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NOTICE.
q. s. INTERNAL REVENUE
Special Taxes
NOTICE.
May 1871, to April so, 1873.

The Law Of December q, l-72, requires every
Icssoi engaged in any business ayocation or en-
pluymcnt winch renders him liable 10 special
Tax TO procure and place consPicuoUsy On has eSf15-
tshmrHf Or place of JUs.Hess q stamp, deuOiirg ht
payment OF sand special Tx lJr The Special Tax
year, beginning May ]. 1874, before commencing
or continuing business after April -, ISL
The Taxes Embraced within ;he Provis-
ions OF the Law Above quoted are
the Following, viz;
Rec.iiors, SEQ 90
Hracr~, retail liquors, - 90
Dealers, Wholesale liquor, lCOc0
Dealers n malt liquors, wholesale, - W
Dealers in malt liquors, retail, 21C0
Dealers in leaf tobacco. - 60
Reilil dealers in ieat tocacco, 900 W
And on sale Of over ; l,clo, ifty cent for every
dollar in excess Of Sl,0O.
Dealers in manufactured tobacco, %
Manufacturers Of tl!l-, 30 ui
And Tor each stil! manufactured, ~ %
And for each worm manufactured, - 30
Manufactures of tobacco, l1 30
Manufactures pf cigars, 10 %
Pcddcrs OF tobacco, first class more than
two hOrscs) 20 90
Pc ldcrs Of tobacco second class z horses - 90
Pc,tllcrs Of tobacco, third class (nGe horse) Is 10
Ptd,llcrs Of tobacco, fourth class (On foot or
public conveyance, l0e col
Brewer, OF les than 800 barrel 50 %
Brewers OF $40 barrels OF more, 100 90
ANY person 20 IL bic, who shall fail 10 comply
with the foregoing requi Will be subject 10
severe penalties.
Persons OF firms liable 30 paw any OF the Special
TJNcs named above must aprly 10 CHARLES j.
TALBOT, Collector OF internal Revenue q; East
Wilton Maine, and pay Tor and procure the special
Tan stamp OF stamps they need, prior 10 May ],
1874 and Without Further N9iice 49,, &C..
Commiss0neI' 81 Internal EcreiHie.
OFFICE or INTERNAL KEyENUa. app
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THIS Bank has done very satisfactory business
sincc rs organization: having received about
30 900 deposits, principally in small amounts.
Il has paid six per cent, scmiannualiy, and has
surplus OF S70O. The surplus j. to bc divided
every two Years. - that those who allow their
money to remain. may get what Is equal to : Ia
sIer cent. The bank has sub -tlnliai safe and
toOd banking room, and is pru'lruily and safely
managed BY .. II. MASON, Esq, President AMI
ENOCH FOSTER Jr., Treasurer.
rbcy have adopted tbs very liberal rule OF
All 1SyiusSInterest from the FIRST OF Zach
...snth, when deposits are made on or before The
third day, 10 commence on the fret oil January,
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readers published in this country, aud is gaining
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ssry a a work FOR teaching children to read, am
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Noilee cd As.lgl.et OF hL. Appointalen:.

NOIIct uI NNNIkIltt OF nv tPp"IfI44vHs
II EA\BIJ rTCN. -- IN the District Court OF
I tac United ~;atr- tor the pi-fiic. Of Maine. Ia
tie matter OF Elisha 4 Cotto1. bankrupt District
OF Maine. s-. A. Ho.lIEj, uic 2ilh ia, OF March,
\. u. i.ti.
Ihs undersigned hereby Eivc- notice ~ his ap.
prirfmrrt a- ~. cncc "I Elisha r. Cotton, oi
Es,ruUcli 900 tlc count. OF ON.Jrd aul state VI
" i'Gr within -gii District WhohJs been a1j judged
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Household
PanaCea
AND
Family
Linirn0nt

CURTIS a. BROWN.
So. 10 tui-.a street, Ncw leTk.
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TIL A Agents
l. liza Wanted.

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sell TEA or gct zap club orders Tor thc largest Tea
Company iu America. Importers prices an In
tlurrm.rts tn agents. send tor Circular. Address
ROBERT WELLS - Nescy s., y. Y, +. .. Box
49,.
me Christian Union, NcGry Ward Bcccher
editor uI Oct. 9Th li-t. saws 'rar'i,, ishia[ 20
s-t u clubs. and all ~ np can -;ct order, Tor TEA
shauil write him for ci.cuily.'
me Ns,7 lori H'cckly IrittOis of sept p, SAYS {:
''AU oranges shIaid Wl.te Robert Wells Tor
circular"
The Sctfhc OF Sept -. says: Robert Wells ID
tAolougLy rcii.b.t' apr
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FARM FOR SALE.

