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portation continue at rate fully equal to the l largest consumption yet attained. In some form embarrassment must occur, unless pro- duction should be checked. Moreover, man. ufacturers and importers have before them the possibility that the crops of this year may not prove good"
 The New York Legislature has passed and it is expected that the Governor will sign a bill which abolishes the usury law of the State so far as it applies to call loans of large amounts. It provides that it shall be lawfui to receive and collect any rate of interest that may be agreed upon in writing between the parties, in any case hereafter in which ad- vances of money, payable on demand, to an amount not less than 5000, are made upon warehouse receipts, bills of lading, certif- cates of stock, certificates of deposit, bills of exchange, bonds or other negotiable instru- ments pledged as collateral security for the repayment of the sum lent. The passage of this bill will still leave the maximum rate of interest in all other transactions at six per cent, and the old penalties against usury will still be in force.
 The Rev. Dr. Yancey, of Louisville, says to General Abe Buford "The horse race and the Church agree in one thing. at least-they agree to disagree. And this establishes the fact that in the estimation of the public they are antagonistic, the one to the other. Tie race has no sympathy for the Church and the Church has none for the race" Other cler- gymen of Kentucky are as strongly opposed to the Generals proposition that the race course can be Christianized, and the whole blue grass region is stirred by the discus sion. But he holds to his belief, maintaining that in his early days on the turf there were no such abuses as now exist. Breeders of fine horses, he says, ''then ran them 1lso, and there was no concentration of a great number with one owner They were then scattered among the farmers through the country, and the race course had nothing of the bad features it now has. The farmers and breeders would bring their horses to the race track, and they would race them for pure love of the sport. There were no pools, and one gentleman would just say to another, I bet you $1O, or $1 ,OOO, as the case might be. Most of the betting was done on the field. Higher individual bets may have been made then than now, but there was not near so much money at stake. All that is changed now: the breeders sell their colts as year linss, when a sporting man takes charge of them and runs them. When the breeders ran their own horses we had honest races, and there were no pull backs. They would bet on the fair, one gentleman against another. Now millions are wagered, and gamblers run the horses, and frequently one wins more money when he gets beaten than when he wins.' The question raised by Gen. Buford is likely to come before the Methodist Church for settlement, as he hints that he will ge to see some races next sum- mer, and if he does he may be disciplined.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20

good suggestion for Decoration Day has been made. This is that instead of placing cut flowers, which wilt and fade in few hours, upon the soldiers graves, blooming pot plants be used and subsequently, planted
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
NEW HAVEN CONN., SATURDAY MORNING.
cSournal anO Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY HARRINGTON & CO.,,
 Ho. zoo State Street, Courier Building JOHN B. oARRnGToE.
 EDWARD T. oARRINaToN. JOHN B. oARR1NaroE, Jr.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
HECK.ER'S PERFECT BAKING POWDER.
A FAIR TEST.

To the Editor of the Journal & Courier:
 Sir:-The contract for supplying the United States government with seventy-fve thousand (75,OOO) lbs. of Baking Powder during the en- suing year has been awarded to Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder, it having been tested by Dr. Ed ward G. Love, analytical chemist for the government, and recom- mended by him for it's excellence and because it contained @ higher percentage of gas (which means it will make lighter bread and bis cuit) than either the "RoyaI'' OF the other cream tartar baking powders winch he examined. The samples analysed by pr. Love were furnished by the government cOm- missiOners, and were without the manufacturers label or name, and designated with a number known only to the commissioners
 It will thus be seen that when Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder submitted to an impartial test it's superiority is acknowledged, and the popular verdict 50 emphat- ically expressed in it's favor is fully sustaineds
 GEO. V. KICKER X CO.,,
 2O3 Cherry St., N. Y.
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Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
Circulating Library.

