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The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
MAIN BUILDING,
CENTENNIAL GROUNDS
AI 4 OEn

May IA, 1876.
To the Editor Of the Press:
The greater part of three days 1 have spent
in the Main building at the Centennial and as
yet have not succeeded in getting anything like
an idea of the contents and capacities of the
place. 1t is bewildering and tiresome in the
extreme and still is a great delight, this wan
dering about among the beauties of the New
World and the Old, through a labyrinth of
gorgeousness.
There is much that is not done. Turkey and
Portugal have not even unpacked, Russia is
preparing the space allotted her, the French are
busy arranging their goods and planning new
exhibitions, the Japanese are working with
tools upon the wood of their buildings, the
Sound of hammers, blow on blow rings
through the air, and without, the fountains and
general decorations are, many of them, still in
an unfinished state. In some places the debris
is not removed and lumber and plastering ex-
ist where they ought not at least in the rough
Every day makes a marvellous advance, how
ever, and you can see the improvements con-
stantly. Those who come to the Centennial in
the fall will gain in this direction. Everything
will be completed and the whole will stand
forth in its perfection. Still there are argu-
ments in favor of a visit at this season. 1t was
fine to be here at the opening. the weather
now is cool and comfortable and everything has
the attraction of newness and freshness, un-
soiled by the summer heat and dust; and there
is enough to exhaust the mind, body and es-
tate" of an ordinary individual SO far as
sight seeing goes, as it is. To the truly patri-
otic soul, to the genuinely inquiring mind, to
the devotedly American heart. it is nothing TO
come home from the Centennial, SO wearied
that rest has no perceptible effect in refreshing
you, your eyes aching as if they themselves pro-
tested against gazing at any further display,
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Current Notes.

The only thing we have against Blaine is
that perhaps the Ne,c York Tribune and
Cincinnati Commercial will support him.
ElyriG Republican.
We don't pretend to say just what Mr..
James G. Blaine had to do with railroads,
but it's due to truth to say that he has to be
convicted of any corrupt transactions con-
nected with hthem.-PhiladelphiG Times.
The result of investigation so far has been
just the reverse of what Mr.. Blaine's enc
mics intended it should be. In the absence
of the testimony given yesterday the charge
might have been repeated to the ex-Speaker's
there is not plank left for his foes to stand
upon.-PhiladelphiG Press.
We believe the record and the principles of
James G. Blaine to be as pure and as far
above reproach as Mr.. Bristow's; we believe
him to be a most finished practical states
man, thoroughly schooled by the great teach
er experience, in the knowledge that is most
necessary to president, and man most fit
ting to be placed by the suffrages of the
American people in the representative Office
of the nation.-St AlbdnS Aduertiser.
This is not good year for the Great Un-
known, and Mr.. Blaine may safely dismiss
his apprehensions of this anonymous antago-
mist. The candidate of the Republican party,
it is pretty certain, will not only be known,
but he will be the best and most favorably
known man who bears the Republican name.
1t is now safe to predict that he will be either
one of two such men, and that either Mr..
Blaine or Mr.. Brstow will lead the Republi-
can party to victory next falL-St. Paul Pr
oneer Press.
If the Democrats had learned from the sec.
retary of the treasury, whom:they propose to
investigate, and had conducted their investi-
cations with simple and evident desire
to discover actual abuses and to punish all
offenders, Democrats as well as Republicans,
their majority in the House would have been
of the greatest service to them. But as Will
liam Goodwin said of the Roman church, that
it reposed in implicit confidence upon the ig-
norance of mankind, so it often seems that
Republicans may repose with equal conf
dence upon the hopeless Bourbonism Of the
Democracy.-Harper's Weekly.
Mr.. E. 81. E. Jameson, former editorial
attdche of this journal, was ordained for the
Baptist ministry last night under very favor
able and very promising circumstances. The
press is the best possible training
school for the pulpit; a few years of editorial
labor are better than lifetime in college to
fit men for the gospel mission. We do not
intend that Mr.. Jameson shall be the Globe
Democrats only contribution to the army of
Christian workers, or that no sect but the
Baptists shall receive the benefits of our care
full training and education. We have now in
our office, on the way to speedy graduation
with high honors, several young men des-
tined to be shining lights of the Church be-
fore many years.-Globe-De Democrat.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
.sRPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTION.

