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The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20

Postal.

The races will be continued Monday and
Tuesday If the weather is favorable, otherwise
as soon as suitable.
Postal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Postmaster appoint
ed-Mrs. Ardra W. Frost, Carville, Somerset
county; Joseph Cooke, Dover South Mills,
Piscataquis county; Elbridge W. Mckenzie,
Sangerville, Piscataquis.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20

PORT OF PORTLAND.

saturday, Aug. IS.
ARRIVED.
Steamship Franconia Bragg, New York-pBssen-
gers and mdse to Henry Fox.
Sch Rowena, Howard, Boston, to load for Addison
Point.
Sch Henry Willard, Willard, Block Island.
Sch Venelia, Fisher, Block Island.
Sch Alice Joyce, Bay Chaleur via Swans Island,
where she landed 216 bbls mackerel.
Sch Exact, KIM ball, Boothbay.
Sch Gen Grant, Nelson, Boothbay.
CLEARED.
Barque Ella, Matthews, Buenos Ayres-R Lewis
& Co.
Sch City Of Chelsea, Goodwin, New York-A M
Benson.
Sch Casco Lode, Pierce, New York; Rumery.
sunday, Aug. 10.
ARRIVED.
Sch Laura Nelson, Prout Grand Bank9
Sch Chalcedony, ingalls,, East Machias.
Sch City of Ellsworth, Grant, Ellsworth.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20
The Portland kindling Wood Co.
sells five boxes of clean, dry Kim
ding for $1.OO.

delivered in any part of the city, All orders nv nosto,
card or otherwise left at Office 1852 Exchange street
or depot, Holyoke's Wharf, will beipromptiy filled.
JUN eod3m
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FOR SALE.

A Picnic Parry Wagon; will seat twenty
Two persons comfortably. Top takes off whole in
nve minutes, leaving nice Concord wagon suitable
for any business where nice strong wagon is need
ed; has pole and shafts, and is in fine running order.
Can be seen at FERNALD 81 SAWYERS STA
BLES, 697 Congress St., Portland.
au16 eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
KENNEBUNKPORT, Aug. 18.-Sailed 18th, schr
Eliza Matilda Orediford, Saco.
Ar 18th, schrs Sam'l Fish, Teel, Virginia; G H
Spofford Gray, Philadelphia; yacht Nautilus, Lock-
mort, Boston.
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FROM MERCHANTS exchanged


Cid at Georgetown, sc, 18th, sch Jennie Beazey
Harrington, tor Searsport.
Ar at Valencia prev to 18th inst barque Jos Baker
Ryder, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20

nlaIcontent miners number q, 600.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
How Gen. Crook Got His Wife.

John Daley, who keeps a hotel at
Oakland, Garrett county, Mary land, IS
candidate for door-keeper of the federal
house of representatives. < writer in
the Philadelphia Commonwealth gives a
bit of romance about Johns family, as
follows:
"There is a bit of romance connected
with Dailey's family we'll worth relating,
as it brings to mind one of the pleasant
est "reminiscences of our great internal
conflict During the war the city of
Cumberland was for time occupied
by federal soldiers under command of
Generals Crook and Kelly. On a GER
tain occasion, about midnight, when no
apprehension of danger was felt, a
small party of confederate troops passed
through the federal lines, and captured
and carried off the two generals in COM
mand. That party was commanded by
a son of John Daley.
The young confederate officer, car
ried his distinguished captives to his
fathers house and quartered them there
as prisoners Of war, treating them with
all the kindness and consideration due
their high rank 1t SO happened that
John Daley had comely daughter,
albeit she had proclivities Of Southern
tincture, and Gen. Crook, although an
excellent soldier and thoroughly loyal
was not proof against the claims of
female lovliness, no matter if they
were reflected through a disloyal me-
dunn, while he remained a reluctant
prisoner in change Of the confederate
officer, he became a willing captive at
the hands of his fair sister, whom he
wooed and welded as his lawful wife.
All things considered, | think John
Daley should be elected door-keeper
of the next house of representative by
a unanimous vOte."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
! Religion Of Character.

