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The Portland daily press., 1868-08-05
HOTELS.
Hotel Directory.

Hotel Directory.
Auburn.
ELM House, Coml. St. W. S. Young, Fronrietor.
AUGUSTA HOUSE, State ST. j. H. Killing, Proprietor
PENoBsooT EXCHANGE, A. Woodward, Proprietor.
bath
BATH HOTEL, Washington St. G. NJ. Plummer. Pro-
pIietor.
j. B Leach, Proprietor.
Boston.
AMERICAN HOUSE, Hanover st. s. Rice Proprietor
Parker HOUSE, School St H. d. Parker & Co.,
Propretors.
REVERE House, Bowdoin Square gulfncb Ring
ham, Wrisley & Co., Proprietors
ST. JAMES HoTEL-J. P. M. Stetson, Proprietor.
FREMONT HOUSE fremont St. Brigham wrisley
q Co., Proprietors.
Bryanps Pond.
BRYANT's POND HousE-N. B. Crockett, Proprie-
tor.
Bethel.
CHANDLER HOUSE, F. S. Chandler & Co.. Prop,rs,
Una rmA1> Aoo'h' % L. OnapHan, proprietor.
Bridgton Center, Me
CUMBERLAND HOUSE, Marshal Bacon Proprietor
Brunswick, VT.
MINERAL SPRINGS HOUSE, W. q. S. Dewey Pro-
prietOr.
Cape Elizabeth.
OCEAN HoUsE-J. P. Chamberlain Proprietor
DamariscOfta.
MAINE HOTEL, Sanborn & Jacobs, Proprietors.
DanviIIe junction.
CLARK's DINIsG HALL, Grand Trunk Railway
Depot, M W. Clark, Proprietor.
Dixheld.
ANDRosooGGIN HOUSE, L. D. Kidder, Proprietor
Lewiston.
LEWISTON HOUSE, Chapel St., j. B. Hill & Co.
PrOprietOrs.
ELM House, Nathan Church & Sons, Propriesors
Norridgewock.
DANFoRTH HOUSE, D. Danforth, Proprietor,
North Anson.
SOMERSET HOTEL, Brown & Hilton, ProprietOrs.
North rridgton.
WYoMEYoNIc HOUSE, o. H. Perry, Proprietor.
Norway.
ELM HOUSE, Main St. W.. W. whitmarsh, Pro-
prietor.
Peaks ISLAND.
UNION HoUsE-w. t. Jones, Proprietor.
Portland.
ALBION House, III Federal Street. j. G. Perry,
Proprietor
AMERICAN HOUSE, India St W. NJ Lewis, Prop'r.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE, Cor. Fore and Cross Streets,
H. o. Cram, Proprietor.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE, Green ST. j. o. Kidder, Pro-
prietor.
CITY H TEL, Corner efCongress and Green street,
FALMOUTH HOTEL, Ramsay & Wheeler, Propri-
etors.
PREBLE HOUSE, Congress st. S. B. Krogman, Pro-
pT1etor.
PoRTL AND HOUSE, II Green St. R. Potter. Prop'r.
prietOr.
o. S. HOTEL, junction of Congress and Federal SITS.
N. j. Davis, Proprietor
WALKER House, opposite Boston Depot, Adams &
Paul, Proprietors.
RaymOnd's Village.
CENTRAL HOUSE, w. II. Smith Proprietor. a
CacO.
SAco House,. T. Ceaves s. Co. Proprietor.
ScaTbOro.
KIRKWooD House,. Gunnison, Proprietor.
st. Andrews, New Brunswick
THE RAIL WAY HoTEL-Mchael Clark, Proprie-
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SAGE & PORTSMOUTH R. R.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT,

