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September 24,1879 The reception accorded to General Grant Gossip THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, I REAL ESTATE. MISCELLANEOUS._ TITE PRESS. at San Francisco was the work of no party or the WANTS._ Published every dr y (Sundays excepted) by sect. It was a spontaneous movement of About Men and Women. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. -24. PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO., Wanted. the whole people of the Pacific const to do in a first-class Manufacturing Busi- HOUSE FOE SALE. has done more for his At 109 Exchange St., Portland. honor to a man who Aim- PARTNERness, established and reliable. Splendid oppor- SALE We do not read anonymous letters and communi- Jolm W. Forney, Jr., apropos of Mile. To subscrib- for a for business. Small ART than American. Terms : Dollars a Year. mail tunity party looking capi- rTlHE located, two storied frame ilwcl- DAILY writer are in country any living During to relates this incident Eight pleasantly cations. The name and address of the oe's farewell America, tal Address ers Seven Dollar- a Year, If paid in advance. required. _L ling house, No. 181 Oxford St., between Chest- received more this all cases not for publica- his absence abroad Gen. Grant in Mirror: “I was one dlw* MANUFACTURER, office. nut and Myrtle Sts., recently occupied by the late indispensable, necessarily the Dramatic present THE MAINE STATE PRESS George E. Taylor. It contains ten rooms, fill in good tion but as a guaranty of good faith. distinguished attentions from the Govern- in ’71. at the Olympic Theatre. New at Home.— night Employment order. Good drainage and desirable neighborhood. We cannot undertake to return or com- at- Morning at a a preserve Old World than ev- York, where at the Aiince was the s published every Thursday $2.50 PERMANENTDay or evening, Male or Female, $30 week Price $2,800. Apply to Win. II. Jerris, Real Estate ments and people of the time, if in advance at $2.00 a year. No Instructions and selOdlw* ISO JMCidclXe Street. munications tiiat are not used. year, paid guaranteed. capital required. Agent. er fell to the lot of American, and he traction. Paris was besieged and the Com* valuable package of Goods to start with, sent free, any Kates of Advertising: One inch of space, the address with <Jc return A. D. cents reserve which mime was about its devilish work. The opera by mail, stamp. Young, that wc are selling for 10 and 25 of the Press is furnished bore them with dignity and of constitutes a N. Y. se20d3m Farm foi* Sale. The goods 5, Every regular attach^ length column, “square.” 186;Conselyea St., Williamsburgh His was Les Cent in which, as you are first 75 cents with a Card certificate T. added lustre to American Vierges, $1.50 per square, daily week; per in 3Ie.: near that The must be signed by Stanley Pullen, citizenship. insertions or continu- Wells, depot, churches, are worth ten times price. goods tli ere is a the donna week after; three less, $1.00; to Editor. All steamboat and hotel managers to his own is made aware, song by prima first 50 cents. LOCATEDschools, etc.; good buildings. Apply railway, return country rightly ing every other day after week, Wanted. 48 St. cost in stock. of the W. R. ANT 1101 ME, Exchange sold at goods yet will confer a favor upon us credentials which tells glories of the gay capital. Half square, three insertions or less, 75 cents; any price. Highest by demanding the occasion for showing anew tin? regard SITUATION by an experienced bookkeeper. scplC d2w t one week, $1.00: 50 eents per week after. of every person claiming to represent our journal. This night in lie house there were many or double Best of references Your last chance. in which his Special Notices, one-third additional. A Single entry. and esteem fellow-countrymen Frenchmen, and when Aimce sang the song of given. Address “S,” Press Office. seplOdlw Under head of “Amusements” and “Auction hold and will always hold him for the ser- Paris, she gave it witli such effect that I heard three inser- Aimiiul Itlcctiu" of tin* Sales,” $2.00 per square per week; Mill for Sale. The Fourth the crying all around me. For herself, tions or $1.50. Rolling vices lie rendered his country in his people less, Wanted. military she and was not ashamed of it. She Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State CHAS. J. SCHUMACHER. wept too, Cutter, capable of taking charge real estate, machinery. Fixtures and tools of Jlw Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and civic careers. and acted the words and music witli her Press” (which has a large circulation