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The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

For the reek ending Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Georges Codfsh-Stock SMALL without recent
transactions. Holders are firm at $5a q S5t per Dbl.
Bank Codfsh-Stock moving slowlt at "a @4tP
qtl, as to quality.
Mackerel-Stock in first hands quite light. We
notice INDICTMENTS of late caught Bay rs at $14 per
Dbl.
Pollock-We quote at so % qtl.
Oil-Last sales at 55c % gal
Smoked Halibut- The market steady at III a 12c
~ fb.
Herring-We quote at 81 q y Dbl for round and
Boneless Codfsh-We quote at 81 q &c P fb.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

METEOROLOGICAL
PROBABILITIES FOR THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR
HOURS
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHEF SIGNALl
OFFICER, Washington, d. c.,
Dec "a, IS z. MI
For New England
and Middle States, temperature will fall slight
ly with increasing pressure and generally fair
weather.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

The POULTRY MARKET,-It is mBny years
since we have seen so few teams from the coun-
Try loaded with poultry, the day before Christ
mas as our streets aud markets exhibited yester-
day. As consequence, prices went up, and
turkies that sold on Tuesday for II and 18 cents
would yesterday have brought % and Is cents.
Chickens sold at Is and 20 cents, and ducks at
the same price. 1t was fortunate that store
keepers had secured lots of poultry by railroad,
9th ,rwise many families would have been oblig-
ed to dine upon something else than fowl on
Christmas day.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

At Odd FeIlo,cs' Hall, No. IS Exchange Street.
LoDaEs-Maine, on Monday evenings Ancient
Brothers, on Thursday evenings; Lgona, on Friday
evenings; Beacon, Tuesday evenings; Ivy, D., of
r., second and fourth Saturday.
Observation-Disclosures first and third We'd
3esdays; Eastern Star, second and fourth Wednes-
days; Portland, first and third Saturdays.
RELIEF AssoCIATIoN-Every third Tuesday in the
month.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

VALUABLE CHRISTMAS GHTs.-Mr Thomas
Fisher boot and shoe dealer, corner of Bracket
and Summer streets, presented his two journey
men with $50 each as a Christmas gift. 1t was
noble deed from an open hearted man to
worthy men.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
DR.. Urann of Bostor,

at Preble House Thursdays and Fridays Con-
sultatiOn free. Send for circulars containing
wonderful cures. nov12MaTh&wtf
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
European Markets,

LONDON, Dec. 24-12.3O P. MIN American seem
ties-U s. bonds. 1866, 94s U. s. 1O4Os 92t; new IS
OF. Erie 81.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 24-1.OO p M.-Cotton stead
Ter; Mmdilng uplands SD; do Orleans 81 a sgd !;
sales r. 900 bales including 1000 bales for specua-
tiOn and export.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
Stated Meetings.
CITY GOVERNMENT,

The regular meetings of the City Council take place
he first Monday evening of each month.
The School Committee meet the fourth Monday eve
ming of each month.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

Rost0n SiocksLfst.

. BY water conveyance 1000 bush cornmeal to Geov
True & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

Receipts by KniirOnds and Steam bOats
GRAND TRUNK RA1LRoAD-7 cars sundries. do
shocks, do potatoes. do bark, 5 do -four, 10 do
lumber, do hoops, do hay 40 do for Liverpool, 2
wood, do for st. john, NIB, do for halifax, Ms.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

GENERAL ExERCIsEs.-Tbe general exercises
at the High School yesterday morning, called
together as usual, roomful of people. The
exercises were carried out by the young ladies
of the "Aspirant," and were of very pleasing
character The music was unusually good. and
the paper was very bright and spicy, showing
careful preparation on the part of its addresses.
The speech on "Women's Rights" and thes
music which followed were decidedly amusing
The imitation of music box on the upper notes
of the piano was good. The exercises close by
the singing of a beautiful Christmas Carol. The
Aspirants have reason to congratulate them
selves upon the success of the exercises
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
Mormon CQurfa.
Not n Good Sheriff.

