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International Steamship Go.
, Eastport, Calais and st. John.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT
THREE TRIPS PER WEEK
WITH REDUCED FARE.

.4f5s 4 On and after MONDAY, june
a. n ANN tional Line viii leave Railroad
-: 49, Wharf foot OF State Street, every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and
FRIDAY, at o'clock p. NJ, for EastpOrt and St.
John. t- - IS
Returning, win leave st. John and PASSPORT same
days tor Portland, and Boston. :, 'gt .la
Andrews, Robbinston, Caiais and New Brunswick
Railway to Woodstock and Houlton Stations, and
Stage Coaches will connect for Machias.
At St. John passengers take e. q N. A. Railway
for Shediac, and from thence for Summerside ana
Charottetown, P. E. Island, and Pictou, NJ 5; also
at ST. John the Steamer Empress for Windsor and
for Digby every Monday and Thursday mornings.
90 Freight received on days of sailing until tour
o'clock p, M. @. G. EATON, 81
May 20, 1866-dtf .s Agent.
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MEDICAL
MEDICAL ELECTRICITY
B. DIR. w. N. DEMING, s' !
Medical Electrician
174 MIDDLE STREET. laaEft&
Nearly Opposite the United States Hotel

III MIDDLE STREET, 4aa Tia
Nearly Opposite the United States Hotel
WHERE he would respectfully announce to
Wv citizens Of Portland and vicinity, that he
permanently located in this city. During the three
years we have been in this city, we have cured some
of the worst forms of disease in persons who have
tried other forms OF treatment in vain, and curing
asked, do they stay cured? To answer this question
we will say that all that do not stay cured, we y
doctor the second time without charge.
DR.. d. has been practical Electrician for twenty
ELECTRICITY perfectly adapted to chronic diseasesin
the head, neck, or extremities; consumption wlier
in the acute stages or where the lungs not fully
involved acute OF Chronic rheumatism, scrofula hip
of the spine, contracted muscles, distorted limbs
palsy or paralysis st. Vitas Dance Deafness STAN,
ton, constipation and liver complaint, piieswe cure
every case that can be presented; asthma bronchi-
tbs, structures Of the chest, and al forms Of female
BY Electricity
The Rheumatic, the equity, the lame and the lazy
leap with joy, and move with the agility and elastic
ty Of youth; the heated brain is cooled; the FROST
moved; faintness converted to vigor weakness tc
strength the blind made to see the deaf to hear and
the palsied form to move upright; the blemshes OF
prevented; the calamiles OF old age obviated and an
active circulation maintained. .. (.
AIDES $500 ss r. ;
Who have cold han0s and feet; weak stomachs LAM
and weak backs; nervous and sick headache; dizz!.
ness and swimming in the head, with Indigestion and
constipation of the bowels pain in the side and backs
leucorrh9a, for whites) falling the womb with In
ternal cancers; tumors, polypus, and all that long
train of diseases win find in Electricity sure means
of cure. For painful menstruation, too profuse
menstruation and all OF those long line Of troubles
with young ladies, Electricity is certain specific,
and will in short time restore the sufferer to the
vigor of health. ~
0H TEETH! TEETH! TEETH
DR.. d. still continues to Extract Teeth by ELEC-
TRICITY WITHOUT PAIN. Persons having decayed
teeth stumps they wish to have removed reset
ting he would give polite invitation to call. "a
Superior ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES for sale
for family use, with thorough instructions. % -
DR.. D. can accommodate few patients with board
end treatment at his house. WsaSl
Office hours from o'clock A. M. to - M. from
to P. M, and to 8 in the evening.
Consultation free. nov1tf
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RAILROADS.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
OF Canada.

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
On and afterMonday, JULY End, 1866,
trains will run as follows:-
morning Express Train for South Paris, Lewiston,
M. 90 1870 7f1i
Mail Train for waterville, Bangor, Gorham. Island
Pond, Montreal and Quebec at i0PM
inns traln connects with Express train for Toronto,
Detroi5 anu Vmeago. Sleeping Cars attached from
Island Pond to Quebec and Montreal
No Baggage can be received or checked after the
time above stated.
Trains will arrive as Follows
From Montreal, Quebec, So. Paris, Lew
iston and Auburn, SLOAN
From Montreal, Quebec &c. 2I5P,M.
The Company are not responsible for baggage to
any amount exceeding $50 in value and that person
ally unless notice is given and paid for at the rate of
one passenger for every $500 additional value.
C. J. BRIDGES. Managing Director.
III. BAILEY, Local Superintendent.
Portland, April7 7. 1886. dit
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MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

