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The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
MAINE GENERAL Hosp1rAr.-we are clad

MAINE GENERAL HosPITAL.-We are glad
to learn that the amateurs who are to present
''The Little Treasure and "a Happy Pair
on Thursday afternoon next. and "Old Phirs
Birthday and ''My Uncle's Will, on Friday,
at the Museum, for the benefit of the Maine
General Hospital, are coming on successfully
with their rehearsals. The actors are among
the best in the city, and the object for which
they are taking SO much pains is a worthy one.
There have been some complaints among
few-we are happy to say only few-of our
citizens, that more patients are not received
without charge at the hospital. To be sure,
seven dollars week for board, lodging and
medical attendance is trifle; yet even
this is more than some persons can afford to
pay. "Why are not food, shelter and healing
gratis?" is asked. "Why?" say the directors.
"Very good reasons why. We are doing as we'll
as our means allow. We are making every
penny do its utmost Yet, for all our care and
economy, we are in debt, and it is all we can
manage to keep the hospital open at ALL"
All praise to the directors We are sure they
are doing their best. Instead of standing still
and blaming others who are at work, suppose
we, one and all, come heartily forward to their
aid.
A few weeks since several ladies gave some
fine tableaux at Music Hall. With the pro-
ceeds of that entertainment they purchased
the right to bed in one of the hospital wards,
which for year should be entirely free. With
out money and without price some human be-
ing stricken with disease, shall be tenderly car
ed for. Now the theatricals, of which we
spoke in the beginning of this article, are to
be given ia aid of the same institution, the
Maine General Hospital. Shall not the ladies
and gentlemen who have undertaken them re-
ceive generous support from our citizens? Let
not single seat in the Museum be vacant
on either Thursday or Friday. The tickets are
to be sold at very reasonable rates. fifty, thir-
ty-ive and twenty-five cents. We are certain
that the hospital will gain goodly sum, and
we are quite as sure that every one who goes to
to these theatricals will be treated to most
charming. entertainment and get Ia considera-
ton which touches most Of US New England
ers) his full moneys worth of enjoyment
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

POLITICAL parties may rise and fall thrones
crumble and republics spring into being on
their ruins yet the name of Adamson's b.
tanic Cough Balsam will ever be remembered
and cherished as the greatest and best cough
remedy in the world ianAeod1w
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. %, 1875
CITY AND VICINITY.
New Advertisements To-Day.

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
a Vocal Concert-The White Family.
Holmes Second Grand Assembly.
haymond's Private Dancing Academy.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dissolution of Copartnership.
Manufacturers Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
Valentines-C. Day, Jr., s. Co.
Free-Jas. j. H. Gregory.
Remnants-Horatio Staples.
Side Lace Boots-M. G. Palmer.
Dog Lost.
Information Wanted.
Wanted-Bookkeeper.
City of Portland-Geo. W. Parker.
AUCTION COLUMN.
Furniture, &c-F. o. Bailey & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

Nor QUoRUM.-The newly elected directors
of the Presumpscot Park Association were no.
titled to meet at Dr. Tewkshury's office last
evening to organize. There is not much inter-
est in the Association, or the directors as well
as the scribe must have been called out of
town, for not one of them put in an appear
auce. The Doctor wants them to rise and ex-
nlaip.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

The bill is very attractive one, and will of
course call out great house. An opportunity
is offered to the citizens of Deering to attend,
Mr.. Leach having kindly consented to run a
car after the performance. A few choice seats
may yet be obtained by application at the box
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
Stated Meetings.
CITY GOVERNMENT

The regular meetings of the City Council take place
the first Monday evening of each month.
The School Committee meetthe fourth Monday eve
ming of each month.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
A SECRET-PERHAPS,

A chairman of one of the committees said:
Our committee will report about all the little
appropriations asked for. The fact is, nearly
everybody has some little thing or his dear
friend has, so it is mighty difficult to give an
other fellows little affair the black eye that it
deserves, so we look sideways at each other and
allow the eager fellow to have his way, hoping
that the Senate or House will stifle the thing.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
AN ELOPEMENT.
A Rising Young Merchant Elopes With
the Wife of His Partner-Full Particu-
lars of the Affair.

