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The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
STATE OF MAINE.

BY the advice OF the Executive Council do here
by appoint
Thursday, the 26th of A priI,
as day Of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer,
and recommend to the people of the State, the
observance of it in manner beftting the designa-
ton it bears, and in the spirit with which the custom
that ordains it was instituted.
The season when nature begins her new year, and
gives visible promise reclothing the earth with the
beauty OF her verdure and preparing the fruits and
harvest of her constant bounty is most suggestive of
the renewal of hope, aspiration, and endavor in
the minds and hearts of men.
Let us obey the impulse of the opening year, and,
towing in humility before Him who rules alike the
forces OF Nature, and our human ways, form and
confirm every good purpose for the conduct of our
lives, and crave Gods blessing upon us, our State
and Country.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. and of
the Independence of the United States of America
the one hundIedth and first.
SELDEN CoNNOR.
5. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The position of Roumania with reference
to the war is not an enviable one. to say the
least. A Russian army OF 250,OO0 men is on
her northeastern frontier preparing to ad-
vance, and. powerful Turkish force is on her
western frontier, at Widen, preparing to
cross. Meanwhile the Cabinets of Vienna,
London, and Paris have notified her that the
privileges she enjoys by virtue of the Treaty
Of Paris will be considered null and void if
she actively co-operates with any one. Inas-
much as there will be very little left of Rou-
mania after the respective combatants get
through if she does not cooperate with
somebody, the mandate of the other Powers
is in the nature of a very severe hardship.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
JERUSALEM cannot be regarded as an i

JERUSALEM cannot be regarded as an i'm
portant manufacturing centre, inasmuch as
its leading industry is olive-wood carving.
The chief manufacturer of souvenirs recent
ly informed correspondent OF the London
Times that he could not find employment for
his workmen; the market was overstocked
and the number of pilgrims very small. The
German colonists are increasing in number
and influence. In Jerusalem they have
opened the ruins of the great hospice of the
Knights CT St. John. They have established
colony at Caifa, at the foot of Mount Car
mel, and have organized a service of small
carriages from Jaffa to Jerusalem. They are
also constructing carriage-way from Car
mel to Nazareth.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
THE Miridites with whom the Porte is no

THE Miridtes with whom the Porte is now
fighting are Christians, but of different de-
nomination from either the Servians, Bulga-
rians or Greeks, and consequently hate all
three with such bitterness as to send con-
tingent year ago to serve in the Turkish ar
my. The Miridites have always before sided
with the Mohammedans, and made them.
selves famous in the Greek rebellion by prac-
ticing the vilest atrocities on the hapless
Hellenes who chanced to fall into their pow
er. 1t was in midnight fight between the
Miridites and the Greeks that Marco Bozzaris
lost his life. The cause of their present sud-
den rebellion against the Sultan was the ILL
treatment of some of their head men by a
naughty Turkish Pasha, who called them
''doss Of infidels," and ordered. them out Of
camp, thus insulting them far more grievous-
ly than if he had had them bastinadoed.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

They have a curious way of deciding law
suits in Siam. Both parties are put under cold
water, and the one staying the longest wins the
suit. In this country both parties are got into
hot water and then kept there as long as posi-
BILE. The result in the end is the same.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

Admiral Porter, whose daughter is soon to be
married, sent last week through the post-oflce
200 invitations to the wedding The envelopes
each required double postage, but only one
stamp was affixed. The postmaster held the
invitations and sent word to the admiral about
the matter, thinking he would like to prepay
them. The admiral replied that they should
be sent along with one stamp. and the result IL
that 200 people will have the privilege of pay.
ing three cents apiece for their invitations 70
the next swell wedding that occurs in Wash.
ington. The admiral saved Sc.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furn ished
with Card certificate couDtersgned by Stanley L.
fallen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Ian
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations 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 reserve commu.
nications that are not used,
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

