The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-11-27
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i - Hon. Charles r. Chandler, ssnatol
elect from Piscataquis county, died very sud
denly Of disease ofihe heart, at his residence
in Fo1croft. on Tuesday evening last.
"A Manchester report Of the 9th O
November says the prostitution aud ruin a.
ready effected among employers in tho man
ufacturing districts are preparing sad win
ter for the operative class.
If good Agriculture is Of primary i'm.
por.ance to the material prosperity OF na
ton, il Is none the less necessary 70 develops
high moral principles, such as are caculat
cd to perpetuate national greatness and %
cure political rights TO the great mass OF thu
people.
1t is said that worthy minister IN
India, who had become somewhat mixed W
10 land speculntions, recently announced u
his congregation at the opening OF DIVINE
Service, that his teXt would be found In
"St. Paul's cpistle to the Corinthians, sec.
ton four, range, three west !"
The Maine State Temperance Com
mittce propose to organize town and county
Temperance Associations throughout the
State, and to inaugurate q State Temperance
Association rs q head, to which the town
and county associations shall be auxiliary.
There has been large emigration 70
Nebraska this fall. Gov. lizard has resigned
his Office and gone home to Arkansas. Hi
administration has been generally acceptable
to the people. There is little interest il
politics, as the people are nearly unanimous
against slavery. SO large IL tho emigration
every season that the crops raised IN the ter
ritory arc never sufficient to supply the
home demand.
Tho report Of the United States
Patent Office thus states the value OF the
leading crops OF the country for 1856 =
Indian corn, $500, OOO, 900 wheat S2i7 +.
SOC, 900 hay AMI fodder, Sl60. OO0 900
rasturase, Sl43, 0O0, 600; cotton, $3.50,
OOO, 900 oats, SOS O00, 900; garden pro
ducts, $50. 900 900: potatoes, Sal CSC, 600
sugar. $4,000, 600: orchard d oI products
s25, 500, 900; total, 81 ,e66 100000.
The Piscataqua Obserer comes Il
us with more bear stories. Mr.. JOSEPH
Houston, and Mr.. ohm Bradley, have beer
absent from Dover hunting on tho Schools
river. about four weeks. and durin. tina
time have killed nine bears, for which they
have received bounty averaging SIS
The skins Of these animals will, on an aver
Q, now bring in the market So piece.
- The records Of the city register o.
Boston begin to show the effects Of haze
times IN the decrease Of applications Tor Ger
tificates of intentions Of marriage In tn,
m nth Of October last, the deficiency as com
pared with the Same month in 1856, WI!
between Fifty and sixty: and during the tel
months Of 1857, the decrease, rs compare
with 1856, Is between one hundred and fifty
and two hundred.
- The Rocklsnd Gazette says that It i
glad 10 know that. by bequest OF the lat
Seth Grosyenor, Esq, Of New York, Judg'
S. Z. Fessenden of Rockland has met with
very pleasant little piece of good fortune
in the form Of o $50, 900 legacy. There i
certainly no one among Us more worthy Of
good fortune than Judge Fessenden, t.
whose character the general esteem of oul
citizens Of all scots and parties, which h
has enjoyed during long residence among
us, Is much moro truthful testimony thar
the contemplate filings with which be he,
been assailed by few party political news
papers in tho State.-Ksnnebec Journal.
The Commissioner Of Patents has de-
cided that u nswly.invented policemen,
club, which might be turned into shcat oil
lanccts and dubbed with fearful effect, thus
becoming miniature internal machine,
was not patentable. lie admits its novelty,
but maintains that, however useful to police
men who may be induced to deflo q o a.
solves with It, it would BE- likely to get IA.
to other hands, and become most per.
nicious invention to tho community. II
cannot therefore DO considered useful with
in the meaning OF the Patent law.
Mr.. Daniel Dresser, an estimable cit
izen of Saco, died suddenly on Sunday night,
of hcart-dlseasc. lle wnsin his usual health
on retiring to rest, and his wifc was only
aroused from sleep just as he expircd.-Den.
ocrdf.
- The reelection to Congress of Hon.
Henry Winter Davis and Hon. j. Morrison
Harris OF Maryland, will gil every Republi
can heart with satisfaction. Both have
been liberal and unusually tolerant for
Southern men upon questions connected with
slavery. Tho former. particularly, with
full knowledge and purpose, indirectly con-
tributed to the election OF Banks for Speak
er. by refusing to the last to vote for the
Democratic candidate. We do not doubt
that these men, and thousands more Of the
Americans" of Maryland, cordially SYM
pathize with tho free labor movement which
has 80 nearly carried Missouri, and which
is des ined 70 give new impulse TO the
prosperity of the Northern slave States
And we in turn heartily sympathize with
them in their succ,ss.-Boslon Journal.
AN anecdotc is related Of young
preacher at city church. who had for his
text verse from the parable Of the ten yir-
gins, and in the course Of his sermon eI.
Ilsincd:
"That in old times IL was customary,
when the bridegroom and bride were com.
ing, for ten virgins to 50 out and meet
them, and escort them home-.fre Of these
rirgins bang males and fire females"
"A grocer having mentioned to one oil
his lady customers that the submarine tele-
graph was broken, shc replied that II IN the
next attempt they should grease the cable
with some oil his strong butter which she
had been using for some time. she thought
il would impart strength to it. Tho grocer
smiled family, out Of compliment, but didn't
seo the point Of the joke.
-Epaphroditus Ransom, who was not
elected delegate To Congress from Kansas by
the Oxford and MCGEE frauds and the voter
OF tho Missouri blue lodges and the United
States Army, has returned to Kalamazoo,
Mich, his f,rmcr home, in disgust. Hehas
no faith in Kansas.
Lo, TIE PooR INDIAN. Some quear fellow