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Daily Republican., 1879-07-15

Mr.. Conrad moved that the Secretary
be instructed to inform the teachers O.
their appointment. Lost.
Mr.. Baird moved that the report of the
committee on teachers be re-consi9ersd
Adopted.
On motion the further consid Grafton
OF the subject was postponed until next
Monday evening.
DR.. Shortlidge moved that the re-
porter be requested not to report the
committees list ON teachers.
DR.. Grimshaw was in favor Of the
newspapers printing the report as 1t
was a part of the acts of the Board.
Dr.. Shortlidgs withdrew his motion
as the further action Of the Board would
the proceedings.
Dr.. Grimshaw moved that the Sscre-
tary be directed to notify by postal
cards such teachers as will be named
by the superintendent and that said
teachers meet the committee on Revi-
sion of studies on Thursday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock in the Boards room.
A communication from H. W. Ellis
worth in relation to the essential sys-
TEN of penmanship was read and re-
ferred to the Book COMMITTEES.
ORDERS.
During the evening the f,llowiny orders
were directed to be drawn. T. +. Thomas Co.
e65S6; Glatts & Eckel, $l3.7a; Wn. M. Pal
mer, $3.50; 4. G. johnson, $3.40; VIM. M.
Kennard & Co., $32 80; Edward Mcdowell,
!per order Of Chas. Stout) sil; p. b. 4 J. y.
Foreman, $3.50; A. l.. Sharpe, 81 25; John x.
Bradford, (clerk school election, End ward
~; Robert Morrison, 81 60; pay roll teachers
and Janitors, $3,20.8 .8s; teachers and substi-
.utes July 4th, sa,s3l.l7; Adams & Bro
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The Yellow Jack

There have been no new cases of
yellow fever in Memphis since last
Thursday and some of tn. inhabitants
who LETT the city are returning. The
reported yellow fever case at Water
Valley, Mississippi, is pronounced
doubtful"
The brigantire Orloff has arrived at
Aricbat, N. S., from Ponce, under COM
mand of mate, having lost her captain
and second mate on ths voyage from yell
low fever.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15
RoFreDhiug,

simms' Ottawa beer is very refresh
ing beverage in hot weather. Drop
into tho store, Fourth and King streets,
and try 1t.
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Personal,

rlsyes Chandler leaves the city
I',uesday) =, evening for Topeka,
I " pay his son Ell a visit. He
zone q week or two,
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TNO Many Geese.

The citizens in the vicinity of Reed
and Adams streets, Tenth Ward, COM
plain of the geese being nuisance in
that nsighborhood.
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FIRST EDITION.
..pxEss DISSATISFIED.
.x.v Meat Ordnance said to
vith a state statute

NAV Neat Ordinance said Il
s.a,ct with q State statute
m, ordinance prohibiting parties
m selling meat upon the streets un
,bsy have a city license, and the
=, 4 of their own raising does moi
u with appreciation. The ordinanct
pds;
n shall be lawful for any person to sell
mntton, lamb. veal or pork from wagons
.,s nortion of the city oil Wilmington ly.
~, ssst Of Broom street, provided that the
."n 40 selling from wagons shall first oh.
n license from the Mayor who is hereby
Lh,,I,ed to issue the same upon the pay
u',r Y, ,to him ior the use Of the city the sum Of
Snch license shall be authorized for one
from the day OF issuing the same and no
Iser It shall not be transferable or be
by any person or persons than those, to
AM ibs same snail DO issued. Any person
I,nu the provisions OF this section shall
,yers S such offence forfeit and pay fine Of
10 b: recovered before the Mayor for the
Of the corporation"
III securing this an affidavit is sworn
that the applicant is in the bust
h Of farming and that he will not en-.
rs in the sale Of beef, mutton, &C.,
In than that Of his own raising.
anong the tanners it is thought that
fpance conflicts with the bill offer
BY representative William Dean at
last session of the Legislature which
awards became a law, giving far
rs the permission to sell the produce
khvir own farms and not to be pre-.
kbsd by any special legislation on
part Of the city of Wilmington.
B consequence thereof they place
mos. liberal construction upon the
.ning Of the legislative enactment,
are disposed to follow their own
|iuations in the matter. The city
Ihorlties do not 30 understand Mr..
In's law and the passage Of the Or
lance and its transcription upon the
|ute book Of the city is evidence pre-
bptivs that municipal privileges are
|oud the intent Of legislative restric-
and so considered.
far there Lave been four licens. 9
ri from the Mayors office. This
bb-r it is supposed will bs largely
Fess-d as pork season advances. As
pow is the farmers have not sufficient
b Of their own production to war
|sthem in taking out the license
Consequently what little they have
)sposed of ION the hoof,"
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15
Fish,

Bny fish at the stalls Of Powell, Third
Street Market. H. has always = great
variety, which he sells at = reason 4 bls
price.
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Two Drunkk.

