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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
Magazine Notices.

The new year of Littell's Living Ago opens
with the number for the week ending January
7th. Never before have tine foremost thinkers,
investigators and authors of the time been en-
listed in the service of periodicals to so great
an extent as at present; and the Living Age,
which gives with satisfactory completeness and
in convenient form what is most important in
this literature, has therefore never been so
valuable as now. The first weekly number Of
the new year has the following table of con-
tents: Luxury-Ancient and Modern; Coun-
try Life in Italy; Mademoiselle Angelo; Cri-
mean Town Life; The Freres, by Mrs. Alexan-
der, author of the Wooing OF, ETC.; William
Whewell; Words of Wisdom from Goethe; to-
gether with choice poetry end miscellany.
This, the first number of a new volume, is an
excellent one with which to begin subscrip-
ton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

BosToN Herald: The funny man is the
man who has no sense of fun, and who
can't see the point of a joke, if it be as big
over as a New Testament. For example,
the editor of Maine paper called the New
Religion, remarks: "There are yet few
preachers left who have the courage of their
convictions. The pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church at Stratford, Ct, used the re-
vised New Testament. The officers sent
him written order to return to the King
James version. The ignorance thus shown
by a people towhose enlightenment have
devoted myself, said the minister, SO dis
gusts me that will no longer read any
scripture for their benefit. have resigned.
Now, if the New Religion, so called, had
known that this story had been floating
through the papers. for weeks, it might have
known more about it-still, perhaps it
wouldn't-who knows? The fact is, the
indignant clergyman referred to Kicked
so to speak, not at the king James ver-
sion, which would have been all right, but
what his careless or ignorant people called
the ''St. James version. If the ''New Re
ligion' is so new as to see no difference be-
tween the apostle and the English King, it
ought to try little old religion.
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New York SUM-
Tolerablv Prosperous.

We are now, as nation, out Of debt, we are
owners OF our productive machinery, and our
surplus annual earnings are nearly If not quite
enough to meet all the demands for addi ions
to it. We pay in taxes to the general govern
ment hundred millions of dollars year moro
than the government returns to us in its ex-
penditures; we are building, mostly out OF our
own resources, new railroads by the thousands
of miles; the new buildings put up in New
York city alone during the past year absorbed
nearly fifty millions Of dollars, and a similar
building activity has prevailed more or less all
over; the deposits in our savings banks increase
by tens if not hundreds of millions annually;
the western farmers, who used to pay ten per
cent. per annum for money on bond and mort
gage are now either out of debt altogether,
or borrow of their neighbors at SIX per cent; (;
and SO abundant has capital become that lend
ers, as rule, are content with five per cent.
for long loans on good security where they used
to get seven, and four per cent where they
used to get six.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
[Pall Mall Gazette,I
rhe worlds Coldest Places.

The coolest place on the earth is not as has
hitherto been believed by meteorologists, va
kutsk, in Siberia, but Verkoyansk, in the same
region, lying in GIL degrees north latitude, on
the river Yana. Its lowest mean winter tenn
perature is 486 degrees below zero centigrade.
This then, is the cold pole of the earth in Asia.
the corresponding pole in America being to the
northwest of the Parry Islands; and the line
adjoining these two places does not pass
through the North Pole itself, which is thus,
in all probability, outside the line Of greatest
cold. 1t is noteworthy that Verkoyansk, like
Yakutsk, is on the mainland, a considerable
distance from the Siberian coast, which pos
sesses a comparatively milder climate The re-
cent Schwatka Franklin search expedition,
however, found that in the neighborhood OF
the back river the mean winter temperature ie
not far behind that of Verkoyansk; OF course,
the minimize of both places reach much lower
figure. 1t is well known that in the tropics,
on the other hand, the greatest heat is not at
equator, but at some distance north and south
of it.
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pRNer,AvEATEONt

Whereas, the children having by this time broken
nearly half of their playthings, and
Whereas, the public have been stuck once too
often with various liquid Clues peddlers cements,
and patent muciage hereby notify all to use moth
ing but the Old Reliable Centennial Cement-Yan
STAINS Stratena. If you can get the genuine you will
find it the best thing in the world for mending all
kinds of broken articles. Next year shall hang
bottle every Christmas tree. In the meantime try
it yourselves, but beware of fraud. Ask your drug
afst to give you the genuine. See that the full
IVAN SLAMS Stratena,) is blown in the bottle.
jan6d3t SANTA CLAUS.
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ANNUAE. MEETING

