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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-02
Demand for American War Material.

The arms and ammunition industries
in Birmingham, England, are reported
dull-a circumstance explained by
Americas activity in this direction.
Moreover, American machinery has been
largely adopted on the continent nota-
bly, in Russia, where it is asserted that
5000, 600 rifles have been produc ed by
machinery bought from the Colt Rifle
Company five years ago by Gen. Gorloff,
military attache at Washington, and an
American arms company is reported to
have sold 100, 900 pistols to Russia in the
past year. Gen. Gorloff at the same
time perfected in America what is known
now as the Russian cartridge. Ameri-
can firms have also been doing a very
large arms trade with Turkey and Egypt,
but there is stated to have lately been a
lull in these transactions on account of
q stoppage of remittances from Tur-
key not because she hasn't paid, but
because the makers have overdrawn
their accounts with the Turks.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-02
Iron Cars.

A correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune thinks that the moral of the
Ashtabula accident is-iron cars. "Let
the cars" he says, "be built entirely of
iron, like many of the baggage and ex-
press cars now in use on the New York
Central railroad. Let them be heated
by steam from the engine, or by fur
mace underneath the car, 80 arranged
that by no means can fire get into the
body of the Car. Use less glass surface
for windows. Many persons lost their
lives by being pierced by the sharp
pointed fragments of glass left in the
frames in which they are set. Have the
doors open outward, that they may not
be blocked and fastened by ANYTHING
that might face against them. We have
iron steamships and iron buildings, why
not iron railroad cars2"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-02

use. The Nashville banks have paid ont
large quantities, and yet the change in
that vicinity consists almost exclusively
of fractionals. The explanation offered
is that people hoard it as soon as they
get it, so as to have little stock of cur
rency of kind that cannot be repudi-
ated. 1t may be assumed that much, if
not all, of this boarding is done by No
groes. They, more than the whites,
have a fancy for slowing away coin in
old stockings"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28
Where the Early Strawberries Come
From.

AS ourltrain crept toward the depot Gears in
the South never "whirl' into a station) at
Charleston, a fellow-traveller called my atte n
ton to the fine garden farms that we had been
passing for miles before reaching the city
''Does Charleston consume alllthese products?'
L asked Charleston he replied with a
contemptuous tone; mot a bit of 1t. 1t is all
raised for the New York Market" Then he
became quite chatty, and told me that he was
engaged in the business of shipping produce to
New A0rk, and that the straw berry season was
Just at its height. Later In the day, On his in
vltatlon, went down on the dock and saw
ZO,OOO boxes OF strawberries packed in retriger-
ators on the steamer that just before night
steamed away to the North. The ber-
ries net the growers from 10 cents a
quart, and bring from 20 to 25 cents in New
York. OF course there is some risk of losing
the fruit if they happen to have long, stormy
passnge aud consequent bad ven
tlation; still the profits to the middle
men are so large that the grangers
ought to send missionary down at once.
And not only strawberries, but blackberries.
cherries, plans and other fruits as well as ali
kinds OF vegetables. are absorbed by the keener
appetites and larger purses of Northeners. /
do not believe that most of our people have
any conception of the extent of this demand
and supply. Two days ago, while travelling
the route between Augusta and Savannah, we
passed long stretch of sandy, barren country.
asked gentleman sitting near by if it was
utilized. he looked surprised at my greenness,
ana said, II suppose, sir, that this is the best
SOIL IN the world for watermelons. 1t IS great
business in the season, and three or four steam.
ers week are loaded with them at Port Royal
and Savannah" This statement other parties
have since confirmed.-Cor. Springfield Repuo.-
Hcdn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

THE English correspondents are deyoting
themselves, for want OF war news, to glowing
descriptions of Bucharest, and their accounts
remind one of the old romances about the
roses and fountains of Damascus, another
city OF decay. A correspondent of the Lon
don Neaos under date of May A, describes Blu.
charest as warm in the sun, cool indoors. its
narrow streets filled with carriages and its
pavement with idlers gaily dressed. In a
dozen different palaces ''Madam receives
every night, and the Chausee 1.-THE Hyde Park
OF the city) is full from noon till dark. The
foliage OF its lime avenues is exquisitely ten
der, and the hedges of pale-leayed shrub
are pink with flowers. There are winding
paths in every direction, resonant with night.
lngales in the hours of darkness, but softly
hlied by day with the eternal protestations of
Romeo and the tender sighs of Juliet. The
young lady drives with mamma in splendid
perlane, with Muscovite coachman who
knows no pace but gallop. The gentleman
| follows, languidly basking in the sunshine of
lie and love, and the pair wander apart not
very far, for both wear beautiful shoes too
small, and neither has walked a mile since
birth. The Chausee is terrible place for
bachelors. When the carriages draw togeth-
erIbefore the cafe, aud dark eyes beam upon
the cavalier, and the softest accent in the
world entreats him to fetch an ice, he feels
his loneliness with despair; but when he flies
the scene and in each sheltered path hears
the cooling OF affianced lovers his selEcontarnnt
becomes uncomfortable. So it happens that
there are neither bachelors nor old maids at
Bucharest.
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CITY ADVERTISER ENTS
City of Portland.

