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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-22

The MAINE BOARD OF AGRIcULTURE.-The
Maine Board of Agriculture met at Augusta
Wednesday. The following are the members
of the Board for 1859:
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DEPARTURES
MARIN E NEWS,
PORT OF PORTLAND.


'.-" ODD Thursday, January 2I.
q. .. -.-... ARRIVED. Nh.
Steamer Carlotta, Colby, Halifax, Ms, with mdse
and passengers, to John Porteous. -
Brig kalamo (Bri Mills, Windsor Ms, for Boston
Sch Noyes, Bradley, Baltimore-corn to wal
dron q True. Lll'tI - -
Sch Gold Hunter, tBrl Price, Provide. &c for St
John, Nh. =
Sch " Godfrey, Garwood. Boston, in ballast, 10
load tor Cuba. -
Sch Jeus Baker Barberick, Boston = mdse to
Watson Newhall ~ r
Sch Aurora Borealis. tBr) Clark, Boston, to load
for st John, NIB.
Sch Nellie Chase, Hamilton, Portsmouth, to Chas
Sawyer. nd. -.
CLEARED.
Steamer Franconia Sherwood, New York-Hen-
ry Fox.
Barque Eliza White, Look, Matanzas George s
Hunt. ~ - :
Brig II Kennedy, Staples, Matanzas-G George s
hunt. -I~~-7--
Sch Elmaral, Seiders, Damariscotta
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For ROckland.

- Ct. TOT hOcklanUs
The fine schooner EXCHANGE, Capt.
M1I Blake
AtH For Freight apply to -
MAMA r. G.. YORK,
=. Or the Master on board, at lower end of
Midgerys wharf, ja22d1ws
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Notice.
MIR, STEPHEN O.. DGRMAN has nm
wi interest In our firm from This date "
MATHEWS s. THOMAS
Portland, Jan'y I, 1869. ja92 div
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22

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York, North, East, and West, free OF commission.
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SLG hwlt-sure Lines, via Delaware an0 Raritan
Canal on and after the 18th of March, leaving daily ak
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terms, apply 10 WILLIAM NJ. BAIRD R co,
ia No. 1872 8. DELAWARE Ayenua,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22

The signalmen and stokers connected
with railway trains running through Ireland
are frequently shot at by playful persons
stationed along the road. This makes it vsry
jolly for the travelling public.
The Sultan has written valse, so writes
the Figaro, the only result as yet obtained Of
the civilized ideas which the Commander Of
the Faithful is supposed to have gathered
during his European tour Of last year.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

STILL "SPooN1NG" BEN. BUTLER.-Ben
Butler at private house in Boston, at
tea, was recently asked quite Innocent
ly by the lady, his host, who had hand
ed him cup of molten china: "Gener-
al, have you spoon?" To which, gull
ty conscience being his accuser, Butler
frantically rejoined: "No, nam! I hav-
emit any of your spoons, and if you doubt
me, Pm ready to be searchedp A SINH
lar scene happened in Buffers own
house, at his big Washington party,
last winter. Ben. Butler bore off Hon.
Mr. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, and some
other Democrats, Congressman and cor
respondents to the supper-table, called
for and got terrapin for all, but without
the needful conveyancers of it to the
mouth, whereupon he scared darkey
white as the plate he was washing by
hallooing, Spoons, you scoundrel; arn't
there enough in my house to serve my
guests WITH" This was too much even
for the composure of his Conservative
guests. They took up the cry, and
spoons" was the shout for two min
utes. 1t was some time before the hiatus
could be filled by an original remark
about the weather, and there was more
laughter than terrapin bolted on that
particular occasion.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

AN ENGLISH letter-writer mentions as
curious fact that none of the leading
women's rights reformers in that coun.
try are mothers or fathers. He adds:
"a few are married, but those who are
married have not been blessed with
children. do not wish to deduct any
thing; only state acurious detail The
leaders of the women's rights movement
in England, men and women, are child
less. Five out of six are unmarried,
and not one of the six is mother or
father. All survey mankind from the
pure ideal point, SO far as this fraction
of nature is concerned"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