VIHE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
PORTLAND, BANGOR AND MACHIAS
STEAMBOAT COMPANY, will be held at the office
of the company, Railroad Wharf, Portland, on
TUESDAY, January tenth {10th,) 1882, at two (2)
o'clock p. M, for the following purposes, viz:
1st. To act upon the Treasurers Report for the
year 1881.
year.
Sd. To provide means for discharging the debts
of the company.
4th. To provide funds and boats for the business
of the coming year.
9th. To consider whether the company will dis
pose of its property and close mp its business.
9Th To act upon any other business that may le-
gally come before them.
GEORGE L. DAY, Clerk.
Portland Dec 81 1881. tiee3l ldtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

THERE is a good deal in the outcry that is
being made about the alleged danger of the
electric light that reminds one of the days
when oil was as yet the staple of illumina-
tion, and gas was a novelty generally re-
garded with mingled curiosity and distrust.
Our forefathers were very much afraid of
the innovation. They apprehended the oc-
currence of all kinds of terrible things as its
consequence. Some thought that the gaso-
meter would be blowing up every now and
then, so that no man might go to his bed at
night in peace of mind. Another imagina-
tive person pointed out that to apply light
to a gas-jet would be analogous to firing a
train of gunpowder The light, he argued,
would run along the pipe and cause an ex-
plosion of the gasometer every time. None
of those terrible things happened, however,
and so it will probably prove with the cleo
trio light, if proper precautions are taken in
its introduction.
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CATARRH. EIys' Cream Balm
New Cazetteer Of Maine I

AGENTS WANTED Exclusive territory with
30 competition, and book which every citizen of
the State shonld possess worthy the SPECIAL NO
TICE of OLDiBOOKMEN, and a Splendid 0ppoftu-
nifty for beginners sells at sight Now isy our oppor-
tunity to MAKE MONEY, because everybody needs
the book; it supplies real want. One agent has
sold 200 In four weeks. LADIES as well as GEN
TLEMEN succeed. Address at once, B. B. RUS.
SELL, Publisher, 81 Cornhin, Boston, Mass.
ian7 dSY1m*
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

SAINT-CYR is the "West Point" the ma
tional military school, of France. The ca
diets Of Saint-Cyr are never allowed to at
tend political meetiugs Of any character.
Ten Of them were recently expelled by Gen
eral Campenon for listening to political
Grafton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

THE New York Herald, in an article on
polygany in Utah, says: TT is cur firm
conviction that the evil has outgroWn the
capacity of civil administration to cope with
it, and when its cure comes, as come it
must, military agency will administer the
remedy, as it did in reference to slayery.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

THE American coastwise commerce is the
best of any nation, and is so extensive that it
makes us the second or third naval power in
the world. without any ocean commerce at
all to speak of.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
ANNUAL MEETING.

rEyHE Annual Meeting of the Todd Nom Freezing
Oryile K Gerrish, Centennial Block 93
Exchange street. on Tuesday, JAN, TO. 1882, at 10
o'clock A. NJ for choice of officers for the ensuing
year, and transaction of any other business that
may legally come before said meeting.
JOHN j. GERRISH, Secretary.
Portland, January 2, 1882 jan2 d1w*
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 0.

We DO not road anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for puDlica
ton but as a guaranty of good faith
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve con-
munieations that arc not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

