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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-08
BUSINESS NOTICES.

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES; if thy did,
anathemas against the depicting lanset, the
drastic purge, and the terrible salivant of the
materia nledicq would arise from ever grave
yard. The motto Of modern medical silence is
"Preserve and Regulate, not Destroy and no
remedy in our day is SO entirely in harmony
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BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.
Special by Western Union Line.
DEnrDTTnN

RECEPTION.
AUGUSTA, March DIR. and Mrs. George E.
Bracket received their friends this evening at
the Augusta House, and it is evident from the
numbers assembled that their friends are nu-
merous. The party this evening is not gotten
up regardless of expenses to dazzle the eyes of
foreigners, but is an assemblage of the elite of
this city to do honor to worthy citizen. In
the attendance of beauty and in richness of
costume the affair of this evening has not been
excelled in this community. NJ
fs by Associated Press.l
SUICIDE AT ORONo.
BANGOR, March ELLA Spencer, of Orono,
II years of age, committed suicide at her home
last evening by taking strynchnine which, it is
supposed, she obtained in this city while here
during the afternoon.
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The FLoRENcKs.-The visit of these famous
actors to our city to-day will be hailed with joy
by the lovers of the legitimate drama. They
are known as leaders in their especial lines of
business, having few rivals in America. The
play which is to be produced is one of the most
popular Of the time, and has held its place up
ON the boards of the larger cities in spite of
more snowy attractions and sensational pieces
The company is large and comprises good ar
fists The tickets we're selling rapidly yester-
day, and the house will undoubtedly be crowd
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PRESIDENT T. X. LoTHRoP, Ichabod Good
win, III. L. Williams, B. +. Stevens and j..
Woodbridge, of the Board of Directors of the
Eastern Railroad were in town yesterday.
They have spent several days in tour of OBJ
sefvafaon along over the Company's lines and
arrived from North Conway via the Portland &
ogdensburg road. They received the courtesies
OF several prominent railroad men and visited
all the points in the city of special interest to
business men
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MASSACHUSETTS.
Terrible Railroad Accident Near Spring.
field

= '-A .l. hl- SPRINGFIELD, March 8.
~ The Springfield operator informs the chief
operator in the Boston office that the New York
express which left here at 8. 80 this evening met
with an accident two miles below Springfield.
The trains was smashed and the cars are burn
ing. r
NOT SO BAD AS AT FIRST REPORTED
SPRINGFIELD, March 8, $40 a. m-Passengers
just arrived from the scene of the accident re-
port that it was not SO bad as first accounts rep
resented The mail car only was burned and
two persons were seriously injured and quite a
number slightly.
Boston, March 1.-THE dwelling of G. l..
Thayer, West Roxbury,.was burned this morn
ing, the inmates barely escaping. Loss $23, 900;
insured. .--,
A fire in Fitchburg yesterday, destroyed the
storehouse of the American Rattan Co., and
badly damaging the stock. Loss $4,000.
The storehouse of H. w. Pitts g. Co., con-
tanning large quantity of cotton, was also
burned and much of the cotton damaged. Loss
$4,000; insured.
DEATH FROM COAL GAS.
Michael Barry, j. Shiverick, j. Barrett. and
Michael Shea, boarders with VIM. Hennessey,
IN Cabot street, were discovered in their Sleep
ing room in the basement this morning insensi-
6le from coal gas. Barry has died and it is doubt
Iul If the others survive. Barry retired latest
last evening, and removed the top from the
stove in the room containing charcoal fire.
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VIRGINIA,

I07f FARTIAL REPUTATION.
RICHMOND, March 1.-THE Senate has passed
a bill repeating the receivability for taxes of
coupons under the funding act over the Cover
nors veto. The House having previously taken
the same action, the bill is now law.
! A bill has passed both Houses providing for
the payment of four per cent. interest for the
present year ON the whole funded deb and two
thirds of the unfundedS debt of the State,
based on the nou-receivability of coupons in pay
naent of taxes I'll 40 =
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METEOROLOGICAL. ~
SYNOPSIS OF WEATHER REPORTS FOR THE PAST
IwENTY-FoUR HOURS.
W4R DKn'T, 4FEIeK eHlFF SIGNAL

March loo a NJ: u
The area Of the very low barometer which is
now probably central over Kansas, will move
east over Missouri, as the severe storm tonight
was preceded by easrerly winds. Cloudy wealth
er will prevail with rain and snow from the
Ohio, valley to, Lake Erie and the upper lakes.
Northerly winds yeering to the east with par
italy cloudy weather Will prevail Friday over
cloudy and threatening weather will prevail in
the Middle States, with snow along the lower
lakes, and probably rain thence to the coast
s6utheastefly winds end partially cloudy wealth
er will prevail over the south Atlantic States
States, with cloudy and threatening weather
and winds veering to northwesterly over the
Western Gulf. =. Il :. = = -
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DEATH FROM COAL GAS.
OHIO.
Great Fire at Cincinnati.

