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The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Business Notes.

The paper box manufactures of E.. W. Den
nison & Co., and Dennison & Perkins, are
obliged to work evenings to fill their orders.
About $50 girls are employed in the two shops.
The shoe factory in Norway has started up
again.
Messrs. Andrews & Waldron have started up
their shovel handle factory in Bridgton. They
intend to employ force sufficient to turn out
$50 dozen shovel handles day. A large num-
Der of ash bolts are being sawed for them in
Waterford.
Sanborn & Emery are doing heavy bust
ness in the oak line, in Denmark, employ
ing some fifteen teams, drawing oak to their
mills.
Business at the Piscataquis slate quarries is
dull and there are not so many men at work as
usual and wages have been reduced.
At the Katahdin Iron works there is q
large force of men at work. They will use one
thousand cords Of wood this year. Wood
choppers get only fifty cents per cord for cut
ting.
The Barker cotton mill in Auburn will start
running on print cloths, filling a large order
from Jordan, Marsh 8, Co.
The work of repairing the burned section of
the Bates mill-the cloth hou,e-is going for
ward. The Franklin Cos shop on the cross
canal has begun operations. It is more likely
that the first estimates of the damage done,
800 600, will be not far from correct. The loss
is fully covered by insurance.
The products Of the Continental mills of
"a f. fnr
portation to England. Brown cottons now sell
better than bleached.
The heirs of the late BENZ. Reed of Hodg-
dons Mills have been making extensive re-
pairs on their wharf and yard They now have
a wharf 100 feet long, one of the best on Dam
ariscotta river. The business is still carried on
under the old style name of Benjamin Reed
& Son.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

REAL ESTATE TRANsFERS.-The following
are the real estate transfers recorded In this
county yesterday:
Cumberland-Lot of land containing sixty
acres from Nancy Wyman to Albert A Sweet
ser.
Portland-Lot Of land from Mary Gould to
David and Hiram Wyer.
Lot of land on Long Island from Catherine
and Chas II. Griffin to Ellen M. Griffin.
Standish-Lots of land from Lucetta Rich to
Alansoa M. and James III. Rich.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
State Banks,

The Bank Examiner devotes two pages of
his Report to the state banks of discount and
deposit, three in number, whose charters were
extended by the Legislature five years from Oc-
tober last The following is the condition of
the state banks:
Their outstanding circulation is $685.. Re-
deemed the past year $54. Rates of dividend
the past year 2 and per cent. per annum,
amounting to $1,000. Reserved profits at the
time of their last dividends preceding their ex-
animation, $2S, 301.16. Number of stockhold-
ers 1861 Amount due from directors and stock
holders as principal and sureties $6S,466.7 rs.
Amount of unpaid matured debts $378.78.
The aggregate liabilities and assets of these
banks when examined were as follows:
Liabilities.
Capital Stock. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1926, 900 90
Circulation. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1856 90
Dep0sls. lle,S1 10
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Municipal Court.
BEFORE JUDGE KNIGHT

DEF V1fD VUlOE
FRIDAY-James Burns. Intoxicatiol. Thirty
days.
Patrick Blunkett, Assault and battery. Dis
charged. Mattocks & Fox.
John Gnn. Assault and battery. Probable cause.
Ordered to recognize with sureties in sum Of $780,
Cleaves for Government.
William Murphy. Search and seizure. Fined $50
with costs. Paid. Mattocks & Fox.
John e. Farwell, M. s. Gibson, Andrew Lang,
Charles Mullen, Henry Shiel and George P. English.
Search and SEIZURE Fined $50 with costs. Paid.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

AN ANNIvERsARY.-Last evening being the
Hon. and Mrs. j. H. Drummond, large num-
Der Of their numerous circle of friends paid
their respects and many remained until nearly
midnight enjoyiog-a right social season. About
10 oclock the members of Blanquefort Com
mandery repaired to Mr.. Drummon d's resi-
dence in body and offered their congratula
tions. Quite a number of the Masonic frater-
nifty called during tine evening, including the
venerable Oliver Gerrish, esq and Ira Berry,
esq /, being unable to be present, sent token
of his regard. 1t was surprise and very
pleasant one to Mr.. and Mrs. Drummond, and
an occasion long to be remembered by those
present, who wished them many happy returns
of December 10TH
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

