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The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

A SCENE AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH-Friday
evening, while Mr.. Raymond was making a
speech in favor of Mr.. Beecher, after the read
ing of the report of the investigating commit
tee, he alluded to Moulton as the man who had
poisoned the minds of the people with his lies.
When this sentence was uttered Mr.. Moulton
interrupted saying: "You are LIAR
Great excitement all over the church and
cries of ''Put him outp' "Put him outp'
Mr.. Halliday-No; let him sit here and hear
the truth.
Great confusion followed with cries of s'Put
him out!' "Let him stay!' "Order," sc.
Mr. Moulton-He will stay whether you
want him or not.
At this juncture Captain Bourne Of the Sec
ond Precinct police, in plain clothes, came and
stood by Mr.. Moulton's side, and an officer in
uniform stood near him. The uproar continued
tor several minutes and then Mr.. S. b. White,
one of the committee, obtained hearing. and
said: Gentlemen, in the name of Plymouth
Church, require that any man that does not
disturb the meeting shall be allowed to sit still
and hear the truth
After the exercises closed, rush, according
to the World, was made for Mr.. Moulton, but
the police had no trouble in saving him from
violence, though number.of persons seemed
anxious to reach him. He took his carriage
and with the officers rode home, although an
effort was made by the curious crowd to pre-
vent his entering the coach. A part of the
eager crowd hooted and jeered as the carriage
passed along.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

TEXAS people appear to entertain not I'M
reasonable doubts in regard to the strength
of ropes used in the legal hanging of men,
and to the efficiency and presence of mind of
the sheriff who has the strangling in hand.
Recently Mr.. Ely Bly, was hanged in that
state, for the murder of man named Car
michael. The father of the murdered man
had, it.appears, high regard for the enforce
ment of law, and was very determined that
its decree in this case should be carried out
in satisfactory and workmanlike manner.
During the building Of the scaffold he took
forty miles ride every day to inspect the prog
ress of the work, to test the strength of the
timbers and the construction, and to take
tug at the well-seasoned rope. These obser-
vations taken, he would drop over to the jail
in quiet way to ascertain if the prisoner
was securely fastened in his cell and if the
prison guards, especially hired for the pur-
pose, were attending to their duty. On the
day of execution, he took a seat in front of
the scafold, armed with loaded rife. ey;
IDENTIFY cherishing the intention TO shoot Ell
ther the prisoner or the sheriff, it does not
clearly appear which, in case there was any
''hitch" in the proceedings. He was accom-
panied by his three daughters and by large
number of kinsfolk and friends. There was,
however, no need for the services of the trusty
rifle. The hanging went off smoothly and
expeditiously, to the huge delectation of the
family circle. AT its clese Mr.. Carmichael
senior secured the rope, and after showing it
with symptoms of marked qualification to the
three gentle maidens who called him father,
jumped on his horse and rode home, strength
ened by the conviction of having discharged a
mourntul but imperative duty. And the show
was great moral spectacle.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
News and Other Items.

"Amateur gentlemen is a pretty good de-
scription of a certain class of young men.
The oiled paper used in the Geographic de-
partment of the London postofice has caused
two fires by spontaneous combustion, recently.
Brigham Young has to support his family on
$4,000 month. Poor man! But such fami-
ly!
A Detroit man recently eloped with a wom-
an and her six children. The forsaken hus-
band did not pursue.
About half the horses in st. John, N. b., are
suffering from an influenza, attributed to the
presence of some unhealthy influence in the at
mosphere.
The tomb of President Lincoln was recently
opened, when it was found that the embalming
process was completely successful, the body
being in an excellent state Of preservation.
A Mexican woman, a lineal descendant of
the Montezumas, has sued the proprietor of a
Chicago beer garden for $4,000 damages, on
account of being refused a glass of beer because
of her color.
There is said to be in Massachusetts, mer-
chant who has been in business forty-seven
years, and never advertised and doesn't mean
to-. He began with a capital of $500, and by
strict attention to business and economical liv-
ing has increased it to 1855.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31


