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PROPOSALS FOR STONE.

PROPOSALS FOR STONE.
US. ENGINEFR's OFFICE,
PORTLAND, Me May 9th, 1873.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the
i undersigned, in Portland, Maine, until 10
o'clock A. M, on FRIDAY. the 31st day of May,
1878 for Stone to be delivered at Love's Island in
Boston Harbor, Mass as follows:
1.-About b7O0 cubic feet of Dimension Cut Gran
ae.
2-About 800 tons Split Granite for paving.
3-About HOO tons large Bubble Stone.
Proposals can be made for the Bubble Stone sepa
rately if desired. Persons desiring to make propos-
ais for the above Sone are requested to apply to the
undersigned at his offices either in No. 453 12 Con-
gress street, Portland. Maine, or No 26 Pemberton
Square, Boston, Mass, for specifications and fur
ther information concerning the same.
GEO. THOM, Lieut.. Col. of Engineers,
my1Od6t Bvt. Brig. Gen'l, U. s. A.
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Business for Sale.

a GOOD reliable business, well establ shed. Will
a ay 20 per cent profit. Work domestic =
s,Oo a year with proper management can easily
he increased to twice that amount. ANY party de-
string such an opening for business, for furths> par
ticulars, will please call on
n q, GARDINER,
maysd2w No. Al l-I Exchahke ST.
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUR LTSHING CO.

X II Il
AT 1C9 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. To
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad-
vance.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS
Is published every THURSDAY MORNING at $3.50
year, If paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch OF space, the
length of column, constitutes a square.
81 80 per square, daily first week: 70 cents per
week after; three insertions. less S100 continu-
ing every other day after first week, so cents.
Halt square, three insertions, less, rs cents;
week, Sl.OO; so cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head OF "AMUsEMENTs'' and "AUcTIoN
SALES, $500 per square per week; three insertions
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PRESS" (which has large circulation in every part
of the State for $1O0 per square for first insertion,
and 30 ce ats square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
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ABSENCE of body as we'll as of mind would
be desirable in man like Haedel, who shot
at the German Emperor.
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TO Contractors and Builders.

fTIHE extensive building known as the Portland &
Il Rochester Railroad Depot, situated Lincoln
and Kennebec streets. together with platforms and
material within the same, is offered for sale on
very advantageous terms. Building and material to
flee of the Ocean Insurance Company, No. II Ex-
change Street. ap24dtf
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CAPE ELIZABETH.

CAPE ELIZABETH.
Proposals for Carting Gravel.
CEALED proposals will be received at the Select
y mems office until May l4th, at O'Clock P. M.
for carng 1900 yards of gravel (more or less) from
town gravel pit. and placing the streets in
the vicinity OF Knghtvle. The right to reject any
and all proposals is reserved.
Further particulars may be had by calling upon
either of the undersigned
THOS. b. HASKELL, J Selectmen
STEPHEN SCAMNON,} of
NATHANIEL DYER. J Cape Elizabeth.
Cape Elizabeth, May 6, 1873. may7d1w
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PROPOSALS.
To Contractors.

To Contractors.
PROPOSALS. will be received at the Sagadahock
Il National Bank, Bath, Maine until O'Clock p.
m on the 25th day Of May next, for furnishing the
materials. and erecting banking building on the
corner of Front and Centre Streets in the city of
Bath according to plans and specifications furnished
by F. II. Fassett, Architect.
Persons desiring to make proposals for the above
work can the plans and specific atoms at the
Sagadahock National Bank, where all necessary in
formation will be given.
The right is reserved to reject any and all propos-
ais not deemed for the interest of the Bank.
Rafh Nav 1873 did
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COPARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the firm of Eustis
IN & Castell is dissolved. Claims against the
firm may be presented to the subscriber, and all
parties indebted to the late firm are requested to
make payment to JOSEPH CASTELL, JR.,
Portland, April 13 1873 ap15d1m
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Accountant and Notary Public.
GEO. G. CODMAN.-Ofce No. lS4 Mid
die Street Portland. lows ems
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Real Estate Agents.
JOHN @. PROCTER, No. 93 Exchange
Street.
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WANTS
Wanted,
w Wanted.

