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The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
THE PRESS.
AGRICULTURAL.
The Value of Leached Ashes.

Experiments with leached ashes continue
to work favorably, and to win friends, every
year. There has been a large reduction in
price to correspond with other fertilizers in
the market. Formerly, they sold at 20 and
rs cts. bushel, delivered at the landing, at
tide water. Our farmers now get them at
II cts, delivered at the same place, in guam
titles to suit the purchasers. They have
been used great many years by the farmers
and market gardeners of Long Island, and
later by the same classes in the shore towns
of Connecticut, and on the tobacco farms
farther inland. The leached ashes used
come mainly from Canada, and very largely
through Oswego, whence they are shipped by
canal boat without change until they are
landed at the harbor near the farms where
they are to be used. This refuse from the
asheries contains considerable quantities of
potash and phosphorc acid, which exerts won
derful influence upon exhausted soils. Weno-
tice that when this fertilizer is once intro
duced, 1t retains its hold upon the confidence
OF cultivators, and they buy ashes eyery
year, frequently increasing their orders. The
onion-growers along the Sound make large
use OF leached ashes-buying sometimes by
the thousand bushels. This is one of the
best indications of Its value for that crop.
Fruit-growers are much pleased with its eff
feet upon their growth of their trees and
shrubs, and upon their productiveness. 1t
improves the size and quality of all the small
fruits. 1t is especially beneficial upon straw
berries and grapes. The use of this fertilizer
is increasing among the farmers who are
more remote from the harbors where the
ashes are landed. Their effect is immed-
ately visible upon old pastures and meadows,
spread broadcast as top-dressing; but they
act more satisfactorily if applied to the crops
at the time of seeding down. They not only
largely increase the crop with which the grass
seed is sown, but their influence is visible for
many years afterwards in the increased yield
of grass. A farmer who has used ashes
freely tor twenty years upon a hard, worn
granite soil, says they will give an increase of
hay, upon meadow newly stocked, for eight
years, and then, if the field is plowed again,
they will show the effect of the ashes for six
years longer. He applies about 100 bushels
to the acre on land that he designs to keep in
meadow, and about Is bushels to pasture
land. 1t is particularly satisfactory as an APP
plication to the rye-crop-even in so small
quantities as 20 bushels to the acre. He has
reclaimed large breadth of old fields given
up to the growth of bushes, briers, and
brakes, and made it fine pasture by the rye
crop and ashes. He considers leached ashes
his most efficient helper in Transforming
an exhausted, worn out farm into one Of
great productiveness, giving fair reward tor
his capital and labor. American Agricultur-
ist.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
Discourage Immigration.

would like to start an agitation discour-
aging Ito immigration. 1t seems to be high
time that this were done. We have always
been inviting immigrants and bidding high
for them. We have offered inducements,
asylum and room to the overcrowded com.
munities of the Old World, with utter
thoughtlessness of the overcrowding of our
own country. Let us stop and think Just a
minute. Those of us who are only middle
aged have seen all this country west of Ohio
fill up and run over; and all the Government
homestead land that is desirable taken up,
and even in the past ten years, at rate that
will people all the habtable land in America
in the next ten years. Such opportunities as
we have had are already all but lost to our
children. The relief which the expanded
West has heretofore afforded the crowded
employments and desperate circumstances of
all classes in all parts of the country is about
cut Oft. And our children are to be thrown
back upon their own resources to wage the
never-ending war of man against man, for
mere chance to work. There can be no call
for more foreign population-except by spec
ulators. know they are very busy and very
obtrusive; but can it be that they own all the
papers and periodicals in the country? Our
own children will see the time when they will
be no longer anxious to SELL This will be
the time when s'to him that hath shall be
given, and from him that hath not shall be
taken even that he hath" Don't let us try
to hasten or aggravate the evil.-Corr. N.
Y. Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
CurinR Siffers.

