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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03
David Grey'S Estate.
Over his forge bent David Grey.

Over his forge bent David Grey,
And thought of the rich man cross the way.
Hammer and anvil for me, " he said,
"And weary of toll for the childrens' bread.
"For him, soft carpets aud pictured walls,
A life of ease in his spacious halls
The clang of bells on his dreaming broke;
A flicker OF flame, whiri of smoke.
Ok in travis, forge grown white-hot,
Coat and hat We're alike forgot,
As up the highway the blacksmith ran,
In face and mien like crazy man.
"School house atre!' Mems hearts stood still,
And the women prayed as women will,
While bove the tumut the wailing cry
Of frightened children rose shrill and high.
Night in its shadows hid sun and earth;
The rich man sat by his costly hearth
Lord of wide acres and untold gold,
But wifeless, childless, forlorn and old.
He thought of the family cross the way;
81 would" he sighed, Il were David Grey"
The blacksmith knelt at his children's bed
To look once more at each shining head.
My darlings all safe o God" he cried
MY sins in thy boundless mercy hide.
"Only to-day learned how great
Hath been Thy bounty and my estate"
Home Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

THE MAIDEN's LEAP.-A daughter of
the first Earl of Gowrie was courted by a
young gentleman much her inferior in
rank and fortune. Her family, though
they gave no encouragement to the
match, permitted him to visit them at
their castle of Ruthven in Perthshire, and
on such occasions the chamber assigned
him was in tower, near another tower
in which the young lady slept On one
of his visits the young lady, before the
doors was shut, got into her lovers
apartment, but some of the family aving
discovered it, told her mother, who, cut
ting off, as she thought, all possibility ct
retreat, hastened to surprise them; the
young lady, however, hearing the we'll
known steps of her mother hobbling up
stairs, ran to the leads, and took des-
perate leap of nine feet four inches over
chasm OF sixty feet from the ground,
alighted on the battlements of the other
tower, whence descending into her own
chamber, she crept into bed. Her moth
er having in vain sought her in her low
er's chamber, came into her room, where,
finding her seemingly asleep, she apollo
gized for her unjust suspicion. The
young lady eloped the following night,
and was married. The chasm between
the towers is still shown under the appel
lation of the Maiden's Leap.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

A correspondent OF the Charleston
Neos and Courier writes the voyage of
the Azor to Liberia: The sutferings of
the immigrants were intense. They had
not been accustomed to practice selfde-
NAL, and soon exhausted the limited
daily supply of water. There was great
waste despite the efforts of the officers.
The fever spread rapidly, and before we
reached this point, which is colonial
settlement on the West Coast, belonging
to Great Britain, twenty-three of our i'll
fated emigrants had died. have never
seen sadder sight than when their re-
mains were committed to the deep. The
names of the dead will go to you by the
first mail steamer that touches at this
place.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

A printers widow in Germany, while a
new Bible was printing at her house, one
night went into the office to alter the SEN
tcnce of subsection to her husband pro-
nounced upon Eve in Genesis ill.,, 10.
She altered the sentence, sand he shall
be thy lord" (lIerr) to sand he shall be
thy fool" (Narr) For this liberty she
lost her life. Copies of this edition have
been bought at enormous prices. An
clifton of the Bible is known to book
collectors as the "Vinegar Bible" from the
oratum which changed the reading Par
able of the Vineyard" to parable of the
Vinegar"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

Some of the younger and more enthu-
siastic members of the press still linger
lovingly with glowing tongue and pen
over the memories of the late meeting of
their association. One of them tells us
that "some of the festive journalists were
thrown into paroxysms of delight by the
entente cordial, etc, exhibited on the oc-
casion.' We remember that something
was said about paroxysms of some sort
among the boys, but we had supposed
that the corn cordial exhibited on the oc-
casion was what did it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEvER.-
Thoroughly annoint the patient with sui
phur ointment twice day; give five to
ten grains of sulphur in little jam three
times a day; sufficient sulpur was burned
twice daily Con Goals on a shovel to fill
the room with the fumes, and of course
was inhaled by the patient. Under this
treatment each case improved immedi
ately, and none were over eight days in
making complete recovery. 1t pre-
vents disease from spreading. The
worst case yields to it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03
A Singular Fact.

