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Year: 1869

INAUGURATION DAY.-The Inauguration of
General Grant as President of the United
States was observed in this city by display of
flags on the public, as weu as on many private
buildings giving the appearance of holiday.
In foreign countries when new King or
Queen asesnds to the throne it is the occasion
for imposing ceremonies and national holi-
day. So when our President is inaugurated
great display is made in the chief city of the
country and we cannot see why the people
shoald not be given holiday to join in the
general rejoicing. We helieve a good many
of the clerks did get an extra quarter of an
hour yesterday noon from mistake in time
which was caused by the First Parish bell
ringing at fifteen minutes before twelve for the
Union Prayer Nee ting
Year: 1869

A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk
and water will restore grapes.


Ribbons of every kind should be
washed in cold suds and not rinsed.


Ifyour fat irons are rough, rub them
with fine salt and il will make them
smooth.


Scotch snuff put in holes where crick.
cts come out will destroy them.


Wood ashes aud common salt wei
with water will stop the crack of 8
stove.


Half cranberry, it is said, bound on
n corn will soon kill il.
Year: 1869

The following is very simple way tc
keep flowers in a vase fresh for long
time:


Put tablespoonful Of powdered char
coal into the water which is to receive
the tiowerstalks. The charcoal will
settle Immediately on the bottom of the
vase, and the water will remain limpid
This done, it is not necessary to renew
the water or the charcoal for several
days. The flowers will keep their fresh,
ness and their perfume, and will look
and smell as fine as those Just brought
in from the harden.
Year: 1869

PorATOEs should always be kept in
the dark. Rural housekeepers do not
need to be told this, but many others
who live in towns and cities should
kno " that potatoes exposed to the light
for day only, have their flavor injured,
and the longer exposed the worse they
are. Never use greenish potato.
Year: 1869

Lay the oysters on seiye to drain
the liquor from them; leave it to settle,
then pour off the clear portion and boil
it up we'll with pepper, salt, mace and
ginger to the taste; then wash the oys-
ters we'll in several waters to remove all
the slime, and give them one boil up
in the liquor.
Year: 1869

John Adams was remarkable as an
early riser, as a great smoker, and as a
lover of cider. 1t was common with
him to rise at or o'clock in the morn.
ing, and read, smoke, and drink cider
for one or two hours before the rest OF
the family was stirring. When he went
out to dine, he was never at ease unless
he had with him his own pewter plate
to eat from. 1t was his invariable Gus.
tom to take the latter article with him
wherever he went.
Year: 1869

In working butter, whether in sailing
or working out the buttermilk, the but
ter should be squeezed with the ladle
and not moulded as some do. 1t breaks
the grain OF the butter and makes it
salyy.
Year: 1869

Wet the linen which contains the
mildew with soft water; rub it well
with white soap; then scrape some
chalk to fine powder, aud rsb it well
into the linen; lay it out on the grass
in the sunshine, watching to keep il
damp with soft water. Repeat the pro-
cess the next day, and in a few hours
the mildew will entirely disappear.
Year: 1869

1t is we'll established fact that fully one
half Of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or u
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 recommended.
Year: 1869

Loans OF cash gold were made at rates ranging
from per cent for carrying TO per cent for borrow
ing IN. to Clearing House time. la the afternoon
l-S2 and lilo were paid for borrowing The transae
tons OF the Gold Exchange Bank resulted as fol-
Year: 1869

~ tN6 G0StOT ~ We EToSds


BY an act of the last Legislature, provision
was made for restocking some of the interior
water of our State with certain kind of fish
which were long since driven out by reckless
sportsmen, dams, water-wheels and other in
stitutions and appliances of civilization
This was great pity, as it was that the An
cocisco Indians should not always possess our
corn and potato fields for a hunting ground;
and our last Legislature undertook to redress
the wrongs Of the finny tribes, and provide
them with fish ways up and down the shores,
at the expense of mill owners who were never
consulted in the matter. The obligation OF
building those ways" through dams is made
imperative by heavy forieitures in case of neg
lect and the whole authority and say in the
matter are lodged In the hands of our worthy
fish commissioner. The expense, says my
friend. the commissioner, of putting flsh-way
In a certain dam on the Presumscot, where the
whole head is estimated at eighteen feet will
be the snug little trife of five hundred dollars.


