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The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
The Last Boomerang.

The sincere respect to which Mr.. A. G..
Riddle is entitled induces us to accord to his
arralgnment of Mr.. Blaine an amount of
space which it does not deserve, either on the
score oil Its importance or precision. The
whole effort proceeds upon an extraordinary
hallucination. Mr.. Riddle, conceiying that a
dead son-in-law was in some way affected by
Mr.. Blaine's vindication, attempts to defend
his memory by proving that the son.in-law at
different times told different stories concern
ing the same matter. This is bad enough,
but it is made worse by the additional card
from Mr.. III. L. Bridgman, which Mr. Riddles
publication compels. Mr.. Riddle prints let
ter from Gen. Boynton setting forth the story
Mr.. Knowlton told him, viz, that after
Blaine had been in private consultation with
Stewart for some time, in Stewart G. Riddles
law office, he (Knowlton) was called in to
sign as witness the legal transfer of t,venty-
fre $1,000 bonds. Mr.. Bridgman says that
the story Mr.. Knowlton told him was to the
effect that he signed as witness the legal
transfer for fifteen $1,000 bonds.
What Mr.. Riddle has, therefore, succeeded
in doing is to show that Mr.. Knowlton, in
undertaking to tell the same story successive
ly in the adjacent Washington offices of the
Cincinnati Gazette and OF the Boston Adcer-
tiser, made, in passing from one to the other.
change of S10.0OO-nearly one-half-in the
amount.
We must add, with the utmost kindness to
Mr.. Riddle, and everybody else concerned in
this business, the opinion that if Mr.. Blaine
were notorious horse thief, who had at last
been caught under the most suspicious cir
cumstances by.a border ruffian jury of Sheriff
Lynch's men, they could not be induced to
hang him unless they had something more
nearly approaching real evidence than any
thing that has yet been adduced against him
in this whole pitiful business. There may be
evidence that he has done something wrong
we ourselves once thought so-but if there is,
in Heavens name produce it. This tattle
about dead mans having told some people
story contradcting the story he told other
people about transfer of bonds in Mr..
Blaine's presence, which he guessed was to
Mr.. Blaine himself, begins to look like child
ishness
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
REPUBLICAN 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 70 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 seveny-fve votes
cast for Nelson Dngley. Jr., at the Gubernatorial
election of1S74; majority traction 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 apportionment of delegates to the several cities
and towns in the District, is as follows;
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

a couple evidently newly married, and be-
longing TO that class of disagreeable New York
people who, to use a forcible. IL not yerv ele-
giant, expression, "nave more money than
brains, caused much amusement. He was
naturally 10 fool, but he had never learned
anything and he had not tact or modesty
enough to hide his ignorance. He knew some-
thing or professed to, and without hesitation
answered after fashion the many questions of
the pretty but shallow-pated little doll beside
MIN. Bronze, he told her, was iron with "a
copper veneer" Dresden was "a big place for
crockery," and "all them Brussels carpets
come from Belgium" Arriving at the silver
display, these amusing specimens of New York
civilization stood for long time contemplating
the many works of art displayed, occupying
themselves principally with estimating the
cost of the collection. After time the lady's
attention became fixed on an open silver swan,
intended as receptacle for fruit and flowers.
This she admired for a long time, and then, as
II bright idea had just suggested itself, she
demanded: "But say, Charlie, what do you
suppose it's good for?'' Charley looked at that
unfortunate little woman for few seconds
with an expression of disgust that was simply
witherlng, and then exclaimed, "What is it
good for? Why for holding soup. of course.
It's soup bowl; any fool ought to know
that"
The tendency most broadly characteristic is
towards the copgenial and appropriate fel of
household art and decoration. In the Kensiug-
ton collection the ladies of the royal family of
Great Britain set the fashion and take the lead
door curtain, designed by the marcbioness of
LONE, with applique fiat flowers, in richly har-
monizing tints of dark green and orange, is
one OF the best examples of decoration, and
her sister, the Princess Christian, is also repre-
sented by similarly rich and beautiful cloth.
The great surprise, however, of this depart
ment is the work in furniture decoration con-
tributed by pupils of the school of design of the
University of Cincinnati. Here is the EAST
lake" idea carried beyond Eastlake. and his
solid and honest articles transformed into
things OF beauty as well. Book cases, hanging
cabinets, bedsteads, doors, and even pianos and
cabinet are ornamented according to the high
est artistic principles of design, but each in an
entirely original manner; SO as to reflect the
individuality and the loving work of the de-
signer.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

