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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
WINTER RESORT.
CITY ADV ERTlSEM ENTS
CITY ORDINANCES.
Attention is called to the following City Ord-
nances, which will be strictly enforcei:
Removing Snow from Sidexvollxs

Attention is called to the following City Ordi-
nances, which will be strictly enforced:
Removing Snow from Sidewalks.
62.-The tenant occupant and in case there
should be no tenant, the owner any person having
the care OF any building lot of land bordering not
than one hundred and fifty feet on any street.
where there is any foot-way sidewalk, SHALL after
the ceasing to fall of any snow, if in the day time
within three hours and if in the night time, before
ten of the clock of the forenoon succeeding cause
such to be removed from such foot way or side
walk, and, in default thereof shall forfeit and pay
sum not less than two dollars, nor more than ten
doars and for each and every hour thereafter that
such tenant occupant, owner other person, shall
forfeit and pay sum not less than dollar, nor
more than ten dollars. And if such building or lot
should extend more than one hundred and fifty feet
any street or land, it shall be the duty OF such
tenant or occupant owner other person to remove
such from the footway sidewalk for the space
Of one hundred and fifty feet according to the pro-
visions and subject to the penalties aforesaid.
Sidewalks TO be Sanded.
64.-Whenever the sidewalk. or any part thereof
adjoining any building or lot of land on any street.
shall be encountered with ice it shall be the duty of
the occupant; and in there is no occupant the
ing or lot to cause such sidewalk to be made safe
aid convenient, by removing The ice therefrom, or
by covering the same with sand or some other suit
able substance; and in case such owner occupant
other person. shall neglect so to do, for the space
of six hours during the day time, lie shall forfeit and
pay not less than two more than five dollars. and
like sum for every day that the same shall continue
encumbered.
C.K. BRIDGES,
dec27dtf CITY Marshal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

THE newspaper paragraphsts who have
been complaining because women wear high
hats at theatres and other places of amuse-
ment may now possess their souls in peace.
A hat has been invented expressly for the
theatre. The high top which holds the flow
ers, feathers, birds, &C., is contrived like
busgy-top, AMI can be turned over and low
cred on the back of the head when the
wearer is seated, leaving an unobstructed
view of the stage to persons in the rear.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

LET us cease growing at Boston because
OF her tardiness in saving the Old South, for
London is doing much worse. She has al
ready pulled down two old church buildings,
edifices of historic note, Allhalows Church
and the church of st. Denis. Allhallows
was built five centuries ago, and rebuilt alter
the great fire by Sir Christopher Wren. St.
Denis was completed by Wren in 1914. We
may as well cease sneering at "the American
commercial spirit"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

THIS is what Charles Pinckney, of South
Carolina, one of the trainers of the copstitu-
tion, said seventy-six years ago in speech
made by him in the Senate on bill propos-
ing to vest the count of the electoral votes in
a joint committee of Congress:
Knowing that it was the intention of the
constitution to make the President completely
independent of the Federal Legislature, well
remember it was the object, as il is at present
not only the spirit, but the letter of that instru-
ment, to give to Cong res5 no interference in or
control over the election of a President. 1t
is made their duty to count over the votes in a
convention of both houses and for the Presi-
dent of the Senate to declare who has the ma
jority of the votes of the Electors so trans
mitted 1t never was intended, nor could it
have been safe, in the constitution to have
given to Congress thus assembled in conventions
the right to object to any vote. or even to ques-
ton whether they were constitutionally or
properly given. This right of determining on
the manner in which the electors shall vote
guards necessary to prevent disquaified or i'm
proper men voting, and to insure the votes be-
ing legally given-rests and is exclusively
vested in the State Legislatures. If it is neces-
sary to have guards against improper elections
of Electors, and to institute tribunals to inquire
into their qualifications, with the State Legisla.
lures, and with them alone rests the power to
institute them, and they must exercise it. To
give to Congress even when assembled in cou-
ventioD, right to reject or admit the votes of
states would have been so gross and dangerous
an absurdity as the trainers of the constitution
never could have been guilty of.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

THE substitution of Senator Conkling on
the Senate committee established to consider
the question of the disputed Presidency is
matter for rejoicing. Mr.. Logan may not
have been bad choice, but he is certainly
inferior to Mr.. Conkling in knowledge of con-
stitutional law, in breadth of view, and in
calmness ofjuGguent The happiest result
may be expected from the substitution,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

IT is reported in Washington that promi-
nent Democrats of the House admit that they
do not intend to have the Clerk put any
names on his official roll of the next House
from the disputed States, so as to make sure
OF Democratic ascendancv in the organiza.
finn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

e We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
SheriG's Sale.

