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The Portland daily press., 1877-08-06
European Markets

European Markets.
LONDON, Aug. 3-123O P. M.-Consols at 81 16
for money and account.
LONDON, Aug. 4-12.30 P. M.-American securi-
ties-United States bonds, 67s, 1861; new 5s 1919;
1O4Os, at 0a; Erie preferred 1s; Illinois Central at
591.
PARIS, Aug. 4.-Rentes LOG franc 10 confines.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 4-12.3O P. M.-Cotton market
TO -day is holiday on Stock Exchange. Bacon at
3sior long Clear middles; 3ss for short. Lard AS.
LONDON, Aug 4.@Beerbohm's Circular)-Float-
ing cargoes of Wheat rmer; Corn steady; cargoes on
the passage and for shipment of Wheat steader Corn
quiet. At Liverpool Wheat is and Corn quiet. CAL
iforna choice shipping club Wheat 1871 @2; average
12.4 @ 1927, and Spring Ill q 11.2.
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RUSSIA,

The Imperial Guard TO be Modified and
the Landwehr Called Out.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. San ukase has
been issued ordering the immediate mobiliza-
ton of the imperial guard and several other
divisions. The greater portion of the imperial
guard and some of the divisions are to join the
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Cape Elizabeth.

The Republicans of Cape Elizabeth are requested
to meet at the Town House in said town on SATUR-
pay, August 4th, at o'clock P. NJ. to choose
delegates to attend the State and Comfy Conven-
ton. Per order Town Committee
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MARRIED.

In Pembroke, June 80, Parker F. Gushing and Miss
Mary E. Sincait.
In lewiston. July rs, Elbridge G. Frost and Miss
Leona Mccain.
In Brewer, July %, Nathan G. Danforth and Mrs.
Rosa M. Harlow.
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The Republicans of Deering are requested to meet
at the Town House, on SATURDAY, August 4th
at O'Clock p NJ, to choose delegates to the State
Committee.
Per order Town Committee
Deering, July 30, 1871
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,


Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water conveyance-10O0 bush corn meal to 9
W True q Co.
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tSaes at the Brokers' Board, Aug. A.
$4,000 Eastern R. new 81 bonds. ............... 80
30 Boston 81 Maine Railroad. .,,.,,.,..,., 81
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Foreign Exports.
BUENOS AYRES. Bark F. W. Carlon-3SO, 900
feet OF lumber.
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The Republicans of windham are requested to
meet at the Town house in said town on SATUR-
DAY, the 4th day of August, at o'clock D. M, to
choose delegates to the State Convention and also to
the County Convention.
Per Order of Town Committee.
Windham, July 81, 1877,
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The Republicans of Scarboro are requested to meet
at the Town house on SATURDAY, Aug. 4th, at
O'Clock p M, to choose delegates to the State Con-
ventiOn, County Convention, and. also Town Com
mittee. Per order Town Committee.
Scarboro', July 2Sth, 1877.
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StandisIl.

The Republicans of Standish are requested to meet
at the Town house on SATURDAY, the 4th of Au-
gust 1871 at O'Clock p. m, to choose delegates TO
attend the Republican State and County Conventions
to be held on the 9th and 10Th days of August 1871
Per order Of Town Com.
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Foreign Imports.
GRANVILLE, Ms. Schr j. G. Hall-65 cords Of
wood to A d Whidden.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
CAUCUSE :.
WesfbrOOk