Mechanic Falls shoe factory has started up
again.
The Advent camp-meeting at Mechanic Falls
is to commence on Saturday, Sept, 9th, and
hold over two Sabbaths.
ARoOsTOOK COUNTY.
The engineers have completed the survey and
location of the railroad to Caribou, finding a
very easy and feasible route The people of
Lyndon had meeting and voted, with but two
dissenting votes, to loan the credit of the town
to the extent authorized by law, viz, 3 per cent.
of the valuation, towards building of the road.
The citizens of Caribou are very much encour-
aged with the idea that in two years at furthest
they will have a road connecting then by rail
with the outside world.
Thomas Black of Easton, was found dead
in his bed August 18th. He had been subject
to fits and is supposed to have died when in
one.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
There was picked up last week, near Damar.
iscotta Island, Boothbay harbor, ships libra
ry, supposed to belong to some vessel lost in
the recent gale. The library was furnished by
the American Seamen's Friend Society,"" and
is numbered 3O0S but there is no word nor key
to word to indicate the vessels name.
OXFORD COUNTY.
press Correspondence
Messrs. Roscoe G. Green and Isaac E. Os-
good, manufacturers of clothing at Hiram Cor
ner,were presented recently by their employees
each with a valuable ring with Masonic en-
blems This firm, it will be remembered, re-
Gently gave their workmen an excursion to the
islands.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The subscription of $4,000 for horse trot in
Bangor has been completed.
A man by the name of Eugene Sewall, W no
lived in Newport, near the Corinna line, was
found drowned in a stream in the latter town
last Monday morning. He had probably gone
In bathing and been siezed with the cramp
Samuel G. Robinson, of the firm of Brown
q Robinson, was considerably injured Friday,
by falling, while going from the composing to
the counting room OF the Wing office, Bangor.
YORK COUNTY.
Mrs. Lydia Mason, wife of James Mason,
Esq, of Dayton, was fatally injured Friday,
by falling down stairs having mistaken the
cellar for the dining room door. She lived but
an hour and quarter after the fall.
Beloml Cote, who keeps a small store in Bid.
deford, had his watch stolen out of his pocket
a few days ago while asleep.
IN GENERAL.
The meeting of the Chase family at Fairfield
last week was attended by about eighty persons
and the letters of the representative whom
they sent to England to hunt up the records of
the family and investigate as to the property
which would belong to the heirs in the United
States, were read. These gave glowing des-
cription of the Chase property in England, es-
timating the cash at 100000 and the real es-
tate as worth even more than this. There was
call for more money to carry on the investi-
CATION and discussion followed, during which
it was intimated that an account of the expen-
diture of the $4,000 already raised would be in
order After further discussion, Alden Chase
of Bryants Pond, Me-, was elected the repre-
sentative Of the Chase heirs in America, with
full power to act for them in investigating the
subject of the expected fortune in Europe.
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The Committees Report.

The report of the Plymouth church inves-
tigating committee is document of very
little practical Importance. The verdict was
rendered by the higher tribunal of public
opinion Immediately upon the publication of
MI. Beecher's statement, supplemented and
strengthened by Moulton's rubbish, the lame
and impotent conclusion to so many profound
and mysterious limitations. 1t is safe to say
that very large proportion of decent, re-
putable and Christian people concurred
with the finding of the committee before it
was heard, and acquitted Mr.. Beecher as fully
substantially that Mr.. Beecher did not COM
NIT adultery with Mrs. Tiltoh that he did
not commit any unchaste or improper act
with Mrs. Tilton, nor make any improper re-
mark, proffer or solicitation 70 her; that he
has greatly erred in judgment in his endeav-
ors to suppress the long-impending scandal,
but has done nothing which ought to impair
our perfect confidence in his Christian charac-
ter and integrity. This must be practically
the termination of the scandal, for though
the fellow Moulton, who made so disreputa-
BILE an exhibition of himself at the Plymouth
meeting, and the wretched Tilton will proba-
bly, throw upon the public more immense
Statements" they will attract comparatively
little attention. The interest in them will be
very slight and their utterances will be gener-
ally regarded as the angry and malevolent
ratings of men who are utterly disgraced and
despised, and who will seek vengeance and
notoriety by all available devices. There are
also several cases in court-and more threat
ened involving discussion of the facts of
the great scandal, SO that floods of nastiness
may be anticipated, with reckless use of re-
spectacle names; but it is certain that future
disclosures or repetitions Of former disclosures
will fail to awaken the intensity of interest
and apprehension which marked the early
days of the investigation. Nearly everybody
has now definite opinion on the subject
one way or the other-and future proceed
ings will excite nausea rather than curiosity.
The warmth, heartiness and unanimity of
endorsement which the society gave the COM
mittee's report must be most gratifying to
the pastor, and assure him of pleasant and
useful continuance of the great work of his
life in his favorite field. With their cordial
sympathy and support, he can go on to new
and greater success, and time will prove the
great emollient for the hurts which he has
sustained in this crisis Of his career.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

