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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-26

NIRGfNIA TELEGRAPH .0MPAN
~ t4 ALEXANDRIA, VA,
Stocktalders il this Company will ,lease tax.
notice that the following acting agents are the
only authorized persons to make collections Of
money for this Company viz.
MOSES WALTON Director woodstock.
COL. G. ". MURPHY Agent Mt. jackson.
CAPT. q B. sAMUEIS +" 8. Front ROYAL.
A. %. TRICK Director Ha, risonburg.9 .c-
.RORT. BEVERLEY President. Plains. =
VIM II. TAMS Agent Staunton 4s' ~
When they collect. they will asp furnish th 9
party paying them, with a certificate OF stock
Money paid to any other persons except In tself
will not be recognized. "a 10 s7gg& - a'i@
GEORGE C. MEDDERBCEN
Secretary and ften sufer.
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To determine whether man Is drunk
Of, not get him to say, "Ths scenery is
truly rural :" If he says "tiural," you
you may put him down as drunk.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-26

The3lsst match inIgthe, boz generally
sails to burn; 50 he who walks in the
dark all his life, and strikes for light
only on bis death bed, is in danger Of
awakening to Taught but a strong odor
of birthstone. -t.,aT HIS. angl,T
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Han p' II @D''

i'm Is If. &c,
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Notice No. A..

All accounts are no dine and fmmeJli-
ate payment is desired. Wheat corn ana
rye will be taken in payment, hut no OBJ
lection made to greerbKcke. Give atten.
ton to this notice sHA 6blige.
8. "A. banner. Z
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-"God does not kill the devil" says
the Rev. Mr.. Bailey Of Springfield,
Mass, in answer to Gerald Massey 8
question, ''because the devil is to be
the agent Of punishment hereafter
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-26

3D. A young lady Of spirit in Indiana was
so disgasted wishslher young man for
running. at the sight ola ghost, that
she is making preparations to marry
the ghost. II
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lANDIEs. ac {
!! lave received fine lot Of Z s
FREN III. PLAIN AND TOY CANDIES
and NJ rs OF every description for the
holidays and would respectfully call the
attention Of the public to the same as well
as, to my fine assortment OF toys and
fancy goods.
dec. lS~-3f; 3. SCHMTTT
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-26

GRApK CuTrISGs. The length of
grape cuttings, says the New York
Tribune, IL not a matter Of much
moment, batips d general sssy. It linay
be said tits best, to- nutthem with two
or three buds If the interuodes atf,at
is the space between the buds, are
about nine or ten inches, use but the
two, cutting below the bottom eye and
. short distance above she upper one.
When the buds are close together use
three OF even four on the cuttings. In
the spring set out in rows. tramp the
soil at the bottom very hard. and
allowing the top bud to he on Il level
with the surrounding surface. It is .
ureat mistake to have ones cuttings
sticking mp IN the ain at least half their
length. Make the soil rich before
planting, and ! Rood strong Igrogsth
win So the reanlt af The dsSt year. One.
year old vines are the best for planting
out, the chances ~ success dinainishing
with esch sreesediug pears gro*th;;
A-stroDe thrifty ois yearbold vine. +,
II o,v opinion, worth twice - much a
NJ Ji1lf IA stronger specimen.
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A SINGULAR FgRr1LHER.-Ac cores.
pgp9ents effhes Ssieptife gArstHan,
who had a great many flowers in pots,
which prsssated 3 iangad and dying
appeafahee removed thu earth from
tAefoots ia lavoriie plan, and poured
molasses srosnd then; sffer which. on
eoysdeG theroots and molssses, the
aowersAoan began TO p1esessta sur
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well. We cannot, however, discover
a very intimate relation between that
acid and molasses, as we think the lat
ter is not, readily converted into the
former. ,NesS8 sA8 "a sSoTt -aH>Ss
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How FAIR CHINESE DIE FOR Love.
In his "Far Cathay" Mr.. Medhurst
states that one morning he received a
card from wealthy young lady in
forming him that her betrothed, having
passed into an early grave, she had
made up her mind to commit suicide on
i certain day. To Mr.. Medhurst's sur
prise, his official responsiveness were
received with commonplace eivilies,
and sson the day named the woman did
deliberately sacrifice her. life in the
presence of thousands. A stage was
erected in the open fields, with a tented
frame over it, from which was sus-
pended a slip ofscarlet Grape; one end
of this she adjusted around, her neck.
She then embraced alittle boy. probab
~ alittle brother presented by person
standing by, and having let fail 2 veil
over her tace, she mountcd a chair and
resolutely Jumped off it, her. little
clasped hands saluted the assemblage
as her fast-falling form twirled ronnd
with the Tightening cord. " seie ss ssnsA
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
Current, Notes.

