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MARRIAGES.

In Oxford, March 10, Philemon L. Sawyer of
Bethel and Miss Angle NJ. Boober of Lincoln.
In Oxford, Feb. 3d. Frank W. Hall and Miss Nora
E. Mullen.
In fremont, Feb. IL, Thomas Fennelly of Mt De-
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MAINE.
Fire in ST Stenhan

Fire in st. Stephen.
CALAIS, March 19.-The barn and shed of
Frank Todd in st. Stephen, N. B., was burned
this morning. The dwelling was damaged.
Loss $1,000; insured. Incendiary
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THE DOMINION.

Transportation Of American Cattle to be
Permitted.
OTTAWA, March 18.-It is stated that the
British government will permit the transit Of
American cattle through Canada with the
Ont.
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DEATHS.

In this city, March IS, Sam1 A. Nash, aged 65 yrs
Funeral service Sunday afternoon 11s o'clock.
Friends of the family invited. Burial at conven
fence of the family.l
In Deering, March 10, John NJ. Hunt. aged So yrs
Funeral Sunday afternoon at O'Clock, at his
late residence, Deering
In Cape Elizabeth, March 10, Lizzie Belle young
est daughter of John A. and Lizzie S. Millken aged
years 15 days.
In Biddeford March 10. Mrs. Mary E., wife of
Jas. A. Brown, aged 80 years months.
In Topsham, March 4, Mr.. Clark Tarr, aged "a
years months.
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FOREIGN PORTS.

At Callao Feb 20, ship Jane Fish, Young, for
guano deposit, to load for France.
At Chinclas Feb Oath, barque vesuvius, Call, for
Europe, ldg.
Sid FIN Aspinwall 9th inst. sch Adams, Fisher,
Matanzas.
Sid I'm Guantanamo Feb %, brig Goodwin, Cog
gins, New York.
Ar at Point a-Pitre Feb II, schs Gergee Perry,
Flynn, New York; 23d, Mabel Hall, Hall, Portland;
Paul Seavey, Young, Baltimore.
Ar at Port Spain Feb 2, schs Hortensia, Sanborn,
Machia, (and sailed 23d for Porto Rco); GOTH brig
Long Reach, Poland, Apalachicola.
Sid Feb Il, barque Meguntico0k, Hemingway, for
oath, Arcot, Small, New York.
AT at st John PR, Feb 8, sch Seth NJ Todd, Nor
wood, New York.
Ar at Ponce Feb is, sch Lucy Hammond, Robin
son, Portland.
Ar at Antigua LIST inst, sch Silver Spray, Hall,
Philadelphia.
At Barbados Feb %, sch Ernest Lee, Blatch-
ford, disg.
At Cardenas 18th inst, barques John Marsh,
brigs Gypsy Queen, Chandler; Ernest, Lunt; Martha
Staples; A G Jewett, Nickerson; Amy A Lane
Carver; Kaluna Nash. and Dirigo. Coffin. for North
OF Hatteras; schs Kate Carlton, Thorndike; Ger
and Jos Souther, Watts, do.
At Matanzas 18th inst, barques j Lopez lie
land, and j Winslow, Morton, for North Of Hat
teras; Minnie Hunter, Parker, do; brigs J Pet
Tucker, Tucker. for North of Hatteras; sch John
Bird, Smith, do; and others
Sid FIN Matanzas 9Th inst, sch Clara Leayitt, Lom-
bard, North of Hatteras.
sPOKEN.
March 6, lat %, Ion 81, barque Goodell from
March Is, Sc OF Absecom 90 miles, brig Don ia
cinto, Herman, from Montevedio for New York
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Mining Stocks.

Closing prices at Portland Mining Exchange by
I. H. Mansfield Co., brokers, 81 Exchange street,
Portland Me- March 9.
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Sid 1Sth sch Abbie Emery, Emery. New York
FALL RIYER-Sld 18th. sch Eva Adolf Ellis for


