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The Portland daily press., 1873-07-28
Z HE PRESS
MONDAY MORNING, JULY ss. 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.

MONDAY MORNING, JULY sS. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
Heine calls jests 'sbrain fe.s that ;,n,n
about among the slumbering ideas.u
Dies are engraved now. In Cagar's time
the die was cast.
A hardened criminal six years old was ar
rested and fined last week in New Haven for
hurdling his hoop on the sidewalk.
The editor of Missouri paper has had en-
graved on its heading huge pair of shears,
inscribed with the motto, "We clip only the
best" oT fa -m.
A Western paper thinks the Colorado des-
ert only needs irrigation to become the m ost
fruitful spot on the continent. Probably the
same result might follow the irrigation of the
Great Sahara. -
To see how eagerly human being will
catch at straw, it is not necessary to wit
ness drowning. The phenomenon is now
manifest chiefly within saloons, where one
end of the straw is immersed in tumber.
A celebrated man, living in his age, is new
| er the ruler of an epoeh-he is but its incar-
nation; aud he almost invariably falls, If he
desires to substitute his own will for that of
others, or to turn the course of popular ideas
| to his own profit.
Flippant Lady, "You seem depressed,
Mr.. Beauclere! No bad news, hopep'
Romantic Gentleman. 'Ah! if one could
only forget" ai lae a sGat.t
Flippant Lady. 'Dear me! Hadn't you
better tell me all about it ? and I'll forget it
for COUP
| Affable Stranger-''There, sir, my work
Jung on the line again! Sir Francis can ap-
preciate good thing, sir.' aa.
| Astonished Stranger "Eh !? What? 1
| thought Millais painted this"
| Affable Stranger (contemptuously)-'' ooh
e may have painted it, but made the
framer' ,-
There is nice young man in Chicago who
says con6dentially that the Shah needn't brag
about his million-dollar overcoat. He does not
remember the price of his last overcoat, but
it is morally certain that if the interest is re-
covered it will amount to considerably more
than million before it is paid for. The
bloated oriental despot will find that there
are people who can be just as extravagant as
himself
Old Mr.. Franklin, of Cattaraugus county,
New York, created a vast deal of excitement
the other day by throwing plowshare into
the river on account of his wife's incessant
scolding. Mr.. Franklin, it might be well to
add, was attached to the weight ty rope
consequently, Mrs. F. has lost husband, 9
plowshare, and three feet of good rope, just
through chronic propensity to wag her
tongue!
"Refined homes" says the New York Ma.
ton, ''are the end of civilization. All the
work of the world, the railroading, the navi-
! eating, digging, manufacturing, inventing
teaching, writing, fighting are done, first o
all to secure each family in the possession o
its own hearth; and secondly, to surround al
many hearths as possible with grace an(
culture and beauty. The work of all race
for five thousand years is represented in tn
difference between wigwam and a lady
parlor. It has no better result to show.'i-s'
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EDUCATIONAL.
Abbott Family School for Boys,
, ATLITTLE BLUE, Farmington Me.

THE Autumn session will open August 18th. All
Il the comforts of HOME are here combined with a
superior school. Boys prepared for college bust
ness Graduation and diplomas conferred upon
for illustrated circular address the Principal
juIld3n ALDEN j. BLETHEN A Nj
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Second Examination of Pupils for
Admission to High School.

fVyHE subcommittee on the High School will ex-
Il anime such of the pupils from the Grammar
Schools who desire it, as failed to be admitted on
the first examination, sch were recommended
and were sick and not able to be present ot tLot
time. and children of persons who have become resi-
dents of this city since the first exalpination. on
the High School Building
By order of Com on High School.
Portland, July 10, 1873. eodtd
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A Fine Rusiness Onening

rNOR young or middle aged man of une nercent;ono-
BILE character. Experienced accountant and one
thousand dollars capital. Investigation is invited
address Box c015 Portland Me noysiu
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Saw GUNNER & Sharpener

A ACHEAp, simple, and durable Machine-easily
operated and running wheels from I inches to II
1inch
Price ofMachine, $l5.
Wheels which bevel'ed, double beveed and Iound !1
face from $S2.l2 to 1896, according to thick
ness Heavier Machines $40 and 800, run
ming Wheels up to "a inches in diameter.
For illustrated Pamphlets or Photographs, address
THE TANITE CO..
mySeod3m Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa.
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HOTEL FOR SALE OR LEASE.
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
Valuable Mill Property and Tim
bered Lands.
nN FISH River, Baldwin County, Ala, known as
~ "Hughes Mill Tract" About eight thousand
acres $1,000 ofheaviy timbered land with water
munication to Mobile Bay.
The Mill is nearly new and the whole will be sold
low, part ash and mortgage. Apply to
ZOPHAR MILLS,
= IA Front street, New York,
or HENRY ST. PAUL, Attorney,
jy12d1m 38 Roval Street, Mobile Ala.
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Heine calls jests ''brain fleas that lump
about among the slumbering ideas.v
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TOILET.
BOarders Wanted.

