in freely. Poisoned by Bating a meat Pie. Montreal, Jan 4.—After partaking of a meat pie yesterday, sixteen: boarders and three Sisters of Notre Dame de Lourdes convent b&“ came dangerously ill. All but two are now recovering. Physicians attribute their illness to tainted meat. WRECK.AND WOE. Seventeen Vessels ana 209 Lives Lost im the Gloucester Fishing Fleet in 4883— Losses of Other Places. _ The Cape Ann Advertiser publishes the rec ord of losses of vessels and men engaged in the fisheries for the year 1883. The loss of life has been extraordinarily large.The following is the table of losses for the Gloucester fleet alone: Vessels. Tons. Fishery. Value. Ins. Lives. Alaska 03787 Haddock ^EOO-{3,600 12 Alice G. Wonson. 64.18 Bank 4,500 3,500 Challenge. 60.27 Bank 2,500 1,400 C. H. hil dreth.. 58.20 Georges 4,500 3,460 10 George H. Pierson 64.70 Georges 4,600 3,460 12 Hattie Ches ter 73.82 Haddock 7,500 6,840 14 Helen H. Dennis... G8.10 Bank 5,000 4,100 12 I Am Here.. 11,06 Shore 300 James Bliss 62,03 Bank 5,000 3,920 12 John Mc Donough. 77.26 Haddock 10,600 9,000 17 MMaidaS.ka 63.06 Herting 6,000 4,000 Maud F. Leighton. 72.55 Georges 9,COO 7,880 12 Ruth’d B. Hayes.... 74.18 Georges 6,600 6,252 12 Ruth Groves68.82 Georges 4,600 3,500 12 Sultana 09,84 Banks 6.500 6,560 14 Willie II. Joyce....113.00 Herring 10,600 9,000 9 Witchcraft 67.73 Brown’s 3,600 2,6u0 11 Lost over board,etc. 50 17 vessels.l,11.927 S94,300 $70,972 209 LOSSES THE PAST EIGHT YEAHS. I Fear. Vessels. Tens. Value. Ins. Lives 1876 27 iJV75746 ~$~50J)00 $116^222 212 1877 8 722.33 45,000 22,000 39 1878 13 907.67 04,794 40,067 56 1 1879 29 1,893.36 111,056 90,582 249 I860 7 300,44 21,000 15,972 52 1881 8 611,61 31,000 20,493 66 1882 12 97,074 79,700 54,460 116 1883 17 1,119.27 94,000 70,972 209 jUvt'.uU i/UO Avr’ge 15 945.71 74,006 55,721 123 The disasters to fishing vessels hailing from other ports are thns summarized: Total losses, 12 vessels, 645.41 tons, and 17 lives. The following are the losses of Maine fishing 1 vessels: Portland, Me.—Sch. J. W. Sawyer, 115.77 tons, j engaged in haddock fishing, wrecked on Black Ledge, at Bar Harbor, Me.. March 7. Three of the crew. Frederick Smith, Nahum Snow and James Smith, were drowned in trying to reach the ledge. The master. Captain John Orchard, was washel back three times, hut was finally pulled upon the Ledge in an exhausted and half frozen condition. One man, James Balten, had a leg broken. The survivors of the wreck remained on the ledge shelt ered only by a piece of a sail, aDd were barely kept from freezing by a small fire of drift wood until the next afternoon, when four men, in the only dory saved, succeeded in reaching Marshall's Island. On the following day help was obtained from Swan’s Island, and the suiferers taken there and cared for. Schr. William Tell, 13.53 tons, run into at Grand Monan, drove ashore and became a total loss in Jan uary. Schr. Fairy Forest, 39,46 ton9, wrecked in Small Point Harbor in November. Schr. Maggie J. Willard, 44.12 tons, wrecked. Georgetown, Me.—Sch. Mary O. Andrews, 31 tons, with her crew of 7 men, lost on LaHave Bank in the gale of Aug, 29, 30. Pemaquid, Me.—Schr. Niagara, 23.95 tons; no lives lost. Bremen, Me.—One fisherman lost. Damariscotta. Me.—Schr. Young Chief, capsized and gunk off York Beach early in October, 21.79 tons; crew took to dcries and were picked up. RAILWAY MATTERS. Frauklin County Railroads. Col. A. W. Wildes of Skowhegan, Hon. J. F. Anderson of Portland, and ex-Senator Da vid N. Mortland of Rockland, the Maine Rail road Commissioners, arrived in Farmington Wednesday, from Strong, where they had giv en a hearing the previous evening to the friends of the Franklin Megantic railroad, who desired them to grant the necessary certi ficate of corporation, and were in session at Farmington during the day, deliberating upon the matter. They finally granted the certifi cate. The necessary documents have been for warded to the Secretary of State, and a char ter of the Franklin 8c Megantio Railroad Com pany will he issued during the week from his office. Great public interest was manifested, towns on the line were present. An immedi ate survey will probably be made, and a peti tion of approval of location filed at au early day. In the evening in the Municipal Court room, the commissioners gave a hearing in re gard to approving the location of the Franklin Somerset railroad. In this case, as stated before, the commissioners withheld their de cision. Hew York dt dew England. The Boston Journal of Friday, Bays: The indications are qnite strong that the op position to the appointment of a receiver at Hartford the other day, will not, at least, for the present stand in the way of harmonizing the operation of the road. It is understood that in case fntnre developments of the com pany appear to require that the receivership shall exist for a lengthened period, a co-receiv er will be asked for in the interest of the oppo sition. In oar columns yesterday it was sug gested that if Col. French had withdrawn from the meeting at Hartford there would not have been a quorum. His withdrawal, we understand, would have caused some inconve nience, with no change of result, for a director resident in Connecticut, was ready to nut iu an appearance at once if his presence was ab solutely required. Mr. Turner, who succeeds C. C. F. Bent as superintendent of the Eastern division, is the New York agent of the Norwich line, and was formerly superintendent of the Boston New York Air Line, and also of the Portland Rochester, and is a membor of the well known ruilroad family that furnished the Worcester Nashua with a president, and the Boston Lowell with its general freignt agent. The hearing on application for appointment of the receiver of the New York New England railroad in the United States Circuit Court at Providence, is set down for Feb. lih. Manual Training. Advantages of the Workshop in the Schools —Its Utility for Young Artisans—Lessons to be Lcurned from English Schools of Desigu. Mr. Edwin P. Seaver, superintendent of the Boston public schools, has prepared an extend ed argument in favor of the introduction of manual training in the school system. The problem, he says, is this: "How shall right and adequate training be provided tor the great number of you$h who are to find employment in industrial pursuits, if they find it anywhere? An education leading as naturally to the skilled handicrafts as some forms of oar pres ent education lead to mercantile and profes sional pursuits is what thoughtful minds are beginning to regard as a necessity growing out of oar present social conditions. If this be so, work with tools in u workshop will become an element In all education, not only in the edu cation given as charity to the poor, or as disci pline to the truant, but also in the general edu cation given to all. The want of it is every year more and moro felt. It has been said that our present education of the. schools, so far from meeting this want, tends rather to unfit our youth for any form of manual labor by creating a distaste for it, and fostering the notion that employment in a store or in an office is somehow more respecta ble. It is indeed probable that other causes have helped to produce this effect, as mistaken desires in the parental mind, wrong public sentiment working on the minds of the yonng, or even the bare absence of the right means and opportunities for industrial education. The last seems to me to be the most important. However this may be, the fact is familiar enough that mnltitndes of our boys are grow ing an to manhood unfitted for or disinclined to industrial pursuits. The eame unpleasant fact seems to be troublesome in England. There was a good deal of discussion about if last summer in the English newspapers. One of them the Daily Telegrpb, opened its col umns to parents and others who had anything to say on that perpetual subject—the difficulty of providing for the boys. The Boston Ad vertiser’s London correspondent writes of these utterances as follows: The experiences of anxious parents, as revealed in the columns of the Telegraph, form quite melan choly reading. These parents obs and all declare that their sons have been brought up ignorant of any trade on the assumption Wat they were going to get their living by some gmteel occupation. The consequence is that whenever any vacancy arises in a "genteel” calling ttwre are hundreds of appli cants equally competent to fill it, Thus one cor: respondent relates tbsi a situation of clerk at the splendid salary £30 (5160) per annum being vacant, there were over S100 applicants. And the best positions of this kind in the large towns are filled, not by youug Englishmen, but by young Germans, who come over ip swarms every year, who are bet work longer hears for smaller pay. The condition, indeed, is serious enough, for London is already full of idle yuan men, who have nothing to do, and who often go fast “to the bad,” The correspon dents nearly all have a child-like faith in the colon ies. Whst they imagine to he like it is not easy to say; for they seem to think that if shiploads of English youth can ho once landed on colonial soil, some mysterious path to fortune will be opened to them. This superstition keeps a firm hold on ihe English middle classes, although the colonial au thorities inform them from time to time that their son! are net wanted in these young countries. Farmers and skilled mechanics can make their way in Canada and Australia, but the average young Englishman is a drug in the market, unless he can immediately turn his hand to some menial occupa tion Respectable English families do not seem to mind it if their sons are cleaning boots or sweeping doors in Australia, but would regard with horror my proposal that these young gentlemen should mgage in like occupations at home. And yet the sritios very truly tell them that the only solution of the difficulty is that young men of the middle class ss should learn mechanical trades, and be ready to follow manual occupations in England. The Spec tator says that young men of the middle classes will not like an artisan’s life, and that is true enough; bat if they remain in England what else Is ipen to them? Iu this country Horace Greeley’s advice was, ‘Go West, young man;” bat that advice fails to cure the difficulty here, jnst as emigration bo the colonies fails to cure it in England. The pew conrjtffew-'V>ni{, sieged, not clerks and scholars, bat skilled wnriSwyyi. But how shall we biing it abont that many of par boys shall learn handicraft? Where are tW opportuni ties to be found? If you have ever titled it, you know how difficult it is to find a place in a modern workshop or factory where a trade can t>e thoroughly learned. There has been a great change in onr ways of living and doing work. Two generations ago, boys were lees in school and more in the workshop and on the farm than are the boys of to-day. And a very valuable part of their training the farm and ihe workshop gave them. The skill of eye and hand, the ready knack at doing things, the habit of finding a way throngh all practical lifficnlties—in a word, the Yankee ingenuity which we boast of as a trait of onr character as i people—comes from just such training as ;his. Now take this all away, as we do in modern city life, and keep the boy at his cooks 40 weeks a year till he is 16 or 18 years lid, and what else have yon fitted him for bat ;o be a clerk in a store or a student in a col ege? Education through apprenticeship to ;rades has disappeared, and the time has )een filled up with larger amounts of school look instruction, and the consequence is that, ibrough lack of opportunity, the native apti ude of many boys for handicraft is quite gnored. There doubtless is in onr city boys in ample fund of latent mechanical ingenuity, vbieh only awaits proper treatment to bring t out and lead its possessors to the right oc cupations lor nsing it. Bat, supposing the desirableness of manual raining to be admitted on general grounds of lacial utility, how are yon going to join things io dissimilar as shop-work and ordinary school vork? This is not now an easy question to mswer to the full satisfaction of the conserva ive sceptic. There is as yet in this country in lirata fnnrl nf mnlo ra.l nvnavianon tn ippeal to. And, however gare we may feel in iur theoretical conclusions or in oar dedac ions from experience abroad, we cannot hope o convince the multitude of doubters without he actual demonstration by results worked mt amongst ourselves. This is why such ex >eriments as the Industrial Home is making, ire interesting and valuable. This is why the chool committee of Boston has already allow id some experiments on a small scale, and has ately proposed substantially to repeat the Jwight school experiment on a larger scale, md at the public expense. And, finally, this s why the success of such schools as the school >f mechanic arts in Boston, and the manual raining school in St. Louis, is so welcome. L'hesn schools are doiDg something toward meeting a groat want in the community, but ;hey will not meet the whole waDt, because hey are not free schools—there is a very con liderable fee chaiged for tuition. Unless iomething can be done to make this kind of ustrnction free to all, the greater part of the joys who need it will still have to choose be ween staying in school withoat it, or leaving ichool permanently to seek such belter, skelter Detraction as modern shops and factories af ford. My hope is th&k a public free school of mechanical arts may be established in Boston, rhe place for it in our system is side by side with the high school. This can be done as soon as the taxpayers and their representatives it City Hall see the wisdom of it. But, leaving the ground of utility, we may may take higher ground and advocate manual training as essential to the right and fall de velopment of the human mind, and therefore ao less beneficial to those who are not going to become artisans than to those who are. rhat father was wise, whose son, having been admitted with honors to college, was directed to postpone the commencement of his college studies to take a year’s tuition in the school of mechanic arts. The young man will there bring into activity powers of mind which have lain dormant daring the time he has been ab sorbed in Latin, Greek, and pare mathematics. For a while he will be ocoupied with things, not with words; with realities, not with ab stractions: he will not be acting, shaping, cre ating, not passively absoming and contempla ting. Hand and eye will engage in the artist’s work, which Lord Bacon describes as "con forming the outward show of things to the de sires of the mind." Thus bis whole education will he Prouder, fuller. And Holier then if would be were he to pass at ouce from the Lat in school to the college. Let it not be supposed that the manual training proposed as a part of general education consists in learning this trade or that trade, nor yet in learning the fragmentary beginning of a dozen trades: but rather that it consists iD developing manual skill and mastering the fundamental processes applicable In many trades. For example, one who can use well the common wood-working tools—the hammer, saw, plane, anger, chisel ind try-square—is ready to enter several diff erent trades with immediate advantage to liimself, although he may not yet have learned the special details of any one of them. Bat the great educational value ef manual training lies in the method of instruction need, [t is the laboratory method—or in plain En glish, the workshop way—which has proved so effectual iu the last ten or fifteen years In reforming the teaching of chemistry, physics, and the natural sciences generally. This lab oratory or workshop method brings the learner face to face with the facts of nature; bis mind increases knowledge by direct personal ex perience with forms of matter and manifesta tions of force; no mere words intervene; ab stract statements, definitions, and rules are of secondary value, they are not knowledge bat only the empty frames or cases into which knowledge may be pnt when once it is got. Now, I am sanguine enough to believe that the introduction of the manual training ele ment into school-work would promote Btill more this salutary reform—a reform which seeks to abolish mere nominal teaching and replace it by real teaching, that is, a teaching shat trains mental power rather than loads ;ho memory, that fills the mind with the solid merchandise of knowledge and not with ta empty packing cases. The one branch of sur present school instruction most largely to oe improved by joining it with manual tram ug is drawing. Nut many years ago drawing was made obligatory by statute. The reason was that drawing was important as a branch of ndustrial education, and industrial education was much needed by the the people of oitiea hag been introduced and expenses, and in spite of no llttlo. peestye p opposition. Is this experience of monev-'viJi effort justified? Yes, I think so. And the suits satisfactory? No, cot yet. And why? Because industrial education through drawing alone is work only half done. fhe other hair, modelling, carving, anything haying in it tho constructive element, has hitherto boon want ing. Delineation and construction are two parts of one whole; neither has full education al value without the other. Ab work in tho chemical laboratory is needed really to posseas one’s self of the chemical knowledge which is only symbolized in the formulas of the book.so work at modelling and construction is needed to give precision aDd endurance to that knowl edee of forms which drawings merely sym bolize. There is a lesson to be learned on this point from certain schools of design established some years ago in England. The schools are said to have failed because they did »ot teach their pupils to work out in material and fabrio the designs they had made on paper. There were at the same time some sohools of design in France which flourished; and the reason was that they taught their pupils not only to make beautiful designs on paper, but also, and quite as carefully, to work out their deaigns in the finished product. The Freach industrial artist does not think his work done until hs has himBelf become the artisan, and by hia own hand “conformed the ontward show of things to the desire of Ibis mind.” Henoe hit success as an industrial art instructor. In mau; of the polytechnic schools of conti nental Europe workshops were provided to familiarize the students with the actual pro cesses of manufacture after experience had proved that a mere drawing or modelling school was not an adequate meaua of forming skillful manufacturing workmen. Thus the inference from varied experience seems to be that shopwork of suitable kinds may be reo ommended as the needed complement to the industrial instruction now given under the name of drawing alone. As in tha kinder garten construction oosaes first, and it is the necessary basis upon which drawing is taught, and as in higher technical schools technical in struction through drawiDg alone is found to be nugatory, so in the elementary schools, gram* mar and primary, drawing needs to be associa ted with the construction of tangible object* ill order to fully realize the benefits desired. SUBURBAN NOTES. Eerry Village. Thursday evening Ocean View Command ery, No. 233, of the Golden Cross, elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Noble Commander—George F. Henley. Vice Noble Commander—Mrs. Ceorge W. Orue. Worthy Prelate—Silas W. Pierce, rsoDie jveeper oi itecoraa—mra. name u. Richards. Financial Keeper of Records—Albert A. Cole. Treasurer—William T. Studley. Worthy Herald—Edward L. Harmon. Warder of the Inner Gate—Mrs. Mary S. Robinson. Warder of the Outer Gate—Augustas P. Richards. Trustees for One Year—Michael S. Small, 8ilas W. Pierce, Augustus P. Richards. Delegate to the Grand Commandery—Chaa. A. Tilton. The Ferry Village Band tendered ajserenade to Mr. and Mrs. Upton Thursday evening. Karmaath. Hutchins, Stnbbs Co. have contracted to build for James Rothwell Co. of Boston, M*ss a first-class centre-board schooner of about 400 tons burden, to be off in Jane. Capt* Oliver C. Lombard of Georgetown is to com mand her. A. Carbarn. Yesterday morning, about 5 o’clock, it was discovered that the depot of the' Portland and Rochester road at Gorham had been tywkan into daring the night, the safe blown open, and the contents taken. It appeared that a window had been pried open with a crow-bar, which had been stolen from the company’s yard, by which the burglars entered the sta tion. They then proceeded to bore a hole in tbc^afe, which they filled with powder, at tached a Jjmg fuse, and blew the door off. The contents of *be safe, said to have been some $200, were taken. The burjflMtr fell their tools behind them. There is no cine to them but they evidently were posted as to the fact that the first of the month the station agent, Mr. Rolfe, makes his return of receipts to the company. The evening previous a gen tlemen saw two roagh looking fellows about the station. A Deserted City. It is not often that an American town is loomed to decimation, but Virginia City. Nevada, affords one instance, at least. Eight years ago Virginia City and Gold Hill, adjoin ing each other and practically one town, bad 15,000 population. It was the largest com munity between Denver and San Francisco, rhere were merchants doing business with i million capital. There were private bouses that cost $100,000 to build and fur. lish. There were stamp mills and mining itructures that cost $500,000 each. There were three daily newspapers, and a hotel -hat cost $300,000. It was a teeming, busy »nd money-making population, and among the people were a score or more men worth from $300,000 to $30,000,000. Mackey and Fair both lived there. There were three banks, a gas company, a water company, a Bnlnn/llJ tUnntaA nn/1 a aaa! 1m —_L 1. _ _ _ I-— v—y.j wu.y uuug«, Eight years have passed and the town is a wreck.' The 35,000 people have dwindled to 3000. The banks have retired from busi ness. The merchants have closed up and left; the hotel is abandoned; the gas com pany is bankrupt, and scores of costly resi dences have been taken to pieces and moved away or given over to bats. Real estate cannot be given away for taxes. Nothing can be sold that will cost its worth to move away. The rich men have all gone. Those who remain are the miners, their superin tendents. and the salooon men and gam blers. The latter are usually the first to come to a mining town and the last to leave, rhe cause of this decadence, which has swallowed up millions of capital and wrecked the worldly ambition of thousands of per sons, is the failure of the Comstock mines to turn out additional wealth. A Monster Engine. There is a mammoth locomotive in proc ess of construction at the Central Pacific shops at Sacramento. The name is £1 Gob ernador. The total length of the engine and tender is 65 feet and 5 Inches; driving-wheel base 19 feet and 7 inches; five pairs of driv ers 4 feet and 9 inches in diameter, with a four-wheel truck In front; water capacity of tender, 3600 gallons; cylinders 21 inches in diameter, with a 36-inch stroke; total weight of engine, 73 tons; weight of drivers, 64 tons; weight of tender (light), 50,650 pounds; to tal weight of engine and tender (light) 96 tons and 650 pounds. There are two six wheel trucks under the tender, making a total of twenty-six wheels under the engine and tender. The valve gearing, designed by A. J. Stevens, is something entirely new, there being nothing like it in the country. It is said to be the largest engine in the world. It is for use on the Sierra Nevada Moun tains, and it is expected to do more work than two of the engines now used, with less consumption of fuel. The heaviest engine now in use on the Central Pacific Railroad haa hanlprl ninpfppn para, loadprl nn a 11A_ foot grade. Its dimensions are: Weight of tender (light), 63,000 pounds; weight of en gine, 123,000 pounds; water capacity of ten der, 3000 gallons. It has eight drivers of 4 feet 8 inches each; driving-wheel base, 16 feet 9 inches; total wheel base, 63 feet 1} inches. Some of the old railroad men have doubts about the success of such a monster, and entertain the Idea that the weight of the engine will spread the track and crush the metal into the ties. Education in the Hen-Coop. IIoIT fin Auburn Woman Train* II*r Bid die*. [l.eni3ton Journal-l A North Auburn woman has a flock of hens. They are plump, well-fed Brahmas. The woman has taken unlimited pride in them. Last summer she devoted herself to teaching them a thing or two about conven ience in laying. Probably there is no trouble so great in hens as nest-hiding. Hunting eggs may be fun for boys, but not for a fat woman of 180 pounds avoirdupois. It is work, and back-breaking work, too. A nest is not found in a jiffy. Appreciating the importance of this, the lady keeps a box half Ailed with straw, in the kitchen. When a hen wants to lay she (the hen) walks in a dignified manner up the steps and clucks outside the window. The North Auburn woman pnts out the box; the hen lays and clucks again, and the box is taken in. They are all trained. No hen, as a rule, goes back on the contract. The lady fiuds a growing pride in her hens, and thinks that a spirit of rivalry has been awakened among them as to who shall ini tiate the performance that U conducive to eggs.

