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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
7-3O GOLD LOAN
OF THE
Northern Pacific r. r
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE WORK.

The building of the Northern Pacific Railroad
(begun July LAST is being pushed forward with
Several thousand men are employed in Minnesota
and on the Pacific coast. 4 he grade is nearly
completed 20G miles westward from Lake Supe.
rior; trains are running over $50 miles OF finished
road, and trackayng is rapidly progressing toward
the eastern border of Dakota Including its pur-
chase of the st. Paul & Pacific Road, the Northern
Pacific Company now has IL. miles of completed
road, and by September next this Will be increased
to al least $50
4 COOP INVESTMENT. Jay Cooke & Co. are
now selling, and unhesitatngly recommend, IA
Profitable and perfectly safe Investment, the First
Mortgage Land Grant Gold Bonds of the Northern
Paclhc Railroad Company. they have 30 years
to run, bear Seven and Threc-Tenths per cent. gold
interest (more thsn per cent currency and are
secured by first and only mortgage on the entire
road and its equipments and also, as fast as the
road is completed,
$4,000 ACRES OF LAND to every mile of track
or 800 Acres for cash I 900 Bond. They eX-
empt from I ); Tax; Principal and Interest are
payable in Gold; Denominations; Coupons, 500
to s 600; Registered 500 to $4,000.
LANDS FOR BONDS Northern Pacific 1905
are at all times receivable at ten per cent. above
par, in exchange for the Company's Lands, at their
lowest cash price. THIS renders them practically
interest baanng land warrants.
SINKING FUND. The proceeds of all sales of
Lands required to be devoted to the re-purchase
and cancellation of the First Mortgage Bonds Of
the Company. The Land Grant of the Road eX-
ceeds Fifty Million Acres, This immense Sinking
Fund will undoubtedly cancel the principal of the
COmpanys bonded debt before it falls due With
their ample security and high rate of interest there
is investment, accessible to the people, which is
more profitable or safe.
EXCHANGING L. $. NETWENTIES. The
success of the New Government per cent. Loan
will compel the early surrender of United States
per cents. Many holders of Five-Twentes are now
exchanging them for Northern Pacific Seven-1hir
ties, thus realizing handsome profit, and greatly
increasing their yearly income.
OTHER SECURlTIES.-All marketable Stocks
and Bonds will be received at their highest current
price IN exchange for Norther n Pacific Seven-Thir
ties. Express charges on money or Bonds received
and on Seven-Ihirties sent in return, will be paid
" Financial information
pamphlets, etc. can be obtained on application at
any agency, or from the Undersigned
For sale by
JAY 90 DIX z &c 60
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK. WAsHINGToN,
Financial Agents Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
B. e. Potter u Bro.
w. IT. johnson, Cashier Granite National Bank
Agents in Augusta. teb6-teOd&w3m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
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The originator of this wonderful medicine, claims
to have discovered and combined in harmony more
of Natures most sovereign medical properties than
was ever before combined in one medicine. The
evidence of this fact is found in the great variety
of most obstinate diseases which it has been found
to conquer. In the cure Of Bronchitis, Severe Coughs
and the early stages of Consumption, it has as
tonished the medical faculty, and hundreds of the
best physicians pronounce it the greatest medical
discovery OF the age. While it cures the seyerest
Coughs it strengthens the system and puriiies the
blood. BY its great and thorough blood purify
ing properties, it cures ali Humors from the worst
Scrotula to u common Blotch, Pimple or Erup-
ton Mercural Disease, Mineral Poisons, Syphlli.
tic and Neneral Diseases, and their effects are
eradcated and vigorous health and sound consti-
tuition established, Eryspelas salt Rheum, scald
Head, Fever Sores, Scaiy or Rough Skim in short
all the numerous diseases caused by bad blood are
conquered by this powerful purify ing and invigor-
ating medicine. For Liver Complaint" Bilious
Disorders and Ilabitual Constipation, it has pro
duced hundreds of perfect and permanent cures
where other medicines had failed.
The proprietor offers IL 900 reward for medicine
that will equal it In the cure of all the diseases for
winch it is recommended. Beware of counterielts
and worthless limitations. See that my private
Government Stamp, which is positive guarantee
of Genuiness, is upon the outside wrapper. This
medicine is Sold by Druggists at 81 90 per bottle.
Prepared by X, V.PIEkCE, NJ, d, sole Proprie-
tor, at his Chemical Laboratory, l33 Senaca street
Buffalo, y. I. mar2Sf&W3meod
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
HOW TO MAKE THE BOYS GOOD
rgkF FARMERS

