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The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01
Brief .Ioffiuy..

Miss Crocker's crayon, 1.-THE Athlete" graces
Schumachers window.
Arthur Libby got just 80 days at labor in the
Jail for drunkenness Saturday morning.
DR.. Tewksbury has bought the Willis house
on Free street for $500.
Collector Morrill, has appointed Capt. Isaiah
Kendall fireman at the post-ofice.
Mr.. d. P. Pride ofsSaccarappa has an apple
tree in full bloom.
The Catholics of Westbrook are to build
church edifice at Saccarappa.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Naylor were thrown
from a carriage Saturday evening and quite
severely bruised.
L. B. Percy is erecting two-story building
on Commercial street, the lower part OF which
will be occupied by him as store
There were 80 intentions of marriage re-
corded at the City Clerks Office the past
month.
A new street has been laid out at Gambler
land Mills, and Mr.. E. Durell has built fine
residence upon it,
The festival of ST. MichaePs and All Angels
was appropriately observed Saturday at st.
Luke's church and at the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception.
A. E. Estes, an operator in the Western
Union Telegraph Office in this city, died Satur-
day morning at his home in Waterville, of
Inflammation of the bowels.
Saturday morning man named Estes
Strout, aged 80 years, was found dead in barn
on Green street. He was given to drink and
probably died from over indulgence.
In accordance with orders from headquarters
all the local offices of the Atlantic & Pacific
Telegraph Company on the eastern circuit were
closed Saturday night, with the exception of
one in this city, and at South Gardiner.
A team owned by Green & Jordan, the
builders, canght wheel in the horse track
in front of the Falmouth Hotel. The load COD
sisted of four cakes Of cement and the driver
was deposited in the street.
A car containing eleven barrels of beer, said
to be the property of parties in this city, was
run across from the Boston & Maine to the
Grand Trunk depot Saturday evening. After
six barrels had been removed the officers ap.
peared and seized the remainder of it.
A man named William Haley. who came to
this city Friday from London, Ontario, was
robbed on the Grand Trunk train, by which he
was passenger, of his pocket book containing
quite large sum of money. He fell asleep in
the car and left his book in his inside coat
pocket, and when he awoke it was gone.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

$500 yards of Hamburg edgngs and in se1t.
ings, and the cheapest lot we have ever offered,
just opened at Fl. I. Nelson & Co.'s, AS Con-
gress street, harrington Block sept29 st
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

Law LIBRARY CATALoGUE-The catalogue
of the Greenleaf Law Library compiled by
George M. Seiders, Esq. of the Cumberland
Bar, and published by Dresser, Mcclellan
& Co., is very neatly arranged and con-
venient little volume of 81 pages, Hitherto
the use of any book desired in the library
unless it were report-has involved tedious
search and much needless waste of time. The
present arrangement will prove of great con-
venience to members of the bar and all others
having occasion to consult any volume in this
valuable collection. Mr.. Seiders deserves much
praise for the thoroughness and excellence of
his work
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

A LARGE lot of ladies' undervests, extra fine
lind heavy, slightly damaged with machine oil,
at 62 and IS cents-worth $1.0O and $125. H.
1. Nelson & Co., 443 Congress street, Earring
ton Block. sept29 81
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Personal.

The Hon. George F. Talbot has gone to
Washington to take charge of Ex-Congress-
man Lynch's new paper the National Union.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the maria
of Mr.. and Mrs W. f. Morrill, of Deering was
observed Thursday evening. They received
many fine presents.
Col. John G. Cobb haSresigne d the captaincy
of the Portland Light Infantry.
The Gorham Band tehdered serenade to
COL Fred Robbie Friday evening, playing ex-
cellently, after which they were furnished a
bountiful collation..
Miss Lillian Dunton, whose successful debut
in opera at Naples was chronicled some time
since, is reported by the Italian journals as
having made an engagement to sing as prima
donna in the opera at Malta for the ensuing
season. The papers speak in the highest terms
of the excellence of her voice and her great
dramatic power. She will probably come to
this country next spring.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