THURLow WEED says Of Eugene:
"Whatever might have been the beau
ty Of this renowned daughter of the
Montijos, age, care and the anxieties Of
rank have materially affected it," But
he thinks her manners and converse
tional powers constitute her chief
charms, and describes her exertion Of
these upon the King of Prussia at the
Boulogne races year or two ago.
"No sooner was the Prussian monarch
seated beside her, says the venerable
Thurlow, than the Empress opened
upon him her colloquial batteries. The
beauty about which one has heard SO
much was not there, but in its place
was such gift of conversational pow
er, a grace so winning, such vivacity
of expression, such poetry of motion,
such propriety of gesture, that the COM
monest boor among the bystanders felt
the magnetism of her presence, and
had eyes for none but her majesty. The
king, though considerably over sixty, is
emphatically a ladies' man. He bent
eagerly forward to catch her lightest
word; his gray eyes sparkled with
sincere delight, and his whole attitude
betrayed the utmost interest and atten-
ton, which were Enthusiastically confirm
ed by the nervousness with which he
stroked his moustache."
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30
THE TEMPERANCE EXPERIENCE OF THE
SIAMESE TWINS.

Mark Twain, in writing of the Sia-
mesc Twins in Pockards Monthly, tells
of their temperance experience:
The sympathy existing between these
two brothers is so close and so refined
that the feelings, the impulses, the emo
lions of the one are instantly expert
enced by the other. When one is sick,
the other is sick; when one feels pain,
the other feels it; when one is angered,
the others temper takes fire. We have
already seen with what happy facility
they both fell in love with the same
girl. Now, Chang is bitterly opposed
to all forms of intemperance, on prin-
ciple; but Eng is the reverse, for, while
these mems feelings and emotions are
so closely welded, their reasoning fac
ulties are unfettered, their thoughts are
free. Chang belongs to the Good TEN.
plars, and is a Woodworking and enthu-
siastic supporter of all temperance re-
forms. But to his bitter distress, every
now and then Eng gets drunk, and, of
course, that makes Chang drunk too.
This unfortunate thing has been great
sorrow to Chang, for it destroys his
usefulness in his favorite field of effort.
AS sure as he is to head great tenn
perance procession Eng ranges up
alongside of him, prompt to the minute
and drunk as lord; but yet no more
dismally and hopelessly drunk than his
brother who has not tasted drop. And
so the two begin to boot and yell, and
throw mud and bricks at the Good
Templars, and of course they break up
the procession 1t would be manitestly
wrong to punish Chang for what Eng
does, and, therefore, the Good Templars
accept the untoward situation and sut-
fer in silence and sorrow. They have
officially and deliberately examined in
to the matter and find Chang blameless.
They have taken the two brothers and
filled Chang full of warm water and
sugar and Eng full of whisky, and in
twenty-five minutes it was not possible
to tell which was the drunkest; both
were as drunk as looms. Yet all the
while Changes moral principles were
unsullied, his conscience clear; and so
all just men were forced to confess that
he was not morally, but only physically
drunk. By every right and by every
moral evidence the man was strictly
sober; and, therefore, it caused his
friends all the more anguish to see him
shake hands with the pump and try TO
wind his watch with his night-key.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

A FEW days ago party of fishermen
in the Yuba river, Cal, failing to pro-
cure trout as rapidly with the hook and
line as they desired, exploded small
quantity of giant powder in the wa
ter. The result was astonishing-all
the fish in the immediate vicinity of the
explosion, large and small, being killed.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30
gfgal aasertisei,lsuts
Summons
TERRITORY OF IDAHO, | .

