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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-06-28
FEVER and AGUE.

Fever and Agus cured for Fifty cents There
u not q remedial agent In the world that VIII
cure Fever and Ague, and all other hilarious
BILIOUS, Scarlet, Typhoid Yellow and other
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF. go cts. bottle
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

"They do these things much better in
France" There no man is permitted to sell
adulterated articles of food. Stocks are sub
jected to examination by inspectors appointed
for the purpose, and poisoning is made very
difficult indeed. In this country. if we may
credit Professor George F. Angel, one of our
best authorities on fooc adullerations, the fa
cilities for poisoning are extensive, and little if
any check is imposed upon the poisoners if thew
only do their work in the course of trade.
The statements he makes are certainly very
poor sauce to so with our dinners, but 1t may
be better to listen to them, even at the cost
of a.spoiled appetite than to go on in the use
of authorizations until we find ourselves writh-
ing from the effects of some poison or other.
He tells US that almost every class of articles
now sold in this country for food is more or
less aduterated, and that many of these adul-
terations are extremely poisonous. For ex
ample pickles are sometimes colored with
poisonous salt of copper. Cayenne pepper is
aduterated with red lead, mustard with chro-
mate OF lead, vinegar with sulphuric acid, ar
senic and corrosive sublimate. Our tjellies,
preserved fruits, favoring syrups contain
poisons. Cream of tartar contains terra alba.
White stone is ground into fine powder to
mix with soda and sugar and four-they
have three grades of the powder. Coffee is
mixed with peas and chiccory. The adultera-
tions of tea are too numerous to mention.
Plaster of Paris and bone dust stray into
flour barrels. Lead, mercury, arsenic and
copper are used to color confectionery. Milk
is adulterated with water. and impure water
at that, taken from wells standing near cess
pools, and SO becoming pressing invitation to
typhoid fever. A hundred other articles
might be mentioned that are made Injurious
in their preparation for market.
These are pretty dishes to set before Amer
leans who are greater than Kings-infnitely
worse than the raw game of the nursery
rhyme. Yet we go on "taking our poison
reg'lar," and are rather inclined to laugh al
men who suggest the appointment of food in
spectors or the establishment of board of
health. We are so afraid somebody wants a
salaried Office we prefer to spend our money
on the doctors and the undertakers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

GAN American of forty-five, named Alfred
Tuckey, armed himself with pistol, a jim
my ard bottle of chloro 'orm, and entered
the house of the Rev. L A. Sharpe, of Tack
ley, EDgland, an old man of seventy-two,
whose wife found him under the bed and
said, Come out, my boy, come OUT He
came out, and the old man throttled and
held him down till the servants came up aud
tied him, enc of them, With great presence
of mind, pouring half gallon of water over
the burglars pistol, which, nevertheless,
went off and wounded the footmau. The
prisoner said he was educated at Rugby"
The object OF the American indubitaply
was to commit suicide, and the statement
that he been educated at Rugby was part of
his dark plan.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

THE Bangor Commercial is trying to make
savage remarks about the Boston Post. The
words of the Post which provoke the ire of
the Commercial are these referring to Maine
legislative "reformers:" "They have doubt
less done good service in reducing State ex-
penses In some quarters, but in their rivalry
to become known as the boss reformers
they overstep the bounds of reason. During
fhe war OF the rebellion 1t used to be prac-
tce among army officers to tie weights to the
tails OF the iackasses to prevent them from
braying and thus giving notice to the enemy.
It might not be bad plan to tie, say
weight OF eight or ten tons, to the coat-tails
Of some of the so-called reformers in the
Maine Legislature to keep them within
hnupdo -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

