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To the Hon. Railroad Comni..io..-.

XA Fl EREAS the Maine Central Railrt ad Cor,ra-
w ton are preparing to build a Depot on said
road near the South West corner of orIh Yarmouth
ana tbat the pubic convenience and necessity re-
quire the erection and maintenance OF a Depot ,or
passengers and freight at or near tie crossing by
Rowes for The accommodation of large maiority
OF the inhabitants OF that section; therefore we the
petitioners respectfully pray you to hear tne parties
and determine the matter in accordance with law,
and We, as in DUTY bound will ever pray.
North Yarmouth, August 10, 1871.
Ezra Tobie, Leighton g. Whitney, William HAYES,
Caleb Marston, Mitchell, F Mitchell, Charles L
David Sweetser, jonathan Rowe. Prince
James II Gushing, Chas Mitchell, Isaiah Elder, A 4
Rowe, G Skillin, Stephen Kenney, John Staples, r
TtcOmb, " caaEe oHas usnins, sswEsr BARREL FIJI
lin, Jason Hamilton, William Doten, A P Lufkip. i
Q Hayes, Edward Batcheder, Cha, P Lorine. Fnos
1rne Jr,, David @ Loiing, Joseph R Prince. Albert
Prince, M Whitney, Albert Sw eetser, J Dunn ~
Co., Enoch Ritter Lewis I 7 ue Chas Loring.
Geo Noyes, Edwin LIBBY, Alvah Marston, Isaac
ney, Hiram Tuttle, Nathaniel Fickett, Latham
Hutchns, Uriel Whitney, Jacob Sweetser i IN
Sweetser, Asa Sweetser, RT Hodsdon, VIM john
son. Levi Marston, d Libby, Moses True Geo H
Sawyer Il B Pratt, Chas Sweetser, VIM Marston.
A M Kenney, Silas Skrliin.
BANGOR, AUG. 10, 1871.
upon me foregolng Petition we appoint Thursday,
the Seventh day OF September, A d., 1871, and
the crossing by j. P. Rowes in said North Yarmout h
named in said Petition and ten o'clock in the tore
nooh 40 ebo oIhic anu pidct WIFI AMI W1ere We Will
hear the parties and any others
and determine whether the prayer OF the Petitioners
shall be granted, and if granted. whether depot
for nelght aud passengers or passenger station
shall be erected and maintained at the place desig-
mated and prayed for in said Petition
And we order that notice be given to the said
Maine Central Railroad Corpora BY service upon
the Clerk OF said Corporation by giving him copy OF
said Petition and of this order there and or
leaving the same at his usual place of resi- fence four
teen days at least before said seventh day OF Septem-
ber next. and by the publication of the same in the
Portland Press, publc newspaper published at
Portland in the county OF Cumberland two weeks
successfully. the last publication TO be prior to the
daysabove fixed for said hearing.
A. W. WILDES,
S. H. BLAKE,
S. L. CORSER,
Railroad Commissioners of the State of Maine
auo22,l2w
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DAILY PRESS.
ND.
THURSDAY, AUGUST "a, 1871
Concerning n Dictionary.

