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ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862.---V0L. K. PORTLAND, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1879.__TERMS $8.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
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PORTLAND PTBLISHDIO CO.,
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ENTE RTAINMENTS._
Lectures on Spiritualism
W.J.COLYILLR OF ElSftLAND,
Inspirational speaker, will give two lectures on
Honda) and Tuesday Ev’agn, ©cc.29 &: .‘50
at Spiritual Fraternity Hall, Mechanics Block, cor.
of Congress and Cusco sts. Lectures to commence at*
7.30. "Single tickets 15c. de27d2t
Fraternity Dances!
' FOURTH AKXUAL COURSE.
CITY ~HA LL,
Friday Evening, Nov. -^Wednesday Eve
nings, Dec. lo, 31, Jan. 14, !ib,Feb. It,
— IN AID OF THE —
Portland Fraternity.
6*eurral Committee*
T. C. Hkiisly, Fsq.. president Fraternity.
Samukl.L Anderson, Esq., Vice President.
H. A. Noyes, Treasurer.
Ho.v. Gi:<>. Walker, Mr. S. E. Spring,
Hon. a. E. Stevens. Mr. I. P. Farrington,
Hon. Geo. 1*. Wuscori, Mr. Geo. S. Hi nt,
Hon. .Jacob McLellan, SIR. H. N. Jose,
Hov. Wm. L. Putnam, Slit. Geo. W. Woodman,
Hon. i. Washburn, .Til, Slit. Gras. McLaughlin,
.Mr. Wm. I. Thom, SIR. Jons' N. Lord,
Slit. Nathan Webb, Slit. J. S. Winslow,
Mr. Giias. e. Jose, .'.lit. J. P. Laxter,
sir. S. T. Pullen, SIR. 1). W. Fessenden,
Mr St. P. Emery, .Mr. Lewis Pierce,
Slit. W. F. StILL1KEN,
Committee on Entertainments.
Fred K. Farrington, J. II. Drummond, Jr.,
Wm. Sentkr, Jr., E. D. Noves,
E. C. Jordan, Wm. H. Schumacher.
p. T. Griffin,
Tickets for tlie course of six evenings, admitting
Gentleman and Ladies, $5.00: to be obtained of tbo
Committee on Entertainments. Evening tickets, §1.
JfSeasic bv ChaadlcPs Full Qnatlriilc Bausi.
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MUSIC HALL.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31=
“HE’S GOT TO COME.”
Harry Bloodgood
AND III* SITUBM
MINSTREL TROUPE.
25 €jtOOI> €>i¥ES 25
in a select programme of Refined Minstrelsy,
8 ACKNOWLEDGED COMEDIANS. 8
A QUINTETTE OF TRAINED VOICES.
A QUARTETTE OF CLOG DANCERS.
A Sextette of Song and Dance Artist*.
A FULL AND EFFICIENT ORCHESTRA
— AND —
Si5.00»G00irS Bit ASS BAND.
POPULAR PRICES,—Reserved Seats 50 and 75;
gallery 35. llox office open Tuesday morning, Dee
gy de29d3t
PORTLAND THEATRE.
FRANK CURTIS. .LESSEE" AND MANAGER.
ABfBBNOOlt .').XB EVENS**.,
Jau. 1, 1880, New Year. Jan. 1, 1880,
by special request,
will present again, Gilbert and Sullivan's ever
‘ welcome and popular comic opera,
PH. iVi. S?1"
i N £ F O R E &
with tho same local cast which characterized theii
last successful representation.
Sale of seats Monday, Dec. 29tli. de* t dtd
NEW YEAR’S BALL
— AT — %
CITY HALL.
Committee of Aryangcment—J. A. Kennedy, T.
E. Hartnett, Jf. F. IJavis. ,
rAciiecJis not transferatle. dedodnt
3 Classical Subscriptiou Concerts
AT ROSSINI HALL.
No. Recital by W. 12. Sher
',100.1. of ISostoit.
No.ii—Pitmo Recital by Ernst Pernbo of
Eloslnii.
No. {{—Concert by Kcelhorea String
Quartette of Bosiou.
Each concert to have a Vocalist. Subscription to*
the course 82.00. List at Stoclihridge’s. de23tf
. FIRST
CONCERT
under the management of the
OF PORTLAND,
AT CITY HALL,
Monday Evening, Jan. 5, 1889.
Baud Concert from 8 P. M. to 9 1*. M.
The Promenade Concert will commence with a
grand march at 9.15 P. M., and all encampment
members participating are requested to appear in
full street uniform.
Music by Chandler’s Full Band.
Tickets admitting gentleman and Indies, f 1; Gal*
if*r\'ts *2ti cents each. 1 ickets can he oh
taint'd of the following Committee ot Arrangements
or at tlie door:
F. T. Mebbile, 'J- Robinson,
S. ii. Kelsey, H* F. Kniciit,
F. R. Fabiumitox, -I. S. Coxi.ey,
E. A. (iitAt, W. A Allen,
W. A. Tayloh, J. 11. Ui’ssell,
F. O. Trit-VKl:, W. N. Howe,
0. B. Whitten.
A first-class Caterer will lie in attendance at Re
ception 11 all where refreshments can bo procured at
reasonable ptices.
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BUS I :\ ESS DIRECTORY.
Accountant anti Notary Public.
Geo. C. Ciintl AN-, Oilier No. 1M Middle
Slreet, f’ertlaad.
Iiorse Shoeing
Sij ». YOUNG A «'<>., Practical Horse
Winter-. 70 Pearl Wiree-t.
Heal Estate Agents.
JOHN' U. PKOUTEB No. »1J Kxehnulje
Book Binders.
XV.n. A. QUINCY, Boom SI, Printer*’
Exchange No. I t I ExeUnnge Street.
