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Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12

KENNEBEC COUNTY-In Probate Court at Au.
gusta, on the .frst Monday Of October, 1879.
SARAH +. BkEMAN widow OF Johl Bee nan,
- late of Hailowell, IN said county, de.
ceased having presented her application for allow.
aDce out OF the personal estate OF SAID deceased
ORDERED, That notice thereof be gwen three
weeks successfully in the kennebec journal,
printed in Augusta, in said equity, that all persons
interested may attend at a Probate Court to be held
at Augusta on the fifth Monday OF October ins !,
and show cause, If any they have, why the prayer
OF said petition should not be granted.
ii. X. BAKER, Judge.
Attest: CHARLES HEwINs, Register. 3w45t
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12

One of the grossest outrages known to modern
times has been perpetrated by the Centennial
Commissioners. 1t appears that there were forty
or fifty exhibitors at the Exposition who did moi
get first prizes. They have complained, as il
might be expected they would, and the commits
soners have appointed a committee to consult
with them, take their case into consideration, find
out just what they want and give it to them. II
the funds are exhausted in the purchase Of gold
medals the enterprise will 90 down in b4ze of
glory. Having started so well and succeeded so
nobly thus far in furnishing first prizes TO every
body we sincerely hope the Commissioners will
s,.isfy the few whom they had evidently only for
go,ten--lEese York Hsraid.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12
EnR PRESIDENT.
Mass Temperance Convention.

Al! active workers in the Temperance cause are
invited and earnest v requested TO meet IN mass
convention at ueon nian Wall In Augusta. on
Thursday, Oct. 11, 1870, at III o'clock a.
M, for the purpo OF devising some system Ui ac-
ton whereby the General Government may he In.
duced to abolish the man lfictare and mpoI tali N
of Intoxicating liquors. and ensure the y -tional
Prohibition of the liqaor traffic
Al temperance organizations are r,qnes led to
send delegates.
The usual reduction OF fare on tie feveral rail
roads may be expected.
Let every true ilend Of temperance be pes MT.
Signed by
Hon. HENRY TALLMAN,
RFv. A. W. POTrLE,
REV. DR. \. BuILER,
Hon. JOSHUA NYE,
DIR. X. l.. PAINE
REV. II. V. tMMoNs,
REV ID. RANDALL
REV j. J. CARRUTHERs,
o. Il. CHADBOURNE Esq,
j. II. t.ss, ESQ,
REV III. " Bolton,
60. PkySOS, ESQ.
And about three hundred o,her c,ve temper.
ance workers in various portions of the STATE.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12
zegal ADVERTISEMENTS.

KENNEBEC COUNTY.-h Probate Conrt, at
augusta, on the first Monday Of October, 1876.
A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT, purporllng to be
~ the la will and teal lament of Helen NJ. Hayes
late OF Au@usta, III sali county, deceased, having
been presented for probate:
ORDERED. That notce thereof be given three
weeks successfully, prior TO the fifth Monday oi
October INST, in the Kennebec journal, news.
paper printed 10 Augusta that all persons interest
ed may attend at 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 the
said deceased.
- H.K. BAKER, Judge.
Attest: CHARLES HEwINs, Register. +iw43
KENNEBEC COUNTY-In PROBATE Court, a,
augusta, on the FIRST Monday Of october, 1876.
A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT, purporting to be
n the last will and testament of Edmuud Ward
late OF China, In said county, deceased, having
been presented for probate:
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three
weeks successively, prior to the fifth Monday OF
printed in Ausaspa that all persons
interested may attend at Court of Probate then
to be holden at Augusta, and show cause if any,
proved and allowed, as the last will and testament
of the said deceased
H.K.BAKER, Judge.
Attest: CHARLES HEwINs, Register Swi3.
KENNEBEC COUNT IN a Court Of Probate,
hetd at Augusfa on the first Monday OF October,
1876.
John W HERRICK, Administrator on the e. tate
~ Of William II. Ham, late of West Gardner, in
account OF administration of the estate of said de-
C, ased for allowance:
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given to all
persons Interested by publishing II copy of this
order three weeks successfully ia the Keunebec
journal, printed at Augusta, that they may ap
pear at Probate Court to be held at Augusta, in
said County, on the fifth Monday of October inst
and show cause, ifany, why the same should not
be allowed.
II. X. BAKER, Judge.
Attest CHARLES HEwINs, Register. swiss
KENNEBEC COUNTY. In PROBATE Court at
augusta, on the first Monday Of October, 1878.
ISAAC PAGE, Administrator the estate of
L Isaac L. Page, late of Chel in said county, de-
ceased, having petluoned iot license to sell at pub
lie auction private sale, the following real estate
OF said decea ed. for the alment OF dtbis, &C.
VIZ: The hom stead of he deceased:
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three
weeks successively prior 10 the 9th Monday
October int, in the kenDebec Journal, a news
paper inted at Augusta that all persons interest
ell may attend at Court OF Probate then TO he
holden at Augusta, and show cause, if any why
the prayer OF said petition should noi be granted.
IL. X. BAKER, Judge.
Attest. CHARLES HEwIES Register 3w43*
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12

