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Show OriUM ElTL'.'G IS MAIN'S. Wo have said, and famished statistics irom time to limn lo prove, that Ihe consumption Oi opium is largely in-creasing in-creasing ir. the s'.tfo of Maine, fc'ome three weeks Fiua ivheu traveling, we entered tho e'.cro el a drufccist, a frierd. J:i p w-ing out was a lady in drc-3 and branig. though cn-Icebbd, cn-Icebbd, who had ju.-l t'cen making a ' purchase nf opium. Paid our friend, heie is a f id Jor ou . The hu!y baa : jui-t purchased 10 wu'.h of opium, andVbi-iisB made sin, -l -r purcbaaes fer several yea is, coming once every year, from I know not where, r.nd, j indeed, I have nevi r yet found out her name. She bnya if'nut the s.me amount eacli yeir. 1 .i it lady did ' not dare to pur..''u;is: at homo for fear lof detection, b.iL wiien she wanted opium she ebUiiiHl it of dealers re-Bi.iing re-Bi.iing at a tMy'.nn.:e f.-om hi r place of re-dcicoce. And tbm was not llie oi-ly ca.j.c ''by a ioj.g shot" thiit our friend bad had to deal with. Rum may be bad, but opium ia infinitely worse. ' iitttnstcick (-!'.) Telegraph, |