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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

FRIDAY, May 80.
Steamer New Brunswick, Hall, st john NIB, via
Eastport for Boston. ,.,-,,.. l..
Boston g. Maine RR. Vessel to S Winslow & Co.
Sch Larg, Mcneil, Trindad-molasses to Chur-
Sch Martie A Holmes, Robbins, Philadelphia
to Randall g. McAllister
Sch Billow, Haskell, New York.
Sch Clara l. Dyer, Griffin New York.
Sch VIM Thomas, Littlejohn, Boston.
Sch Game Cock, Robinson, Weymouth, to load for
Sch Ralph X Grant, Grant, Rockland-lime to A D
Whidden.
Sch Arrival, Farnnm, Boothbay.
Sch Mary Elizabeth, Dunton, Boothbay.
Cleared
Sch Clara Dinsmore, Chase, Passport and Lubec-
Sch Alice Dean, Watts, Pembreke-Eath1 Blake.
Sch Jas Holmes, Ryder, Bangor-S w Thaxter.
MEMORANDA.
Ship Ella S Thayer Fulton from Savannah for
Reval, before reported ashore at Spitham was haul
ed off by tugs after discharging part of cargo and
towed to Reval May 10. Contract for one-sixth of
vessel and cargo.
Sch E L Higgins, from New York. arrived at Cal
ais 2Sth with bow badly stove and head gear dam
aged by collision with sch Kate Wentworth of Ban
gor.
FISHERMEN.
Sid I'm Buckspart 26th, sch White Foam, Nichol-
SON, Grand Banks.
DOMESTIC PORTS.
NEW ORLEANS-Gld 3oth, ship Crescent City,
Drisko. Havre.
RICHMOND-Sld 27th sch Governor, Eaton, for
New York.
.WAsHINGToN-Cld 2sth, sch Teumah, Bennett,
st John, NIB.
PHILADELPHIA-Ar 2sth schs Cora, Nixon,
Boothbay; Mary Augusta, Colson, Calais
Cid 18th, schs Saarbruck, Clark, Portland; Abby
WATSON, Lord, Bangor.
Ar 29th, barque Saml Spring. Gem, Matanzas;
sch G E Paige, Grace, Portland.
Cid 29th, brig Ellen II Munroe, Moore, for Provi-
dence; barque Clara McGilvery, Walnut Port
land; sch E G Willard, Simonton, do
WILMINGTON, DEL-Ar 2Sth, sch Frank Her
bert, Philbrook, Bangor.
Ar at Delaware Breakwater 2Sth, brig Alton, Per-
kins, Matanzas, (and sailed for New York;
Passed up 29th, brig Anita Owen, from Matanzas
for Philadelphia.
NEW YORK-Ar 2Sth, schs A D Merritt. Lewis,
Baracoa IL days; Jennie Beazley Libby Arroyo:
Hattie E King, Crowley, Cardenas; Chattanooga,
Snare Wilmington NC.
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Forest Fires,

DETROIT, May 3O.-Forest fires are raging in
the vicinity of Huntsville this afternoon. The
fire caught in the rollway of R. Alger & Co.,
containing some ten million feet Of pine logs
and will probably destroy about three million
feet
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New YORK, May Boa despatch says that
the Federal courts will not be held in Raleigh
North Carolina, next week, owing to the lack
OF funds consequent upon no appropriation by
CongreSS
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DEATHS.

In Lyman, May 20, Mary G.. Low, daughter of
Alvin F. and Emily Low, aged 20 years months 10
days.
In Topsham May "a, Mr.. Jonathan S. Hewey,
aged SO years.
In Harpswell, May 81, Silas Alden, aged IA years.
In North Bridgton, May 81, Benjamin Palmer,
aged 81 years.
In Denmark, May 20, Samuel 0. Evans, of Frye
burg, aged years.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

The absence of the regular market reports this
morning due to the general observance of Decora
ton Day, no reports being received
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Receipts of Maine Central r.. r..

