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Year: 1869

Go 10 the Republican Meeting To-Night.


This political campaign is to be very short
one. The only public meeting to be held by
the Republican party will be the one at City
Hall tonight The gentlemen whose voices
were often heard with pleasure and profit dur
ing the heavy fighting of the last autumn ~ill
be listened to again tonight. Let there be no
baekwardness about going to the meeting. II
is not well to incur the slightest risk of allow
ing our City Government to fall into the hands
of the party that have made use Of their as
tendency in other cities of the country to
plunder the people without stint. 1t is not
well that on the very eve of Grants advent to
the Executive chair we should by our neglect
or apathy permit anything to occur which will
in ever so slight degree dim the lustre of the
victory which we did 30 much to win. Let us
rather emulate the example of our political
brethren in the States of New York and In
diana, who have at recent elections shown o
firm adherence to the principles which they
sustained triumphantly in the Presidential
campaign
Year: 1869

ONE of the two Democratic cities OF Maine
will be redeemed this spring. An Augusta
gentleman informs us that there is hardly
doubt that the municipal election in that city,
a week from next Monday. will be carried by
the Republicans. Judge Titcomb is likely to
be the Republican candidate.
Year: 1869

A COLLECTION will be taken up tomorrow
by.direction of the Right Rev. Bishop Bacon
for the benefit of the Widows Wood Society
in both Catholic churches. 1t is hoped liber-
al contribution will be given for this worthy
object of charity. This Society has relieved a
great many poor widows and orphans this win
ter. and it is hoped all will help in this good
work of charity.


DANIEL. i. R0nAN niroofor
Year: 1869

BRIEF LocALs.-A woman named Eliza
Newton, who was living at the work-house,
having been carried there about a week since
in i'll health, died suddenly yesterday morning.
She had been given her medicine by the nurse
the night before. and when her room was en-
tered in the morning she was found to be dead.
She was from the Isle of Shoals and about 65
years of age.


A grand subscription ball is ON the tapis, to
take place after Lent.


The ladies of the First Parish Church have
organized sewing society, to sew for the chill
dren of Preble Chapel.


The locomotive Oasco was stuck for about
fifteen minutes in front Of Dana & Co.'s store,
on Commercial street, yesterday afternoon
unable to proceed forward or backward.


The Moravian got into port yesterday just in
time to escape the thick snow storm, which
might have compelled her to remain outside
until to-day.


Tho velocipede mania seems to have invaded
the quiet town of Casce. We saw one of the
machines on country team bound for that
place yesterday.


A velocipedist passed down Exchange street
yesterday afternoon creating good deal of at
tention.


Gen. s. j. Anderson and Hon. s. e. Spring
left for Augusta yesterday noon to attend the
meeting of the Railroad Committee of the
Legislature last night, who are to hear the
wishes of the Portland people in regard to the
bill now before them in favor of the Rutland
road extending its line to tide waters These
gentlemen take with them the endorsed opin-
ion of the Portland City Government mer-
chants and Board of Trade against the pro-
posed bill.


Planchettes still please the public. A man
ufacturer in this city received an order for 200
from New York on Monday.
Year: 1869

The life of all fishes is one of perpetual war fare, and the only law that pervadas the gt eat world of waters Is that of the strongest, the swf est and the mos yoracious. The carnage of the sea immeasurabIy exceeds even that which is permitted to perplex our reason on earth. We know, however, that without it the pcpulat on of the sea would soon become so immense that, vast as it is. it would not suffice for it's multitudinous inhabitants, Few fishes probably die a natural death, for some seem to have been created solely for the purpose of devopring others There is none, probably, which does not feed upon some other species or on it's own

 Many of the monsters that roam the watery plains are provided with maws more than ca- pabie of enguling thousands of their own kind day, A hogshead of herring have been taken cut of the belly of whale A shark probably destroys tens ofthousands in year Fifteen full sized herrings have been discov. cred in the belly of cod

