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Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

ALL DISEASES OF THE BLooD.-H Vegetine will relieve pain, cleanse, purify and cure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying different physicians, many ren edies, suffering for years, is it not conclusive proof, if you are sufferer, you can be cured? Why is this medicine performing such great cures2 It works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly be called the great blood purifier. The great source of disease originates in the blood and no medi- cine that does not act directly upon 1t, to purify and renovate has any just claim upon public attention.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

ings were demolished. father and son were killed and others wounded. At Princeton, Ind, fifty houses were totally destroyed and fifty more badly damaged. Eight persons were seriously injured, four of whose wounds will prove fatal. The damage in the surrounding country will prove very heavy, as great num- bers of fruit trees, outbuildings and fences were prostrated.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10
Important to Persons Visiting New York
 or the Centennial,

The GRAND UNION HOTEL, New York, oppo site the Grand Central depot has over $50 ele- gantly furnished rooms. Elevator, steam, and all modern improvements. European plan Carriage hire is saved, as baggage is taken to and from the depot, free of expense. The restaurants supplied with the best. Guests can live better for less money at the Grand Union, than at any other irst-class hotel Stages and cars pass the hotel constantly to all (yO9n
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

SAFE AT LAST. We have got our safe fixed now, says the Danbury Neaos. The keys are so distributed that five persons are necessary to open it. One of these is the mail clerk. another is the chief of police, the third is tax collector, the fourth is butcher and the fifth is the jailer. With this combination it is simply impossible to get our poetry.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10
pr. Railways SarsapariIIian
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THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.

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 oSl esspG snd from % Sd and cloudy sS SssE S S urethra without pain scaidins; little or no sedmsnti
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 nss s a, sn tSs SSs q and the
 thy saffron spRearanSe of the akin changed 70 clear
 feoss @ sSfisTips from weak ulesr.tsd lungs q .ubsros: w 5ssss Srs.s r nsnsns from nm S iSnS a oeis wndpipe, throat ?r head; diminishnE throushoSs ths system stoppsse Of night svsats snd pains and feeling of wsskns:s aSSund the fnkies hard ssssssias and of oopsS
 .i.. Ss1 yss sps ,Sis taken new Sy .sns of rstS1Slns hssts vii appear blood improves in strength and purity. dIsesse will d. tamOrs cancers, hard fsmps eo be resolved away and the ,nsound made sound and hssthy nloers, teyer sssSnsy s9rss Sphir''0 '0reS 'ni0n'' 'A'n 0'0'@ s
 fn cases where the system has been salyated. and pie in the Adv.rtssd sssooat ed "a and Become dspositsd in tSs bonss ,:int., etc causing carries of the b9nss sp,nS xnn tS T Ts;Gys % Ss tsssS sSs SS -
 g. Iii those who are taking these medicines for the cure Chronic, Scrofuous Syphilitio diseases however eiow may be the cure feel better and find their era health improving their flesh and weight Increasing or keeping its t is sure sign that oure progressing In these diseases the patient eher gets better or virus of the disease not nactiye If not arrested and driven from tho blood t will epread .. and the Ssn1HRs S S feel bettern hour you will grow petter ana ia crease in health, strength and flesh. .
 The great power of this remedy s in diseases that threaten death--as in Cousumpton Of the Lungs and Tubercuous Phthiss, Scrofnla, cyphiloid Diseaso-, Wasting Degeneration, and Liberation of the dneys forded where csheters be used thus doing away with painful operation of using these tnstrumep dssovin1 stone in tbe bladder apd n an eases ot ln damnation of the Bladder and Kidneys, in Chronic casee of Leucorrhea and Uterine diseasea
 In tumors, nodes, hard Jumps and syphtiod Sere; IT dropsyi venereaf throat ucers and in tubec ee of the upgs ia sogt, dysPep.ia rheumatasn riSssts disease where the human body has become complets wreck, and where every hour of existence 10 torture wherein this great remedy challenges the astontsnnent and Admiration of tho sick It M tu such cases where all the pleasures of existence appear out on rom thS unfortunate and by ts wonderful almost snpernetura agency 1t restores the hopeless to new lie ana new existence where this great remedy stands alone in tts
 In the ordinary skin dlseases that every is less troubled with few doses will in most oases and few bottles in tue more aggravated forms Work per
 Those afflicted with chronic diseases should purchase . package containing one dozen botties Price Nl lV per dozen, 6 per half dozen bottaes or VI per po tle. Sold by drugghts-
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