CHaHEz1 Passenger Trains leave Portland daily
KssSss.5szSze Sundays eNcepted) for South Berwick
Junction. Portsmouth anu Boston, at CAS- $40 A M,
and 2.55 and 90 P NJ.
Leave Boston Tor Portland at 7.30 A. M, and 800
and 600 L VI.
Biideiord for Portland at 7.30 A NJ, returning at
$50 p. M.
Portsmouth for Portland at $40 and 1000 A NJ,
and 90 and S.00 . Nj.
The tram leaving Portsmouth Tor Portland at 1000
A NJ does not stop at internaodiat 60 sta ii
On NJ nGays. WedDt sdays and Fridays the 6 oclk
p. NJ. train to and from Boston will run via Boston
& Maine X. IT stopping only at 5aoo, Biddet0rd,
kennebunk, South Berwick Junction Dover, Exc
ter, haverhill and Lawrence
On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays it will run
via Eastern Rail- DAD. stopping only at Saco, Bdde-
ford, KennebuDk, South Berwick junction, Ports
mouth, New ouryport, salem and Lynn.
Freight Trains daily each way, sunday excepted.)
FRANCIS CHASE SaDJ.
Portland, April 25, 1858. apr2S,itf
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SCHOOLS.
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
at Troy N W

VERY thorough Instruction in Civil, Mechanical
and Mining Engineering, Chemistry and Natura
Science. Graduates obtain most desirable positions
Reopens Sept g. For the New Annual Register, Civ
ing full information, address Prof ssor CHARLES
DROWNE. Director, Troy, Ny. aug1d1m
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House Lots.

1.-TWO on Congress State Street, and eight
L lots on Emery Lewis and Thomas streets, Tor
sale by w. HI. STEPHENSON,
Feb 10. 1868. If At ID National Bank.
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Genteel Suburban Residence
FOR SALE!
o.. Within the city limits, in a very desirable
E;: neighborho ID. Modern built two storied
l....A- house, twelve finished rooms. Brick cistern
well Of excellent water good stable and other out
buildings. Good cellars under house and stable
Fine garden, well stocked with Apple, Pear and
Cherry Trees. Also Strawberries, Gooseberres,
Currants, &c. The lot contains more than $4,000
square feet. This is rare opportunity to secure
genleel country residence Cithin Ue minutes ride
Of the City Hall, Apply to
VIM. ii. JERKS,
June5dtf Real Estate Agent,
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For Sale.

an Congress st, nearly opposite Bishop Bacon's,
" will be sold on reasonable TERMS
Apply 10 GEO. r. DAVIS & co.
July l5-dtf
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REAL ESTATE.
For Sale or To Let.
For Sale.
Two House Lots for Sale

A NEW block OF Brick Houses for SALE centrally
N located. Price low. Terms easy ENQUIRE of
JOHN G. PROCTOR
jy2ld3w No. SO Exchange Street.
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CITY Affair."

