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New-York tribune., 1874-05-30
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Lester Hallack.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-Theodore Thomass Summer
Night Concerts.
rsryry-sEcoNp REGIMENT ARMoRY -Gilmore's Con-
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

There seems to be war between New
York and Philadelphia houses over Victor husos
Ninety Three the result OF which reduction OF 'ns
price OF dollar book to twenty five cents On the hees
OF this comes the prospect Of little con'ess
between the new house OF Henry l.. Shepard 70. "
Boston and the scrIbners. Shepard Co. eomp'A".
that they the first announce Jules Nernc NV
book, and that the scribners violated the couroS' v
the trade by announcing it after them. aud nave To
fused to take any notice OF their letter Of
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30
Bnslnfss AoIlles.

SENSIBLE AND SOUND-The Low Rate Cash
Fan N Lc Insurance OF the TRAVELLERS
To THE CONSUMPTIvE.-Let those who lam
gush the fatal severity climate through pulmonary
plants decided by
There and remedy haDd and easily tried
HOPs COmD0HHd COD oil Lime" without
be nIuselnc favor the Oil formerly used is endowed by
the phosphate Of Line with healing which reude the oil
dJuby efficacy show
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New-York tribune., 1874-05-30
Tho sootbinp Influence of a 5000 paving

contract enables The Washington Republican 10 come !"
this remarkable conclusion concerning the ih'esuk@
ton OF the affairs OF the Board OF Public WORKS
else is said found there must be one VERDICT 'A
that is that there has been no personal corrup"o"
that there has been collision or conspiracy; 'nAs
there has been fraud AS against either the Ds''
tho General Government and that whatever errors.
mistakes evils, wrongs OF extravaganccs may nav
been discovered. there has nevertheless. been en.
Integrity OF purpose on tae part q taose c~rSsa WIZ"
The CONDUCT u ARtra"
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

Out of 07 aspirants for military honors at
West Point, 80 were sent back to school yes
terday because they could not write, spell, or
cipher, or were not familiar with maps or
grammar This is not a flattering commentary
upon the educational system of the country in
its elementary stages. The cOlored candidates
all failed.
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

of the Septennat, the adoption of the Electoral
bill, and the dissolution of the Assembly.
This programme, however, gives rise to q
doubt respecting the advsability of purchas-
ing dissolution by restricting the right of
suffrage.
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

devoid of political significance; but there are
some incidents connected with it which NAV
be read with interest, from the light which
they throw on the English character.
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

The reception of the Car i'm England is the
,rincipal subject of the London letters when
arc nnblisbed on our third page to-day. 1t Is
tolerably safe to say that the event u entirely
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

The defeat of the Stage Drivers strike is
complete and conspicuous. Perhaps it is as
well that they made their impotent attempt
Other classes of laborers will be apt to think
twice before they strike On demand for
higher prices in the face OF declining
market
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

Mr.. Salem II. Wales, late President of the Park
Commission, sails to-day for an absence of some
months in Europe, carrying with him the cordial
resolution of thanks from the Board for his efficient
administration. the testimony of his predecessor and
successor, Mr. Stebbins. that he has been the
best President the Park Commission has had for
ten years, and tho consciousness of being freeman
Ills letter OF resignation, printed in yesterdays TRIB
uNE, was one of the most weghty proofs Mayor Have
meyer has vet received of his almost complete loss
pt bus t0lp1ey bold ~ tea Refpgm sleusat Of tho
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

