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Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11

The Manchester, N. H., Union says Our population is fast losing its old fashioned American character. In the cities and villages of the State foreign CTS and the children of foreigners are constantly coming in to occupy the places once filled by pure-bred Ameri- cans, and to take nearly all the new places made by the extension of old in- dustries and the establishment of new ones. All the increase in the popula- tion of large places during the past ten years is due directly to immigration. Even in the farming towns, where twenty years ago not foreigner could be found, they are now plenty. The thrifty German, the industrious Irish man, and the contented Frenchman can live where Yankee cannot, or thinks he cannot {; and when the Yankee steps out the man from abroad steps in.
 This shifting of population has worked and is working mighty changes in the beliefs and customs of communities. It has almost made the Catholic faith the leading one in some of our cities, and has introduced into Protestant churches forms and ceremonies that would have mortified the pious worshiper at the be- ginning of the century. It has banished from some neighborhoods the old rever- ence for the Sabbath and the old respect for many New England institutions. It has tinctured with liberalism - with rationalism, if you please-the most orthodox of creeds. It has put foreign dishes in the place of pork and beans, and lager beer and ale in the place of cider and New England rum. It has introduced the European plan in many kinds of business, and European habit in many households. It is true that what may be called American ideas still dominate the most of our duties and pleasures, but they are all greatly tenn pered by contact with those brought from abroad, and, at the rate we are go- ing, it is only question of time when one may hunt far and wide without find ing @ community in which the daily walk and talk of the people bears much of Puritan impress.
 We are not finding fault with this, for to this influx of foneigners we must look for the salvation of our own State. The original Yankee has been bred for brains until he has been bred out of the coun- try where he originated. One, two, or three brainy, nervous, restless children satisfy in these days the maternal long ings of Yankee woman, and as soon as the children grow up they rush to great cities or go west, and New Hampshire loses them forever. To take their places, or rather the places of their grandpar- ents, we have got to have foreign brawn, foreign fecundity, foreign patience, fru- gality and industry, or we shall have nothing. But while welcoming the for eigner we must not assume that he is an American. It is all very nice to hold that an immigrant becomes thoroughly Americanized when he is naturalized, but it won't work in practice and any plan for the education, heenlightenment, the moral or material advancement of New Hampshire people that does not take into account the great change we have referred to above IS sure to be faulty.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
AsH-1oNIC

A Perfected Purifier Of the System
 ToN1c.-' Increasing the strength, o6u;ating thx eGsctscf debility and restoring Aealty functions" WEBSTER.
 For Indigestio on, and Dyspepsia, the many forms of Liver Com plaint, Impure and Impoverished Blood, and Functional Derange- ments attendant upon Debility, and for Building up the weak, Ash Tonic is doubtless the most prompt and certain remedy yet devised. In 1-2 lb. bottles, 75 cents; Six bottles, $4. Accredited Physicians and Clergymen, who may desire to test the Tonic, will be supplied with not exceeding six bottles, at one-half the retail price, money to accom- pany the order. Sold by Druggists, and by D. B. Dewey & Co.,, 46 Dey St., N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
Death from Delirium Tremens.

A Detroit physician, who seems to have 8 rare idea of what fun is, has published a treatise on delirium tremens, in which he says death from such source is not painful, but very pleasant. Many who have witnessed the rawlings of a patient with delirium tremens, when 1t required three or four men to hold him in bed, in his anxiety to escape from serpents which crawled upon the ceiling, and rats that hung about his pillow when his best friends had turned to be the worst fends in the imagination of the sufferer, may reasonably doubt the doctors conclusions.
 Death from no other disease leaves such marks upon the poor, wrecked vital organs of the body as from deliri- um tremens in an old drinker. The coats of the stomach, instead of being as thin as knife blade, are often found an inch or two in thickness, and covered with ulcers. The liver is nearly always a mass of disease, and arteries which convey the alcoholic liquor to the brain and the delicate nerve centers in an al- most pure state are necessarily diseased. If death, with the body and nina 1n the condition of delirium tremens, " is not painful, but pleasant" as our Detroit doctor declares, then hanging or strars gling to death must be real luxury.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
BACKWATER SMITH,
 Ex-Janitor Town Hall.

