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ass than tho total estimates for that year.

less than inc LOLhl 6btltuateb 1oE tAoV yooI'..
The official vote of Oregon, as declared BY the
oanvsssers give Republican majority Of ,1e5.
A protest WAS fled, signed by. Senator Kelly
and eight other Democrats, against the
ISSUANCE of . certificate - Presidential elector
to Watts, and in favor Of giving 1t to tho elec-
tor who has the next highest vote on hle.
The returning board Of Louisiana has re-
turned a. elected all of tie Hayes electors,
giving the lowest Hayes eIector over the
highest Tilden eleotor more than three thou
sand majority. Thsfollowing are the figures:
Lowest Hayes eleetor, 74,0os; highest Tilden
elector, 70, 1858; highest Hayes elector, 70, ,1S5.
They declare the entire Republican State
ticket elected by s, 500 and Republican ms
jority In the Legislature. The secretary Of
State personally served notice on the electors
that they were elected ...... The State Senate
and Republican House of South Carolina, in
joint session, after the passage Of . Concurrent
resolution, met and csnvassed the vote for
governor and lieutenant-governor. The ooun-
ties of Edgeheld and L.urens were thrown
Wu6u LILO OouOCIoVAS poa0sSAo ASssASN
from the hall. When the returns were can
vassed, Lieut.. Gov. Glesves and Speaker
Mackey declared Chamberlain elected by $, ,044
votes majority. They then adjourned. Hamp-
ton addressed several Thousand persons, coun-
selling the utmost quiet, and saying that tho
whole campaign was one Of peace, and the
people must trust him for . few days longer,
and then victory would be assured. Hs said
he was legally elected by $4,000 white and
1900 oolored voters, and he intended to be
governor. ... In Cincinnati al the pool-rooms
have declared the election bets on President
of. :. The Presidents message disappointed
everybody. It WAS expected that the message
would bs devoted almost entirely to the Presi-
Dental complication, but 1t 10 not ...... The
Brooklyn Thester Was burned during tho per-
formauce of play. The audience and actors
had difficulty In escaping with their lives.
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4 Wedding Accident.

The Cincinnati Commercial gives
further particulars of tho frightful acci-
dent which befell wedding party that
loft that city late at night for neighbor-
ing town. The party consisted OF some
forty persons, and were bound for the
farm Of Mr.. Bramlage, a5 Blue Rock.
the wedding was to take place at the
farm the following morning, aud the
travelling party expected to reach the
place about daylight. The road along
which they we're travelling at the time OF
the accident follows creek which it
crosses and recrosses at several points.
At tho scene Of tho accident another
stream joins and is crossed by bridge
twcnty.iv feet above the bed OF the
creek. Tho bridge is q richetty wooden
structure, with feeble plank ratings on
either side, aud Of width barely suffi'
cient to allow the passage Of one wagon.
The party reached this bridge about two
O'Clock in tho morning. In the profound
darkness one wheel Of tho foremost ve-
hicle suddenly rolled off the roadway,
bringing the whole weight OF the over
burdened wagon against the shattered
balustrade. This gave way and the
wagon, with its livinP freight, thundered
down into tie creek below, bringing one
OF the horses along. The other animal,
strange to say, remained Oh the bridge.
The Mrger portion OF the party were in
iured, some of them badly, but no lives
were lost. None Of the party could
give any account Of the position in which
the vehicle landed. They only remem-
bered sudden jolt in the dark, q great
crash OF breaking wood, the shock Of an
unexpected and terrible fall, sudden
pain and shrieks Of agony in the dark
ness. Fortunately, assistance soon came
and the sufferers were tenderly cared for.
It is curious circumstance that the ami
nal which fell the whole distance OF
twenty-five feet received no other injury
than slight skinning OF one foreleo,
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Items or Interest.

