The Portland Daily Press (Portland, Me.)
April 13, 1877

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ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862.-VOL. II. PORTLAND, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 13. 1877. TERMS $8.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. ENTERTAINMENTS. THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.^ Published every day (Sundays excepted) by the3 PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO., At 109 Exchange St., Portland. Terms: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. Tc mail subscribers Seven Dollars a Year if paid in ad vance. ME MAINE STATE PRESS published every Thursday Morning nt $2.50 a year. if paid in auvance at $2.00 a year. rates op Advertising: One inch of space, the length of column, constitutes a “square.” $1.50 per square daily first week; 75 cents per week after; three insertions, or less, $1.00; oontinuing everv other day after first week, 50 cents. Half square,' three insertions, or less, 75 cents; one week, $1.00; 50 cents per week after. Special Notices, one third additional. Under head of “amusements” aud “Auction Sales,” $2.00 per square per week; three insertions or less, $1.50. Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State Press” (which has a large circulation in every part of the State) tor $1.00 per square tor first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Address all communications to PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. ENTERTAINMENTS. Fanny Marsh’s Theatre. }MISS fanny marsh. Fanny M.nh’a Hollo “EXCEbSIOlf.” At the earnest solicitation of many families of distinction miss marsh has indaced mi MS BOGEBH to play MAID MULLER on her Benefit Night. TO-NIGHT BENEFIT OF 1 (When she will appear in her great play of MAUD JIULLER. Saturday L AST MACD MULLER MATINEE. Due notice will be given of the re-appearance of miss Fanny marsh. Aprl3-tf CITY _IT A. L L. Friday and Salurday evenings, April 13 and 14 and Saturday JUaliuee only. LE COMMANDEUR CAZENEUVE The Greatest Living Preslidigitateur. after a most successful engagement of three weeks at the Boston Music Hali. On this occasion the Commandeur will give his most celebrated Tricks witli cards and the favorite Slight of Hand feats. Performance to end with the Great Mystery of the Day, DOUBLE INDIAN MAIL. Admission. 50 cents; Reserved Seats, 75 cents. Matinee,—Adults, 50 cents; Children, 25 cents. Sale of seats on and after Monday, April 9th, at Col lins Kuxton’s Music Store, Farrington’s Block. Doors open at 7; commences at 8. Matinee com mences at 2.30. ap7dtd UX 1 X tlAijljj Positively the only Performance in Port land daring the Present Season 1 Monday, April 16 Return of tlie favorite and ever popular BERGER FAMILY! Tbe most elegant Company in America. SOL SMITH RUSSEL, Tbe Greatest Comic Artist in the Universe Together with their entire company of talented musical artists, who will appear as above, in a New Programme overflowing with fun and replete with novelty. Admission, 50 cents; Reserved Seats, 75 cents. Seats can now he secured at Stockbrigde’s Music Store. aplld5t Our Aryau Ancestors: Tlieir early Culture, Myths and Folk-Lore. FOUR LECTURES Rif JOHN FISKE. THESE lectures will he delivered in the M. L. A Hall, Farrington Block, April 19. 13, 19 and 99, at 8 P M. Tickets can be obtained at Lor ing, Short Harmon’s, Dresser, McLellan Co.’s, Greenieaf's apothecary store, and at door of hall on evenings of lectures, ap5dlw* Grand Public Presentation. ON (MONDAY EVENING next in ME CHANICS’ HALL, Prof Howe will give his Closing Lecture or Review, on the “SCIENCE OF ENGLISH,” and at tbe same time present to each of his audience, gratnitou»ly, a beautiful copy ot the ‘HOME AND COUNTING i ROOM,” edition of his “System of Grammar Lecture will commence a quarter before .8 o’clock. m Tickets 25 cts. Reserved Seats 35 cts._ap!2td M. X-ju A. MOODY SANKEY. EXCURSION ISoston and Return S3 An Excursion will leave Portland VIA EASTERN RAILROAD, ox Tuesday, April 17th. uucr auspices of the Mercaulilc Library Association. Tickets of admission to the Tabernacle furnished all Excursionists. Positively the last Moody Sankey Excursion from Portland for the season Tickets good to ret urn until April 21st. One Fare the round trip. Tit kets for sale at the Eastern R. R. Depot and ROLLINS, LORING& ADAMS, 22 Exchange St, and, JOHN C. PROCTOR, 93 Exchange St a£ll _dtd $3 Boston Return Moody and Sankey EXCURSIONI Tuesday, April I7th, at 9 A. M.. VIA BOSTON Ac MAINE It. K. Tickets good to Boston only on tbe 17tb. May re turn on any day or train until the 21st. Tickets of admission to tbe Tabernacle will be fur nished. IICKETM FuK MACE B¥ X>. IT. Young, 260 MIDDLE STREET. “BARGAINS.” Children’s Felt Hafs 50 cts Boys’ Felt Hats 65 Men’s Felt Hats 75 Hoys’ School Caps 50 Umbrellas 81*00 at MAHER’S, OPP. POST OFFICE. mhlO dtf HORSE NOTICE. THEKE can be four more horses accomodated at tbe New Boarding Stable bn Clark street, be tween Danfourth aud Spring St’s. This is tbe most pleasant Stable in the city, each horse having a good window to get good air and light. Also the best of care at prices to suit tie times. Rear ent rance on Brackett St. head ot Gray St Please call. ap4tf JOHN III AN. “apples 1 Just Rooeivod. ;S. KICH Farming Lands in Harrison and llaucock counties, Iowa, (near Railroads), for sale or exchange for property in Portland or vicinity. W. Ifi. STEPHENSON. aPH eoo2m Vaults Cleaned and Aslies Re moved. ALL ORDERS promptly attended to by calling at or addressing R. G1KSON, Jftuldti 5S8 Congress Street MISCELLANEOUS. Knock ’Em Down DEATH BLOW TO HIGH PRICES I C. II. Staples Co’s. Price List, Meu’i Thick Blocts, (good ).$3 5C Kip hand made,. 3 Od t'alf peg 3 *3 w Calf p**g 3 73 Calf peg box toe. 3 33 sewed 4.0U Thick Shoes, tap outside, (heavy,). 1.50 Buff Cong, peg Bfoot. 1.5(1 box toe,.... J.73 Calf 3.011 box toe 3.5€ Seal Sew. 3 73 BalT Alexis. Orecian toe. 3 011 Strap Tics 3.33 Toilet Sl»ps.75 cts to B.OC Ora. Lea. band bound Slips.*3 Boys’K«p Boots.... 3 33 Calf 3.33 Buff Cong.1.35 to 1.50 fine Cl Orecian toe and very st« lish....... 3 33 BuffStrnpTies. 1.50 Alexis. 1.50 Seal Sch. Ties. 1.50 Fine Oil Of hand Sew, Slips.. .63 Thick Shoes. 1 06 Youths’ ya Buff Cong... 1*3 Kip Boots. 1.75 Ladies House Slips. ,30 Kid Croq Slips.85 Bntion Walk Shoes, hand made. 1.35 Kid Button Walk Shoes much. made 1.50 French Kid Back, Walk, shoes 3.35 Serge Lace Boots. 1.00 1.35 Fine Serge Button... 150 Kid Foxed Lace Boots. B.35 Ooat Button 1.50 Kid Button 1.75 Serge Cong., tap sole.....- 1.00 F.ne French Kid Button Boots. 3 00 Serge gored Busk heeled. 65 Boat OO Pegged lace 85 blisses’Oil Or Button Boots. 1.56 fine Serge 1 ,*I5 Kid Foxed Polish. 1 10 t'roq. Slips.75 (i n;i _„.i Children’s peg Cop. Tipped Bnls.73 hM. peg Lea .S3 Ankle Tie* .‘43,10 .43 Biamark Button Boots.... ,S5 American Kid Button.73 Trench t.00 Glove heeled l.OU Any person making a purchase amounting to Ten Dollars will be given a pair of shoes, they having the privilege to select from a lot. Remember the place to secure these Uargmus. C. H. Staples Co., CASH JOBBERS RETAILERS OF Boots Shoes, 56 Union St., nearMiddle. ap2 dim •A.RTIST PHOTOGRAP HER, 444 middle St. FINE PHOTOGRAPHY A SPECIALTY Mr. L. takes pleasure in stating that he is now fully prepared to execute the last new style ot Pho to portrait, j THE PERMANENT Carbon Photographs Having purchased the Sole Bight for this City for this beautiful style of Photograph, and fitted up at great expense, he invites all his old patrons and the public generally to call and examine specimens. mb29 dtf six; FINE SHIRTS Made to Order lor S9.00! These shirts are first class in every respect as to quality and workmanship, and are made to order in over 50 different styles of bosoms embracing all the novelties of the season. Low Neck Dress AND PARTY SHIRTS A SPECIALTY. Hill Phinney, 241 MIDDLE ST. Collars and Cuff's sent to Troy ev ery Monday, return tlic following; Saturday. raa" deod6m CORAH’S EUREKA SOAP, One of the Greatest Labor Saving Articles of the Age, Requires no wash board, no washing machine, no rubbing except heavy stains, and makes the clothes beautifully white and clean. It is an invaluable article for removing grease, paints and stains of all kinds, both from clothes and wood worn It is an invaluable article lor the toilet, and should always be used for the cure ot chapped hands, &c. Shaw Haskell, Agents, 149 COMMERCIAL ST., PORTLAND, MAINE, To whom all orders may be addressed and shall have prompt attention. J. A. €OBAM CO., Proprietors and Manufacturers, |angoe. m:e. TOM B' PATCHEN, By TOM PATCHEN, he bj liEWBKE M. PATCIIEN, the Champion of the Turf, will make the season ol 1877, Monday, and Tuesday at Munition Borne Stable,Breen St.. Portland,Wednesday, and Thursday, at J.|C. Benson’. Stable, Bray, Me, This horse has the fastest five year-old record In New England 2.32, and trotted five races last fall beating the best, horses in the state, such as Phil Sheridan, King William, Somerset Knox, and a field ot others without being lopped out in a single heat and is peifectly sound. Season to end July 10, 1877! Term, 8*5 tor the Season; 850 to ensure a Pool. All mares and colts held for service of horse All mares at risk of owners. All mares disposed off with foS U8Ual tlmC °f ,0!llmg’ wiu be considered MATTHEW BENSON, **2Proprietor.^ Ml ML Ppri,,» ®tyle $3.30. HATS.! Maher’s, lopp. POST OFFICE. mlill nta,ly executed nl this Office. MISCELLANEOUS ALLEN CO. We have just received our SPRING STOCK OF Fine ft nolens, in all the NEW AND LATEST STALES. Custom Tailoring We are prepared to cut and make as fine work as is done by any con< ceru East ot Boston or West oi New L’ork, or in either ot those Tillages. All work Warranted. Custom Ready Made We have a fine line ol FINE CASSIMERE AND WORSTED COATS 11 VESTS _ Alon _ STJITS AND Spring Overcoats liadeiuour sliop during the last month, that the public are invited to look at before purchasing else where. Also a fall line of in SUITS at prices to suit the times, CHEAP! CHEAPER!! CHEAPEST Furnishing Goods A comple stock just received, ALLEN €0., 187 Middle St.., Opposite Canal Bank. eod3w tiiesley, TAILOR, 41/?« -fl 41 Middle Street, lias just received a new and full line of MI01BLG CALL AND SEE THEM. apleodtf BARGAINS “Last but not Least.” Cloths for Boys’ wear.V5 cents All Wool <lo.30,60,73 and VO White nil Wool Flannel .VS Felt Nkirts 40 cents, Npring Skirls.65 Fell Twilled Crash. g All Linen Crash. g Napkins, all Linen. $1 OO doz All Lineu Towels. V0c pair v5c 3ac 6, 30c Double Dniunsk Towels... ,7«c to $1 Elegaut Doable Duinnsk Knotted Fringe .SO e3c eoch Brown Alpacas.VO eruts Nary Blue Alpacas.VO Black Cashmere 50, 65, 73 nmi 90 V-Bulion Kid Gloves, every pair warranted..$1.00 Cotton Knickerbocker Dress Goods lO to IV 1-9 cents Patronage of country people cordially invited. “FAIR DEALING” our Motto. 549 CONGRESS STREET, Between I'nco and Oak Streets. JaPl5_ eodtf POLISH THE FAMILY SILVER BY USKSG SILVER WHITE. The best article ever discovered for removing tarnish or discoloiation from silver plate, and res toring it to its original bright and new appear l»nice. It contains nothing injurious to tho most delicate article of plate, and is pronounced by all i o have used it ‘A Household Blessing.” Used by the principal jewelers and silversmiths. Sold by Jewelers and Druggists, and by DENNISON CO., 19 Milk St., Boston. j»n29 dBm lBtp Artistic Photography by 478 Congress Street, opp. Preble. Just beidg introduced Boudoir aud Imperial Porlraiin, uew and beautiful sizes, designed es* peciaily to Aniaiic Composition* and Classic ISroMDiiign. Lite size Portraits finished in a man ner unsurpassed in this country in Crayon. Ink or Colors. Copying in all its branches a decided special ty. it matters Tittle how small or indistinct the orig inal may be so long as the likeness is good. Competition challenged m all which pertains to first class Photography See samples on exnibition. mb26eodlm mill* PAPER I* PRINTED WITH I TdE GERHA* PRINTING INK. Imported and sold by SIQMUND ULLMAN. 37 Malden Lane, New York fe21dtf THE PRESS. FRIDAY HORSING, APRIL 13, 1877. We do not read anonymous letters and communi cations The name and address of the writer are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication but^s a guaranty of good faith. We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu nications that are not used. Evekt regular attache of the Pbess is furnished with a Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T. Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding credentials of every person claiming to represent our journal._ BY THE GOVERNOR. By the aavice of the Executive Council I do here by appoint Tknraday, Ike 36tk of April, as a day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, and I reccommeud to the people of the State, the observance of it in a manner befitting the designa tion it bears, and in the spirit with which the custom that ordains it was Instituted. The season when nature begins her new year, and gives visible promise re-clothing the earth with the beautjwf her verdure, and preparing the fruits and harvest of her constant bounty, is most suggestive of the renewal of hope, aspiration, and endavor in the minds and hearts of men. Let us obey the impulse of the opening year, and, bowing iB humility before Him who rules alike the forces of Nature, and our human ways, form and confirm every good purpose for the conduct of our lives, and crave God’s blessing upon us, our State and Country. Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, thi9 tenth day of April, in the year ot our Lord one the independence of the United States of America the one hundiedth and first. _ .SELDEN COiraOB. By the Governor. S. J. Chadbocbne, Secretary of State. A proposal has been put forward in France that all the members of the Legion of Honor, and not only military men, should re ceive a pension, or that no money should go with the ribbon, no matter who the recipient. The Legion of Honor was instituted on the 14th of May, 1802, when Napoleon was at the camp of Boulogne preparing for that famous descent on England, in honor of which med als had already been struck. Great pomp and ceremony were displayed upon tke occa sion, and the sword of Francis I, and the hel met of Henry IV. figured in the performance, x which was slightly marred by a high wind, which blew off the wig of one of the chief actors at a critical moment, and by Nelson giving chase to and capturing a French frig ate close to Ambleteuse. In Fiance Repub licans have taken kindly to the red ribbon, and never were decorations so profusely be stowed as after the late war with Germany. At first, in 1802, the Republicans disliked the institution, called it monarchical, and said i* was contrary to the principle of equality, which was the basis of the republic and the essence of revolution. To-day there aie 59, 273 members, although the population of France has not augmented since 1802, when the French territory included the left bank of the Rhine. It is stated and generally accepted by the literary and political circles of Paris that the Ottoman constitution, proclaimed with so much solemnity and pomp before the inhabi tants of Constantinople on Christmas eve, was prepared by M. Emile Ollivier, who was almost the very last Prime Minister of Napo leon III., and held that office from January 3 to August 9,1870, when he was succeeded by General Count de Palikao. whose tenure of office was brief indeed, the French Empire closing on the 4th of September. Though his official reign was brief he contrived to make a book out of it, entitled, “A Minister of War for Twenty-four days—August 10 to September 4, 1870,” which had a very large sale at the time, and must be consulted tor positive facts bv all future historians of the Second empire. It is said that Midhat Pasha the late Grand Vizier, who, while residing in Paris formed friendly relations with Napole on’s ex-Premier, employed him to draw up the constitution, which was done very much *n the spirit of that which he had prepared for France after the final plebiscite of De cember, 1809, which plausibly promised so much that many persons believed that a new era of constitutional liberty and rule had then and thus commenced. The mania for Polar exploration seems to be on the increase, Notwithstanding Capt. Nares’ recent declaration of the impossibility of reaching the Pole, he has already been ap pointed to command an expedition via the east coast of Greenland. The Dutch are about to try another expedition beyond Nor way, Spitzbergen, and Behring’s Strait. Sweden has planned an expedition by the same route in 1878. A German expedition is to start by way of the Siberian river Obi, and Kussia also has an expedition under way. And after all these expeditions have departed and failed, like their numerous predecessors, and every expedition has left more or less ol its members among the eternal icebergs, there will probably be others to pursue the fruitless errand. The Kingdom of Cathay* the philosopher’s stone, the fountain of youth, all find their counterpart in the North Pole. On the walls of certain quarters of Paris may be seen just now a large placard with a map in the centre, advertising for sale by auction the historical domain of Malmaison. The whole estate may be purchased at one bid, or that failing, which is most probable, the ground will be sold for building purposes. O 4_ _-r t _ it.. _ f ■juuujjv uogviuji jlv ii uj tun v Napoleon I. and the Empress Josephine who embellished the grounds and built the pavil ion in which her husband is said to have planned his later campaigns. Napoleon III. bought the property of Queen Christina. Neglected and deserted since it was the scene of partial engagements during the seige of 1370, it is now likely to be occupied by cockney villas lor Parisians, who are fond of possessing a summer retreat near the capital. Surgeon Elliott Coues, of the United States Army, who has probably contributed as much as any living man to the knowledge of American ornithology, is now making an attempt to obtain the co-operation of the whole army in the study of the natural his tory of the West. The response to his effort will indicate pretty accurately the intelligent zeal of the army in the cause of science, and the army has already done so much that it is safe to count on the most valuable results from a united effort. Peace hath its monu ments not less than war, and the surveys and exploring expeditions under the command of the United States officers, enriched with all the rewards of scientific research, are monu ments that will endure; forever, and gain in value with the lapse of time. The decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of the Centennial surplus is regarded as a hard blow at the Philadelphia perma nent exhibition, the stock of which is chiefly made up of Ceutenniar stock. 'The Spring field Republican suggests that a a part at least of the recovered m oney be appropriated for the American display at the Paris exhibi tion, Although the Democrats of South Caro lina are glad to be rid of Chamberlain, it Is curious that not one of them can be found to say aught concerning him, personally, but In the most respectful terms. His associates in the State Government are loaded with oppor brium, and vilified in profuse and choice Billingsgate; but all agree that Chamberlain Is a gentleman and an honest man. Suspi cion did attach to him at one time in regard to the Scott bond affair, but he cleared his skirts of it, and goes forth from the state with an unblemished reputation, the best evidence of which is his poverty. The total population of the British em pire, according to the last census, is 234,750, 000, or nearly double that of the Roman em pire in its palmiest days, while its territory, 7,750,000 square miles, is almost five times as great. A sixth of the queen’s subjects are Christians, a little more than a tenth Mo hammedans, over two-fifths Hindoos, and a fourth heathens of various sects.. The titled property holders of Great Britain number 168,000. _ Travellers to the Black Hills are no sooner relieved of apprehensions regarding depredations by the hostile Sioux than they are in danger of being relieved of their port able cash by “road agents.” The Indians are quiet enough just now, but their absence from the line of the crowded stage-coaches has only made room for bands of white des peradoes bent upon robbery and disagreeably indifferent whether they include murder or not. In view of the mad dog excitement a cor* resnondent sends an account of Mrs. Jane Swissbelm’s “Cbester-Valley cure” for hy drophobia. The cure is fresh milk and ele campane given to the patient fasting. Who ever thinks he is mad had better try the rem edy. But the scare about mad dogs is in all probability a scare about nothing. However, a pint or fresh milk will do none of us any harm, and dosing_ourselves with elecampane until the fight is over kills time as effectually as indulgence in other popular remedies. Current Comment. Chamberlain was consistent to the last,and when Gov. Hampton asked at what time he would like to turn over the records,signed his reply as “Governor of South Carolina.” If we were going to state the Republican opinion in Iowa, as we have heard and seen it expressed, one-half the members of the party in this state are dissatisfied with the course of the adminis tration, two thirds of the rest are patiently waiting to see it tried, with grave doubts in regard to it, and the remainder more or less heartily approve of.