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The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
SheriES Sale.
STATE OF MAINE,

STATE OF NAME
CUMBERLAND, IS,
fENAhEN on execution and will be sold at public
n auction ON Saturday, the thiry-frst (3fst day OF
January, A. ID. 1873 at four O'Clock in the afternoon
at the Sherifs Office in Portland in said county, All
the right In equity (which Wilson Libby Of Fal-
mouth In said county, has or had the pod day Z
March, A ID. 1912, at ten oclocs and ffty-iye min
utes in the forenoon, being the time of the attnc
ment of the same on the original writ in the action
which said Execution was obtained t. redo, m
the following described mortgaged real estate SIM
ated in the towns of Cumberland and Falmouth ia
said county and bounded as follows, yiz;-Beginprg
at point the east side line Of the county road
leading from Morris ms Hill to Portland and twenty
rods southerly from the west corner OF the house-ot
formerly occulied by George Abbott thence running
soulnerIY on the line OF said road hundred aud
.ftv-ine 40 rods. more or less. to the road
Leading 70 tne dwelling house of NJ. w. Leighton in
saiu 9nnouen' .uence cas- eriy on the line OF said
roa Iorty elg StS rods, to tho road leading by tie
dwelling mouse OF H. L. Abbott; thence northeasteriy
on the hne OF saia roao seyenty-four rods more or
less to point nineteen rods and six links short of
the south corner OF Rufus Legrow's land; thence
north, forty-four degrees west by land now or for
merly of VIM. I. Hail. lightweight rods To the frst
mentioned bounds. Containing thrty-six (6( acr ga
and being the same convened TO said Libby by VIM
T. Hall, by deed dated Nov g. 1862 and Recorded In
Cumberland registry OF Deeds book 372 page 527 to
which deed and record reference is hereby made for
a more particular description Of said property
WIN. l.. PENNELL, Deputy Sheriff.
Dated at said Portland this 23d day of Dec. 1872
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The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

THE Oxford Democrat thinks the project
of the Maine Central TO obtain charter
from Lewiston into Oxford County, to which
Norway correspondent referred in a recent.
letter, is feasible and important in view of
the future railroad syste of the State.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

The Front Office on the second floor in the Canal
National Bank Building, recently occupied by Mat
tocks & Fox.
Also rooms in the Third story. Enquire at the
Bank. dcc7sntf
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

If Mr. Barnum's grafes and hippopotami
had been in Texas giving the greatest moral
shows in the world" as this venerable show
man AYERS with all the emphasis of poster
type in the papers of that region, that they
we're, those ancient curiosites would not
have sizzled in New York Tuesday night.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all in Iispensabe, necessarily for publication
bit guaranty ofgood faith.
,'ecannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
n ulicaEons that are usei.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

The Oxford Democrat infoms the Legisla-
tive delegation from that county, that the
clearinghouse keepers at Augusta Will be
glad to see them January LIST, and kindly in
forms these gentlemen of The safest and best
route tdthe State capital.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

OFFICE OF W; PHILLIPS & Co.,)
Wholesale Druggists,
ia, 1876 and 1888 Middle Street.
n,, PORTLAND, Dec. 18th, 1872.
Dear Sir:-Our sal for Adamson,s Balsan, in
increase every week. Please send us five gre As IF
the sales continue to increase in the future as trey
nave IN the past three months, shall have to buy
ten gross month. ~
Respectfully yours,
w. II PHILLIPS a. %
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

The excessively cold spell has been attend
ed with large number of fires scattered all
over the country, caused by carelessness in
the construction of buildings.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
YARMOUTH.

THE ENGLISH REvESuE.-The national in.
come from April to Nov, 80, amounted to
e45,o34o35, against e42,SOO,567 in the same
period last We r. The expenditure during the
same time was CAS-, So, 1886, against a46,737, 43O
in 1871. The balances on November 30 were
e6,474, 981, against 1851, $40 last year.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
Portland d WaldObOrO Steam.
boat Go.

FNHE Annual meeting of the Portland & waldobo-
Il 70 Steamboat Co., Tor the choice Of Directors and
tor the transaction Of such other business as " e
gay come before them, will be held at the office Of
Ross & Sturdivant. l79 Commercial ST., Portland. on
Tuesday the seventh day of January 1875 at3 o'clock
P. NJ.
de25 WILLIAM ROSS Clerk,
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gPOK ZEN.

