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The Portland daily press., 1875-02-04

FIREMEN's ANNIvERsARY.-Last evening
occurred the eleventh anniversary of Cumber.
land engine company No. g. The night was
not one to draw large crowd, but the friends
of the company turned out in good numbers.
The sdoctor" had the machine brushed up
in good shape and set one side to give room
for two long tables which ran the whole length
of the house. The steward was on hand and
had the tables wel' covered with tempting
yiands. The coffee was steaming hot and when
the word was given to ''limber up" every man
was at his post.
Among the number of invited guests present
we're noticed Alderman Clement, Chief Engi-
neer Merrill, Assistant Engineer Littlefeld,
ex-Chief Engineer Rogers and large number
of the officers and members of the different fire
companies. The supper prepared was an ex-
cellent one and the company spent some time
in discussing it. When all had eaten to their
satisfaction speeches were in order.
Remarks were made by Alderman Clement,
Chief Merrill, Assistants Littlefeld and
Cloyes, ex-Chief Rogers, Foremen Leighton
and Murphy, Clerks Burnham, Freeman and
Bookings, d.. J. E. Sturgs and Mr.. Charles
French.
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TOMATOES !!
NOTICE.

NOTICE..
YyHE business heretofore carried on under the firm
IL name of LORD, HASKELL, NEAL q Co, for
continued under the same style before by Lord,
Haskell g. Neal, G. and l.. P. WARREN having
withdrawn their interest from the business.
JOHN n. LORD,
MERRILL Il. HASKELL,
WILLIAM H. NEAL.
Portland, Feb 1875. feb4s3w
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jos PRlN, NG.-Every description Of JOB
Printing executed promptly, and at the lowest
prices at the Daily PRESS Printing House, ~
E,chonca 81 VIM M.MARKs.
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The Grand Army sociable will occur this
evening.
The Y. M. C. Association hold a social relig
ious meeting every Wednesday evening at thei
rooms, to which all are invited.
The thaw is no longer postponed on accoun
| of the weather.
Make note of it-C sharp or you'll b fiat
Query to the sheriffs-Have we any Bourbon
| among us?
The collection in aid of the Widows Wood
| Society at the praise meeting in Chestnut
| street church on Sunday evening amounted tC
1924.
The middle of the street was well patronized
yesterday, as it was impossible to walk en- the
sidewalks.
Get your suits for the calico ball.
The February number of the Maine Journal
of Education has been received.
There were number of heavy snow slides
yesterday.
The flag on the City Building was at half
mast yesterday ,eut of respect to the late Coun-
| Gilman TburstOn.
While Mr. James Miller, the plumber, was
| at work at Mr.. p. III. Browns on Vaughan
street, yesterday, SOmeDOuy StOio nio hOiSO "hu
sleigh from the door and they were afterwards
found in snow drift on the Eastern Preme-
made.
Dennis Hines was set upon by roughs the
other night while going home, aud was badly
hurt.
We understand that homeopathic dis
pensary is soon to be established in this city.
The rain yesterday afternoon did not prove mt
the Museum being crowded at the matinee.
The managers of the Board of Trade hold
their monthly meeting this evening.
A new and Hourishing councillof the Sover-
eigns of Industry was instituted Monday night
at Buxton Centre, by Deputy Green. coun-
Gil is to be started soon at Bath.
Fifty-seven divorces were decreed in Cum
berland county the past year, of which 26 were
for desertion, s for adultery, for cruelty, for
drunkenness, and for other causes.
A despatch to the Merchants Exchange yes
terday moyning, announces that the brig Geo.
S. Berry, Capt. Howard Keazer. of this port,
arrived at New York from Cardenas Tuesday.
On the passage Clarence d. Baker, seaman
residing in this city, was lost overheard.
Last night was bad time for entertaiu'
ments, but they were generally well attended.
The next of the Cadets assemblies will be
given at Reception Hall Tuesday evening.
The Portland daily press., 1875-02-04

