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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
G. A. r.
Annual Encampment Department of
Maine.

From General Orders No. 9, issued by De
partment Commander W. G. Haskell, under
date of Jan. 18th, we make the following OK
tracts.
The Department of Maine, Grand Army Of
the Republic, will hold its fifteenth annual en-
campment at Gardiner on We dnesday, Feb.
s, 1882, at 10 a. m, in Grand Army Hall.
Department headquarters will be at the
Evans Hotel, where the Council of Admins
tration will meet for its business promptly at
7.30 p. m. on February 7th.
Railroad arrangements are as follows: Maine
Central, one fare the round trip, for such
number as are reported by the A. @. M. Gem
ten days in advance of the meeting. Posts on
the line of the road will report to the A. @.
NJ General as early as January 25th, the nnm-
Der of comrades who will attend. Knox q
Lincoln, one fare the round trip. European
q North American one fare, round trip,
tickets to be purchased at Danforth or Vance
boro. Bangor & Piscataquis, half fare, tickets
TO be had of conductors. Bucksport & Bangor
free return tickets to all holding certificate
signed by the Assistant Adiutant General.
No arrangements can be made with the Grand
Trunk, Portland & Ogdensburg, Eastern or
Boston q Maine Railways, unless by the Posts
on the line of the roads.
Hotel rates will be as follows: Evans House,
johnson House, $1.75 per day. Boarding
house rates on application to comrade VIM.
Wiley, Gardiner.
Matters of business, to receive attention
should be at once forwarded to the Assistant
Adjutant General, that they may come before
the Council of Administration.
Commander-in-Chief George s. Merrill,
with, it is hoped, members of his staff,) will
be present at the meeting -
The Department now numbers fifty Posts,
all of them supposed to be in good standing
a gain of IL Posts since the last annual meet
ing, Feb. %, 1881. Charter applications have
been forwarded to the following places, and it
is hoped Posts may be formed at some OF them,
at least, before the encamppent at Gardiner:
Ellsworth, Fort Fairfield, Sherman, Skowhe-
gan, Newport, Bethel, Norway, Paris, Canton,
Buckfeld, East Raymond, Standish, Cornish
and Kittery-possibly to other points Com
rades near these towns or in them, are earnest
ly urged to use their best endeavors to forward
the work of organization.
The order is in excellent condition, and the
Encampment at Gardiner should be the largest
ever held in this department
A time table of arrival and departure OF
trains, at and from Gardiner, will be published
in the Roll of Encampment, to be issued be-
fore the annual meeting.
Comrade Edward e. Small, past Post Com
mander B. H. Beale, Post No. IL, and Asst.
Adjt. General, Department of Maine, for 1873;
and Comrade John w. Torrens, past Post
Commander of the same Post, have passed on
to the Supreme Encampment above, since our
last Department Encampment, the latter on
Aug. 18th, the former on Sept. %, 1881. SO
pass away, one by one, the soldiers of the Re-
public Of earth, to become citizens of the
Republic of Heaven. Be ye also ready.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
]. 81. Ferris Indicted.

In the Superior Court yesterday James FL.
Ferris, late publisher of the Portland News,
was arraigned upon an Indictment for libel
found against him by the grand jury at the
present term of court. Mr.. Ferriss pleaded
not guilty and furnished bail in the sum of
$1,000 for his appearance from day to day, Gen.
Neal Dow and L. B. Chapman becoming
bondsmen. The grounds of the Indictment
are charges that Mr.. r. X. Galley belonged to
club on Munioy Hill which Mr.. Galley stat
ed was untrue, and a reference made to Rev.
DIR. Thomas Hill, both of which were pub
lishsd in the Morning News. Mr.. Ferriss will
defend the suits.
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Linnington.

Fifteen names were propounded for mem
bership to the Congregational church on Sum-
day, the 9th inst.
The Parsonsfeld Quarterly Meeting has been
invited to hold its next session with the Free
Baptist church at South Limington, Feb. 9Th
and 9th.
A very interesting season, with a number Of
conversions, is being had at South Cornish
under the labors of Rev. b. S. Moody. L.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Accidents.