AN occasional Euglish correspondent, ap-
parently for want OF anything else to say,
falls to scolding the English about Lent
These are his murmurings:
There is an ancient rule of secular origin
doubtless, that it Is unlawful to eat tripe on
Friday, and there still survives an archaic
superstition against marrying and giving 10
marriage between Ash Wednesday and Easter
At the Reformation ths sacred season of Lent
was expurgated, together with imsge-worship
and other priestly devices, but on Its being rep
resented to Henry VIII. of pious memory that
the abolition of fasting would injare the Cor
Dsh pilcherd fishery trade, the forty DAYS of
abstine nee were allowed to remain. For some
centuries, however, the piehards have gone to
Italy, and the protane Briton eats his beef and
mutton without reference to an obs olete obi
cation. Nevertheless, ever since the revival of
Medie vallsm in England, mighty pother has
oeen made anent this most uufestive season.
and the parsons, who for the most part forget
to fast, are up 10 arms at the noton of matri-
mo0y on the shady side of Easter It appears
that So irate are these relieioDists al the mar.
rage of the Duke OF Connaugbt coming off in
Lent that they are about to present round
robin to the Queen against this so-called desc
GRAFTON. Except on the ground that the
Qleen's son is a pensioner of the natiop, the
slgnatories could have no locus stdndi A
duke may eat tripe or wsd wife when the
humor seizes him as freely as dustman The
royal family, however, is supposed to be the
appanage of the Established Church, and
though the Queen is expected, on the lines of
the Constitution, to change her religion as she
crosses the Tweed, her children are also ex
pected to be devoted AnglIcans. Even here,
unluckily for the memoralists, their logic IS &C
fault, sioce DR.. TAFT of Canterbury, the Pope of
the Establishment, has been engaged to per-
form this very Ceremony which is designated
DE- secratlon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

IT appears by the National Democrat
that the bid of Sprague, Owen & Nash for
the State printing sis hollow-hearted parti-
san trick and deception with the view to
"butcher" other parties. Put into plain
English this means that Sprague, Owen &
Nash underbid the publishers of the Demo.
crat. Hence this rage.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

THIS is how the Barron case looks to the
New York Herald: "Insurance companies
whose agents have sharp eyes, did not doubt
at the time that this was case of murder,
and the public will not, with all the facts be.
fore it. But who has tampered with those
accounts. and whose good name is to be
saved at the expense of this calumny OF
the dead?n
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

Wade Hampton has not only had to give up
hisintended trip TO Florida, out has ken 10
his bed again. He will probably have to un-
dergo another amputation of his leg, and is de-
spondent about pulling through.
Investigation shows that three New England
postmssters have collected more money for
second class M after than they have affixed can
celled stamps, as is shown by their stubs, II
they pay over the surplus they have pocketed
there will not probably be any prosecution,
but in future no such crooked ness will be per-
mitted.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

EVERY regulsr attache OF the PRESS is furnishe
with Card certificate couDtersignec by Stanley ]
Pulep, Editor. AL railway, steamboat and hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demantin.
credentials Of every person claiming to represent on
aurnal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY =.

We do not read anonymous letters and commup
cations. The name and address OF the writer are IL
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubcstio
out as q guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON
municatiOns that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

SMITH B. WEED seems to have been Sc
lected to play the part of the goat. He shows
a great deal of natural ability.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

THE Boston Herald thinks the inventors
Of the Barron suicide theory might go to work
and show that Stewart stole bis own body.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

THE Potter committee take every possible
opportunity to slide away from Tilden and
get back to the St. Martin affair. That is
not so awkward to handle.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

IT is quite too absurd to believe that Will
liam Elliot was murdered. Evidently he
committed suicide. 1t must be apparent to
any detective that he knocked himself down
on the.sled, split his skull open with an axe,
horribly maDgled himself, rolled himself up
in blanket, and then sent his team on to
the railway station to convey the susp' 'cion OF
murder as we'll as the bag of oats. When
found he was still breathing and presented
symptoms of poisoning by morphine. The
motive for the suicide is evident. He had
been town collector. With great cunning
he scattered forty-two cents about his body,
so as to give the idea there had been a
struggle and an attempt at robbery. 1t is
not yet stated that detectives are practising
the trick so as to show how easily it can be
done; but that will come in good time.
They are only waiting to see if anybody is
going to pay the bills. Mr.. EIliot's debtors
have no doubt that he committed suicide,
ana will decline to pay over anything to the
estate,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
COPARTNERSHlP.
DiSSIOufiOu,

FVyHE Copartnership heretofore existing under the
Il stvle of Yeaton g. yd is this day dissolved
by mutual consent. Parties indebted to and OWN q
The concern requested to adjust accounts Eth
er member of the late firm is authorized to adjust
the matters OF the late firm and to sign the firm
name in liquidation. JOHN YEATON.
DAVID BOYD.
No. O MenIt0n Street.
We have disposed of our stock of Chapdlery and
Ship Stores to Franklin Yeaton, who will continue
the business at No MoDlton Street. to whom we
would recommend our former cus omers
tSIgned) YEArON & BOYD.
November 80, 1875 dec2dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

