The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-31
TWELVE HUNDRED YEAR.-The New York
papers Of late have contained an extensive cor

hai TWELVE HUNDRED YEAR.-The New York
papers ofslate have contained an extensive cor
respondence on the vital question of living on
$1,000 year. Many plans have been given, but
| the following is certainly sharp if not manly:
/ have for the past two years kept house with
wife, three children and two servants on an
income OF less than $1,000 per annum, and from
present appearances shall do it ag ain this year
My plan is this: I spend what need to live
well, keeping monthly account with the gro
Ger, butcher &C.; let the bills accumulate say
for period of two months, and at the end Of
this time the treasury is empty and the bills
considerable. Then land this the grand ideal
my wife, collects the bills, and goes with tears
in her eyes to her father, pleads poverty and
talks the old gentleman out of check and the
crisis is met. The next time, to give him rest,
one of the two inevitable well-off brothers-in-
law is called in requisition. This you will see
only happens twice year to each, and it don't
hurt them MUCH so we swing along.
The above is the only feasible plan Isee, andis
know, the most common way. Noyoung man,
IN my opinion has right to marry unless his
father-in-law keeps bank account and unless
the marriage brings him a couple, at least, of
moneyed brothers-in-law.
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? THE LUMBER INTEREST. The Ways and
Means Committee Tuesday gave hearing to
parties interested in the lumber trade Ex-
plantations were made by several gentlemen as
to the effect of present duties The reasons
why some Representatives of the interest in
New England and New York want the duty re-
pealed are because the prices in Canada having
continued to advance, it is plain to understand
That the additional cost of lumber in the States
by which the duties has been and is now large
~ PAID by the consumers because there are seri-
Gus obstacles operating against the foreign
shipping trade from New York and Boston. and
because they do not deem it good policy to en-
courage the present waste and diminution of
nome growth OF lumber from our fast waning
capital represented by these representations
may be estimated from $4,000, 900 to S1OOOO0.-
900. Representatives from Burlington and
Whitehall showed the disastrous effects of the
duty upon our foreign shipping trade in lumber
GOVERNMENT PAPER CONTRACTS. - The
Joint Committee on Public Printing awarded
Tuesday the contracts for supplying the paper
for the government printing during the present
year. The Baltimore houses of William Hoff-
man and of Wheelwright, Nudge & Co., were
the lowest biders for printing paper HI. M.
clark q Co, of Boston, were awarded con-
tract for five thousand reams of printing paper
at fourteen cents and nine one-hundredths, in
the first class ;and fortwenty five hundred reams
at sixteen cents and forty nine one-hundredths,
and twenty-five hundred reams at sixteen cents
and hfty-npe one-hundredths in class two.
The large contract for writing paper of different
kinds was awarded to Campbell, Hall e Co., of |
New York, at 20 IL cents, and a half-centextra |
for folio blue. The contract for eolored paper |
was awarded to the Seymour Paper Company
OF New York at IS 1-2 cents; and the contract
Ior mania paper was awarded to Richard b.
Mohun q Co., of Washington, at II IL cents.
By strict party vote the Virginia Senate
refused to abolish the whipping post. Democ-
racy sticks to its institutions.
Rev. William Gaines Miller, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, of Clarksburg,
West Virginia, has published a letter favoring
a constitutional provision for the exclusion of
from holding any civil Office
The annual meeting of the Eastern Railroad
will be held in Boston on next Monday A
large attendance of stockholders is expected.