Dec 10. of Carysfort Reef brig Anna NJ knight
from New Orleans tor New York.
Dec II. of Carysfort Reef, brig Carrie Purington
OF Topsham, from Cardenas for New York.
Dec 49, lat % 25 Ion u So brig Persis Hinl1ley FIN
jacksonville for New York.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber th
IN been duly appointed and taken upon hinseiA 'Ne
trust of Administrator of the estate OF
ALPHEUS A. GOULD, late of Windham'
in the County of Cumberland, deceased anu gwen
bonds as the law directs. All persons having oe,
to sxhibi the same and all persons indebted TO said
estate are called upon to make r R ayRns 70 49,.
Wiadham, DeV. 18th, 1s5S. as0owewsG
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
MARINE NEWS.
FORT OF PORTLAND.

Tuesday, Dec. II.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Chase, Bennett, Halifax, NS-passengers
and mdse to John Porteous.
Sch Inspudence, (BY) Baker, Boston, to load for st
John, NIB.
Sch Eximena. ingalls,, Boston, to load for Machias
Sch Sea Flower, Seayey, Boston
Sch Rosella, Stanley. Cranberry Isles.
CLEARED.
Barque Ellen Stevens, Skinner, Matanzas-Jsaac
Emery.
Sch Edw Waite, York. Cardenas-A L Hobson.
Sch 4 u Carnage. Fsgrax, NObus-Noab Rsed.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
4, q. O. r.

I. o. o. f.
Members of LIGONIA LODGE NO. are request
ed to meet at Odd Fellows Hall on Friday next at one
O'Clock p NJ, for the purpose of attending the funer
al of our deceased Bro P. G. ABEL SAWYER,
Funeral services at Swedenborgian Church, New
High Street, at O'clock
Members OF other Lodges are respectfully invited
to join with us in the ceremonies on this occasion.
BY order of the N. G.
WILLIAM X. NEAL Sec'y
Portland, Dec. 9th, 1872. de25snW&F2t
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
RATCHELOR,s HAIR DYE.

This splendid Hair Dye is the best in the ,corld.
The only True and Perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable
and Instantaneous; nodisappointment; ridiculous
tints unpleasant odor. Remedies the i'll effects of
bad dyes washes. Produces IMMEDIATELY superb
BLACK OR NATURAL Brown, and leaves the hair
clean soft and beautiful. The genuine, signed W A.
Bachelor. Sold by all Druggists.
CHAS. BACHELOR, Prop, N. z.
oct1 d&w lyr sN
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

WEwish everybody merry Christmas, ex-
cepttng that old farmer" who announced
through the Maine Farmer, with an air so
impressively prophetic, that this was sure to
be an sopen winter with no snow before
Christmas
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
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piness. 1t is the cheapest and best medical work
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PORTLAND. Dec. goth, 1872.
+. W. KINSMAN, ESQ, Dear Sir:-Please send us
by freight "'
gross ADAMsON'sB ALsAM, Small
Large.
1his makes 10 gross Small since Oct. 14th and 20
gross Small and gross of Large during he year.
Yours truly,
j. w PERKINS,
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

If you want n nice Photograph or Tin
Type, go to NJ. McKenny,'s ISL Middle Street.
He warrents them as good as can be made in Port
land. ag5-eodtf sn
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

THE Kennebec Journal gives the name of
Hon. w. W. Bolster, now of Lewiston, re-
Gently President of the Senate, as one of the
candidates for Reporter of Decisions.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
Our New York Letter.

Gov. PERHAM has completed the prepare
ton of his annual Address to the Legislature
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

THE Journals that have advocated the pos
tai telegraph scheme are very generally and
decidedly opposed to the bill introduced into
the Senate by Mr.. Ramsey.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

Too BAD.-Recently a man was driving
cart in field in Lewiston, when the wheel
struck stump and mved it from its base, when
out rolled pilep glttering coin. The man
thinking he had struck one of Capt. Kids res
ervoirs, began building air-castles while he
picked up the glittering treasure. With
ure but nay dsco Se Ia that t'1 tbe
heap of coin he had fallen upon was pile of
pewter dollars, the production probably of
some counterfeiters who had discovered that
pewter was "no go" and had hidden their ell
thy lucre" In abe decaying stump. All is not
gold or silver that glitters.-Journal
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

