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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
STATE OF MAINE.
To the Electors
OF THE
CITY OF PORTLAND, IS.

DURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and Al
IL dermen of the city of Portland, the duly quail
fled electors of said city residing in Wards one two,
three and four, and six will meet in ther respective
Ward Rooms in said wards, and those residing in
ward five will meet in the Machgonne engine house
ward seven will meetin the school house Vaughan
street in said ward, on TUESDAY, the twenty-ffth
day of June instant at ten o'clock in the forenoon to
give in their votes upon the following question:
''Whether the inhabitants of the city of Portland
wl accept an act of the Legislature Of the State OF
Gland grant further aid in the construction of the
portland and Ogdensburg Railroad" approved
February 81 A. ID. 1872 and will grant further aid
sin the construction of said Portland and Ogdens-
"burg Railroad in accordance with the provisions Of
said act to the amount of thirteen hundred and fifty
Thousand dollars:
The said inhabitants vote by ballot on said ques
tom Those in favor of accepting said act and grant,
ing further aid in the construction of said railroad in
accordance with the provisions thereof to the amount
aforesaid expressing it by the word eyes" upon
their ballot and those opposed to the acceptance of
said act and to granting said aid expressing by the
word "NO" upon their ballot.
The polls on such day of meeting to remain open
until four o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall be
closed.
The aldermen of said city will be in open session at
the ward room in City Building entrance on Myrtle
street, from nine O'Clock in the forenoon to one
O'Clock in the afternoon each of the three secular
days next preceding said day of meeting, and from
three O'Clock to five o'clock the afternoon the
last of said three secular days. for the purpose of
ceiving evidence of the qualification Of voters whose
names have not been entered the lists of qualified
voters in and for the several wards and for correct
ing said lists
Per Order.
H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
Portland, June H. 1872. je12dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
BUSINESS NOTICES.
ALACE HANDKERCHIEF was recently sold at
JORDAN, MARSH & Co.'S Boston, for $50.

PERSONS afflicted, however slightly, with any
weakness of the Chest or Throat, involving
either the Larynx, Trachea, Bronchial Tubes,
or the Lungs themselves, should, on the first
symptom, commence with Fellows Com
pound Syrup of HypOphosphites, as by its use
diseases of those organs (even Consumption in
its primary stage) are speedily cured and more
alarming symptoms prevented.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
Let Me Speak Once More !
LABORERS.

OkO LABORERS living in Portland, and work
ACO ing on the Boston and Maine Railroad,
turned out on the 18th day of June, 1872, for Two
Dollars per day. and all laborers coming to Portland
requested to uphold the same. je14d3t*
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

Edwin Forests agent lost $1,000 of his
masters money the other day, and he says
that Mr.. Forrest never played so well in his
life as directly after he learned the melan-
choly fact. The performance was private
and involuntary, and the agent supported
Mr. Forrest as well as he could; but he
wouldn't do it again for century's salary.
he is not ambitious for theatrical hor ors :;
what he wants is comfort, to say nothing of
his bones.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
For Sale.

TNHE two and one-half story house, No. At, corner
IL Of Wilmot and Lincoln Streets, containing nine
rooms besides sink rooms and Closets cellar cement
ed, brick cistern furnace and gas The premises can
be examined daily Sunday excepted from tive to
four p. M.
Also lot of land on Franklin st., near the Park
paHslRtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

The trade in oysters in the United States
affords employment during all the year, in the
taking OF seedlings, transplanting, growing,
catching, shipping, and wholesale and retail
departments, to more than 800, 900 men, wo-
men and children.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
For Sale.
FOR SALE.

O. One House and several desirable house lots
E,;,l Enquire of GEO. RACKLIFF, Woodford's Cor
-2sk ner. jun12*4w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
House for Sale.

nN Woodford St., WOodfords Corner, Deering
" Two minutes walk from horse cars near Maine
be sold cheap for cash. Enquire on the premises Of
my23*1m TITS EDWIN THOMPSON.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
InternatiOn.,I Steamship Go.