A remarkable cure by blood transfu
ella Merkel, a child of seven years, was
first attacked by diptheria, next by reflex
paralysis, and finally by sangunea pur-
purea, and her life was despaired of.
Her father, who is a physician, consented
to have the experiment of blood transtu
sion tried. Blood was taken from the
veins of young man of eighteen and in
jected with syringe into the child's sys-
tenn. Subsequently the little enc took
cold and began coughing, with mucus
rattle in her throat, SO that the father was
compelled to afford artificial respiration.
He then took blood from the veins of his
servant, a healthy girl of nineteen, and
the effect of the TRANSMISSION was charm
ing The child fell into peaceful sleep,
ana a remarkable change came over her.
When she awoke she asked for her play
things, and from that hour her improve
ment was rapid. Her rather has made
this remark to "A Globe reporter: There
she was, growing gradually worse and
worse, her nervous powers getting weaker
and weaker. She was sinking, and was
evidently beyond the reach of all human
aid, and at one time life itself had almost
fled. The respiration was not to be
seen, her forehead icy cold, her body
purplish, and the beating of the pulse
could not be distinguished. Yes, sir,
without doubt, it was the TRANSMISSION of
blood that restored my daughter
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

Uses OF ADvERsITY-Among the
uses of adversely we find the following
enumerated:
You can wear out your cloths. You
are not troubled with visitors. You are
exonorated from making calls Bores
do not bore you. No one ever thinks of
presenting you with testimonial. Flat
terers do not shoot their rubbish into
your years. Imposters know its impos-
sible to bleed you. You practise tenn
perance. You are saved many debt,
many deception, many headache.
And lastly, if you have true friend in
the world, you are sure to know it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

When you buy curls, take with you
magnilying glass. should say watch
makers glass, and examine the hair; if
naturally curly the hairs are fiat. Straight
hair is round, and in SEINE instances
three-cornered, but curly hair is, | think,
always fiat. This is fact worth know
ing MS much straight hair is curled on
hot irons, and when worn a short time is
straight as ever, but real curls wear for
years, requiring only to be brushed over
curling-stick occasionally.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

a BEACH INCIDENT.-A gentleman at
Scarborough, after waving his handker-
chief for half an hour or more at an I'M
known young lady whom he discovered
at distant point on the shore, was en-
couraged by warm response to his sig
nal to approach his charmer. Imagine
his feeling when, on drawing nearer, he
found that it was his own dear wife,
whom he had left at the hotel but a short
time before. "Why, how remarkable
that we should have recognized each 9TH
er at such distance" exclaimed both at
the same breath, and then they changed
the subject Neooburyport Herald.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

The Worlds Conference of the Y. NJ
{. A. is TO be held in Geneva, Switzer-
land, August 10. Representatives from
this country sailed from New York, July
13, by the steamship Ethiopia.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

CURE FOR CoLIc.-Mix a tablespoon
full of gunpowder in pint of chamber
lie and drench the horse.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-03

South Australia is likely to become a
rival to US in the matter of canned and
dried fruits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
The Rates Of Postage.