in every part at BoplS) sang of Dress and Cloak Address the Portland Mills will be sold pub- _ Jv_ of the for for first EXPERIENCED department. THE Rolling whole heart and power, and displayed pathos State), $1.00 per square insertion, L. A. Mechanic Me. lic without to the highest bidder, OF II \■ \i:. and 50 cents for each inser- MOULTON, Falls, auction, reserve, The increased of the friends of and emotion wonderful as coming from Aiince, per square subsequent sepl8 dlw* at the TUESDAY, September 30, 1879, at 3 3E3 ~W ZED 3FL "5T X> 3T l emigration tion. Mills, two minutes had had us roaring o’clock P. M. WILL I1E HELD IN in the face of the circular letter who, before, Address all communications to or and Pressed in a Manner at Mormonism The property of the Company consists of CO acres Garments Cleansed Dyed Superior with laughter.” Wanted. AND 3d. to the of the United States PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. of land on tide water in the town of Cape Elizabeth, BAIVOOR, OCX’. *il representatives The Kev. Dr. Berkley writes to the St. Louis SITUATION in a Grocery Store by a young within ten minutes drive of the CITY Cumberland County, FOSTER’S FOREST DYE HOUSE, in countries is attracting much at- A man who has a thorough knowledge of the busi- city of Portland. Resides the 31 ill buildings the On tlie flrst day there will be a prayer meeting at foreign Globe-Democrat that ho baptized Henry Clay ness ami can lirst class references. Address S3 PBFELE STREET, OPPOSITE PREBLE HOUSE. will at 10.30. There give Coinpanv owns 55 tenements in 28 buildings, one IVO. 9 A. JI. The convention proper open tention in Administration circles. in liis at and at the same sel0eod3w* ( I.F.RK. care Press. Mrs. H. parlor Ashland, Ky., ENTERTAINMENTS. Daily hall used for church purposes, two stores anil a CIcailKed at 10 tVut* P*‘r Pair. The Annual address will be given by Mary KEBB <;l.O VIW been a test-case made with a thoroughly well-fitted office, with fire-proof vault Hunt, of Hyde Park, Mass. The complete order of having already time administered the ordinance to his daugli* and all modern improvements. All these buildings EVERY :0 ^ 3T 2 exercises will be seen on the printed programmes. male Mormon, it is now proposed to make ter-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Clay, and four of her CITY are in good repair. se!8 d3*' Every Auxilliary Union,and all Womans’ Temper- HALL, one to send of a woman in which the oil the ”_M of 1*17. A few Wanted. The Mill contains one 10-incli train and ance Organizations, are invited delegates. another of.tliis scot, children, June, It. It. fares is Loggers 18-incli train, with all the machinery appertaining The usual reduction in expected. Gover ment will call the reputed husbands friends only were present. The water was tak- Eve, to the manufacture of rails and bar iron. Its ca- Free entertainment will be provided for all dele- Wednesday Sept. 24th, of a urn parties to take jobs of i<>g- pacity is 14,000 tons of iron rails, or 0,000 tons of gates, and places will lie assigned, on sending name as witnesses. Should the woman be claimed en by the hand out large cut-glass IS Grove had been > ging on the Saco and Androscoggin rivers. En- merchant iron per year. and address to Mrs. Sarah 0. Palmer, which, among his many presents, Responsible as a she will be should quire of the subscriber at Saco, or MARlv R. COOL- The property is provided with a thoroughly built Street, Bangor. wife, prosecuted; given to Mr. Clay by a manufacturer in Pitts- 800 can lie in the State are * BROTH, Steep Falls. Me. wharf, at which vessels of tons All papers respectfully requested disclaim the of er Pa. It was said that this urn was the capacity in their columns. they her, illegitimacy burg, JOSEPH HOBSON. at low water, and is directly connected by rail with to give this call an insertion of then known. Mr. Clay all the railroads centering at Portland. MRS. h. M. N. STEVENS, relationship will be established, the moral largest piece cut-glass Sept. 1879. was old. 11c was afterward Saco, 15th, sepl5eod&wr4w Mill is now in but President State W. C. T. U. then seventy years The active possession _ operation, effect of which it is will operate to ..z!.„.i will be given about the 15tli of October, 1870. Mrs. U. C. Hunt, Cor. Sec'y. thought, twirl Wanted. Pill UP HENRY BROWN, Prest., to prevent further emigration of this charac- A correspondent writing from Guilford, crew of Boston, will give one performance of the sepllldld Portland, Maine. do ter. This course, it is believed, will force Conn., about tlio affairs of the Key.
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