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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-03
HUNTING A HORSE THIEF.
the Colorado Outlaw.
kasn Hatfield, by . Well Com
ceivcl Stratngcm.

GEORGETOWN, COL, July 18.-Sheriff
Robert Dwyer, Of La Plata county, Col,
has just succeeded in capturing Sam Hat
field the leader Of q noted band Of horse
thieves, who for years have been terror
to the ranchmen OF southern Colorado,
Utah and Arizona. Hatfield. with seven
confederates, usually operated in the win
ter time along the Mancos and Dolores
rivers. The country is most favorable for
the outlaws, as it is surrounded by enor-
nous canyons, deep glcns and sandstone
mesas, dry and forbidding, and into which
no traveller cares to penetrate. Further to
the south Is the reservation of the treach-
erous and lawless Piutcs, and strolling
bands Of renegade Indians and Mexican
half breeds. The Sheriff started on the
hnnt for Hatfield ON the 10th Of June, in
company with Deputy Sheriff George Ri
non. Both were heavily armed and
Dwyer secured before starting arequisition
On the Governor Of Utah in case Hatfield
had crossed the boundary line.
They Travelled 3jl miles through the al
most impossible districts bordering ON
the Uncompha3rce river. aud until reach
lug the Grand river had not gained the
slightest clue to the whereabouts of the
outlaws lie then was informed that the
nien were hiding about thirty miles from
the Sierra Sal mountains and the Grand
river in Utah, in company with band Of
Mormon cattle thieves and traders. The
nearest settlement is at Beaver city, the
termiIii Of the Utah Central Railroad.
The entire country north of Beaver is
one unbroken wilderness, SO that the out
Laws fear no interruption from the officers
Of the law. To the south the country for
over $50 miles is continuous succession
Of eraggy canyons and Lava dykes, where
no man has yet dared to settle. Facing
the retreat Of the thieves il the Grand
river which sweeps down in torrents to-
ward the Gulf OF California. Tho river Is
dangerous to cross at any time of the
year. bnt especially in the early spring.
Thus the canyon serves rs corral for the
cattle and horses stolen, and owing to the
situation cattle could not be driven from
Colorado into Utah, or from Utah into
Colorado.
Arriving at the spot. the Sheriff and his
deputy passed themselves off for pros
pccting party. desirous Of developing the
mining resources of the country. Ma.ieId
was engaged to take them ON trip toward
the river, and when about two miles from
the camp the Sheriff covered him with his
carbine while the deputy clappod on a pair
Of handouts. There were but two com
panions with Hatfield, and they left early
in the morning On q fishing excursion up
the river. The Sheriff was seven days and
nights in reaching PARROT City, the coui
ty seat Of La Plata county, where Hatfield
was safely lodged. The ranchmen Of
southern Colorado are jubilant over his
capture. He can be identified by several
as the leader Of the outlaws.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

Mr.. Eugene Hale's speech the other day, in
the House, called attention afresh to tha chief
danger Of the present political situation-the
excessive power of the South in the Democratic
party in Congress and the excessive dem snds
of the South. The subject will be found still
further elucidated in the following
A complete list of the bills and resolutions
introduced in the House of Representatives
and the Senate prior to the holiday Recess, for
the purpose of securing public improvements in
the South, is given below. The list does not,
of course, include private claims. The bills for
the appropriations of indefinite sums are those
that call for the largest amounts. For instance,
each of the Texas and Pacific bills asks for
$50, 900, 900 of bonds more or less. The sum
total of the items in the list that are extended
is $27, ,246,74l; but this is a small fraction of
the amount for which the South through its
representatives is elamoring. With all the
blanks in the last column of the list filled out
and this cannot be done with accuracy, iuas-
much as the bills do not furnish data-it is safe
to say that the bills already introduced, before
the holiday recess alone, ask for at least
$15O0OOO00 to be expended in the Southern
States. Of the great number introduced since
no mention is made in this article. The fol-
lowing shows only the first demands of the
South. The amounts have been steadily in
creasing with every chance to offer new bills
ever since:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

