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The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-28

PERSONAL. - Mr.. w. A. Haw horne.
who left Carson three years ago for the
oil regions of Pennsylvania to look afte,
his interest in suit, still pending at
law. returned to Carson last Sunday to
the delight of his numerous friends.
The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-28

In Justice Court: State of Nevada VS..
Matthew Kenney, arrested on the charge
of disturbing the peace, defendnn. plead
guilty and was sentenced to IL days i'm
prisonment in the county Jail or to pay
. fine of $40 His "kale- seed being
troubled with non est, he was turned over
to the free gratis boarding house.
The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-28

The Cinnamon gave the eve of theil
New Years merry greeting last night
with an exceedingly lively pow-wow OF
torpedoes and crackers. To-day is their
big feast and frolic; they may be expect' d
to stand on their thresholds and make
piles of exploded fire crackers in front,
for the sake of "Anld Lang Syne."
The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-28

NOTICE FOR THE LAD1Es.-A. Moll, thu
furrier of Virginia City has arrived and
will remain in town for few days. La
dies wishing furs altered or repaired will
do well to call upon him at the White
House. f. s .7lsa 28-3t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
Speculative Schemes.

1t is very evident that the next Congress
will not be able to do much for the subslan-
tial benefit of the country, if it gives hear
inc 10 all the speculative schemes and nation
al enterprises that an army of lobbyists and
SPECTATORS will press upon its attention.
Doubtless there is little apprehension on the
part of the people that Congress will adopt
policy that win make the government cor
poration to dig canals and build railroads,
since both parties, in their State conventions
have declared against that policy; neverthe-
less well-iuformed journals predict that these.
schemes will have a more formidable support
in Congress than is expected generally. The
scheme is an expansive one for it il as broad
as the country itself and the plumber that
would crown the success of the schemes is
enormous. For instance, there are II
less than three canals proposed through the
Allegheny Mountains which will require a
hundred millions dollars each; the Northern
Pacific railroad will camor for at least fifty
millions; Tom Scptt's Southern Pacific, in
which Gen. Butler is said to be interested,
will demand another fifty millions; a new
mouth to the Mississippi river will require no
moderate sum: the double track government
railroad from the seaboard to Chicago will
demand an investment of no modest pr )por-
tions; the plan to make the Ohio larger
river by pumping water out of the lakes will
require some tens of millions.
1t is understood, too, that the reare numer-
Gus interests anxious to unite their forces
with the canal and railroad schemes to as
saut the national treasury. The spectators
owning the cotton tax are eager to get the
sixty millions they claim; the Southern 10y
alists Ia very large class since 1861 are put
ting their claims for slaves liberia ted in a
plausible form for presentation; and the
Southern States also want the general gov
eminent to assume the debts contracted by
them previous to the rebellion and since.
Every member of Congress from the South is
not only enlisted in these raids upon the
treasury, but will join any combination that
promises any hope of success.
1t is whispered that General Butler may
possibly champion the last two of these South
ern claims, las his first move to the Presidency
in 1876, securing thereby the solid support of
the South and the influence of wealthy brok-
ers in New York who hold the bonds of the
Sou hern States, nearly ruined by building
railroads.
This is probably only rumor to injure the
character of that good person; but it is evil
dent that there are elements enough to make
the most formidable and reckless lobby that
ever assailed the integrity of a legislative
body or threatened nation with bankruptcy
and corruption.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

THERE is an unfortunate uncertainty
about some of the constitutions and laws OF
the Southern States that are constantly lead
ing to collisions. This would not make so
great difference in intelligent and well bal
anced States, but where the political leaders
delight to Collide the greatest difficulties
arise. just now in Mississippi there is an
uncertainty as to whether the State election
shall be held this year or next. Gov. Powell
decides that no election can take place this
year and the House of Representatives has
passed bill in pursuance of this view. 9th
er State officers have decided otherwise and
the Senate will doubtless reject the House
bill or not act on it until the election which
occurs next Tuesday, is over. Senator Ames
and his friends are preparing for the election
next week and voting will doubtless take
place in the greater part of the State. OF
course this procedure will bring on coils
ion when the parties elected next Tuesday at
tempt to assume the management of the State
government
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
WALDO COUNTY.

