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Year: 1876

PROvINCETOwN


PRovINcETowS, Mass, March 21, 1870
One OF the heaviest gales experienced for many
years is raging here Great damage is being done
the shipping at this port and 1t is supposed that
many lives lost As yet the extent OF the damage
cannot bc ascertaincd.


The stern and quarter boards OF the schooner Can
villa, of Boston, ashore early this morning and
II is supposed that the all lost, their
chances OF boarding another vessel were very slight
with the sea SO high


The schooner Willie Swift OF this place, parted
her moorings and, after striking another vessel
upon the beach and Is badly used up


The schooner }. H. Collins came ashore at Freeman
4 Hard's wharf, striking the schooner Charles ALL
strum, and both vessels came upon the beach and
badly damaged.


The schooner Joseph W. Fish. ofSt George, Me-,
Captain Rawlings, came ashore at Steamboat wharf,
striking the schooner Comet, OF Boston, and sunk at
tho end OF the wharf The Comet Is full OF wator
and sinking fast Both vessels breaking up, and II
the wind holds much longer tho end OF the wharf
will be completely demolishcd.


One schooner Is sunk whose namo Is unknown, and
the fate OF her crew Is yet to be learned


The steamer Fannie Spraguo parted her moorings
and came ashore near Central wharf, but is only
slightly damaged


There several vessels riding the gale that have
lost a mast aud others spars


Tho schooner u. < L. Morse Is ashore near Race
Point, and is 10 be sold at auction.


The schooner lola is ashore at Spar Yard Tho
damage is slight
Year: 1876

NEWPORT, T. J., March Il, lSf6
The steamer Old Colony and freight boat Albatross
OF the Fall River line did not venture from their dock
ut this port last night after their arrival from Fall
River. The steamer Newport from New York has
not arrived, owing TO the storm. The steamer City OF
Newport plying between this port and Providence
unable to leave her dock


The storm in this vicinity very severe last night
and II has but slightly abatod No damage to the ship
ping has been reported thus lar.
Year: 1876

The equinoctial storm has ragged with uncommon
violence since three O'Clock this morning. but began to
abate ut about Some damage done in
sections OF the city In Newport Harbor Mt noon. the
steamers Eous and Old Colony in collision dur
ing thick fog, and the former lost her bow and
turned TO her dock. The schultz will probably take
the place OF the Eolus the Wexford Tho Old
Colony struck amdships and much damaged
that she must TO Fall River.
Year: 1876

morning weighing twenty-eight
and a half pounds. Please place
it on exhibition, and after exhibit
ing it sell it, and after paying ex-
penses send the balance to me-"


Our reporter didn't own a fish
horn, and after a moments deliber-
alton concluded not to open fish
market. He threw the letter back
into the postofice, presuming that
some other individual in town was
blessed with the same maiden name,
and that the letterhad been delivered
to the wrong party. Imagine his
surprise upon going home to a late
supper at discovering that the "big
fish" had been delivered at his resi-
dence by the expressman, and by
direction of his better half, who
presumed it was understood, of
course, had been cleaned, sliced up
and partially distributed about the
neighborhood, while other neigh
bors had been telegraphed to send
over and get some fresh fish in the
morning. A stack of fresh fish all
ready for the griddle was in the ice
chest, and the head Of the monster,
as large as an ordinary platter, was
alone preserved for his inspection.
That was a pretty kettle of fish,
wasn't it? A family consultation
was had, and it was decided that in
ignorance of the breed of that fish,
he wouldn't prove palatable for
breakfast, so the collection of fish
was thrown away and the neigh
bors were telegraphed to do like
wise, and for further information
inquire within.


1t was subsequently ascertained
from a fsh-monger, who made a
chronological examination of the
head, that the "big fish" was of
the genus muscalonge, and might
have been eaten with impunity and
fried potatoes. The pile of fish
has disappeared, Mr.. Sargent's
desired exhibition" couldn't come
off, and there was no "balance" to
send him, so there it is. Now,
this should prove a warning to all
others who may catch big fish; and
they may as well understand that
all attempts to induce our reporter
to run a fish market for their bene-
fit, and without commission on
the net sales, even, will prove fu.
tile. As in the above instance,
they must send in their musca.
longe at their own risks.
Year: 1876

