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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-03-14
Failures.
Failures.
The following failures in Maine are reported

Fa1IuT6S.
The following failures in Maine are reported
the past week:
Charles Walker, grocer, Norway, offers his
creditors 25 cents on 81.
VIM. Weeks, grocer, Portland, has failed.
Stewart & Elsmore, grocers, Calais, show
liabilities of S1S47O6. The assets consist of
$729.79 in stock 1851 go in accounts, and $46 SS
in cash.
Roraback Bros, dry goods, Augusta, are
said to owe some $4,000 1t is thought that
the general creditors will get but very little on
their claims.
Josiah L. Stearns dealer in groceries, &C.,
Lowell, is lrepoxted failed and offering his
creditors 25 cents on ISL.
w. B. Fisher & Co., boot and shoe manufac-
turers, North Turner, will probably pay a
small dividend.
r. & T. Shannahan, contractors, Portland,
are reported in insolvency.
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Deering Village Charter COMMITTEES

Deer1ng Vlllage Charter Committee.
The committee appointed by the citizens
meeting on Thursday evening to take into
consideration the matter of village charter
for the town and take steps to obtain one from
the present legislature, if thought best, held
meeting on Saturday evening, all the mem
bers being present, the chairman, F. O. Bailey
presiding.
The first question to be considered obviously
was that relating to obtaining charter of the
present Legislature, and after examining all
The information within reach the committee
voted unanimously that any effort to obtain a
charter at this late stage of the session would
be unwise, because certain to fail. The cues
ton of the ACCESSIBILITY of procuring a special
charter for the town, or for any portion of it,
was discussed upon the basis of such facts as
were in possession of the committee, and it
was voted to pursue investigation by obtaining
facts and conclusions from towns that have
tried the experiment The committee then
adjourned to meet again on the call of the
chairu an.
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Great Sacrifice.

Mr.. c. D. B. Fisk, the celebrated clothier
of this city, has great announcement in our
advertising columns to-day. Owing to neces-
STATED change of his place of business he is
offering his $4,000 stock of clothing at great
sacrifices. Mr.. Fisk's nobby styles, and well
made clothes, are "household words and to
all wishing rare bargain now is the time. A
word to the wise is sufficient
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New Music.

We have received from Oliver Ditson & Co.,
the following new music;
Once in Life, galop, by Louis Wallis.
Mazurka from the comic opera of La Petite
Madenaoiselle, by Charles Lecocq.
Song-The Four Maries. Founded on the
old ballad of Marie Hamilton.
Waltz-From the new opera "Billee Taylor
Song-Meeting and Parting. Words by
George Cooper, music by P. Lavilla.
Song-Fer ever and For aye. Words by F.
E. Weatherby, music by G.. W. Marston.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
New Portland Theatre Galley Slave,
M. c. M. A'-Last Lecture.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
William Halls Balsam-1.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
City of Portland-Unpaid Taxes.
Driven From Home-C. ID. B. Fisk g. Co,
misunderstanding & Homstcd.
H. W. Simonton q Co.
Portland Turnverein.
Wanted Observation-Disclosures,
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Irish Land League.

There will be no meeting of the Land League
TINS evening. The regular meeting will take
place next Monday, the 21st inst. The ladies
branch sill hold meeting next Wednesday
evening
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Nominations by the Governor.

Gov Plaisted has made the following nomi-
nations:
Henry T. Cummings, of Portland, to be
Commissioner of Pharmacy; Andrew Ham
mond, of Milford, agent of Penobscot Indians;
George A. Perrigo, Of Rockland, Judge of the
Police Court; Oliver OTIS of Rockland, CoroE-
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Municipal Court.