 Sea birds are scarcely less destructive to fish than fish are to each other. The solon goose can swallow and digest at least six full sized herrings per day Ithas been calculated that the Island of St. Kilda, assuming 1t to be inhabited by two hundred thousand of these binds, feeding for seven months in the year, and with an allowance of five herrings each per day. the number of fish necessary Tor the summer subsistence of a single species of bird cannot be under two hundred and fourteen millions, Compared with the enormous con- sumption offsh by birds and each other, the draughtS made upon the sea by man, with all his ingenious fshing devices, seen to dwindle into absolute insignifcance.
Year: 1869

They have brought into use in Maine
a new style of farm wagon to take the
place of the cart, and it is said to be ex.
ceedingly handy for unloading manure
wood, and anything else that may be
dumped. The construction of this vehi.
Gle is very much like the common wagon
only there is no reach used. Some one
writing from Maine thus describes it:


"Thers is q bard wood beam extend.
ing from the rocker to the rear axle, on
each side of the body, which beams sup.
port the body in dumping only, as they
rest upon the rocker at the fore end
end upon the iron rod, hereafter de.
scribed, at the rear end, when the wagon
is in motion. But when the body is
dumped, it turns upon an iron rod which
extends from beam to beam and through
the sills of the body, thus making a
hinge upon which it dumps. The body
extends back only to the rear axle, and
the side boards are cut obliquely, 90
they will not touch the axle in dump
ing. The loss in the side boards is made
up by the triangular pieces built upon
the tail-board. The tail-beard is hung
by hinge upon the axle, and may be
turned down or not, when the body is
dumped, at the pleasure of the operator


The body, when loaded, is supported
upon the rocker at the fore end, and at
the rear end by an iron rod running
from beam to beam, just in front of the
axle, which is grooyed just enough to
permit the rod to be withdrawn from
beneath the bottom of the body (Which
is trimmed with sheet iron two inches
wide to prevent wearing) when the load
is dumped, which is done by means OF
the upright lever, which is q continual
tion of the rod, and is bent upwards at
q right angle as soon as itpasses through
the beam, and it works the rod back ia
to the groove in the axle to let the body
dump, or it pushes the rod under the
body to hold it up and sustain the load.
his lever is held in place, to prevent
accidental dumping, by a spring attach
ed to the beam at one end and running
back to the lever, and has a notch in it,
into which the lever slips and is firmly
held. The load may be easily dumped
with one hand. No other fastening is
needed. The beams for a single wagon
should be FIVE inches wide, and one and
aquarter thick. They should extend
above the rocker and axle about an
inch.


1t has all the advantages of An ordi.
nary farm wagon for heavy work, and
the great additional advantage ofdump.
ing. 1t thus enables the farmer ordina.
rily to dispense. with carts entirely. 1t
costs no more than other wagons of the
same size, strength and style of finish,
and is equally durable and simple in
construction and operation. Among
the important improvements Of the daS
in agricultural implements, this is Ger.
tainly one."
Year: 1869

It is well established fact that fully one.
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially rec6nmended
Year: 1869

fEhoONo ADNAnCED In LIFE
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all it's attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will nstil new life into their veins,
restore In measure the energy and ardor OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
ranaaininu
Year: 1869




In little post town among the High
lands of Scotland, far away from any great
city, there lived. a few years ago, woman
much respected and we'll beloved, though
of a lowly birth and humble fortuue-one
Mrs. Jean Anderson She had been left
widow with one son, the youngest and last
of several promising children. She was
poor, and her industry and economy were
taxed to the utmost to keep herself and
her son, who was fine, clever lad, and to
give him the education he so ardently de-
sired. At the early age Of sixteen, Nal
colm Anderson resolved to seek his fortune
in the wide world, and became sailor.
He made several voyages to India and
China, always, like the good boy he was.
brought home some useful present to his
mother, to whom he gave also large
portion Of bis earnings.
Year: 1869

EyT The friends Of a wit expressed
some surprise that with his age and his
fondness for the bottle he should have
thought it worth while to marry.