print which viii form the two volumes Of bis
work, and which will doubtless be ready for
publication in May next. The work will bs
Published simultaneously, or as nearly SO as
can De arranged, by Messrs. Sampson. Low q
Co., in England by Messrs. Harper 8 Brothers
10 New York; in French by Messrs. Hatchette
q Co., Paris; in German by M. Brockhaue,
Leipslc; IN Danish by M. Mallings of Christi
anna. Negotiations are also pending for trans
latlons Into the Swedish, Spanish, Italian and
Russian languages.
The scope and plan of Professor Moses Colt
Tyler's History of American Literature, OF
which the first volume is now in the printers
hands, are Interestingly set forth in the follow
ng extracts from the authors preface "It is
my purpose to write the History of American
Literature from the earliest Eoglish settle
ments in this country down to the present time.
hope to accomplish the work within the space
of three volumes. Each of these volumes will
cover distinct period in the intellectual life of
the American people; and thus, while there
will be between the several volumes the tie of
mutual Interpretation and Of historical cousecu-
tiveness, it is intended that each shall have.
with reference to the epoch which it describes,
unity and completeness of its own. Such
unity and completeness have been aimed at in
the present volume, which may be described as
history of the rise of American literature at
the several isolated colonial centres while at
first each had its peculiar accent; of the growth
of this sporadic colonial literature in copious-
ness, range, fexibility, in elegance and force,
and especially in a tendency toward common
national accent, until. fnally in 1765, after all
the years of our minority and of our filial obe-
dience had been lived, the scattered voices of
the thirteen colonies were for the first time
brought together and blended in one great and
resolute utterance, an utterance expressive of
criticism upon the parental control welded
over US by England, q dissent from that con-
troll and at last a resistance to it; an utterance
which meant among other things, that the
thirteen colonies were no longer thirteen colo
MES bat one nation only, with all its great
hopes and great fears in common, with its
ideas, its determinations, its literature in COM
mon likewise. The real ending of our colonial
epoch, the real beginning of our revolution AIRY
epoch, coincided in that tremendous year of
disenchantment, thu year 1865 That year,
therefore, fixes the limit of the present volume;
for in this volume have tried to tell the story
of American literary activity during the time
of onr national childhood"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
back by stratagem what it fairly lost by the
sword.-Rutldnd Herald.

DacR Dy stratagem what 1t fairly lost by the
sword.-Rutland Herald.
The Fredericktown Jefersonian says Sam
uel Tilden "has lizard juice in his veins in
stead OF blood" Hear that? Say Look
herel Mr.. Tilden! Governor! Sam! Here's
man! Lizard juice oh, good heavens,
will anything ever stir this man up?-
Haackeye.
General Garfield has sent letter of thanks
to the business men of Cleveland, who COM
mended his course on the financial question
10 his letter he makes this cheering predic-
tion: "The extreme men who are not con-
tent with the legislation already adopted, are
now seeking to Increase the volume OF our
paper currency. L hope and believe it will
be possible successfully to resist this most
serious assault upon the national honor and
the business prosperity of the country"
Polk now looms up as sectional issue.
All the Northern investigators want to abol-
ish him, repudiate his work, and turn over
the BOOKKEEPING with its elastic emoluments
to the illustrious Thompson of Ohio; while
the minority, all of whom represent constit-
uencies in the Sunny South, can see no rea-
son why he shouldn't be indicated and set
up once more in business as lobbyist and
salary broker. They could hardly solidify on
a worse lot
The New York Tribune furnishes list, by
title, of the bills and petitions now pending
in Congress asking for appropriations for
Southern improvements and to compensate
the South for losses sustained during the war.
The claims for indirect damages to property
public and private are pnrposely left blank in
valuation; but reliable investigation proves
that not less than $150000,000 are covered
by the papers herein referred to. The $780,
000,000 now before Congress would be swol-
len to indefinite proportions, if the flood
gates were once opened. National indebted
ness would be the ou,come, to an extent i'm
possible now to predict, and then would fol-
low corresponding decrease IN credit. The
inevitable result of this demoralizing financial
assault, would be the bankruptcy of the Ma
ton. This is no longer a partisan subject.
Party lines dwarf before the possibilities OF
such disaster. Aside from the questions OF
how, by whom or why these demands are
made, looms up tha-pital- -inanirs. Gau the
NatIon assume SO gigantic a debt and yet
live ?-Chicago Post.
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Notes and Announcer ment,.

