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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-14
Nennebet goutnal.

Published a; AUGUSTA, MAIZE, Water Street
.oot OF Court, by SPRAGUE. OWEN Il NASH.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-14
lGleehlp Acnnebet yoarnaI,

Published eve-y Wednesday morning, is the
argest iolo paper the State, containing
ncws political articles, agricultural and scientific
matter tales poetry, anecdotes, household recipes,
markets, &C., &c.
Terms, s., per dnnum in Gdrance.
Tran4icnt Advertisements, SlJ0 per inch Tor
Gcst week; % cents per week for each subsequent
assertion
Special Notices g.. 90 per inch for first week; 50
cents per week Tor each subsequent week.
business Notices, in reading columns, 20 cents
per line lol 1rst insertion; 10 cents pcrlne Tor each
subsequent insertion.
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RailrOaOs anD Steamb0ats
Pacific Mail Steamship Line
To CAL1ToRNIA, VIA PANAMA.
q ltlr rpInnnl tntna of frnin.ht n.aL M c n r1

~ SAiIA ckNIAi VIA PANAMA,
Greatly reduced rates of freight and passage.
The magnificent steamers of this line viii leave
conpany's wharf Pier No. II North River, foot OF
Canal St, New York, as follows
SATURDAY, Feb. IA, at Z. NJ, COLON, Capt.
Hudson, connecting with the splendid new steam
ship COLIMA for san Francisco.
SATURDAY, Feb. -, ACAPULCO, Capt. 4. q.
Gray, connecting with the magnificent steamship
ARIZONA, Capt. Cavarly.
Eolh the above named steamers will call at Kings
ton, Jam, on theiroutward and homeward voyages.
For China and Japan Steamers leave san Fran.
cisco lst and 18th of every month.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
New York to san Francisco-Cahin, sl00 or ;ll0,
currency, according to location.
New y ok to san franc!5co-Steeragc so cur
rency.
New York to Klngston-Cabin, $50 gold; Steer
age, S2j gold.
ply at the Company's Office Pier No. /. North Kv.
er, foot OF Canal St, New York.
H. j. BULLAY, Superintendent.
KUFUs HATCH, Vice President and Managing
Director. iebl;I-tIy
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HALLowELL, June 27, Is

kENNEBEC ss.-Then the above named
Shubael West personally appeared before
me, the subscriber, one of the Justice OF
Peace, within and for the County of Ken
nebec, and made solemn oath, that the
above statement of facts by him sub
scribed, is just and true.
A. MANN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-14

KENNEBEC COUNTT.-Ia PROBATE Court at Au-
guStd, on the fOurfh NondGy Of February, 1874.
4 CERTAIN INSTRUMEST, purportng to be
"A the last will and testament of Eben +. Hunt,
late of IIallowel, in said county, deceased,
having been presented for probate:
ORDERED That notice thereof be given three
weeks successfully prior to the fourth Monday OF
March next, in the Kennebec Journal, news
paper printed in Augusta that all persons interes
ted may attend at Il Court of Probate then to be
holden at Augusta, and show cause, if any, why
the said instrument should not be proved approved
and allowed, as the last will and testament Of the
said deceased,
H. X. BAKER, Judge.
Attest: CHARLES IIEWINs, Register. 3wll
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Administrators Sale.

EHE undersigned, Administrator on the estate Of
i William w. Smell, late OF Nassalboro', will sell
ut public auction mt the house Of the deceased on
Friday, March u, 1874, at ten o'clock A. NJ,
pursuant to license from the Judge of Probate for
the County of Kennehec, the following parcels OF
real estate situate in Nassalboro': One undivided
hafofthe land and buildings occupied by Thaddeus
Smell; and one undivided half OF about seventy. five
acres of land, south and east OF the Edward Smell
place, including all interest in the mill privilege
and buildings thereon.
EUGENE W. WIIlTEHOUSE.
Augusta, Jan. IS, 1874. 3wl0
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I9a.., a'enucbet Sournal.