The Republicans of the several cities and towns in
the First District of Maine are invited to send dele
gates to District Convention to be held in City Hail.
Saco. on Thursday, May 25th 1876. at II O'Clock NJ,
for the purpose of choosing two delegates to attend
the Republican National Convention to be held at
Cincinnati, on the 14th June next.
The basis Of representation will be as follows
Each city and town will be entitled to send one dele
gate and one additional for every seventyfve votes
cast for Nelson Diagley, Jr., at the Gubernatorial
election of1S74 majority fraction of forty votes will
be entitled to an additional delegate.
Delegates are authorized to fill vacancies only with
actual residents of the city town they claim to rep
resent.
The District Committee will be in session in the
ante room of the Hall at 10 o'clock A. NJ for the re-
ception Of credentials.
The apportonment of delegates to the several cities
and towns in the District, is as follows:
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
News and Other Items,

Committee of the Boston city council report
adversely on the removal of the State House.
Rev. Charles II. Fowle has been elected edi.
tor of the Christian Advocate
In the billiard tournament at Philadelphia
Dion beat GARNER, and Sexton Rudolph.
j. Leggitt, a well known western guide, has
been killed near Custer City by Indians.
Food, ammunition and gold are extremely
scarce in the Black Hills and emigrants are
leaving there as fast as possible.
In the seventh Massachusetts congressional
district, yesterday, w. R. Russell of Lawrence,
and c. H. Waters were elected delegates to
Cincinnati.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
CITY ADVERTISER ENTs
Ordinances.

mo Dog shall be permitted to go at large OF
way, in any uninclosed public place in this city
until the owner or keeper of such dog, the head
office or other place where such dog is kept or har
bored, shall have paid to the city marshal two dol
lars for license for such dog to go at large.
2-The city marshal shall grant license to any
citizen for his or her dog to at large the pay
ment of two dollars; which license shall expire on
the first day of May next after the same is given.
SIT shall be the duty of the city marshal tC
cause all dogs to be destroyed which shall be found
at large within the city. without a collar.
The above ordinances will be strictly enforced.
my17dtf G. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
CITY OF PORTLAND.

DURSUANT to orders from the City Council the
l. undersigned Committee on Laying out New
Streets will meet on Congress Street near Ellsworth
Street, on WEDNESDAY. the 24th day Of May, in
stant at o'clock P. NJ, to hear all parties interest
ed. and there determine and adjudge if public con-
venience requires the relaying out Of Congress
Street, between Gilman and Ellsworth Street, and if
they shall SO adjudge, will then and there relay out
the same, and fix the damages required by law.
Also said Committee will meet at the South eastery
Promenade, on WEDNESDAY, the 24lh day of May.
inst at 81 o'clock p NJ to hear all parties interested
and there determine and adjudge if public con-
delineated on a plan in the City Civil Engineers
Office shall be widened and if they shall adjudge,
will then and theae widen said Western Promenade,
and fix the damages as required by law. Also, said
Committee will meet at junction OF Grant and
Grove Street, on WEDNESDAY, the oath day of
May, inst, at O'Clock P. NJ, to hear all parties
public convenience requires the laying out of the
continuation of Grant Street through land of E. P.
Chase and City of Portland and if they shall so
adjudge, will then and there lay out said Street
and fix the damages as reqnired by law. Also, said
Committee will meet at junction of Neal and Cliff,
May inst. at d o'clock P. NJ, to define the lines of
Neal and Clifford Streets, and will then and there
define and fix said lines. Also, said Committee will
meet at Corner of Federal and Pearl Streets, on
TIL URSDAY, the 25th day of May inst, at O'Clock
p M, to hear all parties interested in the petition
of j. S. Crockett, to discontinue portion of the
east side of Pearl Street. between Federal and New
bury, and there determine and adjudge if public
convenience requires the discontinuance of said
Pearl Street. and it they shall SO adiudge, will then
and there discontinue that part of said Street and
fix the damages as required by law. Also, said Com
mittee will meet at junction of Oxford and Washing
ton Streets, on THURSDAY, the 25th day of May,
inst, at 81 o'clock P. to hear all parties interested
in the petition of Moses G. knight and Others for
continuation of Oxford Streets, from Washington 10
North Street. and there determine and adjudge il
public convenience requires the laying out of said
continuation OF Oxford Street. and if they shall SO
adjudge, will then and there lay out said Street and
fix the damages required bV law, Also said Com
mittee will meet on Congress Street, near Warren
Street, on THURSDAY, the 25th day of May, inst,
at O'Clock P. NJ, and hear all parties interested in
the petition for a new Street, from Congress to
Adams Street, and there determine and adjudge if
public convenience requires the laying out OF said
Street. and if they shall adjudge, will then and
there lay out said Street and fix the damages
quired by law. w.
FRANCIS FESSENDEN,
SAM'L. WATERHOUSE. Com. on
l. d. CUSHMAN,
LYMAN M. COUSENS, fLaying out
STEPHEN MARSH. New
WILLIAM FL. SARGENT, Streets.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

THE following is specimen of the cam.
paign songs which are firing the Southern
heart. 1t appears in the New Orleans Demo
crat. The author evidently has clear com
prehension of the purposes OF the brevet'
Confederate House:
eyes, Congress is bound to fix them now,
And to teach tn am a lesson or two.
We're gwine to get back the niggers they stole
With this army of boys in blue.
Then we'n shout hurrah! for the Southern star,
And the land of the cotton and cane
For our var Of jubilo has come.
And the Gray's on deck again."
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

