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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
Cumberland National Bank.

FENHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
II Cumberland National Bank will be held at their
Banking Room, in Portland on TUESDAY, the 14th
day OF January, 1S79 at o'clock p. for the choice
OF Directors for the ensuing year, and for the tran
sacton OF any other business that may then be-
fore them. w, II. SOULE
Portland, Dec. 18th 1878. Cashier.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

THE combination showed more wisdom
than was expected of them when they nom.
mated Cove for Secretary of State. He is
clean man, and his party services have earned
him but proper recognition.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
nnrnal.
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MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.

fEvHE Stockholders in this Bank are hereby notified
l. that their annual meeting for the choice of Di-
rectors and the transaction of any other business
which may legally be brought before them, will be
holden at the Bank on TUESDAY Jan Il. 1879 at
10 o'clock A. M. CHAS. PAYSON Cashier
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

BAYARD seems to be the coming Demo-
crat. How pleasant it viii be to see Maine
fiat-money editors like Chase, and Fogg, and
Rust, and Perry, support him year hence!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
NATIONAL TRADERS BANK.

FENHE shareholders of the National Traders Bank
IL of Portland are hereby notified that their annu-
al meeting will be held at their banking room, on
TUESDAY, the 14th day of January next, at three
O'Clock p M, to choose five Directors for the ensuing
year, and to act any other business that may e-
Dec. IL, 1878. Cashier.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

THE Belfast Journal is not pleased with
the Democratic -Greenback combination, and
says: "Great danger besets such plan at
the outset, and still greater the purpose of
founding new and successful party upon
basis which does not include any great polit-
cal principle. The cohesive power of public
plumber is not enough to bind it together"
In its correspondence it says: "The combina-
ton of the Greenbackers and Democrats in
the House has been forced by desire for the
offices. Already the Greenbackers' grumblings
ale loud and many, that the Democrats are
taking the lions share of the spols. The
scramble for places is desperate"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
CANAL NATIONAL BANK.

rT1HE annual meeting of the Stockholders of ssThe
Il Canal National Bank of Portland'' for the
any other business that may legally come before
them. will be held at their banking house on Tues
day, the fourteenth day of January, 1879, at II
o'clock a. B. G. SOMERBY, Cashier.
Dec. 12, 1873. dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
Annual Meeting.
CASCO NATIONAL BANK.

YHyHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland, for the
choice of Directors and the transaction of such other
held at their Banking House, TUESDAY, the
18th day of January, 1879, at 10 o'clock A. M.
W. A. WINSHIP, Cashier.
Dec. 18th, 1878. dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
IN BANKRUPTCY.
TN RANKRUPTCY.-District Court of IL

TN BANKRUPTCY.-Di Court of the
Il United States. District of Maine. In the matter
of Tobn Brothers. Bankrupts.
This is to give notice that petition has been pre-
sented to the Court. this nineteenth day of December
1873, by Dennis, Tobin, OF Portland, Bankrupt
individually and a member of the firm of Tobin
Brothers, praying that he may be decreed to have
full discharge from all his debts, individual and CO.
partnership, provable under the Bankrupt Act,a ,and
upon reading said Petition,
1t is ordered by the Court that hearing be had
upon the same on the third day of February, A. d.
1872 before the Court in Portland in said District, at
10 O'Clock A. NJ, and that the second meeting OF the
creditors of said Bankrupt, be held before James d.
Fessenden Register, on the fourth day of January,
1S79 at 10 A. M, and the third meeting of the
same on the twenty-fth day OF January, 1879, at
10 A. M and that notice thereof be published in the
Portland Advertiser and the Portland Press, news
papers printed in said District, once a week for
three successive weeks, and once in the weekly Adj
yertiser and Press the last publication to be thirty
days least before the day of hearing, and that all
creditors who have proved their debts and other per-
in interest," may appear at said time and place,
and show cause, any they have, why the prayer of
said Petition should not be granted.
VIM. P. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court tor said District.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