George ). Merriam, IN ScrlDner Tor october.
The question of how far and how fast
the church is actually coming to this
conception of a religion of character is
one to which it is best not to give a too
sweeping or confident answer. But it
is to be noted, first. that the radical re-
novation and publication of historical
religious system is by no means lmpos-
sible. Other religions than christianity
have experienced some degree Of such
regeneration; but this capacity pecu-
liarlly belongs to the geuius of chris
tianity and is one secret OF its strength.
The Protestant reformation, with all its
limitations and drawbacks, was notable
instance of the self-purifying power OF
christianity; the moral and spiritual re-
nOvation of the Catholic church, which
was the counter-stroke to the Protestant
revolt supplied another instance, though
with lars er infusion of unworthy ele-
ments; and both before and since that
period there have been not few cases
where either the whole church, or an
important branch, has reused from cor
rupt;on and lethargy to purer life and
fresh conquests. 1t seems not over
sanguine to find in the signs of our times
many indications yielding hope OF
another and profound regeneration OF
religious spirit. These indications point
to the Identification ofreligion with per
sonal character, character at once in its
simplest and largest sense; as right-doing
the faithful, patient pursuit OF all
moral excellence; as aspiration and tot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
North Cardinals Declaration of Inde-
Dendence.

Our North Carolina friends have been
made happy by the discovery of a
document which proves that as early
as 1774 her people took steps looking
to American independence. The fol
lowing is a copy Of the document,
which is in the handwriting of Richard
Caswell, and is signed by him and one
hundred and eighty-four prominent
revolutionary patriots:
eve, the subscribers, do declare that
we will bear faith (sic) and true Allegi-
ance to the Independent State of North
Carolina, and to the powers and authori-
ties which may be established for the
Government thereof; And we will to
the utmost of our powers, maintain and
defend the same against Great Briton
all other Powers, Enemies to the United
States of America And this we do
most Sol mnly and Sincerely declare
without any Equivocation, Mental Eva
sion or Secret reservation whatever"
The North Carolina papers may well
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
4 Tramp'S Maxims.

The Detroit Free Press, Sept. 12 In
the hip-pocket of an old vagrant, pulled
in by the police the other night, was a
memorandum book full of his own writ
ing with pencil, and some of his philos-
ophy is good enough to be preserved
His first paragraph reads:
drinking bad whisky because it is
offered free is like getting in the way OF
bullets purchased by an enemy"
A second reads:
Honesty is the best policy, but some
folks are satisfied with second best. Ii
is hard to be honest on an empty stom-
ach."
A third runs:
"A dry plank under rainroof shed
is better than a feather bed in Jail. and
one isn't annoyed by the jailer bringing
in square breakfast"
A fourth says:
Pay as you go. If you haven't any
thing to pay with, don't go. If you are
forced to go, record every Indebtedness
and let your heirs settle the bills"
The fifth explains:
We should have charity for all
When the winter winds blow cold and
drear we vags should pity the poor fel-
lows in India who are having red hot
weather"
A sixth is recorded:
Politeness costs nothing, but it is not
expected that you will wake man up
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
4 Nevada SANDSTONE.

For time yesterday afternoon quite
a heavy sand-storm was in progress on
the large desert some forty miles to the
east of this city. Great clouds of sand
were seen to rise and sweep along over
the plain, gradually ascending until the
highest peaks of the Humboldt Noun
tains were hidden. In appearance the
drifting sand much resembled the clouds
of snow raised by winter storms on the
prairies of the West. The sand also
forms drifts Or dunes, as drifts are form
ed from snow. Every clump of green
wood has its surrounding hillock of
sand, and in places long ridges of sand
are seen as in many localities on the
level alkali flats the mirages play their
fantastic tricks upon weary and thirsty
travellers. Bunches of bushes become
forest trees, crows look like giraffes, and
broad sedge-bordered lakes lie simmer
ing in the sun, all to recede or vanish
when approached. Here, too, pillars of
sand, formed by small whirlwinds, glide
along over the desert like troop OF
ghosts, half dozen sometimes being
seen in company. These are fire.
quently several hundred feet in height,
and remain intact for an hour or more
Three or four small pillars of this kind
were yesterday afternoon Waiting about
on the Twenty-Five Mile Desert for half
an hour or more. They are Of the same
nature as the waterspouts met with at
sea, therefore might, not inappropri-
ately, be termed sandspouts. The des-
erts being generally basins surrounded
by high mountains, eddies, or whirls in
them are of frequent occurrence when
a heavy wind is blowing, and thus are
produced the great pillars of sand
: Virginia City Enterprise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