BARNABEE's ENTERTAINMENT.-"The man
who Laughs" was many times multiplied in
| City Hall last evening. Despite the most dis
| agreeable weather of the winter, the audience
was nearly equal to the capacity of tie hall
good evidence of the popularity of the prince
| of funny fellows, Henry Clay Barnabee, whose
art of tickling the disabilities of the genus
homo, is confessedly unsurpassed. He is, in
short, Though long) the embodiment of "mirth
that wrinkled care derides, and laughter hold
ing both his Sides"
His songs, WANTED, Governess," 1.-THE
Patent ARM" and "Blue Beard,'' were ire
sistibly funny, in which he displayed deep,
rich and sonorous bass voice and fine capabili-
ties as an actor. The applause evinced the
hearty enjoyment thereof His readings and
recitations were equally c;editable. darius
Green and his Flying Machine and "The
Debating Society" gave great qualification"
as the forlorn spinster expressed it, The
sketch in character, "Tbe unprotected Female"
was what ARENAS Ward deemed Shakespeare's
tomb, "a perfect success" provoking excessive
merrment.
Mr.. Shuebruk, the cornetist, is marvellous
performer on that instrument, and has hardly
his equal in the country. The Whirlwind
Polka was received with whirlwind of APP
plause. s'Faciita'' was also admirably rem
dered. His playing was one of the most de-
lightful features of the entertainment. Mr.
Dow is an accomplished accompanist-well
endowed" as Barnabee put it,
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Rare Chance tor a Grocer.

NyHE stock and lease of Grocery Store doing good
IL business ia fOurishing village within two miles
of Portland is offered for sale. Any wishing to
engage in the retail grocery business will find this
good place. Address BUSINESS" this office.
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NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
IN been duly appointed and taken upon himself
the trust of Administrator of the estate Of
HENRY HALL, late of Falmouth,
in the County of Cumberland, deceased and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having de
mands upon the estate OF said deceased are required
to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted TO said
estate are called upon to make payment to
FREDERICK f. HALL, Admir-.
Falmouth, Jan. 18th, 1875. w3w'3
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Agents Wanted.

TKyO sell Willet's Patent Card Holder. The best
county rights or furnish holders TO sell commits
sion A good opportunity to make money guar an
teed. Address j. W. GOoch, Loo k Box q Biddeford
Mo Wins
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MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.

c. W. GODDARD POSTMASTER
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rFrom fine Rockland Gnzette.1

We shouldn't like to be obliged to keep
house" in a newspaporial sense without the
daily visits of the Portland PRESS, which
brings us the news seven hours in advance OF
the Boston dailies. The PRESS gives full tele-
graphic news and commercial reports, besides
state news, correspondence and vigorous edto-
rails 1t is wide-awake, able, and ipdepend-
ent paper, and is published at 81 year, includ-
ing postage, which is very low price for SO
valuable daily paper. The Maine State
Press is an excellent weekly newspaper.
The Portland daily press., 1875-02-04

The PRESS is ably edited and conducted, and
full of news. The Maine State Press is first
class Weekly, made up from the Daily. The
Geographic news is carefully rewritten and Civ
en- under the head of Weekly Review. In
addition to this there is an agricultural depart
ment ably conducted. On the whole the two
papers occupy the front rank among Maine
newSpapers
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Hearing before Railroad Committee.

NR-Those desiring FURNITURE will find 1t
greatly to their advantage to inspect these goods be-
fore making n nurchase ia15d2awFM3m
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
IOWA.

The Wettern Weekly, published at Da-
venport, is busily engaged in discussing
the question of organizing prohibition
party in the State. 1t claims to have one
of the best liquor laws in the country but
thinks party pledged to its enforcement
should be behind it. 1t says:
''More and more are we convinced that
the surest and swiftest way to bring about
all which is desired by the friends of pro.
hlbltlon is to organize party which shall
give to prohibition the prominent place
IN its platform, and the members of which
shall be pledged to vote only for prohibi-
ton men. That the suspicious time for
formation of such a party is right
at hand must be evident to every one who
studies the signs of the times. The old
parties are rapidly falling to pieces; the
old, Important issues which once kept
them together have, many Of them, lost
their vitality; and these parties seem to
be kept in existence largely for the pur-
pose Of gratifying the ambition of Office
holders or office seekers, who, having no
regard for the general good, shout the
praises OF their respective party, and de-
clare that it has high mission to fulfill,
just because they are hoping that the
continued existence of their political or
ganization will put large number of
feathers into their own nests.
at is true enough that some of the
sterling temperance advocates are still
clinging tenaciously to these old, dying
organizations; but goodly number are
opening their eyes to the fact that moth.
ing hopeful can come out of them for the
temperance cause; and the conviction
everywhere is deepening, that there must
be party which shall talk and vote in
favor of total abstinence.
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Dom Piatt and Zach. Chandler.