STATE OF MAINE,(
CUMBERLAND, SIS.
CEIZED and taken on execution, and will be sold
- by public auction, to the highest bidder on
SATURDAY, the third day of February, A D. 1876,
at ten O'clock in the forenoon at the Shern's Office
in Portland. in said County, all the right, title, in
terest. estate, claim and demand of every name and
nature which Charles E. Stevens, of Portland in
said County, has had, the 18th day of October
A D 1876, at two O'Clock and forty eight minutes IN
the afternoon being the time of the attachment of
the same, the original writ in the action on which
the said execution obtained in and to the follow
ing described Real Estate, to w.t. certain lot of
land with the buildings thereon, situated in said
Portland, on the Northerly side of Summer Street,
and bounded; beginning one hundred feet from the
corner of Clark and Summer Streets, and running
thence on Summer Street, westerly fty-one feet to
land OF Jeremiah Reagan; thence northerly at
right angle with Summer Street one hundred feet to
the land OF person unknown to me; thence easterly
belongin to one Hasty; thence southerly by said
Hasty's land, and the land of Michael Lynch; one
hundred feet to the point beginning; being the lot
marked "U,'' on plan recorded in Cumberland
Registry OF Deeds, Book of Plans, No. 2, Page 5,
hereby referred to; said attachment and sale being
made to enforce and complete lien which Hiram g.
Miliiken. of Deerna, in said County, has on said
described premises for work done and material
furnished by said Milken to the said Stevens at his
request; said seizure and sale of said real estate
being subject to all prior and legal claims on the
same, if any.
Dated at said Portland 2Stn day of December, A.
d. 1876. M ADAMS, Deputy Sheriff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
CANAL NATIONAL BANK,

YIyHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of "Thc
Il Canal National Bank of Portand'' for the elec-
tion 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 9th day of January, 1877, at II o'clock A. nj.
B. G. SOMERBY, Cashier.
December s. 1876 de9dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 2, 1s77.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
The National Traders Rank,

fFyHE Shareholders of the National Traders Bank
Il of Portland, ale hereby notified that their an
nual meeting will be held at their Banking Room on
Tuesday the 9Th day of January next at three
O'Clock NJ, to choose five directors for the en-
suing year, and to act on any other business that
may legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Portland, Dece nber s, 1876. dld
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

WADE HAMPTON has taken the extraordi-
nary course of appealing to both Hayes and
Tilden, as we'll as to Congress, for support in
his effort to gain unchalienged control of the
government of South Carolina. The letter
sent to Columbus by the hands of Judge
Mackey contains at least one sentiment that
will meet with general approval, in its ex
preston of desire and determination to dis
countenance an appeal to force as an arbiter
of the disputes that may grow out of the
electoral complications. The blusterers who
talk of violence will find in the passage re-
ferred to a stern Iebuke of their mischievous
plans. But moderation and wisdom In this
matter does not prove that Wade Hampton is
the legal Governor of the Palmetto State, and
it should not be allowed to prejudice the
claims or jeopardize the position of the gallant
Chamberlain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
Annual Meeting.

TTNHE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Il Portland, Bangor & Machias Steamboat Com
pany the election ofve Directors and for the
action of any other business that may legally be
fore them will be held at the office of the Company
on Railroad Wharf, foot of State Street, On TUES
DAY, January 9th (Ninth) 1877, at O'Clock P. M.
GEORGE L DAY, Clerk.
Portland, Dec. 26, 1875. de27dld
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

WHEN you hear man shouting "Tilden
or warp ask him to sign an agreement not
to be candidate for Office nnder Tiden if
he should be counted in. That will be taking
the cosus belH out of him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
Annual Meeting.

YTVHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
L Peaks Island Steamboat Company for the elec-
tion oil three Directors and the transaction of such
other business may legally before them. will
be held at the Old School House Peaks Island on
MONDAY, January 9Th 1877, at u O'Clock P. M
j. W. BRACKET, Clerk.
For the convenience of the stockholders residing
in the city. the Steamer Express will leave the city
for the island at Z o'clock P. M.
de29 dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
CascO National Bank,

FENHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland for the choice
of Directors and transaction of such other business
may legally come before them. will be held at
their Banking House on Tuesday the 9th day of Jan.
uary, 1877, at 10 O'Clock A M.
VIM. A. WINSHIP, Cashier
Portland, Dec. Sth, 1876. dc9dtd.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
Eagle Sugar Refining Co.

FTNHE Stockholders of this Company are hereby no.
Il titled that the Annual Meeting for choice Of Di-
rectors. and the transaction of other business legally
brought before them will be held at the Refinery Of
ary at O'Clock p. m.
de25d2w JOS P. THOMPSON, Clerk.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
Merchants, National Bank.