ROASTING A RATA New York officer arrested man for roasting live rat. The prisoner caught with trap a large rat. He took the trap into the street and built around it fireand cooked the animal to death.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

Pimples on the face, rough skin, chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous affections cured, the skin made soft and smooth, by the use of JUNIPER TAR SOAP. That made by Caswell, Hazard & Co.,, New York, is the only kind that can be relied on, as there are many limitations, made from common tar, which are worthless.-Corn,
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

Why should any one buy 8 soap half rosin or clay, when Dobbins' Electric Soap (made by Cragin & Co.,, Phila. is for sale 2 It costs but trifle more, and will go five times as far. Try it.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

Trying to do business without adver tising is like winking at pretty girl in the dark; you may know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

Practiced coastersin Nevada are using Q sled with bu. one runner.
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10
RADWAY'S READY RELIEF

ELIMINATION OF THE KIDNEYS,
 INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER,
 INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS,
 CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS, SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATHING,
 ARBITRATION OF THE HEART,
 HYSTERICS. GROUP DIPHTHERlA, HEADICHE, TOOTHAOHE, MUMPS,
 NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM,
 COLD CHILLS, AGUE CHILIS The application of the READY RELIEF to the part parts where the pain or difficulty sxista wtn afford ease and comfort
 moments, oure GRANTS, SPAsMS, SOUR sTOM. ACH, HEARTBURN, SICK HEADAOHE, DIAR- RHEA, DYSENTERY, COLO, WIND IN THE BOWELS, nnd all INTERNAL PAINS. Traveleru ehould always carry bottle of hAU- WAYS RELIEF with them, few drops in water will prevent sickness or pains from change of water IT IS BETTER THAN FRENCH BRANDY OR
 ENTERS AS A STIhULANT.
 Price 50 Cent.. seld by Drumnfsta
Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10

duced the freight rates slightly ... .Ex-Tax Commissioner Hand was sentenced in Pater- son, N. J., to serve eighteen months at hard labo~. The secretary of the treasury an- nounces that there is the sum of $91, ,987, ,O28.- 17 in the treasury at the present time
 Austria has ordered from the country all Herzegovinian refugees. .... An outbreak oc- cured in the jail at Maulmain, India, during which eleven prisoners were killed and several wounded ..... Mrs. Emma E. Wimple, on trial for the murder of her husband st Little Valley, N. r., has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to State prison for life. ..... It is believed at Khodjent that after the recent battle at Asake all the Russian prisoners in the hands of the insur- gents were massacred at Marghillan.
 A mob of naked men broke into the jail al Lebanon, Tenn, and took therefrom Porter Williamson, colored murderer whom they hung and then shot. Williamson, who haG previously confessed hie crime, had beer granted three trials, which tardy justice wal probably the cause of the lynching. The famous Chorpenning claim has been decided adversely. An appeal will be taken. II consequence of the destruction of the work shops connected with the California Statt prison at San Quentin, and fear lest tn, one thousand prisoners should revolt, it wa necessary to call out the militia. The damag, of the fire was estimated at $700, 600. It wa officially announced in Madrid that the Carlis war was at an end, and that Don Carlos ha entered France and asked French hospitality ..... The French minister of the interior ha issued circular stating that it is unnecessar to begin prosecutions for violation of the pres law during the elections, which were nc then proceeded with. ....A tornado swep over several of the Western States, doing COT siderable damage at several points where
 seems to have concentrated it's full force. A St. Charles, Mo-, although it lasted but fiv minutes, over twenty houses and other build
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

COLBY UNlvERsITY.-Owingt to the contin-
tions of the Senior and Junior classes this term
have been omitted: the prize defamation of
the Sophomore class is postponed for the same
reason.
The students have voted to transfer the SUI
pervision of the Oracle, college paper, from the
whole college to the Senior and Junior classes,
and have elected the following students as ed
itors of the Oracle, which will soon be publish
ed: Seniors, f. V. Chase, E. A. Woodsum !;
Juniors, f. o. Nichols, J. H. Files.
The Senior class has invited President Rob-
bins to deliver the baccalaureate sermon next
commencement, and he has accepted. DR.
Robbins will also preach sermon before the
Boardman Missionary Society next term.
The interest in military is undiminished the
company now drill in Memorial Hall and in
tend to acquit themselves in a credltable man.
ner next Commencement. TIE G. A. r. post
of Wateryille have invited the company to per-
form escort duty next Decoration Day, on the
occasion of unwilling soldiers monument and
the company has accepted
The Literary Fraternity, debating society, is
also in a aourishing condition. The meetings
are well attended, the questions ably discussed,
and the several parts creditably sustained.
to form an association.
The term closes on the 9th inst, for vaca-
ton of one week. l..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