At this rate 1t viii cost rather more than foe
thousand dollars to restock the Presumpscot
with salmon, etc. And for whose benefit must
dam owners be subjected to this expense?
Why, the spOrtsman's, the clerks, the bar
tenders, in short al the gentlemen of elegant
leisure and snug pataloons are to be allowed
to fish up and down our beautiful rivers at GER
tain seasons at the expense OF men who are inn
proving the water powers and expending all
the money they can afford to develop the in
dustrial resources Of the country. Gen. Grant
says the best way to make bad law odious is
to enforce it. 1t is to be hoped that the fish
commissioner will show himself a faithful ex-
ecutive officer RUsTIcUs.
Year: 1869

This report further says Zone Of the impor-
tant advantages to the city of introducing wa
ter, will be the ready use of constant and
never failing supply of water to be used in
case of fire." (The people of Portland can full
ly appreciate this).


Another important advantage resulting from
the introduction of water, win be the reduced
risk Of loss by fire, and the diminished cost of
insurance on all the property the city.


This saving whether the citizens may effect
insurance on the property or take the risk
themselves without insurance, will more than
pay the cost of water to consumers.


we believe the saving to the city in the Fire
department and otherwise will be nearly
enough to pay interest on the cost of the work,
and including the saving in insurance and the
increase value it will give to property will be
more than equal to the yearly cost of water to
the Inhabitants


I'm all countries, and in all ages. a plenti-
full supply of pure water has ever been regard.
as great public blessing. The most extror-
binary works now remaining of the magnif-
cence OF ancient Rome, are the lofty ranges
of the connected arches of the hewn stone
aqueducts, which appear at an elevation OF
40 or 80 feet above the plains beyond the city
gate, as if striding away in far extended line
until they become lost in distance at the verge
Of the horizon. After the lapse of more thar
a thousand years some Of these lines of arches
serve to support the hewn stone channels fo
the water; and the crystal streams still con
tinue to flow through and bringing with then
the same healthfnl enjoyment as in Older
time" In manufacturing city, such a
Portland will be, an abundance of pure water
for use in the various branches of the useful
arts, will give additional prosperity to the city
and rapidly hasten its growth.


NEARLY every city in Europe has its publ
square enlivened and refreshed by pub liz
fountain to promote the enjoyments of tn
people. This delightful and essential elemen
of human health and happiness, has been bu
little thought of by the too absorbing pursui Il
of business life. 1t will be Both pleasant an,
profitable to the present generation to enjo.
the blessing of an abundant supply of pur'
and wholesome water and to reflect that wheI
they shall be gathered to their fathers the,
will leave this blessing as noble legacy to cal


forth forever, the grateful recollections of thei
posterity"
Year: 1869

those resources, but we need also nationoI
policy, continued or initiated, that shall make
it possible for the infant enterprises OF our
State to get upon their feet and gather strength
to stand alone. We do not ask for protection
to industries for which nature has made better
provision elsewhere, or for permanent protec-
ton at all; but we do need temporary bull.
warks against the overwhelming odds of the
concentrated capital and pauper labor of the
old countries, until we have made a good be-
ginning.


What we want, then is = while inviting
others to come In and utilize and share our ad
vantages-to take hold of manufacturing our
selves, and as business for all time, to trair
our young men to it; and lastly to stand shoul
der to shoulder with those who demand pro
lection for home industries in this earlier ant
| feebler stage.
Year: 1869

The exodus from this city to the islands has
become SO general during the cheated term,'
that the people down there begin to regard
Portland merely as one of their suburbs, and
say that they have to resort to 1t when they
wish to avoid crowd and enjoy day of pleas
ant retirement
Year: 1869

THE UNION AND JOURNAL OF Biddeford
comes out this week with brand new suit Of
clothes, and looks as neat as pin. The spirit
in which the paper edited indicates more
cheerful frame of mind, and altogether the inn
provement IL quite marked aud noticeable. Z
z Bro. Butler Is enterprising and smart, and
knows how to make q irst-rate paper. His
patrons ought to appreciate his efforts to fur


nish them with paper printed in style not
surpassed by any local paper in the State of
Maine yr tsA4 21G E4ai al
Year: 1869

All persons who may have occasion to use
liquors of any kind for medicinal or mechanic
cal purposes. are informed that the City Agen-
cy is supplied with articles Of excellent quail
ty, selected expressly for these purposes No
liquors will be sold at the Agency except those
purchased of the State Agent, and they can be
relied on as pure and of standard proof, as GER
titled in the certificates of analysis from the
State Assayer. The price list has been revised,
and only sufficient profit will be charged to
meet current expenses. We think this mode
of conducting the agency cannot fail to receive
public approval. Per Order


COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR AGENCY.


