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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09
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A reverend gentleman, aged IA, occupies an
Iowa pulpit.
A Western lady hero-worshipper kissed one
of the Grand Ducal trunks with fervor.
The spirit of Leap Year has moved Rond-
out maiden of IS to lay successful siege to the
heart of &C year old youth.
A Vermonter bet that he could walk two
miles barafnnted. one day last week. He az
compli shed his feat and froze his feet
A German paper calculates that the Prussians
fired, on an average, $50 cartridges for every
Frenchnan they hit.
All the male citizens of a small Pennsylva-
of the Whole one day recently for the exter-
mnation of rats and killed something over 1000
in their first raid.
Mrs. Cady Stanton was sued at Wheeling,
Va, the other day for not fulfilling lecture
contract, damages laid at 800, but instead of
facing the music like a man, let her counsel
plead that she was married woman, and that
her husband only was liable.
Thomas A. Scott's salaries from the various
railroads with which he is connected amount to
$3.50, 900 annually.
Counterfeit $40 bills on the Norwich Conn. J
National Bank were put in circulation last Sat-
urday. fs m
A man has been fined five dollars and costs
at Seymour, Ind, for "merely attempting to
hang bow"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

The editor of the Free Press has seen at the
State prison a high backed wooden chair, with
cane bottom, which bore the date I641-the
year in which it was made. The chair, which
was present to Mrs. Rice, is not far from the
present style of cabinet work, having straight,
high back and arms in form not unlike those
wrought in walnut and rosewood in the fash
ionably furnished parlOrs of the present time
1t is low-seated and of generous size, and has
held in its capacious arms rich freights of hope
and joy and love sin the days of auld lang syne."
OXFORD COUNTY.
The officers elect of Oxford Chapter Royal
Arch Masons at Bethel, were publicly installed
Wednesday evening by Past High Priest A. S.
Kimball, of Waterford; after which Grand
Chaplain G. Mason, of Cape Elizabeth, de-
livered an oratien upon Masonry, which was a
masterpiece of thought and was listened to with
the utmost attention by large and apprecia-
tive audience. An excellent supper and dance
at the Chapman House were the closing exer-
cises. A large party from Gorham, N. H.,
were in attendance. s ... a.. .
WALDO COUNTY. p-
The Belfast Journal says the house of Jacob
Roberts of Monroe with all it's contents was
burned ON Monday The fire is supposed to
Loss about $780, No Insurance. January so.
the wool pulling shop of John Garland was
destroyed by tire-a total loss. Insured in the
Bay State and First National of Worcester,
MASS, Tor SlOOO, winch Will ABOUT cover the
loss.
The Journal says while the steamer X atahdin
was backing through the ice on Saturday, the
rudder caught, parting the wheel chain and in
juring Captain Rogers, pilot and the wheel
man. Capt Rogers came ashore here, and
Capt. Otis Patterson took his place.
The Journal says that J. w. Mudgett, of
Stockton, who was compelled to suspend pay
ment for few. weeks, on account of endorsing
for friends, haSarranged his liabilities and re-
sumed business at his old place.
Ruel HASKELL, of Knox, at work in the woods
for Joseph Ellis of Brooks was quite seriously
injured on Friday last by tree falling upon
him - -
The Belfast Journal says that John Y. Stew.
ems, the young man who was so badly injured
by the bursting of grlndstone in the Kelly az
factory In October, died January Goth. He was
great sufferer from his wounds up 10 the day
of his DEATH He was sixteen years of age.
YORK COUNTY,
The contractors ON the Boston and Maine
railroad extension have sunk their Golfer dam
in the Saco River preparatory to building the
bridge, and have devised unique method fol
helping their enterprise. A shaft is laid across
the dam and driven by an ordinary paddle
wheel in the quick water outside. BY this
means the pumps are worked and the COFFEE
dam is keptsdry.
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b A N x r r s,
P o r T L AND, MAIN.