Twenty -four vessels, with tonnage of 747S %,
have been built in the Belfast district during
the present year
The Journal says Belfast can take the prem
ium for the smartest woman in the State. An
old lady nearly seventy years of age. has lath-
ed the entire inside Of her house that is build
ing on Union street, and intends to make her.
self useful generally until the same is complet-
ed.
A Belfast pastor entertains his flock by lee
lures on the primitive Ayran race up to the
time of the Vedic hymns. The lectures are
said to be of thrilling interest
The grand jury have found four Indictments
against Gordon, one each for the murder of his
brother, his brothers. wife, the infant child,
aud one for an assault with intent to murder
the young boy, the son, about four years old.
YORK COUNTY.
The Times says Wednesday night William
Shepard and lady were returning home from a
dance at Goodwin's Mills, when they were
thrown out of their carriage and somewhat in
jured.
IN GENERAL.
The Kennebec Journal says that the reports
thus far received from the free high schools es-
tablished in the State under the act of tn last
Legislature, are of most satisfactory charac-
ter
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
News and Other Items.

The funded debt of the District of Columbia
is SO, 900. 1t can't exceed $4,000, 900.
The fire fiend is known as ''the blazing mon.
ster'' at Madison, Wis,
An Ottawa editor was s'telescoped" by col
lison with goat the other day.
A student has been expelled from Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa, for stealing, after three
days jury trial by his classmates.
There are now outstanding eleven millions of
government debts upon which interest has
ceased.
Since 1S4S gold to the amount of 1880, 700,-
900 has been mined in California, the product
of 1883 being Sa3.0O0.Q0Q.
Iii stated that the settlers of Oregon and
California are preparing vast number of claims
against the government for supplies on account
of the Modoc war.
1t appears that the city of Rochester. N. Y,
has been .deeming fraudulent bonds to the
amount of $4,000 They were bounty loan
bonds.
Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell, leaves for the West
early next week, on lecturing four, which
will last about month, up to the meeting of
Congress.
Whatever the progress of Catholicism in
now one constituency in England which returns
Catholic to Parliament.
The receipts from spirits for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1873, were $50, O65,505. This is
an excess of three millions over the amount
collected for the fiscal year of 1872
Mr.. Thomas A. Scott returned to Phiadel-
pha last Monday from Europe. He has sue
ceeded in obtaining loan of $4,000 900 for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, but failed to
negotiate a loan for the Texas and Pacific road
The Carlist soldiers wear over their hearts
an oval piece of flannel, upon which is EN-.
brodered a heart surrounded by a chain, and
the Inscription, 'Do not harm me, for the
heart of Jesus is with me-" This they consid-
er charm against bullets.
1t is said that by the suspension of the First
National Bank of Washington the wife of the
late j. G. Wilson, Congressman from Oregon,
was robbed of 81, 000-all she had. The unfor-
tunate lady is reduced to poverty, and is now
teaching school to support her family.
The Post Office Department has compiled a
table of distances for the regulation and adj
justment of Geographic rates for Government
messages. The first edition contains list of
more than 1000 places, comprising all the more
important points in the United States.
There is said to be can Of nitro-glycerine
buried in the Capitol Square at Raleigh N. c.,
where it was secretel just before the surrender,
but the exact place of conceal ment has been
lost, and no one dares dig for it, as the blow of
pick might send the digger skywards; and so
it will sleep until a happy chance or more
dreadful accident shall reveal its hiding place.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
Exit Stnkas.


The result of the third trial of Stokes il
illustrates the different conclusions to which
juries can come, land the uncertainty that sur
rounds mans life when he is compelled to
take his chance with twelve of his peers, par
ticularly if he and they are residents of New
York city. The first trial resulted in a disa-
greement of the jury, eight being for yer
dict of- murder and fetrf,r- .naaslassl44As
The second trial resulted in a verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree. A third trial was
granted by the Court of Appeals on some
technical ground, which has resulted in a
verdict of manslaughter in the third degree,
and Stokes gets four years of hard labor at
Sing Sing.
The result of the Walworth case, where
the crime was so well defined, must have
prepared the public for verdict of less Sc
verify than that previously found in the case
oil Stokes, and will convince all thatuuder the
present law. there will be few men convicted
OF murder in the first degree in New York.
Few persons, however, will find any adequate
reason in the printed reports for vei dict SC
lenient as that found by the jury, for it must
DO difficult for the average mind to conclude
that this murder was committed Sin the heat
Of passion without the design to infIct
DEATH" even if there is ground to believe
that Stokes did not go to the hotel with the
expectation OF meeting Fisk, and for the
purpose of numbering him. The loss of so
thoroughly pernicious man as Jim Fisk to
society, considered in itself, is rather bles s.
ing than otherwise; but such is the sacred
ness of human life that it is dangerous, even
10 his case, to so cheaper it that the penalty
of taking it is but four years of such peni-
Tertiary labor as SO utterly worthless wretch
as Stokes can perfor u. There is not ruff
fan in New York who does not fully appre-
bend the meaning of this verdict, and its re-
suits will be seen in the still greater frequency
of such crimes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
STATE NEW S.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.