ME FARM in EurLGcij adjoining : j. Hairs
4 containing about too u,gr- IL prime iJnd.
.VI.U comfortable bG'lIn--. good orchard. tcio,
an v.tII,,i 30. urIr guud school. I miles from
rr.i, Ull. 20 fu.l.- t1 Ga.i.clI Village anil 10
=, pa.i- prpot. Slid am has been occupied
+ fl come y...r- uy Nm.l1N Turner. anil VIII be
-slI clear. Pu--c--lun given immco. Htely-
For terms aupls to :. i. HALL, adjoining = Q
u-rmi-r-. COZ y tIiIAN MORRILL,, BurkH.ld Village.
The farm = ulr 90 the best - town.
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TO FARMERS.

Fl. N 3 Q L s T E r
i NOW
BUYING POTITOES!
Bring them in any day you choose, Is he Is
prepared % receive them.
South Paris, Feb. 18th, ISL
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30

TO the facets obvious purpose Is to dis
play the hair. This Ii not merely anoth-
er purpose; 1t is something contrary. The
hair ID a Characteristic female charm
which until recently 1t was q loDg-stand-
ing English custom not fully to display.
II was an indoor disclosure. greatly re-
strained there Now good deal more
than every inch of it Is SYSTEMATICALLY ex-
posed to the public gaze. For that has
happened which q moments thought Is
enough to show was inevitable. The hair
is charm in which women are very un-
equally endowed; but it is also one in
which deficiencies can be most easily rec
tilted. Under the stimulus Of the abid
ing purpose which every woman has to
be behind no other woman in what is adj
mired, all the sex now presents the same
incredible wealth of tresses. This has
gone on till the adornment of the head
mas lost all natural character; it has be-
come an accepted and understood artifi-
cial construction. Faith, however, is a
hnegiccted duty, and here is fresh
opportunity for its cultivation. Men
ought always TO make an effort TO believe.
In any case this Is the last proof possible
Of tine kindness Of the sex; they now
publicly show men the whole Of their
faces and more tnan the whole Of their
hair
The fashion has now been in existence
so long that there are women, no longer
juvenile, who have never worn genuine
BONNET Whenever the ladies think they
have shown men enough Of their checks
and too much of their tresses, the bonnet
will doubtless come back again.--Ea1
N1u G1zette.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
The Grasshopper Plague.

The farmers of Minnesota, it now APP
pears, have been suffering from the raw
ages of the grasshoppers as badly as the
farmers Of Iowa. 1t was hoped that they
would escape the affection this year and
recover in some degree the losses of last
year But the work of destruction has
extended through several counties Ii is
said that a district of country on the eN
IRENE southwestern frontier, 100 miles
long and 30 miles wide, has been cleared
of every yestige of vegetation" swept
as clear as prairie fires sweep the autumn
nal grass" \ month ago slight amount
of consolation was derived from an opin-
ion that as soon as the grasshoppers sue
ceeded in gaining the use of their wings
they would rise with the wind and travel
thousands of miles away from Iowa and
Minnesota, The day OF their departure
was looked for most eagerly At last
they began to move "in vast Swarms
which overspread the heavens and
darkened the sun like a snow-cloud;'
but instead of riding upon the
winds to far-otf lands they presently
descended upon new pastures and
began to deyour the crops with renewed
vigor 4 writer in the 81 Paul Press
says thdt one irregular column covered
a space of more than twenty-five miles
in width Thus deyouring .heir way
along, it will be wonder indeed if they
do not spread desolatien throughout the
entire State Affections fall too often
upon those who are least able to bear
them. In Iowa the great majority OF
those whose lands have been made
barren waste are settlers with large fam
lilies and light purses The seed from
which they expected TO realize SO much
was purchased for them with the pro-
ceeds Of public subscription The food
and fuel which enabled them to pass
through the winter were procured in =
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30