VINO, that ever read it, has forgotten the
irreslstlbly funny description of the career of
dictionary, which Mark Twain puts into the
mouth of one Coon, "a nice, bald-headed man
at the hotel in Angels camp" in the Big Tree
region of the Calaveras county, California.
1t was request for the loan of a book to en-
liven rainy day, that Coon replied.
swell, Pve got mighty responsible old
Webster Unabridged, what there is of it, but
they started her slosbing around the camp be-
fore ever got chance to read her myself !;
and next she went to Murphy's and from
there she went to Jackass Guich, and now
she,s gone to San Andreas, and | don't ex-
pect Iii ever see that book again. But what
makes me mad is, that for all they are so
nanoy about keeping her sashaying around
ilo,h shahty TO shanty and from camp to
SIamp' none OF ems got good word tor her
Now. Coddington had her week. and She
was TOO many for him-he couldn't spell the
words !; he tackled some OF them regular bus
ters toward the middle, you know, and thew
throwed him. Next Dyer he, tried her iolt.
but he couldn't pronounce 'em-Dyer can
hunt quail and play seven up as well as any
man, understand, but he can't pronounce
worth cent; he used to worry along well
enough through, till he flush one of them
rattlers with clatter OF sylIables as long as
string of sluice-boxes, and then he'd lose his
grip and throw up his hand. And so finally
Dick Stoker harnessed her, up there at his
cabin, and sweat over her, and wrestled with
her for as much as three weeks, night and
day, till he got her az lar as Il, and then pass.
ed over to 'Lige Pickerell, and said she was
the ail,ilredest dryest reading that ever he
struck"
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The young ladies were full of small statis-
tics, but they did not gossip on so large a
scale. They told me where 10 buy six button
gloves, who made the best caromels, and who
wore the first Cretonne suits in New York.
"Do you read the papers? ?" asked.
80, yes; we read all about the weddings,
ana The parties, the engagements, and the
fashionable news"
do you like Dame Europa's School?"
ing school,"
"liow do you like 'Ginxs Baby%"
:, v we think all babies are dreadful. Does
MIS-. Hlhx bring her baby to the table Moth
er keeps Johnny with the nurse all the time
We never see him."
DID you read AH the Year RoundP~
think we are blue stockings P'' 'oN
I'D you read Once Week?o
"Well, some times not half as often as that
especially in Winter, when there are so many
Paftes;; y, parties are so lovely-periectly
II suppose you read Eoery Saturdoyqp
so, yes; we read the society papers everv
Saturday. They say awful nice things-bow
certain young lady was 'EIuch admiIed,
and how Miss Snow is a great fayorile in So
eety.' Dear me, some OF as had our names
in twenty-seven times last Winter o, they
are jolly nice"
nat do you think of the Nation ?n
~ dear! we don't think of ANYTHING out
oiue SUE oi our set. We don't know anything
fectly dreadfulw
DO you like the Atlantic?"
:, my we never went out any further
than the Branch and down to the Fort Ham
iltOn hops. Those officers do dance so love
ly! And such nice flirts-perfectly atrociousp'
AND SO the aristocratic young ladies went
on.
1 was very much amused and instructed. 1
wanted to stay with them forever 1t did me
good to sitat the fountain of wisdom, to drink
In perpetual flow OF soul, and to feast on
reason. felt that my early education had
been neglacted-that had read Homer and
Virgil in vain-that when | was standing in
Moscow and in the dazzling court of st. Pet
ersburg, 1t were better had been in the whiY
OF the Fort Hamilton round dances-at the
branch-on Avenue V, reading Society news
papers. U! sigh, in the anguish of my heart,
would that had directed my education i'm
other channels-would that every book was
IN the middle of the sea-would that art and
architecture had not drawn me aside from
the festive dance-would that the palaces of
the Caesars, the Milan cathedras, the ruins of
keckler., and the great dome of st. Paups
were in chaos! Would that Dickens and
kuskin and Humbolt, and old Hugh Miller
had never live land that the coIoring of
Rembrandt and Raphaelle and Reubens had
gone out like the colors of a rainbow! How
will it profit man if be gains the whole
world-and fails to dance the German? After
death, comes the judgment. How can die
without learning to dance the rodnd dances?
am hopeless, rHined man. l have culti-
waited my brain, while my heels have rested
idly in my boots. L can write-I have made
book-I can demonstrate the XXXVI. OF
Euclid, but cannot dance the ''dIp!" May
the Lord have mercy on me- and not utterly
cast me off because have not learned these
things. Amen!
So went OH
N, Y. Commercial.
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-"What hover OF beauty shall L marry y
asked young sPendthrft OF his misery gov
ernor. 10 Whlcn tne governor repned, with
grim smile, MarlSold.
-Oswego county, N. Y, girls have voted
not to accept the company of any younq man
who uses tobacco, sunless the night IS very
u"iA anu 'ne 'o"u liuudy'
The Boston Post tell of a man in Troy
"who left a boarding-house lust becaus a rat
bit off his ear" When people Get to be that
particular about trlffes, they ought to quit
boarding and 90 to keeping house.
Mrs Commodore Rarnev was ranorted
IN no the last snrviving cnilG of anv pf tba
siopers of tbe DacIarstioh of Jndanandarca
rg,o danahters boweva, of Vice. Prasidant
EIbridge Gerry. one of .he signers, are still
living IN New Haven, and third IN Boston.
III. u.e.,
Lit1;..n hlai elolu LsneS nas eplereu OUT the
pro,;a .S5 40 70 "no VIII oe .ne next Deplo-
o,aIio U ioi iIe lreSluehcy' anu con-
cluueS tnat General iianeock or eratz Brown
- sue u'i'or.unate I inulViunal- one IS sallans
tT;um' ;' anI ns, sue oonrMne ni;t; S1,anses. VI an
tbat snch aood % ep sbnnId stand Sge%s is dar
being thus cruelty victimIzed.
-Oro of tho Low srool,ars in = Nothod;,.
Conferenca dowH EaSt iIInstrated his re q n.
= osa 80 -; ~ ,,;tL H. Sonthar,, hrothr,..
ar,d IL ,oaIn+,a t>".a.d thano bu tbe story n
' .1,,|, .,S ,,,',, 81 ,Id ,ot SneoL 40 aooh
o,bar. bnt ono bsvipg been converted at .
comn.meating on SEEING his former enemy.
Sa'd nmt hiS hand SAVING. "How d;,e al
1u Wa'anS am humble eHoueh IN sbal<e banGs
,,;,i p doan
"i'A o'
An old farmer went into drug store
short time ago, after an almanac. He was
handed one OF JayDe's, but Indignantly re-
fused il. saving that it Was a id humbug.
a. oct yearn said he sJ lost n couple OF tons
Of bav NV one Of his amanacs. The book
said i would be pleasant on certain DAY.
and | left my grass out and lost It, won't
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DO Not Ncglec, the Young Crafts.