Wanted.
WE desire to establish general agency in Port
w land, or vicinity, to control the sales of a
staple article Of daily consumption. Any energetic
man with small capital, may secure a permanent,
paying business. For particulars address EMPIRE
MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 1872 Fulton ST..
New York. my9dGt
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Dissolution of COpartnership.

Dissolution of COpartnership.
VVHE copartnership heretofore existing between S.
Il D. Merrill, Geo. F. Higgins, and w. A. Lowe,
under the firm of S. D. Merrill g. Co., is here
by dissolved by mutual consert.
April 28tb, 1878.
All persons indebted to said firm are requested to
call aud settle. Parties having bills against the
same will please present them for payment.
S. d. MERRILL q co.
s. u. MERRILL,
GEO. r. HIGGINS,
w. A. LOWE.
s. D. Merrill and W. A. Lowe will continue the
business of Plumbing and Tin Roofing under the
firm name Of S. d. Merrill & Co., at their old stand,
81 Temple Street,
my& i2w
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TO LET.
HALL TO LET.
TO LET.

Two good front rooms i'm Me-
chanic Hall Building, suitable for
Doctors or Lawyers. Enquire of
GEO. A HAR MON,
JeWeller, Mechanic Building.
feb27 diff
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TO LET.

For Rent.
HOUSE No. Free Street Block. (14 fourteen
III rooms. desirable for {. Lodging or Boarding
House. Rent reasonable. Apply at No. 286 Con-
gress Street, my7eodtf
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SABBATH SCHOOL SONG BOOKS.
Good News.
Shining River.

CHORAL PRAISE. go cts) Is collec-
tion of Chants Songs and short Anthems, for Episco
pal Sabbath Schools. The beauty OF its contents will
commend it to any denomination.
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huge capitals of certain journals, and bide his
time. The story will soon appear in elaborate
form, and when it is brought forth 1t will
prove as stirring as "The Report of the Com
mittee of the Brick Lane Branch Of the United
Grand Junction Ebsnezsr Temperance Asso-
ciation."
Perhaps it is hardly worth while to comment
seriously on the morbid feeling which prompts
these splenetic diatribes. There was a good
deal of sense in the excuse the Vermont farmer
gave for bearing the seedlings of his wife with
serene patience, that sit amused her and didn't
hurt him." dare say these Jealous females
derive a certain sort of enjoyment from their
gratuitous exertions in the volunteer detective
service to which they devote themselves so
assiduously. Few of them have anything else
to do, and no doubt their lives would be very
wearisome and inane but for the diversion this
occupation occasions them. But II becomes
necessary once in while to put people on their
guard against listening with credulity to tales
so inherently improbable, so manifestly extrav-
apant as those that emanate from this coterie
of peripatetic romancers.
The simple truth is that pauperism in its
multiform varieties imposes heavy burden Of
expense upon the municipal treasury. From
the merely sentimental standpoint it is all very
well that much more lavish endowments should
be made for the sick and insane; but while
taxes are so heavy that a sixth Of the levy re-
mains uncolleoted through the sheer inability
of the people to pay it, there is obvious inius-
tice in providing Accommodations for those who
live entirely at the public cost that are actually
sumptuous in comparison with the dwellings
many Of the hard working citizens who are
compelled to contribute to the pay ment of the
bills. The truth is that our charitable institu-
tions ara so much more comfortable than those
of other sections Of the country that great
many persons who have no claims to be ad-
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-16
TWO BOYS ADVENTURE.

A LONG stretch of barren, rocky
IA shore; tall gray cliffs rising one
above another, their solid bases washed
by the moaning waves sea-gulls scream
ing across the water, their beautiful
plumage glancing in the sunlight. It was
a spot on the Pacific coast = wild, un-
inhabitated spot, where deadly serpents,
green lizards, and other hideous reptiles
peeped from crevices, or glided over the
baked earth.
On bright morning in the year 49,,
two young men sat in natural recess
among the rocks, overlooking the sea-
They were mere youths, neither being
above twenty years Of age, with fresh,
boyish faces and certain school-boy airs,
which still hung about them like q
souvenir OF other days. Their dress was
neat and becoming, but would have
seemed more in place in the crowded
thoroughfares of city than in this un-
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-16

