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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-07-06

PATENTs.-The following patents, bearing
date of July Sd, 1876, are reported as be-
ing issued to residents of Maine by G. e. Fos-
ter, Patent Solicitor, 500 Seventh St., Washing
ton, d. c:
w. G. Blair, Han pdeD, swinging berths for
vessels.
W. G. Blair, Hampden, swinging chairs for
vessels.
w. III. Eastman, Auburn, gauge pins for
printing presses.
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STANDIsH.-Mr Isaac d. Sawyer of Standish,
and forty of his employees treated themselves to
delightful excursion to East Baldwin, Satur-
day, and were served with fine supper at Nor
toms Hotel Mr.. Sawyer's coat making estab-
lishment is the largest in Maine, giving en-
ployment to eight men and sixty-fo girls
Mr.. S. turns out 100 coats per day-a thriving
business for an interior town.
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CITY AND VICINITY
New AdvertisenentsTo-Day
ATTENTION
CONTINENTAILS

The members of Company A are re-
quested to meet at Headquarters, THIS
tThursday) EVENING, at 8 O'Clock, for
drill. r. 7. MCCLELLAN,
Capt. Commanding.
w, s. COREY,Sec'y.
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Maine Business Notes.

The Wing says that the following is the
amount of lumber surveyed in Bangor from
January 1st to July 1st, 1876, compared with
the amounts surveyed during the same period
in 1874 and 1875:
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BOMdOin CNllaoe-

The examination of the three lower zclasses
takes place this week. Monday the Juniors
were examined, yesterday the Sophomores, and
to-day the Freshmen take their turn.
Monday evening the Sophomore prize decla-
nation took place at Lemont Hail. THE speak
ers delivered their parts in a very fine manner.
The music for the occasion was furnished by
Chandler's six. The following was the order
of exercises:
The American Question in England. 80. Thompson
-, +. Hall, Dixfeld.
The Fall Of Switzerland.
W. E. Sargent. Freeport.
A. E. Burton, Portland.
Toussaint L'Ouverture. ,................P Phillips
G. c. burlington, North Arson, F
The Dishonest Politician Beecher
p. L. Paine, Portland
j. M. Burleigh, South Berwick.
The Baron's Last Banquet. ..... ......... Greene
b. Potter, Brunswick.
c. M. Jacobs, Pennington.
The Minute Men of 75 .....................Cu Curtis
j. L. Higgins, Ellsworth.
Murder VIII Out Il FecS Aver Mass: Webster
The Roman Soldier. .Atherstone
S. L. Smith, Thomaston.
The Platform of the Constitution. Webster
5. ID. Fessenden, Auburn.
Excused.
The prizes were awarded first toS. e. Smith.
Thomaston, and second to G. q. Purington
North Arson.
The Bates nine visited Brunswick Monday
and played return game with the Bowdoins.
1t was closely contested game aad much fine
playing was displayed dy both Sides Consid-
cradle interest was felt in the result as the
Bates b ad beaten the Bowdoins this year by a
score of to 0, and the friends of Bates were
confident of success. But the Bowdoins being
on their own grounds played remarkably fine
game and were victorious, as the followip
score will show.
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MAINE CENTRAL.-The Maine Central took
5000 passengers to and out of Lewiston the
Fourth without accident or delay. The receipts
for the excursion tickets were $4,000.
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Bates. ................ 2 o 0 o 0 0 o l. 8
Earned Runs-Bowdoins, o; Bates 0. Total base
hits, Bates, D.; Bowdoins, 6.
