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Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
A Pet WOif'S Freaks.

The Davenport Iowa) Gazette says "A remarkable wolf story is that told by Mr. Chris. Pahl, of Buffalo Township. He brought wolf's skull into the Coun- ty Auditors office, and said he had pre- pared it for the geological cabinet of the academy. He stated that the wolf was captured when cub, had been raised at his house with dog and cat, and that these three were as friendly as could be-in fact, the wolf seemed as tame as though he belonged to a tribe of do- nestle animals, except ill one particular, he would devour chickens, ,and no amount of punishment that would leave him alive, could cure him of his love of live poultry. MT. Pahl had son ten years of age, between whom and the wolf there was almost constant intimacy and warm friendship they would wander all about the farm together, and frolic every day but love for the boy had no effect on the wolf's taste for fowls. When the beasts food was brought to him, he would scatter it about him, and then lie down with his face resting on his fore paws feign1ng sleep a company of hens would surround him to eat his food, and woe to the biddy that came within reach of his paw she was devoured in a trice. There was DO help for it the wolf must be killed or poultry raising must end on the farm. So MT. Pahl fired charge of large shot at the wolf, but did no more than wound him in the thick hide of his neck, and he put off for the woods. The farmer and his men followed him two miles before getting another pop at him, and then he was shot in hind leg. He crawled into thicket, and the hunters thinking he was done for went home
 The very next morning the wolf came to the kitchen door of the farm house, when the family were at breakfast and scratched for admission. The boy was delighted ran out, and boy and wolf had the happiest k1nd of time all day. Mir. Pahl resolved to spare the wolf for his boys sake, but the very next morning the wolf was at his old trap for the chick ems, and devoured two roosters. And he was killed instantly. He had grown to nearly the size of Newfoundland dog. "
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09

termined. There are ostriches on MT.
 Douglass farm which have been robbed of their feathers at proper intervals for sixteen years, and yet the quality of their plumage does not depreciate. When plucking time has come, the necessary number of birds are enticed by liberal display of mealies-as maize or Indian corn is called In South Africa-into a pen, one side of which is movable. The birds will go willingly after mealies, and will run about their paddocks after any one they see, in the expectation of these delicacies. When the pen is full, the movable side is run in, so that the birds are compressed together beyond the power of violent struggling. They can not spread their wings, CT make the dart forward which is customary to them when about to kick. Then men go in among them, and, taking up their wings, pluck or cut their feathers. Both processes are common, but the former is most so, as being the more profitable. There is a heavier weight to sell when the feather IS plucked and the quill begins to grow again at once, whereas the process IS delayed when nature is called upon to eject the stump. Apparently the ostrich suffers but little when hls feathers are drawn, for he takes scarcely any notice of the operation. The plucking has to be endured by the victim twice year /; that is, the tail, and the primary wing feathers, which are the only white ones, are pluoked, and also the secondary wing featbers, these being the black ones, which are valuable, but not so much so as the others. When the harvest of plumes has been collected they are taken into the feather room and sorted into lots of various qualities. The white primary rlm from under the birds wing produces the best plumes. These are frequently sold for as high price as $125 per pound. De-.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09

HEART TO HEART. There was touch ing scene recently over fresh grave in a Cincinnati Cemetery. A little boy, an only child, was being buried. Among the mourners were divorced couple, the lady being the sister of the weeping mother there. Her divorced husband had brought crosses and wreaths of flow CTS to place on the coffin, and also on another grave, that of his own little boy buried in the same lot two years before. In the emotion of the moment the man handed to his divorced wife the floral tribute to place upon the grave ofotheir lost little one, and their tears mingled ovor hoth orrovaa
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
THE WISHES.

An old farmhouse with meadows wide And sweet with clover on each side; A bright-eyed boy who looks from out The door and woodsine wreathed about, And wishes this one thought all day: "Oh If could but fly away
 From this dull spot the world to see, How happy. happy. happy,
 How happy would be " Amid the city's constant din, A man who round the world has been Is thinking, thinking all day long:( "Oh, if could only trace once more The field-path to the farmhouse door, The old green meadows could see,
 How happy, happy, happy, Y
 How happy would be!"1s
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
POEM BY MILTON