SIX STEAMERS AND THEIR CARGOEs BURNED.
CINCINNATI, March 7.-Shortly after mid
night fire broke out among the steamers at
the wharf, totally destroying the following YES
sells and their cargoes: Champion, Argosy, St.
Charles, Kate Robinson Major Anderson, and
Altoona, and also seriously damaging the i'm
mense New Orleans wharf-boat e
The people on board the steamboat st. Charles
last night had bare time to escape from the
flames by jumping rverboard. Captain Rassell,
q colored chambermaid and the steward, escap-
ed with singed hair. A large amount of cotton
and other freight on the wharf took fire and
burned fiercely for time, but the flames were
finally extinguished
The steamer Robert Burns, loaded for Mem
phis, lying at the wharf, dropped down the
river and escaped injury. A keg of gunpow-
der in the magazine of steamer Kate Robinson
exploded, producing shock like an earth
quake. A large lantern in the hands of the
hands OF the workmen was broken by the con.
cussion. lil
The total loss on the steamers and cargoes
was $150,000. Two of the deck hands belong
ing to the St Charles are missing and are sup
posed to be drowned.
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FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.

GhEAI HAlTA1N.
yF0Fa A BRITISH CONCESSION.
LONDON, March THE Times says if the
fifth claim for losses by the transfer Of Ameri-
can commercial marine to the British flag is
not abandoned, England will declare the refer
ence to the Geneva tribunal inadmissable,
which course is approved by English statesmen
and jurists. ~
So ffy Dos SHIPPING CONVENTION.
* President Fortescue, of the Board of Trade.
announced in the House of Commons to-day
that the government was negotiating a shipping
convention with the United States
Y Hq} DOMINION OF CANADA.
THE STORM IN, NOVA sCoTIA-ACCIDENTs-HA
Atts LEAK HARBoR FROZEN OVER.
HALIFAX, N. S., March 1.-THE storm con-
tinued last night and the snow is Is inches
deep. On some portions of the Windsor and
Pictou Railroad line, between Tmra and Pictou
snow in cuttings is to 10 feet deep.
Matthew Fulloger, laborer was killed while
shovelllng snow from the track and nothing
was known of the accident till the train reached
the junction, when pieces of human flesh and a
bunch of hair were found ON the engine The
remains. were subsequently, found on the track.
Marshall Powers, seaman of the brig Wood
cock, from st. Jago, fell from the topsail yard
at sea and was drowned.
The harbor of Halifax is SKINNED over with
ice.
;. A petition numerously signed for the estab-
iishment OF q light-ship off Sambro entrance of
the harbff has been presented to the govern
ment.
The Prince Edward Island Legislature was
to meet on the 9th inst, but telegraph commu-
nlcation was interrupted and there is no news
from that section, 'o.ir
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-08

PERsoNAL.-We were happy to receive call
yesterday from. our old friend E. w. Locke,
song-master and balladist, who has been laid
up in the Massachusetts Hospital for six months
in consequence Of injuries sustained In falling
through trap door in church near Water
town, n. Y. where he was about to lecture and
sing His right arm is disabled, but he is able
to use the fingers. He is now ready to enter
the field of music, and will first make tour to
Alfred, Rochester, Great Falls and other places
in that vicinity
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GEO. L.LOTHROP e. Co

