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The Portland daily press., 1869-08-18

CHICAGO. Aug. 10, 1869.
Mr. EDIToR,-Perhaps you will not object
to brief letter from this ehterprisng and
growing city, which, although but about 80
years old, numbers over 100000 inhabitants.
At present business is dull, but vast amount
of work is being accomplished in the erection
of magnificent stores and palatial residences.
The city authorities are also expending mill
ions of dollars in improving, widening aud
paving the streets and avenues with the Mich
olson pavement. Some 80 miles of streets are
now contracted for, TO be paved, drained, and
furnished with water and gas pipes. The work
is now in successful operation, and hundreds of
workmen and laboreIs are now employed.
Chicago is not yet finished, but when that
work is accomplished, it will be one of
the most extensive, denscly populated and
prosperous cities in the Union. Mark
that! The naodus operandi of laying the
Nicholson pavement is as follows The earth
is first levelled of, then planks are laid, and
upon these are placed the wooden blocks
which are pressed together, and covered with
tar and gravel, making smooth, durable and
beautiful road.
During the past week Chicago has been all
alive with strangers. First came the Con-
gressional Committee from California, with
the Chicago Commercial delegation and the
Chinese merchants Then the Turner's, q
German society, which numbers thousands,
representing many of the Western and several
of the middle and more Eastern States. They
are enjoying five days festival. On Monday
they turned out in grand procession, number
ing some six thousand. They presented fine
spectacle, and accompanied by several militia
ry companies and bands OF music, they pro-
ceeded to Whites Grove, where all sorts o
amusements were furnished. Late in the af-
ternoon the great crowd of spectators dspers-
ed, and the Turner's returned to the city.
1 visited the Tribune Office. 1t is most
magnificent ediice, equal to, if not surprising
ythng of the kind in the world. The com
posing room is model of perfection. Light
and airy-everything in its place, and place
for everything. Neatness and order prevail
there.
/ am aware that the PRESS has an extensive
circulation among firmers, and therefore de-
sire to communicate something for their bene-
fit. had the curiosity to visit the factory Of
Thompson and Ed wards, situated about five
miles from the city, where the pure bone is
manufactured. into a fertilizer. There are a
great many bogus articles afoat, and many
farmers have been led into the belief, to their
sorrow, that they were genuine. Not so with
this, as will be seen by the following facts:
Last year the total sales in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, amount
ed to but 300 tons Thus far the present sea-
son, 450 tons have been disposed of in the
States named. The sales this season will
reach 500 to 900 tons.
The bones are obtained from the numerous
packing and slaughter houses of the city. The
factory, mill and outbuildings cover two acres
of ground. There are now piled in their store
houses over 400 tons of bone, which is rapidly
being converted into fine ground bone. E.
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The County Committee will be in session at the
Hall the day of the Convention, at o'clock Nj.
The Secretaries OF the several Town Caucuses are
requested forward the names of Delegates as soon
as they may be chosen to the Secretary OF the Coun-
ty Committee at Portland.
Per Order of the County Committee
G. W. RANDALL, Secretary.
POI Itland, Aug. %, 1869.
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ANOTHER New York Judge is candidate for
popular favor in that city. Judge Barnard is
issuing injunctions forbidding United States
collectors and assessors to proceed with the
levying and collecting Of the tax of LA of one
per cent ON brokers.
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New WAY OF MANAGING THE LIQUOR CUES
r,ox-In Gothenburg, Sweden, reformation
society of gentlemen has obtained entire con-
troll of the traffic in spirits in the city, under
an agreement to apply the whole of the profits
above expenses for the benefit of the poor
The society has reduced the number of licens-
ed houses to less than forty, one third of the
former number, and has bound the proprietors
to sell only at fixed prices, giving profit of on
ly one and half per cent, with obligations
to Keep supply of all harmless drinks, in
cluding beer, at whatever profits they could
command, thus making it the interest of the
venders to sell these drinks instead of liquors.
The effect has been an almost entire cessation
of drunkenness.
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Wanted.
Wanted I

a CAPABLE English or American girl, as child's
A Nurse. Good references required. Apply at
No. So State Street. jy 31-d1w
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Recent Publications.