NNHERE will be special meeting of the Stockhold-
Il ers Of the International Steamship Company, at
their office, corner Union and Commercial street,
Monday, the Seventeenth instant, at o'clock P. M.
H. j. LIBBY, Sec'y.
Portland, June 18th, 1872. je12 I'd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

The Boston Jubilee is to be conducted on
strictly temperance principles, no wines nor
liquors being allowed with the single exc p
tion oflager beer, which is to be given to for
eign musicians exclusively. Native trumpet
ers arm naturally indignant at being deprived
of their horns.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

EOR SALE I'm GORHAM-The desirable
IL residence of the late Capt. John Farnham. with
fine lot; win be sold at bargain; within three min
utes walk of the Depot Stores and Churches. In
quire of A. F. GERRISH, Portland, or X. G. HARD
NG Gnrham =. InuokAIXV8.Ctf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
OF PORTLAND, ME.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

The London Saturday Reuiew has made
the astonishing discovery that Horace Gree
ley was Selected at Cincinnati by the votes of
the Protestant members of the body" For
lucid expositions of American politics COM
mend us to an English newspaper.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

In the window of shop in an obscure part
of London is this announcement: "Goods re-
moved, messages taken, carpets beaten, and
poetry composed on any subject"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
THE PR ESS.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1879.
Republican District Convention.

The Republicans Of the several cities and towns
tn the FIRST DISTRICT Of Mime are invited to
send delegates to District Convention to be held in
LANCAsTER HALL. pORTIAND.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
REAL ESTATE.

Brick Building and Store for Sale.
HNHE three story brick building and store on cor
best business locations in the city Above the store
are accommodations for four families; gas water &c
Property now rents for $500. Also a small lot on
Green street, adjoining the Hull property suitable
for small building for fish market. Also lot 20 n
front on Portland street, suitable for small store
Price low. Terms one-third cash balance on time +
Apply to GEO. DAVIS s. CO.,
Real Estate and Mortgage Brokers'
Or to VIM. E. TOLMAN on the premises
May 24-d3w
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MEN WANTED.

SIx GOOD SMART MEN who understand them
- selves and are willing to work when an excellent
opportunity is offered Commission large and BUSH
ness unexceptionable Good reference required
Further particulars may be learned by addressing y
jun7tf ARCHIBALD, Box 1906
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
For Sale Cheap,

And to Let if not Sold at Once,
HOUSE No. "a Emery st. Terms very easy; NAV
Ii be examined between 10 and IL A. NJ and be-
tween and P. M Monday and Saturday forenoons
excepted. MATTOCKS s. FOX,
je3dtf S8 Middle st.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

We are told now that "Chignons fall en-
cascade down the back and ripple under
waves of lace, which tumble in chaotic con-
fusion from the top of the new, fat-crowned
hats" That is so much sweeter than a
waterfall. .. ...
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

New Two Story House for Sale.
IT COATED at the west end of Congress st; con-
IL tains ten rooms; will accommodate two families
Lot over 5000 feet. Plenty good water Terms half
cash Apply to VIM. 81. JERRIS,
je1d3w* Real Estate Agent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

A very ''fishy" story comes from Califor-
mia to the effect that an artesian well at Camp
ton, $50 feet deep, elects live fish resembling
speckled trout, from half an inch to two
inches long. The same phenomenon ap-
pears at an artesian well on rancho near by,
seeming to indicate the existence of sub
terranean lake,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

EOf sale.
A fine building lot 12O feet 'front.' 16O feet deepen
Grove street. VIII be sold low and on favorable
terms. Apply to w. H, JERRIS, Real Estate Agent
maY2SQ 3X
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17

An English paper says: "For Express En-
gine is getting BETTER" as given in our paper
yesterday, read Empress Eugenie.'"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25