TABLES contained in the forthcoming
Albany Erening Journal almanac give these
political figures: The total Greeuback vote
in the twenty-eight states where Greenback
tickets were in the field at the election in '7S,
was 900 919. In some States the third party
combined with one or the other before elec-
tion, so that no distinct returns of their
strength could be obtained. Then, in other
cases, votes were cast for Labor Reform,
National Reform and National candidates,
but as there was generally unanimity among
all the factions on the greenback question
the Almanac tables very properly class them
as Greenback. la California there was no
election last year, and from Florida only in
complete returns have been received. The
total Republican vote In the other States foot
up 2,6S6, 931; Democrats, 3,076, 9O9-a Dem
ocratic plurality of 289,977. Independent or
Prohibition tickets we're run for general OF
local officers in fifteen States, the aggregate
vote cast being 1925 The grand total OF
votes cast in all the States is 6,S92, OH
against Z, $3.50 at the previous important
elections, many of the States holding no elec-
tion in 1877, and in such cases the returns
of 1875, the Presidential year, being taken.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
CITY ADVERTIS EMENTS
City of Portland

NOTICE is her by given that the "J oint Stand
IN ing Committee on a.ayinx out New
Streets TO whom referred an order of the City
Co neil ds TED jan 6, A. d. 1879, directing them to
take into IN the expediency of widening
Conc Str ct from MuDjoy street on the south
ery side hereof. and Howard Street the her
ly side thereof to the Eastern Pr ,menade viii meet
at the Mayors Office in City Bnilding WEDN ES-
DAY, the 18th inst at four o'clock M, to hear all
parties interested, and then determine and adjudge
If public convenience requires that said streets should
be wideued and If they should adJudge, will then
and there lay out said widening, and fix the damages
required by law.
Also on petition of C. H. Hobsen and others that
st John street be laid out from its present ter
minus at the County road to the boundary line OF he
City in Jeerng, will meet at the same time and place
hear all parties interested and then determine and
adjudge If public convenience requires that said st
John street should oe laid OUT and if they should
adjudge will then aDd there lay out said street and
fix the damages as required by law.
NJ. BUTLER, l c...
ISAAC ID. CUSHMAN, OOMmiIee ~ I-,t
ALBERT SMITH,. oh laying
ISAAC HAMILTON, ouC
JACOB W ROBINSON. ] Nc" otreets.
FEB div
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
"Takin' Our Poison Regular. D

If the Onion was worth fighting for ii is
worth paying for.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

They no longer murder in Maine. They
commit suicide.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

|haye them by
1.-TWO or three
|you retire
|c ugh. Espec-
|1ddpted to
Don't Dose
n e s s q ~ d
Ipe
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
DISSOLUTION.

fKVHE Coparinership heretofore existing under the
II style OF JORDAN & COLE is this day dissolved
by mutual consent Parties indebted to aud owing
the concern request TO make paS menr TO Elisha
N Jordan, who is authorized to ADJUST the accounts
OF The late firm and who is continue the bosiuess
at toe cd tand
Cape Elizabeth, FEB. lst, 1879.
ELISHA N. JORDAN,
fe31w* JOHN F. COLE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

cac anttmon,ats, ol0odrOot, L"oetta or Opates but
give them Slippery Elm Lozenges in abundance. Large
boxes 70 cents. Sent by mail. postage paid. any
part OF the U. s.. upon receipt o. price, CASWELL
gists. ja29dSm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
ENTERTAINM ENTS.
Grand Masquerade
SPARRING ENTERTAINMENT.

. Grand Complimentary Testimonial
To BILLY EDWARDS. ARTHUR CHAMBERS and
PATsEy SHEPPARD, Light Weisht
Champions of the Word, at
Lancaster Hall, Saturday Ev'g, Feb. Sth.
The following talent will appear:
Billy Edwards and Arthur Chambers.
Pasey Sheppard and Billy Ed wards.
Arthur Chambers and Patsey Sheppard.
ice Goss, Champion of England and Geo. N.
Briggs
Fiof John Connolly, of Boston, and Prof. John
Carroll, of Northampton. Mass.
Kelly Brothers, of Boston, assisted by Local Tai
ent of Portland.
WIND UP in Grand Scientific Display of the
s'maniy art" in Full Ring Costume, between Billy
Edwards and Arthur Chambers, Light Weight
Champions of the World
General Admission, IS Cents; Reserved Seats, 80
Cents. Doors open at 7.30 O'Clock. Performance at
e.15. feb7d2t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
HALL To LET.