Our line of dress trimmings. including all
the novelties of the season, is now open and we
invite all the ladies to examine our stock be.
fore purchasing. H. L. Nielsen & Co., 443 Con-
gress street, Harrington Block. sept29 81
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

BAPTIsM.-Rev. G. S. Perkins, pastor of the
First Free Baptist church baptized four con-
verts by immersion at the foot of Franklin
street yesterday afternoon in the presence of a
large gathering of people. The services were
very impressive
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

FIRE lNoUEsT.-Complaints having been
made to Mayor Butler that the circumstances
in regard to the fire in Mr.. OWENS store were
not above suspicion, Sheriff Dresser was or.
dered to investigate the affair. A jury was
empanelled and the investigation was com.
menced on Saturday and will probably he
finished to-day
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs.-The following
are the real estate transfers recorded in this
county Saturday.
Brunswick-Benjamin B. Thomas to Hiram
Cornish, lot of land with buildings, 70 acres,
for $4,000.
Cape Elizabeth-Freeman Evans to Nancy
A Morton, IL part in common containing 7
rods square.
Sebago--Ezra Carter ct al. to John Bradbury
lot of land for S75
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

BREAKING AND ENrERrNG-The store and post
office of A. <. P Lord, at West Buxton, was
broken into Friday night. Money order, funds
and registered letters to what amount unknown
were taken.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

HAMPERS BAzAR.-This beautiful weekly
publication is a welcome visitor to the parlor
circle. The number for the ensuing week has
been received by Fessenden Brothers, Lancas-
ter Hall, and d. Wentworth, 553 Congress, cor
ner of Oak street
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01
Stated Meetings.
CITY GOVERNMENT.

The regular meetings of the City Council take
place the first Monday evening of each month.
The School Committee meet the fourth Monday
evening of each month.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

JUDGE KNIGHT PRESIDING

JUDGE KNIGHT PRESIDING,
NOTWITHSTANDING Libby. Intoxication-2d Of
fence Ninety days. Committed.
Thomas Mclaughlin, Larceny. Fined So with
costa.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of
Piano at less than cost, in another column.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

ut Templars' Hail. No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNcIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
anth.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

TIAlMoNs & HAYES announce oysters at only
30 cents per quart on and after this date
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

THE DEATH RATE.-The whole number of
deaths in. this city the past week was Is, from
the following causes: Cholera infantum
a, teething 2, consumption, childbed fever. ty-
phoid fever, disease of the brain, disease of the
bowels, commissions and unknown, one each.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

SNEAK THIEVES ON MUNJoY HnL.~This
portion of the city has of late been infested
with these pests to society. Their latest and
boldest feat was to enter the house of Mr.. VIM.
Soule, corner of Monument and st. Lawrence
streets, and carry off the largest part of the
Saturdays baking; also quite a quantity of
coal. Mr., Soule is believer in that passage
of Scripture, HE that giyeth to the poor,
etc." but he wants that class of people to
give him chance to give understandinglY.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

SUDDEN DEArH.-An insane woman who has
been in the Aims House some time. ruptufed
an artery yesterday morning, and before medi-
cal aid could be obtained she had bled to death
DR.. Brooks was sent for, but when he arrived
the woman was dead.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01
SUNDAY SERVICES.
PnIE STREET CHURCH.

