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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13
Smut in Grain.

EDIToR VERMONT FARMER In your is
sue OF July 80, find an article from the
pen of Prof Brewer on this subject, in which
occurs the following assertion "Itis proved
that this gains access to the plant through
the seed" Speaking Of the fungus parasite,
he says, "it has been described and figured
in botanical works" That produces smut.
The purpose Of this line from me is to invite
him, through you, to give us the proof, that
we so much interested in the matter may be
our own judges. Yours, &c,
G. w. II. DwINELL.
NIarshfeld, August, 1875.
Professor Brewer is one Of the most
thorough and reliable of scientific men, and
we should accept as conclusive his statement
that fact in science, to which he has given
his attention, is proved. Our columns are
open to Professor Brewer, Of course, and il
will give us pleasure to print anything he
may desire to say
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

When there is much rain at this season Of
the year, maggots sometimes breed in the
fleeces of sheep and lambs, and especially
about the head of rams which indulge their
fighting propensities. The torture they suf-
: fer is beyond the power of words to express,
and they are sure to die if not taken in hand
early.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

products Of the farm and constant exertion
to realize all that has been planned.
We find that successful men in other de-
partments of business are those who with
uutiring energy and activity push TO success.
fhl ends the plans which sagacity and good
Judgment have devised.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

We have from Hon Lewis f. Allen, Buff
falo, N. Y, the editor of the work, Vol IA
of the American Short.Horn Herd Book, a
well executed book of 9l7 pages, containing
bull pedigrees from No 1892 to u $50,
and a still larger number of COW pedigrecs; /;
also great many fine cattle portraits. The
frontispiece gives portraits Of Charles and
Robert Calling. The preface contains much
valuable information, and the work is very
creditable to the editors, and a necessity to
all breeders of this noble breed Of animals
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

The Maine Farmer thinks the farmers, by
building on adjoining corners of their farms,
might organize little farmers "villages,
which would give them the advantages Of
society, aud make their children much more
contented with farm like" Brilliant idea
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

Those who make maple sugar should look
out before winter and pick up and house
good supply of sugar wood. Dry fuel is in-
dispensable to success in sugaring.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

A boy in San Antonio, Tex, put rain
bow-hued Easter egg 10 hens nest, and
she fancied she laid it herself. She was an
old experienced hen, but caekled she herself
to death in about fifteen minutes.
[Danbury News.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-13

The army worm is destroying crops, espe-
cially corn and oats, in Suffolk county, j.. L.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Chnrch Debt.

1t is admitted that few churches, except the
Roman Catholic, have been recently construc-
TED IN Boston without mourning liabilities far
from Justitable; and that these have proved To
De enormous burdens upon the congregations.
restricting all holy influences, and too often
causing ill-feeling between pastor and people.
w nen these vast and elegant structures are
6ullt and the debt incurred the necessity fol-
lows that they must be crowded with rich peo-
pie, who can buy pews at great prices, nav
nign taxes, and give largely towards the liaui.
datlon OF the debt. Hence the necessity for a
pastor who can draw! The pulpit is put upon
the same standing as the stage of theatre.
ana whether or or preacher, he is the best
man who can in the quickest time and the more
continuously draw his house! This wretcbed
naDlt (for 1t seems to have become such in large
clties) OF getting into debt seems to stand by
ITSELF among Che uprighteous things of the
World, winch IS permitted to increase without
suitable apprehension A merchant a bank or
any public institution gets into debt and must
immediaiely fa'l. A poor man or woman goes
beyond his or her means an meets the conse-
quences in public dsdain or odium, But
churches are permitted to be built and to lin
ger on under a load of debt and uptulflled
promises to pay. We do not see apy Needed
warning taken from previous precedent. In
fact, incumbents of parishes even, allew them
SO to be built, knowing all the true how far the
excess OF expenditure will exceed the means of
payment. Where is the clergyman who will
nave the courage to say to any building COM
mittee, Gentlemen, will preach to YOU if Won
Will build the church without debt. If Won
go one cent beyond your means | shall NOT he
your pastor. boston Transcript.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Statistics of the Globe.

