davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Fire last night burnt the hoist house, engine
room and other minor buildings connected
with the works of the Calumet Iron and Steel
company at Cummings station, twenty miles
southeast of Chicago. The loss is from $780,
600 10 $780, 600.
The Central Hotel, Shield newspaper Office
and five of the principal BUSINESS houses of
Henrietta, Texas, were burned Sunday night.
Loss by burning of the Union block of Jack
son, Miss, Sunday night will reach $100, 900.
The bill for the abolition of the Massachu-
setts election sermon has passed the Senate,
and has gone to its third reading in the House
by a vote OF 90 TO 81.
A Boston man tells the Globe that he saw
Benyon, the fugitive, president OF the Pacific
bank, in Matanzas, Cuba, last March. Kenyon
went under the name of Quiulan. He also
called himself Benton. In May he came with
his family and the inform ant TO Now York on
a schooner. At New York he disappeared
probably going to Canada.
Walter G. Sheppard for the past four years
the trusted bookkeeper of Francis Brigham &
Co., OF Boston, was arrested charged with em-
bexzliDg $1,000 of the firms money. Dissipa-
tion is at the bottom of it.
Advices from Honolulu say that at the bien-
nial election there the government candidates
were generally defeated.
tremendous Ere is raging among the
cedars at the falls on the Leon River, Texas,
and unless there is fall of rain soon the
greater part of the timber will be destroyed.
Strong sermons were preached in all the
churches in Wilkesbsrre Sunday on the sub
1ect OF enforcing the law against intoxicating
liquors, the ministers urging the people to
organize and crush out illegal traffic in liquor.
Peter Hax, aged about 40, a Baltimore street
paving CONTRACTOR was found dead on Satur-
day in his duck shooting blind on Gunpowder
river, where he had gone in the morning to
shoot ducks. Apoplexy was the cause of
death
William e. Hull, aged 26 a fireman on the
Baltimore Potomac Railroad, on Saturday
night jumped from the engine to escape the
sealding steam from pipe which burst. He
fell on his head, fracturing the skull from
which he died Sunday.
Richard P. Dwvr~ arrested in Boston
yesterday charge en- tering various
houses in Lowell Oany with Michael
Barrett, and stea nerous articles of
- teweIry etc. Barr, under arrest up
on similar charge Na. Dwyer will
probably be taken TO
George W. Curtis ted the invita-.
tiou of the city govel Boston to de-
liver the eulogy on ", 1illips and has
selected Wejneeday, a s the time OF
its delivery.
Fire in Beebe g. Ho. )er mill IN
Holyoke, Mass, last eve la damage
Of $4,000; fully insured,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26

NEW YORK, Feb 25.--Artioles of agreement
for six DAYS go-as-you-please race TO COM
4pr 2s were ssin sEnsG s91aes MoDdss % By %Kows Fs:
gerald, Vint and Noremec.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
Notes from Washington.

The Ways and Means CoR.nalttee-GOssiP
Cencerning fts members-How Experts
aud Their Tesiins ony are Received by the
COmmittes Qnakers In COngross-' he
Demand for Pablic BuildinEs-Arthur's
Chances fer Renomination.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
SPECIAL NOTICES.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
The indications for New England are
light snow or rain, followed by slightly warmer
weather; lower barometer; winds shifting to
south and southeast.
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
[11,27 P. MI
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Published every day Sundays excepted) bv the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY.
~ Crn MY

AT 81 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND. ME.
TERMS; Eight Dollars Year To mail subscrib
ers, Seven Dollars Year, paid In advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch of space, the
length of column, constitutes Square"
81 so per square, daily first week; 75 cents per
week after three insertions or less, 1.0O coninu
ing every other day after first week, 30 cents.
Half square, three insertions less, rs cents; one
week $i.Oo; $50 cents per week after.
SPECIAL. NOTICES. one-thiId additional.
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs'' and 'AUCTIoN
Sales $500 per square per week; three insertions
or less, S1.50.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
Published every THURSDAY MORNING, at $3.50 a
year; If paid in advance, $500 year.
Advertisements inserted IN the "MAINE STATE
PRESS (which has large circulation in every part
of the State) for 81 square for first insertion
and 90 cents per square for each subsequent inser
ton. IT,
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
Strike iu F.,, TFampton Mills.
Anorher Six Uoys, Contest.