Ah, no. would not die when June
Charms all that breathes her blssful air;
When winds, birds, brooks are all in tune,
And all the landscape round is fair;
When lush, green leaves on every tree,
In sun and shade, dance merrily;
When bees their honied burdens bear
To numerous hives from myriad flowers,
And dream-like glide the golden hours
II.
1 would not then life's silver chord
Should loosened be-my breath should fail
would not that the emerald sward
OF breezy hill or tranquil vale
Should by the pick-axe and the spade
BE broken that grave be made
For me laid silent, cold, and pale,
BY June's transcendent scenes unstirred-
Her music all by me unheard.
III.
For have seen the good depart
When June's soft air was all perfume,
And secret grief has wrung my heart,
When bright her wld-rose waved its bloom
Have felt how sad to hide away
A loved one from the eye of day,
To moulder in the darksome tomb,
When o'er her deep, blue heaven and all
Her gay, green world seemed stretched pail.
".
From all that have loved while here
Methinks could more willing go,
When skies with clouds are dark and drear,
And through the woods the cold winds blow,
When dead leaves fall at every gust,
And seem to whisper, "Dust to dust"
When patters rain, or weaves the snow
A winding-sheet wide o'er the earth,
Aud hushed are sounds of Joy and mrth.
V.
When to some fairer cline than ours
The birds that sang so sweet have flown:
When withered stalks, discrowned of flowers
Fill all the woodland pathway lone;
When rivulets are locked by frost,
And all their winsome music lost
When trees, half-leahess, sigh ard moan /;
Ay, when the aged year to die
Lies down, then calmly SO could 1!
vi.
Ah, yes, would my lowly grave,
When Nature sorrows, may be made,
But yet where leaves will murmuring wave
Above, and make pleasant shade,
June after June; the mocking-wren
Call to his sweetheart in the glen;
The wood-thrush flute and bloom and fade
Full many flower, and wild-grass grow,
While return to dust below
Georgetown, D. G. w. l.. SHOEMAKER.
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For The Bloomfield Times.
ELEGY IN JUNE.

4 gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in nowery June,
When brooks send up cheerful tune,
And groves joyous sound,
The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mouutain-turf should break.
BRYANT.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-04
POETRY
THE WHISTLER

Frogs have their time to croak and owls to
The patient flutist has his time to toot;
The fiddler fiddleth W hen his work is done,
But thou, O bore, hast no set time--ah, none,
To whistle.
We know when Bangs will play his horn of
brass,
And Dingeby his tiageolet, alas!
We know when comes the dulcet fish horn s
tone,
But, hang it, thou hath all times for thine own
UwhiStler!
When old pianos have worn out an air,
And voices crude have worn it very bare,
Thy puckered mouth doth still emit the
strain,
But all our prayers that thou should cease
are vain,
whistler!
Long after honest folks have gone to bed,
Weared, with toiling for their daily bread,
Then thou, O lazy, long-eared, midnight
bird,
Mid many ilnprecations still art heard
Whistling.
| call the bird--one of the shrill- voiced sort;
For tits quite plain music's not your forte;
Thou shOuldst be feathered as the vultures
You get the feathers, I'll produce the tar,
0 whistler!
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SctENCE+
PHOSPHORUS AS FOOD FOR THE IN
7EILEC1.