Round-cornered collars will be worn by gen.
tlemen this season, having superseded those
with sharp points. and hereafter man will be
able to call upon girl, to inquire after the
health of her parents, without running the risk
of putting out one of her eyes.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The ideal Boston bonnet for the next month
will strive to combine gentle piquancy, sub
dued intellectually and slight suggestion of a
fondness for keramcs with faint reminisceIce
of the Old South ball and foreshadowing of
seaside resort.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

Tomorrow" wrote Chapin, may never
come TO u.s. And the collectors who are told
by men that they will call around tomorrow
and settle that. are convinced that Chaplin was
about three-ffths correct that tomorrow
might come, in isolated instances, but the men
never do.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

A woman in Omaha was choked almost to
death, and entirely destroyed her power of
speech, the other day, by swallowing gaiter
button. We have said thousand times tha.
some serious trouble would yet come of this
custom OF Omaha women unbattonin' their
shoes with their teeth.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The French society for suppressing the abuse
of tobacco, holding that smoking among boys is
pernicious to their health, has prepared petit
ton to be presented to Parliament, asking for
law to prohibit youths under 16 from using the
weed in public places.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The plague has broken out at Bagdad.
This is unpleasant news on the opening of
war that threatens the development of
camp diseases, and which necessarily must
lead to epidemic maladies more or less malig-
nant. Neither the Turks nor Russians pay
much attention to personal cleanliness, the
former not laying off their outer garments
when retiring to sleep, and the latter being
very economical in the use of soap. Military
operations are conducted under great diff
culties in Turkey. Many of the iortresses
to which siege must be laid are situated in
elevated regions, where snow and frost cover
the ground six months in the year. Others
and particularly those on the Danubian 'front.'
ier, lie in swampy tracts, where fever and
pestilence find their choicest breeding places.
The losses by battle in campaigns in Turkey
are much less than by malarious complaints,
thousands being swept away by pestilential
fevers who have escaped the perils of pitched
battle and the cannonade of beleagaered cita-
des. Unuumbered woes will be inflicted on
the people of Turkey by the wsr now actu-
ally begun, but it:is to be hoped that they, as
"Ap as the outside world, will not be sub
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State.

SOUTH AFRICA sustains the privileges of
the press. The editor of a newspaper pub.
lished in the Gold Fields was prosecuted for a
libel on the Gold Commissioner, and in de.
fault of paying fine of e37, 1Os., was COM
mitted to prison for three months. On this
becoming known body of diggers broke
into the Jail and carried off the editor in
triumnh
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL is again in diff

KING VICTOR EMMANUEL is again in diff.
culties. His civil list was curtailed some years
ago under the Ministry of Signor Sella, who
induced the King to abandon one-fourth of
the sum received from the state, the amount
now being only 12,5OO,OOO francs. His Maj
esty, who is very generous, never has any
money in his pocket, and is often obliged 10
borrow few louis from his aides-de-camp.
The history may be remembered of the bills
OF the King, genuine or forged, which passed
through the hands of number of Italian
bankers. In order to put an end to state of
affairs which does but little credit to a great
nation, Signor Depretis proposes that the civil
list shall be raised to 14,250,000 francs. OF
the increase of 1,750,0OO francs the sum Of
200 francs only is to 60 to the personal
expenditure of His Majesty, the balance of
100000 francs being intended for the inter-
est and advertisement of his debt, which
amounts to twenty-five millions. The King,
as may be remembered, has large number
of palaces, but the maintenance Of these is
precisely the cause of his difficulties.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

Two notable women have recently died in
England, Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, who had
won worldwide fame and regard by her Or
gahized colonization societies, by which
many needy people have been enabled to emil
CRATE to Australia in safety and comfort and
receive protection upon arrival, and Mrs.
Nassau Senior, widely known and honored
for her benevolent work in connection with
workhouses, and her able report as inspector,
which made one of the Parliamentary Blue
Books in 1874.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

In fashionable family in New York the
word "style' is often used, and such distinc-
ton given to it that the youpgest-a child of
six or seven-on retiring for the night, was
heard to make this addition to 'Now lay me
down to sleep: "God bless dear papa and
mamma. and oh, dear Lord, please make us
very stylish
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
Cap and Bells.

