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The Portland daily press., 1870-02-25
NEW YORK.

BOLD ROBBERY.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24-The messenger of the
State Bank at Brunswick, N. j., was robbed of
two bags containing $3.50 in government bonds
and currency at the Sub-Treasury in this city
to-day. Two men walked up to him. called
his attention to the printed rules, and while
reading them took the bags, which lay ON the
counter, and left unmOlested.
FREE TRADE
At a large free trade meeting on Broad street
this afternoon jackson s. Shultz presided, and
addresses were made by William Cullen Bry-
ant and 8. j. Tlton, and letters were read from
Congressman James Brooks and "Shoo Fly
Cox
CITY AND VICINITY.
An invoice of hymn books intended for Brig
ham Young have been seized at the post office
in this city.
John McCrians. and wife slept last night in
a freshly painted room in Brooklyn, and this
morning the man was found dead and the wo-
man unconscious, it is supposed from inhaling
the gap of new paint.
METHODIST CONVENTION.
- SYRACUSE, Feb. 2.-The Methodist Conven-
ton to-day adopted a resolution commemora.
1--WE TO MT. Burlingame. The Rev. DR.. Beck
delivered an eulosy, saying thnt the deceased
was an ardent Methodist. The report in favor
OF overtures of Methodist churches South for
Inc union OF the two churches was tabled
Nesoiutlons were adopted condemning the
Z, Iesens NouIess amusements of novel reading
theatre going, social dancing and gaming.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL ExAMINATIoNs.-Wedn
day the committees appointed to examine the
West and intermediate Schools visited both of
them, and we learn that they were very much
pleased with the progress made by them dur
ing the last term. The pupils are very thor
ough in their studies, and reflect great credit
upon the exertions of their teachers. The fol-
lowing are the statistics of the West School,
situated at Libby's Corner.
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WEST INDIES.
Cuba.

LIBERATION OF SLAVES.
HAVANA. Feb. M.-The Captain General has
issued decree which grants liberty to over
1000 negroes, prisoners Of war, who had been
hired out to labor by the Government with the
understanding that they were to become slaves
after certain date. The measure is warmly
applauded by the liberal and progressive par
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southern states securities steady.
Stocks irregular prices OF some Western roads va
ryng per cent. in extreme cases. The decrease Of
earnings and decline in gold caused the depression.
The market closed rather stronger.
Miscellaneous and Express shares dull.
Ile following is the tians of Stocks.
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The Cuban Junta at Santiago, consisting Of
eighteen members, who had for long qime as
sisted the insurgents, have been arrested and
executed.
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THE PRESS.
and Vicinity.

