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AND COMMERCIAL.

Foreign Exports.
LIVERPOOL. Steamship Mississippi-263 boxes
bacon, 49, pk-s butter II tcs beef, $500 bbs -four,
1926 bags wheat, 1882 do peas 50 cases hay forks.
BUENOS AYRES. Bark Archer 252, ,S65 feet lum-
err 900 shingles TO- 1s5 pckets s4 pkgs furniture,
2S7 pkgs wood and machinery "a wheels and axles 10
kegs nails, pkgs paint.
MATANZAS. Bark Walton-5000 box shocks, 1910
shocks and heads 337 bdls hoops 400 bbs potatoes,
1000 # lumber
ST. JOHN, NIB. Schr Yolunteer-9oO bbls -four, 10
tons feed.
BARBADOES. Brig Beaver-7s3 bbls mess pork.
Foreign Imports.
CADIZ. Brig Atlas-1s,s 600 bush salt to EG Will
lard.
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RossINI CLUB.-The Rossini Club will oh
serve Rossins birthday by giving concert to-
day at their room, in City Building, at II a.
m. We understand that it is their last public
concert for the season. Tickets will be for sale
at the door, The following is the programme:
PART I.
l. Chofus-l-a fede, Rossini
2. Piano Solo-Cypresse, ,Tunom,nn
Miss Jones.
3. Trio--Calm o'er the CLASSY Lake A5ouou+
Mrs. Gardner Mrs. Farley, Miss Munger. ''
4. Regnava mel Silenzio-Lucia, Don;ao..;
1- Miss Ella Lewis.
s. Overture--La Gazza Ladra poss;,,,
Mrs. Kotzschmar and Miss MilIett. 0''Ni
PART II.
G. Duet-Agnus Del, Concono
Mrs. bennett and Miss Ella Lewis
7. Piano Solo-Rondo, Cbon;,
Miss Blanchard.
8. Una Voce, Rossini
: Miss Munger. '''''''
8. Allegro-Sonata in G, Nyozor+
81 Mrs. VIM Allen and Miss Over. -'i'-"' :.
10. The Venetians, pinsu4i
Mrs. Wetherbee, Mrs. bennett, Mrs. Rand Mrs
Farley, Misses Ella and Henrietta Lewis. .Cband-
e, Ter, Woodbury., Munger and Swan.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb 26.-There are no uncharter-
ed vessels in port but a number in outports have
been closed with Petroleum at full rates. A shin of
10000 bbs refined was taken for Bremen at 5s 6d =
side do at 55c. N w S'"'n
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Railroad Accident.

AFITcHBURG, Feb. 27. John Haverde, freight
conductor. and Thomas Mullen, section mas
ter, employed by the Boston, Clinton & Fitch
burg Railroad, and residents of this city, were
Killed by the cars near Leominster this morn
freight train which was following the morning
train from Worcester. When near Leominster
one engineer OF the passenger train, discovering
q was os9aen eaE rail- stopped his train The freight
collisions ioWnng So closely that the men fearing
qPah Rnth the hard snow slipped beneath the Wheels
Both were horribly mancled 'n0 nooi'
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GENTLEMEN in want of good reliable shirt
should examine the Portland Shirt.
Grin Hawkes. & Co. Manufacturers, 900 and
292 Congress ST -
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ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 27.-The lower house of the
Kansas Legislature yesterday passed resolu-
ton censuring York for making charges against
members and failing to sustain them; also one
declaring Pomeroy unworthy of confidence and
respect Of the people of Kansas, In the Senate
resolution eulogizing York and condemning
Pomeroy was lost by vote of 12 to 13.
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REFORM. The third lecture and entertain
ment of the Allen Mission course takes place
at City Hall this evening. Prof. o. P. Sweet
lectures on Reform. Mr.. Sweet has been for
many years an actor, and his dramatic talent
stands him in good play on the lecture plat
form. At the conclusion of the lecture Mr..
Sweet, assisted by his wife and son, the latter
of whom is only five years old, will give the
thrilling sketch entitledHA life history, or the
danger of being good singer" The enter
tainment will be of no ordinary character, and
all who wish to encourage the temperance cause
and assist one of our most worthy charities
ought to be present. We hope to see the spa,
ciOus hall filed
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

ONE case of Japanese Poplins only % cents
a yard. Covell & Company
S,.feb2S-2t -'N 81 .s--
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THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. %, 1873.