In an article Oh the "Hygiene of
Chronic Nervous Diseases read by
Or. G. M. Beard before the Kings
County Medical Society, the author
says: Although the generalization of
Agassiz. that fish feeds the intellect,
is among the widest and most I'M
scientific ever made. yet there is little
doubt that the so-called ''sea food. .
fish and oysters, is excellent for the
nervous system, and very likely in
part by virtue of the PHOSPHORUS it
contains; but it no more feeds the in
tellect than phosphorus given in any
other way. A healthy brain and
an intellectual brain are not synony-
nous. One may be perfectly we'll.
and, at the same time. perfectly stupid
a fool may eat like a lower animal.
while the great philosopher barely
keeps himself alive. While food is
essential to thought, yet the force in
food is not converted into thought
force. Good thinkers. like good ath-
letes. are usually liberal feeders; but
thousands who eat as much or more
have very little intellect or muscle.
The effect of a diet largely of fish
seems to be sedative, calmative. like
that of bromide OF potassium. or phos-
phorous, or electricity--like these
remedies. producing dullness rather
than intellectually, and inducing a
disposition to sleep more than to think
not accelerating but slowing down the
wheels of the mind, and therefore
excellent and adapted for the nervous
and OverwOrked. and overworried.
The mistake of Agassiz was analogous
to the mistake of the Italian physician,
Piggioli. who used electricity on the
brains of children, in order to stimu-
late their intellects and help them get
their lessons and take the first prizes
in school.
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agreeable is proved by the fact that
the dog often rids himself of the
nuisance by removing his own quar-
ters to new burrOw.
There are few birds that present
same burrOwing owls. They spend
most of their time during the day
standing at the entrance of their
dwellings, apparently engaged in deep
contemplation. When an intruder
makes his appearance, they begin a
series OF most ridiculous and cOmical
boWlngs and courteSies, staring all
the while with their great solemn
eyes; and then. with a cry somewhat
like the sound of a watchman's rattle,
they fly to a neighboring mound and
resume the same air Of pensive medi-
tatlon. In the majority of cases.
these owls are found in communities
by themselves, in the deserted villa
ges Of the prairie dogs, their presence
in many cases having served to drive
the rightful proprietors from their
dwellings.
With regard to the rattlesnake,
nothing of a satisfactory nature is
known as to the part he plays in the
domestic arrangements of this inter-
eSting community. Mr.. Kendall. in
his narrative of the Santa Fe Expe-
dition. says that the prairie dogs are
compelled to let them pass in and
out without molestation." Certain
it is that, although the relations of
the snake with both the dog and the
owl are not all friendly, they are not
so inimical as would naturally be
imagined. The rattlesuake seems
never to be wanton; it simply defends
itself from danger. or procures it's
food by means of it's terrible fangs.
This food occasionally consists of the
young of the prairie dog, but probably
very seldom of the full grown animal
or of the owl. Small animals do not
usully show much fear of these rep
tiles when thrown together with
them, and the prairie dog will un.
concernedly pass them by and enter
his burrow as they lie basking in the
sun at it's very entrance.
Prairie dogs readily become &C.
customed to the haunts of man, and
their villages are often found on the
of populous towns. They
prefer. as locations for their villages,
gently sloping lands skirting valleys,
yet they are often found in the tops
Of the highest divides. and far down
near the streams. though always
avoiding rocky, marshy, or even DIST
grounds.
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W1T AND HuM0R.
Geese have been seen flying east
towards the Paris Exposition.

Geese have been seen flying east
towards the Paris Exposition.
Europe is like the modest guest at
dinner, ''Tll take a little peace, thank
you.
\ circus clown has been discovered
SO astonishingly active that he can
tumble to his own jokes.
81 am in love with myself" says
Clara Louise Kellogg. You've got
dead sure thing of it. Clara; no rivals.
A Wisconsin man and woman, aged
respectively 50 and 90, were married
the other day, 'just for fun" They'll
get it.
Math MATES. Freshman at board.
Professor. "Mr. E., what have you
got !! +" +. dnnocently) "I've got
stuck -
"Ah !" sighed a hungry tramp, 81
wish l was a boss; blame if ] don't.
He's nearly always got bit in his
mouth, while / haven't had bit in
mine for nearly two days
The fact that George Washington
wife never asked him where he had
been when he came home late at
night. goes a great way towards ac-
counting for his extreme truthful
ness.
Speaking Of the different kinds of
taxes" queried the teacher, "what
kind is it where whiskey is taxedy"
Il know" said one boy, holding up
his hand ''Well, what is it,"
.Sin tax" shouted the young gram
marian.
If you want to keep your boy at home.
make it pleasanter for him than the street.
Chalk hopstcotch in the hal, put hogs
head Of molasscs on tap in the kitchen,
have dog fight in the back yard, make a
bully slide Oh the cellar door, have hand
organ and monkey in The reception room,
and German band on the stairs. Hire a
"Geevus' TO be chafred. Let the boy
chalk callers backs on the 1st Of April,
throw his base ball through the windows,
ring the bells and run away, and "plug"
the cook with fish balls Sunday morning;
but even then you will have to engage
circus or great moral show" TO drive
through the premises twoo three times in
he season to make il pleasanter than the
| treets
She was young lady from Duck
water, and had enjoyed her visit to
the Base Range metropolis immensely.
She was pretty and piguant, and one
Of her well-known gallants had done
his level best to make it pleasant for
her during her stay. The exciting
cause Of the following was an attempt
on his part TO snatch kiss from her
pouting lips. Then she arose in all
the dignity Of offended maidenhood
and said: .'See here, mister, jest don't
set EN- too fresh. You've done the
handsome thing in circusses, ice
cream, candy and SIGH, but you can't
take no liberties. My Jake. out to
the creek. he's got quit-claim deed
to the premises. and don't you forget
it. You can't squat on this location.
and you'd better hunt for a quarter
section in some other direction, where
you can get better title and gather
your own CROP" The young man
recognized the force Of her argument
land hunted.-ExyekG (NeU.) SsS9iaJ.
The Morning herald., 1878-12-16