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Theatre. C. E. Bidwell
SPECIAL NOTICE COLUMN.
Notice. :. Town OF Standish.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT COLUMN.
S25 Reward, =, Lewis B. Goodwin.
For Machiasport. I'D. w. Deering.
Rooms to let. e. I. Southgate.
For Rent "a Brown St.
Portland Laundry. rs Fletcher.
Notice. Estate OF Nathaniel j. Miller
An Persons. M. g. Palmer.
I'll elm bold's Fluid Extract Buchu.
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Miss A. M. Carleton is Principal of this
school with Miss Emily Nolett assistant in the
Grammar Department, and Misses E. D. Ste
vens, c. E. Weymouth, and G. Riggs assistant
in the Primary Department.
The following are the statistics of the Inter-
mediate School situated on Chestnut street, of
which Mr.. A. H. Files is Principal, assisted by
Misses G. o. Cole and Jordan.
Whole number OF scholars registered ...... 207
Number OF scholars belonging at examination. ..15s
average ....129
Average attendance .107
Present at examination.
Yesterday was taken up by the examinations
in,the Boys Grammar Schools. The boys APP
peared welliniormed, and gave their answers
readily and with spirit. The following are the
statistics of the Park street school, of which
Mr.. Haines is Principal assisted by Misses
Foster, Grove and Pickering.
Whole number Of scholars registered. ....... .1So
Average number in attendance. .17e
Percentage attendance. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "a
belonging to the s;hool Feb. 1870. .......1s2
The Fourth Grammar, situated in the High
School building, is presided over by G. E. Tay-
Tor, Principal, assisted by Misses Baker, Den
mis-, Durell and Hunt.
Whole number OF scholars registered. :. .220
Average number Of scholars registered. .193 1900
attendance. ...leI Io-!OU
Number belonging at examination.
present &C EXAMINATION .184
To-day the North School will be examined
and the week will finish with the High School
on Saturday.
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PORTLAND THEATRE.-The Bidwell Dramat-
&c COMPANY opened to first class audience at
the Hdi'i Theatre last evening in Williams
play OF IA OIcast. Dollie W.; very good rs
Ruth, and Mir. Medium appeared to excellent
advantage as Paul Oakley. The rest of the
characters were we'll sustained by the compa-
ny, who are fully as good, if not better, than
many companies hailng from the metropoli-
tan cities, whose approach is heralded by fam
ing posters The play is of the East Lynne
sensational school, which is our detestation,
but very popular with the majority of theatre.
goers. Wilkinson was as funny as ever in the
after niece The music furnished by the Or
chestra travelling with this company is very
good indeed and the violin solo, at the close
of the drama, was very finished effort. To-
night the ''Long Strike" which is one of the
very best of the sensational school of plays.
ARGUS GRAMMAR-When the Araus man
attempts to be severe or funny, he usually sue
ceeds in making himself ridiculous; as he has
assuredly done in his rejoinder to your good
natured allusion to his case of spontaneous
combustion.
Whatever he may say or think, the state
ment, as published, was not grammatical. That
is to say, when strictly construed it does not
convey the idea intended. To be certain on
that point, one need not be ga graduate of
Bowdoin," nor even of High School,
The comma, upon which he evidently rests
his case, is not legitimately used, and does not
help him in the matter. A graduate" of
printing Office, who had not attained To the
dignity of proOf-reader, could tell him that.
If one should write "The store and house, of
John OXnard, the comma would be manifest
ly superfiuous and without significance. So,
IN the case in hand. "the store and contents Of
.In (1vr, nrlD- IL
means the store of John Oxnard and what
John had in him at the time of the fire.
am sorry for John; but it is gratifying to
know that he was fully insured. A question
might arise, however, as to whether Johns
contents were proper risk for a fire company
VERBUM SAT.
1.-The above was not received till after the
publication of our own rejoinder, but we are
glad to publish it as the disinterested testimo-
ny of a third party that our joke at the ex-
pense of the argus was "good-natured'' one,
and that it by no means warranted the asperity
of the reply. We supposed that the Argus'
fearful account of John Oxnard was merely
the result of typographical error or an over
sight in the proof.reader--justs such an accident
as might occur in the Argus or PRESS Office
without bringing any further discredit upon
anyone than that which attaches to careless
ness. The sensitiveness Of the Argus has alone
made it apparent that its error was the result
of ignorance
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spEOIAL NOTICE.

r,Asr prrxroN STATION, on the Portland and
u Kargsd6 w Sn I tnrbsS natss
and aiter he"i' THOS. QUINBY, Supt.
On ,s-O ian3id4w
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LONDON, Feb. 24.-11.30 A. M.-Consols 92T

23c.
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Divinity of Christ.

| am not to repeat before you tonight
the evidence of Christ's divinity. l have
not the time, nor does the object / have in
view in this discourse require me to do it.
/ simply wish to make the statement, to
snow the difference of opinion between
these two classes, and the difference it must
make in ones conduct whether person
thinks that Christ was God in the flesh or
simply man.
On the ore hand, if He was simply a
man, then the entire significance of the
New Testament is changed from what it is
if Christ is God; for it makes great diff
ference in my mind and yours, in my life
and yours, whetherthe central figure which
moves through all its history and gives its
dignity toit, is God in human form, or a
mere man-simply one of the millions OF
the human race. When Christ speaks, il
makes-and | cannot help it-a great diff.
| ference, in my views of him, whether re-
gard his words as the utterance of the Del
ty Himself, or the expression of an indi-
viduai opinion; when he says, abiding tC
God, Il and my Father are one" l mus
decide, in order to know what to think and
do, whether it is the calm statement of con
scous divinity, or nothing but the extrav
agant and blasphemous assertion of a Gal
iiean peasant; and the influence of tn.
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Be uinninQ RiQht,