N.U1M, & SII.lCKFCKDt No. 33 Pl«m
Street.
tV. II. OHEUK. Sewing Machine ISepnir
cr, 3 .llarif’t* 1 t rnacp, in the* **<'»»•
<’ongrfi«»Strefi. inylMdly
T. C. £VAWS’
Advertising Agency and Printers’
Warehouse,
106 WASHINGTON »*•, - BOSTON.
Dealer in Wood and Metal Type, mid ail kinds of
Printers' Materials. Advertisements inserted in all
aiier in tbo United States or Canadas at publishers
J est prices Seud for estimates.
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Ocean Insurance Comp’y
ANNUAL MEETING.
THE Stockholders of the Ocean Insurance Com
pany are hereby notified to meet at the office
of said Company, in Portland, on Monday, the f»th
day of January, A. I>. 1880, at 3 o'clock p. m. for
the purpose of choosing seven Directors for the en
suing year and for the transaction of any other bus
iness that mav then bo legally acted upon.
It. O. CON ANT. Sec'v.
Dec. 13, 1879.__delBdtd
Notice.
mUE Proprietors of Union Wharf Corporation are
JL hereby notified that tlieir Annual Meeting will
be holden :i‘ the office of the Clerk on said wharf on
Tuesday, the Oth day of January, 1880, at 2 p. m.
to act on the following articles, viz:
1st—To choose a President.
2d—To choose a Clerk and other officers for the en
suing year.
3d—To act on other business 11 a may come before
them. A. K. S-i?.'RTLEFF, Clerk.
Portland, Dee. 22,1879. de22td
ANNUAL MEETING for the choice of Directors
and any other business tint may come before
the meeting, will be held tIk: tirst TUESDAY, Oth
day of January, 1880, at 3 o’clock P. M„ at the
office of J. D. Fessenden, Esvj., J72 Middle, corner
Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
de2f>dtd J). CARPENTER, Treas.
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.
milE stockholders of 11 • Merchants National
JL Bank of Portland are hereby notified that their
annual meeting for the choice of directors for the
ensuing year and the transact ion of such other bus
iness as mav legally bo brought before them will bo
held at the Bank on TUESDAY, Jan. 13, 1830, at
10 o’clock A. M. CHAS. PAY SON, Cashier.
Portland, Doc. 9, 1879. de9dtd
CASCO NATIONAL BANK.
HjlHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
. JL Casco National Bank of Portland, for the*choice
or Directors and the transaction of such other bus
iness as may legally come before them will be held
at their Banking House on Tuesday, the Kith day
of January, 1880, at 10 o'clock a. m.
WM. A. WIN SHIP, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. 10, 1879. dlldtd
_a < t' Port land are hereby notified that their an
nual meeting will be held at their banking room, on
Tuesday, the 13th day of January next, at 3 o'clock
I*, m., to choose live Directors for the ensuing year
and to act on any other business that may legally
come before them. EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Dec. 12, 1879. de!2td
CANAL NATIONAL BANK
rjpHE Annual Meeting of the stockholders cf “The
Ji. Canal National Bank of Portland” for the
election of seven Directors ami for the transaction
of any other business that may legally come before
them will bo held at their banking house on TUES
DAY. the 13lh dav of Jan.,1880, at 11 o'clock a. m.
B. C. SOMERBY, Cashier.
Dee. 12, 1879._de!2td
CUMBERLAND NATIONAL BANK
mUE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
JL Cumberland National Bank of Portlaud will
be held at their banking rooms on TUESDAY, the
13tli day of January, 1880. at 10 o’clock A. M..
for the choice of Directors for the ensuing year anu
tlie transaction of any other business that may le
gally come before them. -
WM. If. SOULE, Cashier.
Portland, Dec, 12th, 1879. deI3dtd
Esagle Ne3s?s8s* liefisaery
rjTUiE Stockholders of this corporation are hereby
JL notified that tho Annual Meeting for choice of
Directors and action upon any other business that
may come before them will be held at the Refinery
office on Tuesday, the 13th day of January, 1880,
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
de27td JOS. P. THOMPSON, Clerk.
BANK STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
— OF THE —
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
— AT —
Portland, in tlio State of Maine,
At the CTo’ic of Business, Bee. £55, 1879.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. $070,175 11
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation— 300,000 00
U. S. Bonds to secure deposits. 75,000 00
Other stocks, bonds, and mortgages. 2,022 48
Due from approved reserve agents... 50,592 11
Due from other National Banks. 2,430 30
Real estate, furniture, and fixtures. 33,010 34
Current expenses and taxes paid. 5,080 02
Checks and other cash items. 8,050 18
Exchanges for clearing-house. 0,748 57 i
Bills of other Banks.. 9,175 00
L’rueHnnnl cnrriMiev Bncliidiiu? llick
els). 11- {°
Specie (including gold Treasury cer
tificates). 4,500 00
Legal tender notes. 14,000 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasur
er (5 per cent, of circulation). 143,500 00
Total..$1,200,409 52
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. $300,000 00
Surplus fund. GO,000 00
Undivided profits. 145,350 27
National Bank notes outstanding — '209,500 00
Dividends unpaid . _ 049 70
Individual deposits subject to check.. 259.971 10
Demand certificates of deposit. 48,500 00
Certified checks. 0,253 35
Cashier’s checks outstanding. 0,253 3a
United States deposits . . ■ 25,257 05
Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers. 30,250 17
Due to other National Banks. 18,370 41
Notes and bills re-discounted ... 30,241 40
Total. $3~200,409 52
STATE OK MAINE, County of Cumberland, ss.
J, Clias. Payson, Cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
OHAS. PAYSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworu to before me this 23d day
of December, 3879.