.Esf3ssEEH lam old and blind | Men point at me as smitten by Gods frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind; rE4t Yet am not cast down. am weak yetsstrong; .9 l murmer not that no longer see; Poor, old and helpless the more belong TAI Tc@ gs Father supreme, to thee. O0. .1e@ pt tHf. o mercifur One, U, When men are tarthest then Thou art most near, When friends pass by me, and my weakness
 shun,
 a2 5G1 Thy chariot hear; Fl. 4 ft Thy glorious face Is leaning towards me- and its holy light Shines in upon my lonely dwelling place rS And there is no more night.
 On my pended knee VI recognize the purpose clearly shown; Ny vision Thou has dimmed. that may see ' Thyself- -thyself alone -2 Ihave nought to fear This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing; Beneath 1t am almost sacred !; hereI SsT~E "a Can come evil thing. <F~ ~ o.1seem to stand
 Trembling, where foot of mortal ne'er hath ~ e. been, Wrapped in the radiance of Thy sinless land, gsgsE Which eye hath never seen.
 s Visions come and go Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng; From angel lips seem to hear the flow FIs Of soft and holy song.
 It is nothing now,
 When heayenis open on my sightless eyes! When airs from Paradise refresh my brow,
 Fe The earth in darkness lies.
 In purer cline N Ny being fills with rapture-waves of thought S Ron in upon my spirit-strains sublime AG Break over me unsought
 Give me now my Tyre! feel the stirrings of a gift divine, Within my bosom glows mccarthy fire,
 Lit by skill of mine.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
The Queen of England.

Olive Logan was in London the other day when the Queen appeared in state, and this is what she says about it: ''The great traffic of Piccadilly suspended by the uplifted fingers of few policemen means that the red-coated riders are in sight. Presently we see them. It is a splendid sight; the scarlet coats, each with broad band of crape on the left arm (the Queen has never suspended her private mourning for the Prince Consort, although the court observance has long since ceased), the neat brooches and tops and cockaded hats, each man mounted on a horse fit for princes riding. Two outriders head the pro- cesslon, trotting rapidly through the archways toward Buckingham Palace, behind them comes large detachment of the Horse Guards, then more outrid- CTS, and then the Queens open carriage, drawn by four horses, two ridden and two led by positions. How they dance, these beautiful animals Their move- ments are the perfection of equine grace the crowd murmurs expressions concerning the beauty of these lovely beasts. am so close to the Queen as she passes that I could offer her the nosegay of Parma violets and Devon primroses I hold in my hand, without moving step forward. There is 8 hearty though not a ringing cheer among the crowd as she drives under the mar row archway. She responds to it by a grave and smileless inclination of the head, which contrasts, pole-ike, with the fattered and graceful nodding poor Eugenie used to be prodigal of when she drove in the Champs Elysees or the Bois." a..... -..
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09

Tt has been calculated by Dr. o. W. Seimans, of London, that Niagara Falls does as much work as 260, ,OO0, ,OOO tons could do in year at the rate of four pounds per horse power consumption of fuel in an hour
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09

AN EXPLANATION. explain the reason for woman's waywardness, says an exchange, when she throws rock at a hen or her* husband, by saying that it is because of the shape of her collar bone. And one. cannot help thinking woman's collar bone must be the shape of Dutch letter z.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

"Ihe Uery man OF all others acho has the
deepest interest IN q sound currency, and
,cho suffers most by mischieuous legislation in
money matters, IS the man auho earns his dai-
ly bread By his daily toll. a deprecated cur.
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betaoeen morning and noon, and faI-
ling still loauer bet,oeen noon and night, these
things constitute the oery harvest time of spec
uIdtors, and Of the auhole race of those auho are
at once idle and crafty. a disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
eoitS. 1t Nundermines the virtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its hnppiress
1t aodrs against industry, trugalty and econ
Ony, and it fosters the euH spirits of ertrap-
dgdnce and speculation. Of all the contri-
oances for cheating the laboriag classes of
mankind, none has been more efectudl than
that aohich deludes them aoith paper money.
This is the most e6ectual Of intentions to fer
ttlize the rich man s fields By the sgeat Of the
poor mans bro,o. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessioe taxation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared pith
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated paper" ."-Daniel
Webster.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10
"The Farmer Pays.''

The Greenbackers-and by that term we
mean men who desire an inflated and ire
deemable paper currency, not those who
merely wish to substitute treasury notes for
the present volume of bank notes-have been
closely pressed as to the means they would
use to get the additional paper currency into
circulation, and have generally avoided an
swering that question. Commonly they have
contented themselves with pointing out the
readiness with which the Treasury put out
its notes during the war, and intimating that
Issues of paper money can be made as easily
now as then. But at that time the Govern
ment was employing million of men to do
its fighting, and hundreds of thousands to
provide Tor its army. 1t was buying i'm
mense quantities of provisions and clothing,
of iron and powder and other articles neces-
sary to the prosecution of warfare. 1t could
easily expend for warlike purposes alone a
million of dollars day. Not having the
money to pay its bills it gave its notes, and
these were generally taken, though often at a
irlghtful discount. Now in order to force its
notes into as rapid circulation it mast
pursue the same course, and though it
has no need of the amount of pro-
visions and clothing and munitions of
war which it consumed during the rebel
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