This morning at the police Court
there were two cases of drunks. The
usual fine, fifty cents and cost, was i'm
posed in each case.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15
SECOND EDITION.
Staie OF the Thermorne,e.
At Inc REPUBLICAN Office, July 18th
o'clock, 10 O'Clock, l2 o'cloch.
$50 91o 600
The WsarI,er.

war department, Office of the Chief
signal Officer, Washington, July Isl
lndicatisns for Tuesday-For the
Lower Lake Region, Middle States and
New England, southeast to southwest
"inos, stationary pressure and temper
atnre, clear or partly cloudy weather.
and in the northern portions occasional
local rains.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15
To Preach al MT. Salem.

Rev. Geo. r. Bristor will preach in
the new Mt. Salem N. E. church, this
evening, at 7.45 all are invited.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15

The Democratic State Convention
will meet in Harrisburg tomorrow.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15

NOTlCE.-The River Road, below New
An Castle, ID now open to travel.
7.lo ltd ltw ALBERT H, SILVER,
July u, 1879. Levy Ceurt Commissioner.
Daily Republican., 1879-07-15
NEW ADvERTIsEa1ENTs.

"ANTED'-Hands on coats. GERSON
w L. KAHN 4 CO,2ls MarkstSt. 7l5 St.
T OST.-An Umbrella, on, at or near tho
Finder will leave it at
it* 700 WOLLASTON ST.
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Sandy River Railroad.

IHlLLlfS, boC' o, 1913.
Mr. EDITOR Please allow me the use of a
small amount of your valuable space in which
to correct false impression which prevails in
your vicinity. Since the last Photograph was
issued we have been requested by Portland
parties to contradict a rumor regarding the
safety of our railroad
There is not road in the United States
that runs so smoothly as does the narrow
gauge When first the cars ran from Strong
to Phillips, the road being pushed rapidly
to save the loans, some rough places were
skipped, and the wheels of some of the cars did
leave the rails but now, or since the first
week, the cars have not been off the track to
our knowledge. When they do leave the track
the cars are SO low, and so constructed that
they will drop but six inches or less, when a
cross-timber of the truck-frame extending on
each side of and across the rails, rests upon
the rail, and sliding with the heft of the car
upon it, soon as possible, without injury checks
the train We consider it impossible for the
cars to leave the rails and sleepers; and as for
the cars tipping over, the idea is simply rldlcu-
lous One side of the car cannot rise more
than IS inches before the opposite side strikes
the ties. The chances for high, broad gauge
car over the narrow gauge are double Tor
tip-over.
The road will be thoroughly ballasted in
few days, and the railroad celebration occurs
on New Years day, when railroad men and
old residents will come from all directions.
Several bands of music will be present and a
big time is expected.
The Photograph will issue large railroad
extra on celebration day, with perhaps more
railroad matters in it than in some of its regu-
lar editions Hoping we don't intrude, we are
your obedient EDITOR PHoNA.
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Crxyatal WAddinO

Monday evening party of about sixty per-
sons assembled in the parlors of Mr.. l.. G. Gill
son, No. Henry street, between the hours of
seven and eight o'clock. to give to him and his
wife pleasant surprise on the fifteenth an
niversary of their marriage. To Mr.. ellison it
was genuine surprise, he having been decoyed
out to supper with some friends, and kept
there until the party had arrived when word
was sent that he was needed at home. On his
arrival no one could have looked more COM
pletely dumbfounded and surprised than he.
He was Immediately ushered into the parlors
by a committee of gentlemen and expressed
both his pleasure and surprise in meeting so
many of his friends. There was large num-
Der of handsome crystal and silver presents
left with the host and hostess as souvenirs of
this pleasant occasion. The evening was
passed with singing and dancing. Little
Elsie ellison, five years of age, sang very
pretty song much to the delight of the assem-
bly,. At II O'Clock bountiful collation. was
served. x.
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Sudden Death.