BEFORE JUDGE KNIGHT.
SArURDAY.-Wmillam Griffin. Intoxication- 20
offence. Sixty days in county Jail.
Peter Roake Intoxcation. Fined So and costs,
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WHEN one knows good thing it should be
told; and we do know from experience that
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is the best remedy for
coughs and colds we ever used. 1t only costs
% cents bottle.
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A Handsome Gard, entirely new style, given
to every person purchasing goods at the store
". E. Plummer, corner Congress and Brown
r,eets Mar. 10. Of
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Forty years experience of an Old
Nurse. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING
SYRUP is the prescription of ono of the best
female physicians and nurses in the United
States, and has been used for forty years with
never-failing success by millions of mothers for
their children. 1t relieves the child from pain,
cures dysentery and diarrhaa, gripping in the
bowels, and wind-colic. By giving health to
the caild 1t rests the mother. Price Twenty
five Cents a bottle. noy27SMW&w6mo'
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FOSTERS Laced Kid Gloves, Black and spring
Shades, at W. E. Plummer's. corner Congress
and Brown streets. Mar. - 3t
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List of Patents.

Weekly list of patents granted to resi-
dents of Maine, dated March. 8, 1881. Re-
ported for the PRESS by G. E. Foster,
Patent Solicitor, 500 It'll street, Washington
D. c.:
236, 5O2-Harper, Abraham T., Portland.
elastic polisher.
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HARPER's BAzAR.-This beautiful weekly
circle. The number for the ensuing week has
been received by n. G. Fessenden, Lancaster
Hal, and d, Wentworth, 553 Congress, corner
of OAK street
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
City of Portland.
Treasurer's Office, March ID. 1881.

lars and upwards, assessed upon Residents and re-
n rdinag unpaid, published in accordance with an
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WASHINGTON COUNTY

The game laws are being enforced in WASH
ington county with commendable vigor. At
Gouldsboro last week four men were arrested
for killing deer and bound over to the Supreme
Court. At Machias two Indians were held to
answer for the same offence.
Rev. DR.. Vetromile has resigned his passionate
in Machias on account of old age aud 'inflrmi-
ties. He is going to Rome, where he expects
to publish the history of the Catholic church
in Maine from the time of Rev. Rail to the
year 1880. The history is under the auspices
of Cardinal Simeon.
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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
ROBSON & CRANE.

Tonight these two celebrated comedians
will pack Portland Theatre to repletion to see
their remarkable impersonation of the 1.-TWO
Bachelors" Bradford's play is inexpressibly
funny, SO it is said, Astounding in bright, crisp
dialogue and excruciating situations. The fol-
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STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY.
John Shields has been arrested in Lewiston
for the indecent assault on Mary Guy, which
was mentioned Saturday.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Eugene Ross, a native of Nova Scotia, FORE
man at the Revere mine in Bluehill, fell down
the shaft, 100 feet, Tuesday evening and re-
ceived injuries which it is thought will prove
fatal.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Mr.. Edward Lyford, of the law firm of
Soule & Lyford, has been appointed instructor
in Engislish literature and fAnglo Saxon at
Colby.
The Republicans of Augusta have renomi-
mated Mayor Vickery.
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driven FROM HOME.
Four Years of Hard Labor
Thrown Away.
A BUSINESS SECOND TO NONE.
Shattered at "a Blow.
RETROSPECTIVE.

On the Seventeenth day Of March, 1871 amid grand display of
fireworks and by the band
rong WONDERING pleased people, On the following day all the
rep with notices of praise Compliments avshd
us by the public for our Enterprise and public spirit Our store
pronounced by and ALL marvel of beauty and
knowedged be the most Metropolitan Of Establishment in East
ern New England
Prior to leasing the had failed
merous friends had mgvngs ability build trade
store that had proved disastrous predecessors
BUT WE WENT TO WORK WITH OUR ACCUSTOMED DETER
MNATlON and udcous advertising strict integrity and popular
prices, made store what it is to-day,
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The Clothing Emporium Of this State.