June II, 1869. dtfsn
Year: 1869

reflect that sound mind and body are The Itos,
necessary requisites TO promote connubal nap
piness. Indeed, without these the Journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; tho
prospS ct hourly darkens to tho view, tho minG
becomes shadowed with despair and filled VIA
the melancholy reflection that the happiness =
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

the surf.ce of the ground is lower. It ia
infered, therefore, that there ia large
hsmre or fault in the rocks, through
which the mineral water comes up. At
the time Of the upsliding of the rocks
upon the west side of this fissure or crack
that extended down through the silurian
rocks, there must have been . tendency to
fracture the rocks upon both sides, and
occasional openings would occur in these
strata.


This is found to be true-the rock up.
the west side, although very hard lime
stone. is found To abound in fssures and
openings.


On the land Of Mr.. Abel Putnam, the
Superintendent Of the Star Spring, there
| is considerable brook that enters the
earth at "sink hole" and is forever lost
Although Mr.. Putnam's dwelling is
about mile distant from the cavern at
the spring, it is probable that there
is connection between the ''sink hole"
and the cave-and were IL not for the
water it is not unlikely that q person
might crawl or travel from the one to the
other.


1t is only by supposing the cavern has
some connection with stream of water
from the surface that we can account for
the rise of water yesterday. 1t certainly
was not raised by any water that ran into
it near the opening.


The cavern as far rs can be seen, docs
not present great beauty, nor as much re-
gularity as some apartments of Mammoth
Cave, but possibly by exploring it there
may be found rooms decorated with stall
4clites and stalsgmites similar to the caves
found elsewhere in limestone districts.
We hope the water will be pumped out
and explorations will be made to settle
,his question. 1t is certainly an interest
ing phenomenon, and we are glad that
proprietors have determined to let the
mouth of the cavern remain open for the
Inspection of such as may hereafter wish
To See il
Year: 1869

LESTER ESCAPES AND HEARS FROM HOME.


We left David Lester on his lonely
island, planning his escape, with ship
in sight from the elevated point where
he was at work. He waited till night
aud until a priest of the idolatrous
temple came to chain him in his dun
geon, where they nightly confined him;
and then suddenly leaping upon the
priest, he bore him to the floor, chain
ed and gagged him, disguised himself
in his priestly robes, stained his face
brown with dirt, went to the shore
where the canoes Were lying, entered
one of them, and padded out to sea
in the direction in which he had seen
the ship.


He padded for hours with all his
strength, and had gone so far that the
lights of the island could not be seen,
and yet no ship had b zen found and
now the wind was rising and.a storm
was. threatening. $3.50. @
Year: 1869

A New Bedford lady bought a
pair of white silk gloves, to be re-
turned in case they did not suit
They were returned as not suiting,
when it was discovered that they had


been used to decorate the hands. of a
corpse, and removed after the friends
had wept over it, and before the lid of
the coffin was screwed down. f III /.
Year: 1869

In our recent article on the Legal-Tender
decisions of the Supreme Court, we said that
the retrospective operation of the Legal
Tender act of 1862 did not appear to have
been questioned in the Courts. We have since
found that Judge Ingraham of this city, in
delivering his opinion in Meyer agt. Roosevelt,
in 1862 considered this question, and held that
the act was not retrospective. This opinion
was not published in the regular reports. the
decision having been reversed (without dis
cussing this point in the Court of Appeals;
and it was in consequence OF this that we had
forgotten the opinion referred to.


