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The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04
BRIGGS Pile Remedies are a success.

WITHOUT SPOT OR SEDMENT.-PHALoN's
'VIrALtA."o OR SALVATION FOR THE HAIR.
has no smell, and does not stain the skin. 1t
has no ingredient that subsidies in the form of
filthy sediment. Consequently it is not
shrouded in darkened bottles. The natural
color of the hair, however completely it may
have faded ont, is invariably produced by the
Vitalia.
Sold by all druggists and fancy goods deal.
ers iau2d eod1w
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04
B ulAinoss Notices.

THE wooden pavement is a great improve
mept, but the viands at Webster's saloon, un-
der Fluent's Hall, are positive luxuries.
sept20eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04
BRIGGS Allavantor cures Catarrh.

TRY Briggs Threat and Lung Healer. Il.
GET Briggs Corn aud Bunion Remedies.
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

COURT OF COUNTY COMhnssIoNERs.-This
important Court organized for the year 1871
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. George E.
Chadbourne, Esq, of Bridgton was sworn in
member for three years. Seward NJ Baker.
Esq, of Windham was elected Chairman and
Daniel w. Fessenden, Esq, is ca otacio Clerk of
the Court. William B. Skillin, Esq, of North
Yarmouth, IS the member for two years.
oliver ID. Dyke of Sebago, the late chairman,
retires from Office with the full respect Of his
late associates and the entire confidence of the
people of the community, more especially
those who have been called to meet him in an
official relation.
In the afternoon the new board dined with
Sheriff Perry. and enjoyed the hospitalities Of
his home in the county building on Lincoln
street. A very pleasant party gathered around
his board, and made the acquaintance of his
family, and an hour was very pleasantly pass
ed in social intercourse, after which thorough
inspection was made Of the Jail. The examina-
tion was highly satisfactory; every part of the
premises being In perfect order, and remarka-
bly, neat and orderly. During the past year
some important changes have been made in the
AAsSA'OAs Au0 VAO-ctyio IduidtOEs, USSV AOT
warming the different wings were found de.
fective and have been superseded by pipes run
ing through the several sections. giving q
more uniform warmth and enabling the jailor
to regulate the temperature Imore treally.
The old wooden floor, in the basement OF the
wings had become decayed from its nearness
to the ground, and has been removed, andre
placed by flooring ofcast iron-plates, laid on
iron stringers and thoroughly bolted together
making very neat floor, impervious to mois-
ture and calculated to last many years. The
change, though involving considerable imme.
date expense, will be found the cheapest in
the end. We do not believe New England can
present more comfortable or safer reformato-
ry institution than the Portland Jail The i'm
provements of the last yelr make it, in sani-
tary point Of view, perfect; and with the appli-
cation of the Hill patent for preventing the es-
cape of prisoners, introduced two years ago, it
Is the safest Jail in the country. No prisoner
has dared to tamper with the Hill alarm, for
detection is as sure to follow the attempt as the
click of the telegraph instrument is to be heard
at the further end of the line.
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

The friends Of Bev. Mr.. Smith, pastor OF
Casco Street Church, planned and successfully
executed a pleasant little surprise iot him on
Monday evening. AS he and his ife we're
preparing to leave their home to visit some
friends. they were peremptorily summoned to
appear at the vestry of his church, where, 10
the presence Of large number of his society
aud their friends, Mr.. G. w. Rich, in behalf of
the donors presented him with handsome
and thoroughly finished walnut bookcase,
manufactured by Mr.. John Stack pole and de-
signed expressly for the minister's study. The
pastors wife was also remembered with a roll
of greenbacks; and pastor and people left for
their homes feeling happier for this social gath
cripu
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

shire strcets,lis prepared to furnish Freeman's
oysters to order. ian3d-tf
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

THERE is no SO sure protection against the
cold winds of winter as the patent Felt Corset,
price 81. For sale only by Cogia Hassan.
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The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

THERE was a very pleasant concert given
last evening at the Abyssinian Church on
Newbury street, by the choir Of that society,
composed Of six male and female vocalists
The house was about half filed, but the audi
ence should have been larger for it was a very
meritorious affair. The selections were excel
lent and performed in strict time and perfect
harmony. There were some unusually good
voices exhibited and the singers are to be con-
q nxainlated for thair succosa xocal;sta
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