Ing, held during the present month, he
srotted in 2:21J-the fastest recorded stall
lion time. He oould not now be
purchased for $4,000. His chances
are to make over four times this
sum for bis owner during his lifetime.
Kilburn Jim, q young stallion by
Hambletonian, jr., and he by EdsaPs or
II etzeHs Hsmbietonian (the latter stallion
now standing at our Fair Gfounds), trotted
in 2:2S a the same meeting, and cannot be
bought for less than $4,000. w. II. Allen,
a young stallion by Volunteer, aud with
record If 2:23tt, has been refused 8 sale at
$4,000. Fearnsught, by Young Morrill,,
with record of 2:23ak, could not be bought
for 1000. Huntress, by Volunteer, and
with record Of 2:22aa, has been refused a
sale at $4,000. The gelding, Judge Full
lerton, by Edward Everett, sold in his FIVE
yea1 old form, and without arecord, for
$4,000. He has since made arecord Of
2:23aa. and could not now be purchased for
$4,000. Backwood, a fast young Ken
lucky stallion, by Norman, was said to
have been purchased by bis present owner
for $4,000. Thomas Jefferson, fine
black stallion By Toronto Chief, with re-
cord of 2:25Ia, could not be bought r less
than $50, 900. Shinkle's HambietOnian, by
Logan, he by Hambletonian, with record
of 2:2S, is valued at $50 900. Sentinel, a
very fast, unframed young stallion, by
Hambletonian, and fun brother to Vol
unteer and Hambletonian Second, hav-
ing this month trotted at Eminence, Ken
lucky, in 1888, after making full
season in the stud, is valued at $4,000.
Hamlet, by Volunteer, an unframed stall
lion, with record of 2:27, is valued at
$4,000. Bodine, young trotting geld
| ing, by Volunteer, was sold this spring for
| $4,000. Hamiltonian Star "a fast young
stallion, by Hamiltonian Second), now
standing in Kentucky, and unframed, is
valued at $4,000.
Hartford Hamiltonian (by Hamiltonian
Second), now at st. Louis, and unframed,
can show 2:35, and is valued at $4,000;
| Woodford Mambrino, Pilot Kmple, Kear-
sarge, Dictator, Rhode Island, Mambrina,
Patchen, North Star, Mambrino, Ben Cum
mings, Harry Clay, Mohawk, Jr., Erics
son, Athan Allen, Idol, and many others Of
the strains of Hamiltonian, Clay, Nam
brine Chief, Black Hawk, Goldust, Toron-
to Chief, and Pilot, are very fast and fine
stations, and range in value from $4,000
to $4,000. And the simple reason for the
large stallion prices is, that they and theil
kindred are exclusively the sires of million:
of dollars worth park, road, and racing
trotters. They can earn the money, ant
are worth The money. The fine aud fas
road and park horses command the money
And the trotting race-horses are worth the
money for track use. because, as havj
previously said, the people of the United
States annually pay over two million tiv,
hundred thousand dollars for the privilege
of seeing them speed and contend upon The
courses of the country.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
RLACK WALNUT HEDGE.

A correspondent of the american Rural
Home, on the way from Decatur to Casso-
polls, Mich, passed farm surrounded by
an immense hedge of black walnut trees.
Its owner, on stalking up" the land, had
plowed furrow around his so acres, in
which he dropped black walnuts that now
had grown to large sized trees. 1t was
quite an interesting sight. 1t will pay to
raise black walnut in Tennessee for timber
and fruit. Very handsome furniture is
made from black walnut lumber and We
neering; and with the increase of popula-
ton and wealth in America and elsewhere
the consumption of this article greatly ex-
ceeds the growth. Hence the price Of good
walnut plank, and the forks of trees for
veneering, has steadily advanced for thirty
years. There are millions of acres in this
State on which walnut trees might be
grown at a profit
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
VIC gIV5 Es IOlOWs suInnlaIy OF Ile I
transactions of the day:


The following are the cotton quotations
received at the National Savings Company,
corner Union and College streets, where
cotton, gold, bond and stock quotations are
received hourly, and are always accessible
10 the public:
LIVERPOOL, Oct. "a, 11:3O.-Cotton
quiet but steady. MiddEng uplands 81;
Orleans 1046105d. Sales to-day 10000
bales.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. "a, 1:O0.-Cotton quiet
-Middling uplands %; Orleans 1910
10sd. Sales to-day 1900 bales.
NEW YORK, Oct. "a, 11:30.-Futures
easy. Ordinary 16tc; good ordinary 1S.c;
low middling 1910; middling 1910; Ala
bama 1870; Orleans zoe; Texas zoe.
SANITARY delivery 1890; February delivery
10 5-16; March delivery 1890; April deliv.
cry 20 5-16; October delivery 19c; Novem-
Der 1890; December 10 9-16c.
New YORK, Oct. "a, 11:05.-Futures
quiet. March delivery 1890.
New YORK, Oct. 2t, 12:05.-Market
quiet Futures quiet; Ordinary 16s; good
ordinary 1876; low middling 1910; middling
1910; Alabama 1876; Orleans zoe; Texas
20c. april delivery 20sc; October 195c.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. "a, 2:90.-CottOn
unchanged. Middling uplands 9.69so;
Orleans 104610sd. Sales to-day 1900
NEW YORK, Oct. "a, 2:00.-Market quiet
Futures unchanged; Ordinary 1890;
good ordinary 1870; low middliDg 195c;
middling 19ac; Alabama 1850; Orleans zoe;
| Texas zoe.
NEW YORK, Oct "a, 3:15.-Market
| quiet. Futures steady. Ordinary uplands
1889; good ordinary 1876; low middling 10 !;
middling 1910; Alabama 1910; Orleans
zoe; Texas zoe. Sales to-day for export
100 bales; for consumption 443 bales.
February delivery 10 5.16c; April 20 11.16,
November IS 11-16. Net receipts 90 33l
bales; exports to Greac Britain 14,276
bales; to other foreign ports 1859 bales;
stock 259,9l9 bales.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
BOW EASILY BUTTER rs SPOILED.