A SMALL DIAMOND PIN. The finder will re-
n ceive reward Of q by returning IL to A.
LA AMBAkD.
Oct. g. 1876. oct3 teodlW
Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-10-12

To the Honorable the Court of County Commission.
ers for the cOunty Of W,shingtoa.
WE, the under signed, inh b tants Of the towns
w OF NauceburO, Top fed, aud towns and
plantations adjacent, would respectfully represent
tnat ,he public convenience and ssity require
that coun way should be op ned frOnI, Tor near
the Rail DAD s,i.tion IN the town OF Va ceboro,
passing though the Lambert settlement, and Iermi
nat ng at some point on tn II ulton ard Ca ais
road / the town of Tops field, and we humby pray
that yoh' Honorable Board will view the proposed
route and locate the same ac 'OrdIng to law, Anu
as ia duty b. Jund viii ever pray.
GEO. NJ. Is. SrRAGUE and 10 others.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

bald-headed little man. He was sort
of foster-father to the whole village
had kept record of births, deaths,
ETC., for many years. OF course, no.
body had the, least respect for Johnny.
He was queer, Eighty, had an absurdly
high opinion of every living soul with
whom he came in contact-saw
virtue in them which only insanity
could have imagined. All the village
wits made a but of him. Every larry
towner had an opinion of his own, fixed
as THAT of the Pope. Johnny never
offered an opinion in his life. He never
said so much, rs that virtue was right
and vice wrong. When people were
sick or in trouble, and sent for him, he
would sometimes pull out his old Bible,
and, putting on his spectacles, read in
his humble, squeaking voice usually
from the gospel of St. John. l remem-
Der how comical we children thought
him, with his feet on the rung of his
chair, and his bald head and round,
boyish face. But there was wonder
lul patHoS III HIS VOICE, iiHu WHaI Ut
read was real to us.
All this was long ago. Johnny died
soon after the Judge. Books, dogs,
birds were all scattered. GA good-for-
nothing fellow said the smart young
druggist who had just opened shop.
"Lived all his life here, and his whole
belongings sold for ten dollars. Fact!
l was at the vendue." 81 &c. s+rs- i.
But there was not a man or woman
in Tarrytown who did not feel a sudden
gap in their everyday life, out of which
something good and helpful had gone
And there was not a child who has moi
now, in middle age, a tender and CRATE
full memory of poor Johnny.-Jhe In:
dependent. .,s-,- r-. ..- q ~ ~
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
A Huge Block of Silver.

The City of Havana brought to New
York on Thursday a block of pure sill
yer weighing 1920 pounds and worth
S64 900 in gold. The block is a foot in
diameter, and has six sides each three
feet long. 1t is perfectly smooth and
highly polished. 1t belongs to Pho Ber-
mejillo & Co., bankers of the City of
Mexico, who have consigned it to Go
mez, Sionda & Co.., of Old slip, to be
exhibited among the Mexican products
at the Centennial. 1t was exhibited at
the Mexican exhibition in Mexico last
year. Thesilve forming this immense
block is said to have been dug from the
Real Potosi, one of the oldest mines in
Mexico. The treasures lies in a hexa-
gonaI box in the hold of the steamship
City of Havana. The purser of the Ha-
vana says that the silver block, in its
box, lay a day and night unguarded
on a wharf at Vera Cruz. sit wouldn't
stay long on a wharf in New York." he
added. The silver is to he examined by
the United States Appraiser tomorrow,
and then it is to be deposited in the New
York Safe Deposit Company's vaults to
await orders from the Mexican Centen-
NAL Commissioner York Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
What Shall Be Expected of
Wives?