After building most unpopular making it what
day. The hub OF TRADE" WE ARE NOTIFIED TO VACATE,
and for what reaOn because
tenants but simply make brother the landlord
doubed by this will be pronounced BUSINESS TRANSAC
unquesi0naby will be of nducement other
strangers to to this city to locate and do business BE that
may We at least question he justice of such treatment
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Miseries; Act 4tt, Marriages.
HAvERLY's MINsTRELs.
Wednesday this excellent band of MINISTRIES
willsappear at Portland Theatre for one per-
formance The company embraces eight lead
ing vocalists supported by picked choir, ten
end men, thirteen clog dancers, fourteen song
and dance artists and grand orchestra.
NOTES.
The Galley Slave Company at Portland
Theatre Friday and Saturday.
The Laurent-Corelli troupe in "Olivette" at
City Hall Friday and Saturday.
The performances of GAN the Rage" Satur-
day drew delighted audiences to Portland The
atre,
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Carmel.
Moderator-Geo. E. Dodge.
Town Clerk. F. Benjamin..
observation-disclosures Tilton W. o. Sylvester, C. H.
Goodwin.
Treasurer-F. A. Simpson.
Collector-R A. Robinson.
Constable-Paul Ruggles.
All Greenbackers except Treasurer and Consta-
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-10

find in taking up an old fence, that the posts
will be all decayed inside while the outside
shows very little rot except just at the sur
face of the ground where the water has stood
about it.
Now l have found salt one of the best
preservatives of organic matter of every
kind. have seen salt fish hang for sign
by the door of a grocery for dozen years,
growing harder and firmer all the time, and
yet it would make first class fish balls for a
Sunday breakfast at the end of that time.
have eaten salt junk on shipboard that out
lasted for years the man who picked it, and
| can show you piling that was driven in a
salt marsh fifty years ago, and it is still
sound to the core, and even more solid than
the day it was driven.
The sap left in the wood, or the water
that is sucked up from the earth, must be
in some way neutralized, or your post will
rot. Kyanizing and kindred processes are
too expensive, and need special apparatus,
but they make the wood practically indie
structible. The use of salt, however, is al
most eqnally effective, and within the reach
of all. Bore hole lengthwise into the post,
from the lower end, and somewhat deeper
thansthe post is to set i'll the ground. About
all inch and half is large enough for the
diameter of the hole. Fill nearly full of dry
salt, and plug tightly with dry plug, being
careful not to split the post If you tar the
lower end it will be all the better, though it
is not indispensable.
In setting the posts be careful to heap the
ground around them, and to keep it heaped
if possible, as it is liable to settle and make
depression where water will gather and
stand, and eventually destroy the post. If
these directions are followed, and if the tim
ber is fairly dry to begin with, you may be
sure that the fence will last fully as long as,
in these days of change, YOU will want to
keep fence in one place, and will bear mov-
ing after that.-Corr. N. E. Farmer.
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Eggs In Winter

