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Year: 1872

IMPOSING MEETING AT PORTLAND-ADDRESS Bf


GEN. KILPATRICK-GROWING SENTIMENT


THROUGHOUT THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


FOR ORGANIZATION.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNBl


PORTLASD, July 28.-The Liberal Republican
continent ia strong and constantly growing in this
state one Of the largest meetings ever held in Port
land look place City Hall last night and was addressed
oy Gen Fitzpatrick in a speech Of two hours more
Eager and enthusiastic audience was scarcely ever gain
sred here The hall was packed and many could not nnd
accommodation The speech an arraignment OF the
Administration and the complete accord OF the audience
as well attested by the fact that not person left TIL
;be close. The President Of the Greeley Republican
Club MI II. T Furbish, presided The campaign, though
desutory yet has been full of promise and immense au
sences are sure to gather upon simple
II a Liberal meeting Theodore Tton speaks at Houl-
ton the extreme eastern part Of the State, tomorrow
pight.


During the coming week the Liberal State Committee
will have an important business meeting in this city, at
which they VIII map out a series OF political meetings
and the details OF the Every county will be
represented by active and able workers. sagacious and
Industrious organizations place the Liberal strength
% a commanding position in Maine before November,
and even make such show at the September election
neither friend foe has hitherto thought possible
Every day swels the ranks and increases the hope.
Year: 1872

The Southern Farmer says that tea
spoonful of fine salt or of horse radish
in pan of milk will keep it sweet for
several days.


Beans, when cooked with fat, are
quite analogous to nuts in their sustain
ing qualities, and vegetable oil might
always be used in preference to pork.
Fried beans and tortillas cakes
made from Indian corn-are the staple
dish in Mexico. Pea soup every alter
nate day is the regular dinner in the
English merchant service.


One thing which armers neglect is
the honey bee. 1t is really too bad,
while nature has f. rnished so many
plants and flowers for the secretion of
honey, that the people so much neglect
to care for and encourage honey bees,
which alone are created to collect it for
the use of man.


Carefully conducted experiments have
demonstrated the fact that seasoned
wood we'll saturated with oil when put
together will nj t shrink in the dryest
weather. Wheels have Ieen known to
run many years, even to wearing out of
the tires to be reset. Thousands Of
dollars might be saved annually in
blacksmiths' bills, especially such sea
sons as the past, if this practice were
adopted. 1t is not known by some
that crude petr 'leum ON even old
wheels will produce like benefit
Year: 1872

A Gooo, convenient and very effectual
remedy for the sting of wasps, bees,
etc, is simply to hold any hollow key
over the place stung, press it hard into
the flesh for minute or so, and when
taken off the poison will be on the sur
face of the flesh and do no harm. A
thimbie with a tight top will do, but
not quite so well.


For removing greasy spots from any
fabric, use the ammonia nearly pure,
then lay white blotting paper over the
spot AM iron lightly. In washing lace
put about twelve drops in pint of
warm suds. To clean silver mix two
teaspoonsfuls of ammonia in a quart of
hot suds. Put in your silverware and
wash, using an old nail-brush or tooth
brush for the purpose.


A WRITER in the Southern Farm and
Home gives these reasons for sowing
orchard grass and clover together As
orchard grass gets ripe at the same date,
holds the clover up for the sythe, fur
nishes the best of early spring and
winter pastu es, and as it will grow in
clumps, the clover only filling up what
would otherwise be bare, and as a good
stand of this grass is everlasting under
any sort of rational treatment, l prefer
the two mixed.


II wolf:teeth produced blindness in
horses, every horse would be blind, an
every horse has these teeth in the
course of nature by the time he is five
years old. Generally these teeth are
shed naturally soon after piercing the
gum, but sometimes remain longer :;
but it is quite unnecessary to remove
them. 1t would be proper to treat the
eyes for inflammation or some other
complaint, and altogether ignore the
wolf-teeth. 1t is time now this error
was unlearned.


WHENEVER a large branch of any tree
is removed, the wound should be COW
cred with wax or common paint, and
the application renewed as often as
necessary to prevent decay. If this
has been neglt cted, and decay has pro-
gressed to any considerable extent,
then all rotten and dead wood should
be carefully removed, and the hole filled
with cement, mortar, or other substance
that will keep out the air and water.
Decayed wood is of no use to any tree,
but it is positive damage, causing dis
ease, and the sooner it is removed the
better.