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u. portrK. The Rock. this week’s issue States officials for pro. tress at Dayton for making which the government lost $20,. that the proper course would have be>. low the woman to escape prosecution by pay ing the money back. In another column it pitches into the Rockland police force for adopting the identical course which it com mends to United States officials, in the case of a woman;who stole $6. The Opinion’s zeal In hitting Republican heads has be trayed it Into a very glaring inconsistency. Judge Emery’s decision in the Bangor in junction case is good law and good sense. Any other would have placed the city at the mercy of the mayor and the park committee, for if, under an order to lay a crosswalk and build a fence, the committee could go ahead and build terraces and the mayor draw his. warrant on the treasury to pay for the latter as well as for the former, there would Beem to be no limit to the power of the committee and the mayor so long as they co-operated with one another. They could build a mon ument in the park or they could erect stat ues In honor of themselves. Judge Emery’s decision does not affect the question wheth er in this particular case the men who did the work are entitled to pay from the city treasury. They can present their claims to the council and if the council does not allow them they can hare a hearing in the courts. Mr. Edwin P. Seaver, the superintendent ef the Boston public schools, has recently I made an address in favor of the introduc tion of industrial training into the public schools of that city, which is so important ..and suggestive that we publish it in full. His plan is to establish a free industrial school side by side with the high school, not for the purpose of teaching any particular trade, but to develop manual skill and to give instruction in the fundamental processes applicable to many trades. Drawing as at present taught in the schools he considers of little practical value, and industrial education through drawing at best as work only half done. The other half, modelling, carving, atmsnfltinn l,«n;n» ln it- __*_i-i_*1 ment, has hitherto been wanting, Mr. Sea ver’s idea is that our schools as at present conducted, turn out boys with no prepara tion for anything except to become clerks in stores. They have no fitting whatever for the Aechanical arts, and the result is that those who do not succeed in getting into counting rooms find that they have learned nothing which will be of any help to them In getting a living. He proposes to broaden the field of opportunity by giving boys a training which shall make their hands of use to them as well as their minds. Mr. Bearer has expressed in an admirable way thoughts which have been running in the minds of a great many people. Probably the next advance step of public school in struction will be in this direction. Tarbox’s Last. We give considerable space this morning to a portion of a report made to the legisla ture of Massachusetts yesterday by Insur ance Commissioner Tarbox, wherein he at »tempts a justification of his action in the case of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company cf this State, and to the reply of the President of the company thereto. Mr. Tarbox in order to find a reasonable pretext for his course goes back several years to gather an array of figures which he presents in a way to make a plausible case. Appar ently he would have It presumed that he is the discoverer of these conditions and that they have never before been brought to light and examined. But the whole matter about which he makes so much fuss was, as Presi dent De Witt points out, thoroughly investi gated at the time by Insurance Commission ers Nye of this State and Rhodes of Massa chusetts. Whatever Governor Butler or Mr. Tarbox may have alleged against Commissioner Julius J. Clarke we do not know that anybody has ever questioned the qualifications andlfldelity of Stephen H. Rhodes. He is now President of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company which, in this same report Mr. Tarbox says has been investigated by him and found to be honest ly and economically managed and in sound condition. It looks as if Mr. Commissioner Tarbox was unfamiliar with the files of his own of fice when at this day he undertakes to cast suspicion upon the Union Mutual Life on account of what appeared in its reports of 1875 and 1876. These facts did not escape official attention at the lime. They were thor oughly investigated with the result of show ing that they were a testimony to the con servative and1' onorable management of the company rath han otherwise. We said Mr, Tarbox h.-,[ made out a plausible case. It is plausible :u the sense that any ex parte argument or statement may be made plausi ble by a skilful lawyer, marshalling points which make for his side and Ignoring or concealing the points which make against the conclusion he de sires to have proved. We have no special knowledge of the affairs of this company but we can readily see how misleading such a statement as Mr. Tarbox has made may be. At the time when as he savs it was on the verge of insolvency, more ca pable men than he is reported that its as sets were much more valuable than the company claimed. What he says about salary expenses may be entirely fallacious. We are assured that, as a matter of fact and of record, the company’s salary account has been decreased instead of increased since 1875. And so we might go on, if It were necessary, indicating reasons why little at tention and less confidence should be given to this remarkable document. But it is not necessary. Possibly Mr. Tarbox may frighten some timid policy-holders and cause them to do what will Injure themselves more than any one else; but we do not believe that persons of cool judgment will be in any way affected. Commissioner Tarbox is in a tight place and he knows it. Therefore he has done an unprecedented thing. No report is due from him at this time; but perhaps be fears that he will never get a chance to make one if he waits until the proper time. Undoubtedly he smarts under^the criticisms he has pro voked and merited and he has seized an op portunity, by anticipating the annual report of the department, to make a defense to the public. It was a stroke of policy strongly suggestive of the methods of the shifty states man who made him Commissioner. All his pretence of seeking investigation by the leg islature may be set down as bravado. The legislature is UDlikely to do anything of the kind. In the first place the Union Mutual Company is now in no sense a concern of the State of Massachusetts. The State has no Jurisdiction over it and will not trouble itsdf in the matter, We do not suppose it e icy. f the ctached putting President i, that the sts he waits alusiou of the s, an examina >esa has probably jy examination of ountry. The public r that report giving to the insinuations ef re fortcoming report ap ow all the facts. If the r. Tarbox are supported and company will suffer. If they he without reasonable ground us, the compauy will in the end nem. When the able insurance and actuaries who are at work have .d, nobody will ask or care for Mr. jx’s opinion in the matter. It will no ier have any weight in the public mind, a is important only because he is placed in position where he has the power to do mischief ignorantly or maliciously. The Red Sunsets. [N. T. Post.l The gorgeous red twilight which has fol lowed the setting of the sun and preceded its rising during the past three months seems in a fair way of reaching an explana tion. As in many other cases, the explana tions first proposed are readily shown to be entirely inadmissable. At least one astron omer attributed the appearance to a cloud of minute meteors which perhaps had come from the tail of some comet. Were this the case the appearance would have shown it self at any time of night and in any part of the sky. Being in fact only an unusually red and bright twilight, it could have been only reflected sunlight. The aurora expla nation can be disposed of in the same way. The aurora would be better seen after the close of twilight and would appear equally in every part of the heavens. But the red glows have aiways disappeared when the sun got so far below the horizon that twi light ceased. On the other hand, a very simple calculation from the observed heights of the red arch of tight shows that the sun light must be reflected from matter forty or fifty miles above the earth, or near the high est limit at which air reflects light. The most natural cause to le assumed at first sight was an extraordinary condensation of vapor at this enormous height, perhaps we might say an unusually high layer of cir rous clouds. But this explanation became improbable as news came from various parts of the world that the same appearances were observed on a still larger stale, not on ly over Europe, but even in India. It then became evident that this attenuated matter, whatever it was, was scattered ova- the up per regions of the atmosphere all around the globe. The question is then raised where such an extraordinary addition to our at mosphere could have come from and what if t>rt To Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, the noted phy sicist of London, is due the credit of point ing out what at present appears to be a tree explanation. Mr. Lockyer attributes the ex planation to Dr. Meldrum, and it will no doubt be found that the idea has been sug gested by various meteorologists, when the theory is once established. The' theory is that this extraordinary matter was thrown up by the volcano of Krakatoa about the end of August last. The eruption which then occurred is described as perhaps the most memorable of which history has given any account. During its progress an island sev eral thousand feet high was entirely sub merged. So great was the mass of matter ejected that darkness covered the earth and sea for many miles around^ The progress of the ejected matte: cSS then be traced from continent-tO'continent, as it was car ried along by the trade-winds. Its existence was made known by the singular aspect of Iks Sun, not only when rising and setting, but in India even near midday, its color be ing changed to a pale green. Towards the end of October it reached this country and gave rise to the splendid sunsets which have been witnessed every clear evening. The greenish aspect of the snn has also been no ticed about the time of setting, but has not been conspicuous at other hours. It would be interesting to know just what form the matter which reflects the light has assumed. That it should be mere ashes seems out of the question, as solid particles could not remain suspended for so long a pe riod in so rare an "atmosphere. Astrono mers will, perhaps, see some similarity be tween this attenuated form of matter what ever it may be, and that which, surrounding the sun, gives rise to the corona. The more daring speculators can hardly fail to point out the great similarity between this erup tion and its course around the globe and the eruptions which are constantly recurring from the surface of the sun of matter which finds its way around the solar globe. Mr. Lockyer suggests, with great force, that the cosmic dust to which Professor Nordenskjold has called attention has really been ejected by volcanoes on the surface of the earth. This theory of the brilliant sunsets might seem open to more serious doubt if the ac tion of an analogous cause were not familiar to us. To a traveller over the continent it is very evident that the smoke which so fre quently fills the air over the entire Atlantic seaboard during ihe autumn months arises from the burning of forests and prairie grass on the Western plains. If he crosses the Rocky Mountains while this annual con flagration is in progress, the distant scenery which is so charming a feature of his jour ney at other seasons will be entirely shut out from view, and he will enjoy the paradoxi cal experience of crossing the mountains without seeing them. If he is on his way East he will find that the smoke which fills the air from the Sierra Nevada to the Rocky Mountains is continuous with that which envelopes the Eastern citieB at the same ep och. But this smoke never rises to a great height, and so produces none of the brilliant effects which now arise from vaporous accu mulations which now exist at a far greater height than the highest at which anything but pure air was ever before known. Ui i.Yictx IBSUg* [Paris Corr. London Globe.] The Marquis Tseng is something more than a diplomat. Like most of his attaches, nearly all men of middle age, he belongs to the civil and literary aristocracy which in China takes precedence of the military one. Educated by his father, who occupied a high official station in big native province of Pou-Nau, the death of the latter some ten years ago left the Marquis the virtual head of a numerous family, for which he has to provide out of the by no means magnificent income of about £20,000, exclusive of his official salary. Whether owing to this or any other reason, he is a man of very sim ple habits. It would, however, be a care less observer indeed who would pass Mar quis Tseng in a crowd, even if he donned our own prosaic dress. The yellowish face, almost bereft of eyebrows, may not be hand some it needs not a Lavater or a Gall to estimate at the true worth the fine expres sion, aud the smile .of semi-incredulity, semi caution that lurks in the dark eyes, rather than o%the lips. The Marquis Tseng is, to use the French term, a finaud, and makes light enough of the axiom that speech has been given to man to hide his thoughts. If his opinion on that point could be ascer tained, it would be found that he does not believe in it at all. He thinks, and rightly, perhaps, that between speech and looks there is so often ailagrant contradiction that by carefully observing both, one may get at the real sentiments of the speaker. He may be said to listen with his eyes and watch with his ears. As if this were not enough, he has hit upon a still cleverer method. He places a kind of buffer between himself 4nd his interlocutor in the shape of an interpreter. The advantages of the lat ter’s services are entirely on the Marquis’s side, for he understands both English and French sufficiently well to dispense with them. It not only gives him time to weigh his counter-query or reply, but leaves him entirely free to study his visitor’s unspoken thoughts. M. Ferry told some one that it made him very fidgetty. M. Ferry may find that he is only at the beginning of his trouble, for there is Jittle doubt that the Marquis has gauged the temper of the French, while bv this time the Prime Minis ter is as ignorant of the real temper of the Chinese as he was many years ago, and all his predecessors have been. The Chinese dignitary with his long moustaches and sweeping tail, in his imperial yellow tunic and violet underskirt, with his collar of the former hue, ornamented by a necklet of lapis-lazuli aud oxstone, may not look a very formidable opponent. He has already taught M. Ferry a lesson which the latter ought to have kuown without him, namely, that written documents remain. That may be merely the alpha of the game now being played. As for the omega, with our pro found ignorance of Chinese letters, one does not know how long it way take to reach it. New Publications. GUENN. The novel of the year is undoubtedly Miss Blanche Willis Howard’s “Guena.” Her first story, “One Summer” had an exceptional success as a bright, pretty, sketchy summer book, which struck the popular faucy, and was thought to indi cate unusual taledt in its author, a young girl who was well known in Portland society. Later came her second novel, “Aunt Serena,” a pleasant story, but disappointing, and not so clever as the first. Within a few weeks the public has been electrified by the publication of “Guenn,” a story of so much power, delicacy and charm that it has won all hearts. To write a romance like this last of Miss Howard’s requires positive genius, and places its author in the very front rank of American novelists. We do not say ‘women novelists/ for either Mr. James or Mr. Howells, who at this moment are, to say the least, read more than any other American writers of fiction, might he proud to have written this book. The plot is a simple one, and the secret of its fas cination lies in the strong yet delicate delineations of character, the exquisite and picturesque des criptions of scenery, the really superb dramatic effects producei without one touch of sensational ism, the distinct originality of style, and the purity of tone throughout the story, making it one of the most delicious books we have ever read. The char acter of ^Guenn/’ a French peasant girl, of the little fishing town of Plouveneo, in Brittany, is a wonderful creation. She and an American artist, Everett Hamor, are the prominent figures in the story, but there are others—notably the curd Thy mert of the Lannions, and the dwarf Nannie quite as perfectly drawn. Although “Guenn” is striking ly original, one is reminded by it of “Christie Johns tone,” the best thing that Charles Reade overwrote. In Miss Howard’s book a prominent feature is the perfect harmony of her work. She never strikes a false chord from beginning to end. Te have read her book is to have experienced all of which she writes. We mingle with the Breton fisher-folk, wo feel the beauty, the intense vitality and the rude sweetness of Guenn, we stand with the curd, Thy mert by the bedside of the dying Sailor, “while the storm howled fiercely, and every listening ear heard the rolling, and rattling brouette de la Mort, driv en by skeletons, circling round the island in the tempest, waiting for the soul of the dying mau.” With all its power, the book is wonderfully pictur esque. Long after we close its leaves,the sights and sounds are with us. and have photographed them selves vividly on the brain. Picture after picture comes back to us, and takes a tenacious hold upon our imaginations. If Miss Howard’s story were less imaginative it would lose half its charm; but she never sacrifices reality, merely idealizing nature, and thus producing a perfectly artistic effect, which is at the same time altogether natural. Books Received. Guenn. A Wave on the Breton Coast. By Blanche Willis Howard. Boston: James R. Oogood Co. A Positive Cure for Every Form of SUin and Blood Disease, from Pimples to Scrofula. THOUSANDS OF LETTERS in our possession re peat this story: I have been a terrible suiterer for years with Blood and Skin Humors; have been obliged to shun public places by reason of my disfig uring humors: have had the best physicians: have spent hundreds of dollars and got no real relieftan til I used the Cuticuba Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier, Internally, and Crr-rrcTTBA and CUTICUBA Soap, the Great Skin Cures and Skin BoawHfierg externally, which have cured me and left my skin and blood as pure as a child’s. ALMOST INCREDIBLE. JnuieM E. Richardson. Custom House, New Orleans, on oath, says,—In 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on my body until I was a mass of corrup tion. Everything known to the medical faculty was tried in vain. I became a mere wreck. At times could not lift my hands to my head, could not turn in bed; was in constant pain, and looked upon life ns a curse. No relief or cure in ten years. In 1880 l heard of the Cuticuba Remedies, used them and was perfectly cured. Sworn to before U. S. Com. J. D. CRAWFORD. STILL MORE SO. Will McDonald, 2542 Dearborn Street, Obi cago, gratefully acknowledges a cure of Eczema, or Salt Rheum, on head, neck, face, arms and legs for seventeen years; not able to move, except on hands and knees, for one year; not able to help himself for eight years; tried hundreds of remedies; doctors pro -Brsc-Dcd his case hopeless, permanently cured by the Cuticuba Remedies. MORE WONDERFUL XET. H- E. Carpenter, HendersoD,' N. F., cured of Psoriasis or Leprosy, of twenty years’ standing, by Cuticub i Remedies. The most wonderful cure on record. A dustpan full of scales fell from him daily. Physicians and his iriends thought he must die. 