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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
Christmas Supplement.

The great pressure of advertisements incl
dsnt to the holiday season compels Us to issue
supplement tomorrow to avoid a too great
encroachment upon our reading matter. In
this and the regular issue will be found an
nouncements of the holiday goods which our
dealers offer to the public, and full directo-
ry Is thus given to gift buyers which they will
find profitable and convenient to study be-
fore setting out upon tour of the shops. The
supplement will contain ten columns of care
fully arranged reading meteorological and
selected-including some gems of Christmas
poetry, story for children, an "Atlanta
Weekly article and other things which will
make it well worthy of preservation. Deal
ers wishing for extra copies should send their
orders as early as ten o'clock a. M, to-day.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
News and Other Items.

A Michigan manufacturer has 900 broom
handles ready for shipment This ought to set
husbands thinking about coming home early.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle afirms that
"Mr. Alex. H. Stephens has made most in
suspicious beginning for himself in defending
the back-salary grab Public opinion seems
to be the same everywhere. +
Alfred H: Townsend, in his last letter to the
Chicago Tribune, gives these political items:
Senator Morton's health will not permit him
to run for the next Presidency; President
Grant has no idea Of third term, but is going
to settle down in Washington; his choice for a
successor is Secretary Fish-all of which can
go for what it is worth.
The Philadelphia Press accords equal praise
to Republican and Democrats for carrying the
new Constitution of PENNSYLVANIA. In the
course of its jubilation, it says of the great
Keystone: To-day she is almost without a
vOice.in the Administration of President Grant.
No Cabinet Minister, not a frst-class mission,
not even first-class consulate. 1t is not his
iauft tnau sne SUBMITS 10 be patiently kicked.
The Washington correspondent of the New
| York Post says the President and the entire
Cabinet are in harmony on the subject of econ
omy, and will give Congress all the sympathy
it wants in its efforts for retrenchment The
Secretary of War can save twelve millions by
withholding estimates for public works author
ICED under his direction. He will also, it is be-
lieved, strike out from fifteen to twenty mil
lions from the estimates of his own depart
meat.
1t is reported that the Hon. r. M T. Hun
| ters scheme for compromising the South for
the emancipated slaves has seriously injured
his chances for securing the United States Sen
atorship from Virginia, and that similar mis-
| fortune has befallen the Hon. A. H. H. Stuart
for advocating the colonization of the negroes
in some foreign land. The men highest in ia
vor for the Senatorship now are said to be
Governor elect Kemper and Ex-Governor
Walker
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
Maine Shipbuilding,

Official figures received from all the col.
lection districts in this State except Passa-
maquoddy, have been published in the Bos-
ton journal, which show that during the
present year 227 vessels have been built hay
ing an aggregate tonnage of S3,68958 TONS
Last year the district not yet returned built
twenty six vessels having an aggregate ton
mage of 4381.51 tons, from which it is esti-
mated that the tonnage built in 1873 in the
Passamaquoddy district will not be less than
5000 tons and being chiefly small vessels will
bring the number up to 255 and the total
tonnage to $3.50 tons. The figures in the
Portland district fall below those recently fur
nished by the custom house to the city papers
and from the probability that none of these
statistics come down to a more recent date
than the first of the present month, it is evil
dent that the aggregate tonnage for the year
1873 will exceed 10000 tons. The returns
published do not include large amount of
tonnage now building; as for instance, in
Bath, there are thirteen vessels building
with an aggregate tonnage of $4,000 tons.
The 227 vessels returned, are divided rs
follows: 10 ships, % barques, barkentines,
10 brigs, 156 schooners, 10 soops, 10 steamers
and l propeller. The following summary
will be of interest:
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

Last year the aggregate tonnage built was
little over 10000 tons or about the same as
.nal OF 1859. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
the amount has been more than doubled the
present. year. and the indications are that
there will be decided increase in 1874
five refer to the statistics Of this ;,nror
tant branch of Maine industry and great
source of wealth in the past, it WILDE found
that the largest amount of tonnage built in
any one year previous to the present was in
1850 81 when its is given as 57,343, while the
average for the three best years of this indus
try previous to the rebellion was 52,038 tons.
1t will be seen. therefore, that at the present
time shipbuildin2 in Maine has not only re-
gained its former Importance but has far ex-
ceeded the prosperity of its palmiest days.
This wonderful regeneration of branch of
industry that we had come to regard as dead
beyond recovery, is matter of sincere con-
graduation.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