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 24-It is reported that
Sheriff Ellis and Treasurer Kane Of Cheyenne
County, were arrested for being in callusion
with the gang Of swindlers who have been OPP
Grating extensively on the Uuion Pacific Rail-
road,
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

HAVANA, Dec. 24-Exchange is firm; on United
80 prem; GO days gold IS q 96 prem; do short sight
at SO q 90 prem.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

PITTsBURG, Pa, Dec. 24.-This city was en-
velored in fog to day up to nom. The work
shops and business houses were lighted to the
full power of gas metres and In some parts of
the city it was found necessary TO light street
lampS
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

A:despatch from Rome says that tho Rector
of the American College has RENTED to the
Pope $4,000, contributed by Catholics in the
United States
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

MATANZAS. Schr John Bird-4791 box shocks,
1922 shocks and heads, So 400 hoops.
SACKVILLE, Ms. Schr Wild Hunter-667 bbls
-four.
ST. JOHN. NIB. Schr George Calhoun-11Oo bbls
-four, 1887 pcs iron.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

though the market was firm In tone and price ad-
vanced to a per cent. The largest dealings
In Western Union, which ranged between " q 72a
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
CIT HALL.
Commencing Thursday, Jan. LIST.
to conclude with
Grand Vocal Concert.

LECTURES:
THURSDAY EVENING, Jan. 1, 1874, Edward
JenkiDs, author OF "Gnx Baby" Subject
"Englapd of to-day"
WEDNESDAY EVENING, Jan. It'll, Rev. Geo,
II. Hepwcrth. of New York. Subject-"The
Great Fight"
MONDAY EVENING. Jan 18Th, Prof. Town.
send, of Boston University. Author Of "Credo''
ami other works. Subject 10 be announced.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. Jan. 28th, James II.
Fields Of Boston. Subject-"Fiction0and its en-
inent authors"
TO conclude y-ifh
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

LIVERPOOL. Steamship Polynesian-1 case of
watches, d. jeCery, cask merchandise to Savage,
Lyman s. Co, cases merchandise to W Bonnefl,
do do TO Robertson, So1 u Co, do do to Thomp-
Co. cases merchandise to Agt Grand Trunk Co, Is
do do to Can. Express Co, 1877 pkgs do 10 cases
anges to Prnile, 147 boxes oranges, SO do lem
to Hart, Marion q Co, 81 pickles, 10 boxes
oranges, 10 bbls grapes, to Ellison g. johnson. 70
bars iron to A Z Stevens & Co, cases merchandise
to j Clark & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

A CARD.-At meeting of the Martha Wash
ington Society, in consequence of the low state
of their funds, they voted to solicit repeti-
ton of the concert given by the Aged Brother
hood for the benefit of this charity.
AS the duties of the Aged Brotherhood were
completed before tine invitation was received,
aud as it cannot be accepted by them for those
who 50 kindly assisted in their concert. it has
been deemed best to cordially invite all parties
who participated in the previous concert to
meet at Rossinl Hall next Saturday evening at
Il o'clock, to take the subject into consdera-
ton.
ENGLISH STEAMERs.--About 10 o'clock yes
terday morning the Allan steamer Polynesian,
Capt. Brown, anchored off the Grand Trunk
wharves. She brought full freight, as well
as q cabin and 55 steerage passengers. The
captain states that the steamer encountered
heavy seas on her passage over. 1t is expected
that she will be emptied and reloaded so as to
sail by Sunday. The HISTORIAN which has been
lying here for the past ten days, and which is a
much smaller steamer than the Polynesian will
leave Immediately after the latter steamer
sails.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

Large Auction sale of Toys, Fam
cy Goods, ~ atcbes, Jewelry, &c.
by Abrams Il Bro, b2J Federal
Street. under the U. 9. Hotel.
WE shall sell. commencing Monday afternoon,
w Dec. ed, 1873, and every afternoon and even
ing during the week at and o'cock, ge variety
OF holiday presents, consisting ofdols,toy tea
sets, French china cups and mugs. wine and smok-
ing sets, fancy work boxes, vases, and variety Of
fancy goods. Also, a'iies' and genus gold and sill
yer wa ches jewelry etc. Also, lot Of sold silver
plated ware etc. dec1s-st
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-10

response In every lloush,ful soul, When
about to Yield bis young existence rs a
saeriNae to fate, his Clemaniha nsks II
lhcyshonld mectagolnto which no replies :
81 lave 9sked that dreadful question Of
tho hills that look elornHl--of tho clear
sireams that ilow toreyer--,of the stars
among whose fields Of azure my raised
spirits have walked in glory, Al were
dumb hut M ! gaaed uppn thy living
face, ! feel that there IL sonaihikg In The
love hat snnllos through It's beauty hat
cannot wholly perish We shall nesi
again, CleManlla A w
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Shall wo Meet .Againe