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Mr. Searles: Dear Sir:—I wish to say for the ben eflt of all^wlio are suffering with Inflammatory Rheu matism, that your medicine is infallible. I suffered for two months the most excruciating torture lost 35 pounds of flesh, and was not out of my house for a month I heard of your remedy, and was almost instantly relieved by it. If there is a specific for dis eases of any kind, yours most certainly is for Inflam matory Rheumatism ip its severest form. Yours most resj>ectfully, Wm. P, Corbit, Pastor George St. M. E. Church, New Haven, Conn.” Such is Athlophokos—a thorough and' efficient cure for the worst eases of Rheu matism and Neuralgia. If you cannot get Athlophoroh of your druggist, we will send it express paid, on reoeipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not bo persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us as directed. ATHLOPHOROS CO., 112 WALL ST., NEW YORK. amnmiHiimiift. uminniimur m janl TliTh&S&wlw u. c. THESE PRICES l WOLF ROBES $5.50, $6.00, $8.00. $10.00, aud large plush lined BUFFALO $1.50 up to $21.00; some extra large and dark plush lined ones. Buffalo aud Coon Coats. Our basement is full of the above goods, and the prices we offer must sell them. COE, Tlie Kafcttoir 197 Middle Street. dec22 eodtl “cover tour steam pipes WITH Heed’s Sectional Covering. Any one can put it on. Fireproof, Liyld nud Caeap. Call and see Samples at 71 TJnloxx street, JARVIS ENGINEERING CO. oot!6 dtf MEETINGS. Annual Meeting Stroudwater Hall Co. A MEETING of the Stockholders of the Stroud water Hall will be held at their hall on Sat irdryf Jan. 6th, 1884, at 7 o’clock p. m. WALTER FICKETT. Clerk. Stroudwater, Dec. 29,1883. dec29dlw* Eagle Sugar HeHnery THE Stockholders of this corporation aro hereby notified that the annual meeting for choice of directors, and for action upon any other business that may come before them, will be held at the Re finery office, Fore street, Portland, on TUESDAY, the eighth day of January, 1884, at 3 o’clock p. m. JOS. P. THOMPSON, Clerk. Portland, Dec. 26,1883. dec27dtd Casco National Bank. THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the Casco National Bank of Portland, for the choice of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may legally come before them, will be held at their banking house on Tuesday, the 8th day of January, 1884, ao 10 o’clock a. m. WM. A. WINSHIP. Clerk. Portland. Dec. 7,1883. aec7dtd National Traders Bank. The shareholders of the National Traders Bank of Portland, are hereby notified that their annual meeting will de held at their banking room, on Tuesday the eighth day of January next, at 11 o’clock a. m. to choose five Directors for the ensu ing year, and to act on any other business that may legally come;before them. EDWARD GOULD, Cashier. Dec. 8,1883. decSdtd Cumberland National Bank. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Cumberland National Bank of Portland, will be held at their banking rooms on Tuesday the eighth day of January, 1884, at ten o’clock a. m., for the choice of Directors and tho transaction of any other business that may legallv come before them. WILLIAM H. SOULE, Cashier. Portland, Dec. 8tb, 1883, decSdtd First National Bank of Portland. Annual meeting. The Annual Meeting of this Bank or the choice of Directors and for the transaction of any other business, will be held at the Ban on Tuesday, January 8th, 1884, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. WILLIAM E. GOULD, Portland, Dec. 7,1883. Cashier. dec8 eodtd CANAL NATIONAL BANK. THE annual meeting of the stockholders of “The CanalJNational Bank of Portland,” for the election of seven directors and for the transaction of any other business that may legally come before them, will be held at their banking house on Tues day the eighth dav of January, 1884, at eleven o’clock, a. m. B. C. SOMERBY, Cashier. Dec. 8,1883. dec8dtd Merchants National Bank. fllHE stockholders of the Merchants National Bank JL of Portland are hereby notified that their an nual meeting for the choiee of directors for the en suing year .and the transaction of such other business as may legally be brought before them, will be held at the Bauk on Taegday, oanuary 8,1884, at 10 o’clock a. m. dec8dlm CHAS. PAYSON, Cashier. Ocean Insurance Company. THE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Ocean Insurance Company, for the choice of Directors and the transaction of such other busi ness as may legally come before them, will be held at the office of the Company on Wednesday, the ninth day of January, 1884, at 3 o’clock p. m. RICHARD 0. CONANT, Sec’v. Portland, Dec. 18,1883. decl8-is-td American Turning Company. ANNUAL meetiko. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the American Turning Company will be held at the office of Emery Furbish, No. 226 Commercial Street, in Portland, on the second Tuesday of Janu ary, (January 8,) 1884, at three (3) o clock p.f.r..A for the election of officers and the transaction such other business as may legally con^o before them. GEORGE E. BIRD; Clerk. dec31_dtd Annual Meeting. THE Annual meeting of the Todd Non-Freezing Hydrant Co., will be held at the office of O. K. Gerri8h, Centennial Block. 93 Exchange St., on Tuesday, January 8th, at 10 o’clock a. m. for the choice of officers for the ensuiDg year, and any other business that may legally come before said meeting. JOHN J. GERRISH, Secretary. Portland. Jan. 1,1884, janldlw* Portland Masonic Relief Ass’ii. The annual meeting of this Corporation will be held at the office of the Corporation, No. 86 Ex change street, on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1884, at 7.30 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and for transacting any other business that may be brought before the Corporation. Per order of the Directors ALBRO E. OHASE, jay2dtd Clerk. PORTLAND riGDENSBUiTTcW NOTICE. THE Annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Portland Ogdensburg Railroad Company will be held at the office of the company, 617 Com mercial street, Portland, Maine, on TUESDAY, the fifteenth day of January, 1884, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, to choose Directors for the ensuing year, and to transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting. CHAS. H. FOYE, Clerk. Portland, Dec. 31, 1883. d2w CITV ADVERTISEMENTS. City of Portland. City Marshal's Office, December 19,1883. j To tenant**, occupants and owners of build ings or lots, regarding Snow and Ice on Sidewalks. ATTENTION is hereby called to the Ordinances of the City, requiring Snow and Ice to be re moved from the footways and sidewalks within the city. I shall instruct the police to note all viola tions of said ordinances, and shall prosecute all per sons willfully neglecting to comply with the same. dec20tf BEN J.F, ANDREW City Marshal. $5.00 REWARD. THE City Ordinance provides that *‘No person without authority of the Municipal Officers, or from the Gas Light Company, shall light or extin guish any Street Lamp, under a penalty not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars for each offence.” This ordinance will be strictly enforqed, and a re ward of five dollars will be paid by the Gas Compa ny for the detection of anv person violating it. BENJ. F. ANDREWS, decl3dlm City Marshal. MILES BAKING POWDER i KAISINGtheWQRUJ. ____" to sicuftcdrrtur/»ovg/f. I). B. RICKER.. Gen. Agent, 130 Commercial St., Portland, Me. decldlawSly THE i Singing C'Irn* Book by 1. €1. Eiiurion, is having great success, is in every way a good book for the teacher and learner, with the best of music, and improved elements. Has received decided praise from tbose who have used it in their fall classes,and they are quite willing to recommend it to all com mencing winter classes. 192 pages. 100 secular and 60 sacred tunes, improved elements, &c., &c. Order it with perfect comidenco, Price 75 cts. Cantatas for Societies. 46tli Psalm. (NOtl,.).llurb. Redemption. (91.). I.eunoil. Joseph’* Bondage, (81.).C'hudwirk. l ouioln. SO t*.).Cade Rebecca. (05 ets.). Hodges. Ruth and Boat. (05 ets.).Andrews. and many others. Also lOO Musses by the best authors, containing some of the sweetest and best of sacred music. Send for lists and descriptions. 11 Of thG Operas, the elder standard op eras in elegant form for $1 each; LAKME(SZ); MIGNON (S3); CABMEN ($2); MEFISTOFKEE ($2); FATIN’ITZA ($2); BE1.LS OF GORNVTLLE ($1.60); AIDA ($2). and the new light operas, 10 LANTHE, PIRATES, and PATIENCE, each $1; and many others. Any book mailed post-free for the retail price. OLIVER MTSON CO., Bostou janS'ThST&wtf REMOVAL. We have this day removed to Store 219 Commercial Street, Chase’s Block. J. F. RANDALL CO. January 1,1384. janldlw macBEEAKgonw- _ EVERYTHING REDUCED. Holiday Goods, Half Price to cir>seera Boutfe. The reigning success of Europe and America, now presented to Crowded Houses at every performance, at the Vaude ville Theatre, London, and the Globe Theatre Bos ton. The Original Eccentric Comedy in Three Acts, entitled CONFUSION, (By Jos. Derrick, Esq., solo right of production secured from the author by Mr. Stetson.) And pre ceding the Comedy, Offenbach’s Charming Opera Boutfe, CHOTJirpJLETJRI, With the eutire strengtli of the Opera Boutfe Co. Tho orchestra under the direction ef Sig. Operti. Seats $1.00, 75 and 60, Gallery 35. Sale of seats commences Friday, Jan. 4. Jan2dlw SOCIAL ASSEMBLY —AT— GOOD TEMPLARS’ HALBT Tuesday Evening, Jan. 8. Good music. Tickets, admitting gentleman ana lady, 60c. March at 8.30. jan6d3t TENTH GRAND ASSEMBLY Cumberland living Association AT AKITIY AND NAVY HALL WedutNilay Evening, Jan. 9th. Admission, Gent.and Ladies 60 cents. Music by Grimmer. March at 8.45. jdn3dlw* HUNGARIAN GYPSEY BAND MATiwniTO at City Hall, Wednesday, Jan. lO Tickets sold at Stockbridge’a Monday, Jan. 7. Tickets reduced to 26 and 36 cts reserred. __an4dlw flRMD COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT TO CHARLES GRIMMER, City Hall, Jun. 17, 1884. Tickets, including reserred seats, 60c. For sal. at Stockbridge’s Musio Store on and after Monday Morning, Jan. 7. ]an4dlw Partiil Rollerjkating Rink. Open every Afternoon and Evening. Mus ic in the evening by Chandler. Sessions from 2 to 4.30 and 7.45 to 10.15. JuYe»--^^» lie assembly every Saturday Afternoon. The elevator will ran from 7.30 to S.30 every evening. None bnt the celebrated Wisslow skate used at this rink. The management reserve the right to refnso admission and skates to all objectionable persons. _ GEO. H. WHITNEY, Manager. declO tt WANTS. Wanted. BY the advertiser, vrho is a first class Accoun tant, a position as bookkeeper. Employment more an object than salary. Good references. Ad dress, COXTADOR, Press Office. jan3d3t* Wanted. SITUATION as double-entry book-keeper by a young man 26 years of age; graduate of P.B.C. One and one-half years experience; beet of refer ences. Address “W.” Saccarappa, Me. Box 248. <-j*n3 _eod3t WAUTHD. At once; 5 first-class stitchers on Sen’s fine calf goods, silk fitting. Apply to FOGG k YINAL, East Rochester, S. H. jan2 _ dtf Wanted. THREE or four honest and reliable men to Mil a staple household article, in Cumberland Coun ty. To the right parties we will pay a good salary— no commission in our business. Apply, 90 MIDDLE ST., Portland, Me. dec31d6t* Boy Wanted. APPLY TO SHAW, HAMMOND CARNEY, dee5_308 Commercial *1._dtf Wanted. TNAN VASSKBS to sell Eagle Wringers on install V/ ments. Good salary or coinxnision paid. Also Agents to sell Wildes, Patent Button. Apply B. B. MARTIS, Manager, &ug30dtf 36 Temple Street, jr TO LET. Rooms to Let. No. 6 Vernon Court. j»n3_ dlw* To Lei. The office in Hiauion Block, No 31 1-2 Exchange Mereet, formerly occupied by D. *^""sendei1 Apply to C. i». 1I.tr TOC KW. jan2dtf TO BE LET. A LARGE and very light rotfm in third story of briok block, corner Moulton and Commercial Streets, snitable for any light manufacturing busi ness. Apply to GEO. S. HUNT CO., dec31_169 Commercial St. eod2w Booms to Let. DESIRABLE rooms, single or in suites,famished or unfurnished at 173 STATE ST, do27 dtf TO LET. Store Nos. 117 &1I9 Diddle St. BELOW the Post Office where all the large Wholesale Jobbing Houses are located. In dry goods, Fancy and other Classes of goods. Fitted up with two Counting rooms, Brick and Iron Safe vator. Counters, Tables, Oas au-^Sater, with light and airy basement all in perfect repair. Heated by a furnace. Inquire of H. E, THOMPSON 184 Brackett St. where the keys may be found. oct2 dtf _ FOB MALE. SAW MILL, TTTITH waterpower, residence, outbuildings and T T about 10 acres of land, for sale. Situated on the Piscataqna River at West Falmouth, Me., near R. R. Station, For particulars inquire of EDWARD MERRILL, .Jan. 3,1884. West Falmouth, Me. dtt For Sale. HOUSE No. 9 India St., corner Fore, also house No 178 Fore St., adjoining said house on In dia with about twelve thousand feet land (12000) also one Pew in Second Parish Church. Apply for terms to WILLIAM WEEKS, on the premises. decSdim* 05 Diamond Island Lots, being all remain ing unsold have been placed witli me by the Asso ciation for sale. Parties contemplating purchasing m this beautiful summer resort will do well to call early and make selection. W. 11. WALDRON 180 Middle St.dec21eod3w* For Sale or To Let, THE 3 story brick liouse No. 10 Gray street, near Park, furnished with all the modern conven iences Also for sale, if desired, the Carpets and Furniture in said house. Inquire of J. F. RANDALL CO., 119 Commercial street. nov27 dtf CMS. H. O BRIONr Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COAL. IJoraestlc Co&ls a Specialty, at Lowest Marke rnoc*. 322 Commercial Street, Brown’s Wharf, Portland,^**. Orders received by Telephone, No. 844. an«7 dtl Ten new stylish light and med ium SLEIGHS upholstered in Plu'-h. Also two 2 seated traverse run ner GROCERY SLEIGHS, X FOK MAI.K BV An?. P. Fuller Co., 432 Fore Street. dad 8 dtt

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THE PRESS, SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 5. T PKEIS. May be obtained ai uie Periodi »1 Depots of N. G Fessenden, Marquis Brunell Co,, Armstrong, Went\> ortli, Hodad ,Eobert oostelio, Gilpatrick, Jewett, Rose, McPn. land, Watt on, Strange, Stim son, Gould, Lanagan. Ltostou Ma'ne Depot, and Chisholm Bros,,on ail trains that run out of the city. Auburn, Willard Small Co. Augusta, J. F. Pi. roe. Bangor, Baneor News Co. Bar Harbor, F. S. Jordan. Bath, J. O. Shaw. Biddeford, F. M. Burnham. A. L. Jellersoc. Brunswick, B. G. Dennison. Cumberland Mills, F. A. Ven®! Damartisootta, E. W. Dunbar. Freeport, W, A. Mitchell. Frveburg, R. C. Harmon. Fairtleld, E. H. Evans. Farmington, D. H. Khowltcm Gardiner, Palmer Co. Gorham. Jas. H. Irish Co. Hallowed, C. L. Spaulding. Lewiston, Chandler Estes. Livermore Falls, G. D. Hughes. Mechanic Falls, A. W. Bridge, E. A. nomas, Norway, S. L. Crockett, A. O. Noyes. old Orchard Geo. E. Fogg, A. L. Jellison. Richmond, G. A. Beale. Rockland, O. S. Andrews, Sabattus, E. H. Johnson. Saccarappa, F. E. Webb. Saco, H. B. Kendriok Co., Springvale. 0. H. Pieros. So. Paris, A. M. Gerry. Thomaston, S. Delano. Flnalhaven, H. M. Roberts. Waldoboro, G. Bliss. Waterville, J. S. Carter. Farmoutb, W. E. Smith. A New Year’s Ghost. The wind races wildly through the town, malting a weird, moaning sound in desolate places near the coast, where great dark rocks cast their uncanny shadows, and around the village gables. The few stars which glimmer between the heavy clouds look pale and shivering, but the village win dows are red with light, and it is evident that an event of no small importance is at hand. Lanterns gleam along the main street, footsteps echo on the ground, for there is only the lightest sprinkling of snow over the rough hubbies. But lanterns and footsteps all wind toward the village store Just now, where every evening the sailor and farmer, and even the squire, the aris tocracy as well as the humbler portion of the town, congregate to discuss the weath er, the crops, the news, and to relate thrill ing stories of adventures at sea. To-night conversation is unusually brisk and interesting. The parson himself is there, and condescends to joke a little with the cozy group at the back of the glowing stove, while waiting for his purchases to be weighed and tied up in separate brown pa per parcels, and, in spite of himself, waits a moment to hear the denouement of a thrill ing ghost story, told with the assurance that it is a solemn fact, by a brown old sailor, who shakes his gold ear rings, as he pro ceeds in his recital, with a great deal of ner vous energy. (*\Tntn iViio in r\rm nn r\ nn T iL! gentlemen,” he announces gravely at the end of nearly every sentence. And though he is not sitting at all, but v leaning his stalwart length over a flour bar rel, no one seems to doubt. The squire looks as gravely interested as the boys. The parson smiles, but it is noticeable that the smile affects only one side of his moirtb, and is as lacking in amusement as is the open mouth of the man who is waiting for the forceps of the dentist in the advertise ment of the toothache medicine which adorns the smoky wall. The teller seems to be as awe-stricken himself as his hearers. The effect of the tale is heightened by the dead silence of the place, the dimness of the lamplight, the weird shadows in the cor ners, ant? meandering wreaths of smoke which curl up toward the dingy rafters overhead, and encircle the head of the old story-teller, giving him the look of an en chanter or a genii of old working over the fire. Outside there is the troubled voice of the sea, the wailing of the wind. The story ended, a long-drawn breath goes around the circle. The parson gives utterance to a ner vous little laugh, then, suddenly becoming Jjis dignity and his duty, speaks against the folly oT superstition,* with wntch'T*' he declares the whole town to be alive. “Wall, ’ta’n’t no wonder, parson, when ghosts is seen walkin’ these here streets on dark nights,” spoke up another old fisher man. “1 see John Norton’s ghost last night as plain as I see yon this blessed min ute. I went daown to my boat haouse there to the landin’ about eight o’clock, an’ a cornin’ back, jest ez I waz against them tew tall pine trees afore you git to my haouse, there he was standin’ ’n’ lookin’ me in the face. The moon shone right onto his features, ’n’ lor’! here wa’n’t no more mistakin’ ’em than mistakin’ my brother’s. I didn’t say nothin’, I was so kinder took back, not believin’ in ghosts afore, ’n’ he turned into the woods road that leads to the old Norton place. He moved spy ernuff, but it wa’t like walkin’. He kinder glided off like a shadder, ’n’ his coat looked sorted thin ’n’ white.” “Wall, uaow, If I ha’n’t dashed,” ex claimed a jolly-looking farmer, rubbing his stubby chin excitedly. “My wife ’n’ her sister declared to Moses that they’d seed the same feller last night walkin’ past the house ’bout twilight, but sence that spiritualist woman has been here in the village, they’ve been a seein’ ’n’ h»arin’ all sorts o’ things, ’n’ I didn’t make no account of their ghosts no inore’n nothin’ at all.” “Who was John Norton?” inquired the parson, who was a new-comer. “A sea cap’in, who got wrecked some ppflrs ntrn anH as nrnmisinor a nnnnir man as we ever raised in the town,” said the squire slowly. “It was his first voyage as captain, and those who were saved say that he stood by the ship until the very last moment. He was found frozen to death on the wreck after the storm was over by a vessel which was bound for Boston. John was known by the captain of thi vesssel, and be brought the body into port with him, and it was sent on here and buried.” “Then there is no doubt but what the man is really dead,” said the parson. “Sail ors have sometimes the faculty of coming to life again, you know; that is,” he added with due seriousness, “there are false re ports of their death. How many sailors have come back to Barmouth safe and sound, who have been reported drowned?” “Never but one sence I’ve been old enough to remember,” said an old man, who had hitherto been silent. “That wuz Luke Higgins, V he’d V done hisself ’n’ the taown both a favor if he bed adied. It’s them kind o’ chaps what dew turn up, not starlin’ good fellers like John. John, he was a dretful loss.” “Oh, there's no possibility of John’s be ing alive," said the squire, nervously. “I saw him buried myself, poor fellow. He was engaged to my daughter Elsie, and she, poor girl, has done nothing Dut mourn for him all these years. 