The earth is Inhabited by about 1900 900 900
inhabitants, namely: $50, 900 of the Cau-
casian race; 550, 100000 of the Monaghan: 190.-
100000 of the Ethiopian; 100000, 900 Of the
Malay races; and 1000 900 of the American In
dlan All these respectively eak O64 lam
uages, and possess 1000 different religions.
he amount of deaths per annum is 80, 333. 1888.
or 9l954 per day, $3.50 per hour, go per minute. .
or per second. This loss is more than com,
pensated by the number of births. The average
duration OF life throughout the globe is 80 years,
One-fourth of its population dies before the
seventh year, and one half before the seven
teenth Out of 0,000 persons only one reaches
his hundredth year, only one in 500 his eighth
eth, and only one in 100 his sixty fifth Married
people live longer than unmarried ones. and
tall man is likely to live longer than short
one. Until the fiftieth year women have bet
ter chance for life than men; but beyond that
period the chances are equal Slxty-fye per'
sons out of 1000 marry. The months of Jnne
and December are those in which marriages 9
are most frequent. Children born in the snrno
are generally stronger than those born in pthar
seasons. Births and deaths occur ch eflv in tha
ght. The number of men able to bear arms
is but one eighth OF the population. The nonn'
lation of the United States is now over an mn ;.
QO0 of which one-eighth are negroes, with 81, OoO
Indians and three times as many Chinese.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
The Meeting Tonight!

We trust that our readers will not fall to be
present at City Hall tonight to listen to the
first speeches of the campaign which may be
considered the skirmish preceding the gen
eral contest of the Presidential year.
GEN. STEWART T.. WooDFoRD of New
York has, in che past, delivered several of the
best political speeches ever made in this city.
He is an effective, earnest and eloquent speak
er, and represents the progressive element of
the party. He is not in Maine to participate
in the campaign, but being in this region he
consents to speak in this city. We trust he
may be induced to favor our Maine people
with several of his effective and earnest
speeches.
SENATOR MORTON is one of the most COM
pact and logical speakers in the country. The
Boston Journal says of Mr.. Morton:
Unlike so many others, even able men who
have formed the habit of constant talking
before audiences, whether they happen to be
III buC uiOOu iOl IL VI uOt, uc wastes no Llm6
in useless verbiage, but always speaks with a
Webster-like directness and compactness. He
has no stories TO tell and INDUCES in no per-
sonalities, but grasps the main points and
argues them out with lucidity which makes
him comprehended by all, and with depth
ana freshness which never fail to enchain the
interest OF the best-informed.
GEN. CoNNoR, our gallant standard-bearer,
will receive an enthusiastic greeting from the
people of this city who appreciate his brilliant
military record and claim it as part cf the
history of Maine. Faithful and illustrious in
the hour of peril, those who hear his thought
ful and manly:utterances will have no doubt
but that he. will bring to the office of Chief
Magistrate of the State that patriotic pur-
pose, well balanced mind, strict integrity, and
constant devotion to public affairs, which
will make him as illustrious in civil life as
the same qualities have made him conspicu-
GUS in time of war. LET US HAVE A GRAND
RALLY!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
PillSbury'S Malice.

Eben F. Pillsbury, editor of the Maine
Standard and chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, may fairly claim the palm
for the basest and most malicious act of the
campaign. We refer to the caricature of
Gen. Connor on crutches, issued as a sup
plement to the sheet which Pillsbury edits.
This wreched joke of caricaturing a soldier
who is crippled for life in his countrys SER
vice, discloses the grovelling and fiendish ma
ture of the man who has given it currency.
Nevertheless, Mr. Pillsbary is one of the
most prominent Of the Democratic leaders
and the very man who presented the name Of
Gen. Roberts to theDemocratic State Con-
yention and besmeared him with the slime
OF bis eulogy. In the very improbable event
OF Democratic ascehdency in Maine, this
man who heartlessly makes the disabilities OF
one oi the country's soldiers the subject of a
brutal joke, will be one of the men whose
influence will be most potent in giving di-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Imitation and Wages.