TIE following iy said to be one Of tho
mos. brillisstsitioIss,ss Willingly the
lamensd George D, Prentice:
The fiat of natsrc Is memorable. There
Is no appeal for relief from the great law
which dooms US 70 dust. We flourish aud
fade as the leaves Of the forest, and the
flowers that bloom and nither in a day
have noafrai lsrs hold .upon life than the
mightisz. monarch Ethaf ever shook the
earth With footsteps. ,Geatrstions Of
men will appear aud disappear ss the
grass, and the multitudes that throng the
world today will disappear as the foot
steps on do shorsa sSlsn seldom think Of
the great event Of death until the shadow
falls across their. 1eWn pathway hiding
from their eyessthe faces of-loved once
whose Hiding ssmilsA Eashthe sunlight Of
their existence Death is Ina ANITA ppist
Of life, and the cold thought Of the tomb
is the skeleton Of all -feasts.
We do not want to gethroughthc dark
valley, .. slshoughe It's dark passage may
lead TO spasad isel We do not wsntto lie
down infbs dark ye,eyen with princes
for bad re flows y In the drama Of lon, the
hope Of Immortality, so cioqusntly utter
ed BY tAsasssA aer0ssd Greek, fnas deep
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
WHOLE NO. 2,2ss.

feet, in the most dangerous manner,
very large volumes Of the water that
the infective influence of the choleraic
discharges attaches to whatever bed
ding, clothing and like things have
been imbued with them, and renders
these things, if not disinfeeted, capa-
bic of spreading the disease.
t. Cleansing and purity, skillful dis
infection, temperate habits and whole
some diet with pure water aud fresh
air are the trusted and sure means of
health and security in all places and
for all classes of people when exposed
to the causes of cholera. The watch
word against this destructive enemy
should be, remove the local causes
that favor the propagation Of cholera,
and wherever it appears, let its germs
be quickly stamped out by powerful
disinfectants and instant cleansing.
From being the most feared and de-
struetive pestilenee, cholera now may
be controlled and distinguished more
quickly and completely than any ether
epidemic disease. Believing, there
fore that the people Of the United
States require the suggestions which
are given in this memorandum, this
presents them for the pur-
pose of fastening and making sure
the most extensive, thorough and
speedy control Of the destroyer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
Coming War with Mexico.

For some months it has been very
apparent that the east intended to ap-
pease the west by inaugurating war
with Mexico. Popular attention must
be averted from the wretehed admin
istration of public affairs; starving
WESTERN farmers must have a market
for bread -stuffs spectators, whe grew
rich in the war between the States, are
impatient for the renewal of war.
The spirit of popular acquisitiyeness
must be appeased, and Grant is advis-
ed by his managers that nothing will
so strengthen his administration or so
thoroughly consolidate his party as
the prosecution of a war of conquest
against Mexico. The seizure Of this
country, that the negroes of the south
may find a paradise in which men
may live without toll, and where ne
gro genius for craftsmanship may have
unrestricted development, has often
been suggested. A Negro chosen
of congress from Mississippi,
by bill presented in congress, has de-
fined this schemeGf benefcence for the
colored people. 1t is thought that
Grant approves this purpose Of hostil-
tues, and when the war with Mexico
begins, armies employed, it is thought,
will be constituted mainly of colored
soldiers. Very certainly, white peO-
pie have had enough of the dirty bus
ness. Unless all be officers and most
Of them quartermasters, surgeons and
commissioners, there will be few en-
istments in these parts for the coming
Mexican war.-Menlphis appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
A Chance for Somebody.