1 objected to the match at first, but before he weDt away on his last voyage I became fully alive to his good qualities. He was a brave, manly fel low.” Enter Mrs. Biagg, the wife of a fisherman, quite out of breath, and lookiug very wild. “What is it, Mary Jane? You look as if you’d seed a ghost, too,” said her husband, who was one of the circle by the fire. “So I have, Lemuel, true ez you are alive. I come right face to face with John Norton cornin’ through the field from our house to the main road. I see him just as plain as I you folks naow, but I didn’t wait to see him long, I kin ted ye, but just scud by him like lighlin’, ’a’ run intew the squire’s, ’n’ told Miss Elsie all about it. I was dretful scart, but I thought she’d orter know about it, so I kep’ up till I got there, ’n’ tneu I went off intew a kinder faiut. Bein’ sorter weak after a fit er phthisic I couldn’t stan’ it.” “Haow did he look?” inquired one man, under bis breath. “Dretful nateral. onlv kinder white ’n’ peaked, ’n’ he kinder halted ’n’ looked straight at me kinder wild ’n’ s’prised. They say ghosts don’t never like to be over took, ’n’ I don’t s’pose be expected to meet nobody in that lonesome field.” “But how could you see his face so dis tinctly on so dark a night?” said the squire, seeming considerably disturbed. “Good grashus. you don’t s’pose I went through that there field without no lan tern? Still, after giving him one good look, i was so flustered that I dropped the lan tern on the spot, ’n’ run screeching alpng as fast as I could. You’ll hev to git that there lantern, Lemuel, fur’t wouldn’t dew to lose it nobaow; we can’t afford tew git a noo one.” “Well, good people,” said the squire, “we mustn’t let ghosts interfere with our New Year’s festivities. It is time that all in vited guests should be at my house; and Sere I am, the host, away from home.” And the squire hurried out ot the store, and along the dusky wood until he came to a brilliantly flighted old mansion on the hill. It had long been his custom to give a house-warming, as he called it, on New Year’s Eve. Nearly all the town were bid den to these festivities, and they were en joyed hugely by young and old, rich and poor. Some of the old families thought the squire somewhat Democratic in his way of giving entertainments, and rather turned up their noses at the small sailor’s and fish erman’s families; but neither the sailors nor the fishermen took it to heart, and every thing went merry as a marriage bell, as a general thing. The squire entered the house, greeted a few guests who had already arrived, and then sought Eisie, his daughter, who was standing by the window at the end of the long hall, looking pale and distressed. “Don’t be troubled by Mary Jane Biagg’s nonsense, dear,” he said, “she is a foolish and is always imagining all sorts of m ius things.” father, I’ve had such strange of late. I don’t believe in such things, of course, but they say several other people have seen the—apparition.” •‘Nonsense! it is all imagination. May be one of the Port Nortons is about here just now. There is a strong family resemblance between them all, you know. The mystery will be explained iu a few days, I am sure.” Elsie cleared her brow, and entering the parlor, greeted the coming guests with her usual quiet cordiality. She was a tall, hand some girl of twenty-seven, with the brow of a madonna, and large, dark eyes, which, even when she smiles, are intensely sad, though filled with a warm, kind glow, which cheered one like a fire on a frosty night. The large, squafe rooms are soon filled. Heartsome fires leap on the wide hearth stones. There is gossip in the corners, play ing of games by the young people; there are quiet flirtatious on the stairs aud in the halls, and after supper there is to be a dance in the great dining-room. “Elsie looks paler ’n soberer’n ever to night, don’t she?” asks one of the gossips in the corner, of her crony. “Yes, she dnz. I was a-hopin’ that she’d quit thinkin’ o’ John Norton, ’n’ give Tom Rollins, that’s worn to a shadder waitin’ fur her some encouragement. They did say just before John went away, that she was ruther turnin’ the cold shoulder on him, ’n’ favorin’ Tom; hut, lor’, there wam’t no truth in i% fur I see she and John part the day he went away, ’n’ though they was both quiet ernnif, there warn’t no coldness be tween ’em I kin tell ye.” “Did ye hear haow John Norton’s ghost bed been seen raound here by four or five different persons?” says another gossip in a mysterious whisper. “Elsie’s heerd on it, and she’s terribly out about it.” “Speakin’ o’ ghosts,” says Captain Eiley, an old sailor who had had more strange ex periences, known more mysterious happen ings, than any other man in the town, and that was saying a good deal; “I saw a dread ful strange apparition out tew sea abaout twenty years ago.” “Do tell us about it,” said several of the young people in a breath, leaving their games aud joining the circle round the fire, for Captain Riley’s stories were famous in the town. “Wall, naow, I s’pose I’ve told the story a hundred times over at one time ’n’ another in this place, but if you are anxious to hear it I can tell it again.” Nearly all the people in the room were anxious to hear ft, and after tilting to and fro in his chair several times, and clearing his throat with a great deal of vigor, he commenced to relate the thrilling tSe of a ghost which!appeared on shipboard during one of his foreign voyages—the ghost of a sailor who had been wronged by the former master of the vessel, and was mysteriously murdered on shore after the ship -reached port. Elsie, her large, dark eves dilating with interest or emotion, joined tlie listening cir cle, thoagh she usually either laughed or frowned at the Captain’s weird recitals. “Let us take the lamps out of the room, the story will seem ever so much more real,’’ says one of the laughing girls, who enjoy nothing so much as the blood-curdling which arises from the contemplation of the super natural. So the lamps are removed and the glory of the scarlet coals and flickering firelight only half illumine the large room with its dark wainscoatings and deep window embrasures. As the tale goes on the fire grows lower and lower. Shadows gather in the corners and creep in among the silent group of listeners. The old man’s voice has a strange, weird quality in it, like that of the sea wfcL^~it whispers to sands where there arc gr./ves, or around rocks where there have been wrecks; like that of the wind when it moans in the chimneys of haunted houses, or in ghostly woods where some murder has been committed in years gone by. Perfect silence reigns: But just as the in vest of the tale is at its height, and the young people are clinging to each other with awe-stricken looks, the Arc flashing in to sudden life shines on a face framed in one of the window-panes, the face of one who has been buried in the old graveyard behind the church nearly eight years. The iymtTO%fer'1TigJfi’»-^Ag-' wirir-toPVjeager, searching glance for a moment, aud then ,he flame and it vanish together into the larkness. Elsie, who has met the glance with her )wn eyes, utters a wild, scared cry, and falls fainting into the arms of her companions. Shrieks sound from different portions of the room. “John Norton, if ever see him in my life. Why, his face was as plain as day light,” is heard in awed whispers from ev sry side. The squire who has been drawn to the room by the screams of the women, on learning the state of affairs, rushes immedi ately to the front door, and there upon the steps, with his hand upon the knob, stands the ghost—John Norton! The squire involuntarily takes a few steps ackward, and stands in speechless amaze ment and fear. “Happy New Year, squire! You don’t seem very glad to see me,” came from the ghost in a hearty, most uughostlike tone. “I am afraid I frightenel the ladies in the parlor. It was so dark that I didn’t think I should be seen.” “Who in the world are you?” inquired the squire, looking somewhat relieved. “Don’t you know John Norton? Have I changed beyord recognition In these eight years?” ■|‘But you—but John Norton is dead,” said the squire, with chilling remembrances of what he had read about materialistic spirits in his mind. The ghost laughed merrily. “If lam dead, I am profoundly ignorant of the fact,” said he, “and I am surely John Norton.” Elsie who had recovered from her fainting fit, at the sound of his voice rushes into the hall, ami is immediately folded into his warm, strong arms. “Ghost or maD, you are my John,” she says. Several ladies became hysterical at this point, aud the squire, in a state of the wild est excitement walked to and fro, rubbing his hand across his forehead in a dazed tn anuer. “What is the matter?” inquired John, fi nally releasing Elsie from his embrace, but still holding her closely by the hand. “I know that I was reported drowned, but how many sailors have come back under the same circumstances.” “But you are buried in this town, I went to Boston myself and identified your body. Have—haven’t you seen your gravestone!” John stared at the squire in blank amaze ment. “No, I can’t say that I have. A man doesn’t often see such a sight. What do you mean?” “Why, a body was picked up from the wreck of your ship, which Captain Graves, who knew you very well, took to be yours. The face was disfigured a good deal, but the body had on a coat with your name sewed into the lining. It had the same mark on the left hand, and the hair, complexion, height and size corresponded exactly with your own. “It must have been poor Thompson. Ev erybody took him to he my brother. He was very much like me certainly. 1 was saved by a miracle, and was taken on board a ship hound for Australia, I—” “But, John, why did you not come home before?” said Elsie, loosening her hand from his grasp and regarding him with re proachful dignity. “Because I heard that Elsie Newell was married to Tom RollinB. I heard it from his brother, whom 1 saw often while in Melbourne. Tom has known that I was living all the time, the scoundrel! He left town as soon as he heard that I was on my way home. I hoped to find him here, for I have an account to settle with him.” “He is, indeed a scoundrel,” says Elsie; “but, John, this is New Year’s eve, and wo are so happy, let us forgive him. Let us forgive everything that was painful in the past, now that we are to commence the New Year together. Surely it cannot fail to he a happy one.” AUlCil lllO dUUU. Wit and Wisdom. The mints coined 100,000 ounces of Bilver into dimes last month. Bangles. All Owners of Cuttle Bhouid know that Giles’ Liniment Iodide Am monia acts with wonderful rapidity and never fails. The hardest bunches are removed, ab scesses healed, lameness disappears, corns and contracted hoofs a specialty. Sprung knees, shoo boils, ringbone; cure guaranteed. Send for pamphlet, box 3182, New York Post Office. Trial bottles 25 cents. Sold by all druggists. W. F. Phillips. The Plymouth Rocks are a hardy feird. Miles Standish was a Plymouth Rock. Burnetts’ Coroaine, The Best and Cheapest Hair Dressing. It kills dandruff, allays irritation, and pro motes a vigorous growth of the Hair. Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are invariably acknowledged the purest and best. The lives of railroad kings greatly encour age small boys. They show how one cau get up in the world by honest industry and saving habits. Ten Years before any of the baking pow ders of the present day wore thought of, the Cougreses Yeast Powder had a large sale throughout New Fn MARRIAGES. In Saccarappa, Jan. 1, by Rev. E. E. Bacon, Fred Stevens of Cumberland Mills and Miss Nellie A. Pearson of Saccarappa. At Old Orchard, Dec. 26, by Rev. Wm. H. H. Me A1 ister, Daniel B. Ferguson and Miss Susie E. Da vis, both of Portland. In Haverhill, Maas., Dec. 29, by Rev. Iieury C. Graves, Fred A. Giddinga of Exeter, N. H., and Miss Sara*E. Cressey of Gorham. DEATHS In this city Jan. 4, James E. Mulvey, aged 46 years. [Funeral Sunday afternoon from bis late resi dence, No. 112 Sheridan street, at 2M? o’clock. In West Falmouth, Jan 3, Annie Prince, aged 84 years. [Funeral this Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock, at her late residence, West Falmouth. In North Windham, Jan. 3, Thomas McDonald, aged G9 years. [Funeral Sunday forenoon at 11 o’cloek, at his late residence, North Windham. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Portland Daily Wholesale Market. PORTLAND,Jan. 4. No new developments were reported in the whole sale market to-day. Grain was steady and ftrading moderate. No receipts of fresh fish. Flour steady. At New York there is a trifle more interest mani fested by dealers in Flour, yet, on the whole, sales are rather light; at the same market Cheese are firmer; receipts small and steady inroads are made in the accumulations. At Boston Cheese are a trifle higher and at Liverpool prices have advanced to 65s. The following are to-day’s* closing quotations of Flour, Grain, Provisions, &c. 4?lour. Grain. Superfine and old H.M.Corn.car lots.76 low grades. .3 50@4 80 new do, car lote.65@68 X Spring and Corn, bag lots....@78 XX Spring.. 6 00@6 00 Oats, car lots.. @45 Patent Spring Oats, bag lots..45 Wheats.7 60@S 00 Meal .72 Michigan Win- CottonSeod.car lots 28 00 ter etraightsS 25@5 76 Cottonseed,bag lotsSO 00 Do roller.... 6 26@6 60 SackedBran car lot, St. Louis Win- 19 50@20 00 ter straight. 6 00@G 251 do bag lots.23 00 Do roller...6 60@6 76 Mids, car lots. Winter Wheat I $24ya@25Va atents.6 76@7 25! do bag lots 26 60 Produce* Provisions. Cranberries, bbl— I Pork— Maine.... 12 00@13 001 Backs. .19 00@19 50 Cape Cod,12 50@14 00) Clear.18 00@18 50 Pea Beans... 2 90@3 15> Mess.1G 00@16 60 Mediums....2 70@2 80 Mess Beef.. 11 60@12 00 German med2 25fa-2 40 j Ex Mess..12 60@13 00 Yellow Eyes3 00@3 25, Plato.13 60@13 75 Onions $>bbl. 2 50@2 65 Ex Plate.14 25@14 60 Irish Potatoes 40@45 Hams. 12@12%o^ SweetPotatoesi 75@5 00 Hams,covered 15 @16c'v Eggs doz..... .30@31c Lard— Turkeys, p lb .20@2!c Tub, lb 9% Chickens... 15@16o Tierces.. 9V2@ 9% Fowl.12@14c Pail. 10@10yj Ducks 17@18 Seed*. Butler. Red Top.3 00@3 26 Creamery.34@36c Timothy.1 05@2 00 Gilt Edge Ver.... 33&34c I Clover.10 @12 Choice.22@23c Raiduft. Good.15@16c I Muscatel.2 00@2 75 Store.12@14c j London Lay’r 2 10@2 65 CheeNe. jOndura.9Vk@10Vo Vermont....10y2@14 {Valencia.. 7@ 8Mj N Y Fact’y..l0yj@14 Orange*. A i VftlAnnia KfWflfi RO Eating pbbl. .8 00@5 00(Florida.4 00@5 00 Evaporated p lb lS@20 Messina.2 60@3 00 Dried Apples....9%@10{Palermo.2 60@2 76 Sliced ...10@10%i JLeuaou.M. Sugar. Messina.6 00@6 60 Granulated 4? lb 83/s Palermo.4 00@4 60 Extra 0.77/a I The following quotations of American stocks at London were received to-day by cable: Atlantic Great Western firsts. 49 Erie seconds.94% New York Central. 1167/s Philadelphia audgReading. 29 Foreign Exports. LIVERPOOL.ENG. Steamship Peruvian—18,700 bush peas 8380 do corn 3398 sacks flour 128 bbl* perk 123 do apples 16 do tongues 41 packages of meat 1000 cases canned goods 18 packages leather 254,09^ lb9 oatmeal 188U do butter 622.513 do ba con 67,900 do cheese 66,860 do lard 2530 pcs deals -CARPENAS. Sohr Mima A Road—5020 shooks and heads 25~flrmffiT1Is!r 1 boat. Railroad Receiptj» Portland, Jan. 4. Received by Maine Genital Railroad, for Portland 26 cars miscellaneous merchandise; for connecting roads, 75 cara miscellaneous merchandise. Wry Goods Wholesale market. The following quotations are wholesale prices of Woolens and Fancy Good?, corrected dally by Leer ing, Milliken Co., 168 Middle street: UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Heavy36in. 7i 8 Fine 7-4.... 13%@18 Med. 36 in. 6%@ 7% Fine 8-4... ...18@21 flight 36 in. 5%@ 6 Fine9-4.„..22@27% ffino KVln. 7 8%Jline 10-4....25 @30 BLSAOHKD ___ Rost 4-4.... 10%@12% Fine 6-4.15 @18 Med. 4-4.... 7%@10% Fine 7-4.18 @22% Light 4-4... 6 7 Fino 8-4.20 @25 Fine 9-4.22%@27% Fix* 10-4 25 @32% TICKINGS, ETC. Tickings, Drills.... 8@ 9 Best.14 @18% Corset Joans.. 8%@ S% Medium.. .10%@13% Satteens.. j Light. 7 @9 Cambrios. 6@ 5% Dentins,best 13%(gl5% Silesias.10%@18 Ducks. 9 @13% Cotton Flannels. Brown Fanoy ll%(fl4 7@14% f Bleached, 8@16% Batting.. 8@9@10 @10% @11% @12% j Warps.,.,.,....17@2d

Hides find Tallow. The following are Portland quotations on Hides and Tallow: Ox and Steer Hides over 90 lbs weight.. 7c p lb Ox and Steer Hides between 80@90 lbs.. 6c ,P lb Steer Hides under 90 lbs. 6 cp lb Cow Hides, all weights. 6 cp lb Bull and Stag Hides, all weights 4c p lb Calfskins.10c p lb Light and Deacon Skins.25 to 40c each Rendered Tallow.• 7%cp lb Stock market. The following quotations of Btooka are received daily by telegraph: BOSTON STOCKS. A. T.& S. F. 80 Boston ;&vMaine.160 Flint Per© Marquette common.. 29 Flint# Pere Marquette preferred.. 99 L. R. Ft Smith... 19% Marquette, Hnghton Ont. common. 24 New Jork New Eng.. 15% Mexican Central 7s... 57% NEW YORK STOCKS. Denver &.R.[G... 25 Missourii Pe*.g89% Omaha common.*..... 33% Wabash preferred..... 30ys Omaha preferred. 94 Northern Paoflc prefer: cd.-«. 555/8 n orthern Pacific common.. 26 Mo. Iv. Texas. 22% Louis Wash. 45% Texas Pacific.. 18% Pacific Mail 42% New York Stock nud Money market* (By Telegraph.) New York, Jan. 4.—Money easy at l%@2y2 on call; closed 2; last loan 1%; prime mercaniie paper at &S6%. Exchange steady at 482% for long and 485 for short. Governments weak. State bonds strong. The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggreat ed 372.300 shares. The following are to-day’e closing quotations on Government Securities: United States bonds, 3s 100 do do do 4y2s, reg.,.,...114y8 do do do 4y28, coup.114% do do do 4s, reg .123% do do do 4s, coup.123% Pacific 6s. ’95. 128 The following are the closing quotations Stocks: Chicago Alton,.. 133% Chicogo Alton pref....145 Chicago, Burr Quincy,.. .121 Erie. 27% Erie pref. 70 Illinois Central.. 132% Lake Shore. 96% Michigan Central. 87 New Jersey Central. 86 Northwestern. ...,117% Northwestern pref.140 New York Central.113% Rock Island.117% St. Paul. 93% St. Paul pref. ...116% Union Pacific Stock. 73 Wes tern Uniou Tel. 75% Adams Ex. Co.. .128 American Ex. Co.". 90 Boston Air Line. 82 Canada Southern. 5 L ys Del. Hudson Canal Co...105 Del. Lackawanna.117% California Minins Stocks. (By Telegraph.) Sa n Francisco, Jan. 4.—The following are the closing official quotations of mining stocks to-day: Alta.,.. 1 Best Belcher. 2% Eureka. 2 Gould Curry. 1% Hale Norcross. 2% Mexican...... 2 Ophir 3y8 Yellow Jacket 2V2 Sierra Nevada.. 3 Union Con. 2% Belcher. 1 Savage.f.1 Gloucester Fish Market. FOR THE WEEK ENDING dan. 3. Georges Codfish—We quote prime Georges $6% p*qtl for l^rge and $3% for medium; pickled cured Bank $3% for large and $2% for medium; dry do $3% and $3% p qtl. Shores at $6 and $4. Nova Scotia dry Codfish at $5y2 and $4; do pickle cured at $5 and $3; Bay Trawl $5. Cusk at $3*4, Had dock at $2, Pollock at $2% and Hake $2*4 P' qtl; slack salted Pollock $334. Boneless aud prepared fish 3y2 to 4c ft for Hake, 4y2 to 6c for Haddock and Cusk, and 6 to 8c Codfish. Smoked Halibut 13c p ft>; Smoked Sal mon at 17c; Scaled Herring at 10c p box;No 1 and tucks 14c. Bloaters 60c hundred. Mackerel—Nothing of consequence on the market; prices nominally at §19 bbl for lsfi$16 for extra 2s, $13@13 76 for 2s, $yy2 tor 3s and $4y2 for 4s; Nova Scotias $16, $12 and §10 for Is, 2s and 3s. Herring—We quote Nova Scotia and Labrador at $5 p bbl; medium do $3Vfe »large gibbed at §3y2; medium and small do §3. Snore round $3%. Trout at $14 p bbl; Pickled Codfish at $5y2 ;1 rad dock at $6, Halibut Heads at $3%,Tongues $10y2; Sounds at §12, Tongues and Sounds at $11, Ale wives at $6; Salmon at $20; Fius $15, new; No 1 Shad $10; Swordfish none. Fresh Halibut—We notice recent sales of Bank at 8c aud Georges 12c p lb. Shore Fjsli—Last sales Codfish and Haddockjat $4 p cwt. Pure Medicine Oil SI 00 gal, crude do at 80c, Blackfisli Oil 66c; Cod do 4G(« 48c; Shore do at 44@ 46o;Porgie do, none on market. Porgie 8crap,$16 ton; Fish do $12;Liver do $9. Ho«ton iTIartcet. Boston Jan. 4.