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The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

The fine weather we have had recently has
caused vegetation to spring up quite rapidly,
and it now covers the hills with its verdure
The COWS and young stock almost smile at their
delivery.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

Ey@ All parties needing the services Of an ex-
perienced surveyor are advised to employ j. A.
Benson, U. s. Deputy Mineral Surveyor, Au-
burn Cal. He has the Government Field Notes,
the possession of which enables him to restore
lost corners without delay. He charges mod
erately and works rapidlv.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

THE clerk of the weather made desperate
effort last Wednesday to send us another rain
storm, and after trying all day succeeded some
hat
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

B. F. GwYNN, Constable of Township No. 8.
who, it will be remembered. shot himself in the
thigh few weeks ago, is now around again at
tending to the business of his office
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

Work ON THE RoADs.-Now is splendid time
to work the roads The ground is just moist
enough to be easily turned, and just dry enough
to pack well.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

ENTERPRrsINa.-We notice Messrs. Fellows 4
Powning, of the Nevada State Journal propose
starting daily newspaper. The present semi
weekly will be converted into large weekly,
full Of good reading at reduced rate. We
wish them success
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

CAvED 1N.-The old Mcdaniel store, which,
for some time has been use for schoolroom,
for the instruction Of private class, by Prof s.
H. Chazotte, caved in last Saturday while men
were at work repairing it. The building, which
was built of stone, was erected in 1852, and was
one OF the first substantial structures built in
this town. The old building, which has stood
so long, and seen 80 much service, chose good
day to fall at last, If the accident had happen
ed any other week day, the room would have
been full of children, and there is no telling
what the result might have been.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

SHERIFF MCCORMICK proposes to take the
prisoners out these fine days and exercise them
in filling ruts. shoveling sand and repairing the
roads generally. He already has some at work
on the race-track. The idea is most excellent
one,
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28
DIED.

At the County Hospital, March 22 Francisco
Perry, formerly of Ohio, aged &C years.
AT the County Hospital, March 26, James
Tollman, formerly of Maine, aged n years.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Why suffer from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
loss Of appetite, when you can by using DR..
Henleys celebrated l. X. L. Bitters, effect a
perfect cure; they are pleasant and invigorat ng
tonic, and endorsed and recommended by our
most eminent Physicians Gas per certificates on
each botte) for all complaints of the Liver and
Digestive Organs. AS family medicine they
have no equal.
See advertisement in another column.
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The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

ROCKVILLE MArrERs-Our little town i'm
proves slow but sure There are now two houses
in course OF erection. And, notwithstanding the
hard Winter ju past the people are generally in
good spirits Spring has now set in in earnest,
and vegetation comes bursting forth from the
cold shades of mother earth, and in q few days
more We shall behold 'the wild flowers scattered
Ger the plain" The crops here look promis-
ing; though there has not been as much sown
As would have been, had the season been more
favorable. Sheep raisers have suffered heavy
losses on account Of the continued cold and
He have prospering lodge of I. O. O. F.,
numbering about IS members, and among them
are the best men of Roseville.
A Grange was organized here on the 9th inst,
and they are sanguine of soon having large
and prosperous order; and in that, and all things
for their good we wish them much success.
Those 81 the head are men of indomitable en-
ergy and industry. who never fail to win.
We were honored short time ago by the
presence of two professional gentlemen OF the
bar from your place. They came down to play
httle game in their line, in which one Of our
Dosch farmers was plaintiff, and the little
blacksmith WAS defendant He is Dut,hman,
700, helive. When the case was decided it was
Iounc that the Ditchers had lost. and the law
yers won, as usual Yours,
RosE, OF RosEvILLE.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

Skinner, a son.
Truckee, March 18, wife of VIM. Lowenstein,
a son.
Truckee, March l8, wife of A. NJ. Walker,
daughter.
Auburn, March 16 to the wife of Fred Grohs,
a son.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

A LETTER FROM BATH is in our hands, but
we are compelled to suppress a great portion of
it, on account of personalities. The writer
handles the Argus correspondents, Ajax and
Paul Pry, without gloves. He warns young D.
to be on the lookout for a visitation from an an
gel without wings, and to prepare for the worst.
He tells good joke on Ajax, about indulging
too freely in sheepherders delight, and then
changing boots and packing up his duds, and
carrying them miles, through deep snow, up
steep and rugged cohon to find out when he
got there the duds and boots belonged to some
one else. He says This morning (1Sth inst.
there was blast fred of in the Roush mine,
Of 100 kegs of powder shaking up the bank in
the hill for fifty feet back. 1t also shook ihe
houses and people pretty lively" Water waf
scarce at that time, but plenty expected soon.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28
BORN.