No Judge OF the supreme court OF
Maine, since its organization, has died
while holding Office.
Another Mormon wife, encouraged by
the SUCCESS of Brigham's Ann Eliza, hae
sued her husband for divorce.
The salary of the Bridport (Vt.) post
master, who resigned after his election
as Presidential elector, is S212.
A popular actress who died recently
left an unprotected husband without
any visible means OF support.
A boy who claims to have been over
worked in the st. Louis house of refuge
has sued for $50, 600 damages.
"The pet of wealthy parents", has
lust been sent to. the Missouri peni-,
tsntiary for ten years. They left him
$50, 900, ,4.a.s. f5.sl>.,s,ts
A true picture of despair-a, pig
reaching through hole in the fence TO
get cabbage that lies few inches be-
yond his reach. '.'.22.1
A Western woman said Of her losthus.
band "Daniel may be known by
scar on his nose, where I scratched
him." .,..l zEf;i.l.: t
Those who bet hats on the national
election are more interested in what
spring styles will be than what winter
fashions are. -~'.i.: 50 Il1
A paradise for tramps Bolton, Mass,
where the inmates of the almshotlss are
allowed to sweeten their own tea with
sugar, butter their own bread with good
butter and have meat or fish three times
day. :. ~.
Saws our Dan: ell, hadl $40, 900
that would give me an income Of 81 600.
I would live up to it, you bet; but l
wouldn't touch the capital till the Lost
year, and then you'd see me spread my
self, just |" a
What side Of the street do you, live
on, Mrs. Kipple9". asked counsel,
cross. examining witness. "On either
side, sir. If you go one way, it's on the
right side; i you go the other way, it's
on the left" - -; ~
M. Colombies, merchant of Paris,
recently deceased, has left $1,000 to
a lady of Rouen for having, twenty
years ago, refused to marry him,
"through which," says the writer, 81
was enabled to live Independently and
happily as bachelor" ",aH9
An awful warning is offered to those
little boys who use their mouths as pen
wipers by what happened to small
French boy, who nearly died from the
salts of copper in the ink he took, and
only recovered through the doctors
guessing what was amiss, and promptly
applying the right antidote.
A seedy looking Chinaman, with two
companions, waltzed into Denver bank
and inquired 4" How muchee sallee
gold9" "One nine," was the answer.
"Ale light, me takee eight thousand
dollar" The bank didn't have enough
on hand to supply the seedy looking
Celestial, who was going back to father
land. i" ..": ".'t t72;k
An athletic specimen Of the Emerald
Isle called on wharfnger for q job.
"The top O. the mornin' to ye, Muster
P; I've been told that your in want OF
help" GIVE but little to do, replied
P, with mercantile gravity. = I'm the
very boy for yeesl It's but little I care
about doing-it's the money I'm afther,
sure |" w ri
A funny little ornament for a bureau
is o square piece Of silver cardboard,
about six inches each way, embroidered
on the edge with.some fanciful design
in worsteS, and having in the center. the
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Administering the Oath.

Chief Justice Marshall Of the United
States administered the oath OF Office to
Presidents of the United States nine
times, from Nov. 4, 1901, to March 8,
1888; Chief Justice Taney seven times.
from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1861,
and Chief Justice Chase three times,
from March 4, 1861, t, March 4, 1873
The oath was administered to George
Washington, the first President of the
United States, by the chancellor OF the
State of New York in New York city,
April 3Oth, 1889, the chancellor ex
claiming, as the oath was taken: Long
live George Washington, President o.
the United States !"
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The Story of Tweed,

