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The Portland daily press., 1876-10-03
100000.

VNANTED on first class undoubted security,
w principal and interest pail in GOLD. The
above may be furnished in sums of not less than one
thousand dollars and upwards Guaranteeing one
of the best loans on the market. fine opportunity
tor Savings Bank Geposltors. q. K. DAVIS.
sep29d2w No Browns Block.
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To Let.

EfyHE BRICK P0USE No. "a Danfortp Street
Il containing all the modern improvements In
quir at No. 10 Central Wharf.
in DIFF
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Situation Wanted.

A YOUNG Man who is now learning trade
"A wants t. secure some place where he can by
doing any kind of work morning and evening pay
for his board acquainted with the of horses
good references. Address &c. T. A." Portland
sept22 dow
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A Desirable Rent.

A New French Rooted Cottage.
Very pleasantly situated, near the Horse Cars, at
Woodford's Corner; will b let to a small family
Apply to WARREN SPARROW,
jul6dtf 1874 Middle St., or on the Premises
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Wanted,

Wanted,
A SITUATION as Organist in Portland or vicin-
"A ity. Best of reference given. Ad lress,
BLACKSTONE,
aug16dtf 81 Dow Street
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TO Let.
TO LETT

Room I'm the second StOry Of the
Printers Exchange. with power il
repaired. Apply TO PRESS OFFICE
or to b. THURSTON 81 CO., III
Exchange Street.
ocl2 dtf
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FOR SALE.

"A FIRST-CLASS Millinery and Fancy Goods
"A Store, situated in OF most fourishing
factory villages in the State Desraby located. and
doing good business. Sold for no fault. If not
sold, would take frst-cass Millin II as partner.
One who ear. give good references 81. In luire OF
JOHN E. PALhER.
auglsdd 24S Middle st., Portland, Me.
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w anted.
Agents Wanted

A FIRST-CLASS Tin Plate and Sheet Iron Work.
"A er. Apply to
seno9tf 100 Centre Street
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$1O go per day made BY d first class Lady
MEAHER Il CO., Druggists corner Preble and Con-
gress streets, Portland, Me. se27dtf
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To Let.

o. The easterly half of residence corner of Free
MI: and High streets, now occupied by W. H. An.
.@sk derson, Esq. Possession gwen first of May.
inquire of F.. LIBBY,
aprl8dtf AZ Exchange St,
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Store to Let,

CTOhE No. 1872 Commercial street. next below
- Dana q Co., now occupied by Joshua Hobbs q
Son. Possession given Immediately. Apply at 96
Dantorth st. G. OXNARD.
aprl1 dtf
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TO LET WITH BOARD.

ANE or two boarders can be accommodated at
~ AIS CUMBERLAND STREET with pleasant
front room. sep2Odtf
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BOARD.
Beard.
Board Wanted.

BOaTderS wanted.
GENTLEMEN desiring board with pleasant
" rooms; furnished or unfinished; may call at
oct2d1w* 299 CUMBERLAND STREET.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23
The Chfldren's thanksgiving.

Shall we tell the children about our
last Thanksgiving We had such a
very nice time that we should like all of
you to hear about 1t. An invitation
came from Boston to eat our turkey and
plum pudding with Aunt Lizzie. So
the day before Thanksgiving we started
off In the cars-papa and mamma. and
our cumming little baby less than 8 year
old. When we got to Boston the streets
were lighted, and James met us with
the carriage, and by the time We reached
Aunt Lizzie's it was quite dark. As we
drove up to the door we saw four dear
little children standing at the win
dow, waiting to see their lit
tie baby cousin. What a funny time we
bad for few minutes, kissing every
body and saying, Chow do you do"
while baby Mamie looked on, and didn't
know what to make of it all. After
breakfast the next morning, Uncle
George had imaginary battles with Rol-
", and ran all about shouting, "Show
me the enemy9" But he was always
prisoner, and obliged to surrender with
out even being allowed TO keep his side
arms. Grandpa and grandma came to
dinner, and there were fourteen of us
sitting around the table-all the family
but dear little sick baby Marjorie. After
dinner we played games with the chill
dren-" hunt the slipper" "oats, peas,
BEANS" "blind mans buff
wonder if you ever heard of this game
that the children played. They called
it "orders." Aunt Lizzie whispered
an "order" to each of them, and then
sat down to the piano, and said that
when she changed the tune they must
all go and do what she told them. They
were very quiet while she
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23
The Evils of Litigation.