Every farmer who knows anything knows
that it pays to have eggs to sell in win
ter when the price is anywhere from
20 to 40 cents a dozen, but not one
farmer in twenty takes the slightest
pains to persuade his hens to lay in cold
weather. They grumble and growl about
their fowls, and are eternally rehearsing
the same old story about the perverse-
ness of hens who will 'lay well enough
when eggs are cheap, but will quit en-
tirely as soon as the price goes up" One
man declares that he ''don't take much
care of his hens in winter because they
don't lay enough to pay for what
they eat" never once thinking that the
failure to produce eggs results from lack
farmers who use common sense in care
ing for their horses, cows, sheep, and
swine, exhibit wonderful amount of
ignorance and stupidity when it comes
to managing poultry, and the 1ocks of
twenty or thirty hens instead of being
a source of revenue" barely pay their
way in summer, and eat their 'heads
Off in winter. Whose fault is it? Not
the hens surely. A hen cannot run an
egg machine without supply of raw
materal to work on any more than the
1sraelit+s Of old could make bricks with
out straw. What would these farmers
think of man who sheltered his cow in
rail pen, fed her on stray, let her go
without water and then growled because
she did not produce as much milk as
when on clover pasture in June? To
put it mildly they would call him a
STOOL" Draw your own conclusions.
A mediun-sized egg contains 127 grains
of albumen, "a grains of fat, 13 grains of
ash, and 666 grains of water. To those
who have never "studied up'' these things
the amount of water seems large, but it
is less than in beef, while the amount of
fat and of muscle-forming material is great
er than in fat beef. Now is anybody fool
enough to imagine that hens can manu-
facture such highly nutritious article of
food unless they are provided with plenty of
raw material in the shape of egg-making
food, and a comfortable house to work in?
1t Is Just as easy to have eggs to sell in
winter as in summer, and great deal more
profitable. Don't tell me that sit amt
naturaP' for hens to lay in winter. 1t is just
as natural for hens to lay in winter as it is
for cows to give milk in winter. Give your
fowls comfortable houses and with proper
food and care they will lay because they can
not help themselves.
No live stock on the farm will pay as well
In winteras flock of hens properly managed.
Farmers look to this, turn over new leaf
with the New Year, and give your fowls the
same care that you give to other stock, and
you will never have cause to complain that
hens ''eat more during the winter than all
the eggs they lay in year would pay for"
Fannie Field in Prairie Farmer.
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Preserving Fence Posts.

How to keep fence posts from rotting has
been vexed question ever since | have
known anything about farming, and probably
for many years before. Charring the part
that goes into the ground is the most usual
device employed, and is highly recommended
by many | have found in my own expert
ence that it "doesn amount to shucks,' and
there seems to me to be a very good reason
for it. The gravedigger in Hamlet main
tains that Water is a sore decayer of your
dead body" and the same thing holds good
OF fence posts. Now charcoal is very po-
rous substance, and has the property of alb
sorbing and holding great deal of water, so
that honestly believe that post that is
simply charred is worse off than if it h d
been let alone altogether Still charcoal in
itself is almost indestructible. but of course
one cannot char the post clear through, as it
would be too brittle. Tar on the outside of
an uncharred post, will keep the water out
TO certain degree; char the post. and then
put on tar, and the tar will be greedily ab-
sorbed bv the wood and the water will be
kept out still more, and if your post is made
of thoroughly dried timber it will last the
longer for it. But if there is any sap in the
post, or if the end of the wood is not more
carefully prepared than most farmers care to
take the pains to do, so that the pores of the
wood will take up moisture from the ground
by capillary attraction, you will find your la
Dor entirely thrown away. You will often
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TEMPLARS OF HONOR.

At Templars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Str.
CoUNor-Maine, first and third Monday in eae
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. l. every Wednesday
evening.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY-No Az Free st. Block
every evening.
FOREST Cry CoMMANpERy No. 1e copyepes at
P. O. s. of A. Hall, Plum St., first Thursday OF
each month.
BoswoRTH Posi- G. A. R. Meeting every Friday
evening In Mechanics Hall, corner of Congress and
Casco streets.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIsrony-At
their library room City Hall, ON the first and third
Monday evenings of each month.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE UNIoN-Congress Hall.
Business meeting Thursday evenings; public meet.
ng Sunday evenings, at z O'Clock.
PORTLAND TYPoGRAPHIcAL 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-washingto Lodge
No. 100. Meets Second Monday in the month, at
Temperance Hall, Congress st.
cana, Monday, Congress Hall, 42o1a Congress St;
Mission, Wednesday, Preble Chapel Forest City,
"Wednesday, Sons Of Temperance Hall; Mystic!
Thursday, Sons of Temperance Hall.
PAYsoN LITERARY SOCIETY Meetings eyery
Monday evening, at Mercantile Library Room, Far
rngton Block, Congress street.
PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING
DAehA6' Cpch anu Altt 10 all, from III
a. m. to p. m.
JUVENILE TEMPLARs-Perham Temple, No. "a,
at Congress Hall, every Wednesday evening at q
O'Clock. Temperance concerts first Sunday il -ery
month.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhall Lodge No. 8,
Thursday evenings; Munjoy Lodge, No. g. Monday
their Hall Clapp's Block, Market Square. Section
Io1 Endowment Rank, fourth Thursday in each
month. ~
PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERIcA-Camps No
and convene at P. o. s.. of A. Hail. Plum
street. No. on Tuesday evening; No. 3 on Mon
day evening of each week. No. at School ouse
Turner's Island, Cape Elizabeth. Friday Evening
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UNIoN-Corner
month
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssocIArIoN-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 Tnesdav
evenings at 71a o'clock.
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NVRIH ANNBN.
SOMERSET HOUSE, Brown & Hilton, propr,ato-.,
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BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.
FALL ARRANGEMENT,

