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The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
Religious Intelligence.

The Union Church Society of West Bay,
Gouldsboro, dedicated their new house of Divine
worship on Thursday, the 18th inst
Rev. G. w. Kelley was ordained to the min
lstry at Norway on Wednesday last. He is ex-
pected to labor with the Norway Congregation
al church the present year. Rev. E. Y. Hincks
OF State street chnrch, Portland, preached the
Sermon. = =
Rev. G. A. Stone, of Brewer village, has &C
cepted call from the Congregational church
at Southvlle, Mass. He will commence his Ia
bors with the New Year
Rev. e. K. Luce will close his third wear
with the Chestnut street M. E. church in this
city the ensuing Spring. His ministry has
been successful and prosperous one for that
church.
1t is probable that the Rev. Mr.. Pitblado of
the Congress street M. e. Church, and Rev
Mr., Hannaburg of the Pine street M. E. Church
Will leave the Maine Conference in the Spring.
There have been more than sixty conversions
IN the town of Belgrade during a few months
past.
There is said to be an increasing ssg9as ip
of the Maine Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
The Universalist society in Augusta is in
excellent condition, notwithstanding it has
been destitute of the benefit of a pastor for the
last SIX months or more. 1t is out of debt, in
good heart, enjoys the benefit of variety of
excellent preaching, and will not settle pastor
till it feels that il secures man well fitted for
the position he has to FILL
Rev. FL. q Snow has supplied the pulpit of
the Union Church at Naples village the two
past Sabbaths, and has engaged to preach there
six more Sundays
Rev. Mr. Sanford lately settled over the LIST
Baptist church in Jefferson, is to be ordained
Jan. 10, 1873.
There will be public religious meeting by
the General Baptists at Long Woods, Naples,
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4th and 5th Rev
w. Parker of Sebago and other clergymen are
expected TO be present. The exercises will con-
tinue forenoons, afternoons and evenings.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

HEREAFTER the American who wishes to
monopolize four columns of the London
Times to mis- own laudation will not follow in
the footsteps of ex-Minister Adams by pro-
testing against the policy of the British gov
eraglent against this country during the war,
orfhduige in the post-prandial gush of ex-
Mieister johnson, or devote himself as did
Mr.. Schenck to the delicate diplomacy that
ailured Gladstone to Geneva. No; he will
take 3 IL By feet American flag and tray
e. through England as did that prince of
fools, Sergeant Bates, arrive in London in
the midst of applauding thousands, have the
horses detached from his carriage, and be
drawn through the streets by the muscular
hands Of the sturdy Britain; and then
have the whole affair set forth in four col
umns Of the British Thunderer. The people
in this country who have regarded Sergeant
Bates as the cheapest sort of sensationist
will be greatly astonished to learn that he
was received with demonstrations that would
hardly be accorded to the Prime Minister or
the Lord Mayor. This Bates nuisance will
next attempt to carry the British flag from
Maine to the Gulf of Mexiso-a foolish feat
in which he will succeed ifsome hot headed
Fenian does not end his flag carrying by
breaking his head with paving stone
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

Nor only will the Christmas week OF 1877
be remembered for the extreme: severity OF
the weather, but also for the appalling loss
of life, both by land and sea- No less than
five railroad accidents, each involving the
loss of several lives and the injury OF many
more, have been crowded into the past six
days. The worst of these is that on the
Buffalo, Cory & Pittsburg railroad in the
western extremity of New York, where by a
broken wheel car with fifty passengers was
hurled over bridge, thirty or forty feet, into
the abyss below, the greater part of whom
persisted in the fall or were entangled
in the wreck and then either drowned OF
burned to death by the fire that enveloped it.
The sickening details of the mingled horror
and torture have parallel only in the Ham.
burg holocaust of two winters ago. Close
upon this comes the tidings of the loss of thu
ship Peruvian with its crew of thirty souls
with minor catastrophes.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
More Fires.

