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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
STATE NEWS.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that rum seems
plentier of late in that city.
The Journal says that Dio Lewis is at present
an evangelist in that quarter. His book circu-
lates largely there, and has caused such a raid
on cracked wheat, Graham flour and other
coarse food, that dealers hardly understand
what's the matter. ~ ~ .s-
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The Bangor police are making daily liquor
seizures
Rev Jesse Hartman an aged Methodist
clergyman well known in that section of the
State, died in Bangor Tuesday, in his eightieth
year. ..-. 5...-re ,,.fEs-s l
There is a family now living in Oldtown,
by the name of Dougherty, and it is doubtful
If the State can produce its equal Mr.. and
Mrs. D. have fourteen children, all boys, the
Oldest OF whom are but seven years of age. The
family comprise the father and mother, four
pairs OF twins and pair of triplets.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
Rufus Rogers, ESQ.,, Trial Justice in Tops
ham, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday,
while presiding at the trial of person on some
criminal complaint. He had not been restored
to consciousness at last account
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Potatoes now sell in Skowhegan for As cents
per bushel, apples for IS and oats for AZ. Dry
and So at indications of coming storm.
The following officers of the Arson Temper
ance League were elected last Friday evening :
Augustine Simmons, President; Mrs. NJ G..
Emery, ce-Presdent; G. E. Bisbee Secre-
tary and Chaplain. The particular object of
the League is to promote the welfare of the
youth in the community.
WALDO COUNTY
The Belfast Advertiser says that about five
hundred tickets in Hampden lottery, in which
a mill valued at $4,000 was the chief prize,
were sold during the last few weeks, in that
city, at one dollar each. The drawing came off
last week, and we are informed on good author
ity, that not one of those five hundred tickets
drew anything worth a brass farthing. The
mill, which by the by was the most thoroughly
damned bit of property of its kind this side Of
anywhere, was drawn by Hampden boy who
held but one ticket.
Potatoes are quoted at 60 to 65 cents; butter,
% to % cents; hay, $12 to $15 ton in Belfast.
li WASHINGTON COUNTY 70
The Machias Union says there is but foot
of snow in that section, which is an argument
to it for the Shore Line Railway.
Rev. Father Conlon, of Machias, gave his
congregation sharp rebuke last Sunday, or
rather that part of 1t which is implicated in the
rum trade, and drinking as well.
-Aa YORK COUNTY.
Hotel accommodations being rather limited
in Biddeford, gentleman was obliged to take
quarters at the Police station, says the Times.
The Biddeford Times says that last Friday
evening young man named Buzzeu effected
an entrance in a room of the Laconia Corpora
ton, and gold watch and chain, three gold
rings, and other articles of value disappeared.
The watch was afterwards obtained at house
in SacO. i5 ~ u y ttt rs
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
Jntemperance and Crime.

One of the tables in the report OF the AT
orney-General is calculated to call renewed
attention to the intimate connection which
is acknowledged to exist between intemper-
ance and crime. The table referred to is the
one showing the number of sentences from
1868 to 1873 inclusive. Beginning with 1865,
that being the first year after tho close OF the
war, we find that 204 persons were sentenced
to prison, Jail and the reform school. This
was an exceptional year, crime having re-
ceiyed sudden impulse from the large num-
Der of persons freed from the restraints of
military life and still without employment.
In 1867, the number ofpeTsons sentenced to
some kind of confinement was 1871; in 1868.
ia; in 1869, 1889; in 1870, $50; in 1871, 1852;
and in 1872 only 100 The average for the sew
en- years is 152, and the crime of the year 1872
is over thirty-three per cent. less than that
average. 1t is further to be remarked that
the crime for this memorable year is fiftyr ner
cent. less than that of 1856, and thifty-three
per cent. less than that of 1871. The diminu-
tion Of crime over one-thirg in single wear
is fact at the SANG time SO gratifying
and so astonishing that its cause becomes a
matter of very special interest. Happily
there nc dispute about the cause. The
FORMATION of temperance reform clubs last
spring had an immediate effect in thinning
out the inmates of the jails, and when the
sheriff enforcement act went into effect some
what later thu diuo;put;o,, of or,,,a ,+;ll
more rapid. The cause was everywhere ob-
served and acknowledged. The judges of
municipal courts and the keepers of jails
were especially impressed by the marked de-
cline of theif business. But it is only now
when the results of a whole years work are
summed up, that the extent of the change is
fully realized. If results like these follow
from conscientious work and the union of
moral with legal reformatory agencies during
a part of one year, what might not be ex-
pected if the work were continued with the
same vigor for a number of years in success
sion? Lightweight per cent. of the Thomas
ton convicts are men of Incorporate habits,
and this proportion, we doubt not, will hold
good for theinmates of the jails. We may
regard this, then, as indicating the probable
limit of the agency of temperance reform
in REFRESHING crime. 1t will not be denied
that if the people of Maine practiced total
abstinence there would be hardly one-fifth of
the amount of crime which now imposes its
burdens on the State. This would of course
be only one of the advantages of universal
abstinence, but it is one perhaps more easily
than any other. .
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
CAN BE CURED
sCHENCK's PULMONIC SYRUP,
sCHENCK.s sEAwEED TONIC,
sCHENCK,s MANDRAKE PILLS,

Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
consumption. .A I- III t1
Sometimes medicines that will stop cough will Of
ten occasion the death of the patient 1t locks up the
liver stops the circulation of the blood hemorrhage
follows and in fact, coggng the action of the very
organs that caused the cough. 7tF ~ =
Liver complaint and dyspepsia are the causes of
two-thii DIS Of the cases Of consumption. Many are
complaining with dull pain in the side the bow
els sometimes costive and sometimes loose tonpue
coated, pain in the shoulder blade, feeling sometimes
very restless, and at other times drowsy the food
that is aiken lies heavily the stomach accompani-
ed with acidity and belching of wind. These SWIM
toms usually originate from dsordercd condition of
the stomach or torpid liver Persons SO affected if
they take one or two heavy colds and if the cough in
these cases be suddenly stopped the lungs liver and
stomach clog, and remain torpid and inactive and
before the patient is of his situation the lungs
are mass OF sores, and liberated and death is the
inevitable result. -s-g n. ~ = W
Schenck's Pnlmonic Syrup is an expectorant which
does not contain any opium, anything calculated
to check o cough suddenly. =
Schenck's Seaweed tonic disc the food, mixes
with the gastric juice of the sto ach digests easy
nonrishes the system and create healthy circula,
ton OF the blood. When the W els are costive skin
shallow, and the patient is q, a bilious habit
Schenck's Mandrake Pills are required. /,
These medicines prepared by DR.. j. H.
SCHENCK s. SON, MOI theast corner of Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia, Penn, and tor sale nv
GEO. C. GOODWIN 6 CO., 3S Hanover street, Bos
ton, and John f. Henry, SCollegeplace New York.
For sale by Druggists generally. sept3sneodtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
News and Other Items.

jeff Davis and U s. Grant were recently
christened in Tennessee.
Neyada's latest find consists of shaft with
the skeletons of thirty murdered men in it.
In 1862 Texas had but q convicts in her
State Prison. In 1872 there were 944.
1t is estimated that Wisconsin tobacco will
compete in the markets with Connecticut Ha-
vana before long. yea 81 =
A San Francisco jury comes up smiling with
verdict of "delusional insanity" Next?
The st. Adams butter market was dull on
Tuesday, price ranging from 10 to 35c.
A man near Six Mile Run, Pa, built a fire
under his horse aud consumed bin bee ause he
thought him possessed of devil. The public
opinion was that devil did possess him. y
An Illinois merchant having discovered that
it costs thirty dollars to transport his goods to
market by rail, and only nine by foot, has adopt
ed the latter method. IA0EE F,Us r9d'nn
The Boston Post says that the Senatorial
business is lively at the Massachusetts State
House; Bout well stock heavy; Dawes active;
small inquiry for Whiting; Washburn not offer
ed at present. rt
The Providence Herald is thus sarcastic on
the member from Massachusetts: General
Butler is reported as saying that this is bad
year for the righteous Never mind, Ben. Won
are safe.'
Col. Franklin Fairbanks of st. Jobnsburv
VT, has assumed the superintendency of the
Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad temporary
ly, vice Spaulding who accepts position on
the New London Northern Railroad ,s-
| There is not school in the Black River Val
Valley, Vt, from Irasburg through Albany to-
ward South Craftsbury, distance of twelve
miles, that is in running order;s most if not
all, are closed on account of sickness of teach
er or pupils av 't - xl.2He1e'5
| Kansas is likely to furnish Congress another
| spectacle next winter The Sidney Clark fac
| ton already announce that a contest will be
made over the admission of newly elected
Senator Ingalls, to his seat on the ground of the
| character of the Legislature electing him. Q
| Gov. Warmoth of Louisiana, is an able fnan-
cier if not an incorruptible patriot. The State
taxes are about So, 100000 per annum and ac-
cordipp TO Gen Longstreet, Warmoth collected
these taxes in cash, which he banked, while he
turned into the State Treasury corresponding
amount in State bonds worth 65 cents on the
dOllarI ~. e
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