On and after Monday, Oct.
Es.s:s:sssss.ss:2 1S, 1850, Passenger Trains
FOR BOSTON at 8.45 a. m.,
LOO, $50 p. m, arriving at Boston at 115 $50,
800 p. M Returning, leave Boston at 7.30 a. n.
300, 500. p. m. Portland for Scarborough, 4,
Beach, Pine Point, Old Orchard Beach,
SacO, Biddef0rd and Kennebunk, at S.45
a, m, LOO, $50, $50 p. m. For Wells, NortI,
Berwick, Salmon Falls, Great Falls, Do
ver, New Market, Exeter, Haverhill,
M, LOO, $50 ?. m. For Rochester and Farm
ingtOn, N. H., at S45 a. m. LOO, $50 p m.
For Alton Bay at 8.45 a. m, $50 p. m. For
Manchester and Concord (via Lawrence,) at
8.46 a. m.; (via New Market Junction. at 33O D. m.
Morning Train leaves Kennebunk for Port
1The 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 TRAINSt Leave Portland for
Boston at LOO p. m. Boston for Portland at
6.0Op.m.
Trains on Boston & 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 at 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. H. STEVENS. Gen. Agent, Portland.
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THE PRESS.
Kitchen Economy.
Interesting Tests Made by the Govern
ment Chemist.
IN. Y. Tribune, Dec. 14.1

DR.. Edward G. Love, the present Analytical
Chemist for the Indian department of the
Government, has recently made some interest
ing experiments as to the comparative value
of baking powders. DIR. Loves tests were
made to determine what brands are the most
economical to use. And as their capacity lies
in their leavening power, tests were directed
solely to ascertain the available gas of each
powder. DIR. Loves report gives the follow
ing:
THE prices at which baking powders are
sold to consumers find to be usually 30 cents
per pound. 1 have therefore calculated their
relative commercial values according to the
volume of gas yielded on basis of 30 cents
cost per pound"
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ROup.

From drinking dirty water, eating their
food off the filthy ground, left to roost in a
damp cellar, or in strong draught, any one
of these causes produces cold and roup in its
first stages. If it is allowed to become
chronic, the axe is the surest and best rem
edy. If the discharge from the mouth and
nostrils has commenced, it becomes very
contagious, and in short time every fowl
in the yard will have it in some form from
drinking out of the same water-vessels and
eating from the same food trough. Once let
it get foo hold in your flock and you will
have your hands full, and doctoring roup is
about as unpleasant job as any breeder
may wish for. The proper way always is to
remove at once any bird that appears to be
ailing from the flock. Place in warm, dry
coup, and give cooked food hotly spiced with
pepper or camphor-spirits. If any discharge
shows itself, wash thoroughly with ''Labar-
acque's solution (procured at any drug
store, and drop few drops of crude petro-
leum down its throat; here let me add that
while kerosene is one of the greatest known
remedies for diseases of the poultry yard, it
is remedy that should be used sparingly
and with udgment.-Fancier's Weekly.
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4 GOOD capable girl to do general house work in
"A small family. Must come well recommended.
American girl preferred. Call between the hours of
and O'Clock, No. 164 Bracket St., corner Cush-
man. dec28tf