With the terrific frost wave came such
number of fires destructive to life and proper
ty as ought never again to be permitted to oc-
cur till the universal confagration that Prof
Draper predicts from the explosions in the
sun accompanied by the evolution OF great
masses of burning hydrogen. 1t seems al
most as if the sire feud,' whom we have all
regarded as product of the human reporters
creative genius, had a genuine objective exist
ence. and as if his malignity, ambition and
destructive power had been increased by his
achievements at Portland, Chicago and Bos-
ton. Time was when he would stop for a
moment, at least, out of respect to a granite
or marble front, and when show of iron and
and stone would compel pause or at least
skip. But now the fend, drunk with the
pride born Of vic CRY. sticks at nothing. Il
cares no more for the boasted corrugated iron
Barnum's circus go down to ruin as if they
we're built of seasoned pine Architects in
despair give up the struggle, and declare that
firs-proof, like perpetual motion, is a dream.
Fire rsges as an epidemic. 1t is almost calcu-
lated to arouse the superstition that is latent
in the mcst enlightened minds. Last year it
fell from heaven on the unhappy people of
Peshtigo. This year Their are those who
hare thought that they observed like unpleas-
ant phenomena, but such spectacles may be
aginstion Of the beholder. But fire is
uuquestionably more formidable and
less manageable element than we are
accustomed to regard it, great as
human awe OF it has always been. The
conditions of combustion are not very mar
row, after all, as he has found who has seen
fire produced from ice and flames spark
ling brightly under water. Who knows but
there may be some foundation for the hypoth-
esis that atmospheric conditions peculiarly
favorable to combustion are the occasion of
the singular unmanageableness of some of tie
more recent and most destructive fires
Who knows but some abnormal disturbance
Of the chemical union of the elements of
common air, or some accidental disproportion
in their quantities may be at the bottom of
the mischief? Scientific men, to whom the
world has learned to fly in times of danger
and trouble, as it used to resort to augurs,
necromancers and priests, can alone deter
mine whether this suggestion which some of
them have made is rational or absurd. But
there is 40 field of scientific inquiry that
ought to be more attractive to the philan-
thropic investigator than fire as destructive
agent. II is to be hoped that there will fol-
low in the track of Tyndall and other devo-
tees of pure science, still more useful class
OF scientists who will make the discoveries
and researches of these pioneers practically
available in contrivances for the protection
OF human life and property. Such race of
''fre kings" would be among the greatest ben
efactors OF their race, and could not fail to
reap adequate pecuniary rewards.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

THE STORM IN NEW YoRK-The New York
dispatches of Friday morning give full partic-
ulars of the storm of Thursday:
Last night the streets were deserted. From
an early hour in the evening business was sus-
pended and no persons ventured out except
from absolute necessity. Thousands slept
down town at the hotels, in their offices or at
the station honses, owing to their inability to
reach their homes in the upper part of the city.
The classes dependent upon their daily earn
ings for their following nights shelter suffered
immensely Thousands of them wandered
about the streets, not knowing where to go.
Only few of the principal lines of street cars
are running to-day, with double teams, and are
heavily overloaded. Pedestrians on Broadway
make their way through the snow in single
file.
Few stages continue running on the great
thoroughfares, but it is only at rare intervals
that carts or other vehicles are to be seen. The
street clearing bureau has ordered force
of laborers at work to-day in clearing the cross
walks and approaches to the ferries. Special
attention is to be given to the clearing of Broad
way, Oh which it is estimated that the snow
lays two feet on level. The entire cost of
of clearing this street for distance of seventy
blocks will reach $4,000 Along the water
frontage the snow is piled mp in huge masses.
No mails from any point have reached the post
office in this city since yesterday noon. The
whole force of clerks were kepton duty all night
and will remain until the arrival Of the mails
to Immediately sort them. Much arrangement
ensues to business men.
The horse car travel in BROOKLYN is very good,
owing to more perfect system of using snow
plows continuously during the night.
Counting houses, factories and steamboats,
at the pier were used last night as lodging places
by parties unable to reach their homes up town
and in the suburbs.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

THE parties in interest in the pending rail-
road conflict at Augusta next month are
each doing their level best to secure success.
The fiercest fight will be over the proposed
Portland and Bath charter which was so
nearly successful last year. 1t is now under
stood that other and stronger parties in in
terest than those that appeared on the sur-
face of the last contest for the measure will
take an active part in the pending fight and
are reasonably certain of success. 1t is fur
Their rumored that in ease the Maine Central
is beaten, it may yield to the terms now de-
manded by the Boston & Maine, leaving
those really interested in second through
line with charter that will be of no more
value to them than one comforting authority
to build road to the moon.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

ing at the usual hour her friends went to her
room, and opening the closed door found her
dead, leaning upon the bed in her night clothes,
the bed clothes turned down, all the circum-'
stances indicating that she was stricken down
at the very moment of retiring AS several of
the family had died suddenly of heart disease,
her death was attributed to the same cause. A
few hours afterward, her sister and two women
of the neighborhood went to the chamber to
lay out the body, taking the furnace of Goals
with them. While engaged in the work, one
OF the women fell to the floor apparently dead
and the other two with difficulty made their
way from the room and called for aid As this
was Immediately afforded them, they were af-
ter while all restored. The arrival of ply
siciar, and an examination of the facts, soon
explained all the mysteries of the occurrence,
and thus one more lesson has been taught, old
and yet ever new, and rarely learned except by
sad experience-that the use of charcoal is al
ways dangerous.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
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The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

