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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25
GENERAL NEWS.

The health of Vice President Wilson is
steadily growing better.
Turning the tables-Whi some colored
people were being baptized recently in the
river at Nashville. one become manageable,
and Selling the minister, who was small
man, threw him over her head, almost drown
ing him.
Appearances would seem to indicate that
in Connecticut, the road to fame runs direct
ly through printing office. Mr.. Hawley of
the Courant, is in Congress; Mr.. York of the
Register, is clerk of the Senate; Mr.. Starr
of the Sentinel, is member of the same
body; Mr.. Burr Of the Times, is one of the
Capitol Commissioners; Col. Kies of the
Herald, is a member Of the Assembly; Col.
Babcock is an ex-editor; and an editor has
just been appointed to the State insurance
bureau. 1t argues well for State when it
shows SO lively an appreciation of its editors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25
TIE WASHING TON MONUMENT.

TIE WASHING TON MONUMENT.
The erection of an immense obelisk in men,
DRY of George Washington was begun under
a resolution of Congress, passed December,
"a, 1899, to the following effect:
"That a marble monument be erected by
the United S tates, at the City of Washington,
and that the family of General Washington be
requested to permit his body to be deposited
under it; and that the monument be so de-
signed as to commemorate the great events
of his military and political life"
A copy of this resolution was sent to Mrs.
Washington by the President Of the United
States. In her reply acceeding to the request
she said:
Taught by the great example which
have long had before me never to oppose my
private wishes to the public will, need not,
| cannot, say what sacrifice of individual
feeling make to sense of public duty"
Great as was the struggle, deep and pain
full the sacrifice, the resolution of Congress
which caused it remains unexecuted.
The first appropriation for the monument
was proposed on the 1st of January, 1901,
when Congress voted 100000 for it, but for
some reason the Senate did not concur.
Nothing was done until 1882, when some citi-
zens of Wash ington met together and formed
an association for erecting the great memorial
obelisk Chief Justice Marshall was the first
president of this association, and upon his
death he was succeed by Mr.. Madison.
1t was not until 1S4S that Congress gave
the site, but the charter of Incorporation and
the grant of the land were not issued until
FEBRUARY 26, 1859. Everything connected with
this structure seems to have been impregnat-
ed with dilatoriness. Its present hight is LA
feet, and it is proposed to carry it up to
height of 400 feet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25

Here is an extract from the speech of
Eben +. Pillsbury in the Portland convcn-
ton. We give it without note Or COM
ment. 1t is one OF the best things he ever
uttered, when not under OATH Imagine
the placidity Of his countcnance when our
fellow citizen stood before his intelligent
audience and said:
The republican organs claim at least the
merit Of unheard-of exposures of corruption
in their own ranks. But the democrats never
had such corruption to expose !"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25

DR.. Garcelon, the chairman of the dem
ocratic State convention, in his opening
speech, took the ground that license law
in regard to liquor selling would be pref
cradle to the prohibitory law, but the con-
vention did not dare to engraft the idea in
their platform. They remember perhaps
that the people of the State have at least
twice pronounced against license, as being
equivalent to "free rum" The demo.
cratic party is bound to be defeated in any
event, but with that plank in the platform
it would go down to the grave in eyerlast-
ing disgrace. The people Of Maine are
not in favor of licensing an evil
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25

Hon. John Ruggles, formerly United States
Senator from this State, died at his home in
Thomaston, Saturday, aged "a years and eight
months. Mr.. Rugges was born in Westboro',
Mass, October 1889. He graduated at Brown
University in 1878; studied law before grad
uation with Estes Howe, Esq, of W,shoro',
and after graduation with Hon. Levi Lincoln
at Worcester. After finishing his studies he
came to this state and commenced practice at
Milburn, now Skowhegan in 1918 he removed
to Thomaston and pursued the practice of
law. In 1928 he was elected representative
to the Legislature from Thomaston, and was
reelected for seven successive years thereaf-
ter. From 1926 to 1929 he was speaker of
the House and again in 1881. He resigned the
Speakership in 1881 TO accept the position of
Judge of the District Court of Maine, made
vacant by the election of Judge s. +. Smith
as Governor. In 1885 he was elected United
States Senator for six years to succeed Hon.
Peleg Sprague. At the close of his term, in
1871, Judge Ruggles retired from political
life and engaged actively in the duties of his
profession. During his whole life he was a
member of the Democratic party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25
August Flower.