Time of game hoIr As min.
... Umpire-"Dolly' Wilson.
Commencement exercises will take place
next week in accordance with the programme
which we have already pnblished
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Loss OF APPETITE.-In persons of sedentary
and literary pursuits, if the brain is overworked
and the muscles underworked, the appetite is
very apt to fail, from general atony Of the
system. The Peruvian Syrup restores the tone
of the digestive system, and consequently the
appetite, by supplying pure blood to organs
too weak to make it without assistance. Sold
by all druggists. july3eodaw1w
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THOUSANDS are indebted for the health they
now enjoy to the curative properties of DH.
BULLOCKS KIDNEY REMEDY, NEPH-
RErlCUM, which expels from the system all
diseases of the kidneys and bladder, glandular
troubles, mental and physical debility, female
Irregularities, etc.
12-27-42 iuy4 eodS,wlw
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VIcKERY & LEIGHToN's last announcement
on black Hernanis for this season. They will
offer their entire stock regardless of cost for
ten days, to close them out ju23dtf
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WHEN you have cough or cold be sure and
use Adamson's Cough Balsam. 1t is an I'M
falling remedy. So and 70 cents per bottle.
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osCP ALUM ehO tidOh coOucIs 4uo OuCldlS VI
the road did every thing for her comfort, and a
physician was SUNNI oned Immediately on the
arrival at Falmouth.
REGIMENTAL MEETINGS. The members of
the Portland Veteran Battalion Of the LIST,
10th, 29th Maine Regiments are requested to
meet at G. A. r. Hall at u o'clock this even
ing for the annual election of officers, and for
the transaction of such other business as may
come before 1T.
Any man who served in either of the above
regiments is a member of this organization
and full attendance is desired
The 18th Maine Regiment Association will
hold meeting at Grand Army Hall this eve
ming to arrange for taking part in the general
reunion of Maine soldiers, which takes place
in this city on the 10th of August.
ODD FELLOWS ExcURsIoN.-The Odd Eel
lows excursion yesterday, to Little Chebeague,
on the steamer New Brunswick, was in every
respect, most agreeable. On the first trip the
number of passengers was estimated to be ], 800,
and about 800 went at later hour. The day
was beautiful, the best of order was maintain
ed, no accident occurred and the committee of
arrangements h'led their part OF the pro-
gramme. The members of the Bridgton En-
campment expressed themselves in terms of the
highest praise of the manner in which their
Portland brethren entertained them. About
400 sat down to the clam-bake, which was got
ten up in excellent style by Capt j. A Perry
PORTLAND YACHT CLUB.-The club held
their regular monthly meeting last evening,
and the yachtsmen were not as wet as the day
before. The meeting was lively and one of the
members put out the silver cup for second-class
sloops which will be sailed for under the fol-
lowing regulations the course to be the same
as the challenge cup course for second class:
-Four boats are to enter and three to sail over
the course, the yacht holding the cup twice GU
of three times retains it. The days appointed
for the races are July 19th August 9th and 23d,
and no postponement on account of weather.
VIM. Senter 6, Co. furnished the cup
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THE CENTENNIAL FOURTH,