Foreign Imports.
TRINIDAD. Schr Lairg-198 hhds, 10 ties and
bbs molasses to E Churchill & Co.
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Ar 29th, brig Eva N johnson, Tabbutt kiragoane
schs Annie F Collins, Collins, I'm BluehiE- Lizzie
Ar 3oth, ship David Brown, Colcord, Charleston;
brig Alton, Perkins, Matanzas
Cid both, schs Carrie S Webb, Hawkins, Mobile;
Lucy NJ Collins, Curtis, Jacksonville; Mary Helen,
Jellison, Brunswick.
Passed the Gate 29th, sch Rival, Fletcher, from
New York for Gardiner.
STONINGTON-Ar 28th, sch E G Gates, Freeman
Calais.
Judge Low, Smith, Dennysyille.
NEwPORT-lAr 2Sth, sehs Geo somes, Norwood
Providence to load fish for Or Round s Pond at s24o;
Sid 28th, sch L Sargent, Sargent, Round Pond;
Goth, Geo Somes, do.
SID goth, sch A L Wilder, French, Bangor
VINEYARD-HAVEN-Ar 2Sth, schs A1dine, Dem
days for do: Hattie Curtis from Port johnson for
Hinpham Geo f Prescott, Philadelphia for Rock
port; Light Boat, and Robert roster, do for Saco;
Adams. FIN Georgetown for Portland; David Faust,
Lord. Philadelphia for do; Mail and John Slusman,
for clara oy Ran@or GO Conc nor Bath Ruin
| Calais for New York; War Steed, Saco for do
Sid schs Pavilion, JEFF Borden, Edw Stanley c L
uix Charter Oak Olive Elizabeth, Yankee Blade,
| Mand Webster A E Willard B Young, Lyra, Judge
LOW. War Steed Nile, Tahmiroo, Lairg, O w Elwell
| Aidine, Com Kearney, Trade Wind Empress, G H
BOSToN-Ar 29th, sch Caressa, Ray, Providence;
| NJ G Rowe, Perkins, Essex
Cid 18th, barque fremont, Carlisle, and Blanche
| How, Hussey, Portland briggs H Jennings Neil
| Glace Bay; Caroline Eddy Warren, Charleston; sch
| Levi Hart, Giles, Demarara.
| Ar 3Oth, brig Carrie E Pickering, Torrey, Wee
| hawken; schs Aldine, Dennison, Mayaguez; M A
| Wiley, Wiley, Alexandria; Ella M Storer Wade
| Georgetown; L Newton, Slower, do; Laurel, Ben
| nett, Franklin.
Below, sch r Emerson.
NEWBURYPORT-Ar 2Sth, sch Nellie Clark
| Clark, Weehawken
| Sid 2Sth, sch Jas Nelson Kendall, Bangor.
| PORTSMOUTH-Ar Goth, sch Sandman Hol
brook, Elizabethport.
| Sid both, sch Frank Pearson, Cushman Rockport.
| BUCKSPORT-Ar 25th, sch f Farnum Gilley
| Portland.
Sid both, schs Nulato, Small, Philadelphia; Nettit
| B Dobbn Fakngham New York.
| BATH-Ar 29th, sch Lahaina, Diggins, Philadel
| phia.
Sid goth, sch Hattie Williams, (new) Dean, fol
| GeorretoWn with 1900 tons ice
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PORTLAND, May 70.
For Portland, % cars miscellaneous merchandise;
for connecting roads, IS miscellaneous mer-
chandse.
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GIoucester Fish Market.

DHIIy DOHtstIC ISeCeIptss
By water conveyance-1000 bush Cornmeal to G
W. True & Co.
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CRISTADORO'S HAIR PRESERVATIy]