Dom Piatt gives an account in the last
Capital, of Zach. Chambers search of
him in Newspaper Row, very much as the
correspondent of the Chicago Times re-
ported it, and adds:
"The next day we had business with
the Sergeant-at.arms of the Senate. MIR.
French, and while sitting upon sofa
talking to that gentleman, who should
loom up at the door but the war man of
Michigan, and as he approached directly
upon us, we gently slid our right hand
into the pocket Of our overcoat. where
our fingers gently caressed revolver,
and had the ex-senator made anv move
indicating the production of that navy.
we rather flatter ourself that there would
have been vacancy in the Court Circle
OF Ulysses. We do not propose being
snuffed out by an ex-senator, or ANYBODY
else, drunk or sober. We have observed
through life, in our checkered career.
that when man is killed, he is lust as
much dead when murdered by a. drunk.
en- man as when demised by u son of
temperance"
having porous, open or feshy leaves GOV.
cred with soft down should be seldom. if
ever, moistened, while those having glossy
or hard leaves will do all the better #
washed frequently.
Our ivies, hoyas, and coboeas seem to
laugh at us after good dashing, but the
begonias, coleus, and plants of the same
Glass; 90 not appear to appreciate it.
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zone more to create heart.ache, embitter
lives' break up homes, and scrape off skin.
than all other domestic articles together
The other domestic screw-driyer nales ;+s
Intellectual fires in the presence of a stovo'
pipe, and the family hammer lust NO..
in the dust and weeps. We don't c.re
how much pains are taken to rememher
and keep in order the links, thew viii MT
come together as they came anart Th;s
is not joke, this is not exaeerat;o, -
is simply the solemn, heaven horn trn+h
If we appear unduly excited in this
measure, we are sorry for it, but we can't
hell 1T. We cannot write upon the subj
ject at all without feeling the blood
Jingle at our very fingers ends.
Then there is the cacman who Is n
move YOU He is engaged the day he.
fore. lie says he is going to be so bnsv
that there will be some difficulty in A..
commodating you, but if you can have
your things ready at 7 A. N. he thinks he
can fix it. You are up at 5 o'clock that
morning. At halfpast a full load Of
furniture is out in front, and another load
is stacked up in the hall and on the stairs.
Your coat is torn down the back. one
thumb is out of joint, and a pint Of SCOT
and an equal quantity of perspiration are
lighting for the mastery of your person.
AT IL A. the carman makes his appea-
ance and says we are going to have rain.
About the first thing woman does in
moving is to cut her fingers, and everv
object she wishes to call your attention to
IS pointed out with hand that is covered
by half-pound of carpet rags, and smell.
ing strong enough of arnica to knock ovar
stable boy. The injury is sometimes
caused by closing her eyes when she is
about to strike nail, but is most fire..
9uently done in taking up tacks with =
timber case-knife.
Years of experience in moving enables
carman to distinguish, in an apparently
indifferent glance. the light from the
heavy end OF stove, or which is the best
position on the stairs--in front or behind.
Against these fearful odds the head Of
the family has 10 chance whatever.
1t is now pretty generally admitted
tnat IN moving or house cleaning, a child
will put away three times the amount of
food as on any other occasion. Fortv
times day the mother apprehensiyely
inquiries, ''Land's sake what's the mat
ter with that child? Has it got tape
worm?''
1t is always the same. People who
have moved eleven times, and each time
different way, unhesitatingly reply that
the result is the same every time. There
IS no easy way to move.
Many articles which have become
pleasant to us from long association look
oreadiully cheap and dingy when loaded
on cart, with the neighboring window in
direct range.
There is nothing on the face of this
earth nor in the waters beneath the earth
that will prevent woman from tearing
up things forty'eight hours before it is
necessary.
We frankly confess that we do not I'm.
derstand why the shaving-cup is packed
at the bottom of barrel of tinware, or
why vest is used to wrap UP ham.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
DYING ABOVE THE CLOUD.
The Fatal Ascension Of the Balloon
Zenith--The Sad Story Told by the
Survivor-.lntrepidit of the Martyrs
to Science.