WesfbroOk.
The Republicans of Westbrook are requested to
meet at Warren's Hall in said town, on Tuesday.
to- the State and County Conventions also TO choose
a Town Committee.
Per order Town Committee.
Westbrook, Augusta 8, 1877.
Falmouth.
The Republicans of Falmouth are reouested to
4th, at O'Clock P. NJ to choose delegates to attend
the State Convention to be held at Augusta on The
9th inst. Also to choose delegates to attend the
County Convention to be held on the 18th inst, at
Portland Per order,
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Yarmouth.
The Republicans of Yarmouth are requested to
meet at Union Hall, SATURDAY, the Attn inst, at
M, to choose delegates to attend the State and
County Conventions, to be held the present month.
Per order of Town Committee
Yarmouth, August list, 1877.
North Yarmouth.
The Republicans of North Yarmouth are requested
to meet at the Town house in said Town on SATUR-
DAY, the 4th day of August. at six o'clock p m. to
choose delegates to attend the State Convention to be
held at Augusta, August 8.
North Yarmouth, July 90, 1877.
scarboro,.
The Republicans of Scarboro are requested to meet
at the Town house on SATURDAY, Aug 4th, at 6
o'clock p. No. to choose delegates to the State Con-
vention, County Convention, and, also Town Com
mittee. Per order Town Committee
scarboro', July 2sth, 1877. ~ -'''''''
Deering.
The Republicans of Deering are requested to meet
at the Town House, on SATURDAY, August 4th,
at O'Clock P. M, to choose delegates to the State
Q1G IN nhan
Committee.
Per order Town Committee.
Deering July 80, 1877.
The Republicans of Raymond are requested to
meet at the Town House in said town on SATUR-
DAY, August 4th,. at O'Clock P. M, to choose
delegates to attend the Republican State Convention
at Augusta, and the County Convention at Port
land. Per order,
Republican Town Committee.
Cape Elizabeth.
The Republicans of Cape Elizabeth are requested
to meet at the Town House in said town on SATUR-
PAY, August 4th, at o'clock P. NJ to choose
delegates to attend the State and Comfy Conyen-
tion. Per order Town Committee.
Windham.
The Republicans Of Windham are requested to
meet at the Town house in said town on SATUR-
DAY, the 4th day of August at o'clock p. M, to
choose delegates to the State Convention and also to
Per Order of Town Committee,
Windham, July 81, 1877.
Standish.
The Republicans of Standish are requested to meet
at the Town house on SATURDAY, the 4th of Au-
gust, 1877, at O'Clock p m, to choose delegates TO
attend the Republican State and County Conventions
to be held on the 9th and 10Th days OF August 1871
Per order Of Town Com.
POwnal.
The Republicans of Pownal are requested to meet
at the Town-house on SATURDAY, the 4th day of
August, at O'Clock p. m to choose delegates to the
State Convention to be held at Augusta August 9Th
1877.
Also to choose delegates to the County Convention
to be held at Portland August 10th, 1871.
Per order Town Committee.
Pownal, July 25th, 1877.
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Wesfbr0Ok.
The Republicans Of Westbrook are requested to
meet at Warren's Hall in said town, on Tuesday,
August 18th, at o'clock P NJ, to choose delegates
to the State and County Conventions also TO choose
a Town Committee.
Per order Town Committee
WeStbroOk, Augusta 8, 1877.
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b.. Yarmouth
The Republicans of Yarmouth are requested to
meet at Union Hall, SATURDAY, the 4th inst, at
u p. m to choose delegates to attend the State and
County Conventions, to be held the present month.
Per order of Town Committee
Yarmouth, August list, 1871
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The Republicans of North Yarmouth are requested
to meet at the Town house in said Town on SATUR-
DAY, the 4th day Of August. at six o'clock D. M to
choose delegates to attend the State Convention to be
held at Augusta, August 9.
Per Order Committee.
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DEPARTURES OF .TEAMsHIPs.

Miniature Almanac. August 6.
Sun RISES. .......4.53 High water. S.25 AM
sun sets. Moon rises. ...,.. LOT AM
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POwnaI.

