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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

Somehow it took a great while for Miss
Armstrong to understand how it had come
about She was freshly amazed every
five minutes to think that cher identical
umbrella" had been all this time in Mr..
kennedy's possession, just across the
street. And to think. besides, that she
had taken Mr. Kennedy's umbrella on the
horse car 1t was the very strangest
thing that ever happened, and she must
60 straight and tell mamma all about it.
'But you have not done your part" in
terposed Alr Courtenay 'You said the
finder would be suitably rewarded"
" For returning a whole umbrella
Thanks will pay for a broken one" re-
piled Miss Armstrong, saucily.
'Do you think SOP But YOU have to
keep your VOW besides,' SAID Mr.. Courte-
nay with perfect gravity.
She looked at him with wide-eved sur
prise, then flushed and taltered as she
said:
What vow ?"
$40 marry the person who returned
your umbrella"
''Oh! J" was the horrilied response. "Did
Mr. Kennedy
Speaking of Mr.. Kennedy, that individ-
naL was interrupted as he was lighting his
hrst cigar on the following morning by
tap at the door, at which appeared Mr.
Courtenay holding an umbrella.
Miss Armstrong returns your umbrella
with thanks, and apologies for having
unknowiagly exchanged with you, You
have had hers for four months, and | un-
fortunately broke it yesterday when you
lent it to ne She'd like you to accept
the contents of the handle of hers, and
she insists on your taking this photo
graph. 1t is no more than right, since
you've carried proofs about so long Old
fellow" he added, breaking into a long
repressed laugh, you'll have to be CON
tent with the photograph She's promised
the ORIGINAL to meN
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A Sharp Lawyer Outwitted.

Henry S. Hagert, Assistant District At
torney, has earned for himself in criminal
prosecutionsa name that any lawyer might
be proud of. Cool, sagacious, precise and
wary-leading witnesses ever into traps
where he catches them and squeezes out
of them lies and deception, he has won
some of the proudest victories ever achiev-
ed at the Philadelphia bar-has beaten the
laboring and acute brain of Col. Mann.
and worries even Lewis c. Cassidy And
yet against this man, so wise, so positive,
so thoroughly sitting OF evidence, there
has sat in the old Court House since Sat
urday girl who has completely outwitted
him, and laughed in his face while she did
it, She was witness in the trial of Per-
pente, a man charged with criminal mai
practice. Rather pretty girl, with great
big eyes, out Of which her soul peeps with
laughter at the vain endeavor of Henry
S. Hagert, Assistant District Attorney, TO
bother her. 1t has been astonishing to
listen to the girl. Lawyers out of the
case-reporters grown callous with in
terminable injection of evidence and lis
tening never except in the pursuit of the
result of a case-court-room sitters and
bummers-all have been surprised at the
ready wit, the quick response, the sharp
intellect of the young girl Unanswer
able to the dissection of Mr.. Hagert and
unimpressible and irresponsible to his
questions, there has been no such witness
as she ever seen in a Philadelphia court
room Never certainly, one so self-pos-
sessed so defiant, 50 quick in answer, so
utterly repellant to 4 cross-eXamination
SO severe as only Mr.. Hagert knows how
to make The case has been remarkable
from the beginning-remarkable for rea-
sons that cannot be published until it is
over, but remarkable above all for the
clearest, quickest and readiest-witted wit
ness that ever kissed book. |Phila
Times
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

MAINE IN THE BUNKER HILL CENrEN-
NAL There is movement atoot to Sc
cure large representation from Maine at
the centennial celebration of the battle of
Bunker Hill, which occurs in Boston, June
II. AS yet there has been no official ac-
ton taken and nothing decisive done
There are, however, parties busily agitat-
ing the matter. 1t proposed, in addition
to the Grand Army and other organiza-
tons already invited, to have the first regi-
ment of Maine Volunteer Militia there on
that occasion. AS at that time Maine was
a part of Massachusetts, she has more
direct interest in the celebration than any
other of the New England States outside
of the Bay State. 1t is, therefore, deemed
fitting that she should have prominent
place in those exercises, and should with
the First Regiment, the Grand Army and
other organizations, form Maine Divi-
sion, which will be of such a size and ap-
pearance as to give dignity and be credit
to the State. The Governor and Staff will
be present, and other State officials. This
matter has not yet been broached to the
militia as whole, but it is understood
that the officials favor it if it can be done
1t is proposed to charter steamer to
convey the division to and from Boston.
GPortland Press,
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Gossip About Royalty.
lolive Harner in New York Granbi,