A man was badly hurt on Market street yes
terday by the falling of piece OF ice from the
caves of Centennial Block.
William Fl. Chase was struck by a Snow
slide yesterday and badly hurt. DIR. Small at
tended him.
Mr.. w. G. Osborne fell while coming out of
his house on Winter street, and struck his
shin on the door-scraper. cutting very bad
cash in his leg.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Superior Court.


MoNDAY.-William Thompson retracted his plea
of not guilty and pleaded guilty to Indictment
charging him with an assault and battery upon
John D. Kelley, and was sentenced to ten months
in Jail.
Frank Hall pleaded guilty to an Indictment for
larceny and was sentenced to eighteen months in
jail.
James II. Ferris, formerly editor and publisher
of the portland Morning News was arraigned on
DR.. Hill. He pleaded not guilty and recognized for
his appearance from day to day in the sum OF $1,000
with Neal Dow and Leonard B. Chapman as sure
ties.
William Smith, on a nuisance indictment for
drinking house and iippling shop, paid fines and
costs amounting to S245.40.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Portland Cooperative Stove Co

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Portland Cooperative Stove Company,
was held at Biddeford last Thursday, and the
following officers were elected:
PRESIDENT. r. Thomas.
Treasurer and General Agent-A. Goodhue.
e. H. Banks, G. w. McFadden, F. ID. Swaney,
j. P. Farrow, A. Goodhue
The year just J. sed has been very success
full one the; any.
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.Payson Memorial Ohurch.

Since last January there have been added to
the church membership 70 persons; four on
profession of faith and % by letter. Total
present membership, sos. There are 566 mem
bers of the Sunday school in Al classes, and
$39941 have been contributed, principally for
home work. The Chinese class, including the
Chinese laundrymen of the city, numbers H.
The sewing school h as an average attendance
of 80. The library association, reading room,
prayer meetings, missionary concerts, stran-
gers packets, young peoples union, ladies'
circle and roll of honor are all doing well.
The following is the report of the funds re-
ceived and distributed the past year:
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Reception to the Y. M. G. a. State
Secretary.

The Y. M. G. A. Maine State executive
committee will tender an informal reception to
the new State Secretary, Mr.. Wilbor A.
Bowen of Medina, N. Y, on Friday evening
of this week, at the rooms of the Portland As
ISOLATION, corner of Congress and Elm street.
Mr. Bowen will be accompanied by Mr.. L. D.
wishard, College Secretary of the Inter-
national Committee, who will visit the col
leges of Maine. Members of the Portland As
ISOLATION and their friends, and donors to the
work of the association are cordially invited to
attend
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Physical Suffering

No one can realize, except by personal ex-
rience, the anguish of mind and body endured
by sufferers from dyspepsia, indigestion, con-
stipation and other diseases of the stomach
BuRDocK BLOOD BITTERs are positive cure
for this drest of all diseases. Price $10O, trial
size 10 cents.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
CITY AND VICINITY.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
P. NJ. B.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Soiled Goods-Eastman Bros. g. Bancroft.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Male Voice Choir.
Our Continent.
Pocket Book Lost.
Lost
Wanted
Annual Meeting.
Copyist Wanted.
Notice is hereby given.
Todd Non-Freezing Hydrant Co.
AUCTION SALES.
Assignee's Sale of Carriages, &c.
Assignee's Sale of Groceries, &c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
BR1DGToN s. sAco RIVER r. R
An Important Suit Finally Settled.

In the case of certain inhabitants Of Bridg-
ton vs. the officers of that town and the Bridg-
ton & Saco River Railroad Co., in which, last
fall, temporary injunction was granted as
then reported in the PREss-toi restrain the
officers from issuing the bonds of the town in
aid of that railroad, the BILL at this term of
the Supreme Court. in this city, before Judge
Virgin, has been taken pro coayesso by consent
and a final decree has been entered, in favor
of compliments for perpetual injunction and
their costs Drummond & Drummond appear
ed for omplainants, Strout, Gage & Strout, and
Cleayes & CleaYes for defendants
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17

An effort existing without cause is an inn
possibility; tickling in the throat huskiness OF
the voice, violent coughing. ETC., are the eff
fects of severe cold. DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
cures the cold at once and removes its serious
effects.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
PORTLAND HORSE RAILROAD.
Annual Reports and Election of Officers.

