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AGRICULTURAL.
Destroying Weeds.


Every once in while we read that the
way to destroy noxious weeds is to haul
loads of earth and cover the places where
the weeds grow, a half foot or so deep.
Sometimes tlese instructions are varied so
as to read rubbish instead of earth. and
then again rubbish is defined as straw,
constable, or even brush. Now we have no
doubt in the world that weeds can be de-
stroyed in that way. We know that weeds
have to feed on air, and all that sort of
thing, and if they are smothered they can't
breath, and if they cannot breath they die.
All this is so plain to the thickesJ skull that
one may feel perfectly safe in recommend
ing it as something that will surely do. And
yet we would like to know how many who
recommended it have ever done so, or seen
their plan tried by others. We very much
doubt whether it was ever done. Some one
may have noticed that under brush-heap
every thing was killed, and that aftel re-
naming year, the brush heaps removal
would show the spot bare of all vegetation.
If the recommendation ever had any ground
at all it was surely this. q
Our remedy for nOXiouS weeds is thorough
cultivation. If piece of ground is full Of
briars, milk weed, couch grass, Sodom APP
pies, Canada thistles, sorrel, toad flax, or
other miserable stuff that so often tries the
mettle of our good farmers, let them put the
ground in corn for a couple of years or so,
keeping the cultivation going continually,
and especially going in the earliest parts Of
the season, and the toughest character among
these weeds will fail to stand the ordeal.
If the hand hoe can be spared to go in
among the hills of corn occasionally where
the teeth of the harrow cannot reach,
bad. case may be cured in single season.
But if this cannot be done couple of sue
cessive years with sharp tooth cultivator
among corn crop will generally do the
business for the worst case that ever was.
Let any one who has a weedy field resolve
another season to put the whole tract in
corn and keep clean, and he will soon give
up all the common ideas of smothering out
with deep layers of earth, cutting up in the
full of the moon, putting salt upon their
tops, or the many other recommendations
started in the interest, it is believed, of lazi-
ness, but which rec lily calls for more trouble
and hard work than thorough and syste-
matte cleaning, such as we have indicated,
does.-Germantown Telegraph.
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Important to Owners of Horses and
Cattle.

The undersigned respectfully informs his numer-
friends and the public that he is practicing sue
cessfuly the Reformed Veterinary Art, the princi-
pies of which consist in the rejection of blood let
erto been the great antiphlagstic of the Aopathic
school and which has produced more destruction in
The medicines used in the physiological practice are
safe and efficient and generally establish the
health of the animal without that tedious GONZALES
cence which usually attends the administration of
calomel anthony, corrosive sublimate arsenic cop
per, the mineral acids etc. Horses with spavins,
splints ringbones and all other engagements cured
with Haskelrs Ringbone and SPAWN Cure or no
charge will be required for the same.
Respectfully yours
., WALTER H. HASKELL,
Practitioner of the Physiological Practice of Veter-
mary Medicine and Surgery. Office at Ling
Hollands Stable No. q Silver ST., Portland, Me.
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Portland and Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r. r,
SPRING ARRANCEuENT.

SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
On and after Thursday, April 4,
Essssssees..esa 1850, Passenger Trains will leave
..i==ss5.si..AAPortland, Preble st. Station at 4.
40 n. m. and rs p. m, arriving
at Worcester at 2.15 p m. and 7.3O p. m. Return
ing leave Union Depot, Worcester, at 100 a. m. and
II 10 M, arriving at Portland at Lis p IN. and
500 p m.
For Clinton, Aver juno, Fitchburg,
Nashua, Lowell, Windham, and EP-
ping at 1870 n. m. and rs p. nm.
For Manchester, Concord and points North at
LIS p. m.
For Rochester, springvale, Alfred, Wat
erbOrO and Sac0 River.7. 80 n. M, LIS
p. M, and (mixedD at 6.40 p. Returning
leave Rochester at mixed) 6.45 a. M, 11.O5
mixed) 9.35 a. m Ill p. m. and 500 pm
For Gorham, Saccarappa, Cumberland
Mills, Westbr0olx and W0odfOrd's.
at 7.3O n. M, LIS, 6. Is and (mixed) 6.45
The 4 .15 p. m. tt ain from Portland connects at
Aver juno. with HoOsac Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New York via Norwich Line, and all rail,
via Springfield, also with N. ". Il N. Il. Il.
r.. C'Steamer Maryland Route'o for Philadel-
Phia, Baltimore, Washington, and the
South and with Boston & Albany r.. r.. for
the West.
Close connections made at WestbrOok juno.
ton with through trains of Me- Central X. R., and
at GrandTrunk Transfer, Portland, with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. r.
Through tickets to all points South and West, at
Depot offices and at collins y Adams No. % Ex-
change Street.
apr1dt j.. LUNT. Supt.
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Saasonah,a Hin+a