All the new books added published. Pride and Passion, The Freres, In Maremma, Heaps of Money, Her Picture, Tallahassee Girl Splnoza, Old M. Sieur's Secret, What Came Afterwards, Aunt Lerena Petticoats and Slippers Faith and Unfaith, My Losd and Lady, Rosecraft
 N. B.-The best help furnished as usual.
 l.. B. BARTHOLOMEW, ap29 75 Orange Street.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
Value of a Railroad Train.

| Few have any conception of the money value
| OF an express train The handsome locomotive
and elegant CARS are admired as the train comes
| putting into the depot, but when seen from the
point of view furnished by the Hartford Cour-
ant, the spectator is astonished at the RESPONSE
bility placed in the hands of an engineer, fire.
man, conductor and brakeman:
A railroad official, the other day, gave some
interesting figures as to the value OF the mid
day EXPRESS from New York, which was a fair
representative of the fast express trails on the
consolidated road
There were an engine, tender and eight cars.
The engine and tender, which are considered
together, were valued at $4,000, the baggage
car $1,000. the postal Car $1,000, the smoking
Car $4,000, the two ordinary passenger cars VIC, >
| 600 each, and three palace cars $l5,OO0 each;
| total $685. 900.
This is a low, rather than an excessive, esti-
mate for one of the fast expresses, as some OF
them, with more cars, are worth 100000, at
| least
The palace cars, put down at $15 900, are, in
| many cases, worth an average of $18, 600. These
cars came into use soon after the sleeping
coaches, the first being used in 1868. In some
instances these cars have cost as high as $685.
600 and $4,000, where the interior workman
ship was very elaborate.
From the figures given, IL will be seen that
comfortable dwelling may be built for the cost
of an ordinary passenger car, and that the
money expended for a palace coach would
erect very handsome brick or brown'stone
front residence.
1t is an interesting reflection that the safety
of one OF these costly trains, TO say nothing OF
the passengers, devolves almost wholly upon
one man-jhe engineer.
There are oher men, the conductor, bag
gage-master, fireman and three or four brake
men, but the hand upon the lever and the
brain directing it have an immense response
bility.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
Getting at the Facts.


The reporter saw two horses dashing down
the street with few pieces of harness left and
also portion of the running gear of the car
rage. He made directly for the spot whore the
horses had left the carriage, and by following
the track Of spokes, hubs aud fragments of the
carriage SOON reached the wreck. There was a
man standing by looking at it with some inter-
est.
sHow'd this happen?" asked the scribe.
"Dum fino," rejoined the man. Horse kind
of run away, guess
''Can you give me any particulars?"
"Well, no; did not see the first of it, Guess
didn't amount to anything, anyhow. Got scared
at something, s'pose."
"Anybody hurt?"
"Well, now, stranger, couldn't say. Pears
to me somebody did mention it,. but 1 forgot
now who twas. Amt much acquainted in the
ward anyhow"
"Do you know anybody that does know?"
Guess the horse got skeered somehow"
The reporter calls on eight or ten eye wit
nesses of the scene and none have sufficient in
telligence to give any account of the accident
which happened right under their noses. All
seem to labor under the impression that they
will be arrested and sentenced TO ten years
hard labor in the penitentiary if they impart
single scrap of information. Inside of ten min
utes the man first interviewed reaches hoiue
and his memory begins to liven up He tells
his wife all about it.
81 tell you, Sail, never saw such an ALFRED
runaway as I saw just while ago. Billy
Browns two horse team ran away, threw Mrs
Brown and two children out, and knocked old
Brown senssless. I was right there and helped
to carry him over to Thompson's The buggy
struck a tree and smashed the daylights out of
it. Guess Brown will die. They say his leg
was broke-left leg, just below the knee, and
Mrs. Browns jaw was smashed. The children,
Betssy and Clara, wasn't hurt so much"
II suppose it'll be in paper in the morn
ing"
Bet you don't see line there; reporters are
too cussed lazy to hunt an item anyhow, and
then they never get it right"
In the morning the man Looks in his paper
and cusses it for not giving fuller particulars.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