—The following were to-day’s quotations o Butter, Cheese, Eggs, &c: Butter—We quote Western and Northern cream i eries at 33(a,36c lor choice, and 24@B0c for fair to good; New York aud Vermont dairies 24(a*30c P lb for choice, 18@22c for fair and good; Western dairy at 20@21c aud Western ladle packed I6@17c tb; demand moderate; no change. Cheese firm at 12y2@13y2C for choice, ll@12c for fair and good; G@9c lor common. Eggs have Deen selling at 32@33c for Eastern, 30 @310 for New York ana Vermont,28@30c for Nova Scotia and P E Island and 27@29c for Western, Potatoes—Houlton and Aroostook Rose at 48@ 60c bush, Eastern Rose 46@60c, Northern Rose 46@48c, Eastern Prolifics 60@52c. Beans—choice Northern hand picked pea at 2 60 @2 66 .p hush; choice New York small hand-picked do $2 60@2 76; common to good at $1 60@2 26; choice small hand-picked pea, Vermont, at $2 80@ 2 86; choice screened do 2 2o@2 46; hand-picked medium 2 50, and choice screened ao 2 30@2 40'; common beans 2 00@2 20; German medium beaus at 2 20@2 35; do pea 2 30@2 40; choice improved yellow-eyes at 3 15@3 26; old-fashioned yellow-eyes at, 3 15* Apples—We quote No 1 Baldwins at, $3i26@3 60; No 2 do 2 00@2 25; Western $3@3 26 ^bbl: fancy eating at $4 00@$5 50. Hay—Choice prime hay is quoted at $16@$17 ton: medium to good at $142$15; choice Eastern fine at $13@$14; poor at $12@$13, with Eastern swale at $9. Rye straw at $12 60@$13 60 and oat straw $9@i0 ton. Chicago Lire Stock Market. (By Telegraph.} Chicago. Jan. 4.—Hogs—Receipts 12 000 head; shipments 7500 bush; market strong; packing 5 15 @5 6(); packing and shipping at 6 G6@6 30; light at 6 10@5 80; skips at 3 10@5 00. Cattle—Receipts 6500 head; shipments 3100 hd; strong; exports 6 00@6 60; good to choice ship ping 6 50@6 00;common to medium at 4 25@5 40. Sheep—Receipts 3000 head shipments 2100 head; steady; Inferior to fair 2 60@4 00 good 4 50; choice 4 60. _ Domestic Markets. (By Telegraph.) New Yoek, Jan. 4.—Flour market—receipts 23,912 bbls; exports 3290 bbls; heavy and in in stances 5@10 lower; rather moro doing both for ex port and home trade; sales 19,760 bbls. Flour, No 2 at 2 00@2 95;Sup. Western and State at 2 80@3 35; common to good extra Western and State 3 25@3 75; good to choice do at 3 80@6 60; common to choice White Wheat Western extra at 6 26@0 60; fancy do 6 60@6 76; common to good extra Ohio at 3 30@6 26; commo to choice extra St. Louis at 3 40(26 25: Paten Minnesota extra good to prime 5 60@6 60: choio to double extra do 6 80@7 00, including 6400 bbls City Mill extra at 5 25@6 45:1300 bbls No 2 at 2 00@2 95; 9000 bbls Superfine at 2 80(23 36: 1800|bbls low extra 3 25:23 66 3100 bbls Winter Wheat extra at 3 30 @6 76; 3800 bbls Minnesota extra at 3 30@7 00; Southern fiou declining; comm on to fair 3 00(a)4 80; food t choice 6 00(26 75. Wheat—receipts 13, 00 bush; exports 23,525 bush; spot lots V4@a/sc lower; export demand light and speculation only moderately active; sales 174,000 bush on spot; No 2 Chicago 1 06% delivered: No 4 Red at 88%c; No 3 Red at 1 02%@1 02% elov.l 04@1 04%delivered; No 2 Red at 1 10@111 store, 113%@114 delv’d fromelev; No 1 Red State 119; No 1 White State 1 19. Rye firm; sales 8,000 bush No 2 Western at 72c. Barley firm. Cloru—spot lots l@l%c high er, closing strong; speculation fairly active, export trade quiet; receipts 32,066 bush: exports 22,100 bush; sales 167,000 on spot; No 3 at 60%@61%c; No 2 at 66c store, 66%@66%c elev, 67% c afloat. Oats %@%c higher; receipts 17,198 bush; sales 110,000 bush spot; No 3 at 40c; White do at 41c; No 2 at 40%c; do White 41%@42c; No 1 at 41c; White do 44@44%c; Mixed Western at 40@42c; White do at 41@44e; White State 43%c. Sugar dull; refined weak; cut loaf and crushed at 8%c; powdered at 8%@8%c; granulated at 7 81@7%; C6@6ya;Ex CG%@6%; White do 0%@£%c; Yellow 6% @5%, off A 7@78/«c; standard A 7 6-16 @7%c; Confectioners A 7 7-16; Cubes at 8%@%. Molasses steady. Petroleum—united at 114%. Tallow is firmer; sales 13,500 lbs at 76/8@7% c. Pork is rather weak; sales 176 bbls mess spot at 14 62%@15 00. Beef steady. Lard unsettled, opening 5 points higher, afterwards deolined 10@ 11, closing steadier; trade dull; contract grade spot 9 15; sales 180 tes city steam 8 76; refined for con tinent 9 35: S A 9 60&9 65. Butter firm; Western at 9@38c: State at 18@30c; Elgin Creamery 41(2 42c. Cheese very firm. Freights to Liverpool dull;Wheat stm l%@2d. Chicago, Jan. 4.—Flour dull. Wheat lower; Jan uary at 94%@94%c, closing at94%c; No2Chica gw oprmg closing »*y2c; iso o at i i @81c; No 2 Rod Winter 97@98c. Corn is lowergat 66% @67% c, closing 66% c. Oats higher at SSyj @38% c, doling 33%c. Rye dull at 68y3c. Bar ley is steady at 60@62c. Pork is irregular 14 37% fl4 40. Lard is in fair demand at 8 80@8 82%. ulk Meats in fair demand; shoulders at 6 lOjshort ribs at 7 45;short clear at 7 76. Receipts—Flour 19,000 bbls iwheat 81,000 busb, corn 296,000 bush, oats 89,000 bu, rye 10,000 bu, barley 29,000 bush. Shipments—Flour 11,000 bbls, wheat 14.000 bu, corn 44,000 bush, oats 20,000 bush, rye 7600 bu, barley 19.000 bush. St. Loots, Jan. 4.—Flour quiet. Wheat opened higher: closed at inside;No 2 Red Fall at 1 01; No 3 at 94%@94%c, ^.Provisions firm; only a jobbing trade done. Lard nominal. Receipts—Flour 3,000 bble, whea* 14,000 bush, corn. 0,000 bush, oats 000, barley 000 bush. Shipments—Flour 6,000,bbls, wheat 6,000 bush, corn 0,000 bush, oats 000 bush, rye 000 bush. Detroit, Jan. 4.—Wheat steady; No 1 White fall biU> No 2 White fall at 94%c: No 2 Red at 1 02%. Wheat—Receipts 28,100 bu; shipments 6,000 bu. New Orleans, Jan. 4.—Cotton is firm; Ml dling uplands 10 c-ioo. Mobile, Jan. 4.—Cotton is firm; Middling ur=* lands 10c. Savannah, Jan. 4.—Cotton is firm; Middling up lands 10 %c. c. Memphis, Jan. 4.—Cotton is firm; Middling up lands ioy«c. E si r opean, 1?1 ar k eta. (By Telegraph.) London, Jan. 4, —Consols 103 3-16. Liverpool, Jan.'4.—12.30 P.M—Cotton market firm; uplands at 6 1616d; Orleans 6y8d; sales 16, 000 bales; speculation and export 2,000 bales. SAisI.BIY« Days OF STEAMSBIiSPS. FROM FOR ralencia.New York.. Laguayra Jrn 4 tritanic.New York .Liverpool ....Jan 6 rapsburg.New York. .Bremen..’.... Jan 6 iiagara...New York. .Liverpool_Jan 6 Santiago.New York. .Cienfuegos...Jan 6 id am.New York.. Amsterdam. .Jan 9 Lmerique.New York.. B avre.Jan 9 taliia..New York..Liverpool....Jan 9 Wyoming.New York.. Liverpool. ...Jan 9 armatlan.Portland.. .Liverpool... .Jan 10 )ominion.Portland ...Liverpool_Jan 10 tepublio ..New York.. Liverpool_Jan 10 tugia.New York..Hamburg....Jan 10 >rinco.New York..Bermuda. Jan 10 Jity of Puebla.New York. .Hav &VCrux.Jan 10 lanitoban.Portland.. .Glasgow.Jan 12 Jewport.New York..Havana.,Jan 12 Jity of Chester.... New York.. Liverpool.... Jan 12 Seeker...New York. .Bremen).Jan 12 Llaska.New York..Liverpool—Jan 15 Jienfuegos.New York. .Cienfuegos ..Jan 17 Jity of Alexandria New York. .Hav VCruz Jan 17 jardinian.Portland ...Liverpool_Jan 19 Intario.Portland.. .Liverpool—Jan 17 Lips.New York..Porto Rico...Jan 18 Saratoga.. ....New York..Havana.Jan 19 MINIATCRS ALMANAC.JANUARY 6. Jun rises ...*.,..7.17 I High water, (p m) 2.55 iun sets....4.16 I Moon sets... morn. JM -A-KIjNT PORT OF PORTLAND. f\ki.l>ay, dan, 4. Arrived Steamship Eleanora, Bragg, new York—mdse to B Coyle. Jr. Steam-tug Elsie. Cates, Boston, with brig Mary rink in tow. When otf Boon Island one of her eccentric rods broke and she had to procoed with tail. Towed in by tug Phebe. Bjig Wm Mason, Hardy, Boston, to load for Mar tinique. To Gahagher Co. Iirig Mary Fink, Darrah, Boston, to load for Cuba, ro Chase, Leavitt Co. Sch Clara E Simpson, Swctt, Georgetown, DC— ;oal to H N Jose. Sch Col Miliiken, Dunton, Baltimore—coal to Bos ton Maine RR. Sch David Torrey, Goldthsvaito, Raritan river,— :lay to Portland Stoneware Co. Sch Lucy Ames, Melvin, Amboy—coal to Sargent, Dennison Co. Soh Quoddy, Mahoney, New York—coal to Geo Q Rounds. Sch E G Willard, Doughty, New York—coal to Maine Cent RR. Sch Alice Oakes, Littlejohn, New York-coal to Maine Cent RR. Sch Cygnus, Steele, New York—coal to A I Ran lall Co. Sch White Foam. Ford. New York—irop to Port land Rochester RR, Sch L B Sargent, Smith, New Yoik— iron to Maine [lent RR. Sch Traverse, Lane, Boston—oil to J Conley Son Sch Olive Branch, Kobtins, Boston for Cutler. Sch Glenullin, Bunker, Boston. Seh Brunette, Colson, Boston. Sch Abby Wasson. Lord, Boston, to lay up. Sch Mary Sands, Greenleuj. Plymouth. Sch Copy, Murch, Ellsworth. Sch Lewis R French, Newman, Wiscasset— heading to Mark P Emery. Cleared* Steamship Toronto, (Br) Gibson, Liverpool D Torrance Co. Sch Mima A Reed, Nash, Cardenas—Nutter, Kim ball Co. FROM OUB CORRESPONDENT. PORT CLYDE, Jan 3—In port, schs Glad Tidings, from St John, NB, for Boston; A I Franklin, Grand Manan for Gloucester; G M Gilmor, Gilmor, Port land for Tenant’s Harbor. Lfkom merchants’ excliangk.1 A r at Valparaiso prov to Deo 31, ship Theobald, Williams, New Tacoma. Sid fm Newcastle, E, 2d inst, ship Majestic Mc Kenzie, San Francisco. JSUBMtfBANBA. Barque Grace E Cann, Sprague, from St John. NB for Oram, with lumber, went ashore 2d inst on the end of MooseTjec Beach, near Jonesport, and will be a total wreck. A barquentine, loaded with sugar, was towed inro Halifax 3d inst. Name not ascertained. Sch Adrianna, of Bath, from Elizabethport for Providence, with coal, went ashore 11 PM, night of 3d inst, in a north-east gale, at Block Island, and filled with water. The captain and a seaman were saved. The mate and cook, (names unknown) were frozen to death. Sch “P H Willard.” coal loaded, from Elizabeth port, wont ashore 3d inst,.in East river, and remains leaking badly. Two tugs failed to mo ve her. Sch Hattie N Gove, from Weehawken for Boston, with coal, parted chains and drifted ashore on Hard ing beach, near Chatham, and remains. Probabiy come oil' without damage. DOiVESTIC PORTS. SAN FRANCISCO— Ar 2d, ship Alex Gibson, Speed, Liverpool. JACKSONVILLE—Cld 31st, sch Dione, Pater son, Baltimore. CHARLESTON—QJd 2d, sch R Bowers, Thomp son, Valencia. PORT ROYAL, SC-Sld 1st, sch Clytie, Laugh ton, Charleston. GEORGETOWN, SC—Ar 1st, sch Lettie Wells, Warr. Wilmington, Del. WILMINGTON, NC—Ar 31st, sch Cook Borden, Lunt, Charleston. Cld 2d. sch Mary Lord, Lord, Ponce. WILMINGTON, NC-Ar 2d, sch Etta M Barter, Barter. Portland. Ar 3d, sch Bello BrowD, Perry, Navassa Island. BALTIMORE—Old 2d, sch Isaac T Compbell, Matthews. Boston. Ar 3d, sch Rebecca |R Nickerson, Allen, Baracoa; E H Weaver, Weaver, Boston; Daylight, Hodgdon, Boston. PHILADELPHIA—Ar 1st, sell Ann Dole, Black man, Clark’s Island. NEWCASTLE, DEL- Passed down 2d, ship St Charles, Purington, for San Francisco; brig Mary E Dana, Mitchell, for Santiago; Ar at Delaware Breakwater 4th, brig Addie Hale, Sbeppacd, Bpa:n Tpi-ut MENT, a guaraatetd Epee tic for :a,^D‘zzln?=s. Convulsions, Fit-,. Nervous Neuralgia, Headache. Nervous Prostration cousm! by the u;e o-f alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Hemal D*pm- ion, Soft ening of tha Brain resuhi. c ia I acuity and leading to nusery, decay and death, Premature Gid Age, Impotency, Weakness in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermatorrhoea. cuiscd by over-exertion of the brain, self-abuse or over-indulgence. Eacn box contains One month’s treatment.. $1. abox.cr 6 boxes for $5X0; sent by Mail prepaid on receipt of price. We guarantee 6 boxes to cure any case. With each order received for Sboxes accompanied with $5. wo will send the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the mo~"r if the treatment does not effect a cure. J. C. West Co., Proprietors, issue guar antees through 31. if. HAY CO.,Druggists,oniy agents. Portiand,Me.,junction Middle and Free Srs in Insolvency. Court of Insolvency for the County of Cumberland, State of Maine. December 29. A. D. 1883. In case of FRANKLIN W. DYER, Insolvent Debtor. f g1HIS is to give notice that on the twenty-ninth day X of December. A. I). 1883, a Warrant in Insol vency was issued Dy Henry C. Peabody, Judge of the Court of Insolvency for said County of Cumber land, against the estate of said FRANKLIN W. DYER, of Cape Elizabeth, adjudged to be an insolvent debtor, on petition of said debtor,which petition was filed on the twenty ninth day of December, A. D. 1883, to which date interest on claims is to he computed. That the payment of any debts to or by said debt or, and the transfer and delivery of any property by him are forbidden by law. That a meeting of the creditors of said debtor, to prove their debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate, v/ill be held at a court of insolvency to be holden at Probate Court room, in said Portland, on the seventh day of January, A. I>. 1884, at ten o’clock in the forenoon. Given under my hand the date first above writ ten xL. it. SAivUJlsiN i, Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger of the Court of Insol vency for said County of Cumberland. dec31&jan5 wnasx’s coHKroiro of I PURE COB LITER L OIL ARB LIKE... Tv One and All.—Are yon Buffering from a C ugh, Cold, Asthma, Bronchitis, or any ot the va rious pulmonary troubles that so often end in Con sumption? If so, nee }Vilbor's Pure Cod-Liver Oil and Lime,” a safe and sure remedy. This is no quack preparation, but is regularly prescribed by the med ical facultv, Manufactured ouly by A. B. Wilbob, Chemist, Boston. Sold by all druggists. dec24eod&\vlm Dr. raWS OFFICE, 276 Middle St., open from Jan. 7tli to Jan. 28th. *0*28 “M_ Because it is True. All schools ol medicine agree that Benson’s Cap cine Porous Plasters is the best external remedy known. 2Bo. jan2WSAwlw D1HCKUUE«VI. Absolutely Pute* This Powder never varies. Amarvelo purlt strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competi tion with the mnltituda of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in can.,. Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 Wall St., N. Y. mch6 dlyr NTE.tllF.US. INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP CO. I'uNtporl, Me., Calais, Me., St, ■fohn, N.B., Halifax, N. S„ Ac. WINTER ARRANGEMENTS. TWO TEIPSPER WEEK ON ANB AFTKB MON. ’BAY, DEC. ltd, (f tcnwa era this Cine will Leave Rnilroad Wharf. foot ol State street, every Monday and Thursday at 8 p. m.t for Eastpcrt and St. John, with connections for Calais, Robbies ton. St. Andrews, Pembroke, Houlton, Woodstock. Grand Menan, Campobelle, Digby, Annapolis, Yarmouth. Windsor, Halifax, Monoton, Newcastle, J mherst: Pictou, Sbediae, Bathurst, Dalheueie, Char lottetown, Fort Fairfield, Grand Falls, and othet stations on tho New Brunswiok and Canada, Inter, colonial, Windsor, and Annapolis, Western Coun ties, Rail Roads, and Stago Rentes. ES^Freight received up to 4 p. m. and any In. formation regarding the same may be had at the office of the Freight Agent, Railroad Wharf. For Circulars, with Excursion Routes, Ticket* State Rooms and further information apply a Company’s Office, *0 Exchange St. T, 0. HKJB8KY, President, and Manager’ cel dtf AND PHILADELPHIA Direct Stenmshtp Line. From BOS i'Mi Erery Wednesday and Sat* nrday, From PHILADELPHIA Every Tuesday and Friday. From Long Wharf, Boston, 3 p. m. From Pine Street Wharf Philadelphia, at 10 a. m. Insurance one-half the rate of sailing vesBol. Freight for the West by the Penn. B. R.. and South by connecting lines, forwarded free of com mission. Passage Ten Dollars. Round Trip 918 Meals and Room included. For Freight or Passage apply to E. 8AMPNON, Agent, de31tf 70 liong Wharf, Ponton. PACIFIC MAIL S. S. CO. TO CALIFORNIA, japan, china, Sandwich Island., Nevr £«.Iud and Au.trails. Steamers sail from New York for AsplnwaU on the 1st, XOth, and 20th of each month, carrying passengers and freight for all the aho-ve named ports. Steamer of 10th does not connect for San Fran cisco. Steamers sail from San Francisco regularly for Japan, China and Sandwich Islands, New Zealand snmiii^alia. For FrelgHt, -«-e. sailing lists and furthei information, apply vuror adorixe* the General Eas tern Agents, C. I,. BARTLETT Ac CO., IIS State Street, C.r. Hr.ad St., Iwu or to W. D. LITTLE A 00., abSdtf81 Exchange St., P.rtland. Portlands Bangor, NIL Desert Mias 1 Steambbat Co. Winter Arrangement, Commencing Dec 7 Steamer LEWISTON Capt. PsOhas. Deering, will leave Rail road Wharf, Portland, every Fri ^13SaBBSK553isday Evening, at 11.16, or on arrival of Steamboat Express Trains from Boston, for Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick, (Stage from Sedgwick to Blue Hill on arrival of Steamer), South West and Bar’Harbors, Millbridge and Machiasport. Connect at ROCKLAND with Steamer for BLUE HILL, SURREY, LAMOINE, HANCOCK, SUL LIVAN and ELLSWORTH. Also with B, B. Steamers at Rockland, going East, for River Landings. RETURNING, will leave Machiasport at 4.30 a. m. every Monday and touching at intermediate Landings, connecting at Portland with Pullman and early morning train for Boston. Connect with Boston and Bangor Steamers at Rockland, (coming West, and receive passengers and freight from Bangor and River Landings for Tort land.) GEORGE L. DAY, Treas, and General Ticket Agent E. CUSHING, General Agent. Portland, Dgo. 5. 1883.dec5dtf Winter -5^ :->rts GRAND EXCURSIONS. ItlflJ Tino ifFnil I For BAHAMAS, JAMAICA, HAYTI, PORTO RI CO, COLOMBIA, ISTHMUS OF PANAMA and NICARAGUA- Tourists are invited to avail of these trips, which they can make on any route taken by the Company’s Steamers at the extreme low price of !#3 pet- day, which includes all privileges and living on board the whole time, or passengers desiring to change their route may transfer to any other passenger steamer of cb- line they may meet on the voyage. For passage apply to WM, FORWOOD CO., Agcuu, octSdSm_22, 24 State Street, New York. General Ocean Steamer Ticket Office. FOR sale of par-ssage tickets bv the While Star Cnnard, Anchor, State, American, Red Star, North German Lloyd, Hamburg, Amorioan, Rotter dam, Amsterdam and Italian lines, all tirst class fast passage steamers, to and from all points in Europe. Cabin, 2d Cabin and steerage outward and prepaid tickets from Portland at lowest rates. Steerage prepaid tickets from inland places in Eu rope' to inland places in the United States. Ster ling and Scandinavian exchange at lowest rates Choice Cumberland and Acadia coal for sale by th eargo. For cabin plans, circulars, sailing schemes &o. and other information apply to J. L. FARMER Agent, 22 Exchange St. P. O. Box 979. TanlO iy ALLAN LINE 1883. Winter Arrangements. 1884 Liverpool, Halifax and Portland Service a__ STP1MFP I From Liverpool From Portland a I via. Halifax. via. Halifax. THURSDAY, I THURSDAY, Parisian. Dec. i> 1 Dec. 27 a Peruvian “13 j Jan. 3 Saiui ATI AN.... 20 I 10 Glasgow A- Portland Portnightly Service STEAMER. Fiom Glasgow. From Portland I On or about!! 1 Hanoverian.. Dec. 12 i Dee. 29 Manitohan.. 26 j Jan. 12 Scandinavian! Jan. 9 2C For passage apply to LEVE ALDEN, General Passenger Agents, 15 State St., Boston, and E. A. WALDRON, 40 Exchango St., T.P. McGOWAN, 422 Congress St., or for passage or freight to H. A. ALLAN, Agents, No. 1 India St., Portland. nov24dtf Will !'I; STAB LINE. i U. S. and Royal Mail Steamers to Liverpool via Queenstown. Rates reduced for Fall and Win ter. These steamers take tho extreme southerly routes, avoid ing all dangers from icebergs. Cabin, $60, $80 and S100; Return tickets $120, -144 ami $180; Excur sions $120 and $144; Steerage at low rates. The sailings are as follows: Britannic.Jan. 5 Celtic .Jan. 15 ■Rflnnhlii!. in iUrmn«i.. u on For sailing lists, cabin plans passage rates and drafts, apply to J. L. FARMER, 22 Exchange St. decl9,’82 rdtf The elegant new steamer TREMONT and favorite steamer FOREST CITY will alternately leave FRANKLIN WHARF, Portland, at 7 o'clock p. m. and INDIA WHARF, Boston, at 5 o'clock p. m. (Sundays excepted). Passengers by this line arc reminded that they se cure a comfortable night’s rest and avoid the ex pense and inconvenience of arriving in Boston late at night. jg^Tickets and Staterooms for Bale at D. H. /DUNG’S, 272 Middle Street. Through Tickets to New York, via the varioua Rail and Sound Lines for sale. Freight taken as usual. J. B. COYLE, Jr., General Agent. dtf MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY For lew York, Steamers leave Franklin Wharf, on Wednesday, and Saturdays at 6 p. m.. Returning leave Pier 3S( East River, New York, on Wednesdays and Satur* days at 4p.m. J. B. COYLE, ,JR., Oeu’l Ag’t. sep21 dtf MTKAHER*. DOMINION LINE. 1883. WINTER ARRANGEMENTS. 1884. Liverpool and Portland. DIRECT SERVICE. From Fro™ Liverpool. Portland. •St. SARNIA, Thursday, Nov. 16.Thursday Deo. 6 •St. OREGON, Nov. 29. Dec. 20 St. TORONTO, Deo. 13. Jan. 3 Liverpool, Halifax and Portland Service From From Liverpool Portland wlo T'Tftllfjiw Tlipftet St. MONTREAL, Thurs. Nov.22. Thurs. Dec’. 