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ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Notice.

Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting
~ of the Cumberland County Agricultural Soci-
ETY. will be held in Reception Hail. City Building
Portland, SATURDAY, February 18th, 1871 at 10
o'clock A. NJ, to act Oh the following articles, to
wit:
LIST. To choose board of officers for the year end
ing December 31st, 1877.
I'd. To hear reports and to act on any other bust
ness which may properly come before the meeting.
SAMUEL DINGLEY, Secretary.
Portland, February 5th 1871 david
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Eastern Railroad
OCT. 9, 1876.

PASSENGER TRAINS leave Portland
for Scarboro'. SacO, Biddeford, Ken
nebunk, Wells North Berwick, S0utb
Berwick, Conway Junction. EIio t.,
Kittery. Portsmouth. Newburyport,
salem, Lynn, Chelsea and Boston nj
900 a. mn, arriving in Boston at 14O p. m.
sac0, Biddeford. kennebunk, Kiitery.
Portsmouth, BamptOns, NewburypOrt,
Salem, Lynn, Chelsea and Boston AT
800 p: M, arriving liz Boston at 7.30 p. No., in
season for New York and Western connection.
Pullman Paror Car attached.
500 m. BiddefOrd accommodating train.
Returning leave Biddeford at 90 a. m.
Night Express with Sleeping Car, for
Boston at 2.l5 n, M, every day Except
Mondaysl
RETURNING
Leave Boston at 2 80, t12.3O and at 8 90
p. M, connecting with VI aine Central
and Il. d N, A. Railway for st. j ohm
and Halifax. Pullman Sleeping Car attached
Through Tickets to all Points South and West at
owest rates. Pullman Car Tickets for Seats and
Berths at Ticket Once
Passengers by this line avoid all change.
0c9dtf GEO. BATCHELDER, Supt,
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CLAIRVOYANT.

NOTICE is hereby gwen, that the subscriber has
IN been duly appointed and taken upon bimseii
the trust of Administrator OF the estate of -'Ni
JOSHUA WINsLow, late of Yarmoutb
in the County of Cumberland, deceased and ,,vsr
ponds as the law directs. All persons bay,ps Se
mands upon the estate Of said deceased are required
20 EXHIBIT tne ame and all persons Indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
CHARLES DAVENPORT Admir-.
vo....., - of Bath Me-
A"Anouth, REQ. 9Th, 1877. ie7d1aw3wWs
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BRACKETT STREET SEWER,

Beginning at point in the centre of Bracket
street, 102 rect southerly from south line of Bradford
street, thence southery through centre of Bracket
street, stance of 275 feet to poiNt 26 feet north
of the north line of Spruce street, where it enters
old sewer.
Sewer is of 70 inch cement pipe, laid 9 feet deep
throughout.
SOsl VI scWer. 10
City's proportion. ..,.............. $107 80
Sum to be assessed. ............,, 214 63
Arer assessed, 30, 2O7 sboare feet.
Rate per 100 square feet $0.42 75-10O,
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City of Portland.

VIVA. GOODWIN, c. G. E.
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NOu, per gu.
L'ge Shore 4 Is a 5 90
L'ge Bank 4 81 q 5 25
Small. -. 3 81 q 425
Polleck...... 2 % a 275
Haddock... 1 rs q 2 25
Hake. $685.. Its q 2 %
Herring,
Shore, y
Dbl. 49,. 4 90 q 5 90
Scal'dPbx. 10 "a %
No. 1. ... IA 90 @1S 90
Mackerel, P Dbl.
Bay No. LIS 90 @16 90
Bay No. 2. z 80 % 8 90
Large 3d.. 8 90 a 900
Shore Mol 16 10 OILS 90
No. Bee. 8 so @l0 90
No. &c..
Medium. :. 6 so a 7 80
Clam Bait. :. 4 90 q 5 90
Flour.
Superiine 90. 5 70 q 6 25
Ex-Spring.,. Z 90 @ 7 SO
k Spring.. 775 q 8 70
Pat't Spring
wheats, 10 0c ali 90
Mich'n VIM
ter best. s 30 N 3 TX
Low grade
Michigan. Z 20 "a 75O
St.Louis WIN
ter fair. -. "a 875
Win'r good 9 50 $4,000
q" best. 975 M10 90
Eruif.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
MfIfon's Temper.

