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The Portland daily press., 1878-01-11
Stated Meetings.
CITY GOVERNMENT.

The regular meetings of the City Council take
place the first Monday evening Of each month.
The School Committee meet the fourth Monday
evening of each month.
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CITY AND VICINITY.


NEW AWVEMTABEME TIuBA z
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Waltzing-M B. Gilbert.
Biliiards-Prop. Scharfer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Special Meeting-P. M. r. A.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HIPS Celebrated Cotton Shirts.
One Week Only-Hall.
Boots, Shoes and Rubbers-C, II. Staples s. Co,
Shop TO Let.
just Arrived from England.
Drug Store for Sale.
Wanted-SituatiOn.
AUCTION COLUMN.
Fine Portland Sleighs-F. o. Bailey 81 Co.
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GREAT excitement at Turner Bros. over the
Dress Goods reduced from 80 to 12a cents.
ian10tf
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RUTH, THE GLEANERl-Tickets now ready at
Stockbfidge's jan7f
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MASONIC.
at Masonic RaH, No. So Exchange Street,

Ag AdS0ntc Hdtt, NO. % E1cRdnge street.
YORK RITES.
BLUE LoDGE-Ancient Landmark, first Wednes-
day; Portland, second Wednesday; Atlantic, third
Wednesday.
CHAPTERs-G reeneafR R. A. c., first Monday; Mt.
Vernon, r. A. c., third Monday.
CoUNCIL-Portland G. R. s. S. Masters, second
Monday.
CoMMANDERIEs OF K. T.-Portland, fourth Mon
day; st. Adams, second Thursday.
GRAND BoDTEs-Grand Lodge, first Tuesday in
May; Grand Chapter, first Tuesday evening in May;
Grand Council, Wednesday p. M; Grand Com
mandery, Wednesday evening.
MASONIC RELIEF AssoCIATIoN-Fourth Wednes-
day in every month.
PORTLAND SCHOOL OF MASONIC INSTRUCTION.
Second and fourth Tuesday Of each month.
ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITES,
LoDGE-Yates Grand Lodge of Perfection, first
Friday.
CoUNc1L-Portland Council P. OF j. second FRI
day.
CHAPTER-Dunlap Chapter Rose Croix de II.
Friday.
CoNsIsToRY-Maine Consistcry, S, p. r. S., fourth
Friday in March, June, September and December.
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"Who offers much gets his money s worth of
SLIPPERY ELM LOZENGES for Coughs,
&c. For sale by all Druggists.
CAswELL & Co.,
Corner. Washington and Winter streets, Bos-
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At Odd EeEloscs' Hail. Harrington Block, Congress
Street.
RELIEF AssocIATloN-Tbird Tuesday in the
month.
LoDGEs-Maine, on Monday evenings; Ancieny
Brothers, on Thursday evenings; Ligonia, on Friday
evenings; Beacon, on Tuesday evenings; Unity, No.
3, on Wednesday evening; Ivy, d. Off,, second and
fourth Saturday of each month.
achigonne, first and third We'd
nesday Eastern Star, second and fourth Wednes-
day; Portland, first and third Friday; Falmouth,
No. IL, first and third Tuesdays.
BENEFIT AssooIATIoN-Board of Directors meet
first Monday evening of each month. Association
meetsfirst Monday evening Of January, April July
and October.
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M O T T. Q e.
COPAEgTN EEgSHEP.

ID B. FARNSWORTH, recently B. b. Farms
Ds worth & Co., in the Leather and Finding
Business, and B. #. Whitney, recently Whitney 6
Thomas, Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Rubber Business
have this day formed a copartnership under the
firm named and style of Farnsworth Sc Whitney,
for the purpose of earring on the Wholesale Boot,
Shoe, Leather and Finding Business in all its
details, and will occupy store No. 33 Middle
street, Wooaman's Block. until now occupied
by B. B. Farnsworth 81 Co.. and r. l.. Morse 81 Co,
Portland, Jan. s. 1873. iansdtf
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ut Templars' hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNcIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
month.
evening.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21
The Bank of Nevada and Flood 4
U'Bricn.