The Lewiston Journal prints the
following extract from a private let
ter from Rev. Mr.. Eveleth, a native
of that State, now serving as mis-


sionary in Toungoo, Burmah:


"When we arrived at the village of
None the people there were looking
for the governor of the Shwaygyeen
district to see what could be done
to rid them of a fierce tiger. His
haunt was near the path leading


from the village to a Karen noun
tain little to the east. This mon
ster had killed and eaten nine per-
sons, and now no one dared to 90
that way. He was a great fellow,
about seventeen feet from tip to
tip, very bold, and afraid of no
body of men. He captured who
ever came near him, whether Ka-
ran, Shan or Burnam. If there
were several in the party, he always
sprang upon the last one. He was
heavy and sprang from so great q
distance that he killed every one
! the moment he struck him. The
last party that he attacked contain
ed seven men. The last one car
ried a spear, and said that he was
not afraid Of the tiger, but before
he reached the top of the hill the
tiger had captured him, breaking
his spear and killing him instantly.
| A little while after we left this vii
lage a man came up behind our
train riding furiously. He was an
| Englishman, and wore a dagger
and a revolver in his belt, and was
rather q formidable looking man.
He was chief of police in Swaygyeen,
and, glad to see a white face, | can
tered on with him fora mile or two.
He had in his pocket the claws of
a tiger who had recently killed five
| Karens. This, too, was an old
| tiger, but with very little hair left
on him, and very large. He came
to him in this wise: Two Karens
were ascending the mountain to-
| gether; each carried a spear, the
one pointing backward, the other
! forward. The tiger leaped from
behind, and came upon one Of the
spears. He was mOrtalIy wounded
! and very soon died. There was one
very sad story connected. with the
death of these persons: A father
and his little girl were going home
from their bazaaring, when the tiger
sprang upon the child and carried
her away. The father, crazed with
the sight, pursued the beast, and
caught hold Of the child's legs and
tried to free her from his jaws.
The tiger let go his hold, and the
father placed the dead child on his
shoulders and started off on the
run. The tiger came up again, and
seizing the child dragged it off into
the Jungle. The village was
aroused by the cries Of the man,
and came to the place. While they
!, were standing and looking at the
child's blood the tiger came up be-
hind them, sprang upon man and
carried him away. The monster
lwho has killed nine persons still
lives, Notwithstanding the fact thai
$3.50 are offered for his head,
Year: 1876

a butcher, baker, and grocer were


engaged, and the whole establish


ment ready for its occupants. An
old gentleman, a neighbor, with


nothing else to do, amused himself


by looking at the contents of the
house, and one day penetrated the


kitchen, where he found plumbers
taking out the range, who said
"the Captain didn't like it, and had
ordered different patent" The
family failed to come for a fort
night, the ice man, the butcher,
baker and grocer, came for orders
but found no customers. Finally
the neighborly old gentleman told
a policeman he thought there was
something wrong about that house,
and so there was-for on opening
it, it was entirely empty. Not only
the furniture was gone, but the
mantles, CRATES, range, furnace,
everything portable was missing.
And where is the gallant Captain
Il? Gone to keep a stylish
boarding-house at the Centennial.
Year: 1876

A very grave complaint has been
brought by the New York Times
against the ex-Confederate House of
Representatives at Washington city
and say what We will about it, it is
true. The complaint is that COLONEL
GEORGE w. KIRK the Tennessee cut
throat and the hero of Holden's Rad
ical war in North Carolina in 1870, has
been removed from command of the
police in charge of the Capitol builds
ing at Washington and an ex.Confed-
crate put in his place. The complaint
is we'll founded we are happy to say.
But it will be better for us to be eau
tious in the expression of our gratifica>
ton for we know not when KIRK may
be recalled to North Carolina. Pear
son is still on the Supreme Court
bench, Settle is the Radical candidate
for Governor, Nc Lindsey is Radical
candidate for Congress, Holden is q
member of the Radical Executive Com
mittee and John Pool is superintendent
of Public instruction. KIRK is the
only one of the vile gang of 1870 that
is idle in the Radical camp. Will not
Brogden provide for him too?
Year: 1876

officer of the law, he deliberately told
them, even while under the sanction
of his oath,. that there was no
power in all North Carolina to save
them from outrage or even from death,
that they and all ots' ers i'll the State
must submit to Holdeh's sweet will.
And this man Settle is now running
for Governor and Holden is doing all
he can to elect him! And SO, too, is
John Pool. Are these men sane Do
they think the people of North Caro-


lima are fools and have they forgotten
that Holden was driven in disgrace
from his high office for the very crimes
in which Judge Settle gave him such
substantial support The people ha Ve
not forgotten any nf these things!
Year: 1876