Postal cards, one cent each, 60 without further
charge to all parts of the United States and Canadas
with additional onecent stamp they goto all parts
ofEurope.
All letters, to all parts of the United States and
Canada, three cents per half-ounce.
local, or ''drop' letters that Is, for the city or
town where deposited, cents if delivered by car
riers, and cent where there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri weekly and
weekles regularly issued and sent to regular SUBJ
publication, newspapers and magazines published
less frequently than once week, cents per pound.
Transient newspapers, magazines pamphlets, books
and handbils, cent tor each two ounces fraction
thereof Ali other miscellaneous matter, including
unsealed circulars, book manuscripts, pro0fsheets,
ROOTS and merchandise not exceeding four pounds in
weight, cent for each ounce or fraction thereof.
The following are the postal rates with Europe:
The rates for letters are for the halfounce or ac-
tion thereof, and those for newspapers for four
ounces or fraction thereof:-
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters cent !;
newspapers cents; France, letters cents. NEWS
papers cents; Spain, letters cents, newspapers2
cents; all parts of Germany, including Austria,
letters cents, newspapers Q cents; Denmark,
letters 8 cents, newspapers cents; Switzerland,
cents, newspapers cents; Russia, letters cents,
newspapers cents; Norway, letters 5 cents, news
papers 2 cents; Sweden, letters CENTS newspapers
cents; Turkey. European and Asiatic, letters B
cents, newspapers cents; Egypt, letters 5 cents,
newspapers cents.
For Asiatic countries, the half-ounce limit for
letters, and the four ounces for newspapers, still
holding good, the rates are:-
To Australia, letters via San Francisco Except to
New South Wales) cents,via Southampton Is cents,
cents, via Southampton cents Via Brndisi cents
China letters, via San Francisco 10 CENTS via South
ampton Is cents, via Brindsi 10 cents, newspapers
nrad Iy~;%s-
India, Italian mall letters, 10 cents, newspapers
cents; Japan. letters, via San Francisco cents, via
England 10 CENTS via Brindisi 81 CENTS newspapers
via San Francisco cents, via Southampton cents,
Wis Brindsi cents.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
Poultry on a Large Scale.

Like everything else, poultry requires to
have common sense used in its management.
There is common sense in a few hens being
kept by any man living in city and having
a small yard at the back of his house where
perhaps he has stable with pair of horses,
but there would be folly in his having great
numbers. There is good common sense in
having fine lot of fowls running around ev-
cry farm homestead, but none in keeping so
many as to bring on disease. There would
be common sense in placing 1000 hens in FAM
lilies OF so to over 200 acres, giving them full
liberty to range where they pleased, and hay
ing their roosts so constructed that a yoke of
oxen or a pair of horses could be hitched TO
them and haul them to new site when crops
growing near required the absence of the
poultry, or when coop had been a good
while in one place, and the surroundings
were becoming saturated too much with the
manure. On a large farm with springs and
running streams of water, 10000 might be
kept, by preserving attention in moving when
necessary, and by blowing some ground all
the while, near the fowls, and also BY plant
ing patches of rye in September to give them
green food through the winter, which would
be available whenever the snow is not living
thereon. But it would be folly for 10000 or
only 1000 to be kept confined on few acres,
and expect anything but disaster. With am
pie range fowls will be healthy in small fami-
lies and require little besides what they find
by foraging, at the same time they will lay
eggs enough to make 81 per hen but confine
them on few acres and they will eat double
of purchased food and lay not more than rs
cents worth of eggs per head in proportion to
the close confinement.-Ritr Neag Yorker.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
o mco HOurs.

Once Hours.
From 7.30 m to $50 m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 a M, and 1.30 to 2.30 p. m.
PORTLAND, ME-, July l, 1878.
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive at 1910
and TAO =. m. Close at s15 a. m, and 1880, 500 and
Boston and the West. Arrive at $50 M
intermediate or Way Mails via Boston and Maine
Railway Arrive at 1910 and $40 m. Close at s.15
a. m. and 1890 p. m.
Great Southern and Western. Arrive at 1910, TAO
and lilo p. m. Close at SIS a. NJ, $780, 500 and
500 p. m.
Bangor and connecting routes. Arrive at 1.1o p.
m. Close at 11.45 a. m.
Augusta and connecting routes. Arrive at $50 a.
and LILO p. Close at 1145 a. and AS p m.
Morning Northwestern by g. T. r. Arrive at s.35
Lewiston and Auburn. Arrive at 2.2O and $50
a.. M, and Ito p m. Close at 545 and 11.45 a. m.
Castine, Deer Isle, sedgwick, $, W. Harbor, Mt.
chias, Millbridge and Bar Harbor, via each steam
er. Arrive at 6 a. m. Close at 9 p. m.
Passport, via each steamer. Arrive at 500 m.
Foreign Mails, via New York, day preuousro SAIL
ing of steamers. Close at s.15 a. m.
Express, Augusta, Bangor and the East. Arrive
Skowhegan intermediate offices and the north.
Arrive at Ito D M. Close at Las a. m.
Skowhegan also closes at 900 m.
Canada and intermediate offices, via g. T. B. Ar
rive at 12.45 p. n. Close at 12.45 p. m.
Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island. Close
al 11.45 a. M and p. m.
Q. r, 4. Arrive $40 p. m. Close GAS a. m.
Fryeburg, Me-, and intermediate offices, via P. &
0. r. r. Arrive $50 a. m. Close 1905 p. IN.
q X. K. K. Arrive 1.20 p. m. Close IL. 80 p. m.
Rochester, n. H. and intermediate offices, via P.
Boston and the South and West Sundnu onlv.
Arrive l2.45 p. m. Close p. m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
AGRICULTURAL.
Forest Culture,


