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Current Notes.

The recent attempt to blacken the reputa-
tion of Mr.. Blaine was complete failure. 1t
was wicked and reckless, but not very
shrewdly made, aud the manner in which it
was met, and in which the false charges were
disproved will make his enemies more eau
tious in the future.-BOSt0n Traveller.
There is no profession more honorable or
more necessary to the welfare of the nation
than that of the sincere student of political
science, the genuine politician, whose aim is
to promote good government. The more such
men nation has the better.-Hartord
C0urant.
There is not possibility that an indepen-
dent presidential ticket could be elected, or
even carry single state, but it wonld be
likely to make the election of the Demo-
cratic candidates certain by the people, and
thus give the Democrats a minority admin
Observation-Disclosures Times, indepen.
dent.
The triumph of Gov. Chamberlain in the
South Carolina convention, is one of the
most noticeable illustrations in modern politics
OF the power Of genuine oratory When the
governor arose 10 reply to the charges of his
enemies he had less than thirty friends in the
convention. When he concluded his power
full speech, he had complete control of the
convention, and was elected delegate at large
to the Cincinnati convention, by a vote of
nearly two to one over Senator Patterson
Hartford Courant.
Opinions may differ as to the personal mer-
its of Mr.. Davenport, but there can be but
one opinion among honest men about the
value of the work which he did in providing
for the enforcement of the election law of
1872. The assistance which he rendered
toward securing the purity of the ballot box
in this city would not have been dear at five
times the sum which he is said to have paid
for it, and in point of fact the same work cost
in Philadelphia twice the sum drawn by Mr..
DavenpCrt.-N. Y. Times.
Collins Graves, the milkman hero of the
last years dam disaster in Massachusetts, did
not figure in the recent one. An inquiry has
brought out the sad fact that he died of grief,
poverty and neglect some time ago. 1t seems
that after the Mill river catastrophe, when he
rode noWn the valley and warned the inhabi-
tants tnat the dam was breaking, people asked
themselves what he coule have been doing at
the reservoir, and then stopped buying his
milk. The milk business was ruined, he
found nothing else to do, and not many
months after he died in destitute circumstan-
ces. Think twice before you allow yourself
to become hero.-Chicago Tribune.
The Indiana Democratic platform starts off
with the virtuous announ cement: "The Civil
Service of the government has become corrupt,
and is made the object of personal gain, and
it is the first duty which The people owe to
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REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTION.

The Republicans of the several cities and towns in
the First District of Maine invited to send dele
gates to District Convention to be held in City Hall
Saco, on Thursday, May 25th 1876. at 12 o'clock M,
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 additional for every sixty votes cast for
Nelson Di2gley, Jr at the Gubernatorial election Of
1874; majority traction of thirtyfve votes will be
entitled to an additional delegate.
Delegates 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.
THOS. HANCOCK, Gray, Chairman.
j. W. BEATTY, Saco, Secretary.
j. M. MASON, Limerick.
E. N. PERRY, Cape Elizabeth.
CHAS. E. GIBBS, Bridgton.
JOHN WENTWORTH, KitteIy.
TdOS. PENNELL, Portland.
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PAID NEARLY
$4,000 :! |!
JANUARY 2, 1875.