The annual meeting of the Portland Horse
Railroad Company was held in Mechanics
Library Room yesterday afternoon at o'clock:
PRESIDENTS REPORT.
The President, Mr.. E. A. Norton, reported
that the gain in passengers during the past
wear was 81 1854, but that 10, 852 of that number
were Ocean street passengers, Ior wmcn me ne
company received no pay. The gross earnings
of 1881 over 1880 were SS2298.27; gross expenses
of 1881 over 1880, $1,000 49, What may be
called extra expenses for 1881 were as follows:
Two new cars extra axles and wheels. $l31o. 90
R en 1Ice c. a,a .;nai. onsas at
Deering Observation-Disclosures. olo.lO
Rebuilding tow houses. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Lowering and raising track. 448.OO
s2575.s9
The taxes paid to the State last year were
S1346, 83, which is IL per cent of the net in
come. Mr.. Norton observes that this tax is on
erous and unreasonable.
He says that it will be necessary next season
to add one more car to the Deering line in or
der that car may leave each end of the line
every twenty minutes instead OF thirty as
heretofore. 1t may also be necessary to build
a turnout on Pleasant street. Mr. Norton
closes his report with the assurance that the
directors have managed the affairs of the road
with discretion and fidelity to the interests of
the stockholders. The fact that dividend of
five per cent. has been paid is good evidence of
careful management.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES REPORT.
The Superintendent, Mr.. Henry S. Bennett,
reports as follows:
During the past year the cars have carried
912, 1876 passengers; 206, 912 were carried on the
Spring street line, 322,518 on Congress street
and $50, 906 on the Deering line. This is gain
of 81 1854 over last year.
We have made the usual repairs on the city
lines and have painted and vanished the cars.
We have built five sets of sleds at an expense
of $1S5 and have rebuilt two ploughs.
On the Deering line, in addition to the usual
repair, we have raised 1000 feet OF the track
from five to eight inches, using 250 yards OF
gravel. The expense for the same was S167 80:
at Winslow's we have raised 600 feet OF the
track four and a half feet to conform to the
grade of the street, using 2228 yards OF gravel,
and have lowered 500 feet on the same road
three feet to conform to the grade OF the
street. The expense for the same was 1881.
We have laid two tons of new iron and 600
sleepers. We have built new stable for the
tow horses at the bridge. The repairs on the
houses in Deering amounted to $3.50.
We have bought nine new horses, for whicn
we paid $1220. We have traded eight, paying
1884 difference. We have sold nine horses for
1910. Two horses have died. We have at the
present time 81 horses. We had on hand the
first of January SO tons Of hay and IL tons OF
straw.
TREAsURERs REPORT.
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Notice of Assignee.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the sixth day OF
In January A. D.. 1882. Dunning and Clifford OF
this city made assignment to me of all their prop
erty, not by law exempt from attachment, in trust
for the benefit of their creditors, and that thirty
days from the date thereof allowed for creditors
to become parties thereto.
All persons having demands against said firm are
requested to present them and become parties to
said assignment, and all persons owing said firm are
called upon to pay the same to said Assignee.
GEORGE f. GOULD, Assignee.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
December 5, RSSI.
OFFICE HOURS:

From 800 a. m. to $50 p M, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from 8 to 10 a. m.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19

A business man as well posted as
Edward Atkinson, prophesies a
great financial panic within the next
seven years. Many are losing faith
in the modern prophets, but great
financial disturbances come with
certainty if not with regularity, and
the Massachusetts, man challenges
commentator and confidence by
not fixing the day and hour of the
ceming disaster.
As a wise precaution, however, it
would DO well to keep out of debt
and stop the practice of drawing
negotiable notes. They don't pay
debts; they only postpone the sure
coming day of payment. In times
of panic they are dangerous things.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19
DA Wis AND JOHNSON.

