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The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
ADVISING SUBMISSION.
Why Major Smith Refused the Services
of the Fusion Drill Clubs.

Fusionist Governor Smith was first informed
Of the Supreme Courts decision by Boston
Herald correspondent, when he said; lit Is
nothing more than have expected, and now,
as law abiding citizens, we must submit and
go to our homes. [ shall never re-erter poll
tics, having been forced into my present posi-
ton by circumstances. The cause CT our party
will now be referred to the people at the polls.
Acts of violence will only iniure our party To-
cally as well as nationally. All through this
struggle | have had to withstand the fforts OF
the more violent men Of our party to provoke
a contest at arms. Some day the secret his
tory of this thing will come out, aud 1t Will be
seen that have acted as conservative man.
Only today I was visited by delegation from
q neighboring county, and asked to authorize
tho bringing of thousand armed men to this
city Of Augusta for the purpose Oh capturing
the State House, and this very night L was
labored with by a certain man to consent to
plan which could hardly have failed to put us
in the State House before Thursday night.
refused to entertain the plan. Had the court
recognized our government as the legal one, l.
should have taken the necessary steps to en-
force its authority, L suppose that the most OF
our Legislature will enter the State House
Legislature now definitely decided to be the
legal body. I do not expect nor care for the
respect Of radical men, but think am en-
titled to the good opinion of conservative men.
AS have said, the pressure upon me by the
radical men of our party has been intense, and
/ have been censured by them for the course !
have pursued. L AM law abiding man, and
shall go home and attend to my business. L
have plenty of private cares, and shall ENJOY
getting back to my own home"
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
GOOD ADVICE.
Scion Chase Tells the F'usionists They
Must Obey the Supreme Court.
In the course of a long interview published

In the course of long interview published
in the Boston Herald Scion Chase says:
The common-sense Greenbackers OF the Leg
islature will see there is no way out but TO
abide by the decision of the Supreme Court
There is no other sensible course. This Will
hanish from the State wars and rumors of wars,
restore restore to the people feeling of security and
make the eye of the rag--baby sparkle ike the
diamond. When 1 have been in the swamp,
have brought up against a stump before knew
the stump was there, and no chance 10 cut inc
was to hitch to the hind end of the sled and
haul the load back. The Supreme Court is
the stump. The nose of the off runner is bang
up against the court. The way out is to hitch
'them steers to the hind bar, pull the load
hack and then move on,
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29

DR. G. w. BENsoN's CELERY and CHAMo-
MILE PILLS are prepared expressly to cure Sick
Headache, Nervous Headache, Dyspeptic
Headache, Neuralgia and Nervousness, and
will cure any case. Price so cts, postage free
Parsons, BANGS & Co., Wholesale Drug
gists III and 119 Middle street, Portland, Me.
General Agents. aug28eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29

PUBLISHED TESTIMONY establishes the fact
that SCovILL's BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP is a
sterling remedy for scrofulous and syphilitic
disorders of a formidable type Also that it
cures white swelling, carbuncles, eruptive
maladies of all kinds, govt and rheumatism.
1t moreover promotes secretion and flow Of
healthy bile and directs it into the proper
channels. The deplorable ailments produced
by mercury are also remedied byit. Druggists
sell it.
Oxygenated Bitters cure Dyspepsia.
iaOo 11xy
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
Special Meeting Of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows

A special meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows of Maine was held yesterday af-
ternoon at Odd Fellows hall A full represent
tation of the grand officers was present. and
about 100 members from different parts of the
state. The business was in reference to the
charter of Belfast Lodge.
The Grand Lodge sustains the action of the
Grand Master of Maine, Gorham L. Wey-
mouth.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate transfers for this
county were recorded yesterday:
Scarborough-Geor Jewett to A. A.
Mitchell, land on Beach Ridge road.
Naples-Frank e. Morton to Ebenezer Proc
tor lot of land.
Falmouth Watts to Charles c.
Watts, 301 acres of land.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
They Work Together.

When your system gets out of tune and you
feel completely played out, it is pretty certain
that you need medicine to act on both the
Kidneys and liver for these important organs
work together in freeing the system OF its
waste, and keeping up the tone Then take
Kidney Wort, for this is just WHAT it does, for
it is both diuretic and carthartic.
ian29 IhS&I&W
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
Acci6antS.

