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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-12-18


TAE.-We have to report q steady
but moderate business during the
past week. The receipts were larger
than those of the previous week, and
better field for purchasing was af-
forded buyers. who seemed tJ take
advantage of the opportunity by pur-
chasing all oflerea at the market pri-
ces, without hesitation. 1t is our
opinion that if prices can be sustained
for two weeks longer that an advanced
rate will be obtained, as the foreign
demand will certainly begin with the
first of tho coming year. On Wednes-
day tho market closed steady at 81 IS.
To-day there We're no trausactiCns
The receipts for the week were
So bb!s against 36l hhls for last
week. The exports for the week were
23@ bbls against 120 bbls for last
week. The stock in yard and a1oat
is 1913 bbls against $3.50 bbls for
last week.
The sa!cS for the week were as fol-
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-12-18

Through to Charlotte NOw-The
Last Rail Laid Yesterday After
(: nOon-F1rst ThrOtgh Train This
Morning.
The anxiously looked for consumma-
ton has at length been reached and
Wilmington and Charlotte, sister
cities yet almost strangers to each
other. are now linked together by one
common highway. Wilmington, down
Inv the sea, sends forth it's most cor
dial greetings to Charlotte, up among
the bills and Charlotte, nesting
among the rich counties of the West,
sends back it's greetings to Whining
ton, the port through which so much
of her supplies must find their way
to the consumers abroad.
A telegram from Col. Fremont,
dated at Charlotte, states that the last
rail was laid at 20 minutes past
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and that
the road is now open all the way
through for trains
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-12-18

into TIE biocd the heart works faster,
and this unnatural speed wears out
the vital machinery. All Intoxicating
uos.rums advertised as ''tonics, " rem
oyators," &c. produce this disastrous
effect. and should ho rejected. DIR.
Walkers Vegetable Vinegar Bittcrs-
an irvigorant without the curse Of
alcohol-is cTcrywilere suppianting
these D0isOns. iw
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-12-18

VIII re found TO porscss those qualities neccs-
sary to iIi4 tG+a! eradication OF all bilious 1T
t cks, u omit 10 start the serretjons of the
liver, aIG give Il healthy tine 20 the c- tire s;s-
tenn. lad, 81. il is ordinary DIS, every l.,
inctI c II .ct"ncerO have inv ;Ited remedy for
ri.es- u bern con- ainfs, which de tInp all
The TsA>ltS ,Io 1uceG by heretotora tree use
OF G.. !ouel. mineral justly dreaded by In an
kind, anc ACKNOWLEDGED to be de st uctiyc in
the extreme TO the human system. That the
pTOpertie- OF rCrt4iI vegetables comprise all
the Writ tes OF carnel without its injurious
tendepriCs, is now al Lite. fact: render ell
indispntahie by scientific researches; a nd those
who use the Mandrake Pills will he fully salts
fled that the best nledicints thoae provide 4
by nature i'll the comm rn herbs snd roots Of
the fields.
These pills open the bowels end correct sill
bilious arrangements without s.iirat'On or
any of the injurious etf9Ct- AZ calorncl or other
poisors. The secretion II bile il promoted by
these pills will be sen hy the altered color
Of the stools, and disc ppea'iIig of the saiIow
com plexi0n end cleansing 81 the tongue.
Ample directions for uSe accompany each
box of pills.
Prepared Only hv j. II. Scbcrtk < Son. at
their pTir cipal office, cCrnor sis'i. and Arch
streets. Philadelphia. and fer sale ry ali drug
g:sts and dealers. Price IS cents yer box.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

IT is not our purpose 10 discuss the merits
or dement's of protective tariff, but we
will venture to remark that the attempt oil
the Bangor Commercial to attribute the de-
crease of population in the farming and ship
building towns in this state to that policy, is
more ingenious and original than real aud in
accordance with the facts. In the first place,
for score of years the young men of our ru
raj towns have been constantly taught by
their fathers, school teachers ard other local
magnates, that agriculture in Maine offers no
field for enterprise and the exercise of brains
In time the seed of this vicious variety be IAN
to bear fruit in an exodus of the young men
and women from the farming towns to our
manufacturing towns and cities-manY to
engage in industrial pursuits, some to strive
after the dollar which they do not earn.
Thousands, too, have been allured to the
West. The tariff has had nothing whatever TO
do with this; indeed, the stampede had well
begun ten years before the war. As to the
loss of population and business of our ship
blu ding towns, cannot the Commercial recall
the work that the Anglo-rebel pirates did in
sweeping their shipping from the ocean and
driving it to seek the protection OF other
flags? Perhaps, however, the memories sug-
gested by this straightforward application OF
cause aud effect, are not pleasant
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

