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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07

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 by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
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Sold by all Druggists & Dealers Everywhere.
For Sale.

0NE s-keyed German FLUTE, silver keys and
~ trimmings, ivory blow joint, German silver
lined. patent tuning slide, Gunadl wood. Has been
put little used, warranted perfect and in perfect
tune together with Morocco case five dollars worth
OF instructions and music. All cost $1,000 at the
manufaetory OF Lee & Walker, Philadelphia. Good
reasons for selling will send the instrument C. o
by paying express charges both ways II NOT as rem
resented IL can be returned, Price with case books
OF instruction, &c, 5000. Address
.. T. w. LAPHAM,
noleu1i Augusta. Maine,
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Current Notes,

sion rolls the names of persons stricken there
from for disloyalty.
Current Notes.
The story started in Chicago to explain
Mr.. Morrison's deficiency as a speaker, that
he was shot through the lungs in one of the
battles in Tennessee, is sheer fabrication,
and is denied by his express authority. He
was slightly wounded, but in part of the
body least likely to affect his power of speech,
and he never suffered disability from that
cause after few days.-NeU York Sun.
For grand reformer Governor Tlden of
New York certainly ''realizes'' very little.
Even the Democratic Journal of Commerce
says: "Twelye reports from the canal COM
mission, duplicating high state officials, men,
bers of the legislature, contractors and others,
in frauds, and not one man yet convicted,
and not one stolen dollar yet restored to the
treasury. This is the melancholy net result
Of that work of reform begun with such -four
ishes of promise last spring. Why wait the
governor and the attorney general?
Senator Mcdonald processes to know that
Mr.. Kerr is a good Hendricks man, like all
the other good Indiana Democrats, and is not
figuring for place on the ticket. In the
senator's judgment Mr.. Hendricks has sure
thing of it. We notice that Mr.. III. has been
defining his position, lately, on two of the
questions of the day. He is not as yet pre-
pared to say that the ballot should be given
to woman, but he yields to no one in his re-
spect for her and in his desire for the amelor-
alton of her condition. Similarly he yields
to no one in his appreciation of and solicitude
for the free public school, and is indignant
that anybody should attempt to lug it into
political strife. Mr.. Hendricks may be
described as the oily-gammon candidate
Springfield Republican.
All the efforts of the miners of gold and
silver in the United States last year only
brought into the world $4,000, 900 of money;
and yet quietly, without the rude hustle OF
the rough ideals of Bret Harte, and all in the
limits of one building in Washington, aid in
only part of that, the United States govern
ment through its bureau of engraving and
printing manufactured 1926, ,971, ,137. How
any man can calmly consider these stubborn
facts and still stand out for hard money is one
of the wonders of the world. Another Won
der, however, full as oppressive is why, if in
half of one building we can make four hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars, we don't
take a whole building and dozen buildings
and go on and make money enough to make
every man rich. This limiting the supply is
the folly of the thing-to call it by no worse
name.-Hartord Courant.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07

THE nomination and the platform of the
New Hampshire Republicans will meet with
appreciation both inside and out Of that
state. They enter upon the campaign with
high and well-founded hopes of successful
issue. Their position on national questions
is strong one, and in state matters the acts
of usurpation committed by Gov. Weston and
his council will furnish them with abundant
grounds for an indictment and conviction of
the Democracy.
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THE opinion is going in foreign circles,
strengthened by information from official
and unofficial sources both, that an Austrian
occupation of the insurrectionary provinces
has been determined upon.
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VEGETINE acts directly upon the causes of these
complaints 1t nvgorates and strengthens the whole
SYSTEM acts upon The secretive organs, aays inia-
nation, cleanses and liberation cures consti-
patton, and regulates the bowels.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07

IT is Mr.. Harris of Virginia who this time
introduces resolution to restore to the pen
sion rolls the names Of persons stricken there
from for disloyalty.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07
Has Entirely Cured Me.

Mr.. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-My daughter, after having a severe at
tack of whoopiDg cough. left in feeble state of
health Being advised by friend she tried the VEG
ETINE and after using few bottles was fully re-
stored to health
have been great sufferer from Rheumatism. I
have taken several bottles of the VEGETINE for this
complaint and am happy to say it has entirely cured
me- have recommended the VEGETINE to others,
with the same good results. 1t is a great cleanser
and purifier of the blood; it is pleasant to take; and
l can cheeifully recommend it.
JAMES MORSE, 364 Athens Street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07

The bonded debt CT the state on the first of Janu
ary, 1885, was 81 OsS 400. 1t has been reduced the
past year by the payment of matured bonds to the
amount of $4,000, and by the cancellation of bonds
in the abolished sinking fund, and is $5949 AGO.
The payment of the matured bonds and additions to
the sinking funds TO the amount of S272 6S972 con-
stitue actual reduction of the debt the past year
of $3O1, ,6S972 The present net Indebtedness, after
deductng the amount of the sinking fund, is $5272
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07
STATE PENSIONS.

