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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-18
News and Other Items.


Our new territory gained by Emperor Will
lams award is the best sheep-raising land on
the Pacific coast
A gentleman who was burned out at a fire in
Belfast in 1866, went to Chicago and suffered
there only to try again in Boston and come out
heavy loser by the fire.
Mrs. Fairs cup of joy is now full. She has
recovered the pistol with which she shot Crit
tenden, and is now ready for more insan-
ity.
The Boston Transcript says: "We have a
right to speak pretty plainly about the fire-all
of which we saw and part of which we were.
We might be called a brand snatched from the
burning, if the snatching process had not been
inadvertently omitted.
We breathe again. The stereotype plates of
Worcester's Dictionary are safe and our tongue
is not to go down among the dead languages
yet
Boston paper says: One of our noblest mer-
chants said he felt worse Thursday at the de-
feat of Mr. Grays resolution declining aid
from abroad than he did when he saw his own
store burning.
The Baltimoreans were greatly impressed by
| the table manners of a delegation of Kiowa
Indians, that recently dined with them. The
| Mortified reporter says:-"Without ceremony,
as soon as they reached the table, they fell to
work and ate ravenously for full half hour
| Most of them showed a remarkable fondness for
butter and bread, and their mode of eating it
was to swallow piece of butter about half the
size of an ordinary egg, and then take small
piece of bread. The principal article of diet
| koa
teen years ate nine large slices, equal to about
two and half pounds.
The first winter that soup was gratuitousy
| given to the poor in Boston, an indolent family
moved to the city from Saco to live upon the
wasteful beneyolence of our citizens says the
Transcript
Architects estimate that substantial build.
ings for business purposes can be erected fol
$15 square foot. At this estimate tie burn
district could be covered for SIS, 342, 900.
The Gloucester fisheries have been more thai
usually successful the past season. In all tn
branches thirteen vessels have been lost value,
at $5S,600, with sixty-four lives against twenty
two vessels in 1871, valued at $1O3,O6O, will
1877 lives.
By an accident on the Memphis and Littl
Rock railroad on Friday, the engineer of a trail
and several other passengers were killed.
The ramparts of Quebec, which constitute tn
most picturesque features of that uniqu
American city, are to be destroyed. Tourist
+ will mourn over the loss.
The Chattanooga Crenn.) Herald suspende,
oae issue for jollifcation over the result of tn
Presidential election and goes into mourning OF
account of the Boston fire.
The storm at Duluth, Mimi, Wednesda
was most severe and disastrous The harbo
improvements were greatly damaged and tn
water rising fifteen feet higher than ever befor
known, swept away quite number of resi-
dences.
1t is conceded that Gen. Meigs will receiv
the appointment of Major General. Genera
Howard is set down as out of the race
1t is reported that Gen. Cooke, now forty
three years in the service, will resign his com
mission as Brigadier General in a short time
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Boston FIRE, will net 60 on IN the business Tho
Supreme Court has granted an Injunction and
appointed Messrs s. r. Humphrey Hiram
Ruggles and N. H. Dillingham;, receivers, to
take charge of the companys business. The
other Bangor companies are sound.
YORK COUNTY.
The Bddeford Times says that the closing
entertainment Of the Musical Convention at
City Hall, Saco, was very successful, both in
attendance of citizens and in the rendering of
the various parts ON the programme. The au-
dience was very much pleased and manifested
it by hearty applause The choruses and an
thems were very fine The central star of at.
traction was Mrs H. E. HI. Carter, who was
received by her audience in manner that must
have been highly gratifying to her.
A Biddeford tippler whitewashed his charac-
ter the other day by falling into large bin Of
lime just SACKED.
The Biddeford Times of Friday gives lone
account of the recently discovered slate auarry
near the cascades in Saco, which is now owned
| by Messrs. Lewis, Frost and others. The slate
is said to be of excellent quality, and the com
| pany are making preparations to bring it into
| the market in large quantities. The chips will
| be ground into -four to be used as for oil clotl
and fertilizers. 1t is also used for fire-proo
paint, but those who have tried it say that it II
| worthless.
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The State Fair Again.