The English courts render some most aston
ishing verdicts. A carmau, who was recently
convicted of mixing opium and vitriol in coffee
with the intent to poison his wife, was recon-
mended to mercy by the astute jury 'for the
sake of his wife," who apparently was the last
person in the world who wished to see him at
large. The judge, however, sentenced him to
ten years. penal servitude.
Charlie Ross is now thought to have been
seen at Milan, Italy, about year ago and
again within a few weeks. A party of Ameri-
cans noticed the boy with a strolling band OF
musical beggars, saw that he seemed to under
stand thesEnglish language, and when one of
them said, "Charlie, come to me- he started
to do SO, but was roughly hurried away by his
keepers, two swarthy Italians.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10
REPUBLICAN
State Convention for 1878.


The Republicans of Maine, and all independent
voters who are in favor of preserving the credit
the National Government, and sound currency for
the people-equivalent to coin and redeemable in
con-are requested to send delegates to State Con-
venton to be held in the
City Hall at Portland, Tuesday, July 30,
ISIS, at IN O'Clock A. WI.
The basis OF representation will be as follows
Each city, town and plantation is entitled to one
delegate, and one additional delegate tor every 70
votes given for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in 1876. fraction of forty votes over the
number which is entitled to ore delegate, will be
accorded a delegate.
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding, and at o'clock the morning of the Con.
venton. and will receive credentials of delegates.
JAMES G.. BLAINE. KENNEBEc Chairman.
GEORGE G. WING, Androscoggin.
LEWIS 3. JOHNSON, Aroostook.
FRED N. DOW, Cumberland,
d. G. BEAN, franklin.
S. X. WHITING, Hancock
d. N. MORTLAND, Knox.
ANDREW LACY Lincoln
A. III. WALKER, Oxford,
G. A. BOUTELLE, Penobscot
Q. A. PACKARD, Piscataquis.
JOHN S. ELLIOTT, Sagadahoc,
s. d. LINDSEY, Somerset
w. III. FOGLER. Waldo.
w. j. CORTHELL, Washington,
JAMES M. ANDREWS, York.
j. 0. SMITH, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10
A Fish Story.

We were making voyage from the West
Indies to New York, when the ship fever broke
out among the crew. One of the sailors
among the first victims-was accompanied by
his soma lad of fourteen years, who was strong
ly attached to his father and remained with
him day and night, and never could bs per-
suaded to leave his sick father for moment
A large shark was seen every day following
the vessel, evidently for the purpose of devour-
ing any one who should die and bs committed
20 the deep.
After lingering q few days the sailor died.
AS was the custom at sea, he was sewed up in
blanket, and for the purpose of sinking him
an old grind-stone ard carpenters AK were
put in with him. The very impressive service
of the Episcopal Church was then read, and
the body committed to the deep.
The poor boy, who had watched the proceed
ings closely, plunged in after his father, when
an enormous shark swallowed them botL. The
second day after this dreadful scene, as the
shark continued to follow the vessel-for there
were others sick in the ship-one of the sailors
proposed, as they had q shark hook on board
to make an. effort to take him. They fas-
tened the hook to q large rope, and, batting it
with piece of pork, threw it into the sea, and
the shark instantly swallowed it. Having
thus hooked him, by means of windlass they
hoisted him on board. After he was dead
they prepared to open him, when one of the
sailors, stosping down for that purpose, sudden
ly paused, and after listening few moments
declared most solemnly he heard a low, gutter
al sound which appeared to proceed from the
shark. The sailors, after enjoying hearty
laugh at bis expense, proceeded to listen for
themselves, when they were compelled to ad-
NIT they heard a similar sound. They then
proceeded to open the shark, when the mystery
was explained. 1t appears the sailor was not
dead but in trance; and his SOD, on making
the discovery when inside the shark, had, by
means of his knife, ripped open the blanket.
Having thus liberated his father, they both
went to work and righted up the old grindstone.
The boy was turning, the father was holding
on to the old ship-carpenters ak, sharpening it
for the purpose of cutting their way out Of
their Jonah-like prison, which occssioned the
noise heard by the sailors. As it was the hot
test season OF the year, AMI very little air stir
ring where they were at work, they were both
sweating Tremendously.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

The Camden Herald copies the impudent
denial of the Ne,c Era in regard to the forg-
cries perpetrated upon the New York Times
and World. The Herald has never found
time to copy the indignant denials by those
papers. Perhaps its editor is too busy ex-
planning why he could not secure delega-
tion from his own town in the Congressional
Convention, or in crying Vire la Commune,
to give his readers the truth. Indeed, he
never finds time for that.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