The Edinburgh Recieao for July, reprinted by
the Leonard Scott Publishing House, New
York, has come to hand. 1t completes the one
hundred and third volume. 1t follows the rest
of the reviews in noticing, and very favorably
Leckey's History of European Morals. AH
article on Shakspearian Glossaries will afford
intense qualification to critical students OF
Shakespeare. In reviewing Mrs. Somerville's
Molecular and Microscopic Science" the
writer well says: "The world is not unfre-
quently called upon to admire the keen inter-
est and powerful grasp which veterans fore
most in the ranks of science retain in their va
rious pursuits up to the latest moments of an
advanced age. 1t is, however, we believe, a
case without parallel in the annals of science
that lady in her eightieth year should pub
lish work containing complet, review of
some of the most recent and abstruse re-
searches of modern science, describing not
only the discoveries in physics and chemistry,
but especially the revelations of the micro
scope in the vegetable and animal worlds"
The concluding article on the Marriage Law
of the Empire does not give favorable im-
preston of current English legislation.
iho OUsu'y ioA oSptcmucl 10 as NJ anu
cheerful as a brisk fire in in open CRATE in a
cold winter day. Besides the serials by Mrs.
Edwards, Eugene Benson and Charles Reads
continued from the previous number, there
is large number of extremely interesting
articles. Richard Grant White treats this
month of the "Unsociableness of Society,",
'The Irish Church Dethroned," by Justin
Mccarthy, is a kind of Te Deum composed by
large-minded English Liberal over the down
fall of wicked relic of barbarism. The Gal
a1y keeps up its reputation for skill in verbal
criticism by publishing an article on Paradox
ical Words by George Wakeman, who branches
OIL, however, after touching his subject much
too lightly, into new statement of some of
the familiar paradoxes of the old losicians
The Dicken sNames" takes racy flavor
from the very fact of its having to do with tne
greatest of modern novelists, but tins 100,
hardly realizes the expectations raised Dy 'ne
title
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Farm for Sale.

4 AAOc, Situated in Falmouth 81 miles
"a lon non Portland on the line of the
@r18nxH 1rand Trunk Railroad within few
EAl.sssGsSc 81 ,he Depot, near to Church,
the Farm contains about 90 acrss pss Of 0nice &C.
ent soSx sS0hes honss OF land very couye
also good Barn with pentv of s IN good repair,
Tbe farm is about equally divided into tili.,. ,a
pasture and 1t Is very desirabI place BENZ aua an
pleasantly situated also wood lot il desired Is very
Enquire OF Z. MOODY, on the premisos
rai"euep, aug uSo II, ioo'' anl0-Tu& E3w-w4N =
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Notice..

WE having been appointed by the Judge of Pro-
w bate for the County of cumberland, to receive
and examine the claims OF the Creditors OF James
Winslow, late of New Gloucester, in said County,
deceased whose estate is represented insoyent give
notice that six mo tbs, commencing the 21st day OF
July have been allowed to said Creditors to bring
in and prove their claims; and that will attend
the service assigned us at the house OF j. nj. Tbomp-
son in New Gloucester, and on the 7th day OF Sep.
tember at O'Clock to p. nj, and on 2lst day oil
January, at 10 to 4 O'Clock p, NJ.
CALEB S. HASKELL,
WINTHROP TRUE,
Commissioners.
dated this 2lst day OF July, 1869. jy27w3w30
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WanHdi

A Capable Cook-or girl to take care ofchildren
IA and sew. at 63 State st. iy30d3t@
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A FEW workmen to make Moccasins. Good
N pay and constant employment given for the
season. Enquire of VIM. II. NEAL & co.
Saccarappa, or LORD, HASKELL s. &C.,
July 22-du Portland Me.
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Wanted

4 GENTS to sell thoroughly good domestic arti-
EAcle, wanted in every family Exclusive territory
given. Business pleasant and respectable. One
agent sold $50 IN one small town; one, 1000 in five
towns; one 81 in calling 80 families; another SO
per day for Gays in succession upon which he made
$42 per day; AID Others do equally as we'll Send
for circular.
LlTTLEFIELD & DAME,
jy2Ceod4w 102 Washington ST. Boston, Me.
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For Sale at North Graz.