The most miserable beings in the world are those
suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver compliant 80.
More than seventylve per cent. of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these two dis
eases and their effect such sour stomach, sick
headache habitual costiveness impure blood heart
burn watcrbrash, gnawing and burning pains at
the pit OF the stomach, yellow skin, coated ton
que and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming
up of food after eating. low spirits SC. Go to the
Drug Store of T.. Fuller and get - cent bottle OF
a sample bottle for 10 cents. Try it.. q. Il. GREEN
Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury., \. j.
spn febl9.t lyTuT&S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-25

Is beyond all comparison the most refreshing and
healthy beverage that can be taken. Its value to
the Farmer, Mechanic, Laborer and a j exposed to
the suns hot rays, cannot be ovcrestimated. One
ounce added to gallon Of
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
NUMBER SO.
A Terrible Thirty Minutes.

MIR. Kyle was at a near neighbor's
house raising, and Mrs. Kyle, with
the smaller of her two children, went
to spring near by to do her wash
ing. After being engaged some time
she heard scream from her little
girl whom she had left at the house,
and, fastening to the house, it
was her horror to behold huge
rattlesnake lying there, with its fangs
fastened in the child's arm. She
succeeded in killing the snake, and
then thinking of her child which she
had left at the spring. she fastened
there, onl Y to find that this one had
climbed up onto the tub of water.
fallen in and was drowned. This
nearly crazed her, and she ran with
all her might to the neighbor's where
the house-raIsing was, and, scream
ing with excitement called to her
husband, who, at the time, was upon
the building, and he, through ex-
citement, in trying to get down, pull
ed a piece of timber off upon him
and fell, killing himself instantly.
The friends then went back to where
the child and snake were, only to find
each dead, lying upon the floor. This
all happened within thirty minutes.
East Wdyae County Tenn Citi-
zen.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
An Astonishing Result.

Max Adeler writes to the Danbury
Ne,cS as follows:
A recent medical experiment has
excited considerable amount of in
terest in our village. My neighb0r
Simpson was nearly dead with con-
sumption, and DIR. Hopkins at last, in
despair concluded to try the effect of
a TRANSMISSION of blood, of which he
had heard so much lately. As no
human being was willing to shed his
blood for Simpson, the doctor bled
Simpsons goat, and opening vein
in Simpsons arm he injected about
two quarts of the blood into the pa
TENTS system. Simpson immediate
ly began to revive, but, singular to
relate, no sooner had his strength re-
turned than he jumped out of bed,
and, twitching his head about after
the fashion of a goat, he made a
savage attempt to butt the doctor
That medical gentleman, after having
Simpsons head plunged against his
stomach three or four times, took ref
uge in the closet, whereupon Simpson
banged his head against the panel of
the door couple of times, and
would probably have broken it to
splinters had not his mother-in-law
entered at that moment and diverted
his attention. One well directed
blow from Simpsons head hoOred
her, and then, while she screamed for
help, Simpson frolicked around over
the floor, making assiduous efforts to
nibble the green flowers in the ingram
carpet. When they called the hired
man in and tied him down on the
bed, an effort was made to interview
him, but the only answer he could
give to such questions as how he felt
and when he wanted his medicine
was "ba-a," precisely like that of
the goat; and then he would strain
himself in an effort to butt hole in
the head-board. The condition of
the patient was so alarming, and Mrs.
Simpson was SO indignant that DR..
NACtCi w bAiC CNll
if possible. SO he first bled Simp-
son freely, and then by heavily brib-
ing Simpsons Irishman he procured
fresh blood from. him and injected
Simpson the second time. Simpson
is now rs well as ever, excepting that
he shocks his old Republican friends
by displaying an irresistible tend
ancy to vote the Democratic ticket,
and makes his mOther-in-law mad
by speaking with strong brogue.
But he has given up butting, and has
never INDUCED in it since but once,
and that was on Sunday, when one
of the remaining corpuscles of goats
blood getting into his. brain just as
he was going into church he butted
the sexton hall way up the aisle,
and only recovered himself sufli-
ciently to apologize just as the en-
ragged official was about to floor him
with a hymn book.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
How Scholars Are Made.