WHY not make the Maine Reporter the
official organ of the combination?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

The new Canadian loan is not success.
it is said,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

THE scarlet fever is spreading so rapidly in
New York that an epidemic is feared.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

TEXAS hopes to gain fifteen Congress sional
Representatives by the new census.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

IT seems that information about the cipher
dispatches casually reached William Shaks-
peare as of future event. The Tribune
quotes this passage from "Titus Androni-
cus:''
DemetriaS-Grammercy lovely L ucius, what's the
news? ~ INV
Boy-Thas you are both decipher'd. that's the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

If the Union was worth fighting for ii is
warth paying for.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

To the mind of the Springfield Republican
'it is like tnrning the crank of phonograph
that has had the dreary old Fraud story
talked into it, this work of the Potter sub
committee at New Orleans"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
IN aANKRUPTCY.-District Court of the

I'm RANKRUPTCY.-Dis Court of the
l. United States, District of Maine, In the matter
of Tobin Brothers, Bankrupt
This is 10 give notice that petition presented
TO the Court this nineteenth day of December 1875
by James H. Tobin of Portland, a Bankrupt indi-
vidually and as member of the firm of Tobin Broth
ers, praying that he may be decreed to have full
discharge from all his debts individual and copart-
nership, provable under the Bankrupt Act, and up
on reading said Petition,
1t is ordered by the Court that hearing be had
upon the same, the third day OF February, A. ID.
1879 before the Court in Portland in said District,
the creditors of said Bankrupt, be held before
james d. Fessenden, Register, en- the fourth day
of January, 1879 10 A. NJ. and the thir meeting
Of the same on the twenty-ftth day of January
1879, at 10 A. NJ, and that notice thereof be pub
1shed in the Portland Advertiser and the Portland
Press newspapers printed in said District week
for three successive weeks. and once in the weekly Ad
verser and Press, the last publication to be thirty
days at least before the day of hearing, and that all
creditors who have proved their debts and other per-
sons in interest. may appear at said time Ind place,
and show cause if any they have, why the prayer OF
said Petition should not be granted.
WM P. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court, for said District.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
PLEASANT ROOMS TO LET.
Congress Hall ::E!$: ?:::: .;Gs;:: :ss $;;: !:
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
EAGLE SUGAR REFINING co.

FEyHE Stockholders of this COMPANY are hereby no.
Il titled that the Annual Meeting for choice of Di-
rectors and action upon any other business that
come before them, will be held at the Refinery Office
Tuesday, the 18th day of January 1879, at o'clock
p. JOS P. THOMPSON,
de31dtd Clerk.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
REAL ESTATE.

For Sale or to Ect.
TIME Three Story Brick House No. Gray Street
Il Can be examined any day after 10 o'clock a. IN
For further particulars call on
j. F. RANDALL & CO.,
sep10tf 126 Commercial st.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

THE MAINE STATE PRESS
is published every THURSDAY MORNING at $3.50
year, If paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch Of space, the
length of column, constitutes square"
$1,50 per square, daily first week: rs cents per
week after; three insertions. less, S100; cCntinu
Hall square, three insertions, or less, 10 cents; one
week, $l.OO; so cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, enc third additional.
Under head OF "AMUsEMENTs'' and "AUcTIoN
SALES, $500 per square per week; three insertions
or less, S1.50.
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PRESS (Which has large circulation in every part
of the State for SLIGO per square for first insertion,
and so per square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communications TO
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03

the PRESS will contain full MARKET REPORTS
and MARITIME NEWS. The growing Importance
of Portland distributing center for Maine and its
fast increasing wholesale trade make daily paper
at this point of special Importance to every merchant
and business man in the State who proposes to keep
up with the times.
In LITERARY and SCIENTIFIC WAY the
PRESS stands high and its general news and infor-
nation are abundant and accurate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co,
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

AT 109 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year. To mail subscribers
Seven Dollars Year if paid IN advance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
TO LET.

