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The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14
BUSINESS NOTICES.
Power of Speaking Restored.

NEwAsH ONTARIO, ID. c., Mar. 30, 1870.
Mr. FELLows,-Sr: Some two months ago
my son lost his voice. L became very anxious
about him. None of the physicians could do
him any good. Having heard of your COM
pound Syrup of Hypophosphites, i obtained a
bottle; strange to say, my sons voice was re-
stored about two hours after taking the second
dose.
You are at liberty to publish this for the BEN
eft of other sufferers.
aug 10 ded&wlt JONAS FoTHERINGILL.
THE PEOPLES STAMP OF VALUE.-The gov
ernment endorsement, which legalizes the sale
of PLANTATION BrrTERs, is not the only stamp
affixed to that famous VEGETABLE Tonic. 1t
bears, in addition to that official sanction, the
STILL MORE VALUABLE STAMP OF PUBLIC AP-
PROBATION. This inestimable voucher of its
rare properties as aToNIc, CORRECTIVE AND
ALTERATIvE, is of much earlier date than the
government credential; for millions OF SICK
persons had pronounced it the GRAND SPECIFIC
OF THE AGE long before Congress thought OF.
taxing proprietary medicines. 1t IS unneces-
sary to repeat, in detail, the properties Oh this
wonderful Vegetable Invigorant Inc Dest
reference that can be offered to those VINO de-
Il
sire the full particulars of its virtues, Is the
GENERAL. PUBLIC Ask those who have tried
IL as a remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, bill
iousness. intermittent fevers, nervous debility,
rheumatism, sea sickness, low spirits, or loss of
vital power what Plantation Bitters has done
for thenaa nd be governed by the response they
make to your inquiries. aug 12eodlw&wl
Tms AND ENLIGHTENED EXPERIENCE hay
shown that certain substances formerly used
and relied on in medical practice, are unneces-
sary and dangerous; yet some of these sub
stances have found their way into medical
compounds. DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VIM
EGAR BITTKRs, however, contain nothing IN
| furious, being composed exclusively OF vegeta-
BILE substances from California For all disor-
| ders of tie liver, kidneys, bladder skin, ana
digestive organs, and for purifying the blood
they are the most wonderful remedy known.
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The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14

Total Assets, Jan. L '5S. SS3,14I ,590 81
Showing that of the entire receipts the Company
retain 43 so per cent. reinsurance fund and sur
plus:
That $50 per cent has been returned to members
their families, for losses Ieturn premiums, and
surrendered policies:
all other purposes including taxes commissions, and
all expenses of management.
As Dividends paid at the end Of the second year,
the above amount represents the paid on premi-
received up to January 1870, and is S402 per
ceut. Of said premiums.
These results arc more favorable to the
insured than those presented by any other
Company in the world.
Number Of Policies in force, Janu- -
ary 1, 1872, 3s661
Amount of Insurance in force, $133, ,29o 90
Amount Of Reserve thereon, (high-
est standard) 1854, 4e3 10
Total assets. January 1. 1872, 23,241,795s 81
BUSINESS IN 1871.
Receipts during the year 1871, $6,972,030 30
Paid to Policy holders in 1871, 4240,23l %
Paid Claims by death 1871, 1,554,42s OF
Increase of net Assets in 1871, 2029, ,061 SO
Expenses Compared as per Massachusetts
Reports.
The average ratio Of expenses to income, since its
organization is less than that Of any Company in the
United States. We compare with a few OF the lead
Average ratio Of Expense to
Income since organization.
MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE, 81
New England Mutual, 81
Connecticut Mutual 9S
Mutual Life, New York, 1914
New York Life. H.9
Etna Life, 161
Mass. Mutual 1870
Equitable, 22.3
Phoenix Mutual 24.2
LEWIS C. GROVER, President.
HIN. CONGAR, vicc-Presidcnt
EDWARD A. STRONG, Secretary.
BENJAMIN c. MILLER. Treasurer.
All interested, are invited to call at my office
where shall be happy to furnish them every facility
for making honest, truthful and reliable investi-
cation of just what they most need to knop on this
subject.
WARREN SPARROW, State Ag't,
52 EXCHANGE ST.,
PORTLAND, ME.
.Iulv 1S-eOd1mO
The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14
"BLACK ROCK. "