Our plan of curing sitting hens of their
broody propensities is somewhat different
from the old lady who cured her hens of the
roup by wringing their necks. That will, no
doubt, effectually remove the disease, but
will soon reduce the size of the flock. The
idea of ducklng poor, broody hen to make
her stop her clucking and motherly pro-
pensities is about as absurd and Useless
as putting their heads under their wings, or
whirling them around until they are almost
senseless and then finging them over the
fence to mediate on their past iniquities,
There are Others who yoke up the broody
hens, the same as many do the geese thew
wish to keep from going through the fences.
The plan may be highly ornamental and d.
verting, yet it is rarely productive of the de-
sired result. These are mostly the plans re-
sorted to in ''ye olden tines" when dung
hill fowls, whose powers of endurance were of
the highest order, were the rule and pure
bred fowls the exception. There is a far more
sensible, as well as effectual, plan now in
vogue, and that is to put all the broody hens
into a commodous coop (those hens you do
not wish to set), put young, active cockerel
in with them, and they will, ere long, forget
their broody ways.-Poultry World.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05

By little extra care farmers can raise for
themselves all the seed they are commonly in
the habit of buying, at little or no expense,
and a great saving. The additional advant-
ages of having reliable seed, and of knowing
it to be pure are also worth considering.
Turnips, beets and other roots may be raised
by setting out few of last years crop in the
spring. Cabbage for seed should be dug up
by the roots in the fall. The head may be
cut off leaf by leaf and used and the stump
reset in the spring will produce seed abund-
antly. Other seeds may be saved as they
mature during the season. The point to be
aimed at is TO obtain the best seed possible,
and to this end only the best plants should
be selected for seed, and only the best seed
sown. Timothy, red-top and clover seed can
be raised as easily as grain.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
Home-Made Chloride of Lime.

Professor Nash gives the following direc-
tions for making this very useful disinfectant
and fertilizer: stake one barrel of lime and
one bushel of salt; dissolve the salt in as
little water las will dissolve the whole: slack
the lime with the water, putting on more
water than will slack it, so much that it will
form very thick paste; this will not take all
the water; put on, therefore, a little of the
remainder daily until the lime has taken the
whole. The result will be very powerful
poses, with the article bought under that
name at the apothecary's and costing NOT
one twentieth part as much. This should be
kept under shed or some out-building. If
should be Kept moist, and it may be applied
whenever offensive odors are generated, with
the assurance that it will be effective to pu-
riiy the air, and will add to the value of the
manure much more than it costs. 1t would
De well for every farmer to prepare quantity
OF this and have it always on hand.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
PORTLAND &WORGESTER LIMB
Portland 6 Rochester IL. e.
MAY 22, ES7S.

-, Trains viii RUIZ SIS foIlews
&C. nI@NH- Leave Grand Trunk Depot,
Portland az $50 n. nm. and
9.1O p. nm.
Leave Prebe st. Station at 7iO a. m 23O and 615 D.
5.30 A. M. Accommodation for Worcester, with
through car for Boston via Nashua and Lowell
Arrives at Rochester at 9.55 q. M, connect
ing with Eastern and Boston 81 Maine Rail-
roadso At Nashua Hat a. M, Lowell
1918 p. m, Boston LIS p. M, Aver juno
ton 1910 p. M, Fitchbnrg LIS p. M, and
Worcester at 2.10 p. M, connecting with
trains South and West.
9.1O r. M. Steamboat Express through to
New London without change. Con-
meets at Rochester for Dover and Great
Falls, at Ripping for Manchester and
Concord at Nashua for Lowell and
Boston, at Aver Junction for Fitch.
burg and the West via Hoosac Tunnel
Railroad for New York, at Putnam with
"Boston q Philadelphia Express Line' for
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash.
ingtOn, at New London with Norwich
Line Steamers, due at Pier No, 40, North
River New York at 500 a. M
CHS p. m-From Preble Street. Mixed for Roeh-
ester and Way Stations
Trains leave Rochester at TOO, HOO a. M, and $50
?. m, arriving in Portland at 9.35 a. m, LIS
and 11.00 p. m.
Close connections made at Westbrook Junction
with through trains of Me. Central R.R, and at
Portland Grand Trunk Junction. with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. r.
SUNDAY TRAINS-Leave Preble Street Sta
tion at 200 r. M, arriving at Rochester at
400 p. m. and at Worcester 7,25 p M, connect
and the West. Leave Worcester at 90 a. M
Rochester 1880 and arriving at Preble Street
1920 p. m.
my21dtf J.MLUNT. supt.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
SURPRISING cure,