nNE entire set of Stave MACHINERY. consisting of
~ ,Bolter, Stripper, and Cutting off Saws, Edger
ana p;ianer, and shingle Machine; Water Wheel,
Ssaaitine, and Betting; all in good running order
~ az same place, eight secondhand Power Looms,
70 weave cloth with; two broad and six narrow /,
VIII WIN shifting corners f,r satinet kersey, reed
featuring. Inquire of E. MAYALL,
aug4w2mot On the premises.
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Established June 20, Ioo%' 70

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Is published every day Sundays excepted) by
Portland Publishing Co.,
At 1Os EXCHANGE STREET, Portland
TERMs:-Eight Dollars Year in advance.
The Maine State Press
Is published every THURSDAY MORNING at
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year.
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in length OF column, constitutes Square,
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SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs, 500 per
square per week; three insertions or less 30.
=, Advertisements inserted in the MAINE
STATE PRESS" (which has large circulation
IN every part of the State) for Sl.00 per square
Tor first insertion, and so cents per square for
each subsequent insertion.
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
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small Farm Wanted.
Situation Wanted.

A Book-keeper by young man either as a
"A B. ok-keepei or Assistant. (He has had some
experience Saesman.) t 1
Address "6ook-keeper' Wiudham Centre, Me.
AUG f-d3t& l- 81 81
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To Let.

A Large unfurnishsd Front Room TO let, Win
"A board. Gentlemen and wlie lfeierIeu; AIso
a few table boarders, No A Free ST. auiodiW'
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TO LEI.

THE corner room for two rooms) on second floor
of brick block foot OF Exchange st, recently &C.
cupied as an Insurance Office. Parties desiring the
room will find this one of tbe pleasanest and cheap
est offices In the city.
Rent only $3.50 a year.
Apply 10 A. G. DEWEY
jy24eod2w No 80 Exchange St
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Cumberland County and Second
Senatorial District Convention
The Republican voters OF Cumberland County are
requested to send Delegates TO Convention to be
holden in Portland, at CITY HALL, on
Thursday, the 18Th day of August, 1869,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon fer the purpose ofnom
mating candidates for
CLERK OF THE COURTS,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
COUNTY TREASURER,
AND FOUR SENATORS,
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TO LET.
For Sale or tOV,et.
To be Let.

VIE two story Brick House No South street.
Terms liberal. A. X. .SHURTLEFE.
auifulw Eo21. Union Wharf.
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w ~ NTED I!

A TINMAN-to go into the country, in q job and
"A custom shop for long job; steady hand want
ed; to such a good chance is open.
Address Immediately. LAMB BROS, dE
au5dtf Clinton, Maine.
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To Let.
CToRE on Exchange st, No ITO now occupied by
y j. F. SHELDON. Possession given September
ia Apply to SYMONDS & LIBBY,
au13dIw 81 Middle st,
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TO Let.
T OVER story and halt of Sd of French Roo,ed
IL House on Chapel Street near Congress. Hard
and soft water andflrnace.
Apply to Mrs. Williams, Ellsworth Street near
the Arsenal. Aug l2dfwS
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UPTON RENT.

A DESIR ABLE Biick House No u Danforth ST.
"A (Hamen Block) will be leased for three or five
years on very favorable terms. For particulars ap-
ply to A. G. DEWEY,
aug2eod2w No 80 Exchange st.
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n % II IL n.

THREE Rooms second and Aird floors of
l. Printers Exchange. Enqul ;the Press Or
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-09-16
The Funerals.

