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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-08-09

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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-08-09

MARR1ED,-On the 4th of August,
in Point Pleasant, by Rev. DR.. Lane,
Mr.. Robert L. Mcclure to Miss Rosa
V. Wood; all of this county.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
$1292,5O0

thus showing, although the valuation in per-
sonal property has fallen off somewhat, on
the whole steady and healthy increase on
the part of the city and presenting condi-
ton of things which most favorablY contrasts
with that of other cities during the same
period.
There has been no general valuation of the
city since 1861. That year, the commence
ment of the war, the valuation of real
estate was $14,416,30O. In 1867, the year
after the great fire, it was only 14,951, 800.
This year it is $19,O67,2O0. We have there
fore gained in real estate since the COM
mencement of the war-the great fire inter-
vening-over 80 per cent; and in the ten
years since the fire over 27 per cent, or on
an average rising 100000 each Of the ten
years.
Another favorable feature in the exhibit
is that the interest to the amount Of $150,00O
on the city railroad debt heretofore paid by
the issue of new bonds, has been included
this year in the tax levy, and that without
raising the rate of taxation beyond what it
was last year, or indeed, beyond the average
rate for the last dozen years. Instead, there
fore of running in debt to this large amount,
we pay as we so. Indeed, the State, county,
and city taxes this year, with this railroad
interest put in, are less than the taxes of last
year without including them, being $780,
496. 40 in 1876 to $76O O,564.22 in 1877. 1t is
also to be taken into consideration that the
city income this year is $1,000 less than last,
requiring so much additional taxation, and
that the assessors have allowed $37,712. 80
overlaying this year, to $27,5SO.47 last year.
With the taxing capacity of the city, con-
slstent with its growth and prosperity ,already
reached in the opinion of those best qualified
to judge, it was Ga big job" as President
Lincoln would say, to include in this years
taxes a sum nearly equal to one-fifth of their
amount, and at the same time not to raise
the rate beyond that of former years. The
ability of Mayor Butler to carry out this line
of policy recommended by him In his message
was doubted by many, leading as it must
through the pathway of retrenchment and
reduction of expenditures, not always smooth
or easy to follow. But the difficulties have
been overcome and the figures demonstrate
that the Judgment of the Mayor in this regard
was not at fault.
The advantages of this policy are apparent
in the rise in the price of our city securities
Our IA year 6 per cent. bonds are now selling
at 100 over the counters of our home brokers
equal to Ill or 112 for 20 year bonds. With
these results our taxpayers we think ought
to feel satisfied. Indeed they very generally
are, and recognize at their full worth the
measures in furtherance of retrenchment and
economy taken by the Mayor ard his associ-
ates.
There is further occasion for pride furnished
our citizens. 1t is hardly fitting to boast OF
the exercise Of common honesty, yet in these
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
CITY Taxes for 1877.
Of Augusta.

One gratifying fact in the tax-list exhibit,
published in our issue to-day is, that our
city's valuation has not only held its own,
but has advanced materially over that of last
year. Although there is falling off of
$126,21O in personal property, there has been
an increase in real estate of 1858, 700, making
a met gain of $232, ,490;-a gain, too, aris-
ing from no increased value put upon real
state already on the lists, but from addi-
tions thereto and improvements thereupon,
in the shape of new dwelling houses and
blocks for business purposes. The increase of
real estate in our city is going on to greater
extent than is supposed. For the four years
since the disastrous crisis of 1873 the gain
has been by new buildings and improve
ments as follows:
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
Notes and Announcements,