While a Mr.. Robinson was in the store OF
Gordon Bros. on Green street transacting
some business, his horse standing at the door
became frightened and ran up to Portland
street There he collided with telegraph
pole, completely demolishing the pung. The
horse was finally secured on Preble street.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29

Two hundred and eighty yards Worsted
Frnges at the extremely low price of 10 cents
per yard. These goods make pretty trimmings
for Lambrequins, Chairs or Rugs. I'll. l. MEL
SON e. Co. 4t3 Congress street. ja28d4t.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
international Steamship Company.

International Steamship Company.
The annual meeting of the International
Steamship Company was held at their office
on Exchange street yesterday afternoon The
following officers were elected.
President and Manager-T. C. Hersey.
Treasurer and Secretary-H. j. Libby,
Directors-J. B. Coyle, Portland, 5. II.
Spring, Portland, A. Mel. Seeley, st. John,
N. B., j. B. Libby, Portland, I. G. Hersey.
Portland
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
$1,000 Swan.
CITIZENS OF MINOT WHO DO NOT
ENDORSN HIM.
An Open Letter from His Constituents.
MECHANIC FALLS, Jan, %.

MECHANIC FALLS, Jan, 2S.
To T. B. S1can,
We, electors Of your Representative District,
having seen in the Portland Argus OF Jan.
9th, an open letter to yourself purporting to
emanate from, and express the sentiment Of,
"the citzensSof this place, desire hereby to
disclaim any and all connection with that at
fair and to disavow the sentiments therein
contained, so far as they relate to yom past
action as Representative from this district, and
we beg to be Counted OUT from among the
"hundred others purporting to have subscrib
ed thereto. That you may not misunderstood
our position, we simply say that we believe
this district has been lastingly disgraced by
your action, since your arrival in Augusta, as
our Representative, and we feel deep sense
of modification and shame on account OF the
same We believe ourselves to pe unfepre-
sented in the legal House Of Representatives,
where we have important interests at stake,
and we demand that you shall take your place
in the legal House and submit your past action
to a thorough investigation, that. either by
vindication and attention to our interests, OF
by condo nation and expulsion therefrom, we
may be represented, and thus this disgrace
may be in part removed. We make this brief
statement of our belief and desire, ana Will
add that should you see fit to ask for them, we
will give our reasons specifically and in detail,
with our names appended, that you and the
: public may know whether our reasons are good
and sufficient and whether our whole commun-
ity approves of your action.
Josiah A. Buchanan,
d. b. Perry,
Gideon Bearce,
Andrew j. Weston,
Adna c. Dennison,
G. NJ. Cram,
2. r. Tileston,
Nathaniel Keene,
D. S. Perkins,
i. Il. Ross,
S. Libby
VIM. Keene
Moses B. Walker,
VIM. HacketJ,
l. A. Dennison,
l. F. Mccain,
F. E. Dwinal
Zenas Lane,
ID. b. Waterhouse,
E. NJ Thurston,
w. 3. Buchanan,
E. II. Cannon
Z. III. c. Buchanan,
j. j. Buchanan,
Jason Hall,
S. NJ. Bradley,
1. M Libby,
c. H. Dwinal,
j. S. Merrill,
j. B. Stanton,
f. A. Beal,
N. Cannon
d. B. Holt
/. W. Hanson,
Luther Perkins,
And one hundred and fifty others.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
CITY AND VICINITY.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Portland Theatre-Pat Rooney.
Grand Ball-Munjoy Lodge.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Always Ask-Webbs Chocolate.
Salutes-J. p. Osgood's.
To Let-201 Oxford Street.
Slaughtcr-Geo. f. Nelson.
Grand Trunk Railway-Old Iron Rails For Sale.
to Dollars Saved-Merry.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
NOTICE.
Citizens Mutual Relief society

TEyHE Stated Meeting for January will be held at
Il Reception Hail, FRIDAY evening next, SUN
inst, at IN o'clock.
The Directors meet at same place half an hour
previous. A.,
The amendment to the Bylaws to extend the
territory will come up at this meeting.
Per Order,
ian27d4t NJ N. RICH, Sec'y.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-29
Worcester & Nashua Railroad.

