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POOMS in harrington Block, on Congress street
40 now occupied BY DIR. Tasker Possession given
January l. Inquire OF JOHN @. PROCrER,
90 Exchange street.
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nN and after Nov. l., nice tenement Of six (S)
~ rooms on first floor in brick house, No. al
India St, next east of Universalist church, Apply
to ?: FEENEY, 2O1 Federal St., Portland, Me.
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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP CO.
Eastport, Calais, st. JEAN, N. b., Annap-
oils, Windsor and Halifax. N. -,
Chafl0nefOwn, n. Ell.
FALL ANGEMENT.
TWO TRIPS PER WEEK.

Sa On and after Monday, Sept.
lisa IN 18th the Steamers City of Portland
ia rTNRASM Capt S H. Pike, and New Brurs-
zA.sAAeeElksSsS wick. Capt; e; B., Winchesi :,
OF State St., every Monday and Thursday, at 600
p. NJ, Tor Eastport and st. John
Returning will leave st. John and Passport on the
same days.
Connections made at Eastport for Robbinston, st.
Connections made at st. John for Digby Annapo>
LIS, Windsor, Kentville, Halifax, N s., Shediac AM
9erst, Pctou, Summerside, Charlottetown, P. E.
l., tredericktown. N. B.. and all stations on the In
tercolonial Railway
- Freight received on day of sailing until
For Circulars, with maps of routes Tickets, State
Rooms and any further information apply at fhs
Company,s Office No. Milk St., Opposite Ocean In
mh2id5 A. r. sTUBBs. Agent, R. R. Wharf.
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SEOMANGTOM Lime
FOR NEW YORK.
AH AID OF ALL OTB Il R -
This is the Only Inside ROut0
Avoiding Point Judith.

Steamboat Express trains leave Boston from Bos-
ton & Providence r. r. Depot daily except SUNDAY.
at $50 p M. connecting at Stonington with the en-
trely new and superb Steamer Rhode Island, every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and with the ele-
CANT and popular steamer Stonington every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday, arriving in New York
always an advance OF all other lines. Bag
gage checked through.
Tickets procured at depots of Boston q Maine and
Eastern Railroads and at Rollins q Adams, % Ex-
change stand w. D. Little q Cos,49S Exchange st.
L. W. FILKINS, ID, S. BABCOCP
Gen. Passenger As'.t, New York. President.
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FENHE house and stable No. 257 Oxford St. House
Il contains rooms with gas and Sebago Stable
room for three horses Apply at the premises, or at
ocl7dtf 70 PORTLAND STREET.
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e&SHE two-story brick dwelling house at the corner
Il of Spring and May SITS NO. 1852 Spring St.
belonging to tie estate Of the late Henry Fling. A
fne yard with the premises Inquire of MRS HEM
RY FLING, at the house, or of the subscriber.
JOHN G. SMALL,
oc20eod* G. E. Jose & Co.
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HILLS MANUAL
Notice

Notice,
MILK FARMS for sale on Oak Hill, Scarboro
N1 containing 100 acres, large two story house
large barn and corn barn. wood and carriage house
good milk route may be had if desired. For further
particulars enquire Of WALTER II. SMALL on the
permises. decSd2w&
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NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
Nv been duly appointed ExecutIix of the Will of
ALFRED M. BURTON, late of Portland.
in the County of Cumberland. deceased and has
taken upon herself that trust as
the law directs. All persons having demands upon
the estate OF said deceased are required to exhibit
the same and all persons indebted to said estate are
called upon to make payment to
MARTHA j. L. BURTON, Executrix.
Portland, Dec. 4, 1877. declOd1aw3WM
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A FTER Januaay 1st the desira BILE store No. So
"A Commercial ST., Thomas Block, now occupied
by L. G Briggs g. Co. Inquire of
dec5dlm F. j. ROLLINS, % Exchange ST.
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"A Repository of Fashion. Pleasure, and
Instruction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
,ssoc France. on the 14th, fifty.aye miner,