The services at this house yesterday were con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. j. II. McCarty, pastor of
Ames NJ E. church, of New Orleans La. A
large congregation was in attendance, and a
marked interest in the eloquent sermon was
manifest. The able divine took his text from
Hebrews xiii Remember them that are in
bonds, as bound with them; and them that
suffer adversely, as being yourselves also in the
body" 1t is impossible for us to give an ex-
tract which would do justice to this eloquent
discourse The main points urged were the
necessity of Christian love and sympathy one
toward another in order to build up Christ s
kingdom upon the earth. The speaker does
not believe in Pharisaical religion-loqd pray,
ers and empty boastings, but whose substantial
acts of sympathy may be counted upon the
finger tips of one hand. Neither does he be-
lieve in imposing church edfces, altar, costly
organ, and elegant upholstery, although they
are good enough in their way-unless the true
spirit of Christ pervade the organization COM
posing the church. To have that, Christians
must live near Christ, low at the foot of the
cross.
In concluding, the speaker (Who by the way
is thorough going Union man, and was pastor
of his church during the late war; paid
glowing tribute to the members of his society,
many of whom are ex-Confederate officers and
soldiers. He said the South was humbled and
ready to confess their past misdeeds, but
wanted their brethren at the North to extend
to them the hand of Christian fellowship and
sympathy. He said that during his long min
istration over that church he had never hesi-
tated to openly and in the strongest terms
express his Union sentiments, yet he had never
received an unkind word from any one. In
this connection the divine paid a glowing
tribute to President Hayes Southern policy !;
said it was doing vast deal more towards re-
uniting the North and South than any amount
of legislation could accomplish
Mr.. McCarty will remain in the city the
coming week, and proposes visiting our cit zens,
as many as possible, for the purpose of obtain
ing help for his church, whose financial stand
ing is somewhat impaired on account of losses
during the war.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01
TIKI PRESS

May be obtained at the Periodical Depots OF res
sender Bros, Marquis, Brunei q Co., AhdTeWs,
wentworth, Moses, n. b. Kendrick, anu Onisnoi"
Bros, on all trains that run out OF the clty'
At Saco. of L. Hodgdon and II. E. Kendrick.
AT Waterville, Off. S. Carter.
at Bath, of j. .. Shaw.
At Lewiston, of French Bros, and Stevens eco
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

There were thirty persons received into the
Chestnut street church yesterday morning by
the pastor, Rev. j. r. Day, and in the after
noon the co aggregation completed a
two thousand dollars subscription for the
purpose of liquidatng one half Of the funded
debt of the church. This reduces the debt to a
very manageable figure, and relieves the society
from long standing embarrassment.
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01
AUCTION SALE
Valuable Real Estate
IN
Portland, Deering, Falmouth, Cape
Elizabeth and Gray.

TEVHE following lands of the late Hon. F. o. j.
u Smith will be sold at public auction, In Port
land on TUESDAY, Oct, 8, 1871 at ten Q0) O'Clock,
unless previously disposed Of at private sale:
IN PORTLAND.
IA part of the International Hotel lot, on Ex-
change, Congress and Market streets, containing
about 400 feet.
IN DEERING.
1.-THE Verandah Farm, adjoining the Marine
hospital: containing about 90 acres, lying on both
III-Forest Home, with the mansion and other
building, containing about 40 acres.
V-The Shattuck place on the southerly side Of
the Falmouth road, containing about acres.
VA tract OF about Is acres at Graves Hill, on
the northerly side Of the Falmouth road
VI-Land adjoining Presumpscot Park grounds
ten acres.
VIA small lot near Leighton's slaughter house,
containing about ten acres.
IN FALMOUTH.
VIII-The Waite Farm near Smelt Hill, at Pre-
sumpscot Lower Falls, containing about 26 acres.
A-The Batcheder farm, the banks of the
Presumpscot river, near the Falmouth road con-
tanning about 90 acres.
IN CAPE ELIZABETH.
X-The Buzzell place on the easterly side Of the
Anthoine road, with the buildings, containing about
a acres.
IN GRAY.
Corner and the Perley railroad station on the Maine
Central railroad, with the building, containing
about so acres.
GB Terms cash. 10 days given to examine title
The sale will be held IN the auction rooms Of T. o
Bailey q Co., So and 81 Exchange ST., Portland, Me
F; o. BAILEY &c CO., Auctioneers.
sept26 dtd
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

BUSINESS CHANGEs.-The following are re
oen' BUSINESS changes in this state.
now Hooker. s-i'S lnii' o'e' >
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

