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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-27
The State Fair

The State Fair of last week was a SUCCESS
as far as the officers could make it so by care
and attention to details. The display of stock
was highly creditable to the farmers of Maine.
1t might have been larger, but could not have
been better or more varied. The departments
of agricultural products were quite full. The
display of fruit was a surprise considering
that it was an "off year, in fruit as well as
politics. The dairy of Maine had excellent
representations present, but if all the cheese
factories had sent a sample there would have
been fifty exhibitors where there were scarce
ly dozen. Of patents there was a good
variety. Indeed, the owners of patents are
about the only class of producers who really
appreciate what may be made of the oppor-
tunities of state fairs.
But there was one department which was
failure compared with what it might have
been had our enterprising manufacturers
taken an interest in the matter. We refer to
the display of manufactured goods, particu-
larly Gotten and woolen fabrics. twenty-five
years since, the meager dasplay might have
represented the capacity of Maine in that
direction, but now she is manufacturing
state, with more than hundred wooden and
cotton mills, which turn out several hundred
varieties of the best goods in their line.
When, therefore, the woolen production of
the state in its annual Industrial exhibition,
is represented by less than half dozen sam
pies, the men who are doing so much for
Maine in an industrial point of view, are not
careful to do themselves justice. If the cot
ton and woolen products Of Maine could be
once fnlly represented at fair, the result
would surprise even those most conversant
with these interests in our state. In the eevent
that all manufacturers took an interest in the
exhibition, we should find tables across City
Hall covered with the products of their mills
instead of a small part of one table. To-day
Maine factories are turning out the finest
cotton fabrics made in the country, and line
of woolen goods equal to the celebrated Harris
make-goods which are doubtless remarked
and:sold for an imported artice-yet no one
would suspect that this was the fact from the
exhibition of last week. What is true of cot
ton and woolen fabrics applied with more or
less force to other departments of man ufacu-
ring industries. Cannot some means be de-
vised to arouse the pride of Maine manufac-
turers so that another year will show much
fuller representation?
The attendance was not so large as some
expected. We think there is no cause for
complaint. 1t should be remembered that
there has never been season with so many
excursions and never so literally patronized.
In dull times people cannot go to all the
places, consequently. many have concluded
that they could better leave out the State
Fair.
The officers of the societies participating in
the consolidated show" have evidently done
their utmost to have first class exhibition.
We hope that their efforts will be appreciated
and that in the exhibitions of future years
they will see that their labors have not been
in vain
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SS1GNEE'S SALE IN BANKRUPT.
n CIV of the real and personal property of the
PENSACOLA LUMBER COMPANY, Bankrupt.
To be sold entirety By order of the U. s.
District Court, the undersigned will sell at public
auction, by Adrian H. Muller & Son, Auctioneers,
on Friday, the 9th day of November next at 12
O'Clock noon, at the Exchange Salesroom III Broad
way, in the city of New York, all the real and per-
sonal property of the above named bankrupt. con-
sisting Of new steam saw mill, stores. blacksmith
wharf and landing; 1 large stern wheel steamer;
lighters; platform scales; office and house furni-
ture tons old iron ITO L rails tongue switches ;
6 open sockets; frogs; l large safe; watchman's
clock; IA jack screws; 2 slab cars; wagon; mule
carts; double and single harness; mud drum;
boat; II lumber trucks; grist mill; old iron boil
ers; old engines; cetween 10000 and 1900 pine
logs in the booms and stream; about 10000 acres of
pine land in the counties of Escambia and Santa
all timber on 4,500 acres in the county of Escam-
bia Florida 45 466 57100 acres of pine land in the
county of Escambia, Alabama; an undivided half
interest in T. 6SS pine land in said county of
Escamba, Alabama; l store at Whiting, Alabama,
Mill houses etc. situated at Molino % miles north
whose tracks run into the mill yard. The attention
of capitalists and lumbermen is invited to this sale,
which is peremptory, and embraces all the property
real and personal, of the Pensacola Lumber Com
pany. Terms-ten per cent. cash on day oil sale;
40 per cent. within 80 days; so per cent in six equal
promissory notes, with endorser, bearing interest at
per cent and payable in 8, 6, 9, 12, 15, and Is
months from the day of sale secured by mortgage
For full inventory description and particulars, apply
to the undersigned at his office, No 56 Wall street,
New York. or to Adna c. Cam, ESQ.,, MOllnO, Flor
ida. G. EDGAR SMITH, Assignee,
WILLIAM R. DARLING, 56 Wall Street, New York
Solicitor for assignee,
se25dtnoy5 81 Pine Street, New York.
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CASE OF CoNsPIRACY.-Several years ago
Mr.. Jacob c. Cotton living in Pownal, was
cow icted of rape and sent to the state prison,
where he died after short time. His wife
went to Boston and has recently appeared in
remarkable case of conspiracy in Lynn. 1t
seems that in April, 1874, Mr.. Francis Parton,
gentleman of wealth, then rs years of age,
had occasion on account of a temporary alb
sence of his wife to employ housekeeper. and
accordingly engaged this woman.
After serving as housekeeper for few weeks
the Cotton woman suddenly left Mr.. Parton's
employ, and shortly after swore out a warrant
charging him with criminal intimacy with her,
and brought suit against him under the bas-
tardy act, which is at present awaiting trial at
the Superior Court now in session at Newbury-
port. Subsequent to the above action Mr.
Parton was arrested on a charge of adultery
with the Cotton woman, she being the princi-
pal witness against him; and later Mr.. Par
toms wife commenced an action for divorce
from her husband on account of his supposed
| infidelity. Actions in these lattericases are
also pending. During all this time that the
criminal actions were being made against Mr.
Parton has stoutly declared his innocence,
which from the recent and startling develop
| ment of facts seems to be clearly proved.
1t appears that the Cotton woman visited
| the Mclean Street Hospital in Boston during
the latter part of January of the present year
and induce young woman named Mary
Jones to give up recently born child which
she. the Cotton woman, expressed desire to
adopt The child was given up, and on leav-
inc the hospital the Cotton woman gave her
name as Mrs. f. w. Libby of Salem, and
nromised to write to the Jones woman at least
once week, stating the health of the infant,
which promise she did not in one single ms
tance fulfill.
These facts having come to light, and the
whereabouts of the Cotton woman being ascer-
tanned, letters were addressed to her by w. FL.
Niles, esq.,, counsel for Mr., Parton, and in re-
ply to questions, she answered that she gave
birth to a child at the Mclean street Hospital,
in Boston, on January %, 1875, the day that
the Jones woman also states that she was con-
fined.
The vilany of the Cotton woman ana ner
design, then becoming apparent, measures
were taken to secure her arrest. She was Vis-
| tied in Lowell by Mr.. Niles on wednesday
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Notice to the Public.

