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MAINE CENTRAL IL. TX.
For Bangor, Bar Harbor, "a. John, the
White Mountains, Montreal,
and the West.


On and after Dec. goth, 1885, passenger trains
leave Portland, as follows:
For AUBURN and LEWISTON, s.45 a. m, LIS
LEWISTON Via BRUNSWICK, ITO a. MILO.
1922 6;0S ana tIi:20 2; n;
BRUNSWICK. Bath. GARDINER. HALO
WELL and AUGUSTA, ITO a. M. 1.20, sos
FARMINGT6N via LEWISTON. Sac a. m.
LILO p; ~: via BRu NsWICK, 20 0. m.
MUUNMOUTh, WINTHROP, READFIELD and
VAUDEVILLE Via LEWISTON, LIB m. via
AUGUSTA, 7.10 a. m, 1.2o and I'll 20 p. m
sKowH H EeSA Va O LEM " SIC Tbs
AUGUSTA, 7.1o a. M, 1.2O and til 20 D. m.
DOVER and FoxCRoF Fl via ia D iS s 20 and
BA zS$SsrZ Sia LEWISTON ST b LIZ liz v.
BANGOR 8 PlscxTAQGi 5 4; R.. via DEXTER
a. 10 ana IA tl Il 81 P, M via oLDrowN at
ELLSWORTH and BAR HARBoR at 12o and
vANCEBoRo, ARoosTOoK COUNTY, ST.
John, HALIFAX al and the PROVINCES, Lis,
runs every night, Sundays Included. but not to
skowhegan Monday morning or 10 Belfast and
Dexter, or beyond Bangor sunday MORNINGS.
WHITE MOUNTAINS, LINE.
For CUMBERLAND MILLS at s.45 1880 a. m.
BkIDGTON at S45 a. M. Las D. m.
SEBAGO LAKE, FRYEBURG, NORTH CON-
WAY, GLEN and BARTLETT, $40 a. m,
Las and GIG p. m.
CRAWFoRDs. FABYANs. WHITEHEAD,
LUNENBURG, ST. J0HNSBURY and MON
TREAL, S.45 a. m, els p. m.
The S.46 a. m. tram runs through TO Montreal
and connects for all points In Northern New
Hampshire, Vermont ana the Pacific Coast. The
6.1b p. m. train has Canadian Pacific sleeping
cars att sched and connects via 500 Line for
Minneapolis, st. Paul and all points in the sc-th-
west.
Arrivals In Portland-From Augusta and Bath
1856 a. M; Lewiston, $40 a.. m; Montreal, 80
a. M; Cumberland Mills. 11.5o a. m; Farming
John, yaneeRor9; Bangor, Dsxter, DiGsE, -.
croft Rockland, ETC., at 80 .. m. Bartlett and
Bridgton, $50 a. m. 4.40 d. m; Bar HarbOr
Bangor, Waterville, Bath. Augusta and Ro, k.
land, b.S5 2. M; Pennington and Lewiston at
6.4S p M; Montreal, 1856 p. m; Night Pullman
LAO a IA.
PAYSON TUCKER,
Vice Pres. and General Manager
Il. 4. BOOTHBY, Genl Pass and Ticket Agent
Portland, December 26th, 1889. dec3Odtf
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Shaker
Extract Of
Roots,
(Seigel's Syrup
Gu r z s
Dyspepsia.
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.

AUAMo EAFhE55 UOhFANTs
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o,s send Tor our Illustrated pamphlet, "How We
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Rumford Pals & ButEfieId Railroad
In Kffse, Nov. as, 1859.

Leave Portland, via g. T. Railway, s.45 g. m. and
1.30 ?. m. RETURNING-Leave Canton l.3O
and $50 a. m.
stage C0NNEOTIONs-DAL w
Minot for Hebron Academy; Buckheld for W.
sumner ard Turner. Canton Tor Peru, Dixhed
and Mexico, also for Brettun's Mllls Livermore
mylodi l.. l.. LINCOLN. Supt
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.