Special Correspondence to the N. Y. Herald.
SCRANTON. September 9.-The funeral of
forty-three miners to day at one o'clock was
an event of unusual impressiveness. A SOL
emn requiem was tollcd by the city bells, flags
were hung at half.mast. stores were closed,
the principal streets deserted, the numerous
locomotives draped in mourning, and all the
working population Of Scranton appeared to
have betaken themselves to Avondale, one
train Of thirty-seven platform cars carrying
$500 passengers to the scene Of the late dis
aster. So great was the crush that two men
were knocked off the ears and cut to pieces.
Thcthrong at Avondale was immense. and ex-
tended down the railroad track for miles
A vast majority of those present came pure
ly from motives of curiosity. d.
There were hundreds Of women, dressed in
costume more BETTING picnic than funeral,
ard among many of the men there wasa levi
ty and rudeness Of manner better adapted to
the neighborhood of prize ring than sol
emn scene Of such great grief 3g#
The collins, in grim array, were piled upon
construction carriage. On reaching Scran-
ton they were deposited one by one, in ten
hcarses and number Of wagons. The crowd
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Sale of very VAL
~ uabe Town Lots in StauntOn.
sept 1e-tf

~ uabe Town Lots in StauntOn.
In obedience to decree rendered on the Doth
day Of June, 1869, by the circuit court of Au-
gusta county, in the cause of Wardens Guardian
vs. Posey and wife, &c., / will on SATURDAY,
the 9Th day of OCTOBER next, proceed to sell,
upon the premises, at public auction, a lot of
land containing Four Acres and Twelve Poles,
situated on the East side of the old Academy
Road, in the town of Staunton, opposite the res
idence of Mr.. A. T. Gilkeson and Col James H.
Skinner, and known as the Warden lot.
This land has been laid off into five smaller
lots, a Plot of which can be seen at ~ Office
Lot No. l contains / of acre and fronts on
the old Academy road.
No. 2 contains Of acre and poles and is
situated in rear of No. !, with the right to an
alley running between lot No. l and the lot occu-
pied by George Armentrout to the road
No. contains l acre and Is poles and fronts
on the same road.
Nos. 4 and contain l acre and "a poles each
and front on same road
These lots are situated in one of the most re-
tired and pleasant neghborhoods Of the town,
and cannot be surpassed for building purposes
TERMS Enough in hand to pay costs of suit
and sale and the balance in four equal install
ments, payable in six, twelve, eighteen and TWEEN
ty-four months, thu purchaser executing sbonds
for the deferred instalments and title to be re-
tanned until the purchase money shall be paid.
sept l6-tds ALEX. H. FULTZ, Com'r.
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that followed this dlsmally formidable funer-
al to the Welsh cemetery, at Hyde Park.
numbered over three thousand, all GU foot, OF
decent and well-behaved class Of people.
When the third coffin was about being
lowered into one Of the long regular row of
excavations a woman rushed forward and
with desperate energy threw herself upon
the coffin, crying, "You shan't bury my Viii
liam You shan't! you shan't J! Give him
back to me! Or if you won't, bury me
with him p Finally the poor creature, be-
traying in her distracted face all the strongest
emotions Of passionate sorrow, was prevail
ed upon to let the coffin be lowered to its
place. But as the men began to shovel the
earth in on top of it, she threw her eyes up
toward heaven, clasped her tremulous hands,
and, with an expression of the widest des-
pairing anguish in her face, which those who
saw will never be likely to forget, exclaimed,
ooh, Almighty God take me-take me to
where my William is - And with frequent
rcpetitions of this strong imploration she
passed with weary steps out Of the cemetery
gates.
The rest of the intcrmcnt ceremony was
marked by no special incident, and the large
assemblage present dispersed quietly when
all had been consigned to the grave. DR..
Roberts preached the funeral sermon.
In the evening at seven o'clock eleven more
bodies were brought up from Avondale on a
train of cars, on which over 5000 people
must have been passengers. They were ia
KEN as before, to the Hyde Park Cemetery,
without the accompaniment of SO large body
of mourncrs as followed the midday process
sion.
Fifty-four bodies are now buried in Hyde
Park Cemetery. Two have been inferred by
friends, one at Pittston and one at Wyom
ing, Another is being walked this evening,
and ffty-one remain to be buried to morrow
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Baltimore Advertisements.
Collar Factory.

