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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-17
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

MUNICIPAL GOV ERN MENi |
Mayor-John 81 Lsnsdcn.
| Treasurer-J b. Taylor.
Comptroller-E. A. Burnett
Clerk-Michael Howley.
Marshal--Andrew Cain.
Attorney-P, II. Pope.
Police Maglstrates-F. Bross and Il. Shan
.ssy,
Chiet OF Polce-L. II. Myers.
SELECT COUNCIL.
Mayor-John NJ. Lansden,
First Ward-P. G. Schulz.
Second Ward-C. r. oodward.
Third Ward-Jno. Wood.
Fourth Wards. Stats Taylor.
City at -Large-w. p. Halliday and d. Hurd.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
IRsr wARD-James Rearden,
Leo Kleb,
Isaac Walden.
CoND wARD--R. II. Cunningham,
f. Buder,
Henry Winter,
James swayne.
HIRp WARD--Wm, stratton,
Patrick fitzgerald
oIIRTH WARD--James Carroll.s
G. II, Sease,
J.H. Metcalf.
Time of Meeting.
CITY COUNCIL.
rhe CITY Council meets in JOINT session on
riday evening preceding the first Monday of
ach moRth. r oo,,vc,,
Tho Select Council meets on the first Wednes'
nv and Thursday, after the second Monday in
ach month
The Board of Aldermen meets on the frs
onday and Tuesday In every month.
COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.
On Streets-Messrs. Taylor, Walder, Winter
ood and Metcalf.
Drainage-Messrs. Cunningham, Schulz, Fitzger
ID, Sease and Halliday.
Capus-Messrs. Wood, Cunningham and Kleb
pbics and Jai--Messrs. Carroll, Buder and
'Oodward
Crdinancss-Messrs. Sease, Wader and Taylor.
Ers observation-disclosures. Rearden, Swayne anC
Marksis-Messrs. Schuh, Winter and b.
Irintinq-Messrs.W W Onward, Swayne and Bnde
Ssnnue1Messrs. Hud, Stratton and Met tcalf.
of Healh-The Mayor, andl Messrs. Re
Mr., BtarttOn and Carroll
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
IamOille Valley Railroad.
HYDE PARK, Vt. Aug. 8. 1871.

HYDE PARK, VT, Aug. g, 1871.
To the Editor Of the Press:
The annual meeting was held, this afternoon
of the stockholders of the Lamoille Valley
railroad. This road, it will be recolected, EN-.
braces eighty miles out of the 135 contained in
the Vermont Division of the Portland and
Ogdensburg railroad. The President of the
road, Waldo Bingham, Esq, of this place
gave lucid expose of the condition and pros
poets of the enterprise. The work is progress
ng in the most satisfactory manner. Thirty
five miles are graded. and by the close of the
season all the heavy work will be completed
The iron will be laid at the east end this Au-
tumn eighteen miles, from West Danville to
South Hafdwick, and eighteen miles at the
west end also, or from Swanton to Fairfield
The report OF the engineer, A. G. Mitchell,
Esq, who is also chief engineer OF the through h
line, Vermont Division, gave highly satisfac-
tory exhibition of his field of operation. Mr..
Mitchell has laid out the line with Judgment
and hat prosecuted the work with energy.
On other sections OF the Vermont Division
of the Trunk line, work is progressing salts
factorily. On the st. Johnsbury and Mont.
pelier section, the track layers are at work
and by autumn the cars will be in nation upon
seventeen miles, or to West Danville, aud from
that point on, as before observed, to South
Hardwick. On the Essex County section, the
most eastern, cars will be running upon eighl
miles this season. For this multiplicity Of
component roads and this dividing up of the
work done there are good and sufficient rea.
sons, which are entirely obvious to one on the
ground. The first mortgage bonds of the Yer.
mont Division are meeting rapid sale. The
town bonds likewise are very well received
those of several towns having been all sold
and offers having been made for all the resi-
due in bulk.
The old board of Directors of the Lamvillt
Valley road, was reelected with the exception
OF d. w. Akin, who takes the place of j. H
George, the latter having removed from tn,
town which he represented. At subsequen
meeting of the Directors Mr.. Brigham was re
elected President. He is man of prudence
character and energy. The Vermont Division
OF the through line is building with despatch
The Portland Division must address its motion
if it would not be beaten in the race to th,
Connecticut River.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
Political Notes.

