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Republican meetings were held last night at

Republican meetings were held last night at
Augusta and Kittery.
Republicans of Lincoln county nominated
candidates for county officers yesterday.
The Iowa Greenbackers held their state
convention yesterday. The day was spent in
fighting and finally the Pomeroy faction got
control and reaffirmed the Chicago platform
of March, 1879. No nominations for state Off
GERS were made.
There were % new cases of fever at Memphis
yesterday.
Sitting Bull has returned to Canada and is
said to be peaceable.
A Democratic mass meeting in Rankin coun-
ty, Miss, appointed committee to wait on Maj.
B. F. Sutton, the candidate of the Indepen'
dents, and order him to withdraw from his can
didacy and leave. He is one of the most re-
spectacle citizens of the place and nothing is
urged against him but the fact that he has
dared to run in opposition to the Democratic
party.
A mass meeting was held in the afternoon,
at which Senator Blaine and Representative
Reed spoke.
DR.. Wright, the Republican candidate for
SoNcIHoT VI IeHueSSce, says lndt Stitte Will llot
repudate its debt.
There is a crisis in the Austrian ministry
and it is rumored that Count Andrassy has re-
tired from the premiership.
There is a remarkable revival in the iron
trade and mines, furnaces and FORCES in New
jersey which have been idle since the panic
are starting up.
On account of the protest of England and
France the ex-Knedive will not return to
EgyDt
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A Study in Dialect.

The Oak Bluffs correspondent of the New
York Evening Post is wicked sinner Con-
sequently he speaks thus: As one star differs
from another star in glory, so the bellies of the
North, the South, the East and the West, diff
fer among themselves in voice, style, face, cos
tune, figure and speech. The scene is the
ocean esplanadej whittier 1 have strolled at
sunset. Three typical young ladies, Miss Fee
licia Adams of Boston, Miss Annie Brown OF
Philadelphia and Miss Ireen McGillicuddy of
New York, are walking on the sands below me
so near that scraps of their conversation reach
me between the breezes; >--a i.
hear Miss Felicia exclaim, i'll a swift fall
setto, 'Stawp, geurls, fr'hawfaminut' IAN
glice-Stop, girls, for half minute) She
continues in Bostonese-I translate for the
uncu1tured ear: "How the dun reaches of
gray sand glqW in the mellow dusk! Yonder
shore line l4(kB like gigantic sickle which
the oceans harvesters have dropped from their
marine wains. Listen to the stringent swash
of the waves as they cut themselves against
its emerald edge" ..
1t is Miss Ireens liquid tones that answer i'll
pure Manhattan, Correct Felicia IT'S per-
fectly magnificent; just matches my blanket
shawl. Annie sswould you wear gloves to the
rink t&1liaft2 There ought to be a law against
the instructors squeezing ones hand SO; it's
awful!'
The Quaker City girl replies, with full
chested vehen1ence, How foolish pronounced
gloves, 'HhestL Aem Idueeze away. This fog
pronounced fug) is simply horrible, and
there's a toad pronounced tod. Don't go
near him.
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Twenty-Five New Cases in Memphis


MEMPHIS, Aug. 12.-Fifty-five hundred per-
sons attended the funeral of Rev. j. III. Ridley,
the colored pastor of Collins Chapel the larg-
est and most influential colored church in the
city. The deceased was man of great infiu-
ence among his people, and possessed the con-
fidence and respect of the white community.
The prospects here are gloomy. The fever
is spreading in every direction The post office
and telegraph office have been invaded. The
sick show no signs of Improvement For over
two weeks there have been nightly assem-
blages of colored people in their churches. 1t
is proposed to close the churches to prevent
such meetings in future 1t has been discov
cred that nurses who are on duty during the
day attend these gatherings at night, and it is
believed the fever is thus spread.
MEMPHIS, Aug 12.-Twenty-two cases in all
were reported today, ten colored Two addi-
tional deaths occurred. Three tents will be
sent to the White Haven tomorrow, to which
will be removed the people living in the dwell
ling where Mrs Bolton lies sick. S. II. Glib
son, bookkeeper Daily Appeal, was stricken
with fever this afternoon Ed. Moon is dying,
and all arrangements have been made for his
burial. w. II. Guy is worse tonight Weather
sultry and rain threa ned.
No Fever in New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, Ang 12.-The city council
adopted resolutions declaring there is not a
case of yellow fever in the city, and protesting
against the unjust quarantine established by
northern clues ana towns against New orleans
Stampede of the Citizens of Corinth.
CoRINrH Miss, Aug. IA perfect stam-
pede of citizens is in progress, owing to the
illness of the mayor and president of the board
of health of supposed yellow fever. 1t is
thought their contact with citizens fleeing
from Memphis to the quarantine station has
caused infection. The people were fleeing to
the country, but many farmers quarantined
against them, and they roamed through the
woods trying to find refuge.
Rigid Quarantine in Western Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 12.-Reports from West
Tennessee indicate that quarantine regula-
lions are growing more stringent daily in con.
sequence of alarming reports of the increase OF
fever at Memphis Every town has its picket
line of inspectors, Travel has grown as diff
cult as passing through an African jungle.
Towns in Northern Alabama are also enacting
the severest possible quarantine regulations.
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By water conveyance-100 bush Cornmeal to G
W. True & Co.
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Fatal AffraV,
NEW YORK.

