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Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
Ready for Anything.

A certain doctor employed by the gov ernment at frontier post was not re- markable for amiability, and seldom wasted much time in this sswale" with out 8 TOW of some kind on his hands. A citizen living about twenty-five miles from the post requested his assistance upon an interesting occasion, and the doctor rode over to the ranch-a wretch ed hovel about eight feet high, flat dirt roof, and uniting parlor, bedroom and kitchen in one room. The place breath ed poverty from every pore, but the doc tor had the mild assurance to ask one hundred dollars in specie as his fee. The poor Cracker" went into his hovel and in short time appeared with twenty five dollars, which the doctor fatly re- fused in an angry manner. Again the ''Cracker" entered his house, and his weak spouse drew out of stocking two or three dollars which she had carefully hoarded for 8 rainy day. This was added to the sum before offered, but the doc tor refused to take less than his fee and abused the poor man in round terms The Cracker paused moment sadly; then again entering his hovel, he quick y returned with shotgun and rifle. An iron determination spread itself over his features, and, as if he had exhausted every other honorable means of settle ment, he thus addressed the now alarm ed physician: Doctor, we haven't nary other cent in the world, but you kin hev satisfaction! Choose your wepon." It is surmised that the doctor did not wait for his fee.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05

Oysters in England have reached the enormous price of $55 6 bushel, conse- quent upon the almost complete dredging out of the oyster beds, and are now such 2 luxury that only the asistoeraey can as. teyd to eat them,
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
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Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
Winter.

The frost is here, The fuel is dear, And woods arc scar, And fires burn clear, And frost is here And has bitten the heel of the going year. Bite, frost, bitel You roll up away from the light Fhe blue woodlouse, and the plump dormouse, And the bees are still'd end the fees are killd, And you bite far into the heart of the house But not into mine. Bite, frost, bitei The woods are all the searer, The fuel is all the dearer, The fires are all the clearer, My spring is all the nearer; You have bitten into the heart of the earth But not into mine. Iennyson.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05

A Mrs. Smythe, of Indianapolis, Ind, !, now has her fifth husband, and yet she has never changed her name. She was born Smith, her first husband was named Smith, her second Schmidt. hep third smyth, her fourth SRithe, end her present smythe. .-+
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05

Open air and cold water are recommend ed by celebrated physician as the best cosmetics for the complexion,
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
The Youth of Charles Dickens.

The first light thrown on the child hood of Charles Dickens by his biograp- her, MT. Forster, reveals what interests without surprising us. People who suf- fer are commonly the ones who can de- pict suffering. The pathos, not to say the morbid sensibility, of portions of Dickens writings tell an unmistakable story to all analysis of human character. It now appears that at ten years of age Dickens was poor littie drudge in a blacking factory. He went through pri- vation, insult and misery. His compan- ions were coarse and aggressive and their enforced society was torture to him. In letter of his own first published by MT. Forster, he writes
 "No words can express the secret az ony of my soul as I sunk into the com panionship compared these every day associates with those of my happier childhood ; and felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distin- guished man crushed in my breast. The deep remembrance of the sense had of being utterly neglected and hopeless of the shame felt in my position of the misery it was to my young heart to be- ieve that, day by day, what I had learn ed, and thou ght, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, was passing away from me, never to be brought back any more-cannot be written. My whole nature was so pene. trated with the grief and humiliation of such considerations, that even now, fa- nous and caressed and happy, I often forget in my dreams that I have dear wife and children-even that am a man and wander desolately back to that time of my life" "
 The picture is sorrowful indeed ;, yet we cannot look upon it without preceiv- ing how much Dickens future ability and usefulness to the world depended upon his going through just such an ex- perience. Poets "learn in suffering what they teach in song," and the lesson taught by the noveliest must be gained, for the most part, in much the same way.
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13