About o'clock yesterday morning Mr.. An
thony Wagner, baker at the Falmouth
Hotel, who resides at No. Portland street,
awoke and found his wife lying dead on the
floor in the sitting-room which adjoins their
bedroom. He aroused Mr.. Skillins, who has
rooms in the house, and Mr.. Skillins notified
Officers McIntire and jackson, who called
Coroner Hall and DR.. Getchell. The body had
not been disturbed when the coroner and ply
stefan arrived. Mr.. Hall empanelled jury
and held an inquest yesterday morning. Mr..
Wagner stated that he came home from the
hotel about p. m. Monday and went to bed.
His wife said she wonld take in the clothes
before she went TO bed. MI. Wagner went to
to strike match to light lamp so as to see to
dress before going to work at the hotel In
getting to the mantel-piece in the sitting
room, to procure a MATCH his foot struck
against something, and on lighting the lamp
he found the body of his wife on the floor.
His wife was in her night-dress and she was
dead.
Appearances indicate that the woman died
from apoplexy, while endeavoring to procure
an abortion, but in order to make sure of the
cause of death. the inquest was adjourned to 2
p. En- to-day to await the result of post-mor-
tenn examination. Mrs. Wagner was about %
years old and leaves two small children, aged
about two and three years respectively.
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Splendid day yesterday. Mercury 260 al
sunrise, $50 at noon, 800 at sunset; wind north.
east.
Two men named Murphy and Rafter were
arrested for ARRAY on Green street last night.
Murphy, it was said, got the worst of it.
The Ogdensburg train was an hour late yes.
terday owing to a slight accident to the
locomotive
John P. Osgood, who furnished the fine Or
namental signs in front of the PRESS office,
has just completed some for the Tucker Print
ing House.
c.. j. Telling Of Portland, now residing in
Washington, has just sent live wild swan to
this city, which will be placed in Evergreen
cemetery.
The New York Commercial Bulletin cor
respondent says that Portland has. the largest
wholesale trade of any city of its size in the
country.
Owen, Moore & Co. have published a holi
day sheet called the Musical Present, contain
ing songs by Pinsuti, Won Suppe and Suchet
Champion, and two or three compositions fol-
the piano.
The Young Mems Social Club will give
another of their pleasant assemblies at Con-
gress Hall Friday evening, Dec. 10TH The
Portland Theatre orchestra will furnish the
music.
A correspondent wants to know why some
of our literary OF scientific societies don't in
vte some competent man to give lecture
this winter on astronomy. at is always
cheapest to get the best. Why not engage
Prof. PROCTOR"
A freight rain off the track on Commercial
street yesterday caused the passengers and
baggage on trains running across the city, to
be transported in hacks and wagons between
the Grand Trunk, Eastern and Boston & Maine
stations
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C. c. Bedlow of Boston, is at the Preble
House.
Mr.. Fred Shaw left for New York yesterday
and will sail ON that European tour in the City
of Brussels tomorrow.
Mr.. Benjamin w. Parker, a son of ex-Mayor
Parker of Lewiston, was married in this city
yesterday to Miss Susie J. Bucknam. Rev.
Mr.. Hutchings performed the marriage cere-
mony. The couple left for Lewiston on the
noon train, where grand reception was to be
held in honor of the occasion.
We understand that Governor Garcelon and
most of the members of his Council were in
consultation with Hon. Bion Bradbury in his
office in this city from 10 a. m. to 6 .. m. Mon
day. kilograms were sent to well known
Democrats throughout the state, and it is
stated that Mr.. Bradbury is engaged as legal
advisor for the Governor and Council along
with Hon. A. P. Gould.
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the
Poet, has recently accepted the appointment
of Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies'
Association of the Union, in Massachusetts,.
This appointment is eminently appropriate,
not only from the personal and social qualif-
cations of the lady, but as connecting with this
patriotic undertaking name so long among
those of which our national pride is most
prompt to speak.
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STATE NEWS.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY.
A Mrs McGraw of Mars Hill recently gave
birth to three boys. At last accounts all were
we'll and doing we'll.
KNOX COUNTY.
Capt O. F. Morse, of the ship John Bryce,
which arrived at San Francisco, Sunday, from
Liverpool, was buried at sea- He was native
of ThomaSton, Me.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
On Friday last Mrs. Gershom Flagg OF Ben
ton was thrown from a carriage and injured
very badly breaking her fore arm and cutting
bad cash in the back of her head besides
some internal injuries, the extent OF which
can not as yet be determined.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The telegraph line between Canton and Dix
field has just been completed by the R. F. q
B. r. r. Co., they having bought out MIR.
Harlow.
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney and Joanna Oldham of
East Peru held the 47th anniversary of their
marriage at their residence, Nov. 9th. Child
ermore, Livermore and Hartford. Friends,
neighbors and relatives were well entertained,
and the exercises of the day were made pleas
ant by music, reading the Scriptures and
prayer.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says the school house on what is
called the North Road, in Springfield, was
burned at about IL o'clock Saturday night.
The fire was discovered by those people who
so much Roadway that they were only able to
save few books. the fire first started in the
woodshed and was undoubtedly the work of an
incendiary We learn that they have had
some trouble in the district in relation to the
school.
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Another Pin Down.