BORN.
Near Lincoln, March IS, TO the wife Of D ;"
The Placer herald., 1874-03-28

~ CROCKERY, CUTLERY and HARD
WARE sold at the LOWEST PRICES.
Also ENTR fOI.
NORTHERN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
Current Notes.

The simon-pure Democracy, uptinctured
with Republican leaven. cropped out in In
diana in the Republican doctrines of the Dem
ocratic state convention, so far as paying the
fye-twenty bonds in greenbacks is concerned,
a proposition which receives the hearty in
dorseWent of the New Haven Register. This
shows that the Democratic party is unchanged
and would today, if it should have the power,
repudiate the wardebt. In this the Register
Democrats talk precisely as they did during
the war, and that they still hold their ground
is proved by their acts i'll CHI losing their most
Objectionable war-leader for United States
Senator.-Hartford Courant.
The Louisville Courier-Joarnal, which had
the third term iim.jams few weeks ago,
would now tolerate Grant again if he can
save the South from "Negrophilism."
The Tribune wisely argues that fall in the
price of grain, proceeding solely from natural
causes, cannot be cured by Initiating the cur
rency, paying the five-twenties in greenbacks,
or expanding few hundred millions in en-
largng water routes and building double.
track railroads to the seaboard at govern
ment expense.
To do away with party distinctions would
be bad thing. Experience teaches that a
free government cannot be successfully adj
miuistered except through parties. Any pol
icy designed to obliterate party distinctions
will be failure, and it will be mischieyous in
so far as it has any measure of success WOr-
ceSter Spy
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
News and Other Items.

Isabella of Spain is writing book.
The American line of steamers will have
three new vessels within year.
Miss Fanny Loring is the best equestrian of
her sex at Saratoga.
A silver cradle has been presented to the
Mayor of Waterford, but he is compelled to find
his own baby.
Josh Billings is at Long Branch and employs
his time in making bows and arrows for the
children.
Oregon farmers expect that that state and
Washington territory will yield this season
10000 tons of wheat for export beyond all
home needs.
A scheme is on foot in Georgia, under the
supervision of the governor, for combining the
various colleges in the state into central uni
versty.
Two Michigan families lately celebrated with
much rejoicing the union of their houses in
matrimonial alliance, the contracting parties
being respectively aged twelve and thirteen.
man in San Francisco last week took
dose of laudanum to kill himself on account
of his depression from the Tilton scandal.
The dose he took was too powerful and be will
recover and be adjudged a lunatic
A Missouri town has organized an anti
fashion society. One of the pledges taken by
the female members is 'to trample on all dress
es.worn by ladies in public with long trains, or
which come below the ankle.'
The New Orleans Times published a pathetic
story, the other day, about the discovery of the
body of a beautiful golden haired girl of sixteen
floating in the river, and the New Orleans
Bulletil says that the girl was fifty-eight years
old, and not so very lovely either.
1t didn't rain for some time in Western
town, and when the floods did descend the edi-
tor said. After many days of ard dessication,
the vapory captains marshalled their thunder
ing hosts and poured out upon scorching hui
mainly and the thoroughly incinerated vegeta-
ton a few inches of aqua pluvialis.
: The young girl who leaped from the Hoboken
ferry boat on Thursday, has been identified as
Bertha Rachelm, of Hudson city, N. j. Her
father had told her she must marry young
friend or else drop him, and she chose the lat
ter alternative. Disconsolate at the result, she
borrowed three cents from the milkman and
took the ferry boat. The fond parent, whose
daughter had not even three cents of her own,
is now rejecting probably upon his irration-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05