A SMALL sunny, convenient tenement, suitable
N for and wife. Sebago water. INQUIRE
OF Mrs. PETTENGILL, % Mayo street.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
To Let.
To Let.

n n upper tenement No. 260 State street; very
N pleasant, with modern improvements. Small
family preferred. Call at the house. de7dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-03
To Let.

10 Let.
DRICK House. centrally located, 10 rooms gas,
ID bath ROOM furnace, Price $780,. Apply 10
N. S. GARDINER, r. e. Agent,
de2idtf Centennial Block.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

a Eunped-shOuldered old man, followed
| by dog which seemed to have tasted for a
year past. entered a Woodward avenue
butcher-shop the other day, and the man
made some inquiries about the price of
smoked hams. The butcher saw the dog.
Of course, and who ever saw a butcher who
didn't want to know all about a dogl
is that good coon dog :" asked the
butcher as he patted the shy canine on his
head
''Oh, no-he's trick dog" answered the
owner.
is, ehs What tricks can he do!"
''Oh, dozen or two. lie has one very
peculiar trick. though. Would YOU like to
see him do it T.
Il would that. What is it Z"
The man directed the butcher to put a
pound of nice beefsieak on a sheet of clean
brown paper and place the whole on the
doorstep. lie then said 20 his dog, which
had watched matters very keenly:
Now, Cato, am about to call upon You
TO perform trick. You have never gone
back on HE yet, and | have perfect conf
dence in you now Cato, do You see that
meat ("
Cato saw il. He walked over TO it.
seized it in his mouth, and as he went up
the street ii was hard to tell dog from dust.
Hum yes!" mttered the butcher !;
''do you call that a trick r.
Il do" confidently replied the man.
''Well, it's blasted mean one !"
Just so-just So" said the man. ''You
couldn't expect such looking dog as that
to be around playing tricks on a guitar or a
Jewsharp, could you! I'll see you later
about the hams"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
How Patty Soothed the Baby.

She was not more than n baby herself.
the little four-year-old, but Baby Harry wa.
her especial pet, and one day they were
having fine play upstairs lie was iusl
big enough TO toddle about, but not large
enough to get up or down stairs alone
Their mamma brought him up but when
she was ready TO 90 down she had her arms
full of things, and could not take him then.
Stay with Patty few minutes longer. >
she said, land | will come and get YOU. ~
But Baby Harry lifted up his voice and
went so loud that Patty's tender heart was
touched.
"I'H carry You down. dear" she said
come with Patty" and she led him to
the head Of the stairs.
Going down one step, she took him in
her arms. He was almost as heavy as she
so you can guess what happened next.
Bump! Bump Thump. Thump
Scream. Bang,
Mother rushed to the foot of the stairs in
time to pick up two very sorry looking chill.
dren. well bruised from humping each other
and the stairs all the way down.
Ii took long time and a good many
Jumps of sugar TO make them forget tbo,
unlucky trip down stairs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
HUMOROUS.

NC. having broken an indispensa-
ble article OF table porcelain, goes 70
the dealer from whom he had purchas-
ed the set endeavored to replace it.
sHaye you any objection to breaking
M a set" he saws. II bought one
from YOU last week, and one piece Is
smashed. 1t was like this. HOW
much'li you take for that sugar-bowi
there, without the cover?"
"WelI, the price is 10 francs with
the cover, but I'll let you have the
howl by itself for II. You see, the
cover doesn't amount TO much-in point
of fact / may say it is wOrthiess-Dut
it would look absurd not to make some
deduction, so I'll knock of one franc
for the cover"
"What one franc only? Surely, the
cover must be worth more tnan one
frame"
mo, sir; in reality 1t isn't worth
more than half franc, but seeing It's
YOU I'll call it franc and let you have
the bowl for H."
..Why, by Jove, what an ass I've
been! It wasn't the bowl that my wlie
told me was broken-it was the cover,
How funny of mellow stupid! IL ls'nt
the bowl 1 want-it's the cover. Here
is your own franc-doh't mind wrap
ping it up" (Vanishes Into the iniin-
! ite azure OF the street,
"Brigand!" tFaints.)
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
Consumption Cured.