The Republicans of Pownal are requested to meet
at the Town-house on SATURDAY, the 4th day Of
August, at O'Clock to choose delegates to the
State Convention to be held at Augusta August 9th
1877.
Also to choose delegates to the County Convention
to be held at Portland August 10th, 1871.
Per order Town Committee.
Pownal, July 25th, 1877.
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The Republicans of Falmouth are requested IL
meet at the Town House on SATURDAY. Augus
4th at O'Clock P. NJ to choose delegates to attend
the State Convention to be held at Augusta on thu
9th inst. Also to choose delegates to attend The
County Convention to be held on the 10Th inst al
Portland. Per order,
JOHN WOODBURY., Town
JNO. MARSHALL BROWN, Committee
Rrxu1t
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Weekly Clearings-Currency exchanges $500 ,467,-
1856; balances SIS, 1886, 1857.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-15

The Salmon Fishery on the Columbia river in
Oregon has immensely increased OF late. 1t com =
menced within ten years, and already ii reaches
three quarters Of million annually; and in the
fishing and the thirty canning estsbli shments
within Is miles Of the mouth of the river, 5000
men are employed during the season, which is
four months and no business in the United States
pays better. Some men have already amassed
fortunes. The middle of July 1000 fishing boats
were employed, and the canning establishments
manufacture their own cans and their boxes for
packing, making in all their appointments very
large business There can be no such destruction
of the fish without diminishing their numbers,
and the decrease is already marked The cover
ing of the river with nets for miles stops the pro-
gress of fish to the spawning beds and must event
ually clear the Columbia of salmon as the East.
ern rivers have been.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-15

Detectives at Pittsburg are actively engaged in
discovering the goods stolen from the looted cars
and depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
The property forms singular collection, embrac
ing boots and shoes, an immense lot of carving
cushions, mattresses spttoons, framed time cards,
an encyclopedia, forty barrels of four-each
minus baking or two-a terce and twelve bar
rels of lard, 300 hams, kegs and barrels of whis-
key and highwines. glassware hardware, shovels
and picks, bales of wool, complete Jersey wagon
leather, rope, bundles and barrels OF lesf.tobacco
block-tin, beeswax, oatmeal, boxes of foot-rules,
lamp chimneys, cohee-mills, gas stoves, palace-car
furniture, sewing machines, carpets, oil-cloths,
muslin, ready-made clothing, yarn, harnesses,
whips, flags and the like. Seven Saratoga trunks
full Of clothing were found in one house and
eleven barrels of flour in another. Eye-witnesses
of the riot tell of auctions where circular saws
three feet in diameter sold for so cents, and a car
load of sewing machines brought from 81 down
to 10 cents apiece.
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In a Wrecked Car-The Ocean
mort Disaster.

Mr. Richard Lamb of No. 50 Carminc street,
New York, was in one Of the wrecked cars on the
Long Branch train at Oceanport of Thursday
"The car" he says, "fel over on its side. u i
rectly after the first shock, and seemingly while
the train was in the very act of tumbling from the
bridge the end Of the car ! was in burst open,
aud in that instant ! saw as in flash the other
cars splintering to pieces while the iron work
tearing itself from the wood and twisting and
whiting like so many snakes. The car fell side
ways into the water was seated on the then
lower side The force OF the water breaking
through the window shot me Oft the seat to the
other side of the car. We were wet through to
the skin in an instant. The conclusion shIyered
the window panes to minute fragments, and when,
for the first time after the accident, put my
hand in my pockets, | found them filled with
these bits of splntered glass which had been
driven into them. The scene IN the car was one
of horror stricken panic. Passengers struggled,
fought and cambered over each other in order to
get the uppermost side. The side OF the car be-
| came the bottom, and as we tried to stand upon it
| our feet broke through the window and mIred in
| the ooze of the creek beneath us. Meantime, the
car was slowly settling IN the mud until the water
came gradually up TO our waists and arm-pts.
| There seemed every possibility that we would be
drowned like the condemned ours IN the cage at
| the dog pound. There was woman near me
| with babe which, as the water rose upon us, she
held higher and higher up strained to her breast.
But between fright and the difficulty of maintain
| ipg a footing she weakened at last Her hu sband
was so unnerved as to be unable to render her any
assistance | managed to sustain her until we got
out Most Of the passengers were cut and bruised
by broken glass or iron work in their struggling
through the car windows. Had the tide been up
we should have instantly drowned. The horror
and suspense of the many minutes passed in the
haf-submerged car will never be iofgott en- by
me-"
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From the New York Tribune.
The Maine Resolutions.

