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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
A French candidate calling himself Dr. n.
Young, recently hung out his Single in Lewis
ton. A few days after seizure Of Intoxicating
liquors was made on his premises, and the
DIR" being put on the stand before Judge
Knowton, acknowledged that he had never
studied medicine. He was fined $50 and COSTS
The Journal says it was plain that this CDR
dispensed but one remedy, and that panacea.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
MI: n. Bartlett! Of Caribou, lost good cow
by drowning Friday week. The animal by
some means wedged her head into the water
barrel when nearly empty, and as the water
rose in the barrel she was drowned.
Business is lively at Fort Fairfield Just now.
Two seizures of whiskey were made last
Saturday night in Houlton,
The Pioneer says John F. Hanson of Wood
stock, has leased the Blake saw mill in Houl
ton, and intends to put it in thorough running
will include circular saw for saving logs into
boards
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
West Pennington is to have factory for the
manufacture of shovel handles.
- Clear Water Pond, Industry, closed up Nov.
10Th, the earliest ever known.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Mr. and Mrs John Bunker of Ellsworth
celebrated their golden wedding on THURSDAY
week.
Capt. Jere Wooster of Hancock. has on the
stocks a fine modelled schooner of about 16o
tons o. m. She is intended for the sGrand
Bank" fishing.
On Tuesday, Nov 18th Mr.. T. A. Crab
tree of Franklin. shot two deer, one of which
weighing 225 pounds.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Oliver Hamilton & Co., of Augusta, pay an
nually about $4,000 for leather for their har-
ness factory. Their total expenses for the year
are about $4,000, says a correspondent of the
Lewiston Journal.
At the meeting of the corporators and trus-
tees of the Maiue Industrial School for Girls.
beld at Hallowell Wednesday, no quorum was
present and the meeting adjourned.
KNOX Comfy.
George o. Payson of Rockland, has been an
pointed d. G., w. e. T. of the Grand Lodge of
Mainef for the districts of Knox, Lincoln and
Waldo counties
Mr.. John Lindiey of Union, while at work
lately pressing hay in Wdrren, fell, and broke
the bones of his shoulder and two of hia ribs
The Free Press learns that on Wednesday of
last week, Mrs Eben Messer of Union, fell on
the ice near her house, breaking both bones of
the forearm, and dslocating her wrist.
A centennial tea-party and fair for the relief
of the poor of Rocklaud, will be held in that
city some time near the 10th of December, the
centennial anniversary of the throwing over of
tne tea IN Boston harbor.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

The auction sale of Government property
situated on Dix Island, took place Monday.
There was no competition in bidding, Mr.. c. H,
Dixon purchasing the entire lot for $1,311
The property could not be replaced for less than
1000. Dixon asserts that the property be-
longs to the Dix Island Granite Company
which the government claims by an arbitrary
construction of the contract
Owing to an informality in the warrants the
citizens of Rockland did not vote on the ques-
ton of aid to the Bay and River Railroad Tues
day. New warrants will be imm ediately is
sued,
PENOBsCoT COUNTY.
The barn of Charles E. Furgersou at Etna,
was burnt Tuesday night with eighteen tons of
hay and some farming tools The wOod-house
adjoining was partly burned and the other part
torn down to save the house and ell. Loss $500:
insured for $3.50.
The steamer Katahdih was considerably in
jured Sunday by blowing her way through the
ice from Hampden to Bangor. She is now un-
dergong repairs
WALDO COUNTY.
The Journal understands that the post-ofice
at East MOntville has been discontinued.
The house of Lydia j. Roberts of Knox, was
burned on the evening of the 25th ult., proba-
bly, caused by defect in the chimney. Nearly
all the fnrnitute was destroyed, upon which
there was no insurance. The house was insur-
ed for $780, III
Mr.. NJ M. Jewell of Monroe, while cutting
some frozen meat with an axe one cold morn
ing, cut one of his fingers off, and cut another
finger about half off.
YORK COUNTY.
A grindstone burst in the Water Power shop
at Biddeford, Thursday morning, but fortu-
nately no one was injured.
A large audience gathered to hear Mast lee
ture in Saco Wednesday evening, but the lee
turer failed to put in an appearance.
The beautiful hall of the Odd Fellows in Bid
deford, was dedicated with appropriate cere
monies Wednesday evening
Wednesday Horace Perkins, carpenter in
the employ of the York corporation at Saco.
was engaged in taking boards from pile Of
lumber, when the whole toppled over upon him.
No bones were broken, but he was severe v
bruised.
Trouble is said TO exist between Sheriff War
rem and jailor Bennett. The former wishes to
get red of the latter, but the latrer will not
give up his place.
IN GENERAL.
VIM. P. Freeman has been elected President
and E. o. F. Dodge, Secretary of the Maine
State Association at Washington.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