NOTICE is hereby given that the "Joint Standing
~ COlnmlttee on Laying out New Streets to
whom was referred the petition of the Cverseers OF
the P0or praying that that part of Weymouth street,
from Portland street to the creek (socalled) be dis
continued, will meet on Portland street at junction
OF Weymouth, on Friday, June st, A. D., 1877, at
O'Clock p, m to hear all parties interested and then
determine and adjudge whether public convenience
requires such discoutnuance and if they should so
adJudge Will then and there discontinue that part OF
Weymouth street, and fix damages as required by
law.
Also, on petition of C. A. Donnelt and others
praying that new street be laid out from north
westerly side OF Ellsworth street, the souther
ly end thereof, said committee will meet at juno
tion of Ellsworth and Hill street, on Friday, June
!st, 1877, at O'Clock p. M, to hear all parties
interested and then determine and adjudge whether
public convenience requires that said new street
should be laid out, and if they should so adjudge,
VIII then and there lay out said street. and fix the
damages as required by law.
Also, on petition of George j. Abbott praying that
new street be laid out through land Of heirs of the
late Nicholas Emery, from Emery street to May
street parallel with Danforth eet go feet wide,
said committee will meet on Emery street Friday
June 1, 1877, at o'clock p. M, to hear all parties
interested and then determine and adjudge if public
convenience requires that said street should be
laid out, and if they should adjudge win then and
there lay out said street, and fix the damages as
required by law.
Also, on petition of Frank Smond that a part of
Federal street on the northwest side thereof from
India street to Hancock street be discontinued said
committee will meet at junction OF India and
Federal streets Saturday, June 2, 1877, at
o'clock p M. TO hear all parties interested and then
determine and adjudge if public convenience
requires that said part of Federal street, should be
so discontinued and if they should SO adjudge will
then and there discontinue that part of Federal
street, and fix the damages as required by law.
NJ. NJ. BUTLER, Committee
JAMES E. HASELTINE,
ISAAC ID. CUSHMAN, ; ON Layingout
ALBERT SMITH, I
SUMNER LIBBY, New Streets.
GEORGE Ii. COYLE.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

ACCORDING to the London Times this is
the programme of the new French cabinet:
The recently appointed projects are instruct
ed to support by every means as official cam
didates all who did not sign the manifesto of
the Left and did not vote for the order of
the day of May II. They have been informe d
tibet the defeat of any official candidate will
lead to their fall. In ACCOMPLISHMENTS where
Bonapartist candidates were defeated by
few votes at the last elections, the projects are
instructed to support them as official candi-
dates. In all other ACCOMPLISHMENTS the pre-
fects have been instructed to support any
anti-Republican candidate if he has chance
of fsuccess afterward, as it is hoped majority
of the Chamber is favorable to the Govern
ment. The two Chambers will be convoked
in congress and will have to vote six or seven
years prolongation of President MacMahon's
power. Some maintain that this congress
would be called upon at the same time to
grant the president the right of appointing a
successor in certain eventuaties. 1t is pcs
sible this is thought of, but improbable that
it will be obtained, even if the majority is
anti-Republican, for neither the Legitimists
nor Bonapartists will consent to this clause,
the origin and aim of which they suspect.
The whole administration is going to be mod
flied as much as possible, especially as to the
magistracy, justices of the peace and all
agents dependent on the Government.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