MODEL NOTE BooKs.-Mr. Arthur B. Nor
ri II, the accomplished teacher of the sciences in
the Portland High School, has prepared Sc
ries of note books which m ust prove of great
valae to the student and especially convenient
in either laboratory or lecture-room. They are
bound in flexible covers, and have pages of
proper size to fit into the palm. In the chem
istry and physics book each page under proper
headings affords space for thu record of exper-
iments. The mineralogy book is arranged by
heads for the easy noting of the class, species,
locality. analysis and characteristics OF the
mineral under discussion. These model note
books are published by Dresser, McLsllan &
Co.
NAMES PLACE IN BIsToRY,-The admir-
able address delivered at the Centennial Exhi-
bition by ex-Goy. Chamberlain, entitled
'tMaine: Her Place in History" has been put
in very handsome cloth binding by Dresser,
Mcclellan & Co., of this city, and is now for
sale by them. The address is of great interest
to every citizen of Maine and of much value to
all students of the history of our state, for it
presents in attractive form information hereto
fore not easily accessible. The bound edition
contains fine historical maps of Maine from the
earliest discoveries to the present day
The Portland daily press., 1877-10-01

A FINE MARNE.-Stanwood has just placed
another large marine in Hale's window, which
attracts much attention. 1t is entitled Saved
and shows large ship just emerging from a
fog band. In the foreground is raft upon
which are three ship.wrecked sailors. One of
them is nsarly exhausted by exposure and
want of food, but at the sight of the ship
which mu ch surely save them, his face is full
of life and animation. The ship is perfect
model and the water is well worked up. The
effect is very fine and the picture is one very
complimentary to the young artist. Mr.. STAN
wood has recently removed his studio to Casco
bank building and is now very pleasantly sit
mated,
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PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
Once Hours.
Arrival and Depsrture of

From 7.30 m to $50 m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 m.
PORTLAND. ME-. Aug. Z, 1877,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-27
Snake Hit.-.S Big Scare.

One night last week the loving spouse
of Josh Patterson was aroused from the
sweetest slumberS by Il shrek from
JoShua's favorite Son and upon going to
the bed was astohiSncd to find that the
fathers hope and the mothers JOY had
been bitten on the big toe by q highland
moccasin, which was still lying in bed
beside the idolized child of the aforesaid
Joshua. The mother had not even q
broomstick with which to kill the viper,
and as the next best means Of dispoSing
of the unwClcomc guest, she put some
water in the kettle on the fire, with which
she thought to scald the intruder to
death. Very much to her surprise, how
ever, when the scalding process COM
menccd, the snake uncercmoniouSly
took his departure. At this time Josh,
who had been away from home, put in
an appearance, and the whole neighbour
hood o 0 became alarmed at the rathcr's
great l~amentation. When the exercises
Of the A. NJ. L. church were suspended,
q large number of sympathizing colorcd
women, perhaps less than two hundred
and fifty in number, rushed to the rescue
of the child, and each one made her ia
roritc prescription III such cases. AS
O o as Dr.. Marshall arrived Joshua and
his distressed wife Immediately submit
ted each prescription in turn, and asked
his advice as to the best. They were all
so good that the Doctor was unable TO de-
eide which WAS best, and recommended
that all should be put into one grand
poultice and applied to the bitten limb.
At last accounts the child was still alive,
but fears are entertained as TO the safety
of the snake.
Joshua's dwelling house, on Major
Slnall's lot, sots close to the ground, and
it iSsupposcd that there about seven hun.
dred other snakes under the floor, as
seven have already been killed. Livin.
on d floor so close to the ground is dan
gerous. If it isn't stopped some LITTLE
negro may lose his valuable life sleeping
with snakes.
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Probate Court.