"A dENTLEMAN ard wife can be accommodate
n eu with nice room and board; also two gentle
men wanted as boarders. Central location. Ad ress
U. BOX 9O5. 9 jy25d1w*
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DIR. MARY WALKERS LITTLE PECULIAR
rrY.-Among the passengers who arrived at
Camden station, yesterday, from Washington
in the 2.20 p. m. train was the well known
DIR. Mary Walker, who insists upon wearing
pantaloons. The doctor was arrayed In a
pair of black pantaloons, tight-fiittng blue
frock-coat, the skirt of which reached be-
low the knees, and upon her head stylish
Mackinaw hat. Her delicate throat was en-
cased in Byron collar and adorned with
white cravat, and on her feet pair of No. 8
CATERS. Her coat, like Grimes, was buttoned
up to the throat. Notwithstanding the warm
weather. After alighting from the train, DIR.
Mary entered the ladies' reception room, and
by her strange wardrobe aud dashing man
ners, caused considerable amusement among
a large number of ladies awaiting the de-
parture of the train for Washington, who
had never before seen that sort Of style.
After remaining in the room a short time,
the eccentric doctor left the depot and passed
up Howard street, followed by crowd of
| white and colored boys, whose attentions did
not annoy her in the least.-Baltimore Sun.
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A hardened criminal six years old was ar
rested and fined last week in New Haven ior
hurdling his hoop on the sidewalk.
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Dies are engraved now. In Cagars time
the die was cast. ..
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Real Estate.

LNOR Sale, lease for term of years. the proper
IL ty belonging to the estate of Francis Libby
and formerly occupied by him on the corner o. Free
and High Streets ~ n tr .--
HARRISON J. LIBBY, .du,,..
FRANK w. LIBBY, Aunl rs.
Inar24 s1.rl-a' If
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUMIN ADVANCE.

that it takes woman to show thorough un-
charitableness towards woman-but that's
neither here nor there. Just listen to wha,
this current Miss Phelps says of ''the current
girl"
The girl of the period, sauntering before one
down Broadway, isone panorama Of awful sur
prises from top to toe. Her clothes character
ize her. She never characterizes her clothes.
She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is
bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not
folded. She struts, she Goes not sweep. She
has not one Of the attibutes of nature nor of
proper art. She neither soothes the eye like
flower, nor pleases it like picture. She wea-
res it like kaleidoscope. She Is a meaning
less dazzle of broken effects. Surely, it is one
Of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the ex-
preston OF effort to please shall be wanted in
It; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be
suggested by it; that the steps to its compile
tion shall be knocked away, like the sculptors
ladder from the statue, and the mental force
expended upon 1t be swept out of sight like the
chips on the studio floor. Who that is mathe-
matically or metaphysically inclined can meet,
modishly-attired woman without a calcula-
tion of the hour expended upon the architec-
ture of her dress, without guess at the stitch
es in hem, at the hens to fril, at the frills
to skirt, at the skirts to dress; without dis
secting the organization Of her chignon in the
anatomy of melancholy; without morbid
wonder if she wore her front friz to breakfast
in her crimping pins? Iconceive that 1t is
use and use alone which leads one of us, toll
erably trained to recognize any criterion of
grace or any sense of the fitness of things, to
tolerate, if for the sake Of grace and fitness
only, the styles of dress to which we are more
or less conforming every day of our lives Fif-
ty years hence they will seem to us as uncul-
tivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot
seem to-day. The dctum of our ereat-grand-
children upon, for instance, what has been
termed the kangaroo" style of dress, will
further contain new and severer elements of
criticism than any which go to form our judg-
ment upon fashions which repel us only be-
cause they are out of dale.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
A LOT of vacant land, situated on the west side
"A of High between Pleasant and Danforth SITS.
This let has front of about 81 feet and is about 1874
feet Deep and plans have been drawn by How, for a
block of seven nine genteel and convenient resi-
dences, and adapted for the same. Enquire of
EDWIN CHURCHILL,
No. Portland Pier,
mar2S From 12 to 2 O'clock p M
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The editor of Missouri paper has had en-
graved on its heading huge pair of shears,
inscribed with the motto, ''We clip only the
hocf -
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D. 600 FEET of land on North street. near
AsJsOOO Walnut. Price low. Terms cash,
balance time. Apply to F. G. PATTERSON, Port
land, or WIN. J.. S0UTHARD, 5 Pemberton Square,
Boston. - my12eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1873-07-28

