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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-07

nurse WIRE uEoWHeu IN tne stream. He was
probably going fr ON Augusta to his home in
| Belgrade, and report has il that he was to-
toxicated. He was about &c years of age and
| has no family. There was good railing to
| the bridge, which was found broken down
whore the team went through.
We understand that arrangements have
| been made for the reception of the choirs of
st. Luke's Cathedral, Portland and ST. Johns
Bangor, who with st. Marks choir are to hold
a choral Festival in St. Marks church in this
city on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
There will be & service on Tuesday evening
at O'Clock, and Wednesday morning at
o'clock. The choirs number in all about sew
enty or seventy five, and are thoroughly
trained in the music of the Episcopal church.
On the present occasion the services will be
choral throughout, and instead of the ordin-
airy chant. the canticles will be sung to the
Gregorian Tones, ancient melodies used in
chanting the Psalms. No elaborate music
will be attempted, but selections will be made
from the rich resources Of the new Hymnal
and Service Book, lately edited by DIR. Tuck
er of Troy, N. y, and introduced into
the Diocese of Maine.
To the kindness and thoughtful attentions
of Gen. w. S. Tilton, Governor Of the Sol
diers' Home at Togus, are we indebted for a
rich and luscious Fourth of July treat in the
, shape of several quarts of straw berries, raised
on his highly cultivated garden farm at the
institution. No such large and handsome
strawberries have been seen in this market.
They show the success of culture and
the profit of raising only the best varieties
Gen. Tilton supplies Mr.. George Hunt with
200 quarts of these Strawberries per day, at
his store on Water street. He also supplies
Piper 4 Son.
| The Winthrop Street Universalist Sabbath
School held its annual election of officers
yesterday and heard the reports for the last
year. The number of scholars in the school
the past year was s.; number Of teachers l2
number of volumes in the library is 40; bal
ance cash in the treasury, S227S. The fol-
lowing are the officers elected for the ensuing
year; A. Sprague, Superintendent; j. w.
Clapp, Secretary; George S. Ballard, Treas
urer II. w. Galison, Librarian. The
school continues its sessions regularly through
the summer, meeting at II NJ.
Frederic Bates of Richmond who was lO2
years of age last March, has been very sick
| for the | asst few weeks and cannot survive
many days. There are at present residing in
Richmond five generations of his family, he
of course, being the sole representative of the
| first.
Launched on the 4th instant, from the yard
Of i. j. Southland & Son, in Richmond a
bark of about 900 tons measurement, built by
Thurlow & Toothaker and owned by T. j.
Southard.& Son.
Rev. NJ. Penney yesterday administered
the ordinance of baptism to two candidates at
the riverside.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-07
TIE CHOLERA.
AT NASHVILLE, TENN.
AT CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Nashville, 5. Two deaths from cholera
to-day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-07

Arrived.
New York, 6. Arrived, steamer Celtic
from LIVERPOOL
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17
Coming Home.

Y brothers and sisters growing old,
DO you all remember yet
That home in the shade of the rustling trees,
Where once our household met!
Do you know how we used to come from schoo
Through the summers pleasant heat,
With the yellow fennels golden dust
On our tired little feeti
And how sometimes in an idle mood
We loitered by the way;
And stopped in the woods to gather flowers,
And in the fields to play;
TIL warned by the deepening shadows fall.
That told Of the coming,
We climbed to the top of the last long hill,
And saw our home in sight?
And brothers and sisters, older now
Than she. whose life is DER. 49,
Do you think of the mothers loving face
That looked from the open door.
Alas for the changing things of time;
That home in the dust Is low;
And that loving smile was hid from US,
In the darkness long ago!
And we have come to life's last hill,
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look on that home that shines
Eternal in the skies.
So brothers and sisters as we go,
Still let us move one,
Always together keeping step
Till the march of life is done.
Fc. that mother who waited for us here.
Wearing smile so sweet,
Now waits on the hills of Paradise,
For her children's coming feet.
-Phpbe Cary.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17
Metals in BOrneo.