Retirement of an Insurance Company.
New YORK, Aug. 12.-The Adriatic Fire
Insurance Company have decided to retire
from business, and have reinsured all out
standing risks in the London and Lancashire
Fire Insurance Company of London, Eng. 1t
was stated at their office yesterday that insur-
ance companies have lost 81 100000 during the
past year.
Trouble in the Building Department.
New YORK. Aug. 12-Rumors of trouble in
the building department are in circulation and
that the superintendent will be sum noned to
show cause why he should not be removed.
1.-THE Board of Railway Arbitration.
SARATOGA, Aug. 12.-David A. Wells, Chas
Francis Adams, Jr., and John M. Wright,
composing the railroad board of arbitration,
began their sessions yesterday. They sit in
New York on Friday, and will settle the divis-
ion of general freights, except live [stock east
ward from St. Louis, the division of general
freights eastward from Cincinnati, the division
of live stock traffic east of Cincinnati, and the
division of general freights eastward from Chi
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Magazine Notices.

Harper's Magazine for September presents
many novelties, and in excellence of illustra-
ton is superior to even the August number.
In fiction, this Magazine is now remarkable
for its three serial novels by Miss Mulock, Will
liam Black and II. ID. Blackmore-a marvel
lous array of imaginative power. Mary Amer
ley, Blackmores new novel, promises to be
one of his best efforts. and William Black $
yachting romance, White Wings, is an en-
chanting story. One of the most novel features
of this number is a ghost story by Howard
Pyle, with eight illustrations drawn by the au-
thor. Not less striking, though of a more state
ly order, are Mr.. Reinhart's admirable pictures
illustrating Mrs. Champney's Newport Society
in the last Centery. The article is one of UNI
usual intereH sSelating to the period when the
: French officers Rochambeau and others
made; tfyissarrisop town their favorite resort.
/ Lucy arcoms lyric, My Mariner, is accom-
panied by spirited illustration by Fredericks
In the second paper of Mr.. Benjamin's series,
Fifty Years of American Art there are beau
tiful engravings after paintings by F. E.
Church, Worthingttrg Nliittredge, R. W.
Hubbard, j. w. Casilear, J. f. Cropsey, w.
I. Richards, S. r. Clifford, A. F.. Bellows,
James Hart, James Hamilton, w. H. Beard,
E. Leutze, William Page, Elihu Vedder and
John Lafarge. In excellence of engraving
nothing could be superior to the sixteen pic
lures illustrating Barnet Phillips interesting
paper, The King Collection of Engraved Gems,
recently purchased for the Metropolitan
Museum. Mr. Ernest Ingersoll's Gold Mining
in Georgia takes us into new and very inter-
esting field of which little is known. The pa
per is profusely and exeellently illustrated.
Nearer New York a pleasing subject for an
illustrated paper is found in The Navesink
Highlands, Interestingly treated by Miss f. E.
Fryatt. Besides the fiction already mentioned
there is short story by Mrs Annie Howells,
Frechetti. William Gibson contributes a
poem, The Last Rose of Summer. Edward
Rowland S paper, An Industrial Society and
its Work, presents a curiously remarkable
series of cooperative industrial plans success
fully carried out in Mulhausen, offering many
useful suggestions to those interested in the
welfare of laborers. The editorial departments
are full of interesting matter. In the Editors
Drawer is burlesque operetta entitled "Il Ja-
cobb, 'Sby Mrs. E. T. Corbett, with six illustra-
70 Rood
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IOWA GRERNBACKERS.

