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ANNUAL MEETING.

FVNHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Portland, Bangor q Machias Steamboat Co.
for the choice Of five directofs and for the transac
ton of any other business that may legally come be-
fore them. Will be held at the Office of the Company
on Railroad Wharf foot of State Street, on TUES
DAY, January 11th, 1876 at o'clock P. NJ.
GEORGE L. DAY, Clerk.
Portland Dec. 23d. dec23dtd
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and whenever deputy refused to pay an as
sessment, or rebelled in any otter manner, he
was at once remanded to private life. The
resignation, with blank left for the date,
did the business.
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Eagle Sugar Refining Co.

The Stockholders of this Company are hereby mott.
fed that the annual meeting for choice of Directors
and the transaction of other business legally brought
before them, will be held at the Refinery office on
TUESDAY. the 18th day of January, 1876, at 8
o'clock P. M. JOS, P. THOMPSON Clark
daooedtd
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MAKE kT PUBLIC.

OOOIH DOSION, reU. y, 1911.
r. III. STEVENS, ESQ.
Dear Sr-I have heard from very many sources Of
the great success of VEGETINE in cases of Seroiua
Rheumatism, Kidney Complaint Catarrh, and other
diseases of kindred nature 1 make no hesitation in
saying that knoio VEGETINE to be the most reliable
remedy for Catarrh and General Debility.
My wife has been troubled with Catarrh for many
years. and at times very badly. She has thoroughly
tried every supposed remedy that could hear Of
and with all this she has for several years been grad
ualy growing and t}e discharge from the head
was excessive and very offensive.
She was in this condition when she commenced to
take VEGETINE; / could see that she was improving
the second bottle. She continued taking the VEG
ETINE until she had used from twelve to fifteen bot
ties: am now happy in informing you and the pub
lie f you choose to make it public that she is en-
tirely cured, and VEGETINE accomplished the cure
after nothing else would. Hence l feel justified in
saying that VEGETINE is the most reliable remedy
and would advise all suffering humanity to try it, fol
believe it to be good, honest, vegetable medicine
and shall not hesitate to recommend it. am, &c.
respectfully, L. G. CARDELL,
Store 45l Broadway
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Be it ordained By the Mayor, Aldermen and Common
Council of the City of Portland, in City Council
assembled, as tottoscs:
SECTION 1. No driver of any hack. job wagon ex-
press wagon or any other vehicle, except duly ap-
pointed and licensed undertaken shall TRANSPORT
through this city or from one place to another in
this city any dead body which is to be buried in any
cemetery belonging to the city without permission o.
the Superintendent of burials, under penalty OF
twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered for
the of the city by complaint before the judge o
the Municipal Court of Portland.
SECTION g. This Ordinance shall take effect on
and after its approval.
Approved January 4, 1876. jan5d2w
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Cumberland National Bank

FssHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
u Cumberland National Bank, will be held at
11ih day of January, 1876, at o'clock D. m for the
election of Directors for the ensuing year and the
transaction Of any other business that may then
before them. SAMUEL SMALL Cashier
Portland, Dec. s. 1915. dec11td
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ANNUAL MEETINGS.
NOTICE.

The Stockholders of the Portland & Harpswel
Steamboat Co. are hereby notified to meet at the
Office of Stephen Kicker, No. 131 Commercial Street.
on SATURDAY. the eighth day of January current,
at o'clock in the afternoon to act on special busi-
ness of importance to the Company.
CHARLES SAWYER, Prost
Portland Jan. 1, 1876. jan1dtd
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BOARD OF TRADE.
ANNUAL MEETING

TEyHE Annual Meeting of the Board of Trade for
Il the choice of officers and the transaction OF
such other business may legally come before the
meeting, will be held on MONDAY EVENING.
January 10th, at u o'clock.
Per order, nj. N. RICH, Sec'y.
land DEF
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The MAINE STATE PRESS

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Advertisements inserted in the ''MAINE STATE
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OF the State) tor 81 90 per square for first insertion,
and 80 cents per square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communica tions to
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Canal National Bank.

TEvHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of 1.-The
Il Canal National Bank of Portland" for the
election OF seven directors and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before them,
will be held at their Banking House, on TUESDAY,
the 18th day of January, 1876, at II O'Clock A. M
B. G. SOMERBY, Cashier.
December 10, 1875. declOCtd
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CASCO NATIONAL BANK.

fSlHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland for the choice
of Directors and the transaction Of such other busi
may legally come before them will be held at
their Banking House on TUESDAY, the 18th day of
January, 1876, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
VIM. A. WINSHIP, Cashier,
Portland Dec. 10. 1875. dec1Odtd
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The National Traders, Bank.

FSIHE shareholders of The National Traders Bank
Il of Portland, are hereby notified that their an
nual meeting will be held at their Banking Room on
TUESDAY, the 11th day Of January next at three
O'Clock P. NJ, to choose five Directors for the ensu-
ing year. and to act any other business that may
legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier
December 10, 1875. declOd1m
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For Sale,

nNE s-keyed German D FLUTE, silver keys and
W trimmings, ivory blow joint German silver
lined, patent tuning slide, Gunadil wood Has been
but little used, warranted perfect and in perfect
tune together with Morocco case, five dollars worth
mandatory Of Lee q Walker, Philadelphia Good
reasons for selling. will send the instrument c. o.
d. with privilege of examining before being paid for
by paying express charges both ways II not as rep
resented it can be returned Price with case books
of instruction, &c, 5000. Address
L. w. LAPHAM,
nol6dtf Augusta, Maines
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CITY OF PORTLAND.
To Owners or Occupants Of Buildings
and Lots on Cross, DanfOrth, Federal,
Free, Lincoln and Oxford Streets.

CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
January 4, 1876. !
n OTICE is hereby given, that the above named
~ Streets, have by order OF the Board of Mayor
in the City Civil Engineers oficean all parties in
terested are hereby notified that the numbers so
designated must be affixed to the building Cd said
Streets. within sixty days from the first day of March
next. Per order.
H. l. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
jana dtma1
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CITY OF PORTLAND.

I'm the Year One Thousand Eight Hun
dred and Seventy.fve.
An Ordinance to Amend an Ordinance
Entitled "An Ordinance Relating to
HEALTH"
Be it ordained By the Mayor, aldermen and Common
Council of the City of Portland, in City Council
assembled, as fott0,cs:
SECTION 1. To strike out in the fourth line of
Section "a, of the revised Ordinances relating to
health, the word "tw0 and insert the word 'tEght'
in place thereof.
The Ordinance as amended to read ''The Corpse of
every person of eight years old and upwards shall be
conveyed to the place of nterment in funeral carr
Approved January 4, 1876. jan5d2w
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO..

AT 100 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollsrs Year in advance. TC
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad.
vance.
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CITY ADV ERTISEMENTs
CITY OF PORTLAND.
An Ordinance Relating to the TranSpOr-
tafiNu Of dead Radios

I'm the Year One Thousand Eight Hun.
dred and Seventy.hve.
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yOB PRINTING neatly executed ni
this Office.
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Watches, Jewelry, &c.
J.. w & III. HI. McDUFFEE, Cor, Middle
& Union Sis.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

Of the road, the people and country
that border it; what they want, what
they will and will not stand ; how
they feel and everything about them,
as a boy knows his alphabet and mul-
tiplication table. People wonder why
ali the employees of the road are so
civil, gentlemanly and polite to them
os they travel. I shared in that Won
der until one day overheard Mr..
Hobart say: 81 discharge man for a
rough and protana expression, or for
an uncourteous action. as speedily as
| do for drunkenness.
THE WORK OF RETRENCHMENT.
AS for the work of reduction that
he has carried on, the following figures
speak more to the point than any
words can. 1t will be remembered
that he was made general superintend-
ent in 1878, and the figures given be.
low are the expenses IN the various
departments. for the months of Janu-
arv 1872 and 1876.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
Tie CricketS.