The state pension system is a valuable supple
ment to the national SYSTEM and ofentimes, by the
promptness of its benefactions, affords timely relief
which could not be obtained through the tardier pro
cess of the latter. The Adjutaut General reports
that the pension appropriation for the past year has
not been entirely expended, and that reduction
may be made in the amount of the appropriation for
the current year, without mourning the risk of deny
ing aid to deserving applicants. No appropriation
of the public money receives more general and cheer
full acquiescence than that for the benefit of the
who gave health, strength and precious years of
youth or manhood to the country's service, and Of
their families suffering from the loss OF the bread
winner
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
The present common school system is the out
growth of the confirmation by the of the eonvic
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-07
THE TREASURY.

The ordinary routine of the treasury has been more
difficult than usual, and special and important du-
ties have devolved upon it. The cash on hand at the
close of 1874 was 1922 1854. The receipts during
1875 were Sl,568, ,77543. The payments from the
treasury during the year were $1,51S,S67.43, thus
leaving balance of cash on hand December 81 1875,
of S377 1893 81.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become constipated, and the
system to remain in disordered condition, until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce of
prevention is worth pound of cure, is an old and
truthful saying. Therefore, advise all who are
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache indigestion. disordered liver, want OF ap-
petite, nausea, or feverish skin, to take, without
delay, Schenck's Mandrake Pills We know OF no
remedy 50 harmless and decisive in its action 1t at
once strikes the root of the disease and produces
a healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from a disordered
condition of the liver if they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications OF
the malady. Families leaving home for the sum-
mer months should take three four boxes OF these
pills with them They have an almost instantaneous
effect They will relieve the patient OF headache in
one or two hours and will rapidly cleanse the liver
of surrounding bile, and will effectually prevent
bilious attack They sold by all druggists,
Ell HART CO., Nos II, rs and II Tchoupi-
toulss St., New Orleans, wholesale Agents.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03

1t seems that the memory of this woman,
like that of her renowned husband, is likely
to be kept alive to the end of time. She is
said to have possessed very irritable tenn
per, and her name has become a synonym of
"vixen," or "scold." 1t is more than posi-
BILE, however, that the judgment passed upon
her by mankind has been too severe. A
more charitable disposition would undoubt-
tiles, and have attributed her failings more
to physical infrmities than to moral obi
putty. The party most intimately acquainted
with her, and therefore best able to form a
correct opinion, gives her credit for many
domestic virtues. 1t is now well known that
many of the diseases to which women are
subject have a direct tendency to render
them irritable, peevish, cross, morose, I'M
reasonable, SO that they chafe and fret over
all those little ills and annoyances that
person in health would bear with composure.
1t is fair to infer that most of the tantrums
of Xantippe were dae to these causes alone !;
and could Socrates, as he returned from the
Senate, the Gymnasium, or the Atheneum,
have stopped at Pestle & Mortar's Drug Store
and carried home bottle of DIR. Pieree's
Favorite Prescription, now and then, no
doubt he might have evaded many "cur-
tain lecture" allayed many domestic
broil, ]" made it much pleasanter for the chill
dren, and more enjoyable for himself, and
rescued his wife's name from the unenviable,
worldwide, and eternal notorify it has at
tanned. thousands OF women bless the day
on which DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
was first made known to them. A single
bottle often gives delicate and suffering wo-
men more relief than months of treatment
from their family physician. In all those
arrangements causing backache, dragging
down sensations, nervous and general debil-
ity, it is sovereign remedy. Its soothing
and healing properties render it of the utmost
value to ladies suffering from internal fever
congestion, inflammation, or liberation, and
its strengthening effects tend to correct dis
placements of internal parts, the result of
weakness of natural support. 1t is sold by
all druggists.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
A CONSCIEyTIOUs VOTER