| The Borneo company exports Of anthony
eighteen tons per week, most of it being
sent to England. Though the least orna
mental, it is perhaps the most useful of the
exports; sAd, uDder Tie polished Pulse Of
Britannia metalai -domesticates itself in
candlesticks, teasla6hsi type. and tearpots
Its work comes R.ahko ps and fndsits way
even to theaa .sfts16s mountains, telling
US, upon tfes ~ Per sheets, of all that is
passing in the 2 n World below. mot that
the types al~ayxyesk, the truth ; for 1 see
by one of the journals, that I am in Aus
tralia. SslienI wehlQ Imply quality of ubiq
uity WHICH l do not possess. 10 the best OF
my belief, am now at Tegora, in the Bou-
gon Range of Borneo, though l could not
swear, even if cross-examined by the attor-
ney-general himself, where was last week
Or month ago for Il take no date, and
pay no rate, under the forest trees" and my
three watches have, for the last three months
ceased to mark the time.) Around the tea
pot Of anthony, how many elderly ladies
will congregate, talking of by-go years end
of the scandal of yesterday! With what a
world OF titbits OF family history that inno-
cent antimony, now dug from the fresh noun
tain caverns, will become acquainted!
The oxide of anthony is obtained by
passing flames from the furnace over the sui
phate. along several chambers, in which the
fumes condense upon the walls and form the
oxide. This is scraped off every few months
and is used in medicine, BY some doctors
for poisoning their mothers in law, and fol
other useful purposes. Quicksilver, as
have said, is found in abundance. We all
know the important part that it plays in in
forming US OF the temperature and of the
future state of the weather Here, in ts
native earth, it must have plenty of running
up and down to do for there is storm oil
rain, wind, thunder and lightning, as / am
told, upon $50 days out of the 365-thus
leaving only fifteen days for the barometer
to repose. Rain. more or less, there seems
to be every day but, generally speaking, i,
is soon over, and the atmosphere afterwarC
is singularly clear and brilliant. Quicksilver
is found in the red cinnabar-stone, in the
mountain-steeps and water-courses. These
stones are the most valuable, as they con
tain frequently seventy five per cent. of rea!
mercury; whereas, the solid rock yields lit
tie more than five or six per cent. The pro
cess Of obtaining the metal from the latter lie
not unlike gold quartz mining. The rock is
first blasted little below the surface of the
topmost peaks, which are fast being leveled
with the ravlnes. Should cinnabar be found
in all of them, the features of the Bougop
Range will exhibit marked change in twenty
or forty years hence. The Borneo company
will then find that it has been enacting the
rather unexpected role of missionary, by full
filling the scriptual prophecy concerning EEK
alting the valleys and laying the hills low
-Orerland Monthly FOR My.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

DONNIE CoMFoRT.-There are many who
hold in blessed memory the sainted DIR. Can
non, Professor of Pastoral Theology and
Church History in the Theological Seminary
of the Reformed Dutch Church. He was
indeed gentleman Of the olden time, pre-
serving even to the last the costume OF a
hundred years ago. He held the relation of
a brother in affection to Dominic Comfort,
of the Presbyterian church OF Kingston.
New Jersey. On one occasion he heard
Mr.. Comfort preach, and at dinner remark
ed, sa. .-.- ..f ,-
Brother Comfort, / overheard an old Ia
dy saying this morning the domlnie's sermon
was very comforting"
To which the said Comfort responded
"Only natural consequence, my good
brother. But. pray, who ever heard Of COM
fort coming from Cannons MOUTH"
This Dominic Comfort was great wag.
He was little, 1.-the old man, and we well
remember on one occasion when he was on
the New Brunswick boat then commanded
by Captain Fisher, that carriage backed
up to the gang-plank. The door was open
ed, and out came, rather gingerly, delicate
looking young man. The old dominic ran
MP the plank and assisted the passenger on
board, and then, with youthful air and
flourish, said it always gave him pleasure to
render any assistance to the aged and in
frm.-Hdrpers Magazine.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

