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Public Laws the State Maine passed by Sixth Legislature 1877

and seventy-one, is hereby amended by inserting
after the word "yessel in the fourth line of said
that said section two, as amended, shall read as
follows, viz:
SECT. 2. Whoever, without breaking, commits
larceny in the night time, in dwelling house. or
building adjoining and occupied Herewith or
breaks and enters any office, bank, shop, store,
kind court house, JAIL Westinghouse, college, acad-
envy, or other building for public use or in which
valuable things are kept and commits larceny
therein shall be punished by Imprisonment not less
than one more than fifteen years; and when the
efense is committed in the day time by imprison-
ment not more than six years, or by fine not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars
[Approved January 81 1871
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Chapter 1853.

AN ACT to amend section eight Of chapter eighty
six of the Revised Statutes, relating to trustee
process, as heretofore amended.
Be 1T enacted &c., as follows
SECT l. Section eight Of chapter eightysix of the
revised statutes is hereby amended by adding after
the words call orporations, in the first line of the
said section, the words and all foreign or alien COM
other state or country and having place Of bus
mess, or doing business within this state, and by
adding after the word ''such" in the third line of
said section, the words companies Or, SO that said
section as amended shall read as follows
SECT. 8. All corporations and all foreign or alien
of any other state country, and having place of
business or doing business within this state, may be
summoned trustees, and the writs served on them,
as other writs on such companies corporations;
and they may answer by attorney agent, and
make disclosures, which shall be signed and sworn
to by such attorney agent such other person as
upon whom legal service Of the writ may be made;
and the same proceedings shall thereupon be had
throughout except necessary changes in FORM as in
[Approved January 81, 1871
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ChaDter l54.


Be 1T enacted, &c., as follows:
SECT. l. Except where otherwise provided by
statute whenever at any meeting of the stockholders
of any corporation, legally called therefor, such
stockholders may vote, or have voted, to dissolve
such corporation, bill in equity against said cor
poraton for dissolution thereof may be filed by any
officer stakeholder or creditor of said corporation in
the supreme judicial court, in the county in which
said corporation has established place of business
or in the county in which it held its last stockholders
meeting upon which bill, notice shall be given as
may be ordered by any justice of said court in term
time vacation. upon proof Of which notice. such
Of suits in equity, that said corporation shall be dis
solved and terminated.
SECT 2. Said court shall have Jurisdiction in said
cause to appoint receivers issue nunctons and pass
interocutory DEGREES and orders, according to the
usual course of proceedngsin equity and shall more
over upon dissolvng said corporation, or upon ter
minating its charter appoint one or more trustees
who shall have all the powers conferred upon SIM
liar trustees by revised statutes, chapter forty-sx
sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty, or by the
statute approved February ty-four, eighteen
hundred and seventy-One, entitled can Act fixing
the liability of stockholders in corporations, by
any other statute or law Of the state, and also, all
such special powers as may be properly given them
ment of such trustees, said court may superintend
the collection and distribution Of the assets Of said
corporation, and may retain said bill for that
purpose.
SECT g. Nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to relieve any officer, shareholder or other
person from any liability to which he would be
subject if this act had not been passed
Sect T. This act shall take effect when approved.
[Approved January 81, 1871
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Chapter 1852.


IAN ACT amendatory TO chapter one hundred and
: nineteen Of the Revised Statutes, relating to
. amendatory to chapter one hundred and twenty
of the Revised Statutes relating to larceny, and
,, receiving stolen goods.
BE 1T enacted, &c., as follows:
SECT. 1. Section eight of chapter one hundred
and nineteen of the revised statutes of eighteen
hundred and seventy one is hereby amended by in
sorting after the word vessel" in the fourth line
of said section the words railroad car of any kind
so that said section eight amended, shall read as
follows, viz:
SECT. 8. Whoever, with intent to commit
felony breaks and enters in the day time or enters
without breaking in the night time, any dwelling
house, breaks and enters any office, bank shop,
store, warehouse vessel railroad car OF any Kind,
or building in which valuable things are kept, any
person being lawfully therein and put in fear, shall
be punished by imprisonment not less than one nor
more than ten years, but if person was lawfully
therein and put in fear, by Imprisonment not more
than five years, or by fine not exceeding i've NM
dred dollars
SECT. 2. Section two Of chapter one hundred and
twenty of the revised statutes Of eighteen hundred
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Chapter I55.