Another of the falsehoods put forward in the
Boston Globe and repeated by the Argus, is
fatty refuted by the following sworn statement
of Mr. Porter, who is now in New York:
STATE OF NEW YORK, City and County OF
New York, IS.
Charles B. Porter being duly sworn deposes
and says, that he has read an affidavit signed
by one Silas Piper. bearing date of November
10th, 1879, and published in newspaper call
ed Daily Eastern Argus of Portland, Me-, I'M
der date of Nov. 2lst, 1879. Deponent further
saws he believes himself to be the Charles b.
Porter referred to in said affidavit, and II so,
said deponent soemnly swears that said aff1-
davit is false and malicious in every respect
except as hereinafter stated. Deponent admits
having seen said Pipef on said day, but was at
no time within distance of 80 feet OF said
Piper, and that no conversation npon any sub
ject whatsoever was held; that the anne OF
Samuel B. Morrell was not mentioned; IT, at
nothing was said in reference to money for the
purchase of votes, nor the abduction OF said
Morrell, nor hiring a team; nor was any opln-
ion or statement made as to how Morrell was
going to VOTE nor in in fact anything as stated
in said Piper's affidavit, except that he saw
him but at distance and deponent swears
with said above exception said Pipers affidavit
is false in every particular, and every state
ment is untrue, as he, deponent, stands ready
to prove in court OF justice.
CHARLES B. PORTER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th
day of Dec, 1879. HENRY I'll. SPELMAN, Q8)
Notary Public, New York County.
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Fires /!
A DISASTROUS BLAZE ON BROWN
STREET.
Narrow Escape Of an Entire Family From
Suffocation.

This morning at 1910 o'clock an alarm was
Sent in from box ST. which called out portion
of the fire department for what promised at
one time to be a sweeping confagration. The
fire caught in the shed of tenement house in
the rear of 81 Brown street, and was well I'M
der way before its discovery. When the
engines arrived the entire roof and sides of the
ell were mass of fire, and it seemed as though
the house together with No. 81, which adj
Joined it, must go.
The house has been occupied about month
by Mr.. John Shaw, whose family consisted of
his wife and son, a young man. Another sons
widow and four children, were also of his
family. All of these were turned into the
street with hardly any clothing upon their
backs and nearly suffocated by smoke. They
managed to save some of their furniture in a
badly damaged condition.
Mr.. Shaw was burned out in the St. John
fire, and repetition of his calamity will be
indeed hard to bear, as he had no insurance.
The building was owned by Alderman
James Cunningham. The ell was nearly
ruined, and the main house badly injured by
fire and water. We were unable to learn the
amount of insurance on the house.
The portion of the building where the fire
caught was well filled with furniture &c..
belonging to Mr.. Shaw, all of which was de-
stroyed. The cause of the fire is a mystery as
no one had been in there with fire that we
could learn.
A FALSE ALARM
In about fifteen minutes from the time the
alarm was rung in from box 81, another alarm
from box 8 called portion of the steamers to
the corner of Merrill and Quebec Streets on
Munioy Hill. This, however, proved to be a
false alarm.
APPEARANCES OF A FIRE AT sACcARAPPA.
The night police noticed very brilliant
light in the heavens about midnight, in the d-
rection of Saccarappa, and the opinion was
generally expressed that fire was raging in
that vicinity
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OXFORD COUNTY RETURNS.
Most Of Them Defective.

