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MEMS DEPARTMENT..

BARGAIN NO. I-SmaII lot
of Mems Black chinchiIIa
Beaver Overcoats, good
serge lining, silk velvet col
lar, made In our own shops.
A regular $1,000 Overcoat.
Marked down to Sc.
BARGAIN NO. 2-Large lot
of Blue chinchiIIa Beaver
0vercoats, heavy serge lin
ing, single breasted, fly
front, all sizes, 81 to a.. A
regular $40 overcoat. Marked
down to ST so.
BARGAIN NO. 3-SmaII lot
of Large Sized overcoats for
Big Men, sizes AZ to so, In
several very desirable pat
terms. Extra quality. Cannot
be duplicated for the price
and are rare bargains at Si2
each.
BARGAIN NO. 4-Men's
and Young Mems Black,
Blue and Brown chinchilla
and kersey Beaver Over
coats, marked down from
$I8, $40 and $40 to only SIS
each. Don't wait, but come
and select your size II you
can find 1t.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 81. 1sss.-Flour market.
receIprs %, IL packages; exports 1899 bbls and
Wheat checking business sales IL, 300 bbls; low
extra at Sos So; c t. mills at extra at GOA
low so er sss 9s paepts gS Ssy al nsr
straights deiat az IS; do patents 5oaS 90
fine at 1902 So; Southern nour dull Icommon to
falr extra 1898 80; good to choice do at 75G
20 Rye -four quiet and steady. Buckwheat
hour dull WheaE-recelpts 13, 200 bush exports
1878 bush; sales = bush; stronger; No Q Red
0os4 81 OIL eley. 90 atioat. 0I1sGl Osl4 t Q
at os 1a@I %; No 2 Chicago at o7M. Rye IS
quiet. Harley dull and steady Corn-recelpts
Ia6, 900 bush ;exports A, 645 BUSH sales I73 900
at 4894oI4c elev, 4794ac afoat: No 2 White at
44a44Ac; steamer Mixed at 42ll a4ic; No 5 at
ports 1465 bush; sales II8.c00 bush. fairly active
@a2c; Mo- sols @sose g; do White s4ss MOI
White do at 38039c; White State 34a38c; No
Chicago 311ac. Coffee-Rio easier; fair cargoes
market for refined is quiet, at 6Ac; Extra /
8 5-l6c: White Ext q . 7-I6; Yellow 6G6A; off
A s-l696sec; Mould A at 74sc; standard A at
TAG; Cubes at TIC; cut loaf and crushed at 8A
pesrosesD quiet and lower-united at STAG
v1rk Is more s active, Beef dull Lard Is quiet;
refined quiet for Continent at 8 80 g 90; S A at
- antsr Is quiet: choice about steady; 9TH
80 SAoJ oooeS uehy isG1SoO. OAOost uIll Will
moderate demand.
FFesghts 20 LIVERPOOL firm.
CHICAGO. Dec. 81, lsSS.-The Flour market
about &c higher; No Spring At eE@ssi4c: No
Red sos4 g. 914c. Corn steady but lower IN 2
at $3.50 93sA Oats steady and lower; No 2 at
quiet at LIZ 90. Lard steady at %. Dry salted
sn"u ders at 1906 s7Is;. short clear sides at
1212 al 70. Whiskey 30.
Reeeipts-Flo ur,: : 10 600 bbis, wheat 81 600 bu.
otL:4es,ooo bus. oatsl225.ooo hr, osrlel. $4,000
1Iphsnt .,0Go our Su''; 1900 obs, wheat % 600
bush,c,rn 400 000lousf, oats, lac 0oo bush, arley
1890 hush. ry 1000 push.
t LOUIS, Dec. 81, 188S.-The Flour market
but hgher-No Red at 96c Corn irmer, MOI
Mixed at 3oAc. Oats are lower; No at 25c
asked 24c bid Rye dun and lover to sell, No
Wis q dun ana lower; Pork Is bo@13 rs. Lard
prime steam nominal 75 dry sailed heats
Z 20. Bacon-shouders so. longs and ribs 500 90
as 10 short clear 25. Hams $40 371s@s12 rs.
81 Icon 17oao bssh; oats - oco bush 1;G rye
>iapf ents-Flour, $4,000 bbls; wheat, 10000
bush; Corn 145,' 90 bush; oats 81 900 bush: rye
1000 hush barley 1000 bush.
Ds1 ROIT. Dec 81. 1885, Wheat-Nol Whita
OIL; NO Red 00Ac. Corn-No2 at 34asc
oats-No 2 at csc: NO White zoe
oat l7,l0o bush.
NEW YORK Dec. ~, lsss.-The Cotton market
is dull; sales 1855 bales: uplands ordinary ssSe:
good do 3-l6c; low middllng 9lAc; middlngs
9Ac; Gulf ordinary sac; good do 7-16c; low
midl94c; middling lee.
>EW ORLEANS. Dec. 81. lsSs.-Cottop market
steady; niddling 9asc.
,AVANNAH,D Dec. 81. lsss.-Ootton market is
quiet; midding 1916.
iiHARLESToN, Dec. 81. lSss--Cotton market
quiet ,middling 9ssc.
MEMPHIS, Dec. ~, 1885, Cotton market il
quletimidiliag at 9ssc.
MOBILE, Dec. 81. 1s88.-C0ttop ma ket is
quiet ;middling at 8 5-l6c.
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Smoker

