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For Sale.

A MODERN Brick House, located on one of the
"A best streets in the city with all modern i'm
provements-bath room, water closets, gas and Sc
bago containing Is rooms, all in perfect order, lot
50x100, has the all daywill be sold at bargain
$500 cash and payments of $500 yearly, with interest
at low rate of per cent One of the best chances
obtain house ever offered in this city,
GEORGE r. DAVIS,
my21eodtf Mortgage and Real Estate Broker.
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For Sale.

DESIRABLE Lots on Congress Street, Pine
~ Street, Spruce Street. and Vaughn Street.
Street, with modern improvements; house on
Lincoln Street; three houses on Winter Street;
two houses on Danforth Street; block of two houses
on Fore Street. Inquire of
JOHN G. Proctor,
ju2d3W 90 Exchange Street.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Furniture-WhOlesa and Retail.
GEORGE A. WHITNEY,, No. SO Eek.
change Vt. UphOlstering of all kinds
done to order.
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TOM B. PATCHEN.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber ha
~ been duly appointed Executor of the Will OF
ADAMS MERRILL, late of Portland,
in the county of Cumberland, deceased, and has
taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds
as the law directs. All persons having demands up
on the estate of said deceased required TO exhibit
the same and all persons indebted TO said estate are
called upon to make payment to
JOSEPH M. PRINCE, Executor,
of Falmouth.
Portland, May list, 1871. my3Od1aw3ww*
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FOR THE ISLANDS.

Steamer Gazelle, Capt. A. s. Oliver,
VIII commence her regular
eNax42SSfSsw trips to Peaks, Island ON
s@lnkSZ@. Thursday, June 9th. leaving
the end OF Custom House Wharf at Q and 1890 A. M
and and $3.50 p M. for Jones and Evergreen
Landings. Returning will leave Evergreen at $50
p. NJ.
Will make two trips on Sundays, leaving at 1890
A. M and P. M. Fare down and back % cents.
Children half fare
June s. 1877. ine5dtf
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TENO family without children-five rooms at NO.
Il So NEW HIGH ST., with modern convenient
ces. my23dtf
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HOTEL TO LEASE.
To he Let.

The New England House, Portland, Me,
Address AUG. P. FULLER, :
de28dtf Portland Me.
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C0LLINS' 1.lls
VOLTAIC
PLASTERS.

A Electro. Gal anic Battery, combined with the
"A celebrated Medicated Porous Plaster, forming
tne grandest curative agent in the world of medi-
cine and utterly surprising all other Plasters here
to1ore IN use They accomplish more in one week
IMAM the OLD Plasters in whole year. They do not
palllate, they CURE. Instant relief afforded to
rheumatism, Neuralgia, Paralysis,
Cramps, ST. Vitus' Dance, sciatica, Hip
ompIaint,, Spinal A ffecfions, Nervous
Pains and frrifations, Epilepsy or Fits
proceeding from Shocks TO the Nervous
System, Ruptures and Strains, Frac-
lures, Bruises, Commissions, Weak Mus
eles and Joints, Nervous and Feeble
Muscular Action, Great Soreness and
Pain in auy part of the Body, Weak and
Painful Kidneys, Great Tenderness of
the Kidneys, and Weak and Lame Back,
caused by Chronic Inflammation of the
Kidneys.
SO confident are the proprietors in the great value
OF this plaster all other Plasers that thew do
40 no not hesitate to WARRANT it to possess greater
tar greater, curative properties than all others COM
bined, while the price of each, viz. "a cents is
within the reach of every sufferer in the land.
Insist, therefore, upon having what you call for.
Sold everywhere. Sent by mail, carefully
wrapped, on receipt of prices rs for one 81 rs
Tor six, or 49, % for twelve, by WEEKS & POTTER,
froprietors, Boston. ju13W&S2w
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Union House.
FURNISHED, steam heated Lodging rooms to
Il let, at No. - Temple street.
ma9tf g. f. AIrSTTN
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NVHE Offices in Third Story Merchants National
Il Bank, now occupied by j. g. E. NJ Rand; also
the front offices. These offices heated by steam
have gas, water and fire proof vaults. Possession
given Nov. list. Oct27dtf
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ANNUAL MEETING.