Sedalia Mol Democrat
Gen. Johnston is an old man. He
fought the best he could for his
country. There never has been any
love between him and Mr.. Davis
Their methods of warfare were diff.
ferent. The President wanted re-
suits, the General time. In revo-
luton death must be dashed against
the eyes of the people in some terri.
BILE way, if they would fight it out
to triumph. Johnston was quar-
tsrmaster general Of the old army.
It is a mistake to take bureau man
for a chief in q revolution. He has
fixed habits, that are hard like oak.
He has withes Of system that can
no more be made to expand than
the driving wheels of a locomotive.
For revolution the need is for me.
teOrs-those colossal things which
flash across the war armament meek,
modest, praying sometimes, fatal
lists, fore-doomed to death, and dy-
ing always when to fall seems to be
an act of conservation or going to
God. There were some such on
the Confederate side. Stonewall
jackson was one. So was Albert
Sydney Johnston. So was Van
Dorm. So was r. III. Weightman,
Upton Hays, Pat. Cleburne, the boy
Pelham, dead amid his guns, with
this for funeral grafton:
"Just a. the Spring came laughing through
the strife,
With all its gorgeous cheer,
In the high noon of his historic life,
Fell the great cannoneer."
And over against such there were
MCPHERSON, and Dalghreen, and
Sedgwick, and Lyon, and Mulligan,
and many another who gave up his
plain, simple, loyal life that the
country he fought for should not be
worsted in the strife.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19
THE FAILURE OFPROPHECY.

Mother Shipson is not the only
prophet who came to grief in the
year 1881. Gen. w. B. HAGEN, TT.
s. A, with whom prophecy is like an
arithmetical problem, has lost the
confidence of the public. His idea
seems to be that storms, "spells of
weather." and everything else his
Bureau deals with, start from a fixed
point in the Northwest and move at
q uniform rate. He gets the dis
lance from the place Of starting to
the s'Gulf Region" the "Middle At
lantic States" &C., and divides the
number of miles by the hourly speed
OF the wind at the point of departure.
Thus he knows, or assumes to know,
first when rain or snow, or other
weather event will reach any par
ticular point. This past year fair
weather has come when storms were
promised, and vice versa. The arith-
metic man Of the Bureau has be.
come even as Republican politi-
clan, or the "weather breeder has
secretly moved to new headquarters.
1t is unnecessary to say that Ven
nor has lost all his reputation. We
hardly recall . day in 1881 whose
character was accurately foretold.-
He is generally correct as to seasons.
For instance, he says there win be
warm weather in june or August
But this is like saying that water
will run down hill, or that the mer.
chant who advertises in the Bossier
Banner will sell his goods. Every
body knows it.
This general failure of prophecy
has its lesson for all. 1t is that the
present, and not the future, is the
time in which we are called upon to
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19
HOME PRODUCTIONS.

The rapid and almost universal
adulteration Of all articles of food
put up in the cities, and the shame
full extent to which fraud prevails In
mercantile articles Of dress, as we'll
a. the implements and tools In daily
use 10 . state Of affairs which calls
for some decided and telling action
on the part Of consumers generally.
We, therefore, warn our readers Of
the danger, and strenuously urge 8
return on the part Of the farmer to
more homegrown products and
homemade goods.
It is true that we are an advocate
for pretty general and wide dis.
tribution of labor as best for the
community and State ut large. The
farmer should not attempt to make
everything, and thus cut himself off
~ q customer from the rest Of the
world; but when large portion Of
the workmen In the common indus
trial hive persist is foisting ruinous
cheats on the public, society un-
doubleday has the right to withhold
from them its patronage. In such
. case the farmer evidently has the
right to resort to the counter plan of
making at home whatever he eats
or wears; and that such . state Of
affairs does exist and has long ex-
listed, admits Of abundant proof
Indeed is has been the crying evil OF
the times for many years; adultera-
ton and fraud have been detected in
everything and everywhere. There
is not an article of food that is in
all cases, pure; there is not an arti-.
Gle of dress that is, in all cases, what
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19
BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY, ::::::::::JANuARY 10, 1882.
A HIGHER STANDARD.