CoLGATa & Co.'S Cashmere Bouquet Soap has
novel but very delightful perfume and is in
every respect superior for toilet use,
Sold by dealers in perfumery and Toilet arti
cles. mr4-eod3m
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SAvANNAH, March 1-Freights- vessels
and are readily placed on arrival at full rates :
We quote as follows Cotton to LIVERPOOL nv
steam, via New York, I'D for Upland and I'd on Sea
Island, and via Boston 81 for Upland Id for Sea Is
land; saito Liverpool, dull at I'd; and sail to Hayre
at ac, Gold; Bremen do 7-16d Amsterdam I'd: Con-
tinent I'd; Baltic and Genoa 7-16 "a Id; Antwerp 716.
Rotterdam 15-32d Cotton to New York per steam
Upland sc; Sea Island 1c " fb; Rice SO y cask. TO
Philadelphia, steam ac by sail lc on Upand Rice SO
" cask; Domestics 81 Is. To Baltimore steam Ic on
Upland Cotton; Rice 81 90 W cask. Cotton to Bos-
ton steam e. sail &C.; Rice 80 So Cotton by steam to
Boston via New York 75c y 100; to Providence via
New Bork 95c " 100; via Boston CSC y 1O0 Lumber
70 Philadelphia 80; New York, Lumber 50 5OdIO IA:
Sound ports, Lumber 80 so q IL 80. Lumber to Bos,
ton $40 90 TO Baltimore, Lumber IS. The rates for
Iimoer are from 81 q 81 80 higher than Lumber
rates. 10 River Plattc Lumber $2i, and per cent
primage. = 'E77 = :
NEW ORLEANS, March 1-There is no steamer on
the berth for Liverpool. We quote Cotton by steam
to New York &c; to Philadelphia 1c; to Boston pc !:
Tobacco Sc. By sail-Cotton to Liverpool sled. to
Havre 1tc, Bremen 1c, Genoa 1tc Hamburg 10 80
@ Sd, Boston scj Grain to Liverpool bulk 10d; Su-
gar to New York So v hid; Molasses 81 ~ Dbl; To-
baeoo 80, to Bremen ASS " hid.
PHILADELPHIA, March 6.-The tonnage sunplv ia
quite light, and held firmly at full rates. but the offer
ings In all directions are unimportant A brig was
taken from Norfolk to South side Cuba and back at
523c for Sugar and 81 for Molasses. brig to Porto
Rico and return at 4Oc for Sugar and SO g. Gold for
Molasses and schr from Union Island for New
York, with Lumber, at Sill Coastwise freghts re-
main as last quoted.
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New York Stock and Money uarkc,

NEW YORK. March 7-EUeniag. Mooney more ae
tive at per cent currency to Gold. Sterling Ex-
change dull at 1891 q 1909. Gold dull and firm at
alos g hot; loans at q per cent Clearances
$500 10000 Governments higher and strong
State bonds quiet and firm. Stocks closed steady
tivity and excitement The Treasury dsbursed an
900 Gold to-day. ''0''-
The following wera tho oIoo;,, ,o..., . ~
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-08

AIR treatment will not reduce dislocatons or
fractures, but DR.. Mace claims that tbs unsur-
passed for the relief and cure of chronic COM
plants. Office in Cahoon Block. Congress- St
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-08

You can get those Steel Knives Silver Plated
nicely at Atwoods, also Tea Sets, Casters,
Spoons, Forks sc. ,replated in the best manner.
Particular attention given to Gold Plating
watch cases &c. Remember the place. A. H.
Atwood's Lancaster Hall feb29-deowtf
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Euranean marLe..-


LONDON, March 7-l1.SO A. M.-Consols s2a for
money and account. N : -
American securities-U. S. 500 1862 9os: do 1885
old, 93i; do 1867, 92J U. S. 1O-4Os ssl. - :
92t. " ~ ioo'
Talow ASS Sd. 4.-.-...
.. FRANKFORT, March Limited States 5-2O's 1862
PARIS, March 7-11.30 A. M.-Rentes closed at 5si
65c. 80 ~~-'N ~ '''
LIVERPOOL, March 7-1.3O P. M.-Cotton Quiet
middlng uplands 1T q 11sd; do Orleans 11sd sales
lation. 'Ps'N7
Lard As. Breadstuffs heavy 'fE -~.t.7at
LONDON, March 800 P. M.-The bullion in the
week. = -
LONDON, March 800 P. M.-Consols 92a for money
and account. = : =
American Securities-U. S. 5-2O's 1852 s2i do 1865
Old, s3t; do 1867. 90; U. S. 10-4Os, S9i. =
PARIS, Earch $50 P. M-Rentes closed at 5ef
&c. - - ''--
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Receipts by Railroads and Steamboats,.
STEAMER MONTREAL FROM BosToN-1O bbds
moasses So boxes tin, 26 pigs tn casks OIL "a bbs
pork 10 do OIL 10 casks nails 20 do dyestu II cases
paints 10 cases and bdls domestces 25 kegs Soda %
cases lard 40 do Shoes So coils cordage boxes SOAP
IL sewing machines, 25 bars iron, bdls STEEL bales
har zoo kegs white lead 100 bbls sugar. 10 bags oys-
ters coils wire rope IL bds rakes rs bbls ale bdls
cnair stock 40 bbls whskey 80 boxes raisns 100 pkg
FOR canada and up country-2 bbls alum, IL crank
pms, 90 bales gambia, IA bags sumac 10 bbls cutcL
reels lead pipe, bales WOOL "a bbls -four 10 bales
cotton, organ, 100 bdls leather, 100 pkgs to order
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PURCHASERS of bonds and stocks are invited
to notice the advertisement of Messrs Swan &
Barrett
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