ATCHIsoN, TOPEKA AND SANTA FEE RAIL
RoAD.-This corporation has got into position
in which its directors are obliged to appeal to
its stock and bondholders for aid to bridge over
its present financial embarrassment They say
the time has come when the interests of the
company demand that provision should be made
to wipe out the floating debt and insure the Ger
tam prompt payment of Interest in the future
and that this can be done BY the issue of a loan
deas;rs5 20 eighteen months coupons, payable if
aont;si IN the coupons as they mature The
;ntara,s aebt is $486. 600. besides the January
ment e's si snd taxes $4,000. The land depart
a,,enS aiso owes $3.50, 900, but there is dne the
company for land sold ST lo5 IA the ,ne
from wnlch accommodating each wear viii soon
The net earnings for the past nina
1.-TWO months being estimated) are Sa24 5Ss ae
and the directors believe that in 1874 thew viii iii
nual interest on its first mortgage bonds is
1892 $40 gold.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

HE Bangor Wing says that the delegates
of the various Agricultural Societies in Pc
nobscot county, at a meeting held in that
city Tuesday, unanimously instructed their
member i'll the Board of Agriculture to use
MS influence to secure the reelection of Hon.
.. l.. Goodale to the Secretaryship of the
Board. This action of the farmers of Penob-
scot indicates that they do not regard with
favor the trick Of certain m.nipulators last
winter in displacing Mr.. Goodaie from DO
sltion, he is so conspicuously qualified to fill.
Doubtless other societies will take the same
&C ton,
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

ILLNESS OF THE Hon. G. s. HILLARD.-
During the day Wednesday, Mr.. Hillard re-
ceived a slight stroke of paralysis on his right
side, which has slightly affected his speech but
left his mind wholly unimpaired
His physicians say that all the symptoms are
favorable for recovery. Mr.. Hillard was at his
own residence at the time of the attack, and
medical aid was at once summoned. While
sincerely regretting the illness of the distin-
guished gentleman,it is matter ofthe heaftiest
congratulatlon that the attack was by no
means as severe as it was at first reported, ru-
mors having become current that the attack
was of a most serious nature.-Boston Traveller.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

A POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES. western
newspapers. having been discussing the part
taken on the Texas annexation question in the
an incident of the time:
Tom Corwin was then in his glory as a strong
orator, and was wont to rouse the moral indig
nation of his Wing auditors by depicting the
horrors of war; which he predicted as result Of
the annexation of Texas. He produced a
startling effect in a speech delivered near Gin
cinnati, in which, after describing the scenes of
battle, the groans OF the wounded and the
sufferngs of the bereaved whose homes would
be made desolate, until the sympathies of the
crowd were excited to the highest pitch, he
stepped suddenly to the front of the platform,
and waving his handkerchief above his head,
shouted three times at the top of his voice,
"Huzza for democracy "Huzza for democ-
racy," "Huzza for democracy" The terrible
irony of tie orators looks and tones produced
not so successful, howeverin speech delivered
the same year in the abolition stronghold in the
Western Reserve. He went upon the platform
brimful of talk for Clay aud free soil. While
the people were assembling he noticed small
boy with basket of tracts which he was busily
distributing among the crowd, and by the time
he was ready to address his fellow citizens
every man before him had one in his hands,
Mr.. Ccrwn asked for one, and, upon glaneing
vor of the annexation of Texas, eff it could be
done without war;" &c. The fountain of the
orators eloquence was suddenly dried up. and
he stood there Tor couple of hours, "hOllering
like a frog on the side of hill, as he humor-
ously expressed it, with perfect consciousness
all the while that the little boy had utterly
spoiled his speech.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

The three elections which have taken place
in New Brunswick to fill vacancies in the Do
minion Parliament, have resulted unanimous
ly in favor of the Mackenzie ministry The
81 John Telegraph says that these elections
indicate that the old lines of political demar-
catioa are passing away, and that the future
OF parties in New Brunswick will turn large
" upon what it terms Canadian politics.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

