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The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
Annual Meeting Of the Stockholders of
the Eastern Railroad.

The thirty eighth annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Eastern Railroad Company
was held in Boston yesterday.
The following gentlemen were elected Direc-
tors for the ensuing year:-Samuel Hooper,
Franklin Haven, Thornton x Lothrop, Henry
L. Williams, John Woodbridge, Benjamin f.
Stevens, Frank Jones, Lemuel Shaw, Lyman
B. Frazier. The vote was nearly unanimous,
each of the above receiving 62OO votes.
Elk. Gov. Goodwin of Portsmouth, declined
to serve longer as director on account of his
age.
resolution was unanimously passed ex-
pressing the regret of the stockholders at the
decision of Gov Goodwin and rendering their
thanks for his valuable services the past twenty
five years.
The following vote was passed.
Voted. That the Directors be and they are
hereby authorized, in their discretion, to issue
bonds OF this company to the am punt allowed
by law, such bonds to be either in currency or
sterling, and for such time as the directors shall
determine. and bear interest not exceeding six
per cent. gold or seven per cent. currency, paya-
bic semi-annually.
The motion was carried. 1t is understood
that this permits the issue of between $500. 900
and 100000.
An abstract of the report of the directors sub
mtted to the meeting is given below. 1t is st at
ed that this corporation is now interested in 265
miles of railroad, branches and all. The Com
way road was not opened until the Sd of June.
1872, the Wolfboro branch only ON the 18th of
August and the Essex branch on the LIST of
July, 1872.
Statement of the receipts and expenditures
of the Eastern Railroad, its branches and the
connecting railroads operated by it for the year
ending November 30th, 1872:
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoceIN COUNTY.

ANDhOSCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that very heavy
stocks of cotton are arriving for manufacturing
corporations in that city.
By an act just passed by the Legislature the
Androscoggin Artillery Company is put on the
same footing as the ten Infantry companies
and will thus be armed, equipped and uniform.
ed by the State.
The Journal says that foxes are very plenty
in that section: One was killed within mile
and half OF the heart of the city recently and
Mr.. Pettengill of Auburn has drought dawn"
twenty within few weeks. Skins are worth
$780,
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
The Maine Poultry Ass ociaIion will meet at
Augusta Feb. 10Th.
The Journal says that B. Fl. Cushman, ESQ.,,
President of the Granite Bank, is ill at his res.
ldence.
A. NJ Reed of Augusta, challenges any four
years old colt to trot on The Kennebec for 800
against his Knox Boy.
The Masonic levee in Augusta will be bril-
liant affair, extending through Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday evenings of this week.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
large stable in Holden, owne1 by Mr.. JOS
eph Rowe, was destroyed by fire Friday even
ing. Loss estimated at $500.
Attorne; General Plaisted is suffering from
aa.painful disease which has attacked one of
able to attend to business for some time past.
YORK COUNTY.
The Biddeford Times saws that on Saturday
night, John Monday and another chap, while
intoxicated, entered the premises of Bartholo-
NEW Judge, No. ii Emery street, and eau ed a
disturbance. Mr.. Judge ordered them away,
when they pounced upon him and gave him
severe beating. Mrs. Judge then came out to
defend her husband, when the brutes pitched
into her and nearly closed one eye, and other
wise injured and bruised her. Officers Wood
man and Tyler investigated the matter and the
injured party agreed to settle the matter with
the brutes.
IN GENERAL
The movement made some time since by the
shoe manufacturers Of Lynn, in seeking loca-
tons in Maine where rent and labor can be OBJ
tained at reduced prices, has prospect of being
initiated by some of the manufacturers at
Haverhlll The trouble in those cities is that
the cost OF living is greater, and hence labor is
higher.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
An Important Matter.
To the Editor of the Pre4s