13. St. ONTARIO, Thursday,Dec. 6. Thursday Dec. 27. St. DOMINION, Thurs. Dec. 20. Thurs. Jan. 10.. *No cattle or sheep carried by these Steamers. CABIN—$50.00, $60.00 and $70.00. IN RETURN—$90.00, $108.00, $110.00 and $130.00. INTERMEDIATE—$40.00. Return $75.00. STEERAGE—$24.00. Prepaid Steerage Tickets issued for $20.00. For passage or freight apply to DAVID TOR RANCE, General Agents, Grand Trunk R. R. Freight Offices, Foot of India St. decl4 dtf CHEAP OCEAN TICKETS. ALL desiring to send for friends in the Old Couiw try will save money by buying their prepaid steerage tickets at the General Ocean Steamship Office, No. 22 Exchange Street, (don’t mistake; he number) at the sign of the big Locomotive, at pre^ sent reduced rates by theCunard and other fast tin* class mail steamers coming direct across the ocean, on the warm Golf Stream route, thus avoiding ail dangers from ice and icebergs. 1 can sell prepaid steerage passage tickets from Queenstown, London derry and Belfast for $21.00: Dublin, $22.00; Lon don, Bristol, Cardiff and Galway, $24.00; Ham burg, Antwerp, Havre, Manheim, Amsterdam, Ro tordam, Paris, Bremen and Har Ingen, $27.00 Copenhagen, Christiana, Christii asand, Bergen Trondhjem. Goteborg, Malino, $28 JO; children nn der 12 half fare. Sterling and Scandinavian ex change at low rates. J. L. FARMER, Agent, jan 24dtf 22 Exchange St. RAILROADS. Boston Maine RaUroad, On and after Monday, Oct. 15, 1883, PASSENGEKTRA1NSWILL LEAVE PORTLAND for BOSTON at 6.16, 8.46 a. m., 1.00 and 3.30 p. m., arriving at Boston at 10.46, -a. m,, 1.16, 6.10, and 7.16 p. m. BOSTON FOB POBTLAND at 9.00 a. m. 12.30, 3.30, and 7.00 p.m., arriving at Portland at 1.00. 6.00. 8.06 and 11.00 p. m. PORTLAND FORMCARBOKO REACH AND PINK POINT at 6.16, 8,45. a. m., 3.00, 6.45 p.m. (See note.) FOR OLD OBCHABD at 6.16, 8.45 ..m., 1.00, 3.00, 5.45 p.m. (See note) FOR SACO AND BIDDEFOBD at 6.16, 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 3.00, 3.30 and 5.45 p. m, FOR KENNEBCNK at 6.16, 8.45 a. m.. 1.00,3.00 and 5.46 p.m. FOR WELLS at 6.15,8.46 a. m. and 3.00 p. m. (See note) FOR NORTH BERWICK. AND DOVKR, at 6.16,8.46 a. m., 1.00, 3.00 and 3.30 p. m. FOB MAI,HON FALLS and GRE AT FALLS, at 6.16, 8.45 a. m., 1.00 and 3.00 p. m. FOR NEWHAK KET at 6.15, 8.46 a.m.,3.30» p.m. FOR KX KTEB, HAVERHILL, LAWRENCE AND LOWELL at 6.16; 8.45 a. m., 1.00 and 3.30 p. m. FOR KOCHEMTEB. FAR. HINGTON, N. H., AND ACTON It A V. at 8.46a.m., 1.00 and 3.30 p. m. FOR HAN CHEMTKK AND CONCORD, N. II.. (via New Market Jot.) at 6.16 a. m., 3.30 p. m., (via T Q 4R a m MORNING TRAINS FOR PORTLAND LEAVE KENNKB1INK at 7.26, and DO VER at 8.00 ARRIVING at PORTLAND at 8.30 and 10.06. Noth—The 3.30 p. m. train from Portland will not stop at Scarborough, Pine Point, Old Orchard or Wells, and tbe 1.00 p. m. train will stop at Scarbor ough. Pine Point and Wells only to take passengers for Boston. Change at Dover and take next train following, gyThe 1.00 p. m. train from Portland con nects with Mound Line Steamers for New Vor k and all Rail Lines for the West, and the 3.30 p. m.. train with all Rail Line* for New York and tue South and West. Parlor Cart on all through trains. Seats secured in advance at Depot Ticket Office. SUNDAY TRAINS. PORTLAND FOR BOSTON and WAY STATIONS at 1.00 p, m. BOSTON FOR PORTLAND at 6.00 p. m. Trains on Boston Maine road connect with ail steamers running between Portland and Bangor, Rockland, Mt. Desert, Maohias, Eastport, Calais. St. John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk trains at Grand Trunk Station, and Maine Central and Portland Si Ogdenburg trains at Trans fer Station. All trains stop at Exeter ten minutes for refresh ments. First class Dining Rooms at Portland, Transfer Station, Exeter, Lawrence and Boston THROUGH TICKETS to all points West and South may be had of in. L. William*. Ticket Agent, Boston Maine Dopot, and at Union Ticket Office, 40 Exchange St. J. T. FURBER, Gen. Supt. S -H. STEVENS, Gen. Agent, Portland, octll dtf Grand Trnnk Railway of Canada. ohla.’N'g-eT of time. On and after MONDAY, OCT. 15th, ISS3, Train, will run ua follow. DEPARTURES: Fur Auburn u. Lewi* ton, 7.30 A m., 1.15 uod 6.15 p. m. Fur Gorhum, 7.40 a. m., 4.0U 1 «ad 5.15 p. m. Fur Gurkut, Montreal, Quebec a. Chi )agu, 1.80 p. m. ABBIVAI.lt! From Lewiston and Auburn, 8.35 a. m., !.15 and 5.50 p. m. From Gorham, 9.45,8.35 a. m. and 5.15 p. m. From Chicago, Montreal and Quebec, L2.35 p. m. Pullman Palace Sleeping Gars on night train and Parlor Gars on day train between Portland and Mon real. TICKET OFFICES: . LUCIUS TUTTLE, octl3dtf Gen’l Pass’r Agent The same results are obtained out oj four Free /T ‘'•ads forth as a perfect type of a healtay >«he began to use this J ood she has no- -v of what once threatened to be, if iuu oa,jy 5^ come, a chronic lntiammaiio. 1 This is only one case out of the happen every year. It is not prescribed gle disease, but It is quite as effective in amj an,, ail other cases where strength is required and a dis ordered stomach to be regulated. Within a radius of 1V4 miles we know of more than twelve families who have used it for this lat ter purpose. No household should be without it, as it is a household bottle.—Editorial from the In dustrial Journal. Boston, Sept. 1, 1883. From n^Leadim; I'hyticiuu in Boafos, to whom are ca refer. “My wife was sick with uervous prostration for one year previous to the hirtn of her child; suffered severely from nervous dyspepsia; lived almoel wholly on milk, as nothing else caused so little pain in the stomach. After the birth of the child, was completely prostrated and could not even digest the milk; was rapidly losing ground when the use of LIQUID FOOl> was begun. At first one-half tea spoonful was taken every hour, later one, and still later two each hour. From the first the FOOD seemed to agree with the patient. About this time Liquid food was rejected for a week or ten days. The patient not only did not continue te gala but lost, and was again attacked with neuralgia, which passed away again alter fcLQUID FOOD had been used several days. At the present writing, nine months after confinement, the patient is pur suing her ordinary life, though not very strong. She still finds the use of LIQUID FOOD three limes a day helps her digestion and greatly ad<ls to ktr strength.” “Our baby inherited her mother’s constitution, she being unable to nourish it, we obtained a w#s nurse, and have always given it Liquid Food three times daily, commencing with five drops, and are now giving it 20 or a half teaspoonful; it is now as strong and well as any baby.’1 Mothers, remember this. If your baby does not thrive, do not change its food, but add 6 to 20 drops of Liquid Food at each feeding, Any married lady that cannot retain Iter food, or has lost a child nadir one year old that was brought up by hand, can have a bed assigned her free for fonr months, which will buildup her system, enabling her to retuin her food in a few days and nourish her child* She can have her own family physician if she wants him. When motheis nourish their babies the mortality and sickness will be redaoed 71 per cent* octlSdlawtfS 256TH bMTIUN. t'KIUt $1. KNOW THYSELF A OREAT MEDICAL WORK ON MANHOOD Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical Debflt* ty, Premature Incline in Man, Errors of Youth, and the untold miseries resulting from indiscit* tions or excesses. A book for every man, youngs raid lie-aged, and old. It contains 125 prescrip tions for all acute and chronic diseases, each one of which is iuvalnable. So found by the Author whose experience for 23 years is such as probably never before fell to the lot of any physician. 300 pages, bound in beautiful French muslin, embossed covers, full gilt, guaranteed to be a finer work, in every sense.—mechanical, literary ami professional, —than any other work sold in this country for $2.6(^ or the money will bo refunded in every instances Price only $1.00 by mail, post-paid. Illustrative sample 6 cents Send now. Gobi medal awarded the author by the National Medical Association, td the officers of which he refers. This book should be road by the young for Instnuv tion, and by the affiioted for relief. It will benefll all.— London Lancet. Address the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr. VT H. Parker, No. 4 Bulflncu Street, Boston, Maas, who may be consulted on all diseases requiring skill and experience. Chronic ami obstinate disease# that have baffled the skill of all oth-Yr W 1 1 e f physicians a specialty. Such treat- JlJCi AJU successfully without an instance Till VQT? U of failure. LIlIftLLIf aiaySO O&wVy

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THE PRESS SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 5. CITY AND VICINITY. NEW;ADVEKTI8EinENTIt TODAY. CNEWZADYERTISEMENTS. Kines Bros’. Sale Special Notice—Portland Cadets. Art Goods—Algernon Stubbs, f. Dissolution of Copartnership, t. W ant ed—Agents. V Remnants—EaBtman Bros. Bancroft. .Notice of Dissolution. 81 Kid Mittenj—Owen, Moore A Co.tggjji, In Insolvency. BnaagS Portland Steam Packet Co. JS®# SAifj Ladles’Rubbers—Brown. r Igfig K8B0.00 Reward—P.&R.R.IG ENTERTAINMENTS. Grand Assembly—Good Templars’ Hall. Advice to Mothers.—MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP should always be nsed when children are cutting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at ones; it produces nattial, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a bntton.” It is very pleasant to taste. It Boothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and Is the best known remedy for diarrhoea,whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty five cents a bottle. dec8 _SM&W&wly Adamson’s Botanic Balsam has gained a reputation which places it In the front ranks of enrative agents. It has been in tbo market bat about ten years. It is now recommended by the best physicians becanse it cures coughs and colds every time. Price 36 cents. dec31 MW&S&wlw Wei De Meyer. It is now undisputed that Wei De Meyer’s Catarrh Cnrois the only treatment that will absolutely cure Catarrh—fresh or chronic. "It is a marvel, Rev. A. P. Fries, Cairo, N. Y.” “It restored me to the pulpit, Rev. Geo. E. Reis, Cobleville, N. Y.” “One box radically cored me, Rev. C. H. Taylor, 150 Noble street, Brooklyn.” "A perfect cure after 30 years Buffering, J. D. McDonald, 719 Broad way, N. Y.,” &c., &c. Thousands of testimon ials are received from all parts of the world. Delivered, $1.00. Dr. Wei De Meyer’s “Treat ise,” with statements by the cured, mailed free. D. B. Dewey Co., 182 Fulton St., N. Y. decl8eod3m B. H. Douglass Sons' Capsicum Cough Drops are manufactured by themselves, and are the result of over forty years’ experience in compounding cough medicines Sunday Services. 7 P‘ m* by Rev. N. y. Hill. Sunday school l. 30 p. m. Congress St. M. E. Church—Rev. a. n. Lind Bay, pastor. Communion service 10.30 a. m. Sun day School 1.30 p. m. Preaching 3 p. m. by the pas tor. Prayer meeting 7 p. m. Chestnut St. M. E. Church.—Baptism and com munion 10.30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor 3 p. m. Sunday School 1.30 p. m. Prayer meetings 0 and 7 p. m. Liberal Fratehnitv, Congress Hall.—At 2.30 p. in., entrance on Temple st. Subject—“Does sci ence provide any law by which disembodied spirits can more ponderous bodies. Opened by H. B. Teed. New Jerusalem Church. New High St.-Bev. T. A. King will preach at 10.30 a. m. Subject, "Man's right to the Tree of Life.” Holy supper after the sermon. Pine St. M. E. Church.—Bev. J. M. Williams, pastor. Communion 10.30 a. m. Sunday School at 1.30. Preaching by the paster at 3, followed by baptism. Praise and prayer meeting 7 p. ml People’s Spiritual Meetings, Good Templars’ Hall, Congress St. Speaking at 3 and 7.30 p. m. by Mrs. Juliette Yearo. Children's Lyceum 1.30 p. m. Preble Chapel.—Sunday School at 2. Preach lDg by the pastor, Rev. W. T. Pbelau, 3 p. m. Tem perance meeting 7 p. m. Free to all. Plymouth Church.—Preaching at 10.30 a. m. by the pastor, Communion at 3.30 p. m. Park Street Church—The pastor, Rev. John A BellowB will preach at 10.30 a. m. Sunday School at 13 m. St. Stephen’s Church.—"Is the world growing better or worse?” will be the subject of Rev. Mr. Dalton’s sermon on Sunday evening, being the first Sunday of the year. West Congbeoational Church.—Rev. E. M. Cousins, pastor, will preach at 10.30 a. m and 7.00 p. m. Communion at 3 p. m. Williston Church.—Preaching by the pastor. Rev. L. H. Hallock, at 10.30 a. m. Sunday School at 3 p. m. Prayer meeting at 7 p. m. Young Men’s Christian Association.—The gospel meeting at 7 p. m. will be conducted by Dr. Carlton Kimball. .Ylunicipql Court. BEFORE JUDGE OOULD. Friday.—George Clark and Joseph Johnson. In toxication. Fined $3 and costs. _ Brief Jottings, Gold, clear, bright day yesterday. Mercury 5° at sunrise, io° at snuset; wind weat,nm^iwmt. The Fire Department wiil be paid off by the City Treasurer today. Mr. Paul Prince remains in a stupor. He spoke just after the accident,but not since then Mr. Cyrus F. Davis will soon give an exhibi tion of water colors and oils. It is expected that the grand jury will report this morning. President Wescott of the Portland Roch ester, and Mrs. Wescott left for California yes terday. Schooner Alice Montgomery from Pensacola Drought 2210 bales of cotton to this port yes terday, for Lewiston. The Women’s Indian Association will hold their regular monthly meeting this afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Friends’ ohurch. Mr Geo. F. Holmes delivered a very inter esting lectnre before the Law Students’ Club last evening. A large nnmber of members of Putiogp and TiflviRtnn land yesterday to note the ot the Portland Cnn”! The?’ **old a temperance .ail corner of Temple and _ streets, tomorrow evening, commenc ing at 7 o’clock. Theregnlar monthly bnsiness meeting of the Diet Mission will be held at the Fraternity rooms, 4 Free street block, this, afternoon at 3 o’clock. Officer Joseph H. Bice was insured at the agency of Jotham F. Clark in the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $1,000, and was also a member of the Citizens’ Belief. Zion’s Advocate and the Christian Mirror both appear this week in a new dress and as eight page papers. They are mach improved in appearance, but their contents were excel lent before. A pung containing a lady and gentleman, in turning the corner of Pleasant and High streets, yesterday noon, capsized, and the lady was Sung some distance. She could not tell whether she was hurt or not. The parties be longed in Scarb to. The Street CcumiBBioner'smen were putting more dirt on the sidewalks up town yesterday. The sidewalks on the left side of Exchange street, going towards Middle, from Congress to Middle, and on Congress from Preble to Chest nut street, are very slippery. Mrs; Dale of Saccarappa, was in town in search of her husband yesterday, They were married in Buxton about three months ago and then moved to Saccarappa where they took lodgers. He left town for Portland, Christmas with S10 in his nossfifision and has not been seen since. Failure of Win. 91. Fnrbush Son. Messrs. Wm. M. Fnrbush Son, piano dealers, No. 043 Congress street, assigned yesterday to H. M. Sylvester, Esq., who took possession ot the store and dosed the same. The liabilities are a little above $27,000, most of which is dne oat of the State, and the nominal assets it is expected will figure up to $12,000; from which it is hoped there will be but small shrinkage. Until yeBterday morning the firm hoped to keep on, but later in the day, an assignment was de termined upon. The creditors have been noti fied to attend a meeting to be held at Mr. Syl vester's office, Wednesday, January 17, at 10 a. m. Messrs. Fnrbush Son hope to effect such arrangements as will enable them to go on. The sales of the firm for 1883 were over $70,000._ First Parish Course. The many friends of Rev. C. F. Dole, form erly of Plymouth Churoh in this city, will be glad to know that he lectures this afternoon in the First Parish Church on the life, character and writings of Swedenborg. He proposes to distinguish between the teaching of this re markable man, which are permanent and val uable, and those which are transient and pe culiar. He will speak also of the character nature of his "Revelations,", and try to dis' cover the reasons which give him influence to day, and what there is in him in common with the highest religious faith of our times. Free Baptist Manila}’ (School. The following have been elected as officers of the First Free Baptist Sabbath school for the ensuing year: Superintendent—George A. Gay. Assistant Superintendent—A. N. Watson. Secretary and Treasurer—J. A. Small. Librarian—George H. Owen. Assistant Libratian—C. F. Tobie. THE UNION MUTUAL LIFE. CoituuiMioiier Tarbox Makes a Statement in ^Defence of His Course to the Massa chusetts Legislature—Ho Makes a Fresh Attack on the Union Mutual Eife and Attempts to Vindicate His Action Con cerning It—A Kcjoiuder by President DeWitt. Insurance Commissioner Tarbox of Massa chusetts has made a special report to the legis lature of the State reviewing his course and work in office and making various suggestions. Concerning the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of this State he speaks as follows: The exclusion of this company from the State has provoked much and various com ment. For that, aud the further reason that an important question of the power and proper exercise of the power of this department was involved in the transaction, 1 report the cir cumstances and inducements of my action. First, as to the reasons for my attempt to determine by an examination the condition of the company’s affairs. Its reputation, as borne to me by report, was not honorable. Representations were made to me of alleged methods in the conduct of its relations with the public and its policy-holders, which, if true, constituted a scandal to honest in surance and a public injury. Frequent re quests, oral aud written, were made to the de partment by policy-holders and others for in formation of its affairs, accompanied by ex pressions of distrust. A reference to its his tory, written by itself in its annual statements, did not inspire confidence, but, unexplained, lent color to suspicion. On Dec. 31,1875, its reputed surplus was $1,241,158. On Dec. 31, 1876, that surplus was reduced to $101,565. This shrinkage of over a million dollars in a single year was not due to extraordinary ex penditure or increased liability, for the excess of disbursements within the year,over income, was but $105,557, and the increase cf liabili ties but $80,562. On Dec, 31, 1877, its reported surplus was $37,351. For 1876 its real estate wns returned at “cost value,”$556,899 For 1877 the return ia “appraised value of real •state,” $1,227,981. Upon what basis, of ac tual valuation, if any, and bow and by whom made, the latter return may be justified, I bad and have no information. Standing as the company then did, if not really insolvent, confessedly close to that peril, the temptation was strenuous to save it by a false representation of its assets. For 1882 the statement is “cost value of real estate $1,925, 1/1.” Its real estate as thus valued comprises nearly a third of its entire assets, a greatly larger proportion of such assets than any other life company holds. This re.vl estate was ac quired by foreclosure of mortgages taken for injudicious loans. Its costs to the company, which includes the amount of original loans, interest, charges of foreclosure and other ex penditure, is not the proper measure of its present value; upon its own exhibit the com pany has a smaller relative surplus than any other life company, save one, doing business in Massachusetts. If its valuation of its real estate be nineteen per cent in excess of a true value, it is insolvent bv Mnssaph nsatta lama allowing the full credit it claims for other as sets. .From 1875 to 1883, the company’s assets decreased from $9,158,604 to $6,260,678: its an nual premium income from $1,876,411 to 732 340; the number of its policies from 22,122 to 14,040. Within that period 5762 of its policies terminated by surrender, and 10,646 by lapse, an extraordinary record as compared with oth c°“i;aiJ,es of its class. Meanwhile the sal «iq omt8„Pae-!denl waf increased from $7000 to $19,000, and its annual salary expenses from $19,000 to $32,000; while the ra!foP of its ex pense for agents was largely in excess of the ratio of such expense by like companies, which show more satisfactory apparent results. An order of the legislature of 1881, requested of the life companies statements of the salaries and emoluments of their officers. All complied except the Union Mutual, which refused. Fin ally, and under apprehension of the conse quences of refusal, which it was not then rea dy to brave, it furnished the information; and its statement, in the usual compensation paid its salaried manager,disclosed the motive of its cotumacy to the legislative order. The pecul iar circumstances attendant upon the removal of the company’s prinaipal office from Boston to Portland, and the incidental legislating out of office of a number of its directors, have induced the suspicion that Bnch action was schemed to prevent a critical investigation of its affairs. These were chief of the considerations which persuaded me of my duty, under the authority of the law, to discover and verify the facts, that the publio might have assurance and the company have justice. My concern was not confined to the question of solvency. The ascertainment that a company is legally solvent at date of exami nation, does not discharge the function of a public supervisor of insurance. To discover the corpse, after murder done, is well; to prevent the murder is better. A proper in vestigation embraces an inquiry whether con ditions exist, which, if allowed to remain, will imperil future solvency. It la the company’s ability to fulfill its obligation in the future, when bis claim falls due, which most the policy holder. Fnrtherjecre—eve'rv well b?y“acc“muffit^rf^ ^viU Ite beyond its. legal reserve, lie assets b6 devisible into two funds. The .