- JANUARY 2, 1915.
ii. r. STEVENS, Esq:
Dear Sir: When about six months old was vac
clnated. The parties who where vaccinated from
the same virus died from the humor. The humor
spread over me to such an extent that was rolled
in bran to prevent me from scratching my person.
The disease finally settled in my head. l remained
in this condition about twenty years, troubled all
the time with sores breaking in my head and dis
charging corruption from my car. At this time a
small kernel appeared my neck gradually in
creasing in size until tumor formed of such i'm
mense size could see it by turning my ewes down.
ward. All this time was taking various remedies
for my blood without any substantial benefit
L then went to q prominent physician in Boston
who, during his treatment of six months lanced tbe
tumor eight tunes, which cost me nearly $4OO This
diminishing the size of the tumor, and in a sicklv
feeble condition. L consulted another physician IN
Natick, who, after considerable time, succeeded in
healing the sore without reducing the size At this
point commenced to use VEGETINE through the
earnest persuasion of a friend. After 1 had taken
this medicine about one week experienced wonder
full sensations. My whole body seemed to be under
going radical change, until finally, the tumor broke
and discharged frightful quantities. From this time
it decreased in size until the bunch disappeared but
my neck still bears the ugly scars of the sore and
lance. am now healthy and strong and able to
work every day.
l will also mention that have been an acute suf-
ferer from inf1ammatory rheumatism ever since can
remember, until commencing the use of VEGETINE
when almost Immediately all rheumatic pains ceased
Ihs statement volunteer for the purpose of bene-
htng other suffering humanity, and you will confer
a 1avof by giving it as much publicity as thought
proper. Very gratefully,
U. NJ. SAVELS, Ashland Mass
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appears in the written record. 1t is not the
first time that Democratic committee, pro-
Tossing to be under iDjuncticns of secrecy,
have given to correspondents false accounts
of the evidence before them. Having pub
lished the lie theDemocratic papers refuse to
publish the correction. The Argus Saturday
makes the absurd statement in its editorial
column that "the President is proved to have
been guilty of the illegal and corrupt use OF
the peoples money" and gives as substantial
tion in its telegraphic columns Washington
special dated four days before. Perhaps its
readers are content to have stale and ex-
ploded falsehoods served up to them as news,
but the proceeding is neither honorable nor
honest
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themselves and the government to restore
the tests OF honesty, capacity, and fidelity in
the selection OF persons to fill all public posi-
tions." That means of course. 'sPut us
Democrats in and we will show you what
reformed Civil Service is" Well, they have
been showing us this winter at Washington,
and the result is seven officers of the House
discharged for dishonesty or worse and many
more who ought to be. 1t won't do, gentle
men. This is dreadful unhealthy year for
clap-trap.-N. Y. Tribune.
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. A RocKLAND gentleman who has no par
ticular cause to be friendly to County Attor--
ney Staples of Knox County, intimates that
the charges made by DR.. Montgomery against
that official, doubtless have their origin in
personal feeling and have no real foundation.
We trust that such is the case.
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THE wiser Democrats are beginning to re-
gret that the matter Of the use of the secret
service fund has been brought up. Explana-
nation will lead to complete exposure Of the
enormous frauds by which the great Demo-
cratic majorities have been obtained in New
York citv
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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
journal
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL "a, 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as a guaranty CT good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
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The Medicine that Cures
VEGETINE.

Taking into consideration the character of it's
vouchers, the history of its and the immense
Increasing demand, VEGErINE may be fairly en-
titled the leading medicine of the age
For scrotula In the blood, VEGETINE is an in
falible remedy, and no person need suffer from
humors. ulcers and all diseases arising from impure
blood, if VEGETINE is used according to directions.
There is not case of scrofula in existence that
VEGFTINE will not cure, provided, however, the
vital functions have not lost their power of action,
all that may be said to the contrary notwithstanding
1uence, and absolute in its action disease as the
following unquestionable evidence will show
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What is Vegetine /?

}, 1t is compound extracted from barks, roots and
herps. 1t is natures remedy. 1t is perfectly harm
ess from any bad effect upon the system 1t is nour-
ismng and strengthening. 1t acts directly upon the
blood. 1t quiets the nervous system. 1t gives you
our aged fathers and mothers, for it gives them
strength quiets their nerves, and gives them natures
person. 1t is the great Blood Purifier. Itis sooth-
lug remedy for our children. 1t has relieved and
cured thousands. 1t is very pleasant to take every
child likes it. 1t relieves and all diseases orig
mating from impure blood. Try the VEGETINE
Give it fair trial for your complaints; then you will
say to your friend, neghbor and acquaintance, "Try
it; it has cured me-"
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PROPOSALS.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.

SUPERNTENDENT's OFFICE,
Portland, April II, 1876.
CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- office until THURSDAY, April 27, 1876, at
noon. for furnishing Material and Building
-Four Passenger Station Houses for this
Company, viz:
One at Hallowell
One at Cumberland
One at North Jay.
One at Livermore Falls.
Plans and Specifications may be seen at the
Chief Engineers Office, Portland.
This Company reserve the right to reject all bids
not deemed satisfactory.
PAYSON TUCKER, Superintendent.
apis dtd
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INSURANCE.
N T. w EN GE "A N I'D
Mutual Life
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF BOSTON.
INCORPORATED HN 1885.
Nearly Half Century Experience i'm Life
Underwriting.
Policies Liberal and Equitable.
No permit required for change of Residence Occu-
patton. This Company possessed JAN
uary l. 1876, an
Policies Liberal and Equitable.