lOllYe Harper III New \ OFk Graphic.
Three days ago Queen Victoria paid q
visit to the Empress Eugenie at ChiseI-
hurst, accompanied by two or three ladies
whose names | cannot remember. They
passed me at the station, and had good
opportunity to see Her Majesty. as She
was very close to me. She is medium
sized woman, somewhat inclined tO stout
ness, and has very tlorid countenancc
The features are not marked her mouth
falls open very often, and her lips are
rather full She seems kind and gracious
in manner, and very simple-entirely de-
void Of atfectation. Her voice is nrt
trained to such sweetness and grace OF
utterance as mark that OF the Ex-Empress
OF course, being somewhat stout, she does
not move so gracefully as she might but
take her all in all, she is pleasant-loohiu@
and one instinctively likes her for Il noble
woman. She was plainly dressed in black
silk, with heavy trimmings of Grape, and
wore widows veil and white cap
Queens look very like ordinary humanity.
fairy stories to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Elizabeth, the Empress of Austria,
is tall, slender, very graceful woman,
some thirty live or thirty eight years OLD
Her eyes and hair are brown, and she is
rather thin in the face and of rather salloW
complexion But her manner is very
charming,
The daughter of the Gar of Russia,
who married the Duke Of Edinburgh, il
decidedly plain, IN spite Of all said to the
contrary, while the Princess Alexandra
has been, and is still, a tine-looking
woman | never saw the Empress OF
Russia, but | know her maid of honor,
Mademoiselle Annenkotf, who told me
she was plain and rather masculine look
ing.
To speak of the Sultaua of Turkey
would take more paper than have GOT
handy; there are so many OF her But it
is safe to say that You will find there "a
very beautiful woman or two after the
Turkish taste A fat, round woman. with
red cheeks and black eyebrows is a Turk
ish beauty-one easy to make since Bant-
ing wrote his book on dining and corpu-
lency, and cosmetics are so all-embracing
Of the Ex-Empress Eugenie | have
already spoken, SO | shall but say that
she still holds her seepter of beauty md
queenly dignity,
But the beauty OF all is the fair young
Queen Olga, of Greece Rarely have /
seen any person in the walk of life who
was so really lovely in all ways is She is.
and it is not to be wondered at that the
whole Exposition stood pctritied to sec
her pass, and that murmurs Of approba-
tion and delight followed her She wa,
dressed in light blue dress, with white
burnous carelessly thrown over her mag
nifcent shoulders, and Il blue and white
bonnet-the Greek colors.
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ess and the dimness, and over the black,

ness and the dimness, and over the black
unclean waters. They are the only un-
clean part of the whole; everything else,
walls. flooring, the cars, the boats, the
clothing of the workmen, all are the per-
lection OF neatness. The great sewer real
ICES the truth of Victor Hugo's words when
| ne says, The sewer to-day is clean, cold,
stralght, and correct. 1t almost realizes
the Ideal OF what is understood in Eng
land by the word respectable The filth
there behaves decently.n We look down
at the dark stream and wonder what secret
it hides. We remember sinister tales of
murders committed in the realms above
and of corpses flung into the gloomy
depths of these sullied waters. We recall
stories of men that have perished in these
subterranean corridors from the sudden
inbursting of hidden streams or the ac-
cumulation Of foul vapors. There are
legends, too, of gold and silver and prec-
ious stones which are sometimes found
amid the slime and mud that accumulate
at the bottom of the reservoirs-the cast
away booty of thieves when pursued. or
the losses OF careless owners.
Bruneseau, when he explored the sewers
IN lSOo. came across many curious objects,
including the skeleton of an orang-outrang
lost from the Jardin des Plantes five years
before, fragment of the shroud OF Marat,
and a curious Huguenot medal in copper
But the sullen waters disclose to us, mere
curiosity-vstors as we are, none OF their
secrets. Their surface shows us orange
peelings and decayng vegetables, strawS
and chips-we learn none of the hidden
mysteries of their depths, Nor do we care
to- The chilly damp strikes colby through
us; we weary of the monotony of the long,
vault, the endless lines Of
wall, and water-ppe, and tootway, and
we look with compassion on the patient
workmen who act as our canal-horSe~,
and drag the boat along. But our voyage
is not a long one. We soon reach the toot
Of 4 broad, winding staircase OF stone,
where our boat is moored and we dj1rm-
bark
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13
Our Composite Nationality.