Issue. every morning, except Sundays. 1t con
tains the aIes; news by telegraph and mail,
gives reports OF tie Markets, and has eiiily pre-
p.rea political GEd local articles, ard generous
amount OF farming home and miscellaneous read.
with iull compilation Of State news.
Terms. II per Gnn0m IN adUance; &oif payment
. not maue within the year Single copies scents.
10 had 1T the bookstores and at this Office.
Advertisements inserted reasonable terms
Rates may be had on application at this office.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
The Power Of Dickens PathOs.

Mrs. Henry Siddons, neighbor and
intimate friend of the late l. ord Jeffrey,
who had free license to enter his house
at all hours unannounced, and come
and go when she listed, opened his
library door one day very gently to look
if he was there, and saw enough at a
glance to convince her that her visit
was ll-timed. The hard critic of the
Edinburgh was sitting in his chair, with
his head on the table, in deep grief.
As Mrs Siddons was delicately retiring,
in the hope that her entrance had been
unnoticed, jeffrey raised his head and
kindly beckoned her back. Per,eiving
that his cheek was flushed and his eyes
suffused with tears, she apologized for
her intrusion, and begged permission
to withdraw. When he found that she
was seriously intending to leave him,
he rose from his chair, took both her
hands, and led her to a seat. Lord
Jeffrey Qoq) Don't go, my dear
friend. l shall be right again in
another minute" Mrs. Siddons-"I
had no idea that you lad any bad news
or cause for grief, or would not have
come. Is any one desd?" Lord jeffrey
Yes, indeed. I'm a great goose to
have given way so but could not help
it. You'll be sorry to hear that Little
Nelly-Boz's Little Nelly-is dead. y
The fact was, jeffrey had just received
the last number then out of 1.-The Old
Curiosity Shop" and had been thor
oughly overcome by its pathos.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Good Night.

How tenderly and sweetly falls the
gentle goodnight" into loving hearts,
as members of family separate and re-
tire for the Eight. What myriads of
hasty words and thoughtless acts, en-
gendered in the hurry and business of
the day, are forever blotted out by its
benign influence. Small token indeed;
but it is the little courtesies that make
up the sum of happy home. 1t is on
ly the little courtesies that can so beau
tifully round off the square corners in
the homes of laboring men and women.
The simple 81 thank you" for favor
received, will fill with happiness the
heart of the giver. True wealth is not
counted by dollars and cents, but by
the gratitude and affection of the heart.
Ii home be happy. whether the owner
possess patch of ground of one or q
thousand acres, they are in the end
wealthy beyond mathematical calcula-
tions.
Then how much more lovingly are
the sable folds of night gathered around
the happy homes how much more con-
fidently do its members repose their
weary bodies in the care of Divine good
ness, soothing their overtaxed minds to
the realities of beautiful dreamland !;
awakened, refreshed and invigorated
for the coming days labor, by having
bid their loved ones an atfectionate
good night" And if, during this life,
we have faithfully attended to all these
little courtesies, these little soul-needs,
if we have guarded carefully all "God's
hearts" placed in our keeping, at the
close of its brief, yet eventful day. how
much easier to bid all our dearly be-
loved ones a final goodnight. ;"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
About IdlenesS.

MANY young people think an idle life
must be a pleasant one, but there are
none who enjoy it so little and are such
burdens to themselves, as those who
have nothing to do. Those who are
obliged to work hard all day enjoy their
short period of rest and recreation so
much, that they are apt to think If their
whole life were spent in rest and recre-
alton it would be the most pleasant of
all. But this is a sad mistake, as they
would soon find out if they made trial
of the life they think so agreeable. One
who is never busy can never enjoy rest,
for rest implies relief from previous
labors; and if our whole time were
spent in amusing ourselves, we should
find it more wearisOme than the hardest
days work. Recreation is only valuable
as it unbends us; the idle can know
nothing of it. Many people leave off
business and settle down to life of
enjoyment; but they generally find that
they are not nearly so happy as they
were before, and are often glad to re-
turn to their old occupations to escape
the miseries of Incidence.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
The Power Of a Great Example.