valuable adjunct to the Dye in dressing and pro-
noting the growth and perfect health of the hair and
of ITSELF when used aone-a safeguard that protects
the fibres from decay under all circumstances and
under all climes Manufactured by j. CRISTADO-
RO, No SO William St, New York. Sold by all Drug
gists. Applied by all Hair Dressers.
my6 sneod&w1m
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April s. lat 33 S, Ion IL 90 w, ship Gen Butler
from Newcastle for San Francisco.
May 10, off Falmouth barque Florence Treat
May 27, lat AZ O3, lon 81 "a, barque Lorena
Blanchard from Messina for New York.
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The sparrow comes from good family,
having host of representatives in Europe,
and full list in North America; but,
strange to say, it is the only scion of this
large division of the bird tribe from which
the e gift of song seems to be wholly with
held. Everybody who has strolled in the
country during May and June has listened
to the sweet love carols of our chirping and
song sparrows, but no one ever heard the
sparrow in question utter single sound
that possessed the faintest melody nothing
bat that incessant complaining chirp and
distressful chatter from one end of the year
to the other--no intermission, no rest. If
it could sing like our cat-bird, or even the
clumsy robin, for instance, the opposition
to it which now exists would, it is safe to
say, never have been aroused, because in
ali fairness, waving, the question of song,
the spparrow can not be called any better
or worse than the rest of its kind, which
are all plump, sober, dull-plumaged birds.
-Harpers Magazine for November.
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its success is the dog nuisance. Skill and
care in breeding and the proper manages
ment of fiocks would not be wanting II
there was any, adequate security against
the incursions of worthless ours among
valuable fiooks, but the certainty OF dis
appointment and loss from this source Is
the great stumbling block in the way OF the
introduction of this or Ito any great extenO
any other kind of sheep into these sections,
which are 80 eminently favorable to TINS
industry. The destruction OF sheep by
dogs, even in the wool growing States, ag~
gregates every year an enormous sum, ana
without doubt it frightens many persons
who are so situated rs to make some branch
of wool growing a speciality, from engaging
in it, In the absence of judicious and
helpful laws for the protection of sheep
husbandry (denied by short-sighted law
makers) the most effective remedies for
the dog evil are plenty of buckshot and
strychnine liberaly dealt outside of the do
mains of its owner and approaches the con-
fines of men who raise sheep. This abom-
Unable nuisence ought not to stand in the
way of an industry whose development
affects the productive interests of the coun-
try to 80 vast an extent as this does, and
we are glad to notice that in some of the
States wholesome laws on the subject are
meeting with more favor than they have
hitherto received.
As we have said. the United States can
produce every class and style of wool
known to commerce, and it ought to do SO.
We have reached that point in this industry
where full discussion of this matter is in
order. 1t is one which has numerous pha-
ses that are Important, aud the American
Stockman will lend what assistance it may
possess in bringing out facts which are
pertinent and necessary to a full under
standing of the subject. American Stock
man,
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Tallahassee Cor. n. Y. Sun.

Tallahassee Cor. n. Y. Sun.
From my hotel window can look out
almost any clear day and see dim col
umn of smoke in the far southwest. L
have asked the cause of it and have
been told that it is the vapor from a
boiling spring, which has never been
found, owing to the impenetraDle
nature of the swamp in which it is sit
uated. | suggested one day that per-
haps there might be some illicit wiskey
distillation going on in that swamp.
The possibility, and even probability
was admitted. Then none OF you, l
presume, l asked, saw that column OF
smoke before or during the warp
None had seen it until the tax on
whiskey was levied, for, they said they
had never had their attention called to
it until of late years.
accosted a gray-haired negro on the
subject of the smokey column: "Well,
sar, usays he, "if you was down in de
neighborhood OF whar dat smoke is,
and you should leave jug alongside de
road wild quarter tied to de handle,
you'd be mighty ap to find dat jug filled
wild whiskey next day.
"Where would the quarter be,
unc'e?7 "Dat would be gone, sar )"
"And 1 could spend quarter that
way every day"
GAS many as you like. If you tie
half dollar dey'll glib you half a dollar
worth of whiskey, and dey'll glib you
good measure, sure"
'Do they do much business in that
line 2" / asked.
II don't no muffin about dat, sab. l
only knows dat you get as much
whiskey in de jug as the money tied to
de handle will pay for.
I don't want the readers of this to
discredit the existence in Florida OF
great springs, natural bridges, or sunken
lands making room for lakes, for these
are natural phenomena and can be
seen and verified.
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seem question secondary to that OF
getting manure. is really of primary
importance, for by using what one has
TO better puprose he opens way to
increase his supply. We have found
this to be the case in our own expert
ence, and by strict attention to saving
and preserving every particle OF manure
in its best condition we have succeeded
in so enlarging our supply OF fodder
that the number OF stock that could
be fed was largely increased each year,
and very soon it was necessary 10 20
out and buy animals to consume the
surplus. To bring farm into improv-
ed condition there is no cheaper or
more effective way than this. The
ordinary management of manure, In
open barn yards where it is washed by
rains, dried by the suns scorching heat
and wasted by every wind that blows, Is
the worst that is possible. In this way
half or more OF the value of the manure
is lost. By figuring up what it would
cost to purchase quantity OF manure
equal to what is thus lost, the costllness
of this common method would be dis
covered, and the question how much
could be afforded to take care of the
manure would be settled. When prop
erly Uttered one COW or OK would maize
ton of manure every month, II the
LIQUID as we'll as the solid portion IS
saved. Ten head would thus make l2O
tons, or sixty two-horse wagon loads IN
a year. A pair of horses will make as
much manure as one COW, or twelve
tons in the year. A hundred sheep II
garded every night and well Uttered,
will make n 100 tons of manure IN the
year, and ten pigs will work up wagon
load in month if supplied with sutfi-
Gent coarse material. The stock OF a
1OO-acre farm, which should consist OF
at least ten COWS; ten head OF stears,
heifers, and calves; pair OF horses,
100 sheep and ten pigs, would then make
in the aggregate 315 tons OF manure
every year, or sufficient to give twelve
tons per acre every fourth year. Ii this
were we'll cared for it would be, III
effect, equal to double the quantity OF
ordinary manure; and if plenty OF
swamp muck could be procured, at
least six hundred tons of the best ma-
nure could be made upon n lOO-acre
form. If this were the rule instead of
a rare exception, or only possibility,
what a change would appear upon the
face of the country and what an addl.
ton would be made to the wealth OF
the nation.
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The Worth of Horses.