Decidedly the best practical joke of the year
is related by the Jefferson (Texas) Democrat.
The entire police force of the town was ar
raigned before the Mayor on the charge of
vagrancy The charge was preferred by the
families of the policemen, who stated that the
parties under charge had no visible means of
support, as they had received but $12 from the
city in the last five months.
The most practical lover has been discovered
adored he wrote, 81 wish, my darling, that
YOU would not write me such long letters. If
you were TO bring an action for breach of
promise against me, the lawyers would copy
the correspondence between us and charge four
pence for every folio of seventy-two words
The shorter the letters the more we save from
the lawyers.
More than forty years ago a resident of JEFF
ferson, n. H., named Osgood, went out appar-
emily to attend to his usual business affairs,
leaving an enfeebled wife and five very young
children dependent on the sweet charities of the
world if he forgot to return, which he did.
Years after one of the children, grown to man.
hood. IN passing through New York State, came
across this quondam pdter familids comfortably
settled down to a new affinity and the father OF
a second crop. Recently the man feeble and
whitened with age, accompanied by the third
partner of his joys returned to this, the scene
of his earlier years, to find the deserted wife
long since in her grave, and the children sur
rounded by children and grandchildren of theil
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
News and Other Items.

fChS anu VShCA
Caleb Gushing is talked of for Congressman
from the Essex district.
1t is proposed to coin a twenty-cent piece in
silver at the mint.
Queen Victorias youngest son, Leopold, is
going to study law
A son of King Coffee of Ashantee will be ed
ucated in England under the care of the gov
eminent.
Sir Henry Thompson, the renowned London
surgeon, is on his way to this country. He will
visit California and the Yosemite.
Mr. Schroff, a native of Bombay, India, is in
this country To examine our system of public in
struction.
Col. Tenny of Norwich made strong speech
in the Connecticut House the other day in
favor of the taxation of church property.
The cheap transportation problem has been
partially calculated at Cape May, by Harvesting
a Shanghai rooster to a baby carriage.
Andy johnson is said to pay his debts
more promptly than any other man in Tennes-
see.
DR.. Fulton preached on Horace Greeley last
Sunday and discovered that his belief in
universal salvation was the cause of his
failure.
Children are made to walk in the right path
in Detroit. Fourteen women attended dog
fight in that city, the other day. with their
babies.
"A new fifty dollar note will make its appear
ance this week. The engraving ana general
appearFn nee are said to be very clear and fine.
A head of Franklin adorns the face.
yacht with nine prominent business men of
Toronto on board left that place on the 11th to
go to Niagara, and has not since been heard
from. She is supposed to be lost, with all on
board.
William Hayward, the vocalist, who was
well known throughout the county, died quite
suddenly at Sidney, Cape Breton, Wednesday
He was a native of Manchester, N. IT,. and his
relatives reside there.
A Berkshire manufacturer gives it as his
opinion that there are wooden goods enough in
the country, already made, to supply the mar
kets for year, if all mills should cease pro-
ductIon for that time.
An old lady liz town of Lancaster County.
N. Y, lately refused the gift of a load of wood
from tree struck by lightning, through
fear that some of the "fluid" might remein in
tHt WOOu anu cause disaster to her kitchen
stove.
His name is Noon, but things look as dark as
night for him; because he patted one Hageerty
on the bead with a shovel, hurting Hageerty
badly and getting himself into jail. He will
find that spades are not trumps in this game.
1t was little Newark, N. j., episode.
Mr.. A. B. johnson, chief clerk of the Light.
house Board, and private secretary to the late
Mr.. Sumner has an interesting article in
Scrbner's Mouthly for August, giving his re-
collections of the deceased statesman.
A few days ago a lady in Bloomfield, Iowa.
went to post Office and asked for some stamps.
The clerk handed her some green on.s. She
asked him if he didn't have any pink: her
stationery was pink and she wanted stamps to
match.
The Halifax Chamber of Commerce. on
Tuesday afternoon, discussed the reciprocity
treaty. A resolution approving the treaty was
lost The adverse comment was principally
on the sliding scale of the fourth article of the
treaty, the Caughnawaga Canal and the At
lantic coasting trade.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
Railroad Morals.