If there is defect, which, above all
Others, is signal in Milton, which Injuries
him even intellectually, which limits
him as poet, it is the defect common
to him, with the whole Puritan party
to which he belonged-the fatal defect
of temper. He and they may have a
thousand merits, but they are unamia-
bic. Excuse them as one will, Milton's
asperity and acerbity, his want of sweet
ness of temper, of the Shakspearean
largeness and indulgence, are undenia-
BILE. Lord Macaulay, in his Essay, re-
grets that the prose writing of Milton
should not be more read. "They
abound" he says in his rhetorical way,
''with passages, compared with which
the finest declamations of Burke sink
into insignificance." At any rate, they
enable us to judge of Millions temper,
of his freedom from asperity. Let us
open the "Doctrine and Discipline of
Divorce and see how Milton treats an
opponent:
"How should he, a serving man both
by nature and functions, an idiot by
breeding, and a solicitor by presump-
ton, ever come to know or feel within
himself whatthe meaningis of gentle p"
What a gracious temper cat last, and
in good hour we come to his farewell,
which is to be concluding taste of his
jabberment in law, the fiashiest and
fustiest that ever corrupted in such an
unswilled hogshead. How "Sedate
and majestic ."-Qaarterly Revie,o.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
4 Curious Birds Nest.

There is bird in New Guinea called
the megapodius, which in the size of its
eggs and Its manner of Matching them
must be considered extraordinary. 1t
is not larger than one of our ordinary
fowls, but its eggs are three inches long
by two and half in diameter. 1t does
not attempt TO set on them. A colony
of birds lay their eggs together in a
large mound, in the hottest part of the
year, from September to March, and
leave them TO be Matched by the sun.
The mound is made Of sand, loose earth,
and sticks and leaves, which latter, by
their decay, increase the heat. The
mounds are wonderfully large, being
ten feet high and about six feet in cir
cumference at the base. The young
birds come out at hole in the top. The
mother bird waits on the trees around
till their chicks are Matched, and then
leads off her own brood. How each
knows its own is mystery. The eggs
are relished by the natives, but not at
all by the Europeans. A native of Cape
York ventured one day, into nest of
eggs, and while he was exploring the
hidden riches of the large mound, the
upper part fell in and he was smothered.
He was afterwards found, in the very
act of digging-buried alive in birds
nest
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
Using the Wrong Word.

People often use the wrong word in
ignorance. An example is the use of
depot for station. The latter is not on ly
the proper English word-it is also the
worlds word. so. at one time, they
said saloon, supposing this word to de-
scribe something more sumptuous than
a parlor. Happily the word saloon
went to the bad. In other cases there
is fairly good reason for using the
wrong word. People generally know
that cent is not penny, and yet the
euphony reason for saying penny, when
cent is meant fairly justifies common
usage. Cent is abrupt and unpleasant
in sound. We say Indians meaning
Americans, and knowing that our pre-
decessors on this continent are not
indians at all, and that calling them the
American indians only makes the
matter worse. Our reason is that we
wish TO be considered Americans our
selves. So also the people of the United
States are called Americans abroad,
though they have no exclusive right to
the title; but what can they call us in
one word? The pronoun we helps out
partly, but we are still in want Of name.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
Hit Hard.