For squahses it is yet early enough; if
they are not planted before the 18th Of June
they will be in season; they require to be
well MANFRED, not only broadcast but in hill,
at the rate of about two shovelfuls each.
Paris green, used the same as for potatoes,
will protect the vines not only from the
striped bug but also from the black bug. The
maggot is also at the roots; against him we
do not appear yet to have discovered pro-
lection. The object in manuring the land
broadcast is to make it so rich that the vine
when it runs may throw out roots at the
joints and SO sustain itself should the origi-
nal root be cut off. The most successful
cultivatars of squashes always endeavor to
secure this roofing of the vines at the joints,
and by so doing obtain large crops. Varie-
ties for Fall and Winter use are Boston Mar
row, Hubbard, Turban, Marblehead and the
Canada Winter Crookneck.- Boston Cultiva-
tor 'ef t.4S SD
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Maine Steamship Company.
Semi-Weekly Line to New York.
Steamers EleanOra and FrancOnia

Will until further notice leave Franklin Wharf,
Portland, every MONDAY and THURSDAY, at g
P. NJ and leave Pier 49, East River New York
every MONDAY and THURSDAY, at 4P.M
These steamers are fitted up with fine accommoda,
tions for passengers, making this very convenient
and comfortable route for travellers between New
York and Maine. During the summer months these
steamers will touch at Vineyard Haven on their pas
sage to and from New York. Passage including
State ROOM So; meals extra. Goods destined beyond
Portland or New York forwarded to destination at
once. For further information apply to
HENRY FOX, General Agent Portland.
j. +. AMES, Agt, Pier 3S, P. r. New York.
Tickets and State Rooms can be obtained at %
Exchange Street. dec5dtf
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To Let.

PRICK house of rooms, with all modern i'm
ID pr0vements There is also large garden con.
tanning number of fruit trees in bearing order
For further particulars Apply to D. S. WARREN
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POETRY.
philadelphia Press
Conventional Quotations.

GARFIELD.
"our hearts, our hopes are all with thee
DFhittier.
''The real Simon pure Centiirre.
THE Bosses.
-'You are not like Cerberus are you?''
THE UNIT RULE.
whatever day
Makes man Slave takes half his worth away.
Pope,
Prince LKoEoLp.
"My business in this State made looker-on
here-"-Shakspedre
CAMERON
Fallen, fallen, fallen fallen,
Fallen from his high estate.
"Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state"
Dryden.
LOGAN.
who is there to mourn for Logan. Not one"
Logan.
"a man am crossed with adversty.'
'Zounds / was never so bethumped with words
Since first called my brothers father dad
Shakespeare.
Thou little Valiant" -.Shakspeare
"ThG gladstone light of jurisprudence Coke
THE WEST VIRGINIA DELEGATES.
''Who battled for the just the true.'
Tennyson.
"a corinthian, lad of mettle, good boy
THE CoLoRED DELEGATES.
"Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow'd livery of the FURNISHED sum-
THE CORRESPONDENTS.
1.-THE mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.''
THE DELEGATES.
"Our revels now are ended.''
"For my voice have lost it with hallOing."
GRANT.
"What has been has been, and have had my hour -
Shakespeare.
Company, villainous company, hath been the
spoil of me."-Shakspeare.
BLAINE ..t.
''If he be not fellow with the best king,
Thou shalt find him the best king of good fellows
..#.t Shakespeare.
lNGERSOLL. -a
"Whose words took all ears captive.'
i" Shakespeare.
To MIR. BRANDEGEE. es
Observation-Disclosures '5t&
Where left you Observation-Disclosures"
- i.-.sft Carey.
THE DEMOCRATS.
"what imports the nomination of this gentleman
- Shakespeare
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Wit and Wisdom.

a stranger, passing churchyard and seeing
hearse standing hard by, inquired who was
dead. The sexton informed him. 'What com
plaint?" asked the inquistive one Said the
old man: There is no complaints everybody
is satisfied
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-Fun.
Said the mistress of a Marseilles cigar shop
10 young Bohemian journalist: This is the
sixth time you have been here without saving
a word about the money you owe me, monsieur!
What am L to understand by it?' "Ah ma
dame,' said the clever journalist "when one
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Always reliable.
"Kind words can never die" How bitterly
does man realize that terrible truth when he
sees all the kindest words he ever used in his
life glaring at him from his published letters
in breach of promise suit.
1t is amusing to watch a slim man weigh
himself He steps on the platform as an ele-
plant steps upon a bridge, with an awful fear
of breaking the thing down, and then puts the
t'lree-hundred pound weight on the end of the
beam. OF course he takes it off again, but he
does this unostentatiously. Having found
that he weighs, say, one hundred and twenty,
if you watch him carefully you will see him
slide the weight along to one hundred and sew.
enty-fve. "By Georgel" he will exclaim as
he goes out, Eve lost ten pounds since last
week" He doesn't say how much he weighs
now; if you wish to know, there is the scale.
He knows you will look.-Boston Transcript.
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LYDIA 6. PlNkHAM'S
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Female weaknesses so common to our best female
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TO CONTRACTORS.

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tect, where all necessary information can be obtain
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Notes Personal - Commerce - In
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Notice to Contractors.

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