Pennington boasts of cat that is noted
trout fisher. She dives into the water and
brings up her finuy prey in the most approved
manner. She is not as other cats.
Pennington boys, in anticipation of arithmet
ical terrors of the winter term are perforating
the school house blackboard with bullets.
A lady has recently died in Pennington who,
for over fifty years cut and made her own dress
es. She was an enigma to the present genera
ton.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
A prisoner attempted to escape from Els
worth Jail Thursday week by heating the stones
in his cell and pouring water thereon.
On Monday as little girl of Capt. Romer of
Bluehil, was returning home from school, a
sudden gust of wind struck her throwing her
against pile of rocks and injnring her consid-
erably
The American says an animal was killed at
Trenton on Saturday last 1t was more than
twice the size of our common house cats, had
snort legs thick body, full head, and slim,
snorC tai,. Its color was grayish, with black
rings and its ears tufted 1t was probably a
species or wild cat, though from its peculiar
tail some OF the woodsmen called it bob leaf.
1t nearly corresponds to the description Given
by naturalists OF the bay lynx
At meeting of the Directors of the Shore
Line Railroad Company, held on the ODD If
was voted unanmously-th being no hone of
Bangor taking any action to aid the road-to
make Bncksport the Penobscot terminus of the
line. A vote was also unanimously adopted to
petition the Legislature for a railroad bridge
across the Penobscot at Bucksport
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says a man recently went
10 Cilnton leased water power on which he
said he was going to put up clothes-pin man
utactory, and made big spread generally He
mysterlously disappeared afterwards and all
efforts to ascertain his whereabouts having fail
ed. it is feared that he has come to some fear.
full end
KNOX COUNTY.
The Free Press tells of two little girls in Rock
land who set neighbours cat ON some "pus-
sy WILLOWS with view to Matching kittens.
PIsCATAoUIs COUNTY.
The survivors of the blasting accident at
brownvllie are doing well and will completely
recover from their injuries
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Inc hcnnebec Journal says shipbuildiug has
been very active in Cherryfield and vicinity the
past season. and the shipyards wear an old
Tune appearance In the Cherryfield district
tnere nave been launched the past season doz
en- large vessels others are now in process of
construction, and even more than the number
named VIII be built the next season.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

JUDGE BARRows had occasion to admin
iste deserved rebuke to certain witnesses
at Ellsworth Monday last. 1t appears that
several Of the witnesses in a case on trial
were discussing its merits while sitting at the
dinner table in company with the jurors.
The Judge who was present at the time, rose
from his seat and addressed the company, re-
mindlng the witnesses of the improperly of
the discussion and dwelling upon the neces-
slty OF keeping the minds of the jurors free
from extraneous influences. The american
says it was timely rebuke, happily given,
aud needed nowhere more than in Ellsworth
IL is TO be hoped that Judge Barrows will
take occasion to repeat it in other sections of
the State
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

THE GRIEVANCE OF KENDALL's MMLs.-The
Lewiston Journal publishes letter written by
a citizen of Fairfield relative to the change of
the line of the Maine Central Railroad at that
point and the hardship the change causes to the
people of THAT town. The following extract
contains the gist of the complaint:
After the bridge was burned here last May
the company began to make arrangements for
building their South Shore line. The people of
Fairfield objected to being cut off from rail
road communication with the eastern part of
State; but the company proposed to free the
toll bridge here, and build depot, tracks &c.
on the Benton side of the river. Your ship
ping facilities shall not be impaired" they said,
you shall have the same privileges You now en-
joy only. you will have to cross the river to
meet the trains" The result was that an ar
rangement was made to that effect, and thes
company built their South Shore line, and trains
commenced running regularly on the 18th of
June last.
Now let us see about our privileges, and
unimpaired shipping facilities" The company,
instead OF building depot in Benton, bought
small one story house, situated some ten rods
from the track and thirty feet below it, in
which tickets are sold. To take the cars pas
sengers must climb to high clay bank, and
wait for the trains on a platform, entirely I'M
protected from wind aid storm; and the situa-
ttnn is one of the most exposed to be found in
this region. No freight or express matter is
taken or left there, no side tracks being laid for
that purpose. If we wish to ship freight to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

THE Rochester IN. Y. Democrat devotes
nearly three columns of Its editorial space
to showing how corrupt and utterly bad
person one Jarvis Lord is, who. has been State
Senator, and has again received the Demo-
cratic nomination tor that Office. That ex-
cellent paper has its life nilsson if it proposes
to go through in a similar way with Mr..
Lords political associates in New York.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

SUPERINTENDENT JOHNSON has excellent
reports from nearly all the free high schools
that have been started under the provisions
of the law of the lasi Legislature. These
schools afford hundreds Of young people in
our towns all the substantial advantages of
the larger academies, which otherwise they
could not enjoy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

GEN. BUTLER, it is reported, will oppose
the appointment of newspaper correspond
ents as clerks of committees in Washington.
He says they were the most active in securing
passage of the back pay bill, the first to draw
it and the first to raise the hue and cry
against il. This last statement OF Gen. But
Ter is untrue, as the first to denounce it were
the papers in the northern States that repre-
sented the sentiment of the people.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
BACHELORS HAnR DYE.