In an interesting volume entitled THE
Young Shetlander and His Home" from
the pen of Rev. Bradford K Pierce, D. D.,
the well known chaplain at Randall's Is
land, New York, we find the following
good lesson for young couples the world
over, just entering the new house." or the
married state 1t illustrates also the state
ment that the women on the Shetland Is
lands are particularly serious and devout.
The story is of young couple who had
just attained to house of their own:
After supper, the first night they were
in their "new house." as they called it,
Mary took small pocket bible, which had
been present from jamie in their court
ing days, out of her chest, and laid it on
the table before him, crossed her hands
and sat down composediy at his side. He
looked first at the book, then at her, and
next in the fire, and his face became slight
ly flushed. When he did not seem inclin-
ed to take up the book, Mary said, But du
maun do it, Jamie; du's moo da head o q
family, an der's naething lex beginnin
RIGHT. Lat's gle wirsesls ia da Lord at first
an dan der's nae fear o's, come what may
An der's naebody here bit wirsels twa, an
du's surely no feared of me jamie? TIL,
appeal was irresistible He took the book
read a psalm, offered short but earnes
prayer, after which Mary kissed and caress
ed him, saying she was proud of him, anc
| that he was the best man in the world.
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Rich for a Moment.

The British ship Britannia was wrecked
off the coast Of Brazil, and had on board a
large consignment Of Spanish dollars. In
the hope Of saving some of them, anumber
of barrels were brought on deck, but the
vessel went to pieces so fast that the only
hope for life was in taking at once to the
boats. The last boat was about to push off,
when young minshipman went back to
see if any one was still on board. To his
surprise, there sat a man on deck with a
h .tchet in his hand, with which he had
b oxen open several of the casks, the con-
tents of which he was now heaping up
about him.
What are you doing there?' shouted
the youth. Don't you know the ship i:
fast going to pieces ?"
The ship may" said the the man; 81
have lived poor wretch all my life and
am determined to die rich"
His remonstrances were answered onl,
by another flourish of the Ratchet, and h,
was left to his fate.
We should count such person a mad
man, but he has too many imitators. MeI
seem determined to die rich at all hazards
Least of all risks do they count the chanc
Of losing the soul in the struggle, at an
moment at all. And yet the only richie
we can hug to our bosom with joy, in GU
dying hour, are the riches of grace throug
Jesus Christ, which we must make our
before the dark hour comes.
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Duty of Agricultural Colleges.

The agricultural community has right
to expect that agricultural colleges will
aim to increase the sum of scientific knowl-
edge of agriculture, and not merely to be-
come retailers of the imperfect and often
crude materials which we already have at
hand To meet this just expectation, to
appear to begin to do their plain duty they
should not fail to devise and initiate a
comprehensive system of carefully conduct
edexperiments designed to establish results
not only for the states or localities where
they are situated, and which, of course,
have the first claim upon them, but they
should act in concert, with each other, so
that the same experiments may be repeat
ed through series of years in each of them.
They could thus show the conditions which
affect each cultivated plant in different To-
calities, and arrive at more or less gener-
alizations, which would add to our present
stock of accurate knowledge.
The agricultural colleges are better pre-
pared to undertake this work and to do it
well than any other institutions or any
other body of observers. What have they
done in this direction? Where are the
experiments undertaken by them, except
in the case of the Michigan Agricultural
College ?-Massachusetts Psoughnsan.
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Chance of Food Needful,

Man, when confined for any considera-
BILE time to one kind of food, Is more liable
to disease than when his regimen is vari-
ed. The disease common among sailors
on long voyages is an illustration of this.
Now, what is true Of man, is equally
true of the various species Of animals Do
nestle animals, when confined for an I'M
due period of time TO one kind of food,
sicken and die Barnyard cattle suffer
from the same cause. For them, nature
has furnished variety. In summer the
different kind of grasses, with their rich
juices. tempt their taste and improve their
flesh. Yet even then, we obtain an argu-
ment for a variety of food, from the fact
that cattle which are fed with grain
or vegetables put on fat more rapidly than
when they partake of grass alone. But in
the winter our ordinary dry food Is not as
conducive to growth as summer grasses.
Fodder" as it IS Familiarity termed, has
lost much ofits original properties in curing.
You will find the defect in part supplied
by roots of various kinds. Among these,
turnips, carrots, beets, and the like, have
their value. But these, or something Of
the kind, should be provided to give vari-
ETY. to our winter supply Of stock.
Farmers, look to this, and see if the best
cattle and the best folds of sheep are not
those which have furnished with a variety
of food during their long winter confne-
ments. Would YOU have good stock p
then have good bins full of roots for their
winter feed.
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Duration of Eternity

