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The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

THE Egyptian war has been followed by
rise in cotton and breadstuffs as was almost
certain; but as in the case of the like rise
after the Russo-Turkish war, the result
few weeks later will probably show specula-
tors that it is good deal easier to discount
an advance than to profit by it. Egypt, ex-
cept in its supply of cotton, is gate, not an
original source of supply. The Suez Canal
is certain to be opened in season to make no
difference in the annual supply from India
and Australia. 1t is still barely possible that
the Delta of the Nile-of all lands the one
where the shock of war seems to make the
least difference in the work of the fellah-
will be conquered in time for the planting
in September and October to begin for the
next crop In any case, the loss OF half
million bales of cotton or so is all the real
difference that the row in Egypt viii make
unless European war breaks out.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

THE Arkansas State Gazette condemns
the Southern press for its denunciation of
the Pensions appropriations, saying: chad
the Confederate States been established, who
of us in the Southern Confederacy would
have raised his voice against the pensioning
of crippled ConfederatesP The Government
is amply able to take care Of its broken-down
defenders, and we would have no respectfor
it if it didn't do so. Let them have the PEN
sions. They deserve it, and no humane or
magnanimous Government would deny 1t.
As a Confederate soldier, the editor of the
Gazette most heartily joins in this just rec
ignition of the services Of the men who
barred their breasts to ocr bullets during the
rebellion. Whatever our part in making up
this amount, no money was ever more cheer
fully expended"
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

Do you hear that, Democrats? Senator
Beck says your party is going to make rec
ord, if it takes all Summer. 1t is to be hoped
that the new will be better than the old,
which induces the cautious man to wear a
spring clothespin on his nose when he draws
nigh unto it,
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

IT is noticeable that England is at great
pains to have it understood that she has no
quarrel with the legitimate Egyptian
government, and that in all she is doing she
is acting not on her own individual account
but as the agent of Europe. That she should
wish to be explicit upon that points not sur
prising, for if this view of the proceedings
is generally accepted, it will save her from
being involved in troublesome and danger
GUS international complications. At present
the Powers seem disposed to accept this
view of the situation, but whether they will
be of the same mind when the time comes to
rearrange the basis of Egyptian government
is another question
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18
Reception Hall Getty BniIding)
PORTLAND,
Tuesday, July 25, 1882, at 10 a. m,

to nominate candidates for the following offices, to
wit: Four Senators, Sheriff, County Treasurer,
Register OF Deeds. County Attorney, Clerk of
Courts and two County Commissioners. Also to
elect County Committee for two years; commence
ing Jan L, 1888
The basis of representation will be as follows:
one delegate for each city and town; and one in
addition for each seventyfye votes for Governor in
1880 fraction of 4ovotes will be entitled to an
additional delegate. Cities and towns are entitled
to delegates as followE:
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

THE Vicksburg Herald charges the North
ern Democracy with playing into the hands
of the Protectionists, and declares that "but
for the active aid of Bayard, Randall and
other tariff men, the Tariff Commission
scheme would have been defeated"
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

ONE thing of importance, and only one,
has thus far been demonstrated by the hos
tiltjes in the East, which is that there is
very little use in destroying the defenses Of
hostile city unless as soon as that has been
done the city can be seized, subjugated and
occupied by the besegers. If Admiral Sey-
mour, as soon as the forts had been silenced,
conld have landed force sufficient to have
taken the city, the horrible atrocities which
preceded it's evacuation might have been
prevented, and the conflict have been ended
there and then. But the Admiral could
only spare three hundred marines, and he
rightly decided that they would be OF no use
among SO MANY.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

SAMUEL DINGLEY.
NEWALL A. TRAFTOH,
DIR. JOHN L. STURGESS, County
BENZ. TRUE,
GILES LORlNG, Coum tee
HORACE F. MILLIKEN,
FRED II. HARTFORD,
ISAIAH S, WEBB, Chairman.
JOHN NJ. STEVENS, Secretary.
Portland, July 3, 1882.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18
GRATEFUL-COmFORTENG.
K PPS' S coco A
BREAKFAST.