HNHIS tavorite shooting and fshingresort, formerly
Il the headquarters of the lamented "Kale'' Ior-
ing will be open to transient company and regular
boarders during the pleasure and recreation
of 1872 No effort will be spared to make "Black
Rock pleasant for all who may visit it those who
choose TO tarry. j. W. PILLSBURY, Prop.
Va
The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14

A comical verbal sequence occurs in the
programme of concert lately given by NJ.
Gounod, in London, the eighth number be-
ing thus inscribed: "Song-'She Wandered
Down the Mountain Side,' accompanied by
the composer"
The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14

Proposals
For Dredging i'm Merrimac River Mass.
PROPOSALS will be received at this Office until
l. 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on Friday the 9Th day of Sep
tember next for about 400 cubic yards of dredging
and for blasting and removing abont 80 cubic yards
of ledge from the channel of Merrimac River, above
Haverhill Mass.
Persons desiring to make proposals for this work,
requested to apply to the undersigned at his Of
flee in Morton Block, Congress ST. Portland Me-, or
at No. 2 Bulfnch ST., Boston, Mass for speciica-
tions and further information concerning the same.
Proposals must be in duplicate, on printed forms,
which will be furnished, application at this office,
and must be accompanied by the requisite guaranty;
and when transmitted must be endorsed on the en-
velope, Proposals for Improving Merrimac River,
Mass"
The undersigned reserves the right to reject all
bids, which in his opinion. not reasonable; also,
the bid of any person who in his belief will not faith
fully and promptly perform the contract.
GEO. THOM,
Lieut.. Col of Engineers,
Bvt. Brig. Gen. u s. A.
u s. Engineers Office,
Portland Aup 1879 [
The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14

The editor of the Hartford COurant thinks
that if he should strike oil anywhere on his
rancho he should dispatch hundred mission
ary travellers, straightway, men of digniied
presence, disengaged office holders, or the
like; picked men, as to breadth of beam,
with the address Of foreign ambassadors, TO
canvass every hotel in the land, and call for
plain stewed apple at breakfast, paying their
way like lords. He thinks that an immense
improvement in the fare at hotels would re-
suit,
The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14

The learned Prot. Parsons had great hor-
ror Of the east wind; and Tom. Sheridan is
said to have once kept him prisoner in the
house for fortnight, by fixing the weather.
cock in that direction
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15

thin layers upon polished iron plates,
which are placed in a current Of hot
air; the paste rapidly dries, and must
be packed in Theoretically sealed cases.
When required for use, the dried egg
can be dissolved in cold water and
beaten to foam like fresh eggs. 1t Is
said that eggs can be preserved for
years in this way, and that they retain
their agreeable flavor TO the last.
PRESERVED CITRoN.-Cut ripe citrons
in two, peel them and scrape out the
core, carefully removing every seed.
For five pounds of citron, thus prepared,
add one ounce of ginger root, bruised,
but not ground. Put them in water to
cover the citron, and boil until fork
will pierce them easily. To the five
pounds allow three pounds of good
sugar, and two fresh lemons. With a
sharp knife shave off the yellow peel
of the lemons into the sugar, being care
full not to cut the white of the rind.
Then squeeze the juice of the lemons
into the sugar.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
The General Land Office.

The report of Gen. Drummond, of
the Land office, shows that nearly all
the back work of that Office has been
brought up to the last of September.
The total number Of acres sold for cash
was 1870 go; located with bounty war
rants, $4,000; homestead entries, 4,69l,-
1873 agricultural college scrip, 693,63l /;
certified to railroads, 3,554,SS7. These,
with other minor items, make the total
disposed of II, S04,975! ana the cash re-
ceipts for the same $3,2lS, 100; l,25l,-
63S.620 acres of domain yet remain un.
surveyed. Railroad completion has
been rapid. over LOO miles has been
completed within a year. Tree culture
receives considerable attention, and the
Commissioner recommends that it be
made obligatory to settlers to cultivate
a certain number of acres in trees for
three years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Is Poultry Keeping Profitable !