FALL RIvER-Sld 18th, sch Eva Adell, Ellis, for
Rockport.
Sid 18th, sch Sabao Flynn, Machias.
NEWPORT-Ar 18th, sch Sarah Wooster Dolli-
yer. Hoboken for Bristol; Jas Henry Rhodes, Rock
land for New York.
Sailed 18th, schs Tangent, Rich, from War
rem for New York; Sarah E Jones. Warren. Wee
hawken for Bristol; W Rowe, Whitmore Provi-
dence for New York.
NEW BEDFORD-Ar 18th, sch jed Frye, Lang
ley, New York.
VINEYARD-HAyEN-Ar 18th, schs Helen Low,
rhlladelPhia for Salem; Mary Smith, Maloney,
New York for Boothbay.
ware, Addie Bacon, Richmond, VIM Duren, Harry
Percy, CARA Rankin, and Mary Smith.
EDGARIOWN-Ar1 18th, schs Mary Smith, Ma
for do
In port 18th, oarque Fannie Loring, Soule,
from New York for Portland; sch Red Jacket. CHM,
do for Boston; Leonessa America, Ring Dove, Bill
Nette Cushing, for Rockland.
HYANNIS-Sld 18th, schs Sarah A Reed for Cal
ais; Hudson, Coleman, and Nellie Eaton, do; Jas s
Pike, Lunt. and Alaska, Hamilton, Portland; Har.
binger, Wentworth, and Sammy Ford, Allen do;
Congress, Willard. and Ellen Morrison, Orne, Bos.
ton; Morelight, Norwood, and Margie, Hoyt, do.
BOSTON-Ar 18th, schs Boston Light, Boardmsn
Watts, Pembroke; Bob, Grant, Rockland; Isabella
Foster, Wiscasset; Lydia Grant, Cape Porpoise.
Cid 18th, sch Radiant Hardy, Portland.
Ar 18th, schs + Fl OdiOrne, Crowell, Hoboken
Metropolis, Roberts, Vinalhaven.
Below, barque fremont, from Rosario; schs Mary
Pike, Gen Hall, More-Lght, MottHayen. Sammy
Ford, Eben Fisher, Maud Webster, ID Everett
and RingdOve.
SALEM-Ar 18th, sch Alnomak, Anderson, Rock
land for Providence.
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DEPARTURE OF OCEAN sTEAmERl
NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

FRIDAY, March 10.
Arrived.
Steamship Lake Winnipeg, (Br) Bernson, Liver
pool-mdse to Thompson, Murray & Co.
Steamer Falmouth, Hall, Sc John, NIB, via East
port.
Barque Celina, Hodgdon, Boston, to Lewis & Co,
to load for South America.
Sch Izetta, Xix, Boston, to load ice for New York
Schs Zicova and Wreath. from Boston, to load for
Sch Sarah B Harris, Crossman. Boston,-salt.
Sch Game-Cock, Robinson, Beverly to load for
Sch Allston. Fitzgerald Boston for Calais.
Sch s Brooks, Qqigly, Boston for Horse Island.
Sch D S Williams, Boston for Bath.
Sch May Wyman, Sawyer. Boston for Bath.
Sch Brilliant, Wheeler, Port Clyde. Me- formerly
Sch Willie Martin, Willard, New York-N o
Cram.
Sch Oregon, Newman, Nortbl lBoothbay
Choate.
FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Ar at New York 10th, barque Penobscot, Chip
Abbe Old s Boy
Matanzas; sch Storm Petrol, Herrick, Mayaguez
Ar at St John, NIB, 18th inst ship Belle 0'Brien,
At st Thomas Feb %, sch Ethan Allen, Blake, for
Portland via Fajardo, Pr
Ship Geneyieve Strickland, of Bath, 1886 tons,
built In 1869, has been sold to Bremen house. and
her name changed to Camela.
MEMORANDA.
Ship Cora Coombs, which put back to Plymouth
in distress, had experienced heavy weather in the
English Channel and struck bank while in charge
of a pilot. About 700 tons railroad iron between
decks broke away and did considerable damage in
shifting from side to side. The vessel is leaking
badly and will discharge for repairs.
Sch Daisy, Kent, from Portland for Swans Island
was run into i inst by smack Pride of the Port of
Friendship, and had her stern knocked off, and 9TH
er damage done. 1t was a narrow escape from sink
ing
Brig Atalaya, Eye, from Philadelphia for Cien-
fuegos pnt into Inagua I'd inst, with cargo on fire
in lower hold She scuttled and partly filed.
and then pumped out. Proceeded 9th.
Sch Helen Low, from Philadelphia for Salem,
put into Vineyard-Haven 18th with loss of deck
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For New ENGLAND

light snow followed by clearing weather, cold
or north-westerly winds and higher barometer.
Cautionary signals continue at Woods Hole.
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METEOROLOGICAL.

INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TwENTY-FouR
HOURS.
WAR Dept, OFFICE CHIEF S1aNAL)
OFFICER, Washington, d. c.,
March % I A NJ
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Grand Trunk Elevator.
Rec.rpts OF Maine CeuraI.

PORTLAND Mich. Is.
For Portland 80 cars miscellaneous merchandise;
for connecting roads, 103 miscellaneous n.er-
chandise
Daily Domestic Receipts.
By water conYeYance--1OOO bush Cornmeal to G.
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SPOKEN.