Gold is tossed about and trucked about
as lead and copper are in New York.
Mere boys with anvas bags in their
hands go around carrying and collecting
the precious metal. Kegs of gold and
baga of gold are thrown on q cart as if
they we're kegsef nails. In the princi-
pal jewelry stores necklaces, diamond.
studded belts and sets valued at all the
way from $40 to 800, 900 are exposed to
view and are laid witlin grabbing dis
lance. The Bank of Nevada is the great
gold bank of the city. It's vaults are
said to contain over 100000 Trays
of gold stand on the counter not Gagged
in and wired in as with us, but with as
little guard around the money as is
thrown around silks in a dry.goods store.
Yet nothing is stolen and nobody at.
temps it. The bank is owned by Flood
& O'Brien, the great bonanza men.
Their income is tabulOuI-from the
mines alone said to be $4,000 n
month. They were traders IN
II small way, and the store is
still pointed out where they served
their customers for years. They made
friends with the miners, trusted them
for goods, loaned them a little money,
and when tire miners had a good thing
they let Flood & O'Brien know it. They
were careful, prudent, saving men, and
always had ready cash for small ven
lures. The bonanza possession was the
result of this thrift and forecast. Flood
is about fifty years Of age. He is slightly
under size, sturdy and stOcky in build.
His face is expressive of selt-pOssession,
resolution and comm0n.sense. His fam
lily consists of a wife, a son and a daugh-
ter. The daughter is a young lady of
prePOssessing appearance, who puts on
no airs. Mrs. Flood is a matrOnly lady,
quiet and benevolent, and enjoys the
esteem of her neighbOrs. She refuses to
give large parties, because she would
have to ignore her friends and acquain-
tances of humber days. The family live
cozily in a comfortable house, which
would not be considered more than res.
pectable for a well.to-do mechanic or 4
moderate shopkeeper. Floods word is
as good as his bond anywhere. O'Brien
is an old man, full seventy. He is tall,
with very gray hair, and slightly stoops.
Flood "h0lds the fort" in the presi.
dents room, I'D is seen by few persons.
O'Brien can be found outside, in the
banking. room, a sprightly old man, ap-
parentIy looking after things. He is
unmarried, but lives in princely style in
n mansion built by Senator Sharon. His
relatives keep his house.-San Francisco
Coy. Boston Post.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21

Our opinion j., that there are two dis
tinct breeds of swine known as jersey,
for we have seen some very common
stock OF that name, and we have read OF
Others, like those OF Col. Grundy's, that
were superior. 1t will be seen, by refer
encc to our report Of the swine.breeders'
convention, that the breed has no friend
among those who spoke on the subject
there Indiana Farmer.
There il but one true Jersey red hog,
but we have in Kentucky q red hog com
monty called red Berkshire which many
persons are led to believe is the jersey
red because of a similarity of color. The
Jersey red is OF quick growth, and at
tains a very large size, often reaching
800 pounds gross at eight and ten months,
and dressing 600 pounds at eighteen to
twenty months. 1t is docilc, and easily
kept fat at any age. Its ear is the most
Objectionable feature, being large and
sometimes hanging over the eyes, SO as TIC
prevent the animal seeing ahead. Many
of them, however, have ears not hanging
more than the Poland Chinas. The color
is from dark to sandy red, legs short
face wide and short. There are severa
breeders OF the Jersey reds in Ken
lucky.
The hog known in Kentucky as re'
berkshire is descended from an impOrta'
ton from Spain or Portugal, made many
years ago. 1t Is not absolutely pure as {
breed now, but come very fine specimens
are often seen. 1t is popular with the
packers on account OF its fine yield o
lard and its compactness. 1t is not o
such rapid growth as the other red hogs
but is very popular in some portions o.
this state Courier Journal.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21
A wonder. working Remedy.