In the country towns and villages in
New England, in the good old times
even within the memory of the writer
young girls, of parentage, often hired
out to do housewOrk, as did the young
men hire out to work on the farm
that they might learn the life lesson of
self-suppOrting labor, and earn the
wherewith TO commence life on their
own account. Very many of the best
and most capable female servants in
our city homes, in those times, were of
country families, and were treated, in
many cases, like other members of the
family.
But there has been change. Society,
in the business centres. is not as it used
to be; and in the change there has
cropped out a certain class of aristo-
cracy which makes itself ridiculous. |
witnessed a case not long since, and
heard a reproOf administered that was
one of the hardest hits | ever saw
given.
Mrs. Glitterly 1--WE will call herr had
been married four or five years. and
during that time had resided in the
city, where she had become very fash
ionable and fastidious-someth of
the Flora Flimsy order. She was on a
visit to her old friends in the town of
her nativity, and was spending the eve-
ming with Mrs. Goodhue, who had given
quite party in her honor.
At the well-ordered tea table (supper
table. Mrs. G. always called it) a good
ly company were assembled, and the
girl-the girl who worked in the
kitchen-with a neighbor's daughter
who had been employed for the occa-
sion. sat down to the meal with the
rest. Mrs. Glitterly beheld, and was
amazed. Later in the evening. when
the work in the kitchen had all been
done, and affairs in the big buttery at
tended TO, the hired girl came in,
dressed in a new calico, and set herself
to the work of the social enjoyment.
She was bright-faced. pretty girl and
knew how to behave.
This seemed to be too much for Mrs.
Glitterly, and when she saw that the
hired help was really admitted to
party given especially in her honor her
pride rebelled. Turning to her hostess,
she said, in tones loud enough to be
heard over the room:
Wy dear Mrs. GoOdhue, how can yOu
bear to allow your servants to stand on
a social equality with yourself' | think
servants should be taught to know their
places"
Really, Betsy" Mrs. Glitterly had
fashioned her Christian name into Liz
zie)said the hostess. speaking with dis
tinctness and with kindly frankness,
II think l enjoy it best to keep up the
old custom. / always did it. You re-
member when you worked for me in
the kitchen | always treated you
just"
A sharp cry of alarm from Mrs. Lizzie
Glitterly arrested the good woman's
speech. 1t seemed as though the at
mosphere of the room had suddenly
bee ONE sitting. She arose and went to
the window, where she could get a
breath of fresh air, and where she
could conceal the flaming of her cheeks
which rouge and pearl-powder could
not hide.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
WIndmilIs In Holland


OF windmills Holland cOrrespon-
dent of the URiUersalist writes: I'VE
had no conception of the magnitude of
these labor saving devices. We counted
not less than six stories in the tower of
the one we were permitted to examine.
1t must have been as high as an aver
age church steeple. The arms or fans
were of enormous length, and carried
three thousand feet of canvas. And
this is the machine that literally makes
Holland. 1t pumps out the ocean when
the ocean gets in. 1t saws and grinds.
1t does the lifting and the lowering.
A family lives in the mill. In Holland
there are full ten thousand of these
mammoth structures. In London and
Liverpool and New York, there is a
forest of masts. In Holland there is
everywhere a forest of windmilIs. Some
are built of brick, others of stone, many
of woOd,-of course we mean the tower
part. They turn slowly. yet with great
power; and we learn that, so fiat is the
country, there is seldom a serions or
long-continued lack of wind"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
Women-s Headsear.

l would desire the fair sex to con-
slider how impossible it is for them to
add anything that can be ornamental
10 what is already the masterpiece of
nature. The head has the most beauti-
full appearance, as well as the highest
station, in the human figure, Nature
has laid out all her art in beautifying
the face; she has touched it with YER
million, planted in it double row of
ivory, made it the seat of smiles and
bushes, lighted it up and enlivened it
with the brightness of the eyes, hung it
on each side with curious organs of
sense, given it airs and graces that can
not be described, and surrounded it
with such a flowing shade of hair as
sets all its beauties in the most agreea
bic light. In short, she seems to have
designed the head as the cupola to the
most glorious of her works; and when
we load il with such pile of super
numerary ornaments, We destroy the
symmetry of the hnman figure, and
foolishly contrive to call off the eye from
great and real beauties to childish gew-
gsws, ribands and bone-lace.-Joseph
addison.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
THE STIRRUp-CUP.
BY SIDNEY LANIER-

Death, thou'rt cordial old and rare;
Look how comp 1unded. with what care
Time got his wrinkles reaping thee
Sweet herbs from all antiquity.
David to thy distillsge went.
Keats, and Gotsms excellent,
Omar Khsyyam, and Chaucer bright
And Shakspere for king-delight-
These were to sweeten thee with song;
The blood of heroes made thee strong.
What heroes? All. for shame, fer shame
The worthiest died without a name.
Then. Time let not drop be split
Hand me the cup whene'er thou wilt;
II death such dear distlllment be,
I'll drink it down night smilingly.
-Scribner's MOHtily.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16