May be obtained at the Periodical Depots of Fes-
eenden Bros, Marquis, Robinson, Brunell & Co.
athecity. ~ --' '
rsAt Biddeford, of Pillsbury.
E At Saco of L, Hodgdon,
q At Waterville of j. S. Carter
Fat Gorham, of News Ageut.
EAt Bath, of j. o. Shaw.
AT Lewiston, of W. F. Stanwood,
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NOniuafSom "

Of the q es aR bs;etT sThs
ated Hon Stephen w. Kellogg sot1ry for C nomln-
UNANIMOUSLY by .acclamation and with congress
cheers Resolutions were passed waroIM warn hearty
dHrsng ms Is course ba in Congress approving the
reenaetment of the usury laws repeaied isdpIng n
year. ego esstslszgH Qsssm '''
Simon Brown, editor of the New E,o,oa
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JOB PRINT1NG.-Eyery description of Jos
Printing executed promptly, and at the loweer
prices, at the Daily PRESS Printing House, 100
Exchange st. WIN. NJ. MARKS.
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New York Stock and Money Market.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27-Morninq.-Go at 114a.-
Money at per cent. per day. Sterling Exchange
10sa q 1O9i. Stocks active but weak. State stocks
very quiet.
NEW YORK, Feb 27-Evening- day on Wall
street opened with considerable excitement and an
uneasy feeling, but closed with better tone and
marked recovery from the depression of yesterday
The reports circulated in the forenoon of the embar
rassment of the prominent operator, understood TO
be the President of the Union Pacific Mail Company,
general calling in Of loans him and also
the rand doIyerv,nf stock to his principal broker
firm Both met oil iianities, amounting to millions
of dollars promptly and gave @ assurance
of the ability to meet all contracts
Not single failure was reported and an impr6Vec-
tone set in till the cloEe.
Money was active and stringent during the greater
part of the day. rates ranging 32 and interest to 316
and interest with few loans at per cent. per day,
but there was decided relaxation before O'clock
and the rate declined to 132 then to per cent gold
and finally to per cent. currency with "a per
cent. per annum as the closing figure.
Sterling Exchange dull and heavy at 1881 "a 1Oss.-
114s loans at per cent. and 3G4 per cent for car
ryng. Cearances $75, 900 600. Treasury disburse-
ments S1S6700. Governments slightly easier and
less active Railroad bonds moderately active Stocks
active and excited throughout the day with wide
fluctuations though less violent than yesterday The
market oponed unsettled and feyerish some stocks
advancing while others declined a per cent, this
subsequently recovered and in some cases the
advance more than the decline. The market
closed very strong The following are the chief fiuc-
tuations in stocks Panama. 100 a 110; Pacific Mail,
62, 5S, 63f 64 Western Union S64, 89a 894 Lake
Shore 925, 81, 93s, 923; New York Central, 1013 a
1903; Erie, 64s a 65s; Ohio and Mississippi 44s a 45a
Wabash, 724 q 73a; Hannibal and st. Joseph, 42a q
45h; Chicago, Columbus and Indiana Central 40 a.
4Ot: Union Pacific stock 344 q 35a Boston, Hartford
and Erie, 90 as.
fall tofia Of
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CHILDREN cRY-for Pitchers Castoria It
regulates the stomach, cures wind collie and
causes natural sleep. 1t is substitute for
castor oil. feb27-eod1w&yw1t
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feb28-2t

CHOICE Tuberose Bulbs for sale by Kendall
s. Whitney. feb27-3t
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LIKE THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, CENTAUE
LrNIMENT has been long time coming,-but
what work it is now doing. The halt and
lame, sore and wounded are literally throwing
away their crutches. Rheumatism and stiff
joints are banished, and dumb beasts cry out
for joy. One trial tells the story, and explains
the whole thing #
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MATTERS IN MAINE.