THERE seems to be much conflict of opin-
ion in regard to the condition OF the Swedish
colony in Aroostook. Recently the Bangor
Commercial gave dark picture of affairs
among The new settlers but the Pressure Isle
North Star presents the views Of two parties
who have recently visited the Swedes, and
their opinions are almost Numerically OPP
posite. On the one hand it is said that there
is much distress and suffering in the colony,
and that the seed furnished by the state will
not result in crop sufficient to support the
families during the winter-the result partly
of failure to prepare the ground properly.
Several families are so destitute already that
that they have applied to the town OF Lyn.
don for assistance. The town is somewhat
reluctant to furnish this aid unless assurances
are given that the State will reimburse it,
though supplies have been furnished when
starvation was imminent. Ga the Other
hand another party which has spent some
time at the settlement, states that the re-
ports of suffering are much exaggerated, and
that the majority of the families are getting
along comfortably, The exceptions resulting
| from sickness. Tue North Star endorses the
| gentlemen of both parties as Trustworthy
and expresses no opinion itself, so we are a;
much in the dark as ever.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
Richmond Camp Meeting.

The State camp meeting at Richmond, opened
yesterday. The morning attendance was not
large, the threatening clouds which obscured
the sky betokening rain and keeping people
away. A large number Of tents have, however,
been pitched in the pleasant hardwood grove,
and many more will go up to-day. The noon
and afternoon trains brought many people, and
by evening large crowd was on the grounds.
The grounds have been much improved since
last season. New walks have been cut through
the woods, the underbrush has been cleared up,
and many of the cottages have received coat
of paint. A very neat and tasty cottage of large
size has been put up by the Waterville people
on the brow of the ridge fronting the audi
forum. Taking the spot altogether. it is
one of the pleasantest that could be selected for
city of camps. One misses the balsamic odor
of the pines, it is true, but that want is morr
than compensated by an immunity from the de-
filing of ones garments by pitch, something
always to be dreaded in pine grove.
Yesterday was day of preparation, and was
given up to the pitching of tents &c. The fine
| tabernacle dedicated last year, occupies space
| short distance in the rear of the audi
forum. 1t accommodates 5000 people. Imme-
diately about the speakers stand are the soci-
F, ETY. tents and cottages, arranged in a circle.
| Behind these on streets running at right ang: es
are the family tents, of which a large number
have already been pitched.
The services proper begin to-day. A short
service of prayer and praise, conducted By the
Rev. George Pratt, President of the Association,
was held last evening. The meeting holds up
| to Tuesday of next week, and cannot fail to be
| of great interest, for in addition to the local
| celebrities, there will be present the Rev. J. s..
Inskip, of Philadelphia, President of the Ma
| tional Camp Meeting Association, the Rev.
| William Mcdonald, of Boston, the Rev. L. r.
Dunn, of New Jersey, and other noted pulpit
orators. 1t is expected that one of the three
| gentlemen above-named will deliver the dis
course to-day. The presence of these men will,
| it is hoped. draw large attendance of Method
| lists and Christians of all denominations. These
meetings in the Kennebec Valley have never
yet failed to be large and enthusiastic, and
there is every reason to believe that the present
one, with the fine array of pulpit talent
which it presents will call together greater
crowd than has ever yet gathered on the banks
| of the Kennebec.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
STATE NEWS.
ARoOsToOK COUNTY.