ASNA4A0lOUS.
TERRITORY OF IDAHO,
County of Boise. 81.
John Gallagher, Eugene)
Marrinane, Patrick KERR.
gan, Plaintiffs, Inn
va. 80 district n.
Thos. B. Hart, G. L. Har- o1o judicial D;sa1
rington, Defendants
To Thos. b. Hart and C.. L. gc.x;
TN THE NAME OF THE p p9e'alns
4 OF the United States. in the IT,. EUPIp
lou are herepy notified that there l. ny Of
tue once OF the Clerk of the District NV On
S S. judicial District OF said Territo,wNO
CITY, county OF Boise, the complaint ~ in ld,s,
gher Co., plaintiffs, praying iudpmnrta John Gam
b. Hart for the sum Of $3.50. with int asanstTH
OF three per cent. per month from !, est At The ~
October, 1866, Qess the sum of sl00 ne s 9TH dag
the 10th OF May 1866, and for their cps Thereon
that the whole judgment be made na.s. " suit AZ
coin of the United States. The said In es
70 obtain decree OF this Court for the foras,o to
certain Mortgage described in tha y. ecos.ss
and executed by the said Thos. p .s.a conphhs
day OF October, A. d. 1866, to secure tI On the
q certain promlssory note dated Octohe. paynenta
made by said Thomas B. Hart for tbn o Sth lSs
payable on or before March LIST. l8ss =, sul Of ss
the United States, with three per ce,. - goa CON-
month thereon to the order of A. Scott aas pa
signed 10 pialntHs; That the PREMISE ao uuly9
said mortgage may be sold and the oSOOl'e!dh
to the payment of said promissory nots ssa slr
thereon at the rate aforesaid, and in cav" "a inte
ceeds are not sufficient pay the same tSe. such
an execution against said Thos b Har, 81 oobta
ance remaining due, and also that the ssia me
and all persons claiming by, through o.
may be barred, and foreclosed Of ALI s suITa s
claim, lien, equity of redemption and in.as I tie
to said mertgaged premises, and for Other I'D
relief; and that unless you appear and ansral uAa
complaint within ten days after the service s s
served within Boise county, and within twa astea
If served out of said county but within ss;S aa
District and within forty days if served ~. 'a
District exclusive of the day of service, NY aa
will be taken against you by default; and !Saasae
TO appear and answer the said cornnlaint !oG L
required, the plaintiff will apply 10 the Con-. as
relief demanded in the said complaint. U
Given under my hand and the seal Of N. ~.
- Court OF the Second Judicial Dis,r;. Dars
uWSU Territory Of Idahs in and for the so.D
~ Boise, this 29th day Of June. 4 n r1TSs sa
u. L. N0GGLE. Csrt
ny j. ID. WIcKERsHAM Derut-
July s, lSG9m3
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

A REMARKABLE pumpkin-vine is chron-
icled by the Wentzville (Mo.) Ne,os, of
which the main stem is 800 yards long,
and which has produced so pumpkins,
II of which measure from to S feet in
circumference.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

NoRrH GERMANY is negotiating with
the Dutch government for the purchase
of the Banda Islands, in the Indian
Archipelago. They are needed for a
naval station.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30
Notice to Tax PAYERS.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN PUR-
~ suant to statute that the Delinquent Tax List
of Boise county, Idaho Territory for the year A. D.
1862 has been duly delivered by the undersigned
officially, to the District Attorney of said county r.
L. Foote, Esq, and If all Delinquent lakes therein
specified are not paid to the County Treasurer within
Ten Days from the date of this notice action will ha
commenced for the collection of the same with costs
of said collection added by said District ATTORNEY
prescribed by law. WILLIAM MOIONEY
Recorder and Ex-offieio Auditor Boise Co., l. r.
Idaho City, Sept 8, 1S69-w3
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LOST!
THO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

VINO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN |,
Il This is to certify that certain promissory note
made, executed and delivered to the undersigned
Nathan Danforth, by ]. Il. Bryant at idaho City, in
Boise county, l. t. on or about the fifth day of April
A. d. 1868, for the sum Of eight hundred and eighty.
three dollars payable thirty days after the date there
Of has been lost mislaid or destroyed; and further
that said promissory note has been this day paid to
the undersigned in full by the said j. g. Bryant; and
further certify that said note has been by me
sold transferred, assigned. in any other manner
disposed of to any person whomsocver and that If
found the said j. G. Bryant is entitled to the posses
sion of the same. Witness my hand at Idaho City,
this 2lst day of Sept, 1862
NATHAN DANFoRTH.
Attest: JONAS '" BROWN n46w3.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02
Religious Intelligence.

of the seven hundred Baptist churches in
Missouri, not more than twenty-five have SER
vice every Sunday. ....
The Rev. John U. Parsons, evangelist, late
OF Acton, is residing now at Wellesly, Mass,
somewhat physically Frustrated.
"A correspondence the Liberal Christian says
that he does not know single popular Uni
tarian minister, nor one who occupies even a
good place. that is living on the salary paid
him by his congregation. In every case there
is an eking out by writing or extra labor OF
some Sort h.te
Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D., has written to
North Carolina that no aid whatever can be
given from the Peabody Southern Educational
Fund to sectarian or UNCONVENTIONAL schools,
and that if such aid has been given in any
case by sub-agents, it has been without his
knowledge or consent and cannot be contin
ued day. -
line last Assembly of the Free Church of
Scotland inaugurated plan by which 60 or
more of the pastors should go forth for a fort
night each to hold a series of meetings in some
neglected portion of the country Eighteen
ministers have thus spent vacation during
the months of July, August and September.
A missionary on the line of the Pacific Rail-
road gives the following as part of his expe-
rience: "a few weeks since, the writer preach
ed in Cheyenne on the street, with dry goods
box for pulpit. The choir were seated IN
buggy, when the horse became frightened,
and away went the choir, singing as they
went" We wish, says the. Presbyterian, tha3
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02

