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The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

RAILWAY CoNsoLIDATIoN.--It is expected
that the Southeastern Railway Company will
take posses ion of the Montreal, Portland &
Boston Railway March 20, This road extends
from West Earn ham 10 81. Lambert, Qae., and
is Owned by the Passumpslc company. This
forms The lux of the Montreal g. Boston ar
line and the northern DIVISION Of he South
eastern R,ilway frem Sutton to Sorel, Low
opened for travel, and the line that will con-
meet the Portland & Ogdensburg with Mon
treal.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
100 70
Feb'y 90. In draw, 1929 II
From $72917
Deduct 80 81 cash found

Deduct 80 cash found
We have $SsS Sc apparently missing.
The directors, however, do not believe Mr..
B had 1929 II on hand that morning, and they
adduce the affidavits of two persons, Mrs.
Hooper and Mr.. Carr, to the effect that on ap-
plying to him for money on their deposit &C.
counts that day, he told them the bank bad
other affidavits, implying that Mr. b. misstated
the facts in relation to the time locks on both
the Savings and the National Bank. 10 re-
gard to these affidavits it may be said that they
were taken er parte, in the absence of any rep
resertative OF Mr. b., and without cross-exam-
inatioD, and at most they prove, not that there
was not 10 fact the alleged amount on hand.
but that he had prevaricated in his statements
concerning it.
The conclusion to which the directors come lie,
that the loss to the bank was apparently the
alleged bond, less the SIS in the oigeon hole,
and the above $698 &c. Total $l203 Sc
Your space will not permit me to remark
further upon this statement Ii should be OBJ
served, however, that taking it as it stands, &C.
cording to their own showing, it constitutes the
whole OF The ground on which these gentlemen
founded and published the allegation of defal-
cation AID suicide. Is it very likely, your read
ers will ask, that man whose credit, as ali ad-
NIT, Was such that be could any day have Dor
rewed twice that sum, would have resorted to
such crimes to escape the consequences?
1t IS to be observed further that the directors
acknowledge having received the $4,000 cash
UPON the note, from the insurance policy, with
1854 interest upon it-"an act of great mag
nanimity on his part-a gift TO the baDk". Sc
that, concediDg that the said loss OF $1203 OF
resulted from no robbery but had been improp'
erly taken by Mr. B. for his own use. they have
received from him az excess of nearly $500
which still remains bis gift to the bank
dumped bodily down upon it.
I.P WARREN.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

o THE stock Of Is cent stockings with which
Horato Staples has bsen stocking up his
stocking department. The show window of
the Staples dry goods store is fully stocked
with ladies striped stockings actually worth %
cents pair, but being slightly imperfect, are
selling for 10 cents pair. Take look at
them. HoRATIo STAPLES,
$50 middle street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH IL.
THE PRESS

May be obtained at be Period Depots OF n. G.
Fessenden, Marquis, Brunei g. Co., Andrews,
Arm strong Cox, Wentworth. Hodsdon, Hayden,
wateThouse corner Exchange and Fore ST.; Welan
der, Boston & Name Depot, and Chisholm Bros,
On all trains that run out of the city.
Saco, of l., H0dsdon and H. b. kendlick.
Bath, of j. D. Shaw
! lewiston, of Stevens & Co.
Bi'ideford, f. M. Burnham.
Brunswick, B. Dennison, and W. H, Marrett,
Richmond. G. A. Beale
New Castle. A. W. Souhworth.
Woodford'E Corner, H. Moody
Union Square.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

BURGLARY.-Ssturdsy evening BURGLARS en-
tered the store Of a. N. Chaffey, Ne. 325 Con-
gress ST., by means of false key, stole a lot
Of tobacco, two whole boxes OF cigars, and a
quantity of loose cigars in other boxes, and
made their escape, leaving the store door wide
omen behind them
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

Mrs. Lavinia B. Webb of Wndham, while
visiting her daughter on Bramhal street, died
suddenly of spOplexy Friday.
Capt. James Dunton and Nr. Burnhan of
Westporl were lost 10 thu Gloucester fl ct.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

They cure all diseases Of the Stomach, Bow
els, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys and Urn-
airy Organs, and $500 will be paid for case
they will not cure or hep, or for any thing i'm
pure or Injurious in tbem-Hop Bitters. Test
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
S8CpaFa nna.