Accumulated fund Ito meet fut-
ure liabilities) amounting to
Market value Of which, more ~'oo'o'o
than cost, Jan. ], 1s76......... 100000 90
Income for 1875. 49,. ......... 3,121 900 90
Returned to policy holders in
Accumulation in 1875 .......... 1854 200 90
Surplus over liabilities January
Surplus to be returned to policy -.l.i-e
holders in 1876 as their premi- .5L
ums fall due. .........,....... 561 900 90
Ratio Of expenses to mean
amount insured in 1875. .,... SO
The dividends of this old Company are not larger
than any Company in this country the scorld, but
they are as large as any Company can pay whose
surplus is not swollen by forfeitures
The Life Insurance Laws of Massachusetts require
Massachusetts, companies to give in Life Insurance
the value of every dollar paid into its treasury, with
out any action on the part of the policy holder.
If party insured in this Company fails to pay the
premium on his policy when due, the net valae or
legal reSerue Of such policy must be used single
premium to purchase tern, Insurance. the length of
which, to be determined by the age of the insured;
thus securing to every policy holder young or old
rich or poor, fair equivalent for the money paid.
In addition to the above safeguard, this Company
will give, if desired paid up policy for said net val
ue, or will pay it in cash if preferred.
In all other State companies with the exception of
the paid up insurance feature this net Ualue legal
reserUe Wich belong to epol;cy holder is forfeited
unless the premium is paid when due.
When you insure your life, insure in the Company
that
Guarantees you the MOst Life Insurance
for the Money You have Paid.
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Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Minnesota BOndhOlders.

For plan OF reorganization apply, stating class of
catine, or Pacific Division). to FRED. TAY-
LOfs, Chairman Bondhoders' Committee, 476
Kroome street, New York. Immediate action
Is advisable. apSd1m
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PRICE LIST.
Compare our Prices with those
you have been paying.
Granulated Sugars 10 1-2 cts. lb
PRICES OF COFFEEs
CANNED GOODS.
BEANS.

lb. Cans Green Corn .1S 70 lb. Cans Lima Beans. 10
8 " best Peaches. .202 :" Green Peas is
8 +o"s =" 6 Toma- :, 2 Bueberries. Is
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FLOUR ?.

We wish to call especial atten-
ton to our various brands of
-four, which you can purchase at
a great saving from the usual
retail price.
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Yellow Eyes. cts quart Best Medium. C cts qus
Bes, Best Pea e Beanss 9. California Lima Beans.
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Published every day Sundays excepte0 by the
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n IV5 r-4oHNNuE oT., I UNI
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THE REASON

why we underSelI all others is
simply because we buy i'm such
large quantities for cash that we
make in the buying what other
dealers make in the selling.
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GOODS I'M GENERAL.

Queen Soap. :......"...s Pearl Soap.
French Laundry. .......9l
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Owing TO the great depression i'm
business i'm Boston and New York
markets. it enable me to buy
many kinds of select family
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Best Cauada Oat Meal. Al Rye Meal. ... ........
Best Graham Meal, -. 4 Corn Meal. ..........
Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14
COLENENI MAR

The nomination of the Hon. L. Q.
Q. Lamar, as United States Senator,
by the Democratic caucus of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature, as announced by
Us yesterday, will be accepted by the
whole country with favor. There is no
doubt that on Tuesday the nomination
will be confirmed by and election.
No man in Congress, North or South,
since the war, has attracted more at
tention or made more reputation for
ability and the highest order of states
manship than Colonel Lamar, and his
election will be accepted by the people
of the whole country as evincing de-
termination upon the part of Southern
Democrats to put the best D, en- III high
positions.
We congratulate Mississippi upon the
selection, and the entire South upon
so important an addition to the already
able and brilliant list of Senators from
this section. In Colonel Lamar, too,
we recognize personal friend, to
whom the Editors of the JOURNAL feel
themselves bound with ties that were
knitted by long and pleasant associ-
alton amid the stormiest ordeals of
war. and which have been nourished
since its close by the common cause we
have made against the unjust oppres-
siOns of the Federal Government.
Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14

The PREsIDENCY.-A correspondent
of the New York IrjJtp1e has been
interviewing the members OF the
Pennsylvania LegisiGt17rC ~ regard 80
the Presidency, aHd comes 10 the fol
LOVING conclusion u regard to the
Democrats:
This, then, il the attitude of the
Pennsylvania Democrats: They are
for Hendricks, Bayard, Thurman. Gen.
Hancock, OF almost any body IN pref
erence to TIlde!t, but they viii give
up their prejudice rather than run Il
clear haztrd of defeat. Satisfy them
that without New York they lose the
battle, and that without Tilden they
lose New York, and they are for Til
den. What / have said above applies
to the general run Of Democratic c
members, who have no thought seri-
ously on the question, and have not,
therefore, enlisted under the banner
of any particular candidate. A Iefi-
mite programme has been mapped out
by the leaders Of the Wallace wing OF
the party, but it has not yet been COM
nunicated to the rank aud file. The
plan is to throw the vote of Pennsyl-
vania i'll the Convention for Gov
Hendricks in return for the Western
vote for eX-[:ov. Curtin for VIce-Pres-
ident. It is sbrewd and carefully
laid scheme, and is worthy Of the anx-
ious consideration OF Coy. Tiiden' s
friends. It contemplates shifting the
battle ground from New York to Penn
solyanie, carrying the latter State by
the old War Governors" popularity,
risking the loss OF the former, inSur-
surIng Indiana, and making a push
fer Ohio and Wisconsin. The Tilden
slate figures ont victory by the union
OF the South, the East, and Pacific
coast; the Hendricks and Curtin slste
arrives at the same result by adding
to the vote Of the South that Of Penn
sylvanil and Indiana, and taking the
chances of carrying one or two of the
close Western States. There is good
reason for stating that Senator Wal
lace is using his groat taleiI5 for o, gan
izing political movements to forward
this scheme, and for believing that
Gov. Curtin had it in view when he
surprised his friends b. taking the
stump fur Allen last October.
Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14
NEwspAPEIs NEAgEassSa.