The perils Of those who are not will
ing to ''let well enough alone were
strikingly exempliied in the case Of
John Halstead against Robert Seaman,
decision of which was given by Judge
Lawrence in the special term of the SUI
preme Court at New York on Friday.
It appears that the parties in the con-
troversy were very intimate friends
about nine years ago. At that time Sea-
man, in the course of conversation,
spoke to Halstead about the case of one
John E. Won Eisenbergh, who Seaman
told his friend was an oculist of high
repute, but unfortunate in business and
embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs.
Seaman said that Won Eisenbergh would
be able to get along very well If he could
raise some money on his furniture. Hal
stead, moved by his friends representa-
lions, was induced to loan Won Eisen-
bergh first So, 900 and then 1000 addi-
tional, taking in return chattel mortgages
on the oculist's furniture. The mort
cages not having been paid when due,
Halstead began to foreclose them, and
for this purpose appointed Seaman as
his attorney in fact. After the sale of
the furniture under the foreclosure,
Halstead accused Seaman of not having
accounted for $4,000 of the proceeds.
The matter was put in the hands Of
three arbitrators chosen for the purpose
of deciding the question raised. The
arbitrators came to the conclusion that
not only was Halstead not entitled to
So, 200 additional, but that he owed
Seaman 81. 500 in the matter. Appar-
emily disgr sted with this unforeseen de-
termination, Halstead then betook him
self to the courts. and brought an action
to set aside the award Of the arbitrators,
and to have judgment rendered in his
favor. In this suit Seaman set up the
counter claim for 81, 500 allowed him by
the arbitrators, and Judge Lawrence, III
his decision, gave Judgment for Seaman
for the 81, 500, with costs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23

A Chicago grocer and his family took
dinner with one of his patrons a few
days since.
s'This is very nice chicken" observed
the grocer as he discussed piece of the
leading dish on the table. ssVery nice
spring chicken, I should Judge"
"That shows what kind of a Judge
you are," broke in the irrepressible
youngster of the household. " Mother
says that chicken is the toughest old
rooster she ever seen IN all her born
days, an she bought it from you, too r.
The rest of the meal passed off in 81
lence, but soon after the guests had gone
away an atmospheric disturbance arose
in that house which shook it from rees
to foundation. = Chicago Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23
A Proaigate Miners Fortunes and Mis-.
fortunes.

The death of William Abbott, "the
king of the Cariboo gold mines" is an
nounced from Victoria, British Colum-
bia. Abbott was one of company who
struck rich pay on Williams creek in
1851, arriving at Victoria with 800 pounds
of gold in the fall of that year. He was
the "ion" of the winter of 1862, and
spent his gold lavishly. On one occa-
sion he entered saloon and SHE'D a
handful of 800 gold pieces at a large
plate-glass mirror behind the bar, shat
tering it. When reproached by the bar
keeper, he requested him to keep the
"beast for the damage" On another
occasion he and another Caribooite as
tonished Government street by throwing
$40 pieces at each other until stopped
by the police. The throwing commenced
with snowballs. On his return to Carl
boo, Abbott's good fortune continued,
and he has been known to stake $40, 200
on hand.of poker. After two or three
years prosperity, Abbott got to the bot
tom of his claim and his purse at the
same time, and was miserably poor at
the time of his death,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23
Withdrawing Leisurely.

While travelling through Arizona in
1849 with an exploring party, we made
our camp one evening near a canon, the
bottom of which was covered with fine
sand that had drifted from the neighbor-
ing plains. While employed in arrang-
ing our camp, the botanist of the expe-
dition, Dr.. B., wandered some distance
in pursuit of plants. He returned
shortly and reported that there were In
dams near at hand. He was as cool as
cucumber, and didn't show sign of
anxiety or alarm. In answer to our hasty
inquiries, he replied that while ne was
engaged In examining fossil specimen
be heard grunt behind him, and on
looking around discovered an Indian
who had seized his gun, which had been
placed against rock. The Indian drew
bead on him, and in retaliation he
drew his revolver and sighted the Indian,
retreating at the same time toward
the canon, which was close at hand.
Neither fred. On reaching the canon
he walked leisurely into camp. A party
Immediately set out to determine the
possibility of danger, and discovered
two Indians and squaw. After captur-
| bu0A UuOJ OAdu11A0O Ou0 V1Cl11Gy III
which the Doctor had met with his re-
markable adventure. They found his
footprints. which signi6ed cautious re-
treat to the canon. But, alas /! for the
frailty of human nature his footprints
in the canon were eight feet apart by
measurement, and not exactly indicative
of the leisurely manner in which he had
approached the camp. The Doctor ac-
knowledged the corn, and remarked that
that was about as leisurely as he ever
wished to walk under similar circum-
stances. -E76o (Ncv.) Independent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23

