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DsnNEES FICPNRTS.

SAN FRANCIsCo-Cld 18th, ship Ellen Good
speed Preble. New York.
GALVESTON-Cld 18th, barque Enrique Payson,
Queenstown.
NEW ORLEANS 18th, ship Gen Shepley,
Hutchins, from Bristol, E.
PASCAGOULA-Ar I'd, sch Ernest Lee, Ride
out. Havana.
FERNANDINA-Ar 9Th, sch T A Stewart, Libby,
Ar 7th, sch Ellie Smith. Weeks, Charleston.
JACKSONVILLE-Ar 7h sch James Wall, Watts
New York.
BRUNSWICK, GA-Ar 6 h, sch Eta stin,psop,
Hart, Savannah, to load tor New York.
STMARYS. GA-Ar 9Th, sch Hattie Fuller,
Smith. Charleston.
Cid 9Th brig Hyperion, Clark, Sagua.
DARIEN-Cad 9th, sch f l. richardson, Hart, tor
Trinidad.
GEORGETowN-Ar 9th inst, sch Hattie Baker,
Bearse, Charleston.
CHARLESTON-Ar 18th. sch E G Rommell, Somes,
Bath.
Cid 18th, barque Adelia Carlton, Packard, Liver
pool.
Sid 1ith, brig Keystone, Barter, from Hayana)
for Falmouth, L, having repaired.
RICHMOND-Sld 18th, sens Lightboat, Wood for
Galveston; Ames, Achorn, Boston.
ALEXANDRIA-Ar 10th sch Addie Fuller Hen
derson Rockport for Georgetown.
FORTRESS MONROE - Passed in 18th. brig n
Stoweis, Showers, from Savannah for Baltimore.
BALTIMORE-Ar 18th, barque ID Peters, Lane,
Bath.
Below, sch Amos Weker Dunn from LIVERPOOL
Ar 18th, sohs Burns Crosby, I'm st John. NIB ;
Urlah Fisk, Crowell, Boston.
PHILADELPHIA-AT 18th, sch Emma W Day,
Jordan, Providence.
Below l3th sch Anna D Merritt, Pinkham from
Baracoa.
NEW VORK-Ar 18th, scbs Adeliza. Huntley,
Milk River, ia, 81 days; Sarah L Davis, Cottrell
Pensacola 80 days; Owen Kinds, Clendenin, Proyi-
dence; Gen Banks, Mcfarland, Fall River.
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MINOR TELEGRAMS,

Richard B. Connolly is reported to be in New
York, with the intention of turning states
evidence
The mother and sister of John Dolan, Mr..
Noes supposed murderer, have made afidavits
OF his whereabouts on the night of the murder,
and an effort will be made to have his sentence
commuted to life Imprisonment, with the hope
of finally establishing his innoc ence.
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THE WHISKEY FRAUDS.
Illicit Stills in Colorado,

PUEBLO, Colorado Dec. 13-The revenue
officials have discovered an underground dis
tillery for the manufacture of crooked whiskey
on the Arkansas river, five miles above the
city. The outfit was discovered last Sunday by
Deputy Collector Pierrepont United States
Gauger Cave, and Deputy Marshal Lynn. The
distlllery was in full operation when the Off
GERS arrived, but the principal owners, c. G.
Pinckney and John T. Hall, escaped. Both
are concealed in the neighborhood of the city
and must be captured soon. VIM. M. Buzz
card, upon whose land the distiilery was
located, has been admitted to bail in the sum
of $4,000
Rroadhcad Commissioned as Special
Counsel.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 14-Col. j. G. Broadhead
retained despatch from Attorney General
Pierrepont to District Attorney Dyer saysing:
"The commission of Col James D. Broadhead
as special coun sci in the whiskey prosecutions
has been forwarded on a retainer of $1,000"
Another despatch says the President desires
ex-governor Reynolds to assist 8roadhead.
Reynolds has been proffered{ the appointment
and declined.
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Eur0uean Markets.

LONDON. December 14-1230 P. M.-American Sc
curtiesUnited States 10-4Os, 1861; 5s at 1888
Erie Railway at 143
LIVERPOOL, December 14-12.3O P. M.-Cotton is
steady; middling uplands at I'd do Orleans at I'D
sales 600 bales including 1000 bales for specula-
tion and export,
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portlands Wholesale Markets.