AN ACT to amend section eighteen of chapter
eighty-one of the Revised Statutes, relating to
service on corporations in civil actions.
Be 1t enacted, &c., as follows:
SECT. / Section eighteen Of chapter eighty of
the revised statutes hereby amended by inserting
after the word 'thereof, IN the tenth line OF said
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Chapter 149.

AN ACT in relation to Executions.
Be 1T enacted by the Senate and House Of Representa-
tives IN Legislature assembled, as tolloacs:
If execution has been or shall be issued by the
clerk judge recorder of any court in any county,
upon judgment rendered default of an absent de-
fendant in personal action, within one year after
the rendition Of such judgment, without deposit of
the bond specified in sections tour and five OF pier
eightytwo of the revised statutes through accident
inadvertence, mistake, all proceedings upon or
by virtue Of such execution or judgment, shall,
after the expiration of year from the rendition
Of such judgment have the same effect and validity
as if the bond had been duly given, deposited and
approved, unless a petition for review has been
brought within said year; and in case such judg-
ment is not reversed on review if brought within
said year. all such proceedings upon or by virtue Of
such execution shall be valid aforesaid, after final
Judgment for the defendant in review.
[Approved January rs, 1871
Chapter 1870.
AN ACT relating to the Supreme judicial Court
for the County Of Sagadahoc.
Be 1T enacted, de-, as follows
SECTION L. Section seventeen of chapter seventy
seven of the revised statutes is hereby amended by
striking out the words ''the December term for
civil business only in the thiry-third and thirty
fourth lines thereof.
SECT 2 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed.
[Approved January 26, 1871
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Chapter $50.
Chapter 151.

AE ACT to amend section dftysix, chapter fifty
che, Of the Revised Statutes, and additional to
caapter one hundred and twenty two OF the Pub
lie Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
he 1T enacted, &C., as follows
SECT. l. Section ffty-six of chapter ffty.one Of
the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding
after the word 'name, in the third line the words
sor by notice signed by one or more of said bond
holders setting forth the time place and purpose of
the meeting, copy of which is to be published in
newspaper in the county, if any, otherwise, in the
State paper, seven days before the meeting SO that
said section, as amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. S. The new corporation may call its first
meeting in the manner provided for the calling the
first meeting Of the original corporation, and use
therefor the old name, or by notice, signed by one
of said bondholders, setting forth the time
place and purpose Of the meeting, a copy of which
is to be published in newspaper in the county it
Any, otherwise in the State paper seven days before
the meeting; but, at that meeting may adopt new
one, by which it shall always after be known; and
1T may take and hold the possession, and have the
Of the mortgaged property, though bill in
equity to redeem is pending, and may become party
defendant to such bill.
SECT. 2. The provisions of said section ffty,sx,
as amended, shall also apply to all corporations
mentioned in chapter one hundred and twenty-five
of the public laws of eighteen hundred and seventy
six. entitled can Act to provide for securing the
rights of Mortgage Bondholders.'
[Approved January 80, 1871
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CHAPTER l59..

AN ACT to amend section four Of chapter one hun
dred twenty-five Of the Revised Statutes, relating
to Gambling.
Be 1t enacted, &c., as follows
Section four of chapter one hundred and twenty.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
General scott's wife.

