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The Portland daily press., 1878-04-15
City of Portland.
I'm the Year One Thousand Eight Hun
dred and seventy-Eight.
An Ordinance Relating to Dogs.

T)E it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com
ID mon Council of the City of Portland, in City
Council assembled, as follows:
Section 1st-Eyery owner or keeper Of dog shall
annually cause it to be registered. described and IL
censed for one year in the Office OF the City Clerk by
paying therefor to said clerk the of twenty five
cents and shall cause it to wear around its neck
collar distinctly marked with the owners name and
registered number, and shall pay into the City Treas
uIy for such license one dollar.
Section 2d-Whoever keeps dog contrary TO the
provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit ten dollars
to be recovered on complaint TO use for the city.
Section 3d-All fines and penalties provided in the
preceding sections may be recovered on complaint
before any court of competent Jurisdiction in this
city.
Section 4h-An other ordinances relating to IL
censes for dogs are hereby repealed
Section 5th-This ordinance shall take effect on
after its approval.
Approved March 80, 1878. apr3d1m
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
day of the investigation. This accounts for
the milk in Mr.. Potter's cocoanut."

YESTERDAY, the fourteenth of April, was
the anniversary of the death of Abraham
Lincoln. 1t is very fitting, in view of what
he accomplished and what remains for us to
90, that these noble aud pathetic words from
the Gettysburg address should have at least a
yearly repetition.
Forescore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent new ma
ton, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in great civil war, test
ing whether that nation, or any nation so cou.
ceived and 80 dedicated, can long endure We
are met on great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate portion of that
field as final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live.
1t is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this. But in a larger sense we can
not dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. Pbe brave men, living
and Gead, who struggled here. have consecrated
1t far above our power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they
dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. 1t is rather for as to be here dedi-
Gated to the great task remaining before us,
that from these honored dead we take increas-
ed devotion to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall
have new birth of freedom, aud that govern
ment OF the people, by the people, and for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
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DESIDENCE Of the late DR.. Reynolds. A one
h and half story House, Stable and outbuild-
ings in good repair, with about one acre Of land un-
der good stale OF cultivation, fruit trees. grape
vines, &c. Situated within five minutes walk Of the
Depot, Post Office and the new Normal School. For
particulars enquire of CHARLES H. HASKELL or
DANIEL G. EMERY, Gorham.
Portland, March %, 1878.
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THE drift of European politics is toward
peace. Russia's attitude is markedly concili-
atory, and England cannot, did she wish,
quarrel with it. The will of Germany seems
to have shaped the situation.
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING., APRIL Is.

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 a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
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The recognition Of Daz would have been
more gracious had it come earlier. There
was no reason for delaying it.
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A Sa. 600 HOUsE FOR 81 500.

A MODERN built, two storiei house, containing
IA nine we'll finished Tooms-on Lincoln, near
Wilmot Street, only $1,000 required-the balance to
suit the purchaser. VIM. H. JERRIS, Real Estate
Agent. apl3d2w*
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EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Gard certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T..
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent our
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FOR SALE.

L nESIRABLE and elegant Hotel and
Eun IL Livery stable for sale. Business
NA interests in California recurring my i'm
t!Egj.R mediate and personal attention have induc-
EEA1. 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
modious with all modern improvements and situat-
ed in of the most pleasant and thrifty villages
New England, and dong first rate business; offers
extra Inducements as 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 on or
before May lst next. Correspondence invited as to
prices erms &c. Personal examination of the prop
erty preferred. Come and see. W. H. MATHEWS.
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House for Sale.

A NICE house for sale very low, If applied for
"A soon. Terms easy. Or will be leased for
term Of years, to good careful family. Inquire of
E. E. UPHAM,
mar9df or SMITH, GAGE g co.
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PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Plans for the Normal
School Buildings at GOrham,

NlHE Building Committee invite proposals for
Il plans for the Normal School building to be
erected in Gorham.
Said building is to be of brick, two stories high,
with a cellar under the whole of it.
1t must contain rooms as follows, viz: One large
room, to be on the second floor, having floor sur
face Of not less than 1880 feet five recitation rooms
each having floor surface of not less than 600 feet
two mode-school rooms, each having floor surface
OF not less than $50 feet, library and teachers
room, each having floor surface of not less than
300 feet; two cloak rooms of suitable size aud con-
venient for say two hundred pupils, Also su it.
able water closets. Efs
The rooms are to be finished in black ash, weins-
coated to the height OF the bottom of the windows
and with hard pine floors. The stairs to be of hard
wood. =
With each plan must be given specification of
quality, quantity and cost of the different materials
to be used and cost of labor required to fully COM
plete the building according to such plan, and a
statement whether the person presenting it will
agree to construct it accordingly at his estimates.
Proposals will be received until April a. 1875
The committee the right to reject any of the
plans offered, but will pay for the one accepted.
Ihe person whose plan is accepted will, subject to
the approval of the Trustees of the Normal School,
PROBABLY be selected as the architect for building
and be employed accordingly.
Propos ais should be addressed to the undersigned
at Gorham. JOHNA. WATERMAN
Treasurer, and for Building Committee.
April y, 1873. aprl0diw
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For Sale or to Let, i'm Deering,