Mr.. 81. NJ Stanley, states The (London) Pnb-
lishers' Circular, which speaks by authority, is
engaged in writing his full account of his most
important journey across Africa; and at pres
ent he is doing so with characteristic energy.
He rises early, works all day. and as his labors
during the day are constantly broken in upon
by numerous callers, he makes up for any such
loss of time by toillng on frequently till the
small hours of the morning. Already large
portion of bis manuscript is in the printers
hands, and it seems quite certain that if his
health does not fail he will accompl plish the
Herculean task he has set himself of writing
in about seventy days the 800 pages of octave
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
REAL ESTATE.
Farm For Sale! Brick Yard For
Sale! Timber Lands
For, SaIe!!!

FTHE undersigned, desirous of changing. his busi
Il ness offers for sale at bargain, his homestead,
situated in North Bethel, q miles from the Grand
Trunk Depot at Bethel, the direct stage to
the Lakes, containing about 25 acres of good land,
about one-haf under high state Of cultivation,
with tine young orchard in bearing conoitioD.
The House is u story cottage. with ell painted and
bindei, with piazza, containing IL finished rooms,
and suitable to accommodate IL to Is summer board
ers There is connected with the house suitable out
buildings, a store and stable 3lx50. The farm is
situated the vicinity of the wellknown boarding
houses o. c. P. Bartlett, c. r Locke. and the
boarding houses erected by H. r. Goodwin. of the
Lake House, Upton. The scenery is magnificent,
and the facilities for hunTiag and fishing unsurpas
sed. Also small house of six roops stable and
acre of land near the cottage Also 13 acres of sup
erior intervae upon an Island in the Androscoggin
River. Also about 100 of land On Sandy River,
10 acres good ntervae about same in pasture and
the balance well covered with wood and timber,
first class BRICK yard, connected with this land Also
100 acres of land in Riley Plantation well covered
with spruce timber. I of mile from Sandy River.
and miles from the Androscoggin. Also house,
hold furniture, farming tools, GARAGES, harnesses,
horses cows, Sheep hogs and other things connected
with farm and boarding house too numerous to
mention. For further particulars inquire of the
Proprietor, o. G FROST. on the premises Terms
male easy. o. c. FROST, Bethel, Oxford Co. Me.
mar2l eod&w2w
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Current Comment.

Inc Claim Agency party is afraid the anti
Cancellation spirit will ruin its business.
Ihe alleged backbone of the winter was
a good deal like that OF the Adm inistration.-
worcester Press.
There is nothing to be done by cheap
words; it is desperate fight between the
North, trying to keep, if it can, what it so
hardly won, and the South iTying to steal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

MAST makes great hit in the current
Hdrpers Weekly with his version of the
bondholder who relieved US when we were
strangling. Now we tell him that he was
fortunate to get his head out of the wolf s
mouth, and that is reward enough.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

Mr.. TILDEN is out of politics,ls he? There
was once an old rat who found an uncommon
fine cheese, and burrowed there, and gave
out that he had become a hermit and was
done with the world and its follies.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
The Southern Nav.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MIL
LIONS.