Mr.. Castor Tissandier, in letter to
the President Of the Aerial Navigation
Society, thus describes the voyage in
which the experienced aeronauts, Capt.
Sivel and Mr.. Croce-Spinelli lost their
lives. One Of their objects was to try ex-
periments Of the effect upon human lungs
of an extremely high atmosphere. NJ.
Croce-Spinelli also proposed to continue
those spectroscopic observations by
which he has already proved that no wa
terry vapors exist in the suns atmosphere.
N. Tssandier was to analyze the upper
air while Capt. Si7el attended to the bal.
loon:
C1rRox, (Indre,) April le.
MONSIEUR: A telegram, sent officially,
will have informed you of the sad mis-
fortune which has befallen US. Sivel and
Croce-Spinelli are no more. They sue.
cumbed to asphyxia in the high regions
OF the air to which we had assembled. I
will relate to you what I know of this
sad drama, for, during two consecutive
hours, l was in safe of complete uncon-
seriousness.
The ascension from the gas works at
La Vilette was accomplished favorablv.
At one in the afternoon we were more
than 5000 yards of altitude (pressure4OO.)
We had passed air into the potassium
tubes, felt our pulses, measured the in.
terror temperature of the balloon; which
was more than 20 G. Ass Fahr.), while
the exterior air was less than G. III
Fahr.) Sivel had trimmed the car:
Croce had used his spectroscope, and ali
were in high spirits.
Sivel threw out ballast and we ascend.
ded, breathing oxygen, which produced
an excellent effect.
At LII. 20m. the barometer marked 800
mm.; we were over 1000 yards high, and
the temperature was less than loo. $50
Fahr.) My companions were pale; I felt
weak, but I inhaled little Of the gas,
which somewhat revived me. We Still
assembled. Sivel turned toward me and
said: eve have large quantity of
ballast; shall 1 throw some out 2" I re.
piled, ''Do as you please He put the
same question to our friend, who nodded
theoretically in token Of approval. We
had live sacks with US, each weighing
twenty-five kilos, and at least four more
were hung outside the car.
SiVel took his knife and successfully
cut three cords. The bags were emptied.
and we mounted rapidly, All at once
found myself so feeble that I could not
even turn my head to look at nv com.
panions, who, believe were seated. I
desired to obtain the oxygen tube, but
could not lit my arm, but my mind was
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
One Hundred and Nine Years Old.
(From the Philadelphia Times)


Even Sir George Cornwall Lewis him.
SELL we think, must *'givc I'M to the
baron Waldeck, who recently died in
farls. If that remarkable old man was
not hundred and nine years old when
ne died, there is no means of knowing
now no old any body is, for the record Of
aldeck's birth at Prague. on March 16,
!'oo' IS as good record as we are accus-
toned to ask, and his claim to the title
OF a centenarian is quite equal to NJ.
liners claim to be called an octogena.
ran, which nobody disputes. NJ. Theirs
has been before the public from a time
to which the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary, but Waldeck WIS
heard OF before that. He was in Africa
with LIE valiant, and LIE valiant re.
turned to Paris from his remarkable ex-
plorations in l795, ninety years ago. He
was pupil Of David, who has been half
century in his grave. He was with
Napoleon in Egypt, with Lord
Cochrane in Chill; he travel
ed in Central America and
Mexico when those countries were little
known to Europeans, and as long as 1925
the Government gave him an annuity of
two thousand francs for some Of his pic.
lures, rather than pay him forty thou.
sand francs, which was thought. too high
price. 1t was not only the Director Of
the Eco]e des Beaux Arts, by the way.
that Waldeck got the better Of; he had a
seat at the opera which he had bought for
the rest of his life, and which he occu.
pied for about two ordinary lifetimes, to
the infinite chagrin Of the management.
Indeed, people who invested on the
chances of a poor one, and he used to say
OF himselft that, as he had long survived
the period when men usually die, and
kept his faculties unimpaired, there was
no apparent reason why he should not
live forever. He kept on painting pic
lures and writing elaborate works on
archaeology almost to the day of his
death, while the young men who grew up
about him were gathered into their
graves. Only think of a man who had
known Marie Antoinette before her mar.
rage; who had seen her glory and her
iall who had walked and talked with
Danton Robespierre and Murat; who had
served with Napoleon; who, from his
studio in Pals, had seen pass before his
eyes the First Empire, Louis XVIII, and
the monarchy Of July, the revolution of
February, and the Second Empire, the
4th OF September, the Commune and NJ.
Theirs; and who waited with the same in i.
difference to see MacMahon also pass
away: ~ am the only phenomenon of nv
kind,' he said; ''like Buddha, contem.
plate myself alone.'' 1t would need the
pen of Hawthorne to do justice to such
history; but it is not history that
one can covet, though old Waldeck ap-
pears to have found very little of the sad
ness in it that Hawthorne would have
dwelt upon. But Waldeck was Partisan,
and cosmopolite.
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mOViux Dav.