The Philadelphia Times very properly
animadverts upon that portion OF Geo
William Curtis otherwise very excellent
Grafton ut Concord, in which he raised Il
question OF nationality by expressing fears
Of the ignorance, paupersm, and foreign
religious faith OF the emigrants to th!,
country. The Times truly says
The Puritans have no right to usuIp all
the title in the sacred temple OF freedom.
OF to constitute themselves an exclusive
guard tor its keeping. The Blood Shed III
the revolution was not all OF one hue
That had been English that was spilled In
Massachusetts; that was Dutch in NeN
York German and Scotch-lrsh in PrnI-
svlyania; Swede in New jersey: there
was pure Irish in Maryland; cavalier Eng
lish in Virginia; Huguenot in the Carroll
mas, and Austro-German in Georgia The
glory of the achievement belongs to mo-.
one OF our thirteen tribes; and we will
have no high priests of Israel, nor Leyitr,
bearing the ark OF the covenant our tuther,
made with God in the name OF liberty amt
sealed with their blood. The essence Ui
our being is Democracy. The mcu ol ~
did not distrust one another because some
were English and some Irish, some Dutch
and some Austrian, some French and some
German. They came in search Of tree
dom, and they found it; the foreigner at
to day comes here in search OF liberty
and it shall not be denied him, no matter
what may be his political orreligious con-
viction. Therefore we tell our adopted
| fellow citizens not to fear the native, As
| the native does not fear them. They are
immigrants and children of Immigrants
to borrow Mr.. Curtis phrase, only as one
is to four, and we never heard Of one Of
hem asserting the ability to whip four
Americans ANY day. Mr. Curtis need
not be alarmed at the proportion
MEASURING BY THE EYE Years ago.
when we went to school in Il little weather
| beaten school house, what exciting con
| tests there used to be over the teachers
favorite exercise of having the scholars
| estimate with the eye the size and weight
of different objects in the room. He would
hold up his cane, and have each one tell
| how long he thought it was, and it was u
lucky child that could come within halt 4
foot of the right length. He would take
boys straw hat and ask how much the
crown would hold He would measure an
urchin and then have the scholars try to
reproduce the measure on the wall. lie
would mark off an inch or q foot or yard
in some conspicuous place, and then see
how near anybody could come to chalk
ing the same length upon the blackboard
And it was astonishing how wide astray
one would 60. The fact is, our eyes de-
ceive us ridiculously even upon the com
monest things. At first thought, which
should you say was the taller, three-year
old child or flour barrel? And could
anything but actual measurement CON
vince you that the same child is half as
| high as six-footer? There is an old say
ing that child at two years old is half as
tall as he ever will be; and after few
experiments in measuring one can easily
| believe it, but not before. Advance.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13
Awake in the Night.

The soft wind grieves about the caves
Tonight, though spring ishere.
The boughs are wet and naked yet
And cold in the early year.
If something stirs in these STILL dark frs
1t is only a lonely bird
That came to-day with the rain-clouds gray
And sang the song l heard
Somewhere, 1 ween, spire of green
Hath pierced the waking mould,
And holdeth up pure whit, cup
With tiny heart of gold
Somewhere, I ween, sweet buds are seen
Half-hid by wandering leaves;
Would l could go where they nestle low
Away from the wind that weaves
Such slow, sad song in the night so long.
oh, blue-eyed baby dear;
If thou could'st come through the darkness
home,
The wind could not be drear.
Portland transcript.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

Going home few evenings since, 8
resident of Detroit heard the voice of q
boy in a stable, and looking through a
broken window he saw q lad about ten
years old reading from book to group
composed OF half dozen boys about the
same age
"Now isn't that nice, chuckled the gen.
tleman to himself; ''these boys crowded
out OF school are still determined to secure
an education ="
He took another look through the win
dow, and then placed his ear to the bro
ken pane, and heard the boy read:
III the person who deals makes a mis-
deal, the cards may lie on the table only
by the consent Of all -"
''Gracious !" exclaimed the citizen, as
he sprang away from the window, THAT
boys reading from Hoyle!"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