The Apti-Biled-Shirt Club is the grotesque
title under which the Authors Publishing
Company announce lively sketch of the ex-
perience of city campers in the wilds of Maine.
Mr.. james T. Fields's coming volume Un-
derorusb, will not be devoted exclusively or
chiefly to his usual "reminiscences Of the de-
parted great. The titles of his sketches piom-
iss varied gathering of social studies and 9TH
er pleasant papers.
Mr. Wilkie Collins owes "thank you" to
the Spectator of London. 1t declares that Ar
madale is perhaps the most stirring sensation
novel that has ever been written.
Ginx's Baby, otherwise Mr. Edward Jenkin,
NJ. P, threatens mankind with q novel under
the title of Scutchunee and Dilloo early in the
autumn.
Miss Jewett's delightful book, Deephaved
wins from the London Spectator the following
cordial mention: 'Deephaven is a New Eng
land fishing village, some what decayed; they
are BEGINNING to have decayed things over
there. Thither 60 one summer, Kate Lancas-
ter (whose mother has inherited some property
In the place) and her friend, and in this volume
we have the record Of what they did and saw.
how they made acquaintance with the fisher.
men and inhabitants generally, how they fished
and boated and amused thenselves-spent in
fact, very happy summer. There is no story
and-delightful variety on the common run of
little volumes-no love making. Not single
younglman appears on the scene, and the book
is amazingly improved by the omission. In
fact it is very charming. II New England has
many such young women as Kate Lancaster
and her friend, and has also such very pleasant
writer's to describe them to us, it is very much
to be congratulated.
Another book lby john Habberton, His
Grandmothers, will be issued in about fort
night and G. p. Putnam's Sons will also pub-
lish soon after an anonymous book entitled Six
Sinners.
Mr.. Henry James has compelled the grudg-
ing praise OF the Saturday Review. 1t says of
his "American'-"It is our pleasant duty,
almost for the first time within the last few
years, to give considerable praise to an Amer
lean novel. Mr.. Henry James, jr., has pro-
duced a work which has hit something like
originality without falling into eccentricity,
and reaches excitement without descending 10
what is technically called sensation. Mr..
James's method is, il internal evidence goes
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

THE following. under the caption, San In
portant Suggestion" appeared in the Bangor
Commercial Thursday:
A AlDemocrat of great prominence in Port
land, and second - no man in the party in rep-
utation and influence throughout the state
recognizing the fact that there are many Dem
ocrats who cannot vote for Williams on account
OF his Interpretation of the second resolution
OF the platform, suggests that another candi-
date be put in the field for whom Democrats
can vote without condoning the Great Fraud
to the end that some of our own county and
representative tickets may be saved. He sug-
gests la correspondence between Cumberland
and Penobscot Democrats - that end. His
suggestion is worthy of immediate considera-
tion. Democrats who will not be committed
to the condonement of the Great Fraud, have
but one of three courses open them: 1st, Not
to vote at all; I'd, To vot1 the county and rep
resentative alone, leaving of the name of Gov
ernoI: Sd, lAdopt the sugge stion of our Port
land correspondent, and substitu. on the ticket
the name of some Democrat in place of that
of Williams. If unity of action can be Sc.
cured, the last is undoubt lily the best course.
That failing, the second course is the next best,
We have excellent county tickets, and they
should be sustained.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

THERE is a vigorous war of words between
the Bangor Commercial and the Augusta
Standard. The Standard in stating the
cause of the Bangor rebellion gives the old
verdict, that rum did it. 1t says: "Some
of the Bangor advocates of license plank in
the platform openly threatened at the Con-
vention that if the issue was not made they
would bolt the nomination, put another can
didate in the field and even named the man
they intended to put in nomination, long
before the action of the Convention indicated
who the standard bearer would be. The
voice of the Convention was so overwhelm-
ingly against them that they seem to have
abandoned the idea of thus standing up to
be counted, and determined upon the less
manly course of stabbng at the party while
pretending to be its firmest friends. Lacking
the courage to plant the standard of open
revolt in the bung-hole of a rum barrel they
remain in the ranks, not to render service
against the common enemy, but to breed
mutiny and shoot in the back the chosen
leader of the party while his name floats on
the old flag above them" Confederate flag
is probably meant.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

THE secret of the prosecution of Gam
BETA is disclosed. The French Cabinet fears
defeat in the coming election and, as result,
Gambetta's elevation to the premiership. By
prosecuting him and securing a sentence, it
hopes to get him out of the way. And to
conceal the weakness of the case, it proposes
to conduct the trial in secret. The crime of
such a proceeding is only surpassed by its
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

THE reply of Senator Christiancy to the
inquiry as to his views on 1.-The silver question
shows correct understanding of its princi-
pies, but not just view of methods. He
rightly says that no mere law can restore
'the dollar of the fathers' to its old place.
The silver and the gold dollar are of unequal
value, and no statute can make them circu-
late side by side. The standard of the one
must be raised or that of the other lowered
The market value, and not law. governs the
circulation. So far he is right. But when
he suggests commission to fix at short in
tervals the rates at which gold and silver
should be exchangeable, he proposes what
would be as cumbrous as it would be unwise.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