NNHAT to save them from the venders of spurious
l. medicines have INDUCED DIR S. MARSHALL,
a competent and experienced physician, to open an
Office in Portland, No Z Myrtle ST., where all the
genuine remedies of the late DR.. j. CLAWSON
KELLEY can be obtained
DIR. MARSHALL
will be in constant attendance at the above named
office, where those suffering with Pulmonary Con-
sumption, Coughs, Bleeding at the Lungs, Scrofula
Dyspepsia, Cancer, Diseases of the Liver, Heart.
Kidneys and Spleen, Eraptiops of all Descriptions
Dropsy, Tumors. Asthma, Female Complaints, Cos
tiveness Darrh9a Fits, st. Vitus Dance, Nervous
Prostration, Rheumatism, Impotency, Bronchitis,
Gout. Neuralgia Mysteries, Apoplexy, or any other
disease, can consult him free of charge from 8
o'clock a. m. to 9 O'Clock p m.
Cases which have been pronounced incurable by
other physicians especially solicited. DR.. Keey's
Medicines have reached and cured hundreds Of just
such cases. If patient suffering with any of the
above diseases has any reasonable amount of ner-
strength remaining he can be cured with these
remedies. See certificates of remarkable cures in
our "Medical Adviser"
[ shall be in attendance at the Portland office
Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the first and third
weeks of each month. Respectfully submitted to
the public. DIR. SAMUEL EDWARDS.
sell dom
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We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu.
nications that are not used.
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OF course it was all mistake, without de-
sign-the figuring by which the Argus cut
down Connor's majority in Androscoggin
couaty some 300. If the mistake had made
the majority 300 too large it would have been
less suspicious.
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The New Orleans Delta, Democratic pa :
per. has discovered that the precipitation of
the financial question upon the people of the
northern states, is trick of the Republicans
to conceal their usurpations against state
RIGHTS.
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING.. SEPT. %. 1875

