The Republican journal., 1869-05-06
Court Report.
CUurC Report.
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, DICKERSON y, PRE-

Grath was next on trial The defendant, who
lives in Philadelphia, is the manufacturer of
De Grath's Electric Oil, for the alienation Of
human ills. He is accustomed to travel in a
snowy carriage, offering his compound for sale
wherever crowd can becollected, and making
experiments on persons afflicted. Last August
he placed his carriage in the square in this city,
and among the subjects experimental on was
Mr.. Leighton, who is afflicted with deafness.
The testimony was contradictory upon the
point whether permission was gved to put the
medicine in the Plaintiffs ear. Leighton swore
thst he did not give 1.-THE defendant swore
that he did. Mr. leighton alleging that he was
injured by the application, had De Grath ar
rested at Bangor, where bail was given. The
| Doctor put IN an appearance. together with Il
gross Of his medicine. lie not only testified
to its efficacy, but 20 its Larmlessness, i'll proof
of which he swallowed large portion Of the
contents of q bottle, and filed his ear with the
compound. Several Of our local physicians
testified to its innocence, after examining the
formula. Many witnesses were introduced on
either side. The jury returned verdict of
Sl05 for plaintiff. Abbot for plaintiff. Fagg
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Among the divorces granted was that of
Nathaniel B. Clapp from Eleanor T. Clapp. The
parties live in Frankfort. The plaintiff testi-
fed that he is II years of age, and his wife sc.
He Is a stout, rugged looking man, in the
prime Of life, while she appeared much older
than she actually is, and SO inlrm shat she
walked to the stand with difficulty. Itappear-
! farn
While he had no considerable amount of pro-
perty. They disagreed about the management
of the farm, and hence the divorce suit. After
full hearing, Judge Dickerson cut the knot
matrimonial.
The following divorces have also been de
creed-Lydia Turner VS.. VIM H. Turner;
Emily Furbish vs.. Leander A. Kurdish, Hiram
T. Sherman vs. Elizabeth IT, Sherman; Martha
Hagarty VS.. Myrck Hagar ty
There is trouble breeding in the radical
ranks i'll this State The temperance men,
who have been used as dray-horses to haul
the radical cart, are becoming FESTIVE under
the existing state Of things. They have
submitted, they say, to follow whisky soak
ed leaders long enough, while urged on by
the cry - for the sake of the party" Nor,
they declare the time has come to know
whether party profession Of sympathy for
the temperance cause means anything.
They ask that an earnest and outspoken
friend Of prohibition be nominated for Gov
ernor If such action is not taken, then
they will themselves put candidate in the
field. .
Alta Convention Of the Sons Of Tenn
perance, at W atervlle, last week, which
was also attended by delegation Of Good
Templars, this subject was considered. We
quote from report of the proceedings
An interesting and lengthy debate took place
respecting political action temperance men,
which was participated in by Hon. Joshua Nye,
Rev. D. B. Randall Rev. L. W. Jackson, Hon.
Henry Tallman, S. l. Roberts, s. O. Wood and
others. This debate resulted in the unanimous
adoption of the following resolutions
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Grand
Division the State Temperance Committee
should call convention Of the friends of tenn
perance previous to the meeting Of the State
Convention OF the political parties for consul
tation as to the good of the cause, and to take
such measures as shah secure its safety
Resolved That should neither Of the parties
nominate candidate for Governor satisfactory
to the temperance men of the State, another
convention be called for the purpose of nomi-
mating a candidate for Governor, to be support
ed by temperance men.
Things look as though Chamberlain
would be re-nominated by the radicals IN
this State. A letter inviting him TO accept
the position again has been published. 1t
is signed by Abncr Coburn, Dennis H. Mil
liken, Nathan Dane, Noah Woods, WASH
ington Long, J. p Morse, George f Nhep-
ley, George L. lieal, Thomas = Lang. The
Governor responds, expressing his willing
ness to accept. This is a flank movement
on the opposers of Chambcrlain's nomina-
ton, and looks as though ii must be etfectu-
al to that end, or else create split. The
prohibitionists and anti-hanging portion Of
the party must make their choice. We
shall now expect to see the ramrod portion
of the press fall into the ranks, aud I'd be-
hold the Portland Press eat tile lcek with
some wry faces.
THE RAILROAD 70 WARREN. 8. r..
Gushee writes to the Maine Farmer, from
Appleton, q communication in relation TO
the proposed railroad from Warren to Bel
fast. He sets forth the resources of the
towns on the route, i'll water power, lime
stone, agricultural products, &C., and says
the people of the region are waking up to
the Importance of railroad communication
as means Of developing their resources.
Belfast wishes them all success,
The town of Montville is getting famous.
About all of our exchanges have had some
thing to say Of its action in relation to bond
taxation, and in several papers it has sery-
ed as the text for long articles. The Man
chester, n. II. Union, remarks
Wa ora fraid our friends ave NOT Oh