The Republicans of Maine and all others who pro.
pose to support the candidate of the Republican par
ty in the pending elections invited to send dele
gates TO State Convention to be held in
NOROMBEGA HALL, Bangor,
Thursday, June ~, 1876, ut liza. M.
for the purpose otnominating OF candidate for Gov.
ernor to be supported at the September election and
two candidates for electors of President and attend
to such other business usually comes before such
meetings.
The basis of representation will be as follows
egate and additional delegate for every seventy
five votes given for the Republican candidate fol-
Governor in 1872. fraction of forty votes over the
number which is entitled to one delegate, will be ac-
corded delegate.
The Republican State Committee will be in session
in the ante-room Of the Hall at o'clock the morn
ing of the Convention. The usual reduced fares on
railroads and steamboats, mayb be expected of which
due announcement will be made.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Kennebec,
Chairman,
WILLIAM P. FRYE, Adroscoggin.
DANIEL RANDALL. Aroostook.
STANLEY 7. PULLEN, Cumberland.
CHARLES J. TALBOT, Franklin.
JOHN d. HOPKINS, Hancock.
HIRAM BLISS, JR., Knox.
S. s. MARBLE, Lincoln.
ENOCH FOSTER JR, Oxford.
JOSEPH W. PORTER, Penebscot
E. A. THOMPSON, Piscataquis
j. W. WAKEFIELD, Sagadahoe.
r. 3. SHEP HERD, Somerset.
WILLIAM W. CASTLE, Waldo.
VIM. j. CORTHELL, Washington.
JOHN HALL, York.
Portland, May 4, 1876.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

THoS. HANCOCK, Gray, Chairman
j. W. BEATTY, Saco. Secretary.
j. NJ. MASON, Limerick.
E. N. PERRY, Cape Elizabeth.
CHAS. E. GIBBS, Bridgton.
JOHN WENTWORTH, Kittery.
THOS. PENNELL, Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Centennial Echoes.

The Nations Unpacltinx Their Trunks
A Tour of the Main BuiIding-Porce-
lain and Potteries, Crepes and CameEs
Hair-A Stroll Through n Pngoda-In-
nati0n of Prices &c. &c.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The namG and address of the writer are In
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty cf good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned 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
iOurnaI
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
CITY OF PORTLAND.

CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
May 6, 1876.
NOTICE is hereby given to all parties interest
IN in the petitions for Sewers in Hanover and
Casco Streets, that hearing will be had on sale
petitions. at the Adermen's Room in City Building
on MONDAY, the fifth day of June next, at Il
O'Clock P. M, and that thereafter they will deter
mine and adjudge if public convenience and necessi-
ties require the construction of said Sewers
Per order,
my8dtd H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS

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To the Ladies Of Portland and Devring ,

TLEAN BEDS more important than elegant
" furniture. Feather beds, pillows and hair mat
tresses ought to be ceansed every year. 1t will pro-
mote health and prevent disease Cleansing by
Steam is the only sure way of destroying vermin
and removing disagreeable Odors. Send in your Or
ders to the office of "The steam Feather Eseu-
ovator.' 21S Federal st. All inquiries cheeriully
answered. myl5eodf
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Constipation.
Piles.

VEGETINE does not act as a cathartc TO debilitate
tne bowels but cleanses all the organs enabling each
to perform the functions devolying upon them.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough OF
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal cause
and no outward application can ever cure the defect
VEGETINE is the great blood purifier.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

For this complaint the only substantial benefit ca
be obtained through the blood. VEGETINE is I'll
great blood purifier.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
TumOrs, Ulcers or Old Sores
Catarrh.

Are caused by an impurestate of the blood. Cleans
the blood thoroughly with VEGETINE, and thes
complaints will disappear.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Pimples and HumOrs of the Fac

VEGETINE has never failed to cure the most in
veterate case of Eryspelas.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Republican State Convention.

The Republicans of Maine and all others who pro-
pose to support the candidate of the Republican par
ty in the pending elections invited to send dele
gates TO a State Convention to be held in
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
Erysipelas.

letter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, &C., will certs
ly yield to the great Alternative effects of VEGETIN
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19

Carpenters and Builders.
WHITNEY & MEANS, Pearl street, op
pOsite the Park.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-19
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Book Binders.
yvE. A. QUINCY, Boom II, Printsrs'
Exchange, No. III Exchange Sg.
SMALL e. SHACKFORD, No. 35 PIum
Street,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-04-28
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into line to make twenty seven more In
the brigade, saw the lieutenant looking
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work. went forward with the same OLD
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They had forgotten how weak we We're
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-04-28
Kennebec Savings Bank

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ing at those dates, which have been on deposit one
full month
Money deposited in Savings Banks is not 70 be
taxed to depositors hereafter.
Dividends as soon as declared are adued to the
principal thus compromising the interest every six
months.
Loans made to depositors en- depositing their
Bank Book as security
Once I'm Erecmans Bank Building.
s. B. GLAZIER, Treasurer.
w. II. HALLETT, President
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