PORTLAND, Feb. 49, 1880.
The following are today's closing quotations Of
Grain, Provisions. &c..
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Whx continual the nse of irritalinr noud

Why continue the use of irritating powders
snuiis or liquids. Ely's Cream Balm pleasant of
application and sure cure for catarrh, and cold
IN head, can be had for 30 cents. 1t is easiiy ap
piled into the nostrls, is safe and pleasant and is
curing the most obstinate cases. 1t gives relief
at once.
A Diagnosis:
Mother-Oh, doctors My darling boy has swal-
lowed needle, what shall do?
Doctor-Do not be alarmed madam. He will
soon nave stitch In his side. We can then locate
the needle, and extract it.-Munsey's Weekly.
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THIS PAPER 9 sis 81 st l ssS. 3 =
Rowells Advertising Bureau 40 spruce sEeeQ
wherr advertising contrasts may DC MADE tor N
VIEW YORK.
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ls8S-SO. WINTER ARRANGEMENT. 1883!
MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY
For NEW YORK.

steamers leave Franklin Wharf on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at p. m. Returning, leave Pier
Saturdays at 4 pm. j. II. COYLE
Sept2l-dtf General Anee
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Now YORK Nalnlng Stocks.

NETWORK, Feb. Is 1s90-The following are
to-daY's closing quotations of mining stocks:
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Ruined Russian Aristoerats.

Many Of the Russian ~aristocracy are en-
tiTely ruined. Their estates are either
sold or else are mortgaged up to the very
hilt to the various banks and money
lenders. Even those who have been for
tunate enough TO escape fromthe clutches
OF the cent per cent gentry, and who
have managed toretain possession of their
domains, are in exceedingly reduced cir
cumstances OWING to the continuous de
crease In the value of land since the eman-
cipation of the serfs. According to an
official report just issued the number of
mendicants and avowed paupers in re-
ceipt of public relief and charity in the
four principal cities of Russia in Europe
include no less than 1926 noblemen-
among whom there are many Princes,
Counts and Barons. The clergy in these
cities furnish a further contingent of
5000 to 1000 of paupers in receipt of
State and communal relief. | may add,
however, says a st. Petersburg cores
pondent of the New York Tribune, that
Sebastopol enjoys the proud and unique
distinction in Russia of not having a sim
gle pauper OF mendicant within its walls.
Moscow, on the other hand, has no less
than AZ, 900 on its books.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
A Queer Occupatfon.

This man, or rather these men-for |
hear of another in Brooklyn, writes
Julian Ralph, in Ha,per's Weekly-search
the busiest streets at night by lantern
light. The car tracks, cross walks and gut
tiers ~monopolize their interest. To see the
man who searches Broadway at two or
three o'clock in the morning narrowly
scanning the stones recalls the stories
onee told in the cabins of Ireland about
picking up gold in the streets of New
York. This man believes those yarns,
and his faith prospers him. He picks up
the nickels, dimes and dollars that the rest
of us have dropped from horse-cars or
shaken out of purses, and the bills we
whip out of our pockets now and then by
accident, in taking out other things to
which they cling. He picks up brooches,
rings and all the things that dart from
us, like liberated birds, when once a few
stitches gave way in our pockets.
What is not foundry such JACKIE lanterns
is searched for by the Italians on the street
cleaning dumps. What they miss, we
give to Neptune. We do not give to the
Water-god as ostentatiously as the doges
of Venice tossed him the periodic wed
ding ring, but we give more generously
sufficient to make q mortal creature
very rich.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
BULBS FOR WINTER PIONEERING.

The bulbs should be ported as soon as
they can be had in a compost consisting
of good loan and rotten manure and road
grit, in equal parts, and should be just
covered with soil, ans the whole well
watered with a hose. When the water
has soaked away they should be stood
upon a firm bottom in the frame yard
and coal ashes put over them to the
depth of six or seven inches; here they
should remain until the pot is full Of
rc,ts. This is the object obtained by
coveting with ashes; the crown of the
bulb being kept cool and dark with the
covering, the roots grow away in advance
of the tops, and so the plants become
fitted to yield a good bloom, and here we
would say to beginners in bulb culture
lies the great secret of success. We have
seen people who ought to have known
better pot bulbs and place them at once
into a greenhouse for Towering, or into a
stove for early bloom. Of course they
were disappointed, but as a rule the quail,
ity Of the bulb has been blamed and not
the foolish treatment which it has re-
ceived. Now, we say to all who wish
for early flowers of Roman hyacinths, get
them as early as possible and treat them
as we have directed and a grand bloom
will be the result. Never subject them
to artificial heat before the pots are full
of roots.-Co 11san's Rural World.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
SHEEP AS