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.
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Judge Pershing, on accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania says he is opposed to initiation in the
true sense, and says the Erie platform does
not demand inflation but it opposes any furth-
er contraction of the currency at this time of
financial distress.
COL Porter of the 22d New York regiment,
as badly injured by being thrown from his
horse Friday afternoon. He was formerly of
Boston.
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A GOOD rents at Woodfords Corner. Possession
II given Immediately. Inquire of
j. H. REED,
au6d2w*ttf Woodfords Corner.
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TO LET.

CECoND STORY in THOMPSON BLOCK, ~
y feet wide nearly 100 feet in depth, newly fitted
up with counting room and tables: The best lighted
room in the city. Suitable for jobbng OF 4nanufac-
turing, will be let for either with plenty of stor
age room, over SHEPHE I'D a. CN'S. Whole
sale Faucy Goods Store, Nos 12-123 Middle Street,
below the Post Office. Inquire of II. E. THOMP-
SON, No. 323 Emery street, on the Spring Street
horse car route. ian20dSWtf
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To LET.

NyHE BRICK HOUSE No. II Danforth Street,
Il containing all the modern improvements. En-
quire at No. 10, CENTRAL WHARF.
jne16dtf
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TO BE LET.

NyHE desirable ofires in the Merchants National
Il Bank building, recently occupied by Bank Of
Portland. Also offices in third story, with steam,
gas and water. Possession given July 1st. Apply at
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.
iu1n
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A BOUT February first the Stores and Chambers
"A on Union ST., now occupied by Caldwell q
Hodsdon, and Whitney & Thomas. Apply to
ja11dtf ST. JOHN SMITH.
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Store to be Let
MO. 589 CONGRESS STREET recently occupied
IN by George G. Shaw, one Of the best retail
stores in this CITY, Also several small house rents.
Apply to VIM. II. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent.
sell d1W*
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To Rent.

DLEASANT rooms for Gentlemen and wives or
l. single Gentlemen, at No. 215 Cumberland St.
Good board can be had at next door in same block.
ju3ut Il. o. WINSLOW.
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TO LET.
To Let

YUyO LET-Good Furnished rooms for lodgings
Il at 376 6CUMBERLAND STREET.
se20 diff
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EIVHE chamber in second story on the corner of
Il Cross and Middle SITS. Apply to
HENRY DEERING,
my3ltf No. 65 Exchange st.
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Grand Inaugural Night Wednesday Eve
ming, Sept. 29th.

Tie sale of Reserved Seats will open at Stock
BRIDGES Music Store Wednesday morning Sept. 18th,
at 8 o'clock.
Admission 35 cents; Reserved Seats so cents.
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Store to be Let

1.-TWO or three furnished rooms in private family,
Il near Preble House. Address
sep22dtf 2. Q. BOX 800.
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10 Let.

MICE and pleasant rooms to let, at 217 Cumber-
IN land street, without board.
sep1dtf MRS. ALONZO BUTLER.
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LOST.
AN TUESDAY, 21st inst, small gold tasse.
" Any one leaving it at No. 26 Park Street will
be suitably rewarded. se24d3t*
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TO LET.
TO Let.
To Let.

ID OOMS to let, furnished unfurnshei, No. 4
| IL Cotton St., second door from Free Street.
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fkvNC 'ientlemen or Gentleman and his Wife can
n be accommodated with first class Board and
Rooms at No. 70 Brown Street. my19dd
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LOST AND FOUND.