A Day Spent in Trying to Settle Their
Squabbles-The Convention Captured
by the Pomeroy Wing.
MARsHALLTowN,A Aug. 12.-The State Green
back convention met this morning with 80
delegates. Geo. III. Wilson was made chair
man, and the usual committees were appointed
but there is no indication that the convention
will put an independent ticket in the field The
afternoon was mainly devoted to harmonizing
the factions of the party and to inaugurate a
radical policy for 1880.
After a wrangling and inharmonious session
the convention was governed by the Pomeroy
faction and adopted resolutions endorsing the
Chicago platform of March 1859, and pledging
their honor and lives to accomplish the princi-
pies therein set forth; declaring that all future
conventions, state and national, shall be con-
Quoted according to club representations, the
organization of the clubs to be furthered by
every honorable means and charters of such
clubs to be received in strict conformity to M.
M. Pomeroy's instructions. Adjourned with
out making any nominations.
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About the Jews.

''OoHIJ'J
We do not know whether the pleasant MAN.
haitian Beach hotel Observes the good old habit
of placing a Bible in every room. But if it
does, it is odd that the beds Of books the sa-
cred book of Christendom, which is thus Sc
lected as the one book for every guest, is the
history of the Jewish people, the "divinely
chosen" nation, and the record OF the teach
ings of the Master whom the great part of
C6ristendom reveres as God taking flesh as a
Jew. Its is odd what reflections these facts
suggest. 1t is very odd, also, to consider what
the company at that pleasant hotel would be If
all the influences which have moulded its life
and education and thought, and which are due
to the Hebrew genius, were suddenly taken
away. If civilization had written over its
gates, 'tNo Jews admitted" and could have
Kept them ont, half of its characteristic charm,
half of the refinement of modern thought and
life, would be wanting.
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California Mining stocks.


WATERTowN, Aug l2-Beef Cattle-receipts 30
head market quiet with fair business, but butchers
are unwilling to give anything above last week S
prices; sales of choice at 0O97 1915 extra at
6 50G6 rs; first quality 5 1896 %; second quality
at Oo95 50i third qqalityat 3 S7asa4 e; Store
Cows and Calves $2O9$60; Farrow Cows at 800
500; yearlings at S7@S14; two years old at $129
live, 419(d45sc ~ H.
Sheep and Lambs-receipts 4497 head; with less
receipts; market improving and the decline of last
week recovered sales in lots at 2 O093 80 each
extra at 4 0094 70; Spring Lambs at 1a951@c
Veal Calves 21aa4.
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The Silver Dollar.