The general reader would inter from The
resolutions passed by the stockholders of the
Erie Railway Company at its annual meeting
recently held, that ex-President Watson was
not only miracle of railroad wisdom, but a
sort of prodigy that monopolized and blend
ed to the best advantage all of the wisdom
and first class virtues of the country. Ii.
deed, so greatly impressed would the ordi
nary man be with his goodness and briliancy
as set forth in these resolutions, that he
would surely conclude, when he learns that
i-health is the cause of his retirement from
Erie management, that Mr.. Watson is about
to suffer the penalty of absolute goodness
and die young as the good do,
and will wonder how he managed to escape
the happy end Of the very good little boys we
used to read about in the rather old fash
toned Sunday S ;hool books. Perhaps he es-
capped because he was born across the water
But now it comes out that Mr.. Watson
was not so good man as per resolutions
that he could not have been reelected last
week if he desired it ever so much, that ILL
health was an excuse for the general public
three-coated withdrawing process to let Mr..
Watson down with dignity, and commend
him to other corporations, that he may fleece
them as the circular OF Mr.. Livingston, coun-
sci of the foreign stockholders, shows that he
has robbed the Erie owners. In THAT circu-
lar, Mr.. Watson's own utterances are shown
to be false; that he represented to the British
l., al,
the company was three times as much as il
really is that he claimed improvements nevei
made; that he directed the reports of the con-
dltion of the company to be SO made as 10
conceal rather than disclose the real inancia
condition of the road !; and that his genera
management has been so incompetent ant
corrupt that the value of the stock had suf
tered shrinkage of over twenty-eight mil
lion dollars on an aggregate of less thai
eighty-seven millions. In the meantime thu
bonded debt of the road as well as its floating
liabilities has been enormously increased, and
for all this expenditure there is nothing to
show. 1t is even declared that the
Erie railroad proper is not in so efficient a
state as when Mr.. Watson assumed its man
agement. Yet despite all these glazing proofs
of the dishonesty and incompetency of the
man, the stockholders place upon their re-
cords three resolutions, which set forth, in the
most emphatic language, the irreproachable
character of the man and the unquestioned
ability of the official.
Erie mismanagement and corruption has
long been a reproach to railroad manage
ment in this country, and more than al
other causes has brought about the hostility
exhibited to such corporations by the people
throughout the country. We are gratfed
howeve~, to think that its infamy is almost a
lone exception in the history Of American
railroa1ing. Let us hope, too, that its NOR
ais are confined to its own stockholders and
their proxies.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

The leading Republican paper in Minneso-
ia gives Congressman Dunnell brief sketch
OF bis career in that state, and concludes by
a .vsing him that he had not better insist
longer on serving the people in pablo ca
pacity. Nevertheless, Mr.. Dunnell insists on
being candidate for the Centennial Con-
gress, and bis workers are securing him such
part Of the delegates as will ensure his nomi-
nation. The general impression is that his
friends will have to haul sand with great per-
sistence to secure his election.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
Fraud Loves n shining Mark.

great medicine is always target for fraud.
Shallow cheats, without the talent to originate any
thing useful, or the decency permit article of
superior excellence to perform its mission without
striving to turn dishonest penny By attempting to
substitute trash in its place. engaged in mi
tating and counterfeiting Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, the most popular tonic and restorative in the
civilized world. brood of local btters mixtures Of
damaged drugs with worse liquor, has cropped out
all over the country. Although the sales of these
perncious Stops too insignificant to affect the in
terests of staple remedy, it seems duty to warn
the public against them. The color of the true spe-
cific may be simulated but its cures of dyspepsia.
liver complaint, rheumatism intermittent lever CON
stipation, nervous debility, &C., cannot be initiated
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
RnMdnin CnIIewa.