:. Nov 1S, lat 2 N, Ion 81 w. sch Henry Lippett
Howes. from Boston for Buenos Ayres.
Dec ~, on Sombrero. sch Viola Reppard. from
Mobile for New York
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SANTA CLAUS

"Inever was gladder, Ma
Look at this RHADAME,
The best for the money I've seen for year.
was going to Boston,
But now save the cost on
That trip. and get something far better right here
II ald one nifty for It, for one and quarter
And for two and quarter they have SATIN
BLACK SILKS for 500, 500. two Nc isa
And fourteen new shades, besides black FAILLE
And DRESS COMBINATIONS in black and in
By the suit or the yard, you can buy either way.
And the TABLE LINENi Just the thing for Xmas,
IL makes my mouth water, Just at the sight,
They range from 5000 set up to fourteen,
With rare colored borders, and glossy plain white
Than to buy things right there, they're so pretty
And there's time to look at them, and clerks are
And the store isn't cluttered all up in heap,
WIN knlck;knacks and playthings, plush cases
And cheap, tawdry jewelry just to ensnare
The unwary customer, looking for Something,
H He does not know what, Nowhen you trade there
Not trying to steal all the profits away
From me book store and toy shop, the fancy goods
Whose only hope lies in the sales for that day.
And naught can be found more useful and pretty
Than their lovely SILK HANDKERCHIEFs
Their TOWELS, from ten cents way up to a dollar
Their fine SILK UMBRELLAS, so strong and SO
new,
And if ever there could be suitable present,
I'm sure an umbrella is Just the thing now
twas never more needed since Noah slipped his
cable
And headed his craft for Mt Ararat's brow.
And when cold weather comes, and 'spose it will
sometime,
Then ali viii want BLANKETS, so soft and so
warm,
They are GOOD at 50, the better ones splendid.
line Twelve dollar ones will defy any storm.
Then, too, they have SKIRTS, fine and warm for
And elegant SHAWLS at most any price,
pocket,
And you're certain to find the quality nice.n
wen, now you do run on, /, dumb and breathlesS
Could not get so much as word in edgewise,
Where Is IL where all these fine bargains are offer
ed,
On this mundane sphere. or way up In the skiesq"
Il suppose yoii would know, the one dealer In dry
goods
Who always, so now in this holiday time,
oners DRESS GOODS and LINENS, SHAWLS,
CLOAkINGS, sc.
NOT KNICK.KNACKS and GEw-GAws, and
just In their prime,
For this glad Xmas season, so come in and buy
them,
I've not overpraised them, of that am sure,
Sut you'll find the things mentioned, and many
more like them,
NER STORE"
451 CONGRESS- STREET,
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BOYS DEPARTMENT.

BARGAIN NO. 1000
pair of Boys Knee Pants in
sizes a to Ia years, at 10, IS.
35, so, rs cents and SI.o0.
No such bargains in Knee
Pants for Boys have been
seen In this city to compare
with these.
BARGAIN NO. I2-small lot
of Boys Knee Pant Suits. All
sizes at $500. Marked down
from $3.50.
BARGAIN NO. I3-Three
large lots of Boys Knee Pant
Suits, sizes q to "a years, only
$500 per suit. Marked down
from $3.50.
BARGAIN NO. I4-Roys'
Cape overcoats, sizes a to IL
years, at So. So, $3.50 and
ST each. Also big bargains
in Cape Overcoats for Boys
at only $3.50 each.
BARGAIN NO. I5-Roys'
Long Pant Suits, ages 10 to
~ years, only $3.50. a regu-
lar $500 suit.
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European Markets.