Costly apparatus and splendid cab
inets have no magical power to make
scholars. As a man is in all circum-
stances, under God, the master of his
own fortune, so he is the maker of
his own mind. The creator has so
constituted the human intellect that
it can only grow by its own action,
and by it's own action it will certain
ly and necessarily grow. Every man
must therefore educate himself His
books and teachers are but helps; the
work is his. A man is not educated
until he has the ability to summon,
in an emergency, his mental powers
in vigorous exercise to effect its pro-
posed object 1t is not the man who
has seen most, or read most, who can
do this: such an one is in danger OF
being borne down like a beast of
burthen, by an overloaded mass OF
other mems thoughts. Nor is it the
man who can boast merely of native
vigor and capacity. The greatest of
ali warriors who went to the siege of
Troy had not the pre-eminence be-
cause nature had given him strength
and he carried the largest bow, but
because discipline had taught him
how to bend it.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
For the Gallipolis Journal.
Ministry.
BY MRS. SARA woLvERroN.


OH tits hard to lose our friends,
To put them from our sight,
And walk the weary ways alone
Without their lending-light.
And natural, too, that we should grieve
And think no others woe
Is half as deep, and dark as ours,
And wonder achy tits so.
Yet God wills not that we should shut
Ourselves from out our kind,
And in our own pure selfshness
Our greatest solace find.
He wills that we should look to Him,
For light to lead us on,
And see outside the boundary bars
There's much that may be done;
That other hearts are aching too,
And give the tender word,
For from the one that suffers most
The sweetest notes are heard.
And doing thus, without the thought,
Our comfort we shall CLEAN:
'Tis thro' the door the good goes out
The angel enters in.
DETROIT, Feb, 1874.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
Professor Donaldson.

Donaldson has added another
frightful trick to his evolutions in
the clouds on the trapeze bar. He
says the regular drop is uninterest-
ing now. Now he does something
worth doing, he says. The ring to
which the trapeze is attached affords
him an enlarged opportunity. He
hangs on his toes on this ring, and
when away up half a mile above the
house-tOps he lets go entirely and
drops headlong down and again
catches himself with his toes on the
bar. This dropping act is pro-
nounced the most frightful and
blood-curdling act ever witnessed.
The eronaut hangs down his full
length, straight and stiff, and all of
sudden he drops and comes swOOping
down only to catch himself nicely at
the proper time. A wave of the
hands and a graceful salute from the
man hanging head dOwnwards bids
the we-stricken multitude below
quiet their fears, for he is all safe and
sound.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16

THE SEX OF THE CoMET.-There is
no occasion to enter into an argument
to prove that the comet belongs to
the feminine gender. The dead set
she made on the sun, who is an old
bachelor, is an evidence, not exactly
of her sex, but of one of its eharac-
teristics. She carries tail, aud so
does every lady's dress. She is coy
and bold by turns, inconstant, errat-
ic and perverse. As Virgil says,
80 ''Varium ct mutabtle genus" She
knows not her own mind an instant,
and when you think she is madly in
love with old Sol, straightway she
flies off to Mars, gets tired of him
and picks up acquaintance with Mer-
curry. Finally she is found in firta-
ton with old Jupiter, and that's the
way her sex was determined. Then
observe her love of admiration-her
excessive vanity-showing herself OF
before every star in the universe.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16