No remedial agent has ever been offered 70
the sick and debilitated at all comparapie 10
Hostettef's Stomach Bitters, is cases OF re-
mittent and intermittent feyers, constipation,
nervous ailments, rheumatism and disorders
involving constitutional weakness or physi,
cal decay 1t literally works WONDERS,
basis holds in solution, act like a charm upon
the stomach, and through the stomach upon
the brain, liver, bowels and nervous system.
There is nothing in its composition thai IS
not salubrious. 1t contains some OF the mos.
potent tones of the vegetable kingdom n
The juices of the best aperient ana anu
bilious roots and herbs, combined with a
perfectly pure s,imulent element. The Dlt,
ters are peculiarly adapted to more ensase" '
by the system To resist atmospheric and other
influences prejudicial to health largely
increased,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21

we never tire of going TO bed at night,
and we are very sorry when We tire OF
getting up in the morning. We never
weary, except with regret, Of breakfast
in, dining and supping; and yet these
actions are repeated necessarily three
hundred and sixty five times in the year
with renewed excitement on eTery sue
ceeding occasion. We take off our
clothes once every day, and put them on
once every day. We do this at nearly
the same hour, in daily succession, and
when health is good the pleasure derived
from 80 doing is not marred by the repe.
tition of the act, for the ebbing and the
flowing of our bodily sensations prepare
us, without any effort on our part, for
all the vicis.itudes of our existence.
When hungry, the food is agreeable;
when weary, sleep or rest is a treat;
when warm, cool air .is refreshing; when
cold, the pleasure derived from a cheer
full fire is delicious. The excitement is
kept up by contrasts; and we purchase
the enjoyment of one feeling by encour.
aging the reverse. With health, and
youth, and prosperity, we should never
be weary. 1t il age, and weakness and
poverty that prepare w for death; and
even that comes easy upon most men, at
last. like a sleep, and the heaviness OF the
heart gives ever the last sleep a welcome
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21
in spite Of chemistry, although 1t Ia not
nv intention TO undervalue science.
Mnnuring Orchards.

Although there are many unsettled
questions in regard to orchard culture,
there Is one upon which nearly or quite
all intelligent orchardists are agreed,
and that is, the soil must be made rich
to enable it to sustain a proper growth
of wood, and produce abundant crops OF
fine fruit. There are many ways OF ma
nuring the orchard by blowing under
green crops OF clover, rye, corn, buck,
wheat, or millet, by applying mineral
manure, such as potash, lime and phos-
phorus to the surface, Oh by using barn
yard anu
Our object in this article Is, not so
much TO indicate the kind Of manure TO
use, Az TO urge the Importance OF using
come kind, 80 ~ 70 increase the fertility
of the orchard, and to say, now is the
proper time to apply manure. II you
wait until spring the manure will hardly
become dissolved and appropriated in
time TO be much benefit to the next
| crop of fruit, and would probably affect
| the growth OF wood 80 late in the season
A, to be rather an injury than a benefit.
re applied now, in this season of the
farmers leisure, il will become dissolved
by the rains and NOW of winter, carried
dawn to the neighborhood of the roots,
ready 10 be appropriated by the first
spring growth. This, OF course, applies
70 the mineral and b%arnyard manures
only, AZ the green manure should be
pIowed in when it has attained it's great
est growth.
Another question that presents itseIl
il, where shall the n be applied
We would answer, just where the feed
ing roots are the most numerous. In n
yeung orchard, but a few years planted
the feeding roots would not be many feet
from the base of the trees, but in n bear
ing orchard, twenty years and upwards
they would be found more numerous III
the spaces between the trees than under
their branches, When the top Of Il tree
is leftto follow its bent without trimming,
the new growth is principally al the end'
of the branches, and what IL lrue OF tine
top is equally true of the roots, ana q
vie ~orchardist, if he has not sufficient
manure to cover the entire snrlace OF al
old orchard, will apply what he has tt
the spaces between the rows rather thar
under the branches of the trees.
This entire subject of manuring or
chard. needs more consideration, and
better understanding, on the part o
orchardists, Of the habits of growth 0
apple trees, We, to a certain extent
agree with those who have hopeful view
; of the great capacities OF western Ney
, York for fruit growing, and the wealth
that fruit il destined to bring her farm
ers, but to meet with the highest, o
even partial success, ~common.Sense mus
be largely employed Rural Home
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21