A Complete List of the Bills and Resolu.
lions Introduced Prior to the Holiday
Recess, Asking for Money for the South
ern states-If they Ask for this i'm the
First Month, How much will They take
when They get the Powers
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

EWING wants the United States to hire
some ''experts" to go about the country and
weigh the government gold wherever it is
stored. He is afraid Secretary Sherman has
lied, and he wants the experts to find out.
sion to see if Ewing and the ''experts' have
told the truth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
A Good Farm For sale.

STTUATED in Cumberland on the line of the M.
- c. II. r. II miles from Cumberland Centre,
containing abont 65 acres, with buildings thereon,
will be sold april i3, 1878, at ten O'Clock a. NJ. at
public auction, unless previously sold at private sale.
ANY information will be given by the subscriber, on
the premises. E. ID. MERRILL.
marl3 eOd2W*
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 30.

we DO not read anonymous letters ana commum
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty OF gooo faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
FOR SALE.

nESIRABLE and elegant Hotel and
@D IL Livery sable for sale. Business
hIhi interests in California recurring my i'm
}iEDHb mediate and personal attention have induc-
ElEd'y ed me to offer my hotel property, the
Aearsport House, in Searsport, Me-,
for sale. This house is SO widely and favorably
known as not to require particular description.
Sufficient to say that the house is large and COM
modous with all modern improvements, and situat-
ed in of the most pleasant and thrifty villages in
New England, and dong a frstrate business; offers
extra Inducements safe and reliable investment;
for profitable and paying hotel business it is unsur
passed in Maine. The hotel and livery will be
solo separate together desired. Shall sell
before May LIST next. Correspondence invited to
prices terms &c. Personal examination of the prop
erty preferred. Come and see w. H. MATHEWS.
marl2 d2m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
FOR, SALE.

TVyHE Homestead of the late John Merrill, situated
Il in Falmouth, on the line of the Maine Centeral
berand contains about thirty acres of first land,
with good buildings, also wood lot of eleven acres.
Euquire Of j. L. Merrill, l59 Federal Street, F. w.
Talbot, AZ Commercial Street, or FENWICK
MERRILL, near the premises. mar5dSw&
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

GEN. BANKS accurately described Mr..
Clymer's speech on the naval appropriation
bill when he said it was the same speech that
is always made by the party Out of power.
1t is simply political harangue.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

FANCY the horror of Minnesota at the
thought that it must pay its debts! Only
the wisdom of Senate that knew the willy
ways of wicked creditors saved the State
from wild extravaganza if not crime.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

THE Khedive has always had longing for
Syria, and now sees an opportunity to crafty
himself. But perhaps Syria is a British
Interest
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

HAzING ceases to be pure fun when indul-
gence in it leads to arrest and Imprisonment
or the posting of the hazer as an escaped
criminal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

EVERY regular attache of the PRE,s is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pulen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

THE British papers are saying hard things
about us, and there is enough truth in them
TO make them cutting things.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

THE CourierJourndl gives new Shakes
pearean reading: Some men are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some come from
Ohio.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
For Sale,

ON Oak Street near Ocean Street, Deering, two
" nav houses, 8 rooms, bath room, pantry and
closets These houses thoroughly built, and will
be sold at great bargain Also 20 house lots for
sale very low. Terms to suit. INQUIRE on the prem
ises of y. L. TYLER.
DIV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23

A QUESTION of considerable interest to
Odd Fellows, or at least to those of the Fra
ternity who belong to relief associations, has
come up in New Hampshire, in connection
with the will of, a deceased member. The
relief provided in this case was to be given to
the family in the following order sunless 9TH
erwise ordered in writing by the deceased
member" Wife first, then children, then
father, then mother, and so on. In the will
of the deceased he gives Gall the rest and res
idue of his property and estate, including the
whole of whatever sum or amount may be
due him or his executor from the Odd Fell
lows Mutual Relief Association" ETC., to his
mother. The question presents itself: "Is
this fund assets in the hand of his executor,
which can be used to pay debts of the de-
ceased ?" 1t is contended that it is relief,
not an asset, going to the wife wholly unless
the deceased member ip his lifetime ordered
its payment to his father or other of the regu-
lar beneficiaries; that said member had no
power to direct that the funds should be paid
to an executor, and that he had no testament
tary power at all over the sum.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
For Sale.

