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Portland Daily Press: January 28,1887 -- PORTLAND PRESS. ESTABLISHED .TUNE 23, 1862—VOL. 24. PORTLAND, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28. 1887. PRICE THREE CENTS. SPECIAL NOTICED. TIIE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, OUR AUCUSTA BUDCET. boring States, and more favorable to this power by electricity to Bar Harbor, South- FROM WASHINGTON. now labored was not incurred in that serv ice. CREAT STRIKE IN NEW YORK. Kettoe referred to Gen. Grant's repeated ef- west Harbor and the city of Ellsworth. The burdon of would be them. forts to overcome the desire for strong Published great interest in its present depressed condi- proof upon every day (Sundays excepted) by tbe of Mr. Cullom whether a month drink while tie was In the and of his tion, and to prevent, if possible, the further Mr. Fogg Portland, presented today the inquired $12 army, Bill Creenleaf’s Chances for the Lewis* was to be the highest or lowest al- Over 30,000 ’Longshoremen and final victory his own PORTLAND PUBLISHING Presented by Itepresentative loss petition of Eli Goss of Portland, who lost a pension through persistency COMPANY, of taxable property to our State by the lowed. and the encouragement and auvice given HORSE Con- removal of owners in Aroostook war. He now ton Post Office Very Slim. Coal Heavers Out of Employment. Against vessel and the receives him BLANKETS. at 07 i. Manley Providing the transfer of leg Mr. Mitchell the belief Kawllns. He was sar- Street, Portland, Me. expressed that $12 by constantly Diseases. vessel property to other States, with taxation of a was to lie the maximum rounded it Sale tagious Cattle a pension 820 month, but represents that and that the pen- by temptation, and at times pre- Large now in Pro- ousts a Year. To mail sub- laws more favorable to shipping. .reason of failing health, this is insuffic- .sion would be rated down to the sented itself in such a form that few, al- by A Dark Horse Said to be Training for according Not of gress at our from scribers. Seven Dollars & Year, if paid in advance. ient. He asks that the State increase his degree of disability. Steamers, Receiving Supplies though endowed with the high of Store, Rates or The Insolvency Law. degree Advertis'no—One inch ot space The Attack Secretary Cilbert to an amount such as the United the Place. Mr. Sewell, member of the committee on Cannot Sail. moral courage characteristic of Gen. Grant, or twelve lines Against pension Coal, J"? SSM**10f ,polu,nn’ nonpareil Mr. Powers of Houlton believes that the States would for a similar pensions, said if he had been In the could have overcome it. l)r. constitutes a “square." of the Board. give disability. present successfully Agricultural committee when the bill was it he Kettoe said that Gen. Grant was $1.60 per square, dally, first week; 76 cents present insolvdney law of the State covers The Senate paid its respect to the opium before although per would addicted to the use of week after; three Insertions or con- The Move to Have Senators Attend have objected to its being reported in The Companies Creatly strong drink during 50 less, $1.00, lots of rascality. So to-day he introduced a traffic Senator Sleeper introduced a Steamship Gents to today. its $5.00. condition. was the of the every other day after first 60 present He to early days war, he was a model of tuiuing week, cents. Senator Bill to Prevent opposed Alarmed the Situation. Half three or Weymouth’s bill to amend tbe present law so the and the Senate Prayers. by in other Call at once are square, Insertions less, 76 cents; insolvency bill to regulate traffic, opening tho door, as this bill did, to the pen- morality things, and was enthusi- as all one 60 after. week, $1.00; cents per week Fraud at Elections. as to add to sec. 52 of 70 of the Revised an order that the committee on sioning of men who had served in the Con- astic In his eulogy ofthe General's BbKctAL additional. chap. passed legal private Marked Down. Notices, one-third federate army. Ue moved to amend the bill character. Under head of “Amusements” and “Auction Statutes these words: affairs be instructed to inquire into the ex- Cranted to Claimants The Make a Ceneral More Pensions by striking out the fourth section and in- Workingmen Sales,” $2.00 per square per week; three inser- And If person, or acting in to the any being Insolvent, of “regulating the sale of opium the words in Demand for an Increase of tions or less. $1.60. Proposition Increase Appropri- of within six months pediency In Maine- serting “nothing contained this Pay. FOREIGN. contemplation insolvency, and its derivations.” act shall be before file of the or construed as repealing or modi- THE ation for the Board of Health. filing petition by against him, HINES BROTHERS. MAINE STATE PRESS, makes any payment, sale assignment, transfer, Mr. Luwbert of Aroostook, had the Senate fying section 4715 of the Revised Statutes;” I an 2 8dtl convey and, or other of his to from (section which prohibits to men who New Jan. Churchill Published every Thursday Mornino, at $2.60 disposition property today an order that upon all appropria- Interesting News and Cossip pensions York, 27.