The gentlemen who in the Maine Re-
publican Convention on Thursday insisted
with great earnestness and eloquence that
the Republicans of Maine should distinctly
indorse the Administration and subscribe
their approval of its policy. were not at
odds upon any practical issue with those
who, on the other hand, urged the pas
sage of resolution strongly squirting at
disapproval of the Presidents policy the
difference is purely one OF sentiment.
Senator Blaine uncovered the whole situa-
ton, and disclosed the impracticability OF
the dispute and the uselessness OF the
discussion, when he reminded the Con-
yention that, whatever might be said or
done there, the experiment, II such 1t
is, will proceed. However the Republi-
cans OF Maine or any other State may feel
about it, there is nothing for them now
but to wait the result in patience and in
hope. Those who are implacable and
will not listen to reason may if it gives
them any comfort, sulk away their discon-
tent. They can do no more, for there's
nothing for them to fight. Just at this
time, indeed, there is no opportunity for
them to influence national legislation or
let their hostility crystalize in the form OF
votes for Democratic Congressman. They
can only grumble their dissatisfaction,
and that does not pay. The Maine Re
publicans, under the advice and leader
ship of Senator Blaine, adopted this view
of affairs, and while refusing to indorse
unqualifiedly the policy and acts of the
Administration, wisely RETAINED from
giving expression to any feeling OF doubt
or disapproval, or pronouncing anything
that might seem like censure.
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Capt. Grapes wife writes that they would not
undertake to cross the Atlantic again in a cookie
shell for considerable. She tainted twice during
the voyage, slept in wet bed for seven weeks and
had aches in every bone of her body. ave had
seven gales Of wind she writes, "the last one
beng very hard and the seas running mountains
high. 1t lasted from Saturday morning, but God
was with us, and he Gained the sea SO that we
were able to make sail. The next mo ruipg God
spoke to me and said, i am with thee don't fear
Trust in me- and will land thee safe on the
shore The tears dropped down my face like
rain"
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The Georgia Convention, says the
New York Times, has decided by a
nearly unanimous vote-166 to l5-that it
will not allow the bonds which it alleges
10 be fraudulent to be submitted TO a
court. 1t had already refused to receive
an argument prepared for the bondhoders
by the venerable Jere Black, or to hear a
verbal statement from the Democratic ex-
Senator Norwood. In a question of the
pocket political prejudices are not allowed
to interfere. And when ex-Gov. jenkins
proposed simply that the validity of the
bonds be submitted TO Democratic court
without the right of appeal, Mr.. Robert
Toombs fought the suggestion with sue
cess. His main argument against the
bondholders was an impudent one, ant
was that the State Government which is
sued them was forced upon Georgia by
bavonets, and that the State was moi
bound to recognize any of its acts. He
professed himself willing TO provide fol
paying any of the bonds for which the
State received any consideration, though
be said nothing as to how even that fac
was to be ascertained. The bonds thu
repudiated are about 50 900, 900 In amount
They never have been declared fraudulen
or illegal by the courts OF the State
They have simply been condemned by tn
Legislature. and afterward by a popula
vote. This last act of the convention
finally disposes OF them. II is, of course
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The Democratic Convention.

