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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-14
Daily Domestic Receipts.
Boston stock Market

By water conveyance 1000 bush cornmeal to G
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-14
Successful Music Books.
Getze's School for Parlor OrganI

1t is already in the hands of 80 900 learners and
players on Reed Organs and deserves this and great
er success Contains .176 graded lessons, including
nearly 80 agreeable Pieces, dozen Songs and 25
short Voluntaries. Sc so.
Centennial Coll for Old Folks Concerts, New 40
Shining River. The next book for your Sab
Schl. 35c,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-14
Gems of English Song.

A large, elegant collection Of Choice Songs, with
Piano or Reed Organ accompaniment. 23l pages.
Sheet Music size. $3.50 in Boards; $500 in Cloth
All books mailed, post free, for retail price,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-14
Bellak's Analytical Method.

AS the Uerg first Instruction book (for the first
months on the Piano. nothing could be better. Very
easy pieces, nicely fingered and graded. Does AWAY
mostly, with the dryness and drudgery of the first
quarter. In Paper, 55c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-14
NEWS,
PORT OE PORTLAND

Brig Lena Tburlow. which sailed for Matanzas 18th,
has recently undergone extensive repairs the yard
of Master Russell, East Deering. All the defective
plankng has been replaced by new, and she has been
thoroughly overhauled refastened and newly copper
ed, and released Al4 four years
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
A TyrOlese Legend.

Precipices and glaciers are not the only
difficulties that the chamois-hunter has
to contend with. Now and then an ugly
dwarf or hobgoblin will spring up In
their path, and threaten them with de-
struction. There is story of hunter
who was waylaid by an irascible little
being of this sort, who snappishly de-
manded of the sportsman what he did up
there, killing all the chamois. The
hunter pleaded poverty, and justified his
conduct by the circumstance that he had
wife and family to feed at home. So
the dwarf told him that if he gave
up killing the animals on the mountains,
he should find fat chamois, already
slaughtered, hanging before his door
once a week. So the huntsman went
home, and, sure enough, when he opened
the cottage-door next morning, there
hung a fine chamois upon one of the
trees. The man was delighted with his
good fortune, and for some time lived
contentedly upon the food provided for
him. But after a while he became tired
of doing nothing, and yearned to spring
about the mountains, as before, with his
gun. So one morning he bade his wife
farewell, and went off to his accustomed
hunting.ground. From jutting rock,
upon which he could just balance him
self, he spied plump chamois feeding in
the valley below. He steadied himself
as we'll as possible to take aim, when,
Just as he pressed the trigger, the dwarf's
laugh was heard behind him, and at the
same moment his foot slipped from
the rock, and he fell headlong into the
abyss below.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
Spain's Reply.

The New York Heralds Madrid special
reports that the Spanish Government has
sent out diplomatic note in reply to the
American circular on Cuban affairs. The
reply is quite belligerant in tone, and
takes high grounds on all questions raised
by the United States. The note declares
commerce between Cuba and the United
States has not suffered to any appreciable
extent by the insurrection. Instead of
having been diminished, it is, in reality,
increased, and is constantly increasing,
so that the United States Government
has no occasion for complaint, and no
tenable ground for the proposed action or
interference in the affairs or troubles ex-
isting in Cuba. Attention is also called
to the fact that many American citizens
have established themselves in business
on the island, and, being unmolested by
the Spanish Government, have gained
large individual fortunes. These for
tunes have not added to the material
wealth of the island, being entirely in
foreign hands. The territory ofthe United
States is constant refuge for Cuban out
laws, who are permitted to hatch con-
spiracy to the detriment and injury of
the Spanish Government. In this the
laws of nations are outraged. All just
and equitable claims between the United
States and Cuba have been amicably and
fully satisfied, or are in the course of ad-
iustment. Therefore, there can be no
cause for complaint on that score. The
Spanish note is believed to be the work
of Senior Jovellar.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