AS already announced, the Wilson
PIu2ndeaLc1' has suspended, and is Of
fered for sale. DIr. Singletary's re-
tirement from the press viii be seri-
GUS loss. We cannot afford to lose, IN
this crisis. bold, earnest, honest men
from the control OF our papers. North
Carolina will need the services OF Just
such men in the approaching canvass
The Rec0rd, heretofore published at
Gcidsboro, has returned Sc Magnolia,
where it ''was originally issued, We
are glad to have the more immediate
assistance Of A1r. Stal,iugs IN this sec
ton. No county in the State is mare
entitled TO 4 good paper shan Dup!in,
and the Rcroi'd will til tie bill.
With the last issue the Tarhoro
S0utherne} began its ffty-fourth an-
nuai volume; and tje Milton C4tro9ncie
began it thirty fifth year. These pa
peFs nave the ucuC III animerts Of old
age, ''honor and troops of friends.
''Aiay they live long AID prosper.
Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14

little friend on to talk about his dog,
his pain at once vanished.
Woman here "pin back" and men
part their hair in the middle. By the
way speaking of pinbacks, reminds
OF course as every body knows the
| object of the pinback is to create the
| impression On masculine minds that
feminine limbs are large if not shape
ly, and upon an unsophisticated man,
the pinback does create such an i'm
preston. But it is pure fraud, as
any man is obliged to discover, who
sees lady in her pinback, and then
sees her without that beautiful ar
rangenlent on her return from the
bath.
MODERN CIVILIZATION.
rhe old fashioned barber shop has
passed awav here too and the ''Tons O.
| rial Saloon" has taken its place, but
that intense devotion to literary pur-
suits that characterized the attendant
knights of the striped pole, who hap
pen not to be engaged. prevails here
also. Fora genuine devotee to read
ing and writing commend me to a col
orcd inmate of a Southern Tonsoriai
saloon. John Chinaman is here and
he ''muchee better as Mclean washee
woman." And so we go. Men here
sometimes get killed, but very generally
1T happens that such cases prove only
how true it is that men who take tho
sword shall die by the sword. 1 have
seen no single act of violence during
my stay here. Indeed Ibelieve peace
able men who attend to their business
and meddle not unreasonably in their
neighbors affairs, may easily pass
long lifetime at hot Springs without
ever being shot at once.
THE STREET RAILWAY, &C.
That Hot Springs was specially de-
signed by nature to run a street rail
way IN, or that the astreet railway was in
vented for the special benefit of Hot
Springs, is evident Mt @ glance to the
most casual and careless observer
What convenience it is coming as il
does, literally almost to every mans
door, may be easily imagined. To the
invalid 1t offers an easy mode Of exer-
else aud locomotion to and from the
bath house, the drug store and the
doctors Office. There are invalids I'M
able TO walk step or move at oil
scarcely who come daily to the baths,
being lifted in and ont of the cars at
the bath house in the brawny arms of
some bath attendant. Il renders every
house in the valley eligible as resi-
dence for an invalid on the score of
distance at least.
Nor was there ever town 50 favor
ably located for being lighted with gus,
fact of which advantage is just now
only about to be taken. a gas com
pany having been formed, the stock
taken and the pipes now in the streets
ready to be laid at an early day.
The general business of the town
already large. is increasing. 1900
bales of cotton have thus far been
brought. here and shipped and it is
thought before the season closes 800 |
more will be brought in. s.
Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14

"OUr OF ORDER, SAH "-The New
York Tribune says: There is q disap-
pointed carpet-bagger IL Houston,
Texas. He went into ward meeting
the other night to press his claims for
a judicial nomination. Uncle jim Por
ter, colored politician, was IL the
chair. When the aspirant arose and
began 20 state his desires, Uucle jim
blandly requested him to ''sit down. y
"Why, Uncle Jim" said the astonish
ed speaker, what have you against
me? am good Republican. ''Out
of order, sab, . replied the President
You amt been here long 'nuf to get
the stuffn' out'n your earpes-bag. Set
down, sab" This blighted man 'set
down." and, doubtless deter mined to
bring the circumstance to the attention
of Senator Morton as a Gear case of
intimidation.