This splendid Hair Dye is the best IN the soorld
The only True and Perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable
and instantaneous; disappointment; ridiculous
fin or unpleasant odor. Remedies the i'll fleets of
had dyes washes. Produces IMMEDIATELY a superb
BLACK OR NATURAL BROWN, and leaves the hair
clean soft and beautiful. The Genuine, signed W. A.
aJcLelor. Sold by all Druggists.
CHAS. BACHELOR, Prop, n. Y.
1d&w IvrS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.

Peace to his bones, the first who spread
The soft luxuriunt bed,
For mans indulgence given;
Still, as stretch each weary limb,
cast grateful thought on him,
And wish him rest in Heaven.
Yet he's ninny, who supposes
That every beds bed CT roses,
For idle's the conjecture.
The bachelors from bliss debar'd,
And he finds Hymen's rather hard,
Who hears curtain lecture.
Would you avoid the noisome din
Of scolding wife and surely win
Her love for you forever,
Go buy WALNUT CHAMBER SET
At MERRIMAN's Store-now don't forget,
And you'n regret it never.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
That Course appears Reasonab,

That Course appears Reasonable.
Mr.. Row, Commissioner of Michigan, says in his
Report:
"The parade which many companies make in adj
vertsements, and by agents. OF the millions of dol
lars OF assets IN possession, and the annual income
received. without ausion to the millions of dol
laIs of liability which will surely become due and
payable, is well calculated to msleai Legislatures
No just conception can be formed of Life Insur-
ance Company, the vast benefence of its plans IL.
almost unlimited resources to perpetuate its exist
ence and power to bless generations of dependents
to come, without the knowledge that a major part
of its colossal assets is trust ad deposif and that
no legitimate surplus balance can he struck until the
fumeasuae of this reserve liability, or trust fund
deposit, is deducted. Without showing of these
impo tant facts, official report is worse than abor
tive 1t becomes an advertising medium for untruth
Read from the Commissioner of Massachusetts in
his Report:
lf the interest of agents did not lie so strongly in
the direction of large premiums, which yield them
greater immediate return in the shape of commits
sions it would be less surprising see how little of
practical shrewdness the public shows in dealing
with the companies. Nine-tenths of those who get
insured want simply to provide a security against
premature death. The uncertainty how soon death
may overtake them. furnishes the only sufficient mo-
tive for getting insured at all. In view of this con
angency it is plain that the less money the insured
has paid for given amount OF insurance prior to its
happening, the better bargain he has made. For all
such the plan that secures the desired amount of in
surance at the smallest annual premiums is tn. best
The income-produeing and Understanding and
saVings-bank plan and a;dozen more of the same
promising sort, with all tine kinds of limited premi
UNI policies. are well enough for those who can afford
to go into lifs insurance speculation and throw
away half their chances, = = = by all odds the
cheapest and best form of insurance for those to whom
life insurance necessity, and who cannot afford to
deal with the company except on the best terms for
them elves. If very sensible suggestion that has
been made, to graduate the pay of the agent in all
cases by the amount of the policy, and not by the
size of the premium were to'be adopted, large in
crease of these policies would be the result, with
manifest advantage to the great mass of insurers,
and large economy of expense to the companies"
Also read from the last Report of the Hon. Albert
W. Paine, now Ex-Commissioner of Maine:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31

If ga stitch In time nine,' 1t is equally GER
tain that dose of healthy tonic like Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters taken at this incement season Of
the year may save many an unpleasant twinge. A
DOSE however, is not sufficient. The system should
be thoroughly charged with this genial vegetable
stimulant and invigorant Commence taken it with
the commencement of the atmospheric changes
which distinguish the winter from the autumn.
Thereby you will avoid those disturbances of the dig
estive and secretve organs, and those painful dis
of the muscles and nerves OF sensation which
often render the period of the year which should be
the merriest, season of penance and dsquetude.
The extraordinary vigor and regularity which this
exharating restorative mparts to the most import
ant function. of the body render it an Invaluable
remedy for nervous debility constipation indiges-
ton, torpidity of the liver and intermittent fevers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-31
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 81. 1878

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is iurnisheu
with card certificate counterslgned oy Stanley l..
Pullen, Editor. All railway, STEAMBOAT ana note
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Journal as we have information that several .sbum-
mer" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
PRESS, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
tively. party to such fraud