AT 10 o'clock this morning f. o. Bailey g.
Go. sell mortgage stock of millinery, store
fixtures, &C., at their rooms, 80 and 81 Ex-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

Oaice Hours
From 1888 m to $50 . M SUNDAYS executed,
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 am.
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. "a, 1875.
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Boston and intermediate Offices Arrive at 100
p M and Il. 80 a. IN. Close at 800 m, and $50 and
800 D. m.
Boston and the West. Arrive at 5.00pm.
intermediate or Way Mails via Boston and Maine
Railway. Arrive at 1.2O and $40 pm. Close at
Great Southern and Western. Arrive at 1.2O,p. m.
and l23O m. Close at $50 m, 2.30 and 600 D. M
Bangor, Mattawamkeag, and connecting routes.
Arrive at 800 p. m. Close at 1880 .. M
Augusta and connecting routes. Arrive at 900 a.
m; and 3 90 p. m Close at 1890 and 500 p. m.
Express, Augusta, Bangor and the East Arrive
at 200 I'M. Close at 800 D m.
Skowhegan, intermediate offices and the north,
arrive at 800 p. m. Close at II. 80 p. IN.
SSRowhegan closed pouch closes at 900 p M.
canada and intermediate offices, via G. Il, II. Ar
rive at 2.2O p. m. Close at 12.45 p m.
Morning Northwestern by G. 4. r. Arrive at S.45
m: Close at $50 a. m.
Lewiston and Auburn. Arrive at 900 a. M, 800
and 80 p M. Close at $50 m, 12.3O and 500 D. M
Rochester, N. H., and intermediate Offices Arrive
at 13O and 11.25 m. Close at 7.3O m, and
North Conway and other offices on the P. & OR
X. Arrive at 11.25 m, and 5.55 m. Close at 7.4s
a. m. and 2.10 m.
BY the Bridgton Stage. Arrive at 3pm. Close at
$50 am.
-, PASSPORT, via each steamer. Arrive at 900 m.
Close at 500 pm.
bridge, Jonespert and Machias, via each steamer
Arrive at a m. Close at ppm.
Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island. Arrive
Thursday at m. Close Saturday at 39Opm
Foreign Mails per Allan Line direct close every
Saturday at p m.
Foreign Mails, via New York. day previous to sail
ing OF steamers Close at 80 D M
Collections from Street letter boxes at ZOO a. m.
II M. and zoo and 500 p. m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

CoUNc1I-Maine, first and third Mondays in each
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. l. every Wednesday
evening.
PORTLAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. To-
Second SATURDAY. in each month.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner of Congress and Casco streets. First Thurs
day in each month.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Corner
Congress and Casco streets. Every evening.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhal Lodge, No.
day evenings; Pine Tree, No. II, friday evenings.
At their Hall, Clapp's Block, Market.Square.
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UNION Corner
Congress and Brown streets. First Tuesday in each
month.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARs-Ar-
cana, Monday; Mission, Wednesday; Forest City
in Williams block, Congress street. Mystic, Thurs
day, at Sons of Temperance Hall Congress st
Iron Clad, Thursday, at West End.
PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERICA-Camps No
1,3 q convenes over the Eastern Express Office,
Plum Street; No on Tuesday evening; No. on
wednesday evening; No. on Monday evening; No
at School House, Turner's Island, Cape Elizabeth,
Friday evening.
BoswoRTH Posi- G. A. R.-Meetngs every Friday
evening in Mechanics Hall, corner of Congress and
Casco Streets
SovEREIGNs OF INDUSTRY, Dirigo Council No.
meets every Friday evening at AIcana Hall at q
O'Clock.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB-Head-
quarters in Printers Exchange, I'd floor, Exchange
Street. Open day and evening. Business meeting
every Monday evening at u O'Clock.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, Congress
Hall Block. Second Monday in each month. Deliv-
cry of books, 2 to 6, Z to 8, day and evening.
PAYsoN LITERARY SoCIETY.-Meetings every
Monday evening, Browns Block, cor Brown and
Congress streets, at u O'Clock.
PORTLAND .5673 Congress street
Every evening.
PORTLAND INSTITUTE AND PUBLIC LIBRARY
City Building, Open and free to all from 10 to
and DO
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07
KriefLOffIugs,


