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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-29


An international boat race between American and
English sailors came of IN Chinese waters, near
Shanghae, during the last days Of the year 1886.
The challenge was from eight Americans to row an
equal number or the members Of the Shanghai Row.
ing Club. Englishmen, in boats built by the latter
Admiral Heng OF the Royal Navy was present. The
American men hailed from New York and Massa-
chusetts. Their names were John H. Seaman, II. 8.
Geary, T. A. Ives, E. G. Law, E. U. Smith, ]. NJ.
Forbes, Frank Reid, A. A. Hayes stroke OAR aud G.
J. Ashley tcoxswain) The Americans took the lead
at the start and maintained 1t to the end the British
falling soon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-29
The Race Of 1S24-New York Boatmen
Against British Naval Onrsmen.


siPutman's Rowers' Mammal and Boat Club Regis.
ter" written and compiled under the supervision OF
the President Of the Empire City Regatta Club and
published In New York in 1885, contains the follow.
ing highly interesting account OF an exciting boat
race which took place in the waters OF the bay OF
New York, in the year 1924, between crew OF
Whitehall boatmen and sailors taken from British
war frigate. The account OF this international
aquatic struggle is OF exceeding great value Just
now as evidence OF what American oarsmen can
accomplish when competing with foreign visitors
on this side Of the Atlantic. The 'ROwers' Manual,
reports as follows:-
TIE most notable race looking up from the past
OF which we can gain any correct intelligence was
that which took place In New York bay on the 9th
OF December, in the year 1924. between the four
cared boat American star, rowed by Whitehall
boatmen. and the Dart, O boat belonging to the
British frigate Hussar, which was then lying In the
harbor. We copy the following account Of the
AFFAIR from letter recently published in the DIS.
patch of this city, and from the New York Epening
Post of December 10, the day after the race took
place.-
In the beginning of December 1924, the British
frigate Hussar, Captain Harris, anchored in New
York narbor, and in consequence Of kindness which
he had extended to American vessels at sea, was
warmly received. On the 5th of December he
challenged the watermen of New York to q rowing
match for one thousand dollars. The challenge
was accepted by the Whitehall boatmen, and the
race came Off between thirty minutes past twelve
M. and one O'Clock p NJ, on Thursday, December 0,
1924.
The British boat, which had previously won eight
races in the West Indies, and had not competitor
on the river Thames, was named the Dart and
the boat entered by the Whitehall men was called
the American star, built by Mr.. Chambers. She
had been beaten In race In 1918 by the boat New
York, made by . celebrated builder of that day
named Baptist.
The judges on the part Of the American boat
were Major Howard, Captain Henry Robinson and
Mr.. Richard sadlier; on the part OF the British
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snare Ltsses.