ROBINS IN WINTER Singular lot of Red
brecsts.-Our Fryeburg correspondent ''D'
writes: ''We Fryeburgers' have the reputa-
ton of having some mornings in winter as cold
as most any other place in New England, not
excepting Bangor or Franconia, N. H., but for
all that we have something else to tell of. Per-
haps some of your readers may have heard
robins sing, with nearly two feet of snow on
the ground, and the temperature down to ITO
below zero, but we never did before Wednes-
day morning. The cold for five consecutive
mornings has been below zero, and on one the
mercury was 200 below. Notwithstanding this.
veritable redbreast appeared on our streets
Tuesday morning, mercury 100 below who
didn't migrate worth cent, but chose to sing
as chearily es of June morning He certain
ly must have possessed warm heart and rath-
er cold toes. Perhaps your Sub" who used to
talk so mnch about harbingers last spring,
would call this harbnger of something. Be
this as it may,we are now in the midst of mild
er weather. This robin story, of which there
is abundant proof by those who saw and heard,
thought worthy of record in your paper"
COMMENTS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE
MEssAGE.-The Times, in leader on President
Grants message, says that the excessive priv
ilege in regard to freedom from search claimed
for vessels bearing the American flag would
confer immunity on piracy. Such pretensions
are indeed short-sighted for mercantile ma
ton. We cannot for a moment believe that
Congress will adopt the suggestion to prohibit
national banks from paying interest on depos-
its. We do not agree with the President s finan-
cial remarks generally, and think he is wrong
in attributing the recent troubles to the pecul-
lar character of the currency. The advice to
return to specie payments would be more salts
factory if the Presidnt told the country how to
do it. The article praises the message for its
moderation of tone in general, and on the Gu
ban question in particular. England will mn
reservedly support the policy which requires
that Spain must really as well as nomi1ally
control Cuba.
The Daily News says that the Presidents
language concerning the Virginius affair is
moderate and dignifed.
The Daily Telegraph sees in the demand for
the abolition of slavery in Cuba a menace lich
will greatly increase the difficulty of Castelar's
situation.
The Standard thinks the only results of the
the threats against Spain will have, will be to
hinder adjustment.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
MARRIED.,

In this city, Nov. &c, by Rev. C. B. Pittblado Fer
dinand Plummer and Miss Emily Gallon.
In this city. Dec. g. by Rev. Geo. w. Bicknell Hem
of Deeripg.
In Falmouth, Dec. 2, by Rev. W. H. Haskell, AL
bert H. Sampson and Miss Hattie M. True, both of
Falmouth.
:. In Naples, Nov. 81, John W. Dow of Gorham and
Mrs. Bertha Shaw OF Sebago.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

WE do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are lin
all e. not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty ofgood faith.
wecannot undertake to return or reserve com
municariohs that are not useu.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
To Lei.

THE commodious four storied Brick Store, No. "
Il Commercial St.-immedate possession given.
Inquire of ELIAS THOMAS & CO.,
No. 80 Commercial st.
Orof WV. THOMAS, Canal National Bank.
aept1osuff
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. s. 1873

EVERY re gular attache of the PRESS is furnished
With card certificate countersgned by Stanley 7.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat AMI hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials person claiming to represent our
Journal as we have information that several .bum.
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
lively, party to such fraud
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

Don't fail to procure MkS. WINSLOW'S SOOTH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases incident to the period
of teething in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels and by
giving relief and health to the child gives rest the
mother. Be sure and call for
"MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP."
For sale by all druggists.
SN iv7NWSem
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

THE general impression has been, we
think, that Mr.. Casserly of California who
has just resigned his seat in lhe United
States Senate, was among the foremost of his
party in that body-a gentleman of ability
and integrity Last fall, however, COM
mittee of the San Francisco Democratic
county convention reported: "Your COM
mittee find upon said information that said
seat (Casserly's) was purchased with money.
Your committee are prepared to prove that
over one hundred thousand dollars, geld coin,
was paid for said seat, and in the cleo
ton OF the said Eugene Cassery to the United
States Senate. Your committee report that
this information has come to their knowledge
from parties of the highest and most respect
able standing in the State OF California.
wherefore your committee recommend that
copy OF these proceedings, properly en-
crossed, be by your committee duly trans
miited to the Vice President of the United
States, with the request that the same be by
MIN laid before the Senate of the United
States for such action as that body may deem
proper, your committee hereby standing pre-
pared to furnish, when caIle. for, the evil
dence OF the truth of the statements herein
made"
1t is said that this resolution and not the
state of Mr.. Casserly's health caused his
resignation.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
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Crates by the expensive and Scarce
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Stoves and Popular with Packers
as a Substitute for Charcoal.
There being No Genuine Acadia
i'm Portland excepting the lot here
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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
BACHELORS HAIR DYE.

This splendid Hair Dye is the best IN the scorld
The only True and Perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable
and instantaneous nodisappointment; no ridiculous
tins or unpleasant odor. Remedies the i'll fleets of
bad dyes washes. Produces IMMEDIATELY superb
BLACK OR NATURAL BROWN, and leaves the hair
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Ba1chelor. Sold by all Druggists.
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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.

To Merchants and Others.
For the accommodation of Portland merchants
and others the Steamer Lewiston will touch at Cam
den and Belfast each trip to Machiasport during
the remainder of the season. no27dtf
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05

FREE SAMPLE Bottle Of
Adamson's Botanic Balsam, at all Druggists
Coughs, Colds, Lung Complaints, &C. Geo. C. Good
win q Co., Agents, Boston Large Bottles, IS cents
$4,000 for case it will not cure. no3MW&S&w3m
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
FOR PIMPLES on THE FACE,

BlackEead and Fleshworm, use PERRY'S improv-
ed Somedope and Pmple Remedy the great skin
Dermatologist, 40 Bond St., N Y. Sold by Druggists
everywhere. oc8deod&wsn2m41
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS
Perry Davis Vegetable Pain-KilIer
HAS BEEN TESTED IN EVERY VARIETY OF CLIMATE.
AND BY ALMOST EVERY NATION
KNOWN TO AMERICANS.