A THIRTEEN year old boy in Meeker
county, Minnesota, on the 1st of May,
1875, set out $3.50 trees.
TIE "best beast in the hall" at the
famous Smithfeld cattle show was
shOrt-horn, mainly of Booth blood, "with
a touch of Townley."
j. j. MECHI, the we'll known English
farmer, pronounces the steam plOw de-
cidedly the best weed killer; much better
than the steam cultivator.
FIELDS which are always wet from
springs or tenacious subsoils are rarely
benefited by the use of gypsum. But
drain them thoroughly, and they respond
to its use as fully as any others.
Mr.. HossocK, an English horticulture
ist, grated the tomato on a common
potato-both plants being species OF
Soldhum. The result was curious in this,
that the potato roots under these cir
cumstances refused to form tubers.
AT the recent Fat Stock Show of the
famous Smithfeld Club, at Islington,
near London, the average weights of
various classes was as given in the table
below:
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

The following plan for preparing a
hot-bed fl sweet potatoes is good one:
Dig out space as large as the bed is
wanted ten inches deep, and filled with
decayed leaves of wood. Upon this put
eight inches of fresh stable manure.
Pound down we'll, and cover this with
three inches of rich, well.pulverized dirt.
Let it stand until the first heat passes
of, which perhaps will take a day or
two, OWN to the weather. Put the
sweet potatoes on the surface of this
layer of dirt and cover with two inches
of soft chip manure.
The Standard of Coventry, England,
states that last spring one pound each of
the Snowflake and Eureka potatoes, two
new American varieties, were planted in
the gardens at Capesthorne, the seat of
Mr.. Bromley Davenport, M. p. On the
18th of September the Snowflake was
lifted, when it was found that the one
pound had produced the weight of 63S
pounds. A week later the Eureka was
lifted, and it was ascertained that the
pound of seed potatoes had produced
1,0S2l pounds, the largest yield on
record. Three hundred of the tubers
weighed 369I pounds.
In paper prepared by Mr.. F. Cliff
ford, relating to the strikes and lock-outs
in England, interesting data relating to
the cost of farm labor is given. 1t shows
marked incrs Use in labor in the last
few years, Of the time given, and grad
ial increase for the last twelve years.
Two examples are given, said to be fair
representatives of a large class of farms.
He gives the figures in dollars, gold,
emitting fractions: Upon one farm of
210 acres $50 arabic and 130 grassy the
outlay for labor in 1862 was 81 ,115, in
1868 81, 245, and in 1874 81, ,32O. Upon
the other, 230 acres (120 arabic and 10
grassy, the outlay in 1860 was 81 $40, in
1872 81 ,535, and in 1874 $1,720. Thus
we see in the last case, the cost of labor
in working in 1874 over that of 1872,
was $185, or over IS cents per acre.
A PROCESS of raising sweet potatoes is
called the Felliex plan, and comes to us
from France, and consists In being able
to have new potatoes in January and
February, equal to those ordinarily pro-
duced in May and June. Having Sc
lected light friable soil at least twelve
inches in depth, make hole ten inches
deep, place little manure, then fill in
the soil. The holes ought to be two feet
apart. The seed potatoes should be pre-
served in charcoal dust till the first of
August, the moment for planting, and
to be stepped for one hour beforehand in
solution of half pound of salt and
one quart of water, about the middle of
September, mold, and at the same period
in October weed, and earth up irrespect-
i've of the faded stems; then cover up
with little straw; the tubers will in
crease under ground, independent of all
exterior vegetation, and may be gath
cred in the early part of January, al
though they will not be fully ripe till
the close of the month of February.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
A Tremendous Storm.