1t seems to be the special duty of the asso-
ciated press agent at Washington to rebuke
Mr.. Dawes for his earnest plan for economy.
1t is thought necessary to telegraph daily that
his recent speech is believed 10 be full OF err
rors. Perhaps 1t might be as well 10 wall ,r uii
til the errors are exposed and refuted. Inc
country at large has no apprehension tnat
the etf1rt at retrenchment will be too radical.
Hartford Courdnt.
The demon of intemperance will remain so
long as men are born with appetites which
they are not taught to control, and rumsell-
ing will continue as long as men are willing
to seek profit in pandering to such APP
petites. The tue reform of the future is to
be found in teaching men the infinite beauty
and desirability of self control, of having
every passion and appetite in subsection.
This is the lesson If the life of Christ. When
it is rightly apprehended it will touch alike
the inebriate and the rum seller, teaching
the one to curb his appetite, and the other
that honest poverty is better chan wealth ac-
quired by debauching his tellow-men.
The women of Ohio propose to carry the
war into Africa" that is, among the poll
ticians at the capital. They are goiug up to
pray at the feet of the democratic legislature
that it may be converted to their views.
These good women have great faith
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19

SENATOR HANLIN ON FINANCES.
Senator Hamin addressed the Senate, taxing
ground against the imitation of the currency.
He said he was disposed to give the South and
West more banks, hut he would vote to take
$50. 900 900 from New England and give it to
otbor sections before he would vote to increase
the irredeemable paper currency one dollar
New England originated these banks to aid the
Government when it was rocking to the very
centre He claimed this circulation was worth
something now aud it would be unfair to take
1t away. However rather than meet the haz-
ards and evils OF giving more irfedeemable pa
per currency, he would vote to take away from
New England more than that proposed by this
bill. The question as to increasing currency
might as well be met here now. 1t was the la
Dor of the country which must furnish means
to pay the Indebtedness of the country, and II
the currency be increased the time for payment
would be prolonged. We had partially got out
of the terrible calamitieS of war, and he asked
if il would be wise to increase the volume OF
currency and thus go over again the ground al
ready trOdden.
He thought it unwise that the Senate of the
United States, as reasonable sane men, when
the sun of the 18th century was going down,
should be here asking for more irredeemable
paper money. When the door should be open
to such currency without limitation, he gave
notice that those States now having ar excess
of currency would establish four banks to ore
established in the States now having less than
their proportion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Temperance Mass Meeting.

To THE TEMPERANCE MEN OF MAINE.
While it is conceded by the people of the State that
prohibition has become the settled policy of egsla-
tion and that the dram shop has been outlawed and
while the advocates of prohibition have and do still
ntrol the executive offices OF State and county, it
must be admitted that in many localities intemper-
ance with its attendant train Of crimes rapidly on
the increase. The public sentiment, which through
the elective franchise, enacted the prohibtory laws
and in almost every municipality dictates the execu-
tive officers would seem to be sufficiently potent to
secure their thorough anu impartial enforcement
But in many instances and with many officers this
does not seem sufficient and they the illogical
plea that "pnbic sentiment, although expressed in
the choice will not sustain them in the performance
of sworn duty. Assuming to become expouuders in
stead of executors Of the law duty neglected obi
cation to society dsregarded and the dramshop-the
prolific source OF drunkenness ignorance brutality
waste pauperism, crime. impaired health shattered
intellect, premature decay and untimey death" il
still allowed to do its evil work.
For the purpose Of considering these facts and fol
mutual consultation upon the best methods to be
adopted to secure constant expression of public
sentiment upon this vital question, the Temperance
Men of Maine, without respect to party creed or pro-
ession. are invited to meet in the City Hail. Port
land Friday, February 9th, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon, the meeting to continue through the do,
and close in the evening, with GRAND RALLY
Arrangements with the Railroads will be an
nounced when completed
PER ORDER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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,ade sad havoc with the sheep in the neigh