Miss Fradeen beat G. E. Norwood in the
walk at Webster II I'll Saturday night. She
was to walk 10 miles to his II. She completed
her walk in 2 hours, 11mia., 80 sec.
Haskell OF Portland will walk Is miles to u
each Of Parker aad Webb tonight
Mex Friday evening two men are to walk
against Gather lies on stills.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

SOME len years ago, when the new celebrated
Pratt's Astral Oil was first introduced, the re-
tail price was sixty cents per gallon. 1t can
now be procured at about one-half this price,
and it still maintains its reputation as the very
ssfest and best family OIL. W. W. Whipple &
Co., 81 Market Square, Portland, are the agents
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

A covered cart, drawn b. two horses, pro
visioned, sleeping apartments, aud all the nee
esssry arrangements for housekeeping on a
small scale, and occupied by = couple of young
chaps bound for Aroostook to make their for
tune, passed through Gardiner Thursday.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
CITY AND VICINITY.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT TO-DA

NEW ADVEkTISEMENT TODAY
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Villers-2.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
To TIE Holders-Fred Fox.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
Pratt's Astral OIL
The New Eng and Mutual Life Insurance Co.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Change-Geo. +. Nelson.
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Linen Collars-Owen Moore s. Co.
Partner Wanted Broker.
To Lett. F. Clark.
For Sale at Bargain.
Soldiers and Sailors "A. K. Paul,
Art Sae-Charies j. Schumacher
a-Notice-Mi Producers Association.
Wanted-J. NJ. Haines
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

CARLTON KIMBALL is selling good 3-button
Kid Gloves in dark, street and opera shades at
40 cents pair, 495 Congress strest, just above
Preble House. mr15-2s
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

HARPER's BAzAR.-Tbis beautiful weekly
publication is welcome visitor to the parlor
circle. The number for the ensuing week ha s
been received Oy n. G Fessenden, Lancas-
fer Hall, and D. Wentworth, 553 Congress, cor
ner of Oak street
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
GORHAM.
The Whole Republican Tickets bat One
Seleetmau Chosen.

The election Saturday wa, warmly contested
and called out larger vote than on either sof
the former elections. There was sufficient
number of tickets to satisfy the wishes of the
voters. Tie result was the election of the en-
tire Republican ticket With the exception of
one Selectman, who lacked but one vote Of an
election. The Democrats and Greenbacks tried
a union ticket
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

A FULL line of new spring Hosiery now open
at 25 cents pair, at Carlton Kin bal's, 495
Congress street. mr15-2t
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

A COUGH is natures effort TO rid the system
of waste matter. Assist nature, by using DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup Price % cents bottle.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

BRETToNNE and Crepe Lsse RnchiBg in new
and b autiial styles, at Carlton Kimbal's, 495
Congress street. mi15-2t
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
PORTLAND TURNvEREIN.

IINHE Annual Meeting of the Portlan Turnyerein
for the choice OF officers and the transaction OF
the usual business will be held at their Hall on
Friday Evening, March 21st, at y O'Clock
A full attendance is requested.
Per order, OSCAR X. WISH,
mh15d6t Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

The safe appears to have received $14O0 and paid
out 9O5. We know of no rule in arithmetic by
which 1905 can be extracted from 14O0-and are
compelle to believe that the "safe'' app ,rently
made to do duty to the amount of $505 beyond the
Limits OF possibility.
10 ADDITION to the above in the general cash
book is this entry:
Or.
Feb. 81, {. S Bonds $3.50
IL also appears that there was found in
pigeon hole in the safe after his death SIS.
Now we beg leave to take the above items
and re-arrange them for ourselves thus.
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17
1890

If this bond was bought Feb. Il, with the
money previously taken from the safe and pat
among the assets,it was proper that Mr.. Barron
should credit himself with it; and if after the
purchase he found he had paid $15 more than
be had received, it was proper that he should
take that additional sum (Which for his own
convenience he put temporarily into the
pigeon hoIe) to balance the account. OF course,
it cannot be affirmed that he did SO, but this
simple hypothesis, which submit is perfectly
natural, entirely obviates the whole difficulty.
If il be objected that the bond is not to be
found, the answer is that it was stolen by the
robbers.
3-The cash on hand Feb. %. The entries in
the Petty Cash Book if completed, the direct
ors think would have been:
DR. CIR,
The Portland daily press., 1879-03-17

MEMBERS of the Cumberland and York Co.
W. Milk Producers Association hereby noti-
fled to meet at Arcana Hall in Portland, March 25th,
1879 at 10 O'Clock, All Others interested are invited
to attend. PER ORDER
mh17 div
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
A rERRrBLE srArE OF arr.rps
FOREIGN NOTES.