The Democratic State Convention NOM
mated yesterday as the democratic candi-
date for Governor, Joseph II. Williams of
Augusta. Mr. Talbot would not decline
to be candidate for nomination, and was
voted down in the Convention. The NOM
lnation was clearly due by party usage to
Talbot if he desired it. He was the can
didate of the party last year, and should
have been this year if his rights had been
respected. Three ballots were taken be-
fore the nomination of Williams was
effected
Mr.. Williams, the nominee, is a resident
of this city, man of repectability, educa-
ton, wealth, and lawyer by profession.
In politics he has been Republican. Liber-
al Republican and Democrat. In 1857 he
was elected President of the Senate, and
upon the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin as
Governor, Mr.. Williams became by virtue
of his office Acting Governor Of the State.
The same year Lot NJ. Morrill, was elected
Governor by the Republicans, after which
Mr.. Williams gradually disappeared as a
republican leader In 1873 he was sup
ported as the Liberal Republican cand-
date for Governor, receiving however but
2,l60 votes. He has before this been
mentioned as the democratic candidate for
Governor. Last fall he voted for Samuel
j. Tilden for President, and this served to
secure him the nomination this year. For
party that has had so much denunciation
of bondbolders, capitalists, railroad men,
as the democratic party has, the nomina-
ton is an astounding one, as Mr.. Williams
is all these. He is the last man in Angus
ia that would be supposed to have any
sympathy with laboring and common peo-
pie. The democrats had better left him
in his retirement to clip his coupons.
The license question met with down
fall. We rejoice at this. The leaders
did not dare to put 1t into their platform
after the bold action of the Republican
State Convention endorsing prohibition.
The convention was undoubtedly in favor
of license plank, but the leaders whis-
pered around that it would not do to put
it into the platform this year, and so they
let the project slide. We say again that
we are rejoced at this. 1t shows the
growth of temperance sentiment 1t is a
reluctant tribute to the steadfast devotion
aRd success with which the republican par
ty has sustained the cause of temperance,
and to the efficiency with which the re-
form clubs and other temperance agencies
have performed their unselfsh and noble
work
Of the rest of the platform we shall
have something to say another time.
The candidates for Governor being
nominated the field is ready for work.
Let every republican prepare to do gal
liant service for our noble candidate. the
brave soldier, the efficient chief magistrate
of the State, the true citizen and patriot,
SELDEN COMMON
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WANT /!

A LADY of Experience, desires a situation as
N Housekeeper in a small family. Good refer
ences given. Address r. o. Box l25 East Nassa
boro', Maine. aug3.tlws
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naked reputation and rascality. They
call it in Georgia mailing the coffin of
Radical reconstruction, but it will be found
that the good name Of Georgia lies in the
grave"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-15

There were no lives lost by the forest fires at
Eaton, near Green Bay, Wis. The five missing
families have turned up alive, after suffering from
lack Of food and sleep One woman saved her
children by laying them upon the ground and
covering them with earth. Another family, who
had fought fire for IA hours without food or rest.
were about to despair when slight shifting Of
the wind opened to them pathway to safety.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-15

An inventor claims that by using a motor he
has invented. at the base of Niagara Falls, sufd-
cient power can be obtained to pump water to
Buffalo, and supply that city with the liquid,
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Notice Of Assignment.

NOTICE is hereby given that George o. Whip
~ pie of llalloweL kennebec County, State of
Maine, has this day assigned to me all his proper
ty, except such as is by law exempt from attach
ment, Tor proportional distribution among such of
his creditors as become parties to said assignment
within three months from the execution of the
same. :. ;. BROOKS.
Dated at Augusta this eighth day of August, A.
d. 1917. aug93w
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Republican County Convention

The Republican voters OF kennebec County
requested to send delegates to a convention to be
holden at
Granite Hail, Augusta, Thursday, August
10Th.
At eleven O'Clock, A. NJ, for the purpose of nomi
mating two candidates for Senators, candidate
for County Commissioner, a candidate Cor County
Treasurer, candidate for Register of Deeds,
a candidate for Clerk Of Courts and to transact
all other business that may properly come
before the convention. The basis OF repre-
sentation will be as follows: Every city, town
and plantation will be entitled to one dele
gate, and an additional delegate for every seventy
i've votes cast for the Republican candidate Tor
Governor at the election of 1876. fraction Of
forty votes will be entitled to an additional dele
gate The cities, towns and plantations are EMIT
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