The spirit Of thepress-nsw cider.
A lie Is like snow-baii; the longer 1t Is rolled
the larger 1t Is.
Somebody intimaiss tina, tho ballet girls earn "
bare living.
When IA n young lady Ike part ola "o'u'
When shc Is silly belle (syiiablel
A man should not praise his work. 0"' us
works should praise him.
Mo-, M The .hadows that cross our life are o'"'
al by our standing in our own light
Men may Judge usby the success Oh our eHO''''
Goa look. At the efforts themselves
49,, w,o confines himself to the drink best
for him Is yell supplied.
The young lady who came to sriei' I'll" not "''
AZ and went back
.,,.o, tboughtless old man sat down on the
..nurp Of A moment. Ills screams were ir'sn'
full -,
An unfeelng Vermont Journalist tells his reau'
.r. ,h,, he had a present on Christmas morning.
,.n,ch eva. not a piano, but IL couldye
Ra,pl. waldo Emerson says city clergyman TO
be accepted may have p,ety, bnt he must have
taste.
man I'm Scotland, who had been ordered leech-
p. for AN injury, took them boiled with his
Cruel.
Tn the pulpit avoid the queer and the jocose;
hut indulge freely In the strong, the apt, the s'rk'
ing, the grand and the beautiful.
When men break their hearts, 1t Il the same as
when lobster breaks one Of Its elaws-ano'her
sprouts up Immediately AMI grows In Its place.
An article announcing the decease ola person.
saws: Ills remains were committed TO that bourne
whence no traveller returns accompanied by MS
friends!
Women are said to have stronger attachments
than men. IL Is eyinced In little things. n man
Is often attached 10 an old hat; but did you ever
know OF a woman having an attachment Tor an
old bonnetf
One M the New Haven clergy recently received
n letter desiring him 20 prepare lecture ON ten'
pcrancc for the writer, "for," said he, Il al" q"
excellent cxtemporaneous speaker II had my
lecture written for me. This must have been inc
same Individual who said he hal few impromptn
remarks TO make which he had, written out, in
his pocket
A little boy had got his frst pocket knife, and
for several days used II himself, and extended
the privilege OF the occasional use OF his treas
ure to his little playmates. One evening he was
kneeling at his mothers knee, saying his eusto-
mary prayer, which he closed In these words
.and please God give little Jimmy Bailey knife
OF his own, so he won't want to borrow mine alt
tho timer
On, the bonnets OF my girlhood-the kind
wore to school; really thought them pretty
must have been fool. And yeti usedto think
myself ON hats Jaunty miss; perhaps was, as
fashion went-but what was that to thisr On the
lovely little pancake-the charming liitlo matt u
makes my head so level, and 80 very, very nat
Oh, a sisters love Is charming, rs everybody
knows; and handsome cousins love Is nice
Chat is, should supposeD and the love Of true
lover Is love that cannot pall-but the love OF a
new bonnet il the dearest love Of all.
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Well life is short at the best; seventy
years, they say, pass like vapor, like a
dream when one awaketh, and every ROAD
trod by human feet terminates In one
bourne-thc grave; the little chink In the
surface Of this great globe, the furrow
where the mighty husbandman with the
scythe deposits the seeds he has shaken
from the ripe straw; and there IL faiis'
decays, and thence 1t springs again. when
the world has rolled round few times
more. So much for the body; the soul
meantime wings its long flight upward,
folds It's wings on the brink Of the sea OF
fire and glass, and, gazing down through
the burning clearness. finds there mirror
ed the vision of the Christian Triple Cod
head; the Sovereign Father; the Media
ting Son; the Creator Spirit. Such words
at least have been chosen to express wha'
Is inexprcssiblc: to describe what bailles
description. The souls real hereafter VINO
shall guess
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When The Sc. G,re. .p Her Dead.
ny JEAN INGELow.


When sparrows build, and the leaves break iortl
Ny old sorrow wakes and cries,
For know there Is dawn IN the far, far north,
And n scarlet sun doth rise;
Like scarlet fleece the snow'held spreads,
And the icy founts run free,
And the bergs begin to bow their heads,
And plunge and sail in the sea.
OF my lost love, and my own, my love,
And my love that loved me sol .....
Is there never chink in the world above
where they listen for words nom belowi
Nay, I spoke once, and grieyed thee sore
remember ali that said;
And now thou wilt hear me no more-no more
Till the sea gives mp her dead.
Thou dldst set thy foot on the ship and sail.
To the e-1elds and the snow;
Thou vert sad, for thy love did nought avail,
And the end could not know.
How could tell should love thee to-day,
Whom that day held not dearl
How could know 1 should love thee away,
When did not love thee anearl
We shall walk no more through the sodden plain
with the faded bents o'er.prcad;
We shall stand no more by the sccthing NAN,
While the dark wrack drives o'erhead;
We shall part no more in the wind and the rain,
where thy last farewell was said;
But perhaps shall meet thee and know thee agaiI
when the sea gives mp her dead
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-22