A special meeting of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen was held Monday afternoon.
An order was passed directing the City Mar
shal to report forthwith the names of any per-
sons or firms who are pursuing the business of
innholders or victualers in this city without
license.
Adjourned to Tuesday morning at O'Clock.
TUESDAY, May ia communication from
the City Engineer nominating Colin X. Cross
Third Assistant Engineer, vice Edward B.
Cummings, appointment declined, was re-
ferred
A Petition was presented from N. l.. Wood
bury and " others, praying that the following
article be inserted in the warrant for the seve-
raj Ward meetings, to be holden ON the 9th
inst; with such provision in said warrant for
securing separate vote on the same as may
be proper, namely:
"Shall the contract made by the city with
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Com
pany, by virGue of the vote passed at the lega
ward meetings of the inhabitants of the city
of Portland held April 30, 1857, to aid said
Company in the construction of said road, he,
with the consent of said Company so modified
that the City of Portland shall issue to said
Company to aid in the construction of its road
in bonds of said City, the balance of the seven
hundred thousand dollars specified in said
vote, not however to exceed the specified two
and one halt per cent; said balance being that
portion of the whole sum voted exceeding two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, whenever
requested thereto by said Company, and with
out any other restrictions, conditions or legu-
lations than were made applicable by the said
vote of said inhabitants to the issue of the two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bonds al
ready issued under said voue.''
Mr.. Deering offered the following proviso:
"That one hundred thousand dollars shall be
issued before the said road is completed to
Alfred village; and the balance shall be issued
at the rate of sew nteen thousand five hundred
dollars for every mile completed of road be-
yond Alfred village towards Rochester, when
each mile is completed until the whole loan is
exhausted; but if any balance of said loan re-
mains unissued when said road is completed
to Rochester, then the whole of said balance
remaining shall be issued to suit the Company.
The Mayor expressed the opinion that the
provso offered could not be received as as an
amendment to the petition, and suggested that
the opinion of the City Solicitor was necessary
in the premises.
On motion the Directors of the road were re-
quested to submit their propositions in writing
to the City Solicitor
"A motion to postpone the matter for thirty
days, was voted down by a vote 3 to 4.
A motion to postpone for one week was car
ried by vote of to 3.
Mr.. Putnam, in behalf of of the Directors,
stated that this action was fatal to their cause,
as it would then be too late to have the article
inserted in the warrant for the meeting on the
9th,
The Aldermen then adjourned
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faSty, by showing how much the Atlantic
and st. Lawrence road cost, as if that had any
thing to do with the question after satisfactory
proposals have been made by safe and respon
sible men.
Secondly, by showing the mistakes, under
estimates, and bad management OF the Allan
tic and st. Lawrence road; as If we are to
learn nothing by experience, and were not
likely to consider, and foresee, and provide all
the more wisely for such things hereafter
And then
Thirdly, Because, -four was So to barrel,
beef from 1-2 to 4 1-2 cents pound, and
beans from 81 to 1.25 per tushel-and many
other articles of prime necessity were very
low when the Atlantic and st. Lawrence Rail-
road was built: therefore the Portland and
Ogdensburg road cannot be built for double
the money that men of capital and character
stand ready to contract for. Is this logic?
When We are told. that an engineer and
builder well acquainted with the line offers to
contract for the whole road through Maine for
$4,000 a mile and for that through New
Hampshire for $34 400, or tor the whole from
Portland to the Connecticut at $4,000 mile,
what is the answer? Why that beans were
from 81 90 to S1.25 per bushel, and molasses
from % to 80 cents gallon, when the Allan
tic and st. Lawrence Railroad was built.
Q.E.D.
And when the builder and contractor re-
ierred TO, adds that he is snow building for
$4,000 mile a road nearly as difficult as this"
and that we Scan do better than $4,000 for
the whole route"-how are we to be an
swereI by Brother Woodman?
Firstly further reference to the cost of
the Atlantic and ST. Lawrence Railroad,
amounting to $51 1863 a mile-and then to the
price of beans.
And again. when he is told, and by the par
ties themselves, in reply to his repeated assev-
eratons that the money cannot be had, that
forty per cent. Of the Ohole cost of the road will
be raised in Vermont by subscriptions in
stock and this by such men as the Messrs
Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury and that over
ten thousand dollars mile in stock subscrip-
tions are already made, along the route
through Vermont, and they hope to raise the
subscription to 81 900 or $12 900 mile before
they issue abond-what says Mr.. Woodman in
reply?
Only this, in suDstance-that the Atlantic
and St. Lawrence Railroad cost too much,
and that beans were only from S1.O0 to $125 a
bushel at the time of Mr.. Woods contract;
and that therefore it cannot be done.
All which is res pectfully submitted as
non SeQuitar. JOHN NEAL.
PORTLAND, May Is, 1868
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Political Nofes.