AN intelligent and thrifty farmer
says: But for the cooperation of my
boys | should have failed. The eldest
is near 81, and the other boys in the
neighborhood, younger, have left their
parents; mine have stuck to me when
| most needed their services. | at
tribute this result to the fact that /.
have tried to make their home pleasant.
have furnished them with attractive
and useful reading, and night comes,
and the days work is ended, instead of
running with other boys to the railroad
station and adjoining towns, they gath
cred around the great lamp and became
interested in their books and papers.
Year: 1872

An English writer claims that the
popular opinion in regard to snakes
charming birds with their eyes is in.
correct. He tells us that the eye is
bright and beautiful, "but it is a scale
merely immovably fixed in the head, so
that an object cannot be well seen, ex-
cepting when right before the snake ;
hence the great advantage the mon
goose has when attacking his natural
enemy, as he generally manages to pin
the snake before being seen himself
He also pronounces the idea that
snak kes pursue people a fallacy. The
snake waits for its prey, INSTEAD dofrunning
after it. He further asserts that snakes
are perfectly harmless if left alone
Let us quote:


All snakes have amiable dispos.
tions at least, l can positively state
that no kind of snake ever acts on the
offensive (if not frightened or threat
ened). Any one accidentally treading
on one would be at once bitten; but |
have approached snakes Qarge and
small quietly, noiselessly, and with
the least possible movement of the
limbs and body, and stood over them,
without their taking the least notice of
me. | have taken fanged snakes by
the neck (close to the head) and ex
amined them with perfect impunity.
OF course | never tried this game with
any snake that was not perfectly GER
tain | could hold, in spite of its strug
giles. l have known Mr.. Waterton to
open box containing sixteen live rat
tle.snakes land before a Mortified audi
encel quietly insert his arm into the
said box, and, one by one, lift out the
sixteen, and put them into another
box, without the slightest attempt on
the part OF the snake to bite him.
Now this proves that even fanged snakes
are really amiably disposed, if not
alarmed in any way.


"At Hushungabad, in the Nerbudda
district, in 1898, came once upon Two
pythons, full size, basking in the sun.
They were stretched full length, and
about ten PAGES apart, and parallel to
one another. | could not resist stealing
quietly up to the tail of the nearest to
me, which | seized with quiet but
firm grasp (keeping good look out in
case he turned his head round to me).
The monster merely moved slowly on
right ahead, pulling me along as if
was but straw. Had l approached
suddenly and noisily, l have no doubt
| should have been quickly reduced to
potted meat in his crushing folds.


On another occasion, whilst enjoying
a weed and a glass os brandy pawnee
with friend, just outside my bungalow,
he all at once said, in an anxious tone,
There is cobra all but under your
chair, and making dead for it, l felt
as if a hot curling iron was passing right
through my hair, but | had sufficient
presence of mind not to move. l even
held my breath for the moment. The
next instant fine, full.szed cobra is
sued out right from between the pair of
kippens that | have and was yards
away in a crack. | then jumped up,
and after it with stick when, per
ceiving my amiable intentions, up it
reared, hood and body, and made dab
at me, but gentle tap on the vertebra
Of the neck quite disabled it."
Year: 1872

Few men who handle ho,ses give
proper attention to their feet and legs,
Especially is tn s the case on farms.
Much time is spent of morning in
rubbing, brushing and smoothing the
h ir on the sides and hips, but at no
time are the feet examined and properly
cared for. Now, be it known, that the
feet OF horse require more care than
the body. Toby need ten times as
much for, in one respect, they are al.
mostthe entire horse. All the grooming
that can be done won't avail anything
if the horse is forced to stand where his
feet are filthy. In this case The feet
will become disordered, and Their the
legs will get badly out of fix; and, with
bad teet and bad legs, there is not
MIS-, ,isc IF the horse fit for anything.
Year: 1872