CHAS. O. BANCROFT, .Justice of the Peace.
Correct—Attest:
4AC0B McLELLAN,)
CEO. S. HUNT, [ Directors.
W. S. .JORDAN. )
de25 _3t
WOLFEB
Sdiiedaui Aromatic
SCHNAPPS.
As a general bei erage and necessary
corrective of water rendered impure by
vegetable decomposition or other causes,
as Limestone, Sulphate of Copper &c, the
Aromatic Schnapps is. superior to every
other alcoholic preparation. A public
trial of over 30 years duration in every
section of our country of Udolpho Wolfe’s
Schnapps, its unsolicited endorsement by
tlie medical faculty and a sale nnequaled
by any other alcoholic distillation have
insured for it the reputation of salubrity
claimed for it. For sale by all Druggists
and Grocers.
ilplo life’s Son v\ Co.,
18 BEATER STREET,
MEW YORK.
no2S> dtt
THE GREATEST
WASHING COMPOUD
Ever put upon the market,
and t'.i- only one that abolishes toil and drudgery
•without injuring the finest fabric. No family
should be without it. The saving of Labor, Time,
and Soap, will prove astonishing.
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.
But beware of viie imitations.
ASK FOR PEARLSNE.
JAMES PYLE, New York.
jC30 eodeowlw &weow!6w27
MISCELLANEOUS._
IMMENSE STOCK
OF
FUENITDEBi
We have now on hand one of the Largest
and best assortments of Furniture ever shown
| in Maine. This stock of furniture was all man
ufactured and bought by us before the advance
in prices, and until we have to put in a new
Stock we shall sell at former prices. We wish
the Public to understand we shall allow no
Dealer in New England to undersell us under
any circumstances. Please give us a call be
fore purchasing and save money.
C. A. WHITNEY & CO.,
Mo. <2-3 S32s:c333.£«,23.®© ®t., Portland., BdC©.
LAST CHANCE.
(Jvf-ai closing out sale of tile balance of the Stock of Clothing tha
was recently Damaged by smoke and water at
Mo. JL’TJ. Fore Street.
This stock must be sold by December 31st, regardless of cost. All
Wool Coats $3.50. $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00. These coats
cost twice the money to make. All Wool Suits $6.00, $6.50, $7.50
$8.50. This is a choice bargain in Suits. All Wool Coats and Vests
for about one-half what they cost elsewhere. Overcoats $3.75, $6.00,
$7.50 and $8.50. If you want an Overcoat call and see them. Shirts
and Drawers 35, 50 and 63 1-3 cents. Fine White Shirts $1.00; cheap
for $3.00.
Ficasc hear in mind that this will he your last chance to buy Cloth
ing at these prices, as this stock must be closed out by December 31.
FIRE I SMOKE ! WATER !
5r„ Sisk.. ■
de2dlm \o. 171 Fore Street.
IF THIS IS NOT
Ulster and Overcoat Weather
-Zk KT ZO
fm & co, mam st.
Can’t Furnish These Garments,
WHO C3ZL3XT 2
$10.00 and $12.00
ain’t cheap for a good warm
\
ULSTER OR OVERCOAT
And if a poor man can’t afford to pay the above prices
for an overcoat, why can’t he afford to
purchase one of our nice
Cotton Flannel Lined Grey Overcoats
as as. so 'i
And if parents wish to give Holiday Presents to their
children, why don’t they buy nice, warm Clothing
O* D. B. Fisk Sc Co’s,
PREBLE HOUSE.
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1‘RJEliaOi
CKSTKXSIAI, Oil, l
No Smell or Smoke Absolutely Safe
Awarded Highest Prize at Fair of Massachusetts
Charitable Mechanics Association, 1878.
Office <51 Va Broad St., Boston, 25 and 27 Com
mercial St., Portland. se29d3m
$142 ol$ 100
October 18. Proportional returns every week <»n
Stock Options ot S*V50, — — SI50O*
Official Reports an<l Circulars free. Address
T. POTTElt WIGHT & CO., Baukers, 35 Wall St
N. Y. mblldlv
Vaults Cleaned and Aslies Removed
& T from $-4 to $0 per cord, or $3 per loud. Ail
im. Orders roinptly attended to by calling on or
addressing E. GIBSON,
c2dtf 588 Congress St.
SPECIFIC MEDICINE.
TRADE; MARK THE OreatTRADE MARK
. nglinh Kriii*
cdy, an unfailing
cur© for Seminal
Weakness, Sper
matorrhea, Impo
tency, and all dis
eases that follow,
as a sequence of
Self-Abuse;
Loss of Memory, ..
. •• 1 Universal Lassi-AFTER TARIRB.
tnde, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Prema
ture Old Age, and many other Diseases that lead tc
Insanity or Consumption and a Premature Grave.
Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we
desire to send free by mail to every one. The
Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per
package, or six packages for $5, or will be sent free
by mail on receipt of the money by addressing
THE GRAY MEDICINE CO.,
No. 3 Mechanics’ Block, Detroit, Mick.
25**“ Sold in Portland by all Druggists and by
Druggists Everywhere. uov2 d&wly
D18. F. II. KENISON
From 145 Tremont Street
Boston, will be at U. S.
Hotel, Room ]‘J J AN.
20, for Fou* Days Only
Corn*, Bunion* and
Bad Nail* treated with
out Pain. Operations on
Dorns, 25 cents each.
feb24l^^^^^^KPr ff codtf
_ INSURANCE.
The Penn Mutual
LIFE INSURANCE CO’Y
OF Pflll.ADEI.FUI.l.
■ incorporated in 1847.
Net Assets, - $6,611,080.31
Snrplus, Mass. Standard, $957,227.17
PURELY MUTUAL.