MISSION HALL, williams Block, formerly
Nl known as "Arcana Hall.) having been leased
by the undersigned, will be lei on most reasonable
terms for Lectures, concerts, Sociabes, Meetings,
Suppers Fairs, &c. Apply at the Hall, opposite
Casco engine House.
ap16eodtf r. M. BARTON.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

them. Always
your bedsi ie;
tax en- when
will stopyou
ious are then.
c hid re n
them to SICK
death 1ciibI
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

A GOOD tenement to let on Green street. Gas
"A and Sebago. Inquire OF j. G. WOOD NAN,
at 119 l-2 Exchange street. noY27dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
Tenement 10 Let.

T1yHE Store IN Harrington Block now occupied by
IL Collins 81 Buxton. They will remove their
stock of mnsic, and continue business at d. H.
Young's, 266 Middle Street. de30df
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07
Caswe,Ps slippery Elm Lozenges

For Coughs, Colds and al Affections of the Throat
and Lungs. Consum ptives will find them soothing
AID healing. use them freely. In travelling, the
Church, Concec a. d ecture K ON, don't fail to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-07

TO Let.
New House For sale.

One-hatf of double House No. TO Congress Street
now completed and ready for occupancy. Said house
first class in every respect Dining room sitting
ROOM bath room and kitcheu finished in bard wood.
Plumbed for hot and cold water. White MAI BILE
mantles CRATES &C. &c Cemented cellar and
everything first class, and will be sold at verv low
price. Enquire Of A. N. SMITH,
au19eodtf End of Portland Peir.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-28
18th OF MARCH.

The Louisiana State Convention is
to meet on the 18th of March, the BIRTH
day of John q. Calhoun, and the
OUACIITA TELEGEAPlI thinks this is
Il favorable augury of its good results.
Mr.. Calhoun's shade may hover over
the halls of the Convention Of Louisi-
ana, but we are rather afraid that there
has been SO little of old-fashioned
Democracy in that State lately that the
spirit of tho departed statesman has
hunted for more congenial quarters
Natchez Democrat.
Monday, March 81, on which day
the Constitutional Convention is to as
semble, will be the anniversary Of the
great fire of l7SS, by which seven
cighths of the city was laid in ashes.
See the point, Mr.. OUACIIITA TELE-
GRAPH IN. o. City Nena.
The OuACHITA TELEGRAPH, one of
the earliest, most consistent and persist
ent advocates of a constitutional con-
vention, regards it as a good omen that
the election for delegates to the coming
convention is to be held on the ami
Versary of tho birth of the great Demo-
cratic statesman, John G. Calhoun
March 1s; to which the City Item
retorts that tho date upon which the
convention is to assemble Is the ami
Versary of the great fire in l7SS by
which seven-eighths of New Orleans
was laid in ashes. Trot out another
omen, Brother McCranie; your first
one is fioored. -Donalosonriile Chief.
According to the Act calling Con-
stitutional Convention, that body will
assemble, not on Monday, 2ist of March
when rs of New Orleans was burned
but on Monday, the 2lst Of April, il
the State-housc ut 10 O'Clock, m. Sex
any point?
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-28
LEGAL.