A correspondent writes from Saco. Maine, to
complain of our opposition to the big white dol-
lar. As a constant reader of the Herald he
propounds series of questions which we have
summarized under three heads, and we answer
below. First-Why is the Herald opposed to
hard money? Answer-We do not hold our
selves bound to support hard money, as such.
Far otherwise. Hard money, for all the sound
ring in the name, may be dangerous and de-
testable swindle. Indeed it may become very
nearly as great peril to the business commu-
nity as the widest form of soft money. Take
this fact picked from the news of the week,
as an example: The cable told us on Monday
that in Turkey the Gaines had gone out OF
below their nominal value. The submerged
Gaines are irredeemable paper promises, soft
money of utter Worthlessness. such as Gen.
Butler loves. The deprecated pdrdS, being
copper coin, are hard money beyond denial.
But like the American silver dollar, they are
hard money cut loose from gold; and already
thew have lost three-tifths of their face-value.
For our part we draw the line of our champi-
, onship at honest money Afraudful coin over
valued, yet irredeemable. has no claim to the
favor of right-thinking men.
Second question-Should we have specie pay
ments to-day if we did not have the silver dol
lar? Answer-Most assuredly. The "stove-
lido dollar as far as it is counted at all, has
from the first been hindrance to resumption;
and it is to-day the only cloud on the financial
horizon that threatens the soundneSS OF our
currency. AT this writing. the Bintrinsic value
of the coin is no more than eighty-seven cents.
If the white-faced fraud had ripened its powers
for mischief we should see a premium of fifteen
per cent. upon gold, and wilder fluctuations
than the greenback gave us during the last
years of its irredeemability. If our memory
serve us, on the day of redemption, the silver
dollar possessed an intrinsic value of about
eighty-fve cents. The greenback for weeks,
and, indeed, for months, had held on the aver
age market value of more than ninety-nine
cents. Evidently the redemption in the former
could not, by possibility have added anything
to the value of the latter. Our correspondent
must admit that point, unless he believes that
a high tide in the gulf of st. Lawrence can
raise the level of Lake Superior. Third ques-
tion-Since the law remonetizing the silver
dollars placed them upon an identic footing
with other money, why did the Secretary make
any distinction against them. Answer-Substar-
italy he made none; for he allowed every claim
ant upon the Treasury to take either silver dol
lars or other currency. At present the rule
really discriminates in favor of silver dollars.
For the receiver is given no choice in the mat
ter, bnt must take the clumsy .pieees whether
he desire them on no. 81
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FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
BOSTON-Ar Aug 18th, barque Woodside, from
Buenos Ayres.
Ar at Antwerp Aug 9th, ship Edith, Homer,
Philadelphia.
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The Republican Party Impeached.

[St Louis Times-Journal-1
Since the .disgraceful Inauguration of the
usurper Hayes, what has been the crying evil?
Bayonets at the ballot-box? No.
What, then?
A red-faced fuzzy baby
The baby cries. WHY? Because it is cob
stitutionally disorganized.
1t is colicky.
Will the Republican party pretend to deny
that the baby is colicky? Dare the Republic
can party hold Democracy responsible for that
babYs colickosity?
So long as there is wind upon the baby's
stomach the baby will have collie. So long as
the baby has collie this crying evil will not be
abated. ~ ~ -f -
So longas the tisurper occupies the President
tial chair, and so long as the Republican party
remain in power babies will have wind upon
the stomach and babies will cry +
So then the Republican party are RESPONSE
BILE for the babys collie. and the consequent
or, ing evil. -. = FFNS 4
This is plain logic. III
What relief have we, as citizens as members
of society, as politicians, and as writers?
Soothing syrup. '.pja.-' .; .l' az
Let the usurpers tremble. We will apply
the remedy II it fails, then-.what then?
Patience will fall Violeifte will be resorted
to. The evil will be abated.
By what means?
The slipper.
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How the Democrats ENCOURAGE Crime.

CHEToPKA. Kan. Aug. 12.-Capt. John Sc
crest, mail contractor, EN- Route west from
Vinita, Indian Territory, was found some hum
bred and fifty miles west of Vinita day or
two ago, murdered. He left Vinita few days
before with considerable money for the purpose
of paying off mail carriers 1t is supposed
that the desperadoes who robbed Coneyville a
short time ago are the parties who committed
the crime, as the United States District Court,
which has jurisdiction over the Territory, is
now powerless, owing to the lack OF appropria-
tions by Congress to meet the expenses of the
marshals. 1t is thought that these acts are but
the beginning of reign Of crime and lawless-
ness in the Territory.
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The Mormons Getting Excited.

OGDEN, Aug 1.-THE conviction and inn
prisonment Of Reynolds for polygamy, the
murder of Standing, the Mormon preacher in
Georgia, the imprisonment of Cannon, dele
gate to Congress, and other executors of Brig
ham Young's estate, have caused bitter feelings
and the News, the leading church paper, has
lately contained threatening articles and in
fammatory speeches have been made. The
circular to foreign countries is treated with
contempt and it is claimed to be absurd to
suppose any European government will under
take to establish an inquisition to determine
the religious faith of emigrants, or all who in
tend to enter into polygamy. There is no evil
dence of any intention to resort to forcible
resistance to the government, but the Mormons
have good military organization, and are
mostly well armed,
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DEATHS.