Gentlemen, -About twelve years ago. while travel
ling with Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Troupe as
tenor singer took severe cold and was laid up at
Newark, Nj This cold brought severe attack of
Catarrh, which battled with every known remedy for
four weeks without avail and was finally obliged to
give up most desirable position and return home,
unable to sing note. For three years afterwards
was unable to sing at ALL The first attack of Catarrh
mad nasal organs and throat sensitive that tho
me Frustrated In this way continued to suffer. The
last attack the severes ever had, terrible sur
ered the most excruciating pain in my head was SO
hoarse as to be scarcely able to speak, and coughed
necessarily. thought was going into quick con-
sumption, and firmly believe that had these symp-
toms continued without relief they would have rem
dered me an easy victim. When in this distressing
condition, commenced the of SANFoED's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH. very reluctantly confess, as had
first dose of this wonderful medicine gave me the
greaestrelef hardly possible for one whose head
achess eyes ache who can scarcely articuate distinctly
account of the choking Accommodations in his throat
to realize how much reliefI obtained from the 1rst ap
plication of SANFoRD'S RADICAL CURE. Under It's In
uence, both internal and EXTERNAL rapidly recovered,
and by an occasional of the remedy since, have
been entirely free from Catarrh for the nrst time IN
Respectfully yours,
wALTHAM, MASS, Jan. 8, 1876.
Psi purchased the RADICAL CURE Of GEO. Il.
ROGERS, Druggist, Rumford building.
Zach package contains Dr. Sanford's Improved Inhal
ing Tube with full directions for use in all cases.
Price, $00. For sale by all Wholesale and Retail Drug
WEEKS e RoTTE General Agents and whoiesao
Druggists. Boston. Mass.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD

Fau Arrangement.
On and After Monday, October
eee..sssseeseessse8 8, 1877, trains will LEAVE
k-@s.5ll PORTLAND FOR BOSTON
at 6l5, S.45 q. M, 3.15 p. M, arriv-
ing at Boston atl0.45 a. M, l.30, 500 p. m. Re-
turning leave Boston at 7.30 M, 12.30 3. 30 p.m
arriving at Portland at 1910 $40 $40 p. m. For
Wells, North Berwick, Salmon Falls,
Great Falls. Dover, Rochester, Farm.
ingtOn, N. H.. Alton bay, Newmarket,
Exeter, Haverhill, North Andover, Law
renee, And0ver and Lowell at 6.15 S,45 a,
m, 315 p. m. For Manchester and Com
cord, N. H., (via Newmarket Junction,) at
6.16 a. m. 3.15 p. m. (via Lawrence,) at S.45 a. m
For Scarborough, Pine Point, Old Or
chard Beach, Saco, Biddeford and
kennebunk at 6.15, 8.45 a. m, 3.15, $780, pm.
Morning Trains will leave kennebanh
for Portland at 7.20 a. m. The 3.15 p. m. train
from Portland connects at Boston with the Shore
Line and the Boston q Albany Road, for New York
arriving at New York early next morning. This il
also the quickest route to the West. Through
Tickets to all Points South and Wesf M
lowest rates. Trains on Boston q Maine road
connect with all steamers Iuuning between orr
land and Bangor, Rockland Mt. Desert, Mac las.
Eastport, Calais st. John and Halifax. Also, con,
meet with Grand Trunk trains at Grand Trunk Sta
ton, and Maine Central and Portland q Ogdensbura
trains at Transfer Station. All trains stop at
Exeter ten minutes for refreshments at first class
DINING rooms.
JAS. 7. FURBER, Gen. Supt.
.. d. STEVENS, Gen. Agent, Portland.
sept5 diff
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IN BANKRUPTCY.
I'm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Court of !