"Horse talk" when on large scale, is
always interesting, because every sensible
man and woman in the world likes fine
horse. The first man in the country to pay
an excessively fancy price for trotter was
Robert Bonner, who gave George Alley
81, 900 for Dexter. Mr.. Bonner after
wards gave $33, 600 for Cooley, $45, 900 for
Pocahoutas, $4,000 for Startle, and $l5,
900 for Grafton. Large as these sums
aggregate, they have been exceeded by
Henry N Smith who has probably paid
more for trotters than any man living. He
paid for Lady Thorn $50, ,000 for Gold~
smith Maid, $4,000; for Lucy, $25, 900
for J. Gould, 5000. Gould he bought
of Fiske, George Hall and J. Gould. They
owned the horse, having bought him from
New Bedford party when his name was
Judge Bringham. Tattler he bought of
A. j. Alexander for $4,000; Gen. Knox he
paid $4,000 for; Rosalind cost him 3d.
600; Socrates, $4,000; Idol, $1,000;
Western Girl, 81 900; Martha Nutwood,
81, 800; Daisy Burns he traded Harry Har-
ley for with Commodore Vanerbilt she
stood him in $500. What does all tnat
foot upf $204,500 exactly. Goldsmith
Maid was on the go, in the cars, for thir~
teen years, from one end of the country to
the other, travelling over one hundred
thousand miles, always taking her rest on
the cars as if in her box stall. She has
netted 10 her owner over S7s, 1000, after
paying all her expenses and giving Bud
Doble one half.
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Growing Fine Wool.

There are localities in this couLtry pc
culiarly adapted to the growth Of wool of
the finest texture known to commerce. We
notice among some transactions in Western
Virginia that wool has changed hands tnis
season almost equal to the Silesian staple,
and it is not to be questioned that in some
parts of that and other States where the
conditions are equally favorable to this
industry, an article can be produced equal
to the celebrated Silesian woods, whose
siIkiness and the number of whose fibres
to the incl, have made it so justly cele-
brated We make note of the circum-
stance because the production of this class
of wool, in this country deserves mention
aud encouragement-nOt that il is the most
useful staple, for it does not occupy that
position, but as proving the perfect adapta~
bility of our country to all branches of
the great industry.
There are localities in the Virgnias, the
Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia
aud Alabama, where the climatic conditions
are present aud proper, forage abundant
at almost all seasons Of the year 10 make
this branch Of sheep husbandry eminently
successful, and the Only serious barrier TO
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l soc in the Chicago Field of the 9TH inst
IL communication from G. i. W. in which
he makes a statement that man named
Chas Smith, while plowing in a field
plowed up rattlesnake and that the snake
swallowed its young. know case of that
kind, in fact was one of the parties who
killed the snake. Myself and brother were
hauling wood at the time; We killed the
rattlesnake and after killing II concluded to
take it home; we tied the snakes tail to the
coupling pole at the end of the wagon, and
had not gone far before about halt a dozen
OF so of young ones came out Of the old ones
mouth. / have friend who says he saw a
mocassin snake swallow her young; he was
hunting on the bank of a creek, and
came across the snake. she became frightened
at him and began to blow and make kind
of a Kissing noise, and very soon afterwards
four or five little snakes crowded up aud
went into her mouth. W. Crockett, De
Witt Ark.
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How to save and Keep Manure.
American Agriculturist.