'Richmond Since the War;" in scribner.
The "Powhatan estate" was for
two hundred years the property of
the Mayo family, and here, as the
story goes, John Howard Payne fell
madly in love, when in Richmond,
with Miss Maria Mayo afterwards
Mrs. General Winfield Scott), fa-
nous Richmond belle in her day, as
well as for her extraordinary beauty.
Poor Payne laid his heart at her
feet, but she is said to have tOyed
with it, and then to have flung it
aside.
When all hope of winning the fair
prize was abandoned, Payne went
to Europe, where he remained for
nearly twenty years, and where he
wrote his "Home, Sweet Home, y
which was first sung in his opera OF
"Clari" at London. This tradition
in the life of Payne revives another
land one still current in Richmond
connected with General Scott. 1t is
said that when he first addressed
Miss Mayo, he was only Captain
in the Regular army, and his suit
was summarily dismissed. After
ward, when a Major, he renewed
the offer of his hand. The third time
he wore the epaulets of a General,
and these promptly secured his ac-
ceptance. When asked by one OF
her friends why she had thus sud-
denly changed her mind, Miss Ma
70 is said to have replied: "In my
estimation there is a very decided
difference between a Captain, Oh
even a Major, and a General in the
American Army"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
rn. view orleans indictments.

The friends of Mr.. Hayes fearing
an exposure to the broad glare of the
public gaze, of the manner in which
Louisiana was carried for his party,
and he himself was counted in as
President, now most vehemently in
sist that it is a violation of theunder-
standing between the President and
somebody else when it was agreed to
withdraw troops from South Carroll
ma and Louisiana, that j. Madison
Wells, Cassenave d Co. should not
be indicted.
We had rather have President
Hayes put the withdrawal of troops
upon the grounds of principle than
to insist that he was hired to do it.
If these parties are innocent and his
title to the Presidential chair is per-
feet, he certainly has nothing to fear.
But if there was bargain, who made
that bargain The New York Sun
very appropriately asks this ques-
ton. Foster and Stanley Matthews
are certainly credited with making
trade with the Southern filibuster-
ing, Bourbon members of Congress
that Mr.. Hayes should withdraw the
troops if they, on their part, would
stop trying to defeat Hayes inaugu-
ration by dilatOry action in Congress.
But of course a pure and upright
Christian statesman like r. B. Hayes
didn't know anything about the
nice little bargain. Not he Foster
and Matthews just took upon them
seLUeS the responsibility of saying that
it would be done, and it ac0s done !
But who made the bargain to secure
Wells and Cassenave from punish
ment, is a very portentous question,
and it seems to go begging for an an
sWer !-HOuStOIl County ReUjelC.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
The Losses Sustained from the
Great Riot.

The Pittsburg Telegraph puts the
loss to the city by recent riots at not
less than S2O,OOO,OOO. The editor
adds:
For the twenty hours that the
mob held possession of the city, each
bour saw not less than a million
of dollars swept out of existence.
Twenty millions, indeed, will hardly
cover the losses in money. Almost,
If NOT quite, half that amount was
directly consumed along the two
TniIns Of flame and smoke and riot
and Dillage. What the consequent
tiaI damages will be can not yet be
cstimated. but they will far exceed
tbe direct losses sustained in the
' ~ heart of the city. OF the losses
~ q moral point of view, we need
~ = sneak Mt any great length. 1t
I NIL be years before our city Will re-
MIli nom the effects of the late
reiou of mObOcraey. It's irulaS WIN
croo out for months anu yes aI;,,, 70
come in the calendars Of th ne cLlllll-
,,oI courts: hundreds OF nah-gIOMn
ho ~, learned lesson thAI NV
ny have been learned, ana III a a
snOn,ent became adopts in tine senool
ll ffGi,i1oondiarism. The lesson l. a
~ one to all good citizens; pus
- i,,,proved it viii not have Deen l
altogether in vain. Having An; ut +
what it is to be without law, ". VIM tb q
not impel all classes to see Ih hen a1e
law is is upheld and enforced hence'
forth
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
The River Danube.