"By thorough knowledge of the natural law
which govern the operations Of digestion and
nutrition and by a careful application of the fine
properties of well selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps has pro
vided our breakfast tables with delicately Favored
beverage which may save us many heavy doctors
bills 1t by the judicous of such articles os
diet that constitution may be gradually built mn
until strong enough to resist every tendencv ~
disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are tioatin,
around ready 20 attack wherever there IL ITeat
point emay escape many fat al shaft NV t.eTs
ing ourselves we'll fortified with pure blood and q
properly nourished frame. CjgH Serpice Gt,sSfte
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
JAMES EPPs IL co., HOmeOpa,hie
,..oo Chenists, London, RngIand.
nof@o Tu,S&w1yr4a
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18
Republican County Convention

The Republicans of the several cities and towns In
Cumberland County requested to send Dele
gates to a County Convention to be holden at
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

We dc not READ anolymorR letters and comraun
cations. The name and address of the writ are in
all cases indispensable, necessarily for nblica-
ton but ss guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to reaarn or preserve CON-
a unications that sre not used.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18
POR TLAAD SOCIETY OF ART.

The first Annual Exhibition of
works from the Studios of the
most eminent American Artists
will open on Friday, June 10Th,
and remain open ill August 10Th
at No. 5O71 Congress street.
Hours 10 A. WI. TO p. w.
A9IIiSS on, 25Gts. Season Tickets $l0O.
je16 d2mos
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-18

Two MaOnths still left TO wear a
Thin Hat. Our assortment still
good. Our prices have been re-
duced and you can get "a good
style and a good trade. Look
them over.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24
A Natural Copper.Plating Bath.

Two years ago, at a mine operated by
William Utter. at Campo Seco. near
Milton, water came in and work
stopped. To keep the large iron-bound
and iron bailed bucket used TO hoist
rock from drying up and falling TO
pieces it was let down into the water.
Next season when il was drawn up. 10,
a miracle! IL was copper bound and
copper-bailed. From this has sprung
quite an industry, and the mine has
been sustaining itself from ore water
ever since. The water contains an acid
which has the property of taking into
solution the particles OF iron thrust into it
and it has also copper in solution which
is let 90. particle by particle. as the iron
is picked up. 1t is simple chemical
exchange. and this mine may make an
other profit still if it will get another
chemical into the water which viii make
the acid lay down the iron which. as
black flood. the water carries down into
the Stanislaus River. The copper in
dustry consists in taking bundles of
scrap iron and old tin 10 the mine.
where it is thrust into watts of water
caught up, in which the metals are soon
changed to copper, the residue of the
iron taking the form of a black stream
and flowing away. To make sure of
making the water swap all its copper
for iron. which it is glad to do without
boot, one vat is placed below another
down the bank TO the river. and when
the water escapes it has eaten its fill of
iron and left pay for its meal in genuine
copper. Stockton (Cdi) Mai.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24
Diverted Pigs.

There has never been time when the
question Ofoyerfeedingl live stock of every
character has received so much attention
at the hands of breeders AS is now the
case. Pig breeders are at present con-
siderably exercised on account Of the
fearful losses sustained from cholera,
and it has slowly dawned upon the
minds of many of the gentlemen that
perhaps the evil practice of overfatten-
ing has something to do with these
continued losses. Science has as vet
failed to prove the truth of this assump-
ton, but practical feeders and breeders
are coming to that conclusion. and in
many localities are governing them
selves accordingly by disseminating the
practice of crowding their stock. OF
all domestic animals. the pig goes il
upon his cheek. and at the ordinary fair,
or fat stock show. his very fullness OF
cheek is too apt to govern the awards.
Consumers. however. do not indorse
these paunchy, round, overfed and
stuffed porkers, knowing that good porl.
cannot generally be found where ami
mails are seemingly fed for lard pur-
poses and that alone. What is required
and demanded both at home and abroad
is the long bodied hog. which affords
deep shoulder. lean ham. and sides
upon which meat instead of fat is the
rule. There has been II growing d;spo-
sition to stop the practice of over-feed-
ing hogs, and so general has the de-
mand become for good lean pork that,
Notwithstanding the universal practice
to feed to the utmost capacity, breeders
are now changing Interviews. and send.
ing TO market pigs that will guarantee
good-paying block qualities 1t is very
reasonable to suppose that an animal
overloaded with great masses of abso-
lnte fat and grease cannot be as healthy
as the one which. while sufficiently fed.
is not burdened with mass that is only
profitable 10 the lard manufacturer
Foreign dealers in American pork do not
hesitate to assert that the stock of this
country is overfed. and il is to these eX-
porters that the American breeders are
indebted for the change that cannot but
result TO the benefit OF the feeder. the
dealer and the consumer London
Farmer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24
Mutton

