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Portland Daily Press: March 14, 1876 PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 38, 1868.-TOL. 13. PORTLAND. TUESDAY MARCH 14. 1870. MORNING. TERMS 88.00 PEB IS _ ANNUM, ADVANCE. THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, If Mexico BUSINESS CARDS. FURNITURE. EDUCATIONAL. New be admitted to the Union Our New York Letter. THE ’PRESS. the question. Nobody ventures to enter the Published the the number of states every day (Sundays excepted) by w'll be increased to an lists as opponent of the Senator, because PORTLAND E- thirty-nine. The territory embraces an area is PUBLISHING CO.f TI. RIPLEY, HALLO WELL TUESDAY MORSINU, MARCH 14, ’76 there scarcely a district in one of the The (Juiou League Club-President any Nexton of 121,201 square miles. It is divided iuto in At 109 Exchange St., Portland. Second Parish Church* Classical and fifty-nine counties which there are enough Scientific Academy. We do not read letters and communi- thirteen and has a Mftkiag-A Grindstone for a Political Terms: Dollars a Year in advance. To a'jonymouH counties, population of Republicans against him to make a Eight TJ ndertals.er. cations. The respectable mail subscribers Seven Dollars a Year it paid in ad- nam< and address of the writer are in of less than one Axe.-A Hove Against Mr. Con Spring T*rm ol Thirteen Weeks 91,874, inhabitant to a kilns ••scattering” vote. All this is perfectly well un- vance. respectfully inform the citizens of Port- OF all cases tndispcnsaole, not necessarily tor publication Opens march 29th. square mile. The capital is Santa a -The Voice of .Tew f ork.-*To Repub- derstood by Messrs Barnett and Wilson But WOULDland that he is prepared to luruish Coffins, but as a guaranty tf good faith. Fe, by PRESS Caskets and Grave-Clothes, of all styles, at town of inhabitants. In view of lican Who is an of the Adminis- way of a diversion which in some THE MAINE STATE Has a Seminary Course for Ladies. For We cannot undeitako or reserve commu- 4,765 the Enemy creating may the shortest possible notice. connected superior to roturn Everything circulars address REV. A. W. BURR, Princ’l. tration break the force of that solid Morning it a with the or will nications that are not used. character and smallness of the can be Elected President. degree Repablican Is published everv Thursday $2.50 management of funerals, day night, Hallo well, Me. leb26eod3wSM&W population year, if paid in advance at $2.00 a year. receive prompt attention. Residence No. 219 Federal, the to raise the to the sentiment of tbe Empire State, which insists corner of St. feblOdGm proposition territory Temple that Roscoe Conklutg is in of Kates of Advertising: One inch of space, the Eaton School rank of a slate is open to grave objections. point ability, Family For Boys, Every regular attache of the Press is New March 187G. length of column, constitutes a “square.” 3Dr. n. T. furnished Yokk, 11, integrity, experience and capacity for affairs Wilde, —AT— with a Tbe $1.50 per square daily first week; 75 cents per week Card certificate countersigned T. Uuion League Club coutaius niue huo- The Natural Magnetic Physician* 1 UiUMlV ERE by Stanley Banting is outdone. Some one has dis- without a superior in the country, and is emi- after; three insertions, or less, $1.00; continuing NORRIDCEWOCK. TOAINE. Editor. All dred and He shall hands on them shall be healed. Pnllent railway, steamboat and hotel twenty-nine resident of every' other day after first week, 50 cents. lay and they covered that sea-weed is a cure for members, nently fit for the presidential they pre- -A-T Term will commence March ujalr -fan will confer a favor us obesity, seve office,— Half square, three insertions, or 75 one Rooms 11 and 12 Fluent Block SprinK 'JJjh. upon by demanding whom n-eighths at least are less, cents; and now we nominally Re- vail upon their friends iu the caucus to intro- week, $1.00: 50 cents week nov8 dtf For Circulars and Portland references credetu 6f to our may expect fat people to take to per after. address every person claiming represent publicans. Two-thirds of them Special one augliMf H. F. take the duce the which constitutes tbe Notices, third additional. EATON, Principal. journal. ■■_ blanc mange. Dr. Griffith of Delaware as- following, pith Under head of “Amusements” and “Auction trouble to vote at ordinary state and serts that the weed municipal and marrow of tbe entire pronunciamento: Sales,” $2.00 per three insertions JOH® C. has the effect to reduce a square per week; COSSB, DEANE Edw O. elections. When Governor is to be chosen or less, $1.50. BROS., Farnsworth, New Hampshire. the That the purpose which has been openly adipose tissue with remarkable rapidity, of them incur the Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State Teaclicr of & The contest in New three-quarters fatigue of avowed and threatened to be put in practical Press” COUNSELLOR -AT-LAW, Pianoforte,Organ Harmony, Hampshire, which and without (which has a large circulation in every part interference with health. Per- registration and attendance at the and in operation, of sending to the national conven- of the tor ]Vo. 55 St. RESIDENCE 337 SPRING ST. to a close polls, State) $1.00 per square tor first insertion, Exchange to-day, excites a tion at Cincinnati a from tbe state 311-2 Cor. of Milk. mart copies deeper haps the famous Russian at Old a Presidential canvass all of them delegation and 50 cents tier square for each subsequent insertion. Exchange St. d3m» Orchard, nearly nerve of interest than any battle in that state New Yurk made up at a state convention Address all communications to Our slock must be sold in political who lives on sea-weed the summer themselves to the of the STANTON thirty during performance quadren- and pledged or committed beforehand to the PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. BLOCK, for years. It is more than a affair days to make room lor new goods something months, has this theory iu mind. nial duty. support of particular candidates, is a grosa POETLAND, MIC. ot and Its issue is violation of the first aud will be a outposts, regarded, whether They are a well principles of republican ja29 jald3m sold at great sacri- The thoroughly houest, upright, or admission made by Senator Thurman institutions, and an outrage upon the rights ENTERTAINMENTS. VEGETINE justly not, as significant of the result of meaning body of men. They have no forbear- fice. and wishes of the great ol the iu the Democratic caucus was majority party. the presidential campaign of 1876. In no Saturday night ance towards wrongdoing of any sort. They We insist that the representation of the state J. H. a PORTLAND Walnut Chamber Suits at half the one. lie said that the of ut New York in that com- MUSEUM, FOGG, price. Purifies Blood, Renovates and Invig- state in the Union are parties so evenly significant report have been successful in life by honorable prac- convention shall be Cor. of aud Streets. the of mitted to a delegation wholly unpacked and Congress Exchange Parlor Suits at half in no state can majority the caucus committee tices, aod are exemplars of COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, price. orates the Whole System. divided, trivial circumstances yielded worthy integrity unpledged, who shall be untrammeled and free I. T. W¥ER & CO., Proprietors. to the advocates of soft and fair are and well to- to Has removed to Marble Top Tables ■ at half price. so easily incline the scales. If the Republi- money ninety-nine dealing. They thrifty choose from among all the candidates who Iu IHedieal are out of a hundred and do and themselves on may be before the couvention, and un- Properties cans succeed, as there is reason to be- paints, saved to the pride especially holding brought March and Sofas at half good less this can be conceded to us we refuse to be Monday, 13th, 42 1-2 , Lounges price. hard men themselves aloof from and Exchange lieve the will be more money only one point, that of the politics politicians. bound The they will, triumph than by its action. Popular Artist, Chairs and Tables • at half price. declaration that Their knowledge of public men atd PORTLAND, MAINE. ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLV- an ordinary one and will indicate that the simple the Democratic party public If Messrs. Burnett and Wilson had been janl3 d&wtf is in favor of affairs is derived almost wholly from the news- Hat Trees, Sharing Stands, ENT of the are with specie payment at some future adroit politicians would not have allowed AND DIURETIC. people country them,—for is they Min SOPHIE time. That is the papers. It not to bo wondered at therefore CHAS. W. DAVIS. GEO. M. CLARK « situation this MILES, &c., at ialf price. they succeed against enormous odds. They exactly. resolve to be so overdone. The talk about the Talented that it is a good deal muddled, for they are Supported by Young Actor, is made have to work in face of a thousand “a gross violation of the first of re- Vegetine exclusively from the juices of rumors of Rev. M. C. of the inveterate readers of those principles DAVIS & selected roots and Julian, pastor Unita- equivocal sources of CLARK, carefully narks, herbs, and so fraud and in official to pablican institutions” and “an outrage upon the Don’t Fail to this strongly concentrated that it will effectually eradi- corruption position rian Congregational church of New Bed- information. They peruse the fabrication of Improve Opportunity.
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