The Mammoth Cave is good OPEN
ing for some speculator. The Balti-
more Gazette says there is no fear of
running the business into the ground,
as the more this is done the more pros
porous it will be. The Mammoth Gave
is for sale; price five hundred thous-
and dollars. That pretty little sum is
all the heirs ask for their immense
hole in the ground. The great objec-
ton at present to the cave is the rough
ness Of the approach. The arrange
ments for reaching the cave, which is
nine miles from Gave City, a small
town on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, are rather worse now than
they have been for number of years,
principally on account of the miserable
condition of the roads between the
station and the cave. 1t Is a little sim
gular that better means of approach
have not been provided If a branch
railroad were built, with trains to run
in connection with the Louisville and
Nashville trains, thousands of persons
who are compelled to pass the cave for
want of time and for fear of the ter
rible coaches-which are nothing more
than army ambulances on one line, and
old fashioned stage coaches on anoth-
er-would be enabled to see the won
derful cave with very little loss of
time and comparative little additional
expense. But lack of enterprise has
generally characterized the manage
ment of the cave.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

such rapid revolutions as to destroy
the whole machinery. = \ y
Thursday evening, June 5, was the
grand Concerto and Floralia by the
music-classes of Clarksville Female
Academy. THE Olympian Host visit
the earth-enter into an entertainment
find Flora and crown her Queen of
Flowers. The open scene discovers
Undine and three water nymphs lis
tening to>Troubadour's tale of love for
Flora. Mercury appeals-discovers
Flora, charmed with her beauty-dis-
closes her Coronation by Juno, and an
nounces the coming of the Olympian
Train y With this delightful vision
we take our farewell of the Academy,
the pupils, teachers, and President.
The next session will commence the
first Monday in September. Rev.
James Wright, now of the Athens
Female Institute, North Alabama,
President. He will be assisted by a
corps of experienced tea
,hers. We predict for him a liberal
patronage.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
The South will Rise Again.

Upon recent occasion in Wash
ington, Judge Embrey, in introdu-
cling Southern lady to an audience of
ladies and gentlemen, paid the follow
ing handsome tribute to the women of
the South:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Twenty
years ago all the Southern States were
represented at this capital by many of
the loyeliest and most accomplished
ladies of America. They were indeed
the queens of American society in the
highest intellectual culture, and in
more than princely bearing of Orien-
tai beauty. But war, with the devas-
tations that follow in its train, has. for
more than a decade, swept with relent-
less fury over all the fair and fruitful
fields of. the South. 1t has desolated
countless happy homes, curbed many
noble ambitions, crushed many bright
hopes and anticipations, reduced to
poverty and want thousands reared in
atfiuence and wealth, and has hung the
symbols of mourning throughout all
the borders of that sunny land. Such
a land, with such a soil and climate,
and, above all, such race of people.
was not destined by God and nature to
utter ruin. Her stricken and wasted
fields will ripen again with their gold
EN- haryests and her gardens will send
the fragrance of their flowers over all
the land. She will rise from her sor-
rows and humiliation, from her pov-
erty and her ashes, because her very
ashes will enrich her."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: haye been
looking for some time for some one to
say something through the columns OF
your valuable paper in reference to the
County Superintendent to beelected in
July; yet but very little has been said.
The time for election is rapidly ap-
preaching, yet the people do not seem
to be very much interested about it.
Notwithstanding this is an Office of
great Importance to every one, yet all
seem to be resting very easy in regard
te it, and we're it not that report says
there are some who intend running for
this Office who are incapable of filling
it, | would not attempt to write any
thing in reference thereto. Good rea-
SON and common sense will teach every
one (on moments refection) that
man who is not capacitated to fill this
office, will do the county an injustice if
elected. The Court should look we'll
to this point, for the prosperity of the
public schools will depend, to a great
extent upon the Superintendent. IF
he is not the right man in the right
place, the public schools of Montgom-
cry county will do but very little good.
If man seeks this Office merely for
self-aggrandizement, he is not suita-
able one for the Office. A man who
will look to the interest of the people
and of the public schools, is the right
kind. ~,
There are several other things neces-
sary for good Superintendent. He
should be man of experience in the
school room, if possible. If he has no
he will not be SO apt to
know when everything is going on
rightly. The first Superintendent will
have more difficult position to FIJI
than those who follow. He will have
to pave the way. Therefore he should
be man of perseverance, having the
ability and the will. IF the first Su-
oerintendent is negligent and indifer-
INT and fails to arouse the people on
he subject of schools, he will do but
title good. Many are opposed to them
because the old school law did so little
rood. 1 say let us have good Super
and let him stir up the peo-
Die on the subject and show to them
hat public schools can be made sue
,ess and that there can be great deal
If good done by them. If we have
nan who is not suitable for the office,
he schools will be of little or no avail
md consequently the people will op-
,ose them and they will then have
easons to do so. 1t is to be hoped
he Court will elect suitable man to
he Office The State Superintendent
10 doubt, is the right man in the right
,lace. Let the counties have oompe-
ent men forSuperintendents, and pub
ic schools will be success instead of
failure, and they will prove a blessing
instead of curse to the people.
DELTA.
GAINESVILLE, June 20, 1873. |!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