"A wife was necessary" he said; "they
began to say that drank too much for a
single man"
Year: 1869

A few evenings since, an incident occur
red which to some was laughable, although
everything, SO far as we know, was taken
good humoredly all around 1t appears
that there is living on the line Of one Of the
city railway lines young widow, who has
a dashing young suitor for her heart and
hand-at least we presume such is the case
His visits to the residence Of the lady are
frequent


On the evening alluded to above, he was
expected to call there, and she arranged a
surprise-an agreeable surprisc-for him.
Whether the surprise turned out agreeable
to him, however, we are not prepared to
say Owing to some business engagement
Of pressing nature, the suitor was unable
to keep his engagement, and be sent a note
to the lady by one Of the street car eondue-
tors, who promised to deliver it as soon as
he reached the house; aud would undoubt
edly have strictly kept his word had it not
been for little circumstance which inter
fered to prevent it.


The evening was little dark, the sky be-
ing just overcast enough with murky clouds
to obscure ones vision, and to prevent any
particular object being distinguished at any
great distance. The conductor jumped off
the car when opposite the lady residence,
having previously requested the driver to
proceed to the end of the route without
him. He walked boldly up to the front
door, and, just as he was in the act Of ring-
ing the front door bell, his neck was encir
cled by pair Of arms, and warm kisses
we're imprinted forcibly and fast upon his
potato-trap," as they say in prize ring
circles.


Of course, the man who had wife and
family at home, was unable for the time to
divine the sudden attack, and he struggled
hard to free himself from the grasp of the
stranger The more he struggled the more
tightly did his fair captor fasten her hold
upon him, and the following conversation
putun end to the scene.


Conductor-Let me 60, win you?


Lady-WelI, John, this is the first time
you ever struggled so hard What is the
matter with you, my dear?


Conductor-My name amt John, I'm a
street car conductor, and l did not come
here to get squeezed to death. Here's a
letter for you, ma am.


Denoucment-Lady faints; conductor ap-
pears bewiIdered, and don't know which
way to go; rings bell; gets waiter; letter
picked up; mystery explained; old gent 60
ing to kick stranger out of his door; eonduc-
tor makes satisfactory explanation; lady
RECEIVERS, and makes conductor promise not
to say a word about the matter; reporter in
the neighboThood splitting bis sides with
! laughter. Detroit Tribune
Year: 1869

There is considerable more truth than poe
try in the following extract which We clip
from an exchange


1.-THE public corporations, societies and
associations, generally have funny notion
about printers. They think we ought 10
print, put and publish all for nothing, that
is free gratis, in other words they seem as
tonished if We ask half price only for an
obituary notice, card of thanks, tribute of
respect, personal communication, or any
thing else that only interests a few persons,
and not the general reader. They think 1t
costs nothing to advertise, puff, etc. And
thus one and another viii sponge. They for
get that this business makes them known
They forget that it is printers ink that
makes nine-tenths of their immense for
tunes they forget that it takes money to
pay compositors--to buy ink, type and pa
per, and lastly they forget even to thank
youssfor working for nothing, by gratuitouslY
Dufing their business or serving the public.
Did you ever hear Of anybody, or any cor
poration, thanking an editor for what he
had done? Guess not. We print for money
Ito make living Persons viii therefore
govern themselves accordingly. "
Year: 1869


Once Abram sat at his tent door,
To entertain some guest
Some tray Ter, penniless and poor;
To give him food aud rest.
When, 10 a poor wayfariug man,
Oppressed With grief and care
a pilgrim, weary, pale, and wan,
For charity came there.
His clothes we're tattered, Old, and worn,
His feet were swelied and sore
A man unfortunate, forlorn,


He stood at Abram's door
The patriarch, with open arms,
His sorrowiug guest received
With generous frehe cheeredandwarmed,
And all his wants relieved.
But, when he sat him down to meat,
No blessing did he crave;
And, in his haste began to eat;
No thanks to God he gave.
The God Of Heaven he did not own;
His God alone was FIRE
To none beside be bowed him down,
None else did he desire
Then Abram said, "Quick leave my door,
Be banished from my sight
An infdel I'll not endure


To tarry for nigh"
But God to 6bram spake ana said,
''Where is the man of grief
I sent him to be warmed and fed,
For pity and relief?
Give borne with him and been his stay
Since first his life began
And can'st not thou, single day,
Bear with my fellow man p
Then Abram brought him back again,
And made his sorrows cease
He clothed and lodged the poor old man,
Then let him go in peace.
Year: 1869