AS evincing the state of feeling among the
Democrats in eastern Maine the following
from the Bangor Commercial is valuable
Few and far between are the Democrats in
this section of Maine who, in the language Of
Samuel ]. Tilden, propose to condone-even
"once condone" the monstrous crime by which
Hayes was placed in the Presidential Chair,
by voting for Williams who pronounces
Hayes title valid and the decision of the
Electoral Commission judicially right.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

CLARA MORRIS was too pathetic even for
Long John Wentworth. she never blinked
an eye" says Chicago paper, "during the
performance of Miss Mutton, until the latter
with that thrilling voice of misery cried out /:
For Gods sake, Maurice, let my little cir
know me before 1 diev 1t was hele that L.
j. lost control of his iron countenance and
broke down. For one brief moment his nose
resembled a miniature Niagara, and then
with violent effort he shook himself togeth-
er, took fresh chew, and was a man once
more''.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

WHILE Gen. Ewing is expounding the the
ories of imitation Ito the Democrats of Ohio,
Mr.. Bishop is practically illustrating contrac.
tion by keeping his pockets as closely sealed
as his mouth. His supporters are getting
angry with their candidate, who will give
them neither money nor speeches.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
NOTICE.

FFtHE Selectmen of the town of Deering will be in
4 session at the Selectmen's office, in said town,
per, from nine to twelve o'clock A. NJ and from two
70 hye M. (each day. for the purpose of correct
ing the list OF voters As there will be names en-
tered on the list election day, all persons claiming
tne right to vote hereby notified to appear, ana
see tnat their names are properly registered.
JOHN c. PHENIX, ! Selectmen
GILMAN G. LANE,f of
GEO. W. JOHNSON Deerlng.
Deering, Aug. 20, A. D., 1877. ausOdtd
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

The editor of the Maine Standard twits
the editor of the Bangor Commercial with
holding radical views during the war. This
is.very funny and recalls the old quarrel
between Messrs. Pott and Kettell.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. L

we 10 not read anonymous etters and eommuni-
catons' The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

In short time the inevitable course OF
events will create vacancy in the chair of
st. Peter by the death of the present occu-
pant, now in the fif:y-first year of his Epis-
copate, the thirty first of his Pontificate, and
the eighty-sixth of his age. He is senior on
the list of cardinals, and, with the exception
of Queen Victoria, who succeeded to the
sceptre in June. 1887, has reigned longest of
all the sovereigns of Europe. To provide for
the succession, on the death of this aged
man, once secular as we'll as clerical sove-
reign, the cardinals in Rome have agreed
upon bull under whose au thority the con-
clave may Immediately assemble or await the
arrival of foreign cardinals. 1t is not antici-
pated that any obstacle will be presented by
the italian government to free election, and
it is thought by some that Cardinal Manning,
now sixty-nine years old, has fair chance,
though not an italian, of being the next
Pope. The last foreigner who wore the tiara
was Adrian VI, a Dutchman (the preceptor
of the Emperor Charles W elected in 1922.
Including the present Pope, there have been
two hundred and fifty-one occupants of the
chair of st. Peter, and the average length of
each reign has been seven years and six
months.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

Herr Auerbach has just completed the long
novel on which he has been for some time at
work, and which aims to describe the Socials.
tic tendencies of the age.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
Monday, the tenth day Of September next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon,