Yesterday it became known on the street
that there had been first class elopement a
few days before, but the matter had been kept
quiet. When the story first started it was
something more than an ordinary elopement,
in fact it was an elopement and a defacation
combined, but unlike most stories, as the ru-
NOR spread it dwindled down to simply an
elopement The parties to the unhappy affair
are Mr.. r. f. Doten, member of the Paris
FIGURING Company firm, and Mrs. Frank Skill
lirgs. whose husband is al member of the same
firm. Mrs Skillings lived with her husband
at Paris, and Mr.. Doten resided in this city.
Mr.. Skillings was in town yesterday and gave
the following account of the sad affair:
Last Thursday Mrs. Skillngs left her home
in Paris to visit friend in this city, and as she
was in the habit of stopping here several days,
nothing was thought when she did not return
Saturday night. On Monday or Tuesday Mr.
Skillings came to the city and was surprised to
learn that his wife had left town with his part
ner. A letter has been received from Mr..
Doten dated New York, stating that he drew
$4,000 from the Canal National Bank the day
before he left, but this is not the amount of his
interest in the firm, so there is no irregularity
in regard to money matters. He returned the
key to box in the safe which contained valua-
BILE papers. Mr.. Skillings spoke in the highest
terms of his wife and is in hopes she will re-
pent and return ere long. No attempt will be
made to have the clippers arrested. Both par
ties are highly respectable and the affair is
greatly to be regretted. Until last spring Mr..
Doten resided in Paris, and boarded at An
drews' Hotel, near the residence of his part
ner, where he visited often. He became init
mately acquainted with Mrs. Skillings but
nothing was thought of the acquaintance. Last
spring Mr.Doten came to this city and opened a
branch offise for the mills. Since that time he
has visited Paris quite often on business with
his partner. Mr.. Doten is young man thirty
years of age and has been considered very
smart business man. He was thorough &C
countant and his books are IN excellent condi-
ton. Mrs. Skillings is lady about SO years of
age and of very agreeable manners. She is
quite musician and has sung in the choir in
the Congregational church at Paris for some
time. She is great reader and is we'll in
formed. Those who know her best can hardly
be persuaded that she has eloped, as she is the
last person who would be suspected of such a
thing in the community in which she lives.
Not long since she lost small child and for
some time she was partially insane.I 1t is thought
that this fact may explain her strange conduct.
She has two children grown up. She has a
large number of friends in this city who will
be panied to hear of her departure.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
The State Capital.
Senatorial Notices of Faith
A Revived Subsidy.

AUGUSTA, Jan. %.
To continue with the Senate. The best de-
batter ON the Democratic side is Mr.. Donworth
of Aroostook He is chairman of the Commit.
tee on Ways and Means. He seldom speaks,
but toward the close of the last session he dis
played marked ability in presenting the claims
of his people. he is 8 modest gentleman of
liberal culture and is connected with Hon. j.
G. Madigan in the practice of law. There must
be some Democrats in the Senate to break the
monotony and as we must have such let US
have men of the type of Mr.. Donworth.
Capt. Reyes of Franklin county is the young
est senator at the board. He is chairman of a
committee that needs nerve-that on Claims.
Capt. Reyes was good soldier, is lawyer of
good ability and must be favorably known to
the people of Franklin county to be so honcred
at his age.
The two senators from Washington are sturdy
looking men and apparently fast friends. Sen.
ator Talbot has several times been member
of the House. He is man of sound Judgment
and commands great respect. He belongs to
one of the families of Washington county which
has furnished not only that county but the state
with men of marked ability. For half GEN.
tury, the family has been one of the most infiu-
entail in Eastern Maine. More men of influ-
ence of that name have been in our Maine Leg
islature in that period than any other. By
nature the Talbots are radicals. They never
occupy middle ground. If they are Demo-
Gratis, they are of the intense type; If Talbot
as Republican, he began first free-soller For
years, George f. was prominent free.soiler,
while his brother John Ca member of the
present House-is one who writes his own biog-
raphy politically with the words "aiways q
Democrat which means that he has never
faltered but rather has been in the front of
every party fight, and has held and advocated
the most prominent ideas laid down by that
political faith. Mr.. Wentworth, Mr.. Talbot's
colleague, has life reputation of being one of
the soundest and most successful lumber oper-
ators on the st. Croix. He is a gentleman of
solid ability, vide experience and ripe judg-
ment. We regret to add that both these estim-
able senatorsflnd their political associates on
the other side.
Senator Hinkley of Hancock, the chairman
Of the financial committee, is one of the solid
men of the Senate-a man whom it would be
generally safe to follow when the ayes and
nays are called. He is a genial man of good
bard everyday sense and Is credit to his
county.
If Dr. Sturgis Of Androscoggin acquits him
self as creditably in the big chair in the Senate
chamber as he did two years in the House as
the gentleman from Auburn" that county
will be faithfully and efficiently represented.
r
the men who have opinions and force of char
acter. There is no trouble in ascer.aining his
opinion on pending questions. He is also an
earnest and effective speaker as we'll as a man
of influence.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