DIR. C. w. BENSON, of Baltimore, Md.
inventor and proprietor Of the celebrated Celery
and ChamoInle Pills. These pills are prepared ex-
pressly to cure Sick Headache Nervous Headache,
Neuralgia, Nervousness, Paralysis, Sleeplessness
and Dyspepsia, and aoit cure any case, no matter
how obstinate. if properly used. They are not
cureall but only for those special diseases. They
contain no opium morphine or quinine, and are not
a purgative, but regulate the bowels and cure con
stipation by curing or removing the cause OF 1t
They have charming effect upon the skin, and
lovely auieting effect upon the nervous system,
simply by feeding its ten thousand hungry, yes in
some cases starving absorbents. They make or
create nerve matter and give power force and buoy
ancy to the nerves. and in that way increase mental
power, endurance and briliancy OF mind. Nobody
that has nervous system should neglect to take
them two or three months in each year, as nerve
food if for no other purpose.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 80 cents box.
Depot. 106 North Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md. BY
mail two boxes for 81. or six boxes for 50 so, to
any address.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

Just before his death, Dean Stanley wrote
for The Century Magazine his estimate of
the life and influence of F. w. Robertson,
in his opinion the greatest preacher of the
nineteenth century. Unfortunately for the
immediate publication of the article, the
corrections and marginal additions were in
the Deans own handwriting, which, to any
one except his amanuensis and perhaps
himself, was about as Ineligible as the
Mexican hieroglyphics. The article was
sent back to England to be deciphered, and
with what interesting results will appear to
readers of the February Century. A por-
trait of Robertson will accompany the arti-
Gle
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
Presumpscot PuEp-ware Go.

YTyRE Annual Meeting of the Presumpscot Pulp
Il Ware Company will be held at the office of S
G. Andrews, lS8 Middle St. Portland Me-, on Tues
day the tenth day of January, A d. 1882, at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon for the choice of officers and
for action upon any other business that may legally
come before said meeting.
s'-'9 AUGUSTUS f. MoULToN, Secretary.
.Januarv Q 1899 ian2d1W
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
With Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen
Editor ALI railway steamboat and hotel managers
viii confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
ANNUAI MEETING.
portland q ogdensburg r..

Portland q OgIensbuFg ES. Is.
EyHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
be held at the office of the Company, 80 Exchange
street. in the city of Portland Me-. Tuesday, the
18th day of January 1892 at o'clock in the fore
noon to choose Directors for the ensuing year and
to transact any other business that may legally
come before them.
CHAS. II. FOYE, Clerk.
Portland, January I'd 1882. ian2 dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
MISCELLANEOUS
SPECIAL. les.

DONGOLA BOOTS, water
proof.
CANADIAN OVERSHOES,
for Gentlemen, Ladies
and Children.
WATERPROOF BALMO-
RAILS for Gentlemen.
FRENCH CALF Curl
SOLE BOOTS for Ladies.
PEBBLE GOAT and French
Kid, Hand SeWed Boots
for Ladies.
SIDE LACE BOOTS in
French and American
Kid and Goat.
The only stock of fine, fancy
SLIPPERS i'm Maine.
CHILDREN'S Spring Heel
Boots i'm Calf, Straights
Goat and American Kid.
DANCING PUMPS in G0ats
French Mid and Patent
Leather for Gentlemen
and Boys.
Misses French Kid School
Boots with low heels:
very seryiceable.
COlOred Boots and Slippers
for Ladies and Children.
Nubian Waterproof Black
ing, p0Iishes without
brushing.
MI. G.. PALMER,
$50 MIDDLE STREE 81: r.
nov21 eodtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

The total number of steamship wrecks in
1881 was 1913, and the consequent loss of
life 1 ,459-an awful feature of year mem
orable for its disasters.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
NATIONAL TRADERS BANK.

FEsHE shareholders of the National Traders Bank
L. of Portland aIe hereby notified that their an
nual meeting will be held at their Banking Room,
on TUESDAY, the tenth day of January next. at
O'Clock M. to choose five Directors for the en-
suing year, and to act on any other business that
may legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Dec. 10, 1881. dee1Odtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.

TEyHE stockholders of the Merchants National
Il Bank of Portland, are hereby notified that their
annual meeting for the choice of Directors for the
ensuing year, and the transaction of such other
business may legally be brought before them will
be held at the bank, on TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 1882,
at 10 O'Clock a. m.
CHAS. PAYSON, Cashier
Portland Dec IN 1891 decI Odtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
MAINE BOX COMPANY.

ByHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of tn
i Maine Box Company will be held on the Sec
ond Tuesday of January, 1882, (Jan. 10TH at The
factory of the Whitney Cater Company, Newbur,
Street. Portland, Maine, at three (3) O'Clock in the
afternoon.
EDGAR L. ROBINSON,
ian3-dtd Asst Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
EAGLE SUGAR REFINERY.

vEvHE Stockholders of this corporation are hereby
III notified that the Annual Meeting for choice
of Directors and for action upon any other business
that may come before them, will be held at the Re-
fnery Office, Fore street, Tuesday, the 10th day
of January, 1882, at O'Clock 2. M.
JOS. P. THOMPSON, Clerk.
don0Q DID
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
First National Bank.

YTyHE Annu Meeting of the Stockholders of the
First Ma nal Bank of Portland, for the choice
of Directors and the transaction of such other bus
ness as may legally come before them will be held
at their Banking House on TUESDAY, the 10th
day of January, 1882, at 10 O'Clock a. n.
WE. GOULD, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. 10, 1881.
dac12 QtQ
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
AMERICAN TURNING co.

FEyHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders 0
the American Turning Company will be held
on the Second Tuesday of January, 1882, (Jan. l0)
at the office of H. G. Briggs, Esq, Centennial Block,
Exchange Street. at three [3) o'clock in the after
noon. GEORGE Il. BlkD
jan3-dtd Clerk.
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NOTICE.

We have this day sold our Wholesale Grocer
business to Conant, Patrick s. Co., who will con
tinue it the store formerly occupied by u.s.
Our Office will remain as heretofore, at 1853
Commercial Street.
ICONANT & RAND.
Portland, January 2, 1882. ian2-dIw&w4w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
MEETINGS
Widows Wood Society.

A MEETING of the member of the Widows
IA Wood Society WILDE held at the rooms of the
society, City Building, on MONDAY EVENING.
Jan. %, at 71s O'Clock, to hear the report OF the
committee on Bylaws, and to act thereon
S. II. C0LESWORTHY, Secretary.
soo1 dow
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
Cumberland National Bank.

TEyHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
a Cumberland National Bank, of Portland, will
be held at their banking house Tuardays the 10th
day ofJanuary, 1882, at 10 O'Clock a. m, for the
choice of Directors for the ensuing year, and the
transaction of any other business that may legally
come before them. w. Fl. SOULE, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. 8, 1881. decl0dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
Casco National Bank.

TEyHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders OF the
IL Casco National Bank of Portland for the
choice of Directors and the transaction of such 9th
held at their Banking House on TUESDAY, the
10th day of January, 1882 at o o'clock a. m.
WIN. A. WINSHIP, Cashier
Portland Dec. s, 1881. dec9.dtd
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TsEse0LtJTTseN,
COPARTNERSHIP.

yNTE have this day formed copartnership under
w the style of CONANT, PATRICK & Co. and
taken store No. 153 Commercial ST., where we shall
continue the Wholesale Grocery business heretofore
carried on by Conant & Rand.
RICHARD 0. CONANT,
DANIEL H. PATRICK,
FRED o. CONANT.
Portland, January 2, 1882.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
CANAL NATIONAL BANK.

FEyHE annual meeting of the stockholders of 'The
Il Canal National Bank of Portland" for the cleo
ton OF seven directors and for the transaction of
any other business that may legally come before
them will be held at their banking house
TUESDAY, the tenth day of January, 1882, at
eleven O'Clock a. m.
B. C. SoMERBY, Cashier.
Dec. 10, 1881. dee10dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

THE English are beginning to fear that
they have fooled away a vast amount of
money on iron-clad war ships. A cores
pondeut of the London Truth says:
1t is to be feared that the Infexible, which
cost about 900 and took nearly eight years
to get af1oat, will prove failure. She is terri
bly, unwieldly, by no means swift, and draws
two feet more of water than has been calculat-
ed. The electric light which cost nearly e5000
to fit all through the ship, is not a success.
And it is now doleful to learn that the officials
at Malta dockyard have been preparing dock
for the reception of the monster. In old times
one did not hear of new vessels going into dock
at the expiration of a ten days voyage. The
questionable result of the Inhexible expert
ment proves the justice of the doubts 1 ex-
pressed recently of the policy Of building any
more of these enormous ships. At all events,
they do not seem to have answered so far.
Surely it would be in all respects better to pos
sess a feet of very swift, strongly armed and
comparatively small cruisers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09
=. R. NEEES.