TUESDAY, December 14.-There is but little change
to note In the markets to-day there are but small
sales and very dull market generally Flour is
selling at nominal prices with good supply on the
market. Sugars are steady with prices unchanged.
Molasses is dull and unchanged. Poultry is coming
in Ouite p]enty
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BRIDGEPORT Dec, 4.-Fire broke out in the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company IS
cabinet shops, consisting of two brick bui Id
ings, one $50 feet long by 50 deep, and the 9TH
er 200 feet long, and three stories high, which
were burned. Loss $4,000
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Providence PrIn, Cloths Market.
Domestic Markets.

PROVIDENCE. December 1.-THE Printing cloth!
market was dull and unchanged; best GA x 81 held al
Age for 80 days for spots 4c for 60 days for contracts
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EOreiRu Exports.

ST. JOHNNIE. Schr Ellsn Clifton-66O bbls flour
100 bbls beans 40 bags bran and shorts.
MATANZAS. Brig M Mariner-45t4 shocks
and heads, 400 boxes herring, bbls beans.
BUENOS AYRES. 1921, O4s fit lumber, Ii, 210 pick
cts, 20 bbls potatoes
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lSales at the Brokers Board, Dec. IA
$4,000 Eastern Railroad sinking fund 7s,..... 554
gu Eastern Railroad. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81
III ........".do" ......"..........-"... 81
Second Call.
$1,000 Eastern Railroad Is, 1885, .............a
$4,000 Maine State 6s,.............. ...... 1868
10 Eastern Railroad. .""..-....."......... 81
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NEW YORK, December 14-hvoning.--Elour receipts
1929 bbls the market is 10 limited export and home
trade demand and in buyers favor sales 1880 bbls
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Nj A RINE NEWS.
p3RT OF PORTLAND.
Tuesday, Dec. IA.

Tuesday, Dec. IA,
ARRIVED.
Steamer Williamsport. Whillets, Philadelpha--coal
to Randall g. McAllister.
Steamer City of Portland, Pike, st John, NIB, via
Eastport for Boston.
Brig Mary Chase, Dolan, New York-coal to H
Baker.
Sch Willie L Swift, Allen, Tangier-32OO bushels
oysters TO j Freeman.
Sch j Willard, Wallace, Philadelphia. days
coal TO Rounds & Dyer. Reports, 18th, Z PM. during
ed schr, laborDg heavily. with foresail badly up.
Did net ascertain her name.
Sch l. A Johnson, Mailman, PhiladeIpbia-co to
Shurtleff & Co. During heavy gale Monday night,
shifted cargo split jib, &c.
Sch Veto, Bradford, Reimbursement to A B
Morse & Co.
Sch Acacia. (Br) Hamlyn, Providence.
Sch Duke OF Newcastle (Br) Stewart, Providence.
Sch Belle Barbour. (Br) Sullivan, Fail River
Sch John Tyler, Cook. Boston.
Sch Dresden. Mitchell. Salem for Machias.
Sch Willie Martin, Davis. Gloucester, (wbere she
was towed in full OF water. Returned for repars9
Sch Forest City, Hodgkins. Newburyport.
Sch Adelaide, (Br) Tower. New Bend, NS-270 tons
grindstones to order.
Brig Belle Prescott, Warehouse, Buenos Ayres
A & Spring.
Brig Mary Mariner, Titcomb, Matanzas-Isaac
Emery.
SCH Ella Clifton, (Br) Kimball, St John, NB-John
POrteous.
Sch Andrew Peters. Cook, Calais-Nathl Blake:
Sch j Counce, Elwel NOrthp0rt-master.
Sch Majestic, Smith, Jonesport-master.
Sch ThCs Xix. Hall, Rockland-J Nickerson.
SAILED-Barque H Chadwick briggs Proteus,
Belle PRESCOTT schs Sarah Bird Bushrod W Hill
and others,
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FIRES.



LEWIS TON, Dec. IA fire was discovered
this morning in building on Lisbon street,
owned by Patrick Driscoll and occupied by
Arthur Melcher, dealer in boots and shoes.
The building was damaged more by water than
fire. Driscoll was not insured. Melcher had
$500 insurance each in the Westchestsr, Gerald,
Newark, City, Globe and Chicago companies,
which will probably cover his loss.
I'm Norridgewock.
SKowHEGAN, Dec. 14.-The dwelling house
Of John 81. Webster of Norrdgewock, also
containing the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany's office, was totally destroyed by fire
about nine o'clock this morning. Loss three
hundred. No insurance. The fire caught from
q stove funnel.
In Westport.
WIscAssET, Dec. 14.-The dwelling house of
W. V. and Warren Fowler, in Westport, was
entirely destroyed by fire last night. Partially
insured in the Hartford Insurance Company.
In Bangor.
BANGOR, Dec. IA. "A fire broke out in the
cellar of Snow & Neally's grocery store early
this morning. Loss unknown. Stock and en-
tire building badly damaged by smoke and
water. Loss probably covered by insurance
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The State Grange.