sessac, France, on the 14th, ifty.fve miners
were killed.
Russian advlces of the 14th have decided
tendency in the direction of war.
The Prison Reform bill-one Of the princi-
pal measures of domestic legislation pro-
posed by the Governmcnt-passed the sec.
ond reading in the British House Of Com
mons on the 18th.
Paris telegram of the 18th reports the
death of Gen. Changarnier at the age Of
eighty-four.
The ship George Cromwell was wrecked,
Jan. 5, on st. Mary's Point N. F., few
miles west of Cape Race, and all hands were
drowned.
1t was stated on the 10th that Midhat Pasha
was to be recalled by the Sultan.
Ten persons were killed at st. Etienne,
France, on the 10th, by boiler explosion.
Mahmoud Dawad, brother-in-law of the
Sultan, has been appointed Grand Vizier Of
Turkey, rice Edhem Pasha, dismissed.
twenty-five fishing vessels and $50 hands
were lost during a recent storm on the En-
glsh coast.
A two-months' extension of the armistice
has been asked for by Montenegro.
The Turkish troops along the Danube have
been increased to 5000. The negotiations
with Servia are progressing satisfactorily.
Official advices from India state that the
famine is much worse than was supposed,
and there is great distress at Mysore.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
WASHINGTON.

Levi T. Luckeywas confirmed by the Senate
on the 18th as Secretary of Utah Territory.
Secretary Chandler was before the House
Committee on Privileges, ETC., on the 14th,
and produced papers relating to the resigna.
tlon and application for reappointment OF
Brewster, au alleged ineligible Louisiana
elector. He said Brewster's letter of resigna-
tion, dated Nov. 4, was received Nov. Is OF
IS, he supposed; did not know that 1t was
antedated or that Brewster had testified that
he wrote 1t Nov. Ia II is the province of the
department, he said, TO accept designations
! as Of time past, II rendered in that manner
Z A bill has been drafted TO meet the recon-
mendations Of the President in his recent
special message with regard to resumption
OF specie payments.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
( Elections translate the cipher dispatch
( signed "Gobble," sent to Samuel j. Tilden
from Oregon, Dec. l, as follows
/ shall decide every point in the case of the
postoilice eectQr In favor of the highest Dem
I ocratic elector, and grant the certihate ac.
cordingly, on the morning Of the 9th inst
CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNOR.
The House subcommittee on Privileges
on the 10th examined d. NJ. Clifford, of Chi
(, cago, who testified 10 a conversation with
lLittlefeld, in which the latter told him that
he had been approached by prominent Dem
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
Legislative.

In the Senate, on the 18th, memorial
setting forth that the Miami & Erie
Canal is in ruinous condition, and ask
ing the appointment of a legislative COM
mittee to examine its condition, was pre-
senteA. Two bills were read and the
Senate adjourned. In the House a
quorum was not present.
In the Senate, on the 14th, bill was
introduced to enforce the collection of
taxes ON personal property by proceed
ings in attachment. The Compulsory
Education bill was read the third time,
debated at length, and passed by the
following vote;
Yeds-Beatty, Brown of Lucas, Brown Of
Ross, Burns, Burrows, Curliss, Johnston,
Kerr, Kessler, Kleinschmdt, Knox, Mona
han, Philson, Ransom, Rukenbrod, Schenck,
Spangler, Stanton, Stickney, Swan and War
nock-22
Nays-Andrews, Ault, Bates, Ellis, Lewis,
Miller, Owens, Reese, Sheridan and Williams
10.
In the House, bills were indefinitely
postponed, being unconstitutional =
House bill extending the term of office
of constables to three years; House bill
render women eligible to election on
school boards. A large number of petit
tions and memorials were presented and
referred. The School.Book bill was re-
ported back by the committee with
amendments prohibiting change OF
school books oftener than once in six
years, and prescribing penalties for mem
bers of school boards violating the law,
Several new bills were introduced. Ad'
| journed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
Smuggling.

