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BIDDING FOR MoMEN 5 VOTES 1N WYoM.

BIDDING FOR WOMEN VOTES IN WYoM-
ING.-How much the women were "iu re-
quest in Wyoming on election day is thus
told in letter from one of them to the Rev
olution: walked up to the polls, and voted
as though had been ito the manner born. -
You ought to have seen the hats lifted and
the crowd fall back and leave the way open
for Mrs. A. and myself to get to the voting
window. The gentlemen were remarkably
polite; the Democrats thought we would vote
their ticket, as Mrs. A. is a Dem ,crat, and
the Republicans thought we would vote their
ticket, and tore off the Consiessmans name
from mine, as did not care about commenc-
ing my political career with voting tor sot
But contrary to the expeciat OF nearly all
the party, he was elected by a large majority.
Inever hefore was so much pleased o'er tne
result OF an election as have been over tnls,
ior the Democrats were confident OF success.
arriaoes for the ladies ran all DAY. One
came for me in the morning. but l was not
ready. the gentleman accOmpan' ing it said he
wouId call again ia mediately after dinner
But | prefer ed walking, as did not int.nd
returning directly home. My husband and
some others were dissatisfied because their
man was not nominated, and declared they
would not work to have such a man as Jones
elected; but toward evening. when the Dem
ocrats commences getting desperate, these
men might have been seen hurrylng up a
carriage for my washerwoman, and hunting
up ant Republican woman they could hear
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Cow Lost.

CTRAYED form the subscribers stable Saturday,
- October 8, 1s70, a RED AND WI IT C"w, white
tail, and white on rump. Whoever win give infor-
maion to the under signed OF her whereabouts shall
be suitably rewarded
Oc1l JOSEPH WALKER A High ST.
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THE GOVERNMENT CLERKS at Washington

THE GOVERNMENT CLERKS at Washington
cester Spy as intelligent, and fine looking,
though the women are not handsome ard
look weary. The morale of the whole cleri-
cal force is mucn superior to what it was ten
or twenty years ago, with less drunkenness
and licentiousness and more study, mole
preparation for a profession or a promotion.
Ma attend commercial college in their spare
hours and others the Columbian college law
school, while two thirds OF the seventy medi
cal students in the Columbia and Georgetown
schools are government clerks. Many of the
cl"rkships are in them selves an education for
certain branches OF the law and in this way
are turned to good account by young men
on leaving the civil service. Some of the
Few civil service examinations being based on
matters that do not pertain to the particular
business OF the candidate Tor promotion, are
found to throw out some men really fitted in
the highest degree for their positions. The
examiners insist upon putin. to treasur,
clerk, Ior instance, disconnected questions rel
ative to higher mathematics chemistry, aud
other sciences wi'h which it is highly absurd
to expect him to be familiar. In recent
case treasury clerk of four years star dina
was promoted and the committee, having
learned bv acc dent that he was an ex-mari-
ner. proceeded to put him through long "sums"
in navigation. He went through all right, but
afterwards confessed that he had purposely
falslfed all bis works and his answers. to
prove to his own satisfaction that the com-
mIttee themselves did not know what they
were talking about. A much sa,er plan than
such harum scarum examination as this
would be to make the appointments prov's-
ional and tly the clerk on probation. This
correspondent makes valuable suggestion
that the immense libraries and scientific col
lections now massng at ashipglop, should
be mole available to the educational interests
of the country. AS Washington is to be and
ought to be purely ornamental city anyhow,
it really furnishes one of the best sites in the
country for universities of the highest class.
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Lost
UNITED -TATEs PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED ~TATEs PArkNT OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., SEPT 81, 1870.
DN Petition of Andrew M Hall, OF Falmouth,
" Me-. praying for the extension OF a ma, ent
granted to Inn on the 2sd day Of december, 1856,
and rei-sued on the 9th day Of July, 1861, for an
II is ordered that the testimony in the case be
closed on the 22d day of November next, that the
tim tor filing gume is ami the Examiners report
be limited to the I'd day OF Decemhe next, and iha
sal Petition be heard on the 18th day OF December
next.
ANY person may oppo e this extension
SAM'L S. FISHER,
Commissioner OF Patents.
September %, 1870. p26-1aw3t
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$1,000 Reward.