The River Danube has figured
largely in history for 1000 years,
and it again becomes the object to
which the eyes of the whole world
have turned. 1t furnished high
way for the Turks in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries to pene-
trate Europe as far as Vienna, and
in the days of the Crusades it be-
came an outlet for the religious en-
thusiasm of Europe to flow to the
Holy Land. The Danube from its
source in Baden to the Black Sea, is
1920 miles long, and it drains, with
its tributaries, an area of over 300,-
600 square miles. 1t passes through
Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and Ser
via, to the Carpathian Mountains,
where it separates ROumania and
Bulgaria, and passes into the Black
Sea through several mouths, the prin-
cipal one being that of Sulina. The
Danube is nayigable for steamers as
far as Ulm, in Bavaria. AT Nicopo-
lis, in the fourteenth century, 100,-
600 Christians were driven by the
Turks into the Danube, and, in the
fifteenth century, 10000 Turks were
slain on its shores at the siege of
Belgrade.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04

Marriage is a serious thing. No
woman should bind herself for life
without thoroughly understanding
her character, and the character of the
man to whom she is about to be unit
ed. She should understand the ne
cessities of her heart and of her
mind-what measures of affection
will salty the one, and what intel
lectual pursuits are necessary to the
other. Having settled those import
ant preliminaries, let her cOnsid-
or how far the man who is about to
lead her to the altar is likely to
sympathize with the wants of her
nature. Will his heart and his
mind be fit companions for her own ?
Will his presence bealways as agree
able as i'm the first flush of youthful
affection? Will the years to come
make no change in his feelings to-
ward her, or in hers towards him?
She should remember that the natu-
raj attraction which now brings
them together must soon fade into
indifference, unless some sympathy
exists between their natures which
will sustain and strengthen love
when it can no longer rest on the
personal charms of its object.
Beauty is but a forest leaf, bright
and attractive in the sunny days of
summer, but it must wither and dis
appear. Is she sure that her lover
prizes not alone her handsome face
and elegant figure? That he looks
much deeper than these, and finds
her possessed of qualities more last
ing and valuable?
And is she certain that something
better than his manly graceS and
tender promises make her willing to
trust her happiness to his keeping?
1t is fearful to awake from the brief
dream of passion to find our idol but
a wooden image after all I; that the
symmetrical figure lacks a CORES
pOnding soul that we are tied down
to an efiigy with whom we have not
one thought in common. Truly
marriage is a serious thing. The
young man who kisses your cheeks
so tenderly, whose low words of love
are now so grateful to your ears, will
not always be thus. That glowing
color will fade from his cOuntenance:
those manly limbs, now so full of
youthful energy, will tOtter beneath
the burden Of disease; that deep
voice will lose its melody. Will
your love be proof against all these
changes? Will it grow stronger in
the days of trial? On the other
hand, have you no fears that, when
your beauty is but a thing of the
past, your husband will cease to love
you? That he will turn to those
whose persons are yet made beauti-
ful by the summer of life?
Pause, oh pause! and question
yourself thus; and, should no mis-
giving then come to chill your heart,
go fcIrlessly To the nuptial altar.
United to Il person of your love and
respect, whose heart is connected
to your own by the electric chord of
sympathetic natures, marriages will
prove Il blessing indeed, and heaven
will have you in its holy keep
ing.-Er.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
Saturday, August 4, 1877,

between the hours of 10 a. NJ. and p NJ,
the following personal property for cash
without recourse or guarantee of payment,
tO-wit:
Certain promissory notes due to the said
John 5. Major from ariOuS parties, amount
ing to S7S 70.
Receipts from John It. Station, Constable,
for accounts, amounting to SlGS Is.
Stated accounts to the amount of S26 30.
Memorandum of accounts amounting to
S37 81.
Certain books of account.
A judgment against Henry Wheeless for
S3S 90.
A Judgment against A. W. Stewart for
50 70.
the following real estate, requiring One-half
of the purchase money to be paid on deliV-
cry of deed, the balance to be paid in six
months, notes being given for the same
bearing interest from date, with lien re-
tanned on the land:
so acres of land in the Sixth Civil District
of Cheatham county, Tenn, bounded North
by ID. :. Majors purchase, and South by q.
w. GosSett, being the land conveyed by
Wilson Saunderline to JnO. S. Major by
deed registered in Montgomery county,
Tenn, March q, 1889, in Book r, page l70.
80 acres of land lying in the Eighth Civil
District of said county, adjoining the lands
of Moore, Davis and Haywood, being the
land bought by John S, Major at a tax sale
in 1859.
The valuable property where the sale is to
be made, being lO4 acres of land lying in the
Fourteenth District of Montgomery county,
Tenn, bounded North by GuptOn's heirs,
and South by O'Bryan and Washington s
purchase. The greater portion of the land
being cleared and well improved with a
good dwelling house and fine new store
house in a locality well suited for country
store.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04