The sultan has ratified the Novi Bazaar con-
vention with Austria.
DIR. Won Strampf, first president of the SUI
preme Tribunal of Prussia, is dead.
The Durham miners finally resolved by
vote of p. 6ss TO 2si to continue the strike.
The Albauiaus have been forced to retreat
from Khurshumlee. They carried of a wounds
ed Servian and roasted him alive.
General Garibaldi. at a meeting of Republic
cans, declared that Italy must bs armed and
ready to claim her unredeemed provinces
A dispatch from Rome SAYS: Italy has
pledged herself to support the claims of Greece
TO the utmost limits OF the frontiers assigned
by the treaty of Berlin.
simultaneously with saiovieh-s attempt on
the cars life, three policemen were shot in
Kazan. Among the assassins was an educated
girl, aged IL years and a nobleman.
In the House of Commons the chancellor q
the exchequer said it was possible that there
mad been an advance of troops In Afghanistan,
but the Government had not sanctioned an
advance upon Cabul.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23

ling to issue a circular limiting single SUBJ
scriptions 10 the $40 certificates to 500, and
would by that means obviate any objections
upon the part of the New York syndicate to
the forty millions being taken by outsiders
At any rate, the cabinet was agreed to allow
the large subscription of Monday to fail if
the terms demanded were insisted upon.
Secretary Sherman said that he had received
within "a hours bids from other sources of
amounts large enough to satisfy him that
the per cents would be rapidly taken
up without any aid from the New York syn
dictate.
Secretary Sherman decided Friday even
ing not to allow any of the $40 certificates
to be taken in the lump by the New York
syndicate. The arrangement he makes is to
hold these SO certificates open for popular
subscription for co days, and then at the
close of that time allow the residue to go to
the New York pool. This loan is regarded
as one of the most brilliant strokes of Sher-
mans financial career. He went over to
of leading bankers about offering the per
cents at q premium. All advised HIM
against taking the hazard. They were going
well at the old rate, and to fail in the new
venture would make it disastrous to attempt
to go back to the old arrangement. His
cabinet associates, too advised him against
the move and yet, in the face of this aggre
cation OF counsel, he dashed ahead and won
a most brilliant success. This subscription
closes the funding of bonds during Sher.
mans time, as there will be no more bonds
to be refunded until eiler December 81, 1880
Nothing but the unexpected requirements
of specie resumption would authorize any
further issue of per cents.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
GRANT AND THE TROOPS.
senator Randolph Stating a "Reminiscences of
the Despot.

Senator Randolph Stating a "Reminiscences of
the Despot.
Washington Special to the New York World ]
The debate in the Senate on the prohibit
ton of the use of troops at the polls in the
army appropriation bill hes closed for this
week, but will be resumed on Monday, when
Mr.. Bayard will make q speech The only
speech to-day of interest was that of Mr..
Randolph, of New Jersey. After careful
review of the use to which the army might
be put by usurping president the New Jer-
sey senator made an interesting reference
10 an interview with ex-Preeident Grant.
will it be said" he inquired, that no
president OF Republic will dare misuse this
power? L know the contrary. I had the
honor to bear q message in 1876 from Gov
ernor (now Senator) Hampton to the then
president of the United States requesting
him to withdraw his troops from the State
House of South Carolina in Difference to a
decision of the supreme and highest court of
that State. / urged the importance of it with
all the force of appropriate language at my
command. / told the president that in the
judgment of eminent lawyers the governor
then out of Office by the expiration of his
term had not lawfully invoked the assistance
of the Federal power, inasmuch as he had
made no effort TO convene his Legislature,
though easily done, and obtain its action on
a matter SO vital; that the newly-elected gov
ernor desired the attendance of the repre-
ScItntiNSo vi Tile pSOpic III tISlI Eldtc HOuec,
from which Federal bayonets, as l myself
know, kept them, and finally, that the contest
was one OF purely State concern, regardirg
only the claims OF State officers, and that
these had been definitely settled by the
highest legal tribunal that could ever take
cognizance of the case, i. e., the supreme
court of South Carolina. | urged that the
Federal forces should be promptly with.
drawn from the State capital. You may
imagine, sir. my establishment and indigna-
ton when, in an angry tone and uncivii
manner, the president replied: wont
withdraw the troops. / don't regard
the decision of the supreme
court, and il had any mes
sage to send to General Hampton
it would be that his message to me Is an inn
pertinence.' An impertinence, sir, for the
governor of State to communicate his
wishes, not demand his rights, as he might
properly have done, to the president of the
United States? An impertinence. indeedl
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
that he is grown SO great? No, Mr.. Presi-
dent" said Mr.. Randolph, I'VE can not make
too much haste to guard the liberties of free
men everywhere in this broad land from the
chance of blotting the pages of our history
with repetition of the usurping act of a
president less than three years ago.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
GENERAL TELEaRAMs.
An Important Railroad Case Settled I'm 4,

