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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. _E-.1ABI'18HliDJME83. 1868. TOt. 12. PORTLAND THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18. 187~sT ” " TERRS *8.110 PER ISM * IN ADVANCE THF PORTLAND DAILY PRESS Published every day (Sundays excepted) by the PORTLAND PC BLINDING! CO., At 109 Exchange St. Portland. Terms- Eieffit Dollar- a Ye»r in advance To mail subscribers Seven Dollars a Year if paid in ad vance. THE MAINE STATE PRESS Is published every Thursday Mornino at $2 50 a year, if paid in advance, at $2 00 a year. Rates of Advertising: One inch ot space, engh of column, constitutes a “square.” $. 50 per square daily first week; 75 cents per w-ek after; three insertionh, or less, $1 00; continu ing every other day after first week, 50 cents. Half square, three insertions or less, 75 cents; one week. $1 OH; 50 cents per week after. Spf< ial Notices, one third additional. Under head of “Am psements,” $2 00 per square per week; three insertions or less $1 50. Idvertisements inserted in the “Maine State Press” (wli'ch has a large circulation in every part of the Slate) for $1 00 per square lor first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent inser tion. Address all communications to PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. 1 - ■■■■!■ —t _BUSINESS CARDS. W. C. CLARK, 103 FEDERAL STREET, 5 Doors Past of Temple Hi., GAS AND WATER PIPING. ap21tr HESRY F. T. MERRILL, COUNSELOR AT LAW No. 30 Exchange Nt., Portland. Formerly of tbe U. S. Treasury Department and Attorney in -all tbe courts in tbe Diet riel of clumbia, will attend to the prosecution of laims betwr? the Court of Claims and the various departments at Washington. oclll-'f I>R. LUDW IG HAS resumed practice. Office hours from 10 to 11 A. M., and from 1 to 3 P. M. sc 3dtf A. MITCHELL, M. 1). CAN HE FOUND AT SO. 11 MYRTLE STREET, Portland, August 14th, 1873. aulM2m J. H. HOOPER, TJ IT O LSTEREB Nos. 31 and 33 Free St, MANUFACTURER OF IParlor Suite, Lounges. Spring Bede, jVIattresses, !?IcDouongh Patent Bed Lounges, En ameled Chairs, Ac. All kinds ot repairing neatly done. Furniture boxed and matted. ocl5-’G9TT&Sti SCRIBNER & JORDAN. PATENT AGENTS, 74 MIDDLE, COR., EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND, MAINE. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO IiEJF.CT anro ED CASES. * eodtf H. M. SYLVESTER, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CASCO VILLAGE, CASCO, MAINE. an™_dtf JAMES F. PICKERING, WILLIAM HOBSON, OUNSELLORSATLAW, 35 OLD S'P .TE HOUSE, BOSTON. anlCm PORTLAND MACHINEWORKS (FORMERLY C. STAPLES & 80S,) Marine, stationary and Portable STEAM ENGINES, Steam Boilers. Bleach Boilers and Ta^ks, Shafting, Mill Gearing and General Machinery. Castings of iron, trass, and com position. Repairing promptly attended to. New and S econd-hand Engines for sale, ighest cash prices paid for old Iron. 215 Commercial Street, H. FESSENDEN. apr!4tf Portland, Me* GEO. E. COEIIINJS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST, «16 CO.T6RE8H STREET, I« prepared to make all the various styles of Card Picture*, Rrmbrnut, Medallion, Ac., from Retouched Negative*. B> this process w?e Gel rio of Freckle*. Mole* and other ir«i •perfection* of the Kkiu. For all of which no extra charge will be made. All work warranted to •please. Call and examine for vourselves. mchl8dtf ROBERT BRADLEY. Commission Merchant 1C4 & 160 Washington Street, CHICAGO. jy2 d3m GEO. D. »iOST FRESCO FA1MEK 134 MIDDLE STREET, PORTLAND. MAINE. All orders promptly attended to. _Jyl7d3m tlKU. PA U - UlNy'5" MEDICAL CLAIKVOYA>T, No 3 4 0 Congress St. (Houts 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.) , _set hn‘th,'TJlJ_ SAMUEL II. JOtE, titnmm aak iuii.mr. No IGt'.oiton street Portland. Office Furniture, Bool; Oases. Beylis and Hard wood Boors, made to order. selonmthentl W. L. KEILER, FRESCO PAINTER, NO. 333 CONGRESS STREET, RESIDENCE « MAY STREET. Portland Me. Jyt7__ tf JAMES O’DONNELL. COUNSELLOR AT LAW, has removed to NO. $4 1-9 7IIODLK SI Ri KT, (2nd door below Canal Hank.) PORTLAND, MAIN E. Commissioner of deeds for tbe several States. feblQ J. I!. 1.AfTISOIV. PHOTOGRAPHER, No. 152 Middlo Street. PORTI.AIVI*, DIE, Copying ami enlarging done >o order. All the nen styles, Berlins, Rembranls, Medallion, he Porcelain, or Mezzotitii card, and the ruouclieu card, by which new process we pet rid of Heckles moles,wrinkles and all imperfections of tbe skin. Call ami judge for yourselves. PTHotlo-fSoo.l work nt Moderate Price*, tim to Plea**. may 20 S. E. SYLVESTER,¥. I)., Homoepathie Physician A Surgeon, No. 33 A Congress St., PORTLAND, ME. sel5 _ ROSS & STURDIVANT, WHOLESALE COAL DEALERS 179 Commercial Nt,, Portland* Sole agents in Maine for tbe sale and shipment of tbe C'elehratrd Coal mined by Messrs. Ham mett Neill & Co., of Philadelphia. We have also lor sale at lowest market price, A’ilkesbarre, Scranton, Lackawanna, and Pittston Coals, skipped from the vicinity of New York Ves sels proem t.) for the trail port at ion of coals from rt of shipment any point desired. tfaor27 Railroad Sleepers lor Sale by the Cargo. Delivered here or any poiut. J. S. ROBERTS, li»1 COMMERCIAL STREET. junlO U REAL ESTATE. FOR SAFE AT A GREAT BARGAIN, M The new story house No. 3 Beckett street, Munjoy. Fine location, well arranged for two families | of the purchase money can remain on a mortgage with easy payments. GKO. P. DATI8, scv7eo(12w Real Estate and Mortgage Broker. For Sale. THE very desirable brick house. No. 5 Park lace, suitable for a small family. Please examine at once. If not sold by the 20th, lust, will be rented to a d wirable tenant. Apply to JOHN C. PROCTER, 83 Exchange St._ sel6<lfw Two New Houses for Sale. rjIHE Block of two new French roofjlouses, on JL Cmgiess street, next west of Bramhall street, a few rods from the horse cars. These houses con tain seven rooms each, Sebago and gas, water closets. &c., &c., are very pleasantly 1< cared, and can L>e had on favoiable terms. Just finished anil teadv for im mediate occupancy. Apply to WM. H. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent. Portland, Sept. 15, 1873. selotf Two Houses for $2$00, WITH 4000 feet of land, pleasantly ljcated on Munioy; will rent for $300; plenty of water; good neighborhood. Apply to WM. 11. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent, Cahoon Block. Portland, Sept. 15. 1873. sel5*3w House and Lot for Sale. TWO Stnrv house, 11 rooms. Sebago water, lot 30 by 120 feet, western part of Brackett St. Price $3000 App.y to W. 11. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent, se 13 *!w House for Sale. AT WEST End. A good brick house, twelve rooms, hot and cold Sebago and bath room. Fine lot 20,000 feet, nice grapery, first class neighbor hood. Apply to W. H. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent, Cahoon Block. sell*3\v A Good Lot lor Sale* THE lot on India Street, next be’ow the Univer salist Church—40 ty 86 feet. Can be bad < n lib eral terms o payment Apply to WM. H. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent, Cahoon Block. Portland, Sept. 6, 1873. Se6d-2w * FOB V4LL. THE new bouse recently erected by Lorenzo Ta lor Esq, making the corner of Quincy Lane ^W* and Congress street, directly opposite the Park. This house contains 19 finished rooms, has Gas and S. bago, every room frescoed by Schumacher. Drainage perfect, location none better on Congress street, Terms easy, $2000 down, balance to suit pur chaser G. R. DAVIS, .seld4w Real Estate and Mortgage Broker. Very Desirable Estate in West brook Cor Sale. FT1HTS Fstate*, consisting of sixty-two acres of land, JL with buildings tliercon, is situated in the town of Westbrook, on the road leading from Portland to Sac -arappa Village by way of Strou water. It is suitably tlivided into p sturt and tillage; is well watered and under a high state of cultivation, cuts about forty tons of hay, and has a fine young orch ard growing which will soon be in a l»earing condit ion. The buildings cons st of a large two-story mod ern styled hou-e an L connecting the home wi.h a large *nd well finished barn, and other out, buildings for housing carriages and terming tools. All the buildings are nearly new, and the house and barn ate supplied with excellent water. In connection wiili the ab >ve, the stock and farm ing tools on the premises will be -old if desired. This property is within four miles of the city of Portland and is partictilaily valuable to any one de siring to engage in the milk business, or for a pleas ant. country residence near the city. For further particulars inquire* of Patience • kil 1 ngs, on the premises < r of J. 11. Fogg, at his office, 119$ Exchange, corner of Federal Street, Portland, Me. au25dlf House for Sale I THE two-story house. No, 8 Carleton Street. This hou^e is in good repair, is well located iu a good neighborhood. Has a good cellar, water and gas throughout. Can t»e seen any alternoon between the hours oi ? and 4. For further information apply to my2711 EDWARD P. CHASE. No. 3 Oak St. E'OR SAlLE! 0!V (-ONGRKNS ST. NEAR CASCO, About 5000 feet Land. With Buildings now reining Tor more tli:m SSOO per year. Can at a small outlay be easily changed info three stores, with the tenemen t over them would then rent for from $1600 to $1800. Buildings in guod re pa r. Title perfect. Terms ea-y. Enquire at erSHMAS’S FRUIT STORE, I No* COG Congress Street. my22 _dtf For Sale in the Town of West brook. A FINE residence one-lialf mile from the Railroad Depots, Post-office. go-d Schools and Clmnhes six miles fr m Portland; House and EH two stories' thirteen finished rooms, double pirloiv with marule mantles, Wood-house and Stable connected—all in good repair, painted and blinded, Barn 40x60 on tlie premises; grounds contain 154 acres, excellent land, well fenced. 30 apple and pear trees, 4 acr*1 choice straw berries, three good wells of water upon the place and good cistern in the cellar, cellar under whole House, tine cement bottom; grounds ornamenied with tine sliade trees. This is one oi the finest resi dences in the county. Terms easy. Enquire ol 3. R. Davis & Co., Portland, or Oti- Brown, Westbrook. mar21tf FOR SALE. A LOT of vacant land, situated on the west side of High, between Pleasant and Dan forth, Sts. This let has a front of about 61 feet and is about 104 feet deep, and plans have been drawn t» llow, for a block of seven or nin genteel and convenient resi dences, and adapted for the same. Enquire of EDWIN CHURCHILL, No. 4 Portland Pier, mar28 From 12 to 2 o’clock. P. Si. The “Limerick House,” FOR SALE* • - The sw-enber offers ror sale his Hotel pro) rtv in Limerick Village, York Count v. The house has 22 rooms all in good repair, with «bed and twe large stables adjoining: two wells of water on the premises, ami every convenience for a f ist-class Hotel. The “'Limerick House” is well situated for securing liberal patronage. Enquire ‘further of the owner. JOSEPH G. HARMON, marlSdtf Limerick, ivle. For Sale. THE house on State Street, occupied by the un dersigned. Tl»is house is thoroughly built ol br»ck and stone and has all modern conveniences. ALLEN HAINES. Portland, Sep. 18th, 1872. sepl9-tl HENRY CLEWS & CO., I 32 WALL STREET. MEW YORK, Offer for sole a It mi led u amber of the FIRST MORTGAGE 7 PER CENT, COM VERTIRLE SINKING FUND GOLD BONDS — OF THE — Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Min nesota Railway Line. At 1*0 nod accrued intercut in currency. At which price the r yield over 9 per cent., and are ttronglj' recommended as a Wafe and Profitable Invcntmcni. Tlds Railway is a corporation organized under the laws of the State ot Iowa, wfdch is he most prosper ous State in the Northwest, ,x'in£ the only State in the Union fkei: from oert. The Minnesota Di vision, running from Burlington, Lwa, to Austin, Minnesota, a distance of 200 miles, completed in Februarx, 1872, and earned during tba£ year an av erage of $83,1)00 per month, lieing a mont hly increase of $35,000 on the earnings of 1871. The earnings lor 1K73 are estimated to exited $1,500,000, or TOx'We than $125 000 per month. Tee < ilwaukee Division, from Cedar Rapids to Postville, on the Milwaukee am? St. Paul Rnilioad, a distance of 110 miles, posses through one of the richest sections of the State of Iowa, and furnishing an outlet to Milwaukee and the lakes. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway bonds have been admitted to the New York Stock Exchange, and are daily dealt in and quoted ou the official lists, thus furnishing dealers an advantage enjoyed by few of the new issues of Railway Bonds. ''tie ent ire loan has been sold, except about $300, 000, which we now offer, to cl se it out. All marketable securities taken in erebange etcur rent prices, without commission. For sale in Portland by Robt. A. ISird, 97 Exchange Street. ap26dtt __ W A TCHES. .Just received a large invoice of Waltham Watches! Purchased before 1 he late rise in Waltham move meats, and for sale at the lowest prices. Satisfact ion guaranteed in every instance. All styles ot Cases and all grades of movements , constantly on hand. I Watches regulated for every body without charge* CHAS. H. LAMSON, 77 Middle St., Near Post Office au23 __tf Lumber and Hock Timber Wanted In eichanae thr I l.oromotive Boiler., Ilorirnalnl Hoeine. •■'eed Blimp* null Ollirr Machini-rr. Art,Irens G. H. ANDREWS. feMrttf__Pearl Si. v"r* Express and Teaming Business FOK SALE firm ten to twelve ffoort liorses. harness x\agon, sleds, and all appurtenances; stocK till in the best of condition; splendid chance to connect livery stable if desired, price about. $8000. TAYLOR & CO., 3 State St., Boston, Mas*. scl6 3c WANTS, LOST, FOUND. Wanted. 