NyHE westerly half of new block on Pleasant St.,
Il containing 12 rooms with ample closts. large
pantry, piped for water and gas, with gas fixtures,
wash trays, and other conveniences. Being in the
best location and the line Of horse railroad, low
taxes, and near good schools, make it of the
most desirable residences in Deering Will be sold
on liberal terms or lea:ed May 1st.
D, ROBINSON,
mar25eOdtapr15 478 Congress Street.
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FOR SALE.

nvHE Homestead of the late John Merrill, situated
Il in Falmouth, on the line of the Maine Centeral
Railroad, about one mile from the Depot in Cum
berland contains about thirty of first rate land
with good buildings, also wood lot of eleven acres
Enquire Of j. 7. Merrill 1859 Federal Street, E. w.
Talbot, 47 Commercial Street, or FENWICK
MERRILL, near the premises. marl5d8w*
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GELATINE STARCH.

IF you want the best and the cheapest Starch
4 preparation that has been or can be found,
L0cke's Gclatine Starch is that article, IL
prevents the iron STICKING and BLISTERING:
1t can be used either in boiled starch it gives
very fine clear white finish and polish. tnat will
pleasant exercise. For sale by Grocers Druggists.
&c. Wanted-Two good outside salesmen; also 4
few good local canvassers. = L
Manufactured and supplied wholesale by
LOCKES GELATINE STARCH CO.. 5
No. Plum St., Portland, Me.
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For Sale i'm Gorham Village.

A COTTAGE house, large stable attached, acre
n garden with fruit trees, grape vines, and with
in three minutes walk of depot and post office. En-
quire op the premises
apr9d2w* JOHN L. CURTIS.
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House for Sale.
For Sale i'm Gorham Village.

IN Western part of city, New House containing
L all the modern improvements. Inquire at thi
office. au2dR
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Sea Side HOteI TO Let,

a VvHE Bay View House, Old Orchard
ER i Beach. Saco. Me: 80 rooms. best situa-
tRX tion on the coast of Maine, fine bathing fish
t.E al ing and cunning privileges, hotel nearly
Ekl1s new, cost $22 900. Will be leased for term
OF years to responsible party-furnshed or unfur-
Dished. Will sell exchange tor city property il de-
sired. Photograph of hotel can be seen on applca-
tion to F. G. PATTERSON, 3794 Congress Street,
Portland Me. mh1Sdtf
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Farms, Farms, Farms.

Send for the Real Estate Advocate. 1t
describes large number Of Farms and
cheap Homes. 1t is free.
ABEL L. LAWTON & CO.,
feb26d3m AVER, MASS.
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REAL ESTATE.

MnNEVt to loan on first class Real Estate
MOI~ II L Security in Portland, or vi
cinity. Rents collected, taxes paid, &c. on Com
mission. Apply to F. G. PATTERSON, Dealer in
Real Estate. 1874 Congress Street. nolsdtf
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For Sale.

A FARM pleasantly situated, 81 miles from Port
"A land in Falmouth, on the old Yarmouth road
near Graves Hill 1t contains 60 good tw0sory
house of 10 rooms hard and soft water in house, barn
40x50, stable 20x30 Cuts about 25 tons OF hay For
further particulars enquire of ALBERT j. MER-
RILL on the premises. de15eodtf
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FIRST PREmIUMs Is7.
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HV LGIs
A PLEASANT sunny Rent of seven rooms, with
n all the modern improvements, at ITO Dan forth
treet. mhl9dtf
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To Let.
Valuable Farm for Sale,

SITUATED in Newfed, Me. 175 acres, 40 of
- which j. heavy growth rock maple and beech.
The place will cut 1900 cords of wood worth $4 90
per cord at market Two miles distant 80 tons of hay
per annUm; several hundred fruit trees. Farm we'll
fenced with stone walls Formerly known as the
Moulton place. now Sanborn. Must be sold to close
an estate. Terms one-half cash, balance on mort
gaze at per cent. Apply to F. G. PATTERSON,
3791 Congress st. ap13d3w
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gaze at per cent. Apply to F. G. PATTERSON,
379k Congress st. ap13d3w
Cottage House For Sale.
YTyHE II story cottage house, No 3s Melbourne St.,
Il nearly new. II rooms. gas. Sebago and good
drainage, lot 40x76, is offered Tor sale at bargain.
Terms made known on application to
F.G. PATTERSON, 3794 Congress st.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year in advance. =
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year If paid in al
vance.
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A PLEASANT lower tenement to let on Salem
"A street. Inquire at 10 Winter street.
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LOST AND FOUND.