couornor Bramlette of Kentucky, speaking
hot,. .,f of the Democratic party, at the re-
orast Of the Central Committee of that
State. in speech at Mumfordville, declared,
as reported in the Courier-Jour,al of August
Sd: "Rafher than see that equality before
the law) adopted, would sweep out all
schools and leave our children TO grow up in
darkness"
The Macon, (Ga.) Telegraph and Messen-
ger adds its hearty dissent to Hon. Ben. N.
Hills views upon the defupct institL ton of
slavery. II says: "It is full early for any
Southerner TO stultify the past aud foul his
own nest, by stigmatzing system sanctioned
by the Great Jehovah himself, and under
which our fathers prospered so much and
were universally recognized as the noblest
type of the human race.
Senator Sherman recently made speech
before the Cincinnati Chamber of Commelc ce
10 which he said that the time was near at
hand when the internal revenue taxes i'm,
posed by the National Government will be
levied, almost exclusively, on "whisky, beer
and tobacco" and that the taxes on distilled
| spirits will probably soon be combined "into
one tax, to be levied at the distillery, equa
| in the product to the aggregate of the present
taxes" This, from the Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, is significant.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
Importance of mauuf,c,ur..

The town of Warren, on the st. George r;v
er, in Knox county, bids likely to become one
OF the important manufacturing points of the
State. Its water power is excellent, while its
accessibility to desirable markets will shortly
be increased by the opening of the X. & LR.
H. In September next. On the 14th ult. the
town voted to exempt from taxation for 10 years 8
any manufacturing interest to be established
therein amounting to $4,000 or more. A shoe
manufacturer from Massachusetts, moved by
the labor troubles in that State, has lately de-
decided to invest $4,000 in the establishment
OF factory at this point on condition that an
equal amount should be raised by subscription
from the citizens of the town. The money
was subscribed within two days and operations
are to begin at once. A wooden factory with a
capital stock of S1OO 900, has been in operation
there for some time
We hope that the towns in the" vicinity of
Portland will follow the example of Warren.
Much can be done by effort and copartnership
of interest. Our State needs lust such kind of
enterprise. What say, citizens of Deering,
Westbrook, Windham, Gorham, wh6will start
first?
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
Science Advances.

As soon as an article purporting to be OF utility
has been tested, and its merits endorsed by public
opinion, unprinciped parties endeavor to replenish
their depleted purses by countereiting, and subst-
tutns saurnns for the genuine article. Some time
since, mercury. in the disguise OF pills. powders &c.,
was given for all diseases oil the stomach and liver
while quiniLe was freely administered for the chills
At length Hostetter's Stomach Bitters made g ad-
vent, and entire new system of healing was inau-
gurated The beneficial effects OF this valuable prep
Grafton we're at once acknowledged, and mineral
poisons suffered to sink into that obscurity to which
an enlighted age has consigned them. There have
been many .,urioua btters palmed upon the COM
munty, which after trial. have been found perfectly
worthless. while Hoststters has proved blessing to
thousands who owe to it their restoration to health
For many years we have watched the steady pro-
gress OF HOstetter's Stomach Bitters in public esti-
nation, and its benifcent effects as a cure for ali
complaints arising from the stomach of morbid ma.
ture and we are tree to say that ir be relied
on as certain relief and remedy. Its propriecors
have made the above preparation, after years Of
careful study and sitting, and are now reaping the
reward claimed by this valuatle specific, and which
they so richly merit. 1t is the only preparation O
the kind that is reliable in all cases. and 1t therefore
demands the attention ot the afflicted
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

FURTHER CAsUALTIEs.-Thef following list
OF casualties at the Bangor smash up, has
been ascertained to day:i
William o. Aver, Bangor, head cut and riobt
MP injured. Mrs Aver hurt her left sbopldar
hip and side bruised. Marian Aver two WOO 70 !,
old. bruised in side and shoulder ''"''
Mrs Mansell, Bangor, scalp wound and ,of,
shoulder, arm and leg badly bruised. "nu 'ei'
Mrs. Perkins, Oho-st, Bangor. sevare,v
bruised. severely
Mr.. Shaw, the baggage master, was. with hi.
wife and little child, in the baggage car tbat
run off but though badly bruised they escaped
serious injuries.
Mrs. Martin d. Ward Skowhegan, several
slight flesh wounds.
James A. Fowle, Woburn, Mass, severely
bruised.
f. w. Hilton, conductor of the Pullman car
arm wrencbed and bruised.
\, Miss N NJ. Billings, South Framingham,
ASS, head and lett arm bruised.
and G1ron in Loring, Robbinston, face badly cut
over tbs nsry Ia ~ Butler, of Ellsworth, was cut
and r'mh vn1 fight temple and similar cnts on neck
uoro11 Ehza Jane Daggett, of Haverb;,, Ma,
pTuised on head and necL 4'iaSs', Sc
Lenbei, OF Brunswick nro;,
ported, al fractured RIB. previously re-
MISS Minnie III. Burk, of Cbo,so
99lglvlousy 9sl reported proved to have ROB, ass.,
-. a nt coroner,s inquest is sitting upon the ho,
-. y, nnoilas as uailager and will afterwards y,S
JoGrh 10 the place of the disaster. Ao-
1ne whoie number of injured reaches SO,
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

