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September 26,1883 PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862—YOL. 21. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1883. gSHftMfflSgt PRICE THREE CENTS. minifera and other calcaroous SPECIAL NOTICES. THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. MAINE. BIG BLAZE. POLITICAL. BURNSIDE MEMORIAL. FOREIGN. organisms, and stel Published every day (Sundays excepted) by the and frequently spherical, rodlike PUBLISHING POSTLAN]) COMPANY, late and covered sometimes in At 97 Exchange St., Me. Association for the Advanccuient of Sci- rhizopods, Cure Your Corns Portland, EauH'in :»Iain«; Fair—Promitc of n Sue- ILaesnchiisetta Greenback Convention- Terms: EightDollars a Year. To mail subscrib- Laying the Corner Slone of the IVew Hall the foramlnifera, BY USING rexxful The Business ence. large quantities. Among ers, Seven Dollars a Year, if in advance. Exhibition. Street of Fairfield Gov. at paid Butler Be-noininatcd, but Nome Op- Providence, R. I. is but many other Kates of Advertising: One inch of space, the 25 rain last London, Sept. 25-—The general committee globigerina abundant; Bangor, Sept. —The heavy in Flames. Manifested—E. SOHLOTTERBECK’S length of column, constitutes a “square." position Moody Boynton for the Advancement of Science yesterday forms occur, some of them of large size and $1.60 per square, tirst week: cents night settled the dust and cleared the air, and of the daily 76 per Denounces the Convention. elected Lord Rayleign president associa- week after; three insertions or continu- elegant in form. Grains of green sand (giu- less, $1.00, this morning proved bright and clear. A large Providence, R. I., 26.—Thousands of tion for 1884. Among the vice presidents Wart & Bunion ing every other day after first week, 60 conts. Sept. Corn, Solvent. number were elected are the of Lome, the Marquis were frequently met with, but were Half square, three insertions or 76 one present at the opening of the into and Marquis conite) less, cents; persons to-day poured Bristol by boat A. Sir Entirely harmless; is not a canstie. week, $60 cents Five Stores Burned and the of Lansdowne, Sir John MacDonald, of the $1.00; per week after. Eastern Maine fair, and there is every pros- Already witness the not abundant. Large quantities It removes Corns, Warts, Bunions and Callous Special Notices, one-third additional. Boston, Sept. 25.—The State Committee of train to laying of the corner stone Charles Tupper, Sir Alexander Galt, Right a of a Whole in tubes of annelids occur. Some without leaving blemish. Under head of "Amusements” and “Auction pect successful season. The entries of Street Banger. the Massachusetts Greenbackers met at 10 of Burusido Memorial Hall. The decorations Hon. Lyon Playfair, Dr. Charles William Sie- frequently for in Brush applying each bottle. Sales," $2.U0 per square per week; throe insertions horses are mens and Professor The date of next of fine very large, comprising the finest in o’clock this forenoon in this to decide on about town were The President Huxley. of these are made cemented mud, A CURE IS or less, $1.60. city, very profuse. in has VST O UARAN TEED.mJtM the meeting, which will be held Montreal, State, with others from the Provinces. The permanent organization. E. came up from about noon, The sand or of gravel; others, of parchment like Price 'JS cents. Per sale by nil DraggiaM. THE MAINE STATE PRESS. Moody Boynton Newport, arriving been fixed for the 25th of August, 1884, show of horses and cattle was never (Special Dispatch to the Press.) was present and claimed two hours later than he was The a free excursion to secretions. On the inshore and al- Try it and yon will be convinced like thousands Published every Thursday Morning, at $2.50 a equalled the right to act be- expected. programme will include plateau, who nave if in this The State 26.—3.30 A. M. Fairfield’s cause the Mountains and to au(l used it and now testify to its value. year; paid in advance, $2.00 a year. section. Agricultural, Nor- Fairfield, Sept. he was a member ot the National Com- Bristol Artillery fired a salute as soon as Rocky trips Qaebec so in the deeper localities on the slope, there Auk for NchloMerbeck’u Corn niid tt'nri Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State and Concert halls are fast business street is in dames. Five stores have mittee. At first it was Philadelphia. Solvent anal take Press in ombega. City filling refused, but he was fi- President Arthur came in sight. President is more or less mud or no other. (which lias a large circulation every part A in the Cotton Trade. usually genuine clay; of for tirst insertion with of the farm and manu- burned and the whole street is in Depmuou nov23 undtf the State) for $l .00 per square up produce dairy, already nally allowed to