—Iowa State Register. Warmouth in the staturesque attitude of a disinterested pacificator is a very subtile and attractive work of art. The great mule buyer is disconsolate. Sen tor Barnum of Connecticut recently declared to a friend that “Tilden’s defeat was the most bitter disappointment of his whole life.” The Chicago Journal (Rep.) professes to know positively that Judge (Senator) David Davis is in perfect accord with President Hayes. Clerk Adams has two sets of Congressional certificates from Louisiana, Gov. Kellogg’s giving the Republicans four members of the House and the Democrats two; and Gen. Nicholls’s, which just reverses the political standing of the delegation. Mr. Morrison of Illinois is not without hope in regard to the speakership. Several members of the Missouri delegation propose to support him, but it is not at ail likely that he can make any headway against Mr. Ran dall in regard to the Democratic caucus nom ination. Ben Hill is talking wonderfully plain lan guage to his constituents in Georgia. He tells them that Georgia has kept herself poor by keeping the negro ignorant; and that if she would prosper she must make industry honorable and intelligent. “Our duty,” he says, “is plain, and our interest is equally plain-we must do all in our power to edu cate, elevate, protect and advance the negro.” That’e the true doctrine. Mr. Watterson once more flings out the banner of independent journalism. In an open letter in the Louisville Courier Journal be says: “I am once more an independent journalist, answerable directly to the people for what I say and do, the more responsible, and, tor the matter of that, the more humble minded, because I believe I possess their con uucucc as tvcii as tucu jjwa win. The triumph of Wade Hampton is one o* torce, not of right; the same influences which 'have triumphed in Mississippi hare given over South Carolina to the rule of a minority of its citizens. If itbat minority i3 to use its power wisely and justly, it must cut loose from the influences which have gained it supremacy, and from the leadet* who have used the weopons of force and fraud to stifle the voice of the state. The time will come when the heroic struggle of Daniel HI Chamberlain against the dishonest elements of his own party and the lawless tactics of his political opponents will be rec ognized more clearly than it is to-day, as one of the brightest pages of the checkered his tory ot Southern reconstruction.—JVew York Times. For twenty-five cents a traveller is invited to insure his life against accident for twenty four hours, in the sum of three thousand dollars. This shows that the chance of death on the rail is as 25 300,000, or as 1 :12,000 —or even less than this; for the premium charged is high enough to pay handsome profits to the accident company. In like manner a man twenty-five years old can in sure his life for one year for twenty dollars against one thousand. By this it appears that a man’s liablility to die is for each day as 1 :182,500. Thus the “uncertainty of life,” when mathematically treated, is to every in telligent business man almost nil. For this reason I ask, is it ever wise for a preacher to use it as the basis of an appeal to immediate repentance Sinner, you. may die to.niyht! But an insurance man sits next him who would be glad to bet 200,000 to 1, that he don’t die to-night,—T. K. Beecher in the Christian Union. In Mr. Chamberlain’s retirement from of fice the people of South Carolina, eveu the Democratic portion of hem, lose a great deal more than they gain. In character, intellect, culture, and faculty for executive work lie is vastly superior to Wade Hampton, his pres ent competitor. Many of the South Caro lina Democrats must be capable of feeling that, iu the last election, they treated him unjustly; and, if he shall decide to remain in the state this feeling will work in,his favor, unless the human nature of South Carolina Democrats is very different from other human nature. His selt-sacrilicing endeavor to give that state an honest and pure government, deserved different treatment, as many of them admitted previous to the election. It is no discredit to him that they have made it impossible tor him to continue his work through a second term of office. He retires without a stain upon his record; but he is one of those men whom the public service cannot afford to lose. He is qualified to fill any position with honor; therefore, he is nowise likely to pass out of sight. The future will have public work for him and call upon him to do it.—Worcester Spy. On the day after the inauguration of Presi dent Hayes the wife of a gentleman well known in public life, and herself a somewhat prominent person in New York society, ap peared in lull mourning, and her daughters promenaded the streets with black crape bands attached to their Pomeranian dogs. It is hardly necessary to say that the family which distinguished itself in this eccentric way had been devoted to the fortunes of Mr. Tiiden during the campaign. They were not Democrats, however, and it canuot be denied that the feeling to which they gave such re markable expression was shared by a great many Independents on the olli of March. But ten days have sufficed to make a great change in public opinion. There are no more dogs iu mourning.—Nero York Letter to the London News. Speaking of Grant calls to mind a little joke that he got off on Friday. He was lounging in an easy chair at Sheridan’s bead quarters, when a prominent Chicago Demo crat called to see him for old acquaintance sake. “I am delighted to see you; glad to welcome you back to private life, General,” said the Cbicagonian, as he squeezed and shook the ex President’s hand. “All the Democrats have been wanting to welcome me back to private life for about four years past, said Grant, gravely.— Chicago Times. An applicant for the San Antonia post office is absolutely certain that Hayes will give it to him. As there are about 20 in pursuit of the office we had the curiosity to know what made him so positive. “Are you the widow of a deceased army officer with a family to support?” we asked. He replied that he had never tried to be anybody’s wid ow- “Did you stump for Hayes or were you onjthe returning hoard, or did you save the Union in the same regiment with Haves, or did you go to school with Wheeler, or how is it anyhow that you know Hayes will appoint you? “Well, you see, Pve made personal sacrifices for Hayes.” How so?’’ “It’ con fidential, remember.” “Certainly, honor “Well, I lost five gallons of whisky and foO worth of cigars betting on Tllden. I have sent in the receipted bills with my ap plication.”—SanAntoniojTex)E:erald. Men and |Women. Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague has began to go in to Washington society for the first time since her father’s death. At a recent reception she wore dark velvet and her hat .had a scarf of pale yellow. Tecnmseh Sherman, the'^lientenant general’s youngest child, Is a little fellow only ten years of age, ehy and quiet to a degree, but whose ev ery taste turns toward a military career; when he takes a pencil in his hand it is only to draw forts and soldiers, guns and caDnons, battle fields and camps; his toys are drams, swords, guns and soldiers, small cannon, and bis favor ite reading is the Army Register, for which be will drop his most oberished story books. Young as he is be knows the name and station of every regiment—infantry, cavalry and aitil l®ry in the army; .lie knows the rank, actual and by brevet, the name aod station of every officer, down to the yonngest lieutenant. WeBt Point is the object of his hopes, and be is thought to be seriously exercised lest his cousin, George Miles, should so effectually quell the northwestern troubles as to leave him no chaacs to strike a blow. mau ui me momeoi in Europe, General Ignatieff, an English journal gives this lively account: “It is necessary to have seen and heard this wonderful diplomatist to understand with what marvellous facility be dilates on the most varied themes. Let ten visitors see him and to each of them he would describe a new policy, maintaining only some general points, which; are for him like fixed fiagstaffs, to which he attaches the capricioas streamers of his varied narratives. Were the ten unfortunate interviewers on leaving him to compare notes, they would be positively amazed at this inexhaustible versatility, which inten tionally obscures questions in proportion as it professes to clear them up, and when it likes confuses the simplest things with the air of ex plaining or {commenting on them. All this, too, is done in the most naturally unpreten tious fashion, without any apparent subtlety, the speaker looking you straight in the face, and with an animation and fluency seeming to exclude all possibility of plan. The wife of the Chinese ambassador at 8t James’went calling on the wife of a British magnate the other day, and the butler and foot men of the latter lady’s establishment bad to be locked op, as it is.not permitted.that a Chin ese lady of position should be seen unveiled by man. Maids answered the door and brought In tea, and it is rumored that even “Mr. Pug’’ was sent out of the drawing-room. The am bassador has tbree.[wives, of whom this is the third and favorite. The late Dr. Muhlenberg was in his youth engaged to marry Miss Coleman, a sister of the lady to whom James Buchanan was betrothed. The young woman died before the time set for the marriage, and it was his grief for this loss that found expression in his famous verses, “I would not live aJway.” He never married. A Washington letter says Secretary Soburs’s daughter is; a lovely girl of about medium height, with fair complexion, large, bright, brown eyes, brown hair, a decided mouth, a softly rounded i chin, which has a piquant movement as she talks, and which is cleit by a dimple; she has her mother’s attractive man ner and is very clever. Mr. William Black, the novelist, has fur nished an autobiographical sketch to one of the London weeklies. He was born on the 13th or 15th of November—he is not sure whioh —1841. He had a desultory education. His earliest ambition was to translate Livv. make a collection of British plants and con struct a machine whioh should demonstrstd perpetual motiou at the same time. Next he desired to be a landscape painter and studied art for two jests; the resale was a complete failure, but he was qualified for becoming in after-life, as he did, au art critic. His 'itsrarj career began with literary criticism written for a Glasgow journal; then be wrote sketches of rambles in the country; later be was a musical and dramatic critic. Oa one occasion—he is ashamed to confess—he wrote a leading article on the Americin Civil war, of which he knew nothing. In 1864 he acted as special corre spondent of the London Star during the Prus eo-Austrian war. He did not leave journalism finally until 1875, so that his may be consid' ered another instance of literary success arising from a journalistic education. When Gen. Ricketts was a wounded prisoner in Riclimood his wife went to stay with him, nnrsing him and other wounded northern pris oners. For three months she was the sunshine of that horrible dace, and her patients have never forgotten her. Two years afterward sbe got into a car at the corner of Broadway and Fifth avenne with her mother. It was full,and sbe stood a moment without a seat. Suddenly a great six-footer sprang up at the far end of the car, and sang out: “Gentlemen, stand up, ever; one of you and tike off your hats, for this is Mrs. Geu. Ricketts, who nursed four teen of us iu Libby prison for three months God bless her.’’ And they did stand np, and led by her former patient, cheered until the street rang,she iu the meantime half provoked half-amused and wholly embarassed. Henry Watterson is tall and light-haired, wears a fierce moustache and a dignified goatee. One of his eyes is entirely sightless, anl the other so nearly so that he is obliged to get his bead down to within three inches of the table when wiitiDg, and has to hold the paper or book almost against his face when reading. On ftprnnnt nf this in Mr mi tv h« tlnps th« arrant. er part of his writing by an amanuensis. He is rapid in all his movements, talks with volu bility and a quick utterance, though always clear in his enunciation. He always seems to be in a hurry, and acts as though he had some thing else to do at once—as, indeed he always has, and be does it. Socially he Is genial, and as a conversationalist remarkably interesting.— San Francisco Mail. Vanity Fair. —The monogram of the bride and bride groom on the icing *of each piece of wedding cake is a new idea. —English bridesmaids wear white dresses piped with cardinal red, and red and white feathers iu their hats. —The fashion of wearing black at a wed ding is permitted in. France, but is con sideieifbad taste in England. —Jnponnage is the name given to the plaited muslin flounces basted under the trains of dresses to sustain them',in place. —Sir Henry Thompson, the|London surgeon, thinks he has hit upon the golden number of guests for a perfect dinner party. It is eight; this dinner of eight, which he calls an ‘‘oc tave,*’he gives every Thursday when he is in town. He devotes profound study to the com position not only of the dinner but of the com pany wbo are to eat it. _“Back scratchers”—instruments with long eboDy handles, at the end of which are ivory hands with curved flogers, are ingenious in ventions for those wbo have not the Duke of Argyll’s facilities. They are sold in|Broadway fancy stores. —The newest novelty in gloves is the outgrowth of a model which has.been recently patented, and for evening wear bids fair to supersede all others. It is made witbout.the slit in the palm of the hand, and is buttoned,onlthe outer side, from the seam which usually occurs there. It is an improvement on the old style, inasmuch as the glove is relieved of the gap, which great ly disfigures the lit of the glove, particularly on a plump hand.

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—The fashionable nomeucl»turo|is becoming very fantastic. For instance, the new gauze puffs heldjdown by a Btitch or a bead are called Soupira Etouffes (amotheredKsighs); the new bows in quillings, Attentions Marquees (marked attentions!; the butterfly in the centre of a shoe rosette, Venez y voi (come and look); the new Dora gauze mob-cap, Cue Conquete Assuree (certain death to lovers), and the diamonds mounted as a [fastening to' a breast frill, Dcs Coups Perfides (unreliablejclasps. —The fashions for this summer will give l young men an opportunity of taking an un- i fair advantage of their washerwomen by at- j lowing them to wear black stockings with low ■hoes. In order to adapt the parasols to flirting this spring, bambooz’ll be used for the frames. Magazine Notices. The United States Official Postal Guide for April is the first number issued under the new administration, and contaius the names of the new officials and some important acts with reference' to postal matters passed by the last Congress. It appears that in the early hours of the 4th of March a clause was inserted in one of the bills which partially restores the frank ing privilege, and the Postmaster General has accordingly issued a special circular respecting it. This number, which has four hundred pages, also contains two full alphabetical lists of all the post offices in the United States (ene of them arranged alphabetically by states for special convenience), a list of money-order offices full directions about money orders and registered letters, rates of domestic and ioreign postage, hours of arrival and closing of mails in the principal cities, days of sailing of foreign mail steamers, and salaries of postmasters in the first, second and third class post offices. Not the least valuable and important contents of the Guide, each quarter, are the KuliDgs of the Post Office Department on doubtful o r dis puted points which it regularly gives. There are over eighty of these in the present number, relating to such matters as cut and mutilated postage-stamps, the discretion of the postmas ter in the delivery of letters, partial and insuffi cient prepayment of postage, postage on “ex changes,” chromos, catalogues, photographic viewe, etc., etc. The Guide is published quar terly by H. O. Houghton Co., Poston. The first number of the Literary World unde1 its new management is decidedly promising and gives ample evidence that this excellent periodical will not at least deteriorate. Indeed the tone is decidedly improved over that of the last few numbers. The only criticism to be passed is that the book-reviews show a tenden cy to be a trifle too “genial,” a tendency whicb) if not checked, may come to impair their worth. Editorially the number leads off with a sympathetic tribute to the late editor, Mr. Crocker, and a promise that no important changes of plan and form shall be made in the paper. The books reviewed at length are Mrs. Oliphant’s Makers of Florence; Harriet Mar tinean’s Autobiography; Lady Baker’s Life in South Africa; Stillman’s Seeking the Golden Fleece; the last Erckmann-Chatrian novel, Friend Fritz; Russian Folk-Tales; Landor’s Imaginary Conversations; Burnaby's Ride to Khiva; and the Porter and Coates Manuals of Household Art. The departments of Notes and Queries, Literary Notes and Minor Book Notices are as full and entertaining as usual, and the list of publications for the month is of special value to the librarian and book-buyer. E. H. Haines Co,, publishers, Boston. The numbers of Littell's Living Age for the weeks ending April 7th and 14th—the first numbers of the new volume—have the follow ing valuable contents: Turkish Invasions of Europe in 1670-83, by E. P. Vernty, Contempo rary Review; West Indian Memories: The Les ser Antilles and the “Boiling Lake” by W. Gifford Palgrave, Macmillan; Turkish Story Books, by R. S. Ralston, Nineteenth Century; Prussia in the Nineteenth Century, by John Stuart Blackie, Contemporary; Falkland, by Matthew Arnold, Nineteenth Century; Field ing’s Novels, Cornhill; Cattle-herding in the Great West, Spectator;uThe Origin of Rank, Saturday Review; The Hypocrisies of Nature, Spectator; together with installments of The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald, and Carita by Mrs, Oiiphant; Nils Jensen, a short story and Letawitza a Gal ician Tale, Translated for the Liv ing Age from the Recue des Deux Mondes; poe try and miscellany. The latest number of Puck, the New York comic paper formerly published in German but now done into English, has some good cartoons, one on the Walkure, one on Anna Dickinson, and one, noticeably good, represent ing Oakey Hall fleeing to Europe pursued by the furies personated for this occasion only by O’Connor, Tweed and Sweeny. Peter Sweeny makes a very funny fury. Party Prospects in Louisiana. Altogether the strongest beliver in the new party I have met since coming to Hew Orleans is Penn, who was voted for as lieutenant gov ernor on the McEnery ticket in 1872, The readers o£ the Tribune must remember Penn. He had a hand in the September (1874; scrim mage—in fact, was the leader of it. He is a man slightly above middle height, very broad across the shoulders, swarthy in complexion, wearing a heavy mustache, swinging a light cane, and maintaining a military air that is impressive to the unaccustomed observer. In conversation, he is fluent and iorcible. “If Hayes recognizes Nicholls,” said Penn, “an administration party will be formed in this state instantly. I am an old whig myself. I owe nothing to the Democratic party. I shall support the administration to the best of my ability, if it does justice to the South.” “But how about the immediate results, gov ernor?” said I. “Do you not think that the first effect of recognizing Nicholls will be to solidify the Democratic party in this state? Will not Louisiana become, for a time, like Alabama and Georgia?” “Not at all,” he answered, “and Alabama and Georgia will not remain where they have been. There will be an administration party in each of those states as soon as it appears that Mr. Hayes is ready to do the South justice. Half of our people have no attachment for the Democratic party. When the Northern Dem ocratic party egged us into war they did not join us. we hoped to see them in the same position with us a few months ago, when the electoral voce was being counted. If they had made a fight then they would have called upon us to join them, but we would not have gone.” “Not a peg,” said an interested confederate, standing by. “We would have taken our case and watched the proceedings with comparative indifference,” continued Mr. Penn. “The bounty jumpers and escaped conscripts would have come down to join us, and, while war was waging in your territory, we would have endeavored to put in practice your old princi ples, and grow rich while we might” "You believe in the new party, Mr. Penn?” Y ia iub party x propose te join as soon as a decent pretext is afforded me. There will be a large Democratic party in this state always, but there will be also, I believe, a still larger liberal whig party. Louisiana is a liberal state. I was on the liberal ticket for governor myself, yon will remember. I shall always be a liberal. Dem ocracy, as sncb, Las no charm for me, and it would not to-day hold a solid party in support of its principles but for the fact that federal ifsurpatiou exists in this state. As soon as the bayonets are withdrawn, the cause of Dem ocratic unity _ will have been removed. We •hall be again free to entertain ordinary political opinions, and to act upon ordinary Solitical convictions, and the cousequences will e important. There are two elements com bined in the Democratic party of Louisiana, •which are no more homogeneous than oil and water.” News and Other Items. A Japanese commission is in California, baying horses for the improvement of the equine stock in JapaD, which rs very poor. At a balloon ascension in Nashville a few flays ago, an old negro who thought the balloon was going to heaven, cried out from the crowd, as it ascended, “Tell Emelina I’ll be dar after awhile; tell Sallie I’m coming!” The Jewett tragedy in New York has Btrangely excited Deacon Richard Smith of the Cincinnati Gazette, who contemplates the des peration of wicked partners with feelings of horror not unmixed with apprehension. A most persistent Boston mau ha3 been for live days searching along the Boston and Al bany road, from Palmer to East Brookfield, for the thief who stole his satchel and contents worth $50, getting out^niglit search warrants and waking up the constabulary and suspicious characters generally, but so far without suc cess. Minneapolis may be said to have been born in 1850, and is not ^thirty years old. The population is abent 40,000. It has the whole Mississippi for its industry, the river within the city limits having a fall of over eighty feet. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll appeared for the lirst time on the lecture platform in Chicago on Monday night with his address on “Ghost?,” an effort which he himself regards as one of the ablest of his life. In it he develops his philosophy of life, and takes a tilt at all the current follies and superstitious which frighten timid thinkers. The President of the Ohio Eat Men’s Asso ciation has just died. His name was John Templeton, and he is asserted to b3ve weighed BOS pounds. His wife, who survives him, weighs ffnly 90 pounds. BY TELEGRAPH. MAINE THE BOWDOIN PARRICIDE. Cox Convicted of Manslaughter. 13ath, April 12.—In the Cox murder case the orenooD was spent by J. W, Spaulding for de ence, and L. A. Emery, Attorney General for he State, in able arguments to the jury. The udge charged the jury this afternooD, when the ury retired, and in forty-five minutes returned k veruiot of manslaughter. Cox will probably )6 sentenced to-morrow. i i Urand Lodge of Hood Templars. Gardiner, April 12.—The Grand Lodge of Hood Templars of Maine closes its meetings this evening, after a harmonious session of two Jays. The reports show the order to be in a flourishing condition financially, and number ing over 10,000 members. The following officers were elected: Chief Templar—Ex-Gov. Sidney Perham. Councillor—Andrew J. Chase. Vice Templar—Mrs. F. P. Rich. Secretary—George E. Brackett. Treasurer—George C. Pay son. Thief Caught. Biddeford, April 12.—Deputy Marshal Ken nison captured Edward Long, a young Lewis ton burglar, at Kennebunk Depot this after noon. He stole $200 worth of jewelry in Lewiston. __ MARINE NEWS. Schooner Ashore. Fort Monroe, April 12.—The schooner Lucy A. Occutt of St. George, Me., from West Point, Va., for Crisfield, lost both anchors and went ashore near Yorktown. Steamer Sunk. Memphis, Tenn., April 12.—Steamer Fanny Moore, from Fort Smith to Hew Orleans with 1250 bales of cotton, struck a snag 50 miles be low Pine Bluff on the Arkansas river, yester day, and sunk in eight feet of water. Cargo will be partially saved. It is feared that the boat will be a total loss. She was valued at $20 000, and insured for three-fourths of her value. Various. Schooner Iona, from Rockland for Jackson ville, was wrecked April 4th. The crew have been brought to New York by steamer San Salvador. The Iona was owned in Brewer. A coal-laden schooner, John McSharon, has been wrecked on Point No Point. Capt. An drews, the mate Catrap and a negro were drowned. The vessel is a total loss. Brig John M. Burns of Boston, was lost on Colorado reef on the 23d ult. The captain and crew were saved and were to leave Havana on the 29th for New Orleans. NEW YORK, The Jewett Tragedy. New York, April 12.—The inquest in the Jewett tragedy was finished this afternoon, and the jury retunred the following verdict: We find that Geo, W. Jewett came to his death by the explosion of a hand granade at No. 182 Front street, on Thursday, April 5, 1877, brought to the office by Orville D. Jewett, and that said Orville D. Jewett came to his death by pistol shot wounds caused by firing off a pistol by said Orville D. Jewett, at 182 Front street, on Thursday, April 5, 1877. Bobbery as a Business. g£!9 Mr. and Mrs. Schneider, and seven other members of their family, were chloroformed Tuesday night at Hoboken, and their house cleaned out by robbers. Mrs. Schneider is* reported as dyiBg to-day. WASHINGTON. The President’s Southern Policy. Washington, April 12.—Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania has assured President Hayes that, in his opinion, the policy of the adminis tration is for the best interest of the Bepubli can party and of the country. Mr. Hayes replied that he believed his policy was right, and intended to carry it out. [A Conference with Senator Patterson. Senator Patterson of South Carolina, in an interview with the President yesterday, said he tbonght a mistake bad been made in tbe coarse adopted toward that state. Tbe President replied that it was experiment, bat from tbe representations received and pledges made to him by Governor Hampton, and from tbe subsequent developments there was reason to believe that it would be success ful. The Senator said be wonld as soon have Hampton as Chamberlain for Governor, pro vided his accession to that office should bring prosperity to the state, and if Hampton should treat all citizens alike |and provide means for fair elections, as be promised to do. The Venezuelan Complication. Tbe government for several days past has under consideration tbe course of tbe Venezue lan government in giving Minister Bussell his passport. That gentleman is now in Wash ington. He is still minister. There is no warrant whatever for tbe report that he will be appointed to another South.Americau mission. War Vessels Ordered to Constantinople. Rear-Admiral Worden, commanding the American squadron in European waters, has ordered all vessels of the squadron to assemble at Nice, whence to sail for Constantinople and other Eastern ports to look after American interests. The Vandalia and Marion are at Nice. The Trenton and Alliance sailed from Lisbon yes terday.fcThe Dispatch, now fitting at the Wash ington navy yard, will soon sail for Constanti nople. The Gettysburg, on special surveying duty in the Mediterranean, has been temporarily added to the fleet. The New Vork Custom House. The commission appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to inquire into the alleged irregularities in the New York custom house and the alleged perpetration of frauds in the importation of goods, will consist of one special treasury agent, one New York merchant and one or more gentlemen whose private character and business qualities fit them for the position. Civil Service Reform. Secretary Schnrz to-day| appointed members of the civil service board of inquiry for the Interior Department for the current quarter. All the members were taken from tbe depart ment. Some of Bristow’s Friends Reinstated. The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed Assistant Secretary French to make oat a list of twenty special custom agents, that number being designated in the organization of that branch of public service. From this it would seem that the Secretary has abandoned the idea of consolidating the agentsxand detectives. The number of agents originally was SO. M. H. Hale of Massachusetts, 0. C. Adams of Kentucky, and E. F. Jennings of Alabama, formerly special agents of the Treasury De partment, have been reinstated, the record of their services |being of a character to assure the Secretary that there was no just reason for their iemoval. Capt. Adams was formerly chief of bureau, but was .reduced to a lower position and subsequently removed by the in fluence of Supervising Agent Moore, because of his (Adams’ I friendship for Secretary Bris tow. Secretary Shermau considers that this was not a good reason and directed his restora tion. The employes of the Treasury Department are daily anticipating official action with tbe view to a great redaction of force. The Washington Monument. The board of engineers to investigate the matter, ennripmnincr the tnnnrint.inn nf ttiA Washington monument, report it as insufficient to warrant completion of the monument on the present site. The question of what is to be done with the unfinished structure will he sub mitted to Congress. Various. The Louisiana commissioners to-day sent the President a long despatch in cipher, the first of any coueequence from them. It is not decided whether he will make the contents knowD. LOUISIANA. Ifesterday’a Work of Ibe Commission. New Orleans, April 12.—To-day has been an uneventful day with the commission. Much discussion has taken place among themselves without any result that .they are willing to communicate to the press. The only delegation received was a delegation of sugar planters in the interest of the Nicholls government, headed by ex-Justice .Wylie of the Kellogg Supreme Couit. The commission declined to state whether they had received any supplemental instructions from the President They also declined to indicate any time for the close of their investigations. Messrs. Kay, Leonard and Lurch of the Packard committee {handed in tho commission ponderous list of officers who had qualified in the Packard Secretary of State’s office, accom panied by the certificate of Emile Honors, Packard’s Secretary of State, showing that of 1,033 officers commissioned by the Governor, li28 whose names are given in tho accompaning list have filed their oath of office according to law. Tho remaining 105 are Justices of the Peace and Constables, who have not made a practice of filing the oath of office with the Secretary of State. It is understood the commissioner’s sessioD, which lasted till 5 o'clock this morning, was considering the message to the President. Gen. Augur, who was present, reduced the message to a military cipher The tenor of the message is not positively known, but it is be lieved it notifies the President that they had concluded their investigation under the present instructions, and suggesting that they were ready to receive any further instructions he might wish to give. Lee’s Confession. New York, April 12.—The Herald prints a sworn affidavit of E. Gilman of Utah, which states that he went to act as a guard of Lee in jail, at the reqnestot Attorney Howard, for the sole purpose of inducing Lee to discharge his lawyers, make a confession, and put him self entirely in the hands of Howord, under the promise that Howard would procure his pardon and release. Lee accepted this proposi tion. His wife Kacbel wrote his confession which has been published. THE ST. LOUIS EIRE. _ i The Missing deduced 10 Twcnlr-Firt. St. Louis, April 12.—Sidmore Hayden and a Bridget Mead were not killed. This reduces he number known to be lost to eleven. Th ere r 8 no positive knowledge that J. F. Wilson, J Bridget White or Mr. Clark and his wife and jhild, are among the lost, but it is believed the t atter were killed. It is thought that twenty )T twenty-five bodies will be found in the ruins. Search will begin to-morrow, when the facts will be known. One fireman rescued 817,000 worth of jewelry 1 and restored itto the owner. It cannot be denied that the fire depaitment 1 here was and is very inefficient. The engines have been withdrawn from the ruins and preparations are teing made to search for bodies. It is apprehended that several of the women domestics are buried in the ruins, as a number have not reported to the proprie tors and no account has been received of them. It now seems quite probable that H. J. C. Clark and his wife and child were killed. Mrs. Scott, reported dead yesterday, is still* alive, with no hope of recovery. Kate Claxton lost everything she possessed, and is suffering from nervous prostration. Her escape from the building was made with great difficulty amt suffering from smoke and fright, Miss Frank McLellan is] in a very| critical condition. Sr. Louis, April 12.—2 p. m.—Sixty to 100 men have been put to work on the ruins by or der of the Mayor and the force will be in creased to 150 to 200. The search is now pro gressing just underneath the rotuda, which was a rallying poiDt for a great number of the terror stricken Inmates of the hotel, and it is expected some bodies will be found there. Sev eral of the interior walls, which were consid ered unsafe, have been pulled down and all will be levelled so the men can work all over the ruins without danger. Mr. Morrow, the agent of a New York jewelry house, lost a sample trunk containing 817,000 worth of jew elry. The remains of the trunk were un earthed and between 8400 and 8500 worth of the contents were recovered in a damaged con dition. The remainder of the jewelry was melted and valueless except as old metal. Some of the manuscripts and papers belonging to Kate Claxton were also saved. The body of a child, supposed to be a girl, disfigured beyond recognition,was found in the ruins this evening, just under the Walnut street entrance to the hotel. It lay on a small mattress and evidently fell from one of the up per stories. Of the 200 employes of the hotel 159 have reported and others are expected to report to-morrow. It is not believed that many of them are lost. FOREIGN. THE EASTEBN QUESTION. Spoiling (or War. London, April 12.—The Times’ special from Cettigne represents the probab'e iesumption of hostilities as viewed with general satisfaction. The English and Italian Coosu.s have obtained from the Porte a tuspens on of operations tt^aiusii iuiuuucs iui iui -ci&u* uuuio, iu cua ble them to negotiate. What may be Dane, The Times says the news from Turkey would be grave, if we believed Kussia eager to precin itate .war. Diplomacy bad not said its last word. New appeals may be made to the Porte, and new promises suggest 'd to Bussia. Not so Alarming ns it Seems. A Berlin despatch says the prospect is not really alarming, as both Bussia and Turkey are anxious for peace, while threatening war. The stock exchange is depressed but quiet. War Near at Hand. London, April 12.—A despatch from Berlin says a circular note from Prince Gortchakoff is expected, setting forth the necessity that Bussia is under of proceeding against Turkey. A Vienna telegram says Bussia intends to form this month a northern army in Poland, whither reserves from the military posts of St. Petersburg and Moscow will be directed. Or ders to this effect are expected next week. The Turkish Circular. St. Petersburg, April 12 —The Turkish circular was delivered to the Bussian govern ment this morning. The Agence Busse de scribes it as categorically refusing the demands of the Powers, and putting an end to all further discussions. Russians Advancing to the Roumanian Frontier. Bucharest, April 12.—Bussian troops are making a forward movement on the Boumanian frontier. The road from Jersey to Bucharest is in good condition. London, April 12.—A despatch to the Times from St. Petersburg says the Porte’s note had been received. War is manifest, though not for a week. A Beuter telegram from Constantinople states the Turkish Senate did not reverse the decision of the Deputies respecting Montene gro. At the last moment tbe Senate received an order not to discuss the question. The armistice expires at midnight if not prolonged. It is probable, however, that both sides will will remain on the defensive. Rumored Advance of the Russian!. New York, April 12.—A special cable des patch announces that BuBsian troops are marching to tbe frontier. GREAT BRITAIN, The Rndgct. ■London, April 12.—In tbe House of Com mons, this afternooD, Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented the Budget. He said there was an actual surplus last year of £443,000. The estimates for the curreut year were—expenditures, £78,794,000; revenue, £79,020,000. No additions to, or re miafiinn nf. taxation is nrnnnseii. THE DOMINION. The Seal Controversy Decided. Ottawa, April 12.—The government received a communication from the Secretrry of State for the Colonies, relative to the Nova Scotia great seal. The law officers of the CrowD, to whom the matter was submitted, decided that the Queen’s warrant was merely directory, and non-compliance does not render the old seal illegal or the documents on which it was used invalid. Rights at Insurance Companies. Montreal, April 12.—Judge Torrence to-day decided that the Dominion government, having exclusive jurisdiction over insurance companies, local parliaments are thereby debarred, in ac cordance with the same principle recognized in the United States, from seeking to regulate privileges granted solely by the Dominon Par liament to insurance companies. Severe Storm. Halifax, N. S., April 12.—A telegram from St. Pierre reports that there was a great storm there to-day. The French barque Hortenza and the brig Atlas stranded and became a total loss. Nova Scotia Legislature. The local Legislature was prorogued this afternoon. The Lieutenant Governor, in ad dressing the House, referred to a resolution which was adopted to ibvite a conference with the representatives of New Brunswick and Prince Edward’s Island on the subject of legis lative union of the maritime provinces, with a view to its ultimate consideration by the peeple of the several provinces. His Honor gave his sanction to several bills passed; referred to acts aidfog the completion of the railway system of the province, with a feeling of confidence that the prosperity of thecouu ry is largely involved in the development by railways of the means of communication between iis different sections Foreign Notes. A telegram from Cettigoe says the Prince of Montenegro will reject any proposal for a pro longation of the armistice. An anti-dynastic agitation has arisen in the district of Semedria, in Servia, and several arrests have been made. Mr. Walter, editor of the London Times, was attacked in Borne recently, by three men with stilettos, and robbed, bnt not injured. A whole band of Internationalists, who have ueeu upeiauuK iu a uisiuvi ui toeiiuv, iu i taiy, have been captured. The San Francisco Water Wnr The Chico Assassins. San Francisco, April 12. Despite the injunction issued from the 12tb District Court, the Mayor again to-day had connection made with Soring Valley Company’s mines, and ordered the police to prevent any one from turning off the water hereafter. The company threaten bis arrest, bat nevertheless have ex pressed its willingness to enter into an agreed case to be submitted ta the supreme Court at the present term. Judge Sawyer in the Circuit Court to-day rendered decision in favor of defendant of the case of the United Slates againstj ex-Treaserer Cheeseman. A secret circular has been issued by the Executive Council of the Order of Caucasians, calling upon tbs members individually to subscribe to a fund to secure counsel to look after and defend the interest of the order. The Centennial Surplus. Philadelphia, April 12.—The Centennial Board of Finance today resolved not to make application to the government for the restitu tion of the 11,500,000, but directed its officers to communicate with the treasury officials and make payments at the earliest period practi cable. AETkUBULOiaCAI,' INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY FOUR HOURS. War Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D.O., April 10, (1 A. M.) For New It unload. cooler and clearer fair weather with southerly to easterly winds and rising followed by fall- i ing barometer. lUINOK TELEGRAllS. The stock market in Montreal is steady. j Lawyer Peckham says there will be nothing interesting about Tweed for another week. Ex-Secretary Kobeson will spend the season j at Boar’s Head. i The Welland canal will be open for naviga- tion April 17. Frank Bobinson of Lawrence beat Harry A. Howard at Oreco-Boman wrestling yesterday. s Ben Wade has written a letter abusing the President. i Mrs. William Morrison, residing at Hol brook, L, I., died Monday of hydrophobia.