2 GOOD BROOM MAKERS Who understands the business, good wages and steady ampioymcnt will be given, For p riiculars apply P. O. Box 66, New Glasgow ,P. C. Nova Scotia. sel7 *2w 500 Good Girls Wanted Immedia tely. KfK/K GCHD Girls of all nation®, for housework " J in town and country; table girls for Saloon. Laundry and KPcben; girls tor Hotels, Summe * and Beach Houses; Cook®, Chamber, and Scrub girls. Forest City Employment-«dfice. seplTdlra MRS. L. HOVEY, 314 Congress St. Lost. BET WEEN tlie corner of Newburv and Pearl Bts., ami tbe Preble House a la-lies jiglit. over skirt The Hinder will confer u f-vor by leaving it at this office. sel7dtf Lost. A SMALL Gold LOCKET. The finder will be re war-led by le -ving it at 16 Free street, sel7 lw. Situation Wanted. VfTtS. SMITH, a Competent Nurse, mav be found *71 at 16 Brown St. sel7-dlw Wanted Immediately. A Sleigh and Carriage Wood Worker JOHN ADAMS, Saccarappa, Hie. se!6_ 3t Wanted. A GOOD COBBLER wanted at PERRY’S Bo6t and Shoe Store 85 York street. sel6*iw Portland. Wanted. \ N active, rellable young man, with a small capi m. tal, to take a half interest in a first-class and very profitable business. A grand gno-l opening to the light person. Address making an evening ap pointment lor interview, “ENTERPRISE.” Press Office. s«16d3t School Teacher Wanted. A FEMALE Tea* her, who has had some experi ence, to take charge of a School in the country* Apply in the evening at 63 State street, Portland, Me selG*lw Wanted. fHREE or four room®, comfortably arranged, for housekeeping purposes, situated within conven ient distance of the igh School; to be occupied by a lady an 1 her two daughters. Address, with terms, P. O. Box 1604. sel5d2w Iron anti Tin Worker W7anted. A FIRST-CLASS tin-plate and sheet-iron worker wanted, to whom sternly employment will be given. Apply to F. & C. B. NASH, 172 and 174 Fore street. scl5dtf $:i.ooo to S5,ooo. PARTNER W ANTED in a successful manufac tur ng business, having a first c ass wholesale and retail trade. A line opening for a young man that i® willing to give Ids whole attention tobu®iness. Unexceptionable .efrences require t as to honesty and sobriety. Address, C, II. HARDIE, sel3‘lw Portland, Me. w anion. AT the Elmwo >d House, Readfield, a man and wife; the one to act in the capac ity of Hostler, the other to attend to tlie cooking department and things incidental __thereto A man of good steady habit® and a lady possessing good abilities as caterer can have a good position. A new bouse with moderen conveniences. Good pay to the right person. Address BOX 100, sel2dlw Readfield, Me. Wanted. BY a voung man who has had ten years expe rience as double qptry book keeper and pay master in a first class woolen mill. A similar posi tion or any place where the services of a capable and reliable man is needed. Enquire of F. J. ROLLINS, sepll*2w 22 Exchange Street. 50 CLOAK-MAKERS WANTED — AT — I>. C. GOLBER’S, 5 FREE STREET. au21 tf Wanted. AJs ACTIVE ami reliable aeent in tills'. - J TC{»rc.-*«**t ->«>o of tLc oldoct Life Comp-tinca u the country. Address with references “PENN” Lock Box 55 P. O. jy 17tf Philadelphia Pa. ~GIRLS WMTFD — BY THE — PORTLAND STAR MATCH CO. Jyatf Booms Wanted. IN a pleasant part of the city, furnished or unfur nished, with or without board. Address E. B., 37 Brown St., Portland. m&yl4tf HOTELS. RARAlEtTS HOTEL (or. Broadway & Twentieth Street, XFW YORK. ON BOTH AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLANS. Complete with all modern improvements; rooms en suite and single; private parlors, baths, elevators, &c. Location unsurpassed, being in the very centre of fashion and brilliant New York life. In proximity to Churches and places of amusement, and Lord & Tavlor’s, Arnold & Constables’ and J. & C. John son’s Drv Goods palaces. The hotel is under the management of A. S. Barnum, formerly of Barn urn’s Ho el. Baltimore; I. N. Green, of Dayton, Chin, a d recently of New York, and Fret man Barnum, of Barnuni’s Hotel. St. Louis. au20d2m&wl0w34 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSE, RRIDGTON, MAINE. THIS new and elegant House is now open for the season. Located on the highest peak of Mt. Pleasant, 2018 feet above the level ot the sea, com manding an unsurpassed view of the White Moun tains, Portland, the Atlantic Ocean, &c., &c. The steamers Mount Pleasant and Sebago leave Se bago Lake f r Bridgton on an ival o trains of Port land *v Ogdensbnrg R. R whi *h leave Portland at 7.10 A. M. ami 12.20 P. M. Coach s leave Bridg on for the Mountain on arrival of s earners. C'IIAM. E. GERBM jylOtf Proprietoi. COMMERCIAL HOUSE, CORNER CROSS AND FORE ST’S, PORTLAND, HAYING been enlarged, remodelled and finished to suit the times, is prepared to accommodate boarders at reasonable rates. WM. F. I11I88EV, jylPdtf Proprietor. Washington Mouse! NORTH CONWAY, N. H„ WILL furnish Summer Boarders and Transient Com jinny with good accommodations anil board at moderate prices. Rooms large and pleasant and neatest Hotel to the Portland & Ogdensburg R. R. Sta ion# JAJ?1ES JtB. GIB SON, jul9d3m Proprielor. Grand Trunk Railway Co. of Canada Old Axles & Wrought Iron Scraps For Sale. THE Grand Trunk Railway Company during the cooing fall and winler will have a lar.-e number nt Old Axles and a eonshl-rable quantity of Wr-light Iron Scrap to disu se of. They invite c nders for quantltie ot one hundred tons and uj*wards. The C«*mpan> will commence delivexy in October and continue through the winter, as may he agreed ujtoii. Parties tendering to state the price lb , whether in gold or United States currency, the place of delivery (which must be on the Grand Trunk Railway) and the quantify required. Purchasers who require de livery in the United States w II pay their own cus tom^ duties Cash will be required on delivery.