1t should not be forgotten that gratis, which
have been fairly set this spring, when they
once fairly start to grow they mostly 90
ahead rapidly, and become laden with leaves
and the hold they have upon the stock being
very slender, they frequently break of. Birds
will also light upon them and their added
weight snaps them. They, therefore, should
be attended to and pruned, when they have
shot eight to ten inches, by one-half They
usually make better branches by this abscis.
sion, and in no event is there any injury
Gratis set last spring should also be examined
and where the wax has become loose and
fallen away, or where the split has wdened,
additional wax should be supplied, otherwise
the water gaining entrance will either kill OF
weaken them, giving them an unsightly ap-
pearance and at least stunting them for per-
haps years. Sometimes they never recover
from it.
CHALK FOR SToCK.-When an animal IS
found licking its fellow, it is proof thai uneas-
mess is present i'm the stomach, and the hch
ing of his neighbor is habit contracted py lii-
stict, with view to remove the unp,essan pais;na,
ness. Unfortunately, instinct IS not suinciep.
at all times TO avoid dangerous practlces, anu
n ,,e toka II for granted that the stomach II at
all times charged with acrid matter, we shail,
w;thout hesitation, find remedy. 1t is only
necessary to place within their treach shallow
troughs, in which is kept supply of common
shalk. If an animal has superabundance of
acrid secretion, it will most certainly neutral
ize the excess OF acid. If an animal has not acid
in excess, and partakes of chalk, it will do nc
harm. 1t is often too late to administer rene.
dies to young stock, and the placing of chalk
Wlthln their recach cannot be made too early
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Charles R. is three years old, or thereabouts
The othef dfy ne tee arne worry angry brcIuse
views on some disputed point, and blurted out
"You's fool, papa?" Papa looked grave, and
was presently called out OF the room. Mamma
embraced the occasion to impress upon the
young hopeful toe Improperly ofhis conduct,
and papa felt very badly and he must kiss him
and say he was sorry. So when his father re-
turned, Charlie rushed up to HIM with his lit
lie face all smile, and kissing him over and
over again, exclaimed. "Papa,I am so sorry
you's foolp
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To Let,
lOUSES and Stores on Pearl Street and Cum
III berlana Terrace by
sep27-1y j. L. FARMER,
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Administrators Sale of Real Estate