March 6, lat %, Ion 80, barque Goodell, from
Cheribon for New York, 100 days out.
March 49, Sc OF Absecom 30 miles, brig Don ia
cinto, Herman, from Montevedio for New York.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02
ORIGIN OF THE TERM OZARK HORSE

ORIGIN OF THE TERM OZARK HORSE"
Many years 'sbefo' dc wah" there lived
in Tennessee an old chap named Sam
Flynn who traded il, horses and generally
contrived TO own speedy nag or two which
he used for racing purposes whenev CT he
could pick up a ''Soft maLch'' curing lis
travels. The best of his Flyers was d coal
black stallion II urd Dusk, Pete, who was
almost thuraug hnred, and able to go IN
the best company. Flynn was accustomed
to saddle Pete hen approaching town
and ride him into it to eve the impression
that the animal Was me ely a ''Ikely ho-s''
and not flyer. One day he came to a
town where country race meeting was
being held and entered Pete among the
contestants. Tie people Of the town, not
knowing anything about his antedents,
aud, not being overly impressed by bis APP
pearaAce, backed two or three local favor
ties heavily against him. Flynn moved
quietly among the crowd and took all the
bets offered against his nag. Just as the
''fyers'' W. re being saddled for the race
old Judge M 'Mlnamee, who was the turf
oracle of that part of the State, arrived on
the course and was made one of the judges.
AS he took his place in the stand he was
told how the betting ran and of the folly
OF the owner OF the strange entry in back
ing his ''plug'' so heavily, Running his
eye over the ruck, the Judge instantly
recoyniZed Pete and he said: "GentIemen,
there is dark horse in this race that will
make some of you smell hell before sup
per-" The Judge was right. Pete, the
Ozark horse," laid back until the three
quarter pole was reached when he went to
the.front with rush and won tie purse
and Flynn's bets with the great, 81 Sc
Ever after that the lorsemen OF the yicin-
ity fought shy of ''dalk horses" and it
would be we'll if political parties would do
likeWise,- Cincinnati. Enquirer.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02

DEATH OF A SINGULAR OLD MAN
Week before last, there died near Iiaw-
kirs' Mill, Russell county, Va, an old
man, about IS years of age, named Meri-
dith P James. He was the owner of a
small tract of land on which he has been
living for years in miserable little shanty,
the life of a hermit. He owned small
flock of sheep, upon whose wool he princi-
pally lived. He went nowhere and allowed
none to come to see him, when he could
prevent it, What he ate, at what times,
or how he existed no one knows. Weeks
would pass frequently that no one laid
eyes on him. His bed was without bed
clothes, and his house without furniture,
except.vermin, which literally lined every
thing. He would go scantily dressed,
hardly hiding himself, and would wear his
clothes until they would actually drop off
him with filth and insects, never cleansing
himself from the time he put them on till
they dropped off. He recently fell sick
and would have starved to death had not
his neighbors gone to his house and takei,
him out and washed him and fed him and
clothed him, against which he earnestly
protested. He had anephew in Tennessee
to whom he left his property, and who
paid him visit on ce and administered to
his wants.-Abingdon Va.l Standard.
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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 2. 1880.
ventiOn of the Seventh Con.
gressiOnaI District.