William NJ. Tweed was born at No.
a Cherry street, in the Fourth ward OF
New York city, April 8, 1923, where his
father and his grandfather lived before
him, the latter being Scotohman. His
father was chairmaker st No. 8 Cherry
street. William worked in his early
days at chairmaking, but was subse-
quently employed by Isaac Fryer, sad.
dler, at No. 277 Pearl street, as errand
boy. His fathers business prosper1ng
he was sent to school at the Rev. John
T. Halsey's school, at Elizabeth, N. j.
Here he was an assiduous student. Re-
turning to New York, he was clerk to J..
l. G. O. Alexander, tobacco dealers, at
No. 1O7 Front street, at $50 year. His
father meanwhile having become one OF
the firm # D. Berrien j. Co., brush
makers, at 357 Pearl street, he became a
clerk there. and after two years became
Junior partner. After being there
several years he went into the chair
business with his brother, Richard
Tweed, Jr., at No. s Cherry street. He
had an extensive trade, and the profits
were large; but he went to Wall street,
dealt in Erie, lost largely, but partially
retrieved his losses. He then turned
professional politician, and became king
Of Tammany. In 1851 he was elected
alderman of the Seventh ward, in no
small degree owing to his connection
with the Americus engine company,
better known as Big Six. Later on he
WAS elected Congressman for the Fifth
district. In Congress he spoke for ad-
mission into the Union of Kansas and
Nebraska. In 1856 he was elected school
commissioner of the Seventh ward. On
January /, 1858, he took his seat as
supervisor, the board being then first
established, and later on he was elected
third time a member Of it. On JAN
uary 1, 1868, he became deputy street
commissioner, under Mr.. Charles ].
Cornell. In 1867 he became State SEN
ator. As far back as 1874 he became q
member of the Tammany society, and
in 1869 he became it's chief sachem. As
chairman of the Democratic general
committee he made his power deeply
felt; likewise as president OF the Ameri-
Gus club. Tweed married in 1874, and
had eight children-four boys and four
girls.
On the tuenty-seventh Of October
Tweed was arrested and gave bail imme-
diately for 81, 100000. He was again ar
rested on charge Of felony on the fif-
tcenth of December and held in custody,
but bailed out on the following DAY.
Later on he was indicted for forgery.
On the twenty second Of November,
1878, he was committed to the Tombs,
and week later was removed to Black
wells island to undergo sentence to
twelve years. imprisonment.
On the twenty-second of Jrne, 1875,
MIR. Tweed was taken to Ludlow street
jail, New York, for the purpose OF pro
ducing him later in the supreme court.
O .casionally the warden took him out
riding to Central Park in close car
riage, and likewise to visit his family.
On the fourth Of December, while at his
wife's residence, he gave the warden and
one OF the prison keepers the slip, and
the next they heard OF him was his ar
rival in, Spain and his arrest on the
seventeenth of hist September.
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WE'LL PROVIDED Fon.-It is calcu.
lated that FIVE hundred and seventy-si1
million francs passed through the hands
OF Louis Napoleon during the eighteen
years OF his reign. Of this remains a
fortune of 11,844.8 800 in Franco. and
abou 26, 90, 900 in England, the United
States, Spain, G.Sitzerland, Italy,
Algiers and Corsica. The ex-emprese
and her son have therefore still nearly
90. ZOO, 900 With which to console them
selyeD. ..r
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TEE MEEIISss.-The third annnsl re-
port of the Massachusetts Women's
Temperance Union, recently published,
shows that during the year nine county
conventions have been held !; also AGA
union meetings and 7e1 reform club
meetings. There are seventy-six local
unions, numbering in all about ak
thousand members, hfty-four auxiliary
unions, thirty-one children's unions,
numbering $3.50 members; forty three
sstorm clubs, With an assssgsts efS 16..
t6 msmkesa. lL.IaN' - T.
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A gentleman recently had occasion to
consult his halter, but was unable to find
in the shop the precise article that he
needed. "Come Tomorrow" said the
halter, finally II know to a 't what
you require. You want tranquil hat
with moderated and not unseemly gay.
ety In the brim. III ax II for you to.
morrow, sure"
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Not so Very Pleasant.

One friend to another, who has Just
returned from trip to Europe:
"Did you enjoy your European
touri"
every much indeed"
"Did you call on any Of tho big
onesi"
eyes, I called on two queens one
evening""
"Called on two queens! Was it a
pleasant AFFAIR.""
"No, not very; for after ! called I
found The eshsr ehsp had three kinss."
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One OF the discoveries made by tho
latest Arctic explorers is that the length
OF tho polar night is ono hundred and
forty'twe days. What a heavenly place
that, would be in which to tell man
With 3 bill to call arouud day after TO-
morrow and eet his money,
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"Every heart knows its own misery, |"
she said, as she looked into the nest
and saw that those Cochin China eggs
that had cost her e3 per dozen had
hatchsd out Mpseovy ducks,
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Total expenditures. ............ $s4, ,724, 1T. "A
Balance IN trsasury Sept. sQ 1s7e... 60t
Total ordinary expendit lures SIS, ,s7s sso.oo