There is nothing that will let the light
into the soul like personal influence ;
nothing that can lift one up out of the
darkness, and lead one into the divine
and quickening light, and baptize one
in the spirit of faith, hope, love, and
charity, like the magic power of great
example nothing that can inspire,
exalt and purify, like the magnetic rays
of healing and helping that beam out
of the eyes of noble men and women.
If your life has been deep and broad in
its experience, then you have seen lives
that were better than yours lives whose
pure light shone upon you from a
serener height than you could reach,
and touched you and warmed you
through and through just as the droop-
ing flowers, some chilly morning, have
looked up through the thick fogs and
caught a glimpse of the bright sun,
which scatters the mists and opens the
glad blossoms to the warm, Gfe-giving
light.
Whose life is not, sometimes, wrapped
around with fogs? Who has not looked
up from his little life-world and seen no
cheering sun above him-nothing but a
heavy, leaden sky hanging over? And
then. perhaps, you have almost doubted
the sun itself-doubted goodness and
doubted God-until you have SEN the
clouds break away, the fogs lift, and
doubt vanish before the beautiful radi-
ance of some shining example. l tell
you that believe, more and more, that
what the world needs to reform and
redeem it is, not so much a sound theo-
logy or a profound philosophy, but
holier, purer, diviner ives-lives that
shall be the light of men.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
What a. Real Lady Never Does

The woman who is more or less green
or snobbish borrows clothes, ribbons,
iewelry and bonnets with which to
dress. The genuine lady never is guilty
of such degradation. The high-toAed
woman is above having articles of dress
or lewelry in common with another /;
she will never run to borrow new gloves,
new ribbons, new cloaks, shawls and
other articles of apparel with which to
cut dash. To dress mud lark in
yellow feathers does not make a canary,
nor will dressing a woman in borrowed
plumage transform her into a lady.
Men seldom display such weakness.
The real gentleman never will appear in
borrowed articles of dress or jewelry.
Nor will the woman who has real pride
of character so cheaper herself as to
appear in goods not her own.
A gentleman friend of ours, who loves
his wife dearly, was constantly buying
for her costly and beautiful articles.
He filed her lap with such little things
as he saw from time to time, which he
thought would please her. She lived in
a boarding house. One day her hus-
band noticed that she was without GER
TAIN drtlcltS lie utu DOugut IOr neI only
short time before He began to in
quire and learned that her landlady
borrowed her furs to wear to market,
that her sister had borrowed of her
jewelry and other articles to wear to a
party; that lady friend had borrowed
her new bonnet to wear on the street,
and that scarcely one of the beautiful
articles he had bought for his wife,
because he loved her and wished her to
have them, was in her possession.
Whoever should see her in company
even with her own articles on her per-
son, would think they were borrowed
of those to whom she had loaned them
rather than lose their friendship.
AS the articles were returned to their
owners, some Of them torn, broken,
soiled and damaged. like a sensible man
he threw them into the fire and told his
wife that if she did not love him enough
to keep for her own use such ornaments
as he bought for her alone, she might
buy for herself hereafter. There is no
difference between a borrower and
beggar; except the borrower is the
most selfish of the two and the least
entitled to respect.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Dipthheria.