— Axles and sepaji iron must be tendeied for separately. Tcndeis endorsed, *• Tender for Old Material,” and addie-serf to the undersigned will be received on or before Saturday the 27th of Septenil>er. C. J. BRYDGES, Managing Director. Montreal, 27th August 1873. sepl-3w Harrison, Bradford & Co’ STEEL PENS. Special attention called to the well-known numbers 505—*5—28—2© * 22. Factory, Mt. Vernon ; Office, 75 John St., au7 HEW l’OKK. 3m Sanford’s Improved Refrigerators. The three point? ol excellence which I claim, are, 1st, constant ami thorough clrenlatlon of pure air! 2nd; ryness. no daintiness mould nor taint: 3rd • no into mingling of odors; purity and active air.’ihe elements of its success. Call, ot send for circulars Manufactured and for sale by .J. F. MEKBILL, be tween Cross and Colton sts., near Leavitt Burnham & Co.s Ice House, Portland, Me. jeSdtf TO LEI. To Rent. rpHERE is a pleasant room to rent at No. 2 Tol JL man Place. seplltf_ Rooms To Let. WITHOUT board. Two newlv finished rooms adjoining, suitable fora gentleman and rife or >wo single gentleman. ,_pply to 216 Cumbeilnnd treet. se8-2w* YACHT TO LET. Tlie owner going away, the Yacht Alarm will be let to parties by tbe <lay nr we<k duiiug tbe month of A ugust and Septem ber. Cabin and pantry completely furn ished . Orders left at Lyman, Tnbey <& Co. Commercial street, or on board the Yacht, au5dtfT. A. SEWALL, Capt. To Let. WITH BOARD, large pleasant rooms. Suitable for families or single gentlemen. At 52 F.ee Street. jn24*lw then tf To Let. ONE OF THE BEST OFFICES ON EXCHANGE STREET. Enquire of GEO. A. WHITNEY & CO,. mar24tfNo. 46 Exchange St._ STORE TO LET. A large brick store in tbe Racklef! Block, corner of Middle and Ceurcb streets—basement and first floor, elegantlv finished and adapted to jobbing dry goods 01 other similar trade. Apply to ALLEN HAINES. septlldlf INSURANCE. W. D. Little & Co.’s GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY Office 49 1-2 Exchange Street. (ESTABLISHED IN 1813.) continue to represent the following First Class Companies. and are prepared to issue Policies tor $50,000 and upward on all g^od property at the most favorable rates of other sound Companies. Phoenix Insurance Company, OF HARTFORD, Cash Assets - - $1,600,000 Continental Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, Cash Assets - - $2,200,000 National Insurance Company, OF HARTFORD, Cash Assets - - - $750,000 Orient Insurance Company, OF HARTFORD, Cash Assets - - - $600,000 Atlantic F. & M. Insurance Com’y OF PROVIDENCE, Cash Assets ... $325,000 Hoffman Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, Cash Assets ... $300,000 Shoe & Leather Insurance Com’y OF BOSTON, Cash Assets ... $250,000 Alemannia Insurance Company, OF CLEVELAND. Cash Assets - - - $400,000 Merchants, Traders, Builders, Manufacturers and others wanting large lines may be accommodated muu tne lowest rates. 5I^“Dwellings and Farm Property insured for one or a term of years on highly favorable terms. ;mg20otf 0. 31. & D. W. NASH, — AGENTS FOR — Nichols’ Dust and Gas Tight Wrought Iron Furnaces! THE invention of the WROUGHT IRON FUR NACE, was the result of a .borough and pains taking investigation by Dr. James R. Nichols, Ed itor of tbe Bosf n Journal oi Chemistry, into the ob jections or delects in nearly ail the Hot Air Furnaces now in use. Timing ihe i ast three years Five Hun dreo have been sr Id. They have proved competent to supply a delightful, pure current ot w im air to Churches, Stores, School Douses and Dwellings, and in every place where used they have beeu a perfect success and given entire satistactn n. The great distinguishing features of this Furnace, are it8 S.nn>licity of Construction, the perfect sa e guards against the passage of Dust and deleterious coal gases into the rooms warmed by it. The heat radial mg surfaces are made of B iler Iron, rivited to’ether in the some manner as Sica oileis, an not a particle ot gas or dust can p ss through. The original of this Furnace was constructed three years ago by Dr. Nic ols, for private use, as a safeguard against those infractions of the laws of health to which he himself s well as others were subjected by the use cf Hot Air Fu naces. Dr N’cliols says with three y< ars use oi my Furnace I am satisfied that no deleterious gases or dust can flow into the rooms from it. In the NICHOLS WROUGHT IRON FERN A E. we have a coal burning device much chea|»er rban any Steam Apparatus, less troublesome, one which supplies air as pure and healthful as that rom Steam or hot water. It does away with all the seri ous obje tio’.s which have existed against Hot Air Furnaces and its sanitarv adva tajjes are such i,s to commend it to the attention f all intelligent House owne.s and heads of Faini ies. O. 31. & D. W. NASH. Portland, July, 1873. jy28dtf A. S. EYHIAWS Patent Pure Dry Air Refrigerator The best and Only Reliable One in the Market. IT is indispensable to Butchers, Provision dealeis, Hotel Keej»ers, Grocers ami Restaurants. Will save move than It** cost every Summer. Butchers who use it. in iis best form, will soon find .heir meats recommended by their enstomers. The internal ar rangemem is such that a current ot eold air kept, constantly moving over the ceutents of the Refriger ator. The Patent upon this has been fully tested in tne U. S. Courts and its validity established iu eigh teen cases. For LICENSE, RIGHTS, &c., apply to SCOTT D. JORDAN, AOENT FOR MAINE, No. 2 Park S*reet or No. SO Middle St., I o whan all applications shonld he made, and who has full nower to set le inhingemtnts’. mchleodtf WATCHES, Chronometers and Clocks, Of Foreign and American Make, Spectacles and Jewelry, -A.t 54 Exchange St* -BY WUI. SEATER, A GENT for the Superior Wnltbnm Wntrhr*. - * which maintain their well earned reputa'inn fot timekeeping and reasonable price. In every vaii ety of gold and silver cases—open face ami hunters. Kev winders and stem winders. mvl2-d9mo A fresh ini porta tien of Doabl and Single GUNS, RIFLES, REVOLVERS and PISTILS. Also all kinds of SPOUTING GOODS. Wholesale and re tail. G. L. BAILEY, 48 Exchange St. Agent for Du Font’s Gunpowder. sel3 rltf Sebago Dye House, NO. 17 PLUM STREET. MR. H McVEY late of Fos'cr Dye House of this City, has reopened the Sebago Dye II use No. 17 Plum St., where ho is ready to no all' kinds of dic ing and clemsingof gemlemers garment. Satisfac tion guar nteed. H. McVEY, (hosiers Scotch Dyer), au27dlyNo. 17 PI uni stieet. Tea. Confectionery and Fruit STORE for sale. Stock small and well asorted. Very low rent, < ne of the best chances ever offer ed for a man with moderate capital. TAYLOR & CO. 3 Slate St. Boston Mass. selG3t business directory. Agency for Sewing Machines. W. S. DYER, No. 272 Middle St. All kiii«U 0f tfucbinrH for Male and to let. Repairing. Bakers. C COBB. Nos.*28find :l«Prarl street. On direct route between New Co-tom Boose and Post Office, near the Market. Booksellers and Stationers, novx, FOGG A BREED, No.01 Middle Street. Book Binders, WM. A. QUINCY, Room It, Printer’s Exchange, No. Ill Exchougc St. SMAUU A SIIACKEOKI*, No. 33 Plum Street. Confectionery. t'* J- PERKINS mnnufnetnrer o*plain aud fancy Caudies, ‘287 Congress 8t. Portia -id Me. Carpenters and Builders. W'HITNEl A MEANS, Pearl Street, op posite Pnr It. Dye-House. POSTER’S Dye House, 24 Union Street.