‘SSCIve, which it is required by law to have for the performance of its policy contracts, and the surplus, which is the accumulation above the reserve. This surplus is the property of the policy holders. Ordinarily, in the admin istration of a company, a portion of the sur plus is held in investment to protect the re serve, and the rest is distributed iu dividends in cash, or applied to purchase of additional insurance or redaction of premium payments at the election of the policy holders, of all these funds the financial officers aie trustees, with equal fiduciary obligation to all. To mis apply, embezzle or otherwise by dishonest or improvident administration to spoil the sur plus works as positive a wrong to policy-hold ers as when the unfaithful administration af fects the reserve, for it robs the policy-holder of his just dividends, which reduce the cost of his insurance, and imperils the reserve by the withdrawal of a natural support. It re sults that incapable and dishonest managers may abuse their trust, to the great injury of policy-holders, and yet not render the compa ny, in contemplation of law, insolvent. From abuses and injuries of ihis character, the poli cy holders are entitled to such protection as the vigilance of official supervision c a'.^.pro vide, and in harmony with theae vi»'» examination I proposed ef the -*“[y ot its -anoe of its finan -o iO the propriety of the proced commissioner in relation to the com auu lu wo marine insurance Depart ment, I respectfully refer to the correspond* ence on the subject [Exhibit Cj which accom panies this communication. The right of Massachusetts by her agents to visit and examine any foreign [company, as a condition of such company’s authority to do business within her jurisdiction, is absolute. Equally absolute is the doty of the commis sioner to make such visit and examination whenever in his judgment prudent. This au thority and duty are not subordinate to, de pendent upon or related with the laws of pub lic administration of other States. Massachu setts does not remit her people to a foreign government for protection in matters within her own domain. No obligation of law, usage or custody rested upon me to correspond at all with the Maine departments relative to my proposed examina tion. But from a desire for concerted action by the department, agreeable to his constitu ents and to mine, I invited Commissioner Smith to co-operate in that examination, as al so in contemplated examinations of Massachu setts life companies. His failure to respond favorably was a surprise. Should the commis sioner of another State desire my co-operation in his examination of a Massachusetts compa ny, I can conceive of no circumstances which could persuade me to decline, or hesitate consent, especially if about to make an exam ination myself. My letter to Mr. Smith was mailed November 8tb. Mr. Plympton, on be half of this department, waited upon him five days later, with the results stated in the cor respondence. As the commissioner, after such interval, was unable to decide without con sultation with the president of the company, I felt it undesirable, even discourteous, to urge the proposal. President DeWitt wrote me that Commissioner Smith was disinclined to have me join in his examina tion; an obvious fact, although Mr. Smith does not say so in terms. Yet I took an im pression that the commissioner’s disinclination was by the president’s desire; an impression made conviction by the circumstance that subsequently, and as soon as the president sig nified his pleasure to that effect, the commis sioner was inclined and did invite other de partments to join his examination. My sug gestion “that an examination on the plan pro I nvuiu UUb UtJ satisfactory to me” bas been construed as dis respectful to that official. I did not so intend it. Commissioner Smith "some weeks before” bad "started to make an examination,” and then before he had got beyond the starting point, or done any act under it, he suspended his proposed examination “at the request of the president, who desired time to visit Chi cago in order to prepare a list of the com pany’s loans on real estate, as also its property of the same character, together with the valu ation of the same.” Giving indefinite time to a company to nut its affairs in order for in spection, and allowing it, circumstanced as the Union Mutual is, by its agents to appraise its principal assets, are methods of examina tions my judgment does not approve, and an investigation pursued on that plan would not (and so I wrote) be satisfactory to me. That an examination should be reasonable in time and manner I agree. Had any objec tion of that sort been urged, it would have commanded mv cheerful deference. Had an examination been actually in progress I should not have sought to proceed in-.any manner to interfere with it. But the books, papers and assets of the company were in possession and full control of Us officers, and the Maine Da partment had no occasion for their use and had not asked access to them. Commissioner Smith informed Mr, Plympton that he should not make the examination in person, but should employ assistants,and had not then done so. The fact also was within my information that at the time Mr. Plympton made demand for access to the company’s books and papers Commissioner Smith was in eorrespondence with Mr. W. D. Whiting of New York, the actuary of the United States Life, of which the president of the Union Mutual was for merly president and a large stockholder, and that gentleman had signified his disinclination to engage in tho service unless the insurance department of Massachusetts or of 6ome other State should be associated in the examination. The reason assigned for refusal to submit to an examination was a matter, if entitled to any respect whatever, for the Commissioner of Maine and myself to consider, and not for the company to interpose in bar. J. could have made no examination before his was ont of its suspense. Satisfied that the company, by its representations, was not acting in good faith, and did not intend to submit to the authority of the State, I confronted the plain question: Shall a foreign insurance company, whose sol vency or hoceBt management I doubt, and whose affairs I am forbid to examine with ex pedition to prove if my doubt be well founded or not, be permitted to continue business in Massachusetts? The conclusion acted on was the only one possible to my sense of what was due to the public, the law and the dignity of the State. This transaction, and kindred acts of the de partment, have furnished the occasion of Buch injurious false statements and inference, to the attempted discredit of the public adminis tration of the State, that I refer to the legisla ture the propriety of a formal investigation of these matters, in order that the truth may au thoritatively appear, and justice be done to the State and its servants, and to any com plainant. Should such inquest embrace in its scops all the affairs of the department in its relation to the public interests in its charge, the information obtained, I am sure, would be of value to the law-making power and to the people. President DeWiu’a Rejoinder. Union Mutual Life Insurance Company i January 4,1884, To the Public: Referring to the report of the Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts to the Legisla ture of that State, just made, and in reply to that part of it respecting the dimiuunition of the assets and! surplus of this company,we beg leave to refer to a former report of his own de partment, reviewing that subject, which is as follows: Official Examination of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. Boston, March 9,1877. John E. DeWitt, Esq., President. Dear Sir:—The representatives of the Insurance Department of Maine and Massachusetts, having thoroughly and critically investigated the financial condition of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, deem it their duty to submit to its msnagers and policy-holders a brief statement of the results of their examination. T hey are pleased to say that the books and papers of the Company have been freely submitted to them, and every possible facility courteously afforded for a complete investigation of all matters appertain ing to its business and finances. In this connection, the revised system of book-keeping, and the strict enforcement of personal accountability in all Us de partments the reduction of working expenditure, and the prompt collection of accruing income, whether on interest or premium account; together with the sifting out and transfer of doubtful assets, as also of deteriorations in values, to profit and loss and expense accounts, were found among the ele ments of progress notably apparent in the new regime inaugurated by the present administration; service which, faithfully and properly rendered, will be pre-eminently in the interest of the Compa ny and its patrons. Every item enumerated in its statement of assets and liabilities has been carefully investigated, with the exception of its premium reserve, which is ren dered upon its own valuation. This last-named Rom, constituting, of course, its chief liability, will diner but slightly from the valuation now nearly completed by the two departments. The examin ation of assets has been made with unusual parti cularity and minuteness. The bonds, notes, mort gages, and other securities in that connection, to gether with the interest and premium noto ac counts, premiums deferred and in course of collec tion. and everv other dpsorintmn nf volume tnvn been carefully scrutinized, and found in every in •tance a complete verification of the cempany’s ex In making this statement, however, it is proper to add, that perhaps no instance has heretofore occur red in which maximum values, always allowable by law, have been so deliberately and wholly discarded by a life insurance company as in this exhibit of in vestments. Their reduction to maximum estimates, showing a heavy shrinkage from previously report ed values, with a corresponding diminution of sur plus as regards policy holders, may and probably will provoke inquiry and criticism; but it should be remembered that the former and higher values re Company's statement from year to year have till now remained unchanged, notwith standing the great financial depression of the coun try, and the consequent large reduction in cash values. Under this condition of things, and in view of the fact that “bottom prices” have in all probability been reached, it was eminently fitting that a re-val uation should be made upon a new appraisement of real estate anti mortgages held by the Company and scattered over more than half the States of the Un ion, in many of which unusual causes had produced seilous depreciation. This revaluation has been made with the results already indicated. Upon a careful review of the statement before us, and of the present and prospective condition of the company’s assets, including real estate and mort gage loans, we are strongly impressed with the con viction that the estimated shrinkage will ultimately recover a very considerable margin, after fully pro viding for all probable losses and expenses; in other words, with its efficient and watchful administra tion successfully perpetuated, we think such mar gin might have been reasonably and equitably re tained in the reported assets and surplus of the Company. With this expression of our views, and of our confidence in the ability of the Company to meet fully and honorably all its liabilities and policy-con tracts, we are Very respectfully yours, Joshua Nye, Ins. Commissioner of Maine, Stephen H. Rhodes. Ins. Commissioner nf m- ArntwVptfs We reiterate, .^Yn^ormer c^jM3"fEe public, namely: “That the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine is sound to the core, and able to pay all its obligations, as it has never failed to do daring the thirty-five years of its existence; that it has been successfally and honestly managed; a»d that all statements de rogatory to its character are untrae and base less. The directors of the Union Mutual Life In surance Company have not refused to allow it to be examined by any insurance department, aided by any men it may select. The revocation of our license by the Insur ance Commissioner of Massachusetts to do business in that State, will, when the whole truth appears, do ub no injury,” While all puhlic .discussion of this kind is unpleasant, yet we are pleased that it oomes now, so that the charges and insinuations in Commissioner Tarbox’s report can be examined into and reported on, not by the officers and directors of the company, but by independent authority, whose standing and character none can question. The company is under examination by the Departments of Insurance of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and Illinois, as sisted in the valuations by the Departments of Indps^i MwiaoatL. Jennsy 1 vaat*, Nebraska, ,^»**^*'?^S«tates wherein the com us real estate or has mortgage assets, in all probability the examination of tho Com misssoners will be completed in a few weeks, and as soon as completed will be made public. John E. DbWitt, A ibOlUOUta Emancipation Day. The annivcrs ary of the Emancipation Proc lamation was observed by the colored citizens of this city last evening, at Reception Hall. A large audience was present. Mr. Arthur H. Harris called the meeting to order, and Eev. W. G. Wilson offered prayer, after which Mrs. Jennie Guptill gave a piano solo, entitled old Black Joe, with variations, which was finely executed. Mrs. Guptill also gave as piano solos “Fife and Drum” and “The Storm,” which called forth repeated applause. The “Bell Galop” was given by Mrs. H. A. Day, prepared by herself tor this occasion. It was sparkling in movement syid unique in piano accompaniment. The readings of Mrs. Thomas P. Beals were given in her usual pleasing manner, and called for many en cores. The Boios by Misses Cary and Johnson were nicely rendered. Mrs. Nettie Smith sang two very charming pieces, as also did Mr. David Crockett. The Misses Dyer and Welch pleased the audience very much by pfano selec tions. After the order of exercises a general invita tion was extended to the audience to discuss the Civil Rights Bill. Mr. Arthur H. Harris opened the subject and handled it in an able manner. At the close of the meeting an oyster sapper was given and greatly enjoyed by all.J A. K. The following officers were installed last eve ning as officers of Bosworth Post No. 2, by Sen ior Vice Department Commander, E. K. Gat ley: Prtfit nrtmmon^oi. I_T Senor Vice Commander—H. S. Trickey. Junior Vice Commander—C. M. Henry. Quartermaster— W. S. Dunn. Surgeon—Dr. R. L. Dodge. Chaplain—B. F. Strickland. Adjutant—E. C. Milliken. Officer of the Day—F- A. Motley. Officer of the Guard—R, G. Berry. Sergeant Major—W. H. Rowe. Quartermaster Sergeant—Daniel Willard. After the installation the Post was invited by the newly elected officers to partake of what Mr. Levi Atwood had on his bill of fare. The Post voted to turn over to the Soldiers and Sailors Monumental Association the cannon and balls voted to them by Congress. Willard Mhooting Association. The Willard Shooting Association has elect ed the following officers: President—Col. E. C. Farrington. Vice President—Chas. S. Somerby. Secretary—Geo. H. Pierce. Treasurer—Theodore B. Davis. Executive Committee—Geo. H. MeKenney. Benj. J. Willard, Joseph N. Martin. A yote of thanks was passed to Capt. Chast, the retiring president, who briefly responded. A committee was appointed to make arrange ments for the annual supper, which will take place on the evening of the 28th at the Preble House. Exports of Cattle and Sheep. The Toronto of the Dominion line, which is about ready to Bail for Europe will take the following: Name. Cattle. Sheep. A. W. Aiken, Montreal. 536 G. W. Elliot, Montreal. 426 N. Kennedy, Montreal.133 Canadian. N. Kennedy, Montreal. 60 American. The above lots were very handsome, as we are informed by Mr. Walter Roffey of Mon treal, (who is located here tor the winter and superintends the shipping of stock for Mr. Kennedy.) The sixty head of American stock were purchased in Brighton and are from the West. SCARBORO S CENTENARIAN. Mr. Jacob Millibcn Celebrates His 100th Birthday Anniversary—Reminiscences of His Younger Dnys Belated by Him self. Yesterday five ohildren of Mr. Jacob Milli keu, viz; Charles of Deering, Mrs. Jnlia Rich, James and Freedom of Boston, George H. of Scarboro, several grand-children and great grand-children and other relative*, together with 75 of the neighbors and townsmen assembled at his home to celebrate his 100th birthday. The old gentleman was cheerful and greeted his friends with the cordiality of the “olden time.