Turnips are not injured by freezing if
they are allowed to thaw in the ground
before being pulled If they chance to
freeze after being taken from the ground
the injury is very slight if they are allowed
to thaw IN dark place and are not handled
while frozen.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

In the office of one of the Detroit hotels
recently gentleman snapped his finger
to boot-black, and as he put his foot on
the box he said; "You look like good,
smart boy" ''See here, mistern' replied
the boy, as he rose up, brush in either
hand, s.I've had that game played on me
a dozen times, and now want to know
whether this is cash shine or whether
you're going to pat me on the head when
I get through and tell me that III be Gov
ernor OF Michigan some day"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

Hay cakes, composed of hay and straw
very finely cut, well mixed with crushed
oats or rye. and moistoned with solution
OF rape seed or linseed oil cake, and then
well worked and formed into tablets under
pressure, have been for some time en-
ployed in France as convenient and
portable food for horses
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13
Crop Prospects in California.

The San Francisco Bulletin, OF recent
date, speaks very encouragingly concern
ing the crop prospects III that State IL
says:
The recent rains have frightened the
hopes of farmers in nearly all parts OF the
State There was only 4 small area where
the crops were suffering from drought
But everywhere the pastures have been
greatly helped. Nearly all the early sown
grain, with the exception OF one or two
dry valleys, is now beyond much injury
from drought. We may therefore set it
down as fact that no drought can now
occur to reduce the crops below good
average. The outlook is even better
There is good promise of an cxtraordi-
nary yield OF grain and grasses. With no
drought on the lst of April, and the season
weather contingencies to be counted in,
except as to few sections where drought
is the rule and moisture the exception"
The Bulletin estimates the yield Of wool
at 50,000,000 pounds; wine, l5,000, 900
gallons wheat, A. 900 900 bushels Fig
urng in the lesser crops, it puts the proba-
bic money value of the agricultural pro
duets OF the year at 800 oGo, GOO
HANGING BASKETS. A late device for
these graceful and desirable floral orna-
ments is made of sponge Take soft,
large sponge, such as is used by hostlers
to wash their horses. and soak it for sever
al days, so as to cleanse it, Then scatter
over it, and into its crevices, canary bird
seed, hemp, lawn grass, oats, kernels of
rice, and tuck into the small holes tiny
bulbs of oxalis and crocuses. Now place
the sponge into a deep soup plate, filled
with quite warm water and as it evapo-
rates, turn in n little more hot water, which
it should be daily sprinkled with by dip
ping a little hand brush into it, and shak
ing it over the sponge. Place the dish in
the warmest place, and cover the sponge
with q cloth at night to keep it warm, and
in q few days the seeds will begin to
sprout then put it close to the window in
the suniest place, when the sponge is
covered with verdure, and looks like u
large green ball, you can attach green or
scarlet cords to it. or copper wires and
suspend it in the window. In short time
the bulbs will bloom. and the grass will
flower, and the sponge basket will prove
lovely ornament to your room. OF
course it must have a small supply of
quite warm water squeezed over it every
day. for if it should be allowed to become
dry, the tiny fibrous roots would surely
perish entirely, and destroy the beauty Of
your floral novelty. Country Gentleman.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

A SCARECROw 1t is well known that
blue and scarlet colors in juxtaposition
cause dazzling effect on the eye. These
colors strung on line and placed over
strawberry beds produce puzzling effect
on birds, and no bird will enter the garden
while these colors tlutter in the air. Pieces
Of blue and scarlet calico should be cut
about one and half feet in length, and
tied to a line one foot apart. An old fan-
mel petticoat will supply large quantity
of inexpensive scarlet strips. This line is
to be supported by poles six feet in height
from the strawberry beds. To support
strawberries, keeping them clean and en-
abling them to ripen all round, take a
piece of stout wire a yard in length, bend
it at right angles ten inches from each
end, bend the space between the right
angles into a curve. Stamp these two
ends six inches in depth into the earth
close to the strawberry plants, then draw
the fruit over the wire, each plant requir
ing two. To prevent rusting, place the
wires in creOsote three or four days and
then dry them. Gardeners Magazine
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