Many Maine boys who have. been
prospecting out West arc returning
home, satisfied that no State is better
than their own after all. They report
that throughout the West, and espec-
tally in the large cities, there are many
young men out of employment, who
are eager to work for their board, be-
ing without means of returning to
their New England homes, which they
left to make their fortunes"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
Farmers Clubs doing Good Work
Abroad.

A late writer speaking of them in Great Britain
says:
Agricultural clubs have of late years been the
direct Of stirring up and roofing out the old
system of farming in the old world and they have
done a vast amount of good They have given new
life and energy to the young and rising generation.
Members Of Parliament and Others who had used
to give their ties and hundreds Of pounds to horse
racing, have become ashamed and disguised with
the cheating and trckery Of the track, and turned
their attention to more sensible, noble and useful
objects, become members of the British Agricultur
al Societies, and don't subscribe their monies to
prizes for the best "trotting horse" to the owner
of which real praise Is due no, they subscribe
to the industrious farmer and their servants, the
real tiers of the SOIL for their zeal and industry,
good management and assiduity in agriculture, and
the raising of stock. That man who can raise the
finest wagon horse for agricultural purposes gains
prise; but they don't want " trotting horses " on
the pillow or on the threshing machine They are
purely agricultural and not jockeying clubs.
Song of the seeds--"Put me in my little bed"
Kindnesses are slowed away in the heart, like
rose leaves in draw, to sweeten every object
around them.
poet says ooh. she was fair, but sorrow
came and left its traces there" What became of
the remainder Of the harness he does not state.
An experienced old gentleman says that all that
Is necessary in the enjoyment of love sausages is
confidence.
How can 1 expand my chest?" extortonate
large heart in it," replied the doctor.
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N II 4 Es A L G | A

The pain increases, from time to time, until your
nerves seem to snap and crack jerk and jump, and
play all OF pranks, from the top of your head
to the tips of your toes the demon shooting forth
like lightning along the unfortunate nerve and now
trying to tie another into a thousand knots then
attempting to make a bowstring of another, some
times in the region of the heart again in the face,
head neck etc; in short, if you have neuralgia in
its worst form, with all the agony distilled to its
most excruciating degree, use DIR. j. BRIGGS
ALLENANTOR, and in a trice your neuralgia with
all his demons, has departed, and once again you
may be happy. Sold by Druggists.
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THE STEAMER
{ 50 STAR Of the EAST

WILL commence her regular trips from the
w Kennebec, MONDAY, March eth, 1871, and
WILL until further notice run as follows:
Leaving Gardiner every Monday and Thursday,
at O'clock, Richmond at 1, and Bath ut 6 p. Nj.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-24
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Bunions, ingrowing Nails Tender Feet, etc Lam
guage is almost inadequate to express the torture
any one of the above, almost universal Affections
the twnging corn, the painful bunion, the torturing
nail, &c, and to say that humanity was discour-
aged, would we # ar, be only too true. Yet there
are exceptions, and they are those who have used
the neyeriang remedies of DR.. BRIGGS. We
aliude to his Alleyiator and Curative, the great
modern discoveries Tor all diseases of the feet,
matter how severe seemingly ncurabe the case
may be. The many thousands who have been hap
PLY benefited by their use, bear witness to the
above assertion. trial is all that IS needed to
convince the most skeptical.
Sold by f. EULER & Son, Charles X. Partridge
f. w. kinsman, J. 5. * f. f. Johnson a. G. Dana,
and Druggists generally. maI20-+&w
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HEADACHE!

