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The Portland daily press., 1878-08-01
Municipal COure,

JUDGE KNIGHT PRESIDING.
WEDNEsDAY.-Michael Murray. Search and seiz-
ure. Fined $50 with costs. Committed.
Swasey.
Robert Browning. Search and seizure. Fined $50
with costs. Appealed.
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THE stock of dry goods in ths store No. 400
Congress street, formerly occupied by L, D.
Strout, is being rapidly sold. The low prices at
which the goods are sold are sure to effect great
and large sales.
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REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

The Republicans of Portland, and all others in
tending to co operate with the Republican party in
the ensuing campaign, are requested TO meet at
their respective Ward Rooms on
Friday Evening, August I'd, at 8 O'Clock,
to choose six delegates from each ward to attend the
Republican County Convention to be held at Re-
ception Hall, City Building, Portland, on THURS
DAY, August 8, 1873, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Per order City Committee.
WILLIAM H. PLUMMER.
Chairman.
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W. G. OSBORNE with Thomas Dana & c..
wholesale grocers in Boston, has opened an
office in this city, at No. As Exchange street,
where he will be pleased to see his friends.
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A NEW PAPER.-The York county Demo
cracy are to have an organ aitsr all. A wesk-
ly paper to be called the State Democrat is to
take the place of the old Maine Democrat. 1t
is to be conducted by Mr.. William S Noyes,
who controlled the columns of the old paper at
the time it put on the brilliant dolphin hues of
death. If York county must be troubled by
the pernicious teaching of modern Democracy
it is fortunate that Mr.. Noyes is to underta Ike
the task If experience teaches anything, the
new paper will be entertaining if not interest
ing. Politically it will probably be very bad.
Otherwise there is reason to believe that it will
be an interesting and useful journal.
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST L.
THE PRESS
CITY AND VICINITY.
NEW ApvERTIsEmENTs TO-DAY

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
Worsteds-H. 1. Nelson & Co.
Celluloid Cuffs-C. H. Lamson.
The Stock of Dry Good-L. d. Strout.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Home Musical Library-Oliver Dison & Co.
PERUVIAN Syrup-Seth W. Fowle g. Sons.
Notice is Hereby Given.
For Sale-Sheep Ranch.
W. u. Osborne-1homas Dana & Co.
Rooms To Let-In Suites.
10 Contractors Sealed Proposals.
To Let e. c. Andrews.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
DITSON 81 cos
Home Musical Library

Home Musical Library
contains nearly all the really good sheet music ever
published, conveniently bound in Thirty-Two hand
some volumes. Each book is quite Independent
OF the other, is sold Separately and contains the
large quantity of 200 to $50 pages sheet music size
OF good music, and each book is sold for
$3.50 in Boards; So Cloth; 81 Gilt.
There are Is Collections of Vocal Music, of which
the three most recently issued are:
THE SUNSHINE OF SONG. GOO DID. GO
songs) The songs are by the most popular
authors.
THE WORLD OF SONG. C25O pages1 A
great variety OF songs by the best composers,
native and foreign
GENlS OF ENGLISH SONG. (232 pages,
20 Songs, Duets, &C. Wonderfully fine book
At the date OF its publication considered the best.
There II Collections of Instrumental Music The
most recent ones are:
CLUSTER OF GEMS. (237 papes)
Fine pieces for advanced players.
GEMS OF THE DANCE. 1882 pases.) o..
The newest compositions of Strauss.
GEMS OF STRAUSS. ESQ pages)
A hundred or more Of the works of this most
brilliant of masters.
Send for Catalogues aud Contents of the 80 books.
N8-Look out for Ditson g. Co.'S New Weekly Musi.
cal Paper. Appears in September.
OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston.
noA eod1y&w
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NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber have
~ been duly appointed and taken upon themselves
the trust of Administrators of the estate of
GEORGE F. SHEPLEY, late of Portland,
in the County Of Cumberland, deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having de-
mands upon the estate of said deceased required
exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
HELEN NJ. SHEPLEY, / .s,
GEORGE E. B. JACKSON, Adm Is.
Portland, July 3Oth, 1878. au1dld1aw3wThs
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agreed to and the convention proceeded to vote
Informally with the following result:

Hon. Caleb A. Chaplin of harrison moved
that Mr.. Cove be nominated by ACCLAIM alton,
but Mr.. William Guptill of Gray thought the
first vote did not represent the views Of the
convention. There had been unfair play; it
had been insinuated that Mr.. King drank, at
least that was the Inference which might be
drawn from the endorsement of Mr.. Cove He
wanted a formal ballot.
1t was then decided to vote formally and the
hallot WAS declarad az follomc.
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THE MIDGETs This entertaining exhibition
will be suspended today from 10 to o'clock, as
Lancaster Hall is to be used for another pur.
pose. At 4 precisely the show will be resumed
aud will be found full of useful entertainment
and amusing instruction. 1t is well worth while
to visit it.
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Samuel j. Anderson. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1t was moved that the nomination of Mr..
Cove be made unanimous. The chairman,
with cigar in his mouth, which he had chew
ed and smoked during the afternoon, announc.
ed that the vote was carried and that Mr.. Cove
was the nominee of the convention. The re-.
Spouse to the motion to make the nomination
unanimous was very fervent, and at the close
Mr.. Isaac Bradbury of Hollis echoed the
general sentiment ofAthe delegates in gthese
words, "Aye, Gods will be done, not mine"
Mr.. Bradbury is little crazier than the most
OF the Greenback-ers.
The following DISTRICT committee were elect
ed:
Braekett Hall, North Berwick.
A. G. Andrews, Cornish.
Gorham Weymouth. Biddeford.
g. b. Nash, Portland
l. f. Quimby, Westbrook,
j. H. Holden, Otisield
r. A. Gibbs, Bridgton.
The convention then adjourned TO City Hall,
where Mr.. Elliott King said he was as drunk
then as he had been at any time for ten years,
and MIR. Cove thanked the convention for the
honor that had been conferred upon him.
MI. Chas. Mclean of Massachusetts, then ad-
dressed the convention. Mr.. Mclean made a
long and rambling speec b, in which he claimed
that the dark ages were this result of contrac-
ton in the Roman Empire, and the only liberia.
ton from the dark ages was the bank of We.
nice. He believed money was worth simply
what was stamped upon it; we want paper
money based upon the right arm CT 10000 OO(
OF people. 1t is paper money based upon gold
that has failed, said the speaker, who was as
irresponsible in his remarks as a bull' to which
he was fond Of referring in his address. He
said you could not buy a ''dinner in London
with American gold without exchanging it,
but he failed to tell how many greenbacks it
would require to buy dinner in the metropo.
lis of the world. The value Of house he
measured by the cost Of its production, but in es
timating the value of dollar he ignored this
standard and estimated it simply by the STAMP
upon it. He said many more as absurd things
as these
In the evening small crowd gathered at
City Hall, which hal bsen engaged to accom-
modate the vast throng. Soon after O'Clock
Col. Montgomery suggested to Mr.. Mcclellan
that it was about time to commence operations,
Mr.. Mcclellan thought SO too and so he COM
menced his talk. Among the many amusing
things which he said was that Earopa did not
point the finger ef scorn at America because
she repudiated her Revolutionary war debt.
He spoke of this as quite an announcement
for America to repeat the operation in regard
to her present deb. Theu he complained be-
cause people of good common sense called the
GreenbackeIs luna.ics.
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To Let.
Rooms toilet.

ROOmS to Let.
N suites, unfinished, without board, to GENTLE
L men and their wives also, single rooms to gen.
tlemen. Table board may be obtained next door.
Apply at 81 HIGH STREET. au1d1w*
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Maine State Temperance Meeting ut Sc
bago Lake.