with dwelling. The taxes duo by said delinquent
Il en tint
1902 e aTs in s sa the total
~ o3. The penalties cost and expenses arc to be
Name of delinquent, Estate OF Mrs. L.
A: Richardson. Description OF property
d a '9s na
the Se S en the
ls51 $500; due il iss7 si5 90: the tax DUG tie
duo
to be added aforesaid.
Name of delinquent, Mrs: II. G. sorg.
Description Of property seized:
Monroe fronsng feet on ssSensh street
So sp said tSas sra as cn% TIVE
tag due on the Of ,sas one thousand dol
elusive Of penalties cost aud espenses ten ;sl!ars
Tho penalties, cost and expenses to be added
Name Of delinquent, Stewart Il IcCar-
they: Description Of property seized:
to
Of 1873 hundred dollars; due 1875 two dollars
the psnaes COST ss and .S
pe5ses to be added aforesaid.
., Name of delina9ent, d. Stein. Descrip-
Lot No. | in square No. g in Ereards addition to
N rs Ms ss on 2 1' be
are ar as US ,S tao lao
AZ dollars INC total taSss Ar renal
cost and to be addsd as afaresad
Name of delinquent, Littleton Thomas.
DescrHip p IN OF od proIerty - seized;
depth OF i4s feet. with dwelling The taaes due bS
said Delinquent are as follows, to;wit the tag due
due in ISIS three dollars the total tases due eacin
sye of penalties cost and expenses. three dollars
The penalties cost and expenses arc to be added ls
Name of delinquent, Ben Williams.
Description of property seized:
Lot in Filhiors addition to Monroe fronting
Sweng T%s due bS 5 1st r w
follows, towit: the tag due on tho assessment CT
1873 one hundred dollars; due in 1873 one dollar:
expenses dollar. he penalties, cost and OK
pcnses are to be added as aforesaid
Name of delinquent. G. c.. Waddill
Description of property seized:
Lots 10 and II in block II in Stubs railroad addi-
ton to Monroe The ta1es due by said de!inqu cnt
Of ISIS fo@T dolars duo in 1873 esr So
lars; the total ta1esduc cscluslvc OF penalties
expenses are to be added aforesaid.
Name of delinquent, John Ray. Descrip-
ton Of property seized:
Lot in Monroe fronting 100 feet Walnut street
feet. The taxes due by said delinquent are rs fol.
lows. to.wit the tas due assessment Of 1877 two
on the assessment 1915 $500; due in ISIS,
thirteen dollars; total ta1es due exclusive of pc nal
crpcnses to he added as aforesaid
Terms of sale: To tho last and highest
bidder, without appraisement, for cash in
current money or city warrants.
Witness my official signature, this 9th
J. Is. GARRETsoN,
Assessor and collector of city taxes and
licenses of the city of Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-28

The Dublin Freeman's Journal says
that TRANSMISSION of milk into the blood
of patient dying from exhaustion was
performed at the Provident Infirmary,
Dublin, recently, by Drs. Meldon and
mcdonnell. Although apparently hay
ing only n few moments to live when
the operation was undertaken, the pa
tient has since recovered. About
pint of milk was taken from the cow
lent for the occasion by Mr.. Moore, of
South Anne street, and was directly
Injected into the vein.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-28
EDUCATIONAL.
EDUCATIONAL.
T OUlSIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
AND Mocha NICAL
COLLEGE,
BATON ROUGE, LA.,

Is now in successful operation, with good
prospect of large patronage.
session begins, by law, October 3 and
experienced Faculty. now Of four Profess
sors-tho number expected soon to be in
creased; much philosophical and chemical
apparatus; good appliances for instruction
History a library Of fo"rtoen Il Thousand ,i
arms and artillery for military exercises.
Efforts are also making to get in readiness
Workshops and an Experimental Farm,
for which 12G acres Of good land have been
secured.
-. Course of Study embraces wide field Of
select the studies which they may wish
their sons to pursue. The military exer-
cises arc ranked as studies, only obligatory
University building and optional with
other students, who board in Baton Rouge.
To become "Student' or "cadet,' is option
al with the parent.
youths not under fourteen years of age,
common English education. They can en-
ter Mt any time during the session, and be
dents may be residents of OTHER i States State '''"
be received until the Legislature makes an
Eapeuses.-Tuition and the use ofIibrary
and apparatus arc absolutely free. Stu
Rouge for about SIS month and those
who form "messes'' can maintain thcn,-
selves for SO to IS /: month.
Expenses fo' q Military Ctn0ct-FiXed e>.-
penses per monti-Board. lodging and SER
want attendance, S12; washing and mend
ing, 81 so; fuel and lights, SO cents; medical
attendance, 81; total, SIG; or for the session
of nine months Sl41; or at that rate for part
Of session. Payable monthly in advance.
Contingent expenses per sossion-estima
ted-uniform clothing, S47; textbooks and
stationery, SIS; medicines, 50; brealSagcs
and contingencies, So; total, S72. Payable
III 1No1 lam Tnp Tn
case of Withdrawal from tho Institution,
cadets will be charged only for the time OF
attendance, except that there will be no re-
mission of fees for tho last two months OF
the session.
-Locatio,, healthy and desirable for deli
cate youths who may not be able to stand
II colder climate.
For further information address
ID. +. BOYD. President.