And this leads one to remark the faith and
courage of old petitioners for legislative aid 1t
is really wonderful. Who can remember the
year so far distant when the venerable Bick-
ford G. Matthews did not come up from that
Waldo county town with his claim for a road
which he built before some of us were born?
What legislative frequenter cannot recall the
sufferings of that man Smith of Appleton, SO
ill fated in his name-that Smith who is only
partially rescued from the multitude by bearing
the prefix of BeDjamin-who was injured by
being thrown out of a wagon third of cen.
fury since while returning from muster? How
many successive legislatures have listened to
the pathetic tale of his sufferngs for his coun-
try? Yet both of these venerable claimants
are asking now with undiminished faith.
And this leads us to speak of a resolve intro
duced few days since to pay the Granger
Turnpike Co. a morsel of $4,000. In 1866, the
Legislature passed resolve to pay $4,000 in
installments of $4,000 each when the Cover
nor and Council were satisfied that that sum
had been properly expended by the Granger
Turnpike Co. to aid in the construction of a
turnpike through the wilderness from Green
bush on the Penobscot to Princeton on the st.
Croix-a distance of 45 miles, About two
years later, the Company contracted with a
party to build the road for $4,000. They went
on and according to the account rendered ex-
pended over $4,000. The Company afterwards
expended enough more including $1,000 for sur
veys in 1864-before the legislative appropria-
tion-to make an aggregate of little rising
$12.500. The state has paid 1920. The par
ties composing the defunct company now ask
for $4,000 by direct resolve. We say defunct,
because the building of the road has long since
been abandoned. One Legislature referred the
whole matter to the Governor and Council and
after careful examination of the whole mat
ter, they came 20 the conclusion that the
Granger Turnpike had no valid claim against
the state. By the report made at that time, it
appears that the $4,000 expended by the origi-
nal contractors was bought by the company for
$1,000 and that the $1,000 charged for surveying
was expended befoIe the Legislature granted
the subsidy, so that the sum really paid out by
the Company under the resolve Of 1866 was
about $500 instead of $4,000 The Governor
and Council thought that $4,000 was as much
as the state is bound to pay, especially since
the whole scheme is failure. S.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

the occasion of very pleasant gathering at the
residence of Mr.. Chas. G. Bickford of Sacca-
rappa-salesman with Messrs Webb & Phn-
ney, Commercial street. 1t was no less than
the silver wedding of Mr.. Bckford and his
estimable wife; and by O'Clock friends to the
number of one hundred and fifty had assem-
bled, chiefly from Portland and Westbrook.
After the guests were fully arrived, Rev. Mr..
Randall of the M. E. church, performed the
remarriage ceremony, which was very unique
and appropriate, sparkling with happy hits
and yet impressive. Then VIM. III. Neal, esq.,,
in his usually felicitous manner called the at
tention of the happy pair, who notwithstand-
ing twenty-five years have elapsed since their
marriage, are still on the sunny side of middle
life, to the rich presents of that metal from
which these occasions derive their name, con-
sisting of an elegant silver service, an elabo-
racely wrought cake basket, knives, forks,
spoons, &C., and forty half dollars in coin. Mr..
B. responded feelingly in a few well chosen
words of grateful acknowledgment, and well
coined his guests to his home After this came
the second part, when it was conceded that the
bride of twenty-five years was still capital
housekeeper and cook; at least, one would
guess as much from the ample justice that was
done during the evening hour to the boiled
tongue and wheaton bread, hot coffee, cakes
and delicious ices, which engaged the attention
of the company during that time.
Among the presents valuable gold ring
should not be forgotten, with which her friends
surprised the daughter, Miss Mary f. Bickford,
and there are thosewho know her who would not
grudge another assessment on the occasion
when she, too, may enter upon twenty-five
years as profitable to the world, on the WHOLE
asnthose which her parents have just COM
pleted.
DIRECTORS MEETINa.-The Maine Central
directors held their regular monthly meeting in
this city yesterday. All the board were present
except Messrs. Alden, Jones and Woodbridge.
The matter of taking off the Pullman train
was brought up and it was voted to continue it,
six of the ten directors present voting in the
affirmative 1t is understood that some modifi-
cations have been made in the original contract
with MI. Pullman. Lighter and better cars
will be provided. 1t was reported that the pas
senger earnings Of the. road had been $4,000
less this year during the month of December
than the corresponding month last year, while
the freight earnings had been Sill ,0cO more this
year than last tor the same month
The committee appointed to confer with a
committee from the Rochester road in regard to
passenger arrangements made partial report,
but it was recommitted.
The matter of arranging for carrying freight
for the Lockwood mills at Waterville, was dis
cussed but no action taken.
Thomas Holt, Chief Engineer, made his an
nual report for 1875. From the report we learn
that there has been 81 ,423f days work done on
the track, at cost of $104, 1880.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.

y. w. hubbard POSTMASTER.
u. W. YOkH AssIsTANT-PosTMAsTER
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28
TEMPLARS OF HONOR.

At Templars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNc1L-Maine, first and third Mondays in each
month.
TEMpLE-Forest City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-28

From 500 m to $50 p m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from 0 to 10 a. m.
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Brides at the Exhibition.