The silly story that Senator Harlan, who
is Methodist, teIegraphed to Bishop Simp-
son to pray for Senator Wiley, who is anoth-
err Methodist and considered a little uncertain
on impeachment, is emphatically denied by
Harlan himself.
A Washington dispatch says that whoever
else may be in favor of the third party move
ment, Fessenden, Trumbull and Grimes are
not.
1t is said that the result Of the investiga-
tons of the impeachment managers will be a
new article, and that the call made in the
House, Monday, by Mr.. Stevens for the official
records of the Senate is significant of such
purpose.
The New York Tribune does not hesitate to
garble what it calls Mr.. Fessenden's excuse
for cOnsigning himself to eternal infamy"
The Tribune if it is determined TO strike
shonld at least hear and allow others TO hear.
There is not the least intimaton or hint
that the opinion is abridged, but it is pared
and pruned throughout.
The New Bedford Mercury says that An
drew johnson, conscious as he is of his guilt,
if he is not surprised at the verdict of the
Court of Impeachment must regard it much
as did the convicted culprit in a State Court,
who when asked if he had anything to say, re-
piled: 81 have nothing to say, except that this
is the d-dest verdict ever given by jury
Judge Bingham, Carl Sehurz and Gov
Hawley among the candidates for the per-
manent presidency of the Chicago Conven-
tion.
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O1LS-The Portland Kerosene Company have cd.
vanced their price for coal oil to 473c. Refined petro
leum sells at 37tc Whale and linseed oils are lit
OAKUM- Nochange in the market. Prices are
sustained though The demand is light.
PAINTS-The market is quiet with h steady de-
mand. No change from last weeks quotations.
PLASTER-The receipts are increasing, and
prices have gone down to So tor soft and 81 60 for
PRoDUCE-The market is very steady for most
all sorts of produce. with good supplies excepting
potatoes and onions. Potatoes have further adj
Eggs are selling at 22@2sc in Packages. Onions
are very scarce and are held at s14 per Dbl.
PROVISIONS-The market is firmly held, both
for beef and pork and prices arc unchanged. Ex-
ira clear pork is held at 1888; clear $31932; mess
s29a29t; prime s24926 Hams are held at 1920
for prime and 16dl7c fol- shoulders.
RlCE-The demand except tor immediate use is
small. Our quotations are maintained.
SALT-The demand continues to be good and
prices are wi bout change will be noticed by
quotations for this week.
SOAPS-At the reduced prices, Leathe & Cores
steam rehned soaps lind a good market, and are in
demand in all parts of the State.
hUGARS-The demand for Portland sugars has
increased and prices have advanced as will be no.
ticed by our quotations. The sales during the week
have been extremely large, and orders from the
West are rapidly coming in
TOBACCO-The supply is large and the demand
Is good. Prices are without change.
TEAS-The demand is moderate and prices are
without change There is an improved demand
for Japan teas
TINS-There is bel ter demand for fins and nrices
are very firm.
VARNISH-Prices are without change and the
demand CONT -ucs to be moderate.
WOOL-The market continues steady. Transac-
tons have been confined to small lots for immedi-
ate consumption. An encouraging feature is the
passage OF the act eXempting wooden manufactures
from tax.
FREIGHTS-The only engagements since our
last report are sch Grace Webster out to Matanzas
and back at So tor molasses and SOC for sugar; brig
Emma for Cardenas with shocks for ballast and /
tor empty casks; brig Hattie S. Bishop, hence to
Cardenas at l2c for box Shocks 20c for hid shocks
81 per nj Tor hoops and 1Oc a pair for headings
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The Portland and d gdeusburg RaiIrOad.