There have been many cases of diph-
liberia lately, and although the disease
has not been prevalent enough so far
to warrant the fear that it will become
epidemic, there have been grounds for
apprehension in regard to the disease
in New York and Brooklyn for long
while. DIR. Peters writes to the "Tri-
bune" that, among the poor, bad air
and food are the most active causes of
mortality from this terrible malady.
"But STILL" he adds, ''it will only too
often single out and kill its victims
among the children of the rich, cleanly
and judiciOus.n DIR. Peters recommends
chlorate of potash as the best remedy
for diphtheria. Here is what he says of
it: at should be given in one way only
dry upon the tongue, pure, not mixed
with sugar and not in solution. By
giving it i'll this way it dissolves slowly
in the mouth and gradually and
efficiently comes in contact with all the
diseased parts of the throat. 1t is
slightly disagreeable at first; but the
youngest child soon becomes accus-
toned to it. 1t takes away the supposed
necessity for forced local applications
to the throat, and if the little patient
be taught to open its mouth widely,
-
breath deeply at the same time, the
curtain of the palate will be drawn up,
and the whole back part of the throat,
down to the windpipe, will be exposed
TO view, without the use of any harsher
means to obtain view of the parts in
vOlved by the disorder. This treatment
must be persisted in, the chlOrate of
potash being given in doses of two,
three five or more grains every hour at
first, until some decided Improvement
commences, or for one, two, three, or
even more days, without hesitation or
faltcring. Often no apparent improve
meat seems to take place for one, two,
or more days; sometimes not until
rearly up to the fourth day. But cour-
age and perseverance will almost GER
tainly be rewarded with success: GER
tainly four or five times out of six"
People cannot be too careful in regard
to diptheria. 1t has been wisely sug-
gested that hospital should be founded
exclusively for diphtberetic patients,
like the smallpox hospitals. No dis
ease is more difficult to guard against
after it has once entered a household.
But where people live comfortably and
cleanlily, slight precautions are sufii-
cient to keep i: away entirely. Very
poor people, who live in unhealthy
neighbOrhOods, are in more danger.
Diphtheria has often swept away whole
families in tenement houses. We do
not wish to be accused of ''crOaking,"
but nearly everybody we meet appears
to have a cold in his head and a sore
throat, and it is just as well for people
to know that diphtheria is prevalent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
How u Quakeress stopped BOr-
rowing.

An exchange says the subject of bor-
rowing and lending came up in the
course of conversation with one of its
subscribers the other day, when ne sud
denly recollected a funny occurrence of
that character that had happened in his
neighborhood. He said he had a
neighbor whose family were great bor
rowers, but seldom, if ever, returning
the exact amount borrowed. An old
Quaker lady, another neighbor, who
mad endured these invasions for a long
time patiently, hit upon very philoso-
phical mode of eventually putting
stop to the nuisance. Keeping her
own counsel, ,thenext time her good man
went to town be had separate and ex-
press order to purchase pound of the
best tea, and also new canister to put
it in. As he knew she already had
plenty of tea, and also q canister, he
was pnzzled to determine what the old
lady wanted of more tea and new can
lister but his questionings and reason
ings elicted nothing more than repe-
tition of the order.
"Jim, did I not tell thee to get me
ter Now go along, and do as 1 bid
thee"
And go along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and new
canister were his companions. The old
lady took them from him with an
expression on her usually placid feat
ures, and, depositing the tea in the can
lister, set it on the shelf for special use.
1t had not long to wait, for the harrow
ing neighbor had frequent use for the
aromatic herb. The good old lady
loaned generously, emptying back in
the canister any remittance OF bor-
rowed teas which the neighbor's con-
science inclined her to make. Time
went on, and after something less than
the one hundreth time of borrowing,
the neighbor again appeared for 'just
another drawing of tea, when the oft
visited tea canister was brought out
and found to be empty, and the good
old lady and obliging neighbor was Just
one pound of tea poorer than when she
bought the new canister, which now
only remained to tell the story. Then
she made little characteristic speech,
perhaps the first in her life. She said
=" Thou seest that empty canister I
filed it for thee with pound OF my
best tea. and have lent it all to thee
in driblets, and put into it all thou hast
sent me in return. and none but thyself
hath taken therefrom or added, into it,
and now thou seest it empty; therefore
1 will say to thee, thou hast borrowed
thyself out and can lend thee no more"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Days of the Week