NlHE Annual Meeting OF Stockholders of the
Il Cumberland Bone Company, will be held at
the Company's office q Union Wharf, ON WEDNES-
DAY, June 10th, at $50 P. NJ.
F. D. ELLIS, Treasurer.
Portland June II, 1877. jul2dtd
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To Let,

A FIRST class Brick house, in the western part
"A OF the city, 10 rooms, newly repaired through
out, sunny and pleasant, and near the Horse Cars.
Inquire OF B. d. VERRILL,
ap10dtf 205 Middle Street.
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WANTS..
Wanted.

DY good capable person a situation cook or
ID or general servant. Country preferred. Please
address A. r. this office. ju12d3t*
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Chinese Lotteries In San Francisco.

A San Francisco paper says: Last
week a Chinamnn named Chong Hing
invested 81. 65 in one of the Chinese lot
terry games, on Dupont street, and was
very agreeably surprised on Thursday
last to learn that his tickets had drawn
800. He Immediately went to the
Office with the necessary credentials and
asked payment, but the five proprietors
of the game, Dung Fook, Dung Ching,
Dung Chang, Chang Fook, and Chang
Yung, made technical objections, and re-
fused to respond. All amicable efforts
to exact payment failing, the winner
made statement, and circulated it among
all the Chinese merchants of the city.
These merchants unanimously decided
that the lottery men were in honor
bound to pay, and that business could
not be allowed to be conducted in that
manner in Chinatown. But the pro-
prietors still remained recalcitrant, and,
MS the only way to punish them-for to
compel payment is impossible under the
laws of the State-warrants have been
issued for their arrest for conducting lot
terry games. The five defendants do an
immense business, rivaling in its way
even that of the Havana companies.
They are the principal proprietors of all
the Chinese lotteries in the city, and the
extent of their operations may be judged
of when it is known that they run forty
two games on Dupont street, twenty on
Jackson street, ten on Washington alley,
and ten on Stout's alley.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
The Doctor Who Attended Hamilton.

Among the practitioners of former
days, says the New York Evening Post
there is none whose record of service is
more honorable than that of DIR. David
Hosack. He was born in New York q
few years before the Revolution, and
studied both in Edinburgh and London.
On his return he brought with him a
cabinet of minerals, which was the first
ever known in America; also duplicate
herbarium prepared by the hands of
Linneus himself. This collection is in
the museum of the Lyceum of Natural
History of New York. One of the most
painful incidents in DR.. Hosack's prac-
tice was his attendance on Hamilton af-
ter his duel with Aaron Burr. Hamilton
had, as was customary with duelists,
brought him to the field, and his de-
scription of the death wound, and of
Hamilton's return to the city, is one of
thrilling interest. He says: 81 found
the unfortunate man sitting on the
ground upheld by the arms of his Sec
ond. His countenance l shall never
forget. He had at that instant just
enough strength to say: 'This is NOR
tai wound, and then sank and became
apparently lifeless." Hamilton was con-
veyed to the house of his friend William
Bayard, where DIR. Hosack attended him
till his death, which took place in forty
eight hours.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Irish ,JudrpS.

No professional or official men in the
world have SO easv tim of it as the
Irish Judges. The lord chancellor gets
$40, 900 year, and retiring pension,
no matter how brief time he serves, of
$40, 900. The chief justice of Ireland
has 1926, 900 salary, and ST., 800 retiring
pension, after fifteen years service. The
chief justice Of the common pleas $2S, 900
year, and the chief baron the same.
Their retiring pensions are 81, 500. The
five puisne judges have over 81, 500 a
year, and retiring pensions on the like
liberal scale. All the other judges of in
ferior courts are literally paid, and,
though the salaries are some thirty per
cent. lower than similar functionaries
receive in England, this is amply COM
pensated by the difference in the cost of
living. A house which would cost 80 900
a year in London can be had for 81 900
in Dublin, and wages and expenses are
more than thirty per cent. less in most
respects. The Irish judges have, too,
at least one-third less to do than their
British brethren, who are very heavily
tasked owing to the immense pressure of
business in the London courts. An Irish
Judge gets at least four months leisure
in the year. The Irish bench is almost
invariably filed by men of first-rate
ability, and it is rare to see its judy
ments reversed ia the House of Lords.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
WHAT'S in a Name.