DR. J. Briggs Allevantor, will instantly relieve
nervous or sick headache, neuralgia, caarrh, sore
throat dyspepsia, heartburn, paptaton, fatulen-
Cyl sour stomach In fact II IS the greatest reloref
of the age, counteracts or neutrazes all posona
reduces inflammation, banishes pain from any part
of the system, has marvellous and perfect control
over the nerves, increases the action of the heart
the brain, will cure all malarious diseases subdues
fever, equalizes the circulation, stimulates the
sufferer.
Sold h1- DRUGGISTS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
Christ as a Guest.

We often indulge the wish that we could
have lived in the days of Christ, have seen
him and listened to him, and we are vain
enough to think we should have been meek
and lowly disciples, and received his teach
ings with willing hearts. But human ma
ture is the same now as then, and we really
have no reason to believe that we would have
been any better than the Jews. 1t is to be
feared that were Christ on earth he would
meet with but cold reception from many
who claim him as their friend. Are our
homes such as he would enjoy? Should we
really wish him a member of our households!
Did you ever try to imagine Jesus Christ
guest in your house, as he used to be in
the house of Mary, and Martha, and Laza'
rus Did you ever think of him as enter
ing your door way with pleasant word of
greeting, taking your profered seat, and
gathering the happy group of little ones,
who know and love him dearly, about him (;
placing the youngest on his knee, and folding
his arms around them all? Did you ever
think, of him as sitting down at your table
and partaking of your fare, interesting him
self in all the little pursuits that rightly de-
mand your attention, and sweetly drawing
your mind through them up to the Hand,
that overrules even the most trifing con-
Germs? Would you like to have Jesus thus
make one of your number at all times?-
Would it be exactly agreeable to have him
by your side some morning when your affairs
had been particularly entangled, when your
servants had been especially provoking, or
your business plans thwarted? Would you
be willing to go on with your accustomed
conversation in the home circle, giving reli-
gion only the place it usually occupies?
Would it be such conversation as Jesus
would join in with pleasure? Would you
like to have Jesus Christ stand by your side
all day in your place of business, noting
your thoughts as well as your words while
you are dealing with others? Are you viii
ling he should know precisely how much Of
his money you spend for his cause, and how
much goes to idle adorningS, which he has
bid you to avoid? Would you like to ask
your Lord to go with you to the social party
and make one of the throng of merry makers
Are you quite sure it would be congenial tc
his taste and feelings?
0 remember that Christ is there with you
whether you realize it or not In the house
and by the way, he is always at your right
hand, and how should this thourh
to order orzas ives that ht
grieved in the house of his friends livery
morning in our closets we may obtain THU
realization of his presence, and 0 what s
help it would be to us in the days tempta
tions and trials! "Lo | am with you
Away, even unto the end of the world. >
Exchange.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
The Gospel in Spain.

A daughter of the late Archbishop Whate-
ly who has been travelling in Spain wrote,
on the 18th of April, letter which is pub
lished in the Dublin Evening HAIL.:
cit was deeply interesting to me to see
the schoolhouse of San Bernardo on Sa-
turday evening crowded with simple working
men and working women this too, at time
when tetes and holidays were particularly
rife) all earnestly listening to the faithful
preaching of the Gospel by sound and pi.
Gus Spanish evangelist, and joining with
heartness in many hymns adapted from some
of our own favorites, such as Just as l am,
I'm a pilgrim and stranger, and other
similar ones. On Sunday evening, the patio,
or inner court quadrangle of the mission
house Gale Zargoza was crowded with per-
sons apparently of various ranks and stand
ings. The Gospel was we'll and earnestly
preached by one of the evangelists On two
or three occasions during the Easter festival
and fair, eminent preachers from Madrid,
who were on visit, preached to large and
attentive congregations. The feeling mani
tested, especially by the strangers who had
come into Seville from the country, and who,
perhaps, had attended first from mere curl
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
The Little German Boys Faith.