THIS HOUSE is established for the transaction of
a General Banking Business.
DEPOSITS received subject to check at sight In
terest at the rate of -Four per cent per allow
cd on all Daily Balances. Accounts rendered and in
crest credited monthly
CERTIFICATES Of DEPOSIT issued bearing in
terest as by agreeme and available at maturity in
Portland, Boston or New York
COLLECTIONS Of Notes, Drafts, Coupons and
Dividends made in all parts of the United States and
Canada.
DEALERS In Government and other Investment
Securities and in Gold and Silver Coin.
STERLING BILLS drawn on Englnnd Scotland
and Ireland. Sight lrafts Paris, Berlin and other
European cities, Montreal, st. John and Halifax.
Gold and Currency Drafts on Boston and New York.
APPROVED Commercial Bills purchased.
FACILITIES afforded for the transaction of the
Special as well the General Business Of correspon-
dents.
Agents for the sale of the
Bonds Of the Portland & Ogdensburg r r
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

THE New York Times publishes some very
entertaining letters in every respect In Its col
umns devoted to the ''Cost of Living" The
following by correspondent signing himself
Twelve Hundred is not the highest common
dation to 'scrapple." He says;
My dear good wife has caught the economy
fever, and the case is a severe one. Doubtless,
with new bonnet in view, she has determined
to introduce the epicurean delicacy of scrapple
to our hitherto happy home.
Sunday morning last rang the bell, and told
the cook that she had spilled grease in the
range, and ordered its instant removal-the per-
fume filled the house. The only reply from
Bridget was an idiotc grin / finally had to
open the window, and hurried on my clothes to
avoid catching cold, as the temperature of the
room was low. / reached the breakfast-table,
and well, l can't find words to express my feel
ings; l never swear. Heaven preserve all con-
tented households from scrapple! Give me a
quart of sawdust and pound of tallow dips,
and with wicks included, l can make dish in
finitely superior
l have a favorite terrier who is so regular
in his habit of sitting at my left side, that he
has worn a smooth spot on the carpet by wag-
ging his tail; he received my portion, and
doubled up with collie for two days, and now
the breakfast bell is signal for him to rush
down cellar and hide in the coal-bin. At my
urgent request the scrapple was generously
handed to the first beggar, who dumped it in
the ash-barrel and went off insulted. With her
nose turned up to an angle of forty-five degrees,
my wife-persiStent woman-says she will try
it again. Won't some incendiary please set
fire to my house before next Sunday?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

THE Cosr OF UNEMPLOYED LABoR-An ex-
change points out the cost of strikes as shown
by the reports of the Trades-Union system. 1t
says:
An array of official statistics laid before the
Trade-Union Congress in Nottingham, a fort
night ago, furnishes material for some legiti-
mate deduction. 1t appears that during the
period of fourteen years ending with 1870, the
Society of Amalgamated Engineering in Eng
land paid for unemployed labor" alone (that
is to say, for the support of men ''on strike
the huge sum of So, ia, 900. During the same Pc
riod, the Society of Iron-founders paid for a
similar purpose the sum of 81, 10000. Total
amount paid to engineers and iron-fOunders
out of work, in fourteen years, upwards of
three and quarter millions Of doltdrs-or ON an
average of about 1924, 900 per year. These fig
ures represent the OUTLAWS of only two Trade
Unions in England, out of scores which
flourish in that country. This is not ALL for
which shows that the larger proportion of the
enormous fund raised by these two Societies
was expended during the last four years of the
term named-the figures for the years 1851
beingG320,0 900, or ST. 100000, out of the aggre-
gate of 4434, 683. During these four years,
therefore, an annual average of $402, 500 was
taken out off the pockets of Industrious me-
chanics, to support their fellow workmen who
had quarrelled with their employers, or had
Obeyed some arbitrary command of the Trade
Besides this exhibit, it is declared that the
Societies of Engineers and Iron-founders raised
fund of more than $3,000,000 for the legiti-
mate purposes of charity-providing for the ex-
penses of members in sickness, approximation,
and accident, and also for the cost of funerals.
This great sum of $3OOO,0 600, was in itself a Sc
we're tax upon the limited incomes of the men,
bers of the two Unions-but it was more than
doubled by the imposition of assessments to the
amount of So, 1885, 900 for the encouragement of
the idle the vicious, and the intractable. The
aggregate sum of six and quarter millions of
dollars was therefore taken out of the wages of
English engineers, and foundry-men in four
teen years, for Trade Union purposes; less than
one-half of that amount being for the general
benefit of the members
This amount invested as it was then used in
cooperative institutions would by this time
have gone far to satisfactorily solve this much
vexed question of labor and capital.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COM
MTTEE.-The Democratic State Committee
met at Augusta, Wednesday night and re-elect
ed Gen. HI. Butler Chairman, Henry harrington
of Lincoln, Secretary. Bangor was selected as
the place for holding the next State convention
but the time was not agreed upon.
c. p Kimball was present and addressed the
committee and caucus at some length. He
thought the future was Frightening and big
with hope Among the prominent men of the
State present were Messrs. Wilson of Thomas
ton, Pillsbury of Augusta, Leavitt OF Eastport,
Rawson of Bangor, Simpson of Belfast, and
Strickland of enobscot.
The argus says the session was somewhat
protracted, and considerable business done at
ter the caucus. Several of the prominent gem
tlemen present adjourned for a private session
at the Augusta House, and were in conference
with several prominent gentlemen of the Re
puDhcan party. What the result of the con-
ferenceSwas is not yet known, but it is whis-
pered that something important is brewing"
There are number of prominent gentlemen
in the Republican party whom one instantly
connects with this Argns rumor
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