THE Springfield Republican explains that
the geographical term Abcassia refers to that
part of Russia lying at the base of the wes-
tern portion of the Caucasian mountains, on
the shore of the Black sea. These mountains,
running diagonally from the Black sea to the
Caspian, are the natural barrier between Eu-
rope and Asia. They do not terminate alb
rupty at the Black sea, but run along paral-
lei with its northwestern trend, and the space
between the mountains and the sea is occu-
pied by the Abcassians. Russian acquisitions
have carried the frontier for some distance
south of these mountains. Circassia (mean-
ing this side the Caucasus) refers to that part
Of the country lying north of the mountains,
and Abcassia in the same way means por-
tion of the district beyond them. Transcau-
casia refers to the whole district south of the
mountains, to which also the term Georgia is
modernly applied. The Abcassans were
among the earliest tribes in that part of the
world to embrace Christianity, but long since
went over to Islamism, which accounts for
their revolt in favor of Turkey. The Caucas-
US is still inhabited by men and women of
great personal beauty of rather voluptuous
type. The women sell we'll in the Turkish
market, but in New England might not be
accounted Interesting"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

Mr.. George N. Dawson's notes on the mi
grations of the locust in Manitoba. and the
Northwest territories, contributed TO the Ca
madam Naturalist, contain some important
suggestions as to means of preventing the
grasshopper plaques from which the western
portion of this continent has lately suffered
so much. The author has observed that the
iocusts generally avoid belts Of woodland !;
and he therefore urges the cultivation and
protection of forest trees. The grass upon
those prairies which are the Matching grounds
of the young insects should be preserved from
destruction until the proper time, when by
setting it on fire immense numbers of the
locusts may be burned up with it. The pro-
lection Of locust-eating birds is also plainly
of great Importance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

ABOUT the best news from China, under
ordinary circumstances, would be the fact,
shown by the regular trade returns, that the
sale Of Indian opium has considerably de-
clined of late in that Celestial EMPIRE" the
head of which, at this moment, is a young
gentlemen, one Tsai-Tien, surnamed Hwang.
ii, "The Supreme, who nourishes all Great
ures"-who was born in 1871, and succeeded
his father as Emperor at the ripe age of three
years and seven months. The trade quota
tions are correct. Indian opium is out of de-
mand in China, but this does not intimate
that the use and abuse of the vile drug has
diminished in that country. The fact is, the
Chinese have taken to the cultivation of pop
pies, from which they produce native
grown opium at least as good as that previ-
ously imported from India, and one hundred
and fifty per cent. cheaper! If the produc-
ton and sale of Indian opium should greatly
diminish, under these new circumstances of
production in China, it must seriously affect
the trade and public revenue of Queen Victo-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

The costliest scheme of irrigation ever pro-
jected in California has just been voted for
by the counties located in the valley of San
joaquin. The soil is rich, but scant rainfalls
have turned the valley almost into a desert,
especially on the west side of the river. Now
it is proposed TO build a navigable canal
through this region, 100 miles in length, at a
cost of $4 1000, serving thus double pur-
pose-water for the grain fields, and trans
portation for the crops in competition with
the Central Pacific monopoly,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

IT is in her navy that Russia appears weak
est, not having armaments fit to compete
with those of the Turkish navy. The IRON
clad turret-vessel, Peter the Great is under
repairs. Another great iron.clad, of the size
and on the plan of the British InflexibIe
(whose indicated horsepower is 5000, dis
placement of tonnage, II, ,165, with armor 16
to "a inches thick, an armament of four 81
ton guns,) is under orders to be Immediately
begun, but it will take years to complete it.
The Pacific and American Squadrons of the
Russian navy are not to enter the Mediter-
ranean ; but in view of possible complications
with England on the Eastern question, these
squadrous are to be kept on the alert, to act
as cruisers and annoy English shipping di
rectly hostilities begin. The Czar is said to
have expressed to the naval authorities at St.
Petersburg his marked displeasure at the con
dition OF the Baltic fleet. Year after year,
for long time, 100000 rubles have been
expended upon new iron-clads, yet there is
not a single vessel efficient-in the American
and English sense of the term-for service at
sea. He complains that the navy OF Russia
exists, like Napoeon's army in 1870, chiefly
upon paper.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Cara certificate couDtersigned by Stanley Il.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
iourpa1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28
THH3 PRESS
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 2S.

we do not read anonymous letters and cOmmuni
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
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ria's Indian Empire, whence the export of
the drug to China has been to the extent OF
S5o,OOO,OOOa year. AS regards China, the
high price of Indian opium has hitherto been
the only deterrent to its general consump-
ton. Home grown, low priced and abund-
ant 1t can scarcely fail to be most injurious,
because easily attainable in that vast realm.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-28