LONDON, Dec. ~, 188S.-Consols at 81 3-I6
for money and 81 5-16 for the account.
LIVkkP JOI, Dec. 27.-The Cotton markell
quiet with fair inquiry; upands Sad; sales TO-
600 bales; speculation and export 1000 bales ;
receipts $4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, Dee. 81. Quotations Win
yer az IS; Spring wheat at IS Id; Club Wheat at
rs pad. H0rU, mixed Western at Is 5M d. Peas
bs l Id. Provisions, &c.,-Pork prime Eastern mess
at SOs d, Bacon a2s Cd for Short Gear and AIS
33s Cd.
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BOSTON AND MAINE n. "
in effees October n, Isss.
WnamunN nWuWGWnu
WESTERN DIVISION,

Trains leave Portland. "UnIon station"
s Fs5 Boston 1,so. ts;46 a M lz.s5,
Beach, Pine Poina, 7.3O. 1915. a M, $50,
5.15, 6.1b p. m. Old Orchard Beach, SAGE,
Biddeferd 7.S0. 6.45, 1928 a. m, 12.45, $50,
12.45, $50, 5.15, els p. N. Wells Beneh,
wiss. Grs-s pals, De S 7.sO, s'ss a. n.
h ILL., ssG ss and E. I.w sns' go ss
Iasssn, AiiSs Say, woifssse' s.as !. m
12.45, $50 p. M, Manehe-aer and Ceneesd
Junction. s.s6p. m, weree-ssr via Great
Falls and Rochester, 7.30 a. m.
Sunday Trains From Union Station.
For Bsstsn and way stations 100 and t4.15 y.
Eastern Division From Union station.
Fer Boston (f2.O0 am, daily q 800 am, 100
1900 p. M. Returning leave Bs@sen 7.30, 300
sdpa lp;s1 p m no p ~; DAILY. nsss
Lynn 200, 300 a. M, LOO, 500 o. m. Ames-
bury 900 q. M, 100, 500 D. m.
FROM COMMERCIAL STREET STATION
for Cape Elizabeth and searbsrs Crossing,
7.20, 8.35, 1o.15 a. m, ~ 40 $40, 51O $50 pm.
Trains from Commercial Street station connect
at scarboro Crossing with local and through trains
Connects with Rail Lines for New YORK, south
and West.
sConnects with sound Lines for New York.
ssWest Division from North Berwick
All trains arriving at and departing from Union
Station run via Western Division between Scar
borough Crossing and Portland
Through Tickets TO all points South and West
Commercial street. station, and Al Unisn
ricixes Omee. 40 4 Exchange street.,
]. I. FURBER GenI Manager, Boston,
M. 1. WILLIAMS, Gen'i Agent, al Portland.
Oct20 dn
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m6nJ S0curlGlt
United States

The fOllowngars closing .lotatsons OF stocks:
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PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.
PORTLAND, Dec, 27. !

EUhIIANUi DeCs II, 1888.
The market for Flour remains about the same,
with prices in buyers favor, although Wheat
showed more strength to-day, and some &c above
yesterdays figures. Corn, Meal and Oats have
dropped iG2c. Sugar is quoted 5sc lower; now
1obbing at 7ssc for graduated and 7Mc for Eek
ira G. Poultry is dull and lower
fne following are today's closing quotations of
Gram, Provisions sc.
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BY Telegraph

CHICAGO. Dec 81. 188S-Cattle marKet-re
Dceyes at 6b65 10; steers S5G4 X: stocs ers
and feeders at 2003 80; cows bulls and mixed
at 50G3 l0;Texas cattle 9Ua3 10.
Hogs receipts 10000; shipments 3hon: weak
ana lower; mixed at 0o65 30: heavy at IOa
s 30; light 00G5 20; skiDs 5oa5 90.
sheep- reccfpto 5000, shipments aooos slow
heavy and lower natives at OOa4 30; Western
corn fed o0a4 so; Texans at 10a3 i o; lambs
UOd5 90
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WIT AND WISDOM.