CALL at Schumacher Brothers and look over
the finest assortment of new chromos ever in
Portland. They have also just received large
lot of stereoscopic views, new subjects mar4tf
In the truest and deepest sense Duponco' S
Pills are the BALM OF GILKAp to those delicate
ailments to which the gentler sex are liable.
mar2-eod1w&w1t
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Boston Stock bist.
Sales at the Brokers' Board. March ? I
BRYTLITE GLOBES
BRYTLITE GLOBES

This new and beautiful light can be seen at tho
store Of
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MUSIC BOXES! MUSIC BOXES
North Yarmouth Academy,
TIyEE Spring term of eleven weeks will begin

Under tho charge of an experienced and competent
Principal With such assistants the interests of the
school may require.
Ample accommodations for ''roomers" and board
ers,
For further particulars enquire of
feb20St Wa
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GEO. l.. LOTHROP & CO..
1J2 Exchange st.

soc and burner combined, giving soft but
,,.o sSAerior to anything of the kind now in
49, sdcing Of ticenty per cent. in
1t is having an immense ,le in other cities and
gives great satisfaction where e,>r introduced.
WIN tit any fixtures, and can be>sdiusted in two
minutes Price within the reach of a. Call and
examine.
GEO. l.. LOTHROP e. Co
feb3sntf 1872 Exchange Street,
eS Owing to numerous limitations of valuable
article, when thrown upon the market, we caution
the public against such. Be that each Burner
has the Gas Moderator attached, and is marked spa
tented"
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ENTERTAINMENTS
HAYMAKERS!

This Justly celebrated Cantata giving descri,,,o,
of an old fashioned -Field-with scenery. nav
pleasing and appropriate music, representing in fun
everything that happens in haying season VIII be
hroupht ont in - -
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FROM observations under the Microscope of
the blood of patients using FELLOWS COM
POUND SYRUP OF HYPoPHopHITEs. taken
from time to time, positive proof has been OBJ
tanned of the steady removal of diseased and
dead particles of the substitution of vitaIized
diseases, so necessary to the construction of
healthy muscle. mar2d-ded&w1t
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Prof. DENTON.