Surplus returned annually in reduction of prem
iums or to increase insurance. Policies nou-forfeit
able by the rules of the company. Endowment pol
icies issued at Life Kates.
A. M. AUSTIN,
GENERAL AGENT FOR
Maine and New Hampshire,
188 TVTicicllo St.,
PORTLAND, ME.
ACTIVE AG-ENTS WANTED
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CITY AD VERTI SEMENTS
To the Harbor Coininisiouers of
Portland.
I INVITE your Board to appoint a day for consid
ering my application for permission to extend
tVia hnllr-lioail JiAtiroon RrnTOJi’o ond Aforoliatlte
wharves. J. B. BROWN.
Portland, Dec. 23d, 1879.
ON the foregoing petition it is ordered: that a
hearing be had on January 2d, 1880, at
3 o’clock P. At., at the place indicated in the appli
cation, and that a notice of the above petition to
gether with this our order thereon, be given by pub
lication in tw# of the daily papers printed in Port
land, for seven da\s, at least, previous to the hear
ing. JACOB AlcLELLAN, ) Harbor
TIMOTHY B. TOLFORD, [ Commis
C. H. FARLEY, ) sioners.
Portland, Dec. 23d, 1879. de25dtd
COPARTNERSHIP.
Dissolution oi' Copartnership.
THIS is to give public notice that the Copartner
ship heretofore existing between M. C. Foster
of Waterville, Alaine, and Josiah Dutton of Norway,
Alaine, doing business under the firm name of FOS
TER & DUTTON, Contractors and Builders, is this
day dissolved by the retirement of Josiah Dutton.
All business of the late firm will be closed by AT. C.
Foster. JOSIAH DUTTON.
Augusta, Dec. 12,1879. del5,22,29
latiou
The Reformer anti Vitalizes* of the
Blood.
The E9roi3ucer and Ix&vigcrator of Nerve
and I?lmsc!e.
The Builder and Supporter of Brain
Power.
Fellows’ Compound Syrup is composed of
Ingredients identical with those who con
stitute Healthy Blood, Muscle aed Nerve
and Brain Substance, whilst life itself is
directly dependent upon some of them.
By its union with the blood and its effect
upon the muscles, reestablishing the one
and toning the other, it is capable of effect
ing the following results:
It will displace or wash out tuberculous
matter, and thus cure Consumption.
By increasing Nervous and Muscular
Vigor, it will cure Dyspepsia, feeble or in
terrupted action of the Heart and Palpita
tion, Weakness of Intellect eaused by grief,
weary, overtax or irregular habits, Bron
chitis, Acute or Chronic, Congestion of the
Lungs, even in the most alarming stages.
It cures Asthma, Loss of Voice, Neural
gia, St. Vitus Dance, Epileptic Fits, Whoop
ing Cough, Nervousness, and is a most won
derful adjunct to other remedies in sustain
ing life during the process of Diptheria.
Do not he deceived by remedies bearing a
similar name, no other preparation is a sub
stitute for this under any circumstances.
Look out for the name and address, J-1.
FELLOWS, St. John, N. B., on ttie yellow
wrapper in watermark which is seen by
holding the paper before the light.
Price SI.50 per Bottle, six for $7.50.
Sold by all Druggists.
jy25 FM&W&wly31
Norwegian
COUGH REMEDY
This Cough Remedy is the best known
cure for loss of Voice, Coughs, Colds,
Bronchitis and all troubles affecting the
Throat and Lungs.
It instantly allays irritation and re
moves all Huskiness and Dryness of the
throat and increases the power and flex
ibility of the Voice.
F. T. HEARER & €0.
^*s*03prio1:c>2r*!!3!,
Corner Congress & Preble Streeis,
PORTLAND, ME.
For Sale by all Druggists. oc4dtf
REMOVAL !
HAVE REMOVED FROM
No. 84 Commercial Street, Thomas Block,
TO THE
New Store, Central Street,
HEAD OF CENTRAL WHARF.
del6 d3w
Dio Lewis’tawdm
(FOR THE CURE OF INVALIDS) at Ar
lington Height**, eight mile* from Ifionton.
Thi* institution ha* opened under the
hnppicMt auMpice*. Wend for full circular to
Dr. Dio Lewis,
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Mas*.
delO WFAllm
Dr. C, J. CBffiJNEY.
DENTiST,
/IC5P&258 MIDDLE STREET,
~ Over II. II. Hay’*.
**4lD rcr Artificial teeth inserted, from one tooth
o a full set.
Teeth filled, cleansed and extracted in the best
possible manner and at low prices.
Re*idence, SJ High, corner Pleasant Hu
HEALTH LIFT ROOMS,
237 Middle Street,
PORTLAND, MAINE.
J. H. GiUBEKT, Proprietor,
m2 2 *<t.'
VAULTS CLIiASED
AND taken out at short notice, Irom ®4 to $(i pc
cord or §3 per oad, by addressing
nov24dtf A.LLBBy &CO., Portaud P. 0.
THE PRESS.
MONDAV MORNING, DECEMBER 2D.
Every regular attache of the Press is furnished
with a Card certilicate signed by Stanley T. Pullen,
Editor. Ail railway, steamboat and hole managers
will confer a favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
"We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer arc in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
tion but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used.
So S. C. Andrews endorses the steal. All,
Mr. Andrews you have taken a step away
from the executive chamber, not towards it.
The evidence is stronger every day
that the plot to steal tbe State was planned
long before election.
Garcelox is barricading the State House
we hear. If he does that we shall have a
chance to see the beauties of Democracy ful
ly illustrated. The Democratic Tiger is
coming out strong.
The spectacle of Pillsbury flaunting the
American flag is very suggestive of a pirate
ship, that for purposes of decoy, hauls down
the skull and cross-bones and runs up the
stars and stripes.