EAST hAMPT1N, Mass, Feb. 25.-The oper-
atives III the Williston Mills al struck against
reduction of thrse per cent. in wages to-day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
WASHINGTON.
Free shipa.

WASHINGTON. Feb 25.-The shipping COM
mittse this morning took up q bill to admit
duty and voted to to report it adversely.
Mr.. Dingley voted against the bill. Findlay
was absent, and it was agreed that Mr.. Ding
ley should prepare a report embodying the
views of the minority and that the report
should go to the calendar for consideration by
the House.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

a Strike in the Amesbury Wooien Mills.
AMEsBuRy, Mass, Feb. 25.-About 120 spin
Company struck and left work this morning.
The striking weavers are quiet Weavers,
spinners, carders and spoilers In No. nil
also left aad some have deserted mills Nos. 6
and T.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
Minor Matters.


The steamer Great Eastern has been pur-
chased by the government for coal hulk to be
stationed at Gibraltar.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
LATEST MARINE NEWS

Rise. Fall.
~1oo small to measure.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26

A morning or two Ego, as Mr.. Charles Cope
land was driving from his yard, his sleigh be
gan to slew, and the horse, losing his foothold.
was precipitated down the steep hills distance
OF some 30feet. During the descent, horse,
sleigh and driver rolled .promisouously over
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26

arrested in Boston
en- tering various
Dany with Michael
nerous articles Of
under arrest up
iea. Dwyer will
ted the invita-
Boston to de-
lillips and has
M the time OF
Der mill IN
la damage
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
MAINE.
Found Dead i'm ais Bed.

CAMDEN, Feb. 25.--J. NJ Smiley was found
dead in his bed this morning. He had never
seen sick day in his life, and was II years of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
How TO Overcome the Destructive
Moths,

This is one of the greatest vexntions which
careful housekeepers have to contend with,
and their depredations are not to DO remedied
after they have onco made inroads. Houses
heated by furnaces are especially predisposed
to have moths, but every housekeeper must
be on the watch for them, for, from the time
that the windows begin to be left OPEN the
trouble begins. Heavy carpets sometimes do
not require taking up every year, unless in
constant use. Take out the tacks from these,
fold the carpets back, wash the floor in strong
suds with tablespoonful of borax dissolved
in them. Dash with insect powder or lay
tobacco leaves along the edge and retack. All
moths can be kept away and the eggs de
stroyed by this means. Ingram, OF other
carpets, after shaking, are frightened by
sprinkling pound of salt over the surface
and sweeping carefully and thoroughly. 1t il
also an excellent plan to wipe off the carpet
with borax water using thick flannel cloth
wrung tightly, taking care not to wet it, but
only to dampen. Open tho windows and dry
the carpet before replacing the furniture.
Other wooens, including blankets and wear
ing apparel, mist be beaten and brushed and
folded smoothly. Be careful TO clean every
grease spot with ammonia and water, not too
strong, and dark wooden cloth. Tie pieces
of camphOr into little bundles, and put one in
each article Wrap the articles in newspa-
pers, and then sew them up in strong sheet
| ing bags, labeled, so that it will not be neces
sary TO open them during the summer except
| for use. This il a good way for those who
| do not possess cedar boxes, and the articles
| need have no other care If every spot is treat
ed as directed and the garments are not left
hanging in the closet too long before putting
away for the season.-FrOridencG Star.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02

