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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18
News Items by Mail.

The New York Herald says there is no reason
why the Cincinnati Convention may not be an
immense meeting when the hotel accommoda-
tons are to be held at the usual rates, straw
berries will be ripe, and rum, like the necessi-
ties of life, be free.
A New Orleans woman reports that she woke
up the other night with a choking sensation,
and found her husband was clutching her by
the throat She wants divorce.
During the year 1871, 539, 5l1 males and 51S,-
537 females took advantage of the public school
system of Ohio, at an cost of $1437 per head.
The Commissioner takes occasion to refer, in a
mournful vein, to the the multiplicity of appli-
cations from young girls who are DESTROYS
of assisting in the work of training the youthful
mind. AS consequence, the salaries CT those
who are already in office have been reduced
from $3S to $26 per month and, from present
appearances, We should not be at all surprised
10 see the amount reduced to $50 What makes
the case of these women particularly hard is
'''a' uuring the same time the salaries of the
maze teachers have been increased from $50 to
S4l per month, although the duties are as near
ly alike as can be.
A New York paper saws: Some silly country
EDITORS tor want of something better to amuse
tneir idie hours are asking the question, "When
is STOKES 70 DE tried!' It's none of their bust
ness. He is having nice time in the Tombs.
and that's sufficient for any of us to know.
Mexican Buchanan, the actor, died in Dem
yer, Colorado, on Tuesday, the 10th instant Of
apoplexy. At the time of his decease he was
in his fiftieth year, having been born in Pbfla.
delphia on the 2Sth of February, 1928 He was
the son of Paymaster Buchanan of the navy.
and the nephew of Admiral Buchanan, who
joined the rebels, and who, it will be remem-
Dersd, commanded the ram Merrimac in her
encounter with the Monitor.
A telegram from Springfield announces the
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sudden death Tuesday night, of heart disease,
of the Rev. Dr. George b. Ide, for some 20
years one of the leading divines of that city.
For some time past DR.. Ide's health has been
quite poor, and he recently asked his church to
provide him colleague For many years DR..
Ide has been recognized as one of the ablest
men in the Baptist denomination.
The leading dealers have advanced the price
of iron to $40 per ton, in consequence of the
advance recently made by the manufacturers,
which makes, since last November when iron
was selling at S72.5O a ton, a total advance of
$3.50 a ton.
The trials of Communists continue at Yer
saiIles The court Tuesday disposed of num-
ber two being sentenced to death and two to
imprisonment for life. siaa4H
A Detroit man found in his cellor an anacon-
da twelve feet long and six inches in diameter.
The reptile showed fight, but was vanquished
with shovel A Snowman threw him into
the cellar last fall supposing him to be dead,
when he was only taking his after dinner nap.
| Daniel Webster 'still lives" but does very
| little credit to his former reputation. Only 9
few days ago he was sent to the House of Cor
| iectioh IL O"oopoo' MASSES Az ~ uays, io'
petit larceny. .t.,-.z
A man in Detroit threw a club at cat the
other day. The cat lodged, and the club STRUCK
child knocking it senseless, whereupon the
father tried to commit suicide, and was only re
strained from the fatal deed by the assurance
that the child was merely stunned and no
killed. P
A resident of Puebla New Mexico has dis
covered a soap mine. The product is abundant
of dun color, about the hardness of chalk
forms perfect lather, takes out stains AM
grease spots effectively, and has an agreeabl,
| Odor
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The Collection of the Customs in Port
~'-as land
SUPPLEMENTARY.