The burden of the cry of the rag money
demagogues-the Aliens, Carys and Kelleys-
is that further imitation of the currency will
be most beneficial to laboring men, and that
any approach to specie payments would be a
wrong to that class little short of an outrage.
The statistics of farm wages, as published by
the Department of Agriculture, show that in
the period of the war, when imitation was at
its greatest point, the advance in wages was
not at all in proportion to the general rise in
the prices of all the articles of food and
rament required by the laborer; and this,
too, in spite of the fact that the supply of
labor had been greatly reduced by the de-
mand for men for the army. 1t should be
remembered by every man who depends upon.
his day labor for support, whether he is
clerk in the counting room or at work for
farm wages, that the last thing which would
leel the temporary and illusive benefit
OF an Imitation Of the currency would
be the price of labor. The fictitious stim-
ulus which more paper money would
give to business, would send up the prices of
house-rent, food and raiment, while salaries
and days wages would remain the same for
a long time, or advance so slowly as to be
almost imperceptible. The purchasing power
of the dollar he receives will be diminished,
while the number Of dollars he gets would
not be increased.
On the other hand, in the business de-
preston of the past few years and the reac-
tion of prices, labor has not suffered so keenly
as capital. Wages have declined, but iu no
proportion to the general fall of prices. In
fact, the following table of farm wages per
month, without board, shows how slightly
wages have been affected compared with the
common decline in most of the commo moditins
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Curious Business i'm London,

1t is we'll known that in the compartment
styie Oh railway carriages used in England,
much comfort depends upon selecting ones
travelling companions Various devi es are
resorted t. prevent intruders, and where q
party OF tourists can secure a baby for company
they are generally avoided, and have the COM
partment to themselves. Hence the curious
advertisement in London paper of Artificial
babies for travellers
The riff of prices is as follows:
Common travelling infants. yielding inter-
mittent cries of fear, and capable of being put
into the pocket, 10 shillings.
Second-class, crying not too loudly, but Ia
mentally and insupportaby-20 shillings.
Third-class full squallers, with yery pierc.
ing and aggravating voice of five octayes. e.
The same, arranged as prompt repeate rs,
Fifth-class, first quality, capable of contin-
ned squalling, IS. = '-''A
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Current Notes

Lnre Jefferson Davis the Bos ton Trans
cript relates: "a dry and quaint D. D., not
now living, reading the warm eulogy of the
greatest of the three Christian graces, when
he reached the assertion that the greatest
'endureth all things paused and, looking up
with twinkle in his eve, remarked. sBut.
nevertheless, brethren, charity isn't FOOL +"
The first thing to be done in behalf of civ
ilization in America is to defeat Allen and
Cary. Gen. Grant is not thought of in the
fight. He belongs to period of the past.
He could do one thing TO help the Republican
in Ohio, just now, and he don't. He could
allow Delano to slide out of his cabinet and an
point Judge Taft,who would rank with Bris-
tow as man of affairs and integrity. We
disagree with the New York Sun as to the
party that should first be overthrown. The
Democratic party must be smashed first. It
IS the prop that upholds the Republican par
ty.-CincinnaS Commercial.
The nore Money Convention, which is to
meet in Detroit, is likely to prove very dis
astrous thing to the Democratic party. It's
purpose, though not yet revealed, is undoubt-
edly the formation of an Imitation party for
the next Presidential, canvass. II will act
independently of both political organizations.
and will have in view the nomination of Judge
Kelley or Ben Butler as a candidate for 1876.
What do the Ohio Democrats propose to do
about it? Will they submit to be Greeleyzed
second time? Those eminent Imitation
Republicans wEo have Joined them recently
have bad an eye to business.-St Louis Globe.
Something like wall. is it not, for the Gin.
einnati Enquirer to say that the Democratic
party in Ohio needs organization badl W
without organization" continues the En-
quirer, "the disciplined followers of the Money
Power cannot be met" A few weeks ago the
Enquirer predicted a Democratic victory by
$4,000 majority; now it has taken to double
loaded appeals for organization. The change
is significant.
Some OF the Western papers persist in be-
lieving the recent account of Senator Tour
mans alleged conversation on Cary and the
Catholics, notwithstanding the Senator's de-
NAL. The Cincinnati Commercials Cleve.
land correspondent telegraphs that the story
may be set down as true. The CORRESPOND
ent, who furnished the account, is apparently
proud of his eavesdropping ability and saws
he did it for the good of the people of Ohio.
He also makes an affidavit, which will be
taken for what it is worth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
News and Other Items.