"'Bout dis hyar lection biznesss Pze
done laid down a new fatform n' said
Pete to some other darkies.
What sort of new fatform is that?'
was asked by another darky.
"Well, they amt gwine to fool me no
more bout who I'm voting for, OATS
howl" said Pete.
-"What you gwine to kno' bout it ?
You amt bin to skool since las lection,
an can't read nohow p returned a third
darby.
Nebber you mind bout my readin',
Niger dat don't 'splain de pint. But
L tellin' of yer dat when 1 goes to a
Publican an gets my ticket, Pze gwine
to make him read it strait down from de
top to de bottom"
"Weil p they said.
eden Pze gwine to Il Di.nicrat and Ak
HIM to read it back ards from the bot
tom up, of dat ticket don't dove-taiI at
bot ends like buro draw, she don't go
inter de box, dat all. "--isavannah Ga. J
Negs.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
VISITS AND VISITING,

A third essential of ideal visits and
visiting is, that there be on the part of
the host no strained effort to entertain
or amuse the guest on the part of the
guest no expectation of being amused or
entertained. Simply to meet f5f the in
terchange of goodwill and cordiality,
the usual current of life going on undis-
turbed, the habits of the family remain
ing unchanged-that is the true social
visit. The man who knows how to
drop in" OF an evening, draw his chair
up to your hearth as if it were his own,
and fall into the usual evening routine
of the household as if he were a member
of it-how welcome he always is! The
man who comes to stay under your roof
for a season, and who, without being in
trusive or familiar, makes you feel that
he is "at home" with you, and is con-
tent in his usual fashion of occupation
how delightful guest he is And the
houses-ah! how few of themI-into
which one can 60 for day or week
and feel sure that the family routine is
not altered. the family comfort is in no
wise lessened, but, on the contrary, in
creased by his presence-what joy it is
to cross their thresholds! What good
harbors of refuge they are to weary
wanderers!
When the world mends its ways in
these regards, when these essentials are
fulfilled, the lost art of conversation will
revive hospitality will be worthy of its
name and householding and housekeep-
ing become, as they ought to be, the
greatest pleasure a man can have.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
COTTON skED-MoDE OF COMPOSING.

1t is admitted that there are advan-
tages in composing the seed; the next
question is how it may be most economi-
cally done. The first thing is to provide
the substances necessary to make the
compost, and ordinarily there need not
be but two, besides the seed-the acid
phosphate and land plaster. Other SUBJ
stances, such as common salt and the
German potash salt, may be added to
advantage, thereby making more COM
plete manure, but it is not essential that
they should enter into the compost in
order that good manure may be made |;
where it is practicable though they
should be used.
The cotton seed, acid phosphate and
landplaster ready to hand, the next thing
is to construct close box about eight
feet long, six feet wide and two or three
feet deep. If the necessity requires, the
box may be larger than this, or several of
this size, may be used. If it is not con-
venient to have the box under house
shelter, it can be placed in the open air,
but close top must be provided for it,
SO that no rain will be allowed to fall in
it. One side of the box should be raised
five or six inches, 20 as to turn the water
off readily.
To make a ton of manure there would
be required:
One thousand three hundred pounds
Tor forty-three bushels) of cotton seed,
six hundred acid phosphate, one hun
dred landplaster.
Begin the compost by putting into
the box, say five bushels of the seed,
sprinkling it well with water, (urine is
better if obtainable) but dc. not saturate
the seed. Now put in seventy pounds
of the acid phosphate and fifteen pounds
Of landplaster, forking all up together
until the seed are well coated with the
phosphate and plaster. Trample down
firmly and repeat the operation until all
the materials are used or until the box
is filled. Complete the compost by COW
ering the whole with fine dry earth or
clay dust to the depth of an inch. Earth
with much sand in it will not answer.
The mass will in a short time become
heated and in two weeks, at farthest, will
be ready for use. Let the box remain
uncovered until rain is threatened. AT
ter two or three days the box should be
examined and if the heat has been SO
great as to evaporate the water from the
mass pointed stake should be driven
down in several places and water poured
into the holes to keep the fermentation
steady and prevent -" fire fanging." Cow
er the holes after the water has been
absorbed. 1t may be necessary to re-
peat this again.
The above formula is next to the sim
plest. Many farmers merely Use the
cotton seed and phosphate, dispensing
with the landplaster, and relying on the
acid phosphate together with little dry
earth to absorb the ammonia, but as the
plaster is SO cheap and so much more
efficient as an absorbent, it pays to use
1t in the compost. Besides being good
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
A CHEMIST ON CANDY AND SUGAR.