Saurin says, when | endeavor to repre-
sent eternity, avail myself of whatever l
can conceive most long and durable. |
heap Imagination upon imagination, con-
lecture upon conjecture. First, | consider
those long lives which all men wish and
some men attain. do more, | turn to an
cient chronicles | go back to the patri-
archal age and consider life extending
through a thousand years; and | say to
myself All this is not eternity: all this is
only a point in comparison to eternity
Having represented to myself real objects,
| form ideas of imaginary ones. l 60 from
our age to the time of publishing the gos-
pei; from thence to the publication of the
law; from the law TO the flood from the
food to the creation; | join this epoch to
the present time; and imagine Adam yet
living Had Adam lived till now, and had
he lived in misery, had he passed all his
time in fire or in a rack, what idea mus
we form of his condition? At what price
would we agree to expose ourselves to mis-
cry 50 great? What imperial glory would
appear glorious, were it followed by so
much woe? Yet this is not eternity: all
this is nothing in comparison of eternity
go farther still, | proceed from one sup
position to another. | take the greatest
number of ages that can be imagined
add ages to ages, millions of ages to mil
lions of ages l form of all these one fixed
number, and stay my Imagination. After
this, suppose God to create a world like
this which we inhabit; l suppose him Gre
ating it by forming one atom after another
and employing, in the production of each
| atom, the time fixed in my calculation just
now mentioned. What numberless ages
would the creation of such world in such
manner require Then suppose the Gre
ator to arrange these atoms, and to pursue
the same plan of arranging them as of ere
ating them. What numberless ages would
such an arrangement require? Finally,
suppose him to dissolve and annihilate The
whole, and, observing the same method il
| this dissolution as he observed in the crea
ton and disposition of the whole, what al
immense duration would be consumed :
Yet this is not eternity: and all this is on
| ly point in comparison of eternity :"
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Loss of Farm Manures.

In the Farmers Club report, found in
the American Farmer, Rochester, n. Y.
T. c. Reynolds is reported as making the
following important statement:
The great fault with most farmers is.
they are careless in the management of
farm manures. They leave them exposed
to the atmosphere, and the consequence is.
that the more valuable of the fertilizing in
gradients, including ammonia, escape, leav-
ing an inert mass for application to the soil
for manurial purposes. Manures should
be sheltered and composted with soil, by
which their tertilizing powers will be fixed
and retained for use. Fully one-half of
the plant food of manure is lost by evapor-
alton, and the result is that the soil is
starved, when with proper care it might be
kept in state of progressive improvement.
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In Winter Quarters