any sreh contract or agreement ether than The fees
duo him for services rendered thoreunder, but the
moneys due the tribe na t Or as ths case
is own officers agents. to the party parties en-
titled therefor Provided, that no money or thing
shall Ie paid any person for services under smell
contract agreement, until such person shall have
first filed with the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
statement showing each particular act of SER
vice under the contract, giving date and fact in de-
TAIL and the Secretary of the Interior and Commits
soner Of Indian Affairs shall determine therefrom
whether: IN their Judgment such contract OF agree
ment has been complied with or fulfilled; if So the
Same may be aid and not it shall be paid in pro-
portion TO the services rendered under the contract:
Pfoc3ded, That all such contracts or agreements
hereafter made in violation of the provisions of this
act arc hereby declared null and void, and all money
or OTHER thing OF value paid to any person by any
Indian or tribe, any else for or on his or their
behalf account of such services, in excess Of the
amount approved by said Commissioner and Secreta-
ry for such services may be recovered by suit in the
name of the United States any court Of the United
States regardless of the amount in controversy one
half of which shall he paid to the person suing for
the same and the other half shall be paid into the
treasury of the Uuted States for the of the In
dian or tribe by for whom it was paid; and the
Derspn so receiving said money, and his aiders and
abettors SHALL in addition to the forfeiture of said
sum- be subject to prosecution for misdemeanor in
any court of the United States and, conviction,
shall be fined not less than thousand dollars and
imprisoned not less than six months and it shall be
the duty of all district attorneys of the United States
their failure and refusal shall be ground for their
moval from office; and any Indian agent or other
! person in the employment of the United States who
shall in violation of the provisions of this act advise
| sanction, or in any way aid in the making of such
contracts or agreements, in making such payments
as are here prohibited, SHALL in addition to the pun
ishment herein imposed on the person making said
contract or receiving said money, be- on conviction
dismissed from the service of the United States and
| be forever di qualified from holding any office Of
| profit or trust under the same.
| Approved, May Il, 1872
j. G. BLAINE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice- President Of the United States and Presiden
| Of the Senate,
U. S. GRANT.
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
POETRY.
November.
BY ALIcE CARY.

o winds! We are blowing too rough too rongh'
Thrilling and chilling too soon the hours,
And the summer has not been long eIlousu
For all your beauty, my flowers! my howeiS'
Not half, not half OF long enough ~ eovorc
For all your beauty, my de'i' ue'-
q frosts, We are falling too soon on the ieaI,
DniIino the grasses and dimming the groves,
And the summer has been 700 prlei, Nv 3 o.ie''
For all yo IL cooling, my doves, my doves!
Too brief the summer has been TOO brlef,
For all your cooling and wooing, my doves!
o waters! hold to your fountains fiSt,
Nor faithless fly from the sedge-sown hooks,
And the summer has gone too fast, too tast,
For all your sweetness, my brooks, my brooks!
Too fast the summer has gone too fast
For ali your ringing and singing, my brooks!
O clovers, cloyersi keep to your red
And stick your little leaves gray with dew;
Too early the summer shades are fled,
For ali your meaning, my insect crew
Aye, all too eally, summer has fed
For all your dr0ning, my insect crew!
o! wane from your roundness not, fair moon,
But make the land with your brightness bright
And the summer has gone too soon, too soon,
For all my joy because of the light
Too soon, the summer has gone too soon
For all my joy because of the light!
Ali colder, closer, the shadow slides,
And leaning sunward the daisy stands,
Like one oerreaehing the icy TIDES
To catch the touches of loving hands-
Ave reaching to CATCH DER the closing tides
The last warm touch of the loving hands.
And the daisy will die, and the waning moon
Will fall in the sky, and the murmurous grove
Stand hushed, and my FIFE will be DER too soon;
For all my joy because of His love,
Who made the land, and the leaves and the moon
And all that is fair with the light OF His love.
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
STATE OF MAINE.