HE Kennebec Journal has sensible art.
icle on convict labor bearing particularly on
the employment of the inmates OF the State
Prison in carriage building. While we agree
with its position on general grounds, we do
believe that the complaint made by the Ban
cor. Union'and other carriage manufacturers
that the products of the Prison built with la
Dor that costs nothing, are sold at prices with
which they cannot compete, are entitled to a
fair hearing by the Executive Council and if
their charges are sustained there should be a
change of policy. If on the other hand,
the complaints are groundless, it is due to
Warden Rice that the public shall know the
fact We understand that the carriage build
ers will ask the Executive Council to investi-
gate the case dnring the winter.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
journal, as we have information that several obum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be. even pas-
lively, a party to such fraud
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

WE do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address ofthe writer are In
AL casesindspensab e, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty ofgood faith.
Wecannot undertake to return or reserve com.
municat,ons that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
ssUaed Up.',

"Used Up.1
What is the precise meaning of this familiar phase
when employed to signify unnatural condition of
body and mind ? It means exhaustion, languor
want of vital energy mental apathy-a ptiabe state
of physical and mental helplessness The best and
in tact the only perfectly reliable panacea for used
up system is that most popular and potent of med
icinal stimulants, HOstetter's Stomach Bitters No
matter whether the health has been broken down by
excessive labor, over-study, insalubrious atmos-
phere anxiety Irregularities in diet dissipation or
any ether cause this powerful and pleasant vegeta-
BILE restorative will recruit the dropping
gies OF nature restoring the integrity of the nerves.
and re-estabshing that functional regularity which
is essential to animal vigor and hopeful frame Of
mind. As cure for debility in all its varied mani
festatiops, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is unap-
preached by any tonic in the nsdteria medica.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

GARDINER INDUSTRIES. The Home Journal
says that the Gardiner Spring Factory and Axle
Factory, are RAINING full crews on full time
and so are all the paper mills.
The late snow makes work for the ice crews
The Knickerbocker Company are scraping
their ice field.
1t has been stated that all our saw mills are
shut down. This is not true, has it been at any
time Jewett, Mitchell and Gray are running.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
THE bill passed by the House which repeals

The bill passed by the House which repeats
the bankrupt act except so far as it relates to
cases now pending on which the official fees
are reduced fifty per cent, is opposed by the
best papers and lawyers in New England.
One of our wholesale merchants says that
it works admirably in Maine, not so much as
an active agency as wholesome admonition
to those who get involved to settle fairly.
The whole matter is now before the Senate
Judiciary Committee and it is said that the
Senate will hardly adopt the sweeping meas
ure of the House, but continue the law with
important notifications.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

STATE PRISON FINANcEs-The State Prison
Inspectors have finished their examination of
the affairs of that institution, which they find
in satisfactory condition. They find that the
sales of carriages for the year have amounted
to $75, 1917, which sum is yearly $11, 1000 more
than last years sales. The sales of shoes man
ufactured at the prison have amounted to about
$4,000, which brings the total sales for the
year up to more than 100000, against $4,000
last year The profits will be abou $1,000,
which, on account of the fire, Will be a trtfe
less than the profits of the year preceding.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
MARRIED.

In this city, Dec. II, by j. j. Carruthers, D. D.,
Edward c. Jordan OF Deerng and Miss Eliza p,
daughter of Hon. w. W. Thomas. Of Portland.
In Auburn, Dec 10, Walter M Brooks and Miss
Ada F. Bearce.
In O'Neil Township, by Rev. H. B. Heacock, Sam'l
B. Kingsley of San joaquin Co., and Mrs. Sarah H.
Della of Portland, Name.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

The House spent a good part of yesterday
in saying, ''you'r another" Mr.. Hale, o.
New York, may be worth $4,000 year as
a lawyer, but don't play the reformer worth q
cent
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

just 144a. That wager will probably never be
decided.
Carter & Co., of Belfast, have this week laid
the keel for a brig of 600 tons, to be owned by
parties in that city, and to be co mmanded by
Cap tain Joseph Thombs, late of the brig James
Miller
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