NEW 1Ohhs ESUs lOs
To-day special Treasury agents seized
several cases of prunellas, worth $5, 900,
which were smuggled from Montreal,
They also arrested Samuel Stratford and
Charles B. Spencer, charged with being
in the conspiracy, and they were held to
bail by the U. S. Commissioner. For
years past the agents have been trying to
discover the smugglers, and at last have
discovered the whole plot. D. McClan-
Afghan, proprietor of the Express Hotel,
Montreal, is head and foot of the con-
spiracy, and several United States In
spectors, baggage-masters at Montreal,
and telegraph. operators were in collHsion
with him. He produced duplicate checks,
one of which he would attach to box
containing goods, and the other he sent
to the purchaser. The inspectors we're
telegraphed by cipher the number of
the check on the baggage, and they
passed it through without examination.
Letters in McClanaghan's handwriting
were found in the possession Of both
prisoners. The officers got man to
make purchases of prunellas, goods used
in making ladies' CATERS, and on which
there is a duty of eighty-five cents pei
pound, from McClanaghan, and Special
Agent Williams followed the goods from
Montreal into the United States, by way
of Rouse's Point, Island Pond, Newport
Ogdensburg and st. Albans, and saw
how the plot worked. Many arrests of
merchants, middlemen, United States
Inspectors and others are expected. The
Government has been defrauded out OF
vast sums by the smugglers, and the plot
was one of the deepest and best planned
ever discovered by the officials. Nc
Clanaghan is worth 100000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
JOB PRINTING.

In the Senate, on the 10Th, the Com
pulsory Education bill, which passed on
the previous day. was reconsidered and
laid on the table. Bills were passed-to
so amend the law for the protection, of
lands from trespass by hunters as that it
shall only apply to inclosed lands; to au-
thoriZe the Justice of the Peace holding
the oldest commission in township. to
| fill vacancies in the Board of Trustees;
authorizing express companies to charge
for storage of unmarked packages In
the House, bills were passed-to make
church edifice having other adequate
means of escape an exception to the law
requiring that all doors of such struct-
ures shall open outwardly; to provide for
preservation of plats, profles and sur
veys taken in preliminary proceedings
for road improvement The bill to make
vaccination compulsory was read the
third time and referred to a select COM
mittee. The bill to preserve the purity
of elections was referred to the Judici-
airy Committee. The final report of the
Ohio Centennial Commission was re-
ceived. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10th, bill to au-
thorize township agricultural societies to
acquire and hold not exceeding forty
acres of land was passed. Several local
bills were also passed. The bill relating.
to codifying the general laws was con-
sidered in Committee of the Whole. ....
In the House a number of new bills were
introduced Bills were passed-to so
amend the act for the relief of the poor
as to authorize Township Trustees to take
charge of bequests made to fractional
part of the township; fixing the minimum
number of directors of street railroad
company at three. A resolution calling
the attention of Congress to the subject
and requesting the erection of some suit
able monument at Green Lawn Cemetery,
in this State, to mark the last resting
place Of the Union soldiers buried there
was adopted. The afternoon session was
spent in Committee of the Whole on the
Codifcation bill
In the Senate, on the 18th, few local
bills were passed and the Codification
bill was considered in Committee of the
Whole . . In the House bill was intro
duced to so amend the Divorce law as to
permit the granting of divorce for one
years desertion or habitual drunkenness
for one year The Senate Joint resolu-
ton to print 1 900 copies of the annual
report Of the Fish Commission was
adopted. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10th, number
of new bills were introduced. The bill
to authorize free banking was considered
in Committee of the Wholes amended
and reported to the Senate. The case of
Cox Us. Harmon was postponed to the
Goth. The Codification bill was further
considered and the Senate adjourned. -.
In the House a few new bills were intro
duced. The Codification bill was re-
ported back from the Committee of the
Whole and various sections were dis
cussed A lively discussion was ELECTED
on motion to strike out the section
which prohibits intermarriage between
persons of white blood and persons hav-
ing any visible admixture of African
blood. Without reaching a vote the
House adjourned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
a Dishonest Bank Cashier.