We see that Stiles of Westbrook is to con
test Dunnells’ Seat in the Legislature. Stiles
must have a sanguine nature. If the Garce
lan Count a' Augusta could do nothing for
Stiles what can he expect any where else?
Mayor Walker’s haste to put himself
upon record in favor of the steal must be
edifying to those Republicans win voted
for him last spring. They ought to call upon
him and thank him for his approval of their
disfranchisement.
The Boston Herald says “Gov. Garcelon
will have a ready made generalissimo to lead
the defensive force at the Augusta State
House. We refer to the handsome Eben F.
Pillsbury, who acquired his military experi
ence at Kingfield, while assisting to ‘make
treason odious,’ ”
We again ask the Argus and its co-parce
ners tms question: 11 a rvepuuucan euuutn
last year liad counted out a fusion majority
on the same pretexts that a fusion Council
has counted out a Republican majority this
year, would you have approved of the act or
defended it?
Eves Chollop denounces the steal. The
Richmond, Virginia, State, says the Demo
crats cannot afford to sustain it, and pre
dicts that Garcelon “will either have to hack
down from the position he has taken as
gracefully as possible, or be left alone, high
and dry, to pay the penalty of his blunder,
for blunder it is, and of the most criminal
nature.” _
The New York Herald thinks “any amount
of inflammatory agitation in Maine which
stops short of actual violence, will have a
good effect in fixing public attention upon a
grave evil. Honest and fair elections lie a*
the foundation of our institutions. When
the voice of the people, as expressed through
the ballot-box, ceases to control the choice
of public officers, the American Republic
will have been subverted.”
The independent Democratic Chicago
Times says: “The movement to restore the
Grant dynasty at Washington was plainly be
ginning to wane, when Messrs. Pillsbury, Gar
celon & Co. came to the rescue, and gave ita
new impetus. If the Fusion party in Maine had
taken the contract to assure the nomination
of Grant at Chicago, next June, and his elec
tion by a 'tidal wave’ next November, they
could hardly have devised a more effective
way to fulfil it than that which they seem to
to be pursuing. The attempted removal of .
public arms from the aresenal at Bangor
to the camp of the Pillsbury cohorts at Augus
ta, is strikingly suggestive of the proceeding
of Messrs. Floyd and Thompson in the clos
ing days of the Buchanan regime.”
In the course of a long article on the
counting out business in this State the
Nation says:
To characterize adequately the performances
of the Democratic Governor and Council in
Mainoin exercising the functions of a returning
board would require very strong language. The
wliolo defense they make—that tho law obliges
them to exact rigid conformity to certain rules
in examining the election returns—is demol
ished by two facts. One is that the errors and
omissions which they have discovered and used
occur only in towns and districts in which the
Republicans have a majority, and it passes
belief that none should have been discovered
or discoverable in towns and districts in which
the Democrats had a majority. The other is
that a law of 187" permits the Governor and
Council, when canvassing the returns, to cor
rect such errors and omissions by comparison
with the record, and they refuse to avail them
selves ol this permission on the grouud that
the law is unconstitutional. But it is a well
settled and necessary principle of American
jurisprudence that every law is to be deemed
constitutional until a competent tribunal de
cides otherwise, and on this point the Govern
or and Council refuse to take the opinion of
the court, thus raising a presumption of bad
faith of tlie strongest kind. They have no
more right to declare a law unconstitutional
than any other man in the State; and if they
can refuse to avail themselves of a permissive
act on this ground, they can refuse to obey a
mandatory one. In short, there is a high de
gree of probability that they have been guilty
of fraud in examining the returns, and there is
absolute certainty that they have been guilty
of a gross abuse of discretion in their manner
of correcting them, Tho indignation their
performance excites in Maine and throughout
tho country is not surprising, and it is by no
means contined to Republicans. The affair is
calling forth also hearty denunciation in lead
ing Democratic papers. We do not need to
point out the effect it is likely to have on Dem
ocratic fortunes aext year.
The Bangor Affair.
[N. Y. Times.]
The dispatches from Maine this morning are
not reassuring. An attempt was made yester
day in an irregular and incautious way to re
trnntr.lnails of arms from Ihinemr to
Augusta, and this was prevented by a crowd
which gathered on a bridge that had to be
crossed by the teams. The Mayor refused to
take any responsibility in tho matter, and the
arms were finally returned to the building
whence they had been taken, and placed un
der guard. The incidont was not in itself of
great importance, but it shows a state of feel
ing for which tho Democratic authorities aro
responsible, and for which they aro clearly
wholly unprepared. It was a foolish piece of
blundering to try to remove the arms in so
careless a manner on a holiday, when the peo
ple were unoccupied; and now that the at
tempt has once failed, it will bo much more
difficult and hazardous for tho authorities to
repeat it. Governor Garcelou and his Council
could hardly have had a very merry Christmas
yesterday, and we trust that the evidence which
they now have of the depth of indignation
which their outrageous conduct has awakened
may induce them to stop short where they are,
and instead of courting any further trouble, to
refer the legal points to the Supreme Court
Judges, and accept any bridge that may be
built for them to pass out of their present dis
graceful position.
How It Was Done in York.
[Bidileford Union.]
George H. Wakefield, Esq., Republican can
didate for Senator, was slaughtered because
tho clerk of the town of Berwick in the en
dorsement on the returns wrote the initial of
his middle name A. instead of II. Worse than
that even: the clerk intended it for an A, but
ho got the tops of the two up-rights too near
togother and the letter resembled an II as
much as anything else; so the Governor and
Council called it A and counted Mr. Wakefield
out. At the time the matter was under exam
ination by Garcelon Mr. Goodwin, our candi
date for County Commissioner, and one of tho
selectmen of Berwick, was at tho Capitol with
an attested copy of the town records which ho
presented and offered to additionally verify by
his official affidavit, but to no purpose; the au
thorities would admit no testimony to correct
the records, and Mr. Wakefield was fraudu
lently deprived of his seat. It would seem as
though flimsier grounds for a steal could not
possibly bo found or taken advantage of.
