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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

The joint resolution before the New Hamp-
shire legislature to take the sense of the
voters on the subject of revision of the con-
stituton, contemplates some changes from
the present mode of representation in the leg
islature. 1t seeks to have the time of the state
election changed from the second Tuesday of
March to the third Tuesday of November in
each year, except when the presidential cleo
tion occurs, and it also changes the time of
the meeting of the legislature from the first
Wednesday OF June to January. Five hun
dred additional voters will be required to
give second representative, and towns not
having one hundred and fifty voters are to be
classed for an election. The senate is sought
TO be increased to thirty-six members a plu-
rality of votes to elect any officer instead of
majority. A provision is sought to be made
for tribunal to settle contested election
cases, to determine who is entitled to the
prinad fdcie right 10 the seat, etc., to elect
judges, except judge of probate, by the peo-
pie, and also to elect secretary of state, state
treasurer, attorney-general, adjutaut- ut-general,
sheriff and county solicitors by the people for
the terms of two years; to remove the relig-
ious tests, and, what seems novel as constitu.
tional repairs, to provide that there shall be
no free transportation or transmission over the
railroads or telegraph lines in the state. but
only fair and just dividends, equal privileges
to all, and the lowest possible charges against
the citizen The resolution is,ohered by Mr.
N. G. Ordway, late sergeant-at-arms of the
house of representatives at Washington, at
which post, as well as in the political expe-
riences of New Hampshire, he has had abun-
dant opportunity to study constitutional de-
fects. An attempt at revision was made in
1850, but session of fifty-one days only re-
suited in the adoption of an amendment of
little Importance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

MAJOR WILSON, Solicitor of the Treasury,
has returned to Washington after an absence
of over month spent in advising with
United States officers engaged in prosecuting
whiskey frauds. He has visited all the promi-
inent places west where illicit whiskey oper-
ations were discovered. Evidence which the
government had collected was laid before the
proper law officers and fully explained. All
the cases are in excellent shape. The only
delay in any quarter now arises from the fact
that most of the courts are in summer re-
cess. In all the principal cities the chief
members of the ring have been discovered,
and much valuable evidence has been Sc
cured Instances have been discovered where
government officials of prominence have
been holding very suspicious relations to
those they are supposed to be prosecuting,
and the public will soon know these gentle
men by their removal. Evidence has been
taken showing new method of fraud per-
petrated by gauging liquor at a very high
temperature, and then regauging it at the
point where it is received, after it has been
allowed to cool down.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

Mr.. ALFRED LAUREL, attached TO the
French ministry of foreign affairs during the
Franco-Prussian war, comes to the front and
says that the French Cabinet was assured
that the Southern States of Germany would
unite with Prussia in the event of hostilties,
and that there was not any time the slightest
prospect of their neutrality. 1t appears also
that the English and Austrian ambassadors
warned the French against pressing their de-
mand for the remuneration of the Spanish
crown by Prince Leopold.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
Cify of Portland

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
June %, 1875. !
NOTICE is hereby given to all owners Of every
~ truck wagon, dray, cart, or any vehicle used
bricks, sand, clay gravel dirt, rubbish, goods, wares
furniture, merchandise, building materials, or any
other article or thing whatsoever, to apply at the
City Marshais ONCE, for their licenses Monday.
the 18th day of July next, from 10 TO 70 a. M. and
from to 6 p m. All owners of the above named We
with proper numbers, to be and one-balf inches
square. and place them on their vehicles in snch po-
sition as directed.
will be revoked.
All persons not obtaining their licenses VIII he
dealt with according to law
jne24d4w GEO. W. PARKER, City Marshal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

The great American desert has vanished,
the Australian desert has followed suit, and
now Sahara is said to be myth. A French
traveller who has been traversing the country
where it was supposed to be says that great
part of the way the soil is fertile, producing
plants in abu ldance. Next we shall hear
that the desert of Cobb or Shame as the old
aliases called it, has no existence. These
travellers must be put down, Or they won't
leave an inch of the earth's surface.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

OUR venerable and loyal friend of the
Presque Isle Sunrise will be pleased to find
head of the Argus editorial column. The
most of us are content that the paper which
boldly declares that Llewellyn Powers is the
very best type of man to represent dis
trict in Congress, should not give willing sup
port to Gen. Connor. On the other hand
the North Star, which opposes Mr.. Powers,
is most enthusiastic in its support of the Re-
publican candidate for Governor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
NOTICE.