An Important Railroad Case Settled In the
United States Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, April 2l.--A decision was rem
dered to-day in the United States Supreme
Court in The cases of the Denver and Rio
Grande Eailroad company against the Canon
City and San Juan Railway company, inyolv-
Ing conflicting claims of the two corporations
to the use and occupancy of the Grand Canon
of Arkansas for railroad purposes. The de-
crees of the circuit court are reversed, with di-
rections to set aside, not only the order grant,
ing the injunction against the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad company, but an order dis.
solving and dismissing its bill. By proper or
ders entered In each suit, the court below will
recognize the prior right of that company to
use and occupy the Grand Canon for the pur-
pose of constructing its road therein, and will
enjoin the Canon City and San Juan from in
terfering with that company in such use, oc-
cupancy and construction. Justice Harlan
delivered the opinion, CHIEF Justice Waite dis.
sentfng.
Although the prior right of the Denver COM
pany is recognized, the court holds that as to
these portions the Grand Canon which is too
narrow to admit of the construction and
operation of more than one road-bed and
track, the right of the Canon City company TO
use such road-bed and track IN common with
the Denver company should be secured by
proper orders and upon such terms may be
equitable, having regard to the cost OF con-
struction and the continuance of the track in
good order.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
THE BIG LOAN.

The fact that the country is full OF idle
capital is so authoritatively demonstrated
that it would be idle to controvert the fact.
In the very noon of what is called Demo
cratic revolution" the demand for United
States securities paying only 4 per cent. is
such as to astonish the country. and, for
that matter, the financial world. The late
subscription of the syndicate for $195. 900, :
900 4 per cent. bonds is referred
to as gigantic financial OPP
'eration'' unheard of and unprecedented
1t was very difficult at first to ascertain how
the syndicate was formed, but 1t was finally
disclosed that the subject Of forming . syn
dlcate by Fisk & Hatch, New York brokers.
II Is said that the membens Of that firm con-
suited Ylth the officers of tie First National
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
Tagging the Bonds.


Secretary Sherman had a long consultation
Friday with representatives of the New
York syndicate that on Thursday subscribed
to the enormous amount Of per cents
The syndicate insisted as . condition of its
taking the one hundred and fifty millions of
4 per cents that they should also be allowed
to take the forty millions Of per cent.
refunding certificates that have been
issued in sums of $40. This was of course
for the purpose Of giving the syndicate en-
tire control of the market in PER
cents. Secretary Sherman objected to let
ting the $40 certificates go, saying that he
had intended them to be taken By the poor
classes throughout the country as q means of
investment for their savings, and he thought
1t would not look well TO pass these certsfi-
Gates over to q combination of capitalists
whose desire to get hold of them is Of course
to force premium. This question came up
at the cabinet meeting Friday. Secretary
Sherman was in . very happy frame of mind.
Last Tuesday he was in some doubt about his
ability to get rad of the 4 per cents at q
premium, and within week the opportu-
NIFTY to let go the whole amount was in his
hands. He brought up the point made by
the syndicate, and found that the president
and cabinet agreed with him that the $40
certificates should be reserved for small sub
scribers. Sherman said that he found that
the postnissten all over the country were
making numerous orders for this csam Of Sc
curities, to- place IN the hands Of people
who never before held any Government -
curities. He eaid that he was perfectly VIII
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
Stranger Things Have Happened:
louisville Courier-JournaI.f