Duty of the Governor and Council.
The Opinion of a Democratic Lawyer on
the Count Out.
[Bangor Whig. ]
By the Constitution of Maine the first duty
in relation to tho copies of lists of votes returned
into the Secretary of State’s oilico that devolved
upon the Governor and Council was to deter
mine if the lists were what they purported to
be, and having found them to be such lists as
they were by the Constitution authorized to act
upon; then from an examination of them to
ascertain who appeared to be elected and to
issue summonses to those who appeared to be
elected Senators and Representatives to attend
and take their seats on the first Wednesday of
January next.
The Constitution invested the Governor and
Council with power to examine copies of lists
of votes received, sorted and counted and de
clared in open town meetings duly warned and
presided over by the selectmen of the several
towns in the State, provided said lists were
made in open town meeting, and there attested
by the selectmen and town clerk and sealed up
in said meeting. And to determine if a copy
was what it purported to be, its validity being
questioned, the Governor and Council had an
undoubted right to receive evidence so as to as.
certain if it was such a return as they were
legally authorized to act upon.
A return that had not been signed by the
selectmen or requisite number of selectmen,
or from which the name of the town clerk was
omitted would on its face appear defective and
further consideration of it on the part of the
Governor and Council would be unnecessary.
But when returns are only defective from
causes that do not conclusively appear as the
return, then as to evidence of such facts the
Governor and Council should proceed, acting
in a judicial capacity, and upon notice to par
ties iii interest, to determine by evidence if
what appeared to bo a return was such as the
Constitution contemplated.
If a return opened and examined by the Gov
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lectmen and town clerk of the town from
whence it came the presumption would be
that the proper officers had signed; but that
presumption would not be conclusive and
could be overcomo by evidence. But the evi
dence to overthrow such a presump
tion should be received subject to all
the tests and requirements of legal investiga
tions and should not be supposititious or merely,
ex parte.
It has been widely published, aud so far as I
am informed, without contradiction, that tho
return of the town of Lisbon was rejected be
cause it appeared to those who inspected it,
that the names of the selectmon on the return
seemed to bo all in one handwriting, and on
that the most uncertain and unsatisfactory of
all receivable evidence—the comparison of
handwritings—a return which was in every
particular in conformity with the constitution
al requirement v, ; rejected; and the voters of
that town deprived of a most sacred right; one
upon which rests the perpetuity of our republi
can institutions.
If there was that in the return from Lisbon
that raised a doubt as to whether the select
men of that town each signed his own name to
the return presented to tho Governor and
Council for their examination I conceivo it to
havo been tho duty of the Governor and Coun
cil to havo received evidence to as that fact
from those whose names appoared on the re
turn or from persons who were present in tho
town meeting wheu the return was signod.
Evidence from such a source was accessible
and would undoubtedly have been conclusive
as to tho fact involved, and if upon such evi
dence the Governor and Council had found
that tho return was not signed by the select
men, each writing his own name, then the re
jection of the return would have been in ac
cordance with the duty imposed upon the Gov
ernor and Council by the Constitution and
laws of the State, tile performance of which
would have merited tho approbation of all
honest citizens irrespective of party.
But the rejection of tho Lisbon return upon
such evidence as is reported to havo been acted
upon, cannot but be condemned by very many
of the Democratic party, as it partakes too
much of acts that havo been repeatedly de
nounced by that party, and is pregnant with
an evil subversive of the will of the people as
expressed at the polls.
When the Governor and Council had exam
ined a return and were satisfied that it con
formed to tho requirements of the Constituton,
in tills: That It came from a meeting duly
warned and presided over by the selectmen of
the town and bore the signatures of tho select
men and town clerk and had been signed and
sealed up in open town meeting, then it was
their duty to examine the return and ascertain
tion clearly defines what examination they
were to make, viz: They were to examine the
return containing the names of persons voted
for with the number of votes for each person
against his name, and to issue a summons to
such persons as appeared to be elected by a
plurality of all the votes returned
If a return had been duly signed and in
every respect conformed to the constitutional
requirement, the fact that a vote such as had
been received at the polls had been attached
could not affect or vitiate the return
If a return was complete anv addition to it
would bo mere surplusage, and of no conse
quence. It is asserted, currently reported and
uncontradicted, that the Governor and Coun
cil rejected the vote of Skowhegan because the
vote thrown by one of the parties, (I believe
the Republican) was printed in such a manner
as to give it a distinguishing mark.
It is quito impossible to comprehend by what
reasoning tho Governor and Council were in
duced to assume tho power of reviewing the
judgment of the selectmen in the Skowhegan
town meeting, for there is no provision of law
in this State the reasonable construction of
which authorities the Governor and Couucil
to inquire whether, votes received, sorted,
counted, declared and recorded in open town
meeting did, or did not have distinguish
ing marks.
The selectmen are the judges as to what are
distinguishing marks oil votes, and are to re
ject sudh votes when offered; but when votes
have been received into the ballot box by the
selectmen they having jurisdiction over the
subject matter, no power is conferred upon the
Governor and Couucil to say that such votes
shall be rejected.
The act of the Governor and Council in the
Skowhegan case, if the report in relation to it
be true, is to be regretted, and is a grievous
disappointment to all Democrats who desired
to see tho law in relation to returns enforced
strictly, honestly and impartially.