Pipe, little minstrel of the waning year,
In gentle concert pipe
Pipe in the warm Moons; the mellow harvest
near
The apples dropping ripe.
The tempered sunshine and tho so ftenec
shade;
The tr of lonely bird
The sweet. sad hush on Natures gladncss laid
The sounds through silence heard !
Pipe tenderly the passing Of the year;
The summers brief repreve
The dry husk rustling round the yellow ear,
The chill of morn and eve
Pipe the untroubled trouble OF the year.
Pipe low the painless pain
Pipe your unceasing melancholy cheer;
The year is ir the wane.
Harriet McEwen Kimball.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

fornia (6 votes,) Oregon (3) and Ne
yada (3), States conceded to HIM in
the "estimate" above referred to, he
can lose any four of these five South
ern States-the Carolinas, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Florlda-and still have
an electing majority. Similarly, it in
addition to the solidifed southern
States, he gets New York and Indiana
he can do without New Jersey and
Connecticut In the estimate" both
New Jersey and Connecticut appear
in the Tilden column; New York
and Indiana are classified as "doubt-
full"
These figures tell their own story
and give their own warning. In all
human probability, the party that Sc
cures New York will elect the Presi-
dent. In all human probability, the
successful man, whether his name is
Hayes or Tilden, will be elected by
very few votes. 1t will be close
shave, a narrow margin. If we were
a less law abiding people, less d'scl-
plined in submission to the will OF
themajority, the outlook would be
uncomtorlable-what with polltl-
cally divided Congress TO count the
votes, and these clamorous charges OF
'.intimidation, it would be decidedly
uncomfortable. But we put cur con,
fidence in the good sense and right
feeling OF the American people, even
more than in the prudence OF then
servants. One thing is certain: The
party majority, in either house, that
should undertake to elect its man by
throwing ont votes given to his com
petitor, would incur very grave re
sponsibiily.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
In a certain town Of Chittenden

In a certain town Of Chittenden
County, Vermont, there lived score
of years ago, a well-to-do farmer who
was also a Baptist preacher. He was
not a learned man, but his lungs were
good, and while his "sermons" hurt
no one, they were doubtless editying
to large portion of his rustic congre'
cation. One Sunday he ''pitched iu-
to" the Roman Catholic Church like
good Protestant; but not wishing
to be unjust, and willing even to give
the devil his due, he checked for a
moment the torrent of denunciation,
and generously remarked, 81 don't be-
lieve in patronizln' the Pope. but I'm
willin' to allow that sometimes he
says somethln' good, as, for example,
that remark of his'n, The proper
study of mankind to man."
Ono who heard it thought this a
Plus fraud OH Alexander.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
[From the Boston Globe.
THE CENTRAL VERMONT.
The Work of it's Management
Some Noteworthy Figures-Hts
Future, Provided the Proper
COurSe is Taken. ,..

The Work of its Management
Some Noteworthy FigureS-Hts
FIXTURE, Provided the Proper
Course Is Taken. .t..
Very few of our citizens or oil the
inhabitants of New England gener;
ally have any idea how closely con-
uected is the combination Of railroads
known by the general name of Central
Vermont, with the commercial and
agricultural interests of central and
western New England, and also with
the business interests Of this city. 1t
operates 800 miles of road, in lines
that reach from Ogdensburg and st
Johns on the west and north to Bel
lows Falls, New London, and Chat
ham -Four Corners toward Boston and
New York. Thus, one can see at a
glance that it belts the entire part Of
middle and western New England.
1t is its chief avenue for imports and
exports, its main dependence for the
development of all its great industrial
interests, while with The Grand Trunk
and Great Western, and the short
lines which unite the Connecticut
Riyvr and Boston, it forms one Of the
direct connecting and competing lines
from Chicago and the farther and
greater West and Northwest to the
seaboard. OF this competing line our
city is the natural and inevitable ter
minus. When the Georgian Bay
route, now in the process of construc'
tion, is completed, route uniting Du-
luth, the terminus Of the Northern
Pacific and the Grand Trunk, an
enterprise thh management Of the
Central Vermont is doing its
utmost to help forward, Boston
will be a hundred and twenty-five
miles nearer the region of the North
ern Pacific, "the great granary of the
country as it is already called, than
New York city, and two hundred and
twenty-five miles nearer than it is at
present by the route around Lake
Michigan, through Chicago. AS a
citizen of Boston, solicitous for its
material prosperity, and jealous of
anything that promises to place it un.
der the domination of persons or cit.
les or corporations whose interests are
hostile or antagonistic to it, would
like to have ,ur city realize
WHAT THE CENTRAL. VERMONT HAS DONE,
and proposes to do tor it, and that at
all hazards it should insure its preser-
vation in its present form and under
its present management. By sturdily
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
Tisc solid South.