Enc state Grange.
BANGOR, Dec. 1.-THE State Grange met in
City Hall to-day for annual election of officers
and to transact other business that. may come
before them. All oranges in the state are rep
resented. Nelson Ham of Lewiston, State
Master, is presiding.
Burned 10 Death.
Early this morning young sou of William
Gould of this city was fatally buroed by over
turning kerosene lamp.
Nearly Sufocated by Coal Gas.
WIscAssET, Dec. 14,-Mr. Waterman Blag-
don aud wife of this town came very near be-
ing suffocated by coal gas yesterday morning.
Mrs. Blagdon was with great difficulty restored
to consciousness, aud for some time her life
was despaired Of They slept in a small bed
room opening into sitting room, in which a
coal fire was kept during the night
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DIED.

In this city. Dec IA, Ralph Field, infant son OF
CD. and M. G. Maynard.
In this city, Dec. 9, Hattie May. only child of Saml
e. and Della M. Randall, aged years months.
In rhomaston, Dec. IA. MI Jacob Libby, aged 70
years months formerly of South Gorham
In Boothbay, Nov. 20, Mr.. SamI Woodward, aged
81 years.
In Boothbay, Dec. o, Elizabeth Pinkham aged
43 years.
In Waldoboro, Dec.6, Mrs. Elizabeth Cashier, aged
81 years.
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Sch Hannibal, of Islesboro, from Hoboken for
Portsmouth. with COAL got ashore in the Narrows be.
low Portsmouth 18th, and started bad leak. She
was towed off, beached near by to prevent sinking.
Will discharge into lighters.
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The Molly MaRu;res.

and Middle states, stationary or rising barome-
ter, northwest to southwest winds, cooler, clt ar
followed by warmer, hazy weather
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New York stock and Money nar,,e.

NEW YORK, December 14-Evening.-Money closed
easy at q per cent CALL the highest rates hav-
ing been 6 per cent. Foreign Exchange was quiet
and steady at about 4S5 for bankers 60 days sterling
and 489 for demand.
Gold opened and closed at 114s, sales beng made
in interim at l1A The rates paid for carrying were
liz and u per cent; loans were also made fiat.
The cearances at the Gold Exchange Bank were
$29, 100 600. The Assistant Treasurer paid out to-
day $4,000 in interest and $126,0Q0 in redemption
OF bonds. The Customs receipts to-day were $24 900
Governments in brisk demand
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Boston stock Market.

Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water conveyance-1OO0 bush cornmeal to G W
Ry 10
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MARRIED.

In this city, Sept s, E. N. Bates and Miss Fannie
daughter of Capt. David Sennett of Harpswell.
In Saccorappa, Dec. 10, by Rev. d. b. Randall
Wyman P. Stevens of Gorham and Miss Ida NJ. Rid
Ion of Buxton.
In Bath. Oct 1G. Geo. A. McFadden IF Bath and
Miss Addie p. Beals of Georgetown.
In Bristol, Thomas Palmer and Miss Australia
Davis.
In Damariscotta, Nov. II. Moses Coombs and Miss
Almeda Perkins, both of Nobleboro.
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METEOROLOGICAL
PROBABILITIES FOR THE NEXT TWENTY FOUR
HOURS
For New England.

WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHEF SIGNAL)
OFFICER, Washington, D. c.,
December Is, Il A. MI
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IFRoM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.