a farmers wife writing to the Ohio
Farmer says: "Of all the products of the
farm, butter is most liable to be tainted by
noxious odors floating in the atmosphere.
Our people lai d some veal in the cellar,
from which little blood flowed out, and
was neglected unil it commenced to smell.
The result was, that jar of butter which
was then packing, smelled and tasted
ike spoiled beef" Another lady reader
observes that there is filthy, stagnant
water few hundred feet from their house,
from which an offensive effluvium would
be borne on the breeze directly to the milk
room, when the winds was in a certain d.
rection, the result of which was that cream
aud butter would taste like the disagreable
odor coming from that pond. As soon as
the pond was drained we had no more dam
AGED butter.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25

is application to tie arts of life. Those
sciences, especially, which relate TO aaricul-
ture and kindred arts, such IS chemistry,
botany, zoology, and animal physiology,
are prosecuted TO much greater extent
than in institutions where the study of
Their practical applications is not pursued.
The instruction given in the lecture room
is Illustrated and enforced by the actual
and prolonged study OF plants and animals,
and the various practices and experiments
Of the farm and garden. Students will be
taught to distinguish clearly between those
principles and settled rules of agriculture in
accordance with which they may safely
proceed, and those theories or practices
which are either exploded, or are as yet
the proper objects of experiment and dis
cussion only, but whose hasty adoption has
led to repeated failures, and to the discred-
it of science.
Very few have acquired the art of study
ing agriculture as learned profession to
good advantage. Some regard what they
@theory" with great aversion, because a
farmer OF limited thought and education
may misjudge in its application. No theo-
~, not even that Of the multiplication
table can save ignorance or stupidity from
the legitimate fruits of its unfortunate
condition. In intellectual development,
many remain children all their lives. Ad
vanced science, whether in agriculture OF
astronomy, can DO but little DO illuminate
such minds. There is too wide
a gap between, caused by great
defect in preliminary education.
Common schools and academies have moi
done their proper work; and the step from
the plow handle with scarcely the ability tC
read, to agricultural chemistry, botany
geology and climatelogy, is too long &
stride to be taken at one motion. Men of
fair common intelligence see the difficulty,
and support more and better common
schools, and prepare youth to study agri
culture, and all other industrial arts, a:
departments of science. Any man with
half an eye can see substantial progress IN
all branches of human industry, which can
only result from an extension Of knowl
edge. A division of labor among many
thousand skillful educators, each with hi
specially, viii give to cultivated commol
sense a power which no one anticipates
Education, even to its present limited de
gree, has made remarkable discovery.
has discovered the fact that the larges
room in the world, is the room for improve
ment. In this new room farmers ar
bound TO occupy large space.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25


are ever TO return to q specie basis, we
must take 10 backward step. Those who
want more paper money now would want
a still further imitation at the next none
tary pinch. and SO on ad intinitum. The
great majority Of people are never able or
willing to shape their business ior contrac-
ton of the currency, and this is why we
have not long ago returned to specie pay.
ments. Contraction means lower prices OF
all commodities-not relatively lower val
ues, but values measured by more valua-
Bile circulating medium. All acknowledge
that it would be the better thing for the
prosperity of the country, but few are viii
ling to make the necessary sacrifice TO get
there. Debtors are anxious to have an in
flation, for then they could pay their debts
in deprecated currency, but they are not
willing to submit to a contraction, for then
they would have to Gquidate their indebt-
edness in an appreciated currency"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
GOOD LAND AND COIN.