I'm BANkRUPTCY.-Dis Court of the
Il United States, District of Maine, In the matter
Of M. & G. FL. Walden, Bankrupts.
This is TO give notice that petition was presented
to the Court the twentysecond day of March, 1873
by Merrill Walden, of Portland, Bankrupt, indi-
vfdually and as member of the firm of M. & G II.
Walden, praying that he may be decreed to have
full discharge from all his debts, individual and CO.
partnership, provabe under the Bankrupt Act and
upon reading said Petition, it was ordered that
hearing be had on the sixth day of May A. D. 1873,
and notice of said hearing not having been given
ordered,
1t is now ordered by the Court that hearing be
had upon the same, on the second day Of September,
A. d. 1873 before the Court in Portland, in said Dis
trct at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, and that notice thereof be
published in the Portland Advertiser ana the Portland
Press, newspapers printed in said District once
week fer three successive weeks, and once in the
weekly Advertiser and Press the last publication to
he thirty DAYS at least before the day of hearing.
and that all creditors who have proved their debts
and other persons in interest, may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, if any they have,
why the prayer of said Petition should MOI be grant
ed. VIM. +. hEISLE,
Clerk Of District Court: for said District.
lei d1aw3wTSw1w23
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NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has
IN been duly appointed Executor of the Win of
MARY D. BARRETT, late of Portland,
in the County of Cumberland, deceased, and has
taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as
the law directs. All persons having demands upon
the estate of said deceased, are required to exhibit
the same and all persons indebted to said estate are
called upon to make payment to
FRANKLIN r. BARRETT, Executor
Portland, May 2lst, 1873. jeldlaWSYS*
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
MEDICAL.
SAHFORD'S RADICAL CURE

local and constitutional remedy and is applied to
the nasal passages by insuiation thus allayng na.
nation and pain and at once CORRECTING cfeansin0
and purifying the secretions Internally administered
it acts upon the organs of circulation keens the skin
moist and neutrazes the acid poison that has found its
way into the stomach and thence into the blood Thus
cure progresses in both directions and ii does not
seem possible for human ingenuity to devise more
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05
SheriE'S Sale.

CUMBERLAND, IS.
UVAKEN on execution. and will be sold by public
Il auction on SATURDAY, the twenty-ninth
day of June, A. d. 1875 at O'Clock in the after
noon, at the Sherif's office in Portland, in said
county, all the right in equity which Robert Gilmore
of Portland, in said county, had on the sixteenth
day OF January, A. d. 1875 at five O'Clock and for
the same was attached on the original writ to re-
deem the following described mortgaged real estate
with the buildings thereon, situated on the North
erly side OF Cove street, in said Portland, between
Washington and Poplar streets, being lot numbered
ten on Plan No. 81 in Plan Book 2, in the Cumber-
land registry of Deeds Said lot is thrty-four feet
on said Cove street, and extends back from said
street eighty feet, holding the width of thirty
four feet and is the same conveyed to said Robert
TENDER 49, 1875, and recorded in sald Registry Book
4is, Page 95.
Dated at Portland this twenty-frst day of May,
1878. E. X, BROWN,
my2ldlaw3wF Deputy Sheriff,
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05