DAILY GROOMING. - The regular,
thorough daily grooming and such
housing as is necessary TO prevent un-
due exposure 10 cold or to drafts, are as
important with farm teams as with
those kept for fast driving. The amount
of food consumed will be less, and the
ability TO perform work will be greater
if the animals are every day thoroughly
well curried and brushed. The horses
legs and pasterns in particular, and the
setting on of the name, should be eff
GENTLY cleaned and rubbed, and he
should be kept in all respects in a
cleanly, tidy, cheerful and healthy con-
dition.
1t has also become well demonstrated
in the care of all live stock that clean
and open condition of the skin is con-
ducive to health and economical feed
ing, and it will be found that no labor
on farm is more profitably expended
than that which is devoted daily to
the grooming of even the very youngest
colt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
The Best Recuperant

OF failing energy. that to which the tagged
out man of business, the brsin-fstigued su-
thor, the tired advocate or the weary srtizan
can resort with the greatest certainty that 1t
will revive HIS overwrought powers, is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, most genial tonic
cordial, as well as benign remedy for dis
orders Of the stomach, liver, bowels and uri-
nary organs. and q means of eradicating and
preventing intermittent and remittent fevers.
1t not only enriches the blood and creates a
new fund of energy in the system. but 1t has
the effect OF expelling impurities from the life
current which beget disease The injurious
influence of abrupt transitions Of temperature,
of an unwholesome climate and injurious diet,
are counterscted by it and it promotes diges-
ton, appetite and sound repose. Give it a trial
and ha 10
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16

Who composed the following de-
scription of the Bible was never known.
1t was found in Westminster Abbey
nameless and dateless:
A nation would be truly happy if it
were governed by no other laws than
those of this blessed book.
1t is so complete system that moth
ing can be added to it.
1t contains everything needful to be
known or done.
1t affords copy for king, and rule
for subject.
1t gives instruction to a senate, au-
thority and direction TO a magistrate.
1t cautions a witness, requires an i'm
partial verdict of jury, and furnishes
the judge with his sentence.
1t sets the husband as a lord of the
household, and the wife as mistress of
the table-tells him how to rule and
her how to manage.
1t entities honor to parents, and en-
joins obedience on children.
1t prescribes and limits the sway of
the sovereign, the ruler, and authority
of the master; commands the subjects
to honor and the servants to obey, and
promises TIE blessing and protection of
the Almighty to all that walk by its
rules.
1t promises food and raiment; and
limits the use of both.
1t points out faithful and eternal
guardian to the departing husband and
father, tells him with whom to leave
his fatherless children, and whom his
widow is to trust-and promises father
10 the former, and a husband to the
latter.
IL teaches man to set his house in
order, and know his will; it appoints a
dowry for his wife, and entails the right
of the first-born, and shows how the
young branches shall be left.
1t defends the rights of all, and re-
veals vengeance to every defaulter,
over-reacher and trespasser.
1t is the first book, and the Oldest
book, in the world.
1t contains the choicest matter-gives
the best nstruction-affords the great
est pleasure and satisfaction that was
ever enjoyed.
1t contains the best laws and most
profound mys. cries that ever were pen
ned; it brings the best comforts to the
inquiring and disconsolate.
1t exhibits life and Immortality from
everlasting, and shows the way ofglory.
1t is brief recital of all that is to
come.
1t settles all matters in debate, re-
solves all doubts. and eases the mind
and conscience of all scruples.
1t reveals the only living and true
God, and shows the way TO Him, and
sets aside all other gods, and describes
the vanity of those who trust in such;
in short, il is a book of laws, to show
right and wrong; book of wisdom,
that condemns all folly and makes the
foolish wise; a book of truth, that de-
tects all lies, and confronts all errors;
and book of life, that shows the way
from everlasting death.
1t contains the most ancient antiqui-
ties, strange events, wonderful occur
rences, heroic deeds, and unparalleled
wars.
1t describes the celestial, terrestrial
and internal words, and the origin of
the angel myriads, human tribes, and
devilish legions.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
Social Fencing.