similar manner, and now. after all ,b..;,
hopes and anticipations Of prosperity !,
Is very dishearrening that they should he
obiiged 10 fall back once more upon ,hs
contributions of the charitable
IL Is all the worse considering tb.,
many, perhaps hundreds, of these SET
tiers few years ago had Comfortable
homes in other countries. The land nf
promise to them has, indeed, been a land
OF sorrow. The case of the Minnesota
settlers is almost precisely the same
Last year they, too, lost their crons
through the grasshoppers. and they. too
were supplied with seed to try aca;n
thus far these settlers, like those OF
Iowa have been the greatest sufferers
because Of the plague. They have moth
ing lett, and unless the hand OF charity
be soon extended there is no knowing 10
what lengths despair may drive them
Private charity is said to have been al.
ready overburdened by the appeals for
aid and as there is no public fund al the
disposal OF the Governor of Minnesota IT
has been suggested that it would be well
TO call a meeting OF the Legislature and
have law passed TO cover the emer-
gency. Pending the consideration Of the
matter by the Governor the telegraph i'm
y
.ey County have made an appropriation
OF $1,000 for the temporary relief Of the
sufferers. What has been done in a sim.
liar direction in Iowa We are not fully
/ informed, but there is ground for the be-
/ let that the unfortunate farmers of the
State viii not be permitted TO want for
the common necessities of life
ii there was d reasonably encouraging
prospect that the grasshopper plague
| would end with the present year the poor
settlers OF Iowa and Minnesota might be
able TO drag through the fall and winter.
and have enough life left to begin agri-
cultural operations in the spring: but the
worst OF it is that there is no such pros
pect held out to them. Ii was from the
millions OF eggs left +" in the track OF the
| desolation wrought last year that the
" clouds" of grasshoppers came Ten
eggs may be deposited now for the one
| deposited in 1873 The settlers will GER
| tainly make calculation of this kind,
and if they do not receive the assurances
10 the contrary upon which they can
rely we shall confess ourselves greatly
mistaken if Iowa and Minnesota do not
lose thousands of inhabitants next spring
4 continuation of Affections like those
they have been compelled TO endure for
two years in succession would be too
much for human nature. The entomol-
ogists, in the meantime, may be able to
find way to destroy the eggs of the
grasshopper in the ground without the
expenditure of much money If they
should the situation will OF course be
entirely changed, and emigration will
begin to flow again in the direction of
those rich and fertile lands that are at
present as barren as desert-N. y.
Times.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
Fertilizers for the Farm.

Our farmers give far too little atten-
ton to the manufacture of home made
fertilizers. In many localities no attemnt
is made to keep up the fertility of ~
soil to any standard whatever, but the
ruinous hand-to-mouth system of feeding
each crop with some kind Of concentrat-
ed manure is practced year after year,
and, as might be expected, the land
grows poorer and poorer, until abandoned
IA worthless. We may say, without fear
of proof to the contrary, that no country
or region was ever prosperous for any
considerable time where such system
is practiced, and it is sheer folly to hope
for great results without preserving un.
impaired the foundation of agricultural
wealth, which is, and ever will be- fer
tile soil. Whether this can be done by
employing what are termed concentrated
or commercial fertilizers only may be a
mooted question; but that it never has
been done by such means in this country
is apparent to every one who has exam
ined or knows anything of the regions
wherein such fertilizers are most liberal
" used The old cotton and tobacco
plantations of the Southern States afford
striking testimony of the folly of at
tempting TO cultivate land without tax
ing better measures for its recuperation
than that of applying some slight stlmu-
liant TO each crop.
Were it possible to fully preserr" Che
fertility of the soil or even increase II
from year to year, by the aid of guano and
similar manures, the question whether
this is good policy would still remain to
be decided We are not to inquire wheth-
er these commercial manures are good,
bad, or indifferent, but whether man
can afford to depend upon them during
a succession OF years Then again, Is 1t
good husbandrv to constantly take from
the soil. returning nothing beyond the
actual and immediate wants OF the plants
growing thereing This is the system far
too universally practiced, and the intro
duction and wide distribution of the So
called commercial fertilizers only encour-
age this hand-to-mouth, starvation style
of farming These concentrated manures
are in the aggregate of immense value to
the country, but are also curse TO agri-
culture through pervcrsion OF use. In
other words. they are so easily obtained
and applied To crops that the more IA
tional systems Of soil culture and their
healthy development are neglected.
Many years since we stated 1t was our
honest conviction. after a full inveStiga-
ton of the subject that there was not
county in any State of the Union which
did not contain within its boundaries SUI
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
HAPs AND NIsHAPS.