A LETTER from Washington corrects the
statement that Senator Hamlin voted for Mr..
Thurman for President of the Senate pro tenn
We obtained our information from Wash.
ington special where it was a misprint.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

protection as such. 1t is asserted at the State
Department that she was regularly registered;
that she had cleared just before her capture as
an America vessel, and that She carried the
American flag On the other hand it is init
mated that Admiral Polo the Spanish Minister,
has proofs that she had forfeited all claim to
American protection, and that she was fill
buster without nationality.
THE GOLD GAMBLERsr
The agents of the New York gold gamblers
are sending from here doleful stories about the
dismal condition of the national finances, and
urge the removal of Secretary Richardson, that
Secretary OF the Treasury may be appointed,
who will not check their swindling operation s.
THE SALARY BILL.
Should the salary bill which was passed by
the House be enacted by the 4th of January,
members of Congress will have received ten
months pay at the increased rate of $6250. Add
two months at the increased rate fixed in this
bill. $500 per month, and it will make the sala'
~ for the first year of this Congress, $3.50 on
ly $3.50 less for the years service, than that
provided for under the law OF which so much
complaint has been made.
The DEATH OF PROF. AGAssIz.-The dis
ease which caused the death of Prof Agassiz
| was so much a mystery t. the eminent physi-
clans who attended him, that his friends, at
| their request, consented to post mortem ex-
animation, which was conducted by Dr. John
Jackson, Dr. Calvin Ellis, DIR. R. H. Fitz. Dr.
James Putnam, Dr. Jeffres Wyman of Har
ward College. DR.. Morrill, Wyman, who attend
ed Agassiz in his illness, and DR.. Weber The
result of it, as far it progressed is given as fol
| lows.
The brain and all the vital organs, especially
heart, were examined with great care. The
stomach and liver, so far as yet appears were
free from disease; but in the heart were found
evidences of the trouble with which the Pro
fessor suffered few years ago, Special atten.
ton was paid to the brain, which was found to
be very large and heavy. though its exact
weight has not yet been determined. The guam.
tity of blood in the brain was not unusually
large-at least not large enough to indicate dis
ease. Careful examination was made of the
base of the brain, and the physicians, though
unpreprepared to give definite opinion, seem
inclined to regard this as the principle seat OF
| the disease. The council determined, however
to bring to bear every resource that modern
science furnishes This will require close mi
croscopic study of the brain, and to insure sue
cess in this it will be necessary to allow time te
| harden.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
Current Notes.


If Tweed is really going to write book,
says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 'Let it be in
the interest of that spirit of justice he has so
long defed, but the full force of which he
still lives to feel. If he is to make revela-
tons duplicating others, let them not consist
of bare charges which might be the creations
Of malice, but circumstantial, pointing out
the way to prosecutions and just punish
ments, and let them be entitled Confessions
of a leading Democrat
A member of Congress from Maine, the
native soil of temperance legislation, pro-
poses that commission be appointed to in
vestigate 'the alcoholic liquor traffic in its
economic, criminal, moral and scientific as
poets in connection with pauperism, crime,
social vice. public health and the general
welfare of the people," Surely wide field
of investigation and one that contains the
source of the majority Of our human woes
~ Y. Mail
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
Forest City Belle.
BOOkkeeDer.

A FIRST class double entry BOOKKEEPER will,
n be at liberty after JAM LIST. 1874, to make an en-
gagement. Wholesale business preferred; can oivs
best of recommendations from present emplovers
del6dtf Address R6X ieoo
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

TOB PRINTING promptly and neatly exc.
u cuted at this Office. --' '~S-
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19

Remember we refund the money
when Goods bought are not salts
factory.
RecOllect we do JUST as we
ADVERTISE.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19
Local and County Matters.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

CArAoLfc-Rev Father Kelly will hold Divine
.ervice in the Catholic Church, in Auburn, every
third Sunday in each month, at the usual hour.
NJ. E. CHuRcH.-Rev. Edward E Dodge vii
preach at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Au-
burn, every Sunday at 10: 80, A. NJ. The Sab
bath School will commence at -: 80, P. NJ
DUrCH Flat NJ. E. CHURCH.-Services will be
held at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dutch
Flat, every Sunday at TO- 80 A. M, and at PM
Also at Gold Run at 2: 80, p. NJ. Rev. G.. D.
Pinneo, Pastor.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19
MARRIED..
BORN.
IbtEfs.
SpcciNi Notices.