Locality has its influence in charity no less than
in politics. and striking instance of the fact
has been given of late than the widelyditferent re-
sponses of this community to the appeals from Mas
sachusetts and the Mississippi The flood at Mill
River might be said have swept past our very DOORS
for the desolated towns not only near us, but
their business ties bound them to the metropolis.
NewYork was true to its fame for benevOlence. and
contributions Of money poured in, and have not yet
ceased coming. But before this catastrophe the
same destroying agent which obliterated the Massa-
chusetts villages and hurried seven-scOre souls into
eternity burst its bounds along the Mississippi,
overspread vast of territory. destroyed crops
and ruined plantations, and cut off the support of
SO many people that even now $4,000 human beings
are dependent upon charity for food. Every day the
telegraph has brought us the details Of this WIDE
spread desoation and suffering, which seem to have
fallen upon cold and deadened ear. Baltimore,
Boston, and even the modest town Of Albany, have
given more for relief than this great, generous city
Surely no distance, were it thousands instead Of
hundreds of leagues can excuse indifference to the
needs of people who speak the same language aud
live under the same flag, though we may seldom see
their faces. 1t really is o reproach to us that it
should be necessary to resort to so perfunctory
method Of raising money as that of giving lecture,
enjoyable as the lecture and kindly as the lecturer
may have been. The money and provisions received
in Louisiana have amounted during o whole month
to less than $4,000, while the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature has just appropriated twothirds much for
the repair of the roads in Williamsburg and Leeds
On receiving Mayor Wits urgent telegram the
other day. which said that they needed nearly a
million of dollars and were feeding 5000 per-
sons, Mayor Hayemeyer said, with a pacidity that
would have done honor to Mynheer of the Ten
Breeches that he would take no official action until
the arrival Of full particulars by mail! Meanwhile.
Mayor Wiltz has telegraphed again that the relief
funds will be exhausted in two weeks and that they
are feeding $4,000 persons. Must he make another
appeal before this rich and open handed city wakes
up to the fact that great region Of its own country
is on the verge Of famine with all its attendant
horrorsi
New-York tribune., 1874-05-30

The Paris letters which we publish on our
third page give a history of the events which
resulted in the defeat of the Ministry of the
Duke de Broglie.e The members of the Ex-
treme Right seem to have assumed nearly
pentent position after they became aware of
the effects of their votes. The organization
of the new Ministry must have tended still
more strongly to make them dissatisfied with
their work, for the dsproportionate amount of
favor which President MacMahon has shown
towards the Bonapartists has made these par
tisans exultant in the hope of speedy
increase of political strength. What has never
before been the case during the existence
of the Assembly has now become political
necessty-thc Royalists and Republicans must
combine against the Imperialists. M. Jules
favre, as appears by telegram published
with the general foreign news, proposes such
union between the Left Center and the
| RiGS Center on tho basis Of On examination
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
Proper Time to Cut Timber.

If the honest inquirer after truth will ask
fifty practical farmers for the proper time to
cut timber, their answers will probably ena-
BILE him to cut in any month Of the twelve;
and yet all cannot be right. At recent
meeting of the Experimental Farm Club lat
the Eastern Pennsylvania Experimental farm)
an interesting essay was read by Thomas
Wood, who seems to have taken great trouble
to collect the experience of others, as well as
retain the results Of his own. A careful pc.
rusal of his essay leaves strong impression
on the mind of the reader that August is a
safe month in which to cut down timber. I
agree with him that hickory wood cut during
the winter will be badly eaten by worms, and
I am now hauling hickory cut in March
which is badly bored and covered with worm
dust. All the results given by the essayist
point to the summer months as the proper
time to cut timber for all purposes when du-
rability or hardness is the object, and to this
1 would like to add one amendment, viz:
that the tree be cut off at the stump and in
stead of being trimmed up at once, it be al
lowed to lie until the leaves fall Of, or until
they are deal and dry, having extracted all
the sap from the wood. Boards cut from
timber felled at this time and treated in this
way are for many purposes seasoned as soon
as sawed out. Mr.. Wood claims that in re-
moving a fence set in 1888 he found that
those posts which had been placed in the
ground in position the reverse of that in
which they grew in the tree, were compara-
lively sound, while those placed in the usual
manner were entirely gone. He also states
that he fenced seventy-five acres in 1872
and not having enough rails cut a few in May
the others having Eeen cut in the winter
previous. Those cut in May were good forty
years after.
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
THE PR ES S.
MONDAY MORNING, DEC. Z. "a.
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Poultry fractures.