I rurss, o, Il. "prove all things hOsi hst that
which Is gooi"
st. Panl had the broadest cathollclty.
He had been a Jcw-hc was a jew still, so
far as there was anything valuable In Jul
daisn,. He hal been n strict jew, n Phar-
isee; so far rs there was anything good
In Pharisalsm, this went into Christianity
with him. Something OF n philosopher
was he, and that not OF one school mere
ly, but his speeches Indicate eclccticism
from the porch Of the Stoics to the epic',-
reans. His famous speech at Athens In
the midst OF Arcopagus, illustrates this.
Some theologians have affected to de-
spisc science, but In this they are totally
unlike Paul. Others have thought II not
incompatible with religion to explore ev-
cry path of human knowledge. This, |
think, Is Pauline. "Bring the books, but
especially the par chments," he writes to
Timothy. This sounds like man that
had no waste time. II sounds like man
that read the poets, that read philosophy,
that read history, In short, that canyassed
the whole circle OF knowledge rs IL was
then possessed by men, extracting sweets
here and sweets there. storing up only the
good and throwing the bad away. This Is
Paul. Fitting Is Ii that from him should
come the cxhortaiion, "Provc all things !;
hold fast that which Is good" Was Paul
Methodist? Was Paul Baptists Was
Paul Congregationallst. You may all
claim him, and others may, too; but none
of you can hold hlm-hc Is too large for
any Of you; he wants place In the whole
church; and apprchend that Is not the
limit. Aught outside that, which Is hui
manitanan, apprehend, would secure
his cooperation. Think of some modern
fault-iinders beside st. Paul. This organ
ization nor that organization suits them,
and, Ike the dog baying atthe moon, they
are likely to snarl at everybody. They
stand aloof forever nom any organization
and die without having accomplished any.
thing at all, except find fault. What
would Paul have been likely to have saidy
This, most likely: "Let me 20 into the
first organization that presents itself.
which promises to do some good" Paul
was q great man, yet belonged to human
organization. Think Of that, We who
scout the idea Of coming into organization
with anybody. The fact Is, you can do
something inside, and you never will nc.
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The Great .Nsp England Remedy. =
Or. !, ". polanfs White Pine COMPOUND

Cares Sore TAroaf. Colds, Coughs Dipthsria, Bron-
eA,i,s Splitting Of Biood, and Pulmonary 4geefions
g,s,raIIy n Is a remarkable remedy fer kidsey
plants. Diabetes. Difficulty Of Folding Urine,
Bleeding from he K,dasys and Raider, Gravel, and
other Complaints. ,o.,
PoLANp's WHITE PINE COMPOUND. ANer having
given II thorough trial we can confidently recon.
mend Psiasds URus Psss Compound as \ very val
liable article for the OF colds coughs, and pull
monte complaints generally. In several eases We
have known IL to give prompt relief when all other
remedies which had been tried had failed II Is an
article which, In q climate so promotive OF sudden
and severe colds rs that OF New England, ought to
be in every family and We are sure hat those who
once obtain Il and give IL q lair trial, will not
thereafter be willing to DO without it-Bo'fon
Journal.
A VALUABLE MEpicISE.-Dr. Poiand's waite Pine
cop,gosnd advertised In our columns, Is success
full attempt 10 combine and apply the medicinal
virtues OF the White Pine Bark. IL has been thor
oughly tested by people In this city and vicinity
and the proprietor has testimonials to Its value
from persons we'll known 10 our citizens. We rec
ommend Its trial In oil those cases Of disease TO
which ID IL adapted. IL s for sale by all our drug
yists.-Nse York Isi,psndsnf.
The waite Pine Compound IL now sold In every
part Of the United States and British Provinces.
Prepared at the
yspQ
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Life bears us on like the stream Of n
mighty river. Our boat first glides down
the mighty channel, through the playful
murmurings of the little brook and the
winding OF its grassy borders. The trees
shed their blossoms over our young heads
the flowers seem to offer themselves to the
young hands; we are happy In hope. and
grasp eagerly at the beauties around us,
but the stream hurries on, and still our
hands are empty. Our course, In youth
and manhood Is along deeper flood,
among objects more striking and magnill-
cent. We are animated Mt the enjoyment
and industry all around us; we are cxcit-
ed at some short-llved disappointment.
The stream bears us OH and our joys
and griefs are alike behind US. We may
be shlpwrecked, but not delayed; whcth-
err rough or smooth, the river hastens on
till the roar Of the ocean Is In our cars.
and the floods are lifted around us, and
we take our leave of earth and its inhab-
ltants, until OF our voyage there Is no
witness save the Infinite and Eternal
Bishop Ht6Sr.
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Sunday Reading.
MY Cross.

