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The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

DOES ADVERTISING PAY?-There is no In.
stance on record of well sustained system OF
]udiclous advertising failing of success
My success is owing to my liberalty in ad'
vertising. "-Bonner t.-..
advertising has furnished me with com
petencp. Amos LdeCrenee
81 advertised my productions and made mon
ey."-Nicholds L0ngacorh.
Constant and persistent advertising is sure
prelude to wealth.-Sephels Giro'd.
'.He who invests one dollar in business should
invest one dollar in advertising that business"
"A. T. StelCdH ~ r-irff .-.
''Wthout the aid of advertisements / could
have done nothing in my speculations. I have
vertising is the royal road to businesy.-Bor-
mum
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24
Farm in SacO for $3.50

A GOOD FARM of eight acres; Il story house,
IA barn 23x40 lultry HOUSE, piggery, 81, apple,
pear and peach trees and small fruits. One half mile
5000 cash and balance on mortgage. Apply to MRS.
HANNAH JACKSON, on the premises, or GEO. r.
DAVIS & CO., Real Estate and Mortgage Brokers'
ans diff
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

The best piece of news, in the literary way,
for many day, is the announcement that
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner have
written novel in partnership! It win be pub
lished about the end of the summer, and will
be octave in form and profusely illustrated.
The book deals with the salient features of
our American life ofto-day; and, as might easi-
ly be OWNED, is in the nature of satire.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24
For Saie-SIuRlHner Resort on Che
bp3gUe Island
FOR SALE.
Real Estate.

NOR Sale or lease for term of years. the proper
IL ty belonging to the estate of Francis o Libby
and formerly occupied by him on the corner os Free
and High Streets.
HARRISON j. LIBBY, .1r,,.s
FRANK w. LIBBY, @Ao'nf Is.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24
HAMBURGS !!

WE shall open this day one of the largest and best
w line OF Edges and /, insertions, ever opened in
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

Kingsley says: If you wish to be miserable,
you must think about yourself; about what
you want, what you like, what respect peo-
pie ought to pay you, what people think of
you; and then to you nothing will be pure.
You will spoil. everything you touch; you
will make sin and misery for yourself out of
everything God sends you; you will be as
wretched as you choose
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

Mr.. Browning's poem is in type, and con-
sists says the Athen@um, of $500 lines. 1t is
poetic version of great tragedy which
came before the law courts of department
in the north Of France, last year, and the
poet has int the outlines of the story kept close
lyto the facts. with the view of presenting 10
the readers mind the key to them in human
passion.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

Experiments made in Italy, to show the ef-
feet of different colored light upon respiration
have resulted in showing that green and yell
low rays, which are most important to the
vegetable kingdom in taking up carbonic acid
are also most favorable to the respiration o.
animals; that is, to enable them to give off
the most carbonic acid Here is a hint re.
garding the kind of colors best fitted for wall
paper or household ornament
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24

An enterprsing California editor lately
electrified the public and heightened his sub
scription list by announcing a new story by
Bret Harte, written especially for this pa
per;' the story being, in point of fact, an
emanation from the teeming brain of his lit
erary reporter. Mr.. Harte, learning of the
: affair, wrote on for an explanation, and gets
in reply the following dispatch: GAN right
Wi publish statement tomorrow, and give
name of author
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
Official POstage-Stamps.

The new postage-stamps of the Post office Department are pretty things, as postage-stamps go, and pretty mainly because they are plain. A large nu- neral in the centre, instead of a DOT trait head, denotes the denomination, and the words "official" above and stamp" below show it's exclusive pur- pose. The words Post-ofice Dept" " above this oval centre, and the denomi- nation repeated both in letters and fig ures, with the initials U. s. below, com plete the stamp. It is pleasant black and white in color, made neutral by finely engraved lines.
 This new stamp is exclusively for the Post-office Department, and is only 8 specimen of great variety of them, de- signed of all denominations for all the departments. A great variety of stamps of many denominations have been de- signed for all the departments, but diff fering for each.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
Eleven Thousand for a Dog.