The Cashier of the Franklin (IDd)
National Bank, who used the banks
funds to the amount of about $3.50, 900
and ran away with some $40 600 more,
sent the following letter to the President
and stockholders of the bank he had
ruined, after he had absconded:
JAMES FoRsYTHE President, and Stockholders
First National Bank:
81 am ruined. Your bank is ruined.
1t was not intended on my part. l was
led into speculations by other parties,
until we had lost heavily, and then, to
try and make back losses, went at it so
heavily that have lost all the bank is
worth. will explain that the loss to
the stockholders is not as heavy as the
books will show, for the reason, to hold
my position l have been making z per
cent. dividends twice a year, when we
have not made the half of it. But for
the past three years have been adding
to the earnings fictitious sum of at
least $4,000 per annum, making $780,
600 that you have received in dividends
that have not been made. Itwould have
been good thing for you had Elmore
been your Cashier, for he is honest, and
his books are correct to cent. He can
holders. / regret it very much on his
account. He is not to blame. He knew
nothing of my doings. have kept him
in the dark. My family are not to
blame. i have kept them in ignorance;
do not worry them; have but little
property left; the house we live in and
all the furniture belongs to our mother
in-law; she paid for it; she too will lose
by me to a considerable sum. do not
want you to blame my family; they are
| not to blame. What / have done was
not for any dishonest purpose; never
intended it should come to this; 1t was
done to save my credit; have been led
to it by others to help keep them up,
and have ruined myself and the bank.
l regret it very much on account of our
customers. They have been kind to us,
and we have been popular in all our
business. II is too bad. l want you not
| to blame Elmore or Joe. They have
been kept in ignorance as to the condi-
tion of the bank. l have done many
dishonest things for the past three years
to keep our doors open, which will now
come to light, hoping that something
would turn up that l could manage it
and pay all up and cover my frauds.
But times have got so close, and our
credit East is not so good, | cannot
longer keep the business up. You have
all been kind to me, and the confidence
has been abused, not from choice. re-
gret it worse than you can. Oh, may
God pardon me, and save me for the
great wrong committed cannot dwell
longer. Try to save the reputation OF
| all the othera cOnnected with the bank
They are not to blame. l leave God
only knows, and if l can l will try and
make up as much or all of the losses
and pay them back. Every dollar |
make l will turn to my account, and
when find cannot do anything l will
then give up the cause and let matters
take their course. Thanking you for
all you have Gone for me, and for what
you have been, am your ruined friend,
"R. T. TAYLOR, Late Cashier"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

Justices Miller and Bradley and Rep
resentative Hoar were appointed com
mittee to draft the report of the decision,
with brief statement of reasons there
for, to be signed by the members agree.
ing therein, and to be transmitted to q
Joint session of the two houses, as re-
quired by the Electoral act
A recess of about one hour was ther
taken to afford time for drafting the re-
port, which, upon the reassembling OF
the commission, was presented, and,
after being read, was signed by Messrs
Miller, Strong, Bradley, Edmunds, Nor
ton, Frelinghuysen, Garfield and Hoar
Adiourned
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided that dead man can inherit
the insurance ON his own life. A man
named Haas insured his life in favor of
his wife for $1,000; but the wife died
before him, when he married again, and
died not long afterward. The second
wife brought suit for her share of the
81 900 realized from the policy on the
life of her husband, on the ground that
when his first wife died the husband be-
came from that moment one of her heirs,
entitled to a third of her estate, The
Supreme Court indorses this theory of
the second wife, holding that at is not
stretching the construction OF the statute
beyond what iS legitimate TO hold that
her 1.-THE first wife'sl estate included for
purpose of distribution not only what
was then her own estate, but what might
become so on contingency thereafter
happening The death of her husband
and the payment of the policy on his
life wss such u contingency, and hence
his executors are entitled to one-third of
the fund thus realized"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
THE EAST,

The attendance at the funeral of John
O'Mahoney, the Fenian leader, at New York
on the 18th was very large.
Francis L. Lathrop has been appointed re-
ceiver of the New Jersey Central Railroad
Ryan, who was sentenced to be hung with
Oschwald at Newark, n. j., on the 18th, for
the murder Of Officer Brock, died in his cell
before the hour of execution. He had
broken down completely two days previous,
and on the 14th exhibited all the usual
symptoms of poisoning. just before he
died he declared that he had been poisoned.
Oschwald was hung at the appointed time,
and on the scaffold declared his innocence
Of the crime for which he was executed.
A report Of the Examining Committee was
presented at a meeting of the stockholders
of the New Jersey Central Railroad on the
18th, showing from the accounts OF the Le-
high & Wilkesbarre Coal Company that in
the last three years loss Of $5,372 ,495 had
been sustained; that the rolling stock, ETC.,
was overyalued $1,000, 900, and that the an
nual reports were misstatemeuts of both
facts and figures.
Joseph P. Dunlap, Robert Scott and win.
lam Connors have been arrested on the
charge of robbing the Northampton Mass
bank of 1000, Jan. 20, 1876. Connors
was arrested in New York and Dunlap and
Scott on the Philadelphia train at German
town junction. The evidence against them
is said to be conclusive.
The Miners Trust and Safe e-Deposit Bank
at Pottsville, Pa, suspended payment on the
10th.
Joe Coburn, the puglist, shot two police
men in New York on the night of the 18th.
The Northumberland County Bank, a
Pottsville, Pa, has suspended payment
On the 18th the banking. house of King &
Co., New York, was robbed of two tin case,
containing U. s. bonds, mortgages, etc, val
ued at $3.50, coo.
The Grand Duke Alexis arrived at New
| York on the 18th.
Judge H. W. Williams, of the Pennsyl
vania Supreme Court, died at Pittsburgh, o.
heart disease, on the 10Th.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
WEST AND SOUTH,