TUsHE Superintending School Committee of the
City of Portland will examine according to
Section 81 of the School Laws OF Maine, on Tues
day July 6, at a. m, in the High School Building
candidates proposing to teach in said city.
Per order of the Committee,
E. HUME, Secretary.
inet1eod2ly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
CITY of Portland.

MARsHAL's OFFICE |
June %, 1875.
NOTICE is hereby given to all owners of hackney
IN carriages, TO present their carriages to the City
Building, on Thursday, the 9Th day of July next,
from 10 to 12 m and from to p. m, and for re-
ceiving their licenses for the year.
jne24d4w GEO. W. PARKER, City Marshal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

FOREIGN travel has received a stimulus by
the announcement that there is a
town Of $4,000 inhabitants in Belgium
that contains 800 drinking shops where the
best Holland gin can be obtained for Two
cents glass,-and the glasses are none of
your little thick-bottomed affairs, either. The
name of this earthly paradise is St. Nicolas.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
dscredit upon the originality of Mother
Goose. The familiar quatrain:
all the trees were bread and chees
And all the sea was ink,
And all the sky was apple pie,
What should we have 10 drink.

is said 10 be taken from an old play, written
by "F. D." and published in London in 1885,
Those well-informed people who know that
about all the wit and wisdom of the world is
found between the covers of the nursery clas-
sic will laugh to scorn all such pretended dis
coveries. A man who is ashamed of his
name, and only signs his initials to his work
don't amount to much anyhow, and would
lust as soon steal as not.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
M. l.. A.
The Mercantile Library Association
announce their


To the White M ountains.
Leaving Portland Thu psday Morning and
Afternoon July ..
The route will be as follows: From Portland to
Gorham via Grand Trunk Railroad, thence by stages
to the Glen House, from Glen House to summit of
Mt. Washington and return, thence by stages to
Glen Station and return to Portland via Portland &
Ogdensburg r. r. Tickets for the round trip $S 60
Board at the Glen House so 80 per day. Tickets
good to return for week Tickets for sale by the
Treasurer ]. G. PROCTER, % Exchange Street. on
limited to the capactv of the Coaches and nome m VIII III
be sold after july 9th.
M. b. Coolidge, G. H. Haskell, H. F. Furbish, W.
f. Wood, j. F. Hawkes., w. e. Davis j. C. Proctor,
Committee on Excursions. inel6eod3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
CITY ADVERTIsEME ENTS
City of Portland.

DROPOSALS will be received until July 3, 1917,
Il at On, for furnishing the Public Schools Of
the city with fuel for ensuing year.
Coal must pure Lehigh and 224O lbs to the ton.
Most of the COAL say 300 tons, must be delivered at
High, North, West, Park and Vaughn street School
houses during the present vacation.
The balance of coal, say 81 tons, and the hard
wood say 800 cords, an | soft wood, say 5O cords
must be delivered as ordered
Proposals may state at what price wood Will be
delivered sawed twice.
iu2Sd5t ERE'K FOX, School Agent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

The Toledo Catholic Revie,o SAYS: "That
the catholic vote should be cast solely for IL
Democracy at the coming election is un-
doubtedly true. 1t is the only possible hone
to break doavn the school system"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

Book Binders,
WIN. A. QUINCY, Room II, Printers
Exchange, No. III Exchange 80.
SMALL d. szACKFGRD, No. 35 Plum
Street.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Booksellers and StatiOners.
HOYT, a. FOGGs ,No.9l Middle Street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30

THE PRIZES WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
First Class Yachts 81 feet and upwards:
SCHOONERS SLOOPS lst ed $50.
Second Class Yachts 25 feet and less than 81:
SCiOONEHSS AND sLOOPS Ist $50 I'd $50.
Third Class Yachts Is feet and uHder 25
sCHO0NERs AND sLOOPs S $50, ed SIS.
M. at
Congress fato ninqureo fConmttee
SEs9AMS N4Ah 9Jn WILLARD ceanHse aasaas
". DEERiNG hacn'
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
Cause of Hard Times in the South.