—Twenty thousand Explains His Reasons for any person who has reasonable cause to be pass served in the a year; if paid in advance. $2.00 a year. bills the yeas and nays stand ordered. Confederate army.) men are this afternoon on a strike The State Capitol Stormed by the lieve him to be or on tion the along the from the Cabinet: Advertisements inserted in the "Maine State insolvent, acting contempla- Capital. Mr. Blair, also a member of the Resigning NOTICES. tion of and that sucli The committee on affairs bo re- pensions river front of this include all Press” (which lias a large circulation in every Veterans. Insolvency, payment, sale, military committee, thought there was a city. They Army assignment, transfer or other conveyance is made misappre- The before the Committee on Banks part of the for $1.00 per square for first in- to examine into the of hension as to the effect of the coal hearing State) with a view to prevent ills property from quired expenditures the bill in opening shovelers, 'longshoremen, freight And and in to the matter of An Act to sertion, and 60 cents per square for each subse coming [Special to tlie Press. I a to the Saya That He Does Not Regret Banking regard to bis or to prevent tbe same from the Adjutant General’s department and re- way- pensioning of the men who handlers and men on the river amend Sec. 64, 6, of the Revised quent insertion. assignee, being served In the employed Chap. Statutes, An Interesting Before the distributed uuder this chapter or to defeat the ob- what changes, if any are needed, in the Washington, Jan. 27. Confederate army. Whoever the Step. to taxes on has been Hearing port banks in almost every and the relating Savings Banks, ject of, or in any way impair, hinder, impede or for that A was to receive a under it must capacity, to at 7 Address all communications to Committeeron Affairs. appropriations department, is tho gentleman, who may be supposed to pension have postponed Friday evening, February 4tli, Military delay the and effect of any of the served in some war on the side number is to the strik- o'clock in the Senate Cliauiber. operation provi- text of a Senate order of the govern- augmented .13,000 by p. m., PUBLISHING CO. sions of this the sale, trans- today. know whereof he speaks, said to your cor- PORTLAND chapter, assignment, ment. Those who had served in the Mexican ers on the Gladstone Is Anxious Per Order. or and shall be and the Brooklyn and Jersey shores. In Says England fer, couvey void, assignee respondent today in regard to the Lewiston war had been with E. B. MALLET, JR., Sec. recover the or tire value already provided pensions it is to the Eloquent Words In Favor of the may property, thereof, KNIGHTS OF LABOR. without consequence almost Impossible for any Settle Fishery Dispute. Augusta, Jan. 26,1887, jan28sn7t as assets of the insolvent. post office: Tegard to their service in the rebel THE WEATHER. Any contract, the Monuments. or army. This bill would reach of steamers for Europe or along the Gettysburg covenant security, made or given “Yon may consider one thing as practically only a very by an insolvent or other person small number of such coast to leave and persons. port. This Statement Notice. with, or in trust for any creditor, for securing the The Closing Sessions of the Conven- certain, that Is Levi Greenleaf will not Mr. Sherman himself Received with Cheers expressed in Savor of The order went forth yesterday from the Washington, Jan. 28. [Special to the Press.) payment of any money as a consideration for, or receive the appointment.” some bill, broad and in its by the House of Commons. with intent to induce the creditor to forbear tion at Augusta. general character, of the Tlie for Maine, New op- and so as to include headquarters 'Longshoremen’s Union, indications Hamp- Augusta, Jan. 2T. posing the application for if the in- The contest is beginning to grow interest- comprehensive all the discharge pension legislation that is which was backed by the Knights of Labor House of Representatives, I shire and Vermont, are warmer and fair The veterans stormed the Capitol,to-day.
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