Lost.
DETWEEN Oak st and West End, on Congress, a
ID small brass door KEY, Fast Day afternoon. the
apis d3t*
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HOTEL TO LEASE.

The New England House, Portland, Me,
Address AUG. P. FULLER,
de28dt Portland, Me,
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26
Written for The Bloomfield Times.
MY MYSTERIOUS PATIENT.

ONE evening while myself and several
" old friends were seated in DIR.
Blanks office, telling stories of our past
lives, one suggested that the doctor tell
us some of the curious incidents that
must have come to his knowledge dur
ing his long practice, in such city as
New York. He finally consented, and
said he would tell us about his mysteri-
Gus patient as he had named him. will
tell the story as near as possible, in his
own words:
g 1t had been nearly year since l
had hung out my sign, and as yet had
hardly been called to single paying
case. My rent was long since due, andI
was in daily expectation of receiving
notice to quit or pay up. Just at this
time was not prepared for either, for if
left, knew not where to go, and as to
paying my rent it was impossible. This
evening had sat until quite late, think
ing whether had not better give up
trying to secure practice in this city
had finally come to the conclusion to
hold on as long as my landlords patience
did not give out, and had just arose to
close my Office for the night, when 1
was surprised to hear carriage stop be-
fore my door, shortly followed by the
entrance to my office of middle-aged
man, of genteel appearance. He care
fully closed the door, and taking a hasty
glance around the room said, eff you
are alone doctor and disengaged should
like few words with YOU" Telling
him that ] was at his service, he re-
piled: g suppose, doctor, that you like
to practice where you are sure of good
fee." Under existing circumstances
was not disposed to deny this, and he
continued I" / have case in which
your services are needed, but before en-
gaging you / must tell you that 1 shall
require certain promises from you which
may not be agreeable, but which must
necessarily insist upon but assure
you that require nothing that you may
not easily and honorably agree to. In
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position viii compel you to give true
answer to question, even it it should
criminate your section ?"
"Try me, - said Bob, with twinkle
in his eyes.
"Sir," said the long and long
haired philanthropist, am informed
that in Georgia, your own State, they
actually work negroes to the plow in
the place of horses, and rely upon you
to substantiate or contradict it,"
Toombs said" i will answer you
Yankee fashion by asking another ques-
ton: DO you know what likely negro
boy or man costs ?"
." oh, yes,' said Philo, " am inform
ed of yoSr dreadful customs, and the
price of human blood is from 5000 to
81 800.
VIII you take 81 600 as fair ?" said
Toombs.
Yes, sir,'' said the man in search of
his brother.
Well" said Toombs, "a fair plow
team is two mules with us. How many
negro men do you think it would take
to do the work of two good mules ?"
The man pondered. He thought, here
was confusion. He said:
81 should say about ten to mule or
twenty to a team"
TOombs said; "a mule costs from
Sl00 to $3.50. A team, say $500. Your
negro team will cost just $4,000. Don't
you think that is rather high blowing p''
The man gave an angry jam of his hat
over his ears, and went out, calculating,
6 might have known it was lie ~
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Rather High PlOwinu.

Soon after Bob Toombs had made his
famous speech on "Slavery" at Boston,
an anti-slavery New Englander ap-
preached him in a great crowd at the
Revere House, and thinking to cause
the Senator to betray himself, asked;
"You are Senator Toombs ?"
g am," said the great Bob.
~ have no doubt that your eminent
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Select Poetry.
AN ABORIGINAL CHANT.

What time the glltterng rays of morn
O'er hill and valley steal,
Chief Joseph's squaw, with dog and corn,
Prepares the Indian meal.
And if, with wild, rebellious shout,
The pappoose shall appear,
The chieftain leads the bad child out,
Clutched by the Injin ear.
The breakfast DER, the daughter strolls
Down glen and shady dell
While gay young braves, from wooded knolls
"Look out for the Injin belle ~
Each stricken brave she turns and leaves
Her coyness to bewail
Her dragging blanket stirs the leaves
The well-known Indian trail.
A Black Hills miner, scalped and dead,
Upon the ground is found;
Grim speaks the child: "There's been, Pm
afraid,
An Indian summers round"
What time he rideth forth to shoot,
His favorte horse the dapple is;
And, when he wants little fruit,
Goes where the indianapolis.
When finished are his warlike tasks,
With brazen incongruity
For oyercoats and food he asks,
With charming Indianuity.
At night, before his bed he'll seek,
With countenance forlorn,
He takes his scalping knife, and exc
He trims the Indian corn.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26
A VETERAN DIVERS EXPERIENCE.