some OF the choirs in bur Eastern churches
could be moved as readily. An organ with q
rotary motion would be valuable at times also.
AT the National Convention of the Uni.
versalists at Buffalo, on Tuesday, Rev. E. H,
Capen, of Gloucester, Mass. read a report on
education, which stated that Tufts College,
Massachusetts,, has assets amounting to 1927
900. of which $4,000 were added last wear.
The Dean Academy, in the same State. is in a
prosperous condition. 1t has property worth
100000, permanent fund of $4,000, with a
prospective endowment of $780, 600 more max.
ing an aggregate of 100000. The Green
Mountain Institute, in Vermont, the oldest
school of the denomination, is in successful on
Grafton. The new Institute at Barre, Vt, will
be completed in February, at cost of $50 :.
900, and will be opened immediately. The
Clinton Liberal Institute, at Clinton. N. Y,
has $50 900 assets, and the st. Lawrence Uni
versity, at Canton, N. Y, $4,000. The LON
bard University at Galesburg, ILL.,, is exertipe
immense power in the West; its assets amount
to $165,000. The Liberal Institute at Jefferson
Wis, has just been erected it cost 1872 600
More than $50 900 has been raised toward the
Smithson Academy, to be Immediately erected
at Logansport, Ind. The average number O
pupils in Universalist schools the past veal
was 1, 450, of which 80 are theological students
One of the mostimportant works accomplished
the past year was the opening of the theologi
cal school at Tufts College, with the Rev. A. J
Sawyer, D. D., as President. The school il
amply endowed.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02

DELTA KAPPA EpsIIoN.-The twenty-third
annual convention of the Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon society is to be held with the chapter of
Bowdoin College on Wednesday and Thurs
day OF next week. This is one of the oldest
and the largest of College secret societies. 1t
was founded at Yale in 1874 and now numbers
50 chapters in as many different colleges with
membership of over four thousand.
The public exercises, consisting of an grafton
and poem, occur on the evening of the 9TH
Hon. j. III. Drummond ipresiding.
The orator, Mr.. Geo. Pratt of Norwich Conn.
graduate of Yale, class of 81, and though
still young man has already become one of
the leading lawyers of his State. sla. r..
Mr.. Puffer the poet, resides in Avon, N. Y.
is very witty and graceful writer, and will
be sure and do justice to this occasion. The
Germania Band Of Boston will furnish the
music. AS large number of graduates of the
College reside in Portland many of whom are
no doubt members of the d. X. E. there will
probably be large delegation from this city
present at the convention
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02

Il n The Gold Exchange Bank n N nuisance:
ol We yesterday spoke of the Gold Exchange
o Bank as nuisance" We spoke advisedly.
The events of the past week will demonstrate
the truthfulness of the charge and even justi-
fly the statement that it is public nuisance
and one that ought speedily to be abat2d.
"a nuisance" says my Lord Coke, and my
Lord Blackstone, my Lord Mansfield and all
other legal big-wigs, sis an annoyance; any
thing that worketh hurt, inconvenience or
damage; anything that annoys, incommodes
OF offends; anything that renders the enjoy
ment of life or property uncomfortable" ga
public or common nuisance" according to the
said Coke, the said Blackstone and other sages
aforesaid, lis such an inconvenience or troub-
lesome offence, as annoys the whole commu-
nifty in general" The Gold Exchange Bank
OF the city of New York is just this 1t was
originally started as ''clearing house" for the
gold gamblers, just as the Suffolk has been for
many years for most of our banks. Parties
deposit comparatively small sum with this
bank and so long as it is sufficient to cover the
difference between the amount of their pur-
chases and sales of gold during the day they
are "al right"-and if they are not right, they
can make it so by promptly depositing the sum
necessary to cover the difference in price and
amount of the buying and selling for the day.
We spoke yesterday of the extraordinary ia
cilities thus afforded to men of small means
to do an extensive business at the expense of
the national credit and of the hard earned
means of honest merchants. The N. Y. Tri-
bune says: o' --'
eve personally know al least one firm who
have been for months past doing large bust
ness as bulls in gold substantially without cap
ital. AS matter of course the concern has
been swallowed by the whirlpool. The regu-
lar dealer in gold makes every day statement
to the Gold Exchange bank of his purchases
and sales Of gold, according to the following
form:
Statement of John Smith s. Co. to New York Gold
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02