The Usage Indians have $4,000 wheat crop
this year.
The total cost to Great Britain of the Abys-
sinian war was 98, 8,959,0O0.
David Dudley Field has gone to Europe to
attend the meeting of the Institute of 1nterna.
tional Law Meanwhile be has made every ar
rangement possible for the protection of Tweed
during his absence
DIR. j. A. Larvey, well known physician
of Iatan, Mo-, lately returned from a spree,
and found that personal friend had died
from his neglect to attend call. He thereup-
on went into his back office and shot himself
dead.
The two great express companies of the
country, the Adams and the American, employ
about 5000 men, 1900 horses, 1900 wagons, aud
use 5000 iron Safes Their agents travel more
than 100000 miles daily, or more than 32,0O0,-
900 miles yearly.
During the performance st Barnum's Hippo
drome at Moline, ILL.,, the other day, one man
fell while riding and was crushed so that he
died in few hours. Another performer was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
FRYEBURG, Aug. 21st, 1875.

To the Editor of the Press:
Last evening the people of Fryebrrg were
favored with another lecture from the Rev
Henry j. Carpenter. His subject was the Life
and Writings of DR. Samuel johnson.
The speaker began with an apology for tho
lack OF preparation in his lecture, owing 10 Sc
we're indsl ostion which had almost prevented
him from speaking. After listening to the
lecture the audience thought the apology uu-
necessary, as Mr.. Carpenter was never more
eloquent than when speaking of the great
works OF this great man. He told in his usual
lgnt and happy way, many anecdotes of the
lamented DR. who considered music the most
toerable of noises, and held the closest atten-
ton OF his audience for nearly two hours Be
tore the lecture the Rev. Charles Barrows, of
Lowell, Mass, and his sister, Mrs. Ellen Bar
rows Oakiord, sung duet with much taste
and feeling ID.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25

10 the far-reaching mind of the Arqus
man the re-opening of the Eastern question
seemed to present an opport unity for France
to recover her position in Europe. So he set
down and wrote leader, concluding it with
this lofty flight of eloquence: "Seeing his
country's opportunity the hero of hundred
battles, the general who has carried the tri-
color at the head of the French legions into
every capital of Continental Europe, Marshal
Nay, bravest of the brave, has consented to
return to active service, and will at once as.
sumo command of the army of the Rhine"
Here the eye of the argus man, rolling in
hne frenzy, fell upon wall-inscription in
mammoth green letters which read sMichael
Ney, obit 1885," and that leader went into
the waste basket.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
These figures show that tha man '

These hgures show that the man who
depends upon his day labor for his support
has everything TO lose and nothing to gain by
an imitation of the currency. Demagogues
may argue otherwise, but their theories are
overturned by few common sense facts
which are selfevident. 1t is selfevident
TACT that when a man contracts to give so
many days work for so many dollars, and
those dollars are of a paper currency which
is deprecated by over-issue, he is robbed in
just the proportion that money has been
cheapened.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway. steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal, as we have information that several bum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
PRESS, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25

The Republicans of Bangor are evidently
thoroughly aroused and united. Monday
evening campaign club was organized and
the old-time enthusiasm manifested. Our
reports from the various parts of the state are
most encouraging. Push on the work.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
Eications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
rection to the policy of Maine. We call at
tention to the following comments on Mr.
Pillsbury's unexampled piece of malice:

rection to the policy OF Maine. We call at
tention to the following comments on Mr.
Pillsbury's uncxampled piece of malice:
If the Maine Standard expects to make
| political capital by caricaturing soldiers Grip
ped in the defence of their country, it is
sadly in error. The people OF this state are
not yet prepared to look upon such an ex-
hloliion with any degree of pleasure and will
surely resent it at the po!s.-Lincola County
a mistaken joke is that of the Standard in
sending out its extras with caricature of
zen. Connor on crutches! When the hon.
oraDle wounds OF a soldier are made an OBJ
ject OF rdicule, and offered as such by a
party organ, the joke goes wrong end fore
most. No Democrat will laugh at it or give
it countenance. 1t is an unucky Joke. and
will tell very pungen.ly the other way.-
WdteruiLle Mail.
We have before us an extra of the Maine
Standard, Pillsbury's sheet, which the Dem
ocratic party are so unfortunate as to have to
own as their organ in Kennebec county. One
OF the leading devices in it is a caricature of
Gen. Connor on crutches. The base man
VINO could send forth from his office carica-
lure OF the misfortune which befe another
while hghting to save his country from its in
ternal toes, with whom history shows that
man to have been in sympathy, is capable of
any crime forbidden by the laws of our coun-
Try. All honest Democrats land we trust
There are some) will scoIn such baseness. and
turn from the party which sanctions it. The
document will cut severely in a way its au-
tnor does not desire or hope.-Machias Re.
publican.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25

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