Judge Davies, in his opinion in the same
case ON appeal, showed that in the days when
kings issued base money the English Courts
held it to be good tender in payment OF old
debts but the Supreme Court has either dis
regarded these precedents (Which are contrary
to the doctrine of all other analogous cases)
or, as it well may, holds that currency all OF
coin must be regarded IN different light from
currency composed partly Of coin and partly
of paper.
Year: 1869

Apart from other objections, the steamship
schemes now before Congress have these grave
defects /. They propose to diminish our man
facilities, when they ought to be increased
2. They propose to take from the Treasury
more than twice as much as we now pay iol
the ocean mail service 8. They will interpose
serious obstacles in the way of ocean penny
postage 4. They demand exclusive privileges
for long perods-ten and fifteen yeais-whleb
will render the establishment of rival Amefi-
can lines virtually impossible. o. Some, IL no'
all of them, present ample opportunities ior
defrauding the Government


We shall be glad TO favor any honest scheme
for building up our PROSTATE shipping interest;
but if the shippers want to fasten themselves
upon the Post Office Department the least they
might do is to offer us as good and as zap u
service as we have already
Year: 1869

ever brought to America-a sort OF cross, 1t
struck us, between an antelope and buffalo.
II seemed to us at the time that he kept un-
commonly still, and now, after serious refiec-
ton, we begin to think that he was simply a
mockery and a snare. OF course, after this,
the wid-beast show can have no pleasure for
us. for the very lion himself may be only q
iackass. AS a matter of personal pride, we
shrink from being deluded by automatous
monkeys. How are we to believe in the Royal
Bengal Tiger, unless, with our own eyes, we
see him devour somebody How are we to
trust the rhinoceros, unless be is allowed to
come into the ring and have real fight with
the elephantf We feel all our original skepti-
cism concerning the gorilla growing stronger
and stronger. If matters go on at this rate,
We shall soon be losing our faith even in the
Democratic party itself. We write this with a
melancholy feeling which we do not care to
conceal There is the skeleton of the
megatherium beside which we have so often
stood with thronging feelings of human in
significance; and perhaps, after all, the huge
frame was constructed by some Professor" or
Doctor IT is all one hereafter whether
"the great attraction" may be "almost in
shape of a camel" or "backed like weasel
or every like whale.n Barn-yard fowls and
the dear, domestic COWS will be as we'll worth
aapnp
Year: 1869

We have from Washington excellent promises
of reform in the Treasury Department. we
think we have heard something of the kind
before There is a chronic reform in embryo
there The trouble is that it generally remains
in state of arrested development. There can
be no doubt that much of the talk against the
personnel of the Treasury Department Is
grossly slanderous. But it is equally certain
that far more people are employed there than
the work which gets done would seem TO
warrant; that some of them are by no
means the best possible selections; that there
are numerous private arrangements among the
clerks whereby money is made out OF the dis
charge, delay, publicity, or secrecy OF the
Government business; and that, in short,
careful sitting of the employees OF
the Department will be of decided advantage
to the public interests. But we warn Mr..
Boutwell, that his heart must be made like the
neither milestone before he begins-unless he
is content to give us again the spectacle OF
discharge to-day and reengagement Tomorrow,
which has so often been witnessed there before.
Year: 1869

These are times in which one may well SYM
pathize with the little girl who found out that
her doll was stuffed with bran, and straight
way tearfully lost all confidence in everything.
There is no knowing for how many ByrOns of
a small sort the confessions of Mr.. Barnum
concerning the mermaid are responsible. The
dreadful Investigations of the analytical chem
lists have detected Death not only in the pot,
but everywhere else-in the cnps which cheer
us, in the lamps which illuminate us, in the
liberal air which we breathe; and the very
soap itself with which our linen is washed
turns out to be q destroyer in disguise. No
purer pleasure can gently agtate the human
mind than that of gazing upon tigers, lions,
whales and other outlandish wild fowl yet it
now seems that we and our dear children may
have been put off with false quadrupeds and
fishes, and that the great elephant himself,
Romeo by name, and the little elephant her
self, Juliet, so called, may have been impostors
with cOnfdence-men in their interiors. Only
last Summer we had in this city what was
neatly and classically called "Natatorium,"
among the manifold attractions of which was
Living Whale. This highly educated mon
ster disported himself in his tank in the live