OF all the Senators who voted for
the acquittal of Belknap only one
dared to say he believed the evidence
insufficient to prove the charges Of
corruption and bribery. The others
contented themselves with the plea
that the Senate had not Jurisdiction to
try Belknap after the President had
accepted his resignation. The verdict
of the Senate was substantially
''Guilty, guilty of Bribery and Cor
ruption but saved from punishment bv
President Grant" But what verdict
this was after the Senate had formally
declared that it did have jurisdiction
to try the man and actually did try
him!


Commenting upon Belknap's acquit-
tai. the New York Times. Radical
though it be, is forced to say:


/ We have little patience to discuss
the consequence of yesterdays pro-
ceedings with reference to the ReDub-
lican party; but as all the Senators
voting for the acquital were Repubii>
cans but one, and as all but one of
these Republicans voted on professed
grounds purely technical, it may be as
we'll to point out that, whether they
meant it or not, they have put a for
midable weapon in the hands of their
opponents. The Democrats will assert
that Belknap was proved guilty, and
no one can deny it; that he escaped
punishment by technicality through
Republican votes, aud this is true:
that Republican President added to.
if he did not furnish, this Opportunity
of escape by accepting his resignation,
and no one can contradict it. Against
all of which we can only offer this i'm
posing spectacle of twenty-four Re-.
publican Senators standing by their
consciences, in despite of what might
happen to their party or their country.
If anyone has the audacity to object
that in the case of some of the Sena.
tors, their conscience::is not of so con-
spicuously just and highly trained q
sort that the country can rely on it as
implicitly as the Senators themselves
claim to have done, we shall be sorry.
but we cannot much blame the oE-
iector,
Year: 1876

We cannot r, asonably look forward
to certain triumph in November un-
less we also look forward to putting
forth every exerticn of which we are
capable. We have the same unscru-
lous enemy to meet, 'thirsting for
blood, hungry for spoils, treaoherous,
desperate and vindictive as ever be-.
fore. The Radical party seeks to
maintain its supremacy, to crafty it's
lust for pillage and plunder and it's
passion for revenge on the white peo-
pie of the State that after sixteen years
of riotous license is yet unsated. We
will not believe that such a terrible
calamity is in store for us, for we can
not believe that the white men of
North Carolina will prove so recreant to
every instinct of race and blood and to
every natural longing for peace and
law and good order and good govern
ment. We have the power IN our
own hands. If we do not exercise it
the fault will be our own. Now is the
time to organize for glorious victory
that shall redeem the State forever.
Year: 1876

They have a sensible law in
New York which imposes a
penalty of So and costs and five
TO ten days imprisonment upon
persons who jump on or OF
trains while the latter are III mo-
ton.
Year: 1876

We quote the following stat mcnt
lately made by DR., Elisha Harris, Of New
York, who is an excellent authority


The death rate in yellow fever is from
twenty-five to thirty five per cent. 1t
was twenty-five per cent. in Shreveport
and thirty per cent. in Memphis, In the
New Orleans epidemic it has usually
been about twenty-five per cent, Bati.
more is much more secure against ycl
low fever epidemic than New York is,
for there the greater part Of the popula.
ton live on high ground, and the dis
case will not travel up the steep hills OF
Baltimore. II will he more likely to
travel along the coast, and should the
coming winter he mild one in the south,
we may look for yellow fever in the
spring,


The true nature Of the poison has moi
yet been asCcrtaincd, and cannot be un-
I'll more scientific progress is made. The
time will come when we shall doubtless
be able to meet the enemy, and fully
understand how il effects its work. The
disease does not travel through the air,
aSmany used to think. Itsa thing that
crccps on the ground. 1t travels on a
level or down decline much faster
than it aSccndS. This has been fully
demonstrated by the examination of the
progress of cpidcmics, particularly the
one which passed through this city in
1872. 1t began at the foot of Rector
street, ON the North river, where the
poison had been deposited from sailors
luggage, 1t travelled slowly up Rector
street, which is pretty steep. Coming
to Broadway, it branchcd out in both
directions, and then went rapidly down
thcstrcets leading toward New and Broad
streets.