At the meeting of the Society of Arts in
Boston, Mr.. Joseph S. Fay read a paper on
the Preserving and Increasing the Forests
OF the State" To show the influence of for
ests on climate he referred to the country
around the Mediterranean, now SO sterile and
unproductive, which was formerly the most
populous and fertile region of the earth; the
desert OF Sahara was once well-watered
plain; Tripoli, now unhealthy and almost
depopulated, in the early part OF the Christian
era, before the forests were destroyed, had
population of six millions, and delightful
climate. Spain, Portugal and Italy lost their
populations and the means of sustaining it,
j ust in proportion to the destruction of their
forests, and the restoration of the trees and
the growth of the population will go on to.
gether. The chemist Liebg said that ''the
decay OF ancient empires, of Greece and
Rome, was due more or less to the neglect of
their people to take care of their land and
its fertilizer and climate regulator, the for
est" Asia Minor, Egypt, and the mountains
Gus parts of Austria have lost their fertility
and natural rainfall wherever the trees have
been cut OIL. He gave an account of his own
experiments at Woods Hole, Cape Cod. In
1851 there were no trees in sight of his house;
in 1852 he began to plant nursery of about
10000 seedlings imported from England
larches and hirches, oak, sycamore and
rpiuC al Tue SdtIl6 titu6 ne began 10 tTdHS-
plant the native pines ON the bare, gravelly
bills behind his house, fronting the water;
the nursery trees, after two years, he mixed
with the native trees, and they all did well.
About his house, where formerly there was
not tree, right in the face OF the salt-bear-
ing southerly gales, the hills are covered
with large pines, spruces and other trees.
In 1861 he sowed broadcast, and without
any special care, the seeds of Scotch and Aus
trian pines and Norway spruce, mixed with
native seed, on one hundred acres of very
poor pasture land, overgrown with patches OF
pushes and moss; he now has a stretch of
nearly one hundred acres overgrown with a
dense growth of evergreen trees, at once beau
tiful and useful
What he has done with very little labor or
expense, shows what may be done by care,
economy and sound calculation. Instead Of
sowing broadcast, or planting with the spade,
he recommends sowing in furrows, the seed
planted with hoe in regular order; in this
way less seed is wasted and needed. A half
pound of pine seed is ample for an acre, II ju-
d'ciously used; the field must be fenced to
keep out cattle and sneep till the trees have
grown beyond their reach. The planting
with seed is cheapest, both as to labor and
cost but if one has the capital to spare, it
would be surer, and time would be saved, by
setting outseedlng trees of two or three years
growth at regular distances.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
Our Farming Interests.

There is statement still going around,
credited to the New York Times, represent
ing the farmers of the country as a distressed,
down-trodden and worried class, for whom
there is no relief but through the possession
OF the soil by new owners who shall let it out
to tenants. AS we have repeatedly declared,
this does not express our opinion, or the opin-
ion of any thoughtful student of the condi-
ton of the country. Although we have re-
peatedly explained that fact, repudiating all
responsibility for the statement, and de-
nounced the persistency with which we have
been credited with it, with inyincibIe vitality
it still turns up in greenback organs, credited
to the Times, as though it were an express
sion OF its opinion. In fact, the condition of
our farmers is hopeful, and what they need to
assure their prosperity, Is not higher wages
for everything what they buy as well as
what they sell-which would not benefit them,
but stability of values and the same stan
dard OF monetary measurement here as in
foreign markets, which substantially control
the prices of agricultural products. They
are the greatest losers by fluctuations and un-
certainty in the currency, on account of being
the first among producers and the last among
consumers In the circuit of the exchanges,
and affected by all the intermediate manipu-
lations. Others speculate on changes. actu-
al and prospective, due to variations in the
currency, and they have the profits of the
speculation, while with specie basis and
gold standard, these variations could not &C.
cur, and they would receive and pay only
just and legitimate prices.-Ne,u York Times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
TEMpLARs OF HONOR.