PLATED WARE.-A. H. Atwood, the we'll
known gold and silver platter in MarketSquare,
announces that he has reduced his prices and
will sell his entire stock of plated ware on
hard pan prices. This is not talk, but he
means just what he says. Call and examine
the goods and secure bargains.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

CoNcERT.-The concert to be given at Con
gress street NJ. E. church, Monday evening,
promises to be we'll worth attending, and will
doubtless draw large house The array of
talent presented is something unusual for
church entertainment. By glance at the pro.
gramme, which was published yesterday, it will
be seen that rare treat is in store for these
who attend.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

BANK OF PoRTLAND.-The further examina
ton of w. N. Goold, the proprietor of the Bank
of Portland, was postponed again yesterday,
owing to the fact that be had not completed the
examination of his books, and his counsel was
unable to appear. The examination will be
continued Monday at two o'clock The end is
anxiOusly looked for
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
........$3O, 7s7,513 :
INVESTMENTS,

w
INVESTMENTS.
The Examiner says that the investments
made the past year have generally been in con-
formty with the laws of 1874. The supposed
losses that have occurred to any bank the past
year are confined to the stocks and bonds of, and
loans to, the European and North American
Railway Co., nearly all of which have been
held by the banks for some time. In case
there is a large per cent. of loss on these secu-
rites, its effect will be to deprive some banks
of sufficient available assets to pay their liabil-
tiles. Treasurers of banks holding these secu-
rites and regarding them unavailable at their
face value report doubtfully respecting the suf.
fciency of the assets to pay liabilities. Some,
indeed, assert their inability to do so in the
event of such securities proving worthless or
partially so. There are, however, but flour
banks that report their inability to pay dollar
for dollar on account of E. 8, N. A. Railway
securities and four others are silent respecting
their ability to meet their liabilities on account
of other wildcat securities AS the appendix
is not at hand, the names of these banks can
not be given.
Sixty-one banks have mdae dividends the
past year at the following rates: Fifty-sx,
three per cent. semi-annually; two and half
per cent. semi-annually; 8, three and two and
one-half per cent. semi-annually Some of
those paying 3 per cent. have been unable to do
so from net earnings and have resorted to their
reserve fund in violation of law. The Exam
liner says that some bank officers think it is
necessary for the success of the bank to pay
six per cent. interest
RECOMMENDATIONS
The Examiner recommends, first, that the
limits of dividends be put at five instead of six
per cent. per annum. This is necessary be-
cause the..reserves of the banks have been great
ly reduced the past two years on account of
losses and bad securities; second, that at least
one-fourth of the tax on savings banks be re-
mitted to enable them to accumulate the neces-
sary reserve; third, that banks be authorized to
loan portion of their fluids on names alone;
fourth, that some law be enacted to require
savings banks to keep their deposits within the
State.
CONCLUSION.
SIN conclusion the Examiner is pleased to say
that the general management of the banks, and
their safety, have steadily improved the past
year, and compare most favorably with former
years; that the officers, for their fidelity in the
discharge of their important and difficult trust,
are entitled to the commentator of all inter-
ested; that it is most encouraging to witness in
the growth of our savings banks, at the present
time, the determined industry, economy and
thrift of the people of the State.'
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

DR.. Pyne, the Episcopal clergyman who
died in New York last Tuesday, leaves two
sons in this State, the Rev. Henry r. Pyne,
rector of church at Eastport, and the Rev.
Charles M. Pyne, canon of St. Lukes cathedral
in this CITY
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY.-Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teeth
OF mothers Can testify that it is reliable Re.
lieves the child from pain. softens the gums,
regulates the bowels, gives an infant, troubled
with collie pans, quiet sleep, and its parents
unbroken rest.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
CITY AND VICINITY.
New Advertisements To-Day.

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Fair and Concert-Second Parish'
st. Stephens Christmas Sale.
/. A. r. A. Lectures-City Hall.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
Plenty of Oysters-Timmons.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Holiday Goods-George Hudson.
Cumberland National Bank.
Wet Nurse can be Obtained.
Sold Quito. M. Elder.
Longteilow-H. o. Houghton & Co.
To Let's w. Robinson.
Horse Wanted-A Gentle Horse.
Ocean Insurance Company-ADpual Meeting.
222 Middle Street-P. NJ. Frost.
Christmas and New YEARS. Gerrish & Pearson
The Brunswick-J. W. Woleott.
Down, Down-A H, Atwood
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

