Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1890 — PROTEST AGAINST THE GRANT. [ARTICLE]

PROTEST AGAINST THE GRANT.

Coffee Merchants Object to Privileges Given Promoters of Auctions. Rio Janeiro cable: The coffee merchants met in this city the other day to protest against tho grant made by the government to the organizers of the proposed coffee auctions of the privileges of shipping coffee sold at those auctions without immediate payment of export duties. This grant, which' allows the first payment on account of the duty to be make at the end of two years, and the other payments gradually thereafter, is called by an evening paper a usurpation and a scandal. One of the grounds on which the minister of finance attempts to justify his measure is the assertion that within a few months congress will approve the constitution published by the government abolishing export duties. This paper asks him whether he thinks the future .congress so servile that he can anticipate its action. It is stated that the person obtaining the grant is a relative of Deodoras. Mrs Mary Zall, one of the teachers in the Lewiston HI. public schools, unmercifully flogged little Fred Willcoxen in school until from pain and fright he became insane and ran to his mother’s grave in the cemetery near the town. Miss Zall is heartbroken Richard M. Johnson, who was tax collector of Biddeford, Maine, in 1883, Jias been arrested at the instigation of City Treasurer Goodwin and Mayor Staples on the charge of embezzling SIOO,OOO of the city’s money. The Queen of Roumania who has been sojourning in Wales for her health has accepted an invitation to visit Queen yictoria at Balmoral. Fire in the upper part of the Brooklyn institute destroyed the roof and daihaeed the library, causing a loss of $50,000.