Tue first families in Virginia are accus
toned to sneer at the industrious, honest,
God-fcariug Puritans, and claim to be de
seended from the idle, dissolute, younger
sons Of English gentlemen who took refuge
in the colony from the disagreeable atten-
tions Of the sheriff, and his bailiffs. Igno-
rance and overweening pride are the causes
of the ignorant pretentious of these caya-
liers who are aow reduced to the most alb
iact poverty BY their own blind folly; for the
gentry who did al in their power to destroy
the rising colony, have now almost, If not
entirely, died out. and the prominent men
of the present day in Virginia are descended
from the emigrant laborers, the emaucipa-
ted white servants and the transported con
vicis. Recent investigation show that not
twenty Of the old families have living repre-
sentatizes, and that the men who are now
boasting Of their purity Of descent, spraIlg
from ignoble sources, To give single in
stance, the ancestor of the great Henry A
Wise was sold for one hundred pounds o
tobacco to pay his passage money to Amer
ca. and the bill of sale Is preserved in pm
yate library in Washington,
Year: 1869

Az American writer says "A woman
will cling TO the chosen object Of her heart
like a possum to a gum tree, and you can t
separate her without snar2ing strings no
art can mend, and leaving portion Of her
soul on the upper leather of your Affections
She will sometimes see something to love
where others see nothing to admire; and
when fonduess is once fastended On fellow,
it sticks ike glue aud treaele in a bushy head
Of hair
Year: 1869

HAsTY FRIENDSHIP. people are
continually acquiring ''dear friends. La
dies Of an impressible nature have been
known to add two or three to their list ev-
cry week during the season. Men are
not, generally speaking, as apt to rush into
friendship as the more amiable sex; jet
many Of US contract friendship in haste,
that we repent at leisure. True friends are
scarce articles. They cannot be picked up
like pebbles VIII the ladies excuse us for
saying that mems friendships are, in most
cases, stronger than theirs? The charming
young creatures who walk with arms linked
around each others waists, and exchange
kisses and condolences daily, are not, as
general thing, SO closely, welded together
by mutual affection but that envy or jeal-
ousy may part them or even make them
enemies A true friend is hard TO find.
Year: 1869

\ BAD THROAT President TuttIe tells
of a man who, 1s43. asked Cincinnati
physician to examine his throat The doc
tor told him his throat was ell right, but the
man told him to take another look for,
said he, something is the matter with my
throat But the doctor could see nothing
Wei said the man, / think there must be
something wrong with my throat, for I have
swallowed hundred thousand dollars worth
of farming utensils and stock, besides
hundred slaves


This seems to be bard case, but We
think our boys can explain it. and tell what
was she true nature of this mans disease ?
What is it boys?
Year: 1869

A SOLDIER who lost his scalp with Gus
tar at Washita tells how it felt First an
Indian elubbsd him as he lay wounded.
Then squaw squatted on his breast and
pulled his bair out by hapdfuls as she
screeched his death soug or something else;
and finally this was the process: The In
dian stepped one foot on my chest, and with
his hand gathered up the hair near the
crown Of my head He wasn't very tender
about it, but jerked my head this way and
that, and pinched like Satan. My eyes were
partially open, and I could see the bead
work trimmings on his leggings. Suddenly,
[ felt the awfulest biting, cutting fash go
round my head, and then it seemed to me
Just as If my whole head had been ierked
clean off. never felt such pain in all ny
life; why, it was like pulling your brains
out, / didn't know any moro for two or
three days, and then came to find that l
had the sorest head of any human that ever
lived. l was shipped down to Laramie after
bit, and all the nursing got hain't made
the hair grow out on this spot yet.
Year: 1869