The ADELPHIA.-The programme at the
Adelphia last evening was the same as on the
evening before 1t will be repeated this after
neon and evening, and on Monday evening
eight new artists will appear, in an entirely
new programme. The matinee to-day will draw
a large number of ladies and children.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

f. O. BAILEY s, Co. will sell at IL O'Clock
this morning at salesroom basement, IS and 81
Exchange street, new and second hand furni-
ture, carpets, stoves, an invoice of fine crocke-
ry ware, etc. See auction column.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

A CARD.-The amateurs who performed at
the Portland Museum on Thursday afternoon,
December 9th, desire to publicly express their
thanks to Mr.. Henry L. Bascomb, Of the Mu-
scum Company, for his courtesy and unwearied
efforts to render their performance successful.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
$38i,117 SO

The receivers of the American Bank of Hal.
lowell, which failed in 1865, were directed by
the Supreme Court last March to pay the hold
ers of certificates So per cent, which is all that
will be realized.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

PYLE's DIETETIc SALERATUs.-Un Universally
acknowledged the best in use. Each pound
bears the name of james Pyle. None genuine
without iunel9S1v
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11

PLENTY OF OYSTERS, nice and fresh for a
Sunday dinner, at Timmons' Oyster Ho use,
Market Snuare
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Best Easy Chair

with Book and Foot Rest may be
found at our store.
Our facilities for manufacturing
and producing are such that we
can DEFY COMPETITION.
Our Stock is twice as large as
any dealers in the State.
Customers will have a splendid
Stock to select from.
All kinds of Furniture made 10
order at short notice.
1t is for the interest of every one
so call and see our stock Of goods
before purchasing
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
LONGFELLOW.

A superb life-siZe portrait of the
poet LONGFELLOW will be sent
for 1876 to any person RENTING
$500 direct to the Publishers.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
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ATLANTIC FOR 1876

ATLANTIC FOR 1876
Includes contributions from the abest and best writ
ers in the country. LONGFELLOW, Low.
ELL. HOLMES, and WHITTIERw will fur
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the public through the ATLANTIC. WARNER
and ALDRlCH will write of Eastern and CONT
mental Travel; GEN. HOWARD will give his
recolectons Of Gettysburg and other famous battles
of the war; and MARK TWAIN will contrib
ute some of his inimitable papers. MIR. How
ELLs's story,ss Private Theafricals, oMRs.
KEMBLE'S "Old WOmau's Gossip" and
MIR, ADAMs's papers on Railroads will be
among the special features of the year. and new at
fractions will be constantly added.
TERMS Single or specimen numbers 35
cents. Yearly subscription $500, postage free;
with life-size portrait of Longfellow, $780,
Remittances by mail should be sent by money!
order, draft on New York, Boston, or registered
letter to HI. Q. HoUGHToN & Co., Riverside Press
Cambridge, Mass.
II. 0. HOUGHT0N & COMPANY, Boston.
HURD & HOUGHTON, New York.
dec1l dit
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
The Savings Banks.
Report Of Hon. w. w. Bolster, Bank
Examiner - sixty Three Banks with
$50 ,OS3 ,314 Deposits.

From advance sheets Of the report of Hon.
W. W. Bolster, Bank Examiner, we learn that
the number of savings banks in the State is
sixty.fOur, five of which were organized the
past year, viz: Limerick Savings Bank, Linn
erick; Mechanics Savings Bank, Auburn;
Peoples Savings Bank, Lewiston; Saccarappa
Savings Bark, W estbrook; Topsham and
Brunfwick Twenty-F i've Cent Savings Bank,
Brunswick. All of these banks are in opera
ton except the Winth rop Savings Bank, whose
affairs were summaril.y wound up last July by
certain professional ge ntlemen of Philadelphia,
probably with design of aiding the ceuten-
NAL show The Examiner takes occasion to
say that the action of the officers of the bank
in accepting the proposition of the robbers was
in accordance with the spirit of the order of
Judge Libbey, appointing receiver The de.
posits and profits of the sixty-three banks doing
business on the first day of November were
$32. 0S3, Sl4.20.
The assets of 1875, as compared with 1874,
are as follows:
1874. 1875.
Invested in United States
Invested vested in State Of Maine Maine $50 - ''''' %
bonds. =. .............. Sss,S7s % 265,949 so
Invested in other State,
county and municipal
Invested vested in railroad bonds '''- q '''''0' %
and stocks ..;.:-.;..... 4,s2s4s4 os 4217,2 ss 81
Invested in real estate..... 26S,126 81 363598 81
Invested in miscellaneous
stocks, &C ............ 811,2O4 70 S33, 944 Is
Loans on real estate. 49,. 7s53258 II s,6664e4 70
Loans on collaterals, &C.. 6058,246 % 5,s3s946 II
Casn o04,lo4 10 ooo,904 "a
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Elegant Furniture at Auction.