Aplumber and an upholsterer were recently
engaged in sitting up fashionable residence, and
got into discussion as TO which was the heavier.
pound of lead or pound of feathers.
"I'n bet you four bits that can proye to Won
that pound OF lead is heavier than pound OF
feathers" said the plumber fN -
"Il take that bet !" said the upholsterer
The plumber cut of piece Of lead pine and
pared L down until II weighed sixteen ounces
Inen ne got from the upholsJerer the same
weight IN feathers, snow he said, "let me
drop the ieaa on your left foot and the feathers
on your right, andit do not prove that the lead
The man of feathers would NOT constant IN tho
trial, but paid the bet. W Wv
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Ar at Buenos Ayres Dee 30, sch Maggie G Hart
Williams, Boston via Portland.
Ar at Newcastle, NSW, Nov 8. barque Adam W
Spies, Field. sydney, NSW. TO load for Hong Kong
9Th. ship Merom, Glover. Melbourne.
Sid I'm Hong Hong Nov IT. ship Mary Stone
Carver, New York.
Sid FIN Manila Nov 10, barque Stone, Bar
stow, Cebu and Boston
SID I'm Singapore goth inst parque Antioch
Hemingway, Boston.
Sid I'm Rio Janeiro 9th inst, brig Jane Adeline
Gates, Pernambuco.
Sid I'm Demerara LIST inst, sch Belle Hooper, Gil
key, Philadelphia.
Ar at Cenfuegos oath, barque Jose Moore
Leonard, Philadelphia.
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Itoon,t Paw

to use uncertain means when suffering from dis
eases of the liver, blood lungs. such bilious
ness, or liver complaint" skin diseases, scrofu-
lous sores or swelinss, or from lung scrofula
Commonly known as consumption of the lungs)
when DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is
guaranteed to cure all these affections, If taken
in time, or money paid for it will be promptly re-
funded.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Foreign Exports.

LIVERPOOL, ENG. Steamship Partisan -38
300 bush peas 1910 Dbs apples /, lS3,2uo tbs of
cheese 425 $50 do meats 266 400 do lard 121 900
do cotton 49N 200 do oatmeal 90 o do oil-cake
$4,000 do tallow s. 90 bags flour 4S3 cs splnis
SO do leather organs.
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Ship Hoogley, recently purchased by the Morses
OF Bath. Is being stripped at Boston aud will be
used for "a barge.
Sch Hattie MEG Buck, Putnam, at PHILADELPHIA
from Aux Cayes, reports a very rough passage /;
lost malntopmost and part of sails.
San Francisco, Dec 20-Ship Willie Rosenfield
from Liverpool with coal was found TO be on fire
round the foremost yesterday. 1t was extinguIsh-
ed before much damage was done, Several deck
beams and some Of the planks were charred
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ISLAND sTE4nERs.
FreepOrt Steamboat {

On and after Nov. ~, 1888. the steamer Phan-
tom. Ii. b. Townsend, Master, win run as fol-
iOwst
1Between freepOrt and Portland touching az
ands.
Leave South FreepOrt daily Sundays ezeeptedD
at TOO a. m.
Returning win leave Burnhams wharf. Portland.
2 p. m.
E.B. MALLETT. Jr., Manager,
selOdu Ereeport
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STANDARD CLOTHING COMPANY.
MANUFACTURERS GREAT BREAK IN PRICES OF
.SuITS AND OvERcoATS
listers and Refers for Men and Young Men.

to well round the Grand
Buyers Christmas to
ordinary
be
sacrifice OTIS annO be dupi ated
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New YORK Stock and Money nHarke5
fHv TAlApranh1

NEW YORK, Dec. 81, 1888.-Money was com
paratiyely light to day, ranging from ~ to per
cent; last loan at 8, closing offered at per cent
Prime =, mercantile paper 5g61s per cent. Serling
Exchange is duiI and steady. Government bonds
dun and nrm. Railroad bonds quiet and barely
steady The stock market closed heavy TO weak
generally at small fractions above lowest prices
gated 238.390 shares. ~ee
Ine Iollowlng are to-day's quotations Of Govern
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Harpswen Steamboat Co.

On and after Oct. 10, 1883, Steamer yHER-
BtCONEAes VIII leave Orr's Island Gas am;
1.45i jerks 500; Hope island sos; Little che
beagne s.lbi Long Island s.85. Arrive IN Port
and all intermediate landings at 28O D. IA.
oc2 ar
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sarah,s Worn out cate.

Sarah and her young man are out so much in
the night air, swinging on the front gate, that her
father says "They viii both catch their death of
cold, and Ma will have to dosc them with Adam
sons Botanic Congh Balsam"
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45l CONGRESS STREET.
dec2O eodtf
CANAL NATIONAL BANK.