The exchange list gives the following
in regard to the present whereabouts and
doings of some great men: George Wash
ington recently put up at the Stockbridge
Massachusetts, station-house, and has
been brought before the Brooklyn courts
for deserving his wife Elizabeth. Andrew
Jackson is policeman in San Jose, Cali
fornia, and is also in the tolls Of the law
for burglary at San Francisco. Sam
Adams has just been pardoned out of
Sing Sing, and William Writ heads a
gang of Philadelphia burglars. Patrick
Henry, Andrew johnson, Stephen A.
Douglas and John G. Fremont are on the
tramp in various parts of the country.
William Penn is foreman of New Jersey
fre-company, and is in trouble for desert
ing his wife, and Horace Greeley keeps a
hotel in Santa Barbara, and has been
arrested in South Carolina for chicken
stealing. Napoleon Bonaparte is on the
New Orleans grand jury. G. Garibaldi
drives Chicago express wagon, Thomas
Moore is in the Dayton (Ohio) poor
house, and Julius Caesar keeps hotel at
San Jose, California.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Fight With a Heron,

A heron is dangerous bird, even for
man to attack, as will be seen from
this story of an encounter between a
man, dog and heron, published in
the London Field. The heron had
been wounded, its left wing being broken
by shot, The writer continues
Ispied him in a large pool, some yards
from the river bank; seemingly, as he
rested on the water, he was unhurt. As
1 shouted out: "There he is, Sam!' the
retriever plunged into the eddying pool
and swan to seize his prey. Now the
fight began.
Without swerving an inch, the heron
with his crest erect, and with scream,
darted his formidable beak straight at
the dogs eyes. Sam was puzzled. In
moment, however, he was at him again,
but the terrible beak of the heron, as the
attack was again renewed, held him
fairly at bay.
Sam now changed his plan; he tried to
circumvent his formidable enemy by
swimming round to its back, but the
heron presented bold front at all
points and once more Sam rushed in.
The fight was getting fast and furious,
but Sam, though considerably punished,
stuck to his post, and, though repeat
eddy recalled, would not return without
his bind.
There was nothing left to do but to
kill the heron, to prevent his binding
the dog, if he had not already done so.
Accordingly, I raised my gun, when my
companion shouted out: "Don't shoot |!
Don't spoil the bird! I'll save the dog. "
In an instant he leaped from the bank
into the pool, and, swimming, made for
the heron. The bird now left the dog
and turned ON his new assailant, rushing
at him with scream; in an instant the
heron darted his formidable beak at Mr.
Gwynne VaugEan's eyes; but, as he
swan he managed to cover his face, and
his hand only was wounded.
Again and again the heron attacked
him, but never succeeded in wounding
his face. At last, he grabbed the heron
by the legs, drew it under the water, and
struck out for the shore. Grasping the
bird by the beak, he was soon on land,
none the worse for his courageous ex-
plot than wounded hand and a wet
skin.
Sam, the retriever, was bleeding from
at least five honorable wounds, all within
quarter of an inch of either eye. 1t
was courageous fight all around.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Mind YOur Own Business.

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes from Portland, Oregon
"The evening of my arrival I took a
drive through Portland and looked at
both the business and resident quarters.
House after house belonging to the
wealthy citizens was pointed out by the
coachman, and after time I ventured to
ask: How did these men make their
money! They made it, was the prompt
reply, by sticking to their business and
not going away to spend their money.
Mr.. - had hardware store. Mr.. -
was a commission merchant and handled
great deal of wheat, Mr.. - and Mr.
- started the Oregon Steam Naviga-
ton Company and built the railway
around the Cascades, and Mr.. -
opened banking house and did large
business And 30 he vent on, and not
in single instance did he mention a
man who had made his money by oper-
aing in mining stoeks,"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Turning a Desert into a Sea.

Scientific opinion in France is by no
means unanimous as to the desirability
of creating an inland sea in Algeria,
after the project brought forward by
Captain Roudaire, who has been strongly
supported by NJ. de Lesseps. M. Du-
mas, the eminent chemist, and NJ.
Daubree, have urged several objections
to the scheme, and they agree with NJ.
Naudin, who read a paper on the subject
at the last meeting of the Academy of
Sciences, that it's sanitary effects would
be deplorable. They are all three of
opinion that to fill the shallow basins of
the region which it is proposed to con-
vert into sea with salt water would be
equivalent to reproducing in Algeria all
the worst features of the Tuscan and
Pontine marshes. Captain Roudaire
admits that even in the center there
would not be more than eighty feet of
water, and the whole coast line would
have so little water that it would be little
better than sand bank, with an admix-
uuIC VI odlu duu l1CoH WubCI, uIIOu WHlCu
the strong solar light and tropical heat
would act in the most deleterious man.
ner for two-thirds of the year, causing a
rapid decomposition of organic matter,
and spreading contagion for miles in
every direction. NJ. Naudin denies that
there is any similarity between this dis
trict and Egypt. the climate of which
country has been much improved by the
creation of the Suez canal and the plan
tation of trees; for, according to him,
while Egypt lies between two seas, and
is traversed by an immense river, which
has periodical overfows, the Algerian
district is far from the sea and is bounded
by arid deserts. NJ. Naudin believes
that the real remedy for improving this,
the worst region in Africa, will prove to
be in the planting of trees-the Austria
liam eucalyptus, if it can be made to
grow, OF, failing that, the ordinary trees
and shrubs Of the country.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Rats.