TACK CAMPBELL, who is said to be
u "the oldest submarine diver in the
United States" was interviewed few
days ago by Toledo Blade reporter, and
gave vivid account of the first steam
ship into which he ever went. 1t was
about two miles from shore that the
vessel had gone down. He went into
her for the purpose of recovering her
cargo. The bodies were of no conse-
quence, he stated. 1t is q singular
fact, said he in substance, that the
corpses of women in sunken vessel
always lie face upwards, while men are
invariably face downward. The cabin
of the vessel presented horrid appear
ance. The bloated bodies all laid up
next ceiling. Some were clasped in
each others arms. One mother had in
her arms her baby. A husband and
wife were clasped in each others en-
brace so firmly that they could not pull
them apart.
It's bad practice among some divers
to go through the pockets of corpses
that they find, and take all the valuables,
have known divers to make thousands
of dollars in that way. There is sort
of a pocket in the armor in which they
carry their tools, and have seen divers
come up out of wreck in which they
had been working with their pockets
filled with gold watches, diamond rings
and pins, and all sorts of trash. / dove
once in Mobile bay where put over 800
chains under an ironclad. The greatest
They didn't hardly dare tackle us be-
cause with our armor we looked more
like scare-crows than anything else.
They would come sailing along and
gradually swim up towards us with their
great big months wide open, but when
within a few feet of us they would stop
and lay there Tapping their fins and
looking, it seemed to me, like the very
devil himself.
Finally we devised a way to scare them
off that never failed to frighten them so
that they would stay away an hour or
longer before they dare to come back
The armor that we wear is air-tight, you
know. Ourjacket sleeves were fastened
around our wrists with an elastic, so
that the air could not escape. By run
ming my finger under the sleeve of my
jacket l could let the air out, and as it
rushed into the water it would make a
sort of a Kissing noise and a volume of
bubbles shoot up. So whenever those
internal sharks would come prowling
around me L would hold out my arm
towards them, and putting my finger
under the elastic of my jacket sleeve, 1
would let lot of air out, and send a
stream of bubbles into the sharks face,
with a Kissing noise like stream from a
gauge-cock. The way that those sharks
would go scooting of was funny to be-
hold"
"Jack," said the interviewer, cit is
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26

ESr If you wish to get rich, get mar
ried. When was honey ever made with
only one bee in the hive.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26

Ey y German, while crossing the
Allegheny mountains during the past
winter, states: :" Dat ven going up de
mountain, hish foot slipped him on de
ice, and he come down On de broad of
hish back, NIT hish face sticking in de
mud, and dere he shtoot."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-28

docks direct from Liverpool, and
sailing from them for Cork and
Havre. If congress will only carry
out the objects desired by the re-
cent convention at ST. Paul such a
result in that time is not too vision
ary to predict. On this subject a
Montreal correspondent, writing on
December 9th, says: A report of
the harbor commissioners states
that the twentytwo-toot channel to
Quebec at low water is practically Y
finished, three hundred feet wide
and twenty-five feet deeg, from the
Lachine canal to the st. Lawrence.
This connects the whole system of
navigation. 1t took five years to
deepen this, at q cost OF 1854, 900,
exclusive of the plant. The num-
Der of sea-going vessels which ar
rived in port during the season of
navigation in 1875 was 642; in 1876,
602; 1877, 57s, and in 1878, SIC.
The number of inland vessels for
the same period was 5,9I2 in 1875,
6,083 in 1876, 1888 in 1877, aud
$40 in 1873.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-28

CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE
At this season of the year nobody
looks for much Of arush in the
wholesale trade, but there always
are some signs OF what may be ex-
pected later On, and movements
which indicate the amount of CON
fidence in the future. So far az we
can see the signs are all favorable,
and in general way the tendency
of prices is toward 6rmer basis.
As rule, leading staples are at
low-water mark, aud there is moth
ing to prevent healthy movement
when the proper time arrives.
Already, several leading ticles Of
merchandise have taken a turn for
the better. Manufactures are in a
much better condition than this
time last year, and throughout the
manufac turing district, there is 4
confident feeling that the revival So
long needed is near at hand, il 1t
has not alresdy act in. The de-
preston has not been without it's
bensits. 1t has taught us to rely
upon our own resources, and deyel-
op the boundless weaitb we have
at our own doors. We have found
out that extravagaUt expenditures,
either public or private, no matter
how rushing they may make busi-
ness for a time, do not pay in the
end. Wealth suddenly y acquired as
suddenly disappears, and long terms
OF depression are the logical re.
suits of imitation and speculation.
With the resumption of specie pay,
ments, We shall enter upon new
era of prosperity which We may be
all tie better able to enjoy after the
hard experience of the last FIVE
years.-Boston Shipping list,