Mr.. A. G. RIDDLES answer to Mr..
Blaine's explanation of the Kansas Pacific
bond story throws very little additional light
upon the matter and is not very successful
vindication of the memory of his son-in.law,
the late j. W. Knowlton, who was the re-
puted author of the charge that Mr.. Blaine
received twenty five construction bonds of
the Kansas Pacific. According to Mr.. Rid
die, Knowlton never denied the story as he
repeated it, but simply denied an incorrect
version of it which appeared in the news
papers. As told by Knowlton the story was
that while clerk in J. B. Stewards Office he
saw Blaine come in and retire to private
room with Stewart, and that after lengthy
conference Stewart came out with twenty
five construction bonds of the Kansas Pacific
in his hand and asked Knowlton to witness
to their transfer. This he did, and then
Stewart took them back to the room where
Mr.. Blaine was. The version as it appeared
in the newspapers was that clerk in Stew
arts Office had seen twenty-five bonds of the
Kansas Pacific railroad delivered to Mr..
Blaine. This version, Mr.. Riddle says,
Knowlton denied, but never the original
story. On the other hand it will be recol-
lected that Mr.. Gibson, the correspondent of
the New York Sun, in his statement incor-
porated in Mr.. Blaine's explanation, alleged
that Knowlton denied that he knew any
facts compromising Mr.. Blaine in the least,
even going so far as to assert that he naver
saw Mr.. Blaine in Stewards Office.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
News and Other Items,

The council and all the heads of the depart.
ments of Chicago except he comptroller rec.
nize Hoyne as mayor.
Anna Brown of st. Albans 10 years old, took
poison Monday, but at last accounts was alive.
Disappointed love.
Albert Bowman of Gloucester, aged SO, COM
mitted suicide Monday by shooting. Depres-
sion of spirit.
AT the billiard tournament in Philadelphia
Monday night the first game was won by
Cyrille Dion, scoring 300 to Joseph Dion's
237. In the second game Alfred GARNER de-
feated William Sexton by score of 800 to 252.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

CANDIDATES for the place of Fitzhugh,
the "man bigger than cid Grant," are multi
plying. Already ten thousand hungry Dem
ocats are in Washington, clamoring for the
place, and fifty thousand more are on the
way. And now the report comes that anoth-
er prominent officer of the House is to be ar.
raigned within few days for matter of
considerable gravity.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

A STARTLING commentary on the truth of
the assertion that the South is reconciled to
Its defeat and longs for the restoration of
friendly feeling is furnished by the Grafton
made at Charlotte, North Carolina, on the
Southern Memorial Day of this year by S.
Taylor Martin, who styles himself minister
of the gospel. Among other things Martin
said:
Slavery was a divine institution, and we
must have that institution or the South will
ever be bankrupt. They speak of our cause as
the lost cause. If so should it be lost forever?
No! A new generation has sprung up and at
not far distant day there will be stars and bars
floating over our Sunny South. In the next
political campaign we must, even if in the
minority, support a Southern man who will
build up our interests and hurl the Yankee
pickpockets from our midst We are to-day
united to the puritanical host by an artificiul
tie; but we are distinct people, and God and
the right will enable us to show the world the
truth, and the equity of our claims. Our states
men now in Congress are the cream of that
body, and are the only element that reflects
credit on the United States. Is it not better
to hang on to the lost cause than to stay in a
government of corruption?'
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

represented in their delegation. Next stands
Mr.. Bristow, and either Blaine or Bristow
would lie acceptable to the friends of the
other. In addition to the sixteen delegates
for Blaine and four for Bristow, there is one
ior Mr.. Conkling and one for Mr.. Hayes"
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
NOROMBEGA HALL, Bangor,

Thursday, June %, 1876, mt II A. NJ.
1or the purpose OF ofnominating candidate for Gov
ernor to be supported at the September election and
TWO candidates for electors of President and attend
10 such other business usually comes before such
meetings.
Inc basis Of representation will be as follows: /:
Each city, town. and plantation is entitled to one del
egate and one additional delegate for every seventy
nVe votes given for the Republican candidate for
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,
DANIEL RANDALL. Aroostook.
STANLEY I. 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, Penobscot.
E. A. THOMPSON, Piscataquis
j. w. WAKEFIELD, Sagadahoc.
r. B. SHEP HERD, Somerset.
WILLIAM W. CASTLE, Waldo.
VIM. j. CORTHELL, Washington,
JOHN HALL, York.
Portland, May 4, 1876. WV '''
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

The charge that Secretary Bristow was
black-balled by certain members of the Un-
ion League Club for political reasons has
completely fallen through. The opposition
was made by men who do not like their Re-
publicanism straight but take little sugar in
their'n.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
runen' Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

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.
TaOS. PENNELL, Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, MAY17. 1876.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are In
sill cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Cf good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

In TINS complaint the good effects of the VEGETINE
are realized Immediately after Commencing to fake
IL as debility denotes deficiency of the blood,
VEGErINE acts directly upon the blood.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
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 are invited to send dele
gates 10 a State Convention to be. held in
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
no THE PUBLIC.