AND BY ALMOST EVERY NATION
KNOWN TO AMERICANS.
of the missionary and the traveller sea and land
and no one should travel Lakes or Rivers
without it.
1t has been before the public thirty years, and
probably has wider and better reputation than any
other propriet airy medicine of the present day. At
this period there but few unacquainted with the
merits of the Pan-Ker; but while some ex oil it as
liniment, they know but little of its power in cas-
ing pain when taken internally, while others use it
internally with great success but are equally igno-
rant of its healing virtues when applied externally
Wetherefore wish to say to all that it is equally sue
cessful whether used internally externally and It
stands to-day, unrivaled by all the great catalogue
of fami medicines 1t is sufficient evidence of its
virtues as standard medicine, to know that it is
now used in all parts of the world aud that its sale ia
constantly increasing. No curative agent has had
sucn VIDE snread sale or given such universal salts
lactioh IL is purely vegetable compound, and per-
fectlv safe in unskillful hands.
After thirty years trial. is still receiving the most
of he highest character and responsibility. PhUsi
clans Of the first respectabili.y, recommend n a.
most efectual preparation for the extinction Of main
1t is not only the best remedy known for Rru;s
es Cuts, Burns, Sc, but for Dys ntery or Cboar.
or any sort of bowel complaint, 1t is remedy n"sur
passed for efficiency and rapidity of action. In he
great cities Of India and other hot climates it has
become the Standard Medicine for all such com
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and other kindred disorders. For Coughs and CaIJs
Canker, Asthma, add Rheumatic difficulties It has
testimony to be an invaluable medicine. S''s
Be,care of all Imitators
The Pain-Kille. is sold by all respectable druepiss
throughout the United States and Foreign COUNTLESS
Prices-25 cents, 80 cents and 81 per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS Il SON, Proprietor..
No. 1876 High St. Providence, R. I.
Qe2 epoOd1m&w
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-05
River and Harbor Improvements.

Last February in urging the creation OF a
State Board of River and Harbor Commits
sioners, the PRESS predicted that the general
government would soon see the folly of ex-
pending large sums of money to clear the OBJ
cided action was not taken by the State to
second the expenditure, by taking care that
the navigable waters were not INSTRUCTED
again by the neglect and criminality of the
people living along the rivers. Every one
whose attention has been called to the mat
ter knows that the money expended in re-
moving ed5ings, sawdust and other refuse of
lumber mills, is little better than thrown
away, since the continuation of the same
practice of turning the whole of the debris
into the rivers, renders the expensive dredging
OF channels only OF temporary benefit, which
can in no way warrant the outlay.
The federal officers in charge of these ope.
lations have long complained of the course
pursued by mill owners on our principal riv-
ers, and have, in their protestations against
it, declared that the Government was not
warranted in making the expenditures while
the State refused to enforce laws to prevent
the filling up of navigable rivers as fast as the
distractions were removed. In their reports
it is probable that the officers in charge of The
Government works, have, as is clearly their
duty, represented the condition of affairs to
the War Department. At any rate, the at
tention of the President has been called to the
matter, and in his message he recommended
that more care be given in making appropria-
lions for harbor and river improvements and
that those not likely to subserve the general
interests OF commerce be discontinued.
This recommendation of the President
should attract the attention of the next
Legislature, and particularly those whose
business is greatly facilitated by the safe nav
igation of our rivers to the extreme limit of
tide water Quite recently the federal gov
eminent has made large expenditures TO re-
move obstructi ms from the Kennebec. Pc
nobscot, Union and other rivers, and unIess
the mill owners have been unusually active in
turning lumber refuse into them, they are
probably in fair condition for navigation.
1t, however, this practice continues, and
Congress follows the suggestion of President
Grant, it is within the range of possibility
that some of our towns that now enjoy suffi-
cient water communication to afford their
papers respectable shipping list, will become
inland towns, to their great detriment and
the loss of the profits of many kinds of in
dustry.
1t may be urged that there are laws enough
upon the statute books entitled acts ''to pre-
vent the throwing of edgings and sawdust in
rivers" TO avert the filling up of the riv-
ers. This may be true, but it is not the first
instance where laws are a dead letter without
some special agency to enforce them. For
the enforcement of such laws, and the adjust
ment of multitude of questions that the
Legislature now passes on without proper in
formation, State Board of Harbor and Rv-
er Commissioners is needed.