BATH, Feb. 27.-Launched to-day, by Adams
& Hitchcock, fine three-masted schooner of
six hundred and lightweight tons, named Kate
M. Hilton. She was rugged upon the ways and
thoroughly ftted for sea, with stores on board.
She is owned by the builders and A B. & Hen
ry H. Fisk of West Dennis, Mass. and will be
commanded by Capt. Henry H. Fisk. The ves-
sci has been chartered to load hay at Wiscasset
for Baltimore, to which port she will immedi-
ately proceed. - s-vagsrv ~
Republican Nomination.
LEWISTON, Feb. 27.-At the Republican eau
cuses held tonight N. w. Farwell was nomi-
mated as candidate for Mayor. srr, ba
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Portland, Dec. 25th, 1873.
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Boston Stock List.
[Sales at the Brokers' Board, Feb. 27.I
Maine State ESQ.,. ............... ......... 99s
Boston and Maine Railroad. ..122k
Eastern Railroad. d.-................. 106f
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ADVERTISERS naturally seek the means for
reaching the largest number of readers, and
those of the best quality. The Daily PRESS
fills the bill in both particulars better than any
other daily journal in Maine.
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AN OFFER.

We will send an extra copy Of the WEEKLY PRESS
to any person sending us five new subscribers, with
SO.
Special club rates may be obtained by applying
the Publishers.
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able.
TIE growingimportanceo of Portland as distributin
centre for Maine, and its increasing wholesale trade
make full Daily paper imperatively necessary.
With larger Editorial corps than any paper in
Maine, with unexcelled facilities for collecting new
and more space to devote to details, the Publishers
will make every exertion to render the DAILY PRESS
fuller and complete paper than 1t has hitherto
been ,sand in every respect
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AUCTION SALES.
Administrators Sale of Hon,
Estate.

Estate.
w LII be sold at public sale on the premises In
tbo poss one mile from Aliens Corner on SATURDAy
az DAY OF March next eleven clock NJ
of Geo Er u sne zeal Estate Wood and Timber land
UadOerlsnd deceased, will produce sum not
eASseding eighteen hundred and twenty-six dollars
Judge of Probate for Cumberland Comfy M waterman
THOS. QUINBY, Administra.or
Portland. Feb'y II, 1873. "''A LII anhsAed'l
r. y. BAILEY 4 CO., Auctioneers.
feb14-21-9s
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STEEL Knives and every description of Table
Ware Plated, or Replated in the very best man.
ner at short notice and at a reasonable price, at
Atwood's New Rooms, 27 Market Square.
feb25-eodtf
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ART NorEs.-Hale has just received at his
gallery three large ard very fine paintings, one
of which is by the Flemish Painter, Hamman.
1t represents the size of Sienna in 1858. The
picture in both drawing and color, will take
high rank The scene represents group of
women eager and breathless in the foreground,
repairing the walls of the city through which
heavy breaches have been made, while in the
middle distance the defenders are seen repel-
ling the assaults of the enemy, who are dimly
seen in the background. The picture is full OF
admiralty rendered rush and hurry; the resolute
but frightened faces of the women are very
naturally portrayed. and the drapery is exquis-
itely rendered.
The second picture, which at frst look sug-
gests the "Juan and Haidee" of Tidey, is en-
titled s'The Lovers of Capri, and is by Will
liams. 1t represents two figures, clad in what
seems to be Albanian costumes. The one is a
youth with sngularly pure face and wide
open eyes, like those of star gazer. The other
is a maiden whose look of infinite tenderness
and trust tells the 'old, old story" On the
sands at their feet beat the blue waves of the
Mediterranean.
The third picture is a cattle scene by Strak-
enborgh, and represents the milky mothers of
the herd crouching on the greensward with
calm, unthinking eyes, while two calves un-
calmly gambol near them. The protector of
the herd, with sleepy face and shaggy front,
stands close by The picture it full of express
sion.
LENT.-The following are the regulations for
the observance of Lent, as given by Bishop
Bacon of this Catholic diocese:
l. All the days of Lent except Sundays are
fast days of obligations.
Q. By dispensation the use of flesh meat
is allowed once day, on Mondays, Tuesdays
and Saturdays, the second and last Saturdays
excepted The use of meat on Sundays is not
limited as to the number of times.
g. Besides lard, the fat of any kind of meat
may be used in preparing food on any day of
Lent. This dispensation is also extended to
the days of abstinence and fast throughout the
year.
4. A collation. not exceeding the fourth part
of an ordinary meal, is allowed in the evening,
may be used, Hs9~
5. The use of flesh meat and fish at the
same meal is not allowed.
-. 8. The following persons are exempted from
the obligations Of fasting; all under 21 years of
age, and those of advanced age, the sick, those
who cannot fast without grave injury to their
health, women during pregnancy, or while
nursing infants, and all those whose duties are
of very laborious or exhaustive nature. Those
who are excused from fasting are not thereby
freed from the obligation of abstaining from
flesh meat, exceptin cases of sickness or the
like.
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The largest and fullest daily paper published in
Maine, and in the future in the past, the Pubush
ers propose to make it beyond question, the
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Simon Brown, editor of the New England
Farmer, died Wednesday. T7-''A'
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WANTED!
5000 New Subscribers in January.