At the same time it was spreading up
and down, and At one time the fence that
was put up to check its progress incloscd
the city hall and the park. All the
merchants and bankers moved up to
Greenwich village, which is nov in the
ncighhorhood Of Ninth avenue and
Twcnty-third street. Some positively de-
clincd to 90 outside of the enclosure, and
many of the obstinate ones lost then
lives rs the result of their folly The
poison was propagated ON aboutanavcragc
of about fifty feet each day, and over.
spread nearly the whole city. As ! said
before, the poison goes up hill with APP
parent difficulty, and, in its march
through the city, it never went over the
houses, but always round them, Persons
living in the upper stories of tall houses
would, therefore not be likely to be ai-
icctcd if they remained in their domi-
Giles all the time.


Absolute cleanliness is the best pro-
lection. Bathing all over once or twice
every day, and putting ON clean cloth
ing every time; securing, sweeping,
scrubbing, etc, everything that could
keep the body and its surroundings clean,
would he the course to pursue People
should keep their spirits up and the
pores Of the skin open. Care should he
taken to keep the dwelling and out
houses dry by the use of lime, and no
one should venture out in the night air
when yellow fever is around.
Year: 1876

Would we not better feel that the Father
is still in the sunbeam that plays around
our pathway at noon and in the moaning
winds that sigh at midnight 1t is high
time that those who break the laws Of
right, whose loves are full of all inuS-
ticc and vice, should feel that there is
an omniprescnt mind and power whose
empire they insult and whose very pres
cncc they pollute with their deeds and
character The human soul needs for
its virtue n ruling mind never to he ab.
sent, never to be cyaded, but always
present with reward or punishment the
religious heart needs to have its love in.
ilucnced by the thought that the Bcing
II worShips is in the ycryair that touches
the cheek, and is mysterious agency in
the very tomb where the earthly body
returns to dust such Il Deity, rescued
from the iron.likc form of the past imagi.
nation, can become incarnatc in Christ,
can enter the soul of the pcnitcnt, can
explain the mental and moral phenomena
OF earth, explain its learning, its pro.
grcSs, its love, its beauty, and then can
enter the chamber of death and make it
the gateway Of second existence,
Year: 1876

Members Of the United States commits
sion to supcrintcnd the completion
of the Washington monument do not
expect to see any work done tins
fall. No work by act of congress can he
proceeded with until an examination Is
made of the foundation by the army
commission Just appointed by the ~ecrc.
tary of war. II has been stated that the
stone in the base of the monument IL not
strong enough to bear its weight when
finished. This, however, is not believed
by those who should know, The main
point of examination will bc the quality
of dirt around and underneath the mon
umcnt to depth Of eighty or ninety
feet. 1t il Sieared that about twenty feet
under the surface there is Il sort OF quick
sand, the monument being hut 4 short
distance from the river. In that case
the great weight would probably press
the Uuicksand out into the river and 50
sink the monument. There is another
fear that the different strata OF earth III,
cline downward toward the river, and
that by the slipping out OF one OF these
LAYERS the monument would either come
down, or on the supposition many have
that the leaning tower of Pisa was not
built as it now stands, Washington would
have leaning monument.
Year: 1876

TIE problem of feeding the young and
poor physiologically is not easy, but is
simple if considered from the scientific
point of view. That the bulk of the
food Of the poorer classes must always
be bread is unquestionable. Peas, beans
and other like lcguminous plants, how
ever rich in albumen, can never be cx-
pectod to successfully compete with
bread first, because they require steep
ing in water and boiling for hours next,
they become hard so easily, and then are
indigestible, while at all times they are
not so easy to be digested as bread. But
bread is not so good food as meat-and
here chemistry comes in, and shows that
bread soaked in broth made from extract
of meat is as good food as the best meat
diet, Indeed, the most eminent chem
lists and psychologists arc now agreed in
the opinion that, when people will use
more of such simple vitalizing extract,
and little less tea, for their strength
and health, they will be willing to dis
pense with the present artifces of cook
cry as numberless as they are useless.
Year: 1876