Holioway's Pills.-These Pills alone, among
AL the IN Adicnes in existence. possess the prop
erty of cleansing and regulating the bowels and
purifying the animal fluids without depressin
either body or mind. Sold IS Maiden Lane, n
l.-Price % cents per box. Ask for new style
the old is countereited
IT is n we'll known fact that Dyspepsia and
Indigestion are the causes of nearly all the dis
ses that the human body is heir 10: then why
pay enormous doctors bills? Nv using DR.. Hen
ley's celebrated L Bitters they can be tho
roughly eradicated from the system aud new life
impaired to the sufferer. Read physicians GER
tthcateS in advertisement in another column
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

SCHOOL ELECTIoNs.-School trustees are to be
elected next Saturday in all the districts in the
county The Office is a thankless one and gen
orally not sought after by men fit for the po-
ston, and yet the people of the districts should
consult beforehand and try and get the men
most interested in schools. and those free from
isms and small prejudices to accept the candida
cy, and elect them
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

DBAD.-The unwelcone news reaches us that
Mrs. Fred. Hartford died of hasty consumption
at San Luis Obispo on Saturday the 9th instant.
Mrs. Hartford was for long years an esteemed
resident of Lincoln and vicinity, where the en-
tire people will mourn her as most est'mable,
kind hearted lady and good neighbor She left
Lincoln last Winter with her husband for San
Luis Obispo county in the full vigor of health
and womanhood with promise of long life. She
leaves a husband and one child abort two
months old
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

WHY has Taylor & Co. made such an over
whelnipg fortune in three years? Because CAL
rYoRNIA ABEIRTINE SALvE has not failed, in one
instance. to cure the diseases named by them in
their Advertisements.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19
JUST RECEIVED,

TTNHE UNDERSIGNED OFFER THEIR FARM
i adjoining the townste of Lincoln, at II bar
gam. The farm contains $50 acres, 22k acres
wnlrh are patented by the United States, and thC
otner 160 a pre-enption. Nearly the whole pac'
rs under GOOD POST AND BOARD FENCE
with ID NkLLING-HOUSE, two GOOD BARNS
GRANAKY, SHEDDING, etc.
GOOD FAMILl ORCHARD
OF Assorted Bearing Trees Some 20 acres OF
RICH BOTTOM LAND for garden OH Creek
of NEVER FAILING w TER, and
GOOD GARDEN
Already under cultivation, accompanies the
pace The land Is all good grain land, some 0
il OF the first quality. A GROWING CROP
now on the place, which shows the character o.
the SOIL, and the place will be sold with or with
out the crop, as Desired by purchasers. Jne O
the partners desires to leave for t.ie Eastern
States on business hence the farm will be sold
CHEAP.
CASH DOWN on part pay and credit for bal
ance, are the terms.
Inquire o. the Undersigned on the premises at
LncOln, or to the PLACER HERALD Newspaper
office, III Auburn, for furtner Particulars
MoINTYRE &, WALSH.
Auburn, March 10, 1873. mrlS-uf
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

r. ALL parties needing the services of an
experienced surveyor are advised to employ j. A.
Benson, U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor, Auburn
Cal He has the Government Field Notes, the
possession of which enables him to restore lost
corners without delay. He charges moderately
and works rapidly.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19


The EpIzooTIc Is HERE.-lt found its way
here from Ell Dorado county to Auburn Station
through the stages and teams from that county
-Four horses and some mules are sick with 1t at
the depot, and it is spreading up the Forest Hih
divide, two of Powells stage horses being iaid
up at the United States House. In III Dorado
county nearly all the horses are down with IT.
the same is the case in Yuba and Sacramento,
and from its course in these places we may safe
!y say, Placer can avoid it no longer. 1t runs its
course inside of ten days Light work and good
attention to work horses, with little doctorin9
as possible, are the best remedies. II the secre-
lions choke up the nostrils Of the horse, take
shovel full of live Goals, put it under the horse
nose and sprinkle some brown sugar on them,
and let him breathe the fumes, it will relieve
n'ni' The remedy in the United States cavalry
aNu Quarter Master Department as recommended
W the chief Veterinary Surgeon, is simple and
eaie' and we insert it here for the third time
~, ny al means don't bleed or purge, feed well.
s., Su. heating food, Keep the no gse's blood and
saeneth up, and he will throw off the disease III
euort ..Ui time. The recipe is:
0hiorate of potash. solut ion of one table
s spooniui In pail of water. o ne-fourth of this
N~A'''y 10 bs givsn twice day to each horse. "
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