II appears that the men distinguished in
science have usually been born in small
towns, and educated BY imperfect teachers,
who made the boys tsink for themselves.
Nothing is brought out more clearly in the
work, than that the first desideratum il q
scientific education is to stimulate curiosity.
and the observation Of real things; and that
too much encouragement of the receptive
faculty is a serious error. The author Justly
laments, that the art of observation is not
only untaught, but is actually discouraged,
BY modern education. Children are apt and
eager to observe but, instead of encourage
ing and regulating their instincts, school
masters keep them occupied solely on inter-
nal ideas--such as grammar, the vocabula-
ries of different languages, arithmetic, his
tory, and poetry. They learn about the liv-
ing world which surrounds them out Of
books, and not through their own eyes. One
of the reforrnatious he proposes is, to make
much more nee Of drawing as means of
careful observation; compelling the pupils
to draw quickly the object they have to de-
scribe. from memory. after q short period al
lowed for examination. He is a strong ad.
vocate for the encouragement Of class OF
sinecurists, like the WOODWORKING fellows OF
our colleges. who should have leisure to In.
vestigate, and not be pestered with the petty
mechanical work Of continual teaching and
examining-Popular Science Monthly.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

A REMARKABLE Doc SroRY-Some
years ago, in the town of New Boston, N.
H., there was in family woman who was
i confirmed maniac. A partition was made
ny upright slabs secured in the floor of the
ROOM which was the common living room OF
the family, and piece of timber overhead
Here she was constantly confined. A
shower coming up, all the members of the
family, women as well as men, went out
IN field adjoining the house to assist in
raking and getting in hay. A window
was left open--the dog was in the house
i believe full or cross of the shep-
herds dog. g skss
During that day the family had been
baking, and had thrown large quantity
Of Goals from the oven into the large fire
place. The people in the field heard the
log bowling, and saw him jumping up to
the window, in such apparent distress and
want of assistance, that they concluded
something was wrong at the house. They
accordingly dispatched one of their num-
Der to see what the trouble was with the
dog The person came up, and on look
ing in at the window witnessed the dog
operations.
The mad woman had got out of her
pen, and thrown the Goals about the
room, and they had set FIRE to the floor.
The dog would get hold of the woman
and pull her away from the fireplace, and
brushing the Goals to the hearth with his
paws, tried to put out the blaze on the
floor. While he was doing this, the wom-
an would get TO the fireplace, and scatter
out the Goals again. Again he would
pull her away, and then go to work to
brush up the Goals and put out the fire.
But finding he had more to do than he
could perform, the fire kindling in SO many
places, he gave notice at the window, by
barking for assistance. The person enter
ed the house, secured the woman, swept
up the Goals, put out the fire, and return
ed to haying.
Now, instinct would have taught the
dog to make bis escape from a burning
building but knowing that this woman
was crazy, and doing mischief that would
burn the house, and finding that be could
not manage the affair, this calling for as
sistance, to say the least. looks very much
like what would be called reasoning
if it had been done by human being.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17
Angora Goats Hair.

The article commercially known as mo-
hair, the product of the Angora goat, is ra-
pidly becoming Of importance to this State,
with the fair prospect of soon reaching po-
sition of much prominence. There is now
in this Market almost ready for export, about
1000. pounds Of mohair, raised in California,
and great deal of it of the quality describ-
ed as " fair average" which exscts length
of seven inches and upward, with pure white,
glistening, and silky texture. N. Gilmore,
himself q prominent breeder Of these valua-
BILE goats, and Secretary of the Association
Of Angola Goat Breeders on the Pacific
Coast, has been experimenting the baling
and preparation of the mOhair, and will pro
badly ship it for England, that being the
best existing market. Fair average" is
worth one dollar the pound, and the demand
increases much faster than the production,
which is now 100000 pounds per year in
all parts of the world, exclusive of Califor-
MA. Since 1865, Angora goats have been
largely imported at the Cape of Good Hope,
and the product from there already reaches
100000 TBS. year. California, with bet
ter feed and superior advantages of all Sorts
can scarcely fail to make the raising of mo-
hair very importont and lucrative business.
Before US lies manuscript pamphlet, writ
ten by A. Eutychides, a Greek merchant
and native of Angora, whose ancestors have
had almost entire control of the mohair
trade from Asia Minor since l7l3. A pc
rusal of this work shows that the writer is
not only thoroughly informed, but actually
IN love with his subject and there is moth
ing connected with the raising of Angora
goats that is not defined with special ex-
actitude. There is one point he insists upon
with marked, unyielding emphasis, and that
is, nothing but the purest blooded buck
must be employed for breeding purposes.
Even the faintest faint of grade in the blood
will insure failure and mischief.
The raising of Angora goats proved
failure in Australia, and Eutychides sug-
gests that it was probably due to using q ade
bucks instead of the pure thorough bred
Quite number of our ranch-owners are ex-
perimenting with these goats; J. but n. Gil
more, of Ell Dorado, and Captain E. ID. Shir-
land, of Placer, are placing their whole re-
lance on breeding solely from pure stock,
ind the samples of mohair produced by their
docks, and examined by US, were really
beautiful and exquisitely fine. 1t is estima-
ted by the Pacific Coast breeders of Angora
goats that within six years the product OF
this slope will be ample to warrant the es-
adjustment of factory, and the addition of
another very important branch of domestic
industry. 1t is by such enterprise as this
that we are steadily obtaining an enviabe
reputation abroad, which induces imnigra-
ZION and insures success.-C Commercial Her
nd
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