In commencing the active opera
tions Of the soil for the new cam.
paign, the farmers Of Louisiana
should, by all means, set themselves
. higher standard of labor, q higher
aim to accomplish. Not that we re.
gard their operations in the past as
subject to severe criticism-on the
contrary we consider the farming OF
our State, as on the whole, about as
profitable and successful as agricul-
tural work anywhere in the United
States, but we are sure there Is
yet . vast-almost limitless-mar-
gin for Improvement here, as else
where. We nor any other people
have set attained to anything like
the maximum Of excellence in the
production or disposition of crops,
and unless our people now and at
once begin to set up higher stand
ard Of farming, it will be great
many years get before the maximum
is approached.
We, therefore, desire to urge, with
all the emphasis in our power, that
all who cultivate the soil begin to
pursus higher and more economi-
cal line Of farming, BY adopting q
better plan Of rearing and manag-
ing domestic animals; by q more
complete and thorough preparation
Of the soil, and superior and more
successful modes Of tillage; by the
general use of better and more effee-
tive tools and implements; by in
creasing largely increasing-the
amount ofhome-made manures; and
by q system Of recuperatiye rota.
ton Of crops, 30 as year by year to
increase the capacity of their lands.
They should on all they do as lead
ing to two grand objects: the yearly
production Of abundant crops, and
TIP gradual but certain increase Of
the producing capacity oftheirlands.
No system Of farming that does not
set up some snch standard as this
can long be profitable to the owner.
The main ideas Of this system are,
concentration of labor and means, q
wise rotation Of crops, thoroughness
Of work, and careful preparation for
market. These are the salient
points, but they bring in their turn
legion Of minor improvements in
the farm, the home, the home life,
and the home surroundings. We
hope farmers will begin to set their
standard high, for on their success
reet all other interests.
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Horace Greeley, or somebody else,
once said: 1.-THE darkest hour in
any mans life is when he thinks
there is q better way to get a dollar
than by squarely earning it, Have
nothing to do with lotteries and
cotton futures.
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For Sale at a Bargaiss !

1.-TWO secondhand Bots D'Arc Six Horse
hauling.
Two second hand top Buggies.
One new open Buggy.
One second lhand Carriage, good, looks wen.
Two good sets Gin House Running Gear
made by A. w. Edwards
One good 60-saw Pratt Gin.
One new 6G-saw Brown Feeder
One new 60-saw Brown Condenser.
Parties who can use any of above artices
VIII do well to call on me, as have no use for
them, and will sell at one-fourth their value.
or less. s. j. ZEIGI,ER
Shady Grove Bossier Parish, La.
Jan 20, 1880 Or Shreyeport. Ia
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it purports to be; there is nothing
made whose gilded surface does not,
in many case, conceal some defect
which the maker knew of, but which
he has skllfully covered till the
touchstone of use shall reveal the
cheat.
Against this wide spread and of:
ten glaring fraud, the professional
man, the artisan, and the meshanic,
all working in special and limited
fields, are perhaps powerless of re-
dress; but surely the farmer, original
producer, can protect himself if he
win. He is not often absolutely
bound to buy the products of fraud,
and should not, when to do so is but
sustaining a set of cheats and fore
ing the rest of mankind to bow the
neck to the hand that afflicts. He
Of all men is the last who should
sustain a cheat in any form by be-
coming purchaser. The time has
has been when the entire food sup
ply and raiment of the farmer and
his family were the genuine home.
made article-the products of his
own toll and his own looms. In
those days men were upright and
independent. Ruinous store bills
were not everlastingly suspended,
like the sword Of Damocles, over the
head Of the trembling farmer, but
every man was lord of his castle,
though it were q log hut, may be-
and the hardy yeomanry of the
country were free, fat and fearless of
the football of any man.
The same might be true now, but
forthese degenerated days upon which
We have fallen. Say what we will,
but an increase of manufacturing
and mechanical skill has not brought
an increase of wealth and peace to
the great mass Of the people. Every
new invention, with but very rare
exceptions, costs the general public
more than it is ever worth, and the
farmer of to-day, with his reapers
and mowers, his polished and gilded
furniture, his handsome equipage
and fine surroundings generally, is
. less happy and q less wealthy man
than his hardy ancestor of three
generations ago. He pays too much
for style; gilded frauds eat up his
subsistence on every hand.
Is it not time, then, that farmers
were returning to some of the olden
customsf But where is the man
with the moral courage to face the
wind and make q first move in this
direction ! The increase of home
products win increase the home
pleasures, but too much store goods
bring pride, discomfort, and finally
want and the sheriff.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19

FATHER Is GETTING WEIL.-My
daughters say, elbow much better
father is since he used Hop Bitters.n
he is getting we'll after his long suf-
ferlng from q disease declared incu.
rable, and we are SO glad that he
used your Bitters.-A lady of Roch.
ester, N. Y.-Utica Herald.