Most of the hams prepared for market
are sailed too much, and are hard and
navorless. An experienced curer gives
these directions: When the hams are
nicely trimmed, rub each one with toler-
ably fine salt, ard pack in tight, Make
a sweet pickle by using one and n half
gallons Of New Orleans molas,es or its
equivalent in sugar, and six ounce OF
powdered saltpetfe to forty gallons OF
water, with salt enough added to make
it float a potatoe when it is made. Let it
stand until the scum rises and is skinned
off. They should remain in the pickle
from five to Xix weeks, according TO the
temperature Of the place, If exposed to
freezing weather, they will cure much
slower than ina cellar. When the hams
are finally taken oat rinse them in Gear
water and hang up to dry ready for the
smoke. house, Hickory wood is the best
for smoking, buy any clean smoke will
answer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21

1t is a very good plan for farmers TO
keep n strict account Of their labor. We
know vely well that the majority OF peo-
pie dislike TO be faced down by columns
of figures, when the sum total shows a
DIT cided balance against them; but if
accounts are kept, the result will be that
greater economy will be practiced in the
long run, and that efforts will be made
on every hand to make the balance favor
able. This is the time of the year to
begin. The first thing you ought TO do
i. to make an inventory of every thing
you have. Make it carefully, AMI value
of all your property. Let it include
your acres, houses, utensils, stock, ma
chinery of every description, as well as
notes and all other monetary matters. IL
there are any membranes on your prop.
erty, put them down. Then make up
your estimate Of operations for the en-.
suing year and start out with the deter
mination to 1.-Two up to it. As the year
set down all your sales and
purchases, of every description; don't
let > cent of expenses OF income escape.
Your family expenses should have d sep
ara,e place in the book, 80 thai they may
be footed into the general result at the
close Of the year, and still be so dis
tinct IA IT, show tor themselves what IL
costs to clothe yourself, wife and chill
dren. and to furnish them amusemcnts
and general pleasures. You will find, in
keeping your account Of income, that it
Is a good plan to run each field crop
separate, 70 that you csn, at the close.
gee At a glance what your profit or loss
mas been on each. Keen dates OF times
when fields were plowed, how thew were
cultivated, and what the labor on each
has cost. ThiA will teach tie farmer in
a short time which crops are the mos,
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Artificial Pearls.

TO such perfection has the manutsc-
ture of artificial pearls been carried that
none but connoisseurs can readily dlstln-
puish the real from the false. The man
ufacture has gradually spread from
France. to Italy and Turkey, and pearls
of all kinds Of form and color are now
made. At the exposition of the pro-
ducts of French industry, at Paris in
1856, high reputation had been attained
tor these imitation pearls which were so
admirably made by M. Constant Wales
that it was impossible at first sight to
distinguish the real from the false strung
alternately on the same string, and there
i, also claimed for them the merit of not
being affected by perspiration, water, or
any other effect of wear. He received a
liver medal then from the jury, and the
perfection of French imitation pearls has
been sustained at subsequent interna-
tional exhibitions up to the present day.
AT the same exposition another maker
showed four strings of pearls, two OF them
real and two false, which the uninitiated
could not distinguish, yet n may be
put down as costing Is and the othe'
goo. AS false pearls are too perfect II
form, in shape and light, it became ne
cessary to initiate the imperfectiona o
nature, and this is now effectively done
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21
winter PiOu Ing.

Winter blowing is a good thing. 1t
upsets the insects, tufns them up from
their warm quarters below to cold quar-
tiers above. 1t throws up the clay 10 be
pulvcrizcd by the frost and air. 1T gives
much aid to spring work, AZ, if the soil
is dry now, it will not need to be plowed
again in sprirg--a good harrow pulver.
ling it finely for any crop. For oats
and clover, timothy, red top, blue grass,
orchard grass, etc by all means do win,
ter blowing Then in early spring you
can SOW the seed at once, and not wait till
the ground is in condition to pillow, and
then spend several days in doing what
could better be done in any open weather
in winter. "A word to the wise is spli
CENT? Rura! World.
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SOIL ~
TTW TU0'
Nitrogen