"E have received instruction from our Consignee
w to hold another Sale of Furniture before the
25th and they say 1--WE must have money no matter
how great the sacrifice" The stock will be fully
equal to the last, and contain general variety.
Further particulars in a few days.
dec7 ~ DIFF
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

COVER THE RIvER."-Nellie Ross,
whose real name is Mrs. Miner,
committed suicide in Virginia City
yesterday morning at 2 o'clock by
taxing six ounces of laudanum.
She was one of that unfortunate
class upon whom society has set its
seal OF condemnation and well known
TO the DEM MONDE, though our in
formant reports her as having lived
privately while in Virginia. There
is no room for doubt that the
poor deluded creature took the dead
ly potion with full intent of suicide,
rs after taking 1t she gave minute
directions in regard to the DISPOSE
ton OF her effects. How rapidly
life's pleasures fade away, when
passion paves the road 10 their foun.
tains; and how all too quickly made
is the tour from the cradle to the
grave, when the traveller rides upon
the swift revolving wheels of Dissi
pation's gilded chariot. But those
who are left behind will preach as
they glide over the same route
while those who have gone before
have already learned the sermon.
Let the grave close over her remains
in a silence begot by charity, for
'''she " some ones darling"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

Having read the charges gsinst
me, as published in the Virginia
Evening Chronicle" and Gold Iiilt
News" of last evening, and also
the charge said to have been brought
against me by certain citizens Of
Silver City, namely, the attempted
seduction of one, or any, of the pupils
of the Silver City Public School, Of
which l have, until yesterday, been
the Principal, | unhesitatingly deny
their truth in every particular, and
ask those who have thus falsely ac-
cused me to furnish the proof con-
victing me of the charge. Until
this is done and made public, l most
respectfully ask my friends and the
public to suspend judgment in the
case. 1t is useless for me to specify
more particularly the charges re-
cited in the papers referred to. No
committee of citizens waited upon
NE, or requested me to resign; the
Board of Trustees did not request
me to resign, but l did so volun-
tarily, in order that a scandal, in
furious alike to the citizens of Silver
City, and myself and family, might
at once come to an end. No threats
against my life were made to me or
to any one else known to me; no
dissatisfaction or complaint has been
made known to me by any whose
children were attending my school,
as to my qualifications as a teacher,
and l have every reason to believe
that the scanda! and charges brought
against me are brought by the same
element in this city who have for the
past four years endeavored to dis
place all the teachers employed by
the Board of Education. Reiterat-
ing my denial of the accusations
made, and hoping that the public
will not allow their judgments to be
prejudiced in advance of proof of the
charges, l am, respectfully,
J. G. CROMWELL.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

ACCIDENT AND DEATH.-Last Sat-
urday James Russell was working in
mine near Shermantown, owned by
Captain Frank Drake; he had set off
a blast, and piece Of flying rock
struck him on the back side of the
head, which caused fracture of the
skull. He was Immediately con-
veyed to the County Hospital. and
on Monday last the operation of ire
panning was performed by Doctors
Owens, Thomas and Hagar. The
man is said to have stood the opera
nobly, but he died from the effects of
the wound on the following day.
Russell was 81 years of age, and was
expecting his brother to arrive here
M few days from Chicago.-White
Pine News, Nov. 6.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

many others, was not notified.
We have no particular cause for
s'persecuting" either the Justice or
the man Kennedy. To us, the
action of the former, in this
as well as other cases, have
appeared like farce "a
good joke on the "blind goddess
and "the majesty of the law"-for
which the people who have placed
and kept him in the position are, to-
gether with his bondsmen, wholly
responsible. The man Kennedy, we
will do the justice to say, bears
reputation of having, up to the time
of the offense cited, been quiet,
peaceable and industrious man. He
mad lost his situation in the mines
through sickness, has a family de-
pendent upon him for support, and
was looking for work on the day he
got drunk and committed the assault.
He had not found any, was probably
discouraged, and in attempting to
drown his troubles in the flowing
bowl, only got himself into further
and worse troubles. He has escaped
very luckily, and we hope he may
accept the lesson that his crime
shoald teach him. There is an OPP
portunity to say great many very
bad things, under the heading
"Judge Could" but as he has al
ready been severely censured by
about everybody in town, we care
little about doing so. He is salts
fed of having done right, and Ken
nedy is no doubt content with pay
ing $40 for knocking man out of
his milk wagon with rock. Now,
if Gildo and the people are satisfied,
we shall not further complain.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09
EpIZOOTIC.
A Threatened Epidemic = Its
Symptoms and Treatment.

1t seems now a pretty we'll estab-
lished fact that Nevada, as we'll as
the entire coast, is to he afflicted with
a horse epidemic similar to that
which three years ago nearly sus-
pended all business depending upon
the use of horsefesh for thrift. Upon
every hand we hear complaint that
the horses are being Frustrated with
the cough which invariably precedes
the distemper and running at the
nose. In this section the malady is
already so prevalent as to alarm
those to whom horses are indispensi-
BILE, and the livery and stage men are
commencing to experience feeling
Of inconvenience. Many horses that
are as yet but slightly affected are
still kept under harness from neces-
sity, while In numerous instances the
indisposed nags have either been
turned out upon the valleys to re-
cover, unrestricted by the limits of
the stable, or are now undergoing
medical treatment in their stalls.
The methods of treating the disease
adopted here are almost as numerous
as the horse-owners, and rapid success
against it has, in few cases, been
met with. In view of general at
tack, it will be of interest to livery
men and those driving private teams,
to know the most successful prescrip-
ton, used all over the East the first
time the epizootic made its appear
ance. The symptoms of the disease
are so generally known that to give
them would be unnecessary. The
following is the prescription referred
to, and although it is not to be ac-
cepted as infallible, yet it is probably
the best remedy known: "On the
first symptoms of sickness Coughing
and lack of Appetite, keep the horse
shut up in warm stable, blanketed,
ETC.; dissolve one. teaspoonful of
chrystal. chlorate of potash in a bucket
Twelve quarts) of water, and give the
afflicted animal three doses each day
morning, noon and night-until
the cough is stopped. 1t rarely re-
quires more than two or three days
treatment to effect a cure. Care
should be taken that the horse is not
subjected to cold winds or damp
and chilly stable, as much depends
upon good blankets and proper
nursing Another remedy, which
has been attended with success in the
case Of Mr.. join Briggs buggy team,
in Silver, is to dilute arnica with
water, and apply it to the horses
tongue; rub the throat often and
thoroughly with arnica full strength,
and take same precautions as to
warmth and blanketing as is ordered
by the first prescription. Mr.. Briggs
tells us that the cure was very rapid,
the cough being stopped the first
day. This treatment is mani!estly a
good one in the early stages of the
disease, us the affection has its start
in the glands, and if confined there
can he easily handled. For the sake
of our own equine inhabitants and
the convenience Of their uses, we
hope that the term Of "epizoo" nay
be short and light.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

NOTICE TO GHOSTS, We mos
respectfully call the attention of
dead persons to the fine and extern
sive undertakers stock of Mr.. N.
Lariviere, the popular and pleasant
but gloomily- professional town sex
ton and undertaken of Gold Hill.
Collins, shrouds, graves, coffin
wreaths, (ugh! what subject for the
wicked to scribble uponD well, he
keeps everything in that line, but we
hope mono OF our paying subscribers
or liberal advertisers will have oc.
casion to need his services. But il
you do, call on him.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

Ell. Parkinson, the local editor of
the Carson Tribune, and "Tom
Smith," who claims to have been
aggrieved by an article inthe Tribune,
settled the difficulty in a game of
fisticuffs on the street Friday after
noon. It was "draw" up to the
time the police interfered, and both
gentlemen are buying their raw beef
steak and court plaster at wholesale.
'"Let dogs delight TO bark and bite"
&c, &C.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-09

The Superintendent and Excel
ssior Mill men have made o hand
some donation to Virginia. We are
unable to get the exact figures, but
from the name of the mill, we sup
pose it is "higher" than we would
dare to estimate. How nobly all
our citizens are acting in this
matter. We are proud 10 publish
"a paper among such a big-hearted
people.