While I am of the opinion that chap. 212 of
the laws of 1877, conferred no power upon the
Governor and Council to correct, or allow re
turns for State Senators and Representatives
to be corrected and that so much of said chap
ter as relates to the correction of returns for
such Senators and Representatives conflicts
with the Constitution and is therefore void 1
concede that the constitutionality of a law is
always a question of grave importance when
mooted, and where it applies so directly to the
interest of all the citizens of our State, as
in the present instance, it would seem to
be a matter of sufficient moment to liavo been
submitted by the Governor and Council to the
Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court for their
construction and determination.
And now in concluding I have to say that I
thus publicly express myself to avoid being
classed with those of the Democratic party
who endorse and fully approve of the course
pursued by the Governor and Council in rela
tion to the returns recently canvassed by them.
I am not willing by silence to seem to ap
prove of such acts as I condemn.
H. D. Hadlock.
Rucksport, Dec. 25, 1878.
jSpiingdeld Republican.]
Maine and Louisiana.
•' You are another” is an argument which
nvm-nc Uwt onh'ilrni* iu amnAfliitur tn
be ashamed of. When both sides rely on it, it
is pretty certain that both are going on from
bad measures to worse. Whatever wrong was
done in Louisiana three years ago should bo a
warning and not a precedent. But it must bo
remembered by Democrats that the Republi
can party of the nation never rnado itself a
party to deliberate fraud. Most Republicans
believed that in the South there had been so
much intimidation on one side and cheating
on the other that it was hard to tell what was
the true interpretation of the vote. It is tho
action of its members in Congress by which
tho party as a whole is fairly to bo judged.
Most of them assented, as did a part of tho
Democrats, to as fair an arbitration as could be
devised. To a Republican, .Senator Edmunds,
belongs more than to any other man the credit
of its adoption. As originally constituted the
tribunal was to consist of seven Republicans,
seven Democrats and Judge Davis, who was
counted as an independent. Ho certainly was
not a disguised Republican, for it was his ac
ceptance of the Illinois Senatorslup from the
Democrats that marred the plan, by occasion
ing tho giving of the fifteenth place to a Re
publican judge. The partisanship which all
fifteen of tho tribunal showed was the most
discreditable and discouraging thing in our
recent history. On all questions, from the
largest to the smallest, even to tho hour of
daily adjournment, the commissioners divided
on a partisan line. But the '‘seven’’ were
every whit as partisan as the “eight.” A de
cision so reached could carry no great moral
weight, yet we think it was surely well, how
ever incquitablo might be the immediate re
sult, that responsibility should be thrown on
the State authorities, and not on a national re
turning board at Washington with unlimited
powers. The point we now urge is that tho
Republican party of the nation, judged by its
representatives in Congress, did not give sanc
tion to the fraud in Louisiana, but united with
the Democrats in the best arbitration that
could be secured, But Republicans were far
too lenient in condemning the local rascality
by which their party profited. Do Democrats
intend to take tho worst mistakes and failures
of Republicans as their own examples?
LN. Y. Tribune.;
A Radical Difference.
Tho claim set up by Governor Garcelon and
his coadjutors in the Democratic conspiracy in
Maine, is one which the plain people will brush
aside with contempt. It is not asserted that in
a single instance the rejected returns defeated
or tended to defeat the will of the qualified
voters as expressed at the ballot box. rfor is
there any claim that the election itself was vi
tiated by fraud or violence, or that the Gover
nor and Council had any powor to throw out
returns if that had been tho case. Tho sole
pretext upon which the action of the Gover
nor and Council rests, according to their own
plea, is that certain technical informalities in
the returns gave them power under existing
laws to exclude such returns if they see tit,
without regard to the will of the people really
expressedat the ballot-box, or the validity of
the election held. This plea men of common
sense and common justice instantly reject. If
tho intent and effect of the decision was to de
feat the will of the people expressed at a fair
and legal election—and there is no pretence to
the contrary—then honorable men of both par
ties hold that the decision is infamous.
But it is said, by journals which censure the
act for form's sake, even while they try to ex
cuse it to the passions and prejudices of parti
sans, that the course taken was but a repeti
tion of that which Republicans took and de
fended in the case of disputed electoral votes
in 1876. This pretence is false. The two cases
are different in every essential respect. Yet
there are mauy whoso partisan feeling blinds
them to the radical difference which really ex
ists, and to the indecency of the plea that one
great cr! ;-.e »'• >uhl be excused because some
body else lias on: imitted another crime.
Tho radical difference is that in 187H the
question was wuethcr any legal, fair, and valid
election had been held in cortain localities,
while in 1879 tho sole question is whether cer
tain forms were observed in returning the re
sults of a valid election. In 1876 it was
claimed, and by many believed, that the will
of the people bad been defeated by fraud and
force in the so-called election itself, and that
question Returning Boards were not only au
if their decision was correct, there had been
no lawful, fair, and valid expression of the will
of the people at the ballot-box, and hence
there was no wrong cr injustice insetting aside
the pretended election as no election at all.
But if the decision of the Governor and Coun
cil of Maine is correct, there was a lawful, fair
and valid election, at which the will of the
people was legally expressed, and yet they set
aside that expression and defeat that will be
cause some part of the clerical duty in trans
mitting the result was not correctly performed.
In that case the sole question to be decided by
the Governor and Council was whether they
should defeat the undisputed will of the peoplo
lawfully and fairly expressed, oepause of the
subsequent failure of clerk, to return the un
questioned results in the form prescribed by
law. Thus in 187ti the honest doubts to be an
swered according to law by a decision went to
the very root and essence of the matter; every
thing turned upon the question whether the*
majority of the people had legally voted at all.
But in 1879 the only dispute was as to the tech
nical correctness of a mode of making known
the admitted result of an election confessedly
fair and valid.