Miss OMEN, spinster, was found
dead IN her bed at the Printable House,
Lancaster. Ohio, the other morning
Mrs. Kinney, the wife Of anexpress
man. was accidentally shot and severely
hurt few days since in Dayton, Ohio.
johnny Ryan, ten years old, was
fatally hurt the other day in Dayton,
Ohio, by pile Of lumber falling upon
him.
"A promising twelve-year-old daugh-
ter Of ]. V. Garrison was killed by a
stroke Of lightning the other day, near
Farina, III.
Henry Thomas and Simon Spring
were recently drowned in the Miami
River, near Dayton, Ohio, by the upset
ting of a skill
james Gray, living near Ashley, HI,
was run over and instantly killed by "A
train on the st. Louis * Southeastern
Railroad recently.
--Mrs. William Ramsey, Of Dayton,
Ohio, was attacked by large monkey
that was roaming about, and was badly
hurt, the other day.
--fico. Yates barn in the town Of Con
cora, Jefferson County, Wis, vas struck
The other day by lightning, set on fire and
burned up, with all It's contents.
AT Berca, KY, recently, q youth
named james WaIkup shot and fatally
wounded Miss Margaret Pointer. The
cause for the murder is not known.
Bridget Gleason, widow aged forty
five years died the other day while un-
der the influence Of cIiioroiorm in the OF.
iice OF Or H. T. biggar, in Cleveland.
John Brunef, twelve years old,
hbigcd himself at his fathers house in
Hardin County, Ky, the other day; his
father had refused to buy him news sad
die.
VIM s MiledaIe fell from straw.
stack, near Evansville, Ind, with a pitch
fork in his hand a tine Of which was
driven into his side, from which he died
in three hours
"A thunderstorm and hurricane
wrecked three churches in Lowell Mass,
the other day-one lost It's steeple, one
was unroofcd, and the third was com
pletcly demolished.
WIN. Noble, a laborer on the South
ern Minnesota Railway, was instantly
Killed a few days ago By timber falling
upon him VIM Losey was fatally in
jured a. the same time
John Callahan. brakeman Of the
New Albany Il Chicago Railroad, fell
from car recently ana had his arm cut
of, at 5tincsyille, and died at Blooming
ton q day or two subsequently.
AT Wabash, Ind, Carroll Huffman, a
German, dropped dead on the floor the
other morning after doing his morning s
work. Heart disease was proven 10 be
the cause after an examination.
"A lumber train fell through the
trestie, over Peach Tree Creek, on the
Airline Railroad, four miles from At
lanta, Ga, recently, killing one colored
mas and dangerously wounding six 9th
ers, all that were on the train.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30

The name Of the bonnet, we believe,
still survives for uFiously-exaggerated
ornament Of the hair; and it is possible
that in the female mind, the subtle ways
Of which are unsearchable some kind OF
historical unity with respect To the arti
Gle has been kept up so that women may
still imagine that they wear bonncts
But, az men understand things, bonnets
have ceased TO be II is the most com
plcte innovation Of dress made for many
years We are not at all setting up the
past against the present The existing
female fashion Il always in our judgment
the most charming; II Is so for the reason
that 1t is the only one embcllished by
actual wear Not one of the old ones
has single pair of bright eyes or rosy
cheeks 90 recommend It, Besides, the
Celestials surely need not ask those TO
whom they show themselves how they
are TO appear II male bcholders are
justified in any supIlication Of critical
Kind 1t in when they ask that women
should reveal not hide their faces and
in leaving oil the bonnet the sex has
gone TO the full! limit in that point of
their attire. No soman in England now
conceals single feature. Forehead
tips, all are visible
In speaking Of the change of appear
ancr caused by the absence OF the bon
net, We know better than 10 be critical;
Use are dealing with x only ~ matter
of abstract speculation and respectful
reTriniscencc. itfst Of al Il undoubtedly
does away with striking difference
previously observed between the
indoor and outdoor look Of women.
A bonnet more or less transformed
the wearer, in some cases the al.
iteration it made was incxplicably great
The change might not always be advan-
tagcous, a. times II was decidedly so
but in every case there was Il change of
some sort and degree. This is clean gone
Now We see women, indoors and out
doors with just The same play Of light
and shade upon the countcnanCe; that's,
with all The light possible TO fail upon il.
II is true, other parts OF dress in thcsame
way arc becoming modified. For some
soasons past feminine drapery has been
growing less and less Cunccaling, Men
have never yet faced the streets with
wholly uncovered ysagc. The narroWe-t
OF hat-brims has always cast lltlc mod.
est shadow on the masculine features
y" doubt the lanes VIII say the creature
is bold TO show his face at oll; but our
present topic is honr~ts, and Nc must
keep 20 IT,
What Is now woru-Wc must not say
IN the place Of the bonnet but in part OF
the place of the honuct-is an eXagger-
ated ornament of the hair The essen
tial characteristic of the bonnet is that it
notifies the faces whatever variations
fashion takes il through it must keep
some power of affecting the light and
shade on the features So soon As what
is worn diminishes 10 a degree which pre-
vents this, or is wholly removed from
yicinage 10 the countenance, the
male intellect, at any rate, re-
Quires that it should take another
name 1t has erased to be a bonnet.
What is at presea, worn has 10 relation
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30

IA. ME-" sighed Mrs. harrington;
here have been suffering the bigamies
OF death fog three mortal weeks First
| was seized with bleeding phrnology
in the left hampshire of the brain, which
was exceeded by a stoppage of the ven
tilator Of The heart. This gave. me an
inflammation In the boraX, and now I'm
sick with the chlorotorm morbus There
i, no blessing like that of health, partic
ulariy when sou are IN