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The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03
CITY OF PORTLAND.

June "a, 1879.
A n order passed by the City Council June %
n 1879, and approved by the Mayor.
ordered. That the Committee on Finance be di-
rected to sell at public auction and the City Treas
urer be directed to convey to the highest bidder by
such instrument as the City Solicitor may approve
the right title and interest of the City of Portland
in and to the Portland Rochester Railroad and its
appurtenances, and i'll and to all bonds stocks, OBJ
legations and mortgages given by the Portland g.
Rochester Railroad Company, including all rights,
titles and interests which said city has acquired or
may hereafter acquire, by payment of any bonds
or coupons issued in aid of said company, excluding
however from such sale all sinking funds and ali
rights in and to sinking funds, and said sale to be
limited to the rights titles, and interests of the city,
andt o be without recourse or warranty express or
implied.
That said auction take place within two weeks
from the approval of this order, at such time and
place and upon such notice as the Committee FL
nance may direct but not less than six insertions in
each daily paper in this city; that Hon. George P.
Wescott, the Receiver, be allowed to purchase at
said sale though not Receiver; that bid be re-
ceived less than two hundred thousand (S200,000)
dollars, payable twenty-five thousand (S25,000)
dollars at the SALE and the balance at the option of
the city in ten semi-annual payments, with interest
torily secured
That the purchaser sh.ll give bond to be ap-
proved by the City Solicitor to protect the city from
all claims by the so-called seven per cent bond
holders and any litigation that might arise out of
the contract dated October 12, 1870 recorded in
the Cumberland Registry of Deeds, book 331, page
BAT.
BY the authority and direction contained and. con
veyed by said order, the Joint Standing Committee
on Finance of the City of Portland will sell at pub
lie auction at the Mayors Office in said City, on
Tuesday, Jaly sta, 1879, at 10 O'Clock A.
M, subject to the conditions of the aforesaid ORDER
the interest of the City of Portland in the stocks
bonds mortgages and obligations of the Portland &
Rochester Railroad Company, exclusive of its rights
to any and all sinking funds in connection with said
Road.
GEORGE WALKER, 1o:,. e.,s..,-
WILLIAM Il. SMALL, ooIHo Ir'ittS .o.snt,lnS
JAMES CUNNINGHAM, on eGiinioooe G
VIM. NJ. MARKS, vi = tI nf1;to rit Vi
GEORGE II. ABBOTT, e 'no n.iy, Iiey
JAMES L. PICKETT. VI L Vi i'i'iiu'
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

ALBANY journal: The Republicans of
Maine mean to redeem their State. They
have inaugurated the campaign with the
spirit and resolution Of victory. Their Con-
vention was the largest and the most stirring
they have ever held. Their platform is a
crisp, direct, vigorous assertion of the high
est Republican purposes. Their whole ac-
ton and utterance have the tone and inspi-
ration of a party which has been quickened
into new vitality by new calls to duty. The
declarations of the Convention on the great
struggle at Washington and on its import
are clear and robust They embody the en-
phatic sentiment of Republicans everywhere.
They waste no words, but bring out in terse
and vivid phrase the issues which that con-
fct has forced upon the country National
supremacy against State rights, the full pro-
lection of free and fair ballot, no over
throw of honest election safeguards, no coer-
cion of the President under the threat of
starving the Government, no reversal of the
results of the war-such are the first
thoughts of reawakened Republicanism.
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THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 8.
Election Monday, September 8
FOR GOVERNOR,
DANIEL r. DAVIS.

EVERY regular attach6 of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certifcatesigned by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon usby demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our Journal
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We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munications that are not used.
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CETY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Grocery, Flour and Pro-
vision Dealers.

DRoPOsALS for the supply of all articles in the
Il line of Groceries, Flour and Salt Provisions
for the Pauper Department from July LIST, 1879, to
April 1st 1880, will be received at the Office of the
noon. Further information as to kind and quality
of goods desired may be obtained at the Office from
IL to IL A. NJ and 4 to p. NJ. The right to reject
any and all bids considered for the interests of
the city will be reserved. Address all proposals to
CHAS. d. THOMAS,
Chairman Purchasing Committee.
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City of Portland.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
June 26, 1879. I
OWNERS of Trucks, Drays, Wagons, Carts or
W other vehicles, which shall be used in this city
for the conveyance from place to place within the
city, of wood, coal, lumber stone, bricks, sand,
clay, gravel dirt rubbish, goods, wares furniture,
merchandise, building material or any other article
or thing whatsoever, are hereby requested to pre-
sent their teams for inspection and to receive their
licenses and numbers for the year commencing July
J., 1879, at the Marshals Office, from the SiEa
with this notice will subject the delinquent to a
penalty
C. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal.
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Punch: Scene, drawing-room-Fair IEs-
thetic Suddenly and in deepest tones to Smith
who has just been introduced to take her in to
dinner)-"Are you intense?"
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Philadelphia Sunday Item Grandma
eyes, children. when L was young as you are
used to walk in my sleep" Tommy eagerly
-"Say, gran ma, what time did you maSe?"
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City of Portland.

CITY MARsHAL'S OFFICE,l
June 26, 1879.
OWNERS of Hackney Carriages are hereby re-
" quested to present their teams for inspection
and to receive their licenses and inspection cards for
the year commencing July 1, 1879, at the Mar
shals Office, Monday, yuly 9TH, from 8 to lI
A. W., and from TO 6 II. M.
c. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal
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Boston Post: Paper is worth six cents a
pound in Peru until it is made into money
Then it depreciates about fifty per cent.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03

On honeymoon tour recently, the young
husband, going across from Dover to Boulogne,
was suddenly very strange. "Are you i'll,
love?" exclaimed the anxious model wife.
"Oh! say, Alfred, beloved, are you ill?'' He
was afraid of being doubted, and family re-
piled, Il think the shrimps j had for breakfast
this morning must have been alive.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03

Song of the Harvard Graduate-That last
examination did so much for me, that now I
am the owner of the big 4. b.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03

Don't buy your boy pair of gloves until
after the 4t1 of July. He may need only one
glove then.
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Cap and Bells.

The boy before the window stands,
And in his pockets drives his hands,
And happy as king he feels
While gazing on the purple wheels
And flrecrackers.
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THE Democrats have already begun to re-
gret their sins of omission in Congress. Mr..
Atkins, chairman of the appropriation COM
mittee, is apparently heartily ashamed. He
is represented by correspondent of the
Boston Adrertiser as expressing regret that
the money necessary to pay the legitimate
fees of the United States marshals for exc
cutting the ordinary processes of courts has
not been appropriated. He said that the
second section of the judicial expenses bill
which furnished the grounds for the Pres-
dents objections to that measure, was in
serted to satisfy Mr.. Springer and some
other member of the safety committee who
threatened to bolt if the section was left out
Mr.. Atkins declares that he should feel
great deal happier if he could leave Wash
ington knowing that all the necessary appro-
priations had been made, and that if his ad-
vice had been followed provision would have
been made for the fees of marshals. He
says, however, that he thinks no great harm
will result from delay, and that these Off
GERS may rest confident in the assurance that
the money needed to pay them will be
promptly voted in the deficiency bill at the
beginning of the next regular session of
Congress. Mr.. Atkins says he is of opinion
that the Democrats in Congress, with few
exceptions like Speaker Randall, Mr. Hurd
and Mr.. Cox, have at last learned that the
American people are not disposed to encour-
age revolutionary tendencies in any political
party, and he thinks it would be money in
the pockets of the Democrats if they had
discovered this fact at the close of the last
session of Congress instead of now When
asked why the conservative Democrats
who, he asserts, have been in majority all
the while-did not prevent the 'stalwart'
Democratic minority from assuming the
lead and committing the party to course
which the majority believe to be untenable,
Mr.. Atkins replied that those hotheads and
blunderers could not be controlled at the
beginning, nor until after sharp and severe
struggle. He says they have now been
whipped in, and will make no more trouble
One good result of the controversy that is
just ended, he thinks, will be that hereafter
there will be little or no general legislation
attached to appropriation bills.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03
The Choice,

The three political parties are now in the
field, their platforms framed, their candi-
dates put forward, and the voters of Maine
are called upon to choose between them.
The GreenbackeIs come before the people
proclaimng dangerous financial doctrine
that if carried into practice will lead to ma
tional bankruptcy, reputation, commercial
and industrial distress, and all the evils that
follow, history teaches us, an over-issue of
paper money. They ask the country to re-
trace the steps it has taken toward sound
currency system and plunge into the
slough of initiation from which it has just
extricated itself. The only recommends
ton their candidate has is that he stands up
on the platform they have framed
The Democrats have adopted resolutions
setting forth that the freedom of elections
is abridged by an administration tyrannical-
ly using the officers of courts to perpetuate
its power, and calling in effect, though not
in words, for the removal of those safeguards
which now protect the polls against the
Democratic mobs and repeaters of New
York and Cincinnati. The financial plank
is inserted in order to give countenance to
the cry that the Greenbackers are fighting
both the old parties and to keep in line
those Democrats who are opposed to the
soft-money heresy. The Democrats have no
expectation of winning. Their only purpose
in the fight is to keep as many men as pos
sible from voting the Republican ticket
while the bulk of their own forces will sup
port Smith. The estimable gentleman they
have nominated is already marked for
slaughter, and the foul murder will be done
by his professed friends.
The Republican party represents the faith
in which the war for the Union was fought.
1t holds that the Nation is superior to the
States, that ''this country is Nation. and
not a Confederacy of States, and that the
National Gov rnment is supreme on all sub
jects lodged with it by the Constitution"
1t comba the old heresy of State rights,
held by the Democrats. 1t contends for the
South. 1t maintains that currency based
on and redeemable in coin is the only cur
rency that the country can afford to have
And as representative of its views it pre-
sents man who has maintained them on
the battlefield and in legislative halls, who
has identified himself with the cause of the
Union, who is man of the people, solicitous
for their int rests because they are his inter-
ests.
Such is the position of the parties to
fight which appears to be triangular, but
which is really only two-sided. There are
only two parties in the field, the Republican
and the Opposition. The Democrats and
Greenbackers are uniting everywhere to Sc
cure the Legislatur believing there will be
no election of Governor by the feople. The
voters of Maine are called upon to decide
between the Republican party and the cor
rupt coalition which ruled the House last
winter.
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CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice TO ADOthecaYjes,

DRoPosALS for the supply of medicines for
Il Greedy Hospital and recipes for outside pa
tients from July 1st 1872 to April 1st 1880, will
be received at the Office of the Overseers of the Poor
until MONDAY, July 7th, at noon, the amount to
be in the aggregate for the time specified above.
The right to reject any and all bids not considered
for the interest of the city will be reserved Address
all proposals to CHAS. ID. THOMAS
Chairman Purchasing Committee.
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Yonkers Statesman: II say, Georges what
makes you look so cheerful" said one friend
to another recently. "Why, didn't you hear,
Bob? I'm going to be married next Wednes-
day. well, l must confess, see nothing in
that to make you cheerful; should think it
would make you feel sad' "Why, no, my
dear fellow; it is the happiest day of my life
You see, Matilda is very expensive luxury.
She wants to go to the opera every night, it's
cream on the way, pound of candy while
there and soda water on the way Homeland
tell you it's a terrible drain on fellows pock-
el, and so I'm going to put a stop to it. Come
in and have a cigar"
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CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Grain Dealers.

DROPoSALS for Corn Meal, Oats and Shorts for
Il City Farm from August 1st, 1879 to April
1st $780, will be received at the office of Overseers
right to reject any and all bids considered for the
interest of the city will be reserved. Address all
proposals to
CHAS. d. THOMAS,
Chairman Purchasing Committee
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Portland Publishing Company.
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TIE Democrats cut down the pay of the
House employees ten per cent. and took cred
it to themselves for economy. But in the
closing hours of the session they voted an
extra months pay for the year. The trick
is characteristic one.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-03

DOCTOR DANA, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee, demeans himself by
repeating the exploded claim that the fusion
lists in the Legislature reduced Sta'e expen-
ditures 100000. The reduction they made
was about a tenth of that sum. Perhaps
the Doctors terror at the thought of United
States troops controlling Maine elections
caused him to make his monstrous arith-
metical bunder.
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FOR SALE
Residence for Sale.

s1HE large two-story House with ell and stable at
Il tached about twenty acres of tillage land with
young orchard, situated at Oak Hill, Scarborough,
near the Thornton Mansion, and belonging to the
estate of the late Emery Moody deceased. The
above is one of the most attractive and desirable 10
commanding fine view and being within a few
minutes walk of the P. S. & P. R. Il. depot as also
short drive of either Portland Saco Old Orchard or
II. J.. LARRABEE, Administrative,
mh24u 199 l-2 Middle 81.
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Waterloo Observer: There are many things
in this world that are as deceiving as a fish
hook with worm on it; you don't feel the
point until yon bite.
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Whitehall Times: knowledge is the right
bower, and one of the showiest cards in the
pack, yet in the game of life cheek is the little
joker that is oftentimes the winner.
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FOR SALE.

fSgsSA One or both of the elegant Brick Dwelling
laeSSe Houses on the corner of Pine and Carlton
E9%sE Streets, in this city.
- The Houses are now being finished and are
open for inspection.
For particulars apply to
r. III. FASSETT, Architect,
Centennial Block, Exchange Street.
Portland, Aug. 5, 1878. diff
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Philadelphia Times: And now it is the col
lege graduates who are threatened with ruin
by cheap Chinese labor. Yale college con-
ferred the degree of A. b. on a Mongolian yes
terday.
Augustus, did you think to take my hymn
book out of the rack after service this morn
ing?" II didn't, love-" "O what a shame!
1t isn't bit fashionable this year to leave
books in pews, and besides that binding was so
outre. 1t does seem as if we were Just beset
by calamities wherever we 90.
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Picked IIfp.
BOARD.
;BOarslers Wanted.

DLEASANT Rooms with good board can be OBJ
IL tained at No 63 Spring st at $3.50 per week.
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$4,000 TO LOAN

On Firsi Class Mortgages or Coed Notes.
Houses and Stores For Sale and TO Let. Apply 10
W. H. WALDRON, Real Estate Broker, $50 Middle
Street, Up Stairs. sep2i-eodtf
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
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IN an old established paying business, with capt.
l. ital of from five to six thousand dollars. Ad-
dress p. o. Box 1915, ''BUSINESS.''
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The New York herald., 1879-08-01
CABLE NOTES.

A small bomb was exploded in the Church of st.
Louis at Madrid. yesterday. No one was hurt. how
ever.
The Paris correspondent Of the Times denies that
the prohibition against Nubar Pacha's return to
Egypt has been withdrawn.
The iron masters in the Cleveland North of Eng
land trade yesterday gave notice of five per cent
reduction Of the wages of their employees. The mat
ter will be referred to arbitration.
The French Senate has approved the bill prolong-
ing the treaties of commerce. Minister Waddington
said yesterday that the policy of France the
Greek question not isolated one. He added
that he hoped to succeed in introducing q good ad-
ministration for Egypt.
Berlin despatch to the Pal Mall Ga=ette says:-
"The German government has decided to propose .
imburse itself the proposed reduction of taxation
on landed proprietors 1t is understood that the
government intends to insist upon the adoption Of
this tax" G
The Times despatch from Berlin says:-"Herr Won
Lucius having had to resign his seat in the Reichs
tag for Erfurt in consequence of his elevation to
office the social democrats and liberals each
brought forward candidate; but equal
number Of votes obtained by the two opponents of
the Ministry will deprive Herr Won Lucius Of ma
jority second ballot will probably result in the
return Of . social democrat. Within the last few
days half Of obnoxious publications have
been suppressed.
The New York herald., 1879-08-01
A DRUNKEN MANS DEED.

SHOOTING THE PROPRIETOR OF GAMBLING
HoUsE-A SAVAGE FUsILLADB.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE BERALp.1
LOUISVILLE. KY, July 81. 1870.
A very brutal tragedy occurred here tonight in a
gambling house ut No. 73 Fifth street. shortly
after eight O'Clock there raps at the up
stairs door of No. 70. and stranger
entered without waiting TO be admitted. He was
drunk, and John III. Morton. of the proprie-
tors bade him not to participate in tho game The
fellow down and soon afterward called Morton to
a front room. where they were alone. second
later pistol shots were heard, four being fired The
men who play ing faro rushed toward the front
room, where they met the stranger leaving the
house. cxcitedy hourshing pistol over his head.
Morton not to be seen. He had rctreated
toward window when the firing began. and
cciving two Shots in the right elbow and one in
the lett shoulder attempted to leap out of the win
dow, when third shot struck him behind tho
right ear causing the body to fall to the
brick sidewalk below. The stranger leaned out of
the window aud fred q fourth shot. On leaving he
was met by crowd, but IL scattered at sight his
weapon. He was finally arrested by the police and
identified cigar manufacturer named r. Cor
man. The cause of his act is not known.
The New York herald., 1879-08-01
CHAMBORD'Sy MANIFESTO.

THE COUNT RETURNS THANKS AND EXPLAINS
HIS POSITION, HIS MISSION AND HIS DUTY,
DESIRE AND ABILITY TO SAVE FRANCE.
lBY CABLE TO THE HERALD T
#e s PARIS, July 81, 1879.
The COmte de Chambord has written to the
Marquis dc Foresta at Marselles, expressing
thanks for the manifestations in his favor on
the occasion of the Feast of st. Henry In the
letter, which is kind of manifesto, the Comte
de Chambord rcfutes the charge of
voluntarily declining to avail himself Of
former remarkable opportunity of as
cending the throne. He reserves for the
future the task of casting full light upon the
events Of 1878, and adds that return to the
traditional monarchy harmonized with the aspi-
rations of the majority. The workman, the
artisan and the laborer looked forward to the
peaceable enjoyment Of life and industry under
the paternal authority of the head of the family
whose gentle sway had been known to so many
generations The country expected king, but
political intrigues had determined that the
country should have a mayor of the palace.
"If, in the presence of attentive Europe and on
the morrow of indescribable disasters showed u
greater care for my royal dignity and tho
grandeur OF my mission, it was in order that l
might remain faithful to my oath never to be-
submit to the guardianship of men of factions,
but shall not cease to appeal to all honest men
for support Armed with this force and with
the grace of God l can save France. 1t is my
duty and my desire to do So
The New York herald., 1879-08-01
GOVERNOR RoBINsoN's MOVEMENTS


POLITICIANS LOOKING FoR PROMPT ACTION ON
THE CASE or POLICE COMMISSIONER
WHEELER.
BISGHAMToN. July 81, 1879.
Governor Robinson, accompanied by his son ahd
private secretary LETT the Western train at this point
for Albany this evening the Susquehanna road.
having left his homo at Elmira this afternoon
There were many prominent politicians and
comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic
on board, who came from the encampment at
Ithaca. The presence of quite a number of New
York city politicians among whom were Aldermen
Perley and Stewart, also Mr.. Charles Swan. Mr..
Kelly's friend, and Major Forbes led TO considera-
Bile speculation as to the Governors sudden de-
parturo from his rural retreat at Emira There is
nothing do for hlm in Albany just now - was the
general remark. ''What can be upg' Speculation
as 10 his movements were kept up
the train for time. when the report
at once circulated, apparently well authenti-
Gated that Mayor Cooper had preferred charges
against Mr.. Wheeler, the Police Commissioner. and
that the Governor hastened to Albany to review
these charges and act upon them without delay. II
further stated that the removal or Commissioner
Wheeler would follow at and a new appoint
me mt be made in the Tilden interest The probable
removal of Mr.. Wheeler was regarded as exceedingly
important by the politicians on the train, as it
would also involve the removal OF John J. O'Bren.
chief Of the Bureau of Elections.