Trains leave Portland daily Grand
~ Trunk Depot) Sundays excepted, ior Au-
burn and Lewiston at TOO A. NJ and for Bangor and
all intermediate Stations, at Ito P. M. Returning,
trains from Auburn and Lewiston are due at $50 A.
M, and from Bangor and all intermediate stations,
at p. M, to connect trains for Boston.
"a Freight trains leave daily at s Am.
Ete EDWIN MOVES, Supt.
Dec 10. 1856. ta t ic dc23tf
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Springfield Fire and Marine Insur-
auCe COMlD9nY.


ance Company.
ta15 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 9, 1885,
To the Agents and Patrons of the Springfield Fire
and Marine Insurance Company: isea aE'
GENTs:-We take this early opportunity to con-
graduate ourselves, agents and patrons, that not
withstanding the great fire at Portland, July 4th,
this Company, the old Springfield Fire and Marine
is sound, vigorous and strong.
A. Our losses at Portland are large we estimate
$4,000, after deducting salvages but heavy as the
claims are, We prepared to cash every claim as
soon as presented, asking no delay.
We submit to you Statement of our Assets, and
we grateful that after deducting our liabilities
including Portland claims, show the very re-
spectacle amount of $123472 IS over and above the
Capital Stock of $500, 900. 55e aIsgTTTs7 IS -
STATEMENT, July 1st., 1885, n s.
Capital Stock. ............. 100000 90
Surplus, after deducting all claims, 3o3,472 5s
$685. 584gsss
Less fortiand claims, $4,000 90
~ b $423, 472 So 81.
EDMUND FREEMAN, President.
jim. DUNHAM, Secretary.
JOHN e. DOW & SON, Agents,
Jul 70 Lancaster Hail.
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Noticcela..

I -1afl'NOUAC6s boa ,aaWtF4H N
VILE undersigned hereby give notice that portion
OF the cobwork at the southerly end ofv aughan's
Bridge viii be removed, on Monday the 10th instant,
Tor the purpose of filing in and making solid the
southerly end OF said bridge and al persons In trav
further notice.
GEO. F. HENLEY, n sSa
II 81 s.sss,, H. S. JACKSON,
Selectmen of Cape Elizabeth
Cape Elizabeth, April IS. 166S.u itF ap14tf
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.NOElcC.

ance Companies represent, will confer favor bv
aoJusIng their loss and calling at our Office Ali
our companies are able and willing to pay their
should be happy to take the risks of those Com.
panies who have been burnt up.
OFFICE, 166 Fore street. .sftfst fs5s5l
jyot; =. a 90 - J. w. MuNGEp + som
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TOHN B. HUDSON, Jr., Sign and Ornament
y tai Painter, will be found at his old stand No "a
Market Square, where he is prepared to execute all
kinds of painting at reasonable rates, and at the
shortest police. jul 13d1m 81
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NOTICE. The policy holders in the Home Insu-
IN rance Co., New Haven, are hereby notified that
the general agent, Mr.. T. A. Emmons would be
pleased to have all persons having claims against said
Company to present them at once to him, who will
be found at the office of j. w Munger & Son, 166
Fore street. Portland, Maine, when the losses will be
adjusted and paid. j. w, MUNGER.
July10 g. @3A
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pany, Of New York; are hereby notified that the Pres
dent Of the Company, Charles Taylor would be pleas
ed to have all persons having claims against said Company
present them at The President will be at the Office Of
J. w. Munger 1856 Fore street, where the losses will be ad
iusted and paid. jy1O J. W. MUNGER.
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PrOmptness and Liberality, with
Reliable Insurance tel

A LII persons, holding Policies with the Portland
IA Mutual, Dirigo, Piscataqua or other Insurance
Companies now in unfavorable circumstances. NAV
and RELIABLE Companies represented BY me. ali
of which are paying every dollar of their losses
promptly and literally, as fast as presented con-
Pheonx, North American, Merchants, CITY. and
New England, OF Hartford, Conn.,, Harmony, Of New
York; Atlantic Fire and Marine, OF Providence,
r. r. Atlantic Mutual CO. Of Exeter A. HnAl
Mass. Insurance Co., (which voted to close up al
though as sound and reliable as any Bank in Port
land, having reinsured all their risks with another
Company will have no occasion to makes any change
OF papers, but if wishing to do So are requested to
call me before doing Every dollar of its losses
is being paid promptly and will continue to be So
"a VIM. D. LITTLE, Agent,
70 Commercial ST., over John Dennis & Co.'S
jul IL ~ dit iJlnsl>s.A 5sla ta atILfEl7 s.
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JOHN E. DOW 6 SON.

