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NEW YORK.


New York, Dec. 2O.-In the case of the
People vs. DIR; Lambert, President of the Anne
lean Popular Life Insurance Co., for swearing
to false report of the company's affairs, the
Jury brought in verdict of guilty. On mo-
ton OF the prisoners's counsel the case was adj
Journed to Wednesday when 3 motto for a
new trial will be made.
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New YORK, Dec 2Os-A Columbia. S. G.,
despatch says that the resolution requiring the
legislative investigating committee to report
the evidence against Senator Patterson, has
been buried by reference to the committee on
be heard of. e
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AUGUSTA, Dec. 20.-Cntton in good demand: Mid
ding uplands at 104 @ 1Oac.
GALVESTON, Dec 2O.-Cotton easy; Middng up
lands at 105c.
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New York stock and meuev markes.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-Evening.-Money loaned at
but dropped to per cent at close. Preparations for
large January dividends appears to be as usual the
cause OF some disturbance in the rate for money,
which is likely to be of short duration.
Sterling Exchange is quiet and firm with business
at 1921 1921 for sixty days and 1851 g 486 for de-
and.
Gold opened at 1929 and closed at 1925 all sales of
the day at these figures carrying rates per cent
loans also made fiat. The clearnces were Sl9,578,
900. The Cusoms receipts to-day were 1921 900. The
treasury disbursements were $74,700 for interest
and 100000 for bonds. Governments firm. Railroad
bonds quiet and unchanged. Stocks are dull out
strong.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange to-day ag-
gregated II 4O shares, including $4,000 shares Lake
shares Western Union, $500 shares Ohio.
The following were the closing quotations of Gov
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TERMS FOR 1878 Uneluding Postage)
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Backwood for S48, and so on.
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CUBA,
CUBA.
An Insurxent Rand ID G feafed.

New YORK, Dec. 20-A Havana letter Dec
10 says: Two hundred and fifty insurgents
were lately encountered by a Spanish column
in the neighborhood of Santi Spirltus After
an engagement which lasted two hours the in
surgents dispersed, leaving SO dead and 121
prisoners. Among the latter were two aide de
camps of Maxine Gomez and IA officers. The
Spanish had II killed and 10 wounded
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MARRIED.

In this city. Dec. 20, at First Baptist Church, by
Rev. Dr. Smaller, assisted by Rev. Thos. D. Anderson.
Portland
In Bath, Dec. 10, Warren T. Mank and Miss Mary
L. Woodward.
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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF Portland.
Thursday, Dec. 30.

Thursday, Dec. 30.
ARRIVED.
Steamship Commonwealth, (Br) Smith, Boston, to
load grain for Europe.
Steamer New Brunswick, Thompson, Boston for
Eastport and st John. NIB.
Brig Maria W Norwood, Andrews, Baltimore-coal
to Rounds & Dyer.
Brig Tarita, Brown, Gloucester in ballast to Chase
Leavitt - Co.
Sch Lookout, sprague New York-coal to Randall
& McAllister.
Sch Game Cock, Robinson. New York for Eastport.
Sch Owen Kinds, Clendennin, Boston for Calais.
Sch Caroline Kriescher, Devereux, Bangor-wood
for market.
Sch S L Foster, Stanley, Cranberry Isles-wood to
Bunker g Gallagher.
Sch Toronto, Colt, Boothbay-canned. lobster to
j W Jones.
Sch Guerilla, Sparrow, Bucksport for Salem,
CLEARED.
Sch Rebecca Florence, Rich, Wilmington, Del
Grand Trunk r r.
Sch Clara Dinsmore, Chase, Lubec-Nath' Blake.
Sch Nellie Hooper. Buftam, South Robbinston-
Nath'l Blake.
Sch Marriott, Davis, Round Pond-N Blake.
Sch Arrival. Farntam, Boothbay-D L Choate.
Sch Mary Elizabeth, DuDton, Boothbay- d L
ChOate.
SAILED-Schs A Weeks, Grace Davis, Rebecca
Florence, Henry Whitney, Defiance, Lucy Lee, Geo
ID Perry, and others.
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Boston Steamers.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