NGMEEREAND, S.:
pom the foregoing application by Nathan Webb
Iofhey OF the United States of America it having
e ;d satisfactorily made to appear to me- that the
Tqi,p is duly authorized agent of the said
tr e states to make tho same and that the mat
ans an ae therein set forth true and that it con-
Le c description of the lands proposed to
n fart @ ny the United States for the erection of
Innu,n o ru oattery, together with the names of all
N.Y. Ui y VI Supposed owners of said lands If is
81, tiat notice of said application he pupn 70
an LESSONS interested in the lands therein dexcrbeG
dtIo especially TO George c. Thomson tbaro;n
fitineu as supposed owner, requiring them To cnn
!of%ard IN the Supreme Judicial Court in por+Ioa I
IN the County of Cumberland on Tuesday tho e;aht
Gay o. April A. d. 1873 being the second TnesJs nf
April next at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and AZ
their objections, if any they have tc the nronoad
purchase by the said United States OF said descri
iands by publication of true and attested COW Of
the same application and of this order thereon ono
N each week for the space of four months in the Por
anu DAILY Press, newspaper published In Portla d
nearest to where said land les the last pubicatie 70
pe at least one week before said eighth day of Anr;
81 DATED at Portland, in the County of Cumberland
the thirtieth day of October, A. d. 1872. ''"N'
r,,o,, c. w. WALTON
Justice Of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
., True copy Of application and orier of Cont
Attest:
nov5 ID. W. FESSENDEN, Clerk.
OaW "A Amt
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
STATE OF MAINE

CUMBERLAND SIS.
Upon the foregoing application by Nathan webb
Of the United States of America it having
oeen satisfactorily made to appear to me that the
sala applicant is a duly authorized agent of said
tr os f TO mae the same and that the mat
e!s OF TACT therein set forth are true and that II
a an att description of the lands proposed to
n ,ors and battery together with the names Of all
hiioWn OF supposed ow sers of said lands it ia
omefed, That notice of said application be given
70 an persons interested in the lands therein de-
scflbed, and especially Benjamin B. Over therein
f SameG as supposed owner requiring them to come
onward IN the Supreme Judicial Court In Portland
IN she County Of Cumberland, Tuesday the eighth
gay OF April A. ID. 1873, being the second Tuesday
OF Aprl next at II O'Clock in the forenoon and fle
their objections if they have to the proposed pnr
case by the said United States said descr bed lands
s Dy nnocaton of true and attested copy of the
same application and of this order thereon once i'm
each week for the space of four months in the Port
ama Day Press, newspaper published in Portland
nearest to where said land Hes the last publication to
De at least one week before said eighth date of Apr
Dated at Portland in the County of Cumberland
the thirtieth day of October. A. D. 1872
c. w. WALTON.
Justice OF the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
thereon. 9A VI Coufe
Attest:
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
SebagO Dye Works .

- II LUH STREET.
81, ~ ase DDugnt out the above establishment w,
the admirable facilities conducted by n ~,cp an
cn Na a ana ayets my confident turning out
Ladies' dresses colored and finished in q sr,ou,ou
style. Gents garments cleansed and coored witbovt
being ripped, land warranted not to smut and nrese
in superior style. Piano and table covers Mo-
settles covers beached and framel blankets scours
ana the wool raised. JOHN S. MILLER & co.
sepzo Proprietors
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
KNOX & LINCOLN RAILROAD,

Direct rail route to Wiscasset, New
CASTLE Damariscotta Waldoboro,
s4wu--WM47Warren and Rockland.
No change of cars between Portland
and ROckland.
Steamers leave Rock1and for all points on the Pc
nobscot river, Machias, Mount Desert Vjnal Haven,
Hurricane and Dix Isands.
Leave Maine Central Depot at 100 A. NJ, and LOO
p. NJ.
Stages connect at Rockland. for Camden, Lincoln-
daily. At Rockland for Union, Appleton and WASH
ington, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
At Thomaston for st. George daily.
At Warren for Union, daily.
At Warren for Jefferson and Whteield, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
AT Wadoboro' for North Waldoboro', Washington,
and Liberty daily. >
At New Castle for Bristol and Pemaquid, daily.
Freight Trains daily and freight taken at low rates.
jy29dtf C. "A COOMBS. Sup't.
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MUSIC BOXESI MUSJC RAVES
Unparalleled Success.

the RIVERSIDE ECHO. Over 10000 copiea, an in
crease OF 5000 in six months. A Literary, Religious
anu Family Newspaper, published weekly. The
ceedpest and best Family Paper in Maine. a choice
Or Sic Fine Steel ERgrdvif0s or THE FIRST BIBLE
LEssoN-one Of Praaq's pretticst $500 Ctromos,
gwen away, all framed, TO subscribers. No
money called for until paper begins to come and pic
tire is delivered. Every Agent is making handsome
pay. The time to work is during the next three
months. Send for sample copy and full particu-
lars, to PUBLISHERS RIVERSIDE ECHO PoRr-
LAND MAINE. oct30-4wWF&M
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
Paralysis and DefOrmities Cured.