On consulting the history of Portland, 1 find
that Mr. Willis says that Mr. Isaac Ilsley was
removed from the office of collector in 1922
This is mistake; he was appointed by Mr.. JEFF
ferson in 1902, through the influence of Gen.
Henry Dearborn, of Massachusetts, then Sec
rotary of War. Gen. Henry A. s. Dearborn,
son of the Secretary, was collector of Boston
during the exciting campaign of 1928 for the
election of President; he and Mr.. Ilsley were We
ryintimate friends, and both warm supporters of
John Quincy Adams for reelection. On the
election of Gen. Jackson in November, Gen.
Dearborn the collector of Boston wrote to Mr.
Ilsley asking him if he should continue in Of
flee, which he promptly answered "no,' that he
should resign Immediately, but Gen. Dearborn
waited to be removed, which was done soon af-
ter Gen. Jackson's Inauguration.
Mr.. Ilsley resigned in November, 1928, and
President Adams Immediately nominated in
his place, George Evans then representative
elect to the State Legislature from Gardiner
The United States Senate being strongly DEM
ocratic, laid all the Presidents nominations ON
the table, and took no further action on them
The Democratic papers objected to the ap-
pointment of MIR. Evans to the Collectorship of
Portland on the. ground that he lived on the
kennebec, bnt they made no objection to the
appointment of Gen. Chandler the next March,
by President Jackson, although he lived in
monmouth in the ssame county with Mr..
Evans. w g.
Windham, April 10th, 1872. -.r,-
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The SLAVE TRADE OF OCEANICA.-The re-
cent murder of Bishop Patterson by the natives
OF the South Sea Islands, in revenge for the
kidnapping of their relatives by English ves-
sells, is still fresh in the public mind The ex-
tent to which this infamous traffic in human
beings is carried on is not generally understood.
A letter written from the Navigators' Island
gives circumstantial account of the horrible
business. The market for the slaves captured
is found in Tahiti, among the French colonists.
About six vessels are fitted out for the trade
annually at Tahiti. These are strongly manned,
generally with English sailors, and the vessels
themselves belong to English owners No
American vessels are engaged in it, though
some American seamen have been found will
ling to enter the service for the sake of the ex-
ira compensation it brings. The naodus ope-
randi is the same as that adopted in the old
slave traffic on the coasts of Africa. and ia ar
companied with all the cruelty which charac
terized that. The natives are either inveigled
on board the vessels on pretence of a feast and
then incarcerated in. the hold, or the seamen
land under cover of night and set fire to vii
lage, capturing men, women and children as
they seek to escape from the flames. The poor
wretches taken are enrolled under imaginery
names, and the list duly certified to as that of
regularly engaged contract hands. Recently
some of the vessels engaged in the nefarious
traffic have been captured by the natives, and
every man on board butchered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

CANAL ACROSS THE ST. CLAIR FLArs.-In
the Dominion House Tuesday Mr. Mckenzie
moved for an address, praying for copies Of the
report of the engineer appointed to investigate
the location OF the canal across the St. Clair
flats on the Canadian side of the chanel by the
United States, with copies of all orders in the
council and correspondence with the imperial
government on the subject He said the sub
lect had been brought to the attention of the
House last year. Since that time the canal has
been completed and events had occurred which
show that government had given tacit consent
to the claim of the United States so that thew
possessed the dominion over this part of the
river of st. Clair. Now it was a notorious fact
and every ship owner and mariner on the lakes
knows that this canal was built ON Canadian
territory and for this reason he desired to oh
tain the information upon which the govern
ment acted in such extraordinary manner
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The New York Evening Post sho VS. signs of
repentance for its dalliance with the Cincinnati
dissentients. Possibly the return of Mr.. Bryant
from Mexico may account for the agreeable
change. Speaking of the Republican meeting
to come off at Cooper Institute tonight the
Post says'-"If the singers of the call alone
should come together they would make one of
the most imposing and influential gatherings
OF the season. 1t cannot be doubted that the
meeting will be large and enthusiastic, or that
1t will have an important effect on the political
canvass of the year."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

TREATMENT Dominion parties are making
an effort to secure line of ocean steamships
to the Miramichi country, and Sir Hugh Al
Ian has agreed if possible to send one of his
packets to Chatham, the point where the In
tercolonial Railway crosses the Miramichi
river. This point is more than eighty miles
nearer Europe than Halifax and it will be
cheaper to send St. John goods that way. If
no new obstacles are met, it would appear
that this point may take the place that Hall
fax has been expected to assume on the COM
pletion of the E. q N. A. Railway, as the
port of arrival and departure to Europe
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The Sacramento Record says that the recent
earthquake was the most destructive which
has occurred since the American occupation of
the coast. The catastrophe has resulted in
wide spread restitution and suffering and an
appeal is made to the charity of the State to as
sist the unfortunate residents of Owens
River Valley where the shock was severest
Many lives were lost and much property de-
strOyed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

"Buy Mo and I'll do you Gesd.,-DR
LANGLEY'S ROOT AND HERB BITTERS. No
healthy roots and herbs, such Sarsaparilla Wild
Cherry, yellow DOCK, Prickly Ash, Thoroughwort,
to reach the fountains Of disease and absolutely
cure all Humors Liver and Bilious Diseases, Jaun-
dice, Dyspepsia, Costiveness Scrofua and all din
culties arising from diseased stomach or impure
blood Twenty years Of unriyaed success has proved
them to be the best medicine in the world. GEO. c
GOODWIN 4 CO., Boston, and all druggists.
AtA en eod16W Nkf so afar terfs fe2T
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18
PORTLAND. Anril " 1871