The Charleston Nelos of the 10Th inst.
SAYS: Mr.. James Jones, one of the most
enterprising farmers in Fairfield county,
raised this year, on seven acres of river
bottom land, seven hundred and eleven and
q quarter bushels corn, eighteen thousand
pounds fodder, and the land is now covered
with pumpkins.
What will it cost to make an acre of COM
mon upland yield one hundred bushels OF
sound corn in fair season? On what ele-
ments, and how much of each does this
fertility depend?
Few farmers have carefully stndied the
sources of fruitfulness in bottom land s,
and are unable to separate the essentials
from the non-essentials. A ton of barn
ward or stable manure is not worth over
dollar; while some commercial fertilizers
have sold for sixty times that sum a ton for
more than twenty years. Why should one
kind of plant food bring sixty times more
pound for feeding corn plants than an
other?
In the seeds and blades of Mr.. Jones
corn there was an amount of potash and
phosphoric acid which common farm ma
nure supplies at the rate of hardly one
pound in one hundred, and which is a
once deficient in most soils, and indispen-
sable to the crop. Assimilable nitrogen i
another element of corn that stable ma
nure in its natural state supplies not on
pound in one hundred. Good Peruvian
guano sells for SIS a ton, mainly because
it is rich in available nitrogen. No fertili
yer could sell at one hundred times NOR
per ton than stable manure, if the true ele
ments of fertility in all kinds Of soils wer
not well understood by well educated farm
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bis, Nos. l, > aud 8, sz.25, Sis aue

u Els, Nos. |, and 8, sz.25, si.75 and
$I.60.
RICE-Market firm at 1Oc.
OHEEsE-We quote Factory, new at TIC.
POwDER-Market steady as follows On
pont 800; Sycamore Mills 800; Hazards
500; blasting $500: fuse per 100 feet 75c.
SHoT-We quote patent So; Buck $3.25.
LQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky % gallon 81; Robertson County
$1.756$3; Bourbon $1.25h5.50; Lincoln
County S1.T562.25; HighWines 81.
COTTON TIEs-We quote at 94610e.
BRooAs-We quote ct $2.5063.6O o
doz.
SoAP--We quote at 56Sc y n, or $50
4.50 % box.
BAaGINa- We quote st 16N17e for
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
AGRICULTURE ON THE DECLINE
IN MAINE.

Mr.. L. b. Gilbert, President OF the
Maine Board of Agriculture, after copying
from the census returns Of the last three
decades to sustain his position, in late
address says: "These figures show that
the premises assumed in relation to the de-
cline of agriculture are correct; for while
we barely hold our own in stock, and are
falling off in corn and grain, we have at the
same time enlarged the number of acres of
improved land by bringing under cultiva-
ton many acres Of newly cleared land.
We keep no more stock, grow the same
kinds of products, and raise less every
year" While the area under the plOw is
extended by new clesrings, the yield of corn
has decreased about 100000 bushels.
What is true of Maine farming, we have
no doubt, is equally true of farming in Ten
nessee. Our land, long cultivated in corn,
produces less now, on an average, than it
did ten and twenty years ago. The great
duty Of making full restitution to the soil
is neither understood nor practiced by
American farmers, north or south, east or
west. They thoughtlessly rob the virgin
earth of its natural fertility, and specula-
tors generally get the proceeds, and con-
sumo large part in riotous living. There
can be no abatement of general extraya-
gance and excess so long as we
have a boundless domain of fesl
lands to supply cheap grain, meat
wool and cotton. This fertility
costs nothing; and old fields can hardly
be recuperated at so small an expense
Hence, the soil depletion Of Maine eau
have no serious check till it sweeps across
the continent to the Pacific, aud wastes
in few generations the elements OF crops
ntwo thousand million acres of the bes
farming and producing lands that the SUI
shines upon. Congress first collected az
ricultural statistics in lS4O, thrty-t"'
years ago. These industrial returns SHOW
that the longer a field is under the ploW
the smaller the average harVests from one
decade to another. The raw material tha
forms grain, cotton and tobac co is consum
ed or washed away. When nine-tenths O
the farming land in Tennessee is thus i'm
povGished, what will support its cities an,
villages? What will our town property b
worth?