A little German boy was brought forward
as a witness in very important case at law.
He lived with his uncle, and this man had
insured his house for great deal more than
it was worth, and then burned it down. The
Insurance Company suspected as much, and
would not pay the money. On questioning
the child, it was found that he had kindled
the fire according to his uncle's command.
Then came on the lawsuit, and the little
boy was placed on the witness stand, and
for several hours was cross-questioned by
ingenious lawyers, who tried hard to make
him cross himself in the answers. Even ex-
perienced men, who have their thoughts well
at command, find it hard not to become con-
fused in such circumstances. Often they
say what moment later they very much
wish unsaid. But this little German boy
never altered his statement hair. All their
efforts to confuse him were in vain. The
second day they tried the matter over. The
interpreter was hidden to ask him if he did
not know that his evidence would injure his
uncle, and whether he did not think it would
benefit himself.
The reply the interpreter gave thrilled
many hearss in the court room.
He does not know whether it will injure
his uncle or benefit himself He believes in
God"
That was the secret of his standing so firm
amidst all the perplexities of the lawyers
His heart was fixed. God never deserted
the humblest child that put its trust in Him.
Oh! so many times in life, you will be placed
in just as trying scenes; widely different, no
doubt, but full of difficulty. Then now will
you need something strong to lean upon
How happy you will be if you can say
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. y
Jesus Christ is sure helper in trouble for
all who put their trust in Him,-Child'
| World.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
No More Jacobs. u

A good story about sermons Is told by
John Miller Ross, formerly of Edinburgh,
now pastor of the Chalmers Presbyterian
church, Manchester, England. The pastor
of large Edinburgh church, being unex-
pectedly called away for three Sabbaths,
was unable to do better than engage, as his
supply, young student from the University
Knowing the high standard of his people,
aud fearing the weakness of the student, he
told him that he had laid upon his study
table three of his own earlier sermons, never
preached to that people, and that he was
welcome to make any use of them he pleased.
On the first Sabbath morning the young
minister looked the sermons over, and being
much delighted with one on the text, "Jacob
was plain man, dwelling in tents" Genesis
XIV. q, resolved, in accordance with the
hopes of the absent pastor, to preach it in
stead of his own. The people were much
delighted, and not little surprised, to get
such food from the young minister, who
leaving the sermon where he found it, went
his way, to return, as he supposed, and take
another from the same pile the next Sab
bath. Alas! as Scotland's Burns bemoans,
so did it befall our young Scotlander, who
being sick, was in has turn obliged to pro-
cure substitute, to whom he forgot to men
ton the three sermons. They, however, at
tracted the eye and won the careful perusal
of the second supply, who, unconsciously
acquescing in the wise Judgment of his pre-
decessor, announced to an appreciative audi
ence the text, "Jacob was plain man,
dwelling in tents. Quite pleased with the
sensation which he believed he had made,
the young man replaced the sermon and de-
parted. Yet another substitute, on the third
Sabbath, following in the footsteps of those
who had gone before, again proclaimed as
his subject, "Jacob was a plain man, dwell
-" when he was silenced by an old wo.
man, who rose near the desk exclaiming, in
broad Scotch, "Awa" with your Jacobs
well ha' no more of va Jacobs !'-COngre
| nationalist
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
Bitters.

There lies before us, as we write these
lines, pamphlet advertisement of some no.
torious bitters. They promise to heal all or
nearly all the diseases that flesh is heir to-,
and would appear, if the declarations Of the
proprietor can be accepted, to fulfil all the
conditions of the tabled elixir of life. To
render still more clear and attractive the de-
scription of this medicine, whose praises the
fences and even the rocks at our fashionable
watering places have been compelled to speak,
the book is embellished with certain sickly-
looking illustrations, which themselves APP
pear to be in need of "bitters" or some
other purifying draught of even greater eff
cacy. One of these pictures represents the
vaults, containing at no time less than five
hundred bunckers of st. Croix rum, from
which the - bitters are composed" An
other gives US a cheerful and inspiring re-
presentation of the darkroom, containing
great number of tanks, "with capacity
of twelve thousand gallons each, most of
which are in constant use, and which ere
celve their supply of rum by steam pump
which is located in the vaults below" We
do not propose to give the - bitters a
gratuitous advertisement, and so content our
selves with describing their merits without
indicating their name.
Nearly all the patent bitters" are strong
liquors drugged, and doctored, and labeled
medicine, for the sake of those whose appe-
tite is stronger than their temperance princi-
Piles, and who want their daily dram without
being known as even "moderate drinkers. y
The wine bottle on the side board is better
than the bitter bottle in the closet; or, in
other words, it is better to drink openly at
meals than to drink irregularly and in Sc
cret between meals. 1t is better to drink
honest wine than hypocritical btters. of
one must drink alcoholic liquors" said a
distinguished physician to US lately, "let him
drink it pure, not drugged with nameess
poisons, and passed off on the community on
false pretences.
Of all temperate drinking, the drinking
of bitters is the most dangerous. And he
who gets his prescription for indigestion from
the advertising columns of the newspaper
no matter how conclusive the endorsements
nor how respectable the journal, may be
morally sure that he is getting gin, whiskey,
or rum, under pretence of medicine.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
After Many Days.