The social weapon of repartee re-
quires skilful handling by the inexper-
fenced, but in polite hands loses its dan
gerous qualities. Thus, when the
Frenehman, exposed to the wiles of
mother resolved to win him for SON
in-law by parading all her daughters
attractions, finds her demanding his
opinion of some performance, he wells
his resistance by adroitly whispering
in her ear, ''When one is near the
mother, one has no eye for the daugh-
ter.'' This is better than Charles Lambs
bIuntness to the chattering woman, his
neighbor at dinner, who sharply tells
him he is not attending to her. ''You
don't seem at all the better for what
am telling YOU" "No, ma'am, but
this gentleman on the other side of me
must; for it all came in at one ear and
out at the other"
Men use the weapon Of retOrt with
more kindness than women, and in
their hands the wounds inflicted leave
the lightest scar. Women, whose only
weapon is their tongue, are allowed to
say cruel things, though they ill fit
them. And they make unmerciful use
of the privilege. We have heard it al
legged as sn excuse for the relations of
husband and wife so often illustrated
in the newspapers, that the men of the
lower class are entirely without the gift
of verbal repartee. The wife's glib
tongue revels in cutting sarcasm; and, if
the mans tongue could give her as good
or bad words back again, the contest
would not proceed TO further measures.
But retort in his case is literally con-
fined to blows; and repartee of this sort
comes before quite another court than
that of criticism, and lives in other re-
cords than those from which we have
been borrowing our illustrations.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
AGRICULTURAL.

BREEDING MAREs.-Tbe best age of
mares for breeding is from six te twelve
years: but thew often produce colts
when fifteen 10 eighteen wears II Ia a
doubtful policy to allow old. broken
down mares TO breed. unless thew pos
sess some remarkable good qualities.
because valuable horse can he raised
worth from 5000 to $500. as cheaply as
one worth $50. In horses like produces
lite too nnerr;no,v m snend mucb
money in raising moor animals. Broken
wind. SPAWN. ringbone. founder, and
blindness i'm the dam are transmissable
tn the colt So also. is the temper and
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16

MANURE FOR FRUIT TTREEs.-TheW West
ern New York Horticultural Society
lately discussed the question of manure
for fruit trees. One member said that
he had used superphosphate of lime
with good results. Another member
said that he had seen more benefit re-
sulting from superphosphate the second
year than the first, especially when the
first was dry season. Another MEM
Der preferred wood ashes. He once used
500 bushels of leached ashes on the
sandy soil of his orchard, with very
great advantage, applying it at the rate
of 3O0 bushels per acre. The quality as
well as size and yield of fruit was very
much improved. Another member con-
sidered barnyard manure as the most
profitable fertilizer for fruit trees, as it
furnishes all the elements required for
growth and fertility. Fruit-growers
should therefore manufacture all the
manure they can, by keeping horses,
cattle, pigs, poultry, and gathering up
all the litter, &c, for the manure pile.
Some people are liable 10 make mistakes
in using stimulating manures as fertili-
zers for fruit crops.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16

SORE NOSE IN SHEEP.-Sheep are tre-
quently affected with a disease called
''sore nose" being scabbed so badly as
TO interfere with eating. The remedy
is to mix spirits of turpentine with soft
lard or goose oil; half pint of each,
stirred well together while cold. This
quantity is sufficient for one hundred
sheep. In some cases it may need to be
applied a second time. Rub it thor
oughly. Tar is sometimes employed,
but of itself is very hard and stiff in
cold weather.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
L0veliness.

What constitutes true loveliness 7
Not the polished brow, the gaudy dress,
nor the show and parade of fashion
able life. A woman may have all the
outward marks of beauty. aud yet not
possess lovely character. 1t is the
benevolent disposition, the kind acts,
and the Christian department.. 1t is in
the heart, where meekness, truth, af-
fecton, humility, are found, where we
look for lOveliness; nor do we look in
vain. The woman who can soothe the
aching heart, smooth the wrinkled brow,
alleviate the anguish of the mind, and
pour the balm of consolation in the
wounded breast, possesses, in an emf
nent degree, true loveliness of charac-
ter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-16
CHIMNEY SCOT Is very I

CHIMNEY SCOT Is very powerful man
ure applied at the rate of one pound to
the rod; it abounds in ammonia, and
consequently possesses stimulating
power in a remarkable degree. Too
much SCOT per rod will drive vegetation
beyond what is desirable. One part of
stimulating ammonia than any other
prOportionate quantity of any other
manure extant. SCOT forms an exceed
ingly rapid stimulatOr for peas, lettuce,
carrots, spinach, and most crops, in a
liquid state, at the rate of half an ounce
to two quarts of water, given so as to
soak down to the roots. Always give
SCOT while the plant is in an inactive
state. Most houses make SCOT enough
to manure a whole garden for the year.