Writing in the New York Tribune,
L. B. Pierce says: Nov that sheep are
coming to the front once more, it is
possible that some very unproductive and
worthless slashings will be brought to
profitable condition. No other animal
is so at war with natures wildness as the
sheep. Scarcely any n~oxious thing ex-
cept thistles will gain a foothold in sheep
pasture; and there is no way of subdu-
ing a clearing SO thoroughly as to set
sheep a-feeding there. I know of a
clearing of ten acres that has been moth
ing but a bill of expense for eight years,
which now earring stumps) might have
been a clean, bluegrass pasture if it had
been made a run for a small flock of
sheep. The owner has had a spell OF
cutting brush and weeds about once in
two years, and now the last end of the
field is worse than the first. One of the
present beauty-spots is a half-acre patch
of t~easles. AS a run for cattle the field
has certainly not been worth twenty-five
cents an acre, and many Of the stumps
are no nearer decay than eight years ago,
the roots having been kept alive by
growing sprouts.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Sponge Fishing in the South Seas.

The sponge fishery of the South Seas
is an industry which evidently requires
only enterprise and organized labor to
become very profitable. The sponges of
the Pacific are generally regarded as in
ferior TO those of the Levant and Red
Sea, but the difference seems to lie in
certain processes of preparing for mar
ket, which are known to the Arabs, but
not in the Pacific. The best sponges in
these seas are mushroom shaped, and
vary from the size of q mans fist to two
feet in diameter. When removed from
the coral rock to which they cling they
are hard, heavy and black as tar. They
are cleansed by being suspended on a
frame work upon sandy beaches, where
the tide Gibbs and flows. When the tide
is out and they are exposed to wind and
sun their pulpy substance decays, and
when the tide rises the refuse matter is
washed away. Thus prepared they are
sold by the islanders at the rate of four
of the largest sponges for a yard of cali
co worth six or eight cents.-Nep York
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Born 4 Missionary.

An extraordinary affair has occurred at
Maryport. a few days ago the wife of q
Iaborer in the town gave birth to a son.
When the child was born it was found
that its head was covered with a veil or
caul. The veil was placed IN one side
and no notice was taken of it until some
hours after the child's birth. When ex-
amined, however, it was found that the
words british and Foreign Bible So
ciety" were deeply impressed upon the
veil. When this discovery was made the
greatest excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood, some of the women de-
claring that nothing short Of q miracle
had been enacted. The doctor, who IN
auired into the matter, however, o ex-
planned the affair. The veil while ii 4
pliabIe condition had been placed upon
q Bile on the cover of which the words
ssBantish and Foreign Bible Society"
were deeply indented. The words were
iii this way transferred so the veil, but
some Of the inhabitants still ascribe the
affair ID supernatural influence and de-
clare that the child is = missionary
born. leeds Eaglald9 Asreu1y.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
swEET PoTAToFs.

We doubt if there is any crop which
in ordinary years al be grown with more
satisfaction than sweet potatoes. There
are surely butt few vegetables so palatable,
yet many do not raise them in any guam
tity on account of the trouble of keeping
them through the winter. The potatoes
are usually dug with hoes, but in large
quantities may he dug in an easier man.
ner. As soon as a heavy frost strikes the
vines, which is readily known by the
leaves turning back, cut off the vines
close to the ground then, with a heavy
two horse pillow throw two potato row
together; then follow, remove the tubers
carefully ON the stem and lay them on
the soft SCI between the rows to dry off,
which they viii do in an hour or so.
They must be handled as carefully az
eggs, espe ally at this time, as the skin
Is very tender and can be rubbed off by
the hand, nor should they ever b,
thrown, but carefully laid down. Thia
is a very important feature of safely
keeping them through the winter. II
may seem unnecessary trouble, yet i
sweet potatoes are expected to keep In
good condition they cannot be handled
too carefully. AS soon as they are dried,
carefully rub of any adhering loan OF
soil by turning each tuber around in
your hands q couple of times, and then
place them in the baskets, barrels OF
chests in which they are to be stored, SC
that they cannot be readily shaken about
when the packages are handled. II in
tended for immediate shipment, they arr
at once forwarded in well ventilated
barrels or boxes. Large strawberry crates
are excellent to pack in when intended
for keeping, d they are not 80 deep as
barrels. e intended for winter use Of
sale, the packages should be stored ii i
veil ventilated place. free IRON damp.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