quantities will not be hurtful Mutton
should be used more extensively by the
farmer With the ice box which many
now have. a carcass can be easily kept
till it can be consumed, or neighbors
can exchange with each other and
divide into smaller portions. Well
cured ham-boiled is the best-with
eggs makes a good foundation for day
in having. moderate quantity of
fresh vegetables in variety and also ripe
fruits in their season--green. never
cooked or uncooked. Green corn and
that class of food daily if desired in its
season. but always in moderation.
Although many farmers are open
TO criticism in lack of product in the
vegetable and fruit garden. both for
summer and winter use, it is asking too
much to require them to make these
their sole diet.
The farmer who gives his laborers
good substantial food. not trying to
confine them TO mush and milk for
breakfast and green salad for dinner,
will get the best day 5 work from them.
The farmer who eats roast beef and
mutton and fat pork. who takes daily
bath in the summer, and does not over
work in the hot days, may not expect to
reach above threescOre and ten. but the
years will be full of labor, and he will
leave behind him farm well titled
Detroit Post and Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24
Wanted n Job.

Yesterday man came intothe Doom
eratig office with the air OF man who
is tired of this earth and wants to wing
his WAY 10 land Of forgetfulness and
plunge into the lothian depths OF obliv-
ion. After he had taken a seat on the
ieie-a-tete and hung his hat on the es-
critoire. ho said:
I'm a newspaper man myself.
Didn't know but Won might want good
man on the staff. somebody To write up
the sad features of lie and furnish the
fearful wall, As it were. Life is full of
woe, and in my estimation every paper
should have woe editor | am well
fitted for that position. rs you will see
II l may be allowed 10 20 on and detail
ny own experience Ia YOU
IL went down into Kansas and start
eds paper in u small town on the Sante
Fc Road. with the assurance that |
would meet with the cordial aid and
sympathy OF the people there. didn't
expect to do biz business. hut l just
wanted 10 run little modest sheet.
The first week my paper didn't get
there. and | hsd 10 print that issue on
some paper bags that | got from our
leading grocer, This was an advant-
age, because his al. was already print
ed ON The first page aud it saved the
Wear and tear of display type. Still the
paper LOOKED meager and did not at
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24

tract the attention that had hoped fo-
il. 1t did not influence the Admins
tration nor boom up the town as had
anticipated.
THE next week wrote up little
social party and gave the name of a
young man who was drunk and frolic-
some and shot out all the lights. He
also shot an old man who was calling
Off the dance.
81 thought the press ought to be fear
less and outspoken if the occasion re-
quired. and wrote it up carefully and,
as thought, fairly, but the young man
came around the next day and con-
WINGED me that | was wrong. / was
writing as cathing article on agnosticism
when he came in and knocked me under
the job-press with chair. l didn't
know him at all and thought it was
rather eccentric for total stranger. so
when | got up again | told him so.
Then he damned me into the wood-box
and poured keg of ink and can of coal
oil on me before could have any under
standing with him.
"Then he went away.
THAT evening he came with some
friends and bought the goodwill of the
establishment, and the whole office and
subscription list of me. He had the ad-
vantage of me. and bought it low
felt that was making a sacrifice, but
l was afraid might not have another
opportunity to sell. so l sold. The
price, of course. was nominal. but the
inducements held out were not to be
ignored.
''Since then have started three pa
pers, and had three large and holly
contested fights. My collar-bone has
been broken in two places, and my doc
tors bills have always been bigger
than the other expenses Of the Office
The dentist has been pulling teeth out
of my palate ever since l entered into
the newspaper business. As soon AS
got so l could see with both eyes one of
them has been closed up on me, and
my nose has at different times pointed
around all over my face.
"What l want now is chance to
work on some paper ia cog. rs might
say, and where | will be by myself. l
can take most any current event and
tinge it with sadness. l can give an air
of hopeless melancholy to the occur
rences of everyday life that will make
your paper known all over the world. l
will admit that this is an innovation in
journalism, perhaps. but it will take.
think. and know that if | can succeed
in imbuing into my work that settled
air of gloom that feel, your paper will
win for itself in a short time the name
L 4. IL 4
appointment and grief-stricken. horror
soaked remorse in the known world"
The manager sobbcd few times and
then said. while his voice was choked
with emotion, that the Opaque gloom
department was ably filed at present;
and the stranger went ont into the cold,
hard. disappointing outer world. tax
ing with him his leaden burden of woe
and silk umbrella that stood in the
hall.-Nye's boomerang.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24