On and after Monday. December Gath,
the Steamers of this line will make three
trips per week, leaving Portland every
Monday. Wednesday and Friday evenings,
at 2 O'Clock.
j. B. COYLE, Jr,.
General Agent.
deelo sN1w
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A recent analysis of the stomach shows that
Shubael Vaughn of Greenwich, Mass, who
died in April to have been poisoned. His wife
is suspected but was not arrested from the cir
cumstantial nature of the evidence
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ISales at tie Brokers' Board, Dec. 20
$4,000 Eastern Railroad 3Ps, 19O6....." ...". 52a
$4,000 ....... do. oz4
SO Boston and Maine Railroad. ..."....... 49,. 50
Eastern Railroad ................ .''..::4s 0 Il
Portland, Saco 81 Portsmouth Il. X. ..643 S9 50
Boston 81 Maine Railroad, rs. ..1l0t 9 llOa
Maine State 6s... Observation-Disclosures " liz
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GREAT BRITAIN.
T.nlPerspns KiIIed bx Ihe FalI nfa B

LONDON, Dec. 20.-The gable of Mines Ho.
tel at Edinburgh, which was weakened by fire,
fell today, burying several persons in the ruins.
1t is believed that ten persons are missing.
Three bodies were racovered
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For New England
south Carolina Leeislatur..

northeast veering to southeast winds, warmer
partly cloudy weather, rising followed by sta.
tionary and falling barometer.
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METEOROLOGlUAL.

INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TwENry-7ouR
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE GRIEF SIGNAL
OFFICER. Washington, DC,
Dan 81 II
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL


PORTLAND, Dec 20.
The Clearing House Of the Portland Banks report
the transaction of business as follows to-day:
Net Balances. go. ..........."....... 29,772 70
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Boston stock Market.

Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water conveyance-1ooo bush corn meal to g
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Proxideuce Priu, OIoths aIarket.
Chicago Cattle Market.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 20.-The Printing cloths
market continues dull without 1uotabe transaction
quotations; tone and prices unchanged.
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rFRoM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE |
MEMO ANDA.

AR at Pensacola 10th, brig 7 Remck, Rose, from
st Thomas.
AR at New York GOTH, seatmer Columbus, from
Havana
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DIED.

In this city, Dec. 2lst, William O'Brien, aged %
years and month.
[St. John papers please copy.
In Westport, Dec Is, Benjamin K Fowle, aged
IA years months.
In Winthrop, Dec. 0, suddenly, P. d. Brann, aged
80 years.
In East Winthrop, Dec. 2, Mr.. Joel White, aged
81 years.
In Bath Dec. II, Mr.. Lorenzo D. Newell, aged
IA years.
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THE DOMINION.



MONTREAL, Dec. 20.-The Charlerois men
to the number of 200 have resumed work on
the canal.
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[FRoM OUR ooRREspLNpENr.l

EASI MACdlAS-olQ lStn, sens AlClDe, Denn1
son, West Indies; Baker, Chase, Portland.
LUBEC, Dec bar, sch Lookout, Huckfns, from
Portland.i
Dec 17-Ar, sch Baker, Allen, Portland.
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WASHINGTON.

A special from London states the Duke of
Manchester succeeds Earl Duffern as Govern
or General of Canada.
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DEpAsTURE OF .TEAmsmIPs,

Miniature Almanac. =. December IN.
Sun rises. ........7.33 High water..... l30 AM
Sun sets. .........424 Moon rises. 535 PM
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NOV II, lat Il 5, lon 30, ship Mt Washington Per-
klns, from New York for Batavia.
Dee o on Prawle Point, E. ship Anna Camp, Gard
ner, from London for Tybee ~ ~
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NO. 40.

gave Nate good whipping and resum-
ed his work as though nothing unusual
had happened.
Smith was hardly out of sight before
a man came putting and blowing from
another direction.
"What's the matter with you, Jones ?"
said the Judge.
The matter is" said he, when he
got his breath, "I've been assaulted and
abused by Nate Smith at the tavern,
and want writ for his arrest"
"What business have you to be at the
tavernp If you had been about your
work, at home, Smith would not have
troubled you.''
Give me writ or I'll have you be-
fore your betters before night"
"Whoa Boy, give me the whip"
The Judge gave Bill a sound thras hing
with the OK whip and went on with his
work. After going around the field
once or twice, the Judge stopped and
delivered himself of the following:
Well, john" said he, addressing the
boy, 81 declare, a believe l have broken
the law But I've done those rascals
justice, anyhow"
1t is, perhaps, needless to add that
Judge West was not brought "before
his betters."
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Terrible Experience.