Oh 41llCo AZ SOoSA.
That excellent and sensible farmer,
Colonel ID. W. Aiken, thus speaks
upon the subject Of the South and the
causes of her deep affection and pow
erty;
First, then, assign as one Of the
reasons of our continued poverty and
want of progress, the fact that we do
not produce enough of what we eat
and wear, and buy too much on credit.
Through series of years, regardless
OF the price of cotton, on nlncty-nine
out of every hundred Southern farms,
it is cheaper to grow oats for plow an
| finals than to haul corn from the near
est depot, because oats will follow
cotton with no cost but the seed and
| harvesting, both of which can be paid
| for every winter in the mutton that
can be fatted on the growing crops; it
is cheaper 10 raise all the pork the
farmers family can consume annually,
than to buy bacon at ten cents per
pound, it is cheaper TO grow pound
Of wool, up TO certain number OF
pounds than pound of cotton; and it
is cheaper togrow anything that can
possibly be grown on q farm than to
buy it: on credit.
Few farmers understand properly
what is meant by ''buying on credit
They know they get the article and
pay more than if they paid cash, but
they never once calculate the premium
of percentage they are paying for this
privilege Of getting time or credit.
Let me illustrate: The average farmer
NAV raise enough to do him till the
first of April. By that time he has to
buy, but having no cash, though good
credit, he goes to the store and buys
bacon at fifteen cents per pound, pay
able on the first of November follow
ing. lie learns the cash price is twelve
and a half cents per pound, but necs-
sity compels him to buy on q credit.
He thus pays two cents and half per
pound for the privilege of buying on
credit, or one sixth of the price to be
paid, which is simply sixteen and two
thirds per cent per annum for the use
of money. But he buys in April and
has to pay the first of November, only
eight months credit, and pays twenty
five per cent per annum for the use of
money. What farmer can afford to do
this and live? What is applicable to
bacon Is to corn, hay, -four, imple-
ments, mules and every article the
farmer buys on a credit.
It is estimated that the average in
crease of agricultural wealth of the
United States is about four per cent
per annum. The average increase of
agricultural wealth in any Southern
State, annually since the war, has not
been one per cent. Indeed, some Of
the States have travelled the other way,
and arc now lost in the wilderness of
debt; and there is no more patent
cause for this condition of things than
that Of buying on credit the necessa-
ries Of life to enable them to grow cot
ton, and this, too, very frequently at
cost that exceeds its mark ct value.
There is an infatuation about this cul-
tivation of cotton that amounts to an
hallucination. Can there be nothing
invented to SO far dispel it as to induce
the southern farmer to live more with
in himself and less at the mercy of the
| Slylocks of the land ?-Er
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
Endurance of Eastern Horses

Australian horses, unprepared, I'M
shod and uncared for, are in the con-
slant habit of performing forty fifty or
even sixty miles day, when on a jour
ney, over rough roads or through the
wild native bush, without even track.
Their food consists of what they can
pick up for themselves, in many cases
when tethered to prevent their stray
ing, and their grooming in having the
rough mud scraped of with q bunch
ofgrass; but they have at least one
advantage over Caradoc, in being
allowed to rest and ease their limbs in
whatever manner they choose during
the night. 1t is stated on the authori-
ty of Abd-el-Kader, that Arab horses
will travel three or four months at the
rate of fifty miles day without show
ing fatigue, and are capable of doing
one hundred and fifty miles in single
day during the journey, if treated
with care, and quietly ridden the next.
Some years ago an Arab, only four
hands one inch high, was ridden in
India four hundred miles IN five days
for o bet; and its owner offered to
repeat the feat after one days rest.
This offer, however, was not accepted,
as the game little horse won the match
the first time with the greatest ease.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
Smut in Wheat.


A California correspondent of the
Department Of Agriculture, writes
We have neither rust nor smut in any
of our wheat fields. / beg leave tc
differ from tho advice given on page
i57 of the monthly report of the De-
partment for November and December,
1871, wherein farmers are advised to
discard all idea of mixing ingredients
with it (seed wheat to destroy smut"
This question has been so well and
thoroughly tested in our State as to be
no longer even a matter of doubt. All
our seed wheat is soaked from eight TO
twelve hours in solution of blue stone
(sulphate of copper in the proportion
of six ounces to every one hundred
pounds of wheat. Smut being fun
gold growth, resulting from diseased
grains, the germ of vitality of these
diseased grains is killed by the solu-
ton of vitriol, and thus prevented from
growing and communicating the sound
grains. a farmer here would be
thought crazy, were he to sow his
wheat without subjectiug it to the
above process.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
How to Destroy Insects.