Young clerks who have saved up their salary
for several weeks now know the pleasure of
buying strawberry.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

dog he drew on the parlor wall was good, be-
cause it made his father mad.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

question of right.-Lady-"So you wish
to leave, cook. May ask wby?" Cook-"Cer-
tingly, min. You see there only one p'lice-
man in this ole of a place-beggin' the par
ishs parding-and he's took up with the hup-
per 'ousemaid Which it's no concern of mine
who takes up with who; but it's we'll beknown
as the p'liceman is the cooks park site.-Funny
Folks
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

his butcher. One morning the man expatiated
upon the loveliness of the moonlight Of the
night before, and just as the poet was thinking
that he had done him an injustice in never
having given him credit for refinement Of
soul, the butcher added, "The night was so fine
1 jest couldn't sleep, and had to get up and go
to killin'.'
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

THE MAINE STATE PRESS
published every THURSDAY MORNING st $3.50 a
year, if paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch OF space the
length of column, constitutes square"
$15O per square daily first week; % cents per week
after; three insertions, or less, S1O0; continuing
every other day after first week, 80 cents
Half square, three Insertions or less, 70 cents; one
week, S1.OO: so cents per week after:
SpFCIAr NoTICFs one third additional.
Under head of 'AMUsEMENTs" and "AUcTIoN
SALES" $500 per square per week; three insertions
Advertisements inserted in the 'MAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in every part
of the State) for $00 per square tor first insertion,
and so square for each subsequent insertion.
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The ''Status quo ante,''-Squire desiring to
improve the taste of his country friends, has
introduced at his table, in the place of the
usual brandied:S Spanish and Portuguese wines,
the natural vintages of France and Germany
'Now, Mr.. Barleymead, how do you like this
Chateau Laftte? Another glass"-Farmer
b Thanky, sir; it's uncomm mon nice. (He
had drunk bottle or two). But we don't seem
to get no foIruder. Punch.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

TIE Burlington Hawkeye, speaking of the
scheme of shooting ramrods with string-attach-
ments into the windows of burning hotels, OBJ
serves: 'That is indeed grand idea. The
only drawback to its practical operation is that
terrified guest standDgin window, shrieking
and bowling for help, would have been very
much surprised, and not greatly tranquillized
or reassured, Oh finding himself suddenly trans
liked with three-foot ramrod aud a coil Of
string. And unless the Fire Department is
vastly better on the shoot than the police the
probability is that not window in the hotel
would have been broken, while the streets of
st. Louis would have been full of bowling fiIe-
men and weeping citizens pulling iron RAM
rods out of each other"
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO..

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year in advance. TIC
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad-
vance.
The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25

The following exquisite passage is COM
mended to all novel readers. We withhold
the name of the tale from which it is taken
'Her large, limpid, lustrous eyes filed with
Dig, billowy tears. Lurline leaned over the
dying auctioneer's pillow. Lurline he sighed
feeb'y 'Ay. Alonzo,' she answered. Lur
line,' he said, meet me in the sweet buy and
buy! His breath came fainter and with more
difficulty. In moment more he was going,
going, gone! He is dead said the DOCTOR
Yes, be has gone, absolutely and without re-
serve sobbed his wife,"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

STATE OF INDIANA, Marion county, IS:
- In the Superior Court OF Marion county,
ID the state OF Indiana. June term, 1871. No.
1905. Room 4.
Philip Reinhard VS.. James L. Pryor,-Pry-
or, his " life, John II. Goldsmith, Mary j. Gold
smith and Caroline Hildebrand.
Be IL known. that on the 18th day OF May,
1871, the above named plaintiff, by his at
torney, filed in the Office of the clerk OF the
Superior Court of Marion county, in the state
of Indiana. his complaint against the above
named defendants TO quiet tltle 10 real estate,
aid on the 18TH day of May, 1877, the SAID plain
tiff filed in salo clerks Office the affidavit of
competent person showing thai said defend
ants, James 4. Pryor, and - Pryor, bis wife,
whose christian name to the plaintiff Is nn-
known, are not residents OF the state OF Indi-
ana
New, therefore. by order of said court. said
defendants last above named are hereby notif-
ed of the filing and tendency of said complaint
against them, and that unless they appear
and answer or demur thereto, at the calling
of said cause on the second day of the term
of said court, TO be begun and held at the court
house in the city of indianapolis. on the first
Monday i'm September. 1871. SAID compmfnt.
and the matters and things therein contained
and alleged, will be heard and de termined in
their absence.
AUSTIN II. BROWN,
May23-3w Clerk.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
May3-3w
Yoss & SMITH, Attorneys.

