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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-15
Brief JOttings.

We are requested to remiud the corporators,
land their associates) of the new Fire Insur-
ance Company, of the adjourned meeting at
the Collectors office in the Custom House at
o'clock this afternoon.
Mr.. D. M. Elliot, Principal of Yarmouth
Academy, has resigned his preceptorship, to go
into the business of life insurance. The trus-
tees of the academy have made proposition
to the town, which will probably be accepted
looking to the conversion of the institution into
free high school.
Tuesday night the shop of j. E. Conway,
Ferry House, G. E., was entered by means of
false key. The money drawer was riaed of
the coppers and nickels which it contained, but
nothing else was taken The key was broken
off in the lock.
Our readers must not forget the amateur per-
Torrance of "Pecp O'Day' at Music Hall,
Friday and Saturday evenings The play is
excellently well rendered.
Mr. G. L. Gorham, of the Gorham pianos,
mailed the first postal card which came to this
city. 1t was sent Monday
Deputy sheriff Matthew Adams has been Up
pointed Adjutant of the First Regiment of
State militia
President Grant will pass through this city in
July en- route TO the Togus asylum.
Miss adelaide Phillips will take a solo part
in the rendering of st. Peter by the Haydn's.
The Fair to be held at Bath in aid of the
Maine General Hospital comes off the 5th and
9th of June.
The sum of $25 was realized for the library
fund at the exhibition given by the pupils of
the Fourth Grammar School yesterday after
noon.
At the semi-annual meeting of the Grand
Trunk Company, held in London on the oath
ult, American locomotives were spoken of as
much superior to the English. The Board have
voted to replace their English locomotives by
300 American ones which will be furnished by
the Portland Company.
The tower of the India street church is fast
approaching completion, and will soon be ready
for the reception of the fire alarm bell. 3.
The City Marshal has offered reward of
three hundred dollars for the detection and
conviction of the person who set fire to the
house of NJ. Welch on Larch street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-15

Philadelphia sold 16 5000 postal cards yester
day
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
The Tendency to Overdress.