Ar at New York 14th brigs Martha A Berry, Berry,
Havana; Starlight, Slower, Nassau. MP.
Sid FIN Legkorn =, barque Sarah Hobart Pink
ham, United States.
Ar at Havana 18th. barque Endeavor Pensacola;
schs Harold from Portland; 18th. May Munroe, Hall
New York; Geo w Jewett, Jewett Portland.
Ar at Liverpool 18th inst, barque Everett Gray,
Loripg Bath.
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Nj. l.. A,
Special meeting of the Mercantile Library Assoca-
ton, SATURDAY EVENING, Dec. 10, 1875, at II
O'Clock, to hear the report Of committee on New
Rooms" Per Order,
dec14sn5t SD. GRAVES, Rec.sce'y.
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Nov 4, lat 26 N, Ion 81 W. barque Wakefield, from
Boston for Batavia.
Nov 80 off Cape Caravaral ship Kentuckian. from
New Orleans for Hayre.
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ticable and directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to sell for legal tender notes, which are to
| be Immediately cancelled and destroyed, three
millions in a per cent. 20 year bonds on the
| first Tuesday of every month.
BY Mr.. Randall, proposing an amendment to
| the constitution providing that after the next
Presidential election the President of the Unit
ed States shall hold Office six years, and that
neither the President nor Vice President. when
| the Office of President devolves upon him, shall
| be eligible to reelection.
By Mr. Townsend of Pennsylvania, to abol.
ish stamps on bank checks also to fl the rates
of postage on third class matter
By Mr. Harrison, to amend the constitution
by fixing the term Tor President, and making
him ineligible for future election. but making
him Senator for life from the United State )
at large at the expiration Of his office as Presi-
dent.
By Mr. Spger. resolution directing the
Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into
the expedency of reducing the army to 10000
men, or to such number as will ensure suffi-
clent public service at an expense not exceed
ing 500, 1000 year, Adopted.
By Mr. Morrison, to amend the constitution
by fixing the Presidential term at six years and
making the President ineligible in any term of
twelve years.
Among other bills introduced were the fol-
lowing: To establish department of com
| merce; establishing rates of postage of third
class matter.
Mr. Buckner of Missouri, offered the follow
ing resolution and asked that it be put on its
passage:
Resolved, That the President be requested to
transmit to the House all the correspondence in
reference to the dismissal of ex-senator John
B. Henderson of Missouri, as one of the special
counsel of the United States in the prosecution
of the whiskey fraud cases at st. Louis.
Mr.. Lawrence of Ohio, suggested that the
words "if not Incompatible with the public in.
terests,' be inserted in the resolution. Voices
on he Democratic side, no. no)
Mr. Buckner declined SO to modify the reso-
luton.
MIR. Kasson of Iowa, made the point of order
that under the rule resolution calling for ex-
eeative information when objected to must lie
over one day.
The Speaker sustained the point of order and
the resolution went over.
Bills we're introduced and referred as follows:
By Mr.. C)nger of Michigan, to revise amend
and consolidate the laws relating TO security OF
life and property on steam vessels
By Mr.. Hancock of Texas to amend the act
granting pensions TO soldiers of the war of
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News Record.

A Louisville, Ky, Chnaman has mar
ried negress.
The Mississippi grangcrs are going to es-
tablsh a college.
Leonard Bacon preached at Plymouth
church Sunday evening.
Revcrdy johnson has just closed his
sixiieth year of active legal practice.
The mikado of Japan is having SO, 900
state carriage made at San Francisco.
The centennial buildings at Philadelphia
are now going up at the rate of two acres
per week.
Oranges are increasing. One thousand
new ones have been organized during the
past ninety days.
rattlesnake thirteen feet long, and
having thirty-one rattles. was killed in
Tulare county, California, recently.
Yankee editor has been making good
thing out of the colored people of Lexing-
ton, Ky, by selling a medical preparation
warranted to make them white.
The proprietor Of the Paris Figaro, bank.
rreo.s, .c1,5., sp HE
can find and is advertising for the others.
Smallpox and diptheria are steadily in.
creasing in New York city. During the
week ending May 3lst, III cases of the
former and "A of the latter were reported.
and last week 1876 cases of smallpox and
81 of diptheria.
A number of boys visited rattlesnake
den at Lake George, on the 9th ult., and
captured ten snakes, the largest measuring
five feet in length. A. c. Burton, while
tying string around a snakes neck was
bitten. His wrist was Immediately cord
ed, and tobacco applied and "rattlesnake
weed" administered, when the infiamma-
ton went entirely out Of his hand
II was only line or two in the daily pa
per, says the Detroit Free Press-a few
words to the effect that Central station had
been newly whitewashed. Goodheart, of
Sixth street, came home after a nights alb
scnce with whitewash on his back, and as
he met his wife he said "Hang my luck !
Got carried off on a Lake Shore train"
She picked up paper, placed her thumb
on the word whitewash, and there were
icicles in her voice as she replied 'Don't
let That happen again, William Goodheart."
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ton. The legislature has no authority to
submit amendments TO the people, and as
the convention of 1861 is the only one that
has been held since the adoption of the
constitution, that ended the matter until
another could be called and the present
legislature, acting upon the suggestion of
Governor Cheney, propose, If the demo-
cratic senate will concur, to call upon the
people TO decide whether convention shall
be called during the present year to abolish
this religious test. Which party has dis
played the most religious liberation in
New Hampshire republicans or demo-
Gratis
The prohibition to hold office by the
Catholics is absolute; the constitution,
after fixing the other qualifications, goes
on to say, in the case of representatives,
that they ''shall be of the protestant re-
" ligon, and shall cease to represent such
town, parish, or place Immediately on
" ceasing TO be qualified as aforesaid" and
the provision Is the same as to the others
officers named. This religious test is con-
ceded to be stain upon the constitution
and contrary to the spirit of republican in
stitutions, and Governor Cheney tells us
that 1t is dead letter, that no one ques-
tons the eligibility of candidates on &C.
count of religious faith, and ''as "A matter
/" of fact, Catholics as well as Protestants
hold important offices every year." And
80 the democratic governor and council
show their consistency not only in calling
Crank" Franklin" and declaring "Natt''
not TO be Nathaniel" but, also in know
ingly issuing certificates of election to
officers not eligible, and debarred by the
constitution from holding office. This may
be liberation, but it is, at the same time, as
plain ard palpable violation of the consti-
tuition as ever General Grant was guilty Of
The test is an outrage, but 80 long as 1t il
required by the constitution, it should be
respected and obeyed and the remedy is
only to be found in lis abrogation. The
republicans may not be wholly without
sin in the matter, but they have never
sought TO pack the legislature by defeating
the will of the people on technical grounds
and, as Il party, they have never had the
opportunity of recording their votes agains
the test provision. Which is the more con
| sistent ?
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The democrats of Connecticut tell us