A case was argued in the Probate
Court last week, in which a very inter-
esting and important legal question was
involved. The facts are substantially as
follows:
Katie Davenporte, petitioned to the
Judge of Probate for partition of the
real estate of her deceased brother, Willis
Caldwell. Elizabeth Caldwell the widow
and administrative OF said deceased,
made objection to the granting of the
prayer Of the petitioner. The question
raised, was, whether Katie could inherit
from her brother, they being children Of
slaves, who had died before emancipa-
ton? General MCGOWAN argued for ka-
tie, that by the constitution of 1865, and
the Act of the General Assembly of 1872,
all children born of negro parents, dur
ing slavery, who lived together as man
and wife, were made legitimate. Mr..
Burt, contra, argued that tho parents
must be living at the time of the passage
of the Act Of 1872, in order to acknowl-
edge their children if they would avail
themselves of the Act. The decree Of
the Court was, that Katie could inherit
from her brother, Willis Caldwell, under
the Constitution and Act referred to. 1t is
likely that al appeal will be taken in
the case.
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The Crops.

The editor Of the Nimety-Sir Guardian
is attending court at Edgefield. He
writes a letter to his paper in which he
says:
"We found the crops along the entire
route far behind the usual size at this
season of other years. Corn and cotton
arc small, though growing rapidly since
the commencement of the rain, the diff
Guilty being that many seeds, which had
lain dormant during the dry weather,
have come up SO thickly that it is equal to
'chopping OUT a second time to hoe it.
The grain, as a general thing, is fine, and
we do not find, as has been said, that it is
so much better in this section than in
ours. The other crops certainly are more
advanced. The cotton is somewhat lar
ger and the corn far ahead of us. But we
predict that in two weeks the old Cam
bridge land will put forth its resources
and retrieve its reputation, which is now
endangered. At Mr.. Dorn's, near Dorn's
Mills, we saw some exceptionally fine
cotton and wheat-indeed, the best Oil
the route. At Pottersville, in the SUI
burbs Of Edgetield, were other fields well
worked and looking finely"
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f THE TRACK.
Give Ninety-Six q Court House, and
Every Needed Thing Shall be
Added Unto Her.
The Fence Law, the Greenwood Rail-
road, and Waving Fields of
Living Green.
An Ell Dorado for Young Lawyers
The Ball and q
NINETY-SIX.


Ninety-Six is pushing with energy for
q New County and we believe she
will succeed. In thinking over the SUBJ
ject seriously we have concluded to en-
dorse the enterprise, provided Ninety-Six
will build the Court House and Jail.
When the present Objectionable bounda-
ny lines arc properly drawn and we are
Inscribed, then we are willing for a tax
levy to perfect the machinery of New
County. We are not "wondrous kind"
from personal motives, but think Nine
ty-Six County a necessity. The present
county seats will thunder against it but
sister towns will favor it. The old law
yer, with their thousands of clients will
oppose it, but the young barristers surely
will carry the project. What young law
yer can rise with such men as Messrs.
Perrin, Burt, Thompson, Lee, MCGOWAN
and others on their backs. Young men,
arise and shoulder the wheel, now or
or die. This New County
would invite men OF money M brains
among US, and assist in inducing immi-
grants tt our State, so that our farmers
might make their old fields a sea of
waving grain instead Of protitless cotton.
"Thcre is a time in the lives of all men,"
SO Of things.
GREENWOOD AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Greenwood with a new road to Angus
ia linked to Knoxville, and Ninety-Six
with its Court House, we venture the as
that the march Of progress in Abb
beville, Laurens and Edgefield would be
unprecedented.
FENCE LAW.
Our noble Senator is unreserved and
bald headed Of the new fence law, n
stands In want of a pastoral visit after
meeting with an oppositionist.
HURRAH FOR MAXWELL.
Have the farmers thought how easily
Abbeville County can be fenced. Savan-
nah on one side Saluda on the other
leaves but two lines of fencing to enclose
us even though Edgetield and Anderson
fail to carry. Greenwood township will
petition the County Commissioners for
an election in August, seventy-five names
having been signed for said purpose.
Hurry up others. We are sorry so many
farmers don't understand tho law, and
know if they did there would be no OPP
position. We will discuss the fence law
next week.
BASE BALL.
Cokesbury and Greenwood decided
their dispute on Friday last, resulting 20
to 80 in favor of Greenwood. The Cokes-
bury boys batted eXquisitely, but caught
Greenwood played with a gift.
PEG.