A correspondent rives these direc-
tions as to how to timber prairies: Let
every IAN that lives on the prairie out
of reach of timber ask his friends in the
East or elsewhere to stop few moments
when in the woods, after seeds and nuts
have matured, and gather any and all
that might be of value as timber or as
wind breakers and sen to him by mail
or by express, and then when the proper
time comes plant and attend to them
as he wou ID q crop of grain. Thus the
prairles would soon put on more genial
and homelike appearance, and in time
these numerous small forests would
have their influence on the climate
rains would be more certain, crops more
regular, and as a result the whole coun-
try would be benefited. Those of us
living where we can get all such things
should make it our duty to do so, and
if we get more than our personal friends
need let others know that we have them
either for sale or gratuitous distribution
to applicants, and las know from ex-
perience) they will not go begging for
applicants. Cones of evergreen should
be pulled (the earlier after November
the better) and placed in warm place,
where they will open and the seeds can
be shaken out and saved; they are
quite small and need close box or
case, else they will fall through and be
lost. All kinds of timber can thus be
tried, and soon the vast "desert" of
America will be an object OF history
alone. 1t takes but a few moments of
our tim' to pick a pocketful of nuts or
acorns, ETC., and they will be better
than monuments in marble of those
who take the small pains to gather and
grow them. Let us all do what we can
in this, our plain duty to our friends
and posterity.
Year: 1872

Col. Waring thus tells his troubles
with artichokes, in the american Agri-
culturist:


1t is all very we'll so long as you want
artichokes; they grow easily and any.
where, and produce enormously of nu-
tritious roots, but if left in the same
ground. they finally crowd it so closely
as to make very small tubers, and then
it becomes desirable to rotate them out
of Office. In this part of the programme
| have signally failed, and any one who
will show me how it is to be done. shall
have my hearty thanks. believe they
might be in time fed out by hogs, but
as my patch is in the center of farm
without interior fences, this is imprac
ticable, and have tried blowing, NOW.
ing, freezing, pulling, digging and hand
picking to no purpose. | have now
over about a quarter,acre not less than
ten robust plants to the square foot
the very worst weed ever had to con-
tend with. All that | have heretofore
said in favor of this plant is strictly
true. did not know until now how
true is the other side of the story, and
| would advise no one to try it except
in a patch where hogs can be confined
if necessary.
Year: 1872

These bonds are sloo33 mile COM-
PLETED ROAD from NEBRASKA CITY, on the Missouri
River LINCOLN, CAPITAL Of NEBRASKA. The distance
between points miles and this division Of the Road


successful operation and earning net than all the Interest on


its Bonds Il renetrae an EXCEEDINGLY RICH AGRICULTURAL
region with UNLIMITED CAPABILITIES production and mach
needed for removal crops market This need has been
much felt that LOCAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE AMOUNT OF


$4,000 PER MILE HAVE BEEN MADE facilitate the extension Of
tie road from Lacon westward the Platte River which in
Of construction The MIDLAND PACIFIC forms part Of direct EAST
AND TRUNK ROUTE being rapidly built from Urbsna on
the INDIANAPOLIS BLOOMINGTON AND WESTERN RAILWAY,
in Illinois through VERY RICH AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT
DENSELY POPULATED the greater part Of the way GraHd


Island Platte River where junction made with the Union Pa
cc Railroad ne 6lO miles long, formed Of three links Of
which more than 200 MILES COMPLETED force Of over 1900
men engaged vigorous prosecution Of the work and the ENTIRE
LINE is TO be FULLY COMPLETED IN 1873


roads composing this trunk line JUDIC0uSLY LOCATED
AND ARB UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SOME OF THE ABLEsT
AND MOST SUCCESSFUL RAILWAY MANAGERS of the country
Being interest consolidation follow and thus form
strong combination railway greatly in its IA
l47 miles distance between HewYork aud San Fran
cisco over any existing line MIDLAND PACIFIC with the broad
area fertile productive land tributary H. With its close ALI
sDce with Missouri Nebraska Railroad and the ndanpo
lis Bloomington WESTERN EXTENSION be taxed to
its fullest local and through business Shipments
Of products by this WEST well the EAST
We recommend Bonds which FIRST LIEN COM
PLETED road, prime security, PERFECTLY SAFE and IN
RETURNS desirable for investors than Government Bonds


Present price 30 and accrued interest currency


Coupons payable Feb and Aug In Gold free Of tax In the
CITY Of All marketable securities received exchange at
full rates. be registered without charge Pamphlet
circulars giving full information be Obtained from the under
signed financial gents Of the Company
Year: 1872

mot nov, Mr. Clark; I cffsrci


yOu drafts, and YOU declined them


The fact is, l am very much obliged
to You for taking so much time and
spending so much money as you must
have done to bring sill those notes
down here for the specie. It is just
what 1 wanted, and you ba come
just in the nick OF time TO pay for the


isk and insurance of getting that
specie to New York; for just where
you " L take It Is just where / want
1t. You will have specie, and / want
the notes. The bank is greatly
obliged to you, Mr.. Clark; and will
be to you or any of your friends
hereafter when you feel inclined to
help rs in the same way"