Some husbands do not make their
financial affairs topic at home, and
some better-halves know less of their
OWL husbands affairs than they do of
their neighbors'. Some weeks since a
lady was informed of her husbands sus-
pension by reading the announcement
in paper which she accidentally took
up in a store while waiting to have an
order filed. Whether it was pride or
fear that prompted the secresy can not
be stated, but what can be expected
from wives in the way of true economy
if they are only silent partners in the
matrimonial copartnership? In 1857, a
large jewelry firm sold costly set of
jewelry to lady. The firm knew that
her husband was in a failing condition,
for the lady had been a long and profit
able customer. When the partner or
dered his clerk not to charge the set
which had been delivered, but to make
memorandum on the blotter, he paid
the lady's integrity high compliment
When her husband failed the jewelry
came back with a note eouched in such
terms that the dealer only regretted that
a gift of the set would be construed as
an insult.-BostOn Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
A Bulldog Attacking a Train of
Cars.

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes as follows as an evidence
of the courage and pugnacity of the En-
glish bulldog, as shown in a remarka-
BILE manner few days since in Eng
land. A dog of this description, who
had never been accustomed to see trains
until lately, has taken a great aversion to
them, and has made point of chasing
them whenever he has an opportunity
of doing so, but, of course, without be-
ing enabled to catch them. On the
morning in question, being out with his
owners brother in the vicinity of the
Somerset and Dorset Railway, between
the Milford and Mellow Stations, the
early train from Bath was heard to be
rapidly approaching. The dog, as usu-
al, was off directly. The gentleman,
knowing they were in advance of the
train and fearing the dog would be
killed, called loudly to him to come back,
but quite in vain. He then ran
to see what would be the consequence
of the brute's folly, and was just in
time to see the dog boldly charge the
cow-lifter of the engine and disappear.
The gentleman then closed his eyes for
one moment, not wishing to see the
dogs remains torn to pieces, and on
opening them the next momext, much
to his surprise, he distinctly saw the
dog under the rapidly passing carriages,
evidently waiting an opportunity to
make a dash between the wheels, but
their, to him, unusual velocity rather
bothered him; he therefore remained
until the last carriage had passed over
him, and then emerged wagging his
tail as though he had done something
to be talked about, and having only
sustained a few cuts about the head
and losing all the hair from one side of
l fail
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
Farmers Children.

The American farmer, in all his plan-
ming and all his building, has never
made any provision for life. He has on
ly considered the means Of getting a liv-
ing. Every thing outside of this-every
thing relating to society and culture
has been steadily ignored. He gives his
children the advantages of schools, not
recognizing the fact that these very ad-
vantages call into life new set of social
wants. A bright, well-educated family
in a lonely farmhouse is a very different
material from family brought up in
children who have had few terms at a
neighboring academy resemble in no
degree the children of the European
peasant. They come home with new
ideas and new wants, and if they find
no opportunities for their satisfaction,
they will be ready, on reaching their
majority, to fly the farm and seek the
city. '-
If the American farmer wishes to
keep his children near him, he must
learn the difference of living and get
ting a living; and we mistake him and
his grade of culture altogether if he
does not stop over this statement and
wonder what we mean by it. To get a
living, to make money, to become
" forehanded; !" this is the whole of life
to agricultural multitudes, discourag-
ing in their numbers to contemplate.
To them there is no difference between
living and getting living. Their
whole life consists in getting living /;
and when their families come back to
them from schooling. and find that,
really, this is the only pursuit that has
any recognition under the paternal
roof, they must go away. The boys
push to the centers or the cities, and
the girls follow them if they can. A
young man or a young woman raised
to the point where they apprehend the
difference between living and getting a
living, can never be satisfied with the
latter alone. Either the farmers chill
dren must be kept ignorant, or provis-
ion must be made for their social wants.
Brains and hearts need food and cloth
ing as well as bodies; and those
who have learned to recognize brains
and hearts as the best and most impor-
tant of their personal possession, will
go where they can find the ministry.
What is the remedy? How shall
farmers manage to keep their children
near them? How can we discourage
influx of unnecessary-nay, burden
seme-population into the cities? We
answer: By making agricultural So
ciety attractive. Fill the farmhouse
with hooks and periodicals Establish
central reading-rooms, or neighborhood
clubs. Encourage the social meetings
of the young. Have concerts, lectures,
improvement associations. Establish a
bright, active, social life, that shall give
some significance to labor. Above all,
build as far as possible in villages. 1t
is better to go mile to ones daily
labor, tkan to place ones self mile
away from a neighbor. The isolation
of American farm life is the great curse
of that life, and it falls upon the women
with hardship that the men can not
appreciate, and drives the educated
young away.-Scri6ner' Monthly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
THE MARKETS.