LUSH
A GOLD and Rubber PENCIL. The finder wi
n be suitably rewarded by leaving the same at
this Office. se24d1w
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TONY PASTOR

Will positively appear at each and every perform
ance
An efficient Orchestra and Brass Band, under the
direction of Fl. 7. DYRING.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats on sale at Stock
BRIDGES Music Store.
TONY PASTOR, Sole Proprietor and Mana ger.
E. G. BROWNE, Business Manager.
D. B. HODGES, General Agent.
seA dat
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He PORTLAND DAILY PRESS

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year In advance, 7
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in q
ance
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faNHE ENGINE an upright of about six horse
Il power. and an Upright Tubular Boiler of about
double the power of the engine. Apply to WILL
LIAM LOWELL, So Union street or W. H. PEN
NELL g. Co., 38 Onion street. jne2Sdtf
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14
canal only:

The receipt of domestic sugar at New
Orleans was greater than elsewhere, be-
cause a crop of more than four hundred
thousand hogsheads was produced in this
State. The cotton some years amounted
to two millions OF bales, or to half Of the
whole cotton crop.
We need not quote the extraordinary
decline of our trade and its obvious trans
fer to other and rival cities. The applica
ton of this fact to the health reputation
of New Orleans is this:
Commercial men were formerly COM
PEELED to come to New Orleans to deal in
Western or Gulf State products. Now
these commodities may be delivered at
interior and Eastern coast cities. The
periodical prevalence of dangerous epi-
demic was consideration inseparable
from residence at New Orleans. Men
took the risk because it was indispensa-
bic. 1t was regarded just as Englishmen
go TO Calcutta, playing the chances of
life against those OF fortune. Should a
general epidemic prevail at New Orleans
this season, it would be far more injurious
to the value of property and commerce
than it would have been in 1850. Men,
and more especially women, thinking
there was no better chance of making a
living in New Orleans, but fancying in
their terror that there was better chance
of making die of it, " would hesitate to
emlgrate or locate here.
Our commiserating rivals would diffuse
amy mortality with the utmost sympathy,
and accompany it with an encouraging
statement of how our commercial busi-
ness was being transferred TO themselves.
These heirs would no doubt give the
commerce of New Orleans handsome
mausoIeum, and bewail her calamity in
the richest and deepest mourning lace.
We make these remarks to impress oul
citizens with the importance Of guarding
their health reputation with as seduloui
care as they do their commercial or inan
cial credit. We must hold our presen
trade until we can replace it with that o
the country south Of us, beginning witt
that of Texas, and including all between
the United States and the whole CONT
nent of America south of New Orleans.
The city authorities must ditch, draii
and seavenge. The Board of Health, it
inspectors and police, must exercise tn
most strict vigilance. If cases Of fever oc
cur they must be insulated and cut Of
from communication by all the improve
menss Of disinfsctions The protection Q
quarantine is commanded by law. Il
for the present the best means known Z
prevent infection. and all citizens should
in consideration Of the facts stated, sui
nit to and aid in its execution. It is 70
The present indispensable 70 the phyaioa
heslth and commercial protection Of Ne'
0Elsans
aI
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14
A CARD.
NEW ORLEANS,

NEW ORLEANS, August 49, 1875.
The undersigned certihes that he was thu holder
of one fourth Of combination ticket Nos. 81, S. 49,
class No. 49, in the Louisiana State Lottery which
drew the arst capital prize of $1,000, on Thursday,
August ~, 1875, said ticket having cost the sum
of twenty-five CENTS at the Office Of J. A. Baqnie.
Carrollt0n, and that the amount was promptly
paid on presentation Of the ticket ct the once
OF the company.
WILLIAM LAHEY,
Carrolltop auI4 It 20
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14
QUARANTINE INDISPENSABLE.