California farmers are now making war on
squirrels with a patent smoke killer. The
machine consists of an iron box in which to
burn straw, with pump to force the smoke
into the innermost dens of the animals 1t
is very efectual. Two men can destroy thou
sands of these creatures in day, and when
they are killed they are buried in their holes,
as they all die under ground.
A tomato Gamer says the cause of poison
ing from eating canned tomatoes is this /:
When the can is opened and only a portion
of the contents removed, the air acts upon
the tin and develops the poison. The can
should be emptied all at once and the unused
portion put in an earthen vessel.
1t is said that the Mexicans who occupy the
Mesila valley in New Mexico cultivate the
earth in the same crude manner as did the
ancient Egyptians. They pillow their lands
with the forked stick, yoke their oxen by the
horns, reap their grain with the sickle and
thrash it with goats, pound the grain between
two stones, cook it in eRrthen ovens and eat
it with their fingers, the whole family sitting
on the ground. They have no furniture OF
any kind; they need none they live out OF
doors most of the time, sitting in the shade
of their adobe-buit houses. Their houses are
all built of mud, the floors and roofs being OF
the same material; few of them have any
WlndOWp hhA AhuuJ hO hOOAbs II uOIbb, U
COW, or hog dies of any disease they will
take the carcass, dry and eat it.
The cultivation of forests has long boer
| systematically pursued in France, Spain and
Switzerland. The governments of these
countries have expended immense sums oil
money in the Alps, Pyrenees and Ardennes
where only the hardest and cheapest treel
can be grown. The planting of the low-lyinf
| lands near the Garonne has added $40, 900, OOC
sterling to the wealth of France, and a trao
of country once unhealthy and almost barren
has in 30 years become populous, prosperous
and active. The English government is seri
ously considering the cultivation of forests il
Ireland Mr. Howitz of Copenhagen, one Of
the highest authorities on this subject, has
visited Ireland and studied its adaptability tc
forest cultivation, and pronounces it one Of
the most favorable countries in the world fo
the growth of timber.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
THE HOUSEHOLD.


DR.. W. A. Bonwill in recent paper as
cribos the effect Of rapid breathing as an
anpsthetic to the influence Of the surplus Of
oxygen which is thus forced upon the lungs,
Just as by the inhalation Of nitrous oxide gas
(which is composed Of the same elements as
common air, but with larger proportion Of
oxygen, } and mentions a large variety OF cases
in his own practice where rapid breathing pro-
duced all the essential effects of a chemical
pain obtunder, without appreciably diminish
ing the consciousness Of the patient. Per-
sons who object to the use of chloroform
(perhaps from an instructive dread that in
their case the ether slumber might prove q
sleep that knows no waking can benumb
their nerves during the progress of surgical
operation by gasping as deeply and as rapidly
as possible. Zone OF the most marked
proofs Of its efficacy" says DIR. Bonwill,
"was the case Of boy OF IL years Of age for
whom had to extract the upper and lower
first permanent molars on both sides. He
bresthed rapidly for nearly minute, when l
removed in about 20 seconds all four of the
teeth. lie declared thoro was no pain, and
we needed no such assertion, for there was not
the least indication that he was undergoing
q severe operation"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02

A large number of crows were forRging for
food yesterday quite close to the house OF a
farmer residing in another town, near the
Hartford boundary. They were unusually
bold, as though hunger had driven them to
forget their usual shyness and distrust of
their natural enemy-man. Two of them lit
close to the back door and picked up the
crumbs with a seeming assurance of their
safety not easily accounted for. The farmer
was telling a neghbor of the tameness of the
birds, when the latter remarked; "You won't
see them so foolhardy tomorrow" "Why
not tomorrow as well as to-day ?" WAS the
query. because to- day is Sunday, and those
crows know it. They know that one day in
seven they are not popped at by boys and
men. They can count, crows can, and they
know that on the seventh day they are free
from persecution" "Do you believe such stuff
as that?" eyes, 1 do. used to live near a
swamp, where thousands of crows made
their roosting place, and early in the morn
ing they used to start for the mountains for
their food 1 was often out with my gun,
trying to get a shot at them. Week days they
beat shy of me, and 1 could seldom get shot
at them but on Sunday morning it was diff
ferent. Then they would fly low down and
close to my house, their wings almost flap
ping tho ridge boards of the house and barns.
Do crows know when it is Sunday9 OF
course they do."-Hartt0rd Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
Does the Forest Increase the Fall of
Rainf