The Times editorialiy says that Polands re-.
port is a document whose spirit the United
States Senate will do well to CATCH Those who
anticipated non-committal or whitewashing
repor3 will be disappointed. The Times sees
no possible way for Congress to refuse, with a
decent regard to its own character, to unseat
Ames and the recommendation for the expul-
sion of Brooks cannot be evaded The Times
says it trusts that the reported unlikelihood of
obtaining two-thirds vote for expulsion is des-
titute of foundation. 1t disagrees with the COM
mittee as to a lack of knowledge on the part of
Congressman who purchased Credit Mobilier
stock. 1t regrets that the committee did not
recommen some censure for them, and trusts
the House vii remedy this omission. 1t con-
graduates Speaker Blaine on the position in
which the report leaves him.
The World says the tragedy of Congress has
turned to farce. The Poland report recommend
the expulsion of Ames, not for offering brides,
but for putting Congressman to shame, and of
Brooks for being Democrat. The report is a
mockery of Justice, disgrace to the men who
drew it, and the body which has not the spirit
to break it. But let not Congressm en- who now
escape unwhipped of Justice, fancy that JUS
tice has no whip for them. Their case is re-
manded from the Congressional committee to
the people.
The Tribune says the committee has finished
its work and made its report with a resolution
containing the conclusions of its labors. 1t is
a resolution which illustrates the feebleness of
the inquiry. 1t insults the honesty and intel
ligence of Congress. 1t is just such shame
and cheat as the denials that were not denials
and the disclaimers that were not disclaimers,
and now whole Congress of grown men is to
deliberate seriously upon resolution that puts
the sins and fall upon, two We cannot be-
lieve the resolution will pass. No, gentlemen
of the American Congress, this is no answer to
the people. Stop all this; pass no resolution /;
desert it where it is; remand the whole business
20 the people. You have only scratched the
surface of the whole inquiry. Leave it now.
The Herald says the Poland report is a singu-
lar document, and one which will be read with
equal surprise and disappointment by the hon
est men of the community. 1t may be that
the conclusions that the committee have reach
ed have been arrived at honestly, and that they
have been able to find distinctions between the
briber and the bribed, which the people will
fail to discover; but their action will be regard
ed with suspicion, and it will be difficult to re-
move from the public mind the impression that
they have acted in the interest of the majority
in Congress- and that while offering up Mess1s.
Brooks and Ames as a sacrifice to an outraged
public sentiment, they have sought to shield
others who are equally deserving of condem-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

IHE Augusta correspondent of the Boston
Aa ~ tnlnS that the early campaigning
VIII De Ia!sSal to the large number of candidates
>tef Governor that have been named. He al
so says that "Hon. S. E. Spring of Portland,
should he consent to have his name used,
would receive the nomination without opposi-
tion." There is great unanimity through
out the State in that opinion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

IT is said that the government printing
Office is deluged with work which is highly
necessary to have completed before the SOth
of June when the Thanking privilege expires.
1t makes us sad to think that after that time
our eyes will no more be gladdened at the
sight OF the agricultural and patent Office re-
ports which are said to be so entertaining;
but then we shall get no more reprints of the
political articles of a certain Washington
journal which it (but no one else) thought SO
valuable to the country press, which is GER
talniy relief that assuages partially OFF
grief .@
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
The Tonic of the Period.

This is trying to persons deficient in stam-
ina and out health To rally their physical energies
by the most approved artificial means is a dnty they
owe to themselves. Foremost among the tonics
and Alternatives of the age stands Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. 1t is vegetable stimulant and correc-
tive against which tenable objection can be urg-
ed. There is no risk in recommending it as the best
preparation in existence for renovang an enfeebled
and broken down system. The most valuable medic
inal products that nature has yielded botan-
ical research are blended in this famous elixir, and
its stimulating basis is recognized in public hos
pitfalls the purest of all the varieties of distilled
liquors. For general debility, nervous weakness, dys-
pepsia constipation rheumatism, bousness and in
termittent fevers it is positive specific.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

Asst. LOUIS despatch says that although
Senator elect Bogy has called tor another in
vestgation into the alleged bribery attending
his election, he has asked his Democratic
friends tovote against re-opening, as he really
is opposed to it and has only made the public
demand in Difference to the popular clamor.
The new Senator had better use two 'tg's' in
spelling his name,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
Report of the Bank Examiner.