THE experience of the past years working
of the telegraph system of Great Britain, un.
der the control the Post Office Department
has been highly satisfactory. The Govern
ment paid for the telegraph line of the United
Kingdom the sum of $37 7,5OO,O 900, which they
borrowed at three and e-quarter per cent,
ana on which the annual interest is there
loie Sl,zlS'75o. The gross earnings for the
year, at uniform internal rate of twelve
cents for message of twenty words haro
been $3,99290O. or nearly fen nou "o.u'' . nave
purchase list. Deducting from th,s AZ. oi' 'ne
ing expnsees, s2,35OoOO, (rather Iae ,as. WORK .
five and one-half per cent? and the anmma, Inan
interest above quoted, there remains for tha
past year net profit to the State of $3.50 A5o
With business said to be rapidly increasing
and without any corresponding increase of
the working expenses, the telegraphs bid fair
to become permanent and apprecable source
of income to the British Treasury.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

DIR. GREELEY ON M MARRlAnE -Tha tAiAgrorh
furnishes letter from Horace Greeley to The
odore Tilton. in reference to the woman ques.
ton, in which Mr.. Greeley states he holds that
adultery may but does not always, justify an ap.
plication for divorce; that while there is nothing
culr able in the second marriage that both par
ties will rejoice in their higher life that they
were married second time. GA conviction OF
the proper indissolubillty of marriage is the
main spring of my hostility to woman suffrage
and if my daughters are to become powerful
in ward caucuses, vehement on the stump, ETC.,
pray my career Ou this globe shall close before
theirs is fairly begun"
Mr.. Greely thanks Mr.. Tilton for dc monstat-
ing his unfitness as woman suffrage candi-
date for President, and say that the candidate
should be a woman with two husbands living
in the same house with her, sharing the couch
of one, but bearing the name of the other to
Indicate her impartiality. The letter closes
with this sentence: In spirit OF hearty ha-
tired for free love and all its Internal deusions,
remain yours,
t.a. -HgttE HORACE GREELEY"
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
I beg pardon again for this plain talk.

This country has fairly established its claim
to recognition as the home OF art. We have
been sneered at by the travelled. Americans,
who set themselves up as judges, for our lack
of high culture in the departments of litera-
ture, science and art. But as we have proved
our claim to excellence in the three first by the
glory of names not now necessary to mention,
SO we have in the latter, especially in musical
art. Among American singers who have al
ready won fame we have a number who rank
among the first in the world, both as concert
lists and as opera performers. A new star has
arisen. A Miss Annie Beckett SJarbird of Port
land, Me-, is now singh g in Florence. 10 opera.
She is a pupil of Luigi Vannuccin, who speaks
OF her in the highest terms as a soprano of re-
markable power of voice and finish of execu
ton. She is young woman, speaks French,
italian, Spanish aud German, and is now in
the third year of her studies in Italy. 1t is
stated in paper of Florence that in addition
t. voice OF great compass and purity, Miss
Starbird possesses remarkable histrionic
power, shown in her rendering of the cbarac-
ters of Lucretia Borgia, Norma and the lead
ing parts in Rlgoletto, Ernani, Traviata and
Somnambula Miss Starbird is said to be a
young lady of remarkably excellent quail ties
OF mind and person, Unassnming and n Oldest
she charms with her simplicity, and her per-
sOnal beauty and elegant carriage on the stage
are captivating. We hope to hear and see this
new addition to the stars of the oDera and con-
cert in her own country soon. 1t is said that
she will return to this country within the year.
-HnrffOrd Post
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Attention, 18th Maine.