AS each climatic year has its weather
changes, so each social year has its fash
ionable phases Little customs alter,
little etiquettes prevail. Sometimes a
good fashion takes the place of an idle
or bad one. Also, for very changes sake,
some worse novelty takes the place of a
good but stale habit. If one could hold
mirror up and catch and reflect these
variations in trifes, one might perhaps
understand how the wind blows. and
where social currents tended, and so see
to what shores we drift
There is great deal of criticism of So
ciety nowadays, much railing, and much
silent discomfort. Nobody seems to
know or strive for anything better, and
yet no thoughtful person is entirely salts
fed with our present social life. Society,
the past winter, had the same spectacu-
lar form that it more and moro assumed
for the last few years. Every one goes
to parties expecting to see pageant, of
which they form part. The flowers,
the dresses, the jewels, the people, the
supper, the decorations are simply to
please the eye or express the material
wealth of their exhibitors The idea is
never entertained for ono moment of
becoming richer, by one thought or feel
ing, from social intercourse. Conversa-
ton is a lost art; and though the sweet
music which discourses constantly, would
be an excellent substitute, if any one
would listen to it, it is an effectual pre-
ventive of talking. People go to look
and to eat, to please their eyes and their
palate, but their food is not of the spir-
itual sort. If any one does not appear as
q decorative part of the assembly, your
five hundred friends, including the host
ess who invited you, would much rather
you would stay away. A Pysche or Juno
in an old gown would be unwelcome, no
matter how much beauty or talent it
might cover. This form of society is be-
coming fixed and hardened into stony
deadness
Let us look at one of the peculiarities
of the winters campaign, now i'll course
of lenten penitence, and see if in any of
its innovations on its predecessors, there
has been bacl1sliding or progression,
There has been one marked feature of.
the dress of the young girls this season
which we are very sorry to notice. These
"Cynthias of the minute" soonest catch
the spirit and manner of the moment
and express it in dress and behavior. In
their dress they have relinquished and
despised and trodden under foot their
adorable youth They have put away
from them the simple dressing that so
becomes them; they have given up the
white muslin, illusion, and tarletan, that
seem so appropriate to their youth, mex
perience, and purity, and hauut in the
satins and laces which should only be-
long to dowagers of fifty. They despise
white muslin as bread and butter, and
crave silks and diamonds, terrarin and
champagne. They ignore their youth
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with its charms and privileges, and wish
without any work, without any knoWI@
edge of life, or accumulated lore of socf-
ETY.. to ape their mothers and aunts in
stvie and expense. OF course they looI
badly in their trappings Their high
bloom, and round, welldefned, hrnlsout-
lines, which thin white would so freshen
and soften, look coarse, immature, and
unequal to such rich dress.
There are certain rights and privileges
which belong to age. The best gifts of
time come slowly, and are earned by
work and merit. Friends, and wealth,
and position come late in life, and they
bring other appropriate surroundings
with them. If q woman of fifty braids
her hair Ia chinois, down her back, and
puts her mature but well-preserved
charms into white muslin, however hand
some she may be. the sight of her is jar
ring to the dignities Of her@age and ex@
perience 1t is not more so than to see
these rosebuds of girls in costly lace and
diamonds. Why are they not satisfied
with the dover Of their youth,-uncon-
sciously rejoicing in its sweet gifts, and
postponing these unnatural decorations
to the years where they belong, and
which they honor and adorp,
We think part of the fault lies with
the mothers; they should know what is
becoming and proper for their daughters,
and are given them for guides and guar
dians. But American mothers are some
times thoughtless or ignorant on these
subjects, and still oftener too indulgent
to the child's own tastes and wishes.
There is lavish father and long purse
and the child decides her own costume
without much reference to any one but
the French modiste, who wonders in Sc
cret over the-robe, but rejoices in her
larger bill. Not all mothers are so in
different Looking on, a few evenings
ago. at the whirling crowds that emulate
the dancing dervishes of India in their
solemn martyrdom for society we were
thinking about their pitiful limitations
and their early exhaustion of all the re-
sources of life, when a thoughtful yet
playful woman who remembered her age,
her worth. her proprieties in dress as in
other things, standing by me, said;
"How these girls dress. Why after thir-
ty years of work, have just come to. my
laces and here they have them at eigh-
teen" 'Y es,' answered. "but they be-
come you and spoil them. Nature takes
unconscious revenge on those who trans
gress her laws"
These girls do not become such dress;
they do not deserve it; and we confess it
tells q sad story for our young girls.
They have gone another long way farther
toward insincerity worldliness, and inn
propriety You may say this is triAing;
but "straws show which way the wind
blows
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
From the London Quarterly Review.I
The Faculties of Dogs.

A little reflection shows that dog ap-
proaches man much more nearly in the
matter of feeling than either of physical
or mental charaoterist tics 1t is o start
ling fact, we'll brought out by Jesse in a
synopsis of the dogs attributes, that
there are very few human passions which
q dog does not share.
dog feels anger precisely as we do,
and after provocation is sonSetimes vim
dictive and sometimes placable, accord
ing to his individual character. He is
susceptible of hatred of the bitterest kind
He is SO excruciatingly jealous, that his
life becomes a burden in the presence of
a favored rival. His eavy continually
leads him to eat what he does not want
lest another animal should take it, and
to illustrate the fable of The Dog in the
ManGer. Gi'tttopy holds out to him
temptations under which even his hon
esty sometimes succumbS; but, on the
other hand, from drunkenness he is nobly
emancipated. A dog mentioned by the
Rev. Thomas jackson having been once
made so drunk with malt heuor that he
WAS unable to walk up stairs, ever after
declined to taste the pernicious beverage,
and growled and snarled at the sight Of
a pewter pot Again, as to Io0G, Don j Juan
was cold and unenterprising character
compared to dog; and as to maternal
affection, tho mother-dog feels it with he
roic passion, starving herself 10 death
rather than forsake her offspring. Grdt-
itudc may be almost said to DO dogs
leading principle supplying first the
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
Adroitly Hit.