THIS is from speech delivered by
Hon. c. W. Rowland, at Cincinnati,
last week:
But, cries out the liquor interest,
prohibition does not prohibit. Well,
to just the extent that it fails to do
so it suits you. If prohibition is
necessarily failure, then you want
nothing better than that. You sure
ly can't ask sensible men to believe
that you want to restrict your bust
ness-the natural laws of business
are in the line of freedom-the less
restriction the better for it. Let it
expand indefinitely, bounded only by
the laws of supply and demand, of
production and consumption. You
want your business put under re-
straint and the volume diminished.
Bosh! If saloonists believe their
trade to be an honorable and useful
one, let them stop this nonsensical
cry about desiring stringent license.
Let them take away their screens,
rub the paint off their windows, take
down their obscene pictures, let in
the light of day and the gaze of hon
est men-then demand free trade!
Aye, but you yourselves write the YER
diet against you by screening your
business from the public gaze, and
demanding special legislation. Lii
cense is composed of.two elements:
Prohibition and MOnOpoly-prohibi-
tion to all until they comply with
certain forms, and pay certain as
monopoly by SO much as
it gives those having capital an un-
due advantage over those who are not
so fortunate.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16
Some Very Large HailstOnes.
From the n. Y. Herald, 9th.


One of the most extraordinary
phenomena ever witnessed in this
country took place on the 4th of July,
in Bergen county, n. j. About a
quarter of 6 p. NJ, in the village of
Westwood, during the celebration of
the day, q sudden darkness came
over the village, and, before the
alarmed inhabitants could seek shell
ter, violent storm of hail stones de
scended upon the heads Of the crowd.
Hailstones two inches and a half in
diameter, and as hard and heavy as
cObble stones, came down in a furious
shower. Hens and chickens were
killed in large numbers; COWS and
horses were stunned. The frighten-
ed pOpulace ran in every direction,
seeking shelter in sheds, beneath
trees, and in every available spot.
Fortunately the majority escaped
without injury. A young lady
named Miss BOgart was, however,
struck on the hand by one of the hail
stones and her wrist and arm fright
fully lascerated. At the RidgwOod
House, in the village, an enormous
amount of damage was done. Not a
single pane of glass was left whole in
the building, and, incredible as it
NAV appear, the hailstones actually
broke through the slate roof, as if
they had been cannon balls. The
storm covered an area of about
twenty-five miles, stretching from
Spring Valley to Kinder Kamack.
The storm prevailed at its utmost at
the stations of Pascack and Ridg
wood, which are on the Hackensack
Branch of the Erie Railroad, and the
depOts were completely riddled, as
though a battle had been fought in
the neighborhood. AS late as o!
o'clock yesterday morning hailstones
were picked up at the station the
size of walnuts. Through che sec
ton of the country where the storm
ragged a most perfect scene OF desc
lation can be witnessed. Every tree
is stripped of its fruit, grain telds OF
rye and corn laid low, and the hope
Of hay this fall is utterly gone. The
sensation created in the vicinity was,
as might be imagined, tremendous;
In one sewing machine factory, just
above Ridgwood, over 100 panes of
GLASS were broken, and the slate roof
damaged. The shower continued for
lust thirty minutes, and in this short
space of time damage to the amount
of many thousands of dollars was
done. The hailstones on an average,
were the size of turkey eggs, and of
every conceivable shape, with sharp
corners and edges that cut like
knives. During the continuation of
the shower the thunder and light
ming was incessant, and with the
screaming of men, women and chill
dren, and the shrieks of afrighted
cattle, the scene was one truly awful.
Eortvonp GranUe9 wprp OrOaniZpd
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16

"bangle" or golden ornament was
said to have been found in its stom-
ach, but this may have been the in
vention of the Shikaree. True or
not, the skin Vsas and is handsome
one, but it does not need to be spread
as a hearthrug constantly before my
eyes to recall the terrible memories of
that night / spent in the Jungle
Chambers journal
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-16

Forty-one Oranges were organized
in Virginia in May.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-24
PERSONALS.