THE ANNUAL MEETING AND ELEC-
TON OF OFFICERS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

after cutting by wrapping the bunch in straw
or in a blanket, and Keeping in warm place.
By cutting the punches at the right time, they
can be shipped to New York with perfect
safety.
Colonel Whitney has upon his ,plantation
today thousands Of punches in all stages of
development, from the little miniature buds
to the well matured fruit six or seven inches
long. Many of those punches contain 175
bananas, which sell readily to shippers at
two cents each, from which may be inferred
the great profits of banana culture:
An acre of ground will readily support
600 plants Suppose the punches to average
rs bananas each, and we have an annual
income of $500 from single acre. The cost
of preparing and enriching the ground and
setting the plants the first year, including the
cost Of slips, will average, say, 81 per plant,
leaving profit Of $500; but they perpetuate
themselves after the first year, thus leaving
the 5000 net for the second and succeeding
years. j. ..,.
Humboldt states that an amount of land
that will produce 1000 pounds of potatoes
will yield $4,000 pounds Of bananas. and
surface bearing wheat enough to feed one
mar will yield bananas enough to feed twen-
ty.fVe men.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01
BANANAS.

The most perfect banana plantation in the
United States is that of Colonel Whitney,
near Silver Lake, Florida, over two hundred
miles south of Jacksonville, and practically
beyond the region Of killing frosts.
A daily line of steamers renders it easy OF
access from Jacksonville and other points
upon the river. This plantation covers an
area of several acres, and contains over ten
thousand plants, most of them in bearing.
The plants are of different varieties. Some
of them are huge trees, twenty feet high, with
trunk from six to eight inches in diameter,
while others, and probably the largest num-
ber are of the dwarf species, standing from
six to eight feet high, with trunk from four
to FIVE inches in diameter.
The banana, as cultivated in this climate,
bears no visible seed, but is propagated from
slips or cuttings which bear transplanting
we'll, and grow with great rapidity.
These slips are generally planted about
eight feet apart if it is the dwarf species, an
acre of good ground will contain from six
hundred to seven hundred plants. They re-.
quire deep, rich soil, and considerable mois-
ture. 1t has no season, but the fruit natures
Ill ClOtCA W Gu1A IC0AA "OAoa0
from the date of planting, and, by properly
timing the planting, ripe fruit may be OBJ.
tanned at all seasons Of the year:
Soon leaf of this blossom opens at the
pointed end and rolls back to the base, dis.
closing a row of FIVE or six tiny bananas,
nestled closely together, as if hiding under
the shelter Of this protecting leaf. Each min
iature fruit has waxen yellow flower at the
end, with stigma projecting through it.
Other leaves of the blossom unfold one after
another in the same way, until twenty or
thirty clusters of fruit are developed, all
clinging to one stem, when these leaves wither
and fall; and the fruit swells and leDgthens to
maturity, which requires generally about
three or four months. The great stem on
which the fruit grows, bends under its weight
until the long, fnger.like fruit hangs down
in graceful clusters.
Each plant bears but single bunch Of
fruit, and then withers and dies but, while
the fruit is maturing, there springs up from
the base of the trunk several o6shoots, which
take the place of the old plant when that has
been removed, and 60 on growing to the full
size of the parent tree.
The fruit, when grown full size, begins to
show streaks of yellow upon its deep green
skin, when it should be gathered for shipment
to market. 1t is easily and quickly ripened
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH Our DAUGH.
TIERS Give them good school education
teach them to cook healthful food teach
them to wash, to iron, to mend stockings, to
sew on buttons, to make their own clothes
and well fitting shirt; teach them to bake;
to know that good cooking saves medicine.
Teach them that dollar is worth one hun
dred cents; that only those are saving who
spend less than they receive and that what
soevar more is spent tends to impoverish.
Teach them that they are much better dressed
in strong cotton garments than in silk if they
are in debt Teach them that one round full
face is worth fifty beautiful consumptive ones.
Teach them to wear strong shoes. Teach them
to make good purchases, and see to tine reck-
oning of their accounts. Teach them that they
spoil Gods image when they lace tightly.
Teach them good common sense, confidence,
selfdefence and industry. Teach them to do
garden work and enjoy nature. Teach them,
likewise, if they have money enough, music,
painting, and al the arts, remembering always
that these thing are secondary. Teach them
that walking is better than riding, and that
wild flowers are very beautiful to those that
observe them. Teach them to despise all
make-believe, and that one should say yes
or no when one really means it. Teach them
that happiness in marriage depends neither
upon the station nor the wealth Of the hus.
band, but upon his character. If you have
taught your daughters all this and made
them understand it fully, then let them, when
the time comes, marry in perfect confidence.
They will be sure to find their way without
further assistance.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01
Selstted guttrg.
THE PRESS AND THE PLOW.

