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Portland Daily Press: December 25,1867 PORTLAND/ DAILY 1 " ~ ~ -u .« -J u ■■ .. ■ Established J-- ■ —g- June 23, 1862 Vol. 6. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY MO RNING, DECEMBER 25, 1867. Term» Eight Dollai-a per annum, In advance. ND d.v°!Rnnrt OAILV 1' it ESS « poi.heliea \Sunday excepted,i at No. I Printer*’ BUIS NESS CARDS. KEIQOVAL*. MftSUKAAC'Jb. Kxcbange, Exchange SCHOOLS. Czlonizmion of Amrriran Nr|r«il iz Street, Portland. — ■■ *«tol I'nbflcetiens. I ■ -: N. A. FOSTER, Proprietor, DAILY PRESS. I.ibriin. U. M. PAY Charles Scribner re- Terr*:- a SON, 11 Is & Oo„ New York, have K:ght Dollar? yaar in advance. Life and Accident Insurance. Dartmouth probable that many persons in the BEIOVAL. College! PORTLAND. printed among their holiday books Fred, Maria 1 Noithem States that Colonization is HE MAINE STATE is STOCK BROKER. suppose PRESS, published at the now at and Me, a charming story which originally ap- No. 30 THE ORIGINAL Chandler Scientific Department* an end, under the idea that the tu%“rtibJCy“ln^^rM*y“°rUingat^0U* yea1’ Exchange Street, peared in the first two numbers of Hours at PORTLAND ME no21(lt TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO. of December 25. 1837 changed condition of the black race in the course *,ndrt founded on Mathematics, Wednesday Morning, Home. It is in small quarto form, very hand- Kates op advertising.—One inch ot •i»ace,tn TIIE^a'ural Science, English and Litera- South renders emigration Meserve & Hartford, Coiin., insures against ALL ACCT- Language no longer desirable. some in all the details of and KSngih 01 column, a Locke, and the Modern is paper, printing coumuntee “square." GEORGE E. PICKETT, Co., OFDEN TS, Also against LOSS OF LIFE from any ture, History Languages, design- The li iUH) per square 75 cents ed in a thorough^ and es- Christmas Sunbeams from Cucumbers. tact, however, very much otherwise. daily first week. per cause, whether by disease or accident, with compen- give practical education; binding, and has five well drawn Illustrations week after: three or ti.no; ronttnu* DBALERS IN pecially to fit )Oung men for to insertion*, leap, sation for BODILY INJURY, thus combining all the Engineers. Chemists, The negro migration Liberia has been re- of the In? every other niter first 50 rent*. and or lor business. Fveryone has entered into an con- by Magrath. One of the very prettiest day week, benefits of Life and Accident Insurance und«r oce Architects, implied Hall three insertion*or less. 75cent*: one Druggist Apothecary, The Spring Term commences 1808. tract and numbers are minor books the square, AND DEALER IN policy, a rates lower than by any other com pan v.— January lOtb, not to scold during the Christmas holi- newed, greater coingout gift of season. (Received by Reck. $1 00; 5ft cents week niter. For Catalogue, apply to per Apply to than ever before. As to the motive for & Under head of “Amdbemknts," $ ’nr per * rot. J. s. WOODMAN, days. There is an moie or less go- Bailey Noyes.) square English American Fancy Goods, Dry Goods, W. D. LITTLE A exception, per week; three insertions or lest, $1.50. CO., Agents. N. H. the themselves know Lee & a small .... Hauover, widely in favor ot Wendell Phil- ing, emigrants' what Shepard, of Boston, publish Special Notices,! 125 per square lor the first in- ATo. 113 Congrett, near Washington Street, Office No. Exchange Street. dcl7-dl0t*&w4(52 recognized, -AND 49j motives of and sertion, and 25 cents per square for each December 23. dit who is a sort their are, and—in one way stating square volume, elegantly priuted bound, subsequent PORTLAMD, ME. lips, of official termagant-in-or- insertion. the are the best judges entitled Oolden Truths. It consists of short Advertisements Inserted in the “Maine Stat* dinary for the commonwealth of Massachu- case—they altogether W Physicians’ Prescriptions com- ANNUAL STATEMENT Press** (which has a carefully Maine State of what is the mo3t desirable course for them selections, in prose and verse, from Fenelou, large circulation in every pnf- pounded. sept2la3m Seminary Democratic and >* Siateitor Of the setts, Congressmen, strong- $1.00 per square for first inBerlion* WOOLE Condition of the Bunyan, Jeremy Bnshnell, icq{-« >0 cents NS, to pursue under the present condi- Taylor, Kingsley, per square lor each subsequent inner* CHAPMAN & The minded women. There is also a small reserv- changed Hon. DAVI8, HASKELL, Spring Term, Robertson, Tholuck, Trench, Mrs. Browning , ation in northern latitudes of tion of affairs m the South. Itighi or wrong, JORBERS OP Have removed to Merchants Insurance Ot 13 license to use Whittier, Lowell, Jean and Co., week* commence*, are Ingelow, many mild in case of a failure of they going by