It will be observed from the statement Of actual
receipts and expenditures for the nrst quarter,
ending September 80, and Of tho estimates Of
tho sane for the remaining three quarters, based
upon existing laws, that 1t is expected that the
revenues for the current fiscal year will
yield the sum OF $!o4,291442.Ss, and that the OK
penditures will amount to S237, ,628, 1885, which
will leave surplus revenue Of $26, ,66S, ,6s6.2i.
The amount which should be applied to the sink
ing fund is estimated at $33, ,7Cb, ,806.67 The
plus revenues will fall below that amount, in tho
opinion Of the department, BY not less than 81 oA2
l1OE
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The moneys received and covered into the tres1-
ury by warrants during tho nscaI year enolug suno
80, 1875, were - follows:
From customs ,S14s, OH, ,9sl.sl
From internal revenue. ...,....... 1l6,10O lE4.0o
From sales Of public lands. ......... 1,129 4e6so
From tax on circulation and deposits
rsom H1 aapeS1 sep.ymens Of interest BY i;ciae
railway companies. .......... 7ls,las.9o
From customs, nnes, penalties, etc.,. 1SSaW.S9
From labor, drayage, storage, etc.,. LUa6,s.o.oo
From sales Of Indiau-truat lands. NU, U,loV.N
snd isnd '...................... - 2tos2so.s2
u nropsrty. r 1,ss2,714,s4
From msrine hospital ts1............ s.se5s.@s2 o.
From steamboat fees. .......-".- 26s, ,osS. "
From profits on coinage, etc........ bnl,l1!.a
From tax on seal skins. ............. 5l7,o4.0O
From miscellaneous SOURCES. ......".. l,S77,29l.oe
rot,, ordinary reeetp.u. ,. sass, ,76s. .4ss. SO
Premium on aslec Of coif,........ ,723, 1850
Total net receipts, exclusive Of .oo. 10, non :.
Proceeds sAs; Of bonds Of issi, Geneva
aWaro....,..... ......',.''.'''.''''"' o''Ao''-o'A-
Total net receipts. $685. o95, ,se6.2s
Balance In treasury June 80, 1875, IN:
cuding deposits Of coin and United
States notes represented BY certih.
Gates outstanding. g..."..""......] ]l4A,7sz,4lo.Al
Total aTtlable CASH. .$Aso, 'eo,Ao1.oS
xxpENDTruaHs.
Tho net expenditures by warrants during tho
ssme period were:
For civil expenses. $17,7s7,74sss
For foreign intercourse. ........... l,410,252.60
For Indians ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1886, ,65s.T
For pensions ns...................... 28,257,395.6o
For military establishment, including
provements, and nd srsenal:. ...".... sso7o,sss.
For naval establishment, including
vessels and machinery and improve
ments at navy yards. ............. 18,so5,SGe.S2
For miscellaneous civil, including
public buildings, lighthouses, and
Collecting the revenues. s......:..... 4s,s1s,s7a.4
For interest on the public debt, in
o Guiding interest on bonds issued to
Pacific railway companies. 100, ,243, ,271.23
Total net expenditures. .$2Ss $50, 1878
Redemption Of the pub
lie debt. .$51, 1885,, 1880
Judgments Of court Of
:. Alabama claims...... o,N, ,1S7.1
Total net disbursements. ..... .$316 800, 54939
Balance in treasury June 20 1s76.... III, 93230
Total, sl,..s..,.,s.............~ ..~..$43o, ioS,2 ,2ole9
This stste0ent shows that the net
revenues for the fscal year were. .$287 482 03916
And that the net expenditures were.. 258 1878
Leaving surplus revenue, exclusive
Of provision for the sinking fund OF $2o 022, ,248S
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This ststeOent shows that the net
revenues for the dscal year were .$2S7, ,4S2 0391
And that the net expenditures were.. 258 49, 1888
Leaving surplus revenue, exclusive
Of provision for the sinking fund Of $40 022 41.8S
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THE o, 8. TREASURY.
Tho Annual Report Of tho Treasurer OF tho
United States.

aXcyIPTs.
The moneys received and covered into tho tress-
ury by warrants during tho fiscal year ending Juno
on VIVA follova.
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Total available. e..""...",.."..$lS,32 81, ,102
Tho expenditures during the same period were