Tweuly-iivo businoas bousoa aud dwellings 8 ere burned at Pomeroy, Uhiu, last uight, 1 0S9 3100,000. Abiel F. Fitield, formerly water register of 1 ambridgo, Mass., who stole §20,000, has been [•rested in Brooklyn. 8 Kichard GustiD, colonel in a Pennsylvania ?giment during the war, was killed yesterday 1 y a runaway team. The loss by the bnruing of the Hamilton till at Patterson, N. J., will amount to $75,000. 'wo hundred were thrown ont of employment. The potters’ strike is over. Henderson’s Hotel at Bosemont, Ont., was urned Wednesday,night. Frank A. Hare, a lailiff. and a traveller named Hare were turned to death. 1 A doubt'ul minor comes from New Orleans hat the Washington commission have inti nated to Nicbolls that the election of Packard o the Ouited States Sonatc will settle all diffi :ulties FINANCIAL ASH COMMERCIAL. Portlfiud Wholesale Market. Thursday, April 12.—Tlie markets continue vc itrong to-day. Sugars are higher and granulated is luoted at 11 Jo aud extra O. at 103c. Flour is very lrui and in good demand at the advanced prices [uoted yesterday. Wheat advanced to-day in the West a few cents. Corn is quoted at 63 to 64c for car ots aud 66 to G7c for bag lots, Meal 63c, Oats 50 to >5c. Pork and lard are firm aud unchanged. Daily Domestic Receipts. l>y water conveyance—1000 bush corn meal to Q W True Co. New York (Stock and Money Market* New York, April 12—Evening.—Money loaned at per cent, uo to 7 per cent, on call, closing at 2 2* per cent. Sterling unchanged from yesterday at 186* 3 488*. Gold opened at 106, declined to 1051, rose to 1061 and closed at 106. The carrying rates were 1 3 per cent. The clearances were $41,000,000. The customs receipts to-day were $316,000. The Treas ury disbursements were $37,900 for interest and $528, 000 for bonds. Governments very strong with a fair business. State bonds dull and steady Events of the day on the Stock Exchange,although less exciting than yesterday, were important. The opening prices seemed to indicate a continuation of the general depression of yesterday. An auction sale of considerable amounts of Northwestern common and Rock Island and other securities was announc ed for noon, which tended to unsettle values. North Western and Rock Island took another surge down ward and a weak spot was developed in St Paul shares, all of which caused a ragged market, and there were not wanting evidence of tending toward a panic. This, however, was averted first by the an nouncement that the stocks advertised for sale were withdrawn, and second by heavy purchases of stocks generally by some of the leading bears who saw a crisis pending. The market closed firmer at close, The following were the closing quotations of Gov ernment securities: United States 6S.1881 rog...1123 United States 6s, 1881, coup.1131 United States 5-20’s 1865, old,...109* United States 5-20*8,1865, new.,109§ United States 5-20’s, 1867.112f United States 5-20*s, 1868 .,..,.114* United States new 5’s,...... Ill j united states iu-w'Bt reg.in* United States 10-40s, coup...112* Currency 6’s. 123f United States new 4}s. 107$ The following were the closing quotatio*8 of Stocks: Western Union Telegraph Co, ex.... 57$ Pacific Mail. 16 New York Central Hudson It B, ex.91$ Erie. 6} Erie prelerred. 15 Michigan^Central. 39} Panama.. 85 Union Pacific Stock,-.,.. 64 Lake Shore... 47} Illinois Central... 46| Pittsburg It. 85} Chicago Northwestern. 17l Chicago Northwestern prelerred. 42} New Jersey Central. 8} Rock Island... 90} St. Paul. 13 St. Paul preferred. 43} Fort Wayne. 97 Ohio Mississippi.«... 3| Delaware Lackawanna. 52} Atlantic Pacific Telegraph. 20 Missouri Pacific. 1} The following were the closing quotations of Pacific Railroad securities: Central Pacific bonds.,...107} Union Pacific.... 104 Land Grants. 100 Sinking Funds. 92$ Boston, Hartford Erie 1st,.... 11 Guaranteed. 11} Chicago Cattle Market, Chicago, April 12.—Cattle receipts GOB) head; shipments4000 head; the market is dull, tending downward hut prices nominally unchanged; feeders 4 00 4 50; fair to good steers at 4 85 5 374. j Hogs—receipts 13,000 head; shipments 570C head; the market is firm; light shipping at 5 15@530; packing at 5 25 5 50;good to choice heavy shipping at 5 30 5 50, closing firm. Sheep—receipts of 1300 head; the market is firm and unchanged. Providence Print Cloths Market. s'rovidesOE, It. I., April 12.—The Printing cloths market in better f&ling to-day and prices were firm er without quotable change. Domestic Markets. New Yobk. April 12—Evening.—Cotton market steady and unchanged; ordinary uplands and Alaba ma 9 1-16c; do New Orleans and Texas 9 13-16c; do stained at 9 5-16c: middling uplands and Alabama at 9 11-16c; do New Oileuus Texas ll}c; do stained 10}c; futuies quiet, closing firm at 7 to 9 points ad vance on early nu n nils to 4 on latejsales 1379 bales; delivered on contract 1900 bales. Flour—less doing and without decided change in prices and only limit ed demand lor export and home use, the market closing quiet; No 2 at 5 60 5 85; Superfine West ern and State at 6 50 (s 6 90; common to good extra Western and State at 6 85 7 10; good to choice do at 715 7 30; common to choice White Wheat Western extra at 7 35 @8 25; Fancy White Wheat Western extra 8 30 @10 00; common to good extra Ohio at 7 00 (a 9 00; common to choice extra St Louis at 7 00 10 00; Patent Minnesota extra good to prime at 9 10 25; choice to double extra at 10 30 1100; receipts 6292 bbls; sales 12,000 bbls; Southern flour is quiet and unehafiged; sales ot 12,00j bbls. 11UU1 iJ5 U1U1C1 ttUTiw w»u nieal firm and unchanged. Wheat is dull and slight in buyers favor with only a very limited demand for export and milling; old ungraded Spring in store at 1 45 for milling; straight No 2 Milwaukee in store for export at 1 60;No 2 Chicago nominal at 158; receipts 15,200 bush; sales 38,000 bush. Rye firmer at86@ 8 lor Western ;88 93c for Jersey and Pennsylvania; 96 9jc State. Barley dull and heavy; No 1 Canada nominal at 90 95c. Barley Malt is dull and un changed. Corn opened a shade easier, closing firm and in fair demand lor export and home use; ac tive inquiry for forward delivery at about yesterday’s prices; ungraded Western Mixed at 58 (eg bOc; Kansas Mixed 60c; New York No 3 at 58$c; 6teamer Mixed at 58$c; New York No 2 at 59c; Yellow and White Southern on dock58@60$c; receipss 96,556 bush; sales 143,000 bush; also 115,000 bush steamer Mixed for April at 58$ 58$; 275,000 bush do May at 58 58$c, closing at outside figures; old Western Mixed nominal at 58 60c in store and afloat. Oats are a shade stronger, with a moderate trade; mixed Wes tern and State 42 58c; White Western and State at 47$ 60c; New York No 3 White at 47$c; do No 1 White 68c; extra 56c; old No 2 Chicago afloat at 49c; Mixed Western 43$ 43$c; White do 57$ 59$c; re ceipts 20,570 bush; sales 59,000 bush. Cottee quiet and unchanged. Sugar firm with moderate demand and unchanged; sales900hhdsMuscovado at 8j-(g)8$c; refined firmer with good inquiry at 10$ 10$c for standard A; ll$c for granulated and powdered; ll|c for crushed. Molasses quiet; New Orleans 38 (eg 54c. Rice steady with moderate demand. Petroleum dull and heavy; crude 10$; refined 16 16$. Tallow firm at 8c 8 l-*6c Naval Stores—Rosin steady at 2 00 for strained. Turpentine steady at '35c for Spirits. Pork more active, futures firmer; 700 bbls new mess at 15 00; 2750 bbls seller for May at 15 00 15 12$; 2250 do seller June at 15 20 15 25. Beef firm. Cut Meats steady; middles firm at 8 8$ for Western long clear; city long clear at 8$ 8$; 200 boxes short clear 8$. Lard opened easier ana closed firmer; 875 tierces of prime steam at 9 85 @9 90, closing latter; 1759 do seller for May at 9 90 (eg 9 95; 1500 do seller for June at 9 97$ 10 05. Whiskey quiet at 1 08 bid; 1 08$ asked. Freights to Liverpool—the market is quiet; Cot ton per sail at $d; do per steam at $d; Wheat per steam at 5 5$d. Chicago, April 12.—Flour is easier. Wheat is active and lower; No 2 Chicago Spring at 1 36$ cash; 139$ 1 39$ seller for May; 140$ 1 40$ seller for June; No 3 Chicago Spring at 1 27$; rejected at 1 08 1 08$. Corn is in fair demand but lower at 42c for cash; 44$ 45c for May; 45$ 45$ for June; reject ed 40$c. Oats firm at 34$c cash; 37gc seller for May. Rye active and demand higher at 72 73$. Barley steady at 55 56c. Pork is firmer but not quotably higher at 14 25 cash; 14 30 14 32$ seller May; 14 45 for J une. Lard firm aty9 45 cash; 9 50 9 52$ seller for May: 9 60 9 62$ for Juno. Bulk Meats steady and unchauged. Whiskey firm at 1 05. Receipts—7,000 bbls flour, 5,000 Dufch wheat, 82, 000 oueh corn, 36,000 bush oats, 2,600 bush barley, 3500 bush of rye. Shipments—14,0(0 bbls flour,5,000 bush wheat, 86, 000 bush corn, 84,000 bush oats, 3,900 bush barley, 375 bush rye. At tne aiternoon call ot tue board Wheat was lower at 1 38$ seller May; 1 39$ seller June. Corn is easier at 44g 45c lor May; 45gc seller June. Oats unchanged. Pork lower at 14 25 seller May; 14 37J seller June. Lard 5c lower. St. Louis, April 12.—Flour—medium and choice extra 6 50 7 50; scarce and very firm; other grades slow. Wueat—No2 Red Fall at 1 69$ cash; No 3 Fall at 1 G7£ 1 68 lor cash; 1 68 lor April; 1 69| l 70 seller lor May. Corn active and firm at 43 (o) 13Jc cash; 42| 43 seller April; 42£ (S) 43Jc for May; 12| 43$ for June. Oats are dull and lower to sell; No.2 at 35c bid seller Aprii; rejected 35c. Rye active and firm at 75 77c. Whiskey steady at 104. Pork firmer at 14 60 (a} 14 62J cash; 14 95 for June. Lard firmer. Bulk Meats are firmer; clear rib ribs at 7$ bid here; 7 40 bid up country. Bacon ft quiet and unchanged. Receipts—2,COO bbls flour, 9,COO bush wheat, 50, )00 bush corn, 5,000 bush oats, 5000 bush barley, 1,000 bosh rye, 000 head hogs, 000 head cattle. Toledo, April 12.—Flour is firmer. Wheat quiet; No 1 White Michigan at 1 70; No 2 Amber Michigan >u spot at 1 71 ;|seller May and June at 1 72; No 2 do it 158J; No 2 Red Winter on spot and May at 1 70 No 3 Red 1 58; rejected Dayton and Michigan Red at L 25; Wabash 1 27; po Lake Shore 1 42. Corn quiet: jigh Mixed on spot at 49c; No 2 on spot and seller May at 48$c; seller June at 48fc; seller July at 50;; No 2 White at 50lc; damaged 47$c; rejected at 48c. 3ats are qniet; No 2 at 3S|c; White 45c; rejected at J3Jc; do Lake Shore 34c. Receipts—U000 bbls tiour. 5,500 bush wheat, 30 000 msh Corn, 12,000 bush Oats, U0 Barley. Shipments—120 bbls tiour, 3,900 bush Wheat 72 too bush Com. 35,000 bnsh Oats. MiLWAtiBEH, April 15.—Flour higher and lu light mpply. Wheat unsettled, opened lower aud closed ,veak; No 1 Milwaukee at 1 57; No2 Milwaukee at 1 45; seller May at 1 452= seller June 1 46; No 3 Mi}: ruukee at 1 34. Corn is dull and drooping:No 2 new it 44 @45c. Hats firm; No 1 at 34e; May 37ic. Kve Iteady and in fair demand; No 1 at 72c. Barley is lominaily; No 2 Spring at 72c. Provisions nominal Pressed flogs firm at 5 75. Receipts—7500 bbls Hour, 9,500 bnsh wheat. Shipments—6500 bbls flour, 2,300 bush wheat. Detroit, April 12.—Flour Arm. Wheat is stron* iXtra White Michigan at 1 71J; milling at 1 70; No 1 rVhite Michigan at 1 69; milling at 1 66; No 2 White ilichigan I 60; No 1 Amber Michigan 1 71 hid. Com Sn r.m Lbigh atSOlc; No 1 at 50c. Oats lirm; Vbite 46ic; Mixed at 41Jc.j Receipts—285 bbls flour, 2115 bush wheat, 4 536 rash com, 7607 bush oats. Shipments—1400 bbls flour, 4536 bush wheat. 41J3 msh com 2172 hush oats. Cincinnati, April 12.—Pork is nomiualiy un hanged at 14 50 14 75. Lard is quiet aud flrmer !e?,m.r.eudl;reJ at 9 40 bid> 9 50 asked i kettle at loi! liilk Meats inactive; shoulders at 5 5jc; short ibs at 7 40 bid, 7 50 askad on spot; sales 7 75 buver 1 4ay; short clear sides at 7Jc. Bacon is dull; shoui ers at 6J; clear ribs at 8J; clear sides at 89. Wliis- 1 ey quiet aud steady at 1 04. Hogs in good demand nd hrm; common at 4 40 4 85; fair to good light t 4 90 @,5 15; packing grades at 5 00 ini 5 25; buten- 1 regrades at 5 30 5 40; receipts 2486 head: shin rents 1164 head. 1 Cleveland, April 12.—The Fotroleumlmarkets is teady; standard White 15. Wilmington, April 12—Cotton is quiet; Mid ling uplands at lojc. Memphis, April 12.—Cotton is dull; Middling 1 plands at lojc, 5 f Charleston, April 12.—Colton steady; Middling plands at 11 Jo, Savannah, April 12.—Cotton is quiet and steady; liddling uplands at 11 3 16c. New York,April 12 —Cotton steadv :Middling up nda at 11 gc. Mobile, April 12.—Cotton is quiet; Middling up inds 10|c. New Orleans. April 12.- Cotton is quiet; Mid liug uplands at lljc. Louisville, April 12.—Cotton quiet; Middling plands 11c. Norfolk, April 12.—Cotton is quiet; Middling plands at 10|. 6 Galveston, April 12.-Cotton is dull; Middling plands at 10|c. b Augusta, April 2.—Cotton is quiet and steady; liddling uplands at 10Jc. European Market*. Frankfort, April 12.—American securities— srew 5 s, 103J. A Standard medicine for curing Bright’s Disease, dropsy, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases, is Iunt’s Remedy. Female weakness, Pain in the Back and Loins, Gravel, Diabetes, Intemperance ind Prostration of the Nervous System, are cured >y Hunt’s Remedy. Hunt’s Remedy imparts :one and vigor to the constitution. Infallible Eye Wash improves the Eyes. ap9 eod&wlvv MARRIED. In this city, April 9tb, by Rev. C. Wright, Mr. Ed ward Vincient and Miss Mary C. Henry, -both of Portland. In East Vassaiboro, April 7, Willi9 Wentworth aud Mary Radclili, both of Vassaiboro. In Anson, March 30, J Fred Brown of Mercer and Ellen A. Ward of Anson. In Skowhegan, April 1, Sami Whittemore and Miss Eola M. Loomis. DIED. In this city, April 12th, Georgeta Washington,aged 3 years 8 months, daughter of Mr. George I. and Mrs. Anna Washington. [Funeral services Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from residence No 79 Washington street. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. In Bath, April 10, Mr. Benjamin Riggs, aged 48 years 9 months. In North Bethel. March 21, Mrs. Julia A„ wile of Joshua Swan, aged 57 years 10 months. In Denmaik, March 24, Mrs. Fanny Smith, aged 76 years. DEPARTURE OF STEAMSHIPS. NAME FROM FOR DATE Scandinavian Portland.. ..Liverpool.Apl 14 California.New York; .Glasgow.Apl 14 City of Richmond .New York. .Liverpool.Apl 14 Celtic. New York -Liverpool... .Apl 14 St Laurient.New York. .Havre.Ayl 18 Algeria.. New York.. Liverpool..... Apl 18 8armatian.Portland... .Liverpool.Apl 21 City of Brussels. .New York Liverpool.Apl 21 Germanic.New York. .Liverpool.Apl 21 Hecla.Boston.Liverpool.... _ A pi 21 Ethiopia.New York. .Glasgow.Apl 21 Wisconsin...New York. .Liverpool.... Apl 24 Ville de Paris.New York Havre.Apl 25 Bothnia.New York. .Liverpool.Apl 25 Hammonia.New York .Hambursr.Ad126 Caspian.Portland... .Liverpool.Apt 28 Atlas. .Boston..... .Liverpool.A pi 28 Mlnalare Almanac.April 13. San rises.5.19 1 High water.11.05 AM Sun sets. .0.12 Moon sets......... PM MARINE; NEWS PORT OF PORTLAND. Thursday, April 12. ARRIVED. Steamer Falmouth, Colby, Halifax, NS—passen gers and mdse to J B Coyle. Steamship Chesapeake, Mangum, New York—mdse to Henry Fox. Steamer City of Portland, Pike, Boston for East port and St John. NB. Brig B W Cochiane, (Br) Boyd, Windsor, NS, lor New York. Sch Ida May, Lamson, Newburyport for Jonesport. Sch Martha Maria, Albee, Swan’s Island lor Harps well, with loss ot jib. Sch Gen Grant, Nelson, Boothba}. CLEARED. Steamship Chesapeake, Mangum, New York— Henry Fox. Barque Henrietta, (Br) Adams, Cork, lor orders— John Main. Sch Grace Cushing, Mosher, Philadelphia—J I Libby Co. Sch Casco Lodge, Pierce, New York—Berlin Mills. Sch Lucknow, (Br) McNeily, Harborville, N S— master. {.FROM MERCHANT’S EXCHANGE.! Ar at Fortress Monroe 12th, brig H B Cleaves, Cummings, Matanzas for Baltimore. Sid fm Cardiff 7th, barque Flori M Hulbert, Han dy, Havana; sch E M Golder, McGaihlin, do. Ar at Havre 10th inst, ship Peru, Larrabee, Point Lobos. Ar at Liverpool lltb, ship Louis Walsh, Dyer, New Orleans. Sid, barque Clara, for Boston. Ar at Cardenas 5th, barque Norton Stover, Sher man, Barbadoes. Sid 7th, scbs Addle Ryerson, Cousins,St John, NB; JR Talbot. Crocker, North ot Hatteras; Virginia, Bangs, Sagua and do. Ar at Cientuegos 31st. sch H II Seavey, Port Spain; Fred Jackson, Pettengill, and Seth M Todd, Nor wood. do. Ar at Sagua 4th, sch Hattie E Giles, for Havana. Ar at Havana 5th inst, brig Lijc Jioughton, Rose, Swansea. Sid 5tb, brig Peri, lor Baltimore. In port, brig Charles Dennis, Dodge, lor North of Hatteras Ar at Matanzas 2d, brig Bonny Dcon, Cole, New port, E; scbs Keystone, from Baltimore; Ebeu Fish er, Reynolds, do; Clittord, Bragdon, Philadelphia. Sid 4th, barque Rachel, Norton, New York; sch Abbie. Adams, North ot HatteraS. April 10, ott Hatteras, barque Lizzie Merry. Sch Iona, Coombs, from Rockport for Jacksonville, has been lost at sea and crew landed at New York. iJIExTIORAIV lift A into Gibraltar about March 29, leaking badlv and with seven feet water in her bold. The cargo is "badly damaged and will be discharged. Ship Frank Flint, from Greenock for Bombay, with coals, put into Falmouth, E, Mch 30th, leakv. Ship Castine, Arey, from Sourabaya for Falmouth, put into St Thomas 9th inst. leaky, Sch Isabel Jewett, with a cargo of coal, before re ported sunk in the Penobscot river while in tow lor Bangor, lies off the the mouth of Marsh river, with deck under water at low tide. She is about 20 years old and was built at Winterport by Capt W B Reed, who died on the day she sunk. The U S survey schr Ernest, which has been on the railway at Belfast, during the past winter, was launched last week, having undergone extensive re pairs. Sch Loretto Fish, (of St George) Balano, fm Sagua for Boston, pat into Vineyard-Haven 9th inst with loss of foretopmast, foresail, outer jib, and older sails split, in a gale. DOMESTIC PORTS. SAN FRANCISCO—Cld 2d, ship St John, Scribner, Callao. PENSACOLA—Ar 7th, sch Tberese A Keen, Keen, New York. SAVANNAH—Cld 10th, sch Walter Palmer, Cole, Norfolk. Sid fm Tybee lOtb, barque Martha A McNeil. CHARLESTON—Ar 10th, sch Mary Lymburner, Coombs, Belfast. PORT ROYAL, SC—Ar 10th, sch Geo M Brainard, Tolman, Rockland. BALTIMORE—Ar 10th, sch Winnie Lawrey, Spear Rockland. Cld 10th, sch D H Ingraham, Ames, Jacksonville. PHILADELPHIA—Ar 10th, schs Pinta, Dix, An tigua; R L Hersey, Coggins, Cardenas; Charlie* Willie, Cousins, Vinalhaven; Belle Brown, Knowl ton, do. Cld 10th, sebs Clara E Rogers, Rogers, Portsmouth; J M Leonard, Crowley, Providence. Below, sch Hattie E Sampson, from Cuba. NEW YORK—Ar 10th, schs Jed F Duren, Cook, West Islands, NB; Zeila, Hallowell, Whiting; Keystone, from Calais; W P Ritchie, Freethy, lm Providence; Convoy, French, do. Also ar 10th, sens Nellie, Mason, and Andrew Pe ters, Torrey, Calais; BeDj Reed, Tibbetts, Wiscasset; Geo W Glover, Norton, St George; Maria Adelaide, Kent, Bucksport for Philadelphia; H W Race, Race, Boothbay; Edw Everett, Chase, Camden; Thos Hix, Hall, and Post Boy. Robinson, Rockland; J R Bod well,Spaulding, do for Wilmington; Harriet Thomas VanCleaf, from Portsmouth for Philadelphia; Sarah Wooster, Babbage, Fall River; Jas S Pike, Robinson Providence; Vandalia, Bent; E Arcularius, Lord; Onrust, Carman, and John Boynton, Verrill, Provi dence; Emma Arey, Hall, do for Baltimore. Cld llth, barques J H Chadwick. How, Matanzas; Tremont, Bernard.Montevideo; brigs Carrie Bertba, Hall, Matanzas; Clytie, Dow, Sagua; schs Azelda Laura, Jorgensen, Porto Plata; Jas S Pike, Robin son, Provincetown. Passed through Hell Gate 10th, barque NM Haven, Uirick, New York for Portland; schs Ned Sumpter, Fountain, do for Salem; M Bird, from Elizabeth port for Bluehill. PROVIDENCE—Ar llth, sch C Matthews, Went] worth, Hoboken. VINEYAKD-HA VEN-Ar 9tb, sebs Loretto Fish, Balano, Sagua tor Boston, (see Mem); Eliza S Pot ter, Pendleton, Cadiz tor Portland; M J Laughton, mwi.v ucn luia iui uwdwui naiuju vicutcs, Atwood, Virginia tor Portland. Returned, barque Syra scbs Mountain Lanrel, Martha Weeks, Franconia, and Castilian. EDGARTOWN—Ar 9th, brig C 0 Colson, Packard, Sagua for Boston. BOSTON-Ar lltb, sch Ida Hudson, Morton, lor Rockland. Cld 11th, scbs Allegro, Kellar, Machine; LindoD, Clark, Calais. GLOUCESTER—Ar 11th, sch Thrasher, (new) Knowlton, Bath. PORTSMOUTH—Ar 9tb, sch Charles Carroll, Cud worth, Rockland. Ar 10th, sch Native American, Agnew, Calais. MILLBRIDGE—Ar 7th, sch Wigwam, Field, trom Portland. Sid 7th, sch Louisa, Fickett. Prospect. BANGOR—Ar lltb, sen M L Crockett, Hutchings, Portland. BATH—Ar lltb, sch Marion Draper, Bailey, Port land, to load for Washington. FOREIGN FORTS. Ar at Basscin Feb 23, ship Astoria, Porter, from Bombay. At Bassein Feb 27, ship Astoria, Potter, from Bom bay, ar 23d, for Europe; Henrietta. Blanchard, do. At Calcutta Mch 9, ships Ivanhoe, Herriman, for London, ldg; Cora, Coombs, for Bombay, do; Claris sa B Carver, Ford, from Liverpool, ar 2d, unc. At Bombay Mch 12, ship Raphael. Sherman, for Havre; barque Itonus, Smart, for rice port. Ar at Buenos Apres Feb 22, brig Elizabeth Wins ow, Locke, Portland. Sid Feb 14, barques Blanehe How, Hussey, Bos ;on; 22d, J S Winslow, Morton, do. At Poit Antonio March 26, sells Leona, Wiley, tor Philadelphia, ready; Baracoa. McClintock, for New Fork or Philadelphia 29th; Atldie It Warner, Lewis, ind Saiah W Hunt, McFadden, do do, (two last wait ng cargos.) Ar at Inagua (not St Thomas) Mch 25. sch Winner, Leighton, St Domingo for Chester, Pa, leaky. (.Latest by European steamera.l Cld at Liverpool 29th, Queenstown, Purington, lor Philadelphia. Sid fm Glasgow 28th, J H McLaren, Delap, for St Fobn, NB. Ar at Deal 31st, St Charles, Smalley, from Hull tor Jew York. Passed do, Albert, Reed, London for Rio Janeiro; 1st, Lincoln, Thorn, Galveston tor Bremen. Sid 1m Cardiff Mch 30, Sami B Hale, Haven, for Juenos Ayres. Ar at Falmouth 31st, Devonshire, Falker. Rosario. Sid fm Falmouth 28tb, Elmiranda, Partridge, (from Jew Orleans) for Glasgow. Ar at Calcutta Mcli 1. Clarissa Carver, Dow, Liver iOol; 7th. Frank Pendleton, Nichols, Bombay. Ar at Antwerp Mch 29, J W Marr, Morse, Callao. Ar at Hamburg Mch 28, Matterhorn, Arey, from ►abellon de Pica Sid fm Flushing Mch 30, Stockton, Allen, Boston. Ar at Malaga March 24, brig Thos Owen, Guptill, Jew York. SPOKEN. Jan 9, lat 4 N, Ion 118 W, ship Hudson, from San rancisco for Queenstown. March 7, lat 3 02, Ion 33 30, brig Josle C Ilozeltlne, terry, from Cardiff for Havana. SPECIAL NOTICES. NQTICE Don’t fail to try tbe “EXTRACT OF CAC TUS” for tbe Sick Headache, Nrrroua Headache, and Neuralgia. It never fails to cure. All Druggists sell it for one dollar a box. WIGGIN CO„ Proprietor.s aplSdlmsn* Rockland, Maine. CALLED 6-20 BONDS Bought or exchanged for other Securities on the most favorable terms by H.M.Payson&Co BANKERS AND BROKERS, 32 Exchange Street. my72 eodtf Parlxor G-uus, English Hreech and Muzzle l.oudiug Gnus, Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods und DOG COLLARS. G. L. BAILEY, 48 Exchange Street. rah29 sneodlm GUNS, REVOLVERS Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Agent lor the PARKER GUNS. T. B. DAVIS, Cor. Federal and Temple street. mh31 sneodlm DR, THAYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Mechanics’ Hall Building, Respectfully tenders thanks to the Citizens of Port land for their liberal patronage during the past year; and trusts that by Correct and Gentlemanly deportment, with the skill heretofore displayed in restoring the sick, he will merit the approbation of all. Diseases of £VE and EAK, THKOAT and EiUNGS skillfully treated. Also V lirnMI, UlSljASliS in all forms. Those diseases peculiar to the female organism can be cured without resorting to a local treatment so painful to the patient. Reference to a large number, cured during the past year, can be bad by calling at my of fice. Patients visited at their homes when desired; char ges moderate. Office hours from 9 to 12 A. M„ 2 to i and 0 to 8 P. M. Portland, November 30, 1876, lebl7nteods TURNER BROS. WILL OPEN TO-DAY a very large and desirable stock of DRESS GOODS AUD SILKS I LIST OP SPECIAL BARGAINS. $2.00 Black Silk at $1.50. $2.00 21-inch Bros Grain Colored Silks in eleven shades at $1.50. The lines of Black Silks are very large and com prise the Guinct, Bellon, Bonnet aud other celebrat ed makes. All Wool Black Cashmere at 50 cents. 