One Of the things that official forest men
are expected to discover and proceed to en-
tighten the public upon is whether the Sc
we're droughts that have occurred of late years
were caused by the clearing away of the for
est. The fact that there is more forest now
over one-half of New England than there was
80 or 40 years ago, when we were having a
series of rainy seasons, is of no account.
The theory of the effect of the forest upon
the rainfall has been so beautifully demon
strated by high scientific authority that few
persons will be found 80 skeptical as to doubt
it. Without waiting to hear the report of
the distinguished commission of forestry for
this state, most of the editors have written a
column or less of editorial, showing that the
summers just past were much dryer than
those preceding, in consequence of the de-
struction of the forest It never seemed to
occur TO them that in Vermont there was
more surface covered with forest during the
last seasons, when we were parched with
droughts than during a long series of years
preceding, when we had abundant rains
equally distributed. Getting up beautiful
bhOhbIb VI Ehlu blOILub Wubu lu6y are Whuleu
by covering the country with forests is very
pretty idea, and famous men of science dem.
onstrate how the want of plenty of trees
drives awey the rain and causes droughts
yet now and then one doubts. The fact that
when the earliest records of rainfall were
kept and the forests covered most of the
country, the average precipitation of rain wal
a little less than it has been in q series of latel
years, encourages skepticism. There are nu-
merous other facts that would tend to discour
age those who believe that plenty of rain may
be had by turning the country into forest, il
they were not ignorant of them such as The
fact that in the northern part of Maine which
is still covered with forests, there is 25 PEE
cent less rain in the spring and summe
months than in the southern half, where tn,
land is mostly cleared aud that 25 per cen
less rain falls during the spring and summe
months on the forests of northern Michigan
than falls on the treeless prairies of Illinoi
and Iowa.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02

In spite Of all the diseases and all the insect
enemies to which the unfortunate potato
plant is subject, for once the country has pro-
duced more potatoes than we know what to
do with. There has been scarcely year be-
FORE since the advent OF the ten-line bugs,
when moro than enough good potatoes have
been raised to supply the demand through the
season, and for several years their scarcity
has caused them to sell at far above their real
value. They are now selling somewhat be-
low the ordinary cost of raising, though per
haps not below their intrinsic value as food.
According TO the tables of DIR. Wolf, it takes
about q bushels of potatoes to equal in feed
ing value a bushcl of corn. Others have es-
timated the value OF a bushel of corn, for
feeding equal to nearly four bushels of sound
potatoes. Il is certain that potatoes are worth
enough for feeding purposes to make 1t policy
for farmers to give them 10 cattle or swine
rather than try to force their sale when pota-
toes are not wanted and when the price is less
than the cost of raising them. Now is the
time to feed them out, as they begin to dete
riorate after the spring months and become
worthless late in the summer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
The Mountain laurel as a shrub for
the Lawn.

Rdlnid latif0Rd, more commonly known
us mountain laurel, calico bush, or spoon.
wood, Is common in the Northern states,
where it grows on damp ground, or along
hillsides forming dense thickets, which range
in height from ten to fifteen feet. The leaves
of the mountain laurel are mostly alternate,
lanceoate in FORM and of bright green col
or on both sides. The branches are crooked
and irregular in form, and Of o reddish brown
color.
Although one of the most beautiful wild
towering shrubs that deck the hilly landscape
of New England during spring and early sum
mer, strange as it may seem, it is rarely seen
upon the lawn or border as a cultivated
shrub. An evergreen, and in its season a
profuse bearer of most beautiful, large, snowy
flowers, it is truly pity that it has not long
since found its way into moro general cult
walton. Over thirty years ago. Mr.. A. j.
Downing, the leading landscape gardener of
his day wrote, "What new shrub, we would
ask, is there, whether from the Himmalayas
or the Andes, whether hardy or tender, which
surpagses the American laurel when in per-
lection, as to the richness of its dark green
foliage, or the exquisite dclicacy and beauty
of its gay masses of flowers 2"
Grown under circumstances that approach
| its native home as near as convenient, this
shrub will generally do well in a cool, rather
shaded place-a northern slope is preferable
| to a southern-where tbs subsoil is rather
damp. In preparing a spot for the growth
| of kalmias, it is best that the soil should be
rather gravelly or sandy, with a mixture of
black earth, or a CARLOAD or SO of rotten
leaves from the woods. Soil from the edge
of ravine, if of vegetable nature, is also
| good.
1t is to be regretted that our native plants
are neglected as they are, and that but few
farmers sec fit to ornament and beautify their
homo grounds, when the means are at their
disposal at small expense or trouble. With
so many of our beautiful wild flowers and
shrubs near at hand why neglect them for
the too often inferior introduced varieties
With the season of transplenting may this
mountain beauty find its way into the hearts
and homes of many lovers of flowers, fol
surely it is deserving of place where III
beauty may be geen and admired, rather thar
spent and lost.-COr. ". q. Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
Agricultural,