"I can't remember dat we eber 'lected but one drunkard," replied Brother Gardner, "an' de programmy in his case was to hist him out 50 quick that he was dizzy-headed fur week arter. Misser Smith am mistaken in 'sposin' dat we have reformed any drunkards, or dat we have any sich object in view. Dis club leaves drunkards entirely alone. Dey kin reform or keep on drinkin'-odds am de difference to us. When full grown man, provided by natur' wid eyes an ears an legs an arms an brains an reasonin' powers am fool huff to pour stuff inter his stomach
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
-FZISHERMAN'.S SONG.

Oh, the fsherman's life is a dangerous life, As he rides OCT the wave's high crest, From the sunrise flush to the midnight hush On the oceans unquiet breast
 And brave and undaunted
 His heart should be
 Who daily dares death
 On the treacherous sea. And the fsherman's life is 8 lonely life; Full slowly the hours pass by; No whisper, no sound breaks the silence around No trusty companion is nigh.
 Oh, loving and tender
 His bride should be
 Who dares for her sake
 The restless sea Yet the fsherman's life is noble life; For he calls no man his lord; And little he reeks on his foam-swept decks Of the gold that the landsmen hoard.
 For fearless and brave, Untrammeled and free,
 Is the life that is passed
 On the bounding sea.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11

to degrade him to de level of hog, he kin stay right dar fur any move shall make to If him up. I have no time to weep ober bummers, or sighs to sigh ober de gineral wickedness ob de world at large"
 MISSING.
 The Hon. B. M. Jackson, of Corinth, Miss, felt it his duty to inform the club that Robinson Crusoe Stratton, an honorary member of the club and the champion stovepolisher of the South west, was missing under circumstances which induced the belief that he had met with disaster. He had gone out in search of young alligators. and the only trace of him which could be found after three days search was his old hat, float ing in swamp. There was every req Eqn to believe that while he was hunt ing Soung alligators old alligators had hunted for him. The secretary was re- quested to keep posted on the case, and Brother Gardner incidentally remarked that if the member had been taken in by some reptile he had at least avoided what promised to be a dry, hot sum- mer.
 SCIENCE.
 When the meeting convened the stove was red hot and the hall red hotter, and the janitor being called upon for an ex- planation, said that he didn't know how to read the thermometer. He had one hanging on nail near the stove, but it didn't seem to make any difference whether the stove was hot or cold. The instrument neither went up nor dropped down, but staid on the nail.
 "De Committee on Science will take dis man in charge" said the old man, as the janftor sat down.
 eff, arter an hour or two of hard work, it am diskivered dat he can't grapple wid de mercurial ideah, de con- mittee will do we'll to suggest to him dat he either remove de stove to de aunty-room or remove hissef to some warmer climate. We will now sing sum- thin sad and trangress ourselves home wards. "-M. Quad.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
(aStOr'ia-ssDo... -ss Dose.

035 cents. A Mothers remedy for sleepless and irritable Children. The Recipe of Old Dr. Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and not Narcotic. Formula published with each bottle. For Flatulency, assimilating the food, Sour Stomach, Feverishness, Worms, and Disor- dered Bowels, Castoria has the larg- est sale of any article dispensed by Druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11

SYMPATHY is always given to the un- der strawberry in box. It is gener- ally little thing, if the fruit dealer knows himself.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11

Have Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry always at hand. It cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Group. Influenza, Consumption, and all Throat and Lung Complaints. 50 cents and $1 . a bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11

The Peruvian Syrup has cured thou. sands who were suffering from Dyspep- sia, Debility, Liver Complaint, Bolls, Humors, Female Complaints, etc. Pamphlets free to any address. Seth ", Fowle 6 Sons, Boston.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
A New England State.

SAY ABOUT ITS CHANGE OF PoPULA- TON.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
Rye as a Farm Crop.

In speaking on the above subject, the
Country Gentleman says: We are not grow
ing rye enough. This rough and hardy
plant has more uses than perhaps most far
mers are aware of, and for some of them NO
other plant is so we'll fitted. For its grain
alone it can be grown proftably, as there is
less risA and expense in growing it than any
other grain, unless it be oats. But it will
grow where oats will not, or not so well-on
sandy soil and in cold climate, both of
which are adapted to this plant as we'll as
the potato. On the high plateau of the north
woods, where frost sometimes occurs every
month in the year, and where the soil is
nearly all sand, have seen heavy crops of
it. Of course the land had to be enriched.
Rye is strong feeder, and with sufficient
manure will hardly ever fail to make great
growth of straw and grain, the latter seldom
failing, being less subject to shrinking, at
tacks of insects, and other mishaps than
wheat, and is therefore the safer of the two.
Yet the careless and injudicious treatment
it receives often causes its yield to fall below
that of wheat. Clay is not favorable to it,
especially when heavy and undrained, and
yet we see it frequently put on such land.
A clay loan, with good drainage, will pro-
duce it, and, if rich enough, will make large
yield of straw, though the berry may not al
ways be satisfactory. l believe general prac-
tice has made it clear that the berry is best
on sandy soil, being plumper and Of better
quality. The straw, which finds a ready
market, is about of equal value with the
grain.
Rye can be harvested early in the season,
affording chance to prepare the land well
for autumn sowing, or some other crop for
supplementary summer feeding, giving still
chance for rye to be sown in the fall. Ma
nure must be applied at the time of sowing,
and narrowed in, either at the summer or
fall seeding, or both if needed
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
Rations For Calves.