IF there 10 any truth in the testimony at
the investigation into the causes of two late
disastrous ires in New York, there has been
a degree Of neglect on the part of those in
charge of the buildings amounting to a CAPT
tai crime. A. the Museum party testified
that gas burner was constantly within an
inch Of the seasoned timber of the building
and at the Centre street fire where six girls
lost their lives in the sixth or seventh stories
because there was no means of escape, a
man testiies that the building has been on
fire two or three times within few wee
from the same source that at last caused its
destruction and the loss of life. Men whose
supidity leads them to be SO reckless of hui
man life are safest inside the walls OF the
psnitentiary.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

CHARLESTON, one of the towns which Dexter
proposes to have annexed along with itself to
Plscataquis County, votes unanimously in
town meeting against the proposed change.
The scheme of taking towns, which don't
want to be taken, from counties, which o.
ject to letting them go, and annexing them to
county which violently protests against re-
ceiving them is an evidence of enterprise
which the Legislator will hardly appreciate.
Dexter is nice town lively town and a
thriving town but will evidently have some
little time to wait before it becomes shire
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
T-HE PR ESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. %, 1872.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
With card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pallen, Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
ccedsntas of every person claiming to represent our
Journal as we have information that several "bum-
mers' are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Pass, and we have disposition to be, even pas
lively. party to such fraud.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD-A COAL

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILRoAD-A COAL
MONOPOLY.
The government directors of the Union
Pacific railIoad have made report upon Its
condition. They find it in excellent order
and in most respects well managed. An
opinion is expressed that the interests of the
road would be better subserved if the head
quarters of the management were removed
from Boston and New York to Omaha or
some point upon or near the eastern termi-
nus of the road. The directors call attention
to the contract of the road with the Wyo-
ming Coal Company, by which the latter
have a virtual monopoly OF all coal lands on
the line of the road for fifteen years. The
coal company agrees to supply the railroad
for that time at 10 per cent. upon the cost of
production, and the railroad agrees to put in
all the side tracks needed and to keep supply
of coal on hand and to allow rebate of % per
cent. on freight of all coal shipped. The
opinion is expressed that the railroad com
pany is also bound to discourage or discrimi-
nate against all other coal companies The
effect Of the contract is to make the whole
country on the line of the road dependent
upon this monopoly. 1t also appears that the
coal company is chiefly composed of officers
and stockholders of the road
THE BAD INDIANS CAUTIONED.
General John E. Smith, commanding at
Fort Laramie, some days since reported to
the Interior department that portion of
Red Clouds band were off their reservation
and committing depredations and murders
south of the Platte. General Smith, General
Ord, commanding the department, and
Indian Agent Daniels united in request
that the Indians of that section might be at
tackled whenever found off theif reservation,
and the request has been granted.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Hon. Eugene Hale, TO whom the Naval
bill was assigned in the dis
trlbution of work among the members of the
House Committee on Appropriations, COM
peted his revision of it Thursday.
DISAPPOINTED OFFCE.sEEKERs.
The President has announced that he will
not receive visitors until after New Years
day, disappointing some persistent Office seek
ers, who had hoped to worry places from him
during the recess.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

civil strife is regarded with friendly indiffer-
ence by the Louisville Courier-Journal. 1t
considers that the South has no spe ial in
terest in the M tier, and says: Before the
next Presidential elel ton we may fairly look
for new combinations, which will obliters tie
all the old sectional lines. Gen. Grant him
self may be the nominee of the Southern PEG
pie. The most distinguished CT Confederates
may be his arc ent supporters
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

The edition for 1873 of the sterling medical an
nual known Hostetter's Almanac is now ready,
and may be obt lined. free of COST of druggists and
general country dealers in all parts of the United
States and British America, and indeed in every civ
ilized portion of the Western Hemisphere This Al
manac has been issued regularly at the commence
ment of every year for about one-ffth of century
the preservation and Grafton of health large
amount OF interesting and amusing light reading,
ana the calendar, astronomical calculations chrome
Logical items &C., prepared with great care, and
Will be found entirely accurate The issue of Hos
letters Almanac for 1873 will probably be the largest
country. The proprietors Messrs Hostetter &
smith, pittsburgh, Pa, Oh receipt of two cent
stamp will forward copy by mail to any person
who cannot procure one in his neighborhood.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