speak,which he did vigorously Arthur was received by Col. S. Pomeroy Colt, but this is mixed with considera- and 60 cents Tier for each subsequent inser- fire. A meeting of the joint committee of the generally square factured articles, machinery, fruit, flowers, great danger. The toll bridge is also on for ten minutes, asserting that the convention and the from this tion. Congressional delegation cotton manufacturers and operatives of north ble fine sand, even in three hundred or six in varieties and abun- Aid has been for and is RARE OLD ENGLISH BOOKS. Address all communications to fancy work, etc., great telegraphed to-day was not a Greenback convention, but a State,aud driven to Col. Colt’s residence, Gov. and northeast Lancashire is to be held at Man- is PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. further hundred fathoms. The sand, however, dance. now on the way from Waterville. No schemo to aid and abet the Democratic Brown sitting with the President. chester to-day to confer upon the depressed 118 Middle Street for* sale party. often so fine as to resemble and is fre- newly opened The are hour. condition of the cotton trade. The principal mud, of and of current and standard weather during the early portion ol the particulars obtainable at this The convention met at 11 a. m. Levi P. At Col. Colt’s residence the President’s path STOREabove, Second- of the conference is to arrange a scale of hand Books. Libraries and Collections of WEATHER INDICATIONS. Seth. object so when the preliminary old books opening day of the fair was blustering and Pierce of Lynn was chosen and was strewn with flowers maidens, The market for cotton is ad- quently reported purchased. president, by twenty wages. goods somewhat but not deter be from over are made. In several localities disagreeable, this did Gustavus B. Hutchinson of Boston, secretary. a repetition of the ceremony of welcome to mitted to suffering production. soundings a FOOD ADULTERATION. The masters propose to effoct a reduction of the bottom was so in 63 to 125 fath- considerable throng from assembling at the A debate ensued on th6 report of the President Monroe in 1817 at the same house. “hard,” 10,000 Old Books Wanted Im- Washington, Sept. 26. sharp which the workmen avow a wages, proposition grounds to witness the exhibition of a After short stay within the house the Presi- that the bulk of the material brought The indications for New are large committee on credentials, number of dele- will resist to the utmost of their ability. oms, mediately. England to-day dent joined the line of procession,which includ- they aug20 sndtf stock, the in Agricultural Hall, and for gates to the admission of Dr. J. P. to the master that instead of a consisted of worm tubes, shells, fair weather, northeasterly winds, display A French Preventive Plnn Urged objecting ed crews from the vet- They suggest up sponges, stationary militia, training ships, cur- the races which took in the afternoon. Bland as reduction of their wages, prodbctiou be but with neither mud Old Rare Books. or slight fall in the and place American Uonsideration. a delegate from Athol. Mr. Bland is eran associations, city councils of Providence etc., with some gravel, temperature, higher tailed bv working the factories upon shorter the exhibits of stock were those of a au- aud the bottoms were rich B?/W“k/'k VOLUMES of old rare English Books, barometer. Among sympathizer with Moody Boynton, and Newport, congressional delegation, time. The result of the conference is awaited nor fine sand. Such very of and Masonic orders w\J this day received from New York, in- C. P. Mattocks of Blanchard thor of a life grand lodges Masons, The weather bulletin that a violent Baldwin, George of Butler. Excited speeches with great anxiety by all the parties interested. in animal life. In many instances, even in clusive of School and College Text Books. Great says of escorting the presidential party. storm has northeast of & Co. of Cumberland, B. L. Pennell of Bruns' Washington, Sept. 23.—Consul Wilson were and Trial of Murderer. bargains, 118 Middle St.sep24snlw prevailed New Eng- made, all was confusion until Mr. At the site of the memorial buildings the- Carey’s our deeper dredgings (about 700 fathoms), land, and brisk and high northwesterly winds I. Shaw of Henry A. Nantes, France, reports to the State depart- Bland was and wife of James landed this wick, George jHartland, excluded by an almost unanimous presidential party disembarked occupied Mrs. Carey, Cary, and the belt we have continue on the MiddleAtlantic and New throughout examined, Eng- Higgins of Charleston, A. W. of Charles- ment that nearly every civilized nation has vote. the seats reserved on the platform. The cere- morning at Green Hithe on the Thames, 18 land coasts.
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