MIR. J. ]. TALBOT, who died at
lVI South Bend, Indiana, from the
effects of recent relapse into intem-
perance was formerly a minister, and
once member of Congress from Ken
lucky. He operated for the temperance
orders, but evidently was not supported
by religion. In temperance meeting
at South Bend he gave the following as
his experience
"But now that the battle is over
can survey the field and measure the
losses. had position high and holy
This demon tore from around me the
robes of my sacred office, and sent me
forth churchless and goddess, very
kissing by-word among men. After
ward had business large and lucrative,
and my voice in all large courts was
heard pleading for justice, mercy, and
the right. But the dust gathered on
my unopened books, and no football
crossed the threshold of the drunkard's
office. l had money ample for all
necessities; but they took wings and
went to feed the Golfers of the devils
which possessed me. L had a home
adorned with all that wealth and the
most exquisite taste could suggest. This
devil crossed its threshold and the light
faded from its chambers; the fire went
out on the holiest of allars, and, lead
ing me through its portals, despair walk
ed forth with her, and sorrow and
anguish fingered within. had children,
beautiful, to me at least, as a dream of
the morning and they had SO entwined
themselves around their fathers heart
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that, no matter where it might wander,
ever 1t came back to them on the bright
wings of a fathers undying love. The
destroyer took their hands in his and
led them away. had wife whose
charms of mind and person were such
that to see her was to remember, and
to know her was to love. For thirteen
years we walked the rugged path of life
together, rejoicing in its sunshine and
sorrowing in its shade. The Internal
monster couldn't spare me even this. I
had mother who for long, long years
had not left her chair, victim of suffer-
ing and disease; and her choicest delight
was in reflection that the lessons she
had taught at her knee had taken root
in the heart of her youngest born, and
that he was useful to his fellows and an
honor to her who bore him. But the
thunderbolt reached even there, and
there it did its most cruel work. All
me; never word of reproach from her
lips - only a tender caress, only n
shadow of a great and unspolIen grief
gathered over the dear old face only n
trembling hand laid more lovingly on
my head; only closer clinging to the
cross; only more piteous appeal to
heaven if her cup were not full. And
while her boy raved in his wild delirinm
two thousand miles away, the plying
angels pushed the golden gates ajar, and
the mother of the drunkard entered into
rest.
And thus 1 stand: clergyman
without cure a barrister without brief
or business father without a child !;
q husband without wife; q son with
out a parent; man with scarcely a
friend; soul without hope-all swal-
lowed up in the maelstrom of drink"
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Camp Meeting Experience.