46-inch Black Cashmere ae 62 cents. The best French Dress Cambrics, worth 37 cents, at 25 cents. Real Turkey Red Damask at 65 cents. All Linen Loom Damask at 25 cents. 1 case 18-inch Crash at 6 1-4 cents. 1 Case extra Bleached Cotton at 61-4 cents. 1 Case standard Prints in beautiful styles at 5 1-2 cents. OWE PRICE ONLY TURNER BROS COR. {HUBS JURIS. Agency for inline* Dituore-iN Reliable Patterns. mli27sn4w City of Portland 6 Per Cent Bonds Coupon or Registered, FOR SALE BY Woodbury Moulton, Investment Bankers, NO. 67 EXCHANGE STREET. mh2G sutf BOSTON STEAMERS specialTnotice On and after MONDAY, March 26tli, the steamers of this line will resume daily trips between Port land and Boston. J. B. COYLE, JR., Gen, Agent. mU22 0 SPECIAL NOTICE^ NVe would call special attention to the Anmc««o> Notice, which appears in our columns to-day with reference to Taxes, that all persons interested may comply with the tenor of such notice, particularly the last clause with reference to the U. S. Govern ment Bonds, and Deposits in Savings Banks, and thus save hard thougnts, and possibly hard words, when too late. v mli30entapl5 PTAWflQ ED- B- ROBINSON, 5 Myrtle Street, rmnuo has the celebrated Weber Piano, and and other makers, at extremely low prices. ORGANS. Orders for Tuning attended to as I aug28 nly TRY THE Aurora 5 cent Cigar, Superior in quality and make to any other five cent cigar in the market Being appointed Sole Agent for Maine of the Aurora Brand €igar«, we offer a full assortment consisting of Reina Victoria, Elegantes, Regalia Londres, Especiales, Opeia Reinas, Quisitos, &c., See. —ALSO Seidenburg’z La Ron Enpanoln*. nil sizes The celebrated New Orleans Cigars, AND a full assortment of our Regular Brands of Cigars and Cigarettes, tor sale at Schlotterbeck’s, 501 Congress street, Portland, mal6 sneodtf Surgical Instruments, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Bandages and Supporters, Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Spinal Supporters, Club Foot Shoes, &c., on hand and made to order. ELECTRICBATTERIES for sale and to let by A. G. SCHLOTTERBECK, Dealer in and Manufacturer of SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, 501 Congress St. Portland, Maine., Sole'Agcnt for Geo. Tieiiimiii Co. New Vork. no23 __ GRASS SEED. 500 Bags Strictly Prime Tlmotby, for Sale by Harris Littlefield, 143 COMMERCIAL STREET. 1 feb2l sndtr SPECIAL NOTICES, [roods for the Season. TUKESBURY CO.. Have Now Opeu for Inspection n Fine Line of DRESS GOODS, SILKS, Cloths for Dolmans among the novelties are French and English Suitings, Bonrette, Bege de Siox, BASSET CLOTHS AND BUNTINGS. in all the new and desirable shades with SILKS TO MATCH. We don’t hesitate to pay we beve aw fine a line of Dress Goods! AND Novelties as Can be Found iu Portland, which will be sold at the Lowest Prices. TUKESBURY CO., 537 Congress Street, Between Oak and Casco Streets apl‘2snd2w LATEST. Eastman Bros. WILL ON Honday, April 9tli, In addition to our fine assortment ot LADIES’ GARMENTS, show some new and elegant Talmas andDolmans We have secured a Job Lot, which we shall sell at SO. SIS, S15 and SIS. This is the BEsT Bargain we have .ever offered in Shawls. We have also All Wool Dress Goods in new and desirable shades. ONE CASE OF GREY Ml BROWN TWILLED SERGES at 16 Cents per lard. Yard Wide Dress Cambrics at 7c. WAMSUTTA SHIRTS AT 75c. Eastman Bros., 534 Congress St. apt sntf Pni> Art Vonitn the Vegetable pulmonaby Bal IU1 Jvl llidla SAM of Cutler Bros. Co., Boston stands unrivalled tor Cough*. Laid, and Can* sumption. Sold in Portland by Apothecaries gen feSsnlSw siams. Something entirely new for Dress Trimmings. ALSO BUTTONS,FRINGES AND BRAIDS AT H. I. NELSON &CO.S 443 Congress St., ap9 FIRBINGTONBLOCK. dlw MONEY Wanted Worn and Torn Currency, Pieces of Bank Bills and Greenbacks. M. Gr. PALMER. Beat quality Ladle*’ Rubber*, 45 cla. men’s 05 cl*. Boy*’ Bubber Bool*. S'i OO Youth*- 1.50 Misses’ 1.00 Gents’ and Ladies’ One Boots made to measure. rebo M- PALMER Oh guide me to the place Where Boots and Shoes are sold, For, how destitute my case, The half was never told. Here is the Remedy. Ladies’ Fine Kid Button Boots $2.00. Children’s Fine Kid, sizes 7 to 10, $1.25. New Style Grecian Toe Alexis and Congress Gai ters. neat and nobby, for young men, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. AT E. T. Merrill’s, 241 MIDDLE ST. m1i2T eodtf M.F.KING, PHOTOGRAPHIST. lias removed to new rooms, 482 Congress street, Pieaannl, convenient, anti ea*y <1 acccn, ONE FLIGHT ONLY. j Specimens In reception room, and not at tho dcor r in the stairway. mat? dlwteodttn* MISCELLANEOUS. MONEY WE MUST m WILL HUE TO Meet our fast maturing Paper. We Quote and Request our customers, the people, to pay no attention to un principled dealers who, because they do not in many casts own goods at prices quoted by us, set up the cry of short weight, short measure or some such non sense. Evidently they forget this is not the Ago to make the people believe Small Beer makes Thunder. FITZGERALD ON MONDAY AT HIM 268 Middle St., Junction of Federal and Middle, opens the Spring Campaign BY OFFERING Ladies’Fall Regular Hose 20, 25, 31, 3»c upwards. Ladies’ Domestic Hose 7, 10,13,15c upwards. Ladies’ Domestic and Regular Extra Length 17. 45c up. Ladies’ Fancy Balmorals 12 1*2,18. 17c upwards. Ladies’ Balbriggan Hose, regular made, 37 1-2, 44c upwards* Children’s Fancy and Solid Colors 8,10, 12 l-2c up. Gents’ Navy Blue, Slate and Brown. 1-2 Hose Regular, 33c. Ball Knitting Cotton, white, 4c. colored 5c. New Stvl6 Leather Belts 20 to 38e. New style Pocket Boobs 10c to $1.25. Ruches 13 and 25c doz. Pius 17c Pack* age of 12 papers. English Stuck Nead* les, 4c paper. 3 cord 200 yards Cotton 2c. Best Dress Braids 6c. 100 yards Spool Silk 8c. Best Twist 4c. Silk Neck Ties 12 l-2cy Silk Neck Ties Fring Hal Gfinfol 'Tnt.bn., II_II_ chiefs 10c upwards, the Best 12 l-2c Linen Handkerchiefs in Portland. Our Cut Hamburg Edges delight ail be holders. Onr Tidies are Cheap, Cheap. Onr Lisle Gloves for 12 l-2e upwards, are unsarpassed. Our Line of Bustles is now fail and complete. Onr Corsets are well known and can not fail to give satisfaction, from 45c upwards. A full line of Towels from 12 l-2c upwards Tip Top. Just received. Plain and Striped Nainsooks, a Bargain, Black Silk Fringe from 25 to 10© yards, give them a look. Agents for DB. WABSEB’S HEALTH COKSETS, [approved by medical men generally. In conclusion we wish it understood we own no mills, neither do we control any factories, hut, we think our 87c SHIRTS all finished, China Pearl Buttons, Button-holes and eyelets all worked, the best for the money this side of New York YOURS TO COMMAND, J. H. FITZGERALD. mhlT Jtf Call and Examine Courtell’sBlk.Crapes Best English make 42 inches wide, ior Veils and Bonnets $3.50. A bargain at $5.00. Also 20 Pieces at 75c, $1.25, $1.50 and upwards. The greatest Bargains ever offered. CALL AND EXAMINE! DIM GIIPBVG NETTINGS AH the rage for Scarfs, fiom $1,30 and upwards. —ALSO— 50 Pieces of Black Brussels Silk Nettings, plain and dotted, from 60 cents and upwards. EDGES TO NATCH. CALL AND EXAMINE! Worsted Ball Fringes from 20 cents. Also Netted Black Silk Fringes irom 40 cents and upwards. Pftsifivfilv 1p«Q thm m anti fan til ram* nvioag CALL AND EXAMINE FRENCH CORSETS. Particular attention is called to this line of goods. 150 Bone Corsets reduced to 91.10 from $2.00. 300 Bone, Silked Clocked and Embroidered fronts. *1.8", reduced from $4 00 Extra long Corsels 91-15. Also a full line of German and American at 40, 30, 60, 73c and 91 OO. CALL AND EXAMINE. Hosiery Hosiery Best British Seamless Hose, 3-thread, 45 emu, reduced from 50 cents. 50 Balbriggan Hose 15 ru and upwards. Striped Hose 14 emu and up wards. Splendid Hose, 3 pairs for 45 cents. CALL AND EXAMINE. Hillt and Lace Pichnea, Ties, Bowr, La dies* and Children’s Lace Collarettes, Crepe Lisse and Maslin Kuching*, Linen Collars and Cuffs we oiler great values. Please call and examine yourselves at LATNER BROS,, 539 Congress St. mb3l eodCin LATEST STYLES iu hand-made LACE GOODS. X invite the attention of the Ladies to our New ami Elegant stock of LACE NOVE1.TIEM. LACE BIBS, LACE COLLARETTES. LACE FICHUES LACE HANDK’FS, TIES Ac, Whether wishing to purchase or not, an exami nation solicited. E.S. MERRILL, 467 Congress St., Deerlus Block.. matt MW&Stf HILL,CLARKE CO, Dealers in the latest and most approved styles ot (I aid MACHINERY. We are sole New England Agents for the celebrated GOODELL WATERS’ PLANERS. They are adapted to all kinds of planing, strong and simple in construction, instantaneous in adjust ment, and sold at prices very much below those of any other first-clnse makers. EP'Send for Illustrated Catalogue. mb27TT&Slm l.'ll Milk 91., Motion, Mat FRED L. STEVENS, SEWING MACHINE EXPERT. Repairs, adjusts, and gives instruction on all kinds of sewing machines. The very best ot needles and oil for all machines. 113 Middle street. A lew block* cant ol P. O. fe20eodCm turn Font com, Iron Fonndcrs and NICKEL PLATERS. (Licensedby the United Nickel Co., of New York, AUBURN, MAINE. ®“AU Orders will have Prompt Attention, jauti eod&wly STu&Tb Notice to Teachers. NOTICE is hereby given to candidates proposing to teach In the town of Deering, that the S s. lommittee will be in session at the Wood ford’s C’or ler School House on the 25th dav of Arril, A D.. 877, at 1 p. m., for th» examination of said csndl latee. BY THE COMMITTEE. April 4tli, A. IX, 1871. Ap!7 eodtd

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THE PBESS. FRIDAY MORNIKG, APRIL 13,' 1877. THE PRESS May be obtained at the Periodical Depots ot Fes senden Bros., Marquis, Brunei Co., Andrews, Wentworth, Moses, N. B. Kendrick, and Chisholm Bros., oh all trains that run out of the city. At Biddelord, of Phillsbury. At Saco, of L. Hodgdon and H. B. Kendrick. At Waterville, of J. S. Carter. A t Bath, of J. O. Shaw. n At Lewiston, of French Bros., and StevensA^Lo^ CITY AND VICINITY New Advertisement* To-»ny. entertainment column. Fanny Marsh's Theatre. SPECIAL NOTICES. Notice.—Wiggin Co. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Stockbridge Manures.—Kendall Whitney. Kents to Let.—N. S Gardner. Notice.—Gross Dunning. Select the Best —J. B. Ficket t Co. lvid Gloves.—Davis Co. Wanted.—N. Libby. Block of two Houses for Sale.—F. G, Patterson. Antique Pottery. Abner Lowell. Merry, The Hatter. Cumberland N. J. Court. BARROWS, J. PRESIDING. Diantha A. Woodside vs. George W. W'agg. Al leged fraudulent transfer of property from John H. Woodside to defendant. The account annexed to the writ is for taking care of the sick wife of John H. Woodside from November 16, 1871, to date and for certain sums of money expended for hiring, the total amount being $1014.36. Tbe plaintiff claims that there was a conspiracy, in which this delendant took part, to transfer the property out of the hands ot John H. Woodside and thereby prevent her recovering what was justly due her. Testimony for plaintiff out. Orr for plaintiff'. Thompson—S. C. Strout for defendant. Superior Court. APRIL CIVIL TERM, 1877, SYMONDS, J.. PRESID ING. Tbcrsday.—Charles G. Macintosh vs. Jeremiah Bartlett and Frederick M. Bartlett. Action tore cover damages for an assault and battery committed upon the plaintiff by the defendants at Bryant’s Pond in July last. Defense—that what was done was in sell-delense; that the plaintiff was the aggressor and attempted to strike the younger Bartlett; that they then clinched and both went down into the Btreet; that plaintiff was not struck or Injured in any way. Plaintiff claimed that the assault was unprovoked by him aud was wanton and malicious; that his arm was severely injured so that he was unable to use it for many months. Tbe evidence as to the details of the affair was vol uminus and conflicting. Verdict tor the plaintiff for $1391. Strout Holmes—Frank for plaintiff. Strout Gage—R. A. Frye for defendants. Stewart Worcester vs. City of Portland. Action I iu iocuvci uaiua(,i;B iui ireisuuai iujuum uuou****vu by reason of an alleged defeet in Congress street near the Bishop’s residence in Aughst last. The alleged detect consisted In a pile ofbricks within the limits of the street, over which the plaintiff drove in the eve ning, upsetting his wagon and throwing him out. On trial. Motley—C. E. Clifford for plaintiff. H. B. Cleaves, City Solicitor, for defendant. Brief Jotting*. Strawberries are only 90 cents per box in the market, and cucumbers 35 cents each. Furbish's Fifth Avenue Combination is soon to appear at Music Hall in “Forbidden Fruit.” Mr. O. M. Shaw of Bangor, has leased the Falmouth Hotel and will open it about May r 1st Mark Twain’s desciiption of New England weather is only sufficient to describe that of yesterday. Isaac F. Clark has been chosen agent of j Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows. This lodge al- i ready has a fund of 55000. Mr. Colcord, the Superintendent of School j Buildings, is to have an office adjoining that of the Street Commissioner. San Francisco social circles are convulsed by 1 the nuptials of William Madison Gray of Maine, and Miss Kit Ti Wong of China. The young people of the Second Parish will hold their usual social religious meeting this evening, to which the young are invited. Thi re will be a union gospel temperance meeting at tbe Allen Mission this evening. The public are cordially invited. There will be a prayer meeting at the Ply mouth church vestry this evening, and it >s de sired that the yoang people of the society may be present. Mi. Frank Curtis is to play a star engage- 1 meet at Fancy Marsh’s Theatre the middle ot May, producing for the first tiqje in Portland j “Miriam’s Crime.” 1 The trustees of the Maine State Agricultural I Society are in session at the United States Hotel. It is expected that they willinvite the New England Society to meet with them in September. The assembly of the Dirigo base ball club will take place at Lancaster Hall Wednesday evening of next week, instead of Army and Navy Hall, as mentioned previously. A good time may be expected. The great question now is, what is to be done j with the birds which have been promised for the poultry show here next winter. One man i IT___oniwl OIA finnno nf niffPnnS 1 alone. Two excursions are advertised for Boston on Tuesday next to attend the Moody aud Sankey meetings. One goes over the Eastern and the other over the Boston and Maine road. Take your choice, Au arrangement has been concluded between the superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory at Washington and the Western Union Telegraph Company, for the purpose of disseminating the standard time as deter mined daily by the naval observatory, to ship owners and masters, business men and the pub lic generally. When it is 12 o’clock noon at Washington, it is 12h. 9m. 07s. in this city at the meridian passing the tower of the Unitar ian church, Park street. The Union Gospel Chorus Choir. At a meeting of the Chorus Choir which saDg at the services of Bev. Mr. Needham, held last evening, the following letter addressed to W. L. Fitch, Esq., of the Choir was presented and rtad' Lewiston, April 12,1877. Dear Drolher:—In behalf of the Union Gos pel Choir of this city, I have the pleasure of sending Christian greeting to you and the Gos pel Choir of Portland. We rejoice in the knowl edge of your faithfulness in the Master’s work, espieialiy in the service of song, while brothers Needham and Stebbins weie with yon. We also learn with much pleasure of your aesire 'o visit them while they are with us At a meet i g of this choir on Saturday eveniDg last it was unanimously voted to invite the Portland choir to make us a visit, which invita tion I now most cordially extend to them through you. We trust our invitation will be accepted by a large number of your singers, that we may have the pleasure of meeting you and becoming personally acquainted, and of uniting our voices in Christian song and wor ship. Hoping for an early response and that we may all at last be reunited in the great chorus “beyond the tide.” I am in Christian Fellowship, Yours Fraternally, George F. French, Choir Leader. The Portland Choir voted to accept the invi tation and to visit Lewiston on Wednesday eve ning next, April 18th. As a large number of the friends of the Choir and the admirers of Messrs. Needham and Stebbins have expressed a desire to accompany «i,o. nrransaiments have been made for a special excursion train over the Mains Central, to leave this city at 5.30 p. m., aoil Lewiston at 10.15 p. in. Seats in the City Hall at LewistoD will be reserved for the Portland visitors, and all friends of the Choir and of Mr. Needham are invited to join the excursion. The fare has been placed at SI for the ronnd trip, and tick ets may he procured either of W. L. bitch, Esq., corner of Brackett and Spring streets, or of M. L. Stevens, 100 Exchange street. Miss Rogers’ Benefit.—This evening Miss Genevieve Rogers takes a benefit, appearing by special request in her original characterization, in which she has won so niaiked success, “Maud Muller.” She should have a crow ded house. Her merits calls for that. It should be a pleasure for the people of Port laud to avail themselves ot the opportunity to show their appreciation of the effoiti to please them made by the young and, promising actress. If one may judge by tho audiences which have so far faced her during her engage ment, she has won a high place in the popular regard. Let the house this eveuing confirm that judgment._ __ Reform Club Meeting.—The meeting last evening in [Arcana Hall was fiwell attended. The singing by the choir was excellent. Earn est speeches weio made by Mr. Hyde of Calais and several members of the Club, after which J.he pledge was presented by the President! fi. F. Pearson, and several signatures were obtained. __ Real Estate (Transfers.—The following are the real estate transfers recorded in this C°iVeeJort—Lo/of land from Llewellyn T. Coffin to Samuel Thing and Starretl A, Lltct °eNaples-Lot of laud and buildings from Samuel Hardy lo .Tames M. Hardy. THE ARYANS. John Flake’s Flrat Lecture. Latt evening John Fislte delivered before an audience which filled the hall of the Mercan tile Library Association the first of his course of four lectures on “The Aryans.” The lecture which was in effect an answer to the question “Who are the Aryans?” was listened to with great interest. Professor Fiske's delivery is so pleasing, his theme so entertain ing, and his summing up and presentation of the result of his wealth of researoh in linguistic and ethnological science so clear and eloquent, that the auditor, however slight his previous knowledge or his present interest cannot fail to be delighted. It is a matter of regret that a large enough number of subscriptions were not obtained to the course to justify the rent of a large hall. Mr. Fiske began at the very beginning [of things, far beyong all historic record, in the times of myth and fable. The earliest ac count of all races is to be found in legends, the nursery rhymes of mankind. So the first mention or the Aryans is founds in the Zend Avesta, the mythology book of their Parses descendants, and, however fabulous it be, we get from it undoubtedly some hints of liistorio value. In the beginning of the Zend Avesta the Par sees of India find the foundation for their the ory of race wanderings. The race, placed by the supreme deity in the Aryana Vaejo, was for some time happy in the worship of Ormuzd, Ilut the power of evil, Ahriman, by bis various devices drove them from the land of happiness. The race, under the guidance of Ormuzd, sought new habitats; but always the spirit of evil followed them. At last the race rested in a land, not like the Aryana Vaejo, a place of perfect felicity; but, with all its season of cold, still a place where peace and happiness might be found. Here the race’s special history may be sa’d to begin, and here the legendary books of the most ancient of literatures show that not only were the Zend Avesta and the old Vedic hymns ethnologically akin but that the ancient fire worshippers of Persia, the men Who lived in the reign of Darius Hystaspes, and the modem Parsees, who keep alive the old faith in India, can trace back a common origin to a race long since extinct. More than this it would not be safe to deduce from the tncient legends. Bunsen, indeed, has regarded the legend as the history of the traditional migrations of the Indo Persian race. But the itory makes no pretensions to be a credible his torical narrative. The origin of the divinely favored pi ople cannot be geographically placed. Still, the sixteen successive lands into which the race was led have been given some plausible geographical names; and there is nothing improbable at any rate in supposing that the race should have begun its great work near the source of the Oxus, and that its on ward march was first southwest and then Dmifhoaat Till nr an Oman, in f La mAA sent one pait westward and the other towards India, is an assured fact; and its results have Hided much to the world’s knowledge. lu considering the primal meaning of the word Aryan, which has been chosen to desig nate this race, we note first that Mede, Persian ind Hindu alike claimed the name. The conrt auguage of Persia, the Zand