HOTEL DIRECTORY.
Embracing the leading Hotels in the State at which
| the Daily PRESS NAV always be found.
ALFRED.
Alfred Honse, r.. III. Cooling, Proprietor.
AUBUBN:
elm House, Court. st. w. 9. 81 A. Young
RrOprHetors.
AUGUSTA.
Augusta House, State St., M. Whitehead,
Proprietor.
BATH.
Gath Hotel, q. WI. PIummer. Proprieter
BOLsTER,s MILLS.
Hancock House, M. Hancock, Proprie.
tor.
BOSTON.
Parker House. School S.. n. ID. Parkera
Co., PrOprietOrs.
81. James HOtel-J. II. Crocker, Propri
etor.
fremont House, fremont st.-Cbaw5u.
Quincy d Go. PROPRIETOR.
BRUNSWICK, ME.
d TX. Dining Rooms, w. n. Field,
CORNISH.
Cornish House, WI. b. Davis, Proprietor
DAMARIsCOTTA MILLS,
samcset House, Trask Bros. Proprietor
DANvILLE JUNCTION.
CIarlk's Dining Hall, Grand Trunk Rail.
way Depot, Nj. W. Clark, Proprietor
DEXTER.
Merchants e xchange Hotel, Dexter, Me-
w. q. Morrill,, Proprietor.
|
EAsTPORT.
Passamnquoddy House,-A, Pike a. Co..
FroprietOrs.
HIRAM.
at. Cutler House,-Hiram Baston, Ere
erietor
LEWISTON
DeWits House, Quinby d ,Iurch, Pro-
Prtcs0r.
LIMERICK.
Linn rick House,-D. 9. Fogg, Proprietor
mILLBRTDGE.
Atlantic House, Geo. A. Hopkins, Pro.
prfetOrs
NORRIDGEwOCK.
Danforth House, ID. Danforth. Proprietor
Peaks ISLAND.
Union Mouse-W. II. Jones. Proprietor,
PARIS HILL.
Hubbard Hotel, III. Hubbard, Proprietor
PHILLIPS.
Barden House, Samuel Farmer, Proprj.
etOr.
sK0wHEGAN.
Turner House, w. G. HescIton, Preprl.
ctor.
PORTLAND.
Perry's Hotel, H Federal St. G.. Perry.
Proprietor.
City Hotel, Cor. Congress and Green 81,
J. *. Martin, Proprietor.
Falmouth Hotel, o. M. Shaw & Son, pro- |
priet0rs.
Preble House, Congress ST. Gibson 6Cs.,
Propriet0rs.
U. 9. Hotel, Junction IF Congress and Fed |
cral SITS. Timothy Wolc0tf, Proprietor.
WEST HARPSWELL.
Harpswell H0use-A. j.. merryman, Pro. /
prietOr.
WEST NEWFIELD.
West Newt field House, r., 6. Holmes, Pre-
prictOr.
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Portland Daily Press Stock List
Corrected by WOODBURY. & MoULToN. Investment
Bankers, Cor. Middle and Exchange Streets.
lsscxintsons puS YnLS6. G6ereds Asked
Vaults Cleaned

"A ND taken out at short notice, from 81 to 81
a cord or So a load, by addressing
-oVa2u a LIBBY q Q,sPortland p. o.
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Parker House. School S.. n. ID. Parker d
Co., Proprietors.
st. James HOtel-J. r.. Croker, Propri
et0r.
fremont House, fremont st.-Chauiu.
Quincy 81 Co. Projectors.
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Fully approaching the very liberal patronage which
has beel bestowed by the public upon this DEPART
ment Of our Office we would solicit a continuance Of
the same and will spare pains to make such pat
ronagd deserved. We guarantee satisfaction In ev-
cry respect.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05

Layer,new 1 So @ 100
L. M. new. 2 05 q Q Is
New Val.
~ ib. -. SO 81
Lemons Pbx 4 so a 5 90
Oranges ~ b a 5 90
Oranges Val. 8 80 g 8 90
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05

BRUNSWICK, ME.
q TX. Dining Rooms, w. Il. Field,
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-05

WEST NEWFIELD,
West New field House, r., 6. Holmes, Pre-.
prictOr.
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BOLSTER'S MILLS
Hancock House, MI. Hancock, Proprie
tor.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