THE PRESS AND THE PLOW.
We envy not the princely man,
In city or in town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Turn up the hill or down.
We care not for his marble halls,
Nor vet his heaps Of gold:
We would no. own his sordid heart
For all his wealth, twice told.
We are the favored ones of earth,
We breathe pure air each morn,
We SOW, we reap the golden grain,
We gather in the corn.
We toil-we live on what we earn,
And mors than this we do
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags weary life,
He never knows peaceful hour,
His atmosphere is strife.
A merchant thumbs his yaristlck Ger,
Grows haggard at his toll,
He's not the man God meant him for;
Why don't he till the soil?
The doctor plods through storm and rain
Plods at his patients will;
When dead and gone, he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer-bless his noble soul!
He grasps the mighty earth,
And stamps it on our daily sheets
To cheer the laborer's heart.
We sing the honor of the plow,
And honor to the press
Two noble instruments of Toll,
Each with powerto bless,
The bone, the nerve of this fast age,
True wealth of human kind;
One tills the ever-faithful earth,
The other tills the mind.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01
THE DAREDEVIL FORREST.

No man ever exacted stricter obedience or
mora thoroughly maintained it. He brooked
no disobedience oil his own order, and he re-
sented their infract;nn with characteristic fire.
When his command needed supplies he
stopped on no technicalities Of obstruction to
obtain them. The writer well remembers
once sending requisition for food and for
age TO an officer at one of the railroad stations,
and was refused on the grounds that the sup
plies belonged to an infantry command in
the rear. Forrest having failed in the same
manner to obtain needed provisions, coolly
took what he wished without further parley,
stating that if any complaint was made he
General Forrest) was responsible. His SER
vices were so valuable that his summary
methods were overlooked. He said to the
writer in explanation of his taking these
supplies, that he never hesitated to override
formalities when he deemed it necessary; that
he would break thousand of them at any
cost to himself before his men and horses
should suffer for want Of subsistence, and
that the infantry in camp could get plenty
more, while his men, always in active service
on the front, could not obtain supplies all
the time
Another instance of his disregard Of rules
was chat he allowed his men to absent them
selves just whe, he pleased. He had his
troops on hand IA all necessary occasions for
march or fighting or picket duty. He would
turn whole regiment loose for a day or
two VIXEN in the vicinity Of their homes, or
when they could be spared, and this when
there were positive orders against it from
army headquarters. And the practical re-
suit of it was tbat it absolutely benefited the
service it satisfied and encouraged the men,
and made them better soldiers. No General
punished desertion more severely, or demand
ed harder service, and none took more respon-
sibility in behalf of the comfort or pleasure
of his command. agr
While the writer connected lines with For
rest the scouts Of that officer were constantly
in front and rear. Forrest not only recon-
noitered his own ground, but that of every
BODY else. His search for information was
unceasing. 1t was this restless watchfulness
and inquiry that constituted one of his chief
traits His scouts were ubiquitous. They
went everywhere and they exhausted every
source of news Wherever he went he had
every road, path, thicket and point Of obser-
vation or approach, front, flank and rear,
picketed, and in addition his scouts swarm
ed for miles around, sending bulletins to him
hourly.
Just before the battle of Chickamauga, the
writer was in command Of a brigade of cavalry
at Alpine, Ga. Forrest passed by going to
the front and inquired Of the condition of
matters and the news of the enemy. He re.
ceived all of the information obtainable, and
as be started off to the 'front.' be bowed adieu
and said: II believe I will go and give them
fellows a dar." &C. Confederate. officer in
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The executive committee of the Kings
Mountain centennial was called to order by
COL Asbury Coward, chairman.
There were present of the committee Col.
A. Coward, chairman; Capt. w. T. R. Bell,
secretary Capt. j. M. Ivy, treasurer; Capt.
E. P. Howell (proxy), I. W. Garrett, J. S.
Bratton, G. Petty, j. S. R. Thomson, Rev.
Ellison Capers, Allen Belts, P. S. Baker,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