Up to this hour, it may be said with truth,
that no undertaking of similar nature has
ever met with such favor among our business
men, our property holders, our tax payers, our
mechanics and our laborers, as the railway
from Portland to Ogdensburg, through the
Notch of the White Hills.
Yet moreno similar undertaking has ever
been so well considered, or so strongly fortifi-
ed step by step, with evidence not to be oues-
toned, upon every point of business interest,
such as the cost per mile, the distance, and
the amount Of transportation to be reasonably
expected.
All our past experience in railways is now
to be turned to account. All our undervalua-
tions oversights and mistakes heretofore will
but make us more cautious and wary hereaf-
ter. Never before have we had such assur-
ance and such help. Where we only hoped
before, we have now legislative action pledges
of the highest character, and all along the
line the heartiest cooperation, after passing
the boundary of Maine.
All we want nOD is the vote of onr citizens
upon the day apponted-rain or Stine-al,d
the great work which is to do more for Port
land than the Atlantic and ST. Lawrence ever
did or ever will unless there be a change of
administration.
But AFTER all may there not be another side
to the question?
Undoubtedly there is; and | have now be-
fore me the fourth letter Of orr friend 7 q
Woodman, the champion of that other side
the first have been able to find, 70 he foIlow'
ed by another tomorrow, l see
That Mr. Woodman is a conscientious wall
informed man, with burnt fingers, we are all
ready to acknowledge; but-is he not a
little visionary? And on the whole some
what disposed to make a case for the occasion?
and then to make the most of it? That he is
good mathematician, we acknowledge; but is
he--in this particular case, mean-a severe
logician? Let us see.
oarelul surveys have been made and careful
estimates oy men, safe and reliable, who are
prepared 10 contract for less than thirty thou
sand dollars mile, taking A larae mart of
their pay in stock.
And yet, Mr.. Woodman, without rooord 90
these surveys, estimates and offers i,,.;,ta
upon it that the road will cost sixty tbo,,@a,,J
dollars mile, "to construct and eouin IL, Co..
hundred and odd miles," and that es,ooot
hkety it would cost million extra for TWENTY
miles across the mountains" or rather, he
cails upon the corporators to show that it will
cost less than sixty thousand dollars a mile for
'na' Instance And how does he prove this?
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May w1w

To the Electors Of the City of Portland:
DURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and Al
i dermen of the City of Portland, upon requsi-
ion of sixty qualified voters, the inhabitants there
OIL qualified TO vote In the election of city officers,
will assemble in their respective Ward Rooms, on
Wednesday, the 27th Day of May,
inst, at ten o'clock in forenoon to give in their
votes upon the following question w:
"Will the City oil Portland, iu lieu of that portion
OF the loan Of its credit voted by said City to the
Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Company on the
thirtieth day of April in the year Of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixIy-seven, raise by
loan sum OF money equal to two and one-half per
cent of the valuation of said city Tor The year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty eigh (but in no
case exceeding seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars land appropriate the to aid in the construc
ton Of the Railroad Of said Portland and ogdens-
burg Railroad Company, by subscribing and paying
for shares in the Capital Stock of said company
amount aforesaid, and direct its Treasurer to sub.
scribe tor the said Shares in the Capital Stock OF said
Company in the and behalf OF the City of Port
land and ray the assessment s thereon they shall
become due, and authorize the City Council to issue
the Bonds OF the City for said amount payable at
such places and on such time an in such amounts as
they may deem tor the interest OF the city,"
The electors in favor of said proposition will give
In their ballots with the wor'i "YES" written or
will give IN their ballots with the word NO" writ
ten or printed thereon.
The polls to remain open until four o'clock in the
afternoon ON said day, when they shall be closed.
In the City Building, entrance on Myrtle Street.
nom nine O'Clock A. NJ, to one o'clock p. M. on
each of the thr e secular days next preceding said
day OF meeting and from three O'clock to five o'clock
r. NJ Oh the last OF said three secular DAYS. for the
purpose Of receiving evidence OF the qualification of
voters whose names have not been entered on the
lists qualified voters and tor correcting said isis
Per order.
JIM. HEATH. City Clerk.
Portland, May 18th, 1868. may2O did.
Argus copy.
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The prosuec, n, Ch;cuao.