The KEzAR FALLS PosTMAsTER.-L. A.
Wadsworth, Esq, writes the Oxford Demo-
crdt relative to the arrest of Mr.. Sargent, the
postmaster at Kezar Falls, on the charge of
tampering with letters. Letters and money
had been lost somewhere in the mails passing
that point or to be delivered there. In view of
this fact an officer was induced by some per-
sons connected with the mail service below
kezar Falls, to mail several -decoy let
ters to Kezar Falls, one addressed to
Wm Barker, which was opened by man bear
ing that name, others were addressed to ficti-
tlons names, one of them was scarcely sealed
just stuck together, and had money which was
counterfeit sticking out of it conspicuously
| No one claimed the bogus letters and MI s.
| preparatory to sending them away as thes law
directs, pushed the money into the letter ont OF
| sight with his pen-hoder, and sealed the letter
| more securely with muci lage-wthout break
| ing the slight seal it already had, or in any way
| disturbing the letter. On the same day the de-
| tective appeared and claimed the letters, when
| the man who mailed them testified that the
| letter above described was not just as he mailed
| it, For this gray haired MANA Trial JUS
| tice-whose good name can be safely sworn to
| by thousand of the best citizens OF Cornish,
| Parsonield, Hiram, Porter Browniield and
| Freedom, is torn from his sick family and car
| ried off like a felon. Mr. S. besides his own
| ill-health and poverty, has to bear the burden
of support of three orphan grand children, one
tosally DEAF also daughter who has been per
| fectly deaf, and nearly helpless for years.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
coMPoUNDING FELONY.

The cool acknowledgment implied in Jay
Gouid's restitution of between seven and
nine millions of dollars to the Erie Railway
Company, opens new chapter in the biogra-
ply of the class he belongs to,and will go into
history as the greatest piece of effrontery
ever exhibited by dashing criminal sup
pose there was nothing for the directors to
do but to take the money, and forego the
prosecution; but it is painful alternative.
What precedent to establish for the future
treatment of great railway defaultersl If
these things go onsmuch longer no capitalist
will dare to invest dollar in the stock of
corporations controlled by boards of Direct
ors. Who can tell how soon 'rings" will be
formed within such boards whereby the prop
erty may be misappropriated in the same way
as has been done in the Erie case. Conf
dence is too largely the basis of all business
transactions to be shaken and destroyed
through the misconduct of men intrusted
with large pecuniary interests. If we are to
preserve 1t we must do so by holding all fl
duciary trustees to rigid accountability.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
DEPARTURE OF OCEAN STEAMERS

Miniature Almanac December "a.
Sun rises. ..........7o9 Moon rises 2.05 AM
Sun sets. ............4.33 High water IT'S AM
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25

Chas Sawyer
sch Rising Sun, Jones' Savannah-Chas Sawyer.
sen Segun, Rogers, Savannah-Ryan & Kelsey.
John Porteous.
SAILED-Baroue G Rean
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Wanted.
An experienced SALESMAN to travel for n
Wholesale Grocery House in this city. address a."
Press Office. dec2Isntf
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
SOMERSET COUNTY.

The grand jury came into court Friday, hav-
ing found ten indictments, and were discharged
from further attendance this term. Court adj
journed over Tuesday on account of the snow
storm without transacting any business.
Capt. Samuel Parker of Slzowhegan, is dan
gerously i'll and little hopes of his recovery are
entertained.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
TO BE LET.

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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
LOVE PATS FROM GREELEY.
What the "0ld Ab0litiOniSt" Thinks of
his New Southern WOrshippers.