There is an $11, ,OOO dog in Springfield, Mass, according to the Republican.
 This is bare statement of fact. The way of it is this: The now uncomfort- able famous MT. Stokes, of the New York Tombs, owned a setter reputed the best hunting dog in the city. MT.
 Harker, the owner of the noted stables, wanted the setter and tried to purchase him. But Stokes had just refused $500 for him, and didn't want to sell the dog.
 Finally, however, he told Harker that as perhaps his hunting days were over; although he would not sell he would make him (Harker) 8 present of the dog. Harker would not, however, ac- cept the friendly offer without a recip- rocal one, and as he had offered 1000, engaged to give him the profit within a specified time, on LOGO shares of cer- tain railroad stock. A rapid turn in the market brought the aforesaid stock to an advance of $11 share, and that he offered promptly to make over to Stokes for the setter. The speculative young man, however, said, "Let it wait for 8 while perhaps shall make more yet" Instead of more he made less; the stock fell as swiftly as it had risen, and dropped flat on the market. So for a little while the setter that MT. Harker prizes so highly, and that can be seen by the curious in Hampden Park, was worth $11, 1000. What halo of glory encompasses that remarkable dog ..... ..s. a
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
Sailing Boats,

A word to land-lubbers who sail boats. Rarely an accident happens when boat is we'll managed. Of late a class of boats have been built which require great care in handling them-small sloops with one sail of immense propor- tions. Amateur boat sailors who sail small boats should observe few simple rules. Never make your sheets fast, as you can hold them easily by taking 8 halfturn round the elects. When the wind is "pufcy," be very watchful, and cuff" in season, and never "jibe " when it is blowing fresh. If you want to come about, bring your boats head to the wind. Don't carry sail too long, reef in season. Never carry itoxicating liquors in your boats. With fresh northwest wind blowing, a man who undertakes to sail modern-built sail boat needs all his faculties clear and unimpaired.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

taken and buried as his; but this I managed by placing my clothing upon the body of Mexican officer, killed in 8 duel, and disfiguring the face so as to be unrecognizable.
 "I sailed for Europe, and with the jewels and other property in my pos session, found myself rich man.
 "In London I met our host, and promised him, if I ever came to America, to visit him. So, arriving last week, l met him in New York, and came up home with him.
 "The name that I bear is my own, being Edmond Madrida Melincho, but the latter have discarded forever.
 Once since my arrival have seen Ellen Rodman, but without her seeing me, and I learn that her father is dead, having died two years ago, and left her poor, and that she is now living with a maiden aunt, her fathers sister.
 "Now, Colonel, you know my history, and I will candidly say that it is my in- tention to make known my presence to Ellen, tell all of my life, and ask her to be my wife, and who that knew my story would condemn me. You will not betray me, will you, Colonel?'
 The Mexican finished his story of bitter wrong done him, and of his blood stained life that followed, and, with arms folded upon his heart, ,and his eyes looking deep into mine, awaited my answer.
 I offered my hand, and to his ques- tion answered.:
 "Senor Madrida, no act of mine shall ever cause you to regret the confidence placed in me and as I know Miss Rod man, I may be of service to you."
 "Thank you, Colonel many times thank you. Tomorrow we will talk to- gether about it. Now it is daylight nearly, for, see, the sky is getting bright beyond the mountain" and placing his arm in mine, we returned to the house, and then retired to our rooms.
 Itwas arranged that should call upon Miss Rodman and tell her the history of Edmond Madrida' s life as he had told it to me, and if I found she was still true to her love for him, that I was to bring him to the house and introduce him, as friend of mine, to her aunt and herself, and leave the rest to fate.
 Upon my return to New York I called upon Ellen Rodman, and at the first mention of the Mexican's name I saw that she had not ceased to love him. and when my story was ended she beg ged me to bring him at once to her.
 Miss Mary Rodman, Ellen's aunt, was delighted with my foreign friend, and when-three months after-Ed- mond asked for the hand of her niece, the old lady granted it willingly, and I verify believe that the only regret of the dear old soul was that she was not forty years younger, to marry him her. self
 Thus were two lovers made happy, and in one of the pleasant portions of our almost boundless republic they live together in peace and contentment in 8 lovely home, far from the strife of busy cities.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
A Belgium Story.