Fidelia Fiske, the eminently successful
missionary teacher to the HISTORIANS, who
seemed to breathe the air of heaven while
yet on earth, had great grandmother
Dorcas Tyler-who walked closely with God.
Prayer was her delight. She was known as
woman of prayer, and she frequently set
apart whole days for this purpose. Her last
days were days of almost continuous praying
and the burden of her prayers then was, as
it had previously been, that her posterty
might be cody seed even to the latest
generation.
Miss Fiske loved to think that she was
descended from such woman, and believed
that God blessed her in answer to the peti.
tons of her sainted ancestor. In 1858, in a
letter to cousin, she said: Il used to love
to stand by the grave of our great grand
mother, and feel that her prayers for me
would be answered, Do you know what a
praying soul she had? Have you heard
your father tell how she used to pray for her
descendants to the end of time? How, in
her dying hour, she laid her hand on the
head of many a grandchild, and prayed that
he or she might be the Lords?
1t was ascertained in the year 1857, that
there were more than three hundred descen-
dants of this praying ancestor, who were
members of the church of Christ, and Miss
Fiske, in allusion to the fact, wrote her
mother: Z" Is it not in answer to that good
great. grandmother's prayerS-to her prayers
on her dying bed? 1 often think that l may
be receiving blessings in answer to her
prayers, for know that she prayed for her
children's children for all coming time"
They who pray as this cody woman did
for her posterity, will pray all the more
earnestly for the present generation. They
who have confidence that God will hear their
petitions pertaining to remote ages, will
surely believe he will hear those pertaining
to the interests of to-day. They will have
deeper and more fervent piety, and be more
efficient workers for Christ, from the fact
that their desires over-leap the boundaries of
their own age, and ascend in petitions for
blessings upon generations yet unborn.
And what joyful surprises may be theirs
in heaven, as they look down to earth, and
see answers granted to prayers they offered
while yet in the flesh! What new stars may
be added to their crown long after they have
rested from their labors!
Do we think enough of the privilege of
prayer? 1t blesSes us now, but latter many
days" we may have answers transcending all
our expectations and filing us with joy un-
speakable.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
4nsbaadty.
Benefits of Sunshine.

Seclusion from sunhine is one of the mis-
fortunes of our civilized life. The same
cause which makes the potato vines white
and sickly, when grown in the dark cellars,
operates to produce the pale sickly girls that
are reared in our parlors. Expose either to
the rays of the sun, and they begin to show
color, health, and strength.
of the ablest lawyers in our country,
victim of long and hard brain labor, came
to me year ago suffering from partial
paralysis. The right leg and hip were re-
duced in size, with constant pain in the
loins. He was obliged in coming up stairs
to lift up the left foot first, dragging the
right foot after it. Pale, feeble, miserable,
he told me he had been failing for several
years, and closed with "My work is done.
At sixty find myself worn out.
| directed him to lie down under large
window and allow the sun to shine on every
part of his body at first ten minutes a day,
increasing the time until he could expose
himself to the direct rays of the sun for a
full hour. His habits were not essentially
altered in any other particular. In six
months he came running up stairs like a
vigorous man of forty, and declared, with
sparkling eyes, 81 have twenty years more
of work in me"
have assisted many dyspeptic, neuralgia,
rheumatic, and hypochondriacal people into
health by the sun cure. have so many
facts illustrating the wonderful power of the
suns direct rays in curing certain classes of
invalids, that | have seriously thought of
publishing work to be denominated the
"Sun Cure. Home and Health.