| A picnic party at Lyndon last week RECALLED
themselves upon scow, found near the grove
where they dined. The mercury at the time
| stood at $50.
| ANDRoscoGeIN COUNTY.
In Durham the grasshoppers are making sad
havoc among the potato and grain fields. One
farmer says they have probably damaged him
| to the extent of more than two hundred dollars
| The plague seems to be confined principally to
| that locality.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The citizens of Hebron are actively engaged
in raising sufficient sum of money to secure
for their academy the Colby endowment. Rev.
Mr.. Richardson pledged himself for one hun
dred dollars, out of salary of four hundred
and fifty. Others are giving with nearly equal
liberality.
Miss L. Cross, a young lady school teacher of
herself Friday. Her body was recovered Sun
day. She had had some trouble in school and
was rendered insane in consequence.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Mr.. Alfred Gordon of VIM attempted sui
eide by hanging, Saturday. He was discovered
before life was extinct, but probably cannot
recover.
Work has been commenced on the new bridge
to be built on the Maine Central at Shaw's
brook, three miles from Bangor. The bridge
is to be constructed entirely of granite.
The single mill of Edward Debeck in Clifton.
about Ii miles from Bangor, was destroyed by
fire Saturday night, together with all the con-
tents, consisting of shingle machine staye
machine, clapboard machine, and lot of lum-
ber Los; about $500; insured in western
company. The cause of the fire is unknown.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
(P,ess Correspondence
Mr.. Thomas Winslow, of Arson Valley.
aged 81 years. recently moved an acre and
eight rods of grass in three hours This is con-
sdered by the farmers here a wonderful per-
Torrance for an old man.
The weather is cold and the prospects for
corn is not very 1attering. Hay is about an
average crop, but DO. what was anticipated
Wheat and oats look finely, and potatoes
promise we'll The farmers mostly have sold
their wool for fair price. Beef is scarce and
commands a high price. c.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
It's William Shaw who has been appointed
postmaster at Grand Lake Stream instead of
the man in New Hampshire, whose name was
given by telegraph.
Sunday afternoon the house and stable Of
Weston McAlister, on Washington street, Calais.
was burned to the ground. The fire engines
could do nothing on account of insufficiency of
water Loss about 81 800; fully Insured.
John Colbert of Calais and Frank O'Donnell
was bound over at Calais last week for stealing
$50 from the shop of Stephen f. Paine.
YORK COUNTY.
A house belonging to Mr.. ,Tere. Preble, near
Agamenticus, York, was burned Sunday after.
noon, with furniture and 1915 or more in bills
and scrip.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
The Food Prospect.

The casual reader has seen so much in the
papers respecting the ravages of the grass
hopper and multitude of other insects
which combine to make tie life of farmer
burden to him, of floods and droutbs, of
frosts and heats, of pestilence to flock and
herd during the past few months, that, if at
all careful for the morrow, he might well be
solictous concerning the supply of food for
the next year. Nevertheless, despite all the
accounts of discouraging character, the
carefully collected reports of the Washington
bureau indicate that the halvests will be so
bountiful as to make the year 1874 remark
able in that respect Doubtless the person
who may have endured anxiety if not torture
at the idea of a scarcity OF food when he
1inls out that the contrary is the fact, will
charge the newspapers as the source of all
his imaginary sufferings. This he should not
do, for so long as sunshine and rainfall al
ternate in proper proportions, and the grass
hopper and weevil are so rare as to be regard
ed as curiosities, the average human does not
think it worth while to notify the newspapers
of the fact. He naturally regards the agencies
which result. in crowded barns as his just
desert, and only lifts his voice in lamentation
when the foods descend or the dust of his
sunburnt fields ascend, or when clouds of
grasshoppers Garkcn his horizon.
The latest crop reports received from all
parts OF the country show that the condition
of winter wheat now harvested is 1O4. Spring
wheat shows general average of &c. having
been somewhat injured by the prolonged
drouth in the Southwest, The present con-
dition OF the corn crop is very promising.
and if nothing happens there will be a crop
so large that DO Chicago gamblers ring can
corner it. The acreage devoted to sugar pro-
duction has been largely increased, and the
condition of the cane is about the average, so
that the product of Louisiana will be equal
to that of last year notwithstanding the over
flow. The cotton crop generally is promis-
ing, though the acreage may be less than last
year on account. of the planters devoting
more of their land to corn and other crops.
On the whole the wool clip is larger than last
year.
From these data there is every reason to
look toward the future with hopefulness and
with tie expectation that as soon as the
crops begin to move, business will brighten
and the summer dizziness end. The favorable
crop reports are so general throughout the
world that it is quite probable that there will
be less demand abroad for the breadstuffs of
the West and that our exports the ensuing
year will not reach the extraordinary figures
of the present year. There is, however,
recent report thai the wheat crops of south
ern Russia and Germany are short, and that
large amounts will be required from some
source TO supply the deficit.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05