DURSUANT to a license from the Hon. j ohm A.
L Waterman, Judge OF Probate within and for
the County of Cumberland, shall sell at public
auction to The highest bidder. on Saturday The 9th
day OF August, A. ID. 1871, at ten O'Clock in he fore
noon, on the premises, about thirty acres of land
situated in Falmouth in said county, and near Pts
cataqus Corner, so called. in said Falmouth the
same being part OF the estate of Ann E. Gurney,
late OF Falmouth deceased.
JOHN G. COBB, Administrator.
July 25th, 1871. jy27 dit 3w
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BONDS.
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
R0jlr00d COMPANY

tages to an unusual degree, The route lies betwesn
Mobile, Alabama, aud Houston, Texas-passng
through New Orleans, the New York OF the South.
OF the whoe line OF 475 miles, about two thirds
already built, and tie Stockholders have expended
nearly TEN MILLION DOLLARS in the work.
The bonds now offered secured by mortgage
upon all that part Of the line west Of New Orleans,
which has enormous traffic assured to it fl ON the
start this being the only rail connection by which
the cotton corn cattle and other productions of Tex
as can reach New Orleans.
So important is this road considered to Louisiana,
that the State has made very liberal grants in aid OF
the enterprise. by direct donations by endorsement
ofits bonds, and by subscriptions to the stock OF the
Company, amounting in al to over eight million
dollars. 81 .ortt. Fs,-,lg
The Fist Mortgage
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BOsCdOi7a COlIege.

CANDIDATES for admission will be exam
~ ined in Adams Hall, on Friday of Commence
ment week, July II, at o'clock a. m. Alss on the
first day of next term, Thursday, August 81, at the
same place and hour.
SAMUEL HARRIS, President.
Brunswick, June a. 1871. iun2. aug3l
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LNOR breach OF conditions of mort gage, given me on
L the 9Th day OF June, 1870, by Charles d. Jordan,
the 18Th day OF September the lot of land with build
itgs thereon, situated in Falmouth, being the same
premises described in said mortgage, in Cumberland
take pace the premises at O'Clock p. m.
OLIVE BUCKNAM,
auglz every satN Mortgage.
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MANHOOD:
How Lost! How Restored! f!

just published, in sealed envelope, Price, six
cents.
LECTURE ON THE NATURAL TREAT
MENr, and Radical Cure OF Slermatorrbea or Sem.
inal Weakness. 1nvoluntsry Emissions, Sexual De-
by ana Cepsumpion Enen.y rsage generally gen
Mental and Physical ncapacty, resulting from Sci
Abuse, &C., by Robt. j. Culverwel, M. D.. author OF
the "Green Book" &c.
"A Boon to Thousands of su1erers.o
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to any ad-
ace STAMPS, BY CHAL. j. G. KLINE g. CO., l27
Bowery, New York, Post Office box 1885.
junf6d WIS 3m
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E'Hle Portland ssssSEv SreSs
Is published every day Sundays excepted, by
he -
Portland Publishing Co,
At loS EXCHANGE STREET, Portland.
TERMs:-Eight Dollars Year in advance.
Portland Publish,