II will be seeh by the above that the
LIQUID weddings are much stronger in two
OF tie indispensable elements of plant
food than are the solid excrements. Amy
neglect, then, to save these liquids re-
suits in IA loss of the very richest part OF
the stable manure.
TO give Il clearer idea of the magni'
tude of this loss to the farmer, we have
only to consider the amount Of liquid
yoided by a single animal. Boussingault
estimates that a COW voids $4,000 pounds
in a year. Other authorities place the
amount still higher. My own opinion,
based on a careful observation, is that
the amount will reach 10000 pounds.
Taking, however, the ~lirst-named figures
~ a basis for reckoning, and estimating
the solid drug at 10000 pounds annually,
and reckoning tho commercial value OF
ammonia and potash-say at twenty five
cents for the former and eight cents for
H. ..latter-we have as the total value OF
these two elements alone, from a single
cow in Il single year, the sum of $53 40.
This estimate, ! am c0ntldnt, il below
rather than above actual results. Then,
whatever of this is allowed to go to
waste must be supplied by purchase, in
the form of commercial fertilizers at the
above rate.
One of the editors of the Scientific
Farmer estimates that the waste of liquid
anures in all forms at the hands of All
| ordinary farmer, il thrce-fourths of the
total amount of liquid, and this would
amount to a loss OF one,halt OF the total
amount of manure made at the barns.
The loss from a single COW. in Ammonia
and potash alone, would be SIG. 20. With
Il herd o. twenty cows, or their equivalent
in other stock, the less would aggregate
the very respectable sum Of 1884. This
is lost TO the farm, or must be supplied
from the market at these figures.
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profitable. In stock, keep a particular
record Of each animal, with pedigree,
birth and other remarks of interest
Keep, as well, a general diary of events
on the farm for future reference. 49,,
You will find plenty Of time in when
to attend to these things. Keeping an
account will take but few minutes each
day, and when you have once begun,
YOU will be surprised to see how easily
Il can be done. There is one great point
to be kept in view always, and that Is,
to never run in debt. Shun dcbtsas you
would the fire. Strive to live within
YOU means, and you will have a net
result when you balance your books at
the close OF the year that will surprise
and make you glad, Prairie Farmer,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21

AS the scholar sees in the vain but beauti-
full mythologies of the a~ncients the embodied
expressions of the hungry human soul,
blindly cropping after the Infinite, 80 the
physician sees in that popular myth OF the
sixteenth century the fountain OF perpetual
health and %youth--an expression Of the long,
ings of suffering humanity for a remedy that
should forever prevent the incursion Of dis.
ease. The wilds of Europe were ransacked
for this wonderful fountain, and Ponce de
Leon sought for it in the cypress~swamps
and tangled everglades OF our sunny Florida.
Men have searched for it everywhere and
anywhere but where it really is-in the hui
man body itself. The blood is the real foun.
tain of perpetual health and youth. When
this source is corrupted, the painful and
sorrow.producing effects are visible in many
shapes. The multifarious forms in which it
manifests itself would form subjects upon
which | might write volumes. But as all the
varied forms of disease which depend upon
bad blood are cured, or best treated by such
medicines as take up from this fluid and ex.
crete from the system the nOxiOus elements.
it is not of practical impor. aucc that ] should
describe each. For instance, medicalauthOrs
describe about fifty varieties of skin diseases,
but as they all require for their cure very
similar treatment, 1t is of no practical utility
to know Just what name to apply to a certain
form of skin disease, SO you know how best
to cure it. Then again, | might go on and
describe various kinds of scrofulous sores,
fever sores, white swellings, enlarged glands,
and ulcers of varying appearance; might
describe how ~virulent poison may show itself
ia various forms of eruptions, ulcers, sore
throat, bOny tumors, etc. but as all these
vaiious.appearing manifestations Of bad
blood are cured by a uniform means, | deem
such Il course unnecessary. Thoroughly
cleanse the blood, which is the great fountain
of life, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoy.
ant spirits, vital strength, and sOundness OF
constitution, will all return to us. For this
purpose DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery and Purgative Pellets are pre.emi'
! nently the articles needed. They are war
ranted to cure letter, salt rheum, scald head.
! st. Athony's fire, rose rash or erysipe!ss,
ring>worms, pimples, blotches. spots, erup'
tons, pustules, boils, %carbuncles, sore eyes,
rough skin, scurf, scrofulous sores and
swellings, fever sores, white swellings, tn
mors, old sores or swcllincs, affections of the
| skin, throat and bones. and ulcers of the
liver, stomach, kidneys, and lungs.