Calves digest whole corn better than older
cattle, as we found by careful experiment,
very little comparatively passing them undi-
gested. This is probably caused by better
mastication, and also by more active digestive
organs. The best formula out ofthese three
foods for calves, is to mix shelled corn and
bran in equal proportions by weight, and then
mix one pound of oil meal for each calf per
day. As much of the corn and bran may be
fed as is found to be judicious.
Let us suppose the actual ration to be five
pounds of corn and bran mixed, one pound
of oil meal, and twelve pounds of prairie hay
The ration must be graduated to the weight
of the calf; some might require more than
this, and others less, but this would be about
the average. This ration would cost at the
usual prices 1885 cents per week, and if
fed twenty weeks the cost would be SIT per
head. If the season should be favorable,
Shorthorn or Hereford grades would gain at
least two pounds per day, or 260 or more
pounds per head. The cost of this would be
two and three-fourths cents per pound gain.
Decorticated cotton seed meal ought to be
found at Chicago or St. Louis at SIS to 500
per ton, and linseed meal, made under the
new process, is purchasable at the mills at
500 per ton, which would slightly lessen the
cost. But the mode of giving the ration is of
considerable consequence. If this corn, bran,
&C.. are mixed with cut hay, so that the hay
and corn must be eaten together, more per-
feet digestion will take place.
The grian ration should be fed in two parts,
half in the morning and hall in the evening.
One peck of cut hay to each calf a. feed is
sufficient. The hay should be distributed in
trough, and the corn, bran, and oil meal
mixed with it. They will then eat the hay
and grain together. Long hay may be given
them at noon. A rack with trough on
each side. is best, theuncut fodder being Civ
en- in rack. The oil meal will keep their
stomachs in good condition. If it is impract-
cable to cut this small amount of hay. the
next best way is to spread thin layer Of hay
in the trough and distribute the mixed feed
over the top. They will eat more or less of
the hay with the grain feed, and raise and re-
masticate all together, producing porous
condition of the food in the stomach.-Na-
tional Live Stock Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.
FAIL ARRANGEMENT.

---- On and after Monday, Oct.
ssss ..sasass2esH Il ., 1850, Passenger Trains
ss -.s.5.sss.sa5wili LEAVE PORTLAND
-FOR BOSTON at 8.45 a. M,
LOO, $50 p. M, arriving at Boston at 1.l5 $50,
500 p. m. Returning, leave Boston at 7.3O a. M,
800, 500. p. m. Portland for Scarborough
Beach, Pine Point, Old Orchard Beach,
SacO, Biddeford and Kennebunlx, at S.45
a, M, LOO, $50, $50 p. m. For Wells, North
Berwick, Salmon Falls, Greas Falls, Do
yer, New Market, Exeter, Hnverhill,
Lawrence, Andoyer and Lowell, at S.45 a.
M, LOO, $50 p. m. For Rochester and Farm
ington, N. H., at 8.45 a. M, 100 $50 p. m.
For Alton Bay at 8.45 a. M, $50 p m. For
Manchester and Concord Via Lawrence,) at
S.45 a. M; (via New Market Junction. at $50 pm.
Morning Train leaves Kennebunk for Port
land at 1926
B-The LOO p m. train from Portland connects
with Sound Line Steamers. The $50 D. m,
train connects with All Rail Lines for New
York and SOuth and West.
SUNDAY TKAHNSL Leave Portland for
RestOn at LOO p. m. BOSTON for Portland at
6.0Op.m.
Trains on Boston g. Maine road connect with all
steamers running between Portland and Bangor,
Rockland Mt. Desert, Machias, Eastport, Calais st.
John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk
trains at Grand Trunk Station and Maine Central
and Portland Ogdensburg trains st Transfer Sta
ton.
All trains stop at Exeter ten minutes for refresh
ments. First class Dining Rooms at Portland,
Transfer Station, Exeter, Lawrence and Boston.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points West and
South may be had OF M. l.. Williams, Ticket
Agent, Boston & Maine Depot and at Union
Ticket Once, 40 Exchange st.
JAS. I. FURBER, Gen. Supt.
8. b. STEVENS Gen. Agent. Portland
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The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
Portland and Worcester Line.
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r, r.