Many persons complain of always
getting up tired in the morning. This
is very often due to defective ventilation
of the bedroom, or from using an I'M
due amount of bedclothes and bedding.
Feather beds are too soft and yielding,
and partially envelop the sleeper, thus
producing profuse perspiratlons. The
habit of lying too much under blankets
is also very parnicious, by reason of the
carbonic acid exhaled by the sleeper
being respired. Again, it is common
error to suppose that, by simply open
ING a,window, little at the top, a room
can be ventilated. People forget that
for proper ventilation there must be an
inlet and an outlet for the air. In bed
rooms there is often neither, and if
there is fireplace it is generally closed
up. Again, it is a mistake to suppose
that foul air goes to the top of the room.
Certainly the heated air goes to the top
but the chief impurity, the carbonic
acid, falls to the bottom. There is
nothing so efficacious in removing the
lower strata of air as the ordinary fire
place, especially if there is fire burn
ING. The usual defect in ventilation is
the want of proper inlets for the air.
If the windows be open, the cool air,
being hea. Ter, pours down into the
room, causing draught; if the door
be open or ajar, the same thing occurs.
The perfection of ventilation may be
obtained in any room with a fireplace
by simply providing an inlet for the
air. By means of upright tubes the
heavier external atmosphere ascends
vertically through the tubes, like the
jet of fountain, displacing the warmer
and lighter atmosphere of a room.
which finds an exit up the chimney.
The tubes which communicate with the
out air on a level with the floor, should
be carried vertically upward in the room
for about four or five feet A constant
supply of fresh air is thus insured, with
out the slightest liability to draught. as
the current goes directly upward until
it strikes the ceiling. 1t is then diffused
downward, mixed with the heated air
of the ceiling. The same principle can
be carried out In any room with sash
window by cutting out two or three
holes an inch wide and three inches
long in the woodwork of the upper sash
where it joins the lower one. The col
umns of air ascend directly upward,
just inside the window and mix with the
heated air in the upper part of the
room. If this system, were universally
carried out, we should hear less about
rheumatism and chills caught by sitting
in draughts.
Persons should cultivate the faculty
OF detecting sewer gas in houses.
Typhoid fever is often caused by the
escape of this gas into the house through
defect of the traps and drains. However
bad the drains may be outside of the
house, there is little to fear, provided
the gas can escape externally. The fol-
lowing arc two simple precautions
which would naturally diminish the
cases of typpoid fever First, every
main drain should have d ventilating
pipe carried from it, directly outside
the house, to the top of the highest
chimney; secondly, the soil-pipe inside
the house should be carried up through
the roof, and be open at the top.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
ABad Move.

"Well, JIM" said one boy to another
as they met at the noon recess. How
do you like the new house," Like
nothing" contemporary replied the
other. "There are seven boys in the
block, all bigger'n me, and not one l
can boss; the telegraph pole before the
door is full of splinters, and it's worth
a fellows life, let alone the wear of
his trousers, to try and climb up it;
the grocer's store round the corner has
got a big dog, and wire MEETINGS over
the apples and things, and altogether it
is a regular cave of gloom. [ tell you
it amt circumstance to the house we
left, if it has got the modern improve
ments, and the rent is cheaper and
there's more room. That house, jim
my, was like what think heaven will
be like. Spring-time you could sail
for blocks and blocks on sections of the
sidewalk, and in the winter-time there
was skating Kinks upon skating Kinks on
all the vacant lots round. Not q boy
on the street over seven years old. and
every one Of them would pay me a
marble or the first bite Of his apple,
or some other evidence of his wealth,
every day in the week, for me not to
knock off his hat or shoot him with q
pea-shooter where his clothes were
tight. And as for groceries, the Dutch
man round the corner was too blind to
see you hook anything, and if he did,
he was too fat to run far. People might
have some regard for their children
when they move
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