ST. LOUIS. March 20. 1875.
"a s5a 4.s7X; Cows and Heifers. o.. a5s 400
oG aoas eo asaa ss SO $50 80
FLoUR-Choice Country. s5.7os $50; Xxx.
WMEAT~Red. No.s. s1.sosl.5o@; No. s.
CoRsESo. 2, Mixed, 4leHxc.
OArs-No. 2, 3lxg33.
RENO. 2, 64e 65c,
TIMOTHY SKED-S3. 15e 2. 20:
.ToRACco-shipping Lags q; +oe4.6o; Me
HAY-choiee Timothy, sl5 COG 1900.
RUrTER-Choice Dairy, 2sa SOC.
PoRK-stsndard Mess. sz275e2s.25.
h Mna ls S lsc io;c. 1se.sxc: I'm.
corToN-Anddling j. 12 HHSsv -
BEKvEs-Native. 5000 u 90; Texan. None.
HoGs-Dressed. . 10 COG 10. 12H Live None.
sa d e Choice; So esss
WHEAT-No. 2 Chicago. SI.326 1.25.
f., CoRN-Western Mixed, 6IJ 62hc. .....
e. OATs-Western Mixed, 423<9 46zc.
PORK-Mess. $22. 75g % 90 -r-5
CoTTos-Middli1dgHi i h5xS tsHo.
Hoas-Common 70 Choice. s7.soes.6o.
SHEEP-$4.25g5.75.
choice o9 sprns Ext Mni ss.ooa 70.
WHEAT-spring Nos. s1.ose1.0A; spring
No. 3, SSx $50. si.,t - SIS ~ <~st
CORN-No. 2, 43e 43Kc.
OATs-No. g, 32H 3Sc. -
RYE-No. 2, 84e 6l1zc. s.f-E
PORK-New Mess. e2s .s0e2e.s5.
LARD-Per cwt. . II. Asa Is. 80.
KANSAS CITY. "a.
BEEvEs-Native Steers. e3.5os6.o0; Native
Cows. q. 25a .25. -st 80 - p ssla
HOGs-$6.50S7 Is.
MEMPHIS.
FLoUR-Choice, S7.25@7: IS
CoRN-No. White, sig 5Sc.
OATS 46a SOC.
COTroN-Middling, 12k 121zc. .--..
-->- NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR-Choice to Extra, 81 .0067
CORN-529 SIC.
OATs-Galena, 406 43c.
HAY-Prime, ST .0O@1s. 90.
PoRK-New Mess, S24 .O0e "A IS. -
BACON-l0x 9 lac.
SUGAR-Fair to Prime, IKE 7xc- -.
COTTON Low Middling. lI< 1lhc-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
The Shadow on the Wall.

My home a stately dwelling is,
With lofty arching doors;
There is carving on the ceiling high.
And velvet on the floors;
A rich and costly building,
Where noiseless servants wait,
And meath the escutcheon's gliding
None enter but the great.
But happier home is near it; a humble cottage
small.
And envy its sweet mistress the shadows on the
wall.
My pictures are the pride Of art,
And drawn by cunning hands;
But the painted figures never move,
Nor change the painted lands;
Before the poorest window
More gorgeous pageants glide,
Within the lowliest household
More lifelike groups abide;
And turn from soulless symbols. that crowd my
gloomy hall,
To watch the shifting shadows upon the cottage
wall.
My stately husband never bends
To kiss me on the lips;
His heart is in his iron safe,
His thoughts are with his ships;
But when the twilight gathers
Adown the dusky street,
The little housewife listens
For sounds of coming feet.
And by the cleaning freight see a figure
Bend down to kiss q shadow, q shadow on the
wall.
My garden palings, broad and high,
Shut in its costly spoils,
And through the ordered paths all day
The silent gardener tolls;
Ny neighbors Is . grass-plat,
With q hardy buttercup.
Where childrsn,s dimpled fingers
Phil n ali
Where on baby's aiken head an day the sun.
beams fall,
TIL evening throws Its shadows upon the cottage
wall.
Ny petted lap dog, warm and soft,
Sestles upon my knee;
Ny birds have shut their diamond eyes
That love to look for me;
Lonely. 1 watch my ncighbor,
And watching can but weep,
To see her rock her dariings
Upon her breast asleep.
Alasi my doves are gentle, my dog comes at my
But there is no childish shadow upon nv cham.
Der wall.
Ny beauty 10 the talk Of fools,
And by the gaslight's glare,
In gfttering dress and cleaning gems,
know that am fair:
But there is something fairer.
Whoee charm n loving lies,
And there is something dearer-
The light Of happy eyes.
80 I return triumphant, queen Of the brilliant
ball,
To envy the sweet shadow of the housewife on
the wall. 81
Ny earthly lot IL rich and HIGH
And hers In poor and low;
Yet would give my heritage
Her deeper joys to know;
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