An persons insured in our office will please present
their claims promptly for adjustment jul 10 If
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Total Cash Assets, ............ $4,000
The loss by this Company in the Portland fire "a
All claimants for loss by the recent fire, who have
not already received their money, are invited to
hand in their proofs without delay. Those wishing
spect, at fair rates are invited to call At INV Office
No. 80 Commercial street, Thomas Block.
Jy23 WARREN SPARROW, Agent.
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The Enterprise Insurace Co..
400 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. H91
Cash Capital paid up in full, 100000 90
Cash Assets, january /, 1866. t .379,765 4S
The investments OF this Company are in First Mort
y cages on Real Estat in the City of Philadelphia,
~. Government Loans. and other securities care
I'LL fully selected
Perpetual Fire Insurance Explained for the benefit
otRea Estate Owners Trustees ofChurches, Schools,
and other public buildings. s. fI'ts9oa
Perpetual Fire Insurance on Brick and Stone
Buildings has been thoroughly tested Thy one Com
pany in Philadelphia for over one hundred years
is now in general use in that CITY, and having prov
ca the cheapest and best mode Of Insurance. is pre-
ferred by all who examine into its merits. ~
Perpetual Policies do not require to be renewed.
and the assured are consequently not exposed to the
danger Of their assurances expiring as in the case Of
Term Policies The premium paid is deposit, which
is recaimable by the assured, less deduction of five
per centum on cancellation OF policy.
#. Ratchford Starr, President.
Thos. HI. Montgomery, Vice. President.
Alex. w. Wister, Secretary.
JOHN E. DOW s. SON, Agents.
July14-dtf Lancaster Hail. q
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1 ilstSt WHARFAGE.
VXTHARF room on Onion Wharf for Lumber and
w Timber by vessels or cars, to let by.
Be- LYNCH, BARKER g. CO.,
iuIyetf ss-aisu0 139 Commercial street.
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Homo Insurance COMPANY.

OF New Haven, Conn. s \
SdcA Odpite1a.
With Large Surplus.
All persons desiring Fire Insurance can obtain good
policies in this Company. =
All persons sustaining loss or damage by the late
fire, will confer avsr by calling at nur Office and
adjusting their loss, and receive their money.
Portland Office 116 Fore street.
J.W. MUNGER & SON.
jdl t4-3wed ri
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John E. DOW & SON may be found over Lancas-
ter Hall every day and are prepared to- take
Risks to any amount wanted IN the most reliable
States, and will pay all losses by the late fire in
Cash. as soon as the parties send in their proofs.
iy9 JOHN E. DOW e SON.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ID B. FROST, Merchant Taller, has So
cured Rechabite Hall, No. 1924 Congress St.,
where he will be happy to see old friends and former
customers. He has fine stock OF seasonable goods,
which will be manufactured to order and IN the IA
test STYLES. ~ fv-t't ~ Juizl uti
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IN new store since the fire. opposite % ana q
Spring street, where they will be happy to supply
their friends, former customers and the pubic gen
eray with choicest kinds of meats and Vegetables
Orders solicited, S. WfNSLOW & co.
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MANUFACTURERS Insurance Company, of Bos |
M ton. The Agency of this Company has been
removed to No. l9 FREE ST EET: All
Policies issued by this Company, will please pre-
sent them for adjustment and payment, Policies
will be issued formerly, on all insurable proper
ty, at fair rates of premium This Company is well
known as one of the most reliable in the country.
iy9 NATH'L +. DEERlNG. Agent.
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International Insurance Company
- 4. Of the CITY of New York II

NOTICE to the Public. There is a rumor cur
IN rent which is false in the City, stating the Char
ter Oak Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn.,, are unable to
pay their losses and going to wind up. now beg
leave to state that the Charter Oak Office Is abund-
antly able and willing to pay all their losses amount
ing to over seventy five thousand dollars and that
they are issuing Policies usual at current rates.
iuly15dn Agents.
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INSURANCE.
NOTICE.