So much has been written about the
relations of candy to health, and particu-
larly to diseased teeth, Gays the Boston
Journal of Chemistry, that it would seem
presumption to add even a word. But
supposing the question cannot be settled
at once, there are some facts about can
dy, or sugar rather, which I have not
seen mentioned. AS food it is failure.
The chemist tells that cane sugar con-
tains three elements. The human body
three elements make fourteen? Dogs fed
on sugar died in forty days. Their eyes
liberated and came out. Dogs fed on
nothing lived just as long. The system
has natural loathing for food containing
nothing but sugar. We pass then to the
occasional use of sugar. Does it affect
the condition of the organs of the body?
Several years ago DR.. S. Weir Mitchell,
of Philadelphia, proved that he could
produce cataract of both eyes in half an
hour by simply injecting a teaspoonful
of saturated solution of sugar between
the skin of a frog or guinea pig. DR.. B.
w. Richardson, of London, has confirmed
this, and these results are received by
the medical profession as satisfactory.
Now, if a teaspoonful of sugar solution
will make a frog or a guinea pig totally
blind in half an hour, can sugar be re-
garded as an innocent substance for
young and growing persons, especially
when they diet so largely upon white
four, which is chiefly composed of starch,
whose chemical formula is identical with
that of sugar? According to DIR. G. R.
Agnew, of New York, out of one thou
sand children under eighteen years of
age in large school in his vicinity, sew
en- hundred and three were found with
defective organs of vision when examined
with the opthalmoscope. Have we
right to infer that sugar and starch diet
have anything to do with this large per-
centage of deficient eyes? The expert
ments quoted show that sugar does act
promptly, quickly and terribly upon the
substance of the crystalline lens of lower
animals. Can we deny the probability
of its action upon the eyes of human be-
ings? Mark, we do not say it does thus
act. We simply raise the question. We
wish the state board of health would
have it investigated, as it is matter
germane to their invaluable department
of labor.
Now for candy and diseased teeth.
Lime and phosphorus form the chief min
eral ingredients of teeth. The organic
matter Il. e. that like sugar. amounts
roughly to about twenty per cent. of the
whole tooth. The mineral matter and
water make the remaining eighty per
cent. In other words, sugar gives the
teeth, under the most favorable construc-
ton, twenty per cent. of its food only,
when it is used as an aliment. But su-
gar can not be used as an exclusive ali
ment, as death would ensue Used oc-
casionally when the other food has its
normal amount of mineral ingredients,
candy, when pure, probably does not
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03

harm the teeth. But used frequently,
in connection with flour diet, there is no
doubt that it will promote the decay of
teeth. When organized substances are
fed, they must receive all the elements
that enter into thsir composition. Fail
ing to receive these their vitality is i'm
paired and decay results. Teeth fed with
candy do not receive any mineral ele-
ments. No phosphorus and no lime are
found in candy, but they constitute the
main part of teeth. Hence we see chat
candy and teeth are not interchangeable
things and that candy eaters must not be
surprised if their teeth fail.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
CHANCES OF LIFE.

From some elaborate tables drawn up
by DIR. Farr it would seem, as far as can
be made out, there are certain very criti
cal periods in our career. A baby. for
instance, has very shall chance indeed
of growing up. But, OH the other hand,
the period between the tenth and fifteen
years inclusively is that in which the
death average is the smallest. At or
about thirty-five we must begin to take
care of ourselves. At this period consti-
tutional changes set in; our hair and
teeth begin to fail us; our digestion is
no longer what it used to be; we lose
the vigor of youth and neglect outdoor
exercise; above all, the cares of life be-
gin to make themselves perceptibly felt.
1t is at this time that deaths from suicide
take a marked place in the returns of
mortality, and there is also considerable
reasons to believe that habits of intem-
perance are apt to suddenly develop
themselves. The picture, however, has
its sunshiny side. 1t would take, of
course, a professed actuary to deduce
from DIR. Farr's tables their exact result
1t appears, however, that if a man tides
over his fiftieth year he may make
tolerable certain of living to seventy;
while if he reaches his seventy-fifth year,
there is very strong presumption that
he will either turn his ninetieth birth
day or come very near it. A still more
interesting question is opened by the
series of tables which show the average
mortality in different professions and
pursuits. Gamekeepers are, for obvious
reasons the healthiest class of our whole
population; clergymen and agriculture
laborers come next, and ale followed by
barristers solicitors and business men
| are less fortunate while at the extreme
end of the scale come unhealthy pur-
suits, usch as printing and file grinding.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03

PECULIAR LABoRs.-Large apes are
now employed to pull cocoanuts in Cey-
lon. These animals are imported from
Acheen in patches, and are marched
around the plantations by their owners,
who let them out on hire. A line is
first attached to each of the animals,
and he is then sent up tree, where
he is said to select cocoanuts with
great discrimination, and to twist the
nut round and round until it falls to the
ground. Each successive fall of a nut
is hailed by the hairy worker above with
a jump and a chuckle of satisfaction.
They are very industrious workers, and
do not "strike."