Says the Danbury News: One of the
most disastrous elements in moving is
small boy with an inspiring disposition.
1t he carries anything, it must be chair,
which he takes on his head with the back
to the front, so as to prevent him from
seeing where he is going, and, with the
erect legs in range of the chandelier and
upper door castings. Thus equipped, he
strikes military step, impriovising his
mouth into trumpet, and starts out. In
less than quarter of an hour he has that
chair safely on the cart where it is not
wanted, and is hurrying back after an
other. Before the carman has returned
for the second load, the one boy had de-.
veloped into eight, each boy with chair,
each boy under feet, and each boy max
ing as much noise as planning mill on a
damp day. If a boy can't get chair to
carry he wants two bed posts. He wants
two so he can carry one under each arm.
Then he starts down stairs. First the
posts cross each other at the front and
nearly throw him down, then they cross
at the back, the front ends fly off at a
tangent, one of them digging into the cal.
cimined wall, and the other entangling in
the banisters. But he won't let one of
them 60, but hangs On to both with exas.
perating obstinacy. In the meantime the
carman, who is working by the load and
not by the day, is waiting at the foot of
the stairs, and wishing that he had that
boy back of the Rocky mountains for
about fifteen minutes; and the anxious
father, with straw bed in his arms and
his eyes full of dust, is at the head OF the
stairs waiting to come down, and vocifer-
atlng at the top of his voice, until the
dust from the tick gets into his throat
and precipitates him into violent fit of
coughing. By the time the third load is
on the way, the novelty of helping carry
furniture is worn off to the boy, and he
and his companions are firing rubbish
from the garnet at each other, or fooling
with the horse just as some heavy object
is being lifted into the cart. The best
plan for moving family that has boy
is to get him half bushel of frozen pc.
tatoes to throw, and set him out in the
suburbs until the affair is over.
1t is singular the influence stove-pipe
has upon married man. There is moth
ing in this world he respects so much. A
passing load Of furniture may, in its gen.
eral appearance, be so grotesque as t.
call forth the merriment Of the thought
less young, but if there is a piece of stove
pipe in it no longer than a hat he will
laugh. We don't care who the man is,
how he has been brought up, what is his
position, wealth or influence, there is
that about length of stove'pipe which
takes hold upon his very soul with a
force he is helpless to resist. And the
married man who can stand within reach. |
ing distance Of a stove.pipe without feel.
ing his heart throb, his hands clinch, his |
hair rise, and his throat grow dry and
husky, is an anomaly which does not ex-
list. Stove-pipe has only one ingredient,
and that is contrariness. 1t is the most !
pcrverse article in existence. It has
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The other day young Blifkins waited
until his old man had got down town, and
then he went into the house and sat down
IN lounge by the side Of his young step
mother. Pretty soon he put his arm
around her and said that one of these
days old Blif: would be dying, and, 81.
though painful to him, he didn't know
but that it would be lust
as well for the good old
man to die and go to heaven
now as at any other time. Then he drew
her a little closer, expecting an answer,
and he got it in moment in the shape Of
a big darning needle in his conscience