DOR white Barrow Pig, weighs about 200 lba.,
j. las notch on left ear and slit on right ear.
Above ward will be paid on delivery to Cha'Ies j
West. near the Pottery, Wesbrook, or BURGIN d
JELLtRSON 15l Commercial al ST.
October 3. 1870 If
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"A letter dropped into the New Bedford
Post-oftice Friday, addressed to "Heaveny
Father" is detained for non-payment of post
age.
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GrHNE RpI2kctiON

In prices OF cleansing and repairing clothing, lower
han ever [ shall cleanse n,oo
Pants Tor rs anu 81 cts,
VS., ~ 81"
Ladies' ca ments cleansed cheap. and with my usual
promptness Second hand elotbng Tor sale at lair
Irices "a Federal Street,
jun26 WILLIAM BROWN.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-12

The EDUCATION OF GIRLs.-The stud
les pursued by the majority of the school
girls at the present day are not such as will
be of the most practical benefit to them
through life. We do not refer so particularly
to those who take regular course at col
lege or seminary, as to the large class who,
after having acquired thorough common
school education, are sent a few terms to
high school or an academy, where, in nine
cases oat often, the precious months of study
are thrown away upon the higher mathemat-
ics,-thrOwn away inasmuch as their knowl-
edge of those branches will never be of any
real use to them. We do not intend to un-
dervalue these studies; they are good in their
place, and are an excellent discipline to the
mind, but so are many other things OF real
utility. And where the time is limited and
there is no intention of teaching, it would
be better to know something OF ph, sicaI se-
0graphy, natural history, rhetoric, ancient and
modern history, or Latin; anything useful
which would 5e C, instantly brought to mind
in reading, correspondence, and in converse.
ton.
Many young ladies spend almost the whole
time allotted to them at a high school or
course OF mathematics. which to civil engi-
neer, would be invaluable aud Indispensable
but which they throw aside with their text
books. and ncrer L~-s- occasion to-re TO,
them again and when they leave school are
entirely ignorant of English literature. book
Keeping, chemistry, geology, logic, botany,
philosophy, astronomy, aud dozen other
things, eitfer one OF which would be of more
practical use than all this algebra, geometry
and trigonometry. II is wonder that these
studies hold the position they do in our
schools 1t they are so important as 10 be an
Indispensable asjnnct of every young lad, S
edueat'on, let them be postponed until the pu
Pill can at least read, write and eak correct
ly And then il there is time and lasie tor
it, it is quite likely, the mind being better
disciplined, may more easily understand the
abstruse problems.
A ia ent Tor mathematics is a gift as much
as ear for music, and mathematics should
never be taught except by person who has a
natural taste Tor it. The tnme is C ming
when our public schools will all be graded and
each braDch ofstudy will have It's own respec-
tive teacher Then in fitting ones self tn teach
it will be necessary TO get a thorough under
standing OF one thing instead of smatt-rinc
OF everything, and each one will make a speci-
ality of culliva'ing the talents With which ma
ture has endowed HIM, and both teacher and
pupil " i'll fud a vast change for the better
Springfield Republican.
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Lost.

LUSTe
( OST on Saturday evening last, on Dantortb,
IL Congress Elm streets a fine linen cimbric
Handkerch'e' edged with Valen. IenDes lace. The
finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving at No.
Elm street. ocu 3*
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Account Book tOst!

RErWFEN Portland and Morrill's corner. The
ID finder will lie suitably rev artled hy leaving the
same At W. c. Cobb's steam Bakery, Pearl st.
oci Sdtf
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Lost !!

nNE BloodsiOne Gold Ring, marked .sW H. H.,
~ tom father Sept. Z 1870" hoover will leave
the same al $40 Congress street will be suitably re-
w5rded. ocSa1w
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FOR =


n ARD and SOFT WOOD, lor sale at No. 4s Lin
: coin street. Also, Cry edg,ngs.
jan29 VIM .uIrSE
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Terms $500 per anmuns, in adrance.