This DISTINGUISHED scentest and reformer will lect.
ure in the Army d Navy Union Hall, corner
OF Brown and angress ST., the 10th and 18th inst
at and p. NJ Subjects Of lectures for next Sun
day. - -.
mons in stones, and good in every thing Shakspears
2. Progress and growth.
On the 18th, his subject will be, The true Revelation
and Salvation. or what shall we do to be saved
y Admission Is cents. mch7-st
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with this phianthropic logic as DIR. WALKERS
VEGETABLE VINEGAR BITTERs. In this pow
erful, yet harmless restorative, dyspepsia, bill
lous complaints, and all diseases of the stom-
ach, liver, bowels and nerves, encounter an ir-
resstable antidote mar4-4w
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Foreign Exports.
MATANZAS. Bark Alice Tarlton-2324 shocks
and heads, 1920 box shooYs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
at 1151s@l15I.
1t is stated that General Spinner has re-
Gently decided that when mutilated note
has five-eighths left it shall be redeemable at
its full value.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has decided that certificates of naturalza-
tion issued by the United States or State
courts are not such certificates as require
stamps under the Internal Revenue laws,
and are therefore exempt from stamp tax.
The New York Sun of the 25th publishes
an account of an affray at Hunterdon, n. j.,
between $50 colored men, and over 800
whites, who were at work on a tunnel
on the new railway from Perth Amboy
to the coal mines. During the riot
a white man named Charles Cole was killed.
The whites subsequently sought to revenge
the death of Cole, and made an organized
attack upon the negroes and butchered three
of them in a most horrible manner.
The Pennsylvania Executive Committee OF
the Straight-out Democrats have called a
State Convention, at Harrisburg, on the
10th of October, to select an Electoral
ticket
The Democrats and Liberals Of the Twen-
fourth New York District have nominated
Frank Hitchcock, a Liberal, for Congress.
Hon. George F. Hoar has been renominated
for Congress bythe Republicans of the Ninth
Massachusetts, District.
A balloon which ascended at Plymouth, N.
a., on the 26th, landed the next morning in
Canada, near the Bay of st. Lawrence, hav
ing Travelled 300 miles over the wilderness Of
Maine and Canada.
The Straight-out Democracy of Wisconsin
held Convention in Milwaukee on the Goth
and decided TO put an Electoral ticket in The
field.
The Straight Democratic state Convention
held at Jackson, Mich, on the 37th, nomi
mated the following ticket Governor
Colonel VIM. NJ. Ferry, of Grand Haven
Lieutenant-G Governor, Hon. Chas. Woodruff
of Ypsilanti; Secretary of State, Thos o
Cutler, of Kalamazoof Treasurer, Clemen
H. Davidson, of Detroit; Auditor General
Hon. Cyrus Peabody, Of Oakland; Commis
sioner of Land onice, Hon. Asa d. Grouse
of Livingston; Attomey-General, VIM. A
Clark, of Saginaw; Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, Hon. Andrew j. Sawyer, o
Monroe; Member of the State Board of Edu
cation, Rev. q, Vanderyeen, of Kent.
William Irwin, eighty years old, residlnl
two miles from Terre Haute, Ind, wa
cruelty murdered a few evenings ago, by hi
son-ln-law, Andrew j. Miller. The weapol
used was an AK. The trouble originated il
the old mans reproving Miller for wantonl
spilling barrel Of cider
During the absence from his home il
Dixon, Iowa, the other evening, of wealth
old farmer named Lyman Alger some mel
In disguise entered the house and murdere,
bis wife, securing sll0O in greenbacks,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
The Kind OF Man that Was Wanted

A first-rate story is told of a very prom
inent man, who lived in Detroit forty
years ago $50 correspo ndent writes us),
| and who at that time owned more steam
boat stock than any other man in the
| Western country, besides other wealth to
a large amount.
Like many of the pioneers who ac-
| quired great riches, he was very ignorant
in all that books taught, but his learning
was more like wisdom, and in common
with many who have lived and passed
away, but left their mark behind them,
he knew what tree would make shingles
by looking at it.
| He had, at the time of our story, just
completed splendid new warehouse at
! Buffalo, and wanting a suitable clerk to
take charge of it, he advertised for one
! in the papers. The next morning early a
candidate for the position presented him
self, a rather too flashy young man in
appearance, but the following converse
| tion occurred:
"Young man, when you make mis-
take in any of your books, how do you
correct it ?"
The young man explained, in very
profuse manner, how he should proceed
to make it all right.
"a good way no doubt to do it," re-
piled the old gentleman, "but shan't
want you
Very soon another aspirant put in an
appearance. A similar question was
asked him, and in a long and eloquent
manner he pointed out the remedy in al
such cases.
All the reply was: "Young man,
shan't want you"
Some three or four others dropped in
during the day, and to each one the same
question was put, and they all had somt
smart way of covering up errors in theil
books.
The old gentleman was entirely igno
rant himself of the art of bookkeeping
but he had wisdom in all things, which s
more than match for learning.
Just at the close of the day plainly
dressed man, with bright eye and |
brisk step called for the situation.
Take seat, SIR" said the old gentle
man, II want to ask you just one ques
tion. When you make a false entry oil
your books, how do you go to work Il
correct ity" .....
Turning upon his questioner cold
sharp look, the young man replied: 6.
don't make them kind of mistakes, SIR"
"Ah! my dear sir, you are just the mai
I have been looking for all day" and in
few moments after, the man who correct
ed his blunders by not making them, wa
installed in the office.-Neao York WeeklS