Is published every THURSDAY MORNING at
S2.5O year; il paid in advance, at $500
year
KhTEs CT ADYERTIsING.-One inch OF space,
in length Of column, constitutes square"
$1.50 per square daily first week. 70 cents
per week after, three insertions, Or less, $l.0O;
continuing every other day after first week, 5o
cents.
Half square, three insertions or less, 75 cents;
one week, $1.00; so cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs," $500 per
square per week; three insertions or less 1.50.
Advel tisements inserted in the "MAINR
STATE PRESS" (Which has large circulation
in every part OF the State) for 81. 90 per square
for first insertion, and 80 cents per square for
each subsequent insertion
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
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Dissolution of COp0rtnership C

A Office is hereby given that the coparnership
y lately existing between Washington Ryan and
Nathaniel G. Davis OF Portland, under the firm name
OF Ryan & Davis, was dissolved July Ist, 1871, by
mutual consent.
The business ofthe late firm will be adjusted by
either partner at the old stand 16t Com mmercial St.
WASHINGTON RYAN,
au2itf N C. DAVIS
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$50 Re1HNrH :!
"nnfsrnon Sntn

THE above reward will be paid for the recovery
OF the body of Charles Partridge. ho was drown
ed in Portland Harbor he night of The 10Th inst
au1Sd1w MRS. p. E. PARTRIDGE.
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CODOrt7aership Notice.

rNHE undersigned have formed copartnership
Il under the name and style of Ryan & Kelsey, to
date from July 1st 1871 and at the old stand OF Ryan
g. Davis, will continue the Commission, hip Broker
Ship Chandlery and Ship Stores business and will
be pleased to meet the friends and customers of the
late firm.
WASHINGTON RYAN.
u2ltf S. B. KELSEY.
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To Let.
Furnished Room to Let.

II OUSE No Sc Anderson st nearly new, contains
six rooms, eight closets, GOOD cellar, and plenty
water. Apply at No Lincoln st. jy2,tt
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old Money Bags says that a girl with an
income of three thousand dollars year or
more is always an object of interest, because
she has so much principal.
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Nanutacturino 60

THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, of the
L WestbroOk Manufacturing Co. Tor the choice OF
officers, and the transaction Of any other business
that may legally come before them, will be held at
their office No 10 Central Wharf, ON
Tuesday, August 22d, at 3 O'Clock p. Nj.
RUFUS E. WOOD, Clerk.
Portland Aug 7th. 1871. au it'd
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THE Annual Meeting of the PortlandW oodenWare
Co., for the election OF officers and the transac-
ton OF any other business which may come before
them. will be held at the office of the treasurer
1917 Commercial ST.. on the Second day of Seotem-
Der at O'Clock P. M,
j. WINSLOW JONES,
aug17 d3t* Sec. s. Treasurer
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Dr. 8. s. Fitch

sends hs"FANIILY PHYSICIAN, ,, 30 pages,
free by mail to any one. his book is to make any
one their own doctor Remidies are given for Thirty
Diseases, which each person can PREF are.
send your direction to DR.. s. S. FITCH & SON
IA Broadway, New York. WIS 1y
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HISTORY 1-1O-29 Maine Regiment,
III by MAI. j. M. GOULD, 720 pages Octave, ii,
Illustrated with cuts and pins of Battle fields, and
portraits OF officers Cloth S. 90; Sheep SIS "a Halt
Turkey Sc 25 Just issued
STEPHEN BERRY. Publisher
augl6 2w 81 Plum ST Portland
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NOTICE

fNHE Barsfow Stove Co., having this day sold to
stock and business at 20 Market Square, recently
rnder the charge OF their Agent, Mr.. c. c. Toll.
the public.
The accounts of G. G. Tolman, agt will be settled
by Nessrs. Nutter Brothers & Co and all persons
pdet ted are requested to make payment to them at
the old stand.
BARSTOw STOVE CO.
Portland, Aug. 16, 1871.
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CAEAR RH !!