A presiding elder of the United Breth-
rem Church, while preaching was much
annoyed by persons talking and laugh
ing. He paused, looked at the disturbers.
and said: 81 am always afraid to reprove
those who misbehave in church. In tho
early part of my ministry ! made great
mistake. As ! was preaching, a young
man who sat just before me was con-
stantly laughing, talking, and making
uncouth grimaccs. ] paused and admin
istered severe rebuke. After the close
of the service one of the official members
came and said to me; Brother -, you
made a great mistake. That young man
whom you reproved is an idiot" Since
then l have always been afraid to reprove
those who misbehave in church lest 1
should repeat that mistake, and reprove
another idiot" During the rest of that
service at least there was good order.
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Neck.Twisting in Church.

There are practices tolerated in relig-
ious congregations, which Christians who
are Jealous for the honor of their Mas
ter's house should utterly condemn. De-
corum is the handmade of devotional
feeling and for this reason the house of
God should never be disturbed by the
slightest approach to irreverence.
"It is part of my religion, said n
pious old lady when asked why she went
early to church, ut is part of my re-
ligioh not to disturb the religion of
others and we believe if many con-
gregation made it part Of their religion
not to twist their necks almost out of
Joint to witness the entrance of every
person who passes up the aisle during
service, it would be better both for their
necks and their religion.
A gross abuse of religious decorum
sometimes needs harsh medicine as a
remedy. We give that adopted by Henry
Clay Dean, who was one time chaplain
of Congress. The anecdote is from the
Pacific Methodist
Being worried one afternoon by this
turning practice in his congregation, Mr..
Dean stopped in his sermon and said:
NOW, you listen to me, and III tell
you who the people are as each one of
them comes in.
"He then went on with his discourse
until gentleman entered, when he
bawled out like an usher, Deacon A..
who keeps a shop over the way, and
then went on with his sermon. Presently
another man passed up the aisle, and
has name, residence and occupation were
given; so he continued for some time.
At length some one entered the door who
was unknown to Mr.. Dean, when he
cried out, "A little old man, with a drab
coat and an old white hat; don't know
him; look for yourselves, That congre-
CATION was cured"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
LFrom The Young Folks ]
The Cradle.
BY CLARA rHAxTER


The barn was low and dim and old,
Broad on the floor the sunshine slept,
And through the windows and the doors
Swift in and out the swallows swept.
And breezes from the summer sea
Drew through and stirred the fragrant hay
DoWn-dropping from the loft, wherein
a gray old idle fish net lay.
Heaped in q corner, and one loop
Hung loose the dry, sweet grass among,
And hammock-wise to all The winds
1t hoated TO and fro, and swung.
And there one day the children brought
The pet of all the house to play;
A baby boy of three years old,
And sweeter than the dawn of day.
They laid him in the dropping loop,
And softly swung him till at last
Over his beauty baln1y sleep
Its delicate enchantment cast.
And then they ran to call us all;
"Cone, see where little Bob is! Guess"
And brought us where the darling lay,
a heap of lovelineSS.
curIed in the net; the dim old place
He frightened, like star he shone
Graded in air; we stood q once
The shepherds of J udea had done. g..
And while adoring him we gazed,
With eyes that gathered tender dew,
Wrathful upon the gentle scene
His Celtic nurse indignant few.
"Is this fit place for child ?''
And out of his delicious sleep
She clHtched him, muttering, as she went,
Her scorn and wonder low and deep.
His father smiled and drew aside;
A grave, sweet look was in his face,
For One who in q manger lay
1t was not found too poor place.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
Love Sick.

gave her rose and gave her ring,
and asked her to marry me then; but
she sent them all back-the insensible
thing-and said she'd no notion of men
l told her ] had oceans of money and
goods-tried to frighten her with a
growl; but she answered she was not
brought up in the woods, 70 be scared by
the screech of an owl called her q
baggage, and everything bad; sighted
succeeded in getting her mad, and sho
ragged like sea in storm And then
in moment ! turned and smiled. and
called her my angel and all she fell in
my arms like wearisoTne child, and ex-
claimed, 1--WE will marry this fall"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
NEW GOODS.