To the Editor of the Press:
Much has lately appeared in the newspapers
concerning the affairs at Bowdoin. If all the
articles had been written by capable men, men
who thoroughly understood the affairs of the
institution, their opinions would have far
greater weight, and people in general would
sympathize with them in their endeavors to
either help or injure the college. In your
paper of Tuesday there appeared an article on
Bowdoin College signed parent" The wri-
ter believes that if the honored head of the in
stituton should be expelled or should volun-
tarly resign his position, its prospects would
soon brighten and people would open their
clustered wealth and throw the spoils into the
treasury of Bowdoin. In fact, he believes tina.
the whole faculty ought to be weeded. The
writer must know that with the small fund
that Bowdoin possesses, it is impossible for her
TO procure men whose demands are greater
than her whole revenue.
l allow that, at present, she is in precarous
circumstances; but is it the right course to
pursue, to attempt to defame the characters of
men " hose records are uutarnished, and to
recommend remedies that possibilities and rea-
SOD will not and cannot regard? He also
states that 1.-THE college has been running down
ever since President Harris left, and is lower
now than for maDy years, as is proved
by the small number of applicants
% for admission this year. l will
briefly state, and to his understanding, that the
reason why the number of applicants was SO
small, was because the examination was previ-
Gus to commencement, and many preferred to
await the action of the Boards upon the drill
Now that the drill is optional, the large number
who would otherWi Use have been previously ex-
amined will present themselves at the next ex-
animation.
1t is to be regretted that this matter of the
drill has assumed political form. The estab-
lish1 ent Of he drill in a classical college was
dangerous innovation But thanks be to the
late action of the Boards in discarding its re-
quirements.
Bowdoin has enemies, but she has firm
friends, friends who would not falter IN their
efforts to save her, if the crisis ever comes
Among her staunchest soldiers will be found
men whose hairs have not, as yet been silvered
by age. She has done nobly in the past, but
her work is for the future. The shades of her
honored dead will hold her in prosperity and
bless her with an earthly Immortality
STUDENT
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

theless, have the effect to dispel the cloud of
great clergyman's fame.
1t is point worthy of notice, that where
Mr. Beecher is best known, the reflections
upon his character have been most scornfully
discredlted. The local newspapers are nearly
unanimous in expressions of perfect faith in
his integrity and equally SO in denunciations of
the author of the incomprehenslble and shad-
owy Indictment upon which he has been ar
raigned. The people OF Brooklyn stand by
their illustrious townsman with supreme de-
votion, and utterly refuse to accept any state
ment as true, which implies a doubt Of his moral
probity.
L have the charity to believe that Mr.. Tilton
had no adequate conception of the wrong he
was doiag in the revival of this pitiable scan
dal Loeg ago he was told by an eminent
merchant that If he was holding in his pos
session a sef-inculpating letter signed by Mr..
Bpecher, it was his duty as an honorable man
to destroy it; that the retention of it was the
act Of black mailer But this view of the
case, obvious as it was, did not seem to pre-
sent itself to his mind. He appears TO have
been laboring under the strange hallucination
that the false position in which he had placed
himself by his Identification with Mrs. Wood
hull as her champion and biographer could be
retrieved by an onslaught on the pastor of Ply
mouth church. He brooded over this idea till
it made him morbid, and gained complete
mastery of his mental and moral faculties
The thought possessed him like all evil spirit,
and goaded him on to the fatal act of striking a
covert blow at the man who of all OTHERS most
deserved his gratitude and reverence-from
whom he had received unnumbered kIndnesses
who had been appreciatve of his genius, gem
erous in promoting his advancement and toll
Grant of his eccentrcities. 1t he has not dis
covered by this time that the stroke he aimed
with such deliberate cruelty, at another has re-
coiled upon himself with crushing force, he is
the only man acquainted with the dismal
story who has not been brought to that con-
cusion with unerring certainty.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