How TURPENTINE Is Produced n in
teresting account of the great turpentine for
ests Of North Carolina is given by a CORE
spondent. The forests which be visited are
not dark and gloomy, as they are generally
described. On the contrary, they are so
thinly wooded as to afford scarcely any
shade. The trees from which the turpentine
is obtained are known as the long leaved
pine. This tree sbounds in both the Caro-
lnas in Georgia. Alabama, and some of the
other Southern states, but it is found only
where the original forest has not been re-
moved. When once cut down, it never
grows again. If the land is allowed to fall
out by cultivation, it is followed by growth
of oak and this, in turn is replaced by pine
of an inferior kind. The turpentine pine is
tall and straight, from three to Ave feet in
diameter, to height Of forty or fifty feet.
1t is without branches, except at the top.
The turpentine, in its crude state. is obtain
ed by tapping. About foot from and par
alel to the ground, o cutting is made with
an axe at the side of the tree, to the depth
of six or eight inches high at the outside.
In the shelf, pocket is scooped out, capable
OF containing quart or two, and the gum
is made to collect in it by scarifying the
bark triangulary, with an angle pointing to
the pocket. On large trees, as many as
three, and even four, cuttings are sometimes
made-it being found, that strip of bark
three inches wide between them will keen
the tree alive. Each successive year, more
and more of the bark has to be removed ::
but even Thus, a tree lasts usually from if
teen to twenty years. When the pocket has
become full, the gum is barreled, and carried
away to be distilled. The turpentine con-
tlnues Of uniform quality during the life of
the tree; but the resin, which Is the residu.
UNI after distilation. rapidly deteriorates.
The first years resin is far the best, and is
known as pale" or window-glass." The
second and third years is known as yellow
dip" Common or dark resin is the product
of trees worked four years or more. The
work of attending the trees is done entirely
by negroes. one negro taking charge of a
crop" of 10000 pockets, for which the
wages. since the war, have usually been SJ5
TO $50 per month. without board. This
year, wages have been as high as s25 or $50.
A crop is estimated to yield about 500 bar.
rels of crude turpentine in a season. The
negroes prefer working in the turpentine
woods to any kind Of agricultural labor, as
the work is better paid, and is more agree
able in itself. One consequence of this is.
that there is great scarcity of 6eld-hands
in the central parts of the State Green
Mountain Freeman.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

Buttermilk is an aid to the digestion of
any food taken with it and by many hygi-
enists 10 regarded as an excellent substitute
for fruit in winter, and prevention Of spring
sickness. 1t is especially recommended to
invalids who suffer from indigestion--drink
it at meal times.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

EXPERIMENT on SoUND.-The following
beautiful experiment, described by Prof.
Tyndal, shows how music may be trans
mitted by an ordinary wooden rod In a
room two floors beneath the lecture room,
there was piano upon which an artist
was playing, but the audience could not
hear it. A rod of deal, with its lower end
resting upon the sounding board Of the pi-
ano, extended upward through the two
floors, its upper end being exposed before
the leeture-table. But still no sound was
heard. A violin was then placed upon the
end of the rod, which was thrown into res
onance by the ascending thrills, and in
stantIy the music of the piano was given
out in the lecture-room. A guitar and q
harp were substituted for the violin, and
with the same result. The vibrations of
the strings were communicated to the
sounding board, they traversed the long
rod, were reproduced by the resonant bod
les above the air was carved into waves,
and the whole musical composition was
delivered to the listening audIence.--Pop-
uL1r Science Monthiy.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