MAINE State temperance Meeting ut Sc
bagO Lake.
The opening meeting yesterday, although the
weather was unfavorable, was larger than the
first meeting last year, some 200 or 300 being
present
The meeting Was presided over by A. Little,
Esq. of Portland. The meeting opened with
singing Coronation followed with PRAYER by
the presiding officer. After singing again
RESCUE the Perishing", Gen. Neal Dow then
spoke at some length in his usual able style.
Gov. Perham was introduced and m ade the
comparison of old times and the present with
| in the state of Maine The old-time caucuses
were attended with plenty Of rum to carry them
on, and thought it failure without it. He
again spoke to the moderate drinker and said
that 10000 go down to the drunkards grave
every year, and that the druukard's ranks are
being kept filed full all the time BY the mod
crate drinkers
ga littlo talk with j asus'' was then sung By
the Hayes Q1artette. Mr., Tolman of Harri-
son was the next speaker, and said that his
faith was in the minister, the Sunday School
teacher and praying mothers. Singing "What
shall the harvest be-" solo, by MIS- j. P. Hayes
the audience joining in the chorus
Mrs. Fitzgerald was then introduced, who
said that il was with pleasure she came here,
| although she suffered injuries by the accident
of last year, yet she had witnessed large har-
vest years meeting.
"The armor bearer" was then sung with a
will. Solo by B. W. Hays. The meeting then
adjourned until today.
The meeting today will be under the refor
meu's control. and is to be presided over by
81. NJ Bryant, Esq., of Lewiston.
The restaurant is under the charge of Mr.,
Head, proprietor of the Upper Bartlett rail.
road dining saloon. Ice cream will be furnish
ed on the ground by 7. L. Kimball of Port.
| land.
Several family tents are already on the
ground with many more coming.
The reporter rises to say in reply to the article
entitled "Too Highly Coloyed' that it was an
| error in confusing the Hayes Quarteste Club of
| Philadelphia and Columba's Own of Hamp-
ton, Va, the latter being male quartette, col
ored. Both quartettes will be present during
| the meeting.
The Hayes Club are on the grouad alre ady
and have satisfied the people that they are still
white.
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THE NAPLES,

A FAMILY SCHOOL for Young Ladies, Rich
IA mond Hill, Stamford Conn. For circulars,
apply to Miss M. q. A. FESSENDEN, Principal.
JUL eod3m
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the Greepback Convention, endorsed q very
different kind of view with relation to the La
tional finances than the Greenbackers hold.)
Mr.. Elliott King was the next speaker. He
said he took it for granted that the audience
knew he was candidate for Representative to
Congress. He wanted it understood that he
had broken off his alliance with other parties.
He found that one political organization was
laboring to establish system of landlords and
tenants, and that another was trying to pau
perize American labor, aud therefore he had
Joined the Greenbacks. Mr.. King was very
fervid in his remarks and it could not help &C.
curing to his hearers that be was candidate
for Congressional honors even if he had not
stated the fact.
Mr.. Chas. E. Clifford next appeared. He
said he felt very much like laughing at him
self land the convention apparently felt like
laughing at him too and did it in the ballot).
He defended the party from the charge of Com
munism and the charge of ignorance, and in
reply to the latter SANDER said the shane of the
heads and the expression of the faces of the
Convention showed that they were an unusual
ly intelligent body of meH.
&AAs ~AuuOAooh WOO Cdltu lOEs DuG QlO QOL re.
spond. Rev. Mr.. Eaton of Cape E izabsth was
next called for. He arose and after saying
that he was not a candidate made some start
ling statements. For instance he said that
France had paid her war debt which everybody
knows she has not. Unintentionally he des-
cribed the Greenback party exactly. Thus be
said that during the siege of Paris by the Ger
mans, the Parisians proposed to harness eagles
to balloon, placing on pole before them a
bait which they could never reach. (The
Greenbackers can never reach the bait on the
pole.)
Mr. John M. Todd of Portland was called
for. but was choked off with call for the com.
mittee on credentials.
The committee on credentials reported 254
delegates present. Mr.. Higgins of Limerick
moved committee of resolutions be appointed
and it was appointed as follows: f. M. Hig
gins of Limerick, J. F. Turner of Portland, W
+. Eaton of Cape Elizabeth, G. N. Weymouth
OF Biddeford, d. P. Parker of Gorham.
MI. Todd moved that a committee be ap
pointed to procure City Hall for the afternoon
Mr.. Isaac Bradbury thought if Mr.. Todd want
cd TO speak he would have plenty of time ant
he needn't detain him. Mr.. Todd said b,
| didn't desire to detain Mr.. Bradbury one mo
ment; he could 90 home when he got ready
Mr.. Joseph Holden thought the conventio,
had got the hang of the school house, SO tt
speak. He believed that many who were her
this forenoon were present out of curiosity ant
that they would not be here this afternoon
He thought the Greenbaok party would max
better show in Congress hall than City Hall
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Tests For Flour AdulteratiOn.