Mr.. WEBB's pathetic appeal for the SYM
pathy of the House for the widows and Or
phans who hold the stock of the Maine Cen
trail is little too thin in the light of the finan-
cial transactions of its managers in connection
with the Somerset fiasco and another lease
that a leading director is reported to have re-
Gently declared that he would vote to pay
$1,000 to be rid Of
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

NATHANIEL G. WHITE, an officer of the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad, writes the Boston 41du.
eller:
My attention was called some days since to a
report in your paper referring to a bill before
the Massachusetts Legislature for the incorpor.
alton of the Boston II Portland Railway Trust
Co., uniting the Boston & Maine and the East
ern Railroads, in which you give the names of
thetically say, "all of whom have consented to
act' My name appears among that number,
as well as the names of two other gentlemen
connected with me in the management of the
Boston & Maine Railroad. Fearing that the
public may be mislead by your report, l have to
say that my name was used without my knowl-
edge, authority or consent, as believe were
the names of the other gentlemen who are as
ISOLATED with me in the management of the
Boston & Maine Railroad. So far as know
our stockholders repudiate any attempt at con-
solidation in any form, and so far as my infor-
nation goes the public on the line of this road
in this State, as well as in New Hampshire and
Maine, are entirely opposed to consolidation.
The Directors Of this road do not now and never
have favored anything of the kind.
OLD John Burns, the hero Of Gettysburg, Is
dead. The courage and patriotism of the ven-
cradle old gentleman, in connection with that
great battle, has been the theme Of historian
and poet. Whittier has embalmed his motive
and deeds in immortal verse. Mr.. Burns died
in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, We'd
nesday morning, Of pneumonia, following a
paralytic affection which attacked him few
days ago. -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

To THE NORTH POLE ON A RAFT.-M. Pavy,
an adventurous Frenchman, proposes to leave
San Francisco in the spring on voyage to the
North Pole in an ingeniously constructed India
rubber raft. This raft is composed of four keel
shaped cylinders, fastened together by wooden
Stats, to which the necessary masts and rigging
are attached. 1t was originally designed for
life-boat, occupies very little room, cannot be
capsized, and will float in the severest storm.
1t will carry ten thousand pounds of freight be-
side the crew of five men.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

THE Oxford Democrat and the Biddeford
Democrat, though representing different po-
litcal parties, agree that the Legislature
should deal generously with the surviving
Peck bondsmen.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