"One hundred and twenty five
thousand" said the voice. And so
Clark, the New York broker, so
brave an hour before, now went all
to pieces. He just begged for terms,
and the President, retaining only as
much specie as he wanted, giving
Clark just as much in drafts as he
pleased, sent that defeated 6nancier
off with his heavy kegs, and scarcely
less heavy heart.


1t is believed that no further ef-
forts were made to break the United
States Bank In like manner after
the return OF Clark from Savannah,
and that he never boosted over that
trip, even to his employers in the
dirty work.
Year: 1872

SAMUEL WEBB, a New York printer
who died few days ago, for twenty
FIVE years preceding his last illness
worked at one place without missing
a day, was never on a terry boat In bis
Life, never saw Central Park, and had
not been farther up town than BIeeck-
er street in thirty years,
Year: 1872

MORE ROOM-Scott, Houtz & Co. have been
among the most successful Of our business men.
They have rapidly and surely built up an inn
mense trade and on q sure foundation, and their
business continues to multiply and increase, so
that there seems to be no limit TO what they
may accomplish. Once before they had to re.
move to get more room, and soon after they
were compelled to enlarge. Though they had
to take Alschuler's whole building, in q few
months after getting into 1t, and that is ono Of
the best in the city - we'll % one Of tho most
eommodious, they again finS themselves crsmped
and have been compelled to get more room.
They have made srrapgenents TO cut through
the rear of that and thus reach an adjoining
building. The frame building lately occupied
BY Phillips & Bro. has been torn down and q
good brick two stories high is being put in its
place. When the new arrangements shall have
been made, the store will be 35 feet front BY 80
feet deep. with an ell 4S feet north and south,
giving them three entrances, two on La Sale
street and one on Main street, in the rear of the
bank


We have not space to mention their immense
fall stock, save that in variety, quality and
quantity it stands unoqualIed, and that their
establishment daily, from morning till late at
night, is crowded with customers.
Year: 1872

DuTY.-Is is but seldom that we call the at.
tention of the public to our business through
the newspapers. and We would not on this occa.
sion but that we feel it our duty to do 50. The
times are close, especially with farmers, and we
have determined to make our prices on goods to
correspond with the times, at least for the next
six months. For this reason we believe it our
duty to advise the people of our determination,
30 that they can take advantage of the low price
at which we sell Dry Goods Boots and Shoes,
Hats and Caps and Groceries, As the profit on
goods will be too small to allow us to give any
time on purchases, our terms must necessarily be
strictly cash. LYNCH, beatty & O'KANE.
Year: 1872

The popular grocers, Black s. friedman, have
concluded to NOV. their place of business into a
new store, on or near the 1st of January. They
will start with bran now stock, and will close
out the assortment, which is large and No. in
every respect, at small amount above actual
cost for cash to county purchasers. ANY one
wanting choice groceries of any sort will find
this the bost offer Of the season.
Year: 1872

hMPROvEMENTs-We observe with pleasure
that the row Of business blocks on La Sale st.
are nearly ready for tenants. Holecker's new
building is as pretty as school marin eating
pumpkin pie. Geo. Burgess building, near the
Supreme Court House, will soon make consider.
able of show
Year: 1872

In railroad bonds the Pacific mortgages led the list In
point Of activity and advance though rmer tone per-
the other bonds Central Paccs closed strong at
a1O5i and Union Pacific rsts at 9t99 Both these
have been taken by strong parties and the former are
said TO be in the market We learn from the
agents OF the ST. Joseph and Denver City Railway
Company that they have to-day filled some
heavy orders for their per cents for foreign
account being orders which suspended during the
Alabama controversy and renewed by cable.
IL is quite probable that the practical settlement for
about the fifteenth time, OF the Alabama question to-
gether with the disbursement Of the July interest and
dividends will create sharp demand, both foreign and
domestic, for frstrate railway bonds, old well as
The following the bids at the Board for rail
way mortgages
Year: 1872

The monetary situation is unchanged The banks are
able to remit currency largely in the form Of National
bank notes. and prepare for the July disbursements
by calling In their loans, etc. without creating even the
slightest rufe in rates There is large supply Offering
call at 3G5 per cent but the requirements OF the
brokers small that the offerings largely In ex
cess OF the demand Prime business notes readily
at 5la7 per cent.