THE Argus is in bad way. Its fear that
it may be forced to stand on a Greenback
platform influences its judgment. 1t has got
so far now as to say that the phrase "equiva-
lent to coin" means something different from
"redeemable in coin," Will it explain the
difference? The Republican party sees none
aud believes that the only way to make our
paper currency equivalent 10 coin is to make
it redeemable in coin. That is its doctrine,
and there is no ambiguity about it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

As n very important source of strength
and security, cherish pnbIic credit. One
method of preserving ii is to nse it as
sparinsly as possible; avoiding occasions
OF expense by cuitivating peace, but re.
membering also that timely disbursements
TO prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbursenlt 10 repeI il !;
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, not only by stunning occasions of
expense, but by vigorous exerfions in time
of peace 10 discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, NOT
ungererOusiy throwing upon posterity the
burden which we ourselves ought to bear,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

THE following conciliatory sentiment finds
expression in the Corinthian, paper pub
lished in Corinth, Mississippi: 'Let the
solid South,' it says, 'meet the united North
with bold, dndaunted courage, for we are
just as confident as we are that we edit this
paper that division of States will be at
tempted again in the future just as sure as it
was In 1851. The North is too tyrannical,
too aggressive, too jealous, too vindlctive, too
suspicious; the South too lofty, too naughty,
too ambitious and too proud. A union of
States is and always will be CALLING" Ap.
parently the C0rinthian has "broken faith"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

THE Springvale Reporter makes pleasing
explanation of the surplus of votes over dele
gates in the Greenback convention at Alfred.
1t says: Gas those most interested were sat
isfed with the result we don't see why he
1.-THE complaining Eastern Starl should fret
about it. A man who has had experience in
running political machinery ought to know
that such things are by no means uncom-
mon." The Reporter is apparently deter
mined that the right to cheat shall not be
wrested from the Greenbackers by the Mon
ey Power. People were told, however, that
the Nationals would have nothing to do
with the dark ways and tricks of politicians.
That seems to have been mistake.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10


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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10
For sale or Exchange.

SEVERAL desirable and well located houses in
- the city-wiIl sell low or exchange for good
farms. Inquire OF JOHN G. PROCrER. je2ld3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

"a return TO specie payments ut the earIi-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard to ali interests concerned, shs suid ever
DC kept i'm view. Fluctuations ia tsse value
or cnrreney are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations to the lowest Dos
sioie point will always be n leading pur-
pose i'm wise legislation. Conversibility,
prompt and certain convertibiIity into
cola rs acknowledged TO be The best and
suresr safeguard against them.
ARRAEsAVg rErEAUN
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

THE celluloid shirt bosom offers new op-
portunities to journalistic epd-men, which
will undoubtedly be eagerly improved. We
shall soon hear of the young man who hugged
his girl so tightly that his shirt bosom ex-
ploded and the two went into the air to-
gether.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Ihe loss achich America has sustained, since
the peace, from the peStilential effects of IRE.
deendbte paper money, on the necessary conf
dence oetoeen men, on the necessary confidence in
hepublic councils, on the industry and morals OF
the people and on the character of republican qou.
ernment, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chdrgedble aoith this a7aad0ased measure
schach must remain atnsatisfed or rather it is an
accumulation ofguiH a0lich can be erpiated no
otteraoise than By volo!ntary sacrifice on the al
ar ofjustice of the power aohich has been the ia
Stroaaent CT it.-Janaes Madison
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

"Such medium (irredeemable paper mon
cyl has always been liable to fluctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
Gus speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and MANI Chief Justice Mar-
ShnU
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

Arredeemable paper money 'converfs the
business of society into a mere lottery; und
when the collapse GENES, as come ii musf,
~ esasts Aaborers o . loyn,eut, crush
es manufacturers and merchants aud
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
ciiizens.o
HAvEEE nurryANsN
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

Davenport, Iowa, is grand rendezvous for
tramps and harvest hands, who arrive by hum
dreds daily 1t is estimated that not less than
four Thousand arrived during one week recent
ly. They frequently take possession of rail-
road trains and compel the train men to carry
them free, but when they reach Davenport are
generally so peaceable that the police force Of
twelve men is sufficient to keep them in order.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

1t (paper money! tends to aggregate the
inequality Of fortunes; to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paupers, and to deepen ana widen the gut
ohtch separated Dives from Lazarus. -Thom-
as Il. Benton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-10

a paper currency is great curse to any
people and particular curse to the laborer
Of ony country, for its depreciation aEevays
falls upon the ldb0rer-Andreu Jackson.