HOUSE and stable with good sized lot. The house
III has 10 rooms, is fitted for two families, and in
good repair. The stable has three stalls minutes
walk from City Hall. Would exchange for farm land
near Portland. Inquire of
mhlsd2w* A. E EATON. 1870 Exchange st.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-23
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

:. Creating certain post
routes In N. Carolina. .,,,,,,,
ITO provide for the settle
ment of accounts with
certain railway compa-
nieS... S.................,.. ..,.t,..
ITO authorize the State
National Bank Of New
Orleans to prosecute
suit against the u s.. ........
44-Mitcheli :. Authorizing the South
ern Pacific r r. Co. to
extend its railroad. tel
egraph line, etc., to
point the Rio
Grande, Ell Paso, etc. ........
Approximate amount asked for In SEN
a'e''''''' ''"',''s'.............. ~ ,3&5 los
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n TT mOobtained for mechanical de-
II III nj It vices, medical, or other
n v \ompounds, ornamental
n TIU designs, trademarks, and
L - II u L ~ labels, Caveats, Assign
meuts InterfereDces e.
promptly attended to. INVENTIONS that have been
J !; :; +: =:
searches, and secure Pat
tents moro promptly and with broader claims than
those who are remote from Washington.
THITTUITH n ~ dus a model or
nj III tf MI I'll III \ sketch OF your de-
IN II V III X y vice; we make exam
~ lii I nations free ofchdrge
E4i ] ~ II " lV ~ and advise as to pa
tentability. All cor
respondence strictly confidential. Prices low, AND
NO GHAKGE UNLESS PATENT Is
SECUREDs
We refer to officials in the Patent Office, and to
inventors ia every State in the Union.
G. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent OTce, Washington, d. G.
no24 dtf
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ourpal.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-13
Another. Fat Man Reduced.

II. A. KuFUs, dealer in dry. goods
Woodruff. ILL.,, writes botanic MEDI.
cINg Co, Buffalo. N. T., June 22d, 1873
neutrality-suspicious. End inolosed $500
for which send me, by express. Anti
Eat. Ihave taken one bottle and lost
five and one quarter pounds"
Rain is much needed in this section
The dry weather has made the ground
40 hard that following for sowing the
fall wheat crop Is very difficult.
We penned the above on Wednesday
Yesterday morning rain commenced fall
ing and continues to fall as We go I'd
press, 10 O'Clock, =. N.
Sec advertisement Of C.S. White &
IL. b. Gilkesop, Esq'rs.. trustees, Of a
House and Lot, in Ropney, for salo. .
I.business does not revive this fall IL
will not be the fault OF their not being
any pro- bets in the land. log
Relocating coffee just before grinding
brings out the flavor.
The circulating medium nowadays
seems to be hard money--hard TO get,
and harder 10 keep.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-13

The acquisition Of vital energy 10 the
stepping stone to health. When che
system lacks vitality. tho various organs
flag In their duty, become chronically
Irregular. and disease 10 eventually In.
stituted. To prevent this unhappy state
of thirgs. the debilitated system sbould
be built up by the use Of thu. inimita
BILE tonic. Hos.et.er's Stomach Bit,srs
which invisot.tcs the digestive organ.
and insures che thorougl convstsion Of
food into blood Of . noarrishing quality
from whence every muscle. nerve and
dbre acquire unwonted supplies OF vigor,
and the whole system experiences. the
beneficial effect. Appetite returns. the
system is refreshed by healtbful slum.
Der, tie nerves grow strong and calm
the dependency bogotten Of chronic Ii
digestion and an uncertain state .ol
health disappears, and that sallow sp,
pearance OF the skin peculiar 70 habit
ual invalids. and persons deficient 10
vital vital energy. = replaced by q moro be-
coming tinge.--lm.