OF all the people who live at the cen,en-
NAL hotels | think the newly-married
couples-P Philadelphia is full of them by the
way-are the only ones who are thoroughly
contented aud happy. 1t makes no differ
ence to them whether the potat are wa
terry, the meats dry, or the soup thin and
tn Y don't care pin whether people talk
to them or not. They live in lit l. world
of their owp, and for time-what p ty
that It's so short time-they need n c1u-
yeFsation but their own, have no thought
but for each other. We have all sorts of
newly. marie couples here now, but not
wlhstsnling the many various stations in
life which they occupy and the different
parts Of the country from which they come
they all act wonderfully alike. They all
have certain marks about them which can
be Immediately detected by even an I'M
praclised eye. In the frs. place it is no.
iicesble that they all try to act as if being
married was an old story to them, and still
for the life of them they can't help taking
each others hands every five minutes.
Among other things it is remarkable that
The young men, on the old principle that
ia fellow can't wed every day." are very
extravagant with their money. They are
30 evidently against the wishes of the pru-
dent little help mates. Another thing
which | have noticed is that the brides
nearly all wear new watch chains, the
young husbands, especially those from the
west, are very particular about their gloves,
and even upon the warmest and most OPP
pressiyc day they carry heavy shawl, in
case such covering should be needed by
the dear woman they have sworn to protect.
The patronizing air of ownership which
the young men assume is truly remarkable,
while their attempts to answer the many
questions asked by their wives are some
times very amusing. One incident will il
lustrate this A few days ago in the main
building bright-looking young western
farmer and an innocent-faced little woman
who had evidently just become his wife,
approached the music stand. At the same
moment the band began to play the open
ing passage of 1.-THE Waking of the Lion"
The little bride listened to the music for a
moment and then looking confidently up
into the face of her lord and master, she
pressed his arm and whispered "what piece
are they playing, Charlie p For moment
Charley was puzzled, but he had just be-
come a husband, and evidently seeing the
importance of maintaining the dignity of
the position. he quietly drew that confding
little woman away from the stand, saying,
"Oh. it's not piece at all they are Just
tuning up like" And of course she be-
lieved him.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1876.
Death of Mrs. w. E. Blanchard.

WEST RUpERT Get. 1G, 1876.
Editor Rutland Glo5e:-I noticed in the
Herald an article in relation to the death
of Mrs. Warren Il. Blanchard which does
not correspond with the facts as they ap-
pear by the letters from Mr.. Blanchard and
his daughter, also one from Mrs. Brown
giving the details of her pickness. They
being former residents Of Rutland, |
thought it might be of interest to some of
your readers. | write from the above let
tiers to Mr.. Boce of this place, Mrs. b. 8
father, in regard to her sickness and death.
Mrs. Blanchard died at Asplnwsll, Oct. 1st,
WAS sick ten days. She died from disease
of the kidney, not from fever. She bad
been well or better than her usual health
up to the time she was taken sick. Mr.
Blanchard and daughter were both in good
health.
Mrs. B hal all the kind care and good
medical attendance that she could have had
in her northern home.
Yours respectfully,
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The following tier from rev =. &. Be I,
pastor or the NJ ". church, Nstick, Mass, Will
BE- read with interest many piy,icIeJis; ,lsO
ed the son OF RAv. +. 3. Il s.. No person vGu
DOUBT this &c timony as here is 30 DOUBT
about the curative pow OF sc TINE,
NATtNK, MASS, Jan l5t, 1872.
MR.. II STEVrNS;
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your NrGErlNf uedt ihe OF the greatest
value. Ne feel a sured hat Il has bcrA tue
mean Of say ~ our 50 5 ife, Il l. LOW se =
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has suffered m IN necr 81, ui hi lie cdusf q us
sciofulOus affection, ana as 50 far reduced
that nearly all VINO az him thought his recOv
cry impossible. council OF aOl / IA siciaus
could give US but the tlintesl hope OF his ever
rauying; two or he num0er dc ihrlE that he
was beyond the reach Of human rom. di' s. IN {
even ampuiation could not save him as hc mad
not vigor enough TO endure me operation.
just then we commenced giving him NEfE-
TINE and from that time Il the present, he
has been continuously improving. lie has
lately resumed studies. thrown away his
crutches AID cane, and walks away choerfuuy
and strong,
Though there is still some discharge from
the opening where his M b was lanced. We
have the fullest contldef &c that In little time
he Will be perfectly cure
He has taken ABOUT three dozen bottles OF
VEGErINE, but lately uses our little, as he de-
clares he is too well TO be taking medicine.
Respectfully yours,
L. = BEST,
MRS. 4, c. +. BEST.
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Late pastor Calvary Baptist church, sacra-
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