THE novel police system adopted BY Chi
caoo a wear and half ago is said to have
proved perfectly successful. The city is di-
vided into twenty-four districts, in each OF
which is depot containing three police
men, wagon, and four horses. Throughout
the city are police boxes, looking like the
old-fashioned sentry boxes, and provided
with telegraph signals and telephones. The
door is kept locked, but can be opened by
anybody needing police aid, keys Icing lib
orally distributed among stores ahd resi-
dences. Private individuals can thus send
an alarm by telegraph. Each key is num-
bered and registered, and, after being used
to open a box, is held fast in the lock until
released by policeman. Thus mlschievous-
" false alarms are detected. When an alarm
is received at a depot, the police on duty
there drive quickly to the box in response.
The telephones are used by patromen TO
make periodical reports, and thereby rounds
men are done away with, and every man is
directly under the control of his captain.
! When patroman makes an arrest, ne does
not desert his beat, but calls the wagon to
| take the prisoner away. Househoders may
have private signal boxes by paying the cost
The SUPERINTENDENT declares that his force is
much better controlled than before, thai
crimes are fewer, that criminals are more
easily caught, and that the expense is nt
oraatar
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
An American City at It's Best auc
Worst.
Chicago Letter to New York world.l

Chicago Letter to New York World
Chicago reminds one of a fashionably dressed
woman, the msgnifcence of whose dress for a
time closures the fact that the lace around her
neck is tagged and torn and that buttons are
missing from her boots. That part of Chicago
bounded by the river, lake and Congress street,
including the great hote.s, massive public
buildings and well-o dered streets filled with
life and movement, is very impressive; remem-
bering its vicissitudes, of which every apparent
trace is gone, the splendid results of energy,
hope and faith in the city seen on every hand
compels admiration. This is the veritable Chi
cago of the imagination, as it has been whetted
by the tales of the traveller sojourning for a
couple of days at the Palmer House OF the
Grand Pacific. Nor is there any illusion as to
the spotlesS elegance OF Michigan avenue, the
miles of boulevards, the acres of parks, the ell
eyators and stockyards. And as the enthusias.
tic inhabitant still further discourses of the
still further magnificent intentions of the great
city, and together you stumble into the holes
of the wooden pavement or fall through mos-
ing plank on some of the many board side
walks on the west side, with his mind filled
with these the citizen is unconscious of these
ordinary perils, while you are painfully aware
of skinned boot and a bruised foot This is
but trife, but it illustrates the mental atti-
tude of the Chicagoan. His mind is so absorbed
with great schemes for the glory of his city
that be is oblivious and neglectful of the
many small things which contribute to the
comfort and ease Of everyday life.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
George III.
[I4eclys History Of England in the Eighteenth
Century,

[Lecky's History Of England in the Eighteenth
Century
Ignorant, narrow-minded and arbitrary, with
an unbounded confidence in his own judgment
and an extrayagant estimate of his prerogatiye,
resolved, at all hazards, to compel his minis
tiers to adopt his own views, or to undermine
them if they refused, he spent a long life in re-
sisting measures which are now almost uuiver-
sally admitted to have been good and in sup.
porting measures which are as universally ad-
mitted to be bad. He espoused, with passion
ate eagerneSE, the American quarrel; resisted
obstinately the measures of Cancellation by
which, at one time, it might easily have been
stifsd envenomed it by his glaring partisan
ship, and protrscted it Tor several years, in OPP
position to the wish and adcise even of his own
favorite and responsible minister. He took the
warmest personal interest in the attempts tina t
were made, In the matter of general warrants
to menace tho liberty of the subject; and, in
the case of the Middlesex election, to abridge
the electoral rights OF constituencies, and in
the other paltry, violent and arbitrary meas
ures by which the country was inflamed, and
Wilkes was converted into hero. The last
instance of an English officer deprived of his
regiment Tor his vote IN Parliament was due to
the personal intervention of the king; and the
ministers whom he most warmly favored were
guilty of an amount and audacity of CORFU ption
which is probably unequalled in the Parlia-
mentsry history of England. All the measures
that were carried or attempted with the object
of pacifying the representative body-the pub
LEGATION of debates, the alteration of the mode
of trying contested elections the reduction of
sinecures and pensions, the enlargement Of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES contrary to the wishes of
the king. Although his income during the
greater part of his reign was little less than
million a year. although his court was parsi-
monious to a fault and his hospitality excsed-
ingly restricted, and although he succeeded to
a considerable sum that had been saved by his
predecessor, he accumulated, in the course of
his reign, debts to the amount o. no less than
e., 1893 ,061, and there can be little doubt that
contemporary opinion was right in attributing
a greater part of these debts to his expenditure
in Parliamentary or electoral corruption. OF
all tbs portions of the empire none was SO i'm
poverished, distracted and msgoverned as Ire
laKd, but every attempt to improve its cond-
tion found in the king bitter adversary. He
opposed the relaxation of the atrocious laws by
which Irish commerce had been crushed, al
though his own Tory ministers were in favor
of it. He opposed Catholic emancipation.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
[From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
A Lady Said