perfect satisfaction of the church, his en-
tire innocence and personal purity with respect
to all charges now or hereafter made against
him by Theodore Tilton.
Resolved, That our confidence and love for
our pastor, so far from being diminished are
heightened and strengthened by the unmerited
sufferings which he SO long has borne, and that
we welcome him with a sympathy more ten
der, and trust more unbounded, than were
ever felt before to his public labors among US,
to our church, our families, our homes and our
hearts,
The above were doptedsunanimously.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

THE nomination of representatives which
both parties will make during the next ten
days will determine the character of the next
Legislature. Consequently, the selection of
such candidates is a matter of too great con-
Germ to the people at large to be passed over
lightly or left to be managed by few persons
whose self interest is motive for them to be
active. Generally, those most eager to be
members of The general court" will be the
least fitted for the responsible position; and
least Oh all is that man fit to be representa-
1--WE whose friends urge in his behalf that he
- poor and needs the salary $3.50 year,.
GENERALLY speaking, it is safe to select a man
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

AS if Mayor Havemeyer's cup of misery was
not already full to overlooking, he is now
charged with pocketing marriage fees which
didn't belong TO him but to New York city.
1t must be great consolation to this long
suffering and much abused official to think
that his troubled reign over Gotham is fast
nearing its. close-and to the people also.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

Mr.. O'BRIoN in his brief letter of accep-
lance with half dozen words hit Mr.. Blaine
one of the hardest knocks on one of his ten
derest of many, many tender points. He is
as natural ''dodger" as trickster.- argus.
Which is little hard on Mr.. O'Brion, es-
pecially from journal of his own party. In
Mr.. O'Brion's behalf we are glad to say that
we understand him to be very likely man,
and neither "dodger' nor sstrckster."
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
Help Nature TO Rally.

After an attack of fever other acute disease has
passed off, and nature is endeavoring to rally the de-
btated system, help the effort with the standard
vegetable tonic of the age, Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. Nothing known to the physician or the
pharmacopost evpedites convalescence like this Vi
talizing invlgorant. Persons who have been pros
trated By longcontinued sickness recover their lost
esh strength and cheerfuness in less than half the
time that would be required to recuperate without
it. 1t is the most genial well the most HARM
less of medcated stimuants, and a remedy for las
well as preventive of dyspepsia, bilious attacks,
constipation nervous Diseases &C., has equal in
the world When all ether tonics have failed, this
effects cure.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

whose judgment, character and general intel
ligence entitle him to the confidence and re-
spect of the public, and if the voters at large
attend to the selection of candidates, honor
ing those with nominations who will most
honor their constituents by their votes, the
next Legislature will give good account OF
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

LATER reports of the proceedings oft Hi
nois Democratic Convention indicate that the
contest over the financial plank in the plat
form was very exciting and sufficiently close
to be interesting. The majority report Of
the committee on resolutions favoring specie
basis was adopted by vote of 81 to PAL,
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen. Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
journal, we have information that several 'bum-
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
PRESS, and we have disposition to be, even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
Current Notes.