A WANT OF HARMoNY.-The Chicago Times,
the leader of the Democracy of the North
west, is confident that 'nine -tenths of all the
honest, earnest men in the United States who
call themselves Democrats, expect to vote for a
Republican President next fall" but it does
not say that the man will be General Grant,
Argus.
We think the Democracy of the Northwest
will hardly acknowledge the Chicago Times
their leader That paper was the first in the
Union to endorse negro suffrage, and for the
last ten years has done the Democracy more
harm than any Republican paper in the West.
Now the Times proposes to surrender to a Re-
racy will follow in the wake of no such leader
as the Times, or its candidate. If the Demo-
Gratis must be ruled by Republican, they will
be as safe in the hands of Grant as of states
man of more ability, but of the same, or no
better, principles. The more competent man
is, wrong in principle, the more injury he can
do us.-Mdine Democrat
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09
DEPARTURE OF OCEAN sTEAMERs
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Thursday, Feb. 9,
ARRIVED

Thursday, Feb. 8.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Carlotta. Colby, Halifax, NS,-passengers
and mdse to John Porteous.
Barque Gan Eden, Greenleaf, Boston, to load for
Cuba.
Brig Geo W Chase, (of Portland) Bacon Cardenas
IL days41 hhds 80 ties molasses to Phinney s. Jack
SON.
Sch Eugene, Halves, welfeet, to load for Baltimore
Sch Alton, Norwood. Kennebunk.
Sch Ceylon, Fernald, Contaminated to Curtis
g. Davis.
BELOW-Sch Grace Girdler. ~ ga
CLEARED. ~
Steamer Franconia, Bragg, New York-Henry Fox
Sch Teazer, Hamilton, New York-Bunker Bros.
Sch Alex Milliken, Saulsberry, New York-Bunker
Bros.
Schs Intrepid, Randall, and Winslow, Burns, Bos-
ton-Bunker Bros.
worth,
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MARRIED.
DIED.

In this city, Feb. Z, Mrs. Sarah Augusta. wife of
Granville Frank and daughter of Silas and Hannah
g Buzzell, formerly of Falmouth aged "a years and
months
In this city, Feb 8, James NJ Foote aged rs years.
Funeral services this Friday afternoon. at o'clk
berland street. Relatives and friends are invited to
attend. - ~ "
In Kennebunkport Feb. I, Jennie G.. daughter of
j. g. Jeffery, aged II years months
In Kennebunkport, Feb. 8, Alvah Page son of Mrs
H. III. Chadbourne, aged 20 years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

The editor of a Utica paper was sent to jail
ON charge of libel and the next edition of his
paper was largely devoted to Jail intelligence,
with whole column of personals about the
jail-birds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

A curious theory in regard to the origin of
the South African diamonds is that of French
writer who holds that they were originally COM
ponents of acrolites which fell there, and were
scattered over great distance in certain def
mite direction,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

Ar at Genoa 10th ult, barque Masonic, Lampher,
New York
Ar at st Helena Dec Is, ship John N Gushing, Bax-
ter Callao for Boston, (and sailed 1Gth.)
Passed Deal 23d ult, ship Harry Warren Adie, FIN
Rangoon for Queenstown.
Ar at Liverpool 9th inst, ship j Montgomery Per-
kins, New Orleans; 18th, steamer Austrian, Brown,
Portland
Ar at Falmouth, E, 22d ult, ship Nevada, Gilkey,
Ar at Buenos Ayres Dec A. barque j Pearson.
Gould, Portland (Oct 19); Commerce, Stetson, Mon
treal; 24th, Windward, Higgins, do brig John Sher-
In port Dec 20, barques Reunion, Tucker; Com Du-
pont, Nichols, and j Pearson, Could for NYork
Ella, Oliver; Tatay, Morse; Philena, Chase, and L
Spring, Small, for Boston; Kate Harding, Harding
for Liverpool.
Ar at Montevidco Dec 81, barque Sarah Dudman,
Rogers, st Marys; Lord Clarendon, Lavender, New
Sid Dec 20, brig Clytic, Dow, New York.
Sid FIN Rio Grande Dec II, brig Waltham, Haskell,
Ar at Rio Janeiro 4th ult, briggs Packard, Pack
ard, Brunswick, Ga; j Dillingham;, HERMAN,
Sid FIN Pernambuco 4th ult brig Rachel Coney. Co.
At Minattlan 5th ult, brig Warren, Gott, for
Ar at Antigua 18th ult, sch cygnus Small, Barba-
Sid I'm Demerara 10th ult, brig sias N Martin,
Brown, New York.
Ar at Barbados 18th ult, sch Hamburg, Sanborn,
Fernandina; 18th, sch Ella Hodgdon, Nickerson, FIN
New York (and sid 22d for Granana.)
Sid 18th, brig A NJ Roberts, Barker, Demarara.
In port 25th ult sch L q NJ Knowles, Peterson, i'm
Machias, ar oath. n,
Ar at Cienfuegos 25th ult, brig Guiding STAR Free
thy, New York.
Ar at Havana 30 ult, barque Enrique circuit, New
Orleans; sch Emily Curtis Barbour, Boston; Hattie
Sampson, Davis Portland; 31st, barque Josie Mil
dred. CHM, New York; brig Ocean Eagle, Water
house, Philadelphia.
Cid 9th ult brig Ysidora Rionda Plummer, Ma
tanzas; Goth, Redman, Redman, Sagua.
Ar at Matanzas Goth ult barques Arletta Colcord,
Vera Cruz; Both, N NJ Haven, Hall, Portland; sch
David WATSON, Jones, do; brig Amelia Emma, Car
lon, Baltimore.
sid goth, brig j Polledo, Dyer, Philadelphia; SCH
Smith, New York; 31st, barque Mary c Fox, Ross,
New York; Geo Berry, Bradley, Philadelphia.
and Robin, Douglass, North of Hatteras.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