The Maine Farmer, which we need not say
is one of the best agricultural journals in the
country, charges the PRESS with persistent
efforts to injure" the State Agricultural So
ciety and asserts that it is in complete ig-
narance" of the whole matter SO far as it re-
lates to the late exhibition at Bangor, and
goes on to make. the assertion that the last
State Fair "was a Success" The charge of
persistent efforts to injure the society is utter
ly false in every respect. As to the charge of
complete ignorance we are quite willing to
submit the question to the public as to wheth-
er the PRESS which rr nounced the exhibit
ton failure in many respects or the Farmer
which ul.qualfiedly pronounces it success"
is ignorant of what should constitute State
Fair. If State FAIR is to be simply large
sized county cattle show and convention Of
betting hors, jockeys, it was moderate sue.
cess as to the first and complete triumph a:
to the last. If Stale Fair is intended to b.
display of the results of the many growing
industries of Maine and an exhibition of thu
progress that the State is making in hundred
of branches Of skilled labor that are givin,
employment, wealth and refinement to gu
people, then the State Fair at Bangor O
wherever else it has been held in the past i
n failnra 49,,
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The New York Times says that one of the
city courts decided an interesting legal ques-
ton the other day. A man had applied for
limited divorce from his wife, ON the ground
Of cruel treatment of him. 1t was an unusu-
al application, for, although hundreds of wo-
men have obtained like divorces for similar
cause, husbands are not addicted to appealing
for legal protection against their wives. New
ertheless, it seemed just to this particular APP
plicant that whatever was regarded as Judi
cial sauce for the husband ought to serve
equally well as sauce for the wife, and he,
therefore, confidently applied for his limited
divorce. He failed, however, to obtain it, for
the Court decided that decree of limited d.
vorce is remedy expressly reserved for ladies
only, and that the husband. to whose head
the application of domestic broom-sticks and
fat-rons is daily occurrence, must either
bear his sufferings in silence, or take the ex-
IRENE course of abandoning his too demons
trative wife.
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Three Warnings.
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
lam glad to notice that correspondent of
your paper calls attention to the three great
warning conhagrations of Portland, Chicago
and Boston, and suggests prevention
The public press Unexpectedly warned every
one against building fire proof blocks and
placing upon them finder box called the Man
sard roof, upon which burning cinders will
lodge, and where the flames may revel in all
their fury often beyond the reach of the most
powerful stream of water. In the rebuilding
OF Boston this is likely to receive some atten-
ton, and that safety instead of ornament will
be considered in their style of architecture
Portland may well be proud of the energy dis
played in rebuilding after the great fire, but
her judgment is questionable in adopting the
"French Roof with its cornices and mould
ings which may be the means of repeating
the night of July 4, 1866, with its terrible re-
suits.
1t is also demonstrated by these great fires
that water is powerless against such terrific
heat-the best and largest organized hre de-
partment can do but little to check It's progress
Space must be cleared and the material that
feeds the fire leveled to the ground. Powder
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alone win do this and /. snus. be ussa promptly

and iudiciousiy.
The first issue of the Boston papers after
the fire contained criticisms upon its manage
ment, complaining of the dilatoriness and neg
lect to promptly blow up buildings. But it is
easier to criticise than to execute. Under the
present system there is no organized force de-
tailed to execute such orders; but few know
how, effectively, to blow up building. and it
is not pleasant duty to take a load of pow
der in an open wagon into the midst of sparks
and flames that rush before great fire
Therefore, as one of the lessons that we have
learned from experience, the necessity seems
to arise that there should be organized in every
city company of ''sappers and miners" under
the charge of an efficient engineer or officer,
and that they should be provided with fire
proof casson or carriage equipped with fuse
and packages of powder suitable for blowing
up block or whole street if necessary
Such an organization promptly used would
probably have soon stopped the great fire o.
Portland and much sooner checked the greai
disaster at Boston R.
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Political Notes.