ness, where they can remain until colo
weather comes on, when they should bt
removed to a warm room. The packages
containing the potatoes should not bt
moved more than is absolutely necessary,
as changing them from place to place il
apt to produce sweat and decay. One o:
the very best places to keep sweet pota-
toes during winter is a tight loft or room
over the kitchen, so constructed that the
heat from below can readily be utilized
in warming the loft or upper room, Il
should be borne in mind that rats and
mice are very fond of "sweets," and will
o o do considerable damage among
them if no guarded against. Sweet DO.
satoes can stand much more heat in win
ter than the common potato; in fact
will keep well under a degree of heat
which would soon shrivel or rot the latter.
In the spring a good market is easily
found for them, and a large number can
De proitably disposed of by almost every
:armer. The raising of plants from the
potatoes makes an item in profitable
farming also.-NeD York Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
HINT TO CELERY GROWERS.

We all know of the trouble and delay
of gathering the stalks of celery plants
together before the earth is drawn about
it if each n has to be tied up or held
separately. For three years, says I. V.
Shank, in Husbondman, 1 have
adopted the following plan, which
at first was an experiment, the
results of which has proved entirely
satisfactory: I dug a trench about nine
inches in width. Set the plants about
five inches apart directly along the centre
of trench. Before drawing in earth
crowd the space between the bank and
the plants with straw, which effectually
prevents the soil from coming in contact
with the celery, and so continues to the
required height; after which l cover the
top with straw to the depth of four
inches, and finally cover all with earth
to a depth sufficient to protect from
freezing if left out over winter.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
CARE OF CALVES.

The Maine Farmer truly says there is
much bad management with calves in the
colder months of the year. IF confined
to the pasture where they have run dur
ing the summer, without additional food,
they are sure to grow thin in flesh and
lose ground when they ought to be grow
ing right along. On the other hand, if
turned into a run of extremely fresh grass
they are quite liable to scour, and. many
times this difficulty will follow so long as
the grass lasts. Later on they are left
out exposed to the cold storms and frosty
nights of late autumn and compelled to
live as best they are able on only frosted
grass. As a result of all this 3ey come
to winter quarters reduced in condition
and actually less in weight than at a time
two or three months previous.
Now, what has been gained from the
feed they have consumed during the time
and from the time that has passed with
out graina This has all been lost, and
more than lost, for it win take some time
and good feed to turn the tide and start
them again into thrift. A good practice
is to house them nights and give extra
feed of some kind. We have secured
very satisfactory results from a feed Of
good hay each night at the barn. OF
course more rapid growth can be made
by adding wheat bran, crushed oats OF
linseed meal. At any rate they should
be keptatthriftily growing, and to do ii
must have something good to eat beside
what they ca get in pasture at this sea-
son of the Asf.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
CRIBBING CORN.

[ have yet to learn the economy of
cribbing corn with the shuck on, writes
N. J. Shepherd in the Western Plouman.
The large amount of storage room re-
1uired, the more handling necessary with
The extra work of handling that is occa-
stoned is certainly worth more than the
small amount of feed that is received in
the shucks. If roughness is needed it GER
tainly can be secured at a much less cost,
and of a considerably better quality by
cutting the fodder in good season.
After the corn has matured sufficiently
to gather and store away there is but a
small amount of nutriment in the dried
up shucks, It is not good economy to
feed corn to stock of any kind with the
shuck on, and hence if stored away with
out husking it must be all handled over
again before feeding 1t will not keep
any better in the shuck than without; In
fact, if the corn is exposed and gets wet
it will damage more in the crib if it is
left with the hlsk on than without. More
crib room is required to hold a given
number of bushels, and more handling
will be required from the field. It can
be jerked off in the field in a little less
time than to shuck clean, but the work
Of husking again before feeding out will
more than make this up so that so far as
the work is concerned and the expense of
properly storing, husking clean in the
field will be found the most economical
plan, while in feeding out much time will
also be saved.
1t is always best in harvesting and
storing any crop to take reasonable
pains to put in as good condition as pos
sible, and in a majority of cases this can
be done at a much less expense at the
start than to wait until it is needed, either
for feeding or to send to market, and
then be obliged to handle over again be-
fore it can be considered as being in a
suitable condition. Wheat, oats, barley
and rye can be cleansed much more thor
oughly before putting in the bins in
graneries than afterward; and whichever
plan will economic labor to the best adj
vantage should be used.
And it is certainly not economizing
IhDOl " StDIO SO1A AZ tIlS C11U WILL JIG
shuck on, where, before it is fed out, it
must all be handled over again, and the
shuck be taken off before it is fed to the
stock. Even to hogs and cattle it is no
real saving. The cattle will waste more
or less corn in attempting to eat shuck,
cob and grain all at once, and often more
grain is wasted than the value of the
shuck as feed in giving cattle corn in the
shuck. What is fed to the hogs, has at
least wasted the shucks, while there is al
ways more or less waste of grain that
could have been saved if the corn was fed
shucked. With sheep and horses the
corr should always be shucked before
feeding. And it is only in exceptional
cases that this can be done cheaper in the
crib than in the field.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
The Strength or Human Hair.

Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
head; the fair-haircd may even have to
dress seventy miles Of threads Of gold
every morning. A German experiment
alist has proved that d single hair will
suspend four ounces without breaking,
strstching under the process and con-
tracting again. But the hair thus
weighed must be dark brown, for blonde
hair breaks down under two and q half
ounces.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
An Informal Rcpast.

u suppose, = said Mrs. Brown, ssyou
would like me to wear q new dress at this
Thanksgiving dinner you are going to
Eseaas
.sCaa't afford il, growled old Brown
80 long IA You have the turkey well
dressed Jon will pass muster
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Hog cholera is often a proof of bad
feeding.
Did you select and secure your corn be-
fore the frost?
How much land do you 3 aste in fenc-
ing your farm2
Plenty Of salt is as good for hogs as
for the cows, especially If the hogs are in
pasture.
If the cows are to do good service next
winter, they must receive proper care and
~atention now.
II the frost cut the tomato vines before
the fruit was mature it may pay to pickit
for the hogs OF cows. We feed ours to
the COWS.
1t is said that sorrel horses are less
sensible to heat than horses Of other col
ors, and that they have more endurance
than others.
Farmers are becoming more and more
Of the opinion that it is the early plow-
ing and not 81 much the early sowing that
brings the best wheat.
Have as few fences on the farm as pos
sible. They are n of the biggest taxes
tho farmer has, and he should cut them
down as much as possible.
In many cases it will be found a good
plan to apply a good dressing of well
rotted manure around the strawberry
plants in the fall before mulching.
Now is the time to remember that it
rarely pays to keep summer pigs over the
winter-crowd them 10 that they can be
ready for market by the holidays ct least.
Milk that is quickly and without agi-
tation cooled to forty-ive degrees or
slightly below, is put at a point where
there can only be very slow chemical
change in its elements.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Fireproof Wood.

Tie recent discovery by a New Eng
land chemist of a cheap method of dis
solving zinc by combining it with ny
drogen is regarded as a most valuable
one. The product is a solution called
zinc water, and has the property of max
ing wood to which it has been applied
absolutely fireproof, and at q very low
cost. This discovery is likelyt to revolu.
tionize fire insurance, as well as to i'm
mensely decrease the loss by fire.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
How's Thise

We fer One Hundred Dollars Reward fol-
shy case of Ca arrh that cannot be cured by
taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY g. CO., Props, Toledo, 0,
We, The undersigned, nave known F. J.
Chen y for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac'
tons. an financially able TO carry out any
oi1;eations made by their firm.
West & Trux, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo,
Ohio. Wald n Kinnan & Marvin, Whole.
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
E. Ii, Van H4sen, Cashier Toledo Natio IN
al B Ark, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of tie syst sn. Price 75:. per bot.
tie. Sold by oil Druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
A Hairless Man.

A mar thirty years old, with no hair
on his head, no whiskers IN his face and
no eyebrows, is under treatment in a st.
Louis hospital. He comes from Texas
and claims to have been hairless
from his birth. He has been married
once, and another Lone Star belle
has agreed to become his bride if the
defects in his makeup can be remedied.
This Is why he put himself in the
doctors hands