THE meeting of the National Temperance
Society in New York Thursday evening pass
ed resolutions appealing to women, clergy
men and Others in high social positions to
use their influence against the custom of
furnishing wine and other Intoxicating LIQUORS
to guests on New Years Day.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED
sCHENCK's PULMONEC SYRUP,
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 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 nplaint and dyspepsia are the causes Of
two-thil of the cases of consumption. Many are
nowcor laining with dull pain in the side, the bow
elssom mes costve and sometimes to loose, tongue
coated ain in the shoulder blade feeling sometimes
veryr less and at other times drowsy; the food
that is AIKEN lies heavily on the stomach, accompani
ed with acidity and belching of wind. These symp-
toms usually originate from disordercd condition Of
the stomach torpid liver. Persons affected, if
they take 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
of sores, ana liberated, and death is the
inevitable result
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an expectorant which
does not contain OPIUM nor anything calculated
to check cough suddenly.
Schencks Seaweed tonic dissolves the food, mixes
with the gastric juice of the stomach, digests easily
nonrishes the system, and creates healthy circua
ton of the blood. When the bowels are costive skin
shallow, and the patient is of bilious habit,
Schenck's Mandrake Pills are required.
These medicines are prepared by DR.. j. HI.
SCHENCK & SON, Northeast corner of Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia. Penn, and for sale by
GEO. c. GOODWIN q CO., 3S Hanover street, Bos-
ton, and John F. Henry 8 College place, New York
sale by Druggists generally. sept3sneodtf
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

WE do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
bit as guaranty ofgood faith.
cannot undertake to return preserve COM
n SucaJons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
MARRIED.
DIED..

In this city, Dec. 26, Mr.. George Kennedy aged
Ct years.
Funeral services Sunday afternoon at 81 O'Clock at
Congress Street M. E. Church.
In this city, Dec z6, Margaret j., daughter of
James and Elizabetn White, aged years months.
Funeral services Saturday afternoon at o'clock,
at No. 2 Essex Lane
In Searboro, Dec. rs, Emma M. Dresser, aged 10
years months 10 days.
In Brunswick, Dec. 20, Mr.. Patrick McManus aged
80 years.
In Monmouth, Dec %, Mrs. Mary A. Kincaid, for
merly of Brunswick aged 63 years.
In Bath, Dec. 49, Mrs. Emma j., wife of Melville
Croker. aged 81 years months.
In Bath, Dec. 90, Mary A. Gerrish, aged SO years;
23d, Mr. Jos. f. Hildreth. aged IS years.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

of fifteen shall attend school. A married lady
in Houston, who has not reached the age that
would entitle her to exemption, attends school
regularly and carries the baby with her.
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
'ENTAL NOTICE,
Wanted.
The Averill Chemical Paint
WILL PROVE ITSELF.

E'he AVeriat 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 and Oil
4th-To be all ready for use.
5th-To require no thinning or drier.
6th-The best wood preventative ever discovered.
7th-Rain before dry does not wash it.
sth-It will not IN or chalk.
Shit 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 becn and is being used upon the fin
est villas and buildings both public and private in
this country morrill, SOUTH east, and west giving uni
versal satisfaction, and in all has proved its
hear to be fully twice as long, without chaknp or
acking, as any other paint
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

Death FROM CHARCOAL FUMEs.-Our Frye
puls correspondent writes that Mrs. Florence
oinltn' Vi Epping, N. H., widow about sixty
years OF age died very suddenly last week
while visiting her sister, Mrs. Thomas Dav. of
North Fryeburg. Her chamber had no fire.
place, and on retiring she had for several nights
taken furnace to her room filled with live
Goals from the fire, leaving her door aiar. On
the last night she was not very well, and after
taking cup of tea, she retired about eleven
and in few moments her light was seen to be
extinguished Not appearing the next morn
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28
Commencing Tuesday, Jan. z 1873.
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.
EVERY PLANO rs FULLY wARRAN.
TED FOR FIVE YEARS.

Parties DESTROYS of obtaining really fine piano t
livery moderate price, are invited to examine them
es to all. ~ "u''n'"s-
The la number of prominent citizens we refer IN
below, tnat nave purchased these Pianos and who
WIN TESTIFY to the satisfaction they giving year az
ing is the best proof can offer for their excellence
and durability.
Among the many citizens of Portland who have bur-
chased this Piano, are:
The Portland daily press., 1872-12-28

SAM BARD who hovers about Tennessee is
evidently troublesome fellow with strong
but not entirely original tendencies to serve
his country as postmaster. Sans friends { p
recently made desperate effort to rid Ten
nessee of his presence by furnishing him with
trunk full of heightened recommendations
for q -farai<-,a -+>,,s;4
his way to Washington orperhaps after he had
lived week at boarding house at the ma
tional capital, Sam was attacked with nos
talgia to such an extent that he could not
think OF leaving his dear Tennessee for the
distant honors of foreign cline or a terri
torial place of ease and honor, menaced by
bad Indians, so he conceived the somewhat
original idea of changing his vouminous rec
concentrations so as make them so many
ardent supplications for his appointment to
the Chattanooga post-office instead of prayers
for his expatriation. Sam got the COW
eted appointment but now the signers in
chorus declare that Sam is not wanted in
the postoflce at Chattanooga and the Senate
will either refuse 10 confirm him or President
Grant will withdraw the nomination. Some
people may conclude from this little episode
that Sam political race is run; but Andy
Johnson lives in Tennessee.