The Celebration Throughout the
State.
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Forart and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of use,
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The austere virtues strong TO save.
The honor proof to place or gold,
The manhood never bought or soldi
o! make Thou,us through centuries long,
In peace secure in justice strong;
Around our gift of freedom draw
The safeguards of Thy righteous law,
And, cast in SEINE diviner mould,
Let the new cycle shame the old!
The reading of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence followed by Gen. S. j. Anderson. Gen.
Anderson's elocCtion was superb.
The Haydns then sang HandePs chorus
'sBlessed be the hand" the Gland OF our ia
Tiers" "Star-Spangled banner" the "Hallelu-
gah" chorus and America" the whole as
sembly joining in the latter. The exercises
closed with the benediction by the Rev. W. E.
Gibbs
THE YACHT REGATTA.
Owing to the intense heat, the sailing regatta
was largely patronized in the afternoon, and
proved to be one Of the most delightful features
of the celebration All who could get passage
on the yachts took it eagerly, while the rest
of the crowd were content in going down the
harbor on the steamers Lewiston, Forest City,
and the regular island boats, all OF which were
crowded with excursionists The races were
for purses amounting to $3.50. Thirteen yachts
contested, making the race very interesting
one. The judges, Messrs, B. j. Willard, E. F.
Willard and w. E. Dennison, were stationed at
the club room on Custom House wharf, and the
yachts were started from buoy opposite. The
course was the usual Fourth of July course, to
Half Way Rock and return, the first and second
class yachts being required to sail over the
course twice. The breezs was a good one and
the boats got an excellent START. The Alarm
led little at first. closely followed by the Viva
and Sparkle. The squall was very severe on
the water, but the boats all weathered the
storm nicely. After the storm there was a
calm and all the boats made poor time in con-
sequence. The following are the official fig
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AN AcCIDENT.-Yesterday morning Mrs. E.
M. Hodgdon, while walking on the track of the
Grand Trunk road, between Cumberland and
Falmouth, was struck by the morning passen
ger train from Lewiston. The corner of the
baggage car struck her right shoulder, breaking
it and otherwise injuring her. When the train
ran back to her she had risen to her feet and
was able to get on board with little assistance
She was taken back to Falmouth where she
was stopping with friends. As she was walk
ing so as to face the train and said that she saw
it, it is difficult to understand why she did not
step from the track sooner. The officials of
the road did every thing for her comfort, and a
physician was SUNNI oned Immediately on the
arrival at Falmouth.
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ALFRED, July 1.-The celebration of the
Centennial Fourth at Alfred was complete
success. The historical Grafton by S. M. Came
Esq, while embodying full sketch of the his
tory of the town, was thoroughly fresh and
lively and filled with happy turns and poten-
tial applications. 1t was in all respects an able
effort and held the individual attention of the
audience to its close. Amos L. Allen, Esq,
followed with capital centennial speech, and
stirring remarks were made by Rev. Mr.. Ives,
Ira I. Drew, Esq, and others. The dinner
provided by the ladies of Alfred was abundant
and excellent in quality. On the tables were
many pieces of ware of ancient date, prominent
among them being wooden plate owned and
eaten from by Simeon Coffin, the first settler
of Alfred. The enterprising people of North
Alfred, a hundred strong, came to the celebra-
ton in fine style in large carts covered with
awnings and decorated with flags, evergreens,
and festoons of flowers. Splendid teams of
oxen decked with garlande drew their novel
carriages. The procession was one of the lead
ing features of the day and was greatly admir-
ed. The remarkable smoothness and success
with which all the arrangements of the day
were carried out are very largely due to the in
defatigable efforts of Nathan Dane, William
M. Emery, ESQ.,, and the other members Of the
efficient committee appointed to provide for the
due observance of the day, and who planned
and superintendent the carrying through of
what is pronounced by all, a celebration never
exceeded in Alfred.
DamRrisco and Newcastle.
DAMARIsCoTTA, July 5.-The Centennial
Fourth was appropriately celebrated by Dam
ariscotta and Newcastle yesterday. The main
features of the celebration were ringing of the
bells, salutes of the cannon at sunrise, noon
and sunset, rowing regatta, procession of fire
companies. municipal authorities and citizens,
trial of fire engines, historic sketch of Damar-
iscotta and Newcastle delivered by General j.
A. Hall. The village was crowded all day
with people from all parts of the county. Nc
serious accidents occurred.
Warren.
CAMDEN, July 5.-The Centennial anniver-
sary of the nation and of the town of Warren
was celebrated on Mount Pleasant, which COM
mands full view of Knox county. Over 2O0(
were present. The Grafton was delivered by T
A. Simontop, Esq, of Camden, and brief ad
dresses were made by General Tillson and 9th
ers,
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FIRST CLASS.