The 18th Maine Regiment ASSOCIATION will ce,e.
brate their Nin.h Anniversary on Friday, Au-
gust lSth, at Portland. They will embark at
As M. from Custom House Wharf, on Steamer
Express, and proceed TO some island in the bay,
where they will ENJOY the good things spe cally and
abundanty supplied tor physical comfort and all the
usual festivities incident to the occasion. The annu-
al HISTORY will be read there by the Historian
ADJT. G. A. PARKER, OF Lewiston.
As the Association now includes all who were
members OF the Regiment it Is hoped and expected
that there will be full attendance this occasion.
The expense will be light.
All the Railroads running into Portland have liber-
ally agreed to furnish free return tickets
through the Secretary of the Association, to those
attending this re union.
Members will assemble at Custom House Wharf
Immediately Oh their arrival by cars.
s ola Per Order,
.4.r4 CHARLES W. ROBERTS,
au11d1W Secretary
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

THE President believes in the short cut across
lots, and not IN fooling around difficulty He
wrote to Commissioner Pleasanton: "My Dear
Pleasanton-You're a good fellow. like Won,
You did the best you could. but want your
place. Please fork over TO Porter" Pleasan-
ton replies: Mary fork" To which his Rx
cellency, Alfred. you're stubborn dog. Git,
tramp; vamoose!" And at last accounts "Al-
fred" had done all three of these things.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

A SINGULAR PREsENTIMENT-Inc connection
with the death of William Percival, brake man
on the Maine Central Train which went
through the bridge last night, who died at his
day night he was coDversng with another
person running on the train and expressed his
belief they would not run together much long
er. "Why not, was asked. SWELL" he re-
plied,' II expect to pass in my chips before
long; the train will 60 through some of these
bridges before great whiIe." His companion
laughed and thought nothing more of it until
the news of his death proved the pIesentiment
only too true. .t ..l f....rs
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

O'Clock this morning, after the election riot in
Frankfort, KY, band oftwo hundred and fifty
masked and armed, demcnded of the jailor in
a violent manner, entrance to the prison.
Alarmed at the savage aspect of his visitors he
complied. On obtaining the key they immedi-
ately proceeded to cell of negro who was
lying in prison under charge of a felonous as
sault upon Mrs. Pfeifier. They seized him,
and then went to another cell occupied by the
negro who is said to have fired the first shot at
the election riot last evening. Both prisoners
" ere greatly terrified. The band then quilted
the jail, taking both negroes with them. They
hanged both at a spot a short distance from the
jail. When the affair become known the great.
est excitement followed.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
The Docs LET LoosE.-The Journals
Washington CorresDopdent savs

The Docs LET LoosE.-The Journals
Washington Correspondent says. s.
Commissioner Douglass has hardly taken
his seat at the revenue bureau before there are
studied attempts to discredit him before the
country, but all these attempts will fall harm
lessly when the people once understand the
partisan malice that dictates them. One way
OF discreditiDg the new appointee is to charge
him with having been defaulter when he was
collector of internal revenue for the 19sh dis
trict of Pennsylvania. The only founation for
this charge is 10 the fact that in communica-
ticn to Congress last winter Mr.. Boutwell, in
answer to a resolution of Mr.. Winchester of
Kentucky, transmitted the names of number
oiinternal revenue. officers from whom balances
were due on June 80, 1870, and among these
names was that of Mr.. Douglass. The Demo-
cratic press has had much to say about this list
but it is notorious TACT that in large mum
ber of the cases satisfactory settlements had
been made, and among the earliest to make
settlement was Mr.. Douglass. He there tore
stands perfectly clear on the books of the
T'easury Department, and, as was telegra phed
last Eight, he has the full confidence of Secre-
tary Boutwell,
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
Portland Observatory,

NO Stranger should leave the City without visit.
~ ing the Observatory on MuDjOy's Hill. From
the cupola 217 fe above the Sea. may be seen the
entire City, the Ocean to the horizon Casco R.y
with Its 365 Islsnds The White Mountains SO
mounted in the cupoIa objects 80 miles distant in
every direction may he distinctly seen, The views
here are said to be unsurpassed for beauty and va
rety by any in the world Cor gress street cars PASS
very 10 minutes. SN jy22 3m
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
New Gloucester Aug. /
Caucus.

The Republicans of fStandsh are requested to meet
at the town house, in said town. on Saturday the
18th day of August 1871, at 5o'coek p to choose
five delegates to attend the Republican County Con-
ventioD, to be holden at Portland on the 17th inst,
Per order of REPUBLICAN TOWN COMMITTEE
Standish Aug 7th 1871 r....
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

ey In fearful manner and he now lies in Q
critical condition. Mahoney is under arrest.
IN GENERAL.
Patents have been issued this week tn Geo
ID. Merriman of Portland, assignor to himself
aud Cyrus s. Clark OF same place, for railway
car coupling Lemuel r. Palmer of Belfast,
for stave jOinter.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

The Republicans of New Gloucester are requested
to meet at the town house Saturday Aug. 18th at
O'Clock p, m. to choose delegates TO attend the
Cumberland county convention to be held in Port
land Aug. 17,h. A lso to choose Republican Town
Committee for the ensuing year and to transact any
other business that may come before the caucus.
Per Order.
New Gloucester Aug. 8 1911 aug9 d&wi
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