THE letter of acceptance Of Hon. Eugene
Hale, elsewhere published, is a plain, sensi-
BILE, straightforward document, eminentiy
characteristic of its author. Addressed to
his constituents it contains that matter about
which Representative should inform his
district. 1t tells them what Congress has
tlons OF the great questions of the day and
looks to the future rather than to the past
OF the party, as was to be expected of so
thoroughly progressive public man as Mr..
Hale. 1t is paper replete with the highest
statesmanship-the craftsmanship nf com
mon sense. 1t is declaration of principles
On which anybody might well be satisfied
to GO 10 the country.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley L.
tullen Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will comic, favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming To represent our
Journal, as we have information that several ''bum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
Cumberland County Republican,
Convention.
The Republicans of Cumberland County are re-
quested to send Delegates to meet in Convention in
Reception Room of City Hall, Portland,


for the purpose of nominating candidates for
Commit s,oner 10 be supported at the State election
in September.
Also to choose County Committee, and to act
upon any other bus ness which may properly come
before the Convention.
The basis of representation will be as fOllows:-Eact
city and town will be entitled to one Delegate and
one additional Delegate tor every 81 votes fol-
Sidney Perham for Governor in 1872. A fraction o.
80 additional to the full number will entite the
city or town to an additional Delegate. This basi:
will give the following delegation and apportionment
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

NEGOTIATIONS are pending, we know not
with what probability of a successful result,
looking to an arrangement between the East
erD, Maine Central and Boston & Maine rail
roads, by which the latter will be placed, so
far as its traffic is concerned, on the same
footing witch reference to the Maine Central
as the Eastern. This will end the war and
ipjure the ticket business.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
Total.


Vacancies delegations only be filled by actua
residents of the town which they represent.
The County Committee will be in session at the
above at O'Clock on the day of the Convention
for the purpose of ceving credentials OF delegations
THOMAS HANCOCK, Gray,
4. G. UrCHINS, Cape Elizabeth,
H. p. MILLErr, Gorham.
LII rHER BILL NGS, Bridgton,
DANIEL ELLIOT, Brunswick
WIN. I. SMALL, Chairman. Portland,
l.. b. CHAPMAN, Secretary, Deering,
Republican County Committee.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
PHOTOGRAPHER
DIR. RECKNELL'S SYRUP
Cures Bowel or Simmer Complaints.

Being composed largely of Brandy, Spices and
simple astrngents without particle of Opiate has
proved after % yeas' trial superior to any Other
article for Dysentery, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus,
ach, Sea Sickness, Dyspepsia, &C., and may be i'm
plCity relied upon in the severe cases. yet SC
simple and pleasant that it may be given the most
delicate infant. 1t upon the sysel like water
upon a wilted plant
Prepared only By Edward Sutton of Providence,
r. l. Sold by all dealers in medicines. iy1sn3m
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
al! cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
municatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17


STATE FAIR PREMIUMs.-We have received
from the Secretary of the Maine Agricultural
Society, list of the premiums offered by the
officers of taat society. Of course the prem
iums are not so large as to render it a money
making business to take stock and goods to the
exhibition. but they are as large as the Society
can afford to offer, and extend to every one of
the numerous industries of the state. 1t is to
be hoped that our manufactures will not fail to
be represented. This applies to the whole
state. The officers make an Innovation this
year by advertising premiums for baby show.
Let this part of the exhibition be a success, as
1t can be. This is the first state fair which has
been held in the heart of the state Lewiston
has many attractions, and if arrangements are
made with the railroads, there can be no doubt
but there will be large attendance
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
DEPARTURE OF OCEAN sTEAMEss
IARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.


ARRIVED.
Steamer Falmouth. Colby, Halifax, S-passen-
gers and mdse to John Porteous.
:, Steamer New York, Winchester, st John, NIB, via
Eastport for Boston,
Barque Mary Nelson, (Br) Mutt, Turks Islands
1903 bushels salt to Ryan & Kelsey.
Barque Atlantic (Br) Foster, Pictou-563 tons ccal
to A d Whidd n.
Sch Cumberland --, PHILADELPHIA
Sch VIM Deming, Mitchell, Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-17
SOUTHERN PINE.
100000 fl. Timber and Plank

now landing ex sch. "Henrietta," from Brunswick,
Ca, suitable for Ship, Store Bridge building, for
sale low. orders lett at No. IL. Exchange St.,
Ocean Insurance Co., Up Stairs, will be promptly
attended to. j. H. HAMLEN s. SON. .
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