NEW YORK. Jan. -HorHing.-Gold opened at
1103 @ 1l0S. Money per cent. currency 70 per
cent Gold. Sterling .change 1891 q l09t.
Tbe following are the forenoon quotations Of South
The Portland daily press., 1871-01-04

OCEAN INSURANCE Co.-The Directors of
this company organized yesterday by tho re-
electing of c. NJ. Davis President, Geo. Wright
Secretary, and Capt. Thos. Means Inspector.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

the above shape, the use Of a grubbinp
hoe, or other like tool, is quite necessary.
Brickbsts are better than whole bricks
for archng up with. Lay in cement, by
commencing on the Jog left in digging for
that purpose, Placing the bats level with
the surface below. and drawing in
gradually all round, leaving an aperture
sufficient to allow the workmen to get
inside. Fill up with dirt round the out
side to hold the wall firmly, as the work
progresses. Then it should be run up in
a perpendicular manner a foot or two
more, to elevate the platform sufficiently
above the surface of the ground. A
square frame OF timber around this, and
filled between with gravel or coal cinder,
and the cistern is ready for the boards.
The mortar must be mixed a little at a
time, so that it may not stSnd long before
being used. The sand must be clean and
sharp, and not less than two parts used to
one of lime. If the walls crack, use less
lime. Twc-thirds of a barrel of the latter
is sufficient. Two coats should be put on,
for below the wall the cement is put i'm
mediatelY upon the dirt.
The c.stern should be kept covered, thst
the mortar may not become dry, and the
water let in in a few hours, if possible
The water should never be allowed to rise
up inthe ground above that in the cistern,
or the latter will become "hard." If you
can't afford a pump, procure a pine pole
of sufficient size, and saw out a block of
five inches within five inches of the end.
and put on q spring with screws, so that
a BUCKET may be put on or taken of at
pleasure Western Rural.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
To Judge the Quality Of Honey.

THIS is an interesting question, and one,
we believe, not very generally understood.
Honey, of course, is judged mainly by its
color; but owing to the fact that there is
often a very great difference in the color
OF the comb, and the additional fact that
bees often put white honey int dark combs,
and Utce UeTsG, it is manifest that very greas
care must be exercised in taking into &C
count both the comb and the honey. The
proper way TO judge honey is to strain it
into glass jars. You can then readily
judge of its color. But th5n there 8re at
least two other qualities TO be considered
thickness AID flavor. In Judging of its
thickness, it is necessary for the judge to
know whether that quality was impaired
In the first instance, or whether it is due to
the action of light; for light (the chemi-
cal rays acts upon honey very much as it
does upon the iodide of silver, on the pho
tographer's excited collodion plate.
Take two bottles of honey from the same
comb, seal them up perfectly tight, and
keep them both at the same temperature
only one in the sunlight and the other
in a dark room-aud the former will gradu-
ally grow thick and finally assume a semi
crystalline shape, while the other will rs-
tain It's original fiuidity. This is one res-
son why bees always work in the dark,
and why honey should always be kept in
the dark or in opaque vessels.
1t would be very improper to award q
first prize to a jsr of honey that bad be-
come thickened by the action of light, be-
cause it thereby becomes d~eteriorsted.
Still honey, to be superior, should not be
very thin Flavor is also a very import
ant consideration, and must always be re.
CURED. A g~ood-flsvore5, dark honey may
sometimes be superior to a white article
which locks much better. The thickness
and thinness Of honey depends upon the
source from which it is gathered, rather
tban upon the secretive action of the bee,
whether we admit that the insect makes or
simply gathers it-ScieatJfc Press.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
lake. Believe Shoes.