THE startling attitude taken by the Dem o.
cratic Convention of Alabama, in declaring
for a "white' mans" government, is attract
ing the attention not only of the thick-and-
tkin Republican papers, but of those journals
which have been so plain spoken in theil
criticisms of party acts and assumed party
leaders, as to cause them 10 be looked upon
with dlstrusr, and to be made the objects OF
denunciation by those party men who be-
lieve that the only duty of political journal
is to defend and appla nd every act of the par
ty or its agents whose principles it espouses.
1t is fair to say that the Boston Adrertiser
belongs to this eminen.ly respectable and in
fluential class of Republican journals. In the
course of a long editorial onthis subject in
which corruption and misrule in South Caro-
lima and other states under nominal Republi
can rule is condemned, the article concludes
as follows:
The southern Democracy appears o be doino
whatever it can to make the incom pleteness Of
the. work of the Republican party apparent.
ana compact lts organization for ar other cam
paign. Until the rights of the race it enfran-
chlsed are secured by what the late Senator
Sumner would call ''irreversible guarantees
Republicans cannot safely relinquish their at
tachment to the party or unite with those WHO
s think as they do concerning other issues. in
any way that BODIES peril to the cause for the
triumph of which they are peculiarly RESPONSE.
BILE. The whole record OF the Democratic party
is a warning that the rights of the colored rae.
would be endangered by its supremacy.
The Boston Transcript, another independ.
ent Republican journa n, closes very decided
article on this subject as follows:
The latter (the southern Democrats) must
at rue for their crimes against humanity and
m inhood by living on equal terms before the
Jaw Jaw with men and WON m whom they have
kept IN ignorance and made barbarians That
IS one OF the conditions of Reconstruction
when cannot be reversed And the exhihi-
lions OIL oppositlon thereto furnish the best can
ital possible for the Republican party of the
Union. f'1 VI '"o
Similar extracts might be taken from ,
large number OF the most reliable and ,b,ost
Republican journals of the country. all 81
which deprecate the folly of the hot.baadod
leaders who ale forming white leagues and hv
party platforms attempting to array tho
whites of the South against the late bond
men. This class of Republican journals
would gladly agree to consider that an ques-
tions of the freedom and equality of citizens
were settled by the constitutional amendments
in order that other pressing matters may be
considered. The renewal of this conflict is
no work OF ours. II the country is to be dis
tracted by successive fights on the old party
basis, it is because the southern Democratic
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05

THE New York Herald thinks It is worth
while TO print letter from Long Branch
correspondent to the effect that President
Grant has had an interview with Liberal
Republican, in which the former avowed his
intention of running for the third term as an
independent anti-Republican candidate on a
platform of universal amnesty, civil service
reform, opposition to the civil rights bill and
Mr.. WINDOWS cheap transportation scheme.
Gen. Grant is not much of an "avower" as
the American people well know. The Herald
has the third term jim-jams.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05
Curing versus Cobbling.

There are many medicines that give transient relief
in sickness without touching the and seat of
the complaint. Hostettei's Stomach Btters is not
one of these The great tonic and restorative does
not cobble the diseased and enfeebed system 1t is
not mere palliative, that only temporarily controls
few unpleasant symptoms. No; its invigorating,
regulating restorative principle penetrates to the
very source Of the difficulty in the fluids and solids of
the body, and hence its radical and thor
ough. In dyspepsia it strengthens the stomach; in
liver complaint it regulates the flow OF bile; in con-
stipation it promotes punctual habit of body in
nervous ailments it tones the sentients and motive
fbres; in rheumatism it counteracts rain, and in
OF general debility rcabiitates the cmacated
frame,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-05

Vacancies in delegations can only be filled by actual
residents of the town which they represent.
The County Committee will be in session at the
above room at O'Clock the day of the Convention
for the purpose of receiving credentials OF delegations
THOMAS HANCOCK, Gray,
4. G. HUFCHINS, Cape Elizabeth,
II. z. MILLETr, Gorham.
LII rHER BILLINGS, Bridgtou,
DANIEL ELLIOT, Brunswick,
WIN. L. SMALL, Chairman. Portland,
J.. b. CHAPMAN, Secretary, Deering,
Republican County Committee.