* Furniture—Wholesale and Retail. ^AMEB COREY A CO., Arcade, No. 18 Free Street. GEORGE A. WHITNEY, No. 50 Ex change St. Upholstering of all kinds done to order. Furniture and House Furnishing Goods. BEWI. A DAMN. cor. Exchange and Fed era I Streets. HOOPER A: EATON, Old Post Office, Exchange Ntreel. la. F. HOYT, No. It Prtble Street. Up holstering done to order. Furniture and Upholstering. DAVID W. DEANE, No. 80 Federal St. All kinds of VJphols rring aud Repairing done to order. Hair Goods and Toilet Articles. J. F. SHERRY, No. (» Clapp’s Blorli Congress Street, opposite Old City Unll. Horse Shoeing and Carriage repairing Done n the best possible manner by YOUIVG A CO., No. 10i Fore St. Jewelry and Fine Watches. ABNER liOWELL, 301 Congress Street. Agents for Howard Watch Company. Manufacturers of Trunks, Valises and Carpet-Bags. J. R. DURAN A CO., 171 Middle and 110 Federal Streets. Masons and Builders. N. E. REDLON, 233 1-2 Congress St. Paper Haugiugs, Wiudow Shades, aud Carpetings. UOTHROP.DEVENSACO.,61 Ex'oange Street and Market Mt. Pattern and Model Maker. J. I* R A It HOUR, Fore Street, font of Crows. PorlLiud. Photographers. A. S. DAVIS A CO.. No. SO Middle Street. A. II. LAMSON, 132 Middle St.,cor. Cross. Plumbers. JAMES MII,liEl»,><c> '♦! Pertrral Sfreeti Evpry ilcM'ription ol Water Fixture** ar ranged nu<l Met up in iltc bc*3l manner. Jobbing promptly atteu«le«l to. Plasterer, Stucco Worker, &c. P. FEENIf, Cor. Cumberland and Frank lin St8. Heal Estate Aarents. JeMIV C. PROCTER* (Do. Oil Exchange totreet. Silver and Plated Ware. ABAEK liOB’FLIj, :l«l Cr.uurena Nirffl. Schools. EVfiUsn nml FKFiVCII SCHOOI,, 4:«<l CougreKA fttreet. Stair Builder. R. F. MRRV, V.o. F«*re Street* cor. Cro«< Hi., in ■>« Ipuo'r Mill. O. E. HOOPER, Cor. Fork Ac Maple Streets. Watches, Jewelry, &c. 4. W. A II. II. .UI!IIFFFKF,(I«. Ididdl A V< lilOU St;,, EDUCATIONAL. Navigation School » A NAVIGATION SCHOOL will be opened at No. 15$ Exchange street, March 3d, to be under the ' barge ofCapt. Edward Breen and C. H. Farley. Instruction will be given every afternoon by Cai-t B<een, and Monday and Friday evenings by C. H. Farley. The course will begin with dectnal arithme tic, and well comprise Plane, Traverse, Parallel Mid dle Latitude sailing; the use of Logarithms; the use and a'J istment of Nautical Instruments; Latitude by Sun and Stars, and Longitude by Chronometer Lunar ol servations will not be included in the coarse but will be taught if desire I. The evening instruction will be given before the whole class, when the various problems Involved in navigation will be worked out upon the black-board and illustrated by suitable diagrams and apparatus and the use and adjustme t of instruments explain ed. Subiects collateral to navigation-neb as Mete orolgy, Ocean Currents, &c., will also be introduced at the evening sessions. For terms, apply to C. H. Farley, No. 4 Exchange street. * febl9tf Abbott Family School for Boys, ATLITTLE BLFE, Fariuinytm Me. THE Autumn session will open August 16th. All the comforts of Home are here combined with a superior school. Boys are prepared for college oi busi ness Graduation and diplomas are ennfered upon all whr finish the required course of studv. Send for an illustrated circular, or add»ess iho Principal, julldSm ALD1 N J. BLKTHEN. A. M. I i_i - * ilif W ? «* ^ 5?“ it j ^ I* "® ► ? 3 oo § ji 0 ^ f] £ '■ S * • 2 * % W g I if § ? Hi!: q s .3 i *5 l m =r=i h H h H P> 2 a:;| S> S E ,w“ e* » 2 St! o a S I fj 2- R t§_* M H 2 * *3 f*- I. 3-3-3 -m taj o* co=-=j 1 1 n r" ^ ® „ m3 H IS E.2. . . er at h SSr? ® Sr 6, 9 a » l = s ? uj 31 I III? PJ J nff 8 j , * B*RROWEN BROTHEIM, CARPENTERS AND BUfLDERS, Dotrn’N Planing Mill. foot of Cro»i Ml. HAVING enlarged out shop and fitted it tip with tte latest improved machinery (by the .aid of whi* h we are enabled to get out our wo k accurately and expeditiously.) we arc now prepared to take eon tracts of any size in the building line. Plans and specifications piepared at a reasonable pn e. We can on the shortest possible notice furnish the win dow and door frames and all the inside and outside finish for any description of building. Those about erecting sea side house* please take note of ihe above. We have superior facilities for the manufacture of in side blind*, and will furnish them all palmed and hung quick metre. We make a specialty of building and setting up machinery, and v'ould be happy to re ceive calls from paries using power who contemplate a change of quarters, or that may n?ed any service in this line, we are also prepared to contract for the manufacture of patented articles on more favorable terms than any one in the city. WILLIAM BLitKOWhS. J. W. BURROWF.S. my 13 ti AT WORK AGAIN! c. o. oiTwrvEs, Who has been confined by sicknes* for the last few months, wou d inform his Iriends and customers that he is again piepared to wait upon them at - is old stand, 27 1-3 MARKET STREET, se4dlm Opposite the Post Office. INTELLIGENCE OFFICE It So. 312 1-2 Cansrcss Street. MR*. A. T. *PEAR proposes to of en an Intelligence Office in this city on Monday, Kept. 1*1, and by attention ami indit - «rv hopes to merit a share of public patronage. !*«• 313 1-3 ('ooigreMN »t., uear cor. Congress and Brown streets. seldtf FOR SALE. AN OLD ESTABLISHED PROVI SION STORE, ^11 WO miles from Bo- ton. located on one of the best R corner* tor trade in the place, now doing a lmavy busine s. Sold on account of ill health. No Brokers need apply. Address PROVISIONS. sel3dlw Chelsea, Mass. Cheapest Book Store IN THE UNITED STATES. LARGEST Stock in the State and lowest prices. A Is • some Farms and Timber Land without reg ard to cost. Call soon for this Fall \re shall “goSouth with the birds.” ALBERT COLBY & SON>, jy!7dtf 119 Exchange St., Portland, Me. MISCELLANEOUS. THE NATIONAL SPRJNU BED. The best and cheapest SPRING BED in the world. One Mattress saved. We Vive on hand a splendid stoCi oi Walnut Chamber Sets and Parlor Suits of our own manufacture, and will warrant every piece. We are using the best Steel S| rings irt our Parlor Suits. Our men all work oy the (lay. Buy direct from the manufacturer and save one profit. Geo. A, Whitney & Co Manufacturer* of Furni'ure, No. 46 Exchange Street, aug23-lm_B.low middle Si. Imperishable Fragrance^ MURRAY & LANMAFS CELEBRATED FLORIDA WATER, The richest, most lasting, yet most delicate of al perfumes, for use on tne HANDKERCHIEF, AT THE IOIEET, AND IN TIIE BATH. As there are imitations an l counterfeits, always ask for the Flordia VV.iter which lias on the bo lie. on the label, and on the pamphlet, the names of MURRAY & IjANTMANI, without »• hicli n^ne in genuine jyl old au8U23w Those Baked Beans. THOSE BAKED BEAKS — WHICH — W. C. COBB is selling BY THE QUART, at his Bakery, NOS. 28 & 30 PEARL STREET, have been tested and pronounced GOOD ! Now if you wish to try them, yon can by sending n your order have them brought right from the oven to your door anv morning during the week. Or, it you say you want them Sabbath morning (as is the custom/ Mr. Cobb wMl have a fr^sn lot ready whicli •he will send you Saturday ev.ning. Then by nit ting them in your own ov n you ran find them there at breakfast time and save the unpleasant task ot rising before you are ready and hurrying to the bak ery. P. 8.