A terrible earthquake occurred at Batang,
Oh the confines oil Thibet, China and Bur
man, on the l1th Of last April, news OF which,
thronsh Bishop Chaveau, resident at Datar g,
has recently reached London, via Bombay.
A shock was ielt at five O'Clock in the morn
ing, and stronger shock at noon was fol-
lowed at sunset by an earthquake which lev
eled the whole town and killed and bruised
hall the population. The missionaries esca-
ped to their garden, and vnly one ct their SER
wants peiished. he laroe and spe did La
maserai, Inhabited by three thou aud Lauas,
I-i' Win a crash. the Chinese official reports
estimate lhe loss of human iiie at Alb Lama
priests, 81 soldiers ana 2sl2 "common people"
a series OF earthquake shocks were felt as ,ar
as Pungmon-tang The village and MANY
others ale destroyed, and so many OF The All.
thonties and soldiers have beer b,,ried under
the ruins of their houses that robbers, like
wild beasts, run everywhere" 10 conclude
in the Bishops own words, "The imperial
highway from Pekin to Lbassa seems, AID is
said to be now, totally impracticable near
Kong ngdez-tin by the fall OF mountain, and
the sudden upheavin9 OF a new one.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-12

SCARCITY OF WATER-A correspondent,
writing ir )m Acton, Mass, under date OF Oct.
D, says: From all parts OF the country we are
daily in receipt OF complaints of the terrible
drouth which has been unparalleled for sixteen
years. 1t has affected the Old Bay State bad
ly as the less etheralized portions of the Union
but in different way. In one place we are
without drop of water 10 cool our tongues.
while in another the inhabitants pass their ex-
istence in perpetual state of dropping damp
ness. North Adams, for instance, where Joha
Chinamau made bis debut a short time since
as shoemaker, is'as green and blooming as If
the clerk of the weather was member of Her
vey's Celestial apprentices, and here in Actnn
everything is as dry as the throat of toper
the morning alter thiee weeks drunk.
l will give you an example. A stranger
stopping at our principal hotel asked the wait
er this morning if he could furnish him With
a glass of water.
"Yes, sir, was the answer; shut would you
Ss soon have cider?I would rather give you
that"
"Why SOP" asked the guest, in astonish-
ment
Because, while apples are unusually plenty
and we can get cider any place about tor 10
cents per barrel, all our wells have given out,
and we are obliged to 90 several miles tor
good drlnkTg water, and pay $3.50 per barrel
for it then.
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A FINE Opportunity for Physician
WISHING to loca'e is cffered in one OF he pleas
a,ooo antest villages in ,he tate. Practice worth
S3ooo per year. Fer parti,u ars dre-s,
~ JOHN hUN IN 1TON,
0ca"3w Portland, Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-12

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the subscri-
IN Der has been duly appointed Executor OF the
Will of
GEORGE LoRING, late Of Falmouth,
in the county OF Cumberland, deceased, and has a-
ken upon him self that by giving bouds as the
Ia directs Al per-oDs having demands upon
the estate said deceased, required to exhibit
the same; and all persons indebted to said estate
are called upon TO make payment to
FREDERICK FOX,
Executor, of Po, tand.
Falmouth, October 4th 1870 ocSs3wM
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HNKkEYt 1s.stEY slltJ JgtGSSssMA@eWaEN'

kNh FAMILY USE. Simple, cheap, reliable.
4 XII is everything. Agents wanted. Circul +
ana sampie stocking free. Address HINKLEY KNIT
TING MACHINE Co., Bath, Me. sc29-d1y
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TWO large, good Horses, one double harnes and
ne G'g. VIII be sold goou baroaIr to IL e
purchaser. Please cali on ELIAS MOUNTFOI;J
WestbrOck, near Aliens Corner ouu
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Boarding.
n and MiIe or tmo

A GENTLEMAN and wi,e or two oor+,,r.,, ,,,,
"A pc accommodated with furnisbed rooms with
or without board, in small private family.
Apply ava Wlhot oueet. octMI d5*
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Board for Horse
WOOd. WOOGI