Upon this subject the Western Rural
makes the following just and sensible
remarks, giving some cogent reasons
why poultry should be kept on the farm,
and as TO the profits arising therefrom
"For several years poultry have been
profitable, eggs and chickens command
ing "a high price. BY little variation
in their breeding and management,
poultry may be made very valuable to
the farmer in many ways, one of the
most important being the excellent
manure which they make. A comfort
able frost-proof poultry house should
be constructed, in such position that
the hens will have access TO the orchard
for they are exceedingly useful for de-
streying the curculio, the apple.worm,
and other hurtful insects. Plum trees
in poultry yard generally yield an
abundant crop of fruit, perfectly free
from attacks of the curculio. The best
breed of fowls are always the most
proftable but even these should not
be kept more than two or three years.
Old hens should be got rid of and Wig.
orous pullets put into their places.
The floor of the poultry house should
be covered with wood ashes, dry muck,
or old saw.dust, for the purpose Of alb
sorbing the offensive smell. The house
should be cleaned out frequently, and
the manure kept in shed, or in large
casks or boxes, until required for use
in the spring; its effect on the field OF
garden is remarkable"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Trade Unions.

A decision arrived at recently in the
Sheriff Court, Forfar, Scotland, will, if
acted on elsewhere, throw liability on
trade. unions which they have hitherto
escaped. Certain shoemakers in For
far having been on strike, when the
strike was concluded compelled the
employers of another shoemaker named
Leslie TO dismiss him from "union
shop" on the ground that he was not, like
themselves, a member of the Forfar
Union of Shoemakers. Leslie, who had
remained at work while the others were
on strike, was accordingly dismissed,
and brought an action against the
trade-unionists claiming damage for
having deprived him of his living. In
this action he was successful, the Sher-
if declaring the case to be one of moral
intimidation of masters, and granting
Leslie 2Ss, an allowance of IS Cd for four
weeks, and also his law expenses.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Shaded Pastures.

Stock of any kind except, perhaps,
hogs will thrive and do best where
there is no shade at all, from the fact
that without shade stock will feed sew.
eral hours in the day that would other
wise be spent in the shade fighting flies.
Let any one in doubt on this subject
put horses and colts in pasture and al
low them to run in and olt of the sta
BILE as they choose. 1t will be found
that they will quit their shelter scarcely
at all between in the morning and )
in the evening, and will grow poor on
good pasture at this season of the year.
On the other hand, if allowed no shade
or shelter at all, they will thrive nearly
as well in July and August as in May or
October. The same will be found to
apply to horned cattle and sheep,
though perhaps the difference will not
be so great. 1t may be considered cruel
to deprive animals of so cheap an article
as shade, but think they have "good
time" in pasture compared to our work
teams or the farmer himself, who works
ten or twelve hours in the scorching
sun and knows but little, practically,
about the comforts of shade.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
The Printers Estate.

We find the following remarks, which
all printers and publishers will agree in
calling sensible, in an exchange, and
commend them to the attention of the
reader. They will apply to all localities
in which newspapers circulate:
The printers dollars-wherea are they?
A dollar here and a dollar there, scatter.
ed over the numerous small towns, all
over the country, miles and miles apart
how shall they be gathered together
The paper maker, the journeyman COM
positor, the building owner, the grocer,
the tailor, and all assistants 10 him in
carving on his business, have their de.
inands, hardly ever SO small as a single
dollar. But the mites from here and
there must be diligently gathered and
patiently l. oarded. or the wherewith to
discharge the liabilities will never be-
come sufficiently bulky. We imagine
the printer will have to get up an adj
dress to his widely scattered dollars
something like the following:
Dollars, halves, quarters. dimes, and
all manner of fractions into which you
are divided, collect yourselves and come
home. You are wanted. Combinations
of all sorts of men that help to make
the printer a proprietor gather IN such
force and demand with such good rea.
sons your appearance at this counter,
that nothing short of you will appease
them. Collect yourselves. for valuable
as you are you will never pay the cost of
collecting. Come here in single file,
that the printer may form you in bat
talon, and send you forth again to bat
tie for him and vindicate his feeble
credit.
Reader, are you sure you haven't a
couple of the printers dollars sticking
about your clothes? If you have, order
them home Immediately.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Telling a Sleeps Age.