At Templars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNcIL-Maine first and third Monday In each
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening.
PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERIcA-Camps No
/ and convene at P. o. s. of A. Hall, Plum
street. No. on Tuesday evening; No., on Mon
day evening of each week; No. Q at School House,
Turner's Island, Cape Elizabeth, Friday Evening.
FoRIsT CITY CoMMANDERY No. 16 conyepes at
p. o. S. of A. Hall. Plum ST., on first Thursday Of
each month.
evening in Mechanics Hall, corner of Congress and
Casco streets.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLuB-Head-
quarters corner of Congress and Temple streets.
Open day and evening. Business meeting Tues
lay evenings at u O'Clock.
PORTLAND TYPoGRAPHIoAL UNION, No. U.s.
Second Saturday of each month.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIST Y
at their library room, City Hall, on the first and
third Monday evenings OF each month.
SovEREIGEs OF INDUsTRY-Dirigo Council, No. /
meets every Friday evening, at Arcana Hall, at u
O'Clock.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY Harrington
Block. Second Monday in each month. Delivery
Of books daily. to 9, day and evening"
PAysoN LITERARY SocIETY-Meetings every
Monday evening, Browns Block, cor. Brown and
Congress streets, at u o'clock.
PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING
RooM-Open and free to all from 10 a. m. to 8 p.
m, City Building.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhall Lodge, No. 8
Tuesday evenings; Munjoy Lodge, No. 6, Monday
evenings; Pine Tree, No. IL, Friday evenings. at
heir Hall, Clapp's Block. Market Square. Section
ls1 Endowment Rank, fourth Wednesday in each
month.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner of Congress and Caseo Streets First Thurs
day In each month.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF COOP TEMpLARs-
Arcana, Monday, Congress Hail.. 400 Congress
St.; Mission, Wednesday, Williams Block, Congress
street; Mystic, Thursday, at Sons OF Temperance
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE UNIoS-Congress Hall.
Business meetings Thursday evenings public meet
tDgs Sunday evenings, att o'clock.
JUVENILE TEMPLARs-Perham Temple No. "a,
at Congress Hall, every Wednesday evening at
O'Clock. Temperance concerts first Sunday in every
month.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY-No. A Free st. Block
Every evening.
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UNION oorne
Congress and Brown streets. First Tuesday in each
month.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssocIATIoN-Oppo-
site Preble House, Congress Street, open day and
evening. Union Gospel Meetings Wednesday and
Saturday evenings at "a O'Clock.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG.

Preceding Miss Kellogg's concerts the news
papers TEEN with favorable notices, extracts
from the press, and testimonials from the late
President Lincoln and others, reminding peo-
pie of the power of voice possessed by one of
Americas sweetest singers. Ifyour confidence
be secured by such advertisements, why shake
the head and doubt while reading the testimon-
ials of positive cures effected by DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription? 1t is nonsense for la
dies afflicted with the diseases and weaknesses
peculiar to their sex to continue to suffer- or to
submit to the harsh and caustic treatment now
in vogue. The Favorite Prescription is sold by
druggists under positive guarantee to cure.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-15
Commissioners Notice.

1vHE undersigned having been appointed bv the
= Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Cum
claims of creditors against the estate of Edwin w.
Hill, late OF Yarmouth, in said county, deceased rem
from the thirteth day Of july 1875 are allowed to
said creditors in which to present and prove their
claims, and that they will be in session at the dwell
ling house of Edward j. Stubs, in said Yarmouth.
on on Thursday. the twelfth day of Sept next and on
thursday the thiIteth day of January, 1875 at two
O'CLOCK p m. for the purpose of receiving the same.
EDWARD j. STUDIES. commissioners
Yarmouth, Aug. LIST, 1878, d1aw3wF