A Convention Of delegates to nominate
a Conservative Democratic candidate for
Congress from the 9TH District, is hereby
called to meet in the City of Staunton at
the hour of O'Clock P. NJ, on Thursday.
the 18th day of August, 1880.
There are to be appointed to the Conven-
ton one delegate and one alternate for
every 100 votes or fraction thereof over 50,
on the basis of the Tilden vote of 1876, ac-
cording to which the counties Of this
District will be entitled to the following
number Of delegates and alternates Al
bemarle 20, Augusta "a, Bath 6, Fluvanna
10, Goochland s, Greene 7, Highland Z,
Page 10, Rockingham 81, Shenandoah q,
and the City of Staunton s.
The County Superintendent are re-
spectfully requested to fix the usual time
and places for the county or township
meetings, which are to appoint the dele
gates, and upon their failure to do So,
county meetings can be had at their re-
spective courts. ALI voters who intend to
support the Cincinnati nominees are ear
nestly invited to participate.
MICAJAH WOODS,
A. KoINER,
W. D. PEACHY,
Dist. Com. Of 18th Cong. Dist.
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SAD CASE OF DRowNING.-On Friday
evening last the two Oldest, sons of M. A.
Steele, Esq Paul and Beirne. aged about
8. and 10 years respectively. with their
younger brother, aged six, started out in
the country on the hunt for cherries. and
in passing by the pond in what is known
as "Moses Hollow the two eldest. Paul
and Beirne, stripped for q battle in the
pond; Beirne going in first, and it appears
he ventured out too . deep and became
strangled, when Paul exclaimed, Look
at Beirne ~ and jumped in to rescue him,
both going down at once. Paul came up
but sank to rise no more. The little
brother waited for some time and called
them, but they not answering. he left the
pond and brought their clothes home and
gave the alarm. The citizens OF the town,
white and colored, rushed to the scene at
once. Some went to the Dunlap pond in
another direction, which delayed action,
until J. Orr Nickel, a youth Of IL yea rs,
son of our esteemed county clerk, stripped
an d dived down, raising Paul, but could
not bring him out, when Mr.. Fl. P. Moler
went and assisted in bringing him to the
Shore Union, Monroe { W. Va,) Register.
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Under tree near Haysville, Kent co.
Md, last week, forty sheep and three hogs
gathered at the foot for protection from
rain storm, were killed by lightning.
The Jordan Alum Springs. in Rock
bridge. sold recently for $4,000. The
next door watering place 1.-THE RockbrIdge
Alum), brought not far from three times
as much.
Mrs. Kate A. Sanborn has been appoint
ed to the chair of English literature in
Smith College. at Northampton. Mass.
The population of Charlestown, West
Va, Is POPS, an increase of nearly 500
since 1870.
At the Messiah church in Baltimore
Sunday, Bishop Fenick. Of Africa, and
Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, both former
pastors Of that church, 0fficiated. i.
DR.. Jno. McKim Holiday, physician
in Winchester for fifty years and father of
Governor Holiday, died on SATURDAY.
morning, aged 90 years,
Mr.. John G. Moomaw proposes to pay
81 20 per bushel for whortleberries to can.
-Ffncastle Herald.
8. B. Rexrode shipped from Valley Cen.
tor this week to Staunton, about 3.OOO
pounds of wool.-Highlaad Recorder.
The Emperor William, though eighty
three years old, rides his black CHARGER
with the steady ease Of a Vhlan scout.
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DELEGATES TO THE READJUS-
TER STATE CONVENTION.


The Democratic Readjuster delegates to
the State Convention Of their organization,
July 18th. especially those from the coun-
ties, will find strange mixture in poll
tics. In the first place it is not, nor does
it claim to be, Conservative or Demo-
cratic convention, it is called simply as 3
1--WE learn from the official CALI Estate
Convention of the Readjuster Party"
Among the delegates who will be found
there will be negro Republicans whose
names were printed last April as having
already voted in one State Convention
that held at Staunton, to send delegates
to the Chicago Republican Convention.
1t meets too late to participate in the de-
alterations of the national conventions Of
either party and has no place in the party
Readjuster delegates from the counties
who attend will find that all this knot will
be attempted to be UNFINISHED for them by
simple but strange proposition. It is
this: that in common with the negro Re-
publican Readjusters who will be present
they shall nominate a straight out Demo-
cratic electoral ticket and thus divide the
Democratic vote of Virginia and throw
the state for Garfield. This proposition
will find it's most earnest support among
the city delegates and the plan will be to
crowd the county delegates into its adop-
ton.
Another proposition, and the one that
will find most of its support among the
county delegates, will be for letting the cleo
toral ticket alone and maintaining a strict
Readjuster organization in the congress
sional districts, by which means the Vir-
GINA delegation in Congress will be
changed from eight Democrats and one
Republican to six Democrats and three
Republicans.
In either case the Republican wing oil
the Readjuster organization is the pro.
missed reaper of the benefits. In one, the
possible gain of the State electoral vote
for Garfield, and in the other the gain OF
two congressman.
The first-named plan of a straight Demo.
cratic electoral ticket is the one that will
be insisted on by the leaders Of the party
and will most likely be adopted.
But whatever be the result there is no
thing binding on Democratic Readjustel
at home in the action of convention not
pretending to be Democratic or COnser.
vative body, and composed in large part Of
white and negro Republicans. 1t will be
a hard matter to persuade the Democratic
ReadjusJer of Virginia that such po'
litical assemblage can meet at Richmond
and dictate to him mode Of giving the
electoral vote of Virginia to Garfield.
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The Baltimore American" thinks the
Cincinnati nomination vas "a surrender
of the Democracy" That's just it.; the
Democracy, the South, the ex-rebels and
all have just surrendered themselves to
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock,
q. s. A. 1t is better surrender for the
interests Of the Union than was made at
Appomattox, and when the polls close on
the 4th OF November the Republicans will
find that they also have surrendered
to this Union soldier, whose patriotism
and loyalty Is undoubted. 1t won't be
much trouble loving country ruled over
by Hancock.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02