GTATE OF INDIANA. Marion county. SIS:
y In the superior Court OF Marion
county, in the state of Indiana, June term,
1877. lg,Gl6. Room No. 60
Gustavus II. Noss VS.. Charles Z. Gilmore,
Anna Gilmore, William A. Merritt and Thorn
as Ronaldson.
Be il keown, that on the 18th day of May,
1877. the allowed named plaintiff, by his at
torneys, filed in the Office of the clerk OF the
Superior Court of Marion county, In the
state of Indiana, his complaint against the
above named defendants. for the enforcement
OF vendors lien and ON the 5th day OF May,
1877, the said plaintiff filed I'm said
clerk Is Office the affidavit of q competent per-
son showing that said defendants, William A.
Merritt and Thomas donaldson are not resi-
dents OF the state of Indiana.
Now Therefore, nv order OF said court, said
defendants hist above named are hereby notl-
fed of the fling and pendency OF said COM
plant against them. and that unless they APP
pear and answer or demur thereto, at the
calling OF said cause on the second dayof the
term OF said court to be begun and held at the
court house in the city of Indianapolis. ON The
first Monday In September. 1871. SAID complaint.
the matters and things therein contained
and alleged. WIN be heard and determined In
their absence. AUSTIN II. BROWN.
May23-3w 40 titf Clerk.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

Mention of large earnings on the stage
leads to word about the present pecuniary
condition of the widow of the late James
Hackett, the famous Falstaff, who was sup
posed TO have left quite a comfortable for
tune. The present Mrs. Hackctt was her
husbands second wife, Since his death she
has had to struggle pretty hard for living,
notwithstanding the report that Hackett
had left considerable property. She went
on the stage some time ago and tried to be-
come an actress, but she never learned
the business, of course she did Lot succeed.
few days ago the only property of any
value that her husband had left her-a house
and lot down on Front street-was put up at
auction under foreclosure. The property
cost Hackett SIS, 900, and it was mortgaged
for s14, 900. so not dollar remained for the
widow.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
Charlie Ross.

Mr.. Christian X. Ross in letter to Mr..
Neff, in regard to the York county Ross-Sny-
der boy, after expressing his regret at Mr..
Nefss disappointment, states that he was not
disappointed, as he had not expected it was
the boy. He then gave his reasons The
boy did not resemble his ideal of Charlie; he
had been carried off by New York men, and
he could not expect to find Charlie with any
but the criminal classes and he did not
know as far as he could gather that the SDy-
ders belonged to that class; besides that, he
could not expect strangers to recognize him,
and he expected the boy to be able to remem-
Der about himself, etc. In his letter to Mr..
Young, he thanks him for the interest he
has taken. and then states that he has re
hceived number of copies of the Evening
Dispatch from his office, and some from the
authorities of the city of Philadelphia. He
saws that a number of letters have been re
ceived by the mayor of Philadelphia, from
prominent citizens of New York, who still
believe the boy to be his son, and who are
not satisfied with this brief examination.
Before L went. TO the depot TO see the
child" says Mr. Ross, 81 felt sure the boy
could not be mine, l confess thai
l might be mistaken in recognizing the
child after so long time has passed"
Mrs. Ross he describes as in
terested and anxious concerning this child.
We think that he is mistaken about the
cnllu yet being Win tnleVeS. w nen MOSner
and Douglass were killed il was certain that
the child was still living. 1t is equally GER
tam that after that he was not killed. for no
one would have dared to put him out of the
way, nor could they have had any motive
for it. Some day, and we speak almost with
prophetic gift, the child will be restored to
his parents, but it would be pitiful, indeed,
If, even as Evangeline, in Longfellow's poem
passed and repassed her lover, almost
touched him upon lifes great high
ways, and only knew him when
the angel of annunciation stood by
his bedside - these parents should
pass by their little child, hold him within
their grasp, rele4se him because the years
had changed his appearance and sealed his
memory, or he was found in an unexpected
place, let their treasure slip from their
clasp, and go back to the desolation of hop
ing. God Forbid We do not wish to make
Mr.. Ross trouble, but of this we are afraid.
The Snyders can not show where they OBJ
tanned the child; in their family record
every other child's birth is registered, but
not this one. When Mr.. Ross finds his
child it will be in an unexpected place, not
among thieves, for they no longer have use
for him, but in just such place as this, A
gentleman who has seen this child, and who
has known Mr.. Ross for years, says that he
resembles him in many respects. fa .
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
srAEE or IvDIAsA. MARIoN COUSIN, S:
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFIcE,
ISDIASAPoLIs, May 2l, 1877.