- F. G. MAXWELL & CO..
No. l16 w. Fayette St., and "a North Sharp st.
We contend, (regardless of material used), af-
ter many years practical experience and close
observation that collar CUT RIGHT, carefully
stuffed and fitted to the horses neck sciu not gall.
We therefore warrant our collars faced with
leather, ticking, any other material, not to gall
and respectfully call your attention to the follow
ing certificate, one of the many in our possess
sion:
MEssRs F. G. MAXWELL Co.,
Dear Sirs Your Collars were recommended
to me by men of long practical experience in Ad-
ans Express stables. put them horses with
CALLED necks In less than three weeks their
necks were completely cured, and this has been
the result in all cases where have used your
Collars. My horses never passed through sum
aer aoithout CALLED shoulders, until last summer I
attribute to your excellent collars. / have
commended them to others with like results, and
now willingly assert my conviction after many
years experience. Your collars are the most safe
and DURABLE CoUaes hare euer used.
.o. Gratefully yours, &c.,
RICHARD s. CUTTINGS.
Baltimore, Oct. IA, 1868.
We are enabled from personal observation and
experience to endorse the above statement of Mr..
Cuttings, knowing it to be literally true in many
cases. JAMES MCCARTHY
sept 2-6m JOHN WHEALEY.
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NeaU Advertisements. !.
GUN POWDER.
oRANGERIF AND SPORTING.
THE PRIZE POWDER OF THE WORLD,

The attention Of sportsmen and dealers is called
to the following facts:
Atthe trial of arms before the Examining Board,
in Washington, IN August, 1856, cartridges made
from this powder gave far greater penetration,
range and cleanliness, and in competition with the
principal American powders proved, in every
respect, superior to all others.
z AT THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING, IN ENG
LAND July, 1866, competing with the best OF for
eign Powders the same result was obtained, with
the FIRST PRIZE.
The Board convened by order ofthe commander
in-chief of the State Of New York for the examna-
ton offs small arms, whose sessions were attended
by officers specially detached by the Russian,
Prussian and Danish Governments, say, in their
printed report of the numerous guns on trial. that
after one hundred rounds all but one became SO
foul as not to admit the cartridge. This led to a
test of the powder and they deem the subject of
so much Importance that they say in their report.
ssThe Powder used in these cartridges deserves
special mention as being very superior. IT is
THE ORANGE RIFLE POWDER"
Another meeting of the Board, called by peciaa
Order No. 1875, Of the Adjutant-General, under
date of May 10, 1867, is subject, among other con-
ditions, to the following in article 3rd:
ssIn order to conform to the United States stand
ard charge, as now adopted, the charge will BE-
seventy grains. The Powder to be the Orange
Rifle Powder, manufactured by Smith and "a and
Powder Company"
One of the best sportsmen in the State writes !;
'sWith the Orange Powder made the largest
score l ever made"
VIM. Taylor, Esq, the celebrated pigeon-shoot
er, says: st lis the best powder have ever used"
The Blasting and Mining Posrdsy manufactured
by this company, is guaranteed stronger than any
in use after repeated tests in the anthracite mines
of Pennsylvania, in competition with other branda
it was proved superior to all others, and is now
in general use in these mines, and where heavy
work is to be done requiring powder of unusual
strength and tsrity, it is highly recommended. The
attention of railroad contractors is specially call
ed to the superior quality of this Powder.
Wehaye been appointed agents for the sale in
this State, of the above celebrated, and favor
tie, brand of Powder. We take pleasure in say
ing that wherever have sold it during the last
two years) it has given the most universas salts
faction. Having at great expense just construct
ed the largest Magazine in the State, secure and
complete in all its appointments, we are in the
position to meet the wants of the wholesale trade
We keep constantly on hand every variety of
Powder manufactured by this company.
Euery package of this Powder sold by us will be
guaranteed as represented.
sept 16-tf c. TARDY & co.
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DUEL.-Ye yesterday morning duel was
fought in Jefferson City, near the Carroll
ton line, between two gentlemen of the To-
calty. One Of the parties received a pis-
toll ball in the right arm, the missile gra-
ling the flesh only. So anxious were both
parties to be punctual at the meeting that
it was not yet daylight when the duel took
place, and FIRE across the river assisted
them in seeing each other. The affair
originated in an old lawsuit. A recent
meeting brought the parties to words, old
sores bled afresh, hence the duel. At six
o'clock they had made friends and were
drinking cLampagne.--N. 0. G. Bulletin,
Sept. 10.