The most silly, pleRoslerous, ana
wicked cry raised during the cam
paisn is that OF the Republicans about
the solid South. Thus Jay Gould's
young editor lifts up his voice and
walls: "A solid South, what does it
mean? Why does it alarm all
thoughtful men 2" And MIR. George
William Curtis writes that united
South requires that the North should
likewise be united to put the South
down.
What is this sohd South For what
is 1T united =? Has it any bad or
doubtful object? Not at all. 1t Is
solid only against public robbery such
as never was committed upon any
other people in the world. 1t Is only
united against system OF State Gov
ernments more greedy and protilgate,
and pluudering the people upon a
grander scale than any other govern
ments. savage Or civilized, that ever
existed on earth and it is solid and
united against the present Admlnlstra
ton, because it is likewise greedy,
prohigate, ard larcenous. This is
the whole of it. The only purpose
for which the South is united is to es-
cape from these governments, and
from the total and almost indescriba-
bic ruin they cause. Aside from this
there is not one single object for
which the South can be called united
and solid. The only aim which the
Southern States have in view III their
support OF Mr.. Tilden is to redeem
themselves from this horrible system,
from the utter devastation which its
continuance will certainly produce,
and IRON the moral, social, and politl-
cal calamities which would follow the
election of Hayes, and the perpetual
ZION of this immense organization OF
public extortion and robbery.
There is no more reason tor any
alarm when the South is united Ill
such cause than there was when the
people OF New York, men OF all clas-
ses, Democrats, Republicans, and In
dependents, were united tor The over
throw of Tweed aud Connolly. The
crimes OF that band of public plunder-
ers were as nothing compared to the
crimes committed by the Republican
State Governments of the South anC
by the Republican Administration al
Washington and the drivHl OF MIR
Curtis and of the Tribune is even more
contemplate than would have beef
here in New York in 1871 wallins
: outcry Of alarm at the unity OF the
l people for the suppression OF Tweed
and his contederates.
Thank God that the South is thu
united for the stoppage ofpubllc plum
, der and the restoration of honest gov
!, ernment. Let us hope that on the III
4 of November the people of the Nort
4 will prove themselves equally unlte'
q in the same good cause.-N. J. Sm
c Solitude is we'll enough until yo
i. ,,,,,t ,,> h,>vrS,u snmcthlnu
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

have no idea that hell is populous
and heaven scant in it's inhabitants. No
idea th1t hell swarms and heaven is
like city Of empty houses. While
the Son OF God is preparing "man-
sions," the Spirit of God is preparing
men and women to fill them. There
is not a shadow of evidence in the
Bible or in the Nature of things, that
God is to suffer gigantic defeat, and
Satan to win a stupendous victory in
reference to our race. Such sug-
cestion strikes at the root of our faith
in God. 1t places the control and
mastery of the universe in the wrong
hands. 1t accomplishes in theory
what Satan strove in his rebellion to
accomplish in tact--wrench the scep.
ter of dominion from the hands of in
finite benevolence and place it in the
hands of what would thus be made
infinite waste. Such theory OF ter
minal results touching the redemption
OF man runs perilously near the de
thronement of God as the supreme
power, and placing him, as contrastec
with Satan, in the minority both a.
regards numbers of adherents and the
measure of innate capacity Rev
: w. II. II. Murray.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
BY IRWIN RUSSELL.