WHAT SMELL you have in your nose;
it is all stopped up get some OF Dr. J. II.
McLean's Catarrh Snuff. It soothes, heals and
will cure any disease in your nose or throat
Trial boxes so cts. by mail DR.. J. Fl. Nc
Lean, 314 Chestnut, st. Louis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
A THANKSGIVING Parody.

A Thanksgiving Parody
t midnight, in chicken coop,
The turkey dreamed upon the hour
When ali the fowls on earth should stoop
In awe before his power;
dreams, through field and lane be bore
rhe graces of a conquerOr;
And, thronged upon a corn-crib, then
Ie heard a thousand gohblers sing,
2rce aiming him the poultry king;
As wild his thoughts, and feet Of wing,
As Huldah's speckled hen.
At midnight. by the lanterns light,
The cook arranged his stealthy band,
Their Ratchet blades were flashing bright,
And firm each willing hand.
There had tue fated poultry stood,
There had the dry earth drank their blood
On last Thanksgiving day.
And these, that roost tonight so high.
Will taste as good in chicken pie,
Or be as nice to roast, or fry,
Or fricassee, as they.
An hour passed on-the turkey woke;
That bright dream was his last;
he woke-while beams and perches shook,
With cries of g Fig, the cook; fly fast!
He woke-to die midst loud words spoke
In quick command; and Ratchet stroke
And death-blows falling thick and fast
AS hailstones from tempest cloud;
And heard III voice distinct and loud,
The cook cheer on his band;
Strike-till the last fat gobbler dies;
Strike-for your roasts and chicken pies;
Strike-tiu unearthly squawks aud cries
Kesound through all the land!
they piled their hatchets long and well;
They piled the ground with poultry slain
They conquered-and the turkey fell,
Resistance all in vain.
His few survivors who had crept
Away, in dusky corners slept
While this dark deed was done.
And now they saw hun borne away.
And ready for Thanksgiving day
Before the rise of sun.
An! for the turkey whom the cook
Had garnishes with his highest art,
The guests had many longing look;
ana strongest appetite e'ert0ok
Full many valiant heart.
Thou turkey! with savory sage
That garnished thy juicy prime,
Rest thee; there is no tenderer age,
In all our rugged cline.
We pick thy bones without sigh,
Tor thou vert taken at thy best,
md now hast found eternal rest
In roast and chicken pie.
dora bag Stone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-23

PLAYED at first, but when she
changed to quicker time they all ran to
do what was whispered to them-one to
kiss Uncle Philip, and another to put
Auntie Birdie Ia the corner, or to muss
Uncle Georges hair all up. That was
very funny little game. After that they
had a "spider race at the sound of
the piano the children went from one
end of the room to the other on their
hands and the tips of their toes. You
try it and see how funny you look. We
| laughed till the tears came to see Mamie,
Gertrude, and Robby, straddling across
the floor, looking just exactly like little
spiders. Then Uncle George challenged
them all to a spider race, and finally
played elephant, and carried them all
around on his back. It was long,
happy day, and We were glad enough to
shut our eyes and go to sleep. The next
day we had to say good-by to all the
cousins, and come back again to our
pleasant home but we shall never for
get what a splendid time we had, and
how sweet and cunning all the children
were. nv
Thanksgiving.
There is no school, so the children
know it; no paper, the editors know 1t.
Some people have turkeys, and some
people have visions of turkeys.
Do tell me, If you can, what has be-
come of the old Thanksgiving days, or
why they are not the same now. It~sed
to be that it was day by itself to make
people happy, friendly, and human. but
somehow it was changed. DO you re-
member when the boys came home
from college, or somewhere, and the
married sister, Ann, Jane, or something
else, came, too, as proud of the little
white flannel bundle, aO5tb blue eyes, as
ever queen was of her crown, and the
good, old-fashioned mother, who said,
"Boys, I can't sing; my singing days
are over? ?"
And the dinner-the chairs set close,
and every chair flled-poultry, pies, and
buildings all in sight, and help each
other.
The sleigh-bells (there used to be
snow in old-fashioned Thanksgiviugs)
chime impatient at the door. Such bun
ding, muff1ing and good-bying, the
dear mother urging us, every one in
OuAA, W AO0P WdAluS 1AAN OJ1AS Jul OoAA
forters, over and over again.
Away we go, one after another, and
the old homestead is quiet again.
We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on;
We murmur, but the corn ears fill
We choose the shadow, but the sun
That casts it shines behind us still.
God gives us with our rugged soil,
The power to make it Eden-fair;
And richer fruits to crown our toll
Than summer-wedded islands bear.
Who murmurs at his lot to-day?
Who scorns his native fruit and bloom?
Or signs for dainties far away,
Beside the bounteous board of home?
And let their affairs, wreathed with flowers,
And piled with fruits, awake again
Thanksgvings for the golden hours,
The sarly and the latter rain.
Aunt Sara.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
Laundelet williams.