LII persons gliding policies taken 1a1 e. forth
a Agency requested to present tne Hall so
that they may be- register ed forthwith lor settle
ment The business Of insurance Will ~ GoCa
ed at the store of Messrs. Bradbury Soondge o.
Rogers, Commercial Street !. E. DOW l. SON
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MAINE MUTUAL FRI. tNsggE s co;-T '1,
new o .ss 20 ~ late fire in Portland but they will
some Se neoYty nad from their surplus profits.
sessment Iipon the members is necessary. Risks of
insnrance viii be taken upon reasonable terms and
the naners will be forwarded to the insured as fast as
the great pressure of business at the Office will per
nit. JOhN "A. WAIEhMAN, oec,
Please call on e. WEBSTER 4 SON, Agents, No.
South street. Jl2
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I'VE HOUsE-NOTICE-Per hav ng left
~ orders at 101 Exchange street, can now find
them at 1874 Congress street, opposite Mechan cs'
Hail. where we shall continue business in all its
various branches and at lower rates. ze..1 ).
Ey- Ladies' Dresses dyed for $500. All other ar
ticles dyed at equally low rates.
jul 176m - ~ l4aV f'h f. H. BURKE.
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II 9. Tw0mbley, General Insurance Broker,
Ia. would inform his many friends and the public
generally that he is prepared to continue the Insur
ance Business as Broker, and can place Fire, Life
and Marine Insurance to any extent in the best Com
panies in the United States All business entrusted
to my care shall be faithfully attended to. q
Office at G. M. Rices Paper Store No. 1873 Fore st,
where orders can be left. jull6tf
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TNSURANCE-THEH HOME INSURANCE co,
Il with Capital and Assets exceeding 8, 81 so 900,
having settled and paid in full every claim for loss in
the fire OF the 4h inst prepared to issue policies
on as favorable terms consistent with prompt
payment and ultimate security to Policy holders,
and in all other Companies represented by this
Agency jul l7d6w DOW g LIBBY.
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jul2ltdf

Observation-Disclosures - The undersigned
ID having made arrangements with Bakers in Bos-
ton to supply us with the different kinds OF Pilot
Bread and Crackers, until we can manufacture 1t
customers and the public at reasonable rates. by call
ing at Messrs. Ross y Roundy's Store, Commercial
street. jult4 PEARSON SMITH.
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canals were better than rivers, and would
supersede them for the purposes of navi-
cation, the committee were shocked, and
asked him, "And, pray, sir, what were
the rivers made for 2" "To feed the
Canals" was the answer.
Dr. Franklin surveyed the route of the
Delaware and Chesapeake canal at his own
expense, in 1857.
Baron Napier surveyed the route of the
Forth and Clyde canal at his own ex-
pense, in 1851.
Both these works were subsequently
accomplished, but after great delay.
DR.. Zabdiel Boyalston introduced in
oculation for the smallpox in Boston, in
1721, and tried at first on bis son Thom-
as, and other members of the family !;
but such was the force of prejudice and
unDellef IlIst the other ply sieions gave q
unanimous opinion against it, the munich
pal government prohibited its practice,
and the populsce would have torn him to
pieces if he had not retired from the
city.
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Mist&IIan&0us.
Circumstantial Evidence.
BRADFORD, THE INN-KEEPER.

