The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-03
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Rescued From a sinking vessel


Rescued From Sinking Vessel.
PRovINcETowN, Sept, 2-The fishing schoon-
er Samuel ODER, arrived here to-day reports in
the gale of August g. when twenty five miles
from Cape Sable. fell in with the British
schooner w. j. Starkey of st. John. n B., dis
masted and in a sinking condition. Took off
all hands and brought them to this port.
Soldiers Reunion
WORCESTER, Sept. 2.-The Burnside Asso-
citation of the Seth Regiment are holding their
annual reunion here to-day. One hundred and
fifty sat down to the dinner.
Net for Ben.
In Dudley 1.-THE first caucus held in Worcester
County, two anti-Butler delegates were elected.
Douglas sends two and New Brantree one
auti-Butler.
New England Agricultural Horse Trst.
Boston, Sept. 2.-The New England Agri-
cultural Society began its annual exhibition at
Mystic Park to-day The attendance for the
opening day was large, and the afternoon was
devoted to races, which afforded amusement to
six or seven thousand people present
The first race was for horses that never beat
three minutes, and of fifteen entries ten started
i'll the 6rst heat. but at the close of the third
only three were left, all the others being dis
tauced. The first money was won by Pike &
Bowers b 6. Col. Pike; the second by j. II.
Dustin's b. e. Dustin Jim; the third by j. H.
Whittemore's CHI N. Seamstress Time: $40,
22S5 and 2 1864.
The second race was for pnrse of $500 Tor
horses that never beat 2:30 and there We're four
entries, but only Ben Starr, Fanny and Xxi
started Starr was the favorite in the betting
aud he won The race easily il. three straight
3sf 5 Eshr and sft g:ss the -''""A
Dr.. Loring's address, rs President of the So
ciety, to-day, was listened to by an interested
audience. In allusion to the locality of the
meeting, he said everything here establishes on
fl1a hact
land, the best personal relation between the
farmer and the land he tills and while casual
observer might possibly consider this spot, sur
rounded aait is by every other Industry besides
farming, somewhat Inappropriate for a scene
ike this, you who are IN search OF that system
of agriculture which is peculiarly American
will find it here where the highest skill will
receive its reward and where the temptation
of large and half cultivated farms are small.
where science must enter into the work and
where the fluctuations of the great markets
for staples uufelt and trials of travel and
transportation are unknown. 1t is among the
small farms, conveniently located to market,
that find the rural population superior in
every respect tosthe population of France, and
free frNm the difficulties and uncertainties
which surround the producers of agricultural
staples in the broad, fertile and sparcely popu-
lated regions where local mark is are unknown
and where the transporter and and the specu-
lator have every advantage. If YOU Woald
look for tue highest agricultural prosperity
you must go where the producer meets the
consumer face to face, and is entirely free from
the power of any intermediate agent Ii you
would look for the most lutelig Mt rural popu-
laton you must 20 where every farmer is the
owner of the sol he cutivates, and where the
laad holder possesses certain social and civil
rights which it is his duty to develope and pro.
tect, and which in addition to these privileges
shall tiud the markets, both local and remote.
within easy reach of the agricultural producers
of In nd and shall then he ra1 Of
uniform agricultural prosperity aud less
agricultural discomfort. The carrier
the Spectator, and the manipulation
whether in the mill or in the storehouse must
be paid. and inamsuch as he comes nearer the
market than the producer, he generally man
ages to make his compensation sufficiently
large La no way thus far has the producer
been able to overcome in any degree this law of
trade, except by resortng to cheap LABOR So
cheap as to be degrading. Or to cheap lands.
so cheap as to require but little capital and 50
new and productive as tc require no fertilizers.
Aided by these two agencies the producers of
staples have prospereo; but neither the owner
of plantations cultivated by cheap labor. nor
the owuer of bounty lands cultivated by the ow
ners' own hands, or by well paid labor has ever
yet expected to receive the same proportion of
the market valve of his crops, as received by
him who cultivates the lands lying near mar
ket and bearing high value; and yet as near an
demonstration to this as possible is the GREAT
demand of the day in America. Labor is no
longer cheap here. The burdens of taxation are
heavy; The expenses OF living are large. The
natural demands of a free and cultivated peo-
pie are larger, and there is not only growing
for the receipts by the producer OF
a larger share of the market value
of his crops. The consumer of corn at a
| dollar bushel is startled to learn that corn is
| used as q fuel on the very farms where that
| which he has purchased was raised. The pro
nf norm rnx nd Ind
he sits before his fire and reads that the fuel
| with which he is warming himself is worth a
dollar bushel in the eastern market. The
| problem of remedy for the inequality has there
| fore an ugly look at both ends The producer
claims that he is starved and must have relief.
| The consumer complains that he is robbed al
| ready and that an increase of prices will work
his ruin; that the burden of solution should be
| thrown upon the system of intermediate trade
| and transportation is not surprising; that this
| system needs regulating there be no doubt,
and that it will be regulated there should be no
| doubt. The President also urged reform I'D the
| luxuriant and extravagant modes Of life, pala-
| tial railroad stations and cars Over paid oti-
| Gals eating up our substance, elaborate arch-
lecture in mills, warehouses, dwellings and
| school-houses was another means of consum-
| ing natural wealth. and the lesson to be learned
was that of public economy
Fatal Family Eieud.
LAWRENCE, Sept. 2.-Patrck Doherty, living
at a farm Z few miles from this city, was snot
by his wife Monday and died. The woman
claims the shooting was accidental, that. her
husband, while beating her with stick OF
wood, struck the hammer of the pistol, explod-
ing it.
| The Spring. Caueus-The --latest Re-
turEs-But.er Oniy so Ahead.
SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 2.-The Springfield Re-
| publican cauouses to-nigat were full and lively.
Two of them used the check list in voting, and
those elected Washburn delegates. IN two
Others there was split on the refusal to use
the check list. Two sets of delegates were
chosen from those wards The result in the
city is Washburn 4, Butler II, and contested 3.
Our footings Cor the State so far are Wash
burne 122, Butler 152; doubtful, 8.
Various Matters.
A little boy was killed in Peabody by light
ming, Monday.
Buildings were struck in Salem, Lynn, Pea
body, and other places, by lightning, on Mon
day
Cattle Tbieviug Resumed.
BRowNvILLE, Tex, Sept. Cattle thlevine
on the Texas border has been resumed with
unusual vigor. About two hundred beeves we've
driven across into Mexico near Geno four days
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