IN camp meeting in this State
4 woman related her experience in
giving up certain articles of ornament
and gay attire that she had loved. She
said that at first she resolved to wear no
more artificial flowers, gay colored rib
bons, handsome silks, ear ornaments,
nor brooches; but one idol remained.
1t was her wedding ring. AT last she
resolved to throw this away, too, and
when she did it the blessing of sanctifi-
cation came. The Methodist says: AS
she stood in the audience relating the
great change that had come over her,
she displayed an immense mass of false
hair wound up on the back of her head,
upon which was mounted topknot of
hat, neither protection from sun or
cold, nor ornamental to behold. She
disclosed beneath half cast-oR shawl, o
corseted waist which was reduced to
such diminutive proportions as to appear
painfully abnormal. She supported
padding, puflins, pannier, and pinback,
and dress skirt sadly bedrabbled to q
depth of the several inches which is
dragged upon the ground. AS she sat
down after her testimony and an ex-
hortation to erring sisters to renounce
all pomp and glory of the world, she
piled her fan and painted very like o
ballroom belle who had waltzed too
long and was dressed too tightly to
- ~
of the meeting the woman walked away,
she had parasol, a fan, and q hymn
book to hold in one hand, and the other
was employed in gathering and holding
the front breadth of her skirts high
enough to enable her to step, while the
limit of her mincing gait was determin-
ed by her contracted pinback and stilted
boot heels. And away she went, a
sanctified woman"
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Select Poetry.
WONDERFUL MAN.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man
How passing wonder is He who made him
such
Who centred in our make such extremes,
From different natures marvelously mixed,
Connection exquisite of distant worlds
Distinguished link in BEINGS endless chain
Midway from nothing to the Deity
beam ethereal sullied and absorpt
Though sullied and dishonored, still divil C
Dim miniature of greatness absolute
An heir of glory frail child of dust
Helpless immortal insect infinite
worm god IL trembie at myself,
And in myself am lost. At home, a stranger,
Thought wanders up and down, surprised
aghast,
And wondering at her own. How reason reels !!
Oh, what miracle is man to man
Triumphautly distressed What joy What
dread
Alternately transported and alarmed
What can preserve my life or what destroy
An angels arm can't snatch me from the
grave;
Legions of angels can't confne me there
Yoan9's Night Thoughts.
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Tabby's Curiosity Satisfied.

THE Virginia (Nev.,) " Enterprise"
i tell this affecting story: Charles
Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees
in town, says that when he first got his
swarm his old cats curiosity was much
excited in regard to the doings of the
little insects, the like of which she had
never before seen. AT first she watched
their comings and goings at distance.
She then flattened herself upon the
ground and crept along toward the hive,
with tail horizontal and quivering. 1t
was clearly evident that she thought the
bees some new kind of game. Finally
she took up a position at the entrance to
the hive, and when q bee came in or
started out, made dab at it with her
paws. This went on for q time without
habitants of the hive. Presently, how
ever, old Tabby' struck and crushed
bee on the edge of the hive. The smell
of the crushed bee alarmed and enraged
the whole swarm. Bees by the score
poured forth and darted into the fur Of
the astonished cat. Tabby rolled him
self in the. grass, splitting, sputtering,
biting, clawing, and squalling as cat
never squalled before. She appeared
a mere ball of fur and bees as she rolled
and tumbled about. She was at length
hauled away from the hive with gar
den rake, at the cost of several severe
stings to her rescuer. Even after she
had been taken to distant part of the
grounds the bees stuck in Tabby's fur,
and about once in two minutes she would
utter an unearthly yowl' and bounce q
full yard in the air. On coming down
she would try and scratch an ear, when
q sting on the back would canse her to
turn succession of back somersaults,
and give vent to running fire of
squalls. Like the parrot that was left
alone with the monkey, old Tabby had
dreadful time. Two or three days after
this adventure, Tabby was caught by
her owner, who took her by the neck
and threw her down near the beehive.
No sooner did she strike the ground than
she gave fearful squall, and at a single
bound reached the top of fence full six
feet in height. There she clung for
moment, with her tail as big as roll
ing-pin, when with another bound and
squall, she was out of sight and did not
again put in an appearance for over
week.
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A Singular PetrifaCtlon.

Judge e. G.. Bronaugh has attached to
his watch-chain little amulet or
charm, which, aside from its peculiar
history, is very pretty in inself. 1t is
nothing less than petrified rosebud
During the Rebellion a young nephew
OF Judge Bronaugh, while in one of the
Southern States, writing home to his
mother enclosed rosebud. The letter
arrived safely and after perusal was laid
aside with the rosebud in a drawer,
where it remained for eight or nine
months. When the drawer was over
hauled and the letters again brought to
light, the rosebud was discovered to be
petrifed. The Judges aunt recently sent
the stone to him at this place, and he
placed it in the hands ofa jeweler for the
purpose of having it fitted to carry on
his watch-chain. The petrifaction is SO
very hard that, while trying to drill
hole in 1.-two or three tools were broken.
1t is perfect rosebud, and so well pre-
served that the finest fibres are to be
seen. What peculiarities of air, earth or
water could have changed the tender
rosebud into hard, almost diamond
like substance in the short space of nine
months is to us mystery. = Portland
Oregonian.