There is no question more frequently
OF seriously considered by the farmer
than how he shall get, keep and spend
an adequate supply of manure, nor Is
there anything about the farm which Is
of greater importance to its successful
management than the manure heap.
There are few farmers now left who
pretend to ignore this need for the
land. and few localities, even In the
newer Western States, where manure
now is thought to de a nuisance. We
have gradually come to the inevitable
final end of our virgin farms, anu
have now either to save what Is lett OF
their wonderful natural fertility or to
restore them slowly and laborlously to
a profitable condition. We have reach
ed the end of our tether, and are obllg-
ed to confess that We have trespassed
over the line which bounds the terri
tory of the locust, or have improved
the face Of the country SO much that,
the protecting timber being removed,
the water supply is becoming precari-
ous, and springs, brooks and rivers no
longer flow as they did heretofore. To
some extent the tide of emigition,
which has flowed westward so many
years, is now eddying or even ebbing.
and the cheap, worn lands of the East
are finding purchasers who undertake
TO bring them back to their former
condition. At the same time Eastern
farmers are discovering more and more
certainly that they must increase their
crops and make one acre produce as
much as two have heretofore done.
The only way in which either of these
classes can succeed is by keeping suffi-
cieut stock TO manure their farms lib
orally; to feed these animals so skill
fully aud well, that they shall pay for
their feed with profit. and in addition
leave a supply Of rich manure, with
which the soil can be kept in pro
dUciiye state, aad 10 use and save the
manure with such care that no particle
OF Il be lest II is not every farmer
who can procure all the manure he
needs; but very many can save what
they have with far greater economy than
they nov DO; and this, although it may
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To be u Successful Farmer.

MANY years of experience and observa-
ton have taught us that two things are
absolutely necessary to profitable tarming:
the first settled policy, and the second,
thorough pulverization and manurlng.
What is meant by settled policy is that u
farmer should ascertain the crops best
suited to his land, as we'll as to the de-
mand of the market; and having decided
on these, to stick to them through thick
and thin, whatever the fluctuations in price
He will find it to hit oftener than miss,
which is not the case with those who jump
about from one thing to another, with no
settled rule to go by No man should
ever engage in special business OF any
kind merely because some other individual
has made money by it. 1t requires long
experience to grow and market successfully
any special crop, broomcorn, tobacco, etc,
and we had better increase our experience
with such products as we know than to fly
to new ones, about the handling or aultivae
ton of which we know but little or nothing.
1t is in the better culture and manuring.
in farming. that the greatest improvements
are made. The most effectual way to
lessen the cost of production is to increase
the yield per acre. There are hundreds of
farmers who for years have been cultiva-
ting forty acres of corn for two hundred
barrels; and twenty of wheat for two hun
bushels, and yet find it hard work to get
along. To all such we should say, put
half the land in clover and give such cultl-
yaton and fertilization to the other half as
will enable you to raise as much grain on the
thirty acres as you arr now doing on the
whole sixty. And although this could not
be expected to be accomplished in a single
year. yet there is no question that time
would soon bring it about. If you think
the sixty acres are too much for you to
undertake at once, try it on few acres,
and we will answer for it that after you
have harvested thirty bushels of wheat or
seventy>fve bushels of corn to the acre on
these, you will be so disgusted with your
old practice of growing the third of it that
you will be very willing to increase the
area of your heavier producing lands.
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For sale.

kHY RESIDENCE IN THE SUBURBS OF
lM Jackson together with ten years privilege
lease Of IS acres Of land attached, under fence
and in Z high state Of cultivation, and good st Of
household and kitchen furniture Also my stock
farm Of $50 acres. in Rankin county, six mies
from Jackson which is susceptible Of division into
three farms with good buildings on each. also
have for sale corn, hay, fodder, horses mules cat
tie, hags, sheep, goats, wagon, cart, pl9ws and all
necessary farming implements.
The above real and personal property 4 free d
incumbr4nce title perfect, and viii be sold AZ Pri
vate sale, and on terms lair 70 purchasers.
Call on or address,
sept. 27-tf. 4. W LITTLE.
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w. O. STRAUSS.

no TO w. 0, STRAUSS AND BUY YOUR
VI Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes and Dry Goods
ii you want to save your money.
Have you ever tried the ORANGE TWIST To-
bacco that selling at so cts per lb superior to
any goods in the market at IS cts.
Come and buy your Condensed Milk from me and
save 10 cts per can The standard "Eagle Brand
guaranteed pure and unaduerated, 81 75 per dozen,
15cts per can.
If you want Oats, Corn, Bran, and Hay, Flour,
Coffee, Meat, and Sugar, come and learn my prices
and convince yourself that it will be to your inter,
est to do SO. II
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oranyof various panis
We solicit parties can offer specially liberal
Attorneys County omcer Corporation Tasurer invited correspond
as will be to accounts
We transact all ranclesof promptly all collections
adv trnactono business
slla,ki dsof securities o smallest
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Apply 10 w. A. Roy, Winona, Miss, or Z. W,
Peabody, West Point, Miss, General Agent for
East Mississippi m22-Iy.