Avestu, and the Vedio hymns are all as evidently dialects of he same language as French and Spanisa and Italian are dialects of the Latin. The first neaning of the word Aryan, in the Sanscrit, vas a cultivator of the soil; the word being itymologically allied to the Latin arare, in its lerivation. By its agricultural character, the ace attained a preeminence over the more bar irous peoples around, and the term soon caofe ■o have its adjectivial form, aryana, meaning lobie, aristocratic, dominant. From this oame is philologists think, not only the iDdo-Persian leople, but the Greeks, the Italians, the Slavs, ind even the composite English,who seem now ;o be taking possession of all the unoccupied ■egions of the world. The use of the com parative method in race history, which has looe so much to enlarge the world’s knowledge, nay be said to begin with tbe English con gest of India. The stndy of Sanscrit, shewing he kinship between tbe ancient Hindu tongue ind tbe great languages of Europe, at once nterested scholars. The terms "Indo-Per liau” and “Indo-Germanic’' which were at iret nsed to designate tbe ancient language rom which all these tongues have come, have iroved inadequate and even “Indo-European” vould seem to fail to express all which one vould say. If we keep clearly before tbe miod be distinction between |the study of race and he study of language, the word Aryan will erve well as a defining term. Ot this old Ar an language, then, investigationisbows that here are many divisions. Tbe Parsee who Iwells in the PuDjaub is allied linguistically vith the Mede and tbe Persian. \Vhen|the ;reat schism in tbe race took place the lndo Suropean movement began. First of all to nigrate, judging from the difficulty of tracing •ack the language.were the Celts,always an im lortant race in European history,but never hav og.tbe power to impress tbeir dialect ot tbe an :ieot tongne upon tbe world. Only in sncbprop lames as Don, Danube and Dnieper iB tbeir ild language seen. Conquered by the Homan lower, the Celtic tribes accepted their conquer ir’s customs and forgot tbeir own tongue lu he Gaelic of tbe Highlands, and the Cymric f Wales and Brittany tbe old language is still a the main preserved. It is hardly necessary o note the connection af tbe Aryan with the talian and Hellenic tongues. After notiog some of the other languages iu vhioh the old Aryan roots may be traced, the ecturer proceeded to consider tbe old language vhlch this Aryan tongue supplanted,as well as he modifications which time has wrought in the longues which are its derivatives. Of tbe de icent of the original language through these ientoiiea there are a few sporadic examples, of pvlnch the Basque is the best kDowo, and with ivhioh the Finnish and Hungarian,and the abo lginal dialects spoken In the fastnesses of tbe laucasns have been classed. Whatever the irigin of these languages.it is clear that they ire not Aryan. Then there are the existing au^uo^oo, ujuuiucu ujr iu» .ivryau lougue, out lince affected by other dialects, which are in leed composite in character. It is, of coarse, tvident that likeness of language does not nec issarily imply kinship of race. The English rave much Celtic blood in their veins, Out few leltic words in their language; while, on the ither hand, one-half their language is Romanic, while the Roman blood is hardly to be traced in (heir veins. The French, lor the past twenty five years, have been fond of calling themselves the Latin race. But Gaul, though it learned Roman manners, never came to be Latin in character, and the elements of Iberian and Teutonic descent enter very largely into the composition of the French people of to-day. The linguist must be cautious, therefore, of making extended inferences from facts not em braced under his science; and mnst leave to Bthnology the work of showing how far differ ences of language are correlated with deep seated physiological differences. But from ob served facts in ethnology one may build up a theory whioh is, at any rate, plausible, and to be acoepted as snob, subject to any modifica tion which future research may demand. The blonde and brunette are extreme examples of physiological difference. To us, of this com posite race, they are familiar; but to a stranger from the mooD, for example, they would seem indubitable indications of difference of race. In China and Japan, and the Pacific Islands, where the race has been kept from foreign in termixture, no such differences of complexion are seen. In the Basque people the prevailing complexion has been, and is, dark. If we sup pose this is te be the remnant of the ancient raoe, driven by the Aryan invasion to this lit tle corner of the world between the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay, it will seem evident that the modifications of complexion which are seen in other peoples in Europe were produced by the intermixture with the Aryans. Where these drove out the ancient population we find to-day the blue eyes and yellow hair which have come to be considered characteristic of tne old Aryan race. Where there has been a ming ling of races and a succession of changes in domination, all varieties of physiological aspect may be accounted for. But this theory is, after all, only an hypothesis, though so plausible that a Huxley accepts it. The common origin of the Indo-European languages iu a great lan guage long since extinct is matter not of opin ion but fact; and iu the myths and folk-lore of the Aryans, so far as we are able to trace them in the most ancient books of the world, we liod much to add to our knowledge ot the earth and the races which have inhabited it for so maoy ages. This evening Professor Fiske delivers the second lecture of the course, the i mmediate subject being “Linguistic Pal£eontolog7-” He will consider the materials from which the great Aryan, sometimes called Indo Earopean, familff rtf linmiQrrna TXT a a anil fVia manner of civilization which that linguistic system demonstrates our ancestors to have been possessed of. The lecture, though something abstruse, cannot fail to be of great intere st. Le Commandeer Cazeneuve.—This even ing, at City Hall, this celebrated prestidigita teur, who is pronounced by the press to be the eighth wonder of the world, will have the pleasure of appearing before a Portland audi ence, and it is to be hoped that he will be greeted with a crowded house. One of his tricks is to take a pack of ordinary playing cards, and by what appears to be simply a pro cess of turning them between the thumbs and fingers, gradually reduce their size until they disappear wholly, which would naturally be regarded as a physical impossibility, and yet M. Cazeneuye does it while standing in the very midst of his audience,fifty feet away from any apparatus, and in the full blaze of the lighted theatre. One of his most astonishing tricks is the getting a lady (Madame Caze neuve) inside of two trunks, one of which stands inside the other and is bound with a rope sealed and triple locked. The two trunks—one within the other—are placed under a canopy, with the lady beside them. The curtain le dropned; a few seconds later aloud slam is heard, the curtain is drawn, and lo! the lady is not to be seen. The outer trunk is unlocked and the inner one is lifted out. It is still tight bound and sealed with wax, but after consider able labor the fastenings are removed, the bolts are turned back, the lid is lifted and ii the trunk is found Madame Cazeneuve, tied u] in a sack and wholly unable to help herssl even to the extent of getting out of her cramp ed aud uncomfortable quarters. To-morrow afeernoon there will be a matinee for ladies and chihlreo, and in the evening tb last performance trill bo giyen. Pcrwual. All will be glad to hear that Rev. Dr Carruthers is recovering from his severe illness' Mr. Henry .Houston, Register of Deeds, is confined to his house with illness. Elbridge G. Towle, conductor on the Eastern Railroad, has seen longer service there that any other person now connected with the road having been in its employ continuously since 1816, nearly twenty-five years of which time he has served as conductor. A Valuable Relic.—In 1857 Dr. Mosel Dodge presented Mount Vernon Chapter o! Masons with a mallet and chisel, emblematic of the Order. In the fire of 1866 the chisel was found in the ruins and repaired. It was again burned in the fire last winter in the Sav ings Bank block, and was again found and is now repaired and is all ready for another con, flagration. The Chapter value the relic very highly and have had the following inscription placed upon it: Presented to Mount Vernon Chapter, By Moses Dodge, July 20, 1857. Found in the ruins and repaired 1860. Again found in the rains and repaired 187C. The Fore Street Wall.—The excavations now going on in the rear of the Fore street wall reveal some of the most shabby work on record. In many places the rocks are loose and can be easily removed, and ttbe committee yesterday expressed a fear that the wall would fall backwards instead of outward. It now begins to look as though there was something fnore than talk in the stories told of the con tractors damping frozen dirt into the rear of the wall whon the Engineer was not present. There will be a meeting ot the City Connell to day to take some action in regard to rebuild ing. _ An Innocent Man Convicted orMurder. The recent case in Vermont of the conviction of an innocent man ofjthe crime of murder, re minds me of a similar mistake in Portland. Many years ago John Gould was convicted of murder for having killed la man by the name of Starbird. I know them (both personally— they were drunkards. One morning Starbird was found dead near a rum shop at the head of Central Wharf. At the inquest and on the trial of Gonld the rumseller testified that he and Starbird were in his shop the night before, both of them drunk and quarreling, and that he turned them out of his shop because they were noisy and fighting. Starbird was found with his head fatally broken. On the testimony of the rumseller Gould was _:_.1 _j __x_,__ 1 I l a vvunytvu vi uiuiuvi auu ovuvvuvvu vv uc uauj^cu whenever the governor should issue his war rant, and he remained many years in state prison. But tbe rumseller fell sick one day and iaat before his death he confessed that it was le who had killed Starbird by a blow npon the bead with an iron weight. Gould was released from prison and for many years afterward sold fish about our streets, fie is now dead. The men were drunk, the murder was in a rum. shop, and tbe rumseller struck the blow Which is the greater crime against society and tbe greater sorrow to family and friends, to kill a sober man, a good citizen, or to change him into a drunkard? N. D. The School Superintendent. Mr. Editor:—! am aware that “statements amount to nothing unsubstantiated by facts,” but! thought the best proof to the public of tbe little ones being over-tasked was the fact of my own children being so. “Another Parent” seems to think this must be an isolated case. I beg leave to differ from him, for I have talked with the parents of bright children and find the general complaint is the over-working of the pupils in our schools. I think there has been an advance in our schools during the past two years, but X do contend that it is brought about by a decline in tbe health of our chil dren. Is it possible too that “Another Parent” is the only one in Portland who has thoroughly looked into the subject of education? I have been interested in it for years and have taken every possible means to inform myself in re gard to it. I think our schools need a general supervision, but I can not understand why this fact should so seriously affect our youtb. 1 think tbe introduction of drawing, writing and singing is a great benefit to the children, but why should they at tbe same time be obliged to doable their ezeriions in mathematics and other studies. A Parent. FAILI1BE8 IN BUSINESS!. Report for the East Three month*. Tbe quarterly circular of the Mercantile Agency of Messrs. E Bussell Go., of this city, gives some important figures relative to the condition of mercantile affairs. It shows the number of failures in Maine for the first quarter of tbe present year to have been 3(5, with liabilities amounting to $291,200. For the same period last year the number was 40 with $609,400 in liabilities. Contrary to general expectation the number of failures in the Unitad States, for the lira1 three months, show a slight increase over those of the corresponding quarter of 1876,though the amount of liabilities Is somewhat less. The circular furnishes the following comparisons: First Quarter. Years. No. of Amount of Average Failures. Liabilities. Liabilities 1875 1,962 $13,176,953 $21,784 1876 2,806 64,644,156 23,1138 1877 2,869 54,538,074 19,010 The increase in number for the quarter ap pears to he only 63, and is only significant be cousc any increase at all was unexpected. The falling off in the average of liabilities, how ever, is a good sign, and ought to atone for the small addition to the uamber. In seeking to account for the contiuued large number of these casualties, the Agency states: “Considering the political uncertainty in January and February, and the restricted busi ness which has prevailed throughout the quar ter, it is rather surprising that the Increase iu failures is so small. It must be recollected that the decline in the volume of trade, within the past four years, has been much greater than the decline in the number of traders whom it sustains. If the same ratio had prevailed in the number of failures and withdrawals from business, in proport:on as business became re stricted in extent during the past three years, it is certain the number of failures would have been much greater, and, so long as bnsiness continues without material improvement, so long may failures be numerous. Some inter esting figures on this view of the situation may be gleaned by comparing the disasters in busi ness with the decline in its extent. For the three years, from the end of 1873 to the begin ning of 1877, the total number of failures in the United States has been 22,062. This amounts to less than fonr per cent, of those en f;aged in business at the end of 1873. This is n small proportion to the decline iu the vol? ttme of trade. It is difficult to arrive at any definite conclusion as to the extent of this de crease, bat if measured by the falling off in imports, andtbe well known decrease iu the production of manufactures, ttie internal busi ness of thecuqniry today is le-s by thirty to to thirty-five per cent, than it was iu 1873. So that the number of withdrawals from business, by failure or otherwise, is far less than seems either justified or demanded by the dec line in the extent of business to be trauraet.d,” With regard to the trade of the past three months it is alleged that.notwithstandmg small stocks in the hands of retailers, and low prices for many staples, the demand for goods has been weak and irregular, aud the amount of business dons in all branches of commerce much less than was anticipateu. The extern of business is indicated very closely by the ex changes at the various clearing houses, of which there are now some sixteen in operation in that number of cities. Of these, thirteen made returns last year, and a comparison is therefore possible as to the amount of trans l.n 4 it thirteen great centres. The total clearings in the first quarter of 187G were 7.U77 mill;onsi while in the first quarter of 1877 they were 7,530 million^? showing a decline of 127 mil lions. The earnings of all the railroads pub lishing returns indicate a decline .in about the same proportion for the quarter, The decline thus noticed it is true is but slight, yet ou the face of an expected increase is somewhat dis appointing. In relation to this condition of things the cir cular very sensibly says: “If our people could learn, even for a while, to be content with a day of small things, the resalts of the past quarter would not be dis appointing. But unhappily all the arrange ments are for business ou the grandest scale, Kailroads exist t> accommodate twice the traffic that offers; warehouses large enough t( hold four times the need supplies of the coun try, while the number engaged in the busines: of each locality is far in excess of its averagi requirements; and altogether expenses am facilities for an extent of trade only possible ii periods of the wildest expansion. These an hardly the true standards by which to measur either safety or real prosperity. Judged by i more reasonable standard, tbe experience c the first three months of the year has not beei a bad one. On tbe contrary, though busines has been small, it has yielded a fair return. I: proportion to the amount of business tram acted the profits have been better than fo many a previous quarter. It is certain busines is done at vastly less expense than in forme years, that values are more settled, and, abov all, that bojh foreign and internal inaebtedues is very materially reduced." After charging upon tbe Bankrupt Law a aggravation of existing commercial disability tho Messrs. Bussell Co. conclude their revie as follows: “The early prospect of a practical settlenm of the Southern question is regarded as marked contribution toward a return of moi prosperous times. The great staples of tb section are of prime importance in the marke of tbe world, and its power of absorption goods, especially in view of tbe small stocl held. Is too well known to need comment. I: recent events remove the clog from its materia progress, and inspire its people with energy t( extend their productions and increase theii wealth, a better hope may be entertained foi the whole country. This, with other indica tions, are of an encouraging character, ant lead to the belief that the worst is past, and i we are favored with another good crop of agri cnltural produce, the remainder of the yea will enable ns to mark a substantial progress Cape Elizabeth Man Drowned at Sea.—/ letter received yesterday from South Americi gives the sad intelligence that Charles H Hines, second mate of the brig Elizabetl Winslow, Capt. White, was lost overboard when the vessel was but three days out of thii port. Tho vessel was just entering the Gul: Stream, and was sailing at the rata of ter knots an hour, when suddenly Mr. Hines wai missed, and before help could be procured hc||||j|«T $3.50 NEW COLORS IN SPRING HOB Summer A»»«i Summer Styles DUNLAP STYLE. SOFT ANT) STTFF TTATS We Irouallour Make Free of charge. ov/x x iMltr HALO. This cut represents the spring ami sum met style. Nobby Caps, New Canes. Trunks, Bags, &o., Gents’ Seamless Kid Gloves' 237 Middle Street. apid-tt m mm m*. _ MU uLUVto We open this day our second Invoice of TWO-BUTTON KID GLOVES, wbicli have had such an extensive sale the past two weeks, at the Low Price of 75 CIS. PER PAIR, IS steels, DRABS, BROWNS, &c. Be sure and see these goods and secure a Bargain. We also have in stock a perfect line of Kid Gloves, in all the best makes. GARIBALDI, THOMSON'S HARRIS, VICTORIA, in all COLORS and BLACK. Fancy Neck Wear! For latest designs in Ruffling Jabots, Silk and Lace Bibbs, Lace Collars and Ties we claim our stock excels all others and invite in spection. A BARGAIN FOR ALL! Linen Sets for 25 cents. Just opened one case Ladies’ Linen Collars at 10 Cents. Ladles’ Linen Cuffs at Twenty-Fire Cts. Be sure and see the Bargains wc place upon our counters each day. Davis Co. ap!3a2t STOCKBRIDGE MANURES Originated by Hon. Levi Stockbuidqe, Professor of Agriculture in the Mass. Agric ultural College. For Grass, For Corn, For Potatoes. For Oats, AND ALL OTHER CROPS, Cheapest Best Used extensively in Maine for two years with great success- Read our Pamphlets, containing the expedience of scores of tarmers, before jou buy else where. Sent Free W. H. B0WKSR& CO, Sole Manufacturers) Boston. Proprietors of the Brifchtob Fertilizer, and Importers and dealers in Nitrate Noda, HU PHAIE AMMONIA, MFKIATE POT* ASH, Pure Hone, Ac. For Sale by Prepared for Immediate Use. 207 PEARL HT., NEW YORK. From the thousands of purchasers of our PRE PARED PAINTS, we have yet to hear the first Com plaint. The reason is apparent. Our paints have stood the test of years, where all other paints have failed in durability. Their covering capacity, being greater than any other paint, presents a practical item of economy. Our paints are guaranteed in every particular,—the consumer assuming no risk what ever, as we will re-paint any building on which our paints do not prove satisfactory: allowing a choice of English B. B. White Lead, or any other paint iu use. FOR SALE BY J. B. Fickctt Co., PORTLAND, MAINE. w3mt6 Ladies’ Kid Boots. We have on hand a large assortment of Ladies' Kid Button aud Hide Lace American Kid bools. Also, J. C. Benneit Barnard's celebra ted FRENCH KID BOOTH. New Jersey Hand *ewed Button and Congress Gaiters lor Gems wear, in single and double soles. Also Htrap Hhoes Lfor Summer wear. We have a full line of Boots and Shoes which we are glad to show customers. DAYIS CARTLAND, 210 Middle Street, NEW STORE,! Under Falmouth Hotel. Repairing ot all kinds done at store fe9FM&W6ra Antique Pottery FOB ART DECORATIONS A Lot of Old Designs Just Reproduced, received this Day. Abner Lowell, 247 Middle Street. Anl3-3t NOTICE. TnE partnership of GROSS DUNNING is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Dunning will continue the business at the same place and is authorized to settle the company’!, bills. CHARLES GROSS,' THOS. S. DUNNING. Cape Elizabeth, April 12, 1877. apl3dlw* Bl*ck of Two Houses For Sale. THE houses Nos. 7 and 9 Bramhail street, contain 6 rooms each, gas, hard and soft water, cement cellars, good drainage Terms of payment very lib eral, and made known to parties desiring to pur chase F. G. PA L'TERSON, aplj-tf 3974 Congress street. Wanted. TWENTY-FIVE loads Vault Manure taken away it reasonable rates. Address aplldtf N. LIBBY. Portland P. 0. Rents to Let. PARTIES wanting, will please call on 5.S. tABBtlVBK. Heal Estate A«t., ap13ttt at -1'J l-’J Exchange street. Aslies, Ballast, or any kind ol Solid Filling cun be deposited oil Merrill’s Wharf, (foot of Union St.,) by ap. plyng to the Wharfinger, Geo. Gwynn. apl2 eodlm CLEAN KII> GLOVES Youcauiuakcyour Kid Gloves 1I.OOK LIKE NEW by using HARRIS’ GLOVE CLEANER! For sale only by ’-‘^Uauliock, Apothecary, Boston Prices! We Open This Onr One Case LADIES FULL REGULAR HOSE, Double Heel and Tees, 25 Inches Long! At the Popular Price -Io» 25 OZEILTTS Alio One fiOl of Balbriggan Hose AT THE SAME LOW PRICE 25 CENTS. These Goods we offer at above prices, and examination will make remarks unnecessary, DAVIS CO. apl2 ell w Important to the Ladies! I 6hall commence today mv SPRING CASH SALE of all the READY-MADE UNDERWEAR, for Ladies and Children, now in stock, also all our Infant’s fine Cloak Carriage Robes ft about one half the cost to Manufacture. This sale will continue until all these goods are closed out MRS. WILDER, 315 Congress St. aplO dlw OPENING OF SPRING GOODS! We have received THIS WEEK a full line of 4PKimu HOODS, and are o tiering the follow, ng Bargains: Our Frankenberg Kid Gloves in IIP1V iln.inn Wl.nd«u I3f fix 2d quality $1.00. Every pair warranted not to burst. Ol'B NEW CORSET N<». 