—Take some choice BROWN BREAD with them or not. as von like. up 15 tf molassesT Porto Rico, Earbadoes, Cienfuegos, Sagua la Grande, and Caibarien Molasses, All Choice Grocery, FOR SALE BY E. CHURCHILL & CO., No. 4 Portlasad Pier. UgOdtf The Celebrated CUCUMBER WOOD PUMP! THE SIMPLEST, Most Durable anil ( henpest Pump In U#e. They neither Rust. Poison nor give the slightest taste to the water, hence, are much superior to met al or other w- eden Lumps. Made by ace rate ma chinery, perfect in all the'*r parts,raising a large amount cf water with little labor; durable and re liable, they are acknowledged, after > cars of thorough trial, the est and the Cheapest Pump made, bend for a circular. KENDALL & WHITNEY, General Agent for State of INJaine. pe3 _u&wtf IMPROVED WEED Sewing Machine! The BEST Family Ma chine in the WORLD. Al so, Gencial Agent lor Mme. UHMOREST’S RELIABLE PATTERNS. S. W. EATON, 13 Free St., j.v2C-3m PORTLAND Boyal Baking Powders. THE subscribers have just received a fresh suppJj of these excellent 1*0 W 1*1. K* and offet them in lot to suit the trade. Also constantly on hand the celebrated bustard. Halford Leicestershire Sanct, G. AVjbion's Warranletl Pickles, Fox's Gelatine, Holman's Imported Washing: Crystals, &c., Ac. G. W. SI MONTON & CO., NO. 13 UNION STREET. se8 eod3w Ship Timber and Knees [HAVE me largest and best stock ot Ship Knees in the State. Also best juality seasoned White Oak Treenails, and '*an furnish Hackmatack, Hardwood or White Oak Timber and Plank at the lowest cash prices. L TAVIiOR Portland, Dec. 30,1872 ,t THE Maine State Agricultural Society will hold its IITH, EXHIBITION AT BANGOR, September 10. 17.18& 19 1873. Clover SOOOO, in picmimns are offered. mai‘22 ifim C11AMLYYONE. JU3T RECEIVED FROM REIMS. FRANCE,. IN QUARTS AND PINTS, For sale at No.* 146 Exchange Street by the im porter, . II. PEI BET. _augfl__-3m HOT TEA ROLLST HOT TEA ROLLS can be had from W. C. Cobb’s Bakery or Carts EV CRY AFTER! OOt. myt IgXXQiM EST/P •'-fl' ■ ivl Blfl ■' J |y*>d SHIO S§» Fo Sale by E. A. .Toy, Fiucut Dluck, opposite New City H..U. Portland Main.-. aul3 3m Portland Savings Bank, NO. 91 EXCHANGE ST. A LL deposits of one dollar and upwards com rl mence interest on the firs' day of the month following the date oi deposit. mayittMltf FRANK NOYES. Treasurer. The Haydn Association, having leased CONGRESS HALL now ofler it to the public for Parties, Concern, &c. For terms apply to C. B. SAUNDERS, 805,11111 UnJer the Hail. THE PRESS. THURSDAY MORNING, SEl'T. 18. 1878 Gossip and Gleanings. Nonsense has been described as sense that differs from one's own. Appletons’ Journal is afraid that culture is making originality afraid of itself. Helnn Cone lias given East Haddom §10,. 000 to start young men in business. That wouldn’t be enough for one defalcation. The saying, “It's too thin,” is not a vul garism. Sheridan Knowles puts it in the mouth of Alasco in the play of “Rose of Ara gon.” The Christian Union thinks that the American people, having stoned a good many prophets, is now in a mood to build monu ments to them. Stealing money has long been an “irregu larity.” a fierce quarrel an “unpleasantness” and now a railroad collision telescoping cars is “a misapprehension ” A Georgia “cracker” was offered four dol lars per day to labor, when he exclaimed, “Sir, d’ye s'nose I’d work when I've just dis covered a fresh coon track.” Fort Plain rejoices in the possession of a woman so faithful and loving that she al ways kisses her husband “good-b; ” when he goes into the back yard to teed the chiekeos. Very little trimming is used ou the Fall promenaue suits. They are exceedingly plain, in conformity with the latest Paris edict. Over all lile broods poesy, like the calm, blue s v, with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong caunot long prevail.—Lowell. Embroidered suits of black cloth will be very fashionable next winter, as they are of Parisian make. The embroidery which is done by hand, is very elaborate and covers the skirt and waist. “Emma,” said a little girl to a schoolmate, “wouldn’t it be awful if somebody should shoot our school-mistress?” “Yes,” was ti e reply, “but then, wouldn't it be nice not to have any school ?” A woman’s belt, with one of those heavy buckles now worn, was the ugly weapon with which a lady in Alabama lately thrashed and severely cut a gossiping man who had aspers ed her reputation. Sophia Sparkles tells of a young lady in New York who called her dear husband a bear, having a vague idea that the word “bear" generally referred to a good-looking young fellow who had been transformed Irmn a devoted lover into a wretch of a husband. Harper's Bazar rebukes the trite witticisms and insinuations respecting mothers-in-law. It says, ‘‘Even as thinas are in society, bow many a married man is indebted to his moth er-in-law for taking a tbousan i burdens from his wife's shoulders aud his own 1” . Farmers will beiutercsted to know that an agriculturist lias discovered an Insect that will destroy the potato bug. There is one slight object'on to this new bu;, however: It bores into the potato to lie iii wait for the other bug. Naturally the potato suffers. The agriculturist fondly hopes to discover another bug t"at will destroy the bug that destroys the potato-bug. Once a careless man went to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he thought was a keg of black sand. He sat near it dr nking wine until the candle burned low. Nearer and nearet it got to the black sand; nearer and nearer, until the blaze reached the black sand, and as it was nothing but black sand, nothing happened. Editorial Duties it> the Bush —“You want an editor?” said a hopeful new chum to the lucky job printerot the B.anket Flat Mercury. “I have the b st testimonials, and have writ ten largely for the English press.” The man of advertisements scanned the proffered pa per. “Clever! sober! industiious! My good sir, you won’t do for me. 1 want a man as is blazing drunk half his time, and who can just knock off a smart thing when I tell him.” “But who edits the paper then ?’’ asks the ap plicant. “Who?” retimed the proprietor, flourishing his scissors over his head in indig nant astonishment. “Why, I does! All you’ll have to do is to correct the spellin’ and put in the personalities!-’—All the Year Round, _ Use of Muck.—Farmers on small farms often find it difficult to keep the fertility of the soil, not being able to keep enough stock to make manure. These same farmers buy costly and sometimes useless artificial ma nures, little thinking that the muck of their swamps and river beds, if judiciously applied, would greatly add to the lertility of the soil. I tried three exneriments with it last season, on three different crops—clover, wheat and potatoes—on three different kinds of soil. The clover grew on light, sandy loam. The field was summer followed for wheat two sea sons before, and received a heavy coat of barnyard manure. Last spring 1 picked out the poorest snip in the field, and top-dressed it with muck at ihe rate of forty loads to the acre. The result was wonderful. The strip, in comparison with the lest of the field, yielded one ton more to the acre. The wheat grew on a gravelly loam. Tbe field was ore pared in a summer fal'ow the year before, and received a h avy dressiug of barn-yard manure—all except bait an acre, ou which twenty loads of muck w°re spread. The straw on this spot grew stronger aud healthier than on any other part of tbe field. I bad no chance of comparing the grain. Tbe pota toes were planted on a dry, limestone shale. Those that received muck were large and dry, with very few small ones, while the potatoes on the rest of the field were of poor quality and too small toi market purposes. To pre pare muck properly, it should be hauled out ot tbe swamp in the spring, piled on a dry knoll, and mixed with a liberal supply of lime, ashes and common salt. During the summer it should be turned over three or four times, until thoroughly pulverized and the compost completely mixed. Leave it to ihe action of the trost during the winter, ami apply to the land in the spring. Every inteli geut farmer knows that the liquid manures are of more value than ihe solids. There is sometimes great difficulty in saving them, es pecially if the stabks are built on a hill side. Now, muck is a powe'ful absorbent, and if used freely as bedding, and in pits beside and under the stables, the iiquid excrements would be saved. I have found it to be of great value applied as a mulch to the roots of trees. It seems to supply invi orating ele ments, without the stimulating effects of m ;nnre. Don’t sell your ashes to too soap makers, but mix well with this mulch, and Grub & Co. will leave ou suspicion.—Ontario Advocate.___ Ruffs.—Double ruffs are in fashion, and crepe lis e ruffs arc fuller and higher than ever. They consist of two rows of double and even triple box-plaiting, with the clus ters of plaits touch.ng; they ate three inches high behind, and slope away in front to one inch. A single ruff costs $2.50, and is bound with soft lutestring ribbon, which is grateful to the neck,on which the burden ol style and too much dressing for comfort rests at the present moment. Other double ruffs nave side plailings inside with double b ix-plaiting outside. These are sold by the yard lor $2. When made of M alines, the single ruff costs $2.25. Black and white mixed ruffs are new, also those Willi jet beading on the edge. Imagine a box-plaited frill of black Malines (tine tulle) with tiny jet beads on the edge, and inside this a plaiting of white tulle. These are worn with black dresses hv ladies in colors, and cost $3 50 a yard. White tulle rut's with dots of black chenille on the edge are $1.75 tor the single ruff, or $2 bv the yard. Afore stylish still are the all-black, double, box plaited rufts of tulle edged with jet. We re peat, these are designed for ladies in colors. For those wno wear mourning are black crepe lisse ruffs at $2.50 a yard. Among laces Valenciennes remain the pop ular choice, and the fancy now is to arrange high lace ruffs of very fully plaited Valencien nes with standing collars, revers. and bows of tepped silk, pink, blue, or pale gieen. Very handsome lace ruffs with a silk c illar turned up behind and showing revers in front, and tabs or jabots ol S.vi-s muslin with lace, cost from $15 to $30. These are too elaborate lor description, and are worn to complete ele gant toi ettes for the bouse. Exquisite sets of rull and wristlets are made of finest Valenciennes and sheer n us lin, arranged in box plaits, while between the plaits and quite separate from them, are square tabs of insertion and late, in which a tiny while wire scarcely thicker than thread is sewed to keep them erect: these cost $10. Plain hemmed muslin ruffs in thick box plaits are considered distingue, and are inex pen-ive, costing only 35 cents tor the single yard required lor the close coat sleeves and neck oi high-throated dresses. Muslin ruffs with hem-stitching done by machinery and an edging of Italian lace are also pretty, and cost far less than 'hose hem-stitched bv baud. The regular Elizabethan ruff, so often an nounced, has"at length appeared. It is two frills of plaited muslin, one standing and tl e other flaring out horizouta'ly or else turned down on the shoulders. A narrow ribbon passed round lue neck separates the ruffles, and is tii d in a long looped bow with ends Sowing below the belt. The ribbon is Irom one to two and a half inches wide.—i/ar per’s Bazar. Whom the Gods Love —There was once a young and lovely boy, remarks Punch, whose mother pried bis hair down tbs mid dle. and occasionally hit- bim in tbe back with a tia* iron. Tneie was also a bad, wick ed, and depraved boy, about nbom I, at the moment, do not recollect any further partic ulars. These two were brought up together, and simultaneously received a present of a sovereign apiece. Ob, how that bad, wicked, and depraved boy kicked up h s btels. The good boy smiled the while serapbically and slobbered. The bad boy then went straight way ai d 1 id out his good money in all man ner and kinds of nasty, indigestible mcs.