made sad havoc with the sheep in the neigh
borhood,
Mr.. Eben Hill of PenObscot who was report
ed to have been accidentally poisoned some
weeks since, is rapidly recovering, 1t seems
that he was not poisoned, but had fever and
partial shock of paralysis.
PENOBsCoT COUNTY.
Staging between Bangor and Bucksport is
done on wheels.
The Freshman Glass at the State College has
received four new members this term and now
numbers thirty-seven.
A correspondent of the Bangor Wing vouch-
es for the almost incredible statement that at a
recent funeral 10 Rowland a clergyman from
Maxfeld oficiated, and before the corpse had
been taken to the grave made out bill OF IS
for services rendered and gave it into the hands
Of a constable for collection.
Knowles Gordon has been chosen Captain,
John Ross First Lieutenant, and VIM. H.
Dursin, Second Lieutenant of the ARTILLERY
Company recently formed in Bangor, and
which now numbers sixty-two members.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
| The Bath Times says there is a very gratify-
| ing interest in the cause of temperance exist
| ing in that city. great meeting was held
Tuesday evening at the City Hall. On We'd
| nesday search and seizure took place at the
| Sagadahoc House.
| George Fitzgerald, rigeer, while at work
on a bark in Goss & Sawyers yard in Bath on
| Tu, sday, had one of his legs badly broken, be-
low the knee, ir two places by one of the
blocks striking him the iron strap having
! parted.
| YORK COUNTY.
| The Biddeford Times says jolly company
| that went ont to Alfred last Sunday to see the
occupants of the jail, had with them dog
which they set upon farmers sheep. The
farmer came out and shot the dog. On the re.
turn some of the company called at the farm.
ers house for settlement but he soon satisfied
them that they had better be going toward the
city.
Sheriff Warren has called upon the land.
lords of public houses in Saco and Biddeford
and notified them they must close their bars
The officers are raiding upon the rum shops in
both cities.
The Biddeford Times says there is a man in
Kennebunkport by the name of Clough who
never rode in the cars till last week. He il
tifty-seven years old. There is also in the
town an old lady eighty years old who has
never seen the ocean, although she lives bn
four miles from it,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
Report of the Attorney General.

Attorney General Plaisted's report for the
wear ending october 81, is!s n sslssss -
ing the year six capital cases were tried, in two
of which, Wagner and Gordon, verdicts of
guilty of murder in the first degree were OBJ
tanned. In the case of E, w. r led, tried at
Bangor, the jury failed to agree. Adelbert
Dawes of Madison, the boy murderer, was sent
to the Reform School. Lucy A. Mank, charg-
ed with the murder of Dr. Baker, was acquit
ted, as was Hannah Littlefield in York county
charged with infantcide. In large number
of liquor cases carried up to the Law Court
judgments were obtained for the State.
The following is the status of the civil suits
in which the Attorney General has been called
to appear:
State by information VS.. Portland and Ken
nebec Railroad Company. Information in ma
ture of writ of quo rdrrdnt0 to test the validi'
ty of the lease of said railroad to the Maine
Central Argued July, 1871. Dismissed, the
Legislature of 1872 having recognized the va.
lidty of said lease.
State VS.. Cumberland and Oxford Canal.
Proceeding under chapter 233, resolves of 1871.
to determine whether or not defendant corpor-
alton has forfeited its charter. Defendants
motion to dismiss for want of sufficient service
overruled. Exceptions to be argued in writing.
Otdte VS.. DoSUOn ana Malne hallrOa0. IDIOT
nation in the nature of writ of quo acd1Tunto
against said road, because the road in a portion
of York county was not located according to the
provisions of its charter of 1871. The case
turned upon the construction of the charter.
Dismissed without costs.
State of Maine VS.. B. d. Peck and Bonds
men. Exceptions overruIed. Judgment for
the State. But the amount of debt and costs
has not been made up.
TIE Attorney General recommends that the
law regulating challenges be so amended as to
give the State the same number of challenges
as the accused. He also recommends that the
law authorizing two justices of the peace to
admit accused parties to bail be repealed. The
attention of the Les islature is also called to the
embarrassment arising from the impossibility
to obtain important witnesses living in another
State, and suggests mutual legislative action on
this subject be obtained in our own and the
neigbboring States
The sentences for the year 1873 were as fol-
lows: State Prison "a; to be hung 1; county
Jail &C.; Reform School 6; fines 1876. The num-
Der sent to the State Prison is the smallest for
ten years at least. The fines collected in 1873
aggregate $13,21296, of which 1928 70 were
by ,ne Superior Court tor SanaDeElala o,uuty.
The aggregate of fines collected in 1872 was
AZ 6O6. "a
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The AUTOPSY ON THE SIAMEsE TWINS.
appears that the scalpel was first used on thu
connecting bond between the Siamese Twins on
Monday, when it was plainly demonstrated
that cutting the bond of union would have
caused death. A despatch from Philadelphia
says that the work of the previous days was
confined to taking casts, photographing, EN-
balming, and examining the viscera, which
were found not to differ from those of ordinary
beings, the heart, liver, spleen and digestive
canal being we'll developed in each. Approach
ing the band, the lower portion of the ensiform
cartilage of the breast-bone in each joins by
doubling or bending out, making almost a
long union with distinct joint at the central
pun. Oh union on which the bodies hinge free
his JOINT is similar to, bnt not so compli-
of tba Ia, ,Hs ~ az the elbow. The circumference
Vi .ue pat at the smallest part ia nine incooc
and the ehihs of the twins, whe, on ~ e. .nones,
as possible are eight inches from eooi, apar'
On Monday the skin of each BODY wa o,n el,t
Stnro 9 Ps,sterl"riy, and thrown back from the
BAND and adjacent structures, EXPOSING tba r sne
tus muscle of each. Abdominal sections w.
maze, anu the question whether a severance
could have been made safely in life settled in
the negative W tn almost certainty. The lining
membranes of the abdomen in each were fonnS
to enter the band and form pouches, overlannino
each other at the centre of the band
What was most peculiar here was the presence
OF two such pouches from the DIV of Chan1
the upper one shorter than the lower. Int eacI
tapping one from above and the other from
below the single pouch OF Eng Holding tha
first joint of the forefnger between the t5,n,
and finger of the other hand will give an exact
idea of the arrangement of these ranches
line passing down the centre of the band Womb
sever an three OF tn Sc prolongations and open
the knife had been used in life, death wouid
therefore probably, if not necessarily resulted
The examination also showed that there was
circulation through the band, as is seen from
the passage of the injecting matter used in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19