hundreds, men, women and OF expletives sleigh- others, arranged under the heads o f“ T h e Inner BUSINESS CARDS. HARTFORD, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY Oth. children. Besides the which Dry Goods and Woolens ing. Persons outside of the excepted classes large emigration Life,” “Trials by the Way,” “Work for Christ,” Nos. 54 & 56 Middle St. On the st of Nor. made to .T. A. Sec. went from near and agents tor the day 1867, conformably LOWELL, are to and write Lynchburg, Virginia, in ISflO, “The and “The the laws of Maine. Lewiston, December 1887. dcl8eod3w required think, speak in a Unfailing Friend,” Heavenly LEVI S. 12, six hundred sailed Irom BLOWS, spirit ot charity, and act with brotherly kind- Charleston, South Home." The compiler is a Mrs. Means, of Slack (all up) 8900,000 OO DEALER IN Warren Cassimeres and Flannels Capital paid in the Colonization aDd the book is one of In our removal wo would also ness toward all the world. The contract is Carolina, Society's ship Dorchester; the best of NO. 18 noticing particular- Surplus over 19 FREE STREET. call the atientlon ol the our Capital, 173,540 n Wf BLLANEWIIS. in GAS ly trade to full and well and as GolcoDda, May last, and three hundred its kind. (Received by Short & Loring.) FIXTURES, Assets invested as follows, viz: pretty kept, too, Christendom, a leave to call tbe and twelve more sailed in the Charles Scribner & Co. have also They Leg attention of tho trade to Par Market whole, goes to bed on the 25th of December same ship from lately their COMPLETE LINE Pendants and Brackets. OF Vain0!. Value. the same on out iu a neat Chandeliers, better better and more port the 18th of November. In brought duodec'mo, Prayers New U. S. 6 per Cent. fed, warmed, generally N«. 06 near lit. and Extensive Stock Bonds, 1881, 40,0l»0 44,400 Christmas Presents. from the Federal, Temple of Goods, 5 20 1251 have out within from Plymouth Pulpit, a selection which Bonds, Nov 1st, M, 20.000 21,800 happy, than on any other out of the all, emigrants gone the they are to sell on as favorable terms 44 night prepared S II 5 20 July 5.0( 0 5,500 pnlpit petitions of Rev. Ward Beecher. as can be obtained in this or other market. .1 TT* Z, 65, three hundred and last fifteen months. Henry By* Piping done ou the most reasonable terms. any S, 10-40 10,000 10,200 sixty-five. Portland, Sept 26. 1867. d3m 44 7 In to the The groat number of Mr. Beecher’s admirers December 2. dislm 30 25.00» 26,250 It is possible in Christmas time to extract respect merely material question Mich gan State Bonds, 6 per cent, 15 000 14,250 Munjoy Drug Store / will find the book crowded full of bis peculiar- 44 44 of immediate and comfortable Dr. W.R. Fancy Cassimeres Connecticut 6 in,000 10,00» sunbeams from the mo3t unpromising cucum- subsistence, Johnson, 44 44 ities, overrunning with his individuality. The DH. BUZZELL, Hartford City 6 10,non 8,800 these it would seem, be con- 44 44 bers, and persons have been heard the emigrants, may Ha. Portland City 6 10,000 9,500 34 St. Lawrence Street. pres- prayers it contains were re- resumed hi. residence. —AND— in view of the phonograpliicaily ent season, under the influence of the gratulated distressing accounts Comer Park and Pleasant Street*. DENTIST, A LARGE LOT OF ap- ported, without Mr. Beecher's knowledge, at the Office If*. 13 1*9 Free Street, $145,000 151,500 we are now receiving by every day’s fi nk Stocks, 84,250 1<M>,900 00 proaching holidays, to affirm that they did newspa- request of the Rov. John Marsh, who thought Second House from H. H. Store. Loans on amonnt 1,240 00 and reiterated in Hay’s Apothecary collateral, loaned, not experience a moment’s irritation when pers, Congretsional debate, them as of aud as CLOAKH^, Loaua on of Beal Earate 86.200 00 worthy preservation likely C6ir*Ethcr administered when desired and thought Mortgages Christmas Goods of the in which the Southern advisable. Jy22eodit Accrued Interest. 1 654 38 Dickens’s Christmas story, which has become suffering peo- to do good as the sermons of their author, aud HOLDEN & PEABODY, Produced the which for Cash in hands or and in 14 by Pondicherry Mill, style, agents transit, 33,307 next to Santa Claus himself the most ple, white and black, are now involved by who has induced Mr. Beecher to consent te durability and finish are unexcelled. Cash on band and in Banks, 19,545 7C JUST import- at W. W. HAB1DEN, RECEIVED, the low of cotton. The their are Attorneys and Counsellors Lav, ant feature of the festival, came to hand so extremely price crop publication. They full ot fervor, re- Total 28 We have assumed the State of the Assets, $394,340 AND of the has not the cost of richuess of and Office, 22!/ 1-2 Congress Street, recently Agency SOLD VERY LOW.
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