TIE excess of unmarried women should
be diminished, if philanthropy and
sound political economy alc capable of
grappling with the evil. There me two
ways of solving the difficulty. One is
an equalization of the sexes by means of
the aided emigration of surplus women
to new settlements. Coy. SHADES down
cast schoomistresses married so rapidly
after going west that their successors
were put under two thousand dollar
bonds to remain single for three years.
In many cases this proved no obstacle to
impctuous wOoers, who paid the pecu.
MARY forfeit that they might be united
to the object of their affection The
same thing is going on every day in New
Zealand.
Year: 1876

From the Waterville MALL


The Portland PRESS seems to be in season in
putting on the harness of 1876. That paper
stands now in the front rank of New England
Republican papers. Its political articles have
for few years commanded the growing respect
OF the party, as well for their wisdom as for
their tact and pungency. AS family paper it
500, is a dollar lower than most daily papers
OF its size and class. 1t is sent during the sea-
son OF the Legislature for So. The weekly,
1.-The Maine State PRESS is made up with
great care to adaptit to the wants of the family;
taking every department into special care The
growing political influence of the PRESS rem
ders it very desirable paper for those who in
tend to give any considerable attention 10 the
political questions coming before the public
during the ensuing year.


from the Oxford Democrat.l


The Portland Daily PRESS is the principal
Republican daily of Maine. To it the people
look for the policy of the administration. Its
weekly edition, the Maine State PRESS, has a
large and constantly increasing circulation. 1t
is deservedly popular in the rural districts.


[From the Maine Standard


Although we are not in sympathy with the
politics of the Portland Daily PRESS, we un-
hesitatingly. pronounce it a newspaper second
to none published in the state, while the Maine
State PRESS is the largest weekly journal i'm
Maine, and presents the news of the week in
condensed form, together with special agricul-
tural and literary departments:


[From the Presque Isle Sunrise.1


The Portland Daily PRESS and the Maine
State PRESS, Weekly, are two papers of which
the Republicans of Maine may well be pleased
and proud In years gone by it was necessary
to 60 outside of Maine to find good daily
paper. Maine now has goodly number of
enterprising daily papers. One Of the best in
the state is the Portland Daily PRESS. 1t
prints nearly third more reading matter than
any other, and on no other is SO much money
and time expended. The PRESS is strong in its
editorial department. 1t has sentiments, and it
talks them out. In the discussion of all national
and state questions the PRESS takes a promi-
nent part. The PRESS is essentially Maine
journal. In full and faithful presentation of
its business interests, and reports of meetings
of general interest it will have no superior,
State news is made a specially, correspondents
being engaged in all the principal towns. In
the department of telegraphic news, it has the
advantage of oil the associated press news, and
makes provision for special kilograms respect
ing all matters of interest. Unusual attention
will be devoted to matters at the national Cap
ital, and special reporter and correspondent
will look out for the PRESS at the Legislature,
Market reports and the state of the markets re-
ceive that attention which they should in a
city whose wholesale business is large and in
creasing.
Year: 1876

The high wind yesterday blew down a bill
board opposite City Building; also Hawes' sign
on Federal street came down, smashing win
dow.


Mrs. e. M. Hickok of Boston, we'll known as
writer and elocutionist, will give her new
and interesting discourse entitled ga Temper
ance Lecture for the Times at the Allen Mis-
sion this evening, and the public are invited.


The City of Richmond had an excellent
freight and good lot of passengers last evening
for the Penobscot and other landings East


There will be meeting for prayer in the
vestry of the High street church this Friday
evening at u o'clock. A general invitation is
extended.


The Patrons Of Husbandry closed their ses-
sion at the City Hotel yesterday. They are
unwilling to reveal the nature of the business
transacted.


The Catholic Temperance Society hold
meeting at Congress Hall this evening. Busi-
ness of Importance is to be transacted.


A team stolen from Aliens Corner Wednes-
day night was found at Pownal yesterday.


One of the roosters at the Poultry show be-
came disgusted with life yesterday and died
just because he didn't take the first premium.
Year: 1876

FRATERNITY MEETING THIS EvENING.-The
meeting in behalf of Portland Fraternity at
Congress Square church, this evening, prom
ises to be of much interest Several OF our pest
public speakers will address the meeting ana
the choir will render select music for the occa-
sion. Everybody is invited.