A Western paper thinks the Colorado des-
ert only needs irrigation to become the m ost
fruitful spot on the continent. Probably the
same result might follow the irrigation of the
Great Sahara.
The Portland daily press., 1873-07-28
FOR SALE!

more than $500 per year.
Can at a small outlay be easily changed into three
stores, with the tenements over them would then
rent for from $1,000 to $780, Buildings in good re-
pair. Title perfect. Terms easy.
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Columbia As It Is.
NEW YORK. Al,

NEW YORK, August 8, 1878.
EDITOR PHGN1x: I spent last winter
South, for health aud pleasure. I visited
Aiken, in your State, but left soon for
Florida. On my return home, with
many others, visited Columbia, so IA
nous in history, as having been burnt
by tho soldiers of General Sherman.
We shall not speak of q burnt city, dead
and gone, but of one rising in glory and
honor. am convinced that the climate
of Columbia is equal to any I have test
ed. It is very dry aud bracing, and de-
lightful oil the year round. Tu go to
Florida from the far North, is too great
q change of climate. Many consump.
tiyes may find it pleasant there in win
ter, but pleasure-seekers will find Co.
lumbia live city. The hotels compare
favorably with those North, and there
are many elegant boarding houses, at
which the rates are quite moderate. The
stranger who comes South this fall, will
do we'll to visit Columbia before going
to Aiken or Florida. The sick can have
access to some of the best physicians in
the South, and parents, with their chill
dren, will find good schools. churches.
sc. The price of board at the hotels is
less than that charged in Aiken.
GEORGE STREET.
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CEsAR1sM. The Washington Repu6
iican (the official organ of the Govern
ment) makes a sweeping denunciation
of the New York HerdLi'S articles on
Cmsarism. and charges it with nt:esing
slanders against General Grant. The
Republican further repeats. it says, a
former warning. that this discussion
might result in accomplishing the very
object which it was evidently intended
to prevent. e., make General Grant
CWsar. This is good! What has the
Herald to say after TINT? Don'tit see
what it is doing?
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HE UNITED STATES CoURT. The fol-
lowing is an epitome OF the business
transacted in the United States Court,
now in session at Greenville, 8. @. A
large proportion of the business was
confined to the trinl of cases under in
dictment for violation Of the Internal
revenue laws:
The following were convicted or
pleaded guilty: Elias Cleveland-sen-
tence, sixlmonths' imprisonment in the
Jail of Pickens County and $1,000 fine;
Samuel Pitts-six months imprison-
ment,and $1,000 fine; Stephen Clark
same sentence.
On the bankrupt side Of the Court,
the following orders were taken:
,bn pnrfe J. NJ. Ivy. IN re Adam Ivy,
bankrupt. Ordered, that case be re-
ferred to ". I. Clawson, Registrar in
Bankruptcy, to call in the lien creditors
and report tho amount and priority Of
such claims.
E'c poyte John @. Cuan. The petit
toner was adjudged bankrupt on his
own petition, and it was ordered that
the Sheriff of Spartanbnrg be cijoined
from selling the property Of the bank
rupt.
Iu matter OF benjamin T. Wood,
bankrupt. Ordered, that he show cause
why he should not be adjudged bank
rupt
In tho matter of Rodolphus Long, a
bankrupt. Ordered, thai tie assignee
sell the lot OF land for cash, after having
advertised the same for twenty one days.
Ec parte Booker Bomar, IN re Z. y.
Coleman, bankrupt. Ordered, that the
samo be referred to W. 1. Clawson, Re
| gistrar, aud that he do clll in the lien
creditors to establish their liens, prove
their amounts and priority.
In the matter of w. J. Collins, bank
rupt. The Judge referred this case to
| ". l. Clawsop, Registrar, to adjudicate
the bankrupt, and required the said W.
j. Collins to file duplicate certificate
and schedule.
The Court appointed David J. Winn
assignee Of VIM. II. Cocktield, bank
rupt, OF Williamsburg County; George
Allen Huggins, assignee Of John II.
Hudrial, bankrupt, of Clarendon Coun-
ty; and David J. Vim, assignee of Geo.
W. Lee, bankrupt, of Sumter County.
Virgil Whitney Ct al. Us. VIM. Henry
Trescot et 'ti., Trustees of the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company. Ordered,
that James p. Lowe, John p. Southern
and Geo. w. Williams, assignees of the
Blue Ridge Company, in bankruptcy,
be served with subr@nas in this case,
and that Geo. ". Williams be served by
publication of notice.
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ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHICAL BLCSDERISG.
The British Consul. General at Bncha-
rest, in his report this year to Earl
Granville, complains of the ignorance
of the English Of the countries border
ing on the Lower Danube, and says that
the Moldo- Wallachians are strangely
lumbled together with the Seryinns and
tho Bulgarians in the minds of the
general British public, although there is
as marked difference between them as
between an Engiishman and q French
man or German. The Consul states
that letters directed to Bucharest some.
times travel to India in search of Box.
hara, which, however, may be chiefly
owing to bad handwriting. He says be
has himself known writ from one of
the Superior Courts at Westminster
directed to bucharest, "in the Kingdom
OF Egypt" lie. therefore. sends his
latitude and longitude, and reminds the
British foreign Office that Bucharest be-
came the capital of Roumania on the
union of Moldavia and Wallachia in
1861. Bucharest has n. right to bo
known. Its name signifies Getty OF
JOYS" it's population is estimated at up.
wards of 200, 900 souls; it covers space
OF more than twenty square miles, and
is SO built that the traveller, as he ap.
proaches, may see intersparsed with the
quaint spires Of above 100 Greek
cnurcnes a prolusion of acacia, poplar
and other trees. The way literary Eng.
lish people often blunder over American
geography is quite as striking, however,
as their mistakes concerning countries
on the Lower Danube.
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CENTENNIAL ON THR BRAIN. IN Phila-
delphia now, everything is getting q CEN
tennial brand. A correspondent says:
III you enter clothing house, you
must have come, OF course, for q cen
tennial coat. II you enter hatter's,
you cans go out until you have seen q
centennial hat. If you go Tor pair of
shoes, you must have them made over q
patent centennial last. II you want to
smoke before retiring, it must be cigar
OF the centennial brand, and if you rise
in the morning with sour stomach, you
are told that you need centennial
punch, which you drink over centen-
nial bar. by means of arecently-invented
centennial tube. The boot. blacks, who
throng around you in the street, all ye-
hemently insist that the centennial
blacking will produce the best shine,
and that all other blacking is of no &C.
count. The police will adopt centen-
nial uniform, stock company are con-
sideriDg the propriety of putting up a
centennial hotel, and that great daily
paper soon to be started here, whose
stock of $250,00 is said to be already
sold, can, of course, have no other name
than the Centennial"
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A Cnrd OF Thanks.

