Gen. Neal Dow Is Dead

Gen. Neal Dow, the famous temperance leader of America, died at his home at Portland, Me., at the age of 93 years. Neal Dow was the author of the Maine prohibition law, which was the first enactment of the kind ever placed on the statute book of any state or nation. He recruited a regiment at the outbreak of the war, and was in the Mississippi campaign with Gen. Butler when the latter ran the iorts and took New Orleans. He was commissioned a general by President Lincoln, but was soon afterward captured and sent to Libby prison. Since the war Gen. Dow had been almost constantly eng-aged in temperance work, and in 1888 was nominated for the presidency by the Prohibitionists.