Some antiquarian has dug up these
figures As the pay received by the first
Congress-: The Continental Congress
met on the 10th of May. 173a5; the num-
Der of members was siNtv-four Atthis
time amemberappeared from St Johns
Parish, Ga, and afterward the colony
of Georgia sent an entire delegation.
Each colony paid its own delegation.
New Hampshire allowed to each all en-
penses, servant, two horses. and
guinea day; Massachusetts. expenses
and 50 a.day: Rhode Island and Mary
land, 40 shillings day and expenes;
Virginia, half Johannes per day;
North Carolina, $50 per annum: South
Carolina. $500 per annum; Georgia.
fl0O per month while in session .
ChcaQ0 Times
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24
LITTER THE CYCLONE.

is this the spot they tel me so.
where my home stood . week ago,
One little week ago, an me-
Ny weary gaze can only see
An orchard OF upruptesl trees.
A garden swept a~ay. and these
Great heap- Of ln1z and clay that press
The earth V tn their uusiahtliness.
They mad. the cottage low. where we,
Mysclf and John and baby. three.
At least, Of MI earihs children were
Most glad Of life, most free from care.
And clover blossoms red and white
Made the air heavy with perfume,
And early roses were in bloom:
The climbing peas In bud, and bects
In REFINED leaves telling their sweets,
The beans grew last, the cabbage. toe.
Its s.a-gr.en leaves cmpearied with dew.
Stood sturdiiy: and from my door
saw ii all and wondered more
And mone-my baby on my knee
Why God had been so good To me.
Then John came whisilipg from the field
John WIS my life, nay sun. my shield
And ns he came my heart. so blest
With ulden memories fcndefc-t.
Seemed overburdened just % see
Him come. and see the haby's glee.
He talked with me little while,
Drank from the well, then with n smile
Lifted the baby up, and said:
'Good-bye:" and laid upon my head
His hand with tender touch. and then
Said: I'VE viii not come back again,
My work Is done. and now, you see,
TIE baby goes along with me-"
] laughed aloud, with scarcely less
Than INV cwH haby's car,lessness.
Under the trees, and through the gate
Went man and child with JOY elhtc:
The father with such fond. fond pride
To give the Little one rid.
On horseback there. ] looked that way
and waved my hands rs glad IA they;
And this, ard this. who tells me so,
That IL was but "A week ago
Then was young. now am old,
As though my tbreescofe years were told:
My memory tries in VAN TO go
Through what hsfcl. but this know:
An awful sound from everywhere
And sudden horror filled the air.
Swayiug and sweeping overhead
A spectral cloud SO dark and dread
Game through the sky, and Heaven fell,
And earth sank down. aud up rose Hell.
And was lost. and called on John
To bring our child. but di d alone
I died. for il was death TO me,
And that one hour eternity.
And now, God pity me, stand
pom this dcSQiatsd land:
Home garden. flower and tree are gone.
have mo hop, 80 child. no John.
The Deighhors tell me God knows best,
To comfort me. they are at rest,
They say, and buried tanderiy
When was I'LL too i'll 10 see
II mi,st be 50. II must he 50,
Buf was II but a week ago:
Would couIi know how long IL seems
To John ANA baby in their dreams.
For well know they dream of me,
Who loved them. oh. So utterly
An they have much to tell. how they
Cried ont for me In death that day.
John standing on Ihc Happy shore
Without my Welcome at the door,
lie cannot be at home. and he
VIII grieve because he said to me
They would not come again. then make
More Of the baby for my sake.
Oh. there be secrets dread and deep
The dead must know. the dead must keep;
And there BE- sorrows all too dread
To tell the living; but the dead
We bong t0 tell. they heed US not.
oh. John and baby. uniorgot.
l stand an etiiey of woe
Where our home stood a week ago.
Louise '. Boyd. ia indianapolis Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24

1t is changed now: Instead of say
ING: %. that my enemy would write
a book" the wicked man saith: "Give
mine enemy toy-pistol."
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24

tract the attention that had hoped fo-
il. 1t did not influence the Admins
tration nor boom up the town as 1 had
The Evening critic., 1882-03-23
National Hotel Arrivals.