A pair of boots in Iowa cost just two
loads of potatoes, and to raise the potatoes
Just wears out pair Of boots.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

Men must cling to the faith that the in
conceivable is conceivable else he will not
seek.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

al rise for information" said Mr.. -,
NJ. P. I'm so glad" said Mr.. -, N.
p, =" for you certainly want some"
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

al live by my pen," said poet, wishing
to impress young lady. You look as II
you lived in one" was the reply. vase
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

TURKISH GOODNESS. as a British
officer is in danger, nothing can approach
the Turk in this respect. George Finney
an English sailor, during the battle of Ma
varino, hauled one who was drowning into
the boat-a ne-looking fellow, and ele,
gantly dressed. He was no sooner seated
in the bow Of the boat, than, taking out
portable apparatus, he began to fill hs
pipe, which, having done, he struck a
light from the same conveniency, and be
gan sending forth with inconceivable apathy
volumes of smoke from his pipe. do
you see that Turkish rascal ," said Fin
ney, who was provoked at this singular
instance of indifference. We'll, since ht
cares so little for being hauled out of hit
satanic majesty's clutches, we'll soon send
him where he came FROM" So saying, ht
made a spring forward. and seizing the Turk
who could not understand how he had Of
Tended, tumbled him overheard before any
one could prevent him. The Turk soon re-
covered, and got upon q piece Of the wreck
of one Of his own ships, where he was pick
ed up by one OF the Albion boats.
Another instance of Turkish GOODNESS
may mention. which did not happen in our
ship, was told me under well-authenticated
circumstances. Some of the crew Of the
French frigate Alcyone had picked up a
Turk, who, by his dress, appeared to be a
person of rank in their navy. When he was
brought aboard he found his arm 80 sbatter-
ed that it would need to undergo amputa-
ton; so he made his way down the cock
pit ladder with as much ease as if he had
made prize of the frigate. He pointed to
his shattered arm, and made signs to the
surgeon that he wanted it of. The surgeon
obliged him SO far. and having bound up the
stump and bandaged it up properly, the
Turk made his way to the deck, and, plung-
ing into the water, SWAN to his own vessel
that was opposed. along with another, to the
very frigate he had been aboard of. He was
seen climbing the side with his one arm.
but he had not been aboard many minutes
when it blew up, and he persisted
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

A man that don't know emmy thing will
tell it the first time he gets chance.-Bik
Hngs.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-17

Bread and cake are best kept in tin
box or stone jar.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-03
Flowers i'm Winter.

The taste for flowers in winter is rapid
ly increasing with the advent of hot-air
furnaces and base burners, which keep
the fire burning for months. It is COM
mon belief that flowers cannot be made
to flourish in furnace heated rooms. Ex-
perience has proved that this is an error,
at least when the furnace air-chamber is
supplied with water for evaporating, and
no others are fit to use AS private con-
servatories are generally conducted, they
are great expense and vexatlon to the
heads of families. They are generally
placed at some little distance from the
house, all their sides exposed to the
weather, and consequently the consump-
ton of coal is great, and then one or more
functionaries are considered necessary
for taking care of them. Managed IN
this way, they can never become COM
mon luxury. A well-built room, twelve
feet by twelve, on the south side OF the
dwelling can be warmed in win
ter, by single register from the furnace,
to roe Fair. in the daytime, and 4O0 or
SOC at night, and this will suffice for
roses, geraniums, heliotropes, ivles, Pc
tunias. nlignonette, pansles, jasmine
(grandiflora), callas, the daphne odora,
fuchias, salvias, gloXinias, hyacinths, and
many others. Caladlums and begonlas
require night temperature from 90 to
$50. The room should have half the
roof, and all the south end, covered with
double sashes, and the tables for flower
pots should have a border three or four
inches high to hold moss for the pots to
stand In. This moss holds considerable
water, and its evaporation keeps the at