TINE annual meeting of the Stockholders OF the
Il Canal National Bank, of Portland. for the
election OF seven directors and for the transaction
Of any other business that may legally come before
them, Will be held at their banking house on
TUESDAY, the eighth day OF January, 1859, at
III O'Clock a. m. GEO. G. PETERS, Cashier.
does eodtd
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RamfOrd Falls & BuekfieId Railroad
In Effees October 20, isss.

Leave Portland, via q, I. Railway, s45 am. and
1.3Op. m. RETURNING-Leaye Canton 4.30
and 9.25 a. m.
STAGE CONNECTIONs-DA w.
MlnOt for Hebron Academy; Buekheid for w.
sumner and Turner; Canton for Peru, Dixneld
and Mexico, also for Brettuns Mills Iivermore
oct27dtf L. H. LINCOLN Supt
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whats the mattah, Claw anee?1 was the ques-
tion which one very exquisite specimen of human
ity addressed to another.
Pm not at all well-not at all well. / feel as IL
l were Frustrated with mental exhaustion or
something of that sort.
why, have you been doing much mind work of
late, deah boy?"
YES. quite good deal-quite good deal.
nave wead two theatre pwogwams cleah through
TINS week, and this is only Wednesday.
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fish.

Baldwins / O0@1 so
Eating apples1 1892 90
EvaporaJed " ID SG Sc
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ocK s
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Railroad Receipts.

PORTLAND Dec. 81. 1888.
Receipts by Maine Central Railroad--For Port
land Z cars miscellaneous merchandise; forlcon-
Meeting roads cars 95 miscellaneous merchan-
dfea
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them CastoriA,

The small boy has broken out in new place.
He had been visiting one of his schoolmates, and
he came back with a serious face and said to his
mother:
Mamma, guess it's all right with that piece
OF poetry you told me about, He Doeth all Things
Well"
g nd why?" she said
''Well, think He did just the square thing in
giving me to you instead OF to Mrs. Dunnep. For
I've been over there three hours, and know
never could stand that woman!v
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STOOLS, COVERS, BOOKS,
Music Cabinets, Racks,
PIANO LAMPS, ETC.,
10 FREE STREET.
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oustOmer-The cut Of that suit isn't very fash