~ notice that some one is troubled by a
ZV similarity of names I never sold drop
~ &SOof rum in my life, but l do think can
- - and will sell the Best Oysters that
ever were sold in Portland
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Constipation.

For this complaint the only substant benefit cal
ne OBTAINED through the blood. VEGETINE is tn
great blood purifier.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
General Debility.

NKGEfINE acts directly upon the causes of these
Complaints 1t invigorates and strengthens the whole
system acts upon the secretive organs and aays in
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Piles.

VEGETINE does not act as cathartic 10 debilitate
the bowels but cleanses all the organs enabling each
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

Reason should teach us that blotchy. rough or
pmped skin depends entirely upon an inter nal cause
and no outward application ever cure the defect
VEGETINE is the great blood purifier
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Female Weakness.

VFGETINE is not stimulating bitters which Gre
assists nature to restore the stomach to healthy ac
tiou SNN~--NSA
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Dyspepsia.

VEGFTINE has restored thousands to health who
have heen long and painful sufferers.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Faintness at the Stomach.

III VEGETINE is taken regularly, according to d
recions, certain and speedy cure will follow its us
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
TumOrs, Ulcers or Old Scres
Catarrh.

Are caused by an impurestate of the blood Cleanse
the blood thoroughly with VEGETINE, and these
complaints will disappear.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Pimples and HumOrs of the Face

VEGETINE has never failed to cure the most il
veterate case of Erysipelas.
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17
Erysipelas.

letter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, &C., will certs
y yield to the great Alternative effects of VEGETIN
The Portland daily press., 1876-05-17

ALBERT NEWCOMB HAWES,
my7 119 Commercial Street. dit
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29

A very tall darkey entered the
room of the reliefsociety in WasA-
ington the other day and inquired
"Does you give out provisions
heah ?' Yes we aid the poor, re-
piled the agent; what do you
want most? We'll my heart is s0t
on spring chicken replied the
darkey, but if de chickens is out
I'll take a can listers and two
pounds of butter, l isn't gwine to
be capshus, cause it's hard times.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
Attempted Murder of a Man
for Money.

81 A correspondent of the ST Louis
Republican gives the details of a
da-tardly attempt to murder a man
Tor money, at Great Bend. Kan,
on the 3lst ult A cold bI0oded,
deliberate attempt to murder for
money was attempted here yester-
d1y morning by w F Afford, upon
George Marshall, of Alexander,
Madison county, Ind. Afford who
has been living here with "anoth-
or woman having deserted a wife
and two children in Illinois, went
east about three months ago, fear
ing tina, his wife No. l was COM
ing here TO apprehend him. He
vent east, met his wife. persuaded
her that he was all right Dor: owed
her money, and started for Great
Bend. At Quincy, ILL.,, he fell in
with George Marshall, an unsus-
pecting farmer, discovered he had
e2900 on his person, persuaded him
torone home with him, inviting
him to his house, promising to
take him around and show him
The country. He arrived here ut
2Tclock in the morning, got off
tie train in the darkness, started
Wross the prairie, led his victim
into an out-of-the-way place in the
tall prairie grass. and shot him in
the head deliberately. The poor
man crazed by the shot, fell jump
ed and floundered about the grass,
AMI ran until he found himself un-
pursued. when he lay quiet until
'nprning. For four hours he lay
shiv.riny, covered with blood, a
bali in mis- head. His assassin took
his vaiise, in which he supposed
the money was. carried it a few
iundrrd yards, broke it open,
asand the money was gone and hid
the valise under hay stack. In
the morning he started out to find
III victim, and while he was out
thp poor man called at his assas-
SIN house for direction to the
Town Yesterday morning he came
70 own and related the circum-
stances. A warrant was imlnedi-
aseiy issued for Affords arrest.
Wien arrested he was confused
and made several unreasonable
statements. He acknowledged
that he shot man, but said he Was
l,dloW ing him.
The fact S ascertained from other
witnesses proved conclusively that
Afford was the man who had at
tempted the murder. Great ex-
element prevails,and it is not un-
listlv that the william may be
Ken from the Jail and hanged by
~ indignant and outraged citi-
X..nS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
An impudent tramp was punish

An impudent tramp was punish
ed with death near Rutland. He
entered the house of a farmer and
received meal. He began to
poke the meat on the table with
his fingers, and, when the farm
er's wife told him to use his knife
and fork, he said:s.'I was bred and
born in g shanty, and | do not in
tend to commence putting on airs
now The farmer commanded
him to go, but he said he would
eat first, and eat in his own way.
The farmer tried to put him out,
and the tramp shouted, Jack,
Jim, come and help me clean out
this shehang - That made the
farmer believe that he was to be
attacked by several men, and he
armed himself with a Sun. a fight
ensued, in which me tramp was
killed by chance shot. la the
dead mans pocket was a map OF
the New England States, pencil
marked, showing that his wander
ings had been long and syste-
matte.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
How it Would Work.