between the hours of u NJ. and P. NJ, at
the Court House door in GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
one-tenth interest in the Red River Landing
property, containing ten acres of land in
Montgomery county, Tenn, being the in
terest conveyed to John S. Major by w. NJ.
Shelton, Jr. and John w. HawelI on the
10th of August, 1871, the deed for which
appears in the Registers office in Clarks-
vile, Deed Book No. II, pages 544 and $50.
Also the right and interest the said Majors
claims to deed in other four-tenths of said
Red River Landing property, such interest
being acquired under a tax sale and sub
Sequent payment of taxes.
One-half of the purchase money will be
required on the day of sale or delivery OF
deed, the balance to be paid in six months,
a note being given for the same bearing
interest from date, with lien retained on
the land. JOHN l.. KEN NEDY,
July II, lS77-4w Assignee, etc.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
A Result OF Distracted Digestion.

Among the hurtful consequences of OBJ
structed digestion, is the impOverishment of
the blood, and since a decorative condition
of the vital fluid not only produces danger
GUS organic weakness, but, according to the
best medical authorities, sometimes causes
asphyXia, it is apparent that to improve the
quality of the blood by promoting digestion
and assimilation, is a wise precaution.
Hostetters stomach Bitters is precisely the
remedy for this purpose, since it stimulates
the gastric juices, cOnquers those bilious
and eyacuatiVe irregularities which inter
fere with the digestive processes, promotes
assimilation of the food by the blood, and
puriffeS as well as enricheS it. The signs of
improvement in health in consequence of
using the BitteIs are speedily apparent in
an accession of Vigor, gain in bodily sub
stance, and regular and active perform
ance of eNerN nhNSical tlnctinn-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04

THE Boston Traveller, Blaine or
gan, significantly says: "Assuming
that the present House of Represent
tatives will enter upon the fnvesti-
cation of the election of 1876 in
Louisiana, we hazard nothing in
saying that the Senate and House
in December, 1879, or early in the
year 1890, will pronounce President
Hayes title to the Office of Presi-
dent as invalid"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04

The remedy is clear, and should
be applied without delay. Congress
will meet three months hence, in Oc-
tOber. 1t should, without the least
hesitation,
First-Repeal Internationally the
date Of the resumption law.
Second-RemOnetize the silver
dollar as it was before 1873, and au-
thOriZe its free coinage.
Third-Repeal all the war taxes
on private capital engaged in bank
ing and business.
Fourth Continue the existing
law for the retirement of sum Of
greenbacks equal to 80 per cent. of
all additional bank-note circulation,
this to go on without limitation.
Having done these things, the me-
mace under which property is shrin-
king, and money is boarding, and
capital is idle-under which labor is
arrested, machinery is rusting, and
Workmen starving-Will be rem
owed. A definite policy being adop-
ted, the character of the future will
be assured, confidence will be re-
newed, and the machinery of trade,
labor and production will be again
put in notion Chicago Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
WEDDING CABINETS E!

that we can furnish at extremely low
figures, printed with new and beautiful
type. Visiting Cards, printed in the
best style of typographical art, and
furnished at cheaper rates than ever
before offered in this city. Our new
stock was selected in person, by one of
our firm, and having paid cash for it,
we are enabled to furnish any lob
desired, in the best style, at very cheap
rates. Call and examine specimens
and prices.