In Delaware the Republicans greatly in
crease their vote over 1868. This wear
the Republican vote was 11,116 and in 1868
it was 1923.
Gen. Grants official majority in Pennsyl-
vania is 1877, 54S. Gen. Grants vote is 1909
smaller than Hartranft's, and Greeley's 1885,
700 less than Buckalew's.
The official Republican majority in New
Jersey is 1857
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a. 20 une scope or design of real State
Fair or from their inability to commend the
enterprise to the producers of the State. If
the Farmer desired to increase its circulation,
1t would not think of sending out thousand
little pamphlets to accomplish that object.
1t would, as it now does, send out skillful
canvassers. The Press merely indicated
that this was the way in which to interest
the manufacturers of Maine in the matter of
an industrial exhibition real State Fair.
Doubtless few farmers are benefited by
the display of stock and farm productions,
but the influence that the unseemly exhi-
billions Of the pool selling and ''the ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain" of the
horse racing, whiskey drinking fraternity that
largely monopolized the State Fair, in our
opinion, counterbalanced that little good a
hundred fold, by bringing thousands of young
men into contact with its Generalization
Considerate men deplore the growing interest
OF our young men in the cultivation of fast
horses and horse racing with all its attendant
vices; and is an organization claiming the
nent agent for promoting an evil that is not
only the foe of all real honorable industry
but of all good?
The statement of the Farmer that the
Maine Agricultural Society does not receive
State aid is true, but it is not because the
trustees have not persistently begged for ii
and have been defeated by some Spartan leg
islator.
Whenever the Maine Agricultural Society
that is the name we believe-puts forth any
efficient effort to secure first class State
Fair, acting as successful business men would,
it will find no more jealous support than
that which the PRESS will give, it matters
not where the exhibition takes place. On
the other hand no cry of prejudice, or decla-
ration of ignorance will deter it from expos
ing the management of such humbug as
was its horse jockey convention at Bangor in
September.
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THE mules are taking the epizootic in the
coal mines of Pennsylvania; the horses are
falling from catarrh into dropsy the magnates
and the chickens are being stricken with a
mysterious and fatal disease. What melan-
choly would settle upon New England if these
evil complications should settle upon the tur-
key before Thanksgiving!
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IT takes two column editorial of the
World to prove that Gen. Grants admins
tration at the recent election was not APPROX
ed and that the Democratic party is not yet
dead. The worst oft for the World is, that,
it utterly fails to make either proposition
clear.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-18

GOVERNOR WARMoUTH's last usurpation,
by which he has secured a control of the
Election Board of Louisiana that will enable
him to elect or defeat whom he pleases, sue-
gests query as to how far he and men of his
ilk can venture before they provoke popular
uprising, No election is npwadoys free from
UGH outrages. They are confined to no one
party or class of officials. The laws are ruth.
lessly thrown aside, and private rights totally
.disregarded
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-18

Those journals and orators who have been
declaring every day that President Grant is
not sincere in his civil service reform, will
find fact to the contrary in the case of the
Philadelphia postmastership.
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TIL II PR ES S.
MONDAY MORNING, nov. IS, '7s,

WE do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are III
all iispensable necessarily for pupeaioh
but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve cem-
IN inicau,ons that not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-18

THERE are many indications that Mormon
leaders are making preparations to transfer
their church from Utah to Palestine. On
the whole the country will be glad to get rid
of them
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-18

The publishers of the Boston Advertiser
announce that they will with Mondays issue
enlarge its present size by the addition of one
column to the width of each page. In its de-
partment the Adrertiser has no rival in New
Ennland
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Worn to a shadow.

Flesh, muscle and mind alike deseriorate when the
stomach alters in its duty and the bowels do not
form their part scavengers of the system Regularly
and naturally. In chronic dyspepsia the body is
usually emaciated, the muscular fibre loose and ab
by and the brain incapable Of prolonged or vigorous
exertion. Every organ, every member, even the i'm
mortal mind ITSELF Is to certain extent dependent
upon the stomach for support. Strengthen and regu
late this feeder of the system with Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, when it fails to perform it's func
lions properly good appetite, an increased flow O
the gastric juice and perfect disgeston and asslmia
ton will assuredy be the result. The manner II
which the great tonic and Alternative effects cure
dyspepsia is direct and simple 1t stimulates tn,
bowels regulates the flow of bile and It in
to the right channels and exercises tranqulizng in
huence over the nerves.
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CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED
sCHENCK's PULMONIC SYRUP,
sCHENCK.s sEAWEED TONIC,
sCHENCK,s MANDRAKE PILLS.

Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
consumption.
Sometimes medicines that will stop cough will Of
ten occasion the death of the patient 1t locks up the
liver stops the circulation of the blood hemorrhage
follows, and in fact clogging the action of the very
organs that caused the cough
Liver complaint and dyspepsia are the causes of
two-thirds Of the cases of consumption. Many are
now complaining with dull pain in the side the bow
els sometimes coBtive and sometimes loose tongue
coated paiu in the shoulder blade feeling sometimes
very restless, and at other times drowsy; the food
that Is taken lies heavily on the stomach accompan-
ed with acidity and beching of wind. These symp-
toms usually originate from disordercd condition of
the stomach torpid liver. Persons SO affected if
they take one or two heavy colds and If the cough in
these cases be suddenly stopped, the lungs liver and
stomach clog, and remain torpid and inactive, and
before the patient is of his situation the lungs
are mass of sores, and liberated and death is the
inevitable result.
Schenck's Pulmsnic Syrup ia an expectorant which
does not contain any opium nor anything calculated
to check a cough suddenly
Schcnck' Seaweed tonic dissolves the food mixes
with the gastric juice of the stomach digests easily
nomrishes the system and creates healthy circua
ton OF the blood. When the bowels costve skin
SchencR Mandrake Pills are required.
These medicines are prepared by Dr. j.
SCHENCkS son, Northeast corner of Sixth and
GEO. c; GOODWIN & CO., 3s Hanover street, Bos-
ton, and John F. Henry, 8 College place. New York
sale by Druggists generally. sept3sneodtf
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The REPUBLICANS of Kittery propose to ex-
press their qualification at the result of the
Presidential election, Wednesday night by a
procession, supper, ball aud other festivities.
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The EXECUTIVE COUNCIL meets to-day. 1t
is expected that some very important matters
will be under consideration
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BATCHELOR,S HAIR DYE
A Book for Every Man

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~ The The ..SC!ENCE OF LIFE, or SELF-PRESERyA-
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ever published and the only one on this class of ills
, npgsd iHeaans. i9oth edition. revised much
prs ,uStrated bound in beautiful French cloth
Price Address PEABODY MEDICAL iSSTf.
AZ nanch Street Boston Mass, or Dr.
anthar al, AnhEh, ASSISTANT Physician. N. B. The
diseases requiring SKILL and ExPERIENcE.
81 mar25-d1y
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GEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the
- undersigned until SATURDAY, Nov. 23d, 1872,
for building the Marginal Way in accordance with
tue plan and specifications which nay be seen at the
Ireasurers Office Of the Portland q Rochester Rail-
road Co.
Also for building pile bridge between Tukey's
Bridge and Grand Trunk Railway Bridge in accord
make proposals for work to be done In Cove between
Goulds Wharf and Tukey's Bridge, or part thereof
or for bridge alone, or for entire work.
The right to reject proposals considered unsatsfac-
tory Is reserved to the Company.
JOHN LYNCH,
President p. & r. r. R. Co.
Portland, Nov. Is, 1872 nov1sisdtd
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COAT, PANTS AND YES +
MAKERS WANTED
ON READY MADE WORK.
ORlN HAWKES. & CO.,
novlisntf 800 & 2s2 Congress Street.
NvC"Dno
OYSTERS.