Southern people have for generations
boosted of their chivalry, superior civiliza-
ton and ancestral pride. They have made
themselves the laughing stock of the
world and the subject of ridicule from their
own few true sons who spurn the shame
less trade, by now humbly kneeling
to Horace Greeley, who said of them, their
sons and their daughters these words:
Point wherever you please to an election
district achich you aoiU pronounce morally
rotten, giUcn up IN great part to de6duch-
eTy and Uice, aOhose UOters suJsist mainly by
keeping policy offices, gambling houses,
grog shops and dttrker donS Of intdDly, and
that district soiU be found at nearly or quite
very election giVing majority for that
aohich styles itself tie DEMOCRATIC u par
W. Take all the hduats of dcJduchery in
the land, and you a0iU find ni,e.t cnths of
their master-spirits dctiUe pdrtisdns of that
same Democracy. What IS the instinct, the
sympathetic cord, aO1tich attaches them so
uniformly to this party, WIZ you con-
slider HORACE GREELEY.
vi bllc SeccSSlOIlSJS he SAUL
But nevertheless we mean to conquer them
not merely TO defeat, but to conquer, to SUR
JUGATE them-and we shall do this the most
mercifully the more speedily we do it. BUT
WHEN THE REBELLIOUS TRAITORS
ARE OVERWHELMED IN THE FIELD,
AND SCATTERED LIKE LEAVES BE-
FORE AN ANGRY WIND, IT MUST NOT
BE TO RETURN TO PEACEFUL AND
COMMENTED HOMES. THEY MUST
FIND POVERTY AT THEIR FIRESIDES,
AND SEE PRIVATION IN THE ANN
IOUS EYES OF MOTHERS AND THE
RAGS OF Editorial article
headed No Half lIeaSure,n Tribune. May l.,
1861, p. 4, col. 4.
This was not the only occasion on which
GREELEY expressed the same ideas. Read
the following:
We hold traitors responsible for the work
upon which they have preciptated us, and we
warn them that they must abide the full penal
ty. % The rebels of that State (Virginia)
and Maryland may not fatter themselves that
they can enter upon war against the Govern
ment and dfte11cdrd return to quiet and peaceful
homes. They choose to playthe part of traitors,
and they must suffer tile penalty. The norm
ont race Of emaseulated first families must giee
place to stwder people, echose pioneers are no,o
their 'cay to Washington, at this moment, IN
regiments. An allotment of land in Virginia
would be fitting reward to the brave fellows
who have gone to fight their country's battles
Editorial article hedded "CORfscation," Tri-
5une ApriL %, 1861.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
An Insane Nose.

AT an inquisition of lunacy held in this
city the other day, after the evidence had
all been heard and counsel on both sides,
as well as the Judge, were perfectly salts
fled that the defendant was a lunatic, the
jury still hesitated. At their request, the
defendant, a female of well-developed AT
rican proclivities, was placed in front of
and very near the jury, and INTERCEPTED
by several of them.
After awhile they asked her whether she
knew what she was brought there for. She
answered in the negative.
do you know what these gentlemen
(pOinting to the other members of the
jury are doing-what they are here for ?"
No." said the defendant hesitatirgly,
" they are all strangers to me, and they
don't smell very well, either"
The jury agreed at once that the woman
was insane.-Le6d1lon Standard.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
anosbe aaleekp Gbronite aaleOnesOap, yuIp L. 1922
Oh.high-OIr.

Ohio took its name from wild Indian
who understood English. There was a
freshet in the river, and upon arriving on
its bank he exclaimed, h!-high !
oh ~ The Miami river got its name the
same way. An Indian exclaimed during
freshet, My !-am--I?" He meant,
My am 1 obliged to cross?
Skunks are not extinct in Ohio.
They feed lambs in Ohio on mint; 1t
flavors the meat and does away with mint
sauce.
The LATEST man l ever heard of lives in
Cincinnati. He was on a steamboat smok-
ing, when the captain said: Cant you
read? Don't you see that sign, No smolS-
ing abaft the shaft p"
WE'LL" says the fellow, If you don't
like it, Cap, set your darned old shaft
back of me / amt n going to get up"
The Fat Contributor lives in Cincin-
natl. He has stopped contributing fat,
and the soap-makers are in bad way
Cor. N, y. Sun.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LIST OF LETTERS.
Advertised July 10, 1872.

Persons calling for these letters will please sa Ad
vertised" and give the date of this list If called
for within one month. they will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office One cent will be collected on each letter
when delivered.
A-John Addison, Miss Sarah Arnold.
B-Gilford Blair. John w Banton, Miss Julia BraZ-
elton, Mrs N Burton. Miss Sopbronia Burk.
C.-Mrs Campbell, Martin Carter. Camp
bell, w NJ Craft.
D-Albert Dennis.
E-Curtis Eames.
F-Jesse French Reuben Ferguson.
G-Mr - Garrison, Miss Ann Gay, John A George,
Miss Mary George.
H-Mrs Emma Henderson. Mrs Francis Hunter 2.
John W Harris. James Hamilton Mrs Mary Hodges.
Mack Hail. r L Harris, Samuel IIoster Mrs Sarah q
Householder Thomas Hughes.
IA HiJ ames Emely Jones.
K-Mrs Amanda King james King (cold.
L-Rev NJ Lockwood, Mrs Fannie Libby. Owen
Lynch.
M-Beyel Mopin, Cynthia Mascall Seol'd). Lena Nc
Mutt teol'd), Mrs NJ NJ McCampbell, Thomas McMann.
PC Pearce.
Ruble, Wesley Robinson (coldl -,
S-Mss An lie Stuart Andy Smith. Calvin Smith,
Edward Small, Mrs NJ Smith. Polk Shelton Nj Sha-
yer. W g Spurgen. -
miss Amanda Thompson, Edwin Thomas (cOl'd)
N-Edney Yaentine. ,,,,
W-Frank Walker, James White, Jno Ward CeOl'd.
w ii Weatherly. H.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
Franklin's Epitaph.