99, 'ontaining 100 Bones for $1 OO The beat Form )f any C;or«ei we have ever offered. We have also a small lot oi RI ZVAN FANS vhjeh we shall sell for 1 .OO, sold last year for $2.00 iiui £2.50. Also a large vaiiety of Ladies’ and Cbil Iren’s Hosiery. Job lot of GENTS’ HOSE in Striped. Plain aod Uoblenchcd lor 25 cents. LADIES’ NECK JBoWN 25 cent*. Nelson Gould, 503 Congress St., Under Army and Navy Hall. aplO Jtf 80,000 ROLLS ROOM PAPERS NEW STOCK, Just received, bought expressly For the Retail Trade, and will he sold at prices that cannot fail to suit. HALL L. DAVIS, No. 53 Exchange St. ap6 Jtf e oal. rhc largest stock and the best variety of Coala in the city, lor SUMMER AND WINTER USE, FOR SALE AT Lowest Market Rates, BY Randall McAllister, 60 COMMERCIAL ST. scp6 .liatf Rubber Balls, Rubber Balls, Rubber Balls. at Halls Rubber Store. apl2 tf Butter! Just received: 50 tubs new Choice Vermont Butter. 100 bbls. Russet Apples. 50 do Baldwins. S. P. BARBOUR, 18 Market St. apll d3t* Seed Oats. Heavy I'aunrd oat*, <v*e from foul aeed, weighing .15 lb... also heavy while oiiih. Old high mixed mealing corn for .ale by BLAKE, JONES CO. apl2 lw Salt, Salt, Salt! FOR gale Cadiz, Liverpool and Trapani Salt in lots m bond or duty paid by E. G. WILLARD, 14 COMMERCIAL WIIAKF. fe27 dis3m W ood I_Wood! HARD and Soft Wood at red need prices—delivered any part of the city—wishing to close up the business. 32 Lincoln street, foot ol Boyd. feb26dtflw* ALBERT J.MERRILL. EDUCATIONAL. MUSIC READING. PERSONS desiring private instruction in vocal, MUSIC; kkauino are regpectiuliy iu rormed that Mr. W. L. FITCH is now ready to re ceive pupils singly or in classes, at his residence, 58 Brackett St., corner Spring. aplOdtf Instruction in English and Class ical Studies given to piivate pupils by the subscriber. J. W. COLCORD, 143 Pearl Street. __<lt£_ BLC O DTION —AND— UURK OF DEFECTS OF SPEECH WAETER~kI fores, (Graduate of Boston University School of Oratory) gives lessons in Portland each Saturday at Y, M. C. A. Rooms Private or class lessons may be bad on application as above, from 12 to 1 p.m,Saturday, or addreisat North Cambridge, Mass. Send for circu lar and terms. apr2dtf P1A fo¥T SQUARE AND UPRIGHT, McPHAIL CO., Endorsed by Prof. J. K. Paine. BILLINGS CO., f oiiinirtided by our first Citizen*. The Veteran Manufacturer of New Eng land, ORGANS! Mason Hamlin, CHENEY, RICHARDSON, Save money bv purchasing of the Gen. Agent, at less than Manufacturers prices. PIANO STOOLS, PIANO COVERS, PIANO POLISH, Ac., Ac. SHEETllUSIC, Instruments, and Musical Merchandise generally. Catalogues furnished. Warerooms, 3 Free St Block, Portland. Samuel Thurston, GEN. AGENT. FANCY WOODS, Foot Power Scroll Saws, Designs, Lathes, Tools &c. Send for descriptive Price List. Charles B. Thurston Co., 3 FREE STREET BLOCK, Portland, Maine. mh24*dtf HAVING ENLARGED OH STORE we arc now enabled to display the largest stock of MILLINERY AND r— FANCY GOODS to be seen in any retail store this side of Boston. We would call especial attention to our Fresh Stock of Millinery, which has been selected with great care. We can show you all the new Spring styles of TTAm«. all the new shades of Ribbons and Silks, and a beautiful garden ot We shall give this branch of the business our per sonal attention and hope, with our long experience, to give perfect satisfaction to our customers both in style and price. We have also an entire new line of CORSETS at prices that defy competition. Onr Glove and Hosier; Department you will find an object to visit. We can sell you a good 2-Button Kid Qlove both in Opera and dark shades, for 50 Gents, nice Seamless Hose *JO Cents, and a large assortment of Children’s Hose, Striped and Plain, White and Colored, all styles amt prices. 50 doz. Lace Tidies at 15 and 25c each. 10,000 lards Lace Edges at if, 4, 6 and lO Cents per lard. The largest stock of Buttons ever exhibited in Portland, Neck Ties, Ruches, Stationery, Combs. Hair Brushes, Tooth Brashes, Perfumery, Fancy Soaps, Bustles, while and colored, all size*. We have added a large stock ot German Worsteds, Canvas, Card board, Mottoes, &c. All patterns left with us lor shading will be attend ed to in the best manner by one of experience. All aie invited to call and examine these goods be fore purchasing, as we know they will find it for their interest to do so. M. A. BOS WORTH, FLUENT BLOCK, ap2 PORTLAND. m A. A. NICKERSON, Merchant Tailor, 480 1-2 Congress Street, PORTLAND. A fine line of FOREIGN AND DOMES TIC WOOLENM constantly on hand. MOTTO—Ntylish Garments, Good Work, nud Low Prices. Special attention given to Cutting Garments to be made out of the shop. Ladies' Cloaks a Spec ialty, Remember the place. 480 1 -2 CONGRESS STREET, mb21WF<&M6m Opp. Preble House, Plimpton, Fisk Co., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF K I D bU N b, Silks, Velvets, Millinery, —AND— STRAW GOODS, 26 Summer and 92 Hawley Sts.. Boston. Have constantly on hand the largest and most com plete stock of choice MILLINERY GOODS in the city, ail ot which will be offered at the lowest cash prices. mal9eod3m Base Balls, Bats, Croquets, Rub ber Balls, Foot Balls. Feather Dusters, Children’s Car riages, Boys’ Carts, etc,, etc, AGENTS for Mahan’s League Convention Ball. the only Ball that can be used in a Match Game where an umpire is required. Each Ball war rented to stand a full game of nine inniugs. Sent to any address by mail, on receipt of $1.50. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. DAY, JR., A CO., 91 EXCHANGE STREET. apU <12w GRASS SEEDS Timothy, Red Top, N. N, Y„ and Western Clover. Alsike Clover and Orchard Grass. For sale by KENDALL WHITNEY. ja30 Jtl ROOM MOULDINGS FOR HANGING PICTl'RGN, HOOKS, CORD AND WIRE, AT HALE’S, No. 2 Free Street, ap3 Ulf With or without Board. ONE or two rooms to let in |bouse with private family. Good location and central. Address with real name ap4i* dlw “M. A, M,” Frew Office. AUCTION 8ALH F. O. BAILEY A CO.. Auctioneers and Commission Merchant?, Salesroom. 33 and 37 Exchange Fa O. BAILEY. C. W, ALLEN. Regular sale of Furniture and General Merchan dise every Saturday, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m. Consignments solicited. oc3dtt IMPORTANT SALE OF Dry Goods, &c., AT AUCTION. At .ur Room. 33 and 37 Exchange 9«. —Commencing on— Saturday, April 14tli, at 10 a. in., and continuing at 10 a.m. and 2| p.ra. until the en# re stock is sold, which consists of a lull line of dome tic Cotton Goods, standard Prints, Flannels, Table Damask and Linen Napkins, Crash, Towels &c., &c. Shawls, Blankets. Quilts, Skirts. Gents under wear. Gloves, Fancy Goods &c &c.. &c This is a large and fresh stock of staple goods and every article will be sold without reserve. F. 0. BAILEY CO., Auctioneers. apC _ td 20 Fresh Country Horses AT AUCTION. ON SATURDAY, April 14th. at 10 o’clock A. M., at the Horse and Carriage Mart, Plum St., we shall sell about 20 Fresh Horses, just from the country, and adapted to all kinds of Driving and work. These Horses will be harnessed at 8 o’clock A. M. the day of the sale, giving two hours for ex amination and driving. Every one will be warranted as represented. At same time,—New and 2d Hand Carriages and Harnesses. F. 0. Bailey A Co., Auctioneers. __ UKI VALUABLE FARM AT AUCTION, Situated in Poirnal. WE shall sell on WEDNESDAY, April 18, at 4 o'clock P. M, the valuable farm known as the Thoits Place, and now owned by Joseph Stubbs, on the road leading from Pownal Corner to Yarmouth, about 15 miles from Portland. Said farm contains about 110 acres of good land, divided into Tillage, Pasture and Wood, small Orchard of grafted Fruit, Grape Vines, &c., cuts from 30 to 40 tons of Hay. The house is two story with ell, conveniently ar ranged for two families, with good cellar, good wa ter. &c. Bain 30x40, with Stable and other Out buildings. The above is one of the best farms in the county, and the sale offers a favorable opportunity to any party to obtain a good Hay or Milk farm, as ft will be a positive sale without reserve. O. BAILEY Sc Ctf., Auctioneers. ap!2 dtd REMOVAL. New Dry Goods Store, NEW STOCK, LOW PRICES. J. M. DYER 00. have removed from NO. 6 FREE STREET BLOCK to the spaciOBs store \o. 233 middle St., recently occupied by C. D, B. FISK ft CO., where they will be pleased to see their Cn.ioasera and the Fablic generally. We have added to oui lormer stock of choice FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS a general assortment of Medium and Low Priced Goods, to which we invite your attention, believing ws can offer inducements not to be found elsewhere. Thankful for the confidence and patronage of our Customer* and the Public in the past, we shall endeavor to merit a continuance of tneir favors in the future. J. M. DYER CO., NO. 233 MIDDLE STREET, ap3 .ni'KSK Y’S ROW. d2w Vickery Leighton haring decided to more to Far rington Block, Congress St., will sell from their stock at REDUCED PRICES FOR A "GENTLEMEN," In want of Hosiery tor Spring ana Summer wear can find the best Value. anti Styles ever ottered In Portland, on the counter near the door, corner of Congress and Brown streets. Brown Mixed Half and Long Hose, at 12}, 17, 25, 33, and 50 cents. Paper Collar, in New Tin boxes, 22 cents. WARD« Paper Collar, new style, 18 cents. KNIGHT TEMPLAR A new style Linen; Collar, fino quality, 20 cents. Owen, Moore Bailey. ap7 dtf COMFORT DliRIl THE WINTER A large Stock ot Wool Slippers to be sold VERY LOW, AT LEAVITT DAVIS’, 437 Congress Street, FARRINGTON BLOCK. fe2 PIANOS ORGANS. W H. IVBR8’ SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS, which, for parity of tone, perfection of action or beauty, are not surpassed. The SMITH AMERICAN ORGANS, endorsed by the highest Musicians, and making 75,000 homes pleasant aud attractive, are sold for Cash or Installment* by w. H. FURBUSH SON, General Agent* for Maine. 439 CONGRESS ST.f PORTLAND, ME, FARRINGTON BLOCK. nov28 dtf CITY OF LEWISTON. Proposals for Coal! THE Committee on Public Property will receive proposals until SATURDAY, April 14th, at 2 o’clock P. M., for Two Hundred and Twin* ty Vive (il'iS) Ton* (gross) .1 Coal, to be de livered iu ibo boiler room ol tbe City Buildings at any time previous to July 1, 1877. lu sending pro posals, all parties must figure on Ot.D COM. VAN W LKHIliH. Broken or Egg. The Committee reserve the right to reject any or all the bids. UK. D. PENNELL, Chairman. Lewiston, April 5,1877. ap7dlw Hamburg Chicks. HAMBURG CHICKS aud Eggs from first pre mium Stock for sale cheap. T. H. MANSFIELD, «Ii2itt forttand, Me,

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THE PRESS. (From lUe Maine State Press of April 12, 1877.] History of Seven Days. The New* lor the week ending Wednesday Night, April I lib. THE SOUTHERN QUESTION. 'The South Carolina difficulty came to an end 'Tuesday by the formal withdrawal of Chamber lain from the governorship, and the occupa tion of the State offices by Hampton and his followers. There was no excitement what ever. In Louisiana the Commission is at work. A great mass meeting of Nicholls’ supporters was held in New Orleans the day of its arrival. The object of the Commission seems to he to secure the meeting of the two legislatures as one body, recognized by all parties. It say a it found two governments, two Supreme Courts an alleged dual government in the depart! menta, but in fact by the acknowledgment of all parties there is only one legislature thongh it meets in two balls. The moment the legisla ture meets in one body it will be the state ,of Louisiana, and while it is -in session the only power in the'stato that can secure the interven. tion of the army. If self-government is desired and the withdrawal of the army it, can proba bly he secured in a day should the public opinion of the state compel its legislature to meet as one body. There are 33 of the 3G,Sen ators, and 104 of the 120 Representatives whose election is not disputed by either party, and the commission urges that they assemble as the legislature. Packard is fully determined in the event of a withdrawal of the troops to seek rather than to avoid a collision, in order to force the President to recognize himself or Nicholls as Governor, Mr. HutchinsoD, at the suggestion of the Presi dent, bad a conference Wednesday wifh a dozen Republican leaders urging, themkto re lieve the administration of its present embar rassment. His appeals were unsncessful, and Packard wrote a letter to the President assert ing the legality of his title. The Commission is busy taking testimony from both parties. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Very extensive revenue frauds in the manu facture of tobacco in North Carolina have been recently discovered and the Department pur poses vigorous measures to tiring tne pauies concerned to puuishment. Some thirty manu facturers in the county of Surry, charged with participation in fraudulent transactions, have been indicted. The clerk of the House of Representatives has received a brief from Mr. Patterson of Colorado, who deniesjthe right of Mr. Belford to a seat in the next Congress on thelground that he could not be elected at the same 'elec tion to fill a fragment of a term in the 44th and a full term in the 45th Congress, the constitu tion providing that one representative from a stole-at-large should be elected lat the t first election under the constitution, and thereafter at such times and places as will be prescribed by law. Patterson contends that as such] pro vision has not been made by the state .his own election is valid under the general law of Con gress. The civil service principles were recognized Friday by the appointment by the President of Noah P. Clark, for sixteen years deputy post master at Auburn, N. Y., to a postmastership, vice Richardson, whose commission has ex pired. A nolle prosequi has been entered in the case of Donn Piatt, charged with sedition. Congressman Haralson of Alabama remains in Washington andfis afraid to return home, as the Democrats threaten to shoot him. His for mer partner, a judge, telegraphs Haralson thaj it is not safe for him to return|home. The President has made appointments of seven oadets ac-large to enter the West Point Academy on June 17th, including Warren Put nam of Massachusetts, the only male descend ant of Gen. Joseph Putnam and Israel Putnam of Revolutionary tame. All the rest are from the West. Seven alternates were also appoint ed to take the place of any of the cadets who may fail to pass examination. Among them was W. A. Thom ofJMaine, son of Lieutenant Colonel George Thom of the United].States|en gineer corps. The U. S. Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the lower court in the Centennial appropriation case and decided that the $1,000, 000 appropriated by Congress shall be returned to the government before any (dividends are paid to stockholders. The Secretary of the Navy orders all officers to make their own personal applications for as signments to duty and to refrain from* having such applications made by congressmen or poli ticians. The President has appointed Alonzo]Bell As sistant Secretary of the Interior. He was chief clerk of the department under] Secretary Chandler, and is promoted on the ground of merit. mi_t»_.tJ_it. r_ii.. __.1 it.. __ mer in Vermont. The President will live at the Soldiers’s Home, near Washington, absent ing himself from the Capitol only a few days with his family in midsummer. The House clerk has before him two sets of certificates from Louisiana,one from Gov. Kel logg giving the Kepublicans four and the^Dem ocrats two members, and the other from Gov. Nicholis, giving the Democrats four and the Kepublicans two members of the House. FOREIGN. The belief in war between Kussia and Tur key increases, as Turkey has in effect rejected the protocol, though it is dilatory in making its action known. Tne London Times says that the first condition proposed by Kussia, namely peace with Montenegro, is beset by new difficulties. We have nothing as yet to encourage us to believe that the second condi tion that the Forte should place its armies on a peace footing and send an envoy to St. Peters burg to treat of disarmament has been ac cepted. The Turkish parliament to which it is said both conditions will be rjferred, is no doubt subject to the influence of the govern ment, but the very delegation of the decision by the Porte to the popular assembly seems unfavorable to the policy of concession. The retirement of Bismarck if only tempora ry, is looked upon by the Vatican as an oppor tune moment for resuming negotiations with a view to regulating and stopping the antagon ism of the last few years. A Matamoras letter says there is no valid protection for Americans in Mexico, owing to the fact that the "United States government has not recognized Diaz nor proclaimed itself friendly to Lerdo, and the American minister and consuls are without influence with the Mexicans, their principal duty being to file the protests of Americans against outrages. The Consul General of the United States at Melbourne advises the State Department that who does not carry with him means for return ing in a year, as such emigrants are likely in most instances to want to go back within that time. The Treasurer of the United States announces that he will hereafter exchange silver coin for national bank notes of $10 or aDy multiple thereof not to exceed $10,000, the coin to be forwarded from the mint in the usual manner at the expense of the mint. There are charges agaiost Gov. Potts of Mon tana that he procured an imitation or forgery of the great seal of the territory, which he has largely used in the funded indebtedness of the territory, and that more than $900,000 of hoods have been thrown upon the market which bear the impress of this counterfeit seal, and are therefore void also that Potts lent his influence in securing cettain mail service, which cost rhe government upwards of $200,000, ho receiv ing in return valuable rewards. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Indictments have been found against the Chico assassins lor murder and arson. Moore s paper mill at Wilmington, Del., was burned on Wednesday night of last week. Loss $350,000, A large number of hands are thrown out of employment. A concern calliBg itself the Silver Mountain Mining Company, has been sending circulars throughout the country. It is a swindle. Six men supposed to be “monte” operators attempted to abduct Mrs. Geo. W. Watson ol Massillon, Ohio, from> Dock Island train last week, on the pretense that she was insane. She escaped after a desperate struggle, Norfolk, Va., was flooded Sunday night by a severe rain Btorm. The damagejis estimated al $10,000. Ex-Gov. Tilden was^thrown from a carriage Monday night, but escaped without serious injury. The Sixth National Bank of New York was entered by burglars last Sunday and robbed oi $2,500. A man named Daniel H. Burns has been arrested on suspicion of being the rob her. A new brick block on tho corner of Oxford Street and Central Avenue in Lynn was burned Monday. Loss $80,000 to $100,000. Mrs. Strout of Chelmsford, Mass., who was bitten two months ago by a Spitz dog died of hydrophobia Thursday night. Chas. H. Davis of Concord, N. H., is under arrest on suspicionj'of having murdered his wife, Martha Davis, who died very suddenly Saturday morning. Luke JacksoD, a negro who incited.the recent riot at Crawford, Ga., has been arrested in Atlanta. He seems to have been jokingly informed he was to be Postmaster, and made a formal demand for the office, but was refused, and persuaded a secret society, of which he was the head, to assist in taking it by foroe, It ap pears one negro was wounded in the fight. A shocking tragedy was enacted in New York on Thursday of last week in the office of John Jewett Sons, the largest dealers in white lead in the country; it appears that the younger Jewett was an idle fellow, the busi ness was not congenial to him, and he wished to withdraw; there was some misunderstand ing between him and his partners about the matter, when he, apparently crazed by liquor, entered the counting-room armed with a hand grenade and a revolver, and getting into a dis pute with his partners he threw the grenade, which exploded with terrific effect, killing his uncle, G. H. Jewett, who was the head of the firm, woundiDg himself so that he died soon after, and seriously wounding Mr. Dean, anoth er member of the firm. The circumstances attending the reprieve of John P. Phair, who was to be hung at Wind sor, Vt, last Friday, are of peculiar interest. He had been convicted purely upon circumstan tial evidence, principally upon the testimony of the clerk of the Adams House in Boston, who identified him as the man who passed the night there June 9, 1871, also of two pawn brokers who identified Phair as the man who pawned with them, on the morning of the 10th, articles of jewelry of the murdered woman. Phair asserted he was in Providence the night of the 9th and came to Boston on the noon train of the 10th. This was, however, unsub stantiated at the trial, Friday morning M. D, Downing of the Novelty Manufacturing Co., No. 50 School street, Boston, reading Phair’s statement in the morning papers, became con vinced that Phair was the man he met and accompanied from Providence to Boston June 10th, and visiting the office of the chief of the police, identified his photograph. If correct, it would establish au alibi beyond question. He telegraphed Got. Fairbanks at Montpelier. The Governor was at St. Johnsbury and the despatch was re-sent there, arriving at 25 min utes before the hour for execution. The Gov ernor by mere chance was at the telegraph office when it was received and immediately telegraphed the sheriff at Windsor .to postpone the execution. The affair has created unusual excitement. BllIEF MENTION. John Gonant of Jaffrey, N. H., died Satur day aged eighty years. He donated $100,000 for benevolent purposes during his lifa-The city of Concord, N. H., has voted $25,000 in aid of the extension of the road fxom Hillsboro bridge to Peterboro.