MR. EDITOR, observe that article in the
York County Independent signed "Union," of
April 6, calls for discussion in the papers as
to who shall be the man to represent York and
Cumberland in the next Congress, in order
that the masses may be informed as to the as
pirants for that position; now so far quite
agree with Union, for it is of the utmost
Importance to the industrial interests of these
counties, to their future prosperity, and the
welfare of their citizens that they continue to
be represented by man eminently fitted for
this duty, and in this it seems to me that Cum
berland is at least as much interested as York,
and that even if custom or courtesy should re-
quire as prerequisite that such man shall be
q citizen OF York, it is also proper and due to
Cumberland that she may know who the men
are that are proposed, and what their qualifica-
lions may be, for if Cumberland is to be called
upon to concede to York the man, it certainly
will not be pretended that it also must yield
the right of wholly determining his fitness;
and if there are so many good men in York,
who would honor the District and State, GER
tainly Cumberland cannot be expected to s6ay
by and see some scheming politician, as "Union"
says, with ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain, secure the nomination
Now while we in Cumberland have ALWAYS
maintained that the District should be treated
as unit, and the best citizen of the whole
district selected for our representative without
regard to county lines, and do not mean now to
concede the principle of the thing, yet waving
that consideration at present, we do call upon
our York neighbors, if they claim the oppo-
site, to show their man. ..
Show us, gentlemen, to whom you propose
to entrust our interests; let US have an oppor-
tunity of knowing him; that knowing, we
may respect him, and respecting him we may
assist the better to elect him, for 1T will hardly
be claimed that York County is able to do It
alone. rs. ~ - - Fl
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

"A NRw BARDELL VS.. PIcKwIcK case has
arisen In London. In this case the injured fe-
maie-a Widows named Kent, and the moth
ers destroyer's name was Vincent This case
is entitled "Kentcs. Crook" the action heinz
brought, curiously enough, against the estate 81
Vincent, deceased 1t appears that Mrs Kent
then twenty-niney years of age, became in 1s7o
housekeeper for Mr. Vincent, who, she alleges
proposed to marry her She further alleges.
.na' vincent with full intent to avoid his prom.
Use ana break her gentle and trusting heart
died In October, 1871. Whether he really did Il
with malicious purpose to defraud the nla;ntiff
or whether he concluded that death would h.
the shortest and easiest way out of tho 60
we shall not attempt to settle. But Rr;.;~r
jury, with its traditional intelligence. has c;von
an opinion as is an opinion on the subject, and
sent the weeping victim of this heartless con-
uuct out of court with verdict of e15O Mid
ue aged gentlemen with lovely housekeepers
nouiu consider gravely of their situation. and
cape even by death. 0O'
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DIED..

In this city, April 16, Mrs Abigail Warwick relict
OF the late George Warwick. aged 50 years months
lfunerai services Thursday afternoon at O'clock
invited. N' "-" A''"'A' 'ie
IA years. = ~ --'-N~T-N - ~-'' ~seu
26 years month. ~, ' "eo1
~ In Waldoboro, April 0, Mrs. Eliza D. Gay, aged
In Wiscasset, April 10, Mr.. Benjamin SWEET, aged
81 years months. ~ ~ - "S''' "soN
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MARRIED.

In Augusta, April 49, Henry H. Taylor and Helen
E. Smith. -
In Lewiston, April IA, Geo. A. Smith and Fannie
s. Harlow.
In Saco, April 10, Elbridge L. Sawyer and Serena
Shackford. -s. - o---
In Biddeford, April 6, Frank H. Cousens of Chi
cago, and Martha NJ, daughter OF Rev p. Smith, Of
Biddeford.. .s.s TO- = - "
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LIE Continental Bank Note Co Of Nsw
hork' nave just completed contract n,;., AZ"
Maine Central Railroad COMPANY for ~" .Sa . W"
craving, printing &C., of the issua 81 - gu
au'nor&ed by Legislature last winter trhIa
Bonds will cover So, 1000 900, and in stv,a nas
execution will far exceed any bond tn. o"r'
pany have before engraved. ~. 'O'n-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