The only correct and reliable way of
determining the age Of young sheep is
by their teeth. After the last teeth
have appeared, so that the "mouth is
full" it will be impossible to determine
the age with reliable certainty. Like
neat cattle, sheep have no incisor teeth
in the upper jaw. The age must be de-
termined by the incisor or front teeth of
the lower jaw. AT two months old all
the incisors of the lower jaw have in
most lambs appeared. These incisors
are retained until the animal is IL or Is
months old. Then they begin to be
displaced, just as the children shed their
teeth, but not all at once. The two
central incisors are displaced and re-
newed first by permanent ones, which
will have attained their growth when
the animal is two years old. If we look
at the teeth OF sheep two years DID, it
will be seen that the two central incisors
have usually attained their full size.
The next year, one incisor on each side
of the central pair will displace the first
teeth, and will be pushed out even with
the central ones; when the animal is
between two and three years old the
next pair of incisors will be renewed.
After three years have elapsed another
set of incisors will have appeared. Be.
tween the age of four and five years, it
will be found impracticable to deter.
mine if the age is FIVE, six or seven,
unless some of the incisors have begun
to disappear. After the seventh or
eighth year some OF the side incisors
begin to disappear entirely. If the
teeth appear old and decayed, and some
are entirely gone, we can safely con
clude that the animal is eight years
old. Judging of the age beyond thi:
period will be found no more reliable
than shrewd guessing.--Hearth ana
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Where Dickens Sleeps in Westminster
Abbey.

Death took Charles Dickens sudden.
ly, but who shall say he seized upon him
unprepared? Our shrift may be short
as the lightnings flash, or we may mum
BILE over our heads for fourscore years,
and die unready. 1t is sufiicien: for us
to know that God took him in his own
good time, and that he had been per.
mitted TO fill place in the history of
his age, to enjoy career, and TO &C.
complish life work which Kings and
conquerors might envy. That life work
accomplished, he sleeps in Westmin.
ster Abbey. There was a proposition
that he should be buried in Rochester
Cathedral, Rochester, which is the clois-
terham of Edwin brood, close to his
old Kentish home but the voice of
England spoke out, demanding that her
great son should be laid among the ashes
of the dead in that poets corner,
which has been consecrated to the great.
est, wisest, and best Of her countrymen.
And there he lies at the foot of Handel,
and at the head of Sheridan, with Rich
ard Cumberland resting on his right
hand, and the great historian Macauley
on his left. His grave is near the foot
of Addison's statue, and Thackeray'.
bust looks down on the last resting
place of his old friend DR.. johnson
and Garrick lie within a few yards o.
him, while separated from Dickens
grave by the statues of Shakespeare, anC
Southey, and Thomson, are the me
MORALS of rare Ben. Jonson, gloriou:
John Dryden, noble John Milton, anc
a host of other worthless, each of then
the glory of English literature in theii
day. When visited the Abbey, the
next day, crowds Of people, with mourn
full, sympathizing faces, were gathered
around, and the broad stone, on which
in plain characters, his name and thu
number of his years were craven, wa
strewn with wreaths of immortelles
And l thought, my friends and brothers
that when crossed the Atlantic would
in your presence, as itwere, lay this poo
flower upon the grave Of one whom you
appreciated so generously-whom YOU
loved go well.-Edmund Yates Lecture.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
DO as / DO.

This game, if properly managed
must DE very amusing one. A com.
pany of children sit in line. One, the
leader, sitting in front, begins the game
by moving the right hand up and down,
saying, "Massa sent me to you, sir p
The first in the line answers, What
for to do, sir p The loader replies,
" Do as | do" Questions and replies
are repeated until all have their right
hands in motion.
Second, the leader moving both hands
asks the same questions, getting the
same replies, until all have both hands
in motion.
Third, the leader lifts his right foot
up and down until all have their right
feet moving, meanwhile asking ques.
tons and getting the same replies.
Fourth, leader moves his head, then
opens and shuts the eyes, and lastly the
mouth. By this time the scene is SC
ludicrous that all are unable to KEEP
from laughing any longer, and the game
is suddenly brought to close.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
The Arctic Regions,