Tho expenditures during the same pertod
For civil and miscellaneous expenses, .'
= including public buildings, light
houses and collecting the revenues. SIS, ,ss7
For Indians. ..................... 1,IA
For pensions. ns..................... $3.50
For military establishments, includ.
improvements, and srsenals. ....... 9,7ls
For naval establishment, including
vessels and machinery and Inn
provements at navy yards. ......... 6,174
Guiding Pacine railway bonds. 49,. s7,1o7
Total ordinary expenditures. :. s7s, ,7sI
Redemption Of the public
dcpt....s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Judgments Of Court Of
o,s71
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the dleeaoe ID Id every nouse. 4ue SoTeEA'
ment storehouso has been converted into @
hospital, to which all patients are removed
their dwellings, being burned. The steames
Mary, of the Morgan line, for Texas port
was lost with tho entire cargo, the Joint value
being s125,O0O; no insurance. No lives were
lost. :. .Kuouf i Co.'s planning mill at Milton,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, which is supposed
to have had an incendiary origin. The loss il
estimated at from $15,000 to $4,000; insur'
ance, e10, 900. Irene A. Y. House, who shot
and killed her husband at Lawrence station,
N. j., several months ago, has been gradually
lapsing into insanity for some time and has
been confined in the Trenton lunatio asylum.
:. Scarlet fever is raging to An alarming OK.
tent throughout the Western States.
The record OF drowning, while skating, ID
he,de thi. year by Jefferson Verrill and Lu'
ther Thurton, of Raymond, Me......A reyolu.
ton has broken out in the Argentine republic,
headed by Col. Alsina minister of ar......A
Urge bronze bust Of Horace Greeley, erected
by contributions from admirers, was unveiled
in Greenwood cemetery. The reports from
the famine stricken districts Of India arc
about the ssme-no rain; no crops. In Bombay
the prospects are lighter, but the cholera has
set il..... Sitting Bull and his allies have
moved toward the Lower Powder and Little
Missouri rivers and Crooks command will
follow them up...... Tho secretary Of the
tressury submitted to the House Of Represen-
tatives the estimates Of appropriations re-
quired for the public service for the fiscal year
ending with June, 1878. These are For Con-
gross, e5,sos. $50; executive proper, s7s, 400 ,
Department Of State, s1,44a,657; Treasury
department., a1o5, 5,24s,sss; War department,
%, 351 ,s5S !. Navy department, s2l,5o1, ,oss /;
Interior department., ess, ,sos,721; Post-etdes
department, eo,e'e,c47; Department Of JUS
tiee, e4,472, 800; Department Of Agriculture,
e227,aso. Total s2ss,el1,sss. These sstl-
mates are s15,000,oo0 leas than these Tor
1877, and ooasssss appropriated el7, BOX, ,oee
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PAID NEARLY
$4,000 !! !!

JANUARY z, 1870.
I'll. r. STEVENS, Esq:
Dear Sir: When about six months old was vac
cinated. The parties who where yaccinated from
the same virus diea 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. 1 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
small kernel appeared on my neck, gradually in
creasng in size until tumor formed of such i'm
mense size could see it by turning my eyes down.
ward. All this time was taking various remedies
for my blood without any substantial benefit
then went to prominent physician in Boston,
who, during his treatment of six months lanced the
tumor eigh: times, which cost me nearly $500. This
LETT me with rough, aggravated sore, without at all
diminishing the size of the tumor, and in sickly,
feeble condition. consulted another physician in
Natick, who, after considerable time, succeeded In
point commenced to use VEGETINE, through the
earnest persuasion of friend. After 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 frghtfu quantities. From this time
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. Hf--- ~
IwIll also mention that have been an acute suf-
ferer from iniammatory rheumatism ever since can
remember, until commencing the use of VEGETINE
when almost immediately all rheumatic pains ceased
This statement volunteer for the purpose of bene
lifting other suffering humanity and you will confer
@ aIavor py giving 1t as much publicity as thought
proper Very gratefully,
a MI Ash
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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
gate; to District Convention to be held in City Hail.
Saco, on Thursday, May 25th. 1876. at,12 O'Clock NJ
for the purpose of choosing two delegates to attend
the Republican National Convention to be held at
Cincinnati, on the 18th June next. +e-.
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 seventyve votes
cast for Nelson Dagley. Jr., at the Gubernat oria
election of1S4 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. a s5s
The District Committee will be lin session in the
ante room OF the Hall at 10 o'clock A. NJ for the re-
ception of credentials.
The apporonment of delegates to the several cities
and towns in the District is as follows: -i -t-.