The heavy wind registered on Pixies
Peak the other day seems to have struck
earth about Cucharas, and judging from
the reports received from THAT quarter it
must have been pretty severe zephyr.
Considerable damage was done along its
track, and all work and business was per-
force suspended during the prevalence Of
the gale. A Cucharas correspondent of
the Chiettain relates the following among
other effects Of the storm: "While the
proprietor of the Cucharas sample room
was at breakfast that morning.; the back
door of his establishment was burst open
by the wind, and his bar and bar fixtures
were carried through the front window
and scattered over the broad pampas in
dire confusion. There were about ten
dollars in currency in the drawer, and
all was lost. Mr.. Mitchell, one Of the
leading merchants here, has been engaged
all the morning removing his goods from
the shelves and putting them in place
of safety. His house sways and vibrates
so much that he fears 1t may 60 down at
any moment" He also relates touch
ing story of mule being blown out of its
harness, at q grading-camp, and carried
away bodily. The same paper also learns
from a gentleman just arrived from Wal
senburg that the most tremendous storm
of wind ever known in that section of
the country commenced abeut daylight
on Wednesday morning. The air was
full Of flying dust, the roar of the hurri-
cane was deafening, and it was almost
impossible to stand upon ones feet on.
account of the power of the storm. The
houses of Sheriff Thomas Sprout and
Jose Rival, as well as Mr.. Ben Arnold's
stables, were unroofed, and the
timely use of ropes alove saved the roof
of the Masonic Hall from being carried
out on the prairie. Doors and windows
were blown in in all parts of the town,
outbuildings overturned and unroofed,
and the whole place looks rs though it
had experienced heavy bombardment.
Fortunately during all the. uproar no
one was injured, though the air. Is said at
times to have been full Of flying boards,
shingles, etc.-Denuer NetCs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
How to Treat Unexpected Guests.

When one of "fathers" business
friends drives into the yard at about
halfpast eleven, the good wife knows that
he will most likely stay to dinner.
Father is great story.teller, and he likes
to get hold of new auditor. How
aptly comes a frown of dismay and dis
pleasure on the smooth, fair face of his
helpmeet. What can be done2 Work
is going on according to the days plan
in the Kitchen; the dinner was arranged
for none but the family; the children
are coming home from school and max
ing clatter; all is hustle and confusion.
She feels that the best dishes must be
used, and something extra cooked for
the inopportune guest. Now, good wo-
man, don't do It'll Your fine dinner,
with its attendant irritation and "upset-
ting" will taste no better than what you
have prepared. Make no difference in
your plans, but seat your visitor with
smile and easy greeting at your hospita-
BILE board and he will feel more COM
Portable and happy than though you
gave him banquet. You save temper
and trouble, and gain the enjoyment of
giving your friend real cosy time. A
sensible person knows that farmers do
not have six courses upon their table
daily, and the wholesome, hearty fare,
with good nature and hospitable cordi-
atty, will be tinctured with a sweet,
domestic sense that is inevitably lost in
grand dinners. Smiles and neatness are
sauce for homely meals.--Gotden Rttc.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
Astrological Predictions for 1870.

IadkiePs Almanac, a singular London
publication which has reached its forty
sixth edition, makes some startling
astrological prophesies for the present
year. In one of the diagrams there is a
direful array of contending armies, with
background of collins; there is also
theater on fire, with grisly skeleton
brandishing a death-like javelin and
flag somewhat resembling the stars and
stripes. In another compartment there
is lion walking upon mountain on
its hind legs, with sword in its mouth.
In January, ultramontane intrigue is to
be in the ascendant in England. A war
like disposition is to animate the Ger
mans. The peace of England, Germany
and Denmark is to be threatened. Dur
ing February the same nations are to be
in trouble, while Spain enjoys tempo
rary lull. March is to see the people Of
Ireland stirred up. April will be bad
for Spain and Portugal. A confagra-
ton will rage in London about the 18th
or 18th of that month. May is to be bad
for people born on or near the 28th. June
is to be prosperous, but people born near
the 9th of February and the 1st of Sep
tember must look out for their health.
In July the Prince of Wales is to be
lucky. On the 14th of that menth mar
riageble young ladies will receive ad-
vantageous offers. August is to be sad
month for earthquakes and storms
France and Italy are to be shaken. Sep
tember will threaten England with cause
for grief. October promises peace for
Spain. November, good fortune for the
King of Italy. Mariners born near the
10th or 23d will be in danger from the
sea. December threatens a conhagration
in Dublin, but Spain is TO be all right.
Nothing about the United States, so that
people may keep their minds easy.
Zadkiel" has evidently forgotten us,
and no news is good news.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
Seeing Stars.