The dispatches from Chicago agree upon
one point. If New England delegates can
present single candidate for the V lce 1851
dency, that candidate is morally sure vi the
nomination II is well known that this Sec
ton of the country has but two men who are
expected to receive anything more than a
complimentary vote on the first ballot, and
those two are Hamlin and Wilson. The latter,
it is acknowledged by his own friends, has not
developed the strength among the delegates
from the South which was expected, and the
tide sets strongly in the direction of Hannibal
Hamn. The Illinois delegation Is expected to
vote for him, and he has more than an even
chance to receive the vote of New York and
PENNSYLVANIA after those States are forced to
abandon Fenton and Curtin. The latter gem
tlemen are so forcibly opposed by political
foes from their own States that they will prob
ably have no better standing in the Conven-
ton than the less prominent candidates who
expect Only complimentary vote
There is not much safety in specializing up
on the results of political conventions, but
present indications point very decidedly, to
the old, honered and triumphant union of Hi
nois and Maine in the national ticket of the
Republican party. Nothing could be more
suspicious than such union. Grant takes
the place of Lincoln in the affections of the
American people, SO far as any man can do so,
and Hamlin in the eight years that have pass
ed since his first nomination has not lost any
thing of the respect and confidence of which
he was the object at that time.
Besides the nomination of candidates for
the Presidency and Vice-P Presidency, the two
important subjects which will engage the at
tention Of the Convention are the considera-
ton of the impeachment question and the
declaration of principles which are TO const-
tute the platform of the party in the coming
campaign. With reference to the first, it is
pretty safe to say that there will be nothing
further than an expression of the almost uni
versal feeling in the party that the President
is guilty of the offences with which he is
charged, without any prescription of the in
dividuals who have on this subject differed
from the majority of their associates. The
platform makers who have already arrived at
Chicago are said to number fifty, and from so
large number there would seem to be no
difficulty in making up an eclectic series OF
resolutions that would prove universally sat
isfactory. Whatever may be left out of the
resolutions we feel confident that the cardinal
doctrine of American Liberals, impartial suf-
rage, and a rebuke to Pendletonianism, that
cardinal doctrine of ras;als will have prom
inent place.
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DIsRAELI's bad fortune continues After
his defeat on the Irish Church resolutions Of
fered by Mr.. Gladstone the willy prem
Ter still kept his seat under the pretence that
the good of his country required that the min
istry should continue in power until it had ex-
and Scotland. But even where Mr.. Disraeli
feels himself strongest he has suffered defeat
Monday night the government opposed the
motion to amend the Scotch reform bill by
adding to the number Of Seotland's members
taking the franchise from some of the "rot-
ten" English boroughs and by throwing out
the rating clause, and was beaten IN both
cases. Mr.. Disraeli then said that the govern
ment desired time to consider
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MAY TERM-GoDDARD, j., PRESIDING.
TUEsDAY.-The case of jerks VS.. Welsh was ar
gued by Mr.. Haskell for defendant and Mr. O'Don-
nell for plaintiff. The jury returned verdict for the
plaintiff for S222.47 and also special finding in
swer to three interrogations propounded by the
Court. Exceptions will be filed by counsel for de-
fendant
j, ODonne!l. Il. III. Haskell.
No. 52-Patrick Melody VS.. John Harrison. Tres
pass Tor assault the person of plaintiff in putting
him out Of store occupied by defendant. The ad
damnum is laid at $500. The defence is that plain
tiff was in state of intoxication and was very abus-
sive to defendant, who very quietly put him out OF
the shop. Not finished.
S. L. Carleton. D. II. Ingraham.
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The Aldermen then adjourned.

A LABoRIoUs JUDGE.-Judge Goddard, of
the Superior Court, proves himself qualified in
the most eminent degree'for the responsible
and exalted position to which he has been ap-
pointed. He keeps things Swapping" in his
court, and cases are disposed of in the most
rapid manner, consistent with the demands of
justice.
Yesterday, after trying cases before the jury
all day, he held a Court in the evening, and
was occupied until near IL o'clock at night, in
hearing case which was to be decided with
out the intervention of jury, in which the
counsel on both sides are from the most re-
mote part of the County, and had been in at
tendance all day with their witnesses, hoping
to get the case on during the day. Such Ut.
banity, and disposition to accommodate the
members of the bar and parties who have suits
in this Court must render Judge Goddard i'm
mensely popular