1t seems that the Arctic observations
of DR.. Kane and others are about to be
disproved by more recent explorations.
In the course of an interview with the
captain of one of the Inflated Arctic
whalers. on the northwest passage, a
San Francisco newspaper reporter has
been convinced that there is no such
thing as an open polar sea. The per.
son interviewed also expressed the
opinion that the practicability of a
passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic
is impossible, that crossing the country
with dogs and reindeer was all theory,
and that there was no such thing as an
open sea. The captain, who had been
up to latitude 73 degrees, believed there
was continent of ice, possibly with a
current of water beneath, and that solid
ice exists beyond that latitude that
never did come out and never will
thus conflicting somewhat with Parry's
opinion of the northwest passage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Domestic Recipes.

PEACH PuDDING.-One quart of peaches,
cut fine and well favored, one dessert
plate of bread crumbs, three eggs, one
pound Of suet, chopped fine, one nut.
meg, and one glass of wine; serve with
wine sauce.
APPLE FLoAT.-To one quart Of APP.
pies, partially stewed and we'll mashed,
put the whites Of three eggs well beaten,
and four heaping tablespoonfuls of loaf
sugar; beat them together for fifteen
minutes, and eat with rich milk and
nutmeg.
To SOFTEN PUrTY.-A paste of caustic
potassa, made by mixing the caustic
alkali or even carbonate of potash or
soda with equal parts of freshly burnt
quick-lime, which has previously been
sprinkled with water, will be found of
value to soften putty around window
panes to be removed when the former
has become hard by age.
DRIED EGGs.-The eggs must be beaten
to uniform consistency and poured in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15

The fertility of the newspaper mind
has had fair opportunity to develop it
self during the past week in head lines
for the horse malady. We have had
"Epinippic Disease" "The Typhoid
Laryngite," The Equine Plague"
1.-THE Epizootic Distemper," The NAL
arial Incubus" "The Hippo Malaria"
"The Hippozymosis," "The Hippo
pathic Embarrassment" and " The
Quadrupedal Scourge." These are the
most serious and thoughtful grooves in
which the reportorial mind has run !;
but when it has relaxed from its digni-
fed moods, it has given currency to
such humorous illusions as cold Epi-
zoot." Exercise Promoter" Boot
makers Friend, " Corn Doctors Bless
ing" " Dyspepsia Cure" and 1.-The Ep-
idem." The press has striven to make
itself equal to the emergency.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Wife's Advertisement VS.. Husbands

The Clinton Mass Courant, of last
week, contained an advertisement of an
injured husband, signing himself w. II.
Cocswell, as follows:
Whereas, my wife, Sarah Z. Cogs.
well, has left my bed and board, this is
to give notice TO all concerned that
shall pay no debts which she may con-
tract after this date"
His wife must have been apprised of
the intended action of her lord, and
forthwith concocted the following
rhymes, which she published over her
signature in the same issue of the paper
wherein her husbands notice appeared,
directly beneath it:
81 Sarah T.. Cogsweu, just wish 20 say
That he refused 10 pay for my board;
As for the bed, twas mine and took IL away
And twas a loss he i'll could afford.
80 No debts Of my contractngr Indeed
earned and paid for my clothes,
And many's the shirt have bought for his need.
Aud handkerchiefs to wipe his nose.
"a Before you talk Of my bills twoud be better.
think,
And be OF more credit 10 you,
To pay promptly for all yourIteams. vietuals and
drink
For you seldom pay bills when they're due,
Through my married life hoed my own row.
And still am able 20 do IL
To the north, south, east or west you may co.
Whoever lives with you will rue II.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
The Wild Deer Attacked by the Horse
Disease.

The st. Paul Press is informed by a
gentleman who has just returned from
a deer hunt on the frontier, of an cpl.
demic prevailing among those animals
which threatens TO seriously affect the
supply of venison. He says that herds
were frequently seen in which there
would be dozens scarcely able to travel,
and that large numbers of dead and
dying deer were found in the woods.
The disease seems to resemble in its
symptoms the horse disease which is
now creating so much trouble in the
Fast