COLUMBIA, s. c., August Is, 1873.
/ certify, that have received from
the amount OF Sl79 55. collected
from the citizens generally, to enable
me to travel to Switzerland, with view
OF restoring my eye-sight. I return my
sincere thanks to those kind friends who
have contributed to the above amount
and especially to the stone-outters in the
employ at the United States Court
House and Post Office. Nor will ever
forget to return my sincere thanks to
DR.. Darby, for te dious and gratuitous
treatment. In the fullness of my heart,
I pray Gods blessing upon all who have
shown me. not only sympathy, but ma.
terial aid, to accomplish my hearts de.
sire. F. MIASkOWSKY.
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NERVOUS DEBILITY "A DEPRESSED, 1R-
RIrADLE STATE OF MIND; WEAK, NERVOUS,
EXHAUSTED FEELING; NO ENERGY Oh AMI
NATION; CONFUSED HEAD, WEAK MEMORY,
OFTEN WITH .DEDILITATNG, INVOLUNTARY
DISCHARGES. The consequence Of ex.
cesses, mental overwork or indiscretions.
This NERVOUS DEBILITY finds SOVEREIGN
CURE in HUMPHREYs' HOMEOPATHIC SpE-
c1FIc, No. %. It tones up the system,
arrests discharges, dispels the mental
gloom and dependency, and rejuvenates
the entire system; it is perfectly harmless
and always efficient. Price IS for pack
age OF five boxes and large 50 vial of
powder, which is important in old serious
cases; or 81 per single box. Sold by ALL
Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
price. Address HUAIPHREYs' SPECIFIC
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE COMPANY, No.
562 Broadway, NY. For sale by GE1aER
d McGREGoR, Columbia, s. @. Ap14 lily
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THE CANAL ENTERPRIsR.-The Colum.
bia correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,cs puts it thusly:
Having failed to negotiate the sale OF
their franchise and other property here,
as they proposed to do some time back,
they now offer to open their books and
to give every one an opportunity to take
as much stock in the enterprise as he
may desire. The proposition is, that the
property OF the company shall be esti.
mated at a fair valuation, and put in as
80 much stock in the new company; that
private citizens here, or the city OF Co.
lumbia, or both, shall take stock to the
amount of S2O0,OOO or $500, 900, or as
much as they choose; that tho Messrs.
Sprague will put in On additional equal
amount, and the enterprise be vigorously
pushed forward from now on. There is
to be board Of directors, and Senator
Sprague is to serve rs President of the
new company, without demanding O sa-
larry. One of the Columbia ia stockholders
is to be the Vice President, and there is
to be Secretary and Treasurer, and oil
that sort of thing. The arrangement is
a capital one, if it can only be perfected,
and that depends, I presume. pretty
much upon what the present company
may consider 'fair valuation" for their
property. In the present status Of af.
fairs, the canal is worthless to its own.
ers, even If their titles be good, and this
IS doubtful. What the people OF Co.
iumbia desire, is to sec the water power
developed and factories erected, and
they would prefer to sec this work done
under the auspices OF Mr.. Spraguc than
by almost anybody else, if he will only
do it; for the prestige of his namo rs
successful and wealthy manufacturer
would insure the success Of the enter.
prise and the consequent rapid growth
and prosperity Of our city.
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Take it, take it on and keep taking it;
reduce the dose so that it acts as gem
tie laxative. and continue it ON regular
~. It is tonic, and will strengthen
you. It took long time to confirm
your disease, and you can't get we'll in
day. Simmons Liver Regulator, if
persisted in, will cure the most stubborn
liver disease. There is no failure about
1t. A1Gt3Tl
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NAIL LARRANaRMRNTs.- The Northern
mail opens 6. 80 and TO-. 80 A, M.; closes
8 A. NJ. and $50 P. III. Charleston
opens z a.. NJ. and 230P. NJ; closes
6. Is and g. 30 P. NJ. Western opens6. 80
and $50 a. NJ. closes 9 and 8 80 P. III.
Wilmington opens 4.30 F. NJ: closes
6 A. NJ. Greenville opens 6.45 P. NJ. !;
CLOSES 6 A. NJ. On Sunday the offloa Is
open from 3 to 4P. nj. ~.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. NJ. Dent-Bull for Sale,
Peixotto s. Sons-Auction.
SILVER & Co.-Ciosing Summer Stock.