DR.. Himly, Professor of Chemistry
at the University Of Keil, has suggest
ed a method by means of which any
person of ordinary intelligence NAV
test the amount of adulteration of
flour, 1t is based upon the fact that
chloroform is specifically lighter than
nearly all the substances usually en-
ployed for authorizations, such as lime.
chalk, barytes, plaster, marble, bone
powder. etc, while the genuine flour
is again lighter than chloroform, in
which none of the above named sub
stances are soluble. The testing pro-
cess is simple, and all the apparatus re-
quired is a small test tube about I inch
inch III diameter. and 4 or 5 inches
long. A teaspOonful of the flour o
be tested is placed in the test glass and
chloroform poured on 80 fill the vessel
to about three quarters of its length.
when it is we'll shaken. and then plac-
ed in an upright position, so as to re
main undisturbed until the various
substances mixed together have had
time to find the level assigned to them
by specific gravity, the flour SWIM
ming near the surface at the top of the
vessel, while mineral bodies will sink
to the bottom. 1t should be observed
that unadulterated flour often shows a
slght hlmy deposit of a grayish or
brownlsh color which it must be sup
posed is stone-dust, produced in grind
ing. A white deposit, however. will
invariably indicate an adulteration
with n or another of the substances
mentioned above. If the materials
are weighed before and after separa-
ton, the amount or degree of aduitera-
tion may be pretty accurately ascer-
tained.-Er.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14

[FoR lie FARNER AND MECHANIC.

Why don't the farmers advertise
what they have to sell through the
FARMER AND IECHANICF There Is 2
great inquiry all over the country Tor
the red rust proof oats. Col. l. l.
Polk told me a few days ago that he
could have sold one thousand bushels
of these oats. Chufas are greatly IN
demand. If the people knew who
had them TO sell. and at what prlce,
they would buy large quantities. A
specimen of these articles ought TO be
in the museum at Raleigh, SO that Wis
itors from different parts of the coun
try might see and examine them, and
learn where TO get them. Some people
stand in their own light by not adver-
Using their goods, and in the paper
that all the farmers read. We have an
Agricultural Department. a Museum,
and an agricultural journal through
which we can publish what we have
for sale, and disseminate new seeds,
especially those that prove of special
value TO our State and section. And
if the people Will avail themselves OF
these opportunities we shall yet be
come an independent and prosperous
people. and North Carolina may safely
be counted, as she ought TO be, at the
head of the agricultural States of the
Union. 5. ID. WILLIAMS.
Wake county, Feb. 10. 1873.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Horses.

The number Of horses in the United
States is reckoned at about eight mil
lions. The number in Illinois is
greater than in any other State. New
York State has over half a million.
and the six New England States about
the same number. The farm or work
horses of Vermont and Maine are
noted throughout the land. Horses
that weigh only ten or eleven hundred
pounds are generally to be preferred
to larger ones, whether for teams in
the city or for farm use. Large horses
are more common in London than in
any other city of the world. But
horses that are very large are not
usually SO quick and tough as smaller
ones.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
1873

MAGNIFICENT Offer! Splendid Chance
for some Enterprisiny Young Farmer
to Add q Beautiful Specimen oil
Devon BlOoded Breed to His Stock
yard Without the Outlay OF One
Penny!
The Publishers of the FARMER AND
MECHANIC will present a fine, healthy
Devon Calf, raised upon the farm
of a prominent officer of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society, to the
person who shall make up the largest
list OF yearly cash subscribers, before
the 10th day Of April next. No name
already on our books will be
Of course but beyond this, h offer is
open to all, and subscribers may be en-
rolled from any post-office in or out OF
the State. Persons entering the lists
for this splendid premium will please
send on their subscriptions as fast as
obtained they will be properly cred
tied to the sender and the more the
paper is seen ard read, the easier Will
be the work of getting up the club.
Address. FARMER N MECHANIC.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Simple Cure for Earache