1t was by mistake that the New York World
did not publish the expansion-repudiation
resolutions of the Ohio Democracy-a mis-
take which it did not discover until two
mornings after the same was published in
other papers. 1t has not yet heard that Mis-
souri, took the same ground.
The Springfield Republican independently
thinks that last week was a bad sone for
party called Democratic, particularly in the
West, where two conventions declared for re-
pudiation and halfand-halt convention in
Illinois, whose platform don't speak of the
deceased" declared for honesty.
Ex-Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania, some
time On the fence, has lit down on the Demo
The independent press'' concludes that
Hon. Bion Bradbury's letter means that he is
in favor of the formation OF new party.
The Inter-Ocean (Republican) declares that
the Democracy now feel less like giving way
to new organization than any time since
Buchanan's administration.
The Boston Advertiser suggests as a rail-
road reform that the passengers enter al the
rear door of the car and go out at the front.
Vermont holds it's biennial election next
Tuesday tomorrow. Judge Peck is the
Republican candidate for Governor and Mr..
Bingham the Democratic.
The New York Tribune in commenting on
the committees report in the Plymouth case,
says that "there are rumors of letters yet to
be produced, and new statements of ap-
palling length and nastiness upon which the
accusers are working night and day. They
were invited to present their proofs to COM
vitation. What they advanced as proof did
not sustain the charge, and after the verdict
they assure us they have much stronger proof
which they purposey kept back, and so they
will try the case over again in the streets. No
language, it seems to us, can be too severe to
stigmatize such proceeding"
Now that the Board of Health of Boston
has demonstrated satisfactorily that aduiter-
ated articles of food are sold constantly and
in large quantities in that city, the Herald
thinks it should do something about it.
If the law will permit, it suggests raids upon
the dealers in the villainous compounds, and
if not, the publication of their names in the
newspapers. 1t thinks Boston cannot afford
to have her reputation, which has already
been injured abroad by the report of her
Board of Health, further damaged by permit
ting the evils which there are disclosed to ex-
list longer.
We hope that the practically minded young
undergraduates of Bates College, who have
dOnned the white anrOnS Of hofaI SaruitorS
will set an example Of impartiality to the IL
literate members of the guild, by serving all
hungry guests alike and rejecting contingent
perks" BY so doing they will not only
elevate the profession above a too common
suspicion of grasping covetousness, but CON
fer boon upon impecunious summer tour
ists.-BostOn Herald,
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

DEATH OF LYMAN RAwsoN.-Hon. Lyman
Rawson died at his residence in Rumford on the
zzd inst. at the age of rs years. He was the
son OF Capt. Abner Rawson, one of the we'll
known Rawson brothers of Paris, and was
born May 9Th, 1893. He graduated at Water
vile College in 1927, read law with jude
Stephen Emery at Paris, aud settled at Rum
ford Point in May, 1880, and resided there up
to the time of his death.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

MILWAUKEE has q servant girl who is
'mediumistic," and who is accompanied by
aspectral dog and an immense man with an
iron chain. In this abnormal season, even
spectral dogs may be subject to hydrophobia,
and we submit to the municipal authorities
of Milwaukee that the shadowy canine should
be muzzled. The man, also spectral, surely
evinces shocking taste in the matter of
jewelry, but his vagary appears to be harm
less one and does not call for severe denun-
al
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

THE last instance of poetical justice comes
from Auckland the capital of New Zealand
The municipal council! of that town have inn
posed an annual per capita tax upon all bach
elors oil and young, the proceeds going to
swell the school fund. 1t is eminently fitting
that all men should contribute in some shape
to the public schools, and if they decline to
furnish pupils it is perhaps no more than
right that they should be compelled to pay a
money Communication. The sum stated really
seems small, but children may bel numerous
in New Zealand, and their value, like every
thing else is doubtless regulated by the laws
of supply and demand.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
ali Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
municatons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
DS. EECKNELL'S SYRUP
Cures Bowel or Summer Complaint

simple astringents without particle Of Opiate has
proved after % yeats trial superior to any other
article for Dysentery, DiarrhOea, Cholera Morbus,
Cholera-Infantum, Collie, Cramp, Sick Sonr Stom-
aeh, Sea Sickness, Dyspepsia, Re. and may be i'm
plioitly relied upon in the cases, yet
simple and pleasant that IL may be given the most
delicate infant 1t acts upon The systeal like water
upon wited plant.
Prepared only by Edward Sutton of Providence,
Il. l. Sold by all dealers in medicines. jyisn3m
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Caucus.