If man falls 30 as to strike his head
violently on the the ice or on the pave
ment, or if he gets blow over his eye,
he is said TO "see stars" The cause of
this curious phenomenon is found in a
popularity of the optic nerve. The
function of that nerve is to convey to the
brain the impression of light. 1t is sus-
ceptible TO no other impression. Or If
acted upon by another agent, IL COM
municates to the brain the intelligence
of the presence of that agent by sending
along its fibers flashes of light only. Ir-
ritate this nerve with probe or
other instrument, and IL conveys no
sensation of pain, but simply that of lu-
minous sparks. The pain of the blow
on the eye, or the head, is realized
through the nerves of general sensa-
tion but unacceptable TO pain or any
other feeling, the optic nerve sends to
the brain its report, of the sl.ock by
flashes, sparks, "starss" A young doc
tor, who died recently, after falling upon
his umbrella and puncturing his eye and
brain with ohc of its steel ribs, COM
P1Ined. Of intense light in the eye forever
darkened: -.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

A COMMON Councilman's lady, visit
ing her daughter at school, and inquiring
what progress she made in her educa-
ton, the governess answered: "Why,
pretty well, ma'am miss is very atten-
tive; il she is in want of anything, 1t is
capacity; but for that deficiency we
must not blame her." "Oh, NO, Miss
Teacher. replied the mother; ."but
blame you for not having mentioned IL
before. Her father, thank heaven, is a
cashier in a bank, and is rich, and he can
afford his only daughter capacity: and
! beg you will give her one at once, and
let IL be a good one-no matter what IL
costs-even If you have to send TO Paris
for i. We are rich, and able topay the
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
A wOMAN's LOvEaDREAM.

We all have waking visions--1 have mine,
And being young and fanciful, and counted fair
1 sometimes dream OF love.
And sitting all alone and musinB still,
While yet the freight hickers dim,
l ask myself II 1 should learn to love,
II my still heart could wake to life,
How would love, and how would be loved
For am weary OF idolatry
My soul is faint within me while think
or all the fierce, strong passion
have seen and known, resistless In Its might
As souie ck-cleaviDg stream.
would be loved In calmness-
Trusted, and not feared.
lie whom loved should be king,
And not my slave.
do not ask that he be proud and cold,
But calm, and grave, and very strong
A king like Saul, among the sons Of men,
And kinglier DER himself.
lie must not tremble at my slightest frown
Nor shudder II another meets my eye;
Nor must he, like vassal, crave my smile
Glad In the dust before my feet to lie
For am weary of serviity.
would not rule, nor would yet be ruled
l scorn the tyrant as i scorn his slave.
There Is a love of sweet equality,
The love God gave and smiled upon,
For IL was very good.
He whom love must be my king
But must be his queen
And he should yield me, as my tribute due,
The reverence had earned,
Not only by my womanhood, but by all gentleness
Long suffering the patient sweetness
Only love can teach
That peace and rest which follow after toll
In me his heart should In such safety trust,
That he should " have no need oil spoil"
do not ask for Kim the worlds applause,
The blaze of heraldry, the pomp Of fame;
His deeds the annals OF nations pride,
His name upon the lips of men;
But must feel his power.
Must know he could be what earth's heroes arc
l could not love him we're he not thus great.
His hand must be both safe and strong
A hand to shield, to trust, to lay my own within,
To stake my life upon:
A hand that might have fought with Hercules,
Yet would not harm the worm In his path,
For tho the heart OF woman lOveth oft
A thing she doth unwillingly despise
1t is pitiful, imperfect love that hath not
For its corner stone the rock OF Faith.
His heart must be most tender and most true
A heart that loves, and pities, and befriends
Earth's suffering children, whether high,
Or yet among the lowly and the poor,
And he must love me perfectly.
If from the first fruits OF my hearts fair wealth
bring an Offering for l0ve-crown made,
He must not mock Inc with paltry love
Nor stoop to cheat my soul.
II l should ever meet this man,
This king only dream, never see,
Then could / sit most meekly at his feet
very child before his goodness and his power;
And while he stopped to kiss my shining hair,
Or smooth its clusters from their clinging rest,
sweet unspoken language In its touch
Would lift my dark eyes TO the dark OF his;
And, as in fair Judea, when the world was young
Sarah with reverence said to Abraham,
My lips shall call him lord"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