THE municipal election in Phila delphia
Tuesday resulted in the re-election of Mayor
Stokely, Republican, by over ten thousand
majority over Mcclure, Reform candidate.
The Philadelphia ring under the present gov
eminent has an unpleasant reputation, and
should we believe Forney's Press, it is the
worst possible. If there had been a good
man 10 opposition to Mr.. Stokely we should
have been glad to have had him succeed but
Reform party that puts Alec Mcclure for
ward as its standard bearer, causes one to
doubt its genuineness. He has been for years
notorious for his politicalintrigues and genera
badness, and we have no more hope of him
IMAM for Gen. Butler. OF course both par
Ties will assert that they were cheated and
probably both did their best at it. Pennsyl-
vania reform is net yet developed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCOGGIN COUNTY.

William Libby, Esq, who has been cashier
OF the Auburn Back for seventeen years, has
resigned, to take effect March LIST. John B.
SSofdan, who has been teller of the bank for
Tf ;th years, Las beeu elected to succeed Mr..
n Inc wife OF Professor j. A. Howe of Bates
I'LL d'ea at her former residence in Olney-
''i'e' w. L., On sunday, the 9Th inst
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Inc dwelling house of Mr. Linstrom in New
Sweden was destroyed by fire few weeks aeo
of Portland to the Swedish COLONY. was forn,
any presented to them on Sunday, Feb 9Th hv
Rev W. I. Sleeper. A unanimous and bas .ty ivy
y Sote Oh thanks was extended to the donor Sor
us beautiful and valuable present.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
VIII; lanes res Gard of East Surry, last week, shot
WIN cat weighing II pounds. This cat had
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19

THE Washington correspondent OF the Bos-
ton Advertiser makes haste to retract his
statement that Supervisor Simmons is a
cousin of Speaker Blaine. He says he was
informed by man who should have known
better. He says the Speaker objects to having
relationship with any more politicians forced
upon him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
THE PRESS,
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 10. 1874

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Gard certificate countersigned by Stanley -,
Pullen. Editor. All railway, steamboat ana nov.
managers will confer favor upon us by demanus
credentials of every person claiming to repreSe Co.
journal, as we have information that seVera' ~,
mers'' seeking courtesies in the nam ~.
PRESS, and we have no disposition 10 D'' '''- pas
sively, q party to such frauds.
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in contact with these pouches, but are not
continuous into them. Tomorrow the most
important investigation will take place, by
making deep section into the band, with a
view of ascertainng the umbilical connections
bearing on the physiological manifestations in
the College of Physicians, on Wednesday
NIGHT, for which invitations are issued, marked
Private meeting for the advantage of the fell
lows of the college only" will be verbal one;
The formal written report is to be prepared
subsequently for publication in the Medical
Journal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19

The latest intelligence from Boston is that
al the solicitation of the Board of Trade and
o'ner prominent citizens, Judge Russell has
consented to withdraw his resignation. and
that fact has been telegraphed to the pros;
dent. Hundreds Of letters have been CON. =.
Washington protesting against the auno;nt.
ment of Simmons, and the wires have been
loaded down with dispatches to the Massa
chusetts delegation praying for the defeat o.
Simmons. One thing is certain, this las,
powder ship of Gen. Butler has ruined him
in Massa chusetts politics.