WINTER ARRANGEMENT
On and after Monday, Oct. rs.
EEs.:ssssasssss 1850, Passenger Trains will leave
s..1=sz5vs=5PortIand at 100 n. M, and
-l.25 p. n,., arriving at Worcester
at 2.16 p. m. and 7.30 p. NJ. Returning leave
Union Depot, Worcester at 7.3O a. m. and II 10 a.
NJ, arriving at Portland at ITO D. m. and 6.IO D.
No.
For Clinton, Aver juno, Fitchburg,
Nashua, Lowell, Windhann, and Ep-
ping at 7.SO Il. I'M. and 4 "a p. nm.
For Manchester, Concord and points North, at
1925 p. M.
For Rochester, springvnHs, alfred, Wat
erbOrO and saco River. 30 a. ma, 4. 25
p. M, and (mixed) at 6.45 p. nm. Returning
leave Rochester at (mixed) GAS a. m, 100
a. M, and Bob p. M; arriving at Portland
(mixed $50 q. m, 1.10p. IN. and $40 p. m.
For GOrham, Saccnrnppn, Cumberland
Willis, Westbrook and WOodford,s.
at 7.2O n. ma, i.2J, $40 and (nixed) 6.45
p. mn.
The 1.yJ p. M. tt ain from Portland connects at
Aver J unc. with III O0snc Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New 0rik via Norwich Line, and ali rniI.
via Springfield, also with N. ". & N. e, n,
H.. ("Steamer Maryland Route') for PhiladeI.
PhIa, Baltimore, Washington, and the
south and with Boston q ALBANY r. n. for
the West.
Close connections made at Wessbrook juno
tiOn with through trains of Me. Central R. R., and
at G-andTrunk Transfer, Portland, with trains
of Grand Trunk R. r.
Through tickets to all points South and West at
Depot offices and at Rollins s. Adams, No. 20 Ex-
change Street.
j. w. PETERS, Gen. Ticket Agent.
GEO. P. WE, L, Supt. oci6dt
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
PROF. EDIS0N'S
P0LYF0RM.

After much persuasion, Prot. Edison has been
prevailed upon to give the world his truly wonder
I'll discovery for aleviating pain. For years he suffer-
ed from neuralgia pains, unable to find any remedy
among the hundreds which he tried that would give
him permanent ease. Finally he became con ynced
that he must become his own physician and seek
by experiments, for the desired relief. He had
taken all the well known sedatives which gave only
tempory relief, and produced nervousness, loss of
appetite. &c. lie now sought for combination of
such remedies as would, by outacard application,
cure him of his distress and at the time not be
injurious to his system.
Trials and experiments followed this determine
ton until he at last produced a compound which
by application, entirely subdued all pain and al
lowed his system to recuperate, and throw off the
disease.
To his discovery Prof. Edison gave the name
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
THE PRESS.
A Self-Made Man.