Il LII suffering with that disgusting disease Ca
"A tarrh, are informed that there is a cure within
their reach, in DIR. H. p, EVANS, French
Catarrh Remedy, cures all trOub .es arising from
UatarTh, such as deafness, Dizziness, Headache,
Noses in the Ears, Nasal poly
pus, Dimness o. sight &c. Purites the breath and
prevents Consumpti For Sale by all Druggists.
Price, large bottles, 75c hall size Soc. Wholesale ami
Retail, at 25t Congress St., Portland. where all or
ders must be addressed.
aug11d&wly A. o. WILKINS, Agent.
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The subscribers having purchased the stock OF
Furnaces, Stoves &c of Barstow Stove o.,
and secured the services OF Mr.. G. G. Tolman, will
keep as formerly large stock of first class goods
in their line, and they would respectfully solicit a
share OF the public patronage.
NUTTER BROTHERS & CO.,
29 Market Square,
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Aug. 16, 1871.

The undersigned having made arrangements to re.
main at the old stand, with Messrs Nuttef Bro hers
Co., desires his friends and customers to cont lue
their patronage to the new firm.
aug18d1w &C TOLMAN
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FOR SALE.

- Yacht NETTLE, 20 tons, old tonnage;
Et1/ extra well found for yachting. Built OF
MEN white oak, copper fastened, coppered,
lAANkA- seven tons iron ballast, sails, cables,
s-.sezs1ezz-anchOrs sc.
For particulars apply to
b. j. WILLARD,
Jy2ldtf No 49 Commercial st,
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Eight Per Cent. ROndS

Now offered, are limited in amount to $12,bOo per
mile and tor $1,000 or e2Oo eac. interest payable
January and July, at the rate OF 8 per cent. Cur
rency or per cent God at the option OF the holder
Bonds registered if desired.
Among the leading Stockholders of the Companv
are Hon. Il d Morgan, Ex-Governor and Ex-U IS
Senator; Hon John A Griswold, Ex Lieutenant.
Governor, Troy, Y (; Hon Cakes Ames, M c., Mas
sach asetts; Messrs Morton, Bliss q Co., Won Hoff-
man q Co.,J & w Seligman & Co., Harrison Durkee
and others, OF New York; Benjamin E Bates, Pres
ident Bank OF Commerce, franklin Havens Presi-
!dent Merchants Bank, Boston, and others, also
we'll known,
The above statement Of facts proves the Safety of
these Bonds. Their Profit is equally manifest upon
examination. They are sold fer the present at 30,
and accrued interest from July 1st. At this price
hey afford certain income for forty five years. OF
nearly nine per cent. upon their cost. One thousand
dollars invested in these eight per cent bonds will
give the purchaser more than seventy -ses en- per
cent, greater annual interest than the same
amount invested in the Government
Five Per Cents. while holders OF Government Skies
will find decided profit in selling them at present
high prices, and re-nvesting in New Orleans Mobile
and Texas Bonds.
Subscriptions will be received in Portland, by
VIM. e. WOOD, ESQ, 81 Exchange St.
Messrs, SWAN & BARRETT, Bankers
l 100 Middle St.
III. M. PAYsON, Brok er, 81 Exche nge 81.
Information concerning the Company and the
Road, and pamphlets containing map and full de-
tails OF the enterprise be obtained OF the UNDER
signed or any of the Company's advertised agents.
w. B. Shattuck, Banker,
Financial agent, N. o., M. 4 T. r. r. Co.,
No % Nassau Street, New York.
may3ld dEw22 3m
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TO L E ;

SkI ITH or without board Also Lady B,arders
w wanted. Apply corner Center and Free st, No
32 jun3OT
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r 'HE Committee on Drains and Sewers, will re-
i ceive proposals until o'clock p. M, Nednes-
day, Aug 23d next, for the construction ofa sewer
lin Portland stree) to drain the swamp lanes in that
vicinity Descriptions &C., may be seen It the Of
flee of the City Engineer
The right TO reject any all proposals Is reserved
Per order of Committee.
e16,d VIM. A. WINSHIP, Chairman,