TNHE Stockholders in this Bank are hereby nott-
Il fed that their annual meeting for the choice
of directors and the transaction of any other bust.
ness which may legally he brought before them will
be holden at the Bank Tuesday, the 9th day of
January 1877, at 10 O'Clock A. M.
CHAS. PAYSON, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. s, 1876, dc9dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

OUR economical Congress at its last session
did so much investigating that the Congress
sional Printer is about S350,0OO behind.
This is nice little item for deficiency bill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
COASTING IN THE STREETS.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE
Portland, Dec. 81, 1876.
TNHE following streets have been designated on
Il which boys can coast with sleds during the
winter and on none Others If detected in coasting
on other public streets, the penalty OF the law will
be enforced.
On Mayo street.
On Fox, from Washington to Back Bay.
On New High, below Cumberland street.
On Mellen street.
On Pleasant to Centre street.
On Atlantic to Fore street.
On Fore from Atlantic street.
On Grove, from Congress to Portland street.
On Clark, from Salem to Summer street.
dec23dtf G. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

THE Indianapolis Sentinel man is still on
the rhetorical trapeze. This is one of his
latest utterances:
And if the fates decide that only ire can fully
test their devotion to principles, then they will
enter it with the calm trust that distinguished
the three heroic Hebrews, and when Grant and
his co-conspirators see them passing through
the ordeal, they will discover the genius of
liberty walking by their side, and their devo-
tioD, whether dead or alive, should kindle anew
the fires of liberty in millions of hearts and
the Republic, which they love and for which
they sacrificed SO much, should rise again like
truth crushed to earth, and claim the eternal
years of God for liberty.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
NOTICE..
CITY of Portland. .

FNHE surveys now going on unGer the direction of
Il the City Engineer for the purpose of making
correct plans of all The estates in the city for the
use of the assessors department. require the fullest
information fiem all parties interested in having
their estates properly delineated OIL the plans For
this purpose persons having in their possession prI.
vate plans OF property in the city which they are
disposed to loan to the city are requested to give
notice OF the same to the undersigned at the CITY
Building SO that they can be used when required.
JOHN L. HULL, Clerk.
December IL, 1876. de13dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
NoTIC1.

NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to
~ the firm OF Legrow & Boody, which partner
snip was dissolved by mutual cons ent, October l.
1879, to make immediate payment to Frank H.
Boody, who has full authority to receipt for the
same.
f. E. LEGROW,
f. H. B0ODY
W1ndham, December 12 1876. dec30d1w*
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Notice.

NOIICt,
NlHE proprietors of Union Wharf Corporation are
Il hereby notified that their annual meeting will
TUESDAY e ~ the '' second c I'd day VI Of e January
1871 at Up. m to act the following articles, viz
1st, To choose President.
I'd, To choose Clerk and other officers for the Ell.
suing year.
Sd, to act on any other business that may legally
come before them. A. X. SHURTLEFF, Clerk.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
JOHN STUART MILL labored industriously
for the cause of female suffrage, but he never

JOHN STUART MILL labored industriously
for the cause of female suffrage, but he never
expected that the results of his tolls would
appear so soon. Though no progress has
been made in the work of securing the ballot
to women in general, the right OF property
holding women to vote whenever questions
of taxation and the like are to be decided
is already conceded and quite recently the
right of women to hold certain offices is also
granted. At the late election in London for
members of the National School Board, equiv
alent to our School Committee, four women
were elected, and have taken their seats.
Among them is Miss Taylor, the step-daugh-
ter of Mill, wko is said to be lady of rare
culture and ability. 1t seems like realza-
tion of poetic justice that a near relative of
the earnest advocate OF female suffrage should
be one of the first to realize the benefits OF
the new order of things.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

NOTICE Is hereby given, that the subscriber ha S
IN been duly appointed Executrix of the viii OF
SARAH B. THACHER, late of Portland.
in the County of Cumberland, deceased, and has
taken upon herself that trust by as giving bonds as
the law directs All persons having demands upon
the estate Of said deceased required to exhibit the
same; and all persons indebted to said estate are
called upon to make payment to
AMELIA H. TEACHER. Executrix
Portla d, Dec. 5, 1876. de2Od1aw3w*W
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
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ments, Interierences, ETC.,
promptly attended to. INVENTIONS that have been
MN ~ m II n by the Patent Office may
IT. II HI II | still, in most cases, be
X II | | secured by us. Being
III HIu I'll ~ ! opposite the Patent Of
IV IL " IL " l. Ia - flee, can make closer
searches, and secure Pat
tents moro promptly and wilh broader claims than
those who are remote from Washington.
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tentablity. All cor
respondence strictly confidential. Prices low, AND
NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT Is
SSCl RED
We refer to officials in the Patent Office, and 10
inventors in every State in the Union.
G. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent Office, Washingtcm, d. G.
Sale of Unclaimed Goods.