lSDIASAPOLIS, May II, 1osI. J l
To Whom IL May Concern:
Not &c il hereby given that the viewers in
the matter OF ditch petitioned for by Martin
V. Norris, and known as the "Blank-Wtlson
ditch" situated In Wayne township of Marion
county, Ind aua, and described as ,oilows, to-
wit: Commencing at the Little White Lick
gravel road near the n. corner of the e. "a
OF the n. e. a of section 10, town 10, range
east, and running south near the line dividing
said west from the east half of said northeast
quarter section a distance of 40 rods; thence
southeasteriy 40 ,ods, to the Indianapolis * ST.
Louis ,ilroad; thence east near said railroad
20 rods mere or less TO a culvert under said
railroad, there connecting with ditch COM
ing from the northeast; thence, after connect
ing, running southwardly and southwest
wardly &C ross the southeast quarter OF said sec.
10 to the county road on the south line of said
section and still south westerly, IL there is not
sufficient fall into the northeast quarter OF
section Is, township and range aforesaid,
some 40 rods, If required TO get sufficient fall
for drainage, aCd affecting the lands of Geo ge
Blank, s imuel Wilson Edward Kocher Emms
NJ. and George Hancb, Joshua Stubs, James
Stubbs and George Blank, Jr., have filed their
report in my Office, and that the same will be
heard by the board OF county commissioners
= Nm K. SPROULE,
IN Auditor of Marion Co.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23

To CoNsUMPrIvEs.-The advertiser, re-
tired physician, having providentially dis
covered, while a medical missionary in south
ern Asia, a very simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent cure Of consump-
ton, asthma, bronchitis, catarrh andall throat
and lung affections, also positive and radical
specific for nervous debility, premature decay
and all nervous complaints, feels IL his duty to
make II known 10 his suffering fellows. Ac-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
LEGAL
SALE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT.

By virtue of a certain precept to me directed
by the mayor of the city of indianapolis, In
diana, and duly attested by the clerk of said
city under the corporate seal of said city, /
will ON .t
SATURDAY, june 10, 1877,
sell, at public auction, at the City Court Room,
between the hours OF 10 O'Clock a, NJ. and 4
o'clock p. NJ. Of said day the following de-
scribed lot or parcel of land, or so much thereof
as may be necessary to satisfy the sum here
matter named as assessed against such prem
ises, for street Improvement. and all costs,
tO-wit: a.. 'f
Fifty l0) feet on Market by one hundred aud
twenty one (l2iI feet on West streets. middle
part OF outIot No. one handred and forty-se
en- GO in the city of Indianapolis, Marion
counto, Indiana. owned by Water Works
Company, against which is assessed the sum
of seven ty-two dollars and sixty cents (s72.60
for street Improvement, in favor of James w
Hudson, contractor. ..
i'l'A 80 HENRY W. ,TUTEwILER,
,n City Treasurer.
Indianapolis. Ind, May %, 1877. fi8tEi