tators to various pleasing thoughts concerning
those Pacific seas in which he was born, and
TO many brisk imaginations about his ancestors
who had been harpooned, and his descendants
whose time of trial and trying out was yet
to come. Parents needn't mention it TO the
little ones who were specially impressed but
it is now discovered that this cetaceous marvel
was only an old boat with cloth skin-a hOl-
low humbug, without an ounce of blubber in
his whole constitution, utterly devoid of sper-
maceti, and quite incapable whatever may
have been the apprehensiOns of the lockers on)
of sweeping away "the NatatOrium' with but
one lash of his irresistible TAIL To make
everything pleasingly scientific, the creature
was owned by "a Professor but, alas it
now seems that he was also manufactured by
"a Doctor" The Professor" with incredible
| ingratitude, refused to pay "the Doctor" and
hence an action in Court (Anderndch as.
| GebhdrdO, during the trial of which the real
character Of the leyiathan was exposed to an
astonished world


We do not care so much for this whale; we
were not among those who visited him in the
days of his glory; but we cannot help wonder
ing whether in any menagerie, from the days
of our boyhood to the present time, we have
ever really seen anything which was what we
supposed it to be- We grow suspicious of our
first ourang outaDg. We connect clock
with our earliest cage of monkeys. We doubt
at once both the laughing and the crying
byena. There was q quadruped in one of the
caravans, only last Summer, which was stated
on the bills to have cost $4,000 in his native
African desert-the only creature Of tho kind
Year: 1869

The Republicans of the State Assembly, in
caucus last night agreed with us in holding
the present Tax Commissioners bill mere
device of the Ring. BY vote of 90 to 12 it
was decided to oppose it with the full party
strength. 1t therefore goes tie way of the
kindred efforts of the Ring to destroy the
vitality of the Excise Law.
Year: 1869

A STRANGE ADvENrURE.-Mr. Bedblossom
drank more than his usual allowance of hot
rum and sugar, one cold night. the consp-
quence of which was, ne gave his wife rath-
er confused account of bis conduct, on his re-
turn home. Mr.. Smiths grocery store in
vited me to go and drink cousin Sam, and
you see, the weather was dry-and | was
very sloppy-so said didn't mind punch
ing one drink-and's queer how my head
went into the punch though The way home
was so dizzy, that slipped upon little dog
the corner of the street bit me--and IN old
gentleman with cropped ears and brass col.
lar on his neck, said he belonged to the dog
i was-you-understand is, L
don't know nothing more about it
Year: 1869

A DELIcArE In Pittsburg, Pa.
the youthful wife of prominent citizen in
the Second Ward, becoming jealous of the
husbands preference for the servaut girl
sent the latter away, and at night occu pied
her room. Shortly after midnight, as she
supposed. her husband entered. Fearful that
she might be mistaken, she struck light.
and to her horror and surprise found herself
en- dishabile in the presence of her husband S
partner, young gentleman Of some preten-
sions to good looks and respectability, who
boarded with them. The husband, who had
returned at an early hour. astonished at his
wife's absence, sat up awaiting her return


Hearing racket overhead, in the room oe-
cupied by the girl, be at Cnce proceeded to
ascertain the cause Of the noise. Arriving at
the scene of the disorder. he in turn exhibit
ed surprise, and demanded an explanation,
which was at once given by his wife and
partner; the result of which was that the
partner the ensuing morning obtained new
boarding house, and as the husband is salts
fed, no one else should complain.
Year: 1869

AN industrious tradesman having taker.
an apprentice, awoke him the first morpinc
at very early hour by calling out that the
family were sitting down TO table. Thank
you, said the boy. as be turned over in the
bed to adjust hmself for new nap. 'sthank
you; but never eat anything during the
nghtn
Year: 1869

A new hand in barber's shop was recent
ly put on a customer who wanted to be shaw
ed. The new hand was very rough, and put
his victim through in a vigorous manner.
After he had finished, the gentleman who had
been shaved inquired of the new barber if he
had ever shaved any one beside himself. The
barber replied that he had. "Will you peg,
nit me to inquire If the man lived p
Year: 1869

81 meant to have told you of that hole. ~
said a gentleman to his friend who was walk
ing with him in his garden and stumbled into
a pit-fall of water. mo matter,n said the
friend, blowing the mud and water out Of his
mouth, I've found it,