do not know that anything more ex-
quisitely touching can be found in the
whole domain of Sepulchralia than the
well-known epitaph on the celebrated
American printer. Although familiar to
every one, it will still bear transcription :
THE Body
of
Benjamin Franklin, Printer,
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gildng,)
Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not be lost
For it will las he believed) appear once more
In new
And more beautiful Edition,
Corrected and Amended
By
The Author.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
The Sea at Three Miles Depth.

The submarine Investigations carried on
at government expense, under the direc-
ton of the British Association of Science,
have disclosed some most interesting facts
in regard to the character of the bottom of
the sea.
These researches have been carried on by
means of a simple dredge-a rectangular
iron frame, forming the mouth of bag of
netting, which is protected from wear by
a leather or canvass flap. The whole APP
paratus, attached to a rope of suitable
length, is dropped to the bottom of the
sea and dragged along a certain distance,
scraping off the superficial layer of mud
or sand into the bag the meshes of which
permit the dirt to be washed through,
while the larger substances are retained
and brought up.
The depth at which the bottom of the
sea has been thus explored is really enOr-
NOUS, amounting in one instance to more
than three miles, far exceeding that OF
any previous experiment with the dredge,
though small quantities of sea bottom have
been brought up from equally great dis
tances from the surface by means of the
sounding line.
At this depth many species of marine
animals have been found, some entirely
new and others rare, and the temperature
of the bottom indicated about thirty-siX
degrees. The surface water is shown tC
be affected by the heat of the sun only tC
a depth of about twenty fathoms, but the
Gulf stream influences the degree of heal
TO further depth Of five to seven hundred
fathoms.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
Holy Scriptures,

The Old Testament contains 80 books,
929 chapters, %, pa verses, 592, 435 words,
2,72S, 100 letters.
The New Testament contains % books,
260 chapters, $3.50 verses, 1925 words,
S3S, $50 letters.
The contents of the entire Bible are &c
books, !, lS9 chapters, LIZA verses, 49,
692 words, 1866, $50 letters.
The middle chapter and the least in the
Bible, is the 18th Psalm. The middle
verse is the Sth of the lis Psalm.
The middle book of the Old Testament
is Proverbs
The middle chapter is Job 18th.
The middle verse is the 18th of the Goth
chapter of I'd Chronicles.
The least verse is the 1st of the LIST chap
ter of 1st Chronicles.
The middle book in the New Testament
is the I'd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 18th
and 18th.
The middle verse is the 18th of the 18th
chapter of Acts.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
II He Said He Did. He Did.
GRIMES.

\ little story l am going to tell you hap
pened before the war, when every one was
very, very busy. Soldiers were enlisting
and going away from almost. every home
in the land.
One young man had volunteered and
was expecting daily to be ordered to the
seat of war. One day his mother gave him
an unpaid bill with money, and asked him
to pay it. When he returned home that
night she said Ibid you pay the bill ?''
YES" he answered. In a few days the
bill was sent in q second time. AZ thought
said she to her son, that you paid this"
II really don't remember, mother you
know I've had so many things on my
mind"
But you said you did,"
"Well, he answered, "If / said L did,
did,"
He went away, and his mother took the
bill herself to the store. The young man
had been known in town all his life, and
what opinion was held of him this will
show.
81 am quite sure" she said, "my son
paid this some days ago he has been very
busy since, and has quite forgotten about
it but he told me that day he had, and
says if he said then that he had, he is quite
sure he did,
''Well," said the man, II forgot about it;
but if he ever said he did, he did,"
Wasn't thata grand character to have ?
Having once said a thing, that was enough
to make others believe it, whether he re-
membered it or not.
wish all the boys in our land We're as
sure of reputation.-C Christian Weekly.