Line upon line, precept upon preeept, here
little and there little, so that knowledge
accumulates until we poultry men now find
that broken bones in our poultry may be
as successfully attended as those in our own
structure. The most frequent occurring frac-
ture in poultry is that of the shank, or lower
portion of the leg. The bone will always
knit itself but not always in the
most approved manner, therefore must
we splint it. Ifthe patient is chick of two
to six months old, wrap the injured member
well up in thoroughly wetted paper; put on
this coat of gum Arabic, and allow it to
harden, and nnless unforeseen matters
arise the bird will be cured in few weeks.
But if the patient is an older birl-one say of
a year or two, we'll developed and grown
then wrap the leg up in wet pasteboard, and
put.on it coat of glue. Very seldom is it
necessary to redress the injured member As
soon as the paper or paste dries, it, being
nodded when moist to the form, will con-
tinue to act as firm binding splint, which ex-
ercises perfectly even pressure on every
point of its contact. Thigh fractures are BY
far more difficult to treat. The best plan we
have yet seen tried is to put the feathered
sufferer in a quiet place, SO that it will not
have much inducement to move about. For
splints take two small pieces of soft green
wood, and shave them down. Place one on
the forward part of the thigh and the other
opposite. Now take strong well-waxed
thread, and bind them firmly, the firmer the
better, as it renders the bird ind:sposed tc
make much movement. Now, during the
process of all fracture -mending, be careful of
the feed the patient receives-boiled meal,
mixed with broken bone, or any of the phos-
pilates is excellent, as it assists the mending
bone. Broken backs are difficult to set We
have never yet seen one; but if the fowl is
very valuable one the experiment might be
tried, splintering tightly at the sides. Broken
toes can be very readily healed by binding on
a thin chip and placing the bird in coop, or
where it cannot get ON roost. Broken
wings are easily set. The chief point in set
tings is to keep the fowl from moving the
wing. Lewis Wright explains the treatment
so thoroughly in his new work that it is use
less to repeat it here.-Poultry Journal
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
An Oxford Hamlin Man.


FRYEBURG, Dec. 4, 1874
To the Editor of the Press:
The course of the PRESS on the Senatorial
question does not meet with the appreciation of
the "leading men" in this town. Perhaps you
may not know it, but it is fact nevertheless,
that we were all "original Coburn men," ergo,
We are for Hamlin. We like Baine's letter to
the PRESS, and it is even hinted that it was
written by one of ''us.'' We are told by an ex-
Senator that you are for Hamlin, aud your
opposition to him in the PRESS is dodge
we'll understood by the ''boys."
We are fixing up things in these parts for
Hamn, and the beauty of the thing is, it
don't cost us anything. I'll tell you how we do
It. We have Mail Agent on the Ogdensburg
railroad (appointed by Mr.. Frye) who has
volunteered to canvass the towns in western
Oxford and tell all of the Republican repre-
sentatives how to vote; and you would be
astonished with the success of this individual
which shows how discerning Mr.. Frye is in his
appointments. This individual, or, perhaps
better said, Mail Agent, reports to us that he
has "got" them all right. Some low down
chap in this town ventured the other day to ask
how the mail was sorted when the Agent was
twenty miles away. But we squelched this fell
low at once. We don't allow man to talk of
sorting mails when the country calls for help.
We are not that kind of people. We believe in
standing by our friends" hence our affection
for the man ''who claims all the logs without
mark" Will you tell us who really wrote that
letter to the PRESS signed "Kennebec?' That
same low down fellow says that ex.Gov. A. p.
Morrill, wrote it; but that can't be, for our Mail
Agent says that Morrill, is for Hamlin. If
Morrill, did write that article, it is like your
articles in the PREss,-a "dodge" to deceive
the honest people, We like Washburn up
here, because he goes for Hanlin, and mean
sometime to- give him our votes-after Hamlin
has "rounded off his political life with one
more term
But what we really wanted to ask of you is
that you will write Mr.. Frye and ask him to
see Postmaster General Jewell, and fix it all
right with our Mail Agent. He can do it easy
enough for the Agent says that Jewell is for
Hamlin.
The Mail Agent will 20 to work sorting the
mail again as soon as the Senator is chosen.
Ovropn
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07