AT sunset a salute of 3S guns was fired for
the 3S states Of the Union, and the bells were
run for an hour, which, taken with the indi-
vidual celebration going on, made considerable
noise.
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The centuries fall like like grains Of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee
To thank Thee for the era done
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where of old, by Thy design.
The fathers spake that word of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
Of rended bolt and falling chain
To grace our festal time, from all
The zones of earth our guests we call,
Be with us while the New World greets
The Old World, thronging all its streets.
Unwilling all the triumphs won
BY art or toll beneath the SUM-
And unto common good ordain
Tnis riyalship of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord furled
The war flags of gathered world,
Beneath our Western skies fulfill
The Orient's mission of good will,
And, freighted with Loves golden fleece,
Send back the Argonauts of peace
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-25
TO TIE PEOPLE OF THE UNI
TED STA TIES.


FELLOW CITIZENS: We congratulate
you as patriots, as partakcrs with us
in the common destiny of American
frccmen, upon the results OF the Octo-
Der State elections. We rejoice IN the
victory which the peoples ballots have
bestowed upon the friends OF Reform,
in the valley of the Ohio, where the
Republican hosts had an overwhelming
ascendancy in every Presidential elee-
ton since 1856. We rejoice in the as
surapee these elections convey that
your ballots will bestow decisive ma.
joritics to the allied forces of Democ-
racy and Reform in the November
elections throughout the Union. But
we rejoice not as partisans; we rejoice
with you as fellow citizens.
And when the decision Of this week
Of one million of voters along the val
ley of the Ohio shall be ratified next
month, by the fiat of eight million vo-
ters throughout the whole republic,wc
shall still rejoice, chiefly .or the reason
that not one of its citizens can miss of
an equal share with us who are Dem
ocrats, in the political peace and good
will which will then and there be cs-
tablished among all sections, races,
classes and conditions of men, and in
the prosperity of which political peace
based on equal rights and traternal
good will is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, were concen-
tratcd all the influences of the Admin
stration, all their efforts, and all the
vast sums of money forced from the
one hundred thousand ofiice-holders of
the party ir power.
These ware fearful odds, not again
TO be contendoj against SO concentrat-
cd for in the November elections the
contest will be in every one of thirty
eight States upon the same day.
Nevertheless against these odds tho
Democrats and Reibrmcrs OF West
Virginia and Indiana have been victo-
rious, and in Ohio they have all but
rescued o State hitherto deemed hope
less, and have created an assurance Of
victory in November.
If it falls to our lot as National
Democratic Committee to congratulate
the people OF the Union upon this vic
tory in the first battle OF the reform
campaign, tits only because Democrats
have been honored TO be the leaders Of
tho people in the work Of national re.
generation.
The victory won, the victory still to
be won, will be delivcrance as much
to Republicans as TO Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Rcpub-
lican party may be thankful that the
misdecds of their unworthy leaders
have been rcbukcd and are to be ar
rested. The suffering whites Of the
South may lift up their heads to greet
the dawn Of better day for them AS
we'll as the nation at large. The col
ored citizen may share the general joy
that they win soon cease to be the
stock in trade Of corrupt politicians,
but shall enjoy his rightful liberties
and his equality before the law amid
universal good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, 10
whose standards victory has been tied,
with all her garlands on, IL only re'
mains for them 10 welcome every ally
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p,n at.a ,..,,io,, .,.I..t.,,..,,.,..
u s,1a ,ae"''on sehoe y e,,'eu again
,ha;s un ',s.. ress' my ,O"pHs ooys nave e''hs'
NY, ,us'I no'ner p,s'n
'O' 'Dm,eeu "''"' i'' ''"'''u '"e sa'"y u'y
IN, .,"S a.
:" h"'u '"'"'V" WV '"u sV"V'' "'s'"s"-u'y
They uay that teaohers oannot teaeh.-th., sehoi
ers eapnot learn
ihf1 alllhe days oil isummer-the days that iairl,
purn
! wonder IL 'hey ever ASK now mothers get along
WIN romping boys VINO hnd Their Joys In doing
something wrong
There's John. and Joe. and Jimmy. their elo,he,
were nearly new ''' '"'' ''''"''
When they came home from school that day and
SAID the term was through
NO" john and Joe, and Jimmy with sun-brown
hands and ieet
Conc 10 at night In about the plight Of bcggars
on Inc street
r.... A. -.
i"'i, y NJ o'uer ID inc housei cannot hnu
Tae drawers are tumbled upside down with six
hands hunting string
The chairs are always in row-the whole house
fairly Jars
With Jimmy jumping on and OF to run his train
of cars.
y. -, :
"y oIono' hSM earVlng-hhhc 'ound CUT IN Tue
HAD used it making arrows for Jimmy's little
bow;
And John came home from hshing-came whist.
ling through the gate
With fathers bc.t tobacco-box filed up with
worms for bait.
M
LUZ nuns nns naa "'gn''"' ''ine tue whole
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-25
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
THE SCENE OF THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW
MASSACRE AS DESCRIBED DyA VISITOR.

I
MASSACRE AS DESCRIBED ny A VISITOR.
Nineteen years ago an immigrant
train of 1877 persons, while on their
way TO California, were massacred In
Utah, at place called Mountain Mead
ow, and, beyond doubt, it was done
by the Mormons, at the instigation of
Brigham Young John ID. Lee, an
adopted son of Brigham, figured most
conspicuously in the awful tragedy.
Feeling that TO intelligently conduct
the prosecution it was necessary TO
visit the scene OF the butchcry, Sumner
Howard, Esq, United States District
Attorney for Zion, determined to do so.
Accompanied by Marshal Nelson, A. S.
Patterson, aud Mormon guide, he set
out for that place. At the scene of the
massacre we came across numbers of
human bones. A rib as white as snow,
a shoulder-bladc half hurled in the
sand, and other fragments Of human
frames, scattered for mile, lay bleach
ing in the sun. The old camp ground
where tho immigrants corraled their
wagons was level strip OF meadow
terminating in n blufl.likc manner, and
commanding view Of half q mile
down tho canyon, and in turn COM
manded from the hills on every other
side. 1t was there that the train had
determined to stop for week or ten
DAYS 10 allow their teams TO recruit on
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HOLE NO 2Ya CLARIFIED PA, WEDNESDAY,