QUARANTINE INDISPENSABLE
We see no communication from those
medical gentlemen who few months
since regarded the quarantine as a rldlcu-
lous restriction on commerce. Yellow
fever is undoubtedly near US, and it would
be good opportunity for these critics to
advise the removal of all impediments to
tree intercourse between New Orleans and
Pascagoula. This would test the justice
of their complaints against the law VIII
they do this, or will they remain silent until
the danger shall have passed, and then
ridicuIe the precautions of the law and
the tinidity of the health authorities IN
obeying the commands of the law We
will see. The late reports from Pasca-
goula render it certain that yellow fever
of malignant type prevails at that place.
It seems that the disease reappeared on
the same spot where it had existed last
year In the absence Of any positive proof
we need not speculate whether the
origin was sporadic, from the anima-
ton of what the medical men call,
for want of better name, germs, or
whether it was co nveyed by rail from some
other coast huding. This uncertainty
renders an effectual policy of protection
more doubtful The obstinate vitality OF
these ''germs" has been tested, among
other cases, in an iron vessel of the ma
tional navy, which, having had yellow
fever on board, and having had the ship
cleaned as only sailors can clean, by dis
injecting, scrubbing and repainting, suf-
fered from reappearance of the fever
when carried into Temperature favorable
to the termination of the germs. Fhe
introduction of steam on Mater and land
has given new phase to the danger OF
infection. Passengers leaving fever port
will not come into a quarantine port.
They land at some coast railroad station,
and enter the city of their destination in
less than the quaran ntine period, and even
before the infection may have developed
itself upon them.
With these modern impediments to pro-
lection it becomes more incumbent to
protect cities by granting measures of the
most vigilant character. The standing
thought of the public authorities should
be to prepare to receive infectious dis
ease. When once infection could only
enter by the avenue of the port, it may
now arrive at any hour within the sub
urbs.
There will be, it is true, great difficulty
in arresting travel by railroad. 1t will be
difficult to establish the fact that one pas
senger among five hundred has come
from an infected place. 1t will be sub
iect of violent controversies if passengers
shall be arrested on suspicion of probable
illness.
1t is, however, useless to magnify diff
culties. strict qua rantine is required
by law, and health reputation is of even
more importance to New Orleans thar
when the law was passed.
Before 1850 New Orleans had the abso
Lutte control of the whole Mississippi val
ley trade Western tobacco, cotton ant
sugar could alone be dealt in here. W.
will make short exhibit of the compare
tive receipts of certain Western products
at New Orleans and New York, which
were in 1850 the only outports from which
the whole West could communicate will
foreign countries. These receipts werr
| h. u ,nr nrd cnnnl nnlu.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14

JEFF Davis has been offered the chancellor
ship Of the University Of Georgia aud also
a sitnation in North Carolina. If Mr..
Davis would accept some steady employ
msns, becoming his dignity, the newspapers
would let him rest quiet. AS 'Biiah would
ssy. Heaven has endowed him with Ane
Qualities, and the United States gave him
4 good education, instead OF which be goes
rowing round the country, writing letters
and making speeches, and that viii kiil any
man.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14
NOTICE TO TAxPAYERS.

oTyioH BOARD OF STATE AND onT Tax ASSESSORS,
No. 20 CArondeet street, ,
New Orleans, August ], 1915. }
The Taxpayers 4 of the city Of New Orleans
parish Of Orleans, Louisiana, are hereby notified
that the assessment on real estate and persona
property for state and city taxes for the year 1875
exigbe in the year 1875, are completed and win be
exposed for inspection and correction from Q
A. D. TIN P. NJ, Sundays cxeeptsdl, until the
THIRTY. FIRST DAY or AUGUST, 1875,
at which time al oompiaints Of excessive or
erroneous assessments will be considered.
]. L. HERWIG,
President Board Of State and City Assessors.
~ B-Taxpayer1 are requested 70 bring their
At yaara tax receipt Or 8 description Of the
property a. 20 dlatrict ana number Of square.
aus 1m2p J.L. HERwIG, President.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14

Returns from CarrolltoD bring informa-
tion that William Lahey. residing On Dub
"a. between Hampton and Second atreeta'
boutht one-fourth Of oomblnatioa ticket
Nos 81. g.. rs in the Louisiana state Lot
tsrv. ana that said ticket ct tins dFaWing ot
Thurnasy arsw 5000, and that Laheys
ahars nss promptly paid him By the eom'
Sass. rs aahs aas purchased ai the
e|sso 81 D. A. Ha4uis, ia Carfoilsons foI
fesaE age esuss,
New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14

Bees never fail to get their work in If
one flower is found without sweetness they
do not call conventions and declare that
the country is ruined by drOnth or over
flow. They hunt up other flowers and
gather honey each shining hour, and that
chow doth the little busy bee"