Our friends cannot confer more acceptable New
Years Gift than by each sending one or dozen new
subscribers.
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Special to the Press.)
AUGUSTA, Feb. 27.
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1t was decided in the affirmative, 118 to so.
Substitutes were suggested by Messrs. Sar-
tee, but Mr.. Spear declined to allow any to be
offered. He proposed to yield half of his hour
to the gentlemen affected by the resolution.
Mr.. Kelley said he asked the House only to
be true to its own honor and the rights of each
member. He had no witness before the select
committee. 1t had not been intimated to him
that he might have witness or that he might
be heard on his own behalf other than the
brief examination made by his counsel or by
himself. He asked, therefore, that his col
leage, Speer, who, in the last five minutes of
the morning debate, had connected his name
with the matter without his tKelley's) having
an opportunity to reply, should bo permitted to
make his speech and present his arrangement
so that having heard whereof he was accused
and the grounds ON which the accusation rested
he might have poor privilege OF saying why
the sentence should not be passed upon him as
he had not the right of being heard before the
committee by witness and counsel.
Mr.. Speer then yielded 15 minutes to Mr.
Butler of Mass, who said that as the poisoned
chalice would be so soon commended to the
lips of the House which had allowed itself to be
misled, he wanted to see whether there were
not on the other side of the House, men who
could DC lashed. If the House was going into
this method OF purgation and publication "a
doctrine which he scorned and desrised as he
almost did its author,) where were they to
stop! There were men in the House who
twenty years ago We're arrested and tried for
crime. By adopting this course the House
would be taking away great palladium Of civil
liberty, the right of trial by jury. He call
ed upon the House to pause. He had voted for
consideration of the resolution just as he had
voted to refer testimony in the case of the
Vice President, to the Judiciary Committee,
but he proposed to have this resolution referred
to committee, not to the same special COM
mittee, for he had not much respect for it,
Mr.. Speer said he was no. insensible to the
gravity of the hour and the occasion, but he
had duty to perform higher than personal
friendship, higher than regard for personal
feeling, aud he rose to perform that duty. re-
GREETING that it involved the honor and reputa-
ton of his native State His colleague
tKelley) had told the House he had not been
heard. He had been heard from his cwn lips,
and he had the process of government to sum-
mon every witness he desired to have exam
ined .., =
Who was his colleagues accuser? Was it
not the people? And If his colleague was to be
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Mrs Wetherbee, Mrs. bennett, Mrs. Rand. Mrs.
Farley, far H. Misses Ella and Henrietta Lewis, ,Chand-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Sod House.
Nebraska Brown Fronts.
BY PROF. j. ID. BUTLER.
LINCOLN. NEBRASKA.