Capt. Bowman. the present owner of the
well known George Shores farm in Waterville,
tells the Mail what he has done himself, on
hard, rocky, Kennebec farm of 226 acres
"more or less." He has run milk route in
West Waterville for some years; but this year
he makes butter and cheese, mostly butter,
from herd of IA cows. He has SOLD 1000
lbs. of butter, ct 2S to 33 cts raised 1900 lbs.
pork, sold round for II cts. 900 bush. pota-
toes; ESQ bush. apples; 314 bush. wheat; so
bush. oats $50 bush. beets 100 bush. carrots;
800 bush. turnips; 100 heads cabbages; 1000
lbs. squash; and good supply Of garden
stuff. He made $50 gallons maple molasses,
which has sold at $1,50 to $500 gallon, and
has sold 500 worth of wood, and made lum-
horses; has raised two good colts, eight grade
Jersey heifers, and 70 Brahma chickens.
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07

An editorial in the British Medical Jour-
nal, on catching cold, concludes thus;
"The practical considerations which are the
outcomes OF this review of the pathology of
colds these: Never to wear wet clothes after ac-
tive muscular exertion has ceased, but ochange
them at once; to meet the loss of the body
heat by warm fluids and dry clothes; to avoid
long sustained loss OF heat which is not met
by increased production of heat; to increase
the tonicity OF the vessels of the skin by cold
baths, etc, SO educating them to contract
readily on exposure, by partial adoption in
deed Of the hardening plan; to avoid too
warm and debilitating rooms and tempera
lures; to take especial care against too great
loss of heat when the skin is glowing; and to
prevent the inspiration Of cold air by the
mouth by some protecting agent, as respir-
atOr. We can readily understand how
respirator should be an effective protection
against winter bronchitis in those so dis.
posed
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
Cane Cod CRANBERRY Culture.

A correspondent of the Boston Traveller
says: TO those who have never seen the cul-
tivation of this crop it is rich treat TO
visit some of the fine bogs when the fruit is
fully ripe. Among the most successful bogs is
the Newtown, owned by 2. Fl. Small, Samuel
OF large crop, producing in 1871, 1,433 bar
rels; in 1872, LIS barrels; in 1878, 1,16S
barrels; and in 1874, LOTT barrels. Then
comes the Quashnet bog, lately come in bear
ing, which promises to be perfect success.
We think v. B. Collins, Esq, of Marshpee,
bears off the palm for a single acre. having
picked from less than $50 rods 1434 barrels Of
the largest and finest fruit grown on the Cape.
Everything about Mr., Collins bogs bears the
marks of system and neatness. When poor
sandy Cape Cod can produce $50 barrels of
cranberries to the acre, we think our young
men have no reason to emigrate West for
more profitable farming lands"
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07
Oak and Pine Timber.

"ANTED-Small Farms with oak OF pine tim
w Der on them, within three miles of any railroad
and within 40 miles of Portland Address P. o. Box
1888, Portland, stating price, No. of acres and de-
scriptiOn. nO24dt
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07


A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer
says:
Thousand and one remedies recommended
to free chickens from lice are thrown into
the shade by the following safe and effectual
mixture: A spoonful each OF lard-oil and
powdered sassafras bark; mix and apply to
the head and neck Of the chicken, and under
the wing and breast of an old fowl. One ap-
plication, if the work is carefully done, IS all
that is necessary" Now, the la-d-oil alone,
or common clean lard will answer every pur-
pose of the above mixture. 1t is the lard or
oil stopping the breathing-pOres of the lice
that kills them so effectually, and the sassa-
fras has nothing to do with it whatever.
Some writers have recommended sulphur and
lard for the same purpose, but the lard alone
will do the work every time, and the chicks
are spared the risks of taking cold and being
otherwise injuriously affected by the use of
sulphur.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gentleman
also says: eff any person will try kerosene in
his poultry-house he will have no further
trouble with lice. This is the manner of
using it: Take stick of suitable length for 4
handle; wind upon one end Old rags to form
ball about three inches in diameter; wet
the ball with kerosene, light it, and proceed
to wash the house with the flames, in the
same manner as whitewashiDg. This is
remedy when all others fail, and should be
used with great care" Another says; 81
hsve tried nearly everything that l have
heard of, and find that hot water is the best
thing that 1 ever used. Throw it in the
nests aud on the roosts boiling hot; after
that whitewash them. have tried this rem
edy for the last five years with entire success.
1t may be well known and common, but /
have never heard of it, nor have seen it
published" Another reports: "After an ex-
perience of three or four years, fiud that
putting one pint of kerosene, such as blrn,
i'll the white-wash, ana also tgking large
paint brush and painting roosts, nests, &C.,
with it (kerosene) three or four times year,
is perfectly efiectual. use large brush be-
cause ! can do it mork quickly. and work it
into every cracd more readily. It makes the
house smell atrongly, but the chickens do not
mind that. 1t is not much trouble, and is
effectual. The same process is equally effect
i've with bed-bugs."
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07