AN old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure for Con-
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all Throat and Lung Affections,
also Il positive aud radical cure for Ner-
vous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having tested its wonder
ful curative powers in thousands of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it
knew TO his suffering fellows Actu-
ated by this motive and a desire to re-
lieve human suffering. Will send free
of charge to all who desire it, this re-
cipe, in German, French, or English,
with full directions Tor preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing
with stamp, naming this paper, W. W.
SHERAR, If9 POlcers' Block, Rochester,
Nelo York.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
A Big Headed Boy.

George Albert Page, is the name of
Il remarkable boy, who lived with his
mother in small frame house a short
distance south of LakepOrt, a little
hamlet near Oneida lake, y. Y. He
will be fifteen years oli on the fif-
teenth day of January 1850, and is per-
fectly formed, with the exception of
his head which is of enormous size. 1t
measures twenty eight inches in cir
eumferance, eleven inches from the
front to the back, nine inches across.
eighteen and half inches from ear to
ear, over. The forehead Is four and
one half inches high, and the face ten
and one-haiG inches long. The head
which is twice us large as that of the
average person, is covered with black
hair. Another singularity is the eyes ::
they are Inverted, and he cannot look
up. lie cannot see anything below the
level of his eyes. Tie lid that closes
over the eye, instead of being the up
per one, As is generally the case. is the
lower one. The face otherwise pre-
sents no unusual appearance. The bow
Is live feet one inch in height, and
weighs about so pounds. He is in per-
fectly healthy condition and eats reg.
ularly and in large quantities. After
each meal he smokes, and would prac-
tice the habit continually were he al
lowed TO do so. He was three wears
old before he could raise his head. and
five years old before he could stand on
his feet. From his infancy until near
y six years old, he was almost a skele-
ton IN form, but now he is nearly as
we'll developed as an ordinary boy of
his age. In consequence of the strange
position of his eyes, he has never been
able to acquire any learning, and does
not know the letters of tie alphs bet.
lie IS, however, quite apt, and is quick
to catch the meaning of anything
spoken within his hearing, but cannot
express himself. and, invariably, asks
his mother what TO say. His head
which is very heavy, increases in di-
mensions as he advances in age: and
when he reaches maturity will pro5a-
bly, be one-half larger than at present.
S)~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

Popular .Seience.-Richet finds that
the presence of oxygen facilitates the
fermentation of milk. Up to "A deg. e,
a rise of temperature intensifies fermen-
tation; but from that point up TO % deg.
G.. there is no modification. and above
this latter point the fermentation slack
ems. Digestive juices hasten lactic fer
mentatlon.
Chevrul proposes new test for Dali
tonism, or color blindness. One-half
of a disk is painted with certain color
and the other half is lett white. The
disk is then turned ut 4 speed Of from
10 to 160 revolutions per minute, and
the color complementary to that which
had been painted on one-balf appears
on the white half. The ability to de-
termine the complementary color con-
stitutes the test.
Boudet, of Paris, secures an electric
al inscription of speech in this way: y
very sensitive microphone, in which
the carbons are held together by piece
of paper folded in the shape OF a V. Is
used as a transmitter. The receiving
! telephone has the diaphragm and cover
removed, and spring is fixed at one
end on the wood and ut the other end To
smlll piece of soft iron resting on the
magnet. A light bamboo, with whale
point, is attached to the spring, and
makes representative traces OF the words
received on decalcomanie paper.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