DISTRICT OF PORTLAND AND FALMOUTH,
CUSTOM HOUSE, Portland, Dec Is, 1876. I
FHNHE following described merchandise remaining
L in Public Store unclaimed for period of one
Office of the U. S. Storekeepers, Custom House
Building, on TUESDAY, the 9th day of January,
A. d. 1877, at 10 o'clock, A. M, to wit:
Case DaguerIeotype Instruments, Chest and
contents, 2 Old Bibles, Old Trunks, Trunk Old
Clothing. Box Old Clothing, Bundle Old House
hold Effects, l Chron0meter, Feather, Case con-
tanning Cutlery and small Ware Case Cigars 70 000
Bundle chronological Charts $500, Box Cigars
(1OO) Bottles and l Flask Brandy. Bottles
Brandy, Bottles Wine, Small Sewing Machine, 8
Demijohns and Keg Wine.
Descriptive Catalogues can be obtained at this
Office. 1. WASHBURN, JR., Collector.
de18 d3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02
FOR SALE.

TE1HE furniture, fixtures and lease of the Thorn :
Il dixie HOTEL Rocklaud Maine. The above ho
tel is well known to all the travelling public and is
doing business second TO hotel in the state De-
string to make change in our business, is the only
reason fol selling Apply Immediately to KALI
land, Me. dcSf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-02

THERE are four Democratic Presidential
Electors who are known to be disqualified.
A New York paper says:
Frost in Missouri, Moore in Tennessee, VIII
Hanson ia New Jersey, Holloway in Virginia,
ate all ineligible as Electors, according TO Sen
ator Thurman's Interpretation of the the law
If Gov Grover is to be upheld by his party,
these four votes must be thrown out or counted
for Hayes. To this circumstance, perhaps,
may be traced the report that, under Mr.. Til
den directions, Cronin is to be quietly dropped
and the three Oregon votes are to be counted
for the Republicans without more ado. But
that course would still leave the four disquali-
fled Electors untouched.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-20
Soaring Away the Eclipse.

Soon after my arrival at Bagdad, on
the evening of the first day in May, as
we were dining on the terrace, we were
startled by a most terrific din. We
then noticed that there was a nearly
total eclipse of the moon, and upon
consulting an English almanac we
found that it would be "invisible at
Greenwich, but a total eclipse in Aus
tralia and some parts Of Asia" The
tumult increased, and soon the whole
population seemed have assembled on
the house-tops, armed with pots, pans
and kitchen utensils, which they beat
with a tremendous c%latter, at the same
time screaming and bowling at the top
of their voices. Frequent reports of
guns and pistols added to the turmoil,
which was kept up for nearly m hour,
until they had succeeded in frightening
away the Jim, or evil spirit, who had
caught hold of the moon. 1t was a
most amusing scene, although it inter
fered seriously with the success of our
dinner. Our own servants caught the
excitement, and deserted the table
without ceremony. Our host told us
the next day that they well-nigh
knocked the bottoms out from all his
kitchen utensils. 1t was, however, a
complete success, and when our ser
wants returned to their duty, the moon
was shining brightly as ever, and upon
their faces was an air of complacent
n.-ScribHer,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-20
How the American Aborigines disposed
Oftheir Dead.

The modes of ~disposing of the bodies
of the dead in use among the a%borigines
Of America are classed by Mr.. Edwin
A. Barber, in the Naturalist, under four
heads, viz; Inflammation, cremation,
embalmment, and aerial sepulture. Of
these, the first was most usually en-
ployed, the bodies being inferred either
in ordinary graves, in mounds, or in
caves. Several tribes, among them the
Lenni-Lenape, or Delawares, were ac-
customed to incase their dead In stone
boxes or tombs. In tumulus-burial,
the dead were generally laid near the
original level of the surface, and the
mound heaped over them. Only isola-
ted instances of cave-burial have been
signalized in the United States, as in
Breckenridge County, Kentucky, and
in the canons of Utah, Arizona and New
Mexico. Cremation was of two kinds-
in graves and in urns. Among the
Pueblos of Arizona and Utah the body
was SOilIllIlNH bul lVu, dllh tilV uNiltS ut~
posted in shallow tombs. Several
tribes on the ella River, in Southern
Arizona, burned the dead in urns, But
few cases of embalming are known to
have occurred in the limits of the
United States. As examples of this
mode of preparing the corpse may be
mentioned the Mammoth Cave and Salt
Cave mummies of Kentucky, These
bodies have been preserved by a rude
species of embalmment and by eXsicca-
ton. Aerial sepulture was of two
kinds-the first by suspension on scat
folds or in trees, the second by sepul-
ture in canoes Several tribes still em-
ploy the former mode of burial. The
Sioux elevate the bodies of their dead
into trees, or stretch them out on raised
platforms, wrapping them in blankets
and leaving them to the mercies of the
elements and c%arnivorOus birds,