It is true that there arc farmers who hardly
gain comfortable livelihood during a life
time Of hard labor; and yet 80 years ago
there we're farmers who grew rich making
butter and selling It at 10 TO - cents pound,
cheese at Eve cents, pork at three cents, and
raising beef and mutton at prices about equal
to two or three cents pound live weight.
Is not farming as good business now, when
butter is worth 80 cents or more, pork seven
TO eight, the best beef cattle seven cents live
weight, sheep six to eight cents live weight,
and whom all other farm products, except
grain are bringing on on average more than
twice as much as then, and when merchan-
disc and manufactured articles such as the
farmer must purchase are much lower than
they were 80 years ago2
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
Fish Balls according to the Boston
Cooking school,

Use one pint of raw potatoes cut in pieces,
and one cup of cooked and faxed salt fish.
Put them on together to boil and cook until
the potatoes are tender draw off the water,
and mash with perforated mashor, beating
the potato and fish well together; add one
tablespoonful of butter, one quarter Of q salt
spoonful Of pepper, and one egg beat again
thoroughly until the ingredients are well
mixed and the whole is fine and smooth as
velvet. Shape on the spoon into small balls
and put into the frying basket, which has pre-
viously been dipped in the hot lard to keep
the balls from sticking to it do not let the
balls touch one another, as the entire surface
must be Drowned. Have the fat 80 hot th at
bit of bread will brown while you are count
ing 40, plunge the basket in and let it remain
until the fish balls are brown, drain well by
shaking the basket lightly over the fat until
nothing more can be shaken from it, set the
fish balls into pan lined with thin brown
paper, and place in the hot closet until the
rest are cooked and the whole perfectly dry
The beating is the most particular part of the
whole operation, as that makes them light
and puffy
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-02
3M0NT PH05NTx AND RECORD AND FARMER
PSALMS.



HEAB this, oil ye people, and give ear all ye inrd-
II lids of the world, Hop Bttois will make you
well and to rejoice
2. It shall cure all the people and put sickness aud
suffering under foot.
Q. Be thou not afraid when your family is sick, or
you have Brlghta disease or Liver Complaint for
Hop Bltters will euro you.
4. Both low and high rich and poor know the val
ne Of Hop Bitters for bilious, nervous and Rhcnmdf-
to complaints.
.. Cleanse me with Hop Bltcrs and shall have ro-
bust and blooming health.
G. Add disease upon disease and let the worst
come, am safe II use Hop Bltters.
T. For all my life have been plagued with sickness
and sores, and not until year ago was I cured by
Hop Ditters.
8. He that lccpeth his bones from aching from
rheumatism and Neuralgia, with Hop Bitters, doeth
wisely.
0. Though thou hast sores, pmplos, freckles, salt
rheum, erysipelas, blood poisoning, yet Hop Biters
will rcnOUe them ALL
10. What woman is there, fecbe and sick from fe-
male complaints, who dosireth not health and uscth
Hop Btters and is made ioeU.
H. Let not neglect to use Hop Ditters bring on &C.
rious Kidney and Liver complaints.
H. Keep thy tongue from being furrcd, thy blood
pure and thy stomach from indigestion by usihg Hop
Bitters.
49, All my pains and aches and disease 60 like chan
before the wind when l use Hop Bittcrs.
H. Mark the man who irds nearly dead and given
up by the doctors after using Hop Bitters and becom-
eth well.
IS. Cease from worrying about nervousness, gcner-
al debility, and urinary trouble, for Hop Bitters will
restore you. go