AN ELOQUENT PAssAaE.-The following
was from the pen Of Geo. ID. Prentice: "It
cannot be that earth is mans abiding place.
It cannot be that our life is a mere bubble
cast up by eternity to float moment on its
waves and then sink into nothingness. Else
why is it that the glorious aspirations which
leap like angels from the temple Of our hearts
are forever wandering unsatis6ed? Why is
it that the stars that hold their festival
around the midnight throne are set above
the grasp Of our limited faculties forever
mocking US with their unapproachable glory ?
And, finally, why it is that bright forms Of
human beauty presented to our view are
taken from US, leaving the thousand streams
Of affection to flow back in Alpine torrents
upon our hearts? There is realm whe:e
the rainbow never fades; where the stars
will be spread out before US like the island
that slumbers in the ocean and where the
beautiful beings which pass before us like
shadows will stay in our presence forever"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

p9" The phrase "Too thin" says writer in
the Baltimore Every Saturday, was perfectly
good English more than century ago.
Thus, in Smollett's novel, "Peregrime Pickle"
published in 1751), when the hero suddenly
informs his lady love Amelia, that he is going
abroad, the tears gushed into her eyes, and
she was at great pain to conceal the cause
Of her grief by observing that the tea was so
scalding hot as to make her eyes water.
"This pretext," says Smollett, in all serious.
ness, "was too thin to impose on her lover or
deceive the observation Of her friend Sophy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

PALESTINE AS IT Is.-A recent visitor to
Palestine furnishes melancholy picture Of
the desolation that has settled down upon
that historic land Treeless it is, he says, for
twenty or thirty miles together: Forests
which existed thirty years ago on Mount Ia
Dor and Mount Carmel, are fast disappearing.
Rich plains of fine garden soil are at best on.
ly scratched up in patches, and have no
hedges or boundaries. The villages are moth
ing but mud huts, dust and squalor. Large
tracts are without horse, or COW, or sheep,
or dog. Except from Jaffa to Jerusalem,
there is no pretence at roads. Everything is
taxed, even trees, and in consequence no trees
are planted; every cow and every horse, ev-
cry vegetable sold out of the garden; while
every eighth egg is not taxed but taken out
right by the Government. This year double
taxes are expected, since after three years of
bad harvests an abundant one is in prospect.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

The committee took recess until lZ.SU
P. M.
At 1890 P. M. the committee re.assembled,
the commissioners from North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee, being present.
Col. Coward expressed the qualification of
the committee in having prese It with them
the distinguished representatives from North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The committee on ways and means report
ed progress.
The chairman stated that Columbia would
be canvassed by the Governors Guards and
the Richland Volunteers.
Mai. Houston stated that the press asso-
citation of South Carolina would render the
centennial all the aid at their command.
Rev. D. C. Kelly, D. D., of Tennessee, read
from the official report of the battle of
Kings Mountain, giving the British strength
at 1925 men. The loss is as follows:
Ofthe regulars-one major, one captain,
two sergeants, fifteen privates killed, thirty.
five privates wounded and left on the ground
not able to march two captains, four lieu
tenants, three ensigns, one surgeon, five
sergeants, three corporals, one drummer,
forty nine prisoners.
Loss of tories-two colonels, three cap.
tains, two hundred and one privates killed,
one major, one hundred and twenty-seven
privates wounded and left On the ground
one colonel, twelve captains, eleven lieu
tenants, two ensigns, one quartermaster,
one adjutant, two commissaries, eighteen ser:
geants and sixty privates prisoners. Total
loss 1105 men.
The meeting then took recess until 4:5O
P. M.
The committee met at 4.S0, pm.
Col. j. P. Thomas reported that he had ex'
planned the object and progress of the COM
mittee and invited the cooperation of the com.
missioners, and they had expressed their hear