10 the Editor of the Press
see by your paper yesterday morning,
that the bill OF the P. S. & P. railroad, asks
for more rights than were supposed to be
claimed at the time Of the meeting of the
city government as they now ask the Leg
islature to give them ga permanent right to a
track or tracks northeasttrly of its presert
depot ,chere its cars hare heretofore ran. II
We are rightly informed this is strip If Com
mercia street northeasterly of and in addi-
ton to their present location of twenty-six
feet, granted originally by the city TO the
At. & st. l.. Railroad Co., and by that
company granted to the P. s. G. P. railroad,
or so claimed.
Have our representatives been served with
copy Of the votes passed by the city gov-
ernment? Hso can it be possible that they
or either of them have assented to the pas
sage Of such bill? The city government
passed a vote. unanimously believe, re-
questing them ''to oppose the passage of any
bill granting the right to any railroad COM
pany, to extend its railroad within the city OF
Portland, or lay any new tracks through, up
on or across any street of said city, or to re-
new any such rights to any railroad company,
unless notice shall be given to said city
Nth plans shouting the proposed extensions
thirty days before the passage of such bill :"
Also requiring the assent of two-thirds of the
city government to any new location.
1t may be that the proviso protects Cape
Elizabeth bridge as sop thrown ont to one
interest that might make opposition,-also
the docks and wharves, to close the mouths
OF other potent directors who are apt to be
heard from when their interests are put in
jeopardy. But have the city itself, aud the
citizens generally, any rights that our Rep
iesentatives should see are protected? Why
should the Grand Trunk be protected il hav-
ing suitable and convenient access to the
wharves any more than other rair ads ? Why
should the P. S. & P. be allowed to increase
the number of its tracks across the foot of
State or Park streets any more than across
Bracket street? COMMERCIAL STREET.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

man, but is admirably qualified for man ging
tne analrs ofsuch an institution. Whatever
he undertakes to do, will always be done eff.
ficiently and promptly and it v as easy to see
that his genius helped prodigiously to perfect
the arrangements by which the club has
peen enabled to i've an entertainment, hith-
erto unsurpassed for elegance, comfort and
splendor.
THE GAY SEASON.
For the three weeks that remain before the
advent of Lent the city will be full of gayety
and revelry. Parties, balls, wedding din
ners will crowd upun each other in swift sue
cesslon. The votaries of fashion find invita-
tons crowding upon them so profuseiy
that they become embarrassed which 10
choose. Some weeks ago, local Board VINO
are in the habit of holding an annual dinner,
anti eipating this multiplicity of eng igemen.oi,
fixed upon certain Friday in FeDruaf tho ~
this year for their feast. on the tneo;y .la'
FRIDAY being superstiliously regal e as an
unlucky day. would not be selecteu ior partles
or receptions. But already quarter OF
persons thus pre- eng 'sed nnu themselves re-
ccin;ents of cards for reception parties, the
hasts of which probably named FRIDAY for
the yeIy reason that it had been previously
singled out by a portion of their intended
p11ests as dies non in cial fes ivitv. and
would therefore best suit their convenience
Your genuine society man makes nothing of
going to a dinner, the theatre, a fashionable
party, and a ball in the same evening.
taxing each in turn and winding up some.
where in the nelghborhood Of daylight.
anu Dy the time he has practiced this sort of
thing from Christmas to the beginning of
spring.he is very likely to utter ferv mt praises
Vi thaI santa y canon of THE church VIII Gil
proscrlbes amusements for forty days, and to
Keep Lenten hours, even if he eschews the
ecclesiastical regulations as to diet
PERSONAL.
Judge Hilton opens the doors of his stately
ms nsion on Fifth Avenue on the evening Of
the 4th inst. the occasion being the wedding
of his daughter. There will be an immense
gathering no doubt of the elite of New York
society. for the Jud e is princely entertain
er, and although he incurred great deal of
cen'ure NOT unreasonably under the cilcum-
stances-for having lent his friend Sweeney
the responsibility of his name in the almy
days OF Ring supremacy, no one believes that
he was aware OF the enormous
populations which were then being perpetrat-
ed, or supposes for moment that he would
demean himself so much as to turn his ill.,
fluence to the acquisition of peers ,nal gain.
The general idea is that he was carried away
by the glamour which the famous quartette
of 1870 contrived to throw around their
reign and had visions of power that were
irresistibly intoxicating to man still Young,
rich and Unfortunately ambitious. He paid
dearly for his partial alliance with the disrep-
utable cabal whom the bosom of reform has
swept away, and 1 dare say he would be
heartily glad If he could sponge out that page
in his otherwise creditable record.
YARMOUTH.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

A MEMBER of the Legislature tells story
that two years since a bill of his reducing the
valuation of several towns in his class was
lost from the Clerks desk pending epgross-
ment. He was to take it to the printing
office for that purpose, but not finding it he
1.-THE Representative drew upon his own i'm
agination for another bill which he declares
to have been much better than the frSt,
forged the usual endorsements and took it to
the Office for engrossr,ent and in course of
time the bogus bill was enacted. =:
This is good story of a sworn member OF
the Legislature to tell about himself; but as
no such bill was lost that year, and as the
Clerk does not make members the bearers of
dispatches when there are messengers. pages
and official reporters. it has all the fanciful
airiness of pure work of fiction.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