Go. Please Prcsent My Excuses,
Probably two-thirds of the ladies in society and
HON es of our land are afflicted with skin deases of
various kinds to do away with which, If it Gould be
done without injury would be the happiest event of
their lives. Then she would have instead Off dsfg-
ured and marred countenance one that would be
clear pure skin, no matter what the cut of her
features are, has o certain amount of god looks
which attract every ody. AS it is now, sheimmag-
ines every and talks about 'sthose frckles
''those horrid pimples," and other blemsles with
which she is afflicted, and this is true of either sex.
Toimprove this appearance great risks ar. taken
Giles containing these death dealing drugs, are taken
in hopes Of getting rid of all these troubles In
many cases, death is the result. No allevation of
the burning, heating. itching and Inflammation is
given. All troubled with Eczema Qalt rheum),
letters, Humors, Inflammation, Rough Scay Erup-
tions Of any kind, Diseases of the Hair and Scalp,
Scrofula. Ulcers. Pinples or Tender feelings on
any part of the body, should know that there is
hope for them in = sure perfect and elegant rem
edy, known as CDR. G. W. Benson's Skin Cure.''
1t makes the skin white, soft and smooth removes
tan and freckes and is the bert toilet dressing in
the world. 1t is elegantly pus up, two bottles in
one package consisting OF both internal and exter-
nal treatment. Our readers should be sure to get
this and not some old remedy resuscitated on the
success of Dr. Benson's and now advertised as "The
Great Skin Cure" There is only one,-it bears the
Doctors picture and is for sale by all druggists,
81 per package.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

THE secretary of the United States Senate
employs four Union soldiers, six Confeder-
ate and II of neither army. The sergeant-at-
arms of the Senate employs 107 persons, OF
whom II were in the Unipn army and IL in
the rebel. In the executive departments 40
per cent. of the clerks were in the army, al
SO 40 per cent. of the staff of the clerks of
the House. In the treasury department, out
of ,54S appointments from March, 1877, to
March, 1882, SO3 were of persons who had
been honorably discharged from the army
or navy, or were the widows or orphans of
those who had lost their lives in the service.
In the war department 602 veterans have
been appointed since 1865; in the interior
departlnentthere are 457 who served in the
Union army and 12S women from the fami-
lies of soldiers. The other departments draw
from one-third to one-half their service from
the graduates of the war.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

HAS OFTEN BEEN MADE

HAS UFTEN BEEN MADE
by the discovery Of some new thing, but nothing
has ever stood the test like DIR. G. W. Benson's
Celery and Chamomile Pills.
They really de cure sick headache. nervous head
ache, neuralgia nervousness sleeplessness, indges
ton, paralysis, and melancholy.
Price SO cents scr box, two for 81, six for $3.50
by mail, postage free.-Dr. G. W. Benson. Balti-
moro, Nd. Sold BY all druggists.
G. N. Crittsnton, Nav York, is wholesale agent
for DR.. c. W. Benson's remedies.
jy17 Mw&F1m
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

On plsntatisns in Mississippi which were
ovsrfowed by the high water in the spring
so that it was supposed no crop could be
raised this year, the cotton is now in full
bloom and promises to turn out bale to the
acre. which is a first-rate crop.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