HOTEL ARRIVALS, August l5, 1873
Wheeler Rouse-J W Collins, Beaufort;
G P Hyde, Augusta; S A Feldham, Pa;
Wm Dudley, Charleston; W P Daering,
Augusta; J Il McDevitt, Edgefeld; a
Meroney, Yorkville; J II Townsend.
Atlanta; G Holmes, Beaufort; " B Bur
nett, Baltimore; J " Shaokelford. wife
and child. city; J T Solomon, Sumter;
W a Harrison, s @.
Colunadia Ho!el-W J Sprinkle, n c;
W d Lareille. Miss; G Haight. Chi
cago; " G Smith, vile, two daughters
{ nd child, n G; J G Bnlow, Ridgeway;
\. T Sanders, Jr, Charleston; r r
Bridges, Jr, Wilmington; Judge T J
Mackey, Chester; E W III Mackey,
Charleston; D 3 Smith. N T; " H
Evans. Charleston; Fl Cook, n Y;JD
Gardner, Jr, Wilmington; Chas Bon, N
G; G W Thomas, Wilmington.
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Recently MIR. Darwin was rejected by
twenty.six against six votes ns cores
ponding member of the Frcnch Aca.
deny of Science. He was, we SUPPOSE,
rejected on the ground that o man who
had proved himself a direct lineal dc.
scendaut Of the monkey was too much
OF an ass to be worthy Of sent among
scientific gentlemen Of the French
school
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have we lost within the last decennium7

have we lost within the last decennium7
Let US purge the public service, elect
honest men to Office, and We will yet
show the world the spectacle Of great
nation with inexhaustible resources
honestly and economically administered
by public servants, private citizens to-
day and occupying the highest offices in
the land tomorrow.
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A new corn plague has been disco
vered in Woodford County, ILL., The
FL Paso Journa! learns from Mr..
Richard Asay that peculiar sort of
worm, resembling maggot, is at work
upon the corn, making great havoc. 1t
attacks the roots, eats them entirely
away, the stalk and leaves dry up and
topple over. This worm has made its
appearance in several fields not far from
town, in vast numbers. After destroy
ing the roots Of the corn stalk, it de-
velopes into black bug with wings,
flies readily, and finishes up such corn
as has escaped the first onslaught by at
tacking the stock and ear.