MURDER AND SUICIDE "A terrible tragedy
took place, on Saturday afternoon, at No. 8
Bennett street, the circumstances of which are
briefly as follows: Alfred &. Love, . man
about forty years of age, by occupation
canvasser for the sale of patent rights, has
been separated from his wife since last Thanks
giving in consequence of some trouble between
them, arising principally, it is said. from his
inability to support bis family. The wife and
her little daughter Grace have been living at
No. Bennett street, where the tragedy occur
red, for som time past the tenement which
hey occupied being up stairs. On Saturday
afternoon Mrs Love made preparations to go
to Bridgewater, where the little girl would be
safe from molestation by the husband. who is
said by Mrs Love to have frequently made
threats to other parties that he would have DOS
session of his child. just as they were about
to leave the house, Love came in, and after
some conversation with his wife about their af-
fairs, led his little daughter into the entry, and
drawing concealed pistol shot her through the
head, and then rushing into another room turn
ed tn pistol at his own head and free, one ball
entering his brain and killing him almost i'm
medIately. The mother hearing the report of
the pistol hurried to the spot, only to fluid her
child lying on the floor bleeding from the
wound she had received, and her husband
breathing his last in the front room. DR.. j. G.
Blake was in attendance as quickly as possible
and conveyed the child to the City Hospital
Love and his wife had been married FIVE years,
and the little girl was between three and four
years of age. The motive which led to the
deed could not be conjectured, but it was das-
tardly and inhuman act, for which the unnat-
ural parent has paid the penalty with his own
lie. During the day, yesterday, the child was
conscious and comfortable; the bullet had not
might possibly survive her injuries.-[ Boston
Globe of Monddy
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
''Important to Portland"
SENATE CHAMBER, !
AUGUSTA, Feb. ), 1873.

SENATE CHAMBER,
AUGUSTA, Feb. ), 1873.
TO the Editor of the Press:
Under the above head in to-day's paper you
publish the bill fer the P. S. & P. extension, as
reported from the Railroad Committee, intr,-
ducing the same with the following remarks:
The following is The bill of the Portland, Saco
and Portsmouth Railroad Company, relative to
its location in this city. That portion in italics
has been inserted in the bill since first present.
ed and is significant
The italic matter is this: land e1cept to secure
a permanent right to a track or tracks, north
eastery Of its present depot, achere its cars haze
heretofore rum" These, then, are the words in
terpolated, according to your informant. Allow
me to say in justice to the Committee and also
to parties injurously affected by the silly re-
port that there is not one word of truth, or COL
or of word to the statement telegraphed you
from this city, Saturday, relating thereto, or in
the Introduction referred to-
The clause which you say was interpolated.
occasoned considerable discussion in the Com
mittee, and the vote adopting it Exactly as ycu
printed it, stood seven to two, the chairman not
voting. Respectfully,
T. r. Rrrrrrp
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

IT will be remembered that Fields, Osgo ID
G. Co., now j. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston,
publishers of the justly popular illustrated
magazine, eDtltled zzssour Dung Folks"
brought an equity suit in October 1871
against E. C. Allen of Augusta. in the U. S..
Circuit Court, to prevent his using the name,
"Our Young Folks" as part of the title of
a crude illustrated paper published by him.
The case has just been reached, and Judge
Shepley decides that the copyright protected
by the law is the copyright in the contents
of the book as literary production, and not
to the name given to it. Upon the other
ground, however, that the complainants had
property in the title as trade mark. the
Judge has decided that they are entitled to
relief, lift shall be made to appear that the
public are likely to be misled by the illustrat-
ed paper, so as to be induced to purchase it
instead of the magazine. In order to ascer-
tain this last point Judge Shepley has refer
red the case to an expert, and stayed pro-
ceedings until such an expert shall make
report
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
A New Departure In Medicine.

1t is difficult to induce the medical profession to
abandon the grooves in which 1t has Travelled for
centuries. Purgation, venesecticn, opiumizaton and
bsteration are it's team Of venerable hobbies and it
does not like to harness up the m-hand of
IMMIGRATION, regulation, publication and renovation
and take new departure. Advanced practitioners
that in Hostettels Stomach Biters possess 50 to
speak, counter charm 10 the malign influences
that produce various disc sed condih ms. They do
complaints aud in all disturbances OF the ver the
bowels, and the digest organs this pewer,u l ami
WI iesome vegetable remedy effects extra ordinary
ago, and the en!ightued members Of the profession
ae9uiese In It, Better late than never.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