ISt. Louis Special to the Cincinnati Gazettel
There is one man connected with the
Babcock case who is. deservedly or
otherwise, unfortunate. That man is
the ex attorney general, Williams. He
is already as unpopular with the small
army OF journalists in attendance at the
court room as he was with the Washing
ton correspondents who wrought his
political destruction and looking at the
man, 1t is not difficult to see the reason
why. His appearance and manner have
prejudiced the keen eyed, irreverent
vandals of the press, though in no single
instance has he treated any one of
since his arrival here. He has not
been interviewed. I'D as soon think of
interviewing a devil-hsh," said one of
the s-gatherers. He broods-" sits''
is not the right word-in the courtroom.
upon the right hand of Babcock, and his
small gray eyes creep about stealthily.
noting every movement in the case
aggravatingly. There is Count Fosco-
ish, Pecksnif1ian blandness about him
which irritates the man of sensibility.
The manner in which his hair is plaster
ed smoothly upward over his head, the
Hat manner Of his necktie, the stucco-
like fitting OF the trousers about his
ponderous legs, are all tantalizing, some-
how. He may be an injured man, but he
doesn't look like it. He is the raven
sitting over Babcock's chamber door.
He says little or nothing all the day
long, but remains quiescent, while from
him emanates magnetic current in
all directions.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
The Conference Committee.

We are informed that tho Conference
Committee on the Election bill has ac-
tually progressed so fur in its arduous
labors rs to have considered and adopt
cd eleven sections of the Senate Election
bill. This ispuerile trilling.
Our representatives on THAT commit
tee were not appointed for the purpose
OF considering the Senate election bill
ut all: their mission was to secure the
abolition of the Returning Board, or to
report their inability to do SO. II the
aforementioned information is correct,
they are gradually being led into the
trap set for them by Messrs. Packard
and Kellogg, and their constituents
must suffer the consequences.
Poor louisiana The triclxery and
double dealing OF your enemies, and the
no doubt woll-meant but fatal procras-
tination OF your friends, have brought
youto q sorry pass indeed.
Is there not one man in our midst,
born to command and fearless in soul,
who will rise in this emergency above
the dead level Of mcdiocrity which is
sitting us, and cut the gordian knot of
our perplexitieS
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
Organize (!

The State Central Committee adopted
1*at It's meeting on Monday evening a
resolution urging the various parishes
throughout the State to proceed as early
rs possible TO a thorough organization
Of the Democratic and Conservative
party within their respective limits.
II was the sense Of tho committee that
no time should be lost in perfecting the
proper organizations for spirited and
active campaign, and we venture TO
suggest to the present Central Commit
tcosof tho parish Of Orleans that 1t ap-
point an carly day for the assembling of
the various ward clubs, and tho reor-
ganization of the party in this parish.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
srARTLING REVELATIONS.