Customer-The cut of that suit isn't very fash
ionable.
lsaacsteln-Na-at, not fashionablel Don'd /
keep an agent In Europe nine months oud of dot
year shoost to pick oud dose front style?
customer "a little broken up)-Is that so?
lsaacstein.-Of course dot yos so. ITO wife,
Rebecca Yot did MIR. Johai nIsberg saw I'm dot
cable despatch today?
Rebecca-He said he shoost bought up every
Ting DOT vas fresh and new In Paris and London,
and vas now on his way to dine with the Prince OF
Wales.
The customer bought the suit.
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The people may talk about humbugs and patent
medicines as much as they please, but we stick to
the plain fact that DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup will
cure cough quicker than any physicians pre-
scriptions
No better liniment than Salvation Oil. % cents.
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$500 offered for an incurable case of Catarrh
in the Head by the proprietors of DIR. Sage's
Remedy.
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PurlnglOn, New York !: :spartel, HallOwell, and
Ar 25th, sen Frank Herbert HerrIck, from New
York.
Sid Gath, schs Paragon, Hodges, New Bedford /;
John Moult0n coastwise.
Sid 28th, sch Nellie Doe, Winslow Providence
NEW YORK-Ar 25th, schs Red Rover. Jones
Ellsworth; Hattie Dunn, Poland, Mobile; Robt A
Snow. filisbury, Fernandina, Mary j Lee, and
I Dixon, from Rockland.
Ar 9th, barque Clara McGilvery, Truss, FIN
Boston.
Cid 25th. barque Hayden Brown, Hayener. from
Passed the Gate 26th, schs Alabama from New
York for Calais; Bramhali, Drinkwater, Amboy
GLEN CovE-Ar 2eth, sch Katie Barrett, Me.
Le0d, Portland.
PRovfDENCE-Ar 25th, sch W Church, ser-
ry, Baltimore.
Ar 26th, sch Lyra, Leonard, st John, NIB.
Sid zen, sch Nellie ppE9ry. Wilson. Baltimore
DHTqa ISLAND . HAkbfH sIsn In port schs Ly
McNichols. Brown, Calais for doi NJ Dickn.
NEWP sci Il SIC 25ah. schs Sarah Potter Bar-
bour. from Boston for Port Royal; John Lenthal
NEW BEDFoRD-Sld 2eth. sch Rosa s. Adra,
vINEYARD-HAyEN : Ar 25th, schs Ira
Sturgs, Blaisdel, Wiscasset for Newport; Tele-
graph sIa Grafton Ta9mast @,n for New York.
low. Portland for New York.
BOSToN "A. 26th, scss Gamma, jenkins, Ho-
boken, at Quincy; julia Baker. Merry, Wiseas-
set
CID 2eth. sch iona Bourne. Conner, Hampton
SALEM-Ar 26th schs Maria Adelaide, Smith.
Port johnson; Watts, Kelley, do.
Also ar 26th, schs Ernest Lee, Thomas, from
Calais for New York; John Douglas Jordan, Ban
gor for Bridgeport.
GLoUCES1'ER-Ar seth, brig Mary Ellen. NAL
Sid to 28th, scls Nj K Rowley, Bass Island for
Tor New York; Ernest Lee Calais for do; Cay
eenne, Eastport for do; Two Brothers. Bristol for
do; Antelope, Bucksport for Boston; M l. Varney,
Bath for do; Albert, Calais for do; Maria AIDE
ialde, Port johnson for Salem; John Douglass,
Bangor for Bridgeport.
sULLiVAN-Ar oath, schs Chrome, Stevens,
and Virginia, Moon. Boston.
MACHIASPORT-Ar 23d, schs, Addie Fuller
LIBBY Boston; Hortensia Flynn, and George d
Perry, Flynn, do.
FOREIGN Ports.
ga &C Hong Kong Me- 1s' '-'r n'"a'"s Wind
Ar at Punta Arenas 22d inst, brig Havilah. Rich
ar at Vail araiso Nov 8, barque Grace Deering,
-. AT &C Sharpness Dec %, ship Hercules. Code,
from st John, NIB.
az, AT at Ensenada prev to Dec 20. barque Edw o
Clark. stahl, Philadelphia.
!, Ar at Demarara Dec 6, sch Kensett, Smith, from
Chartered-brig Elizabeth Wipslow. Cakes to
load lor Delaware Breakwater.
c Sld I'm kingston, ia, 9th inst. sch II Foster,
Ar at Annatlo Bay, ia, Nov 28, sch L NIcker-
son, Ackerly, Baltimore.
CID at Caibarien 18th inst, sch Clifford Crabtree
Fernandina, to load for New York
AT Matanzas 18Th inst, barque Chestina Red
Colby, disg. S'
AT at Bfidgwater Ms, 2sd, brig Sullivan, Davis,
Spoken.
NOV y, lat 2 N, Ion % w. sch Henry Lppett
Howes, from Boston for Buenos Ayres.
Mobile for New York
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EAST MACHIAS, Dec "a AR, sch Nellie F
Huntley, Boston.
Dec 25-Ar, sch j Baker, Chase, Boston.
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THU RSDAY, Dec. 27.
Arrived.
Steamship Winthrop, Bragg, New York pas
sengers and mdse to J Coyie.
Sch Anna J Morse, Merritt. Ballimore-coal
TO Randall & McAlIister.
Sch Grace E Stevens, Stevens, Boston.
Sch Lady of the Ocean, R0ckland for New York
Sch Gertie May, shore, with 10000 lbs fish.
Cleared.
:, Steamship Partisan. tBr) Richie, Liverpool
Sch Mabel Phillips Haskell. Baltimore Ryan s.
Kelsey.
Sen Emma s Briggs, Gray, wiscasset, to load
for Sound port.
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fae following quotations Of stocks are rec eivet
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"oh, you dear, good motheri" chirped Birdie
McHennepin, "do you really mean that can
marry Gus DeSmithb"
mother.
couldn't bear him."
We'll have got something like an eighty
ton grudge against him. and for that very reason
have concluded to become his mother-in-law."
A mans wife should always be the
same, especially to her husband, but If she is
weak and nervous, and uses Carter's Iron Pills,
she cannot be, for they make her feel like a
different person." so they all say, and their hus-
bands say so too!
Country editor--I see. Mr.. Shears, that you
have at the end Of your article the word Selah.
What does it mean?
Assistant lhesitatingly) Well-er-Mr. Case
well,
Editor-Yes, it's full of spirit; and as none of
cur subscribers will know anything about it, Wen
let IL go in Always take pains in writing edito-
RAJ matter that your English shall be carefully
selected.
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