II is net heavy, agonizing voc,
Bearing me down with hopeless, crushing weight
No ray OF comfort In the gathering gloom;
A heart bereayed, household desolate.
II Is not sickness, with her whitening hand,
Keeping me low upon couch Of pain;
Longing each morning for the weary night,
AZ night FOR weary day to come again.
II is not poverty, with chilling blast,
The sunken eye, the hunger.wasted form;
The dear ones perishing for lack Of bread,
With no safe shelter nom the winters storm.
II Is not SANDER, with her evil tongue;
lis not 'presumptuous sin" against my God;
Not reputation lost, OF friends betrayed;
That such Is not my cross, THANK my God.
Mine il daily cross, OF petty cares,
or little duties pressing on my heart,
OF little troubles hard to reconcile,
OF inward struggles, overcome In part.
My feet are weary in their daily rounds,
My heart Is weary OF Its daily care;
NV sinful nature oftcn doth rebel;
pray for grace my daily cross to bear.
II is not heavy, Lord, yet OF pine;
II is not heavy. but MS everywhere;
by day and night, each hour my cross bear;
Idar. not lay IL down-That kccp'st Il there.
I dare not lay II down. only ask
That, taking up my daily cross, Imay
Follow my Master, humbly, step by step,
Through clouds AMI darkness, unto perfect day
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ened, falling hair checked, and bald.
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the folliclcs are destroyed,
or the glands atrophicd and dccayed'
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty scdi,
mcnt, it will kcepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those dclcterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to tho hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. II wanted
merely for a
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-22
FOR SALE.

THE Subscriber. vi.hins to
change business, nov ofsrs bis
Uomestcad Farm for sale. Said farm contains %
acres moro or less-about 60 acres In wood and
pasturing. and about - acres In moving and W.
fage,-has one Drck House. 2fx36, with an L i6Iah
With ~ rooms all finished (attio not hnishedl Gel
lar under whole house and L, with cistern contain
ing some % hhds. Cellar feet deep, Roof sla-
ted. Wood shed running from house 10 barn, with
courthouse over It. Ono barn 33x6O and one stable
Win cellar under IL, 30It0. with hay-lot above u
Also another barn for storing hay, 2Or30, " feet
nosts, one blacksmiths chop about l2xl6. Has
about three hundred Fruit Trees, all coming Into
bearing. and all OF the choicest mutt; has two
wells one In yard OF house, another In cellar I'M
der stable ALSO within 10 feet stable, one large
Reservoir, 6x20x6, for water In case OF nre.
said farm will DO sold In separate lots or In
whole, IL 90 arranged that the buildings together
with orchard and some ton acres OF land will be
sold separate, II desired. All the remainder q
Tillage Land lays on the public streets, and Will
DO cut up and sold separately, II desired. Also,
the Wood and Pasture land will be sold separate
w. II desired Said farm 10 sltautcd on Hill street.
Biddeford, and Is within ten minutes walk OF the
stores and mills. and Is within the No. School
District. entitled to the privilege OF High School
without extra charge
Also, some lots Of land on Alfred street mont OF
M. r. Church, suitable for stores For further par
cuIars please call on the subscriber on The prem.
ises. ~ SAHEo hNDnS"o'
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All things are engaged in writing their
own history. The plant and the pebble
go attended by their own shadows. The
rock leaves its scratches on the mountain
side; the river its bed in the soil; the AMI
NAL leaves its bones in tho stratum, the
fern and leaf their modest cpltaph In the
coal. The falling drop makes Its sepul.
cher In the sand or stone; not footstep
In the snow or along the ground. but
prints In characters more or less lasting
away Of its march; every act Of man In
soribes Its memory ON It's fellows and hi,
own face. The air Is full of sound, tn,
sky oftokens; the ground Is memoranda
signatures, and every object Is coverc,
over with hints which speak of the intelli
gent.
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MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
Serni-WeelSly Line!

On and amer the 18th inst. tho ans
IT, Steamer Dirigo and Pranconia, will
E.sNS-C until further notice, runs rs follows
Leava 6aits Wharf. Portland, every MONDAY
and THURSDAY, at 4 o'clock p. NJ, and leave
Pier 81 East River. New York, every MONDAY
and THURSDAY, at3fM
The Dirigo and Franconia are fitted up with ans
accommod atoms for passengers, making this The
most cOnyeient and comfortable route for tray,
elers between New York and Maine.
Passage, in State Room, $500. Cabin passage
A,O0 Meals extra.
Goods forwarded by this line to and from Mon
treal, Quebec, Halifax, st. John, and all parts oil
Shippers arc requested to send their Freight "a
the Steamers Is early rs 3P. IL. on the day that
they leave Portland.
Por Freight or Passage apply to
HENRY FOX, Cats Wharf. Portland.
J. y, AMES, Pier 35 East River. New York.
May 9, 1868. .s.. u .
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Prepared by DR.. J. c. Aver & Co.,
Practical AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS
LOWELL, MASS.
PRICE sl.oo.
TO FEMALES.