AN ingenious plan by which "a large army
may be destroyed by one person without
danger TO himself has been devised by a
French chemist, who intends. proceeding to
Constantinople with the object of obtaining
the sultan's permission to try the effects of
his scheme, in the first instance, on the Rus
slams in Roumania. He proposes to effect
his purpose by a system of land torpedoes
concealed beneath the ground over which the
invaders must march as the advance towards
Turkish territory. These torpedoes will all
be connected together simultaneously at the
proper moment by means Of an underground
wire carried to a convenient distance. If
successful he will make no charge as regards
the destruction of Russians in Roumana, but
he will require large sum Ito be paid in. ad-
vance, for performing similar service as re-
CARDS the Russian hosts in Asia Minor.
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vance.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
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fasssHS PAPEk ES PRINTED sWETW
n FEE GERMAN PRINTING INK.
Imported and sold by SiGMUND ULI4MAN, 81
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From a yvesI-kmown Boston Lawyer.
Bilious Dyspepsia and Malaria Contract

HOLMAN LIVER PAD Co. Dear Sirs: Having promised
of the Liver Pad, respectfully submit the following
dotored and dosed fer liver complaint and of its atte
etc. during which time have used pills and powders whole
success, they afforded BEST only temporary relief
health and strength have worn the Liver Pad now
remedies and am happy to say that feel nearly WELL
the medicine used for the last twelve years and fully
from dsoldered state of the liver the Homan Liver Pad
though the hundred times greater
preventive diseases of tie referred to above.
Truly yours
Chelsea, Mass, April 10, 1877.
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gloss and freshness Of youth. Thin
hair is thiclened, fallen hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can restore
the hair where the follicles are de-
stroyed, or the glands atrophied and
decayed; but such as remain can be
saved by this application, and stimu-
lated into activity, SO that a new
growth of hair is produced. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
It's occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning grey or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. The
restoration of vitality it gives to the
scalp arrests and prevents tho forma-
ton Of dandruff, which is often SO UNI
clearly and offensive. Free from those
deleterious substances which make
some preparations dangerous and inju-
rious TO the hair, the Vigor can only
benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be found SO desirable.
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it rich, glossy
lustre, and grateful perfume.
Prepared by DR.. ]. C. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL. MASS.
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"A LARGE SUPPLY OF
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
OF ALL KINDS.

re" We have always on hand full
supply Of our well-known brands Of
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Ayers
Hair Vigoa.,
For restoring to Gray Hair its
natural Vitality and Color.

A dressing
which is at
once agreeable.
healthy, and
efFectual f o r
preserving the
hair. It soon
restores faded
or gray hair
to its original
color, qcith the
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THE BEST DRILL.


NHE KELLER Grain, Seed and Fertile
v zing DRILL, the best without doubt,
and Drill without fault. The most per-
feet Fertilizing distributor in use, 10 which
thousands OF Farmers will testify who have
used it. Eight hundred Of these Drills were
sold In the season OF 1878 and so short OF
filing orders.
The Keller can be seen atall the prominent
points on the principal lines Of railroad. Our
Agents wilitake pleasure in showing Farm
ers the important advantages this Drill has
over all Others and give all the necessary in
formation wanted
This Drill needs no praise, asit has estab-
lished sreputaiionhy it's own merits and
every DRILLS branded THE BEST, heing pro-
nouuced SO by all whouse them For infor-
motion, apply or address
STEWART \ PRICE,
General Agents Frederick, Md.
sep1 l--v
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FERTILIZERS.

- = = -
celebrated for their PURITY and IN
TRINSIC VALUE, and for which our
prices ara as low as consistent with the
north Of the material used in their man
ufacture.
OUR FERTILIZERS are sold by
our Agents, at our prices, freight added,
as follows
Col. II. v. WHITE, at all of his Ware
houses on the Ches. & Ohio Canal.
S. b LYDDANE, Rockville.
WARD 4 FULKS, Gaithersburg
7. N. HENDERSON, Germantown,
WILLIAMS & LEWIS, Boyd's Station.
SAML DARBY & SONS, Barnesyllc
Station, and
VIM. II. DICKERSON, Dickerson's
Station, on Met. Branch b. d, o. R.R.
G. w, SNOUFFER, Point of Rocks.
JOHN WHITE. Adamstown5 and
DANIEL BAKER & SONS, Buckeyes
town, on Main Stem B. Il o. r. r.
JOS 0 MOBLEY. Greenfield Mills,
Frederick county, Md
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