According to the census just concluded, the
population of Mexico is S,567 900.
Lockwood & Co., of New York, who have
failed, owe eleven millions of dollars.
The Neos says Fisk's Opera House has been
attached.
The contemplated strike of the women pan
taloon makers of Boston, is abandoned, many
tailors having acceded to their demands.
1t is reported that Mr.. Fred Hudson will
succeed Mr.. Bigelow as editor in-chief of the
New York Times.
There is no truth in the reported suspension
of the heavy banking house of Drexel Broth
erS.
A prominent citizen in Philadelphia has
gone crazy over his great losses in gold and
stocks made through New York broker, and
will be taken to an asylum.
Rev. Dr. Robert j. Breckinridge's resigna-
ton of his professorship in the Danville (Ky.,
Theological Seminary will take effect in De-
cember.
The contract is signed by which M Stra-
kosch binds himself to give Madame Patti
100000 francs for one hundred representa-
tions in America. -.H
Yesterday 5-2Os of 1862 were quoted in Lon
don at "a 5-S, the highest rate to which they
have ever risen. A few more advances and
they will be at par.
The st. Louis papers say that twenty gov
ernors are expected to be present in that city
at the convention soon to be held there in favor
of removing the national capital to the West.
One of the solid men of Boston, Mr. John H
Eastburn, the we'll known job and book print
er, after an active life of 80 years, and the &C.
emulation of a handsome property, announc-
es his retirement from business.
The results of the panic illustrate many fluc-
tuations in the fortunes of brokers. One, in
particular, counting up his personal effects last
night found in his pockets $65, which he said
was the entire remainder of eighty thousand
that he had week ago.
The loss on the Hope cotton mill, burnt
Monday morning in Pittsburgh, was $3.50, 900,
on which there is an insurance of $115, 900, in
GLIDING $4,000 in Providence, equally divided
between the Narragansett, Washington and
Merchants companies.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02
tement of John Smith g. Co. TO New York Gold
rr44ai 10 nGln eli ss2O,co0Oo sl,372,O7b 90
5N.,-e,,l1. - JOHN SIXTH & Co.

.|.ffr7|.t 10 ti.lU q. $oZU,OW w $l,jIZ,U7O UU
New York. Sept. 25, 1885, 49, '-----1 - W.
BY this simple process John Smith & Co..
being members of the Gold Board and dealers
with the Gold Exchange Bank, are enabled
to buy and sell in a single day nearly a mil
lion dollars OF gold on capital of $3.50 in cur
rency. Ii there were no such institution as
the Clearing House Bank, Smith 6 Co.,
would be compelled either to reduce the
amount OF their transactions or increase the
amount OF their capital. Thus they would
have to receive from John Freely G. Co.,
named in the foregoing statement, $250,OOO in
gold and pay them $375,0OO in gold or its
equivalent. Thus business that may now
be, and we believe often is, transacted on a
capital of thousand dollars would, if the
Gold Exchange Bank were broken up, require
at least a quarter of a million. The bank
charges commission on these transactions,
and is said to be making $15OOOO per annum
on capital of half million. Its stock COM
ter OF the street; and its existence is the per-
petual offer OF a premium for gambling.
This being the state of the case and illus
: tfative of the actual working of the insiitu-
ton, the bank which is public nuisance not
only by reason Of the general injury it inflicts
upon the community, but also because crea-
ted by public enactment, ought to be abated
immediately upon the assembling of the legis-
iature by revocation of its charter. 1t would
be as efiectually killed by the passage of the
Dill which it is said Senator Wilson proposes
TO ofier to make it penal not to consummate
by actual delivery any contract for gold de-
HVerable alta future day. The bank will nev-
er be permitted to fail Or die unless extin-
guished in one of these ways. 1t is too ser.
7lceable an engine for the use of the gold
gamblers to be voluntarily dispensed with by
them on account of any temporary embarass-
ment. They can ''better spare better man."