In constitutional view 1t is very doubtful if
the State has really had lawful Bank Ex-
aminer the past year. Hon. William Phil
brick of Skowhegan aoas Bank Examiner I'M
til the first Wednesday of January 1872 when
he virtually vacated the office by qualifying
(by oath at least) as Senator from Somerset
county. Nevertheless nothing was said about
it andsat the close of the session he went on
to examine savings banks and to be liberal.
Consequently the report before us is novel in
that it is made by volunteer; but as Mr..
Philbrick is not entirely at fault in this pro-
cedure and as he is well qualified to make a
good report, and has done it, we accept it, as
it is not best to stand about little informali-
ties.
There are now doing business in the State
fifty-four savings banks, five of which were
organized THO pact The aggregate de-
posits and profits held by these banks the
first Monday of November was 500, 154 $685.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

EVIDENTLY the Senate is satisfied that the
Portland and Bath charter is in the hands of
parties who honestly intend to build the road,
else it would have concurred in the action of
the House. The assignment of Mr.. Bisbee's
order to April LIST is very pointed int imation
to the House that it was fooled by the meas
ure
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
FOREIGN PORTS

Ar at Sydney, NSW, Ono date barque Agate, Bal
lard, from Bakers Island for Falmouth, Eng in dis
tress. --.e
Ar at Akyab 18th inst, ship Titan Berry, from Rio
Janeiro. ---
Ar at Bombay list inst, ship Alice Buck, Snow,
At Calcutta 10th ult, ships Olive Southland, Walk
err for Falmouth E, for orders; Trrel, Morgan. for
Boston; barque Goodell, Crockett, for Amsterdam;
Sid FIN Antwerp 9Th inst, ship John Harvey, Low
ell, New York.
Ar at Acapulco oath ult, ship Sima, salter, from
Sid fm Queenstown 9Th, ship Valley Forge, Wood,
Sid fin Nantes Goth ult brig Alice starrett Hooper,
Trinidad.
Ar at Callao 22d ult, barque Nicholas Thayer Cros
by, Guanape.
tan, Doane San Francisco; goth, Charter Oak, Mich
"a At RIO Janeiro 9th ut, ship Mogu, Freeman, uuc;
barque Zittlosen, johnson, from Buenos Ayres, ar
Dec &c; Adelaide Norris, Reed. unc.
At Trinidad 9th inst, brig Sarah Gilmore, Gilmore
seeking: scbs H Eaton, Shackford, and Fred Smith
Smith, do; Gen Common, Shute, and Sallia B, Bate
At Matanzas 18th inst, baraues Aberdeen, Treat,
for k A6es e
Pierce; Amelia Emma. Carbon, and A H Curtis, Mer-
for New York, ldg; schs Louise A Orr, Orr; Marcia
Reynolds, HoughtOn; Geo Walker, Cole; Ralph Carl
ton Patten, and John Griffin, Foster for North Of
Hatteras, ldg; nj Brookings, Brown, for PhladeE
phia, do; Sylvan Randall, for New Orleans. do.
At Cenfuegos 10th inst barques Caro-, Beas; Geo
8 Hunt, Smith; brigs John Swan, kumball; Atalaya,
Cole; VIM Mason Adams; e G Redman Gardiner
L Remick, Rose; Navarino. Blood; Myronus. Hig-
gins; Five Brothers, Randall, and Merriwa, Downs,
for North OF Hatteras.
Ar at Matanzas 7th nit krio Giles Ioring Pink
ham, Portland.
:, Ar at St John, NIB, 18th inst, schs x Howard
howard, and Annie b, Secord. Portland
Cid 18th, brig Chimborazoo, Coombs Matanzas.
SPOKEN.
Feb T. of Cape Hatteras, brig Jessie hDynas 'r0in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 20, 1873.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley r.
Puilen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Journal, we have information that several Duil-
mers' are seeking courtesies in the name % NV
Press, and we have no disposition to be- even Pcs
sively a marty to such fraud.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

THE MAINE STATE PRESS issued to-day
contains in brief all the news OF the past
week, foreign, domestic and local. 1t also
contains abstracts of the reports of the SUI
perintendent of Common Schools and the
Bank Examiner. There are also editorial
articles on passing topics. 1t is just the pa
per to send to friends out Of the States
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