DR.. FREDK MORRILL,, Physician and
Surgeon, gives exclusive attention TO Diseases OF
Women. lie has made diseases OF woman his stu
DIV for the past twenty years. Ills practice has
been very extensive both In Hospital and In pfi.
yate practice. Ills reputation has vouchers In all
the city papers, his patients and the medical pro-
fession, both here and abroad, as being the most
skillfui specialist here, and thorough master Of
all sexual diseases.
DR MoRRILL Is admitted by the best med.
ical talent OF the country to have no equal In the
treatment of Female Complaints, and IL is no unu'
suai occurrence for physicians In regular practice
10 recommend patients to him for treatment when
afflicted with diseases in his speciality.
Ladies' will receive the most scientific attention
both medically and surgically, with private apart
ments during sickness, and with old and expert
enced nurses, IL they wish.
The poor advised FREQ Of charge. Physicians OF
patients wishing his opinion or advice, by letter
and enclosing the usual Tee, will be answered by
return mali.
Medicines sent TO all parts Of the country.
Office, No. IS HOWARD STREET, Boston, Mass
Vol
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-22

The law Is one Of the first and nobies'
Of human sciences; a science which does
more to quicken and invigoratc the I'M
Outstanding than all the other kinds OF
learning put together; but 1t Is not apt
except In persons very happily born, to
open and liberalizc the mind in the same
nronOrtiOn.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-22

DIR. Wilmington. of Newbury, once, in a
charge to the people ut an ordination or
installation service, said, substantially,
"Dont tell your new minister, when he
calls upon YOU, how much you loved
your old minister. II Is very common
with many people. when new minister
comes among them, to keep telling him
how much they loved their old minister,
Ii makes me think sometimes OF a GER
tain man knew who lost his VITO aud
married another, and he kept telling his
second wife how much lac loved his first
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Ayers
Hair Vigor,
For restoring Gray Hair 10
its natural Vitality and Color.

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and cncctual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair Is soon restored
to its original color
tcih the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
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FOUND AT LAST
RanSOm'S KnuCkle Washer
A Good. Durable. Cheap & Efficient
Washing.M Machine Companion ofihe Wringtr.

Like the Clothes. wringe-, II Is light. weighing
less than IS pounds and like the wringer. II 10 At
-tsehable TO q common wAsh-tub. by means OF
gpsir Of screws. It's capacity at one operation 10
nom q single article TO tubful. II works easy,
wa. hes fast and clean, with common soap, doing
no iujury TO buttons or the most gile fabrics.
n removes the dirt like . pair Of knuckles under
water, by folding and rubbing tho layers OF cloth
rapidly back and forth against each other, and by
soueeiing the suds back and forth In every posi-.
be direction. When properly used child may
'is Every person Of good sense acquainted with the
Clothes Rringer, admits that e u grand god
thing. Every such person who becomes acauM .
ed With the operation OF this Machine. admits thai
IL 10 equailyas important as that, while large
majority say II Il more 30.
WAS patented ut Trenton, Wayne Co.. Michigan,
Sept. ~, 1865 introduced into Maine some three
months since, over twelve hundred have been SOLO
and given satisfaction For sale by
II. TARBOX,
General Agent for York County, ut L. W. stones
No. III Main street DiddefoJd. u
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Special Notices.
OR HOPKINS IRON TONIC.
A Blood Purifier and Regulator.

CURES
Dyspepsia, Loss OF Appetite, Liver Complaint
Sick Headache, Depression OF Spirits, NeuIalgia
Nervous Affections, Diseases OF the Skin, Consump-
tive tendencies, Chronic Diarrh9a, and Diseases
peculiar TO Females. Manufactured by HOPKINS
h CO., Proprietors OF the celebrated Catarrh Tro-
ches and Electric Hair Restorer, sS Main street,
Charlestown, Mass. For sale by all druggists.
splyosj
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Bsadefora .sapcr,tsen.,t
REMOVAL.

MISS ANN GORDAN has removed he,
Nl Millinery, Fancy and English Goods ane
Hair work TO No Adams Block Market 3d., bs,-
defOrd. where she would bs pleased 70 greet, bel
ftnuer patrons- 2o0
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HAIR DRESSING,

nothing else can be found so desirable
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, aud yet last:
long on the hair, giving it rich glossy
lustrc and q grateful perfume.