IHE Government is said to be at a loss
what to do with the Mexicans that Gen.
Augur captured who had crossed into Texas
ior tne sake OF plumber. 1t is suggested that
they might be sent up to Cincinnati, for it is
very evident that the majority of that assem-
blage are after political pelf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

THE MAJORITY TARIFF BILL reported in the
House Tuesday, by Mr.. Dawes, applies $780,
900 of the tariff reductions to leather, iron and
steel, and their manufactures, "copper" cotton
and wool and woollens on a valuation of i'm
ports curing the last year of S134, 900, 900, and
duty collected of $67,0O0,OOO, averaging fifty
per cent The bill reduces the average rate to
foIty-three per cent, iron and steel are reduced
from forty-three to thirty-six average per cent,
wool from forty-six to forty per cent, woolens
on the articles reduced from an average of six
ty-nine per cent. to fifty-six per cent, cottons
from forty per cent. to an average of thirty
eight per cent. The proposition which seems
to be favored by the minority of the committee
makes a sweeping ten per cent. reduction,
amounting to 1913 ,872 ON these items, and the
same rate on a few others, amounting to $751;
900 more. The committee apply their reduction
to the highest rates, leaving the lower unchang-
ed or slightly reduced, unless the duty is prac-
tically prohibitory. Cheap cotton goods, under
the present laws, bear sixty and seventy per
cent. duties. The heavy importations are all of
more expensive goods at thirty per cent. ad va
loren. The high rates are reduced One-ffth,
but not below thirty-five per cent The lowest
present rate on spool thread is seventy-one per
cent The same reduction is made on all threads
but not below forty per cent The duties on
cottons were raised during the war, when cotton
was very high.
The specific duty on cheap goods gave low
rate, and it was supposed the most expensive,
at thirty-five per cent. ad valorem, would con-
tinue to pay the highest rate. The reduction
in tine price of cotton increased the low specific
to the present excessive rate on cheap goods.
The minority proposed to reduce all wool ten
per cent, or wool $450, 000 The reduction in
the bill is $3.50, 900; but applied ON the excessive
rates on woods required by manufacturers of
cloths, &C., reducing them from sixty-fve per
cent. to fifty-three. The equivalent specific
rate allowed to manufactures is reduced in the
same degree, allowing a reduction of nearly
three million dollars ON specifics without injury
| to the manufactured. The one-half of ten per
cent. ad valorem allowed them in 1867 for the
six per cent. internal revenue tax is now re-
| pealed II s.a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

STICK TO THE BRooMsTICK-Did you ever
see woman throw stone at hen? 1t is one
OF the most ludicrous scenes in every day life
we recently observed the process-indeed, we
paia more attention than the hen did. for she
9 9 not mind it all, and laid an egg the next
gay gay as ASH # nothing had happened. In fact, that
men VIII now know for the first time that sbe
served IN the capacity of target. The nreda.
tory FOWL had invaded the precincts of the fiow.
er bed, and was industriously neck;no and
scratching for the nutritious seed or the oari,,
worm, blissfully unconscious of imnend;no Jany,
ger: The lady now appears upon the scene
with broom. This she drops and hicks nn
rocky fragment of the Silurfan age and tb.,'
makes her first mistake-they all do it-of sa;z.
ing the projectile with the wrong hand. Tban
with malice aforethought, she makes the fur.
Their blunder of swinging her arms perpendicu
llarly instead of Observation-Disclosures the
stone flies into the air, describing an irregular
elliptical curve, and strikes the surface Of the
earth as far from the hen as the thrower stood
AZ the time, in a course due west from the same,
the hen then bearing by the compass north
east by half east At the second attempt the
stone narrowly missed the head of the thrower
herself, who, seeing that any further attempt
at the kind would be suicide, did what she
might have done first, started after the hen
with w an old and familiar weapon. The moral
0ence Herald
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

IHE Bath people have been favored with a
MIS-. farley and wax figures. The Times is in
clined to criticise the performance in respect to
the his and other improprieties of pronuncia-
ton and manner
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

HOUSE No. So Winter st., brick, slated roof, ce-
ter, hard and soft Good Barn opening on court. as
well as yard. Price, fair. Terms Of payment easy,
and but q small amount down
Or 1t may be exchanged for a little larger house
hGv'ng garden which Is the object desired though
1t may be further from the centre of business. An
ply on the premises, or to
JOHN G. PROCTOR.
apl3d3weodsn Real Estate Broker