ACCIDENT AT NORTH CONWAY, N. H.-Mr
Henry Snow, of Conway, while attempting to
shackle a snow-plow to the engine, had his hand
caught and crushed in a fearful manner. He
was taken to DR.. Bragdon's Office, where ether
was administered, and his hand dressed. The
hand is doing well and DR.. Bragdon thinks an
amputation will not be necessary. A hundred
dollars was raised in "a few hours by Mr. Alfred
Eastman, and we understand the P. & o. R. r.
Co. will allow his pay to continue while sick.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
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en War26.d1Y
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

IT is now said that Cakes Ames' letters
to McConib concerning Credit Mobilier
transactions were stolen by the burglars from
the referees Office in Philadelphia whittier
they went under the pretence OF measuring
the apartment for carpet. They were first
offered to the chairman of the Democratic
National Committee who refused to purchase
them. Charles A. Dana of the Sun however,
eagerly secured them paying $500 therefor.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

PROF. MAURY of the Virginia Military
/ stitute, died Saturday, aged 81 years. Be-
fore the Rebellion be was Lieutenant IN tle
United States navy and Superintendent of
the National Observatory at Washington.
In 1851 he went with his State and became a
Commodore In the Confederate navy, He
was the author of Treatise on Navigation,
which was adopted as text book for The
navy; The Physical Geography of the Sea,
his principal work; and numerous papers on
scientific subjects.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

"When things settle down litilen one of
the managers of the Wassonian State Fair ia
"going for'' those papers and people who
have exposed the Winthrop tri k; which
means, in other words, after the Legislature
has adjourned and some things are forgotten.
they will bring them to book. Happily the
gentlemen who have made the statements
that we have published on this subject are
hotter men and more skilful farmers than the
wire-pulling puppets who are principally emf
nent for slight Of hand tricks.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

THE trains of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road have run on time over the part complet-
ed all winter. 1t requires but thirty miles
more of track to reach the Missouri river,
which will be laid next month. From that
noint there will be a line of steamers run to
Fort Benton, in the summer, 1900 miles up
the river. 1t is now reported that the pro-
iected Canada Pacific will unite with the
Northern at Fort Garry and extend westward
from that point, thus giving its business to
the latter road.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04
DOMESTIC PORTS.

SAN FRANCISCO-Cld 23d, ship Centurion, Lull,
aALvEsToN--Ar LIST, sch samos, Howes, from
sew oRLEANs-Ar goth, sch Traveller, Hodges,
Ar at SW Pass 9th. brig Ernest, Hodgdon, from
Rio Janeiro via Bahia, where she put in leaky; sch
JAS Ford. Huntly. Aspinwall. ~
MOBILE-Ar 9th, sehs Lizzie. Pope. Havana;
Fitch. Fitch. Pensacola. tand cid for Galveston
KEY WEST-Sld 23d, barque Union, Blanchard,
FERNANDINA-Ar Goth ult, sci, David Miller,
sATiLLA MTLLs-sm 2ad. sch Kate Carlton,
SAVANNAH-Ar Goth, sch Rising Sun, Jones,
Portland.
Ar 2Slh. sch E & Cordery Smith. Portland.
Wis Port i W Holt, Hart snd scio Smith, fin
Sid lst, ship Gilchrist, Emerson, for Liverpool;
brig Frontier Morgan, Damariscotta; schs Clara q
. Loud, Welt, Boston; Jennie Gikey, Gilkey. Ma
tanzas, Kolon, McKown, Porto Rico.
CHARLESToN-Ar 3lst ult, sch Wigwam, Field,
NoRFoLK-Ar goth, schs Eelle. Hardy. Kelley,
Portland for Baltimore, with loss Of anchor)
BALTIMORE-Cld 30th, sch l. simmons, Pierce,
NEW YoRK-Ar list, sch S s McKown, Parsons,
Al 81. shin Camilla. Tanner, Boston.
Cid Isl. ship Missouri. West, london: barque Thos
Pope, Richardson. Monrovia; brigs Prentiss Hobbs,
Dirigo, Coffin, Havana; fchs c Mayo, Morrison,
Port do Pax; Arthur Clifford. Spaulding. Barscoa;
David AmeS, Ames, New OrleaOS, ABBY WaSSQn
GRAY Key West; Mahaska, Sawyer. Brunswick.
Sid LIST, ship Alex Marshall tor Liverpool; brig
Hattie, for Cienfuegos sch L Warren, for Dema-
rara.
At Harris Island 3ist. sch Gamma. Huntley, from
Jacksonville fer New Haven frozen in)
PROvIDENCE-Sld lst sch Andrew Peters, Hop
kins, Port johnson; SALIVA, Kelley. do.
Sid I'd. schs Peaceda G, Curtis, and Vandalia, Full
lerton. New York.
NEwPoRT-Ar 3ist, scbs Eugene, Halves. Port
land for New York; Delhi, Emerson, Fall River for
do; Snow Squall, Norton, do for do.
VINEYARD HAvEN-Ar LIST. schs Almeda Smith.
Pembroke for New York: New Zealaud Cook Rock .
land for do; Emma Linwood, Newcomb, Belfast for
Sid 3lst, schs Ella. Rival, Della Hodgkius Julia
Carnage, and Carrie H Spoford.
boSTON-Ar LIST, baruue Fannie Toothaker Gal
weston; schs Clara w Elwe Giles for Alexandria;
witch OF the Wave, Psndleton. Belfast.
sch Hero, Toss, Belfast.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