S. r. Leavitt, Esq, has the agency for "Hilrs
Business Forms and Guide to Correct Writing,
and will canvass the city for subscribers.
The street department can spend their time
time very judiciously clearing the crossings.
The First National and the savings banks, as
well as the safety vault, are TO be connected
with the police station.
The celebrated four-year old stallion Norwood
sired by Blackwood-has been sold by Mr.
Duryea of New York to Portland parties, and
has arrived in this city.
There will be gospel temperance meeting at
Allen Mission this evening. The public are
invited.
A sharper tried to get spring overcoat at
clothing store by telling the proprietor that he
had just left load of wood at his house. 1t
didn't work.
The shipping in this vicinity was very fortu-
nate during the storm.
The Osdensburg road is all clear and the
trains are running as usual.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

CENTENNIAL SHOW CAsEs.-In the space al
lotted for Maine to display her industries at
the Centennial will be seen twenty-four fine
show cases manufactured by f. 0. Bailey &
Co., of this city. These cases. while being neat
and convenient, are very handsome. They are
made of the very best black walnut, trimmed
with French walnut. The glass is OF heavy
plate. and on the doors Mr.. G. 81. Farley has
incribed the names of the exhibitors using
them. The plans of the cases are from Stew
ems g. Coombs, architects, of Lewiston. They
are about five feet high, and will be set on Ia
bles prepared for that purpose. Ihe tops are
ornamented in fine style, and the whole eHect
is very pleasing. This firm are working nlgnt
and day to complete this contract in season Tor
the opening Of the Centennial.
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MASONIC
At Masonic Hall, No, 95 ErcEauoe .Sfysst.

At Masonic Hall, No. 95 Exchange Street.
YORK RITES.
BLUE LoDGEs-Ancient Land Mark, first Wednes-
day; Portland, second Wednesday; Atlantic, third
Wednesday.
CHAPTERs-Greenleaf R. A. c., first Monday; Mt
Vernon, r. A. Co. third Monday.
CoUNcTL-Portland G. r. 81 S. Masters, second
Monday.
CoMMANDERIEs OF X. T.-Portland, fourth Mon
day: st. Adams, second Thursday. e
GRAND BoDIEs-Grand Lodge, first Tuesday in
May; Grand Chapter, first Tuesday evening in May;
Grand Council, Wednesday P. NJ; Grand Com
mandery, Wednesday evening.
MASONIC RELIEF AssoCIATIoN-Fourth Wednes-
day in every month.
PORTLAND SCHOOL OF MASONIC INSTRUCTION.
Second and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITES.
LoDGE-Yates Grand Lodge of Perfection. first
Friday.
CoUNoIL-Portland Council P. of j cond Fri
day.
CHAPTER-Dunlap Chapter Rose Croix de H, third
Friday.
CoNsIsToRY-Maine Consistory, S. P, R. S., fourth
Friday in March, June, September and December.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

The FoURTH.-It seems that the committee
on the celebration of the Fourth of July, have
decided;to report favoring parade represent
ing the different trades. They have asked the
Maine Charitable Mechanic. Association to con.
fer with them in the matter. AS the associa-
ton have had no official notice of the matter
thew refuse to act
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

Il odd FelIows' Hall, No. SS Erchanae Street.
LoDGEs-Maine, on Monday evenings; Ancient
Brothers, on Thursday evenings; Lgonia, on Friday
venings; Beacon, on Tuesday evenings; Ivy, D., Of
b. second and fourth SATURDAY..
Observation-Disclosures first and third We'd
nesdays; Eastern Star, second and fourth Wednes-
days; Portland, first and third Saturdays.
RELIEF AssoCIATIoN-Every third Tuesday in the
month.
BENEFIT AssocIATIoN.-Boardo of Directors meet
first Monday evening of each month. Association
meets first Monday evening of January, April, July
and October.
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day, when be was tried before Justice e. Bag
ley of Burnham Fernald was found guilty,
bound over in the sum of $500. and committed
to Belfast Jail. Fernald is an ornamental
painter by trade, and says he was intoxicated
at the time from drinking bottle of btters.
IN GENERAL.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars will be held at Bath next Tues
day and Wednesday. Among the visitors ex-
pected are Col. Hickman of Georgia, Chief
Templar of the World, and Mayor Williams of
Canada. Secretary of r. w. G.. Lodge. Secre-
tary Bracket expects to be able to report 30
new lodges and over 1000 members since the
October session, which is good showing for
the present Grand Lodge officers. Half fare
over the railroads to the session.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07
CAPE ELIZABETH.
ASSESSORS NOTICE