Many years two of my childrens
one aged three, the other one
had a terrible attack of earache ali
one day and night. l worked over the
little sufferers, doing all | could think
OF, and trying remedies suggested by
u neighbors. On the second morn
ing OF the attack, a lady came in and
asked me if l had tried burnt sugar.
| told her no, that l had not heard of
that. She told me to put some live
Goals on a tin plate, sprinkle some
Drown sugar on them, set a funnel
over 1T, and then hold the child SO that
the smoke could go into the ear. |
did SO, using the remedy for both little
ones. The result was marvellous the
pain stopped instantly, and soon both
little sufferers were in a sound. re-
freshing sleep.-MoTHER, IN E.rchanoe.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Chicken ChOlera-A Cure

The following is said to be an infal-
hole remedy for the so-called chicken
cholera Make a mixture of two ounces
each or red pepper, alum, resin and
Hour of sulphur, and put it in their
TODD IN proportions of one tablespoon
u to three points of scalded meal
In severe cases, give about one-third
OF a teaspoonful in a meal pellet once
a day to each fowl, putting a small
lump OF alum in their drinking water.
Inc writer says: 4 have tried the
ABOVE ingredients with marked sue
cess have cured fowls in the last stag
OF the disease. | make it a practice
now to give my fowls some of it once
or twice a week, and there are no
symptoms OF any disease among them"
Bulletin.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Paving.

Some Young men. and now and then
one who Is not 50 young. nave a
habit of acting as though they were
supremely unhappy unless they were
in the act of doing some little non-
sensical and silly thing In the way of
fumbling people over. Such people
are eternally Strengthening the necktis
of the man with whom they are talk
ing or fumbling at his watch chain, or
picking specks of lint or dust from his
coat, or picking at a button, or point
ing out the absence of 4 button, or
sticking his fingers II a rip in ones
coat, or remarking upon ones beard,
and showing how it would look better
longer or shorter, or better off entirely
in a word. seem TO be > sort of posi-
tive pole to a galvanic battery, and
their fingers and hands are continually
attracted to the negative pole their
ms q us. These same are innocent
enough and they don't mean to annoy,
and possibly they who know them get
used TO it and don't mind it much.
But it looks silly. Then these fellows
are worse vet when with ladies. They
find a breastpin out Of plumb. or a
halrpln sticking a sixteenth of an inch
further out than it should. or a lock of
hair astray, or a watch slipping out of
2 belt. or a gather of the dress has
started the stitching. or the flower in
the hat droOps a trifie, or the shawl
pin don't hang just 50, and they insist
upon fixing these matters, and keep
fumbling and paving and picking
away at a lady until attention is drawn
to the performance and an annoyance
IS the result. One of these fellows will
put his hand under a ladv's elbow to
lift her over a straw on the walk. or
across a six incl gutter, and when
going up a rise of two or three steps
Will insist upon putting his hand upon
her waist and showing her up. If he
helps a lady into a carriage he wants
to lift her in, and in assisting her to
alight ne makes her Jump into his
arms, where he holds her as long as he
dares. While riding with her he
always has his hand upon the back Of
the sea behind her, ready to seize her
waist every time there's a Jolt big
enough to give him an excuse to do
fact he seems to be continually
aching TO paw, in n way or another.
every lady into whose company he is
brown. 1t may not be improper be-
tween people pretty well acquainted
with each other, but it don't look well.
and ladies, while they don't like to
appear annoyed, still feel so, and wish
to be let alone. 1t may not be amiss
to take a lady's arm in the evening.
but it is much more proper for her to
lake the gentleman's. and it's all non
sense to try to make anybody believe
hat a lady is necessarily SO delicate
hat she can't ascend two steps with
a pusher. Calamity is one thing.
out namby-pamby paving and strok-
ne and smoothing down a lady in
'ussy-cat style partakes too seriously
u the sappy age to be admissible
Imong those who profess gentilitv.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14
Death Of Creed F. Young

We were shocked to hear hat this
gentleman. who was one of our Senators
in the last Legislature, and who lived in
Yancey county, was dead. 1t is told
us that he had been out on a hunt at
night and returned home very late.
Not wishing to disturb the family who
had retired and been asleep for some
time, he hoisted a window to get into
his house and, when found next morn
ing. was lying across the window sill
with one-half the body hanging outside,
frozen to death. His body was quite
wet, as though he had been in the river,
and it is presumed he was so overcome
with the cold that he could not make
the effort needfui to get through the
window.-Burk Blade.