Government bonds, without showing marked increase
in business, made an important advance, the prices
being about the highest made this The rise was
equal to per cent all around improved demand
and scanty offerings the market closing strong on the
basis OF s dlla for ls6s The immediate of the
rise to-day the reported favorable turn in the Ala
bama Treaty business Fisk Hatch report follows,
at A m. m.
Year: 1872

All who have real estate for sale OF to let
and those desiring purchase or rent such property
will find it to their interest TO advertise In THE TRIBUNE
It's aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other news


paper and in addition to this advantage THE TRIBUNE
~ no found not only In NewYork and all its cities and
villages but in every State and Territory throughout the
Union The advertisement should be as brief as will
nlow Of the advantages claimed being made clear 10th
reader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
subscribers for three editions of THE TRIBUNE Daily
semiweeky, and Weekly, comprise individuals III every
busness proeson consequently advertisements in each
are read by all classes THE TRIBUNE devotes especial
attention to reports OF sales OF real estate both IN city
and country thus adding greatly to the value OF its COL


uuns an an advertising medium. The charges for adver
4,sng are as follows; DAILY TRIBUNE, 80 cents per line
FOR each insertion WEEKLY TRIBUNE s. per line SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE 25 cents per line. Abouten words OF
opr wide columns average line Terms cash inadyance
Year: 1872

The San Bernardino Guardian Gays !:
.'Last week the Frenchman who at
tends the sheep of Mr.. Peter Filanc, in
San Jacinto valley, dispatched a large
mountain lion in a somewhat novel
manner. A dog belonging to the shep-
herd got on the track of lion and
following him up forced him to find
quarters in between two large rocks.
The dog coming to bay the shepherd
went up and found the lion as above
stated. Taking his long staff he bold
II went up to the front Of the lion,
and drawing back, gave a powerful
thrnst with the staff, driving the sharp
point down the animals throat, killing
him In few minutes. Few persons,
We imagine would have the courage
g attack lion in the manner this
Frenchman did. Mr.. Filanc informed
us that the lion was very large one.
and would have been more than q
mAenh for half dozen men in q hand
to-hAad combat.
Year: 1872

Democratic journals are parading
the fact that the vote in the State OF
New York this fall was twenty thou
sand less than 1t was in 1868, and that
the reason therefor was, thaeehese
thousands were Democrats who did
not vote. We will agree that no ques-
tion can exist but that good mahy
Democrats did not vote; but there is
smother and better reason for the falling
of in the vote, which is, that thousands
Of Democrats in the city of New York
did not, this year, get to vote more
than once.
Year: 1872

We notice that the postal card sys-
tenn has fallen into disrepute among
some people in England, because it
publishes the duns that some people
are In the habit of receiving. We don't
know but this would be q serious OBJ
lection onshe. part OF some people in
this country, to the adoption Of the
postal card business. It would seem
little annoying'to have postal card
passing through the mails and falling
under the prying eyes Of hundreds Of
officials wherein J. B. iscalled upon to
step In and pay his washerman his
bill which has long been standing. It
will certainly furnish a telling means
of drumming up slow debtors.
Year: 1872

l5rH AMESDMANT PARADE AT CHESTER The
colored people of Chester yesterday celebrated
the adoption OF the 18th Amendment A large
of colored people from Philadelphia were pres
ent. including a regiment Of the state Guard.
Year: 1872

SETTLEMENT ON WHITE OAK SWAMI
Fifty-two colored persons have recently pur-
chased one hundred and two acres Of land
on White Oak swamp, in Henrico county,
and have employed surveyor to divide it
tout equally among them. They propose to
settle there.
Year: 1872

The weather, yesterday. was a shade warm
er than il has been for some time past. After
nightfall il became somewhat oppressive, so
much so as 10 make summer clothing desir-
able


But very little business was transacted on
the landing yesterday During the afternoon
matters We're quiet and exceedingly dull.


The river at this point is still on the decline,
having fallen three inches since last report.