RUNNING FAST TRAINs.-When the
people read about or ride upon extrsordi-
nary fast trains, says the Railway Age
they seldom think of the severe strain and
excitement to which the brave men who
run the engines are subjected. To sit in a
passenger coach and glide over a smooth
track is very different thing from stand
ing on the shaking foot-board, with hand
on the lever, straining eyes and ears to de-
tect possible danger, every nerve tense
and thought conferred on the safe accom-
plishment Of the journey upon which so
many lives depend. -
What such labor means is shown, to
some degree, in a recent dispatch, an
nouncing the death, at the early age of
thirty, Of VIM. Phillips. the engineer who
ran the celebrated Jarrett u Palmer train
from Jersey City to Pittsburg, a distance
of 443 miles without stop. The dispatch
says: "Mr. Phillips has been sick for
nearly a year past, bis illness dating really
from the time he undertook the task of
running the Jarrett. Il Palmer train. He
accomplished the feat in less than the
schedule time, but the strain on his sys-
tenn was so severe that he never recovered
from it. He continued on duty, and was
called upon invariably when trusty man
was required, but his health became pre-
carious, and he was finally compelled to
relinq uish his position"
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Some days ago Mrs. Houk attended

Some days ago Mrs. Houk attended
her fathers funeral at Summerfield church,
Grayson county, Va. After hearing the
funeral sermon in the church she followed
the remains out to the battle-ground, but
at the gate fell to the ground. Surprising
that she had tainted, her friends called in
a physician, but all attempts at resuscita-
ton failed. and her funeral occurred on
the following day.
John Francis, an old resident of Stoning-
ton, Conn.,, died recently, aged 10S. He
was native of the Island of st. Helena,
and came to this country in one of the
Stonington whaleships between forty and
so years ago. He was at one time in the SER
vice of Napoleon, during The latter's con-
inement and after the removal to Long
wood, and in subordinate position, had
frequently seen the great Emperor.
The Wytheville ''Enterprise'' says that
three little girls in that place picked 1913
gallons of cherries in five days of last week,
devoting only TWO or three hours each day
to the gathering.
Eustace Gibson, Esq, formerly of Gull
peper county, is candidate for Congress
in the third congressional district of West
Virginia
The Warren Sentinel" says that har-
vest is generally over in that section, and
the farmers are satisfied the wheat will,
when threshed, yield well except That
grown on low lands which was injured by
the frost.
The tannery of JAS G, Long at Monte
rev. Highland, was destroyed by fire few
DAYS ago-lOsS 81 600.
Mr.. Moody has, at Mortified, NJ ass,
well-stocked stable, and has just bought
two new carriages and horse.
Senator Lamar ard wife will divide the
summer between the Greenbrier White
Sulphur and Fauquier White Sulphur
Springs, Va.
The returns of the census enumerators
for Wheeling, West Virginia, place the
population al 81, 671, a growth of 1868 in
the past ten years,
Geo. G. Cottingham, the Government
detective who was largely instrumental in
the capture of j. Wilkes Booth, died in
Jersey City, last week.
The Winchester "News" reports that |
the farmers in Clarke county were pushed |
for hands during harvest, and that some |
Graders cut on Sunday az 80 a DAY.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02

Our Augusta Readjusters may form ar
idea Of the mixed convention to assemble
in Richmond July 18th, and nominate a
Hancock and English electoral ticket.
when they are informed that Wyatt Smith,
prominent colored Republican OF Lynch
burg and formerly well known resident
Of Staunton, is one Of the delegates from
the former city. The game to be played
by the Republicans is to work for the NOM
nation of straight out Democratic tick
ct IN the Readjuster Convention and then,
having divided the Democratic party, go
back home and vote and work for the Gar
field electoral ticket. We trust that our
Readjuster friends who are delegates will
not be outwitted by the colored brother.
The sight of our old Republican neighbor,
Wyatt Smith, naming ticket for white
Democrats to vote is sight to make the
angels weep.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-02
A RATHER LAME DErENsE.-A drug.

A RATHER LAME DEFENsE.-A drug
gists's assistant was charged before the
Correctional Chamber in Paris, a few days
ago, with causing the death of man by
misleading prescription. The doctor,
whose writing is very clear, ordered eight
drops of laudanum, which the assistant
carelessly read as eight grammes. or about
a quarter of an ounce, The overdose ma
turally killed the patient, and the court
sentenced the prisoner to three months
Imprisonment. His advocate urged as an
extenuating circumstance that if the mis-
take had cost the deceased his life, it had
at least provided him with painless
death!