Hon. c. A. TUTTLE, formerly of this county,
Supreme Court reporter, who had been in poor
and declining health for years, took trip to the
Sandwich Islands this Spring and has now re-
turned, we are glad to leurn, with his health
fully restored.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

COUNTY INsrIrUrE.-W publish elsewhere a
synopsis of the proceedings of this body-al
in fact, which is interesting to the public except
the address of Superintendent Kinkade which
we will give in full next week. The sessions
were an improvement on all former Institutes
The extra time Of the Secretary Mr.. Fenton,
was wholly occupied in teaching the Argus edit
or, and We must excuse him for declining the
usual courtesirs to this Office, but after his fail
AZ educational editor of that pink sheet the
qutltion is: what benefit could he bestow any
VII ire?
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

The CoNCERT.-The rehearsals for the grand
concert to take place at the Hall on Tuesday
evening next are, we learn, progressing finely
under the management of Professor Foster and
the lady managers who are taking very
laudable interest in trying to make the concert II
success and real benefit to the cause of vocal
music. 1t is now thought unnecessary to pub
lish progromme of the exercises. The object
Of the concert is to raise a fund to continue
free singing school for all the children of town
and this itself will surely call out all that would
attend even under the most hattering programme
that could be arranged. AS we said last week
the exercises will consist of readings, dialogues
speeches, addresses, singing of select pieces by
scholars and by classes, etc. Miss Nellie Cos
..,er will preside at the piano. Professor j. W..
Crow. of Sacramento, and Mrs. Reamer and
Mrs. Fi,eher. cf Auburn, will preside at the Or
gan We shall look Cor large audience because
the object demands one, AID the entertainment
will of itself justify one. Children unoer
twelve years old will be admitted lree' o'neiS
will be charged fifty cents at the door.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

flRX At DUTcH FLAT.-On sunday morning
Is.t, about 6 O'clock the residence of j. w.
Blsichard at Dutch Fiat now occupied by Col.
Ludlum, Superintendent of the English Cedar
Creek Mining and Water Company, was discov-
ored on fire, and though hard finished house,
burning slowly, was almost entirely destroyed.
The furniture vas all saved with but little dam
age. The house was comparatively new, and
must have cost from SO, 900 to IS, ,000 Mr.. Blan-
chard was an Insurance agent and probably had
the building insured. They have the best water
works in Dutch Flat to be found in any town il
the State, bu. the pipes do not extend to Saora-
mento street where this building stood if they
had it would have been saved, as the pipes fur
nish power enough to knock an ordinary building
down. This will be a timely hint to the resi-
dents of that portion of town to have the pipes
extended without unnecessary delay.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

New MAPs.-Sanluei Bethel surveyor and
civil engineer, has completed the new maps OF
Greenwood and Shingle Springs, in Ell Dorado
county, he having completed the field work on
these townsites some time ago under contract o.
Judge Irwin. We saw the maps on Tuesday be-
fore they were sent over to Placervllle. The
workmanship shows that Mr.. Bethel is highly
skilled in his profession and draughtsman of a
high order OF skill and taste. He yet has th'
draughting of the town Of Coloma to complete.
The Placer herald., 1873-04-19

SPEARS WELL.-A. Holden sold, on Thursday
last, one quarter interest in the Salsg mine for
80, 900. This is comparatively new mine
located in the edge of town last Fall The shaft
IS down nearly two hundred feet, and most Of
the WY the ledge has proved rich. though not
yet heavy one 1t was about eight inches
hick at the surface and is now ully foot ut
the bottom of the shaft. Some of the yields OF
fhe rock when milled have run as high as $50 to
the ton. 1t is owned here by local company,
though Mr.. Holden sold his quarter interest to
sacramento men. twenty-five collars a ioot
ior n new mine right here III Auburn Is pre- "
good and yet we think with the prospects IN
view il IL cheep.