The shoe worn by the young woman of
the period is surely One of the most abom-
Unable contrivances ever brought into
vogue by the caprice of the sex. What
need to describe it? Do we Tot know the
absurdity of its construction, and how in
g~eniously it has been designed for the de-
struction of comfort, and ease, and grace
in walking, and also in all semblance to a
real woman's foot? When it first came
into fashion, the ladies were told by few
sensible m0l that to put their feet into a
machine with a toe like a birds bill, and a
heel three inches high brought forward
under the instep, would insure suffering
and deformity.
But the dear creatures, in their irresisti-
bic way, resented this interference with
their prerogative of selftorture and self
caricature, and asked, "Would you have
us look like dowdies, with broad toes to
our shoes, and low heels, and all that?"-
all that" meaning heels where nature in
tended they should be. The plea was IN
answerable. Ladies' shoe-makers certain
truthful ones) tell us, what observation
also reveals, that there is hardly q young
woman now who regards herself at all
fashionable who has not bunions, callosi-
ties, corns and enlarged joints; and that
the crop of these ornaments developed
within the last four or five years is aston
ishing and pitiful. The worst of it is that
there appears to be no prospect of relief,
except q turn in the whirligig of fashion,
and that there are no exceptions to the rule
of torture and deformity. For the good
and sensible of the sex immediate them
solver with the foolish and the frivolous.
No degree of sense, or independence, or
stability of character seems to absoive any
woman who had the charm of womanhood
about her from slavery to fashion, at what
ever sacrifice of time, comfort, money or
health.-NeU York Times.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

prove beneficial. 1t may be that talking
prevents hens from laying also. We know
we have often experienced a vast increase
In the number of eggs brought into the
house after the removal ofa too oficious
individual from u employ. Besides, our
cows have sometimes improved in produce
by the same means, but we generally
attribute it to cleaner milking by fresh
and more industrious hands. 1t is, how
ever, well known that cows are peculiarly
sensitive to sights and sounds during the
time they are MIXED. Unless they are at
perfect ease, they will not give their milk
freely. They should be daily MIXED un-
der the same conditions. Cows that are
fed at milking time require their usual
meal, or they become restless and dissatis-
fed, and put a stop to their bounty.
Many of them will only allow some
special fayorite TO milk them. In those
parts of the country where women are
solely employed to milk, we frequently
find n or two tuneful lassies singing at
their work, and many COWS become so
pleased with the rustic harmony as to
show evident signs Of their approval of
the loud sweet voice, by giving their milk
only by being sung to. Everything that
distracts the attention of the cow and
ruffles her placidity, should be avoided
when she is called upon to yield her milk.
Her nervous system should not be excited
by strange noises, unwelcome objects or
rough treatment, or the effect will be
apparent in a diminished supply in the
milk pail. 1t would no doubt be good adj.
vice, on the whole, to tell those who milk
that they should hold their tongues and
keep their tempeTs. The Connecticut
farmer appears to have sufficient reason
indeed to say, that speech is silver, but
silence is golden.-LOndon MIR Journal.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
The Interior of the Earth.

AMONG the various papers recently read
before the British Scientific Association
was a report from the Tidal Committee
of the Society. This paper contained a
number of curious and interesting specu-
lations with regard TO the degree of elastic
yielding which the solid earth experiences
under the tide-generating influences of the
sun and loon. 1t is quite certain that the
solid earth does yield TO some degree. 1t
has long been a favorite assumption with
biologists that the earth consists of a shell
of solid Del .trom twenty to fifty miles IN
thickness, inclosing an interior filed with
melted material, lava, metals, etc. This
hypothesis is nov shown to be absolutely
untena5le, because, if it were true, the
solid crust would yield with almost as
much freedom, on account of its thinness
and crest area, as if it were perfectly
LIQUID. Thus the boundary of the solid
earth would rise and fall under the tide
generating influences, so as TO leave no
sensible differences to be marked by the
water rising and falling relatively to the
solid; showing that if the earth as a whole
had an average degree of rigidity equal to
that of a glass, the tides would be very
much diminished from the magnitude
which they would possess IN a perfectly
rigid globe, with water like our seas upon
it This consideration, the committee re-
ports, makes it probable that the earth has
considerably more average rightly thsn a
globe of glass of the same size. The
mathematical calculation shows a some
what startling result, to the effect that a
globe of the same size as the earth, if
throughout exactly of the same rigidity as
a glass on a smaller scale, would yield like
an India rubber ball to the tide generating
influences, thus leaving very little oppor-
tunity for change in the relative heights
of water and land. The precise agree
ment of the actual tidal movement with
estimates founded on the supposition of q
perfectly rigid globe, renders it probable
that the earth is in reality vastly more
rigid as q whole than any specimens of
surface rock that had been experimental
upon in any laboratories. DR.. Soule, ten
years ago, in speaking on this subject, had
suggested that probably the great pressure
in the interior produced in the material,
which might be the same substance as the
surface rocks, a greatly increased rigidity
in positions at great depths below the sur
face. This part of the inquiry the com.
mistee propose TO make a primary object
in the calculation mex to be taken.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
Personal.