EMILY FAITHFUL says in Fonaen and
Work: eve like unladylike girls. We
dislike to hear chit of ten or eleven
praised for being 'such ladylike little
GIRL We would far rather hear the
complaint, MARY is so bOisterous; she
never comes down the stairs but always
down the banisters; she tears about like
a mad thing, and is never so happy as
when she is after some lark las she calls
iti,,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

ANoyster-opener in Toulouse, France,
found in an oyster magnificent pearl,
worth several thousand dollars, and she
pocketed it; but the person who order
ed the oysters insisted that the pearl
belonged to him.. His contention is that
shells, juice, oyster and every thing else
in the shell are his property; the knot
ty question has been referred to the law
courts --s--
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
What Disease Have II

How often do we hear this question asked
by persons suffering from dizziness and pain
in the side, back or shoulder, q heavy load
on the stomach after eating, a faint, all-gone
sensation at the pit of the stomach that food
does not satisfy, a cold, clammy feeling in
the hands and feet, with hot flashes at times,
a bad taste in the mouth, with foul breath,
attended with great depression of the nerv-
GUS system and evil forebodings, and with .
tired weakness that sleep don't relieve, urine
scanty at times, with a sediment after stand
ing. One physician calls the disease liver
complaint, another kidney disease. another
dyspepsia, and still another imFurIty of the
blood. But none succeed in efecting cure.
The fact is that these symptoms indicate
that all of these diseases are present to-
gether, and to remove these symptoms we
must take a remedy that will act upon all Of
these organs at once. The best article that
we know of is made by the Shakers, and is
called SHAKER EXTRACT or RooTs, OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP mot q patent medicinel. Sold
By Druggists and A. j. White, New York.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

LEMON COoKIEs.-5 eggs, l cup of
butter, pint of white sugar; CRATE the
rind of lemons and put into the flour;
squeeze out the juice from the lemons
into a cup, and dissolve in it 9 teaspoon
fuls of soda. Stir in flour as long as
you can stir with aspoon, then mix soft,
roll thin, and bake quickly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

THE subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers from the foundations in France,
almost entirely raised among the French
people, amount to 27,612,459 francs
Reduced to dollars, this sum overtops
the Chicago relief funds'by large
majority"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

THE Bavarian Government has put q
sudden stop to dueling by denying
Christian burial to persons killed in this
manner, holding them in the eyes of the
law the same as suicides.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

A GRAND winter garden is being
erected by the King of the Belgians close
by his palace at Laeken. 1t will have
a roof 120 feet high, so constructed as
to need no support in the center, and
permit the tallest trees to branch out
freely.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

JESSE WELLS, Shaker, of the Water
vliet community, aged SO years, died
while on his knees in prayer,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25

In Rockland, Me-, cornet band,
composed entirely Of women, is being
organized. -...-..-.-.. 81
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
A CLEAR HEAD;

Elastic limbs good digestion; sound sleep; buoyant
spirits; fine appetite; and ripe old age are some
Of the results Of DIR. TUFTS PILLS. They
require change Of diet Interfere with regular
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
aUJST ONE DOLLAR" " ye, 4, Fl

sell Of the articles named DeloW tue posi-
age give after such article is with 81, will
mali it fully prepaid TO any address, WE GUARANTEES
articles usually sell at and are north $5o TO
IS each We DO this only to get samples Of our good
chased ring Wedding Ring, Pearl and Garnet Ring.
send size s. line Gents Hair Chain II. Ladies' Leon.
tine Chain and Lscke. y Ladies Opera Chain r. Gents
lets 18 Superb Sold Gold and enameled MASONIC, o.
q. Fr o. g. 7. or S. Of 7. Pin 8 Ene Ladies' knam-
Pearl Pin and Drops IS Elegant Set Gents Studs or
Diamond. Agate. Opyx, jet and Pearl Enameled o
Elegant Stone head Gold Pencil 6, Fine Gold pen and
holder ., Solid SILVER Napkin King. chased Solid
s. IL Superb Stereo. Views s. Powerful Telescope or
Microscope 4 Fine Steel Pens 90 Fsbers Pencils
Handk erchief. 10 i'd Paper Collars 81 Pair Fine KID
Gloves sand 5000 other articles, alt worth u 80 TO
$3.50 sold at only one dollar each Our sale Is edorsed
in 1875. We want agents. This is no ..ticket' or
order slip swindle. Goods sent c. o. D.. you can
for full lists with letters from 500 patrons