Hot alum water is recent suggestion
as an insecticide. 1t will destroy red
and black ants, cockroaches, spiders
chintz bugs, and all the crawling pests
which infest our houses. Take two
pounds of alum and dissolve it in three
or four quarts of boiling water; let il
stand on the fire ill the alum disap.
pears; then apply it with brush
while nearly boiling hot, to every joint
and crevice in your closets, bedsteads,
pantry shelves and the like. Brush
the crevices in the floor of the skirting
or mop-boards, if you suspect that
they harbor vcrmin. lin whitewash-
ing ceiling plenty of alum is added
10 the lime, it viii also serve to keep
insects at a distance.
Cockr.aches will flee the paint that
has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed
from ants by drawing wide chalk
mark lust around the edge of the top
OF them. The mark must be nnbroizen,
or they viii creep over it; but con-
tinuous chalk mark half an inch in
width will set their depredations at
naught. Powdered alum or borax
will keep the chintz bugs at respect
able distance, and travellers should
always carry package in their hand
bags, to scatter over and under their
pillows IN places where they have rea-
son to suspect the presence of such
bedfellows.-JouasGl of Chemistry.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
The Mission OF the Fly.

Why are flies? has been perpetual
query with the housekeepers and per-
sons who would take noon-day maps in
warm weather The question has been
answered by Mr.. Emerson, an English
chemist, whose experiments are re-
corded in the Scientific American. In
the light of the revelations of that gem
tleman's Investigations. the fly assumes
the position Of an important friend,
Instead of pest to mankind.
Mr.. Emerson states that he began
his self-appointed task of finding out
whether the fly really serves any APP
probable purpose in the scheme of ere
alton, excepting as an indifferent scav-
enger, by capturing fine specimen
and gluing his wings down to amicro-
scope slide. On placing the slide UNI
der the instrument, to the investiga-
tors disgust, the fly appeared covered
with lice, causing the offending insect
to be promptly released and another
substituted in his place. Fly No. 2 was
no better than fly No. l, and as the
same might be predicted of flies 8, 4, 5,
Cor of u flies, as the algebras have IT'D
Mr.. Emerson concluded here was some
thing which at once required looking
into. Why were the flies lousy !!
Meanwhile fly No. 2, on the sliGe, was
taking his position very coolly, and ex-
tending his proboscis began to sweep
il over his body as if he had just
alighted. A glance through the micro
scope, however, showed tha5 the oper-
alton was not one of standardization,
for wherever the lice were, there the
trunk went. The lice were disappear
ing into the trunk the fly was eating
them.
lie took the paper into he kitchen
and waved it around, taking care that
no flies touched it, went back to the
microscope and there found animalcu-
les, the same as on flies. He had now
arrived nj something definite.
The investigator goes on to describe
how lie continued the experiment in a
variety of localities, and how in dirty
and bad-smelling quarters, he found
the myriads of flies which existed
there covered with animalcules, while
other flies, captured in bed rooms or
well-ventilated, clean apartments, were
miserably lean and entirely free from
their prey. Wherever filth existed,
evolving germs which might generate
disease, there were the flies, covering
themselves with the minute organisms
and greedily devouring the same.-Er.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

