The Republican journal., 1874-09-10
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dicular; Norton, base.
The room of the Clerk of Courts at the Court
House is being renovated in the way of new
plasterng, painting. Sc.
Capt. Burgess OF the packet yacht =. Nj.
Bonncy has resumed his regular trips between
this city and Carver's Harbor, and will make
one trip per week weather permitting. Freight
and passengers taken, and produce bought.
| Sec his advertisement.
Superintendent Pierce has laid main gas
He has completely circumyented the ledge that
crops ont above the store of NJ. P White by
piping up and down on either side. He can
now light any building in that vicinity
The latest new vessel building in Carriers
yard, Capt. McDonads, is of Il peculiar model.
She is to be 800 tons and very flat and shallow,
| drawing but ten feet OF water with her hea1 lest
cargo She is designed for the southern trade
which requires vessels of light draught to en-
ter the barred harbors. such as jacksonville
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual fair
OF the Waldo Co. Agricultural Society is to be
holden during the second week of October next.
| The subscription for paying the outstanding in
| debtedness are to be collected, and the Society
| established on sound financial basis. All
persons having bills against the Society are re-
quested TO present them promptly TO f. VI.
Boarlman, % Main st.
The republicans of the class composed of
| Brooks Knox, Waldo Belmont. Morrill, and
Swanviile, held their caucus TO nominate a can
ddate TO the legislature at aldo on Saturday
last. jeremiah Evans, an old gentleman near
" - Years of age, was the nominee. As ii
came unexpected his views on the Senatorial
| question are not known.
! CITY COUNCIL, It'll inst Roll OF Accounts
| No. {, passed; amount, $l65S,2G. Petition Of
! Iho-. }. FaIrow and others. for extension of
| Park st, to BAY View ST., referred TO Commit
| tee on Roads. Petition OF A. II. =. Moore and
others for repairs 10 sidewalk on Bridge Street,
referred TO Committee on Walks. Petition Of
{. II. Monroe for abatement of taxes, referred
10 Committee on Fire Department. The matter
OF raising and rebuilding the bridge across Goose
River, referred to the Mayor and Committee on
Roads and Bridges. On suggestion OF Joseph
Williamson ESD, names were given 10 the fol-
icN lIiS upNcTlbtu SlTtelS rs lOllbNS 10 lUP
street leading 10 McSiilvery's shipyard. the
name Allyn st. The street leading from High
ST. to Sanfords Wharf WAS named Commercial
St. that at the rear of the American House
Beaver ST.. the street from Calvin llerNey's on
High ST., 10 Waldo Avenue, Primrose st. The
nalIe Waldo Avenue was confined 10 the street
before SO called. Cobbett's Lane was chri>tened
Tho ON lon,1ino tl,a
Of High and Church streets. hear James z.
Whites to Northport, was named Northport
Avenue. That portion OF Main st. between
Front and Congress streets retains It's old name,
which is 10 be applied TO both branches Of said
streets which intcrsect Front ST.. that portion
of the street between Congress st. and Belmont
is TO be known As Belmont avenue. The name
of the street leading from Northport Avenue to
Cottrell's ship-yard was changed to Race street.
The street leading from the foot of Main st. to
Market st. was named Common St.
PROFESSOR CUMMINGS LECTURES. This
distinguished gentleman, SO well known to the
world as one of the most accomplished and en-
thusiastic workers in the fields of science, is to
favor our citizens with course of lectures on
'tolOSN VI INT I1lSluI Vi Nature III INC htChH
and The Stars, from the beginning 10 the ap-
pearance of man.
The Introductory lecture was given on Mon
day evening The speaker began 10y drawing
d section of the earth's crust and showing the
two roek-families OF which il is composcd-oue
family massive like granite and the other strait
fed like slate. one was formed from fire-mist
and the other was formed on sen hotton- and
beaches.
On another evening the speaker would show
by chemical experiments how the n08sjrc
rocks. the foundation rocks of the globe, We're
made. He would begin the story of the earth
now " it'll the first OF rocks born under water
Under the ain the world rats The doom of
decay is -on the very granite, and slowly, rNrY
slowly, the granite face of New England is rot
ting away into dust. The breath We throw
from our lungs, falling on granite Iots it. For
this rock contains soda or potash and these are
and an acid destroys an alkali. Under the touch
of carbonic acid in the air the granite rpty SLOW
ly crumbles away into dust.
This dust is borne by streams to the ocean
where it is spread ont on the bottom. When
the particles are knit together they form rock.
Under air the world is forever wasting away.
Under ocean il is forever renewed.
The speaker showed by the use of chalk and
blackboard how animals, dropping into these
rocks while they are forming, may petrty.
How the granite, in places is overlaid by sand
stone or limestone or slate many miles thick,
and such rocks as these are hardened mud Of
ancient sea bottoms. They hold the petrifed
remains Of the by-gone creations. II is the part
of science 10 restore these extinct animals and
thus, for the Imagination, re-people the pre-
Adamite earth,
She has found IL new field. Among the noun
tains of Wyoming and Colorado are dried lake
basins. The speaker skctched bed Of a lake
rs great in its day Superior in ours. 1t had
stood there so long that the mud formed on lis
bottom is represented by rock layers mile
| thick. 1t has been dry so long that rivers have
cut their canyons down nearly mile deep
Here and there are dismal chaSms. here and
there are naked cliffs, here and there are bitter
springs that bubble up from bones of the dead
of long ago IA land of des0lation and the
shadow OF deatL-"hell with the fires burn
ed out" Such, here, is the word to-day.
What was it some millions Of years ago:
The speaker drew Il few fossil bones found in
Il cliff, and applying the laws of science he built
up the animal. The full drawing represented Il
creature large as an elephant, elephant-like,
| rhinoceros- like, walrus-ike, moose-like, and
! deer-like. Its companions Were horses not
| larger than rabbits animals half way between
| pig and camel, others connecting links between
| deer and giraffe
| After illustrate ing the methods OF science in
this new field the speaker took hi, audience in
II birds flight view over the history of creation
| as we read it from rocks of our own continent
| He sketched on the blackboard representative
animal of each epoch
The Professor has an graceful and pleasing
manner, discarding entirely the unfamiliar
| terms OF science, and making his discourse 50
attractive as to delight all classes of hi,
audiences. He delineates with chalk on blacl,
| hoard his illustrations and ha ro,,iJit1r ,rit,