Jonathan Bradford kept an inn in Ok.
fordshire, on the London road to Oxford.
He bore respectable character. Mr.
Hayes, gentleman of fortune, being on
his way to Oxford on visit to a relation,
put up at Bradftrd's. He there Joined
company with two gentlemen, with whom
he supped, and in conversation unguar-
dedly mentioned that he had then about
him considerable sum of money. To
due time they retired to their respective
chambers the gentlemen to a two-bedded
room, leaving as is customary vi it'll many,
q candle burning in the chimney corner.
Some hours after they were in bed, one
Of them thought he heard deep groan in
an adjoining chamber; and this being re.
peated, he softly awoke bis friend. They
listened together, and the groans increas.
ing as of one dying and in pain, they both
instantly arose, and proceeded silently to
the door OF the next chamber. The door
being ajar, they saw light in the room.
They entered, but it is impossible to prin
their CONSERVATION on perceiving person
weltering in his blood in the bed, and a
man standing over him, with dark lam
tern in one hand and knife in the other.
The man seemed as much petrifed as they
themselves, but his terror carried with it
all the appearance of guilt.
The gentlemen soon discovered that the
murdered person was the stranger with
whom they had that night supped, and
that the man who was standing over him
was their host. They seized Bradford di.
rectly, disaimed him of his knife, and
charged him with being the murderer
lie assumed by this time the air of inno-
cence, positively denied the crime, and
asserted that he came there with the same
humane intention as they themselves
for that, hearing a noise, which was sue
oeeded by groaning, he got out of bed,
struck light, armed himself with knife
for his defense, and had but that minute
entered the room before them. These as
sertions were Of little avail, he was kept
in close custody till the next morning, and
then taken before neighboring justice Of
the peace. Bradford still denied the muir.
der, but with such apparent indications Of
guilt, that the justice hesitated not to
make use of this extraordinary expression
on writing his mittimus, "Mr. Bradford,
either you or myself committed this muir.
der"
This remarkable affair becams topic Of
conversation to the whole country. Brad.
ford was condemned by the general voice
of every company In the midst of all
this predetermination, came on the assizes
at Oxford, Bradford was brought to trial
he plead not guilty. Nothing could BE-
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1@- 1t is very vain to use strong and
emphatic assertions, such as 81 know"
81 am positively certain" eyes; but l
happen to know all about it, 1t is in
tolerably conceited, and in some instances
irritates, without exciting the slightest
respect for your declaration. Always sub.
stitutc 81 think" 81 believe" sit seems
to me" ."Excuse me, but think have
HEARD" etc. 1t is not enough to limit
your words in this respect, you should
never exercise the voice too forcibly.-
One may soy, 81 beg your pardon, sir"
with an expression equivalent to fiat
and Insulting contradiction. Still more
vain and vulgar is the use of such express
sions as "H m I" "Pshaw!" "Much you
know about it % "Stuff p and "Fiddle-
sticks - These expressions, and others
1.-The them of strongly dissentient nature,
should never be uttered by any one un-
der any circumstances whatever. They
are all rude, as indeed every word and
every emphasis which directly expresses
the denial of any assertion.
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Interesting Historical Fac g.

The hardness with which mankind
adopt improvements may be, in some de-
gree, illustrated by the following facts,
hastily thrown together:
Canal locks were invented in 1881, by
engineers of Viterbo, in Italy. They
were nearly hundred years getting fair.
ly into use in France and about one hun.
dred and fifty in crossing the British
channel.
At this time it was made felony in
several European states to ride in wheel
carriages.
The steam-engine was invented, or,
rather, the principle of it discovered by
the Marquis of Worcester, as early as
1850. Few understood and none en-
couraged it. He died in great mortifca-
ton. The honor was afterwards engross.
ed by Savary.
In 1765 the Earl of Stanhope applied
the steam engine to propelling vessel.
A steamboat was run twenty miles on the
Sankey canal, Liverpool, in 1897, and
another on the Forth and Clyde canal, in
1901. A steamboat trip was made on
the Delaware as early as 1871.
In 1907, when Robert Fulton was fit.
ting up his first steamboat at New York,
respectable and gray headed men pro-
nounced him ga fool for his pains. -
Oliver Evans went before committees of
legislatures, first in Pennsylvania and then
in Maryland, with project of steam
carriage, as early as 1904. He asked a
little aid to defray the expense. They
could hardly be prevented from reporting
in favor, not of steam engines for carriages,
but of straight jacket for himself
Now, almost all nations have had tho sa-
gacity and ingenuity to seize and utilize
the precious idea
When Peter the Great, in 17G0, or
thereabouts, commenced canal between
the Volga and the Don, the Governors
and Boyards of the country opposed it
earnestly, thinking it impiety to turn
rivers out of the channels which heaven
had assigned them.
When some Dutchmen proposed to
make the river Manzanares navigable to
the Tagus, and that to Lisbon, the Coun.
Gil said that if it had been the will of
God that the river should be navigable,
He would have made it so.
When Brinley, the great engineer, told
committee of Parliament, to whom
Bridgewater's petition was referred, that