An exchange says: Keep a little
package of arsenic in a safe place. and
occasionally sprinkle a little of it on a
well buttered piece of bread, and put it
where they are accustomed to spend
their evenings. Fill barrel half full of
water. Hang a cover little smaller than
the top so that it will easily be tipped
over. Fasten a piece of smoked bacon
to the center, and the next morning fish
out the dead rats. Pound up your old
ink bottles and such pieces of glass as
at hand, and mix with meal. Put the
cake where the rats run. Busy your boys
in making traps. 1t will give them excite
ment to kill the animals when caught,
and take up little time in setting. By
the the diligent use of these four modes
we will guarantee respite from the
racket in month,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
YakOOb Beg,

Yakoob Beg, the "trooper king of
Turkestan," is reported to have died
after brief illness, and to have been
succeeded by his eldest son, Kulo Beg,
as Ameer of Kashgar. Yakoob Beg was
not of royal, or even of noble birth, and
did not belong to the Turanian or Mon
gol stock, to which at least nine-tenths
of his late subjects belong. He was not
n Tartar, but an Aryan, and probably of
Arabic descent. Very little is known Of
his history prior to his appearance as an
officer of the army of the Khan of kho-
hand, and in command of Fort Ak Mus
jid on the Jaxartes. He was probably a
Western adventurer. Khokand was then
at war with Russia, and Yakoob Beg, by
his energy, kept the neighboring Khirgiz
(nomad subjects of Russia in awe, routed
and pillaged them many times, and twice
defeated Russian invading armies. He
was at last defeated, and driven south
ward by combined land and water at
tack. During his struggles with the
Russians, he caused himself to be dread
ed by them, his personal bravery being
of rarer quality than was common among
the Khokandees. He returned to the
capital with five bullet wounds upon his
person, and the Khan conferred upon
him the titles of Beg and Kushbegee,
the latter signifying "contidant of the
King" In 1868 Yakoob Beg was sent
by the Khan of Khokand to aid the Kash-
GAR Chief in driving out the Chinese.
His successes and devices there led to
the proclamation of Yakoob as Ameer of
Kashgar, after which he soon expelled
the Chinese from Eastern Turkestan. In
1875 he again defeated the Chimes, and
annexed some of their territory. Late
in 1876 he was again at war with the
Chinese, but the particulars of the con-
test are not known. Several years ago he
prevailed upon the Ameer of Bokhara to
confer the second title of "Protector and
Champion of the Faith" upon him, and
not long after he obtained from the Sui
tan of Turkey recognition as the head of
Islam in Eastern Turkey. His nephew,
Yakoob Khan, arrived in London recent
ly on special mission.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
Large Trees and Many Shingles.

Lunsford single mill, one mile north
Of Guerneville, California, has capacity
for running $4,000 shingles a day, and
runs regularly. A tree that will make
10000 feet of lumber will make $50, 900
shingles. Such tree would be eight
feet in diameter and 16O feet in length to
the limbs forming the top. Mr.. Luns-
ford was one of the first settlers at or
near Guerneville. He says the largest
tree in the big bottom measured twenty
six feet in diameter in the hollow. The
largest solid tree was fifteen feet in
diameter and forty-five feet in circumfer-
ence. Mr.. Beaver made pa, 900 shingles
out of tree on Russian river bottom,
opposite Guerneville. There is tree at
the mouth OF Dutch Bill canyon, now
working into shingles by Jim English,
which will make 400, 900 shingles. 1t is
fifteen feet through, and was ITO feet to
the limbs. The man who owns the free
has camped beside it. He has a years
work to manufacture il int shingles.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
DO Everything Well.