The former ce-President and Secretary
Of the st. Louis (Mo.) Life Insurance Com
pany, A. M. Button and s. w. Lomax, have
been indicted for perjury and held to bail
A passenger train on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain q Southern Railroad was ditched
near Little Rock on the 14th. The fireman
was killed, the engineer badly hurt, and sew.
eral passengers slightly injured.
At Crook City, u. T., on the 18th, Wiggen-
toms herd OF horses were driven off by In,
dians, the owner wounded and his assistant
killed. Numerous other outrages are re.
ported.
The defaulting Cashier OF the Franklin
Qnd.) bank, r. T. Taylor, has been declared
insane and placed in the Insane Asylum at
indianapolis.
Ex.Gov. Grover, Of Oregon, denies that he
ever sent dispatch signed "Gobble" OF
Governor, and says he never used cipher
or fictitious signature in his life.
At Warrentown, NO., on the 18th, Col
Fred. Meyer, Revenue Agent Of the st. Louis
MOI District, was shot and severely
wounded by N. q. Dryden, lawyer OF War
rentoWn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

Humane people in Boston have been
shocked by the performances of an in
fant prodigy named Harry Shannon,
aged seven years, who has memOrized
more than one thousand pieces, and has
been taught to recite them. One even
ing gentleman rose in the audience
and protested against the performance,
saying that the boy was tired and
nervous. Thereupon the father of the
prodigy arose and volunteered the usual
statements on his behalf. The affair has
brought to mind the sad fate of Young
Americus," who played marvelously on
a violin in a concert troupe few years
ago. His precious and promising young
life was worn out, and his father heard
him say the night before he died. 80
God, make room for another little child
In heavenp
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
FOREIGN INTRLLIGRNCR.

Campos, Captaln.General of Cuba, tele-
graphed to Madrid on the 18th that the In
surreetion would be suppressed by May,
when he would return TO Spain.
By an explosion In coal-mine at Grais-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

TYPICAL trees; For gouty people, the
achecorn; for antiquarians, the date, for
school boys, the birch; for conjurers,
the palm; for young ladies, the
mango; for farmers, the plantin; for
fashionable women, a set of frs for dan
dies, the spruce; for actors, the poplar;
for physicians, syc morei for your wife,
her will, o; for lovers, the sigh press for
the disconsolate, the pine; for engaged
people, the pear; for sewing-machine
people, the hemlock; for boarding-hOuse
keepers, lash; always on hand, the paw
paw; who is this written forS yew.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

(Which do you prefer. girl or a
womsn~ THAT depends. like girl
before she gets womanish, and a woman
before she becomes girlish."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

The followers of Baron de Palm may
believe in urning their dead, but your
go-ahead Americans believe in earning
their liYing.-Philadelphia BGIIetiR.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

-Handcuffs are like guide books, be-
cause they are made for two wrists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23
WAsHNaroN, Feb. lb.

WAsHNGToH, Feb. Is.
The Electoral Commission met at the
usual hour, and Mr., Evarts closed the
argument on the Republican side on the
admissibility of evidence. He contended
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-23

PHILADELPHIA, FeD, 10.
Inquiry made at the office of the Phila-
delphia Press discloses the fact that VIM.
H. Weldon, the person who to-day shot
Gov. Packard, has no connection what
ever with the Press, and nothing is
known of him at the office of that paper.