The st. John Globe fears that the building
of the projected Canada Pacific Railway is
too much of an under taking for three and half
millions of people scattered along a narrow
strip OF country extending over thou ands of
miles. 1t thinks there is no sense in the Do
minion attempting to rival the United States
in gigantic enterprises. 1t says further:
We ignore these, and madness seems to
have seized upon us to construct unremuner
alive works. The Intercolonial Railway
now beng constructed is case in point.
There is scarcely 2 man in the country to-day
who believes that that road will pay anything
at all towards its own cost, nay, there are
many whe know tina. it will involve large
expenditure to keep it open, if it can be OPP
en- at all, during the winter months. To
raise voice against these extravagant and
useless undertakings seems usele S. The in
fatuation is everywhere - the reckless
ness and incapa ity of the governing
party has leavened the whole country
and nothing but financial reverses and seri-
II we continue in our present course, will stay
the plague. To continue the Central Pacific
Railway cost the United States over $50, 000,-
600 more than the actual cost of the road.
We all know that the Intercolonial is costing
the Dominion more than it should. What
do We now see. Men in large numbers gath
ering at Ottawa for the express rurpose-not
OF spending their own money, but of getting
the public money to spend in this undertake
ing. Where the money is to come FROM
where even the interest is to come from, we
know not-and, no one, apparently cares, yet
the work will 60 on all the same.
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

Ar 3D. schs Lizzie Major. Tabbutt. Mosquito Inlet
Ar ga, schs Torpedo, Tracey. Eastport; Alvarado,
Pendleton Belfast.
Cid 81. barque Orchilla, Havener, Barbados; brig
A j Ross, Wyman, Portland 10 load for Cuba: schs
Eva L Leonard. Googins. Wilmington; Helen g King,
Crosby. Calais.
SALEM-Ar 3lst. schs Decora, Clark, and Neptune
Bride, GIiersou, Port johnson Torpedo, Tracey I'm
PASSPORT. (and cid for Boston.)
Ar LIST, schs Mariel, fletcher. Portland Magic,
King New York.
GIOUCESTER-Ar LIST. sch John G DALEY. Lang.
vinalhaven for New York.
PORTsMOUTH-Ar S1st, sch Cynosure, Young.
Camden for Boston.
FOREIGN PORTS.
AT Madeira It'll ut, barque lima, Cummings, New
York for Smyrna.
Ar at Messina 9th ult, barque Belvidere. Finn,
Civita VccLia.
Ar at Lisbon 7th ult, Charles Howard, Brown,
New York.
Cid at Havre 18th ult, ship Jas A Wright. Morri-
Ar at Liverpool 10th ut, sonoma, Howes, from San
Francisco.
New York.
I'd fun Gravesend 18th ult, ship Therese, Mudgett,
Ar at Shields 18th ult, ship Contest, Jameson San
G. Ar at Dublin 2sth ult, parque Norton, Whitney,
st John, NIB.
Sid I'm Bakers Island Nov IS, barque Agate, Bal
iaTI, Falmouth for orders.
Cienfa Denarara 18th ult. barque Cloiilde Miller,
Boston. '' 81" A'oo"eii' huiiou''
SPOKEN
Jan % lat 80 "a. Ion II 80 brig Ernestjne. from,
Portland for Matanzas, 8 days DAYS W
The Portland daily press., 1873-02-04

WE do not read anonymous letters and COMMUTE
cations. The name nd address of the writer arc IN
all cases in lispensab e. not necessarily Tor publication
but guaranty ofgood faith
w cannot undertake to return OF preserve COM
municaIions that are not useo.