If you have something to attend to, go
about it coolly and thoughtfully, and do
it Just as well as you can. Do it as
though it were the only thing you had
ever to do in your life, and as if everything
depended upon it. Then your work will
be we'll done, and it will afford you gen:
uine satisfaction. Often much more does
depend upon the manner in which things,
seemingly trivial, are performed than
one would suppose, or then it is possible
to foresee. Do everything well, and you
will find it conducive to your happiness,
and that of those with whom you come
in contact
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28

Not more than twenty-five years ago,
a learned doctor published an elaborate
treatise to prove that salt was the "for-
hidden fruit" through eating which
our first parents fell. and has ever since
been the cause OF all our diseases and
ills. though only lunatic would deny
that salt serves some important and es-
scntial uses in the animal economy. The
desire for salt seems M instinct i'm
planted in the animal creation, and there
il q natural craving for II when 1t does
not exist in sufficient quantity in food.
Animals will travel long distances and
brave great dangers to get at saline
earths. called salt ticks; horses and COWS
are most healthy when provided with
Jumps Of rock salt in their managers or
pastures, and even bees will sip solu.
ton of salt with avidity. Men will bar
ter gold for it in countries where it il
scarce, and for it husbands will sell their
INiyes, and parents their children. In
WI oiStricts of Africa, salt is far more
bhhfv otAop the purest white sugar in
|ope, 1ldrsn WIN suck lump
11d1l5I Ference to swcet-meats. But
the existsnce Of q greater or less appetite
for salt in all individuals, shows that this
substance serves more important func-
tions than that Of merely gratifying the
palate.
Salt being large constituent OF the
human body, and forming about half
the total weight Of the saline matters of
the blood, the constant loss Of it by the
secretions, the bile, and even tears, re-
quires to be made up by its employment
as condiment. The free acid found in
the stomach, and which forms an essen
tial constituent Of the gastric Juice, is
obviously derived from the salt taken
with our food; and the soda Of the blood
and in some of the secretions is doubt
less obtained from the decomposition in
the system of common salt, which is the
only mineral food of man and the only
saline condiment essential to health.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28

A TALE or Two CTIEs.--A we'll
known prima donna being asked why
she did not return from Paris to New
York, replied; ~ like 10 American
vera mooch. zey are magnihque in
Sare hurrah; but here aey trow me ola.
mond, xere zey trow me noting but
nnMer.n
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-28
A TERRIBLE SECRET.
An EuGlish Greenresm ht0ry-Tke skull
Of n Murdered Woman,

IN Eusush Sreeuro0m bt0bS-Tse shW'
efa Murdered Woman,
There is story told in English green
rooms for the truth Of which (writes
Celia Logan in the New York Dispatch
| cannot vouch. II is to the effect that
a certain carpenter, u long, long time
ago. murdered his wife. by driving q
nail into her skull. He fed, and, the
better to conceal his identity, became
an actor. He rose to eminence. and the
whirling of time and the wheel of chance
brought him to the very village in which
Ixears before hehad killed his wife, whose
nnhpwever-sot the story run--had
npected, her long, black hair
ed6O >he cruel wound from which
no blood had flowed.
The part was Hamlet. Whatever
memories the place evoked. he had sufii'
J ] ] ! J ] ! ! !! !!
WI
brought up 81 !
night tossed them Into l. i0RHlg NE
gravedigger to shovel on the stage. He
handed skull to the Hamlet, saying :
Here's skull now hath lain yon in
the earth for Observation-Disclosures.
Homlet- Whoae waa it2
Gravedigger-This same skull, sir,
was Yorick's skull, the kings jester.
Hamlet took the skull, saying:
"This
He turned pale and staggered, for the
skull had left on it one long lock of black
hair. Handed to him upside down, the
lock fell back, revealing nail in the
skull. The actor recognized it es that
of the woman whom he had murdered
just twenty three years before. At this
mute evidence of his guilt coming from
the grave to confront him, the actor lost
his presence OF mind and his senses.
In his insane uttcrances he revealed
his terrible secret, and was only saved
from punishment by his fellow actors
hushing him up and hurrying him away.
He never recovered his reason, and died
in madhouse, raving of the nail in the
skull.
About thirty years ago a story was
written by Frenchman on this same
CHASTITY subject, laying the scene in
private life in France. and making the
perpetrator of the deed woman. It
had great success, and to this day is
occasionally revived, and goes the rounds
of the newspapers, but old English
actors insist that it was founded on the
incident in theatrical life which I have
just related, and which did transpire on
the British stage.