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
The last United States census OF Ne
nraska farms showed one acre of wood
land for three acres under tlllage. Never
theess large ?Ortion of that state is tim
berIess. ,S,suth OF the Platte River lum-
Uer iur buldIng ais cnleIly obtained from
Chicago or the mississippi River, via the
raiiluad running westward from Burllng
tom but sucn lumber Is expensive, one
third more SO than III New England, and
many Il pioneer has no money, Or next to
none How then ean poor man obtain
a house. lie can build sod house him
self, incurring no expense whatever eX-
cept for a door and window, which he can
buy ready made lur S4 at any railroad sta
lion.
The sod house builder finds his aterial
ready To his hand, in every i0frow OF the
virgin prairie his plow turns up. The
sods, cOmpacted by the tramp OF buflaloes
and bound together 10y the roots of the
devils shoe string ana every other We
getable product, form better bricks than
the Hebrews could have furnished Phara-
OH even before ne denied them straw.
Out Oi this prairie quarry about nine days
labor of one man suiliccS 10 complete q
sud house nileen iect square ON the inside,
IA dwelling waInIer ln Winicf aiId cooler
ia summer lhan aD, t.allle ilOuSc. 1 have
seen such an aOOue nine years old, yet still
in good repair. Many dwellers in houses
ot this SORT have assured me that they have
suffered nothing from dampness, even
when they had no fiooIs, no ceilings no
plasiering nor paper hangings. But all
these tour additions soon garnish the
original simplicity of many sod-houses.
The very roofs OF sod-houses are often
made ofsods supported by poles, which the
settler can cut along the oanks OF every
water course. But if he lives near no
stream he must buy at least rafters, and
perhaps boards and shingles for covering
his house top. sod roofs are warmer, ,lum-
Der roofs are least likely 10 leak. This
novel style OF architecture is increasingly
popular and prevalent in Centr al Nebras-
Ka A majority OF the dwellings on the
homesteads in Saline and York counties
along the BurlIngt ton II and Missouri River
railroad Us IL pushes west from Lincoln
are sou HOUSES. No doubt those in other
counties are so too. 30 are the habltatiorc
of many among the 1000 buyers OF rail
road land of the Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad Company.
Ina weeks ride just now through the
sod house region.-wnile calling at many
doors anu entering not tew,-I have
found no man, no woman, no child, home
sick tor The land they came from. On the
oliler hand, ali were Iull oil heart and hope,
assured that by becoming landlords they
were about To become the lords of the land
As the Homestead Bill gives them tree
farms, 50 the sods give them free houses
aha sAey are doubtful which is the better
boom.
The railroad lands above mentioned have
been bought on ten years credit six pei
cent interest, and ON purchases made since
1872, nothing OF the principal is payable
, until the end of tour ears, while twenty
per cent is thrown off from land prices
Tor prompt payment.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Argos Correspondence.
ARGOS, IND, August 25th, 1878
BY ERIMsToNE.


Mr.. MILLIKAN:
The excessive heat ofthe past few days
is beginning to tell on the health of the
people, and physicians, after long rest
ing spell, are again on the alert.
An epidemic of dysentery seems inevi-
table, as quite number of cases of the
kind have already occurred. So, far, the
disease has been principally among adults.
Whoopingcough also prevails to linn
tied extent; cases not generally severe.
Dir. Merrill Williams, has the thanks of
the School Trustees of Argos, for the
handsome present of door-stone for the
new School-house.
Since ladies of the town engage in "Hee.
nan and Sayers'" pursuits, gentlemen
have concluded it did not become them
to engage in anything of belligerent
character
Last Thursday the residence Joseph
Lowe, in the south part of Green town
ship, together with the most of its con-
tents, was consumed by fire. Mr.. Lowe
says the insurance will cover the loss,
but not the Inconvenience.
The irrepressible potato bug, having
| harvested the crop of potatoes, are now
disconsolately roaming the streets, SIDE
walks and fences, and even penetrating
into houses in quest of something to sat
isfy their Unsuitable appetites.
The young man who went to tailor
here few days since and left his meas
ure for pair of pants, and also positive
injunction that thev be made to fit, has
since then been compelled to sleep with
his pants ON.
The wonder is, how they managed to
drive him into them without producing
concussion of the brain. Jonny, do your
feet swell?
Mr. Fred Hoover has field containing
~ to - acres of as good corn as has ever
been produced in Marshall county. The
secret of success with him is in selecting
good seed, and properly preparing and
tilling the ground. Fred knows how to
do this. Mliier thinks Sulky Plow he
furnished Mr.. Hoover had something TO
do with it
Mr.. ]. Stoner has just completed kiln
of brick for the Argos School House,
which are of decidedly superior quality.
1T has been decided by the Farmers Club
and Patrons of Hnsbandry to have an
Agricultural show here on the 10Th and
Goth of September. 1t is not the inten-
ton, we believe, to exclude anybody from
the surrounding townships who may de-
sire to place anything on exhibition. Let
everybody turn out and bring their Dur
ham chickens, Shanghai cattle, South
down hogs and Berkshire sheep. There
is no reason why such exhibitions should
not be made more interesting than Barn.
um's monkeys, and certainly more profit
able to the country A free dinner will
be served on the ground on the I'd day of
the term.
Mr.. John Soice, Treasurer of Marshall
county, made visit to cur town on Mon
day for the purpose of looking after some
delinquent tax. Mr.. s. does not recog-
nize dorgs as legal tender.