The degree of doctor of philosophy dur
ing the past eight years has been bestowed
by the colleges of the country 175 times for
complimentary reasons and ITO times after
proper examination. The University of Ve.t-
mont conferred this degree upon an able
veterinary surgeon. The Utica Herald says:
The degrees of the 175 who received them as
a compliment which means without any refer
ence to their scholastic qualifications, are
worth just as much to them for all practical
purposes as are the degrees of the no who
worked for and earned them. The degrees of
neither are worth much anyway, SO long as the
public has no method of discriminating be-
tween the earned and the unearned. 1t is just
so with all other degrees, and always will be
50, so long as the small colleges, of which the
woods are full, continue to use their power to
confer degrees as a leverage for making
friends, soliciting. money and manufacturing
notoriety.
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
Reception Hall CITY Building)
PORTLAND,

to nominate candidates for the following Offices tc
Register o. Deeds, County Attorney, Clerk 81
Courts, and two County Commissioners. Also to
elect County Committee for Two years; commene-
ing Jan 1, 1888.
The basis OF representation will be as follows
delegate for each city and town; and one in
addition for each seyenty-ive votes for Governor III
1880 fraction of AZ votes viii be entitled to an
additional delegate. Cities and towns are entitled
70 daleaatns as fOlIOYs:
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

MARVELLOUS stories about Arab Bey's
birth and parentage are now in order. The
latest makes him kind of modern Ishmael,
and considering that his hand is against eV-
cry mans hand and every mans hand
against him, there is seeming appropriate
ness about the legend. If it should happen,
as is very likely, that he is driven out into
the desert, the resemblance will be still more
efrixtDo
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17
Fusion Blood-Money.
What the honest and Incorruptiole
Democrats Did in 1880.

Now that he straight greenbackers are SO pu-
merousIy falling ont OF the fusion ranks we
get good deal of hitherto moch-enonmhered
truth. Speaking of tho fusion campaign fuhd
and the frantic efforts of ths fosionists for
"blood-money," a correspondent OF Then
Steers" P. II Gordon, writing FROM Portland,
says:--
"The longing and waiting of the demo-fusion
party for funds from the national democratic
committee is long and loud. They feel that
tbey ara in no condition to enter the campaign
without it, and as the committee feel that the
money furnished by them Two years ago was
yery duestionably disposed of, they feel very
reluctant in coming to terms this year. II Is
said, that two years ago, they sent $oo,ooo mo
this State to be used in the campaign, aud were
not we'll pleased with the result. Ii Is well
known that the democrats have not had chance
to get their hands into the public treasury for
MANY long years, and they were terribly huG-
grv. and It is said that the democratic national
committee says that the mania for stealing
among the old line democrats is SO inherent III
| their nature that they could not resist that
temptation and they at least stole two-thirds OF
| the $50, 900. So firmly convinced were the COM
mittee OF this fact, that they would not furnish
| them money to run the Novembet campaign,
| but they were not to be choked off IN TINS way
| SO they suggested that Plaistsd go on and Try
| his hand in persuadiDg the democratic commit
| tee to let them have money 10 run Tue ia'i cam
paign Accordingly, Governor PlalSted ana
| the Hon. T. FL. Murch went on to Nav York
and went to democratic headquarters and were
interviewed. :,
cit is said that the committee were so we'll
satisfied with this itnerview, and the promise
of Plaisted that the money, II they would !et
them have it, should be expended in the inter.
est of Hancock, that they panned out $250OC
in qold, and Plaisted brought it home TO Maine
to put it where it would do the most good. Ii
is well known that stalwart Plaisted man
took $500 of it and carried it home and put II
in an unused stove for safe keeping until they
could have chance to take breath and re-
connoiter. little. Should Governor Plaistee
rlusLrI0us Iuslonlst Shall ne forthcoming. 1t il
said, also, that Governor Plaisted and Mr.
Murch did the chief part of the work in the fal
campaign, and that they divided the money
and did what stump speaking they could fol
the lost cause and there rested their case and
awaited the results at the polls, which were
not very satisfactory, as is shown by the vote
Garfield, 74,052; Hancock and fusion 65, 2l1
being S,S41 bshind the Republican vote. This
dear Governor, was the result of fusion and
| dan1ocra fic cold !,
The Portland daily press., 1882-07-17

KANSAS has just harvested nearly one
and half million of acres in wheat, pro-
ducing twenty bushels to the acre on an aV-
erage, say over thirty millions of bushels of
winter wheat, to which is to be added, say
two million bushels of spring wheat. The
corn crop has been backward, but is improv-
ing so fast that large yield is confidently
predicted. The acreage is 1850, 900, and an
ordinarily favorable season from this time on
will give crop of 175, 200, 900 bushels.