The city was greatly excited yesterday
afternoon by an extra Of the DEMOCRAT
containing the astounding Official re-
port of the Hon. Jules Aldige, Chairman
81 the committee appointed by the
House OF Representatives. to examine
the books OF the State Treasurer. An
tome Dubuclet The committee charge
in their report and furnish the conclu-
sive evidence upon which their aiiega-
tions are based, VIM. Pitt kellogg, de
facto Governor of the State, and An
tome Dubuclet, State Treasurer, with
having grossly violated the laws in the
pervcrsion Of the public moneys, and
advise their impeachment. They show
that Dubuclet, in his official character,
both paid into the State Treasury.
under suspicious circumstances, and
drew out, large sums OF money for the
use OF different persons, not only without
authority, but in violation OF law ana
without warrant. They allege that
William Pitt Kellogg by threat,
promise. and otherwise, induced An
tome Dubuclet, the State Treasurer, to
divert from the interest fund at differ
ent times the sum OF $85,OOO, without
warrant from the Auditor, In violation
of section Of act No. Of 1874, known
MS the Funding bill. and section $40 OIL
the Revised Statutes"
The committee also suggest that "by
Joint resolution Henry.C. Dibble, Assist
ant Attorney General Of the State, be
addressed out OF Office. That the At
torney General, Field, be instructed
to institute criminal proceedings against
Alfred Shaw and j. II. Oglesby for q
violation us particcps crintitis Of the
18th section Of the Funding bill" They,
in addition, advise that legal steps be
taken to compel J. II. Oglesby to
restore to the Metropolitan Police
Board a certain sum of money illegally
charged by him as commission and in.
terest on the loan Of .$S5,O0O, made by
the Treasurer out Of the interest fund
of the State in violation of law, to the
Metropolitan Board OF Police.
The report is signed, as will be seen,
by Hon. Jules Aldige and Hon. Felix
VOORHEES,, tho committee appointed to
investigate the Treasurer's report.
The criminal acts done by the accused
parties are both patent on the proof
and fragrant, and while referring oul
readers to tho report itself for full OK.
PLANTATION, we fully concur In the
demand Of the committee that the par.
ties accused by it, one William Pitt
Kellogg, de fdc.o Governor of the State,
and Antoine Dubuclet, the State Treas.
urer. be impeached, having committed
high crimes and misdemeanors in VIC
lation OF law.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
The Dispatch to Pinchback

which was sent to Washington on Sun
day, signed by some thirty colored peo-
pie, and in which Senator Bruce's
speech in executive session is character
lied as unwise and impolitic, is chiefly
interesting to us from the fact that we
do not notice among the names Of the
senders those of some colored men who
must have been importuned to sign the
message. This is a good sign. 1t shows
that there are some colorcd men here
who have the intelligence to perceive that
they have been made the tools of a few
designing men, and who are becoming
FESTIVE and disguised, as they may well
be, at the cruel selflshness of their
chosen white leaders. 1t is not astonish.
ing that the masses of the colored peo-
pie, so recently emancipated from q
condition OF vassalage and its attendant
ignorance, should have proved SO easily
gullible by artful demagogues but the
fact that most of the prominent repre-
sentatives Of their race in this State re-
fuse to accept the olive branch of peace
held out to them by the whites, is evil
-dence Of one of two things: either they
are more densely ignorant and blindly
preJudiced than has been supposed, or
they are willing to expose the lives of
tneT innocent constituents in a fierce
struggle for power with more vigorous
and determined race. in the hope OF
maintaining themselves in the positions
which they have disgraced.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-16
,nterprise be. not only projected, bu'

enterprise be, not only projected, put
actually contaminated.
If we have the right to anticipate re-
suits SO far as the unknown future is
concerned, there Is not the coolest.
tempered business man in New Orleans
who would hesitate to express the opin-
ion, with full view. of all the surround
ings, and Of the apparent and real pros
pect. that the stock Of such road. IL 1t
be managed judiciously. could not foil
to nav remunerative interest to any
capitalist or other citizen investing in It..
Indeed. all reasonable calculations
would be at fault II the inevitable com
mercial intercourse on the largest
and busiest scale, which would at
once spring up between New Orleans
and the richest cities and districts OF our
extensive and prosperous sister Com
monwealth of Texas, to say nothing OF
the trade which the Pacific Coast and
polden.shored California may pour into
our Golfers, would not justify the CON
struction of the New Orleans Paciflc
road as q profitable speculation to oil
those who can raise or spare the money,
to make themselves stockholders OF the
co1nDauy