Here is the way Richardson, of the Daven-
port Democrat, delineates DR.. Shallenberger,
the great Fever and Ague-cure man:
"Dr. A. T. Shallenberger's name is a
household word in a majority of homes
throughout the Western and Southern States,
but to be intimately acquainted with the man
Is the lot of comparatively few among those
even III have received lasting benefits at his
hands. Twenty-Five miles, or t~hereabouts, on
this side of murky, smoky, dingy, busy,
busting Pittsburgh, out of the dense clouds
of its forge and foundry fires, away from the
incessant rattle of its machinery, is situated
the rural little village of Rochester, Pennsyl-
yania, not to be mistaken for its populous
Damesake in New York State, for this modest
town would have been scarcely heard of out
side of its immediate neighborhood were it
not that it was the home of a public benefac-
tor, the place from which he has sen to all
parts of the Union that great and good rem
edy, which has done more towards the reliev-
ing ofpoor suffering humanity, who burn with
fever or shiver with ague, than all the remedies
ever placed before the public put together.
This we would have the reader under
stand is no idle boast, beyond the knowledge
proved by knowledge of actual facts. Among
our own personal acquaintance, we have
those who, Frustrated by the alternate burn
ings and freezings of Americas direst disease,
have found all doctors at a loss, all boosted
panaceas useless, until the friendly hand of
DR.. ~Shallenberger has come to their aid with
the w~ell-known bottles of familiar pills,
which have proved an infallible antidote, ar
resting the chills, and disarming the fever de-
mon as if by magic. For fifteen years has the
doctor been busily employed in preparing for
the public this prescription, which is not one
of those cure-alls calculated to heal every
disease, but a ~well-considered, fully-proved,
and never-failing resort for the malarious dis
ease it processes to cure. Those who know,
as we do, the character of the man, his stand
ing in society, his perfect honor and undoubt-
ed integrity, and his aversion to anything bor-
dering on charlatanism, will indorse every
word we say"
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
A Cheap and Substantial Cisteru.

No n having had a eistern for ever
a short time will be willing to Go without
one. When it is known, too, what a
small amount of money and labor ia
required to make one, the provident
farmer will no longer permit the family
to waste time and strength to insure
cleanliness in the kitchen, from not hay.
ing access TO an abundant supply of pure.
SOFT water. By reason of having com
parative leisure, and the ground being
usually free from water, the tall of the
year is the best time for the performance
Of this work.
In the construction of a cistern of
ordinary size, commence to dig about four
feet in diameter, and proceed in a per
penaicular direction until firm ground is
reached; then make a jog of about four
inches toward the center, for the wall to
rest upOn.
A cistern eight feet in depth, and six in
diameter at the widest point-made OK.
acely in the shape of an egg with the
large end DOWNS sufficient for a family
Of ordinary size. The shape is important
for the strength of its wall. To procure
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
Absorbent Powers of Mellow Soil:

EXPERIMENTS have shown that a mel
low, loamy soil is capable of absorbing in
twelve hours, when exposed to q moist at
mosphere, an amount of water equal to
two per cent. of its weight. If any argu-
ment were needed to keep the soil mellow,
here IS a most powerful one to convince
u.s.. For this property possessed by a
mellow soil is enc that in a dry season is
able to give it the power of maturing a
crop, when a hardened surface would be
unable to do SO. A surface that is i'm
penetrable to the atmosphere, of course
could not absorb any Of the moisture with
which the atmosphere is charged. But
when rendered free from Jumps BY
repeated plowings and borrowings, each
change of temperature causes a circulation
of air throughout the nass of soil, which
is free then to absorb all the moisture
coming in contact with it until ii is satu-
rated. So, then, the more the soil is mel
lowed by cultivation, the less it is iniuri-
ously affected by drouth, and the better is
it enabled to mature a fair crop in spite of
the absence of rain.-HeaTh and home.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
New