ut ten o'clock in the forenoon,
to give in their votes for Governor four Senators and
five Representatives. to represent them in the Leg1s
lature of this state County Commissioner County
Treasurer, and Register of Deeds. And in Ward
Number four for one Common Councilman to fill
vacancy in said ward, also to give in their votes upon
the following questions viz Shall the Constitution
of the State of Maine be amended as proposed by re-
solves of the Legislature, approved on the ninth day
of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven, to wit:
Electors.
No person shall vote at any election in this State
unless he has paid poll tax within two years pre-
cedng the election in which he proposes to VOTE pro-
vided said tax has been legally assessed upon him.
Municipal Indebtedness.
No city or town shall hereafter create any debt
liability which, sngly, in the aggregate with pre-
yious debts liabilities shall exceed five per centum
of the last regular valuation of said city or
town; provided, however, that the adoption
of this article shall not be construed applying to
any fund received in trust by said city town, nor
for war, or to temporary loans to be paid out of
money raised by taxation during the year in which
they are made
The polls on such day of election to remain open
until four O'Clock in the afternoon, when they shall
be closed
The Aldermen of said city will be in open session
at the Aldermens Room, in City Building from
nine to twelve O'Clock in the forenoon and from two
to five O'Clock in the afternoon each of the five
secular days next preceding such day of the election
for the purpose of receiving evidence of the quaca
tion of voters whose names have not been entered
on the lists of qualified voters, in and for the several
""''i Per G order, ,ie ,i ''iN Il. .'f T. ROBINSON,
City Clerk.
aug25 dtd
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
GREENBACK CONVENTION.

FENHE Cumberland County. independent Green
THURSDAY, August 30, IS77. i'm Con-
Rress Hail, to which general invitation IL, is
adoption of a monetary system in harmony with the
genius of a Republican form of government.
BY order of the Greenback Club of Portland
aug25 deod1w
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

days of reputation and demoralizing ideas in
regard to public credit, it may be pardonable
to refer, by way Of example, to our small
municipality with its $4,000 inhabitants and
some $31, 100000 valuation. Unexpectedly il
found itself confronted with railroad deb
of some two or three millions. Did it seek
"to scale down" or "to re-adjust" any part
OF this amount (softer phrases for repudia.
tion)? On the contrary our city fathers, in
obedience to the unanimous sentiment of our
population, have quietly included the interest
on this large sumin the taxes, and also pro-
vided for the payment of the principal by
means of sinking fund annually fed by in
talmen Is raised also by taxation.
The spirit of our citizens in this regard is
well expressed in the words of the commits
sioners appointed TO investigate the railroad
debt: "Portland will never repudiate. OF
that her creditors may rest assured. A city
which within the last half generation has
borne its full share of the burdens of terri
BILE war, and which has risen with new
strength and beauty out of the ruins of a
frightful confagration is not going to sue
cumbto a few millions of railroad debt.'
Thou great commonwealth of Virginia,
mother of Presidents. with thy million of in
habitants, thy unbounded resources, thy this
years bounteous harvests, go thou and do
likewise. Add the half mill to the rate of
taxation and save your pristine honor and
integrity!
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
KINDERGARTEN.
14R Snrin& street

FTyHE Fourth Year begins Monday, Sept. g. 1877.
Il Arrangements may be made to carry children
living in extreme city limits to and from school
in winter months.
Inquiries concerning this system of education, or
application for admission of pupils, may be made
during the preceding week, of the Principal,
au23deod2w ,. ID. PROCTOR.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
DrUSIC READING.

DERSONS desiring private instruction in vocal
IL MUSIC READING are respectfully in
formed that Mr.. w. L. FITCH is now ready to re-
ceive pupils sngy or in classes at his residence, IS
Bracket St., corner Spring ap10df
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

wear, If paid in auVanCt at Sz.UU a Year,
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch of space, the
length of column, constitutes a square"
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week atter three insertions or less S1OO continu-
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Halt square, three insertions. less, IS cents one
week, S1.00; so cents per week after.
Sp scIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head OF "AMUsENIENTs'' and "AUCTIoN
SALES, So 90 per square per week. three insertions
or less, $3.50.
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STA TIE
PRESS (Which has large circulation in every part
OF the State for $10O per square for first insertion
and 30 cents per square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
STATE OF MAINE.
To the Electors Of the City of Portland

PURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and
IL Aldermen of the City of Portland, the duly
qualified electors of said city, hereby notified TO
meet in their respective Ward rooms, on
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01
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Published every day SUNDAYS excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,

AT 109 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
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mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year If PAID IN ad-
VANCE.
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-01

EthE annual Meeting of the Aged Brotherhood
- VIII be held at Common Council Rooms, City
5,u1Idlng, Friday evening next, August 31st at
O'CLOCK. punctual attendance is requested.
Per Order of the President.
III. G. BARNES, Sec'y.
Portland, Aug. "a, 1877. au25dtf
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