Coz. CLIFF. DANoY, of New Orleans,
is in the city.
Capt. Thos. Dashioll, of Miss, was
in the city during the week.
L. NJ. Ford, of the Lexington Re-
porter, came over to hear Ex-Prosi-
dent Johnson speak on Tuesday last.
Col. r. E. Taylor is in the city
We understand that he is.making an
effort to lease the jackson Gas Works.
D. L. Rivers, editor of the Hum
boldt journal, was in the city during
the week.
G. A. Snyder,s General ssSuperinten-
dent of the Southern Express Compa-
ny for this department, headquarters
in New Orleans, is in the city.
r. w. Banks, of Columbus, Miss,
one of the most reliable business men
of that place, left his card on our ta-
BILE on Tuesday last. We regret that
We did not meet him.
DIR. ]. r. Christian and Col. +. A.
Lucas, stockholders of the Holly
Springs street railroad Co., are in
the city for the purpose Of trying to
perfect arrangements by which they
can give our city a street railroad.
L. II. Francis, of the well known
hardware house of T. II. Francis &
Co., of this city, has taken up his res
idence in Jackson, and will hereafter
remain with us permanently. We
announce this fact with pleasure, for
Mr.. Francis viii make a valuable cit
izen. In addition to his fine business
qualifications, he is genial and com
panionable.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-24
WING AND TRIBUNE.
New Advertisement.

The Masonic Relief Association, OF Nor
folk, Va, suggests n remedy 70 those who
are troubled by the stringency OF the times
-Thos. Luke has opened an Oyster and
Fish Depot on Main street, nearly opposite
the Wing and Tribune ONCE. He proposes
TO keep Celery, Game Fish, direct from the
seas and lakes, oysters of the finest quality
and all kinds OF game. Try him--Dap
McKinlay, one OF our most popular caterers
has removed to his old stand on Lafayette
street, where he Is prepared to serve ms
friends and customers, and to provide theih
with whatever Is best TO be had at bar or Ia
ble He believes in quiet, neatness and
comfort, and spares no pains 10 secure them
in the Inanagement OF his house.--h- l.
Rullock. ESD, published law card, and
can be found at his old place OF business, IN
TounItn's bIock.-Mrs. Hooker, n resident
OF jackson for several years past, has re-
moved 70 Louisville, where she has opened
n Millinery establishment at COS west y" Al
mt street. Mrs. II. IS an adept In her Dnsi-
ness, and is In every way trustworthy ana
deservfng.---W. A. Wood, Administered
offers land for rent at Carroll Station
q. Anderson, administrator, publishes a no
tIce OF insolvency.-"TheW Weed coiiS7 "
time in good styIe.-The Singer dltto-
card from Mr.. Sparks will attract a1tei' 4OH-
Halliday brothers, Cairo, ILL.,, dealers In
Flour and Grain, publish card. This firm
"a one OF the most reliable in the west
The Taylor Coal Mining Company offer to
furnish tho people of West Tennessee with
auperior Screened Lump Coal, at the most
reasonable rates II. Long has his coal
Office at ]. W. Watson's, Main street, where
orders San be left. He is selling good coal
at the lowest possible rates.-The Wizard
nj the TRIMMER House, is visited daily by
many of our people, and she IL undoubted-
ly deeply versed In the mysteries OF her
art.--Will notice G. II. Ramsey and ono
or two other advertisers, who came In nj
the eleventh hour. In our next issue.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-24
Protectiou 10 tIle Eyes.

Proper care Of the eyes Is duty no per-
son should neglect. AS the sight begins
TO fail it is of the first importance to pro-
cure proper eyeglasses. A bad pair OF
spectacle, viii do incalculable injury, and
"a properly fitted pair viii greatly aid in
prolonging the sight. Prof. Hirschburg,
OF ST. Louis, Is now at the Merchants Ho-
tel, in this city, where all can avail them
selves OF his thorough knowledge Of his
profession in procuring such glasses rs
will enable them to read with all the ease
and comfort OF youth. A thoroughly skill
full man in his profession ever rarely fails
to fit u person on the first trial, after he ex-
amlnos the eyes. His latest improved dia-
mond giasses, his own Invention and man.
ufaeture, are the finest thing in that line
we have seen. lie will remain at the Mer-
chants Hotel until Friday, the 30th inst,
during which time we advise those who
want good glasses to give him call.
Office hours from A. NJ. till 2. n, and
Sunday (for those who cannot visit him
during the week from A. II. until , z. NJ.