I" q contract for the labor of such person, or
"any person brought or coming for the priic-
Z" tice of immoral trades or occupations OF any
"person or persons by or through whose
"presence in this country the free III
"stitntlons thereof would be endangered"
This seeks to avoid the treaty; it
means Chinese" while it does not say so'
leaving the argument open that they are not
more excluded than are other nationalities. A
second provision gives the consent Of Congress
that any State may enact laws or enforce reg
ulatiOns to enforce the prohibition above
quoted This seeks to avoid the operation OF
the Supreme Courts Judgment
There is much to be said on both sides OF
the Chinese question. The inconvenience
and grievances are real, even if the immediate
remedy proposed may seem unjust or futile.
But, clearly, any legislative action intended to
bear upon the Chinese should follow a reex-
animation of our treaty obligations with China.
This law will not accomplish its object unless
It is administered against the Chinese espe-
cially if this is done the treaty is broken. AS
the privileges of the two peoples in each
others jurisdiction are expressly made reclpro-
cal, our nation must be prepared to relinqulsh
hospitality IN China, if we decide to refuse 1t
to the Chinese The value Of what the whole
country may have gained by the treaty is to
be ascertalned and weighed against the incon-
veniences of which the Pacific coast complains.
The consent of the Chinese Government may
be obtainable to notifications which will re-
strict immigration without conflict with Their
National policy Hence we welcome the pas
SAGE Inv the Senate. on Saturday. of the con-
current resolution asking the President to seek
a change Of the treaty. This is a better
road to relief than the enactment Of law
cOuched in vague generalities which mean
Chinese while they do not say 20.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12
POLITICAL NOTES.


General Butler is having good tlme If nobody
else ls
Stanley Matthews is more friendess than the Ad-
mnistratiOn ever was
schwab and Dorsheimer would make a beery and
beautiful ticket for the Nationals in 1880.
Mr. DOrsheimer seems to be gifted with the fac
uty Of doing foolish thing in an ostentatious man
ner.
As the only man now living who has seen an Old
Line Whie within a year, Boulds Baker is an inter-
estIng parsonage
Ben Hill successfully holding the Democratic
party by the tail back from civil war is exhil-
arating and edltyng spectacle.
General Butler has probably inherited his susp-
cions of unrghteousness III the Post Office Depart
ment from his nephew George Ii.
Andersons five days respite from the anxieties Of
the witness stand ought to have given him ample
opportunity TO prepare perfectly astounding batch
of fresh peruries He tailed TO produce any yester
day, however
Proctor KnotPs committee seems to have got away
from him. They have agreed upon resolution de-
clarng against any attempt to unseat the President
IN spite of Mr. Knotts opposition. 1t will be inter
esting TO see the Democratic House squilm when
that resolution before it, If 1t ever DOGS come
which is doubtful
Senator Window is unable to understand what
the motive ia which induces Mr.. Matthews to refuse
to appear before tho Potter Committee but be is
sure that II he were in Matthewss place he would
New-York tribune., 1878-06-12

honorable and patriotic course, and, though
not warranted in stating that there was
such formal agreement between them, has
repeatedly pointed to the fact that they had
taken and acted upon this course before any
of the conferences were held at which 1t Is
supposed that bargains were made. AFTER
Southern men had acted thus, without
conditions, agreements or other UNDERSTANDINGS
than those given by the public declaratious oil
Mr. Hayes and his known friends they were
met in conference by assurances that they had
not mistaken his purposes or character
and would find hin true to his declared con-
victions of duty, as they had been tue to their
sense of duty. What they bad previously
pledged each other to do, without any pil-
vate assurances, they continued 70 do. What
Nh Hayes had previously pledged the country
to DO he did Beyond this, no bargain OF
agrc cment has by any inquiry been shown to
have existed General Butler will find that
honorable and fair men throughout the land
deem thls understanding, and the patrlohc
conduct which preceded and followed, every
way creditable.