work is, and what it means, can only
be understood when il Is remembered
that Indiana and Ohio were claimed,
less than two months ago, by the Ma
tional Republican Committee that
they have been Republican States.from
tho beginning; and that the average
Republican majority in Presidential
years since 1860 has been, in Indiana,
1866, and in Ohio, 24,2S5. 1t is no
gust of transient passion that has
wrought this great change in the
minds of the people it is the strong
and steady food that will sweep the
land before IT subsidies. Now for Mass
achusetts
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of gathering together all the bones
they could find Of these. victims aud
burying them in two graves, One Of
these graves was made within the lin.
its Of the little coral where the Arkan.
sans had so gallantly defended their
wives and children against the foe,and
where several Of their number had
oeen shot before the trcachery Of Lee
Drought death and ruin on them all.
aeoye their sacred dust the soldiers
erected rude monument of granite
powders and wooden cross to their
memory, Brigham spat upon the cross
.-ssyl The, ,M.,ormaoAa..sr-Il-.ri.Is..s..sr.. -
7 hh-v~' y ~.'-'s- ->s~->s,,ly !. 1ssss,: s.
stones three Zee; wit5,iiii a rod isne.
running east and west, and is all, save
tho blight which has come upon the
spot, that marks their hallowed rest.
~ -sJa2s-....sxs. ! saa >ss..ssy.. -SsSsisr
the meadows into gullies, one of which
twenty feet deep, turned from It's
course and missed this grave. Thus.
II seems, Providence spared the rude
monument and mouldering bones, but
the Mormons did not.
The other grave was half a mile
north Of the monument, at the fork Of
the road which led back to the main
route, but at the present time is lost.
The spring is almost dry; what thore
is Of il is oozing out in the bottom of
the gulley which just misses the mon
ument; the meadow where the train
stood is now u shifting sand bill; the
barricade is blown away; IL ia barren
OF vegetation, recognizable only by the
heap of powders once serving to des-
ignate q common grave. A few feet
west of il there are three rocks lying
in a line, and at one end an oak stick
stands in the ground, evidently mark.
ing the grave of one who fell before
the train surrendered. Our party
picked up few bits of chinawarc, a
nail from the wooden cross, an ounce
slug, navy bullet, a few flint and
moss agate arrow heads, and frag-
ments Of human remains. These mark
the scene of the seige, and the bleach.
ing bones strewn among the sage brush
for mile above, show that the butch
cry was not confined to a single spot.
John d. Lee was tried and found
guilty of participation in this massa-
ere, and on Tuesday, October 10th,
1876, at Beaver, Utah, Judge Borman
passed sentence upon him. The pris-
oner had the right, under the laws Of
the territory, to cboosehis death by
hanging, shooting or beheading, and
having chosen to be shot, wassentenced
to be shot to deathJanuary 26, 1877.
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THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY ABouTTHE
RESULT.

From the New York Sun Of Oct 1871
The vote in the West shows that the
Germans are deaf to the appeals of the
bloody shirt orators, that Carl Schurz
has lost power with them, and that
they discern that the overmastering
issue of this campaign is the reform Of
the abuses which sixteen years of Re.
publican dominance has established in
the administration of the Government.
The Germans of the East arc of the
same mind with their brethren of the
West, This fact, with others, give
promise of q heavy majority for Tildcn
in this State, where the great battle
will be fought. The Republican ora
tors, released by the close OF the can
vassinOhio and Indiana, will be brought
hither to wave the bloody shirt; but
they will find that it is not standard
which will stir the enthusiasm of our
voters. The citizens of New York
know Governor Tilden. They person.
ally benefit by his reduction of taxes
and the reforms he has introduced at
Albany.