HAN be obtained on reasonab terms by address,
~ ing N. CHURCH Il SON.
sept2eeow2w Naples.
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DAILY PRESS.
MD
Wednesday Morning, October I2, 1870.
PORTSL.A MD
implements of Warfare,

Implements of Warfare.
The Paris illustration, in spite OF the terri
BILE disasters that have overtaken the Freuch
arms, still induges in jokes on the subject. In
history OF war, it describes the implements
of warfare, from the club with which Cain
slew his brother down to the implements
which will eventually produce universal
peace. We shall commence with 1866:
1866 THE NEEDLE GUN.
But, as the saeacity of man has no limits,
he invents the needle gun. an admirable In
ventiOn, with which one is able to kill ten
men at five hundred Yards, before the enemy
is able to kill ore. Triumph Of the needle
gun The soldiers become mechan 'cs, and the
Commanding General is Chief Engineer. The
thirty years war lasts thirty days.
1S70-THE NlITRAILLEUsE.
But the chief mechanic OF the hostile ar
mics invents the mitrailleuse OF the power of
forty needle guns. One MN can destroy a
company in five minutes, at a distance OF Two
thousand yards. The mechanics working the
mitralleuse gain many Iauiels The thirty
years war lasts three days.
1SSO-THE ELECTRICAL GUN.
But the hostile mec' anics do not despair;
they invent an electrical gun of the power of
twenty-five mltrailleuses. A single man de
strOys battalion with the greatest of ease in
three minutes, and at a distance OF two thous-
and five hundred yards. Triumph of electric
ity. The thirty years wars last day aud a
half
1900 THE STEAM GUN.
For this war is invented the steam gun
which spouts out continual stream OF hul-
lets, is managed like fire engine and pos
sesses the power of twenty-five electrical guns.
1t destroys regiment at distance OF three
thOusanr yards in minute and a halt. Tri-
umph of steam. The thirty years. var has
lasted twenty-tOur hours.
l9O0-THE SURPRISE BoMBsHELL.
The mechanical and CHER engineer and
Chemist of the army beaten by the steam
gun, employs the leisure which peace gives
him bv iuventing stupefy ing bombshell, with
tilple electrical current AID a guldrupe lase
OF prussic acid-destroy ing a division at o
blow at a distance OF Ten thousand yards.
But the hostile chief chemist has in the
meantime invented aEoiher stupefy ing bomb,
composed Of twenty-five elements Of super
concentrated Z0te, which annihilates an ar
my corps at distance OF ten thousand ards
The two kinds of bombshells are shot off at
the same time, and the consequence is,
GENERAL PEACE.
The two armies sink down as if struck by
lightning. Peace ensues, and tranquility
reigns everywhere, The thirty years war has
lasted just three hours.
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Cow Found

Ao sunday: one lawn colored Jersey Cow. The
- oWn.r can have the same by proving property
oc11w II, L. WHEELER, Woodf.rd's Cor,
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TO LET.
Furnished House tn Tot

1HOUSC CU LVUe
A Furnished House In the Western n,rt or tbe
a city, to be lei, the ewp-r. IA lady) desiring to
board with the family. Apply to
Oct11-dlWx ~ o
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WI age Newspaper

4 ND JOB OtFICE Tor sale, in he smartest VII.
r.. iaye IN Maine. No other tfHce within t.n
mues' ,!' sa!.I'a' hew ana business enough. If uou
tress Ufhce. o',,.a u 'ia"u
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-o, =. JohnsOn,s
Roeaih-h EEPEF. and a,juster of accounts. at
s1 efhee e' Joseph H. Webster, Ins Agt IS Mid
w st' au2U1tf
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The Portland Daily Press
rs published every day (Sundays excepted) by
The
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Watches. Jewelry. &c.
j. AMBROSE MERRILL, No. 1872, Middle street.
J.w, &HH. .MCDUFFEE, cor Middle & Union ats.
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1S00-THE STEAM GUN.

The two armies sink down as if struck by
lightning. Peace enSues, and tranquility
reigns everywhere. The thirty years war has
lasted just three hours.
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Stoves. Furnaces q Kitchen Goods:
@. G. TOLMAN, % Market So under Lancaster hall.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-13
crying out.