toward perfect manhood, manhood
firmly planted in fidelity to all human
and earthly relationships, and bound
by conscious and vital kinsnip to the
spiritual power of the universe. This
religion, when fully developed. will re-
cognize goodness as the one thingn
full; it will find the noblest employment
for all lofty and spiritual faiths in APP
plying them to produce integrity, purity,
love, Joy, peace, in the lives of men; ii
will find in such fruit the best approval
of the faiths that nurtured it; it will, let
us hope, by making men morally better
and purifying their minds of the ami
malism, bitterness and selfishness that
dim the moral vision, enable them tc
discern as by intuition the great spiritual
realities about which we question thus
making good the promise that the pure
in heart shah see God. While a rel
gion of character will thus be in the
strongest sympathy with spiritual faith
it will not condemn any man, whatever
his belief, who in his life is pure and
benevolent, it will not be afraid to &C.
cept the teaching Of Jesus, that the
supreme test-question is whether we
have ministered to the hungry, the
naked, the sorrowful, and the SHINING
1t will affirm without reservation that
the only real heresy is wrong-doing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

at midnight to ask permission to go
through his hen house. 1t is more
courteous to let him enjoy his needed
repose."
The seventh, and last, was noted down
as follows:
!" When you pick up an apple core do
not find fault because it is not the apple
itself, but be satisfied with the grade of
descent. Do not be ashamed of your
occupation We cannot all be lords,
nor can we all be Migrants. AS 1 can
not be lord | should not lament at
being vagrant. Be truthful and out
spoken. That is, tell 'em you are a Chi
cago fire sufferer. Keep seasonable
hours or some other vag will get your
plank first. Be hopeful, cheerful and
good natured. Growing won't cure a
sore heel"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
A Puzzled Monkey.

The St. Louis Republican thus pleas
antly describes an incident of the fair:
yesterday was good day for the mon
keys at the fair grounds, and they
liked it. They frislked aboutm the sun
shine, and cut their merry antics with
an abandon which showed them to be
bubbling over with the spirit of fun and
mischief. There is one of the number
that by some amusing peculiarities Of
disposition and manner becomes an i'm
mediate favorite with every spectator
and attracts more attention than any
other. A gentleman who was among
the crowd yesterday that generally sur
rounds the monkey-house when the
grounds are open, happened to have a
small pocket-mirror in his hands, and
just for sport passed it in through the
grating to the favorite. The monkeys
behavior on seeing his face reflected in
the glass was amusing IN the extreme,
and kept the crowd in roar of laughter
for nearly an hour. The monkey, of
course, failed to recognize the reflection
of himself in the glass and took it for
another monkey, and his anxiety to get
hold of that monkey was what made the
fun. He would look behind the glass
for it, and feel for it in such a comical
way while he was looking in the glass
that one could not help laughing. While
the glass was close to his eye he grad
ually bent over, casually, and noticing
that the evanescent monkey was then
on his back apparently, he dropped the
glass and made sudden grab for him.
When he didn't get him he looked sur
prised, and commenced looking under
the straw to see what had become of
him. He was then seized with lumin-
Gus idea. He picked up the glass and
ran with it up to the topmost branch of
the dead tree that is erected in the cage,
and climbing to the extreme end again
looked in the glass. 1t seemed as if he
reasoned that in such a position the
monkey could not elude him. He felt
for it, grabbed for It and tried all sorts
OF similar strategy to capture it, and
Notwithstanding his repeated failures,
seemed loath to give it up"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
DIPSOMANIA.
Drink Craving Disease and Should be
Treated as Such.
London N edical Examiner