THE BANGOR smash-up is beyond question
the most serious railroad disaster that ever
occurred in Maine. The details read like
those of accidents that we have always been
led to conclude were exclusively confined to
the Western and Southern railroads. If the
list OF the killed and manned do not equal
that of New Hamburg last February, it only
wanted fire to make it as fatal 1t has always
been matter of congratulation that our
Maine roads and prominently the Maine
Central, have been specially vigilant in guard
ing against such accidents as this-for which
it seems there can be hardly as much excuse
as for the explosion OF the Westfeld.
The bridge that broke down was a common
trestle bridge of about fifty feet span and
twenty teet above the roadway. It was built
eighteen years ago and the treste work has
not been covered more than eight years. The
Wing says the timbers seem much decayed.
and it would be quite natural they would be
after so long exposure to the weather. It is
asserted that the Railroad Commissioners
have examined this bridge this season.
1t this statement is true, it indi
Gates that the member of the Board that
reported favorably upon this rotten trap, has
not appreciated the Importance of his position
nor the great responsibility that rests upon
him as the agent of the people of Maine to
save them from this most fearful enginery of
destruction. 1t does not require "a great
amount of professional skill to ascertain if the
tlmbers OF bridge are decayed, but it does
demand care and attention, and that the peo-
pie have right to expect. 1t NAV be that
the terrible responsibility rests elsewhere bnt
wherever it does, let il be known. The rot
ten timbers are swift witnesses against some
party or parties.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

FIRE AT ROCHESTER, N. H.-At Rochester
Village, between three and four o'clock Thurs.
day morning, fire broke out in wooden
building belonging to and occupied by Charles
Bckford. as furniture mandatory and car
pet store, entirely consuming it with the con-
tents. Loss 5000; insured for $4,000 Thence
the flames spread to the hardware store and
tin shop of w. p Ella, Holiness grocery and
Miss Mary A. Sanborn's millinery store and
dwelling house; also barn and outbuildng of
Mrs. W. B. X. Hodgdon, together with mum.
Der OF small buildings, burning them to the
ground. The loss will exceed $4,000; insured
for $11 1,00O The fire was believed to be the
work of an incendiary.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

"Ruy Me, and III do you Good.'-DR
LANGLEY'S ROOT AND HERB BIrTEk,S. No
drugs, no pOisons nothing die eriOus, nothing but
good healthy roots and herbs. such as Sarsaparla,
Wild Cherry, Yellow Dock, Prickly Ash, Thorough
pounded reach the fountains OF disease, and alb
solutey cure all Humors, Liver and Bilious Diseas-
es Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Cost iveness Scroiula and
all difficulties arising from diseased stomach OF i'm.
pure blood. Twenty years of unrivaled success has
proved them TO be the best medicine in the world.
GEO. q. GOODWIN & CO.. Boston, and all Drug
gsts. fas leb24eod16w
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
OWN COMMITTEE.
Caucus.

The Republicans of Harrison are requested to
meet at the Baptist meeting house in said town Sat-
urday August 18th at O'Clock p. to choose dele
gates to attend the county convention TO be holden
at Portland August 17th 1871 Also to choose tow
committee. Z, 4-5at--g rr .-..
81 lr- Per Order TOWN COMMITTEE.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11
"Who trip it as'they e
On the light fantastlc

Among the celebrities at the Kirkwood now
are Judge McKrie of Canada, AID Young la
dy, lineal descendant OF Rob Row the IA
nous Scottish Chieftain. who figures copspic-
uo1sly in one OF SCOTS povels EGRoEG.
Scarbor0' Beach, Aug. 9th 1871
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

THE partnership heretofore existing between j
L M, Todd and M. G. Dow. is this day dss lived
by mutua, consent. Mr.. Todd retains the business
collect all dues, and promises to pay all bills.
j. M. TODD
aug5*e0d1w M G. DOW
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

The SEAL Lock CoNTRovERsY.-Tbe Conn.,
mission appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to consider the merits of the Ameri.
can Lock Company, with special ref renee to
the objections that have been made to it, and
also to consider The prices at which it is fur
nished by the manufacturers, will meet at the
Treasury Department on the 18th inst. Man
ayers OF railway companies whose roads are
used for the transportation of goods in bond,
are invited to present their views to the Com
mission either in writing or otherwise, as may
be convenient, and parties interested in the
manufacture or use of the locks will be heard
nv the Commission
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-11

The National Labor Union has issued o
cal for convention to nominate candidates.
for President and Vice President, to be held
at Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, October 1s,