The following appointments were made
today By the President: Erasmus B.
Dennison, of New Mexico, Indian Agent in
New Mexico; Jasper i. Wall, of Iowa,
Superintendent Of Indian Affairs for Monts-
ma; Fellows D. Pease, of Montana, Indian
Agent for Crow tribe, Montana; ". W.
McCauley, Indian Agent for the Black Feet
and nelghboring tribes, rice l.. 2. Blake
removed Charles ). Jones, of the Distric,
OF Columbia, Indian Agent for the Wothesd
and other confederate tribes of Indians IL
Montana Territory, rice NJ. NJ. Nc Cauley
NJ. J. Cramer, of Kentucky, was appointed
resident Minister at Denmark; Abner A.
Addey, Of New York, Secretary of Legation
at Madrid; VIM. A. Page, of Virginia, Con-
sul at Port Said, Egypt; Samuel Fl. King.
man, Consul at Brndisi: Thomas Fl. Brady.
of Indiana, Consul at St. Thomas John II.
Stewart, of Pennsy lvania, Consul at Leipsic;
Henry Fox, Consul at Plymouth; Ralph
Abercromble, Consul at Lum bez In the
navy, Commodore Jenkins to be Rear
admiral, Captain Mullaney to be Commo
dore, Commander Simpson to be Captain,
and Lieutenant Commander Cooke TO be
Commander, by the retirement of Comno-
dore Matshaud. Captain c K. Rodgers IS
promoted to Commodore, Commander TEN.
pie to CAPTAIN, and Lieutenant Commander
+ itch to Commander.
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Death is at the Door.

In ali these complaints the system evidently
shows . want of red blood, and Mr.. Churchill, in
his work on Diseases of Females, says "Bear-
ing in mind that the blood IL remarkably def
cIeni IN red corpuscles, and the known property
"f iron 10 correct this condition theory suggests
1t as the most TO be relied on, the beet of VIII oh
Is the Citrate. Citrate of Iron enters largely
into the composition Of English Female BitIers
combined with powerful vegetable tonics of rare
qualities.
Among the mountains OF Tennessee and the
piney goods of Mississippi, is found certain
hard snd tinty root, which has been in secret use
~ some eli midwives for many ears, possessin 9
magic powers in regulating and restoring ali
females suffering with any affection of the womb.
This root we have obtained, ave it fair test il
our practice and it lie one of the principle
ingredients in these Bitters. Other pOweTfu
uterine and general tonics also enter into it.
composition. We also add Leptsndra or Black
root. sufficient to act upon the liver and keep The
DO wels open.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-13
English Female BitterS,

The only ack no wledged Uterine Tonic ard Fe-
male Regulator known, VIII cure ali those com
piuints above mentiond in an incredibly short
time. The Bitters at .rouses, strengthens
and restores the womb TO its natural condition
removing distractions, relieving pain and reg
ulsting the monthly period. Yonder stands a
pale, feeble AMI languid girl, just bursting into
WON al hood she is the pride of all, but bark .
she silently steals pickle, eats chalk, or slate
pencil; no appetite for food; she turns with a
dull eye and seeks solitude; her eye no longer
sparkles; her merry laugh is no longer heard
ringing through the air she mOpes about with
bioOdless lips and gum, with heada che, pal pa
tstIon, constipation, swimming of the head, cold
feet and hands, melancholy she has a coated
tongue, offensive breath, and host of other
evils too numerous to ntion.
When neglected all these symptoms become
aggravated, there is sick stomach, heartburn, a
dark line settles under the eyes. the legs and an-
sles swollen the hair loses its CLOS, and fall.
of, there lie brttlenes. and splitting Of the finger
nails, swollen abdomen, extreme nervousness,
frettulness, pains and aches, dry cough, Hyster.
icsl Fits, rapid prostrstion, epilepsy and death
If You, any OF your friends. thus afflicted,
send at once for bottle OF English Female Bit
ters and be cured. Its effects gical in such
complaints Surely no mother will postpone and
delay this duty until