London edica Examiner
No one who has watched a typical case
of drink-craving can deny for a moment
that it is a disease. The subject of It
is, perhaps, a man of honor aad intelli-
gence or a VIC man Of pure and modest
feelings. At most times-at any rate in
the earlier stages Of the disease-the
patient can act his part in life with
credit to himself, and with the respect
of his fellow-mah He may even be for
the time perfect abstainer from alco-
hol. But the paroXysm Of the disease
comes on, and everything is made to
bow to It's imperious necessities. The
whole will is dominated over and ty-
ranized by a single longing, which for a
time becomes It's sole motive power.
Nothing is allowed to stand In the way
Of its qualification Honor, honesty,
modesty, virtue, the teachings Of expe-
rience, and the precerts of morality
must all yield to the new despot The
powers of the mind succumb as readily
before it as do the powers of the body
before the invasion of smallpox or
cholera. The cravings often come out
at definite periods every six weeks Or
TWO IIlOIlIIlS, anu G1lon lno sufferer
dread of it's advent is no less distressing
than is the unconditional surrender to
it when it comes. He begs to preserv-
ed against himself, to have the weak
ness of his own will made up for by
the compulsion Of others; but he finds
that the law does not allow it. The
State will punish him as drunkard,
but it will not take charge of and cure
him as a dipsomaniac; and SO he passes
on from bad to worse, losing hope and
honor and force of will, until he at
length dies In the prime Of life, to the
unspeakable relief Of every friend and
relative. The case is still more painful
when the subject is woman. Self-con-
troll is SO much expected of each wo-
man of the better classes that the alb
sence of it, even though it be from dis
ease, is enough to rob her of all honor
and respect. The alienation OF. her
friends and the ill-disguised contempt
of those who serve her add to her mis-
cry and increase her disease, till she
dies, a sacrifice to our warped notions
of morality
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

A STRICT Turk is obliged not only to
wash his head, face, neck, ears, and feet,
but also his teeth, at each of the FIVE
daily calls at prayer, SO he very soon
wears out his toothbrush, and these
articles are generally sold in packets of
a dozen. They are made of olive sticks
about ten inches long, and half an inch
IN diameter. AT one end for about half
an inch they are split in all directions,
so as to form brush closely resem bling
a stencilling brush. The less particular
Turks use ordinary European tooth
brushes; but as even the most lax
among them look on the pig and all
belonging to him as vile and unclean,
they would as soon think of defiling
their mouths with Russian bristle
toothbrush as of eating pork chop or
a rasher of bacon. The shop-keeper,
therefore swears by the souls of his
father and mother that the hair of
which his tooth-brushes are made grew
on the back of the camel, the COW or
the horse.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

invite those who attempted to vitiate
the claims of the state to position in
the forefront Of the Revolutionary
movement to take back seat. 1t will
be remembered that number Of such
scept1cs rushed into print about the
time of the Mecklenburg Centennial
Richmond { Va.) Enquirer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

A CITY CHAP had been out of town
shooting his gun at mark, when he
suddenly turned and asked an old
farmer: "What's the law about shooting
prairie chickens in these parts? When
can I kill them? "Never." " Never"
shouted the genteel gunner. Never
replied the aged plow.jogger. And then
looking from the mark on the fence to
the neutrality-suspicious., he continued:
"That is. if ye' don't learn to shoot
better'n ye' do now, boy!"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

A Three Rivers editor having read
that an author should always have a
correct model before him, does all his
writing in front of a mirror.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

Russian to Turk, who receives bay
onet-thurst- t." But, my poor Turk, you
don't appear to objectY' Turk" 1t
is the first time in eight days that any
thing has gone into my stomach"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
Flowers i'm a SnOw-StOrm

It was rough on the flowers of our
gardens yesterday afternoon to be all
powdered over with snow, and just
when they were looking their best. The
buttercup, while looking up, got dab
of snow in its eye that sent it weeping
to bed with its head under leaf of the
big sunHower; the rose wore very red
nose, and the pink began to think old
Boreas most notorious and uproarious
old cuss for raising such muss; while
the hollyhock, on its cold stalk, was al
most crazy, and SO was daisy, for both
had migiving that every flower living
would be very i'll, if not die of the chill
Of this first snowfall. so unexpected by
ALL All others, too, had their bothers-
the trees moaned in the breeze, and the
vines and the grass cried: Alas! the
warning we had this morning has been
more tnan verified, though we all said
the weather clerk lied"
Many persons are predicting an early
long and severe winter. They tell Of
the unusual abundance of pine cones;
the big piles of dirt the gophers are
making about their holes the unusual
thickness of the corn shucks; the indus
try of the woodpeckers in laying up
stores of acorns: the early rising Of the
springs Of the mountains, and the mild
ness of the weather last winter Vm-
gi,aia City Neu. Enterprise.