CONCERNING PIE.-The New York Post has
issued a startling cry of alarm against pie
Hear it:
1T crowns the feast at every board. In eat
lighthouses, at railroad stations, in the fine ho-
tells, on the tables of both the rich and the poor,
it appears with unabashed front. 1t is eaten
not only at the regular meals, but before and
after meals, and often O piece is sandwiched in
between saying goodnight to the family and
saying our prayers, and it is destroying our vi
tality. To its inordinate use may be traced,
to no small degree, the intense sense
of care and responsibility, and the preva-
lence of ascetic and gloomy views of life, duty
and Providence, which characterize us as peo-
Dle''
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07

A late San Francisco paper says that it is es-
timated that from 100000 to $25O,OOO changed
hands in bets on the trotting race which took
place last month. Most of this money was
won by Eastern sporting men, who appeared to
be son the inside" as it is expressed in the
phraseology of the turf. They staked freely
on the Eastern horse, while Californians, more
from state pride than the dictates of good judg-
ment, heavily backed their home favorite, Oc-
cdent, and were ingloriously beaten.
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-07

Farmers do not use enough poultry on
their tables. 1t is too much the case that the
staple is pork the year round. II would be
well if poultry was substituted in great part.
In proportion to the nutriment they afford,
fowls furnish cheaper diet than swine. If as
much pains were bestowed in housing and
feeding fowls as hogs, there would be large
ly increased production of the former, and
very appetizing, nutritious diet might be af-
.nishes food suited to the demands of the
hard-working laborer in the field, and il is
equally adapted to the women and children.
1t IS crying shame that in so many farmers
families, even ''well-to-do" people, the grow
ing children have so little set before them
that is not too gross and coarse for their
needs. The farmer and bis sons frequently
feel above any such bother as attending to
chickens, though it is not considered beneath
their dignity to take care of litter of pigs.
Yet the fowls that are despised as 'ssmall po-
tatoes," may bring in more money in propor-
tion to the outlay, than pigs. Indeed, from
careful experiments, we are satisfied that if
attention and fair degree of skill are used,
a lot of poultry may be marketed with double
the profit that would be derived from raising
the same value of pork. Fowls digest grain
more thoroughly than swine do; no portion
capable of being assimilated is wasted. If it
will pay to produce poultry for the market, it
will pay the farmer to raise it for use upon
his own table.-Lire Stock Journal.
Two Wrinkles.
Very often a screw hole gets so worn that
the screw will not stay in. Where glue is
handy, the regular carpenter makes the hole
larger and CLUES in large plug, making
nest for an entirely new hole. But this not is
always the case, and people without tools,
and in an emergency, often have to fix the
thing at once. Generally leather is used, but
this is so hard that it does not hold well. The
best of all things is to cut narrow strips of
cork, and fill the hole completely. Then
force the screw in. This will make as tight
job as if driven into an entirely new hole.
Another hint of a similar character now
may be useful. One often desires to put a
staple into a block Of stone, The hole is
made, the staple inserted, and lead melted
and run in. But unless the hole is made
with the bottom larger than the top, the
lead will in time work out,if there is much jar
or side strain on the iron. Beside,
the Head itself is liable to some COM
preston, which admits of looseness, espec-
tally after being subjected to very hot fires.
A much better article is sulphur. If this be
melted and poured in around the staple in
stead of lead, it makes much more durable
job. Besides, it is oflen more easy to procure
sulphur than lead, as every store keeks it that
deals in general variety.-Americdn Builder.