Advance Grange, ''--Eagle Township.
VIM Van Buren,, Master.
ii. CANT, Secretary, sedgwick City
stNinneseah Grange. ''-Nlnncscah Township.
Tuos j. MACREDiE, Master.
Zar.h McClung, seo'y., Clear Water.
II. c. smith, Master.
{. 5. Zimmerman, Secretary, sedgwick.
''prair.e Gem Grange, Waco Township
v c Cartwright, Master.
!. =. York, Sec'y., Wichita.
..Att!ca Grange, "-Attica Township.
John Kelly, Master
J.a. McYiol<er, Secretary, Atica.
yosemite Grange p-0hio Township,
J. J. Williams, Master.
j. D. Malcom, Sco'y., Ohio Center
"Gom Grange, Park Township,
Henry Hudson, Master.
Frank D. Canton. svc'y., Park CITY
'Delano Grange. ''-Delano Township,
Matthew Sculy, Master.
r. L. Lawrence, Secretary, Delano.
"clarion Grange''-Lincoln Township.
W H. 1azel, Master.
5. Clark, Secretary, Clarion.
T'h9s o. Hoss, Master.
Kate NJ. Perrin, Secretary, Wichita
.fVa,lev Grange. - Kccli Township.
JoHN WARD, Master.
Geo w Dennis, sec'y., Wichita.
pheasant IInl Grange''--Delane Township.
Harry Martin, Master,
j. W hcith, Secretary, scltLa
''waoo Grange, Watson Township.
Edward Gee, Master.
d. o. WILSON, sec'y., Waco p. o.
Rockford Grange. ''-IiockGord Township.
j. Hout Minnich, Master.
}. Hufbauer, Secretary, II Paso.
PLEASANT view Grange, - Union ,s Township.
G. ". c. Jones, Secretary, Delaao.
Wm Wikoil, Master,
Alex. J. Gard, Secretary, wichita.
''lIone Congratulations Township.
j. i. Piper, Master.
Geo. III Jordan, Secretary, Wichita.
Payne Grange, Payne Township.
a {. Cobb, Eastcr.
James Wilson, Secretary, Greenwich p. o.
''Cowskin Gsange''-Greeley Township.
JAS. J.. Barnett, Master,
Frank Dale, Secretary, Eldridge.
~Oro Grange, Near Ten Nile Post.
Ii. u. WikoG, Master.
H. a. RALPH, see'y., Wichita.
'Minneha Grange, '-Minncha Township.
John Feagan, Master,
George Mason, Secretary, Wichita.
eden Grange''-wacO Township.
4. }. Smith, Secretary, Wichita.
Mount Hope Granse''-Greeley Township.
Amos VI. Durand Master.
T. II. Randall, Secretary, Mount Hope.
Harmony G-Grge. ''--Uinon Township,
IL H. ! brts -hAnltf,
(. ". Steemod, Sec'y, Jamesburgh.
''scilzser Springs Grangc'-AIinncha Township
Z. }. Minor, Master,
J. D. Fox, Secretary, 1Iinnella.
''Grccnleaf Gra7ge''--Gypsum Township.
l.. ". Waters, Master.
Thos. L. Preston, Secretary, Ii l'aso.
''Wide-Awake Grange Township.
". =. Slocum, Master,
Il. sasseen, Secretary, Wichita.
'.Sairyicw Grange''-Payne Township.
). II. Hayden, Master.
Geo. Lent, Secretary, Clarion.
Evergreen Grange, - NiHnescah Township.
". 7. Likely, Master,
J. 7. Morrison, Secretary Wichita.
''CAion Grange" Union Township.
Ii. NJ. Rice, Master.
L. :. Eel. Secretary, Eldridge.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

We have a quantity OF copies Of the
constitution ofthe Kansas StGteGrange
and the proceedings of the last session
of that body, for distribution among
subordinate Oranges also copies ofthe
Grange Bulletin, paper published
quarterly by the Executive Committee
for free distribution. Each Grange is
entitled to two or three copies. Let
the Master or Secretary call at the
Office of the County Superintendent
and get them.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

None but lazy teamster will allow
the harness yoke to remain on teams
while they eat their midday meal.
Teams will perform more labor on the
same feed in a given time by giving
them water every two or three hours.
The water should stand in the sun if
practicable. 1t should not be cold on
any account.-Er.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

All honor 10 the Patrons in Hardin
county, Ohio. One year ago there
were no Oranges, but now there are
twenty-soyen, and they have contrib
u;cd $500 in money, besides a large
quantity of supplies to the destitute
brethren IL the districts infested by
the grasshoppers.-E.c.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

A correspondent of the Indiana
Farmer relates the cure of self-milk-
err by smearing the teat with mixture
composed of grating wax (softened
by the addition of a little lard) and
cayenne pepper.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

At the last meeting of the District
Grange and constitution and bylaws
were adopted. The regular meeting
Of I've Grange is the first Tuesday of
each month.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17

"Kansas state Grange'' Business Officers,
NJ T. Hudson, Master, Mapleton,
T. u. Maxson, Secretary, Emporia.