The Oxford Democrat contains the following
| statement concerning the returns from Oxford
| county.
Mr.. George d. Bisbee, our member of the
| State Committee for 1880, is the only man
| from this county who has had the time and in
| cination to look after the interests of Oxford
county in this matter at Augusta He says he
secured certified copies of returns from few
towns and appeared before the Governor and
Council They allowed him to examine the
returns from those towns, but refused to
exhibit any others. He has since circulated
blanks among working Republicans in the
county, and they have secured for his use GER
titled copies of the record in nearly every
town MIR. Bisbee will again visit the capital,
and do what he can to secure an honest count,
although our candidates are IN minority,
and none of them are elected.
These certified copies of the record reveal
very bad state of affairs, and if they agree with
the returns at Augusta, a large share OF our
voters will be DISTINGUISHED, if the authorities
insist upon technically correct returns There
appears to have been systematic attempt to
invalidate votes by recording initials instead
of the full name as it appeared on the ballots.
We know that the Republican ballots for Ok
ford county were all printed with the names
of candidates in full, yet several returns show
as candidate for Senators, F. w. Redlon and
W. w. Wait. Others show for Judge OF Pro-
bate A. n. Walker, and for Commissioner f.
Y. Bradley. In many other ways these re-
turns are defective. Of the thirty-eight towns
and plantations in Oxford county, there proba-
bly, are not over dozen which are absolutely
and technically correct.
The Importance of this matter cannot be too
strongly impressed upon our people, nor can its
lesson be too quickly needed. For town clerks
we must not pick up any man who may wish,
or who will accept the position. We must
select carefully men who are accustomed to
clerical work at least we must have those
who are sufficiently careful and accurate to
obey to the letter those instructions which are
sent them annually with the blanks for cleo
ton returns If such officers cannot be pro
cured, men who are familiar with the election
laws of Maine should stand by the town officers
and see that the returns are correctly made.
This is not for the interest of one or another
party, but for the whole people. According to
present appearances, a large portion of our
voters will be disfranchised simply because
theydid not take sufficient care in the selection
of town officers.
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A Lewiston man sends two hundred tons of
freight over the narrow gauge railroad from
Phillips.
Parties from Gray have leased the steam
mill in Canton village formerly occupied by
Charles Foster, Esq, for the manufacture of
toothpicks, and will cut up birch and oak for
slaves
The Bangor Commercial says that discov-
cry has been made of very handsome slate de-
posts near Blanchard, but short distance
from the travelled highway, and but little
more than a mile from the railroad station in
Blanchard.
Mr.. o. S. Smiley is receiving large orders
for broom handles, manufactured at his fac
tory on the east side of the river at Augusta.
He has some eight or ten hands employed,
and turns out abont five thousand handles
daily. He is greatly encouraged by the unus-
ually large demand for his wares, and will in
crease the facilities of his business early in the
spring.
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THAT LETTER.
Can the Council Afford to investigated

Can the Council Afford to investigator
AUGUSTA, Dec. 3.
To the Honorable Governor and Council Of the
State of Maine:
Your Honorable Board has repeatedly and
now formally declined to permit any Republic
can Senator or Representative elect to see the
returns affecting him. Your ground for this
refusal is understood to be your conclusion, for
mally expressed by his Excelency, the Cover
nor, that you have no constitutional power to
make corrections in the returns in any in
stance.
now offer, on behalf of the Republican
Senators-elect from Washington county,if your
honorable board will open the subject for in
vestigation, to prove that in the seof returns
from Democratic towns for Senators and Rep
resentatives there have been changes made;
that these changes were made to supply defects
discovered by the surreptitiouS and premature
opening of returns, and that they must in
volve in some form the collision or connlvance
of persons connected with the state govern
ment.
And in the facts which 1 think are suscept-
BILE of proof will be found the basis of that
boast SO widely made by certain persons that
the returns from Democratic towns are all
correct and that errors and omissions are
found only in the returns from Republican
towns.
will order the investigation to very little
trouble and to an expense so tritiing that II
you have no appropriation applicable to this
end of justice 1 will supply the necessary
funds.
The witnesses 1 shall desire to have sum-
moned are principally persons connected with
the State government, officers in Democratic
towns and few others who have compete Mt
knowledge on which to testify. -,
Assuming that your honorable board will
gladly unite with me and with all others who
can aid III discovering and exposing a nefarl-
Gus plot to thwart the expressed. Will OF the
people at the late election L await your COM
mands
Your obedient servant,
| (Signed) q. y. HOUNDS.
County Attorney Of Washington.