The Republicans of Cape Elizabeth are requested
to meet at the carriage shop OF James w. Harmon
Saturday, Sept the 9Th, at 81 p. M, to nominate
a candidate to represent the town in the next Legs-
lature. Also to choose Republican town commit
tee Tor the ensuing year, Per order of
TOWN COMMITTEE.
Cape Elizabeth, Aug. the 31st, 1874. ag29
The Republicans OF Gray requested to meet at
the Town House in said Town SATURDAY,
Sept 5th at o'clock P. M, tor the purpose OF nom
mating candidate for Representative to the Legs-
lature for the District composed of Gray and New
Gloucester. Per Order Rep. Town Committee.
Gray. Aug. 20, 1874
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
NOTICE..

having decided to leave the city for the Winter
1 offer my stock of CIGARS, TsSBACCO, &C.,
at the cost price for cash until the 10th of September
as my stock must be reduced by that date. Clear
Havana from $50 to $50 per thousand, and Domestic
Goods in proportion.
All claims against INC -last be presented before that
date, and all debts must be settled by that time.
e. PONCE,
au1isntf Cor. Exchange and Middle SIS
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31
APPLICATIONS FOR SPACE
Notice of Foreclosure and sale.

WHEREAS james c. Prrry of Portland, County
w of Cumberland and State Of Maine ON the
18th day of December 1871, by his mortgage deed Of
that dat recorded in the York County Registry,
Book 1928 Page 1903, conveyed to Nathan Hill OF
Rollinsford, County of Strafford and State Of New
Hampshire, certain parcel Of land with the build
ings thereon situated in kennehunkport, at Cape
Porpose in the County Of York and State OF Maine,
and bounded on the Northeast by James Emmons'
land, on the Southeast and Southwest by W. III.
Hutchins land, and on the Northwest by the Mills
road with horty in the of the breach OF the
condition in said mortgage to sell said premises at
auction and from the proceeds to pay the debt Sc
cured thereby.
And whereas the condition of said mortgage deed
has been broken by said Perry this is give notice
that said lot of land and buildings thereon will be
sold at public auction on said premises on the 2ist
day of September, 1874, at o'clock in the AMER
noon, for the reasons and purposes Aforesaid.
ROLLINSFORD SAVINGS BANK.
By W. Fl. Morton, Treasurer, Assignee OF Nathan
Hill, Mortgage. w3C36
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

EFISS SOU rHARD is prepared to resume her
Iva instruction in French. The new method of
object teaching being adopted, the pupil is enabled
TO acquire the language much more easily. CONVEX
sation made specially. Address MISS il. SOUTH
ARD. room No, 3 Fluent's block.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
MARRIED..
DIED.

In this city, Aug. Both, of cholera infant m,
Frankly T., only child of Thomas f, and Able j.
Grover, aged months II days.
In this city, Aug. 2Sth Mrs. Sarah E., wife of Jo-
seph Patten, aged 81 years and months.
Funeral services this (Monday) afternoon at
O'Clock from her late residence No. Hampshire st,
Charlestown papers please copy]
In Alfred, Aug 3oth, Hon. Joshua Herrick, aged
SO years months.
In Auburn, Aug 90, Sarah Hitchings, aged % years
10 months,-adopted daughter of the late Rev. Amos
and Mrs. Sarah Hitchings.
In Durham, Aug. 20, Mrs. Selma, wife OF Joel H.
traitor, aged 81 years.
In Biddeford, Aug. 25, Mrs. Abigail, wife Of James
Hunt, aged GA years months.
In Belfast. Aug. Is, Mrs. Nancy Smith, aged 80
wears months,
The Portland daily press., 1874-08-31

ST.. JOSEPH, Missouri, is greatly disturbed
by the antics of the ghost of horse thief.
The shadowy visitor appears. in putting off
mortality, to have undergone radical change
in tastes, for instead of prowling round the
stable and taking sly notes of the condition of
bolts and bars, he insists upon visiting the
house, bending over the bed of the servant
girl and repeating in hoarse, sepulchral
whisper, these remarkable words: ''Search !!
Search! If you would possess yourself of
wealth search the grave of the suicide" The
ghosts intentions appear to be perfectly hon
orable, Notwithstanding the compromising sit
uation in which he is so frequently found.
He is described as having long struggling
whiskers, and as wearing blood-stained
handkerchief round his neck. From this we
are led to infer either that there are no bar
bers in the other world or that full boards are
the fashion there, and that it is quite the
proper thing to wear sanguinary neckcloth.