And now it comes to us that all this rowdy-
dow about Grant and q third term is sheer
moonshlne; that the man on horseback has
no notion of riding. booted and spurred,
back into the White House; that, In point
of fact, his bosom heaves for "the seclusion
that the cabin grants" all of which he will
make publicly known when the proper time
arrives. Good sooth, merry day; and
there'll be end to the fever and worry, and
the fret of it, God wot! Not
less to Grant himself than the rest of u.s.
Heaven be praisedl For why should
Grant want again to be president, supposing
he could be? He is well quit of it. If, on
his entrance in at the Golden Gate, he should
announce his fixed determination never
again to be candidate for office, as Wash
ington and Jackson did, he would immortal
ize his name and enshrine himself in the
hearts of all his countrymen, without regard
to sex. party or previous condition. Then
would the grateful homage of his country
assert itself, restoring him to the retired list
with big pay, and he could come to Ken
lucky, buy stock farm, and with the
angels stand" just as the Kentuckians do.
Grant is no fool, and stranger things have
happened than a refusal on his part to clutch
at the airy helmet which floats before the
fancy of the stalwarts.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
DEATH OF GENERAL JOHN A. DIX.

The telegraph announces the death, in
New York, of General John A. Dix. His
sickness lasted several weeks, and was aggra-
waited by the breaking of his collar bone
which, singulary enough, came about by his
arm twisting un Ter him as he raised himself
in bed. Friday was his last clear-minded
day, when he had long talk with Bishop
Potter. He dictated to his daughter in Japan
a telegram saying he was about to leave this
world in the hope of immortal life, and
giving her the paternal blessing. He talked
fondly with members of his family who
surrounded his bedside, sometimes losing
consciousness, and at others suffering great
pain. but uttering no complaint and bearing
his affiiction with characteristic fortitude.
His last coherent words to the sorrowing
family group who stood around him were:
Il believe in God, and have entire faith in
Christ, my Redeemer. am at enmity with
no man." Afterward he fell into lethar-
gic sleep, which ended in death.
John Adams Dix was born in Boscowen,
New Hampshire, July q, 179S. He entered
the army in 1872, but resigned IN 1928,
studied law and was admitted to the bar; he
oSAtS4y CihtclS0 POtAtACo % . ltcmOCfot
1912, and was elected to the State Assembly
in 1916; was made senator in Congress for
the unexpired term of Silas Wright, in 1852;
was appointed assistant treasurer of the
United States in New York. in 1859; was
made postmaster in December, 1860; he was
appointed President Buchanan's secretary, in
place of Howell Cobb. He served under
President Lincoln's administration, taking
decided ground in favor of the
Union, and has always been ranked a.
one of the strongest sdherents of the
Republican party. At the outset of the
civil war he was appointed major general Of
the New York National guard; in May, 1861,
he was commissioned major general of Uni
ted States volunteers, and subsequently
received the same rank in the regular army,
and had charge OF the department of Mary.
land in 1862, from which he was transferred
to Fortress Monroe. During the riots in
New York he was military commander oil
that department. He was appointed minis
ter to Paris in 1855, and in 1872 was elected
governor Of New York, lie was again nomi
mated in 1874 and defeated by Tldea. This
ended his political career. He las con
tributed to number OF journals, and pub.
lished several works OF late he has lived
in retirement.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
Two bloody Battles.

NASHVILLE, April PA bloody row
occurred in the Thirteenth district, last night.
Thomas r. Baker went into Miss A. NJ.
singleton's grocery and treated several per-
sons to tobacco. Having failed to pay for it,
she demanded the money, and on his still re-
fusing, locked up the doors and commenced
striking Baker over the head with billet of
wood. Her brother, A. NJ. Singleton, shot at
Baker three times, one ball making slight
wound in his side, when the latter shot
Singleton through the neck with a navy re-
volver killing him at once. The coroner's
jury this afternoon rendered verdict of
justifiable homicide.
In the Tenth district, William Wynne, a
white boy, and negro named Alex. Spence
quarreied, resulting in Wynne striking him
on the head with a stone and fatally injuring