gument, although It Is admirably caleulated
to serve lts evident purpose as an appeal TO
passion and prejudice. 1t Is notorious at
the South that the negroes have never lost
their traditional respect for the opinions Of
their former masters on any subject save
that of politics. They have always gone
to them for advice and counsel concerning
their personal affairs. It IL also well known
that they have of lats become disenchanted
with their quandam carpet-bag leaders, be-
cause of having themselves experienced the
evils of the misrule to which they have
contributed 60 much. But the case 10
scarcely worthy of serious argument. The
position into which the Democrats are
forced is that Of simply denying the sland-
erous charges OF Blaine while they stand,
as they now do, without the slightest
shadow of evidence to sustain them
Wash. Post.
The Morning herald., 1878-12-16

WE WONDER If the almost unanimous
election of Governor Hampton to the Senate
of the United States, BY the Legislature Of
South Carolina, na,-Republicans, with the ex-
ception of two negroes, joining the Demo-
Gratis in paying the deserved compliment to
ons of the ablest and purest men In public
life, will stop the mouths of the radicals,
who 80 love to indulge In abuse of the man
and open their eyes to the direct refutation'
which the incident offers, to the SLAM
derous accusations of the Southern
whites, which their msndacious calamina-
tors are continually repeating. But If
further testimony is needed on this and
kindred subjects, we refer the inquisitive
among the credulous dupes Of the outrage.
mongers to the article taken from the New
York Herald, under the caption South
Carolina Politics." in another column.
The Morning herald., 1878-12-16

WE PRINT in another column q synops ID
of the debate in the Senate, on Fridsy last
on the bill providing for counting the votes
of President and Vice President. We
enjoyed the pleasure of hearing the
greater part of Senator Bsysrd'i
speech. 1t was, as is everything that
emanates from that distinguished gentle
man, calm, dignifed and able presenta-
tion of his convictions, on an important
subject. al.
Our own views on the question have
already been expressed. We see no reason
to change the opinion that 1t Is measure
of doubtful efficacy and policy; more, that
1t is of doubtful constitutionality.
We say, with Senator Eaton, 'if the Con-
stitution ia wro'~ mend it, but do not 90
toltinkering q through legislation"
If This bill, as Mr. Bayard asserted, "does
little more than declare the law as It is
generally admitted to exist" what is the
The Morning herald., 1878-12-16
REGISTER NOTICES
DEGISTER'S ORDER.
REGISTERS OFFICE,

NEW CASTLE COUNTY; Nov. 22d, 1878,
Upon the application OF Philip G Plum
kett, Executor of James Berrigan, late of
Wilmington Hundred in said County, de-
ceased, it Is ordered and directed by the
Register that The Executor aforesaid, give
notice of granting of Letters Testamentary
upon the estate ofthe deceased, with the
date Of granting thereof, by causing adver-
tisements to be posted Within forty days
from the date of such letters in six of the
] most public places of the County of New
Castle requiring all persons having de-
mands against the Estate, to present the
| sane g or abide by an Act of Assembly in
| such case made and provided, And also
| cause the same to be inserted H. the MORN
| ING HERALD, newspaper published in
Wilmington, and to be continued therein
three weeks. (e. o. d.
(~~) Given under the hand and Seal
| ( LIS. of Office OF the Register aforesaid
| ~, at New Castle, In New Castle Coun.
ty, aforesaid. the day and year above writ.
8. c. BIGGS. Register!
| NOTICE - All persons having claims
against the Estate of the deceased must
present the same duly attested TO the FIX.
ecutor on or before Nov. 22d, 1879, or abide
| the act Of Assembly in such case made and
provided. PHILLIP G. PLUNKETT
Executor.
| Address Wilmington Del.