G.. Z. Davis, in dealing with the sub
feet of boiler incrustations In recent
paper, says that many nnstrums had
been brought forward as preventiyes
which were absolutely worthless, If not
positively injurious. After many tri-
ais, he was convinced that as all boiler
scales were principally composed OF
sulphate of lime, tribasIc phosphate of
soda, the '.tripsa" of commerce, was the
best of all preparations, as it absorbed
the carbonic acid in the water, and act
ing on the sulphate OF lime, precipita-
ted it with the mud TO the bottom OF the
boiler, whence the deposit can be easi-
ly removed.
A proposal to use compressed air III
stead of gunpowder for blasting in
mines has been brought forward in
England. The plan is 10 employ air al
a pressure of upward 500 pounds tC
the square inch. Its probable success
is indicated by the result OF some tests
recently made in the Wigan collieries
Researches on the ultraviolet limit
of the solar spectrum have been con-
Quoted by T.. Corme. The extent OF
the spectrum varied with the altitude
of the sun, proving that the Limitation
is due TO atmospheric absorption. The
utmost limit he was able to reach, ant
this only on two days at noon, CORES
ponded TO the wave length 293.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29

| 4 nuisance that troubled Europe fifty
years ago is beginning TO attract attention
here-that is, putting alum in the bread we
eat. The bread must be ''light" that il
may be digested: that is, ii must be filed
by the well-known cells we are accustomed
TO see liz il. Where beer or ale is brawed
those who understand healthy bread-making
procure yeast. which "lightens" the bread
better than any substitute. and is wholesome.
Where yeast is not readily to be obtained.
| ''baking-pOwders" are resorted to. and out
of them come mischief Bicarbonate of
soda and cream of tartar, or tariaric acid,
are the usual constituents OF 4 good baking
powder. Cream Of tartar sells al sixty
cents to eighty-live cents pound. This
high price has led 'cheap baking powders -
to be made of alum rs a substitute for some
or all Of the cream of tartar. Alum viii
make bread look whittier. so tha; bakers can
make inferior -four salable as bread by its
use; and they use it, in some places calling
il rock, so that no inadverieut expression
may let outsiders know that alum is used
Alum is an injurious article 20 the human
constitution in large quantities, or in small
quantities often repeated. 1t is the small
quantities, taken every meal. that do the
mischief in bread Alum is cheap-three
cents pound-to the pocket, but ii takes
what is so saved out of the stomach and
takes it with fearful interest. Alum is an
astringent, and is used by dyers and others
as such. Taken frequently on the human
stomach, it produces heartburn, indigestion,
gripping, constipation, dyspepsia, and kin
dred troubles resulting from irritation of the
mucous membrane. produced by the asirin-
gent properties Of alum. All these are nice
things to be inflicted by the bread eaten
morning, noon and evening. To young
children, growing girls, persons of weekly
frame and sedentary occupations, this alum
bread is poison most especially. If the
reader wants TO know something Of alum.
let him suck lump of it, notice its effect
upon the mouth, which is something like
that Of an unripe persimmon; then let him
reflect how it acts upon the tender, delicate
coats of the stomach. DIR. Henry a Mott.
the celebrated analytical chemist, analyzed
twenty-three of the baking powders most in
use, and found alum in all but one II is
time we took measures TO stop this bread
poisoning that kills our little ones and per-
petuates dyspepsia and cholera.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-29
The False Notions

Il st in the minds of many otherwise intelli-
sent lo0pie "a to the requirements of disor-
lie ed stomach or liye-. he swsl owing of
nsus Gus and powerful drugs is the way to
encourage, not to cure dyspepsia and liver
complaint. Nor can consIipa;ed or other
wiss disorterei condit on OF the bowels be
remediel by similar treatment. That agreea-
bic and thorough stomachic and aperient,
Hostei IS i;ters, which Is the reverse of un-
pleasant, and never produces violent effects,
- Tar preferable to medic nes OF the class re-
fefred to. Ii infases new vigor into failing
physique, cheers the mind while il strengthens
the boiy, and Institutes complete reform in
the action of the disordered stomach, bowels
or liver. appetite and sleep are both pro-
moted, uterine and kidney affections greatly
benefitted by its use. 1t is indeed compre-
hens,ve AID meritorious preparation, free from
drawbacks Of any kind