The names of these are derived from
saxon idolatry. The Sa1ons had seven
deities more particularly adorned than
the rest. namely: tine Sun, Moon,
Tuisco, Wooden, Thor, Friga, and Sea-
ter. sunday being dedicated to the
sun, wss called by them Sunandaeg
his idol represented the bust of man,
with the face dartiDg bright rays, hold
ing a wheel before his breast, indica-
tive of the circuit of the golden orb
around our sphere. Monday was dedi-
Gated to the moon, and was represented
by female on pedestal, with a very
singular dress, and two long ears.
Tuesday was consecrated TO Tuisco a
German hero, sire of the Germans, Scy-
thians and Ssxons. He was represen-
ted as a venerable OLD man, with long,
white beard, sceptre in his hand, and
the skin of white bear thrown over
his shoulders. Wednesday was conse-
Grated to Wooden, or Odin, a supreme
god of the Northern nations, father of
the gods, god Of war, of Mars. He was
represented as warrior in bold mar
tiat attitude, clad in armor, holding in
his right hand a broad crooked sword,
and shield in his left. Thursday was
consecrated to Thor, eldest son of Wo-
den, who was the Roman Jupiter, he
was believed to govern the air preside
over lighting and thunder, direct the
wind, rain and seasons he was repre-
sented as sitting on splendid throne,
with a crown of gold adorned with
twelve glittering stars, and sceptre
in his right hand, Friday, or Friga,
Hertha, or Edith, was the mother of
the gods and wife of Wooden she was
the goddess of love and pleasure, and
was portrayed as female with a naked
sword in her right hand and bow in her
left hand, implying that in extreme
cases women should fight as we'll as
men. Saturday, or Seator, is the same
is the Roman Saturnus he was repre-
sented on pedestal, standing on the
back of a pricky fish called a perch, his
head bare, with thin, meagre face ; in
his left hand he help wheel, and IN
his right pail of water with fruits and
flowers. The sharp fins of the fish i'm
piled that the worshippers of Scatter
should pass safely through every diff
Guilty. The wheel was emblematic of
their unity and freedom, and the pail
of water implied that he would water
the earth and make it fruitful.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Miscellany.
Comic Music.

We speak of comic music; but there
is no such thing. Comic songs there
are, and comic operas but no comic
music, although this art, like all others,
is capable of the grotesque. But music
can express neither wit nor hunor,
neither satire nor raillery, not even the
ridiculous. 1t can express iollity, which
is a mood of mind, and animal spirits,
another mood, hardly of mind. But in
this direction its limit is phrase the
spirit and form of which make it not
inappropriate vehicle of comedy. l re-
member but two musical Jokes. One is
in Cimarosa's "Matrimonio Segreto, ="
an opera which have never heard, and
which l believe has never been per-
formed in this country, never at least
within my memory. In this, upon the
fathers announcement of sun ntdtri-
nlOnio mobile" there is brief silence,
and then two horns are heard in the
orchestra. 1t can hardly be that this
musical hint of the probable conse-
auences of a noble marriage In a
plebeian family is accidental. But after
all the joke is not really musical for it
depends entirely upon the name of the
instruments by which it is perpetrated,
not at all upon the musical idea to
which they give utterance. If the horn
had happened to be called the trumpet,
or horns (covnD had not been the ac-
cepted sign of certain marital calamity
the world over, this brazen joke would
have been impossible. The other in
stance was a monstrous pOrtamento o
glide in the performance of the AIR of
s'The King of the Cannibal Islands, i'll
a potpourri by Jullien's orchestra.
This air opens by a passage from the
dominant to the third of the scale, and
whenever it recurred the stringed in
struments, instead of taking the leap Of
five notes, slid up, with a prolonged
and wailing crescendo, and then dashed
off rapidly, The effect was very ridicu.
lous, and always provoked shouts of
laughter. But here again the comic
effect was produced, not by the musical
idea, bnt by the caricature of the not
uncommon exaggeration of grave IN
vocalization.-The Gata.ry for Septem'-
her