How Mr.. Bruce Rose from an Humble Col
ored Boy to be United States Senator.
A Washington letter says Senator Bruce,
who goes out to give way for George, is the
last of his race, doubtless, for years to come,
in the Senate. He is now the only colored
man in either branch of Congress, and the
youngest of the Senators He told me story
the other day about himself which had heard
before, but think it has never been in print.
The late Senator Bogy of Missouri was anx-
ious to have pension bill passed one day for a
constituent, and came over to the Republican
side to ask support for it. He approached the
colored Senator from Mississippi, and said:
''Now lock here, Bruce, vote for this, won't
You? 1 only want another vote or two, and
you can carry it through for me- 1t is mer-
itorious case"
Certainly" said Senator Bruce, "you
know, Senator, that have always been will
ling to do you any favor you asked"
ON it, SIR" replied the Missouri Senator,
"I never asked you a favor in my life till this
moment"
'Oh, yes you have" replied Bruce. "You
may remember once, many years ago, that
you were going from st. Louis down the river
on steamboat, and you were hurrying along
to catch the boat with big valise. You passed
little barefooted mulatto, and said: Here.
you little black rascal, take this valise and
come on with me- The boy took the hand
bag, and when you came near the boat you
said it was about to push off, and you ran on
ahead and just crossed the gang-plank as it
was drawn in. The boy, however, had not
been able to keep up with you, and arrived
too late. You stood on the lower deck and
yelled, throw that valise aboard, you id
black rascal, 1 can't go without my valise.
But the boat had moved out until the boy was
afraid il would fall int the river II he tried
to throw it; and besides, he expected to re-
ceive quarter for carrying it, aud you had,
apparently, forgotten all about that. The val
Use was not thrown and you made the cap
tain of the boat come back to the dock again
to get it, and the boy collected the quarter.
Now, do you remember that circumstance,
Senator" concluded Bruce.
"I do" admitted SENATOR BOgy.
"Well, " said Bruce, II was the little mu-
latto boy that carried your valise, and 1 am
just as ready to accommodate you to-day as l
was then. I'll vote for your bill"
Bruce was the first colored man who ever
presided over the United States Senate, and
he was called TO the chair by Senator H.ar of
Massachusetts. 1t was not bic coincidence
that when the first of his race to be called to
. chair at National convention, he received
again the gavel from the hands of the same
man at Chicago last June.
The first colored man to occupy the speak
er's chair in the House of Representatives
was Ramsey of South Carolina He was
placed there by Speaker Blaine, whereupon
Judge Parker of Missouri proceeded to ad-
dress the House upon the duty of the govern
ment TO the Indians.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18
TEMPLARs OF HONOR.

At Templars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNoIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. /. every Wednesday
evening.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY-No. 411a Free st. Block
every evening.
FOREST CITY CoMMANDERY No. IS convenes at
P. o. S. of A. Hall, Plum St. on first Thursday of
each MONTH
BoswoRTH Posr G. A. R. Meeting every Friday
Casco streets.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIsroRY-At
their library room, City Hail. the first and third
Monday evenings of each month.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE UNIoN-Congress Hall
Business meeting Thursday evenings; public meet
ng Sunday evenings at O'Clock.
PORTLAND TYPoGRAPHIoAL UNION, No. 75--
Second Saturday Of each month.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner of Congress and Casco streets. First Thurs
day in each month.
LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION Washington Lodge
No. 15O Meets Second Monday in the month at
Temperance Hall, Congress st.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF Coon TEMPLARs-Ar-
cana, Monday, Congress Hall, 42o1a Congress St.;
WEDNESDAY Sons " Tem1eranips Hail lGresI Sy
Thursday, Sons of Temperance Hall.
PAYsoN LITERARY SOCIETY Meetings every
Monday evening, at Mercantile Library Room, Far
rington Block, Congress street.
PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING
RooM-City Building. Open and free to all, from 10
a. m. to p. m.
JUVENILE TEMPLARs-Perham Temple, No. "a,
at Congress Hall, every Wednesday evening at 4
O'Clock Temperance concerts first Sunday in every
month.
You've MEN's CHRISTIAN AssoCIATIoN-Oppo-
site Preble House, Congress street. Open day and
evening Union Gospel Meetings Wednesday and
Saturday evenings at ia O'Clock.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB-Head-
quarters corner of Congress and Temple streets
Open day and evening. Business meeting Tuesday
evenings at 712 o'clock.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-18

Trains leave Portland
a. m. Daily might Express from Bangor) for
Saco Biddeford, Portsmouth, NewSuryport Sa-
lem, Lynn and Boston. A special Pullman Sleep
ing Car will be ready for occupancy In Portland
at 8 p. m. (Week days, and at
IL p. m. Sundays, and will be attached
to this train Passengers have nights rest
and srrive in Boston at $50 am. in season for
all morning trains South and West.
S.45 a. m. Daily except Sundays. For Boston and
LOO p. III. Daily except Sundays. for Boston and
way stations, with parlor car, arriving at $50
pm. in season for Sound and Rail connections
South and West.
For Portland, leave Rcston,
7.3e a. m. and 1880 and 100 p. M. arriving
in Portland at 1905, and IL p. M
The p. M. train runs daily.
Through tickets to all points South and
West at lowest rates at Depot Ticket Office Com
mercial street, j; NJ. French, Ticket Master, and
20 Exchange street.
Pullman Car Tickets for seuss and
Eertas sold at Depot Ticket Office.
LUCIUS FUTILE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
d. W. SANBORN, Master Transportation.
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