BY IRWIN RUSSELL.
l gifts up heah-like good Of Paul,
Obed'e to dc Mahsr's call
To tell my 'sperunce, tell it all
OF SHAME's put up
An rs led GLORY out de stall.
To win de cup.
Den, all you sinnahs, cl'ar do track
Is mounted on ol GLoRY's back;
Her hufs is gwine ta-click-ta-ciack,
OATS how dey 3 gwine!
An Satans rattlin', shacklin's hack
Is lef' benin
All, Christuns in my foolish days,
1 rid de debbil's blooded bays:
PRRsuMpcHUs PRIDE, an WoRLLy WAYS,
An made em lope;
But now rs turned 'em out to Craze
Widout rope.
Yah! Yah Oh! how used to ----'. We'll
De 'ticlars faint no use to tell,
But oncet rid de road to hell
s-., Wild mar bit.
An went two-forty on the shell
Toward de pit.
Like Balaam, when he rid do ass,
l sisted on a-trablin' fas -
But 'twuz pace 'at c'u'dn't las,
An got til owed.
cotch RELIGION, trottin pas,
An back COED.
An now l simply 'yises you,
You debblish boys I's talkin' to-
Don't ncbber hab thing to do
Wild Satan's hosses
Dey'll buck an fling you in de sloo,
Fus' one you crosBes.
But git RELIGION we'll in han,
An ride her like little man--
Derc amt no hoss in all de Ian,
Kin run agin her
An you'll como by de jedges' stan
A easy winner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

After all, says an old doctor, there
are only two kinds of diseases-the
one of which you die, aud the other OF
which you don't.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

BEFORE THE LOOKING GLASS
The whirggig of fashion may bring
round the most sudden and dazzling
changes, and the duties Of the toilet
may multiply like leaves in Valam-
brosa, but there is nothing that will
make woman stand before her look
ing glass so long as a sunburnt nose.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25
POET r. Y

from scribners Magazine for November.l
The Old HOstler's Experience.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-10-25

Vote for TILDEN aud REFORM
in November.
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BY consulting this tablet it will be seen
that by multiplying $4,000 by - a
reduction of $750,O00 per year--three
quarters of y million--has been effect
ed in that alone. To this add what
has been saved in the various depart.
ments, and it will be seen also that
the road is beng operated to day at 4
full million of dollars less expense per
annnm than it was four years ago
These facts and figures are given at a
time when
THE AFFAIRS OF TIE CENTRAL YER.
MONT ARE APPROACHING A CRISIS,
If, as the Sunday Herald Of this week
says, the only alternative to the ac-
ceptance of the plan Of reorganization
by the stock and bondholders be bank
ruptcy, that the public may know that
the managers of the road are working
in the right line, in the judlcious
retrenchment, Of employing tried and
efficient servants to carry out their
plans, in the line of developing the in
dustrial resources of New England, OF
working for the interests of the people
and places along the route and in the
line of helping Boston to as low a
tariff upon her imports from and ex-
ports to tue West as New York,
Philadelphia or Baltimore have, it will
be sorry day for New England and
Boston that will see the alternative
accepted. The bankruptcy OF the
Central means to the bond and stock
holders the loss of all their investment
TO the merchants, traders and farmers
along the line, a road plundered and
skinned in the place of one that Is run
to help them, to Boston the triumph
of a monopoly that seeks to make her
a sort of Il distant suburb Of New
York. But the plan of the committee
upon the reorganization adopted, with
business revived, economy practlced,
the managers whole attention anc
energy devoted to the development OF
the resources Of the road, the STOCK
and bondholders will get both inter
est and dividens, the public the bes
of travelling and freight Accommodations
while onr city will be able to compete
successfully with the other grea
maritime cities Of our country for thu
} business of the world BOsTON.