We quote from the Belgium news papers the following account of dread full tragedy that occurred in little viii lage near Brussels. A farmer and his wife had plotted to murder their niece during her sleep, to rob her of 1890 francs that she was taking to her sick mother. In order to foil the future searches of the police, they, previously to perpetrating the crime, were engaged in digging a large hole in their garden, so as to bury the body in it, when the young girl, who, not being asleep, had heard her terrible sentence, rushed out by the window and ran to the police station, distant one mile only.
 But as soon as she was out, the daughter of the farmer, who was not expected home that night, came back, and not wishing to awaken anybody in the house, went noiselessly into the bed where her cousin had been lying 8 few minutes ago. She soon fell asleep, and thus her mother, not being aware of the Providential substitution, owing to the darkness of the night, broke her own daughters neck with an axe.
 This being done, the two were going to the garden, carrying the corpse, en- veloped in bedspread, when two gen. darmes, accompanied by the fugitive girl, rushed into the house with lanterns in their hands. st e..ad zap .tEs
 At the sight of their niece, whom they thought they had murdered, the two wretches took off the covering and found their unfortunate child killed by their own hands. aG. ii alioals4 gnos
 The man, taking large butchers knife, plunged it into his breast and fell dead on the ground. As, to the woman, who was prevented from com hitting suicide, she became insane, and is now shut up in lunatic asylum, where she is expected soon to die from mental exhaustion. Awmore horrible account has rarely been registered in the annals of crime.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
VOL. III.

ImprOvisatiOns. Fill, for we drink to Labor! And Labor you know, is Prayer: I'll be as grand as my neighbor Abroad, and at home as baro! Debt, and bother. and hurry! Others are burdened so: Hers to the goddess Worry,
 And here's to the goddess Show! Reckless of what comes after, Silent of whence we come: Splendor and feast and laughter Make the questioners dumb. Debt, and bother, and hurry,
 Nobody needs to know: Here's to the goddess Worry, And here's to the goddess Show! Fame is what you have taken, Characters what you give: When to this truth you waken, Then you begin to live!
 Debt, and bother, and hurry! Others have risen so: Here's to the goddess Worry, And here's to the goddess Show Honors thing for derision, Knowledge thing reviled: Love is 8 vanishing vision, Faith is the toy of child! Debt, and bother, and hurry!
 Honesty's old and slow: Here's to the goddess Worry,
 And here's to the goddess Show!
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
The New Fifty Cent Note.

The plates for the new fifty cent note have been prepared at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, and the work of printing the new note will be commenced next week, though it will be probably num- Der of days before the note will be issued to the public. The new note will be about quarter of an inch shorter than that now in circulation and quar- ter of an inch wider, it's dimensions being three and three-quarter inches long by two inches wide. On the face of the note, left hand side. is vignette head of Samuel Dexter, who was Secre- tary of the Treasury in 1901, and 8 for mer Governor of the State of Massa- chusetts. On the right of the note is a section of geometrical lathe work, with the words Fifty cents," in white let ters, engraved across the face. The story or lettering on the note is the same as on the present issue, with the exception of the words receivable for all United States stamps" at tthe bottom of the old note, which are omitted on the new one. The seal is printed in the centre of the face, and is enclosed in cycloidal work, new feature upon frac- tional currency. The back of the note, which will be printed in New York, will be in green. It is made up of geomet- rical lathe work and scrolls. On the right hand corner the word "cents '" found on the old note is omitted, and the numeral "50 takes it's place. The date of the passage of the act authoriz- ing the issue is omitted from the face of the new note and put upon the back thereof. On the left hand side of the back there is an open space to show the fibre i'll the paper, and it will not be shown on the face as much as in the old note. The new note, of course, will take the place of the one now in circula- tion, as the present issue has been coun- terfeited, although not to any great ex- tent. No other new fractional currency will be issued at present.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

LIVING IN SAN DOMINGO. It is said that the cost of living in San Domingo for family of five persons does not ex- they can live excellently. A comfort able house can be rented at $10 month, and cook can be hired for $5 month The new American settlement of Sa- mana Bay is said to offer even greater advantages. But the disadvantages are not mentioned.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

A woman was thrown from @ wagon into creek near Binghamton, and her husband being too drank to help her, she was drowned. People came to the spot and the body was plainly seen in the water, but no one would pull it cut until @ coroner came,
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