-Rev. Dr. William Mulhenberg died in New York Saturday nigbt. He was the author of, the hymn “I would not live always,” and other pieces.-Yale and Harvard cannot agree upon the place of hold ing the annual boat race. Yale chooses Spring field and Harvard New; London. The race comes off the 29th of June.-The recent story of Tweed’s escape published in Harper’s Weekly is losing credit in New York. It was written by a man who some twenty-five years ago was connected with the Boston press. The Republican candidate was elected mayor of Cincinnati by a majority of 1634.-The stockholders of the Direct Cable Company have amalgamated their cable with the Anglo American. The result wilLbe an increase in cable tolls.-Oakey Hall is still in London. His flight was the result of the revival of the charges against him in connection with the Tweed ring.-Gen. Sam Cary has been fonnd guilty of appropriating $28,000 intrusted to him to buy a Colorado mine with.-The New York Methodist Conference at Roundout passed resolutions approving the President’s policy.-The suits of the city of Brooklyn against ex-City Treasurer Sprague and Deputy Treasurer Rodman have been compromised by the payment of 50 per cent, of the amount claimed by the city. The glass blowers art on a strike for higher wages.-It is said some ar rangement has been made between the rival telegraph companies by which antagonism in rates shall cease.-The whiskey trade of the country hold a conference at Chicago with a vi9w to increasing prices. copartnership! Notice ol Dissolution. THE copartnership heretofore existing under the firm name of A. V. K. M. COLE, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, A. V. Cole retiring from said firm. Either party is authorized to use the Him uam m n a lm II. 1. UXlliXI, Fresco, Sign and House PAINTING. All kinds of Jobbing promptly attended to, 16 Market Square, Por+'aud, Me, mh5 dly STEPHEN BERRY, Sock, floh and (gald ePiirdeh) No. 37 Plum Street. eTkijhn, Portrait Painter, and Teacher of Painling. No. 457 1-2 Clapp’s Block Ja31 ROOHl 4. d3m Dr. R T. Wild.©j The Natural magnetic Physician, He shall lay hand s on them and they shall be heale 30H Cumberland, Cor. of Elm St. nov8 dtt BAD HITCHCOCK, Successor to the late George Manton, UNDERTAKER, Bobos, Coffins and caskets Always on Hand. Opposite the Grand Trunk Depot, angll YARMOUTH, HIE. dtl Chas. J. Schumacher, Fresco Painter. Orders left with Schumacher Bros., or F. II. Fas set, Architect, will receive prompt attention, mb 29 _oard of the owuer. Apply to F. G. PATTERbON, 379J Congress St. April 7_ 1W Aleuts Wanted. [N Cumberlend county to canvass for the full His tory ol Movdy Sankey, the best terms ever of fered. For terms, address, wtili three cent stamp if uuvenient, to E. A. PALMER, Gen. Agen t ap3d2w Portland, Me! House Wanted. a A small family without children desire a rent in the western part ol the city. House must contain trom seven to nine rooms, having ousiderable direct sunlight, and he supplied wlih [as and good water. Reierence given. Address R°x 1557. jan29dtf Tf anted. I OA Agents, both Male and Female, te sell our l useful household articles. They will sell o almost every house. Any one can sell them We tavc agents that never sold anything before, making rom four to five dollars per day and expenses "lease call and examine the gopds, every housekeep t needs them and wants them We have a large ■ariety. N. B—Business chances bought and sold tere. Call, or address with stamp, T F BOWE 191 Exchange street, Portland. ja9dtf LOST AND FOUND. Lost. A N oblong. Black Thread Lace VEIL, probably cA on High St. between Congress and Commercial, rhe finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving it at his ofllce. aplOdlw* Lost. A Feather bed. The finder will be suitably re warded by leaving it at Wm. G. DAVIS’S place it Meetinghouse Hill, Cape Elizabeth. ap9dlw* BOARD. Boarders Wanted. VTAN and wife, or a few single gentlemen can find LTJL good accommodations at reasonable rateB, at apidSw* 12 WINTER STREET, Front Parlor Chamber. ONE of the pleasantest front parlor chambers in the city can be secured, (with board), at 58 3RACKETT STREET, corner of Spring. mh27tf Boarders Wanted. A FEW hoarders can find good rooms, furnished or unfurnished, with or without board, at febfyitf 416 CUMBERLAND STREET. TO LET STORE TO LET, Dor. Congress and Center Streets, occupied the pa3t six years by the DOLLAR STORE. rHE location for a retail business is unsurpassed. The store is deep and can be arranged for two ►ecupants IN COMMON, and at night can be wholly disconnected, having a door on each street. An open lot in the rear can be built upon and con lected with store, making a tine salesroom, or art :allery, for piano forte, furniture, or carpet dealer. Possession given May 1st, and possibly before The idjoining building, 126 130 Center St., will be con lected it needed Please apply to E. C. ANDREWS, Portland, or DAVID ROBINSON, Harrison Square, Boston, Mass. apl2dtmyl House for Sale or Lease. rHE house occupied by the undersigned, contains eight rooms besides bathroom good furnace and astern Lot 80 x 100, House has direct sunlight luring entire day. A. W. COOMBS, aplldlmCentennial Block. To Let. TENEMENT of K rooms, Dewly finished in Free Street. Apply to C. A. WESTON, apl2 lw 47 Free Street. To Let. HOUSE cor. Congress and St. Lawrence Street Southerly half contains 8 pleasant rooms, gas,, hard and soft water. It is one of the pleasantest locations on Mud joy. Terms reasonable. Avply at house. aplidlw* To Let. A FIRST class Brick house, in the western part or ihe city, 13 rooms, newly repaired through out, sunny and pleasant, and near the Horse Cars. Inquire ot B. D VERRILL, aplOdtf 205 Middle Street. Rooms TO LET at No. 201 Oxford Steet, Portland ap9 tf To Let. APIpn.au) furnished .uuny Front Room, 67 PEARL STREET, right lianil hell. mll31d2w* To Let. ROOMS on tho first, second and third floors of the new hrick building on the easterly side of Union St. Power can be had if wanted. Inquire of W. H. PENNELL, on tho premises, IT Union St apG dtf To Let. A Furnished Ilonse of six to nine rooms, at Woodford’s Corner, to a small family, who would l>e willing to board lessor and wile a small part of the time. The above house has all modern im provements, a fine garden, fruit trees and stable. Address, City P. O. Box U73. mh27tf To Let. Upper Tenement TVo. 90 Clark St. mli26 tf To Let. STORE 274 Congress street. Also tenement corner Deer and Fore street, 5 rooms, Sebago water. Enquire ma20tl 108 NEWBURY ST. TO LET. A BRICK HOUSE, with stable, in a good neigh borhood situated od the highest land between tho Eastern and Western Promenade. The house is furnished witli Gas and Sebago, and heated by a good furnace. Plenty of sunlight. Address, “F,» PRESS OFFICE, mil 14 tf To Let. PLEASANT convenient Rooms to let. Furnished or untumished. Iu bouse No. 118 Spring street. mh!4_tf Union House. FURNISHED, steam-heated Lodging rooms to let, at No. 12 Temple street, inalltfS. E. AUSTIN. To Let. THE Chamber on the corner of Middle and Cross streets, recently occupied by W. C. Beckett, merchant tailor. Apply to HENRY DEERING, mcbl3dtf 37 Exchange St, HOTEL TO LEASeT The New England House, Portland, Hie, Address AUG. P. FULLER, de28dtf Portland, Me. To Let. NOW is your chance to get a good rent all to your self, a small House, within 3 minutes walk of Citv Building; rent about $10.00 per month. Apply to W. W. CARR, decISdtl 19V Newbury street. To be Let, THE Offices in Third Story Merchants* National Bank, now occupied by J. E M. Rand; also the front offices. These offices are heated by steam; have gas, water and lire proof vaults. Possession given Nov. 1st. oct27dtf To Let. rglHK BRICK HOUSE No. 74 Danforth Street JL containing all the modern improvements In quir at No. 10 Central Wharf. jD dtf CLAIRVOYANT. MADAIT1K N. 8, MADDOX,the celebrated Clairvoyant, Fortune Teller and Dootress. can now located at Market Square, rear of the Dollar Store, owposite olie Horse Car Depot, where she can be consulted by all who wish to make her a call Madame M. has had large experience in tell ing fortunes, searching out lost, bidden or stolen treasures, &c., and waB never known to bo at fault. Do not miss this opportunity of consulting the great est fortuneteller of the age. Per us entering intoany new business or profession, flic con noting ot which they do not understand, will find it to the j advan tage to pay her a visit. She can foretoll the destiny ot friends in any part of the rvoi Id and describe them perfectly. Slio also describes all manner ot disease that flesh is lieir to, ami gives medicine for the same, hue has given universal satisfaction to all who have consulted her in her constant travels since she was seven years old. Good testimonials given i! desired. Terms, Gents $1.00; Bailies 50 cents. Oflico hours rotu >J A. M. to 9 P. M. uo9dtt I iiavc not retired Iroin business but have taken the new store No. 17 Union st., where, with new tools, new stock, and my old workmen I shall con tinue to tarry on the business ol Steam, Gas. and Water Piping in all its branches. Particular alien-, lion paid to ventilation and saui-| tary drainage. I snail be glad to see all my old custoners and lots ol new ones, W. If. PFKKELL, ma-7 dtf -tg- REAL ESTATE For Sale. A HOUSE LOT, situated at Orchard Beach. For information please call at the Grand Trunk Dining Saloon, Portland Me. MRS. C.H. LORD ‘M|1U;dlw* Farm and Stock For Sale. SITUATED in Gorham, one mile from the village, consisting of sixty acres of land, a house, barn, stable, 3 cows an Iland a horse. Will be sold to gether or separately as desired. $1001) can remain S'li'wtkwTlur,lier particulars inquire of EDWIN COBURN, near the premises, or of GEORGE F. 851 ALL. iuii2i(Uw Steamship Wharf, Portland, Me. Land lor Sale at Cumberland Mills. BY virtue of a license from the Judge ot Probate, l now oiler for private sale a i met ol laud near Cumberland 51111s, in the town of Westbrook said to contain about 11 acres. Price asked $1200. Terms Cash. F. 51. BAY, maloti Guardian ot Charles A. Haskell et al. FOR SALE, To Let, or Exchange. FOB Ret*1 Estate in the country—the Two-Story Brick bouse and land No. 2 Spruce St Lot 115x50. EDWARD t. IVOVBk. apl2d&wlw Portland Having. Bank. Extensive Sale of Timber lands. By vi*tu® a •icense from the Judge of Probate ot Oxford county, Maiue, I shall sell at pub lie auction at the Andrews House at So, Paris, in Oxford County, on TUESDAY .May 1st, at 11 A. 51., the following lands in Oxford county, belonging to the estate ol David Buftum. late ot Salem, Mass., to ^ar j Amiover West Surplus of which said Butfum died possessed, containing about ti.ooo acres, more or less, much of it timbered. Said Sur plus is delineated on the map of Oxford county. Also the Buusley farm, so called, in tbo towns ot An dover and Roxbury, containing about (ioo acres on which tbere is a valuable water piivdege. Wiirten BDd sealed bids for each or both ot said tracts will be received by Alvab Black, Esq., at bis office in Paris, Me., which will be onened at the time of sale above named, and the highest bidder will then be an nounced as the purchaser. Terms ot sale- half cas h on delivery of deed, an I bank note ior balance, with such indersers as are sati-f ictory to me, nayabie in four months, interest added. If said bids are not satisfactory, I reserve the right to decline them, and ef farther notice and sale. DOLLY BUFFUM, Executrix, ape__d&w3w Tonline Hotel for Sale in Bruns wick, Maine. THIS long established, well known and popular Hotel, togather with the furniture is now offer ed for sale on very reasonoble terms. It contains 42 rooms, well adapted tor the accommodation of guests and has a capacious stable and carriage house ad joining m goon repair. 11 is cenr.rauy locaiea in tee thriving town of Brunswick, the seat ot Bowdoin Col lege, and the Maine Medical Sohool, and presents a rare oppoitunity to any person wishing to engage In the Hotel business. If not sold, will be ottered to rent to a reliable party. For further particulars apply to the BRUNSWICK SAVINGS INSTITUTION, apr2eodtf Brunswick Maine. FARM FOB SALE. IN Gorham, the well-known Mosher Farm, situa ted about midway between Gorham Village and Saccarappa. This farms cuts seventy tons ot bay, and is considered one of the best farms in this coun ty. Also a Lot and new buildings pleasantly situ ated in the village. Price very low. Enquire of DANIEL C. LIBBY, or DANIEL C. EMERY. Gorham, March 25, 1877. rah21d&wtf j For Sale. FARM in Deering, four miles from Portland, con taining 28 acres conveniently divided into mowing, pasture and wood land. Buildings nearly new and in good condition. Wells of hard and soft water, and young orchard of about 80 apple and pear trees on the premises. Location good and healthful. Call on JOHN C. COBB, No. 31* Ex change Street. ma5dtf For Sale or To Let. fpHE very desirable bouse, No 5 Park Place. Jl Price $2400. Rent $25 per month. Enquire on the premises. Also house corner of Lincoln and Wilmot Streets. Price $2200. Rent $20 per month. Enquire of CHAS. H. KIMBALL. Architect, ISO* Middle St„ Boyd Block, or of JOHN C, PROCTER, ap9 eodtf House For Salo AT Cumberland. Mills. A New story and one-half lionse, ell and stable. and double lot of land for sale at a bargain on easy terms. Inquire of CANSELO WINSHIP, 14 Spruce street, or F. M. KAY, Att’y-at-Law, Cen tennial Block. Im*te20dtf For Sale, ONE of the most desirable seaside resorts on the coast. Buildings well arranged to accommodate 100 Guests. For price and terms call on JOHN C. PROCTER, 93 Exchange St. fe3dtf KIRKWOOD PROPERTY recently occupied by Otis Kaler Son, for sale. J. B. THORNTON, Ja9dtf___Quit Hill. Me. For Sale. House anil lot at NISI\(, \U|S%\«;Ft|EVI. The SuperiorlSea Going Steamer?, FOREST fill AIVD JOHN HKOOKN will, until further notice, run alteruatiely as fol ows: Leaving riHVVTiv mn inn tn_n_j ft *«y L U1 UUUU) Daily, at 7 o’clock I*. HI., and l>DI 1 WHARF, BOSTON, daily at 5 F, HI. [Sunday excepted.) FARE $1.00. Passengers by this Une are reminded that they se cure a comfortable night’s rest and avoid the ex. pense and inconvenience of arriving in Boston late at night. Through Tickets to New York via the various Sound Lines, for sale at very low rates. Freight taken as usual. de30-76dtf J H. OOVLE.jr Oen’l Agt. For Halifax Direct. the Steamship Falmouth, Capt. W. A Colby, will leave Railroad TV hart every SATUR DAY at 5.30 P M. for Halifax di ——i—. ’reet, making connections for all parts ot Nova Scotia. Returning, leaving Halilax on Tuesdays at 8.30.p. m, For freight or passage ap ply to J, B. COYLE, Jr., Agent, mh273tfFranklin Wharf. ALLAN LINE. Montreal Ocean Steamship Co. Under contract for the conveyance of Passengers booked to London derry anu Liverpool. Return Tirltet. granted at .reduced rates. The Steamship SCANDINAVIAN, Capt. Barclay, will sail from this port for Liverpool on Saturday, April 14lh, immediately after the arrival of the train of the previous day from Montreal. Passages to Londonderry and Liverpool, cabin [according t. accommodations,) 870 aud 880. Intermediate passage 840. Payable in gold or its equivalent. For freight or cabin passage apply to H. A. ALLAN, No. 1 India St. For steerage passage inward and outward, and lo iglit drafts on England in sums to suit, apply to JAiv.ES L FARMER, No. 3 India St. Portland, Nov. 24, 1876. nov22dtf FORM), BMOR fills STEAMBOAT CO., FOR BANGOR AND MACHIAS. jfmmmmm Until further notice, and until P the Steamer Lewiston is ready to go on the Machias route, the Steamer CITY OF KICHMOND, Capt. Kilby, will make o^ trip per week to Bangor and one to Machias. as follows:—Wi'l leave Railroad Wharf, foot of State street, every Tue»da> Eve niDs, at IO o'clock, for Bancor touching at Rockland. Camden, LincoJnvilie (until further no tice), Belfast, Searsport, Sandy Point, Bucksport, Winterport and Hampden Returning, leave Hun icor every Thuudny morainic ai O o’clock, arriving inlPoitland ar 5 P M. Will also eave Portland every Frida? Eve niog ai IO o’clock for Hlachianoort, touch ing at Rockland, Castine. Deer Isle, Sedgewiclc, So. West and Bar Harbois (Mt. Desert), Miiibiidge and Jonesport. Returning Mondays arriving in Port land same evening. For further particulars enquire of GEO. L. DAY, /iiTanivS611, Ticket Agent, Railroad Wharf. E. CUSHING, Assistant Manager, Portland, March 31._ ma31dtf Norfolk, Baltimore Washington STEAMSHIP LINK liar. week. Fir. I t in.. Micam.M* JOHNS HOPKINS. WM. CRANK. WM. LAWRENCE GEOROE APPOLD. From Boston direct erery TVEUDAV and SATURDAY. AND WM. KENNEDY. BLACK8TONE and McClellan. Front Providence every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY. Freight lorwarded from Norte Ik to Washington and Alexandria by steamer Lady of the Lake and Jane Mosely. Freight forwarded from Norfolk to Petersbu-g and Richmond, and Va. and Tenn. R. R. to all places in the South, W. M. Clark, Agent, 240 Washington St., Boston. To all points of North and South Carolina by Sea beard and Roanoke Railroad and Atlantic Coast Line John S. Daly, Agent,222 Washington street, Boston. And to ali points in the West by Baltimore Ohio R. R., M. W. Davison, Agent, 219 Wasnington street, Boston. Through hills oi fading given by the above named Agents. Passage $12.90 to Baltimore. For freight or passage to Norfolk,Baltimore, Wash ington, or other mlormation apply to E. SAMPSON, Agent, 53 Central Wharf, Boston. E. H. ROCKWELL, Agent, no2dtt Providence, K. I. &TONINGTON U]II: FOR NEW YORK, AHEAD OF ALL O T II E H This is the Only Inside Route Avoiding Point Judith. Steamboat Express trains leave Boston from Boa ton Providence R. R. Depot daily, except Sunday, at 5.30 p. m., connecting at Stonington with the en tirely new and superb Steamer Rhode Island, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, anti with the ele gant and popular steamer Stonington every Tues day, Thursday and Saturday, arriving in New York alwayti inadrance of all or her line*. Rag gage checked through. Tickets procured at depots of Boston tfc Maine and Eastern Railroads and at Rollins Adana’, 22 Ex change St..and W. D» Little Co.’s,494 Exchange St. L. W. FILKIN8, D. S. BABCOCK, Gen. Passenger Ag’.t, Now York President, ocl 73 dt.f INMAN LINE MAIL STEAMERS FOR QUEENSTOWN AND LIVERPOOL, Sailing from New York as follows: City of Richmond Saturday, April 14 3.00 p. m City of Brussels Saturday, April 21 noon. City of Berlin Saturday, April 28 3.0t) p. m City of Chester Saturday, May 5 11.00 a m City oF Montreal Saturday, April 12 3 p. m Passengeis will And these steamers tastefully filled up, and the staterooms large and perfectly ventilat ed. Tho saloons are the entire width ot the vessel, ind situated where there is least noise and motion, freatl^lessening the liability to sea sickness Smok ing rooms. Ladies’ Boudoirs, Piano fortes and Libraries, Bath rooms. Barber’s shop, Electric Bells, Spacious Promenade Decks, etc., &e. Southetiy course during the ice season. Rates of passage $80 anti $100, gold, according accommodation, all having equal saloon privileges. Round Trip tickets—$145 and $175. gold Steerage—To and from all points at reduced rates. jobs dace. 15 Broadway, New Yo k Or T. P. tlc l,oston> 3 i..m From Pine StTeet Wharf, Phila delphia, at lo a. m. I Insurance ou« hall the rate cf sailing vessels. '"JO* West b, the Penn. R. R.,and South )y connecting lines forwarded free of Commission. PASSAOg THN DOLLAltS. For Freight or Passage apply to E. B, hAMPStON. Agent Jn23-ly VO l.ouu M’bnrf. Bouts, CLYDE’S Philadelphia, Boston New England STEAMSHIP LIKES. FOL K STEAMERS) FEIt MEEK WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY by Boston and Providence Railroad via Providence A X^eSDA* and SATURDAY by KlveC°°ny Railroai1 via Fall (food, Itecrlvrd at Depot, Daily. •iLiL“d 1?8 fiT>!D ,rom Boston and pnn Ne* hnglaud to theSomb and South h :'cV vnF‘'LrYLv “¥“**J" Philadelphia with «SiEAi' LINES" to ItuKiiuwre, Norfolk Richmond, Charleston, ifrw kerne and Washington. C. MINK. GENERAL FREIGHT AGENT, jaulldtf tit X26 Washington street,3