WHAT TO READ.
In reading let no time be lost
Reading what no one good will do:
Read what will benefit you most
Avoid the false-read what is trne
Read carefully the current news.
The useful advertisements read
But all mere worthless trash refuse.
Which satisfies no human need
Read sure the .'rhymes of GEORGE FENNo,s
Which tell where BOYS shouldbuy their "CLorHEs.n
Coat, Pants, Vest, Hat and Shoes complete.
nov13sn1w Ros+or
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GREAT BARGAIN.
For sale Country Store and Honse, situated at
Readfield NJ. c. R. H., one of the best points
for business in the State. etasr
Sale positive. Terms easy.
For further particulars address at once,
D. W. CRAIG,
noSsneod2ws Readfeld Depot. Me-
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This remedy is composed Of the expressed juices of
Roots and Herbs which grow in our native forests
IS not cathartc neither does it contain any miner
al or any thing that would do any harm even to an
infant Its action is tonic or strength giving 1t
stimulates the Liver to secrete healthy bile the lu-
brlcator OF the bowels it tones up aceak Digestion
gires strength and vgor to the stomach and bowels
forf.aes the aervous spstem; speedily relieves
and cures Constipation, Dyspepsia, Indi-
sestion Flatuncy, Piles, & c., as no other
medicine erer has done. Nursing mothers afflicted
otfh constipation, not only find in this remedy re-
lief for themselves but transmit its curative proper
ties to the child This medicine is blessing to the
aged. a gentleman so years old toho for ttcenty
years had suffered from constipation, and found nc
relief except by the of injections .eas completely
cured by the use Of one bottle of LORING,s
VEGETABLE SPECIFIC. As a dysqep.
STA cure 1s challenge the cord to produce its equal
Abundant testimonials from well known citizens are
in possession Of the proprietor. AA
THOs. G. LORING, Apothecary,
novlsntf Portland.
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FOR FERROTYPES, TINTYPES,
and the Chrome Ferrotypes, 60 to A. S. Davis & Co
No. 80 Middle st., near corner Of Exchange
au20 d3mO sn
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MORRIS &c IRELAND,

MORRIS &c IRELAND,
BURGLAR and FIRE PROOF
S A F E s.
Their claims as the most re-
liable security against
Burglars and Fire.
We have had already opened from the Ruins of til
terrible fire in the CITY OF BOSTON
T w E N TY
FIRE PROOF SAFES,
and we are glad to report that with but one exeep-
ton the contents were
FULLY PRESERVED.
Orders received for these Celebrated safe.
at the Rooms of
j. A. HAYDEN ESQ, General Ast.
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co.,
1913 MIDDLE STREET,
PORTLAND.
b. b. DYER, Agent,
For Morris Sc Ireland,
loltiano' NOV. 10, 1872. nov16snGf
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

/. o. o. F.
NNHE monthly meetinglof The Mutual Relief Asso-
Il citation of the I. O. o. F. will be holden at odd
Fellows Hall, on Tuesday Evening November 18th,
at u o'clock.
Nov. 18th, 1872. noyissnd3t
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STATE OF MAINE.

STATE OF MAINE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
AUGUSTA, Nov, 9Th, 1872. !
An adjourned session of the Executive Council will
be held at the Council Chamber, in Augusta, on Mon
day the 18th day Of Nov inst at 10 O'Clock A. M.
GEORGE G. STACY,
nolSsnlt Secretary Of State.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOSTON FIRE.

OWIbNG to removal Of $50 barrels Of fine Rye and
- ,oe1 m msisAies OF 1870, 1862 1868 and some
OF the late disastrous fire. we offer them at very much
less than cost price for cash good notas ~ The
wholesale trade, drug trade and grocers This .ais
will continue for one week from date after that sh
ject to further orders from the shippers Samples
anil stock al present at .Pee
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The Averill Chemical Paint

The Averill Chemical Paint
WILL PROVE ITSELF.
1st-Far more beautiful then any other
2d-More durable then any other.
3d-Lower in price then pure Lead ara Oil.
4th-To be all ready for use.
5th--To require no thinning or drier.
eth-The best wood preservatiye ever discovered.
7th-Rain before dry does not wash It,
Sth-It viii not run or chalk. a
9th-It is positively water and fire proof
10th-Covers old work as well as new
11th-Superior for covering brick.
12th-The best paint for iron buildings.
This paint has been, and is being used upon the fin
est villas and buildings both public and private In
this country, north, SOUTH east and west giving uni
versal satisfaction and in all cases has proved its
sear to be fully twice as long, without chafking or
acking, as any other paint.
d. M. YEOMANS.
General Eastern Agent,
So Commercial St., Portland.
Sept21eodsntf