The man is to be pitied who does not see the
vast difference between the two decisions in re
spect to their moral character. The Returning
Board of Louisiana, whether in error or not,
unquestionably believed that a gigantic wrong
had been perpetrated in the pretended election
itself, and that it was both their right and their
duty to correct that wrong. But the Governor
and Council of Maine knew that no wrong
whatever had been done by the informalities
of the returns, and that it was a most Infamous
usurpation for them to defeat the deliberately
expressed will of the voters. The Returning
Board of Louisiana, if it erred in any respect
whatever, erred in reaching a mistaken opin
ion from the evidence presented, or in taking
improper means to correct what it believed to
bo a great wrong previously perpetrated. But
the Returning Board of Maine, if it erred at
all, deliberately violated law in order to ex
clude from the Legislature persons whom the
peoplo had unquestionably elected. In a word,
there was a doubt, as to Louisiana, to whom
the State really belonged. But as to Maine,
there was no doubt, and the Democrats delib
erately stolo the State.
Solon Chase’s Views.
The Duty of the Greenback Members to
Deal Out Even-Handed Justice.
Tho Bangor Commercial has receivod the
following from Mr. Solon Chase, in reply to a
request for his viows on "counting out” and
“counting in;”
Thus far, only the Governor and Council
have acted, in acting according to tne strict
letter of the law, the Governor and Council
may have overlooked the common law, which
is founded on common sense and justice, and
which is in the head of every honest man. This
common law is the shield and sheet-anchor of
our liberties, and cannot be winked at. If the
Greonbaokers had carried the House and Sen
ate on the face of the returns, and the Repub
licans had had the returning board, and they
had done just what the Governor and Council
have done, how we would have howled; and it
is no wonder the Republicans howl. The Leg
islation of the Republican party has been most
villanous—has robbed the producer to enrich
the fund-holder, and we have made our gains
by showing this robbery. It is only by hones
ty and devotion to our principles that we can
hope to make gains in the future. The Green
back members of the Legislature are honest
men—too honest to stay in the old parties—
and now they have a duty to do. That duty
is to deal out even-handed justice. As there
are many vacancies in the Legislature, justice
to the people demands that these vacancies
be filled as soon as may be, so that the whole
State be represented in the business of Legis
lation. In settling contested seats, techni
calities must not stand in the way of equi
ties. Nothing short of even-handed justice
will satisfy fair-minded men. The Greenback
axe must hew to this line, and let the chips
fall which way they will. The Greenback
party will be responsible for the acts of
the Greenback Legislature. A majority of the
men who hold certificates as members of the
Legislature are Greeubackers. Thesp men are
the jury to review the action of the Governor
aud council, and can go behind returns. If the
verdict of that j ury is hawk-eyed, and made up
according to thie logic of 8 to 7, it will be a
scorpion bite to the rag-baby. If the jury metes
out equal and exact justice to all men, it will
be a feather in the cap of the Greenback party
of Maine. To resist the Governor and Council
until their action has been reviewed by the
Legislature is resistance to the constituted au
thorities. The findings of the Governor and
Council aro binding for tiie time being. An
attempt to set aside the decisions of the Gov
ernor and Council by force is revolution. Law
less force, no matter from what source it comes,
cannot usurp the place of authority clothed
with the form of law. If our constitution
leaves open a chance to “count in” men who
are not elected, the Greenback Legislature will
provide a way to remedy that defect. The
partisans of one of the old parties say, in
“counting out,” only justice has been done.
The others say ’tis revolution. “Counting out”
is no novelty for either of the old parties. This
time the Democratic bull has gored the Re
publican ox, and that alters the case. The peo
ple are waiting to see “them steers” pull.
The Maine Conspiracy.
Where the Plot Was Formed.
The Boston Journal publishes a long article
purporting to give the origin of the Maine plot
as detailed by a printer formorly employed in
the office of the Calais Times. According to
the information furnished by this printer, the
plot was originated with Charles F. Whidden,
Jr., editor of the Calais Timos, and several
leading fusionists from various parts of the
State, ono coming from Androscoggin county.
At one meeting eight persons wore present
one of whom was from Androscoggin county.
At that meeting it was proposed to carry the
State, if not by votes, by counting out. The
chief party in the work was E. F Pillsbury,
who was to be rewarded by being elected
United States Senator. It was assumed that
it the fusionists could get control of the Legis
lature, which meets January next, they could
get control of that which meets a year later
and also socuro tho electoral vote of Maine for
the Democratic candidate, who will be Mr.
Tilden. “You don’t mean to say that Mr. Til
den knew anything of this matter or was
talked of in this connection?” “To this the
printer made no reply, but soon after remarked
in a general manner respecting the Maine plot
that “those who have tho impression that no
body is interested in it outside of Maine, are
laboring under a great delusion. It has a boar
ing upon the Presidential election, and was so
talked by all those who came to see the Calais
parties on the mattor. If these men can make
their plan work, they propose to give the elec
toral vote of that State to the Democratic can
didate. I believe that they can do it, and that
the Republicans will lie powerless to prevent
it. The fuu has just begun and there will bo
lots of it unless tho Republicans manage to get
control of one branch of the Legislature.”
A Bangor Bull-Dozer.
The following card appears in the columns of
the Bangor Commercial:
Bangor, Dec. 29.
I have takon and subscribed the oath of
office as Attorney of the State fpr Penobscot
county for the term of the three years from
January 1st, 1880. Circumstances may now
justify me in making the following statement:
I shall consider it among the duties of my
office te present before the Grand J ury at tho
coming criminal term for indictment all those
who may participate in any political mob or
commit the overt act of High Treason, and
also those who may incite to such felonies,
whether they are professed ministers of the
gospel or editors of political papers.
B.H. Mace,
County Attorney-elect,