In this city. August 18th, Mrs. Charlotte BOYD,
wife of Geo. w. Boyd, only daughter OF the late
Capt. Green Walden
Funeral from Falmouth Hotel Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock
Drowned off Prout's Neck, in the gale of August
9Th Gilman b. Conway aged 80 years.
Advertiser please copy.l
In Bath, August 1 L, Miss Ada E. Grace, aged "a
years and 3 months.
In East OrringtOn, August 1st Mrs. Helen NJ.
Smith, aged A years and months.
In Livermore, August 9Th, Mr.. Gilbert Winslow,
aged SO years and months
In West Auburn. August 9th, Mr.. Lysander Rick
err, aged II years and II months.
In Edgecome August Sd, Mrs. Willard Haggett
aged 65 years and months.
In West Waterville, August Sd, Miss Mary C. Wy
man, aged 20 years and o months.
In Cornish, August 9Th, Mr.. Albert Kicker, aged
81 years.
In Windham Hill, August 9th, Miss Henrietta
Senter aged AZ years and 10 months. u
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WASHINGTON.
Our Consul at Gibraltar.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Mr. Sprague, our
consul at Gibraltar, July 10 reports that he has
received third anonymous letter trying to ex-
tort money from him. person has been
arrested, suspected Of completely in the plot.
The letter asserts that the man is entirely in
this (third) letter withdraw, professedly, wholly
from the attempt, and abandon all demands
for money and disclaim their former threats.
Mr.. Spragues family resides in a secluded
country place outside of the city. He has been
consul at Gibraltar 81 years. 80
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AFRICA.
The Slave Trade in Egypt.

Col Gordon, Governor General of Southern
Egypt dated 18th of June, show that after
Lieut.. Gessi conquered the slave dealers
of Bargazelle district, killings eight of the
leaders in battle, taking their chief station by
assault, capturing large amount of booty and
hanging nine ring leaders he proposed to eva
cuate the district after disarming the inhabi-
tants, when the operations to check the slave
trade would be confined to rigorous watching
of the frontiers and encouragement of
legitimate commerce. Suleiman, the leader of
the slavers who escaped after the last battle has
mustered force and is pushing for Darfur,
where he will find plenty to join him. Gordon
thought the situation SO serious that he hastily
returned to Darfur.
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TenneSSee's Debt.

New YORK, Aug. 12.-Dr. Wright, recently
Republican candidate for Governor, now in
this CITY, saws that the debt of Tennessee has
not been repudiated and never will be. The
great bulk of both parties being dissatisfied
with both tickets, did not go to the polls at the
recent election. The next legislature will be
favorable to an honest settlement of the debt
Tennessee is feeling the impulse of better times
probably more than any other Southern State
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Brutal and Fatal Assault by Wome

A Brutal and Fatal Assault by Women.
WooDyILLE, Aug. 12.-Mrs. Gilbert Fuller
was brutally and fatally assaulted by two
women who knocked her down with chair,
jumped upon her and kicked her. No arrests.
The Fall River Spinners.
FALL RIVER, Aug. 12.-About 400 operatives
assembled at Spinners Hall tonight to hear
the report of their delegate, Conelly, recently
sent to inspect the lands of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad with view to
forming an emigration colony from this city.
He gave glowing account of the fertility of
the land, but said he could not advise any one
to go there who did not have from $500 to $500
as the country was overrun with negro refugees
who were doing all kinds of work which they
could find. Spinners report the receipts about
800 from outside cities to-day.
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THE IRON TRADE.

Marked Revival Of Business in New Jer-
sey.
MoRRIsTowN, Aug. 12.-Reports from all
portions of north New Jersey indicate most
pronounced revival in the iron trade. Mines,
furnaces and FORCES which have been idle since
the panic of 1878 have reopened and work is
being pushed and forces are kept on in many
of them night and day. New mines are being
opened and new furnaces built.
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The Fall River Spinners.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Wallace Committee.

Boston, Aug. 12.-The Wallace investigat-
ing committee has arrived and will commence
business tomorrow. The session will probably
last a week, after which the members will de-
part for their respective homes.
Fatal ARRAY.
Thomas and William Kivlin, printers, aged
respectively 90 and 90, were both shot tonight
by Patrick Malone. The parsiesquarrelled in
front of their residence on Commercial street.
Blows were exchanged between Malone and
the elder Kivlin and brother of the former
told him to shoot which Malone did, severely
wounding both Kivlins. The elder Kivlin is
probably fatally wounded. Malone surrender
cd bimcplf