The Orient Springs Health Institute is located near
the town OF Amherst, Mass, for the treatment and
Contracted Cords and Limbs, Crooked Feet and
and Hands, Enlarged Joints, Wry Neck Curvatures
of the Spine, Hip Diseases, Ricketts, St. Viius's
Dance, and all deformities, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,
and all Lameness, Nervous Diseases Govt Convul-
sions Diseases Of the Brain, Heart and Lungs Can
GERS, Hysteria, etc.
Apply to GEORGE W. RHODES, NJ. D., Amherst,
or to +. E. FAXON, ESQ, Agent for the Institute,
No. Pemberton square, Boston.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD

Arrangement of Trains
Commencing July %, EssssaaoessassH
f.Ynl-tNH.7lS72. Es==5s5;sa
Portland for Bangor, Houlton, Calais, st. john
Halifax, &c. at 12:15 a. M sleeping cars and day
on this train.)
Portland for Lewiston, Rockland and Augusta at
200 a. m.
Portland for Lewiston, Bath, Rockland, Augusta,
Readfeld Winthrop Skowhegan, Bangor, Malta
wamkeag at 100 p. m.
Portland for Lewiston, Bath and Augusta 5:25 D.
M
Portland for Lewiston via Danville at 500 D. m
Trains Due at Portland.
From Augusta. Bath and Lewiston at 8 :35 a. IN.
From Oldtown, Mattawamkeag, Bangor SkowLe-
gan, Waterville, Augusta, Winthrop, Readield Ba h
and Lewiston at 2:55 p.
From Augusta and Lewiston at AS D. m.
From st. John, Houlton, Calais Bangor &c. 1 :25
a. m.
For Mt Kineo, Moosehead Lake, take 1918 a. m.
train for Dexter, arriving at Dexter at $50 a. M At
where you take steamer for Mt Kineo, arriving at
$3.50 p IN. Passengers can by stopping over night at
Dexter leave Portland at 100 p. and take stage
next morning
For Dover and Foxcroft take 90 p. M train. Pas
sengers ticketed through. Fare $500.
Through Tickets are sold in Portland at Station
and at Horse Railroad Office for Houlton Calais and
st. John, fare $500; and to Halifax $12.0O.
J. M. LUNT, General Superintendent.
Augusta, July &c, 1879. augI2tf
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
RAILROADS.
ORTLAND & OGDENsBURG R. R.

PORTLAND & OGDENSBURG r. r..
CHANGE OF TIME.
On and after Monday, Nov. 4th, and
further notice, trains will run
e..;s-s-.ias follows
A. NJ. P. M.
Leave Portland, 7.l5 3.15
Leave n. Conway, $50 LEO
The IT'S a. m and 90 p. M Trains will be Freight
with passenger cars attached.
STAGES
Connect daily with 3.15 P. NJ,
For Cornish, Kezar Falls, Porter, Freedom, Den
mark, Bridgton, Lowell, and North Lowell.
The $3.50 a. m. from No. Conway connects with
afternoon trains for Boston, via Eastern Boston &
Maine r. RS, and the LOO p. IN. train arrives in
Portland in season to connect with Steamers for Bos
ton.
Ticket Office in Portland at Depot of NJ. G. R. R.
j. HAMILTON, Superintendent
Portland, Oct. 2, 1872. noy4I
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD,

BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD,
Summer Arrangement, July list, 1872.
Trains leave P. s. & P R. r. Sta
Portland for Boston, 1918 80 10
EssA NJ, 33Ot, 4.15*, 6.OOt (express) p M
Returning $3.50, 1880 A. M, 1890
1918, 6.OOt (express) P. M
ForRochester, Alton Bay, *6.15, A. M.
Manchester and Concord, n. H. via C. & p, r.. R.
junction, 6.15* A. NJ, 3.30* p. NJ.
Manchester and Concord, via Lawrence 9.1O* A. M
Lowell, 6.15*, LOS A. NJ, 3.3Ot, 4.15@ P. NJ.
Milton and Union, 910* A. M. 3.3Ot, 415# p NJ
NOTE.-Tbe 6.15* A. NJ. train arrives il Boston in
time to connect with Shore Line at Il. 10 for New
York, the South and the West. 910* A. NJ train con-
meets with the 800 p M. Springfield Route and Sound
Steamers for New York and the South. 3.3Ot p M.
train with the 900 p NJ train for New York via Shore
or Springfield line
The above trains leave p S. & P. r. r. Station
foot of State street, where tickets can be purchased
and baggage checked.
Freight trains between Portland and Boston
daily.
Passenger station in Boston, Haymarket Square.
Freight station, Causeway street.
Accommodation
fast Express.
4Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
W. MERRITT, Superintendent
,-oo>, - Boston.
PAYSON TUCKER, agent,
1853 Commercial Street, Portland
June "a, 1872 iun2Itf
The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP co.
E"s'Port' calais and g. John, Digby,
Windsor and Halifax
FALL ARRAN GEM EMIT.
TWO TRIPS PER WEEK!

SA On and after MONDAY. Sent.
~<AfSA- IN Both, the Steamer New Yook.
6Hltxkh7& Capt. E. B. Winchester and the
slAhXzAIN4ASaSS Steamer New Brunswick, Capt
s. H. Pike, will leave Railroad
wharf, foot OF State street, every MONDAY and
UhSDAY, at 6 z. nj. for Eastport and St. John
same day. w ''ie
Connections made at Eastport for St. Andrews
Robbinston, Calais, Woodstock and Houlton.
LIS, Windsor, Kentville, Halifax N S. Frederiekfon
merside, P. E. ]. ~ """ '"i'i-
O'Clock P. NJ. " 's until
sep23-t30 thsn old A. r. STJrRRS Anor,
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FREE TO BOOK AGENTS..

AN ELEGANTLY BOUND CANVASSING BOOK
for the best and cheapest Family Bible published
will be sent free of charge to any book agent 1t
tains nearly 500 fine Scripture illustrations, and
agents are meeting with unprecedented success Adj
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1t will be remembered that this COMPANY maid it's
losses by the Chicago fire, about yoar ago AMOUNT
ing to the enormous sum of ~
$3.50, 900 90
without drawing against their assets in tbe Iri+od
states, which, In March last, amounted to
S3,64O, $50 90.
The whole amount of Chicago losses bay;no ho
paid by drafts on the Home Office.
Inc assets IN the United States now exceed those
o. any american Fire Company, in addition to which
its large assets abroad are readily ayailable wc
shown by the payment of its Chicago losses "' was
The invested funds of the Company on tbe frat ao,
OF January 1872 amount to va 'Ne La '' o'y
s2O,OOO,OOO 90, Gold.
The rates being the same in all commands ox,>..
strongest. pi0ioiohee LOT the
co me Undersigned also represents reliable Home
40 , ana respectfully solics continuation of
the patronage 80 literally accorded in the past Y"
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20 L. Exchange Street.
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For all the Purposes of Family Physic,

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Practical and Analytical Chemists.
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Smyrna times., 1872-10-16
Old Things Have Passed Away.

Thss at least true of the old method treating long
abused and much abused human body 1t longer
cred wise to patient to the
ut disease in which pain already the energies
OF his system True science itself the side of
and endeavOrs to assist her in her fight disease
is the province of HOsetter stomach Btters the ap
proved tonic advertised in this country may be
mended as fall medicine, excellence; for it is
that bousness dyspepsia and maarOuS especially
prevalent The Frame exhausted by the heats of summer
relaxed and feeble at its close and requires may
NANDs artificial assistance Afford it assistance occa
siena doses Of HOsetters Stomach Btters and
iered to be escaped Throughout the and
the steamng auva of the Southern rivers all the varieties
OF periodical fever probably rife to-day Had course OF
iosteers Bitters been commenced by the sufferers
ago e. before the unhealthy
them would in all probability be in their usual
present time So much for much
not keeping in the house and using daily the best
against epidemic and endemic fevers.
As hOcks OF mpOsters and mitaors trying to follow in
the wake of the great American remedy therefore
that the article you buy is genuine and verified by the
trade marks The true article only obtained in
Beware OF the spurious bters sold by gallon keg