We listen to essays upon the total de-
pravity of human nature, and discourse
thereon ourselves as if we believed nine
teen twentieths of our fel~low-beiugs
wholly selfish, yet there never arises a
great emergency demanding heroic self
sacrifice, that some good soul does not step
forward to respond. The steamer City of
Houston came near going to total wreck
through the stupidity of drunken captain
and a democrat zed crew, when, after her
gallant mate was disabled, two officers of
the United States navy and a detachment
of seamen took the ship in charge, and
braVely and calmly laboTed until they
brought her safely into port. When we
get the details of the loss of the Lodona,
we shall find that her noble captsin, Hovey,
did his duty to the last. Ard last evening,
five miles out of Boston, happened the
most dreadful railroad disaster New Eng
land has known since the catastrophe at
Norwalk. A second after the terrible
crash, In the midst of one of the cars, a
cool, steady voice cried out, "The danger
is s1 oYer-don't be afraid" Another
gentleman, finding that his wife was IN
wounded, though greatly shocked, laid her
tainting on the grass, leaving his little
daughter to watch her, and went desper-
obC-J " WIN " SCb Oub liz nOuu0CN.
And a brave brakeman, working az his
post to stop the train, was caught between
the platform of the baggage and the first
passenger car. He sat upon one platform
with his thighs crushed and bound by the
other, and a terribly bruised hand. There
he sat patiently conversing, but not muir
muring, for nearly IN hour till a jack
screw was broughtto lift the platform and
relieve him. Sir. Storey, a passenger,
found lying upon the graS a woman with
her right arm badly crushed between the
elbow and the shoulder, and her face badly
scalded, and suffering intense pain. BE
asked her what he could do for her. She
replied: There are others hurt a great
deal worse than / am. Go and attend to
them l can bear it" She wss taken to
a house and laid upon The floor with a
handle of bloody clothes for a pillow. she
would not let the doctor attend to her in
juries until the others had been cared for.
Anothtr is added to the countless list of
those who have psralleled Sir Philip Sid
ney's famous coed. All about us are men
and women, not knowing it Themselves,
capable of suffering and dying for the
good of others, or in the simple perform
snce of duty. The world is better than
it seems.-RdrG0rd C0urdnt.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22

THE BALANCE is the name of a new
monthly Eve column quarto publication just start
ed in Chicago, and mainly devoted to the advance
ment of the political rights of woman. 1t has an
able corps Of editors-Mrs. E. Msckway, DR..
0delia Blinn, Miss NJ. TOmlin and Miss NJ. HaWley,
all experienced writers. II we may judge by the
September number, the Balance will prove an
able, dignifed and consistent champion of the
right of woman to an active participation in polit-
ical affairs, its editors claiming that the exercise of
such right will not only better woman's condi-
ton, but equally benefit the nation" and aYowing
a determination mot to touch the family relation
with the llghtest disturbing finger" The Balance
is a well printed sheet, and contains a large
amount of reading matter on a variety of subjects.
Terms 81. 60 a year; single number 10 cents. .
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
FINANCIAL.


JAY COOKE & Co. are now selling, and rec
ommend as a profitable and safe investment
for all classes, the First Mortgage 80 Gold
Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, bearing Seven and Three-Tenths per
cent. gold interest more than s per cent. cur.
rency), and secured by first and only mort.
gage oil the entire road and equipments, and
on more than $4,000 Acres of Land to every
mile of track, or 500 Acres of Land to each
$1,000 Bond. The highest current prices will
be paid for U. S. Five-Twenties, and all other
marketable Securities received in exchange
Pamphlets, maps and full information will be
furnished, on application, by JAY COOKE &
Co., Philadelphia, New York and Washing
ton, and by most Banks and Bankers through
out the country.