A NOVEL WEAPoN.-During the late war it
was found that for purposes of light fortifica-
tons and making hurried intrenchments there
was no weapon more convenient or useful than
the ordinary bayonet. As an improvement
upon this, a"trowel bayonet'' has been devised,
and a number of them have been manufactured
at the Springfield Armory. Experiments made
with these have proved their efficiency In one
trial two companies of infantry so covered
themselves in fifteen minutes that they could
not be seen at a distance of fifty feet in front
OF an embankment which had been thrown up
by them with the bayonet, and which could not
be penetrated by musket ball fired at dis
lance of ten feet
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

THE New York Tribune thinks that Dis
rael1s acrimonious attack on the Queen S
speech caused Gladstone to lose his temper,
and hence his talk about ''preposterous de-
mands" The Times says ''t suits some hare
Drained writer's to get up war cry, but the
bulk OF the people in the United States and
England know that war between two such ma
tions would be disgrace to civilization, and
they are not likely to be bounded into it by
passiofiate journalists"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09

THE MATTER that was reported to "be
brewing in the room of prominent Demo-
cratic member of the House, and which was
of great interest to several prominent Repub-
licans, if we may believe the argus special,
has ceased to ''brew." 1t is reported that
several legislators, who sat silently in their
seats without challenging the amendments to
the liquor law, were not SO silent and unin-
terested ON this other occasion. Brewing"
has local significance in Augusta.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-09
MEMORIAL

Barque Andaman, Frazer, at New York from Pal
ermo, took the Southern passage and had fine wealth
er to lat So, Ion S. since then heavy westerly gales
and sprung leak.
Sch E Hart, Hart, at New York from Darien re-
ports heavy gales and lost and split sails.
Sch Picataqua, from Boston, arrived at Antigua
oath ult with loss Of captain and seaman over
board. -f- -.,t-
Brig Edith, Crowley, at New York from Mnalitlan,
was seven days North of Hatteras with strong and
and NV winds. Jan IT, Geo Leighton, 1st mate,
native of Jonesport, aged SO years, died of fever
and was buried at sea. -
Brig M Louise Miller, Leighton, from Newport E,
for Cienfuegos, AZ days out, with COAL went ashore
together with the cargo. Captain and crew are at
Matthewtown. The vessel registered $40 tons, was
built at Milbridge in 1866. and hailed from Boston.
Ship G Reed, before reported ashore, has been
hauled off and taken to Batavia Damage light.
Barque Robert Fletcher from Whampoa with teas
and half fnll of water EF
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Ammunition, Sporting Goods, etc.
t- Also good assortment. Of aIachinists' Tools,
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