that irredeemable paper money, whether it
is called treasury notes or bank bills, is
"bad money! and that it is fraud" in
times of peace, for the government to make
anything but gold and silver, of fixed
standard, legal tender All of which we
believe to be good politics and good finance.
The Ohio democracy tell us that the issue
of more of this irredeemable paper curren-
cy is an urgent necessity, and that the en-
deavor to make paper money something
more than fraud, to make it good money
and the equal and representative of gold
and silver, has brought "disaster to the
Cuisines of the country, and threatens
general bankruptcy" Which we consid-
er execrable finance and politics, but good
democracy-as much better democracy
than that of Connecticut as Ohio's twenty
two electoral votes are more important than
Connec,icul's six votes. But If the con-
traction of this bad money, the endeavor to
supplant the fraud by specie is, as the
democrats OF Ohio say, the only cause of
the business depression under which the
country is suffering, will they, the next
time they get together, tell us how it hap
pens that Canada, without contracting OF
cndeavoring to contract a good or bad cur
rency, is laboring under the same business
depression that the United States is
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Personal.

Col. John S. Upper of Montgomery,
goes soon to Wisconsin to practice law.
Marshall o. Roberts and family of New
York will spend the summer at Manches-
ter.
Samuel w. Dorman. son of the late Rev.
Ebenezer Dorman, has been taken to the
insane asylum at Brattleboro.
Ex-Gov. Emory Washburn. of Massa.
chusetts, has recently been visiting at
Readsboro, Bennington county.
The venerable DIR. Chandler says there
are only two persons now living within the
limits of st. Adams who were there fifty
nine years ago, when lie came.
Rev. Lewis A. Austin has been Obliged,
on account of i'll health, to resign the office
of principal of Kimbal union academy.
He will spend the summer in the Adiron-
dacks.
Mr.. Alvah 5. Hobart of Essex, grand
son OF the venerable Rev. Alvah Sabin of
Georgia, is among the recent graduates of
the theological department of the Madison
university.
Senator Edmunds has received dispatch
from the United States consu. at Falmouth.
England, announcing the recovery of the
body of Miss Caroline M. Crane from the
wreck of the Schiller
j. W. Huntington, graduate of the
university of Vermont, has just completed
a medical course at Harvard, and received
the appointment of assistant surgeon In the
Massachusetts general hospital.
Henry L. Lamb, formerly of the Bur-
lington Times, is now on the Watertown,
N. Y, Aeaos and deputy superintendent
of the bank department OF the state of New
York. He is one Of the most vigorous
newspaper writer's in the country.
Says the Vermont Chronicle at gives
us great pleasure to record the election of
Rev. G. B. Hulburt, of Bennington, to the
presidency of Middlebury college. We think
there Is no doubt as to his acceptance. Mr..
Hulburt is well known to our readers by
the series OF very able articles from his pen
which have appeared in the Chronicle. He
will bring to the position ripe scholarship,
an intense enthusiasm. and an unflinching
purpose to develop the resources and Sc
cure the highest welfare of the institution.
The friends of the college may take heart
when he takes the helm"