NEW MILITIA UNIFoRM.-By special order
No. 8. A. g. o., board of officers was APP
pointed to meet at the State House in Augusta
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of recon-
mendlng uniform for the militia of the State.
The board consists of Gen. Mattocks of Port.
land, Gen. Beal of Norway, Gen. Dyer Of
Skowhegan, Gen White of Bangor, and Capt
Perham of Lewiston.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20

JOHN WESLEY has lately been talking to the
world through a spiritual medium, and the
Pittsburg Advocate after carefully perusing
his communication, has reached the conclusion
that he has backslidden in his English-a diff
Guilty that seems to afiict great many dis
tinguished spirits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-20
DIED.

In this city, Feb ~, Mrs. Fannie Jersey, formerly
of Winthrop, aged 81 years. .r7t
In this city, Feb. 49, Mr.. Eugene F. AUSTIN aged 80
years weeks.
In Gorham, Feb. 1s Mrs. Miriam, widow of the late
George Hunt, aged 70 years.
In Westport, Feb. Is, Mr.. Stephen Dunton, aged
81 years
At Small Point, Phipsburg, Mrs. Catharne Pye,
aged 70 years II months.
In Hanover, Feb. 6, Miss Mary D. Howe, aged II
years.-daughter of Jesse B. Howe.
In Paris, Feb. 5, Mr.. VIM. Young, aged CT years.
In Boston, Mr.. Francis G. Pinkham, formerly Of
Boothbay, aged 40 years.
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S22,7S7, 802.45 S26,154, 1888

;.n.a S22,7S7, 802.45 $26, 154, 33s.03
The increase of depositors the past year has
been II, 909, equal TOYS per cent. of the year
previous while the increase of deposits have
been but little more than half as large as in
1871 which the acting examiner concludes to
be indicative of a reduced income of the Ia
borers of the State--a view that the true ex.
hibits of the manufacturing and other in dus-
trialinterests entirely disprove and which, it
is to be feared, is to be attributed in Mr..
Philbrick's case to a misplaced confidence in
who lured him into the ranks of that forlorn
organization. H if5l a5a 81 .4f. Fl
The falling off in the amount of deposits is
due rather to the judicious restrictions placed
upon these institutions by the Legislature of
1872, which at once deprived them of their
charm to large class Of well-to-do investors
who can find larger dividends in other invest
ments. t.,4 81 ~..o
The following facts are of interest:
The average to each deposior is 1921 ea tast year
The total number of depositors who have
The amount standing to their credit is S. SIS os
The number exceeding $500 and not more
The total amount Of their deposits is 1ss %
The number of depositors with bal III -
ances exceeding $1,000 and not more
than 200 Is. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1914
Their deposits amount to. ..........S So 1856 225 90
The number who have balances exceeding gls1
together holding deposits amounting os1 so7 O.
The dividends paid by the banks in 1872
amount to 81, 3s4, 1902, taxes to the general
government 500, 1881, to the State $119, 159.-
0e. The United States tax is no longer re-
quired. a
Mr.. Philbrck regards the tax imposed by
the legislation of last year as eminently just
ana as being larger amount than can be
rean-eo from the same property by any other
e'n0u IN TACT, he says any attempt to en-
ioioe d TAX In different manner would prac-
Ocaliy rum the institutions. He also recon-
menus as little legislation as nossble on cav
lngs banks, as such action tends a. .,:.....h
timid depostors. ''"u' 70 disturb
In conclusion the Examiner s,us. a-.- q
The result of the examina,;o,,:s ~
have beeny very satisfactory The ~ Tue .ne MAN
pear to be In prosperous eonditioma hhs ap-
far as is known their investments are sa ana as
paying remunerative interest. The nrod and
of late of investing in the securities Of .s
West, remote and uaknown, is of donhttahl 9
policy. The past furnishes no precedent to tn,
enormous amount of corporate Indebtedness 9
the country, Especially the West) and n
clearsightedness can foretell the result. Rattle
than to make such investments, it would b
better for the State and safer for the banks t
loan on the security of names under prope
legal restrictions.
Following the report is a statement of tn
standing of the several banks which is full {
matters of interest There 245 depositors VIII
have balances of $4,000 and upwards. Tn
largest balance of any depositor is S25, $780, 2e
the next S25, JOB; and the third $4,000. TIL
next table gives the various classes of invest
ments made by the savings banks. TIL