A gray-haired impostor, who
has been in the House of Correc-
ton time and again for drunken
ness, and who has no kin il the
city. yesterday entered store on
Grand Rivor street and said to
the proprietor
Have you boy?
Yes sir, was the answer
Did he get anything in his stock
ings on Christmas !?
.Yes!'
Aud he was glad 2
He was.'
81 also have a boy continued
the old man in broken voice,
out he didn't ge. any thing in his
stocking, am poor and many
times we haven't bread in the
house, to say nothing of presents
1 can't help that, as see,' SAID
the merchant.
Say, see here whispered the
old man, bending toward, give
me a quarter and I'll buy a tin
horse and a monkey and a Noah's
ark, and the night before New
Years I'll slip them in the boys
stocking. He'll ask me /. Father
whose liberality ofheart brought
me these beautiful things p And
/ will answer Mr.. So and So, on
Grand River street.
Il can't do it, replied the mrr-
chant.
"And the boy will say God
bless Mr.. So and So forever"
Can't do il.
And | viii add: God bless him
for his big heart, and may his
trade amount to $4,000 per day
Il can't give you anything
come clear OUT said the annoyed
merchant.
1t would be- sp'endidy,' re-
marked the old man with II know
ing wink.
Il say. no, shouted the mad mer-
chant
All right for you = said the old
man, as he got hold Of tne door
knob. Your conduct has alienat-
ed all my affections in one minute,
and III never buy a yard OF clotn
of you in my life J | Was going to
ask the price of that yarn there
but now | won't
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
Wanted to Get Married.

AT preci -ely seven O'clock last
evening, says the Saginaw Courier
a middle aged woman presented
herself at the door of a public Of
flee in this city, raped, and on be-
ing told to come in, opened the
door sufficiently to thrust her head
into the room and squeaked out
lis the squar in p
Yes, / am justice. WHAT'S
wanted p
This here fellow and / want 10
get married.
We'll, come in
NO, you must come out here and
do it, square,
Il can't marry you in the dark,
come into the light
He's bashful, square. You ca
do it in the dark just as well. 1
won't Civ back on it. Would you
honey?'
But the 'squar' made them come
into the gaslight, and the would
be pater familias said i:
How much are you going to
charge US, sonar =
Two dollars. That's the price
fixed by law
Il ca, get it for less than that,
squar p
'Perhaps So
Vas, that's so squar they do it
in Bay City for$l so and that's all
its worth, too, these hard times
Then you had better go there
and have it DONE
Il think tits worth his price, hon
ey; don't you ? said the woman.
'We'll look around here a little,
squar, and mebby we'll see you
again.
Honey lets do it here, she said.
But honey wouldn't do it there
at any price, and started out deter
mined to get squar who would
cut down rates to those Of Bay
City, if he had to get the knot tied
first. and stand the Judge off after
ward for the half dollar.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
Household Miseries.

My entire household, says wri-
Ter, is full of satisfaction over the
fact that | have just driven the axe
handle into the axe and wedgeGii
there, so it cannot under any cir
cumstances come out. 1tmay read
like a small matter but do you
know that that helve had been
loose for nearly five years? Yes,
for five years that axe has f1ungit-
self across the yard whenever I
struck a heavy blow, leaving the
helve in my hand, and supp sse
that 1 decided more than a thou
sand times to go in and get a ham,
mer and chisel and fasten the he.ve
in. / was thrown down and had
my arm broken by tile axe flying
off, two girls had their noses bro
ken, we spoiled the stove boilers,
nearly killed three boys, and yet
didn't fix the axe until tod "
Foster was telling me the other
day that he had finally glued she
knob on the bureau drawer. and
he seemed greatly relieved. / re-
member when the knob was knoc-
ked Off-almost seven years ago.
| was helping him move the ,Su-
reau when the acciden. occurred
and never wa, in the house af-
forwards without hearing Ms.
Foster say-"come, Henry. havn't
you got time to fix that knob this
evening ?" Eyes. Martha" he
would reply, and yet it was seven
yoarS haforp ha Oof tn n
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
Railroad Plans for the Con-
teHnial,

The trunk lines have finally de
cided to make reduction of TWEEN
ty-five per cent. in passenger rates
to Philadelphia during the centen-
NAL, and a recommendation will
be made to the general ticket
agents, who meet at Louisville on
the 9th of February, to make a like
reduction on all the western and
southwestern roads Mr.. Abbott,
the passenger agent OF the Erie
road, is in conjunction with the
agents of the other lines, perfecting
arrangements so as to afford every
facility to tourists to see the counr
try.