J. B. Cross, ChlcagO f. Il. Botsford Bridge
port, Conn; Mrs. Vim. Botsford Bridgeport.
Conn; Thomas Ball, Texas; VIM. N. McKen-
ney, Va; Dr. John II. Fance, n. "; II. Ing
ham, N. "; Il. NJ. Leader, Williamsport, Pa
4. S. Sanford, N. y; 7. Cox, Rochester, N. ";
S. Fela, Phila.; @. Richardson, n. Y; d. W.
Bowman and wife, phGniXville, N. Y; VIM, S.
John and wife, Va; j. b. Diamond, Md. j. II.
Hunt, Trenton, N. j.; John II. Grow, Va; A.
Jones, n. "; Chas. Jewell, N. j.; Charles II.
Blackwell, n. J.i W. II. Wildes, New
Jersey: A. f. Stout, New Jersey;
W. II. Williams, Val J. \. Cameron, n. "; L.
=. Bowling and wife, Nd; Miss NJ. Bowling,
Nd: Miss f. Forbes, Nd; Jas. Dixon, Nd; II.
NJ. ChattertOn, BALTIC; l., II. Clark, BALTIC.
Thos. b. Graham and wife, Va; VIM. Il. SuIll-
van, n. "; VIM, S. King, Phila.; w. II. Gith-
ems, phila. G. A. Davis Ca; VIM. W. Payne,
Mum; Geo. W. Dawson, md; Charles Wells,
Manchester, n. H.; s. Hawes, N. Y; j. III.
Stearns, n. y; Geo. McQueston, Boston; J. W.
Sloan, Pittsburgi j. s. Connolly, Pittsburg
Charles L, Whittock, Richmond q. II. Har-
wood, Richmond; Dr.. James T.. Reeves Wheel
ing, w. Va; o. +. Whitcomb, Rochester, Mimi
Henry Moritz, N. "; ]. p. Smith, Bradford,
Pa; o. Forest and Wife, Pa; J. j. Fisher, Ohio (;
George S. Manning, Wilmington, N. C.i q. j.
pennypacker, Wilmington, N. c.; Mrs. A. II.
Hooker, Richmond, Va; II. G.. sleeper, Free
port, Me-; Mrs. o. II. Briggs and son, Freeport,
Me-; Miss W. KOOpman, Freeport Me-; w. W.
Leayctt Exeter, N H.; John Bowman and
Wife, london, Canada; N, LoyOye and wife,
Brooklyn; James D. Butts W. Va; \. W. Pei
ton, Boston; Hon. John Hancock, Texas
Thomas s. McCleiland, Chicago;
George A. Sanders, Springfield, Ill.
The Evening critic., 1882-03-23
Tho Smugglcrs.'.
suggestions with Regard 10 the
Western Floods.

In view Of the terrible loss of life and prop
erty along tho Mississippi, resulting from the
breaking sof tho levees, IL is suggested that
the company of Holland dykers now In Chi
cago be taken from that city and set to work
Mt the most exposed points of the shore. The
Chicago people for years throw millions of
dollars into their lake ia tho shape of sea
wallis brealwaters, &C., but the lake tore and
devoured them first and the shore afterward
in an incredibly short time, sometimes reduc.
ing the labor of weeks to wreck in single
night. At last they concluded 1t would be
cheaper to import company OF workmen
from the country where a war against en-
croaching waters is the sum and substance of
have efrectually curbed the "whlte horses"
that worked such ruin.
The Holland dyke is the most inex pensivs
defense ever devised for the purpose, for ma
ture and the waters themselves are made to
assist in fortifying and strengthening 1t. Tho
first line OF osier and willow withes is planted
a quarter of n mile from shore, and is wrought
in an open-work The top twigs bend and
yield TO the rush Of the waters, the sand,
weed and debris are caught in the mesh of
withes, or drifted through and dropped in the
comparatively still water between it and the
shore. This space fills gradually until II be-
comes solid bank, which is oversown with
coarse grass, and planted with living twigs of
willow; and these spread and cling and catch
fresh deposits from year to year. The line
along shore, which is thicker, wider and more
substtthlluls lS diso WIN prdSS,
and is defended by Z" baskets of willow and
osier sunk with stones The tall twiss play
the part of beadle TO the vagrant weed and
other drift churned up by a storm.
The men the company are steady workers,
1t never seeming to occur to them to dawdie or
take advantage of the fact that they and the
method are peculiar to each other. They are
exacting about their money being promptly
paid, but are not extortionate In their ch argos
Their dyke is vastly superior to the ''gunny-
bag defenses that run along the Mississippi,
and run away with its waters at the time wheu
stability means salvation TO stocks, crops and
human life.
The consequences of this overflow can scarce
ly be estimated now for the waste water and
drenched lands will generate all sorts OF dis
eases when their surfaces tester and blister
under the summer suns; the exposure and the
CHASTITY diet to which many have been reduced
Will swell the death list, and the destitution
and general rum Will add to the horrors of the
stricken fppiou