NEW GOODS.
FALL STOCK
MISS NJ. A. BROTHERIDGE
Has just received her FALL STOCK of goods
consisting in part of
Dress Goods.
Fancy Goods,
Shoes, Hats,
BOnneIs,
Notions,
-JeweIry,
Toys, &c, &c.
These in addition to a large stock of
Miscellaneous
Articles too tedious to enumerate, makes it the
place for the
TO CALL.
And get every article they need, of the very
latest styles. She sells
Very Cheap For Cash.
NJ. A. BROTHERIDGE.
Sept. 10, TIFF
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
T. E. GRIFFITHs, NJ. d. JOSEPH JONES.
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a * 5o
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w Longbon NJ. c. to Susan Raglan
ct al. So acres in Jackson Tp-..-..'...
Mayor Laird to VIM Vaughn LOT ~
50 in Cemetery -
Mayor Laird to Rachel Radclif' W
Lot So in Cemetery.....-..'-. -
Roard of Education of Jefferson IP'
VIM. w. Morgan. / acre in Jeffersf
Tp....--..-...'..--'''''''.
q Tames Rhodes and wife to -CharIes
Instruments, Trusses,
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
80 Prescriptions carefully compounded at all
hours, from the pureSt medicines.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16
PosTOFFICEs AND PosTa1AsTERs.
cHuRCH DIRECTORY.

Methodist Episcopal Church, Portsmouth ST.
Rev ]. E. Sewers, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l01z o'clock A. NJ, and 81
p. NJ. Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Sabbath School and Bible Glass every Sabbath
at O'Clock, "A. NJ.
Presbyterian Church, Church Street
REV. J. TX. GIBSON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at 1o1% A. NJ. and 81 r. NJ. Sab
bath School and Bible Ciassat o'clock A. NJ.
Christian Church, on Broadway Street-EIder
R. j. EACKUS, Pastor. Public preaching the
ist and Sd Sabbaths in each month, at l011 o.
clock, A. NJ, and 81 p. N. Sabbath School at
9o'elock, A. NJ. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night, and every sabbath at lO12 o'clk.,
when there is not public preaching.
Methodist Protestant Church, corner Church
and Pearl Sts.-Services at the usual hours
by Mrs. Mary a. Bradford
Baptist Church, Broadway ay-Sstreet-Services
at the usual hours, in the Welsh language.
Free VIII Baptist Church, Petrea.-REv.
THOMAS E. PEDEN, Pastor. Covenant meet
ing the 4th Saturday and Sabbath of every
month. Sabbath School every Sabbath at
o'clock p. Nj.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16

DR. Hopkins gives the senior class, Of
Williams College lectures on the Cate-
chisnn, and many ladies (anaong them DIR.
Hopkins own wife and the wife of Presi>
dent Chadbourne) desire to attend. Bat
the class refuse, on the ground that the
presence 81 SO much lovoliness and beauty
would rendsr the young mon Indifferent
to the claims OF heaven.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16

said Mrs Glen. "You may tell 'Massa
Conway that she is ready"
A little while after there was light
rap on the door, and when it was opened,
Kate joined Conway on the landing who
taking the little gloved hand and placing
it on his arm, led her down to the parlor,
and in a few moments Kate Leonard had
ceased to exist forevermore, and Kate
Conway stood in her place
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-01-16

II T., CHAPMAN, President; ISAAC BROWN,
Vice President; VoLNEY II. BENTON, Cashier.
Dfrergors-J. u. Glare, Peter Pickrel, III. l.. Chap
: man, Isaac Brown, Volney II. Benton.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17
stkteStsedsh Qsrolina.