All these continental drivers have q
faculty of cracking their whips with
force and meaning nave seen nowhere
else. A man will often drive his cab at
full speed through q narrow street twelve
or fourteen. feet wide, without sidewalks,
and often full of people, but he cracks
his whip backward and forward, with
explosions loud enough to be heard half
a square. This parts the crowd before
him, who always understand what it
means. Ihave many times, while riding
in this manner, sat expecting to see
somebodyin the crowd knocked down or
run over; but l have never seen even
the least collision. The law in Florence
makes the man knocked down the guilty
party, because he did not get out of the
way.-Cw. Indianapolis Journal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

The Colorado Springs Gdseitc tells
about little episode which happened to
O'Keefe, of the Signal Office, and a
mule, on the Pixies Peak trail they
were struggling up the mountain, ana
had passed above the timber=line, when
the mule, which was loaded with Provi-
sions. made a misstep and tumbled over
a cliff two hundred feet high. In the
descent he turned his heels up and struck
square on his pack, and bounced like
rubber ball. The beast was. not killed,
but was in very feeble state of health
at last accounts
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

A SERIOUS coasting accident occurred
at Bangor, Maine. a few nights since,
from collision of two bob-sieds. One OF
the boys is in critical condition, and an.
other has leg broken in two places, and
several ttter boys and giflswere more or
less seriously injured.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

As 'leahye4r has come, a good many
young men arsprocuring bogus marriage
certificates TO carry about their persons
as q means Of protection.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

LET friendship creep gently to a height
If it rush to 1t, IT may soon run itself out
OF breath.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

"A VERY severe shock of earthquake
was felt recently, near Bangor, Maine.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

A PLAN has just been set in operation
in Paris to provide for the construction
of what are to be called "rural rail-
roads" in France, which seems deserv-
ing of notice. We are not aware of a
similar description having been yet con-
templated in America or any other
country. The proposition is for the con-
struction of narrow lines of width of
one metro go inches) only, instead of
the usual gauge of a metre and half
along the wide space which every travel
Ter in France must have observed to be
left on the side Of almost every highroad
These rural railroads." economically
constructed, and without stations or
accommodations of any kind, profess to
be able to replace ordinary carriages at
two or three times less than the present
cost. They will connect the small towns
and villages and manufactures all over
the country, and carry'oh their produce,
agriculture or other, as il Ia ready for
transport. All that will be required
will be the" concession of the roadsldes"
for the purpose, with authority to modify
here and there the inclines when too
steep.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

THE middle of the winter is a bad
time for strikes; but the amalgamated
engineers of England do not seem to
have taken this into account. One hun
dred and thirty of them have stopped
werk at Erith on account of disagree
ment with their employers. and the asso.
citation supports their action. AS the
association numbers thirty thousand
there is a prospect of more trouble ahead
Other important strikes are reported in
England and Wales.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

REvIvALIsT HAMMOND illustrates an
argument with horseshoe magnet and
mails of various sizes, from tack to
railroad spike. He likens the magnet to
Jesus. The tack typifies little children;
tie shows how readily they cling to the
magnet. A simple touch, too, attaches
the shiDgle nail, which he likens to a
youth. The larger nails are less and
less affected, until the big spike-a tough
old sinner of the most intractable kind
will not stir undsr the influence.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

The National Museum of Bucharest
has been robbed of its principal treasure,
the famous golden hen and chickens.
The group, which was of pure gold, pro-
fusely adorned with precious stones, and
weighed thirty-four pounds, was of an.
cient workmanship, and was dug up
some years ago at Petrosa. The robbers
also carried away the massive golden
amphora and pedestal which came from
Petrosa. A portion Of the broken head
of the golden hen was found in the
snow, outside the museum building.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

MIR. ROBERT DALE OWEN writes to
the Secretary of the British National
Association of Spiritualists that his late
illness was due to Overwork, and adds
For two years and half previous to
my illness in May last, had been suf-
ferer from dyspepsia, causing weakness
and depression. These, by rest, water
cure: and milk diet, have been entirely
removed, and l am now in excellent
health, better than ! have been for five
years past"