The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-25
The Kittery Caucus.
THE CHARGE OF WANT OF NOTICE DENIED.

AhL NhahOE Or w AM Or NOAAS>-
KITTERY, June y, 1874.
To the Editor Of the Press:
In the State of the Goth inst, appeared tne
following article:
The Republican caucus at Kittery met tues
day night to choose delegates to the State and
District conventions. The notice oCds posteo
that morning. This was really no notice al all,
and the people who were in the secret or course
had 1t their own way. The choice OF delegates
to the conventions named, in which the pro
ceedinas will be only formal, is not specially
important matter; but at Elliott, SATURDAY
night, delegates were chosen to the York c0un
ty convention, which has not yet been caiied.
The county convention will nominate three
candidates for the state Senate, who VIII vote
for United States Senator next winter. 1t haS
convention is to be packed with delegates APP
pointed by caucuses convened without proper
notice, the Republicans of York will have to
judge for themselves how far its nominations
are their nominations.
So far as the above relates to the caucus IN
this town, the State correspondent has given
series of falsehoeds aid Misrepresentation
calculated to mislead and prejudice the Repub
licans of York against supporting the nominees
of their convention, and at the same time has
cast an unjust reflection upon the Republican
convention of this town.
The caucus in the first place vas not held on
Tuesday night, but on Monday evening, the
18th inst. The call was written on Wednesday,
the 10th inst, and on that day, foe days before
the caucus a copy was posted in each of the
three postoffices in town, aud fourth copy
was on the morning of the 11th, posted on the
church at s'Spruce Creek" On the morning
of the 18th, flag was hosted over the hall in
which the caucus was to be held, and second
flag hung over the street to call attention
to the caucus Instead of "no notice at all, -
more than the usual notification was given, and
LAT votes were cast in the caucus.
The article in question, taken in connection
With the TACT that the Biddeford Journal was
furnished with list Of Kittery delegates to the
district convention, several of whom were not
elected, receiving but 80 of the 147 votes cast,
looks as if it were the design to create false
impression in regard to our caucus and it's re-
suit. CALVIN L. HAYES.
Chairman of Republican Committee of Kittery.
News and Other Items.
Beecher says that we are all like Rhode Is
land greetings; that tho world is better for
| our ''slips' GE
| Miss LeClercq is said to have the smallest
foot on the stage.
The faculty of Yale College announce that
| hereafter no musical instruments will be al
| lowed in the college buildings.
! Ana old lady in Massachusetts being in
| formed that dam above the village where
she lived was likely to give way, Immediately
wished for pair of clean, white stockings,
hat In
woman struggling in the waters, and that she
floated along feet upward
They are looking for man in London to re-
gid the bali on the tip of St. Paul's. Twenty
pounds in money and life insurance will be
given for the job.
Caleb Gushing does not like Madrid, and
some people are looking for the announcement
of his resignation at an early day.
The Rev. r. B. Fairhaven, d. D., warden
of St. Stephens College at Anandale, has dis
covered another comet in the vicinity of
Jupiter, and made public announcement of
it,
The New York market receives daily about
five hundred pounds of frogs legs which sell
readily at retail for half-dollar pound.
The leading Russian journals assert that the
fears of England in regard to the policy of
Russia in the East are wholly imaginary. All
sensible people in Russia, they say, laugh at
such chimerical teIrors. If Russia increases
her ornaments and reforms her military Or
ganization, this is simply in order that she
may not be behind the other European nations,
which are also making preparations for 1.-THE fu-
ture.
There was an epidemic of poisoning by but
termilk in Jacksonville, Ky, lately, and four
teen persons were mysteriously Emade sick by
partaklng of that fluid,
A relic of the Inflated steamship At
lantic, in the shape of passengers ticket
printed in German and English has been TAX
en- from the stomach of a salmon tat st. John,
N. B.
A clergyman settled over Congregations
list church in Boylston, Mass, is accused of
having forged a certificate of his ordination by
the Methodsts, and of preaching other mems
sermons as his own.
Great restitution among the colored people
in Richmond, Va, is reported, it being almost
impossible for them to find employment there
One hundred men left this week to labor in
Ohio coal Mines
Mark Twain is reported to be at present en-
gagged in writing a work on English manners
and costumes.
A curious love story comes from Pittsburg,
Pa A fellow released from an insane asylum
was wildly in love with a ''Circassian Girl
and hired man to find her agreeing to give
him $40 She was found and married at once,
and then the husband refused to pay the hunt
err The suit has changed from love to law.
Mr.. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, proposes
to index all the valuable public documents
from the foundation of the government to the
present time.
Corbett, who captured Booth, the assassin of
President Lincoln, has lost his twelve thousand
dollars reward by investing it in a defective
mortgage. He is practicing law in Illinois.
Mrs, Sartoris was too sea-sick on the voyage
to England to enjoy the festivities that had
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