A Boy s COMPOSITION ON Ice. Il like
ice When it's cold, I like it best. Ice is
good for a great many things 1t is good
to skate on. and it Is good to make ice
cream | ike to skate. Sometimes / lend
my skates to Lizzie Jones, and she lets me
buckle them on for her. She wears striped
stockings, With red and white and blue
stripes running around them, and her legs
look Ike stick Of candy Father says ice
IS good in eobblers / don know why il is
better in eobblers than in little boys. I sup
pose | shall be good deal wiser whenI grow
up. | ike ice cream with plenty Of vanilla
in it. There is more ice-cye2n in the sum
mer than in winter, and more ice in winter
than there Is in summer. There are heaps
Of things DO not understand Mother says
if eat too much ice cream it viii make my
stomach hurt. / eat all want, but | am
careful not TO eat too much, because mother
tells me not 10. When next winter comes
Lizzie Joues and are going to skate some
more. There viii not be any more winter
until after summer comes. The seasons are
mighty odd in this country. Sometimes
winter comes before summer, and some
time summer comes before winter. Spring
always comes after winter. Father says l
may have a new pair of skates next summer,
When I get to be man, | am going to
pour red stuff on the ice to warm it, before
put it in my mouth, ike father does.
Year: 1869

Three or four miles southwest Of Bay
an Station, on the Pacific railroad, IS a
high bluff Of loose sand that plainly in
dicates its being drited there BY the winds.
All over the ground sou see large peices Of
heavy stone, showing the bark, the grain,
and the size of tie tree from which it grew
as plain as daylight.


Dig down few feet and you fnd large
sections Of trees, showing the rough bark.
the sap and heart Of an oak tree as plainly
as though it was freshly cut block to split
into shingles. Then, again. have seen
leaves taken out at the depth Of three or
four feet, petrifed, yet showing the ridges
and veins, and as transparent as the day
they fell from the father oak. From all the
indications, / think. had Cortez visited the
spot, he would have seen the petrifed logs.
chunks and leaves showing almost as great
age as we now see them.


Some writers tell of a petrifed forest
standing here in the far West, bat do not
give the story credit; yet l am convinced
that one does exist, and the pieces remain
ing on the surface are fast approaching de-
cay. | saw also petriied turtle taken
out Of deep cut somewhere between Bryan
and Echo. 1t looked az natural as a snap
ping turtle, just pulled out Of the river.
Where one Of its legs came out Of the shell
it had been broken; and different qualities
Of stone could be seen, differing in color, as
does the meat in quality Of that very singu-
lar animal. = Cincianntf Gnnll,llrctnL
Year: 1869

NO ROOM FOR LOAFERs. These
words recently met our eyes as we passed a
workshop IN this city. No room for
loafers. Sure enough, there is no room
for loafers anywhere in this working world.
They are not wanted in the busy workshop,
nor in the editors sanctum; they are a
nuisance in the country store, splitting ana
spewing about the stove, and at the post
Office and street corners are in every body S
way. They are forever out Of place-ex-
cept when IN the aImshouse or Jail A dead
weight upon society, they are q bindranec
and BORE They form no part Of nature $
pan; it abhors them, as it does vacuum.
While all the world around them is going
forward, they are standing still, or rather
gliding imperceptibly backward into seedy
vagabondism. A loafer soon grows rusty.
It is only use which keeps our faculties
bright and the idle man gets dull. stupid,
stolid and muddy headed


Yet some Of these fellows seem to think
very well Of themselves. You will see
them strutting along the sunny side of the
street, lounging at corners, or hanging
about the doors Of the hotels, with fine
clothes upon their backs, and a well salts
fed smirk upon their vacant countenances
The poor creatures look down upon poor
working man as being of inferior order
No doubt the drones affect to despise thC
busy bees, until they are driven from thc
hive to starFe, while the workers feast upor
the honey. 4 loafer setting himself abov,
the man who labors with his hands, Why
he is as far beneath him as, in the order 0
creation, the sloth is beneath the common
horse. A young mechanic, in his working
dress, and with his tools in his hands, i
every way more agreeable object than tn,
best dressed loafer in existence. There i
always room for him. He IS never out o
place, for he is keeping step with the move
ment Of the universe. He has an aim,
purpose, and he stands for something. Hi
faculties are trained to use, and he is o
value to the world for what be can do. Tht
skilled workman is TO the idle man what tn,
manufactured article is to the raw material
He has an additional value above thar o
mere manhood.
Year: 1869

OMAHA, March 22.--General Warren and other
members of the Special Commission who have
been examining the Union and Central Pacific
Railroads, are expected to return here this week.
They proceed to Washington and there make a
report.


A very severe snow storm has been raging at
Salt Lake and west OF that point during the
past few days.