Under the above caption the editor of
the Main Farmer recently gave his readers
some account of visit to the barns of Al
len Lambard, Esq near the city of Au-
gusta, from which we make the following
extracts:
We have heretofore given some account
Of Mr. Lambards farm, and of the system
Of management on which, in two wears he
increased the amount of hay cut upon it,
from about thirteen to very nearly one
hundred tons, as well as a somewhat mi
mute account of the number, size and man
agemcnt Of his various farm buildings, and
will now only mention a few matters that
will be Of general interest to our readers,
noted down Is we recently ran through
the barns, and took look at his stock in
winter quarters.
The range of out-buildings upon the
farm now-c omprises five. They aresituated
upon side hill, their north east and south
west corners joining, so that water is sup
piled from the reservoir in the upper yard
to the barns and yards below, through IN
derground pipes. The three barns next to
the road are each supplied with cellars
and are hay and straw barns, where the
neat stock is kept The fourth is a horse
barn-well lighted upon the south as in
indeed all others are with stalls for thir-
teen horses The fifth is a building some
seventy-fve by sixteen feet, erected the
past summer which Mr. Lambard calls the
most convenient and indispensable build
ing upon the farm. 1t is divided into nine
apartments, appropriated for calves, colts
and horses. This building is also well
lighted
Mr.. Lambard is well known as an extern
sive breeder of full blood Devons, and has
now in his herd of fifty-one cattle, several
animals of great merit. Among these are
Helena 3d. and Helena 18th, two magnif-
cent cows, the former of which is now sew
enteen years of age. Includedin this herd
are nineteen cows, two yoke of oxen and
five yoke of steers, the remainder being
bulls, young stock and calves. The cows
that give milk are fed three quarts of wheat
bran daily. The oxen and steers-full
blood Devons-have had nothing but straw,
not forkful of hay, nor quart of proven
der, since Dec 6 last past, have been work
ed nearly every day, and are sleek, fat and
handsome Mr.. Lambard claims that no
other breed of cattle will do the same work
on the same amount and kind of feed, nor
produce a like quantity of beef at the same
expense, as the Devons Hence his pref
erence for this breed. Some of Mr.. Lam
bard's animals have been obtained from
the most celebrated Devon breeders in oul
country, and he has taken great pains tC
keep them in their purity. Two hundred
tons of hay were cut upon the farm the
past season, about one ton of which is be
ing fed out daily. Think of the heaps o
manure that must come from this hay, anC
also the tons of hay that will in turn b.
produced from the manure. 1t pays bet
ter to eat hay than to sell it."
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New Testament on my life, in shaping my
daily conduct, is largely decided by what
! think of Christ. For, as you all will adj
NIT, Christ is so intimately connected with
it, he is so much the light and life of it,
that my regard and reverence for it rises
or sinks with my opinion of him. He is
the column around which all its history,
its precepts, its doctrines, are twined and
with the fall of the central shaft all the
pendant surroundings are cast in one tang
led and disordered mass to the ground. If
man then is the Sermon on the Mount
no more to me than the dialogue of Socra-
ties with his friends in the prison before he
drank the fatal cup, or the speculations of
Plato. If God, then is it the utterance of
Heaven itself, and 1 regard it as the su-
preme expression vouchsafed to man for
the government of his dispositions and the
salvation of his soul.
Or again, if Christ is God, then is He
the fit object of prayer and worship, and
my soul can go to Him as unto the ultimate
object of its desires and alteration. If on
ly created being, then is it sin for me to
address Him in prayer and praise; for we
are solemnly forbidden to worship any but
God alone.
My friends, be pleased to observe am
not arguing the matter. l am simply stat
ing to you impartially, certain facts. and
deducing from them certain conclusions, to
which think all of you who are intelli-
gent and candid must assent And my
| point is to show, not what we should be-
lieve of Christ, but that it makes great
difference with ourselves and others what
we do think. 1t is not matter of little
Importance, but of the most solemn inter-
est to every one of you, and not alone to
you, but to all those, your children and
friends, upon whom, by example and in
struction, you have influence. And hope
none of you will ever say 20, it don't
make much difference what you think
about Christ if you only act rightly" For
it does make a vast difference. First, be-
cause we should think of Him nothing but
what is truth, neither adding to nor de
tracing from his dignity. And, secondly,
because our action toward aim depends
very much on what we think of Him.
Murray's Music Hall Sermons.
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Prevention of Gapes in Fowls

n. II. Paaren, V. s., writes to the Amer
lean Entomologist, an interesting descrip-
ton of the parasite causing gapes in fowls.
Extracts are given from other writers. in
one of which the old plan of curing the
disease by Withdrawing the worms from
the wind-pipe with feather stripped to
near the end, is given.
DR.. Paaren makes use of carbolic acid as
prevention. The solution is made by
dissolving one grain of pure crystalline
carbolic acid adding half a drachm of vim
egar. One teaspoonful of this solution is
put in a pint of water. Wheat is stepped
in this solution and the young chicks are
fed twice week with this. Wood and
coal ashes are thrown on the floor of the
house. The roosting house if cleansed
each week and the solution of carbolic acid
which should always be shaken before
used-is sprinkled on roosts and floor once
a month.