Advertising Agent,
FREMONT HE., BCShVN
Contracts for Advertisements in Newspapers in al
cities and towns of the United States and the
British Provinces.
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Board of Trade-Annuai Meet

EkyHE annual meeting of the Board of Trade for
choice of officers and the transaction of such
other business as may properly come before this
meeting will be held at the Board of Trade Rooms
on Monday January 9Th, 1882 att. 80 O'Clock p
Per order, M. N. RICH, Secretary.
ianddtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-09

HENRY GANNETT, the geographer of the
tenth census, contributes to the January In
ternational an interesting article on the set
tied area and density of our population.
Mr.. Gannett makes the total area of settle
ment in 1880 at 1,569,570 square niles
whichi is slightly more than half Of the ac
tual land area Of the United States, exclud-
ing Alaska from the calculation. The total
population of the country being 50,155, 7S3,
the average number of inhabitants to the
square mile in the settled area is thirty-two.
1t has been stated that no less than eleven
million of the fifty million population of the
United States, is of foreign parentage, and
of this number 6,679,943 were born in for
eign countries.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-09-09
ALMSHCUsE ROBBERS.

Astounding revelations of official cor
fuptlon have been made in Philadelphia
during the last year, and pablo indigua-
tlon has already effected important mu-
uiclpai reforms there, but the most in
famous OF all schemes of robbery was
disclosed last week. It is alleged that
two-thirds of the funds appropriated for
the support of the PHILADELPHIA Aims
mouse have been stolen by officers of the
institution, and that the inmates have
been reduced TO u condition of starya-
ton rs the result OF the theft their ian,
oeing not only scanty but also vile.
while their bodies are clothed in RAGS.
20 bold did the guilty officers become
t!2t one o! them WAS detected in send
Ing to his own residence barrels Of smear
and provisions of various kinds which
were purchased for the paupers. Ex-
superintendent Phipps and Storekeeper
Brown have disappeared, and Contractor
Matthews has made a confession which
gays bare the whole conspiracy. No
CRIME Is TOO Infamous for the great rocues
who have ruled Philadelphia, and the in
h&bitants of that city have evidently a
Ta6t work to perform in purgiag their
municipal system Of corruption. The
exposure of the almshousc robbery in
Philadelphia suggests the need OF a care
1ui Investigation into the methods Of
managing similar institutions elsewhere
The almshousc robbers niay be a nurner-
Gus class.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-09-09
THE EXODUS FROM IRELAND.

The resolution of about halt of the
], 115 policemen of Dublin to come to
America is likely to have an important
influence in Ireland, and the number of
inn. igrants arriving at Castle Garden
may lie expected to increase. The popa-
lation of ireland is 5.412, ST., according
to the census Of 1881, o. aearly 5000, 600
less than it was forty years Ssh. 1T the
beginning of the present year it was as
certained that the number of Irish i'm
migrants during the thirty-four years
since 1913 was 3, 2S3, 362, and the number
of arrivals L. recent years has been from
so. 600 to 10.09D auaaally. The total i'm
migration daring 1881 G4s $50, All. and
the total for 1889 ii believed tG he fcD.
900, and Ireland is likely To contribute
Ss much as the odd SO, 000. TIC loss of
that iisa.Iber of inhabitants in single
year must De !. serious drain upon Il
country having popat~ti.p of less than
) SEQ, 600, and there are irish e-trtots
exodus. But other patriots regard Al
exodus aS Inevitable. and wisely endeavor
to guide their .s., Gttrymen who cross the
A tlantic in their sesYata t9f homes III the
United States. Father NageAt. 10 ,,is er-
posi-. is now visiting Bishop ifeialaa' )
coioaT 81 Minnesota, and when he re-
turns home s.a @ill advise hishmen who
wish to come 10 lsI..a4ica. 1t will be a
great blessing to All eon,,e,s!-y4+ i Irish
immigrants are persuaded to seek MONIES
in the agricultural districts of Tie West
rather t:lass ia Eastern cities.