TO thes Commissioners of Election for Fair
TETHERExs, Hon. SANDERS FORD, who,
w Ct the general election held in Ooto-
for the election district OF Fairfield County,
to serve for the term Of four years, has,
since said election, deceaBed; and, whereas,
the Constitution OF the State OF South Caro-
ton shall be issuod by tho President of the
Senate for the purpose OF filling the vacancy
thus occasioned for tho remainder Of the
term for which the member 30 deceased was
elected to serve:
Now, therefore, you, and cnch of you, are
hereby required, after duo advertisement and
with strict regard to all tho provisions Of the
Constitution and laws OF the said State
touching your duty in auch ase. to hold an
election for a member for tho Senate for the
election district aforc said, to servo for the
remainder Of the term for which tho said
Hon. Sanders Ford WIS elected, tho polls to
be- opened At che various polling places of
election in tho said dietrict IN WEDNESDAY,
the eighth day, Of October. \. D. 1873, by tho
various sets OF managers for those places;
and the counting OF tho,votcs east and tho
declaration OF theresult OF tho election to be
in accordapce with the provisions Of Sections
and OF Aot of'the General Assembly cnti.
tied ''An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act
providing for tho general elections and tho
manner of conducting tho sanie," approved
1927
This writ. together with certified copy Of
your return OF tho election held under it..
have before tho Senate at its next meeting
aftor the election.
Witness tho signature of the Honoral te r.
HOWELL GLEAyrs, President Of tho Senate,
At Columbia, this 11:h day of September, A.
d. 1873. Il. HOWELL GLEAVES,
President OF tho Sonato.
Attest: j. WooDnurr, Clcrk of tho Senate.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17
Fools.y

The ..Dashaways,,,sof San Francisco.
recently. applied TO Sam. Booth for @
contribution ap their Sunday evening
entertainment Sam. could notwell re-
fuse. soShe complied by appearing be-
fore them, and reading the following
metrical essay on the fools who get
OF all the poor fools who inhabit this
earth,
Fools by misfortune, or, fools from their
birth;
Rioh fools ana poor fools and great fools
and small,
The man who gets drunk is the greatest
of all.
The spendthrift who revels in riotous
living.
In spending. or losing. or lending, or
1s..foolish enough; but he has not yet
sunk y
To the level of him who is constantly
drunk.
The miser, eternally starving and slav-
ing,
For what he is earning, o. stealing, or
saving,
May be reckoned fool; but he is not
quite
So, foolish. as he who will get on a
eight"
The man who will wager and dicker and
On the toss of cent or the cast of q
die, Hs'a
You would think as foolish as foolish
could be, ff.
But the drunkard is even more foolish
than he.
Investments :. ''wildcat" are mostly q
curse, ~ -rF -
But investments in whiskey are some
thing still worae,
For stocks do not always their favors re-
fuse, t.p
But whiskey Investments are certain to
lose.
And 30 I'm convinced of the truth of
my text,
That OF all the poor fools, for this world
t3a and the next,
The rich or the poor. the great or the
small,
The man who gets drunk is the greatest
of ell.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17
Shingles.

w GLASS Cypress SAWED SHINGLES in
any desired quantity and Supon tho shortest
notioe. For economy. dutsbility and supe-
rior fnishj they cannot be exoelled. Ship
mems made to any part. of tho country
IoAAsTER. MoNTE1TH g. RoATH,
March 16, ~ .S5is 6mo
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las been before the American public
OVER THIRTY years. It has never yet
tai.ed to give perfect satisfaction, and has
Justly been styled the panacea for ali ex-
temai Wounds. Cuts. Burns, Swellings.
Srrains, Bruises. &C., &C., for Man rr1
Dc,-.:-. - f!:nily should be singl,
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aRrandies and l.Winas.

PRANDIEs Of Brandenburg Frercs-ape.
ID oialty; vintages '85, '58, 60. G5.
WINES--Clarets,s St. Estephe, st. Julien,
Margau1, La Rose, Chateau, Latte, Chablis,
Latour, Blanche. and the browning Wine OF
all, Oh HA1'EAU YQUEM. from the house OF
Brandenburg Frores, Bordeau. This new
Wine is sold exclusively by Us in this mar.
ket. GEO. SWIMMERS.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17

Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta B
WILMINGTON,N N. Q.iagcpt. g; 1878. is'
kE9 rie HAs iii lhfslsSilns asS inso asssss ssisss
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17

without this Lininaent. Tho money
funded unless tho Liniment is as repre-
sented. Do sure and get the ponn;ne
MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMEN;T. Sold
hy all Druggists and Country Stores. at
&c. 6oc. and s1.00 per Bottle aNotico
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An old bachelor says that women are
like parrots; they are willing to becaged
mp, If they can only have ring to play
with.
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