A correspondent of the Ploughman re-
Gently complained that his hens were all
the time pulling the feathers OF the rest Of
the fowls and wanted to know the cause
and the remedy. A writer in the Poultry
World observed his fowls addicted to this
habit very carefully, and noticed on the
ends of the freshly plucked feathers that
the quill was covered with an oily sub
stance. 1t occurred to him that the oil
was what the fowls were after and acting
on that idea tried an experiment of feeding
small scraps of tallow to them, and found
it worked admirably, the commotion in
the yard ceasing at once, and the fowls be-
coming peaceable and quiet He found
that an occasional feeding of kitchen
grease OF any fatty matter prevented the
inclination by supplying the appetite be-
fore it gets into morbid condition.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

The New England Farmer says that
orchard grass should be sown early in the
fall or early in the spring-the earlier the
better in either case. if the ground is in
suitable condition. Two bushels of seed
fourteen pounds to the bushcl, are enough.
Northern clover seed at the rate of ten
pounds OF more to the acre should lie soWn
with it.
A Michigan correspondent OF the Lew
iston journal says that out West they con-
slider that a wash of lime in the Spring is
a sovereign remedy for the attacks of the
borer. If this be correct it should be ex-
tensively applied at the East for it is a
good fertilizer, and, in the opinion Of
many, makes the trees grow smooth, pro-
ductive and thrifty.
The following is said on good authority
to be an etfectual remedy for pear blight
ITO halt bushel of lime add tour pounds
OF sulphur, slake to the consistency of
whitewash, and, when it is applied add
to each gallon of the wash half an ounce
OF carbollc acid. Apply this to the diseased
parts
The number of hogs packed at the West,
from November l to March |, was about
$3.50, 900, a little over 100, 900 more than
last year. The average weight has been
about 3 2 pounds less than last year, and
| in lard there has been an average falling
Oft OF about one pound per head
Fred A. Lewis, of Granitevile, Vt, has,
OF at least he says that he has, cow
| which has raised within ten months two
calves that weigh $50 pounds, given milk
from which 204 pounds of butter has been
made and supplied all the milk and cream
needed in the family.
| During a stallion show at Parit, Ky. on
| Monday, Goldsmith's Abdallah came in
collision with another horse and was killed
| almost instantly. The shaft of the sulky
entered his breast and came out near his
shoulder. He was considered one of the
best horses in the United States
Sulphur and lard is recommended by
the editor of Land and Water, as a sure
cure Tor the mango on dogs, and other
animals. The offensive odor. as well as
the irritating effect. can be removed from
the ointment by adding a drop or two of
sandal wood oil.
A correspondent places the temperature
! at which cream should be churned at GO
to 62 degrees, Prof Arnold, we believe,
prefers to have the cream a little warmer
The butter will come quicker if the cream
be very warm but the butter is not SO
good.
The Springfield Republican says that
farm hands are now constantly arriving in
the western part of the State and seeking
situations. There will be, this season, a
reduction of about 20 per cent from the
last seasons wages, and the farmers ex-
pect to get good hands at 500 month
Inc line wool sheep, formerly the pride
OF Vermont farmers, as we'll as source
OF wealth, have almost disappeared. The
dairy business is now one of the best pay
ing IN the State, and the demand for Yer
mont cheese is constantly increasing.
prize is to be offered at the next fair
Of the New England Agricultural Society
to the young lady who can cook the best
farmers dinner on the fair ground
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-08-19
TEMPERANCE AT eREENv1LLE.

Oliver Hewitt, Grand Scribe of the Grand
Division, assisted by Deputy Jas. F. Troy as
Grand Conductor and B. Frank Mauldin as
Grand Scribe, organized fine Division of
Sons of Temperance at Greenville on Mon
day night, 10Th inst. The Division will be
called Greenville, No. Sc. The following
officers were elected to serve for the present
quarter:
NJ. M. Gaines, W. P; A. w. Clarkson,
w. A.; R. c. Goodlett, R. S.; F. W. Jones,
Ar. S.; J. NJ. Davis, F. S.; A. H. Cureton.
Treas; Rev. E. J. Meynardie, D. D., Chap. ;
G. T. Willis, Con-; James Allen, A. c.; B.
w. Mullikin, I. S.. W. Whisnant, 0. s.;
J. N. Berry, P. w. P.
Nineteen charter members were obligated
and initiated. From the material compris-
ing this Division we predict rapid spread
of the Sons of Temperance in our sister
County. G. F. Tolly, of this place, has been
selected as District Deputy Grand Worthy
Patriarch for the above Division, until they
arc able to supply themselves with resi-
dent Deputy.