An English newspaper mentions that a husband and wife recently set sail from Derby for Glasgow, Scotland, on the way to Edinburgh, the wife having on her knee her thirty-third baby. Twenty-four of the thirty three are still living.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

"You sell watered milk, I see,' re- marked well-known dry-goods mer- chant to & restaurateur. "Well, what of that don't you sell watered silk P'' was the prompt retert,
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
In the Depths,

The results of the deep-sea dredging by the scientific expedition lately sent from England show that in " the deep, unfathomed caves of ocean" there are found sea-monsters far bigger, as we'll as far uglier and far more beautiful than were ever transferred to an aquarium. The caprella, or "phantom shrimp, , for instance, which may be found on sea-weed, sitting upright like monkey, holding on by his hind-claws, and, with ghastly grimaces, mesmerizing all pass ers-by with his fore-claws, sits upon sponges mile or two deep in the dark ness-there, however, not 8 quarter of an inch, but three inches long. The nymphons, sea-spiders, who crawl out from under stones, and who, having no body to speak of, carry their stomach, for economy of space, packed in long branches up the inside of each leg, are found in the depths of the Arctic sea, not, as i'll shallow water, half an inch, but two feet in diameter.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

A gentleman, lately 8 resident in Tennessee, relates the following: He repaired to neighboring farrier to get his horse shod, and was addressed as follows: ''Sir, it's not the ard work as 'urts the 'oof of the 'orse, but it's the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer of the 'ard Ugh road" It is unnecessary to add, that farrier was born in England.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

gliding toward me, swiftly and silently
like spirit Of evil. Nearer and nearer
1t comes, till can see the long, narrow,
cruel head, the fierce yellow eye, the
tongue lOlling out from between the
sharp white fangS. A moments pause
on the ridge above me, bringing its
gaunt figure into hideOus relief against
the sky, and then down it shoots into
the. gully, right past the spot where
lie Ind. Crack goes my revolver, and a
sharp howl Of pain shows that the shot
has told but before | can fire again.
the lOHd bang of TchistarcnkO's gun an
sWers from the right; and then a snarl-
ing, worrying noise, which know only
too well. sprang toward the sound
but at that moment 4 clOnd overcast
the moon, and could barely distinguish
Il confused heap OF man and beast
struggling in whirl of spraying snow
and so mingled together that | dared
not strike, for fear Of killing my friend
As stood hesitating, a hand suddenly
emerged from the shApcleSS mass; there
was q steely gleam in the shadoWS
moonlight, a dull "pfUg7 twice repeat
ed Ike the sound OF spade struck in
to SOFT earth; and TChiStarcnko sprans
| to his feet, with long deep gasp, like
IL
| the same moment, the moon burst fOrtl
III all its splendOr, lighting mp a scene
worthy Of Fuseli. Over Il background
OF amending SNOW, dim and spectral as
a nightmare, the two great rocks rOs(
ganntly up III the moonlight, casting
| shadows more grim and goblin thar
themselves. Below, the black gully
yaWned like the mouth OF a grave; but
on the crest OF the great drift above it
in the full glory Of the moonlight, lay
huge grey. wolf, stark and dead, it!
mighty jaws gaping wide with the gasI
Of its last agony; and over it stoott
TchistarenkO, dripping blood from {
fearful wound i'll his shoulder, but will
a Ilgh ht OF stern triumph on his iron fac,
which never shall forget.
"GOd be thanked, Pan, who delivered
him into our hands! See, your ball ha
broken his rightfor- paw, and mine ha
gone through his neck. Ill Just put tn,
sign OF the cross on him, and then he cal
go III peace; he'll do nOmOrc harm aftc
that"
He gashed the VOLTS side crOsswis
as he spoke; and, withouteven stOppin;
to bandage his own hurt, set off home
ward at such pace that | had SOM
difficulty III keeping up with him. B.
q singular coincidence, the death o
| GOOrkO, the suspected werewolf, tool
place that very night; and on my return
q few months later, found Hchistaren
kos fame established throughout tn
entire province, as the dcliVerer of hi
people from the fury of the VOy-kulak
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