FEtHE Assessors ofthe town of Cape Elizabeth here
Il by give notice to all persons liable to taxation
in said town. that they viii be in session at their Of
nee In Town House on the 18th, 14th and 18th days
OF April inst from ten O'Clock in the forenoon till
hve O'Clock in the afternoon for the purpose of re-
ceivng lists of the polls and estates taxable in said
town.
And all such persons are hereby notified to make
and bring to said Assessors true and perfect lists Of
all their Polls and Estates real and personal or held
by them as guardian, executor administrator, trus-
tee or otherwise the frstday of April 1876 and
be prepared to make oath to the truth Of the same.
And when estates of persons deceased have been
divided during the past year have changed hands
from any cause the executor administrator other
person interested is hereby warned to give notice Of
such change; ami in default of such notice will be
held under the law to pay the tax assessed although
such estate has been wholly distributed and paid
over.
And any person who neglects to comply with this
notice, will be doomed to tax according to the Laws
Of the state and be barred of the right to make ap
pication to the County Commissioners for any abate-
ment OF his taxes, unless he shows that he was I'M
able to offer such lists within the time hereby APP
pointed.
THOS. B. HASKELL,
ELISHA N. JORDAN, \ Assessors.
STEPHEN SCAMMAN,l
Cape Elizabeth, April list, 1876. apr4dlw
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

CRUELTY TO HoRsE.-Yesterday morning
a complaint was entered with Mr.. Sawyer that
John Davis, a teamster on Pine street, had
abused one of his horses. 1t seems that the
horse, which was sick on Sunday, was worked
all day in the storm of Tuesday. Mr.. Sawyer
says the case is one deserving severe punish
ment. Mr. Davis was taken to the City Mar
shal, but it has not yet been decided what will
be done in the matter
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07
ANNUAL MEETINGS.

MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION.
The annual meeting of the Maine Charitable
Mechanic Association was held last evening at
the Library room of the Association. judging
from the reports of the several officers the As
ISOLATION is in excellent condition.
From the report of the Secretary we CLEAN
the following facts and figures: There have
been twelve stated meetings and two special
meetings of the government and eleven stated
aud one special meetings of the Association
during the past year. There have been but
three deaths, viz: Charles Holden, Alexander
Barbour and John w. Rand Eleven new mem
bers have been elected, viz. Charles Stanwood,
Isaac a. Mcdonald. Henry D. Todd, Alfred
M. Kimball, R. S. Rand. George L. Bailey,
Clinton H. Chesley, Charles w. Cahoon, Frank
E. Grant, William H. Scott, Thomas Merrill,
Thomas NJ. Dodge. The total number of MEM
bers is 365, of these 103 are life members C
cordiDg to the old constitution, 1877 according to
the new constitution, so of the members live
out of town.. Assessments collected during the
year amount to $102 SO, and $50 for admittsnce
fees. The report speaks of the successful
course of lectures given by the ASSOCIATION,
and also of the free school for mechanical draw
ing.
From the report of the Treasurer, Dan Car
penter, we get the following statement:
For receipts for the year ending April LIST, 1876:
Rents and otherwise. ......... 1865 90
Balance on hand April l, 1875. 633 So
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

STEAMER NOTWITHSTANDING the recent
storm the steamer Lewiston made harbor at
Belfast. She arrived yesterday morning and
left again last evening with good freight and
lots of passengers.
The steamer City of Richmond commences
her trips to the Panobscot next Monday night,
and will be ready to receive freight Monday
forenoon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

Maine Central Railroad is in town looking af-
ter the interests of this branch of his road. Mr..
Tucker has proved to be an able railroad man,
and is very popular with the people generally.
-Fdrmington Chronicle.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

ALPINE HoUsE.-A gentleman in this city
who is interested in the matter says that the
Alpine House will be rebuilt in season for the
summer travel. The Grand Trunk Railway
Co. is interested in the building and parties in
Portland will assist and probably run it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-07

THE MUsEuM.-This evening Mr.. Curtis
takes his benefit. His popularity among the
atre-goers insures him big house. Seats may
still be secured. The following is the cast OF
the two plays: