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The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
The Course Of the Conspiracy.

tt is now understood that the course
pressed bv the plotters upon the Governor
and Council is to take advantage OF all the
informalites, however slight, in the returns
of towns that gave Republican maJorltles
and by the use of these means to throw OUT
enough Republican Senators and Repfeseh-
tatives elect to leave the control OF the TWO
houses when they meet in the hands OF the
fusionists. Nopretence will be made by the
canvassing board that the men to whom
certificates are refused did not have ma
ioritv of the votes cast The board is to
plead informaity in warrants or returns,
and so decline to give certificates. The ev-
ident intention of the town officers is to be
ignored, and any technical defect that may
foand in the returns is to be made use OF to
defeat the will of the people expressed at
the polls in the usual way. Thus it is al
legged, for example, that in Auburn the
warrant was posted but six days in advance,
instead of seven as required; that in Kit
terry the warrant was posted in two places
instead of three; that in Portland the whole
number of votes given does not appear in
the return. Taking advantage Of these and
similar technicalities, if they exist, it is pro-
posed, on account of Portland, to throw out
the representatives elected from this city,
and to seat the fusion candidates for Sen
ators from Cumberland; on account OF
Kittery to unseat a Republican representa-
tive there, and count in the fusion Senate
rial candidates from York; and so go
through the State until the Republican ma
iorities in Senate and House are wiped out.
That is understood to be the programme
framed by the conspirators. That the Gov
ernor and Council will consent to carry it
out is not to be lightly believed. Should
they disregard the expressed will OF this
city and county and deprive them of the
representatives and Senators of their choice
and serve in similar way other counties and
towns and cities in the State they will find
the day of reckoning with the defrauded
people day to be dreaded. Perhaps theywill
find enough informalities to give a pretext
having the show of legality, to wholesale
contingent But none the less they will
deliberately disregard the intention OF the
majority of voters as signified in the proper
and usual manner The Republican party
can afford to be defeated in that way, for
it is one of those defeats which are pregnant
with victory.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
Centaur
LIN N EN- 7 S

THE GREAT PAIN RELIEVING and
curative remedies have already worked their
way into every hamlet where the English Ian
guage is spoken. That the reputation OF and
demand for such remedies as these are
should extend and increase, could not be other
wise. THERE is NO PAIN, soreness or
swelling which they will not alleviate. There
are but exceptional cases of constitutions
humors and distorted joints, which they do not
cure, and none they will not benefit. They
are SOOTHING, absorbing and emollient.
They EXTRACT THE PAIN from and heal
burns and scalds without scars. For RHEU-
MATIC AFFECTIONS, pains in the back,
stiff joints wounds, strains and eruptions, they
act with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. These
preparations are of two kinds, the FAMILY
and the ANIMAL Liniments. Being univer-
sally adapted to the external ailments OF man
and beast, the name of the HALF-HORSE
and HALF-MAN Centaurs was naturally at
tached to them. They perform cures never be-
fore effected by any remedy. Undoubtedly
more of them are sold than of all other lini-
ments, ointments, oils, embrocations, plasters
and so-called pain-killers combined.
The WHITE Centaur Liniment cures Rheu-
matism, Sciatica, Lumbago and Tic doul-
ourux.
ITRELIEvES Neuralgia and all kinds of
pain.
1T HEALS wounds, sores, gals and pois-
onous bites
1T CURES Itch, Pimples and Salt Rheum.
IT SUBDUES Inflammation and pain.
IT CURES broken breasts and sore nipples.
BOILS, FELONS, ETC, are rendered near
ly painless,
CONTRACTED CORDS and stiff joints are
limbered.
MRS. L. KIRBY, 800 Eighth Avenue, N. Y; Had
Total cost; one dollar
R. F. SToBo, 165 W. 21st., n. Y; Inflammatory
Rheumatism; ankle supppurated; foot turned black;
by two dollars worth of Centaur Liniment. Had
spent several hundred dollars with physicians, and
for other remedies.
JACOB BYRD, Bellfair, Va, hobbled ON crutch
six years. Maturated sore leg Cured. Cost; DOC.
MRS CATHERINE LYNCH South Boston, inflam-
uatOry rheumatism; hands, feet and nts
drawn out of shape. Cured. Cost: one dollar
R. HANcE, 67 years old. West Windsor, Eaton
Co. Mich; Rheumatism 10 years. Cured.
Cost: one dollar.
P. T. BARNUM, the celebrated Snowman, says:
'My teamsters and veterinaries speak in the highest
terms of the Centaur Linlments.
ssThe Yellow Centaur Liniment is the best
remedy ever in our stables We have used 1t upon
hundreds of horses" Signed:
H. MARSH, Supt. Adams Express Co. stables, NJ. .
E. PULTZ, Supt. U. S. Express Co. stables, n. I.
N. S. OLIN, Supt. National Exp Co. stables, N. \.
P. McGRATH, Esq, the great Kentucky horse and !lS
mule breeder says: "Nothing to be compared with
it (the Yellow finimenD, has been used on my
stock
Ten thousand similar testimonials could be added.
There no doubt NO uncertainty as to what
the Centaur Liniments will do. They perform more
than is advertised for them every time. They are
reliable, they are cheap and they are everywhere
obtanable.
The Centaur Co., 46 Dey ST., N. Y.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
The Representative Candidate. b

The nomination of Byron d. Verrill Esq,
for representative to the Legislature to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF ex-
Mayor Butler, is strong and judicious Mr.
Verrill is gentleman in all ways well
equipped for the position for which he is
named. He understands the wants OF the
CITY and is familiar with her interests. He
is thorough student, an able lawyer, a
pleasing advocate and capable man OF
affairs, qualities which Will be of great SER
vice to Portland in the Legislature this
winter The Republicans have done wisely.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
SEMI.ANNUAL STATE CONVENTION
Or
REFORM CLUBS OF MAINE
AT
Lewiston, Wednesday and Thursday, De-
cember 3 and 4, 1879.

The semi annual Convention of the Reform CLUBS
of Maine will assemble at Lewiston Dec. 3rd and
4th 1879, at 10 O'Clock A. M.
1t is earnestly hoped that every club IN the state
cannot be represented by delegates send reports by
letter the Convention 1t is the earnest desire TO
make this Convention the most profitable one ever
held in the State, and to renew our faith and
strengthen each other in this glorious work. and the
upholding of principles. "Non- POLITICAL non,
sectarian and non-prosecuting, "Charlty LOT all
and malice towards none."
The Railroads have reduced their rates OF fare as
follows:-Mane Central one fare for the ronnd TRIP
& Ogdensburg one fare for the round trip; Portland
& Rochester, one fare for the round trip, return
of the Convention; Portland & Machas Steamboat
Co., reduced rates.
Delegates will call for return tickets at their re-
spective stations except on the Portland Roches-
ter. GEOhGE II. LEfANOh,
President of State Committee.
JOHN F. STANLEY, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
Fraud in Cumberland County.

Fraud in Cumberland county.
Commissioner Kaler of the Boston Globe,
he who was Perkins, has in the course OF
his romance got round to Cumberland Coun-
ty. The chapter, which we elsewhere pre-
sent, is by the Globe entitled Trustworthy
Tales of Shocking Bribery" 1t is fair
specimen of the so-called "evidence" upon
which the Governor and Council are asked
to refuse certificates to the Senators-elect
from this County and the Representatives
elect from this city.
ga wel-known business man of Port
land'' a ''smart custom house man., neither
of whose names are given, and who are prob
ably as mythical as Mrs. Harris or the man
who saw Gen. Hall in Nobleboro on election
day. figure in the narrative. The 'business
man. is reported as talking with the utmost
freedom to an irresponsible stranger, and
telling him that Irish votes were bought in
this city at two dollars apiece, and that in
York county as high as twenty-five dollars
were paid for single vote. Stories are also
told of intimidation of voters by Portland
business firms, by city officials, and OF
liquor sellers who escaped conviction be-
cause they voted the Republican ticket.
Of course nothing can be done about
charges so vague as those affecting so vague
persons as "well-known business men, and
''smart customs officials except to enter a
general denial. Whenever specific instances
are cited, specific denials which shall carry
Al will ho fnrtbooYp-
ing. Even where names are given by the
Globe, the persons bearing them are very
difficult to identify. The PRESS has done
what it could to examine into the charge, and
the report given elsewhere shows that the
Globe statement is as false and in
accurate where it assumes to give names as
where its allegations are general. We have
no doubt that the charges are false in gen.
eral and in particular and known to be so
by the man or men who preferred them if
not by the journal which uttered them Ii
there are cases of this sort why have they
not been brought to the notice OF the prose-
cutting attorney and the grand jury, and the
guilty party put on trial?
The Westbrook allegations are entitled to
as little consideration as those made con-
cerning the Portland cases. The checklist
in that town was under the exclusive con-
troll of the selectmen, one Democrat and two
Greenbackers, who, contrary to custom, re-
fused their political opponents the privilege
of putting man behind the desk to see that
the voting and count were fair, and who
had their own way during the day.
The Republicans of Cumberland County
court the fullest investigation, legally con-
Quoted before a responsible tribunal, but
thev have no need to concern themselves
with charges like those brought by the
Globe, thinner than thin air, and as incapa-
bic of verifica ion as description of the
Garden of Eden.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

II is the Boston Globe which intimates
that on election day the Irishmen of this city
are in the market at two dollars head.
Portland Irishmen must be very patient and
forgiving to endure without murmur the
abuse and SANDER heaped upon them by the
Democrats.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

THE Boston Globe comes to its knees and
withdraws it's charges against Gen. James
A. Hall. 1t says the mistake of its corre-
spondent is unfortunate, but we firmly be-
lieve neither intentional or unnatural" 1t
is certainly natural for Globe ''commis-
sioner'' to make misstatements. He has
been caught in many. But to as
sert that the "mistakes" are unintentional
is to tax credulity too heavily. 1t also ap-
pears that the Globe confounded James A.
Hall with A. A. Hall, a confusion of initials
that is not new to the correspondents of
that Journal as the history of the Maine
Democrat letter attributed to John d. Long
shows.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

THE average price of Democrats in Wash
ngton county as figured by the Boston
Globe, is sixty-five cents, and over hun
dred of them according to the same figuring,
were bought in the Princeton district
alone. This is Democratic testimony as to
he honesty of Democratic voters. Are
Democrats ready to accept it?
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

WHILE other Democratic journals are
pretending to derive comfort from the New
York election, the Sun frankly says: 'There
is no comfort for Democrats in the results
of the New York election. John Kelley has
accomplished his purpose, and he has de-
stroyed every present prospect of Democrat
ic success. And the case looks worse with
each new day."
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

PHILADELPHIA Press: Withdraw your
bullies aud your shotguns, Senator Bayard.
from the Southern States, give that people
the full freedom of the ballot, and the Re-
publicans will carry more than half of them.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hote managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
THEI PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 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 publiea-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcations tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

WHY is it that whenever Democratic
paper calls out for a pure and spotless Presi-
Dental candidate every one cries, "Another
deserter from Tilden"?
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

Is Gov. Garcelon waiting for the count
ing-out before he issues Thanksgiving
DR. ,clamation? Has he nothing to be thank
full for now?
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

THE amount of coin in this country is
now about nine dollars per capita. If we
wish to keep this stock it will be necessary
to displace some of orr paper.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

THIS is great time for talk at Augusta.
1t recalls the days of the Preble House con-
ference, and the stormy convention that fol-
lowed at Bangor.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

A PEREMPToRY declination from Sey-
mour is suggestive. "Your candidate L
cannot be- on his lips means an acceptance.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

The new Democratic boom is easily ex-
plainable Mr.. James E. English is the
happy owner of barrel.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
GRAMS @ GRAPHS.
.gncobs, E,atent EitIiOgrnlIl.

EHCOBs7
j. NJ. JACOBS, having now secured Letters Pat
cnt both in the u s. and Canada for the elastic pro
cess of copying cautions all parties from purchasing
any of the ''grams'' graphs or counterfeit
limitations by which the public are being victimzed
After a serious of experiments conducted at great
cost and involving much labor, Jacobs Lithogram
has been so completely perfected that it is not only
durable, but SO altered in construction anf ~
thickness double the originaD and ease OF
iaborsavng apparatus is enabled TO offer guaraI,
tee with each Lithogram sold and in order that all
ed the following reduced prices: Postal Card, 81 30;
Note, $500; Letter, 800; Foolscap, 500; Folio,
$500. Agents wanted throughout the country.
Address. j. N. JACOBS, 3 Arch St, Boston. Mass.
Reference, Rand Avery & Co., Boston.
BOOTHBY s. SHAYLOR, General Agents for
Me- and N H. office, 176 Middle Street Cup stairs,
Portland. Agents wanted. nol4diW
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
CAST0RIA

The great success of Pitchers Castoria Is De-
cause of its power to assimilate the food in the
stomachs of children. Thus, sour cure, vomiting,
wind-colic and diarrhea are prevented. Castoria
contains neither mineral morphine, nor alcohol.
Unlike Castor Oil it is as pleasant to take as
honey and unlike narcotic Syrups, it is harmless.
1t alays feverishness, and is death to worms When
the child has health the mother can rest.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

g published every THURSDAY MORNING at $3.50 a
year if paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch Of space, the
length of column constitutes a Square"
S1.50 per square, daily first week; rs cents per
week after; three insertions or less $10o; contnu-
ing every other day after first week, 80 cents.
Half square, three insertions or less 70 cents;
one week, S1.00: so cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, third additional.
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs' and "AUCTIoN
SALES $500 per square per week; three inser-
tions or less, 81 30
Advertisements inserted in the "IAINE STATE
PRESS (Which has large circulation in every part
of the State for S100 per square for first Insertion
and so cents per square for each subsequent nser-
tion.
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

A section hand named Weed ON the South-
eastern railway of Vermont was run over Dy
hand car Saturday and severely injured.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every dey Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

AT 100 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars Year. To mail subscrb-
ers Seven Dollars Year, if paid in advance.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
Our New York Letter.

After the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Boilers,
Strikers and their Kind-The Machine
and it's Opponents-Henry l.. Pierce's
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

See full lists of New Sheet Music, every week in
the Musical Record. That 81 the way to keep well
informed of all new issues. Mailed for cents.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

Wait for these books almost through the press)
TEMPERANCE JEWELS. j. II. Tenney.
AMERICAN ANTHEM BOOK.
PAREOH ORGAN INSTRUCTION
BOOK. A. n. Johnson
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18
JUST OUT:
Bells of COrneville.

A handsome and complete edition of the "Bells of
Corneville' by Planquette, is now ready; and as
quite within the reach of amateurs it is to be
extensively given and enjoyed. Pretty lively French
haunted castle, make a spirited combination.
Words unobjectionabe. Price, S1.50.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

WHITE ROBES, the new Sunday School
Song Book by Abbey and Munger, bids fair to be
one of the successful books of its class as 1t
is undeniably one of the sweetest and best 1t will
pay to buy one if only to sing from at home Price,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-16

Newspapers that rake up columns of
murders and vile crimes are not fit to go
into the family circle, yet many good men
are amazingly thoughtless that they take
just such papers home with them for
their girls and boys to read. They can
do themselves and their children no
greater harm. News has no sacred char
acter that makes its hideousness inno-
cent. Truth is not only stranger than
fiction, sometimes, but often, far more
demoralizing. 81 Ironton Register.
We see good deal of such talk in the
papers these days. If the above be cor
rect, then every copy of the Bible should
be burned. The murder of Abel, and
Jesus Christ, and scores of others, re-
corded in the Bible, is as revolving as
anything seen in the papers of the pres
ent day. The very polite and refined
editors who are afraid of the truth.
should be very careful not to let their
girls and boys read that little affair about
Lot, and Noah, and David, and scores of
other such cases, and particularly should
they tear from their New Testaments the
third chapter of John, and the first chap
ter of Romans.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-16

Ohio should be especially proud of her
sons J. D. Cox and James Monroe, who
voted with the Southern Democrats for
the payment of the ''rebel claim" of the
William and Mary Collega, of Virginia.
Some of the must ultra of the Northern
Democrats voted against the measure,
but Mr.. Cox, especially. has such holy
horror of anything that has the appear
ance of party politics, that he would pre-
fer going over and voting with the reb-
els, to voting with that disreptuable class
of politicians known as Republicans. 1t
is no wonder that Sunset Cox emigrated
from Ohio. 1t is a great State, but, we
very much fear, has not the capacity to
hold two such great statesman as Sunset
and Jacob Dolson.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-16

And now comes the Waverly Watch
man, and tries to rob US of our hard
earned honors, in this way:
"Mackley, of the Jackson Standard, re-
Gently carried off two of the best premi-
ums offered by the Jackson county
Teachers Institute for the smartestsman
in that county. Mackley, we guess, is a
pretty smart man, when compared to the
general run of country school teachers
of that benighted region"
Now if we had such set of educators
to deal with as flourish over in the still
slop and hog pen county, we would con-
slder it no honor to carry off prizes from
them. Take, for instance, the late Dem
ocratic School Examiner and that little
affair groaoing out it, and now in court;
and the following, found in the same
column of the Watchman where the
above article is found:
"We understand that one of the male
teachers in a Union School not a thou
sand. miles from Waverly, is in the habit
of using such elegant? language as this,
before his scholars: Look here, my sweet
pickle. mean business now, and if you
don't cheese your racket I'll 60 through
you, rough shod.' When addressed by
his scholars, it is said that this highly
accomplished ri instructor of this rising
generation, is in the habit of telling pu-
pills to dry up, skin out shut pan,' and
of informing them that such and such
things are too thin The habit of using
such language is disgusting even in a
common hummer, let alone teacher in
High School, where the pupils are sup
posed to acquire good manners as well as
an education, and teacher. who will
use such language, at all, is unfit to have
charge of anything but span of mules. y
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-16
News Items.

j. L. Vaughters has again become
editor of the Piketon Courier.
William D. Ragan, Postmaster at
Piketon, died last week, of consumption.
He was % years of age. He established
the Piketon Courier a year or two ago.
-Jedediah E. Highly died at his home
in Ross county last week, aged 70 years.
He was wealthy farmer, and was known
to many of the citizens of this county.
The rent of the pews in Plymouth
Church, (Beecher's Church,) for the
present year amounts to $40,7
A man named William Daryea in
Toledo, shot his wi e in the mead w ce
and she will probably d e. He then shot
himself in the head, and died in few
minutes. Jealousy was the cause.
AT the election last fall in Fayette
county, the Republican candidate for
Sheriff was elected by one majority. The
Democratic candidate contested the cleo
tion, and the Court has decided that the
Democrat was elected.
The Potter Committee have passed q
resolution to go into an investigation of
the cipher dispatches, in which Tilden
and his gang attempted to bribe certain
officials with large sums of money to give
the electoral vote to Tilden.
The bill to appropriate s65, 900 to aid
William and Mary College. in Virginia,
was defeated in the House of Represent
atives last week by large majority. Il
was rebel concern during the rebellion,
and used as prison for Union soldiers
They are having continual excite
ment about the Jail over at Hillsborough.
Three tramps got out of one part of the
Jail, but they were captured in few min
utes. New York Charley" one of the
McKimie gang, came near digging out
under his cell, and the notorious Nc
Kimie himself has made two more at
tempts to cut and dig his way out.
William B. Franklin recently died
at Chillicothe, aged rs years. He grad
uated at Princeton College in the year
1928, served 16 years as Auditor of Ross
county, and 40 years as School Exam
iner, and 10 years as U. S. Register OF
the Land Office. He was twice married,
and leaves IA children, one of whom is
Rev. j. T. Franklin, formerly of Ports.
mouth. and son-in-law of Hon. W. A.
Hutchins
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-16

The Louisville Courier journal sneers
at the ignorance of the people of the
North and West in regard to "Constitu.
tional History" The able c. j. is mis-
taken. We have an abundance of Con-
stitutional lawyers in the North, but. of
course, they are all Democrats The av-
erage Democrat takes to the Constitu-
ton, like a cat to warm rug. He nurs-
es it, fondles it, and claims it as the ex-
elusive charge of "Dimocrats. The only
difference we were ever able to discover
between the Constitutional Democrats
of the North and South is that he of the
North has something of the appearance
of real refinement and intelligence about
him, and is not nearly so hard to distin-
guish from clay bank as is his South.
ern brother.