JOSH Billings ON NFAITH-Faith il the
rite bower Ov Hope.
If it want for faith, thare would be no
living in this world. We couldn't even
eat hash with emmy safety, if it want for
faith.
Human knowledge is very short, and
don't reach but a little ways, and even
thatlittle waysizt twilite; bUtfaith length
ems out the road, andmakes light, so that
we kan see tew read the letterings on
the mile stuns.
Faith haz won more yiktOrys than all
the other pashuns or sentiments Ov the
heart and he'd put together.
Faith Zone 0v them warriors who
don't knO when she is whipped.
But Faith il milkshOp, but a live
fighter. She don't set down and gro
stupid with resignashun, and git weak
with the beauty ov her attributes; but
she il the heroine Ov fOrlOrn HOpe-she
feathers her arrows with reaz0n, and
fires rite at the bulls eye Ov fate.
think now if couldn't hav but one
ov the moral attributes, I would take it
all in faith-red hot faith ! mean; and
tho j mite make sum fust rate blunders, i
would do q rushing bizzness amung the
various dri bones thare il laying around
loose in this world.-[New York
Weekly.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22
Suicide of fROchefort's Daughter
Paris Letter to Chicago Tribune. !


She was not only lovely, but she was
Just 18. Beautiful hazel eyes flashing
fire; chestnut hair, abundant as Absa-
iiOm's; the bosom of Venus; complex
ION as white as alabaster-she might have
driven some men mad she could have
made any man happy. Instead of that,
she went to Hotel des Ardenncs, Rue
Vert BOis, hard by the Jewish Syna-
gOgue, just Off the boulevards, in a
quarter OF Paris justly called the hive
OF the, great city, for in that district
| every floor is manufactOry, and all
the by-streets teem with the busy bees.
| say she went to Hotel des Ardennes.
asked for a chamber for a week, paid
| tile weeks rent in advance, brought q
| braZier and charcoal with her, and laid
down dressed on the bed to die,-tO
die by her own hand. Her mother was
so poor; they had gone so often without
| meals; they could not see how house
rent was to be-paid, how winter clothes
We're to be bought. She died by her own
band, and she was only 18! They had
been richer once; she had never known
what privatiOn, and poverty were, till
La Commune fell before then they had
possessed all they wanted. Her father
had made his 100000 q year clear
profit; but then he had many vices
| Heaven (Or rather the D-l, for these
vices are entered ratherin Hades, ledger
than Heavens High CQmmandery'
knows how many mistresses he had, and
| how much money he nightly lost al
cards, and how much gold his parasites
! drew from him,-sO that when. the yeal
ended, he had little left but debts-and
children. A child here, and q child
there, to struggle with hunger, to wres-
tie with poverty, to make exhausting
efforts to keep footing in life. Such i
Henri ROchefOrt's history,-fOr that
poor, lovely girl of IS, who has just
committed suicide in a furnished lOdg.
ing-hOuse, was Henri RochefOrts sdaugh.
ter. It was in La Commune as. it lad
been in the first French Revolution
| not one of the leaders were married
mon; all of them led irregular lives
with no children but bastards, and, fol
| wives, mistresses. Anarchy reigned il
| their household before. they introduced
it in the State. The great Revolution
ary geniuses, Voltaire and Rousseau
| themselves never were married, an(
| the latter tossed all his children to the
Founding Hospital. Model refOrmer!
of society! Henri ROchefort has treat.
! ed his family with unusual heartless
ness. While he was literally coming
| gold, his father died in a garret in Onj
of the suburbs of Paris, almost of star
| vatiOIt. His sisters are very poor, an(
never received one cent from him. ThC
| only kindred he has seemed to feel thu
! least affection for are son and dauglt
ter, to whom he has given the remnan
Of his fortune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

A more OF less worthy Scotch wife was
demonstrated with by her minister for
the habit of beating her husband. She
cOmplalned that her husbands conduct
was not all what it ought to be. The
munster, recommending kindness and
her fists and nails, but to "heaD Goals Of
fire upon his head" "Weel, minister, >
replied the now enlightened wife, "since
you sac, III try the Goals, but NAV tell
ye that twa or three kettles o. boiling
water hac Wr0cht nae improvements
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

And now We are told that a hen is the
mother OF twelve chickens from nine
eggs. The owner of the hen says he
cannot tell alie-she did it with herlittlc
hatch it. This, no doubt, is one of the
privileges of leap year