“ He was ready toconvers0 concerning matters of the past or present, re memb8ring recent events quite as well as those that transpired h alf a century ago. Born five years before the inauguration of the first President, Mr. Milliken may be eaid to have lived through all the years cf our govern ment. He insists that he voted for Thomas Jefferson when renominated for a second term, although he lacked two months cf his majority. “People were not so particular thon as they are now,'’ says he, “besides my undo was one of the selectmen that year. When I was a boy there was a good deal of business done nt Dunstan. There was more shipping owned here then than in any place in theso parts. Portland wras a small place then. Largo quan tities of lumber were hauled from Salmon Falls and from mills in the vicinity. I have seen the Dunstan Landing road (half a mile loDg) piled the whole length with lumber awaiting shipment in the spring. Vessels of 1G0 tons were then considered large. Masts were towed to Portsmouth and shipped from there. Many of the men ‘followed the Bea‘— others were engaged in shipbuilding, manu facturing lumber and, of course, in farming. Yes, they made shipping shingles for the West India trade—they could do that sort of work when they could do nothing else. Shipping shingles were not more than a foot long. I have seen a man carry five bundles of them at a time; the wager was a quart of rum. The man carried a bundle under each arm, a bun dle with each hand, and another sluDg, and carried in his teeth. I remember the old meetinghouse at Dunstan—it had a gallery on three sides and the pulpit was set up on posts. It was torn down in 1802. Dr. Southgate built his brick house in 1808 and moved into it in 1809, when he was 69 years old. Governor King was frequently at Scarboro, and others of the King family. The widow King re moved from the old King house to Scot tows Hill farm in 1801. Yes, I got lost in a corn field once when I was a boy. It was on the same lot where Hobson oat off a heavy growth of pine logs about ten years ago. You can 6ee the rows of the Indian corn hills- there when the snow isoff. My grandfather, Abraham Lord, died in Scarboro. My grandmother with her sons moved to Ellsworth about the time of the Revolution. When a young man I visited Viai* unrl oho frtld mo tliol r,V,r. grand-children. One of my uncles had eight sons and eight daughters. My father was a soldier in the Revolution and a pensioner. I was a soldier in the war of 1812 and receive a pension.” Daring the afternoon several gentlemen from Portland and Saco arrived and extended kindly greetings. The following poem from the pen of the California poetess, Miss Ina Coolbritb, a rela tive of Mr. Milliken, was read and highly ap preciated by all: To your patriarchal feast in our country’s farthest East, I, a Btiai»eor, not a guest, Greeting send from farthest West. Somewhere, in some far-off line, Blood of yours was blood of mine; So they say. It matters not; Since were we of alien race, Strange of color, tongue and face, Kalmac, Tartar, Hottentot, Mongol, Afric, Indian— Trace the races he.who can— White, or black, or red, or brown, Safe it is to write it down, At the one great Father's knee Common children, all, are we. So my kinsman, health and peace! Can I say—“Your years increase,” When the full threescore and ten Meted unto common men— Limit of the toil and strife, The strange mystery called Life— J^ongjouLBtS^S'imve 0T0T-P2 Strange it is our thoughts to cast Down a century’s long track In one lifetime looking back! Why! when you first saw the light Scarcely how to wear aright Her young freedom—strange and new As this world of ours to you— Did our maiden nation know. You have seen her empire grovf, Rise of sun to set of sun, Lands of fire, and lands of snow, Gathered, blended, one by one, As the light of stars is blent In one glorious firmament;— Till our timid Princess towers Queen above her sister powers. Y ou have seen her lair head bowed Thrice beneath a bloody cloud; Thrice triumphant, wear the crown Of a danger battled down; Thrice her hands the sword release For the lily-blooms of peace. Stranger yet,—fulfillment bold Of that wild, wierd vision, "tSfti By a wizard, burned of old For his magic,—name it we Rather his true prophecy!— You have known; Upon the sea Sailless, oarless, slops to row; Carriage without horse to go; Man in air to move like bird; Air to burn; and uttered word At a thousand miles be heard; Round the whole great globe a belt Like a living pulse be felt; Even the sun—and this is worse— Monarch of our universe— Forced with artist touch to trace Portraits of our mortal race!’ Is the age of miracle At an end, indeed? When still, Day by day, and hour by hour, Is unfoided some new power. New, and yet as old as time, Waiting but the touch sublime, Waiting but the master mind To reveal it to mankind. Surely, God is with the earth, Now, as at her hour ot birth; Still He walks her gardens wide Morning-time and even-tide; Clearly still His mighty word By the listening ear is heard. Man of years and silver hair, Great the honor which you bear In the “added length of days” He has given. Give Him praise! May that vast, mysterious Will Grant thee added blessings still, Every hour that yet is thine Link with mortal the divine, Till thy hundred years shall bo Merged into eternity. Oakland, California, Dec. 24,1883. An appropriate poem by Mr. W. H. Graf fam of Scarboio was also read by its author. CONCERT TO MR. GRIMMER. We are glad to see a complimentary concert is to be tendered Mr. Charles Grimmer on Jan. 17tb, a musician of whom any commnnity might be prond. For twenty-two years Mr. Grimmer has been familiar to our citizens, coming here with the celebrated Poppinburg’s 17th TJ. S. Infantry band. He has done mnch for the mnsical culture and taste of Portland, and the concert should be a pecuniary success3 The vocal soloists on this occasion will bo Miss Belle Bartlett, soprano, Miss Ada Cary, con tralto, Mr. Will Stockbridge, tenor, and Mr. J. B. Coyle, Jr., bass. Miss Anne Louise Davis will play violin solos, and Mr. Harvey Murray will act las accompanist. Grimmer’s orchestra, augmented, will furnish the instru mental music. The sale of seats will open at Stockbridge’s next Monday morning. Death of a Veteran. We learn that John W. Foote, has just de ceased in Norwich, Conn. Mr. Foote was born at Cape Small Point, Maine, in 179o, and was consequently 88 years of age at the time of his decease. He served in the war of 1812, and was an eye-witness of the battle between the Enterprise and Boxer, which he said took place east of Seguin. Among the relatives he leaves in this vicinity are Capt. John Liscomb, of the Portland Steam Packet Co., and Mrs. Emeline Boss. He was a brother of Admiral Foote, U. S. N., and his sou Constant Foote, is captain of the steamer Ella, which plies out of Norwich. Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers of real estate in this county have been reco-ded at the registry of deeds: Raymond -Orrin G. Chipman to Charles H. Plummer, et al, land. $500. Yarmouth—William Buckuam to Louis P. Pomeroy, land. $15. Louis P. Pomeroy to William Bucknam.land $15. Falmouth—George Wilson to Marcia B. Wil son, land. $1. A New Lathe. Mr. Hanson has invented a new lathe, and a company has been formed to put it in the market as follows: President—E. Gerry, Jr. Secretary and Treasurer—Henry 8. Osgood. Directors—Benj. F. Hamilton of Biddeford; Henry 8. Osgood of Portland; Freeman Han son of Bar Mills, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. RINES BROTHERS’ SALE! Special for To h lOety. 3000 yards 3C inch Sheeting at 5 1-3 cents. 800 42 SO 750 extra nice 10-4 Sheeting at 30 cents. 600 gross 25c Dress Buttons at 11c per dozen. 300 Print 5c 1000 yards best Prints in Summer colors at 4 1-2 cents. 3009 second quality Prints in darh colorsat 4 1-2 cents. 5000 full pounds of Batting at 8c per pound. ALSO FOR MONDAY’S SALE. Boys’ 50c Worsted mufflers at 25 cents. Part Pieces of 15c and 20c Ribbons at 7 cents. 20 pieces Kuching at only Gc per yard. Boys’ Winter Underwear 42c; all sizes. Gents’ Heavy White Underwear 75 cents. Child’s Winter Undervests 18 cents Gents' 90c 55 35 dozen Uadies’ 3-button Kids 50 cents. Foster best $2.00 S hook Uaced Gloves $1.50. 6-button Kid Gloves $1.50. 4-button $1-75 Kid Gloves $1.50. Uadies’ Fur Trimmed Dolmans; Uadies’ Plush Trimmed Dolmans; Uadies’ Fine Garments—4.11 marked Down, Ladies’ Winter 8acks $5.00. Walking Jackets $5.00. Jersey Waists 75 cents $1.00. Jackets $5.00. These Jerseys were left with us by the manufacturers for sale and we arc to close them at half real wholesale cost, Rciunauts good Turkey Red Table Damask 55 cents. Children’s Wool Hose, small and medium sizes, 17 cents. These have never been sold less than 25c; and in some localities the regular price is 38 cents. See To-morrow’s Sunday Times for Description of Bfflany of These Goods. HINES BROS. tau5 dlt REMNANTS -of CLOAKINGS. In our woolen department on the first floor, we have placed all our remnants and short lengths of Black and Colored Cloakings and Plushes. They are marked at less than half price. This Sale will afford a rare op portunity to secure a bargain in Cloaking. EASTMAN BROS. BANCROFT. Jau5 _. dtf ART GOODS In a Large Variety at I shall continue my store, Farrington Block, and endeavor to suit my many patrons and the public generally with a "«m„ipte line of Paintings, Engravings, tlauivu, __ Materials, Pottery and all the novelties usually found in an Art Store, line Gold Gilt Frames In all styles. Those in want I invite to exam ine. I warrant my work as first class Gold Gilt. Remember the place FARRINGTON BLOCK, CONGRESS STREET 26 TEMPLE STBEET, FORMERLY STUBBS BROS. jan5 eodtf 50 PAIRS Children’s Fur Wrist Kid Mittens, to he sold To Day, Saturday, at 25 cents pair. OWEN, MOORE CO. jan& dlt $50.00 REWARD. PORTLAND ROCHESTER R. R. The above regard will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the burglars who robbed the safe of this company at Gorham station the night of Janu ary 3. 1884. J. W. PETERS, Supt. Portland, Me., Jan. 4,1884. Jan5d3t M. Wanted. AGENTS to take subscribers for the Cottage Hearth Magazine, a well known beautiful il lustrated home Magazine filled with Stories, Poems, Receipts, Fancy-work, Fashions and Music, $1.60 a year. Outfit free. Call or Address, Cottage Hearth Co.. 11 Bromfield St., Boston. jan5 dGt Fill the Children’s Stockings rith FOE, PURE CONFECTIONERY LOWEST PRICES FOB i T GOODS. -MANUFACTURE C. O. HUDSON 13 MARKET SQUARE. Christmas Boxes in great variety. Cornucopias, Sugar Toys and Novelties in Sweetmeats. C.O. HUDSON novlS dtf FLOORING, &c., of all thicknesses, widths and qualities. James&Abbot, 5S Kilby St., BOSTON, NOTICE. Dr. E. B. Reed, Clairvoyant and Botanic Physician is located for a short time at Merchants Ex change, Temple street, Portland, Me.. Room 7 up one flight. Office Hours, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. doc 2d dtf LADIES’ Indian Felt, high cut, button Arc tics; new and stylish; narrow widths a specialty. Sold only at sign of Bold Boot We have a large stock of the above named goods front which to select LADIES’ Low cut Overshoes, wove lined, narrow widths. LADIES’ Zephyr Rubbers at Sign of Bold Boot; narrow widths a specialty. LADIES’, MISSES’ CHILDREN’S Patent Extension Heel Rubbers. Buy the Extension Heel Rub bers for your children. Buy your Patent Rubbers at Kign of Hold Bout, LADIES’ Wool lined Slippers, the Slippers for the season. Widths b, c dc d. GENTLEMEN’S Narrow Buckle Arctics; sizes 6 to 13. Bents’ narrow low Ov ershoes. Bents’ Zephyr Rubbers, GENTLEMEN’S Custom made, hand pegged, Wes cott call, top sole boots, water proof; tiM besiboot on earth for the season. Bents’ hand sewed, custom made, Moroc co leg, calf boot, double sole, Plain JFrencli Toe, Children’s and Misses’ School Boots; Narrow Widths a Specialty. SHOE DEALER 421 CONGRESS ST. Sign of Bold Boot. Telephone 503. ian6 eoi ti m insolvency. Court of Insolvency for the County of Cumberland, State of Maine. January 4, A. D. 1884. In case of HARMON E. PIIINNEY, Insolvent Debtor. THIS is to give notice that on the fourth day of January, A. D. 1884, a warrant in insolvency was issued by Henry C. Peabody, Judge of the Court of Insolvency for said County of Cumberland, against the estate of said HARMON E. PHINNEY, of Deering, adjudged to be an insolvent debtor, on petition of said debtor, which petition was filed on the fourth day of January, A. D. 1884, to which date interest on claims is to be computed. That the payment of any debts to or by said debt or and the transfer and delivery of any property by him are forbidden by law. That a meeting of the creditors of said debtor to prove their debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Insolvency, to be holden at Probate Court room, in said Port land, on the twenty-first day of January, A. D. 1884, at ten o’clock in the forenoon. Given under my hand the date first above writ ten. H. R. SARGENT, Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger of the Court of Insol vency for said County of Cumberland. jan5&12 PORTLAND STEAM PACKET CO. AMNITAI. MEETING’ THE stockholders of the Portland Steam Packet Company are hereby notified that their annual meeting, for the choice of five Directors for the en suing year and the transaction of such ether busi ness as may be legally brought before them, will be held at the office of the Company, Franklin Wharf, on TUESDAY, the 15th day of'January, 1884, at 10 o’clock a. m. J. F. LISCOMB, jan5dtd Secretary. Notice of Dissolution. THE copartnership heretofore existing under the firm name of CHAFFIN LIBBY, Fruitjand Confectionery dealers, is this day dissolved by mu tual consent. All accounts and demands due the firm may be settled with either member. The wholesale and retail trade will be carried on by Charles R. Chaffin at 568 670 Congress street; and by Charles E. Libby at cor. of Brown Congress streets. The continued patronage of their friends is respectfully solicited. CHARLES R. CHAFFIN, CHARLES E. LIBBY. Portland, Jan. 3,1884. janSdlw* Dissolution of Copartnership. THE firm of Smullen Prince is this day dissolv ed by mutual consent. All accounts of the firm will be settled by either party. S. E. SMULLEN, S. 0. PRINCE. Orr’s Island, Jan. 1,1884, The business formerly carried on by the above firm will be continued by Sylvanus C. Prince and Sanford J. Prince, under the firm name of S. C. PRINCE SON.janSdlw Special Notice. The members of the Portland Cadets are hereby notified that the annual meeting will be held at the Armory, Monday evening, Jan 7th, and all mem bers are requested to be present. Per order jan5 S&AI Exec. Com. Artists’ Materials! Engravings, Paintings, Framing in all styles. Fine Gold and Bronze Work. Old Engravings made as Good as New. Statuary Bronzed in every style. Gold Pens and Pen Stocks; Ivory, Pearl, Ebony. J. T. VFUBBS, 400 Congress St. tOpp. City Hall.) UP TOWN STORE 593 Congress St. jan3__(lit NOTICE. All bills due Perry Sc Oliver net paid an or before Jau. 110, 188-1, will be left with our Attorney for eolleetion. jau3d3t' COPARTNERSHIP NOTICV t Copartnership Notice. PUBLIC notice is hereby given that Edgar L. Robinson this date retires from the firm of C. A. WESTON Co., Wholesale Grocers, Portland, Maine, and that on and after this date George S. Blethen is admitted a member of said firm of C. A. Weston Co. Dated at Portland, Me., this first day of January, 1884. CLARENCE A. WESTON, EDGAR L. ROBINSON, jan4d3t GEO. S. BLETHEN. Dissolution of Copartnership. THE firm of Williams. Pulsifer Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either partner is authorized to sign in settlement of accounts, Leonard Williams. C. R. Pulsifer, W. A. Skillin. The business formerly carried on by the above firm will be continued by the undersigned at the same place, 85 Commercial St., under the firm name of Williams, Skillin Co. Portland, Jan, 1, 1884. LEONARD WILLIAMS, janldlw* W. A. SKILLIN. Notice of Copartnership. THE undersigned have this day formed a copart nership under the firm name of HALL HAS KELL, for the purpose of transacting a general Ship Brokerage and Commission busines, at 179 Commer cial street. ALBERT B HALL, CHAS. O. HASKELL. Portland, Jan. 1st, 1884. janldlw Copartnership. WILLIAM E. RUSSELL and CHAS. H. BAIN are admitted as members of our firm from date. PERLEY BUSSELL CO* Portland. January 1, A. D. 1884. Jan3d3t Notice of Dissolution. THE co-partnership heretofore existing under the firm name of RUMERY, BIKNIE CO., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Lewis L. Thurston retiring. The remaining partners, J. Rumery and D, Birnie, will carry on the lumber commission business as heretofore under the same firm name. Portland, dan. 1,1884. janldlw Hoff’s Malt Extract! A Tonic Without a Rival! THE GENUINE. The best possible stimulant. It aids digestion. Strengthens the weak, Builds up the system. It is unsurpassed: For Weakly Children. For Nursing Mothers. For Convalescents. N. B. It has been largely imitated, and the public is hereby caution ed to accept none unless it bears the name of TARRANT Sc CO., Sole Agent? for the Unit” ed States and British Pro vinces of North America, 278 Greenwich St., New York. Price $4.00 per Joz. LADIES: TO-DAY BEAVER will be sold for $15.00, former price $30.00. Hare Sets very low. Otter-Sets way down. Seal Sets, Coney Sets, Grebe Sets, Nutra Sets, and Chinchilla Sets. We have an overstock of these goods and have marked them at about cost to reduce them OLOVES Seal, Beaver, Otter, French Seal, Nutra and Coney. Also a few pairs of Ueal Otter for $6, worth $10.00. FUR GAPS. Coney Caps, 75c; French Seal $1. Nutra, 1.50; Boys’ Skating, 75c; Heal Seal, $3.00. TRUNKS Zinc, Sole Feather, Crystalized Zinc, Excelsior Wood Trunk, extra strong, and sold in Portland by us. BAGS. A splendid stock of all kinds for Ladies and Gents. COE, THE HATTER, 197 middle St. dec22 eodtf M. I MARKET BOOK, CARD and JOB PRINTER, Respectfully announces to his friends and the public that he is now better prepared than at any previous time to fill all orders entrusted to his care, having recently added to an already lar^e assortment many of the new and LATEST STYLES OF TYPES AND BOR DERS, making his office one of the best equipped for every description of Book, Card, Commercial and Fancy Job Printing:. Always on hand a large stock of FEAT and LETTER PAPERS, B1EE HEADS, CARDS, TAOS, etc., with which I am prepar ed to fill all orders at the lowest possible prices. Orders solicited, and will receive careful and prompt attention. wm. mTmARKS, 97 1-2 Exchange St., Portland, Me. Jan3 eod?m GREAT MAM DOWN 11 A large and elegant assortment of PIANO COVERS, at astonishtuKtr low prices at the PIANO and ORGAN Ware-rooms of Samuel Thurston 3 Free St. Block, PORTLAND. (No. 3. WILL YOU CALL TELEPHONE 771. Wm. H. Scott, Manufacturer of GALVANIZED IRON GUTTERS AIVD COR1ICE. Steamboat, Locomotive and Stationary Boiler Stacks, Tin Plate and Sheet Iron Worker, Agent for Austin’s Patent Expanding Water Con* duetors. All kinds of Plain Conductors constantly on hand. Tin Hooting a specialty, Tin Hoofs repaired anti painted, Persons troubled with leaky roofs caused by snow and ice freezing on the eaves of the building can have them lined up Water Tight, and buow and ice removed at reasonable rates by calliug on the above at NOS. 29, 31 33 UNION ST. de«2y eod3m* AUCTION SALEM. F. O. BAILEY CO., Auctioneer* and Commission Merchant Saiesreoa IS Excl ugc Mt. 3. O. BA'LEV, o. yy, AIXBV Regular gale of r rniture and Genera Merohau. <Hee every Raturda; eommenoing at 10 o’oloeh a. m. Consignments golioited oetSdtf EDUCATIONAL. Instruction in English and Class icai Studies given to private pupils by tbe subscriber J. W. COLCORD, 143 Pearl Street. Jan24 dtt II. S. MURRAY, Teacher of Piano STUDIO 543 CONGRESS ST. doc 2 5 eod4w GREAT BARGAINS ROBES ROBES ROBES A large stock to pick from. Be tween two and three hun dred to look over Wolf Robes $6.00, 6.50 and 7.00. Wolf Robes, plush lined, $7.50 to 10.00. Wolf Robes, plush lined, very large fine ones, $11.00,12.00, 13.00 to 15,00. fiutfalo Robes, large whole skins, unlined, $8, 9, 10 to 13.00. Lined ones, $12, 13.50 to 18.00 Bnttalo Coats full Beaver trimmed $25.00. Some flue Black Wolf Robes. White Horse Blankets to close stock very cheap. C&ODM SENT C. O. D. PRIVILEGE TO EXAlilNE. MERRY, THE ELATTBR, 237 Middle Street, SIGN OF THE GOED HAT. dec28d2ttoodtf HEADQUARTERS FOR CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS 39 Congress St., BROWN’S NEW BLOCK. Baying plenty of room to do business, (in our new store,) we shall make the largest display of Christ mas Slippers this scaspn ever made in Portland. We have all styles and all prices, and shall en deavor to suit everybody’s purse and taste. It will pay you to give us a call before making your pur chases. We have also a Large and Well Assorted Stock of bouis, snots aod rubbers which we^are selling at prices that cannot fail to be satisfactory to the purchaser. Remember our widths arc from the NARROW EST to the WIDEST, and sizes from the SMALL EST to the LARGEST. Don’t forget the price. BROWN’S NEW BLOCK, WYER GREENE CO. Christmas Cards Christmas Goods AS9 Photograph Albums in great variety and LOWEST PRICES. UK II.CUI1K, 515 CONGRESS ST. dec3 dtf ACCOUNT BOOKS At reasonable prices. Order for the new year BLANK BOOKS that may be needed. LORING, SHORT k HARIN' 474 CONGRESS STREET d2m DRESS REFORM I Garments of all kiuds made to ol der lrom measure. Coutbina ion Flannels, Stockings, Sup porters, Comfort Corsets, Dress Reform Waists, and Corded Waists for Chit dren. Stamping, Designing, aud Les sons in Embroidery. MARY E. FMEATHER, 8 Elm Street. Jaul _ dtt I8N3-4 dORKINa.VS 1 SSI-4 LECTURE aud MUSICAL AGENCY A BUBEAU OF INTFLUGESCE For Entertainment Committees aud musical Artists. For Circulars, etc., address ARTHUR B. MORRT SON, Manager 64.1 lout.,., street, wTm. Furbosh& Son s New Plano w'arorooms. Box 1476 Portland M«, nov24dlwtM,W&8tt