Col. FORNEY complains, in well
written article in the Philadelphia
Press, that public men are, as class,
ungrateful to the newspapers and the
journalists to whom they, in many in
stances, owe their position. Nobody
is more competent to speak on this
subject than Col Forney himself. He
has made more statesman out of small
material than any man in America.
He has taken more active part in the
personnel of American politics in the
last twenty years than almost any other
man. Much of his work haSbeen that
of a politician rather than that of a
journalist, but in either capacity he
has always been able to serve his friends
well, and he has always served them
faithfully. His reward has been very
small. If he had let politics alone
and devoted himself exclusively to
journalism, he might have made a
greater name than Greeley's and
greater fortune than Bennet's. But
he was always very fond of helping
some friend to an office, and always
had taste for political intrigue witha
purpose of this kind. His experience
has, no doubt, been that of hundred
others who have operated in the same
way on smaller scale. Make a Gov
ernor out of an Alderman to-day, and
tomorrow he'll tell you that he owes
his elevation to his own superior mer-
its. Forney made President of the
ITa1fo1 Skotoc ont &c To D,olo.
but before the old public functionary
had taken his seat he repudiated his
patentee and manufacturer in the most
ungrateful manner. Congressman are
made bycountry newspapers-yet when
they go to Washington 1t wouldn't be
safe to tell them so. Garfield, as an
NJ. c., was invented by seventy
nine sheet, the editor of which had
probably never seen a five dollar bill
in his life, and Garfield would certain
ly be indignant now if asked to give
five dollars of his back pay to that man.
Trumbull was first heard of, we be-
lieve, through little paper in Alton
and he was last heard of drawing his
$4,000 grab. Ben. Butler says he was
not made by the newspapers but then
it must ever remain one of the myster-
les of nature where Ben. Butler came
from, and what object was in view in
producing him. If the grievance of
which Col. Forney complains is a sore
one, it is the fault of those who areag-
grieved. There is too much puffery of
small men in the newspaper nowadays
too much disposition to exalt gentle
dullness and amiable imbecility into
intellectual greatness and real ability
Every chuckle- head in Congress gets
more praise from the press of his party
now than could truthfully have been
bestowed upon Daniel Webster in his
palmiest day.-iN. Louis Democrat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

THE following oranges in Tennessee
have been organized and reported
within the last few days: Antioch
grange, Gibson county, Tennessee. J.
w. G. Davidson, master; II. A. Wade,
secretary. Yorkville grange, Gibson
county, Tennessee--W. II. Baldridge,
master; w. E. MeNiel, secretary.
Newbern grange, Dyer eOunty-Gen.
T. III. Bell, master; L. NJ. Williams,
secretary; Ro-Ellen grange, Dyer co.
Tennessee-W. j. Mahen, master i.
b. Swift, secretary. Mason Hall
grange, Obion county, Tennessee-A.
B. Harget, master; b. p. Green, see
retary. Indian Creek grange. Wayne
county, Tennessee NJ. Thompson,
master; Z. B. Martin, secretary.
Walnut Bend grange, Phillips county,
Arkansas-E. IL. B. Dupuy, master /;
j. =. Dunn. secretary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

A TEN year old, boasting to school
mate, of his fathers accomplishments,
put it thus:
MY father can do almost anything
He's a notary public, aud he's poth
ecary, and can pull teeth, and he's a
horse doctor, and he can mend wag-
ons and things, and can play the tid-
die, and he's a jackass at all trades.