-es— hard bake, cocoa-nuts (he bough . iourteen of these), bull's eyes, stick liccorine, tamaiinds. and Australian bee'. The boy fell to, and gorged hideously upon these things, and so exhausted his little capital, coming to the good boy when it was all gone with a long and piti'ul face. “Ah!” said the good boy, “had you not spent your sovereign tl.ns fool ishly you would have had it now, as I have mine. Instead of buying hardbake—a thing I never touch, except when it is given to me —you might have bestowed five slii.lings up on the S e'ety for Supplying Wooden-legged Infidels with worsted slippers; instead of buying cocoa-uuK you might have dropped another five-bob into tbe donation-box of the Hospital lor Paralyzed Slickers; and. instead o*‘ wasting ilie other ten -lii lings in tbe way you have, you"might, have done l don’t know what that was good and kind and generous and noble.’' The bad boy, contused and con founded, turned away his beai aud wept bit ter tears. Then the goo ! boy went out for a stroll, teeling e-.er so tnueb gooder for hav ing sa.d what be had, ai.d oh his way acci dentally dropped his own sovereign down a sewer grating. 11. Talismano.—The Paris Figaro con tains some gossip about Baife’s posthumous opera, long promised for representation, but still undei tbe managerial kck and key. The infjimatiou is from a correspondent who writes as follows: “Mme. Nilsson saw a part of the music, be came desperately enamored of it, and made it a sine qua non of her engagement at Drury Lane lor 1878, th it Mr. Mapkson should pro duce tbe opera at her majesty's opeia. The opera was dragged from obscurity, an Italian translation was-made by Signor Zaflira of Mr. Mathison's libretto. Sir Michael Costa toucher! up the score and added some recita tives, and a finale was composed by Mr. G. A. MacFarfarren. Dresses wet- bought, scenery was put in hand, the artists had their par's the chorus was rehearsed, w him sud denly all hoi.es, ot its productlo were again scattered tD the four winds. The music of ibe ‘Knight ot the Leopard,'or ‘II Talismano,’ a the Italian version is called, is engraved, hut the plates are locked up at the publisiier s office, ami no eye but 1‘iose concerned III the Composition ami pui’liesijon has. 1 believe, rest-d upon tb"ui. t he opera is raid to be a fine specimen of Balfe's mab red style, and to be composed in a more ambitious spirit thau the works of his earlier days.” Consolation for Persons of full Habit.—The notion that a superabnndar.ee i t tlesb produces tnen’al incapacity is con tradicted by the tact that at the present mo ment some of the wittiest writers on the Paris press are gent emeu of undoubted obesity. M. M. Francisque Sarcev and Charles M> ms let are so rema kahle lor their size that it was proposed toward the end ot the siege, that they should he sent to Veesailles to treat with Prince Bismarck, and prove by the rotundity of their forms that tbe inhabitants were not starving. Tbe wittiest man of the govern ment of that time was, undoubtedly, M. Earnest Picard, always qualified hv his politi cal adversaries as "Ce gros Picard." Gen oral Yiuoy complained in his evidence helore a parliamentary committee, that, w ien he went to transact business with ministers, he was slu cked at generally finding them laugh ing at Picard’s stories. M. Jules Janin is al so exceedingly stou’, and so was that elegant writer, Theopbile Gautier. Uow Mrcfa will Keep a Horse.—A horse weighing fiom ten to twelve hu* dred pounds w ill eat about six tons of bay, or its equivalent, in a year. And we suppose the real point to get at is, whether -me can keep li s Jlior>es cl euper on some olher product than hay. This is an exceediug:y difficult question to answer, it depends so much on circumstances. We shall not a'tempt to an swer it fully at this time, hut will merely say, that, in our opinion, three and a half tops of corn stalks and two and a half loos ot corn would keep a horse a year in fully as good condition as six tons of good bay. We may estimate, also, .hat it will take three and a half tons of oat straw, and two and a half tons ot oats, to keep a hor«e a year. A bushel of oats weighs thirty-two pounds; so that it will take over one hundred and filty-five bushels and three and a half tons of straw to keep a horse a year. It would take about two acres of good laud to produce this amount. A Mother Steaks to the Shah.—The perseverance of a woman has received a new illustration in the instance of an English la dy. who hunted the Shah from Loudon to Brindisi, and at every town where he stopped importuned the members of his suite to ob tain for her an aud.ence, until she prevailed on a Persian diplomatist to present her. She m> destly. on en ering the roya! presence, ex plained that she was a sort of Cornelia, and had brought up three sons, whose energies nquired a wider field than overcrop de.l Europe could a fiord. What she wanted was that the Shah should take them out with him to Persia, and open career, for them, assur ing him that Ihe money so spent would he well invested, for he would find in the you ihs resolute and able defenders of his throne and dignity. Effects of Greasing Horses’ Hoofs. —A correspondent of tjie Canada Faimer writes: “1 had an cxce'lent opportunity of observ ing the etTect ot gr-asing the feet,whilst work ing iu a shop wbeie horses were shod lor a large undertaker's establishment. The treat ment of the horses by the licrsesboei was the same as that of hundreds of other hors°s shod at the same shop; but the leet of the funeral horses Here greased every time they went out, to make them nice and black ; and, as the fruit ot this practice, the hoofs almost ceased gro viug. They were exceedingly dry and brittle. The sole was not baid and glossy, as teet are after paring, but of a dry nature, and could in many cases be easily crumbled down by (be fingers.” How to Preserve Pear*.—Pears are unusually plenty this year. Below we give one of the best modes of preserving them: Take peats not quite ripe, and peel off the skins. Piepare a sytup with three-quarters ot a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit, melt it and boii for half an hour, removing all the scum which aiises. Put in the pears and iet them boil for ten minutes, or just long enough to solt-n them ali tle; then lake out and cover tightly with paper wet in whiskey or alcohol, and cover with another paper placed over the mouth ot the jai. Dogs Advertising, Par?—There Is no in stance on record of a well sustained system of judicious advertising failing of sm cess. “My success is owiug to uiy liberality in ad vertising.”—Bonner. “Advertising lias furnished me with a com petent *.”—Atnot Lawr< net. ‘I advertised my productions and made raou ev.”—NiehoUis Ijonifworth. ' “Constant and persistent advertising is a sure prelude to wealth.— Stephen (Jirunl. “He who invests on* dollar iu business should invest oue dollar iu advertising that business.” -A. T. Stewort. “Without the aid of advertisements I could have done nothing in my speculations. I hava i the most complete faith in printer’s ink. Ad i vertising is the royal road to business.—Bar* 1 num.