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The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
The Suez Canal.

NJ. de Lesseps has often been asked
how the idea OF making Il canal across
the Isthmus of Suez occurred to him.
Every intelligent child, he says, must
have asked his teacher why the little
neck of land between the Red sea and
the Mediterranean could not be dug
through. The answer to such ques-
ton has always been that there were two
insuperable difhculties-one the differ
ence in level between the two seas, and
the other the shifting sands of the desert,
which would fill up channel as fast as
it was made. NJ de Lesseps first began
to inquire seriously into these difficulties
in 1919, when he had retired from dip
lomatic service Of nearly thirty years to
the peaceful pursuits Of farming. His
connection with Egypt was of long
standing; he had at one time been French
consul TO Alexandria, and his father had
represented France in Egypt before him,
BY 1852 he had convinced himself of
the practicabiity of making canal
across Suez, and had submitted his plans
to the Porte. but the Porte decided that
il did not concern Turkey, and he went
back to his cattle and his farm to wait
for a more favorable time. His oppor-
tunity came in 1854 One day that year,
when he was busy on scafiolding, look
ing after the building of new house on
his farm, word was brought him Of the
succession Of Mohammed Said to the
vice-royalty Of Egypt.
said Pasha was an old friend of his.
When NJ de Lesseps was consul in
Egypt, Said was great fat boy, and his
father, Mehemet Ali, annoyed at seeing
this fatness increase, had him put on
restricted diet, and used to send him for
| two hours day TO walk round the city,
to skip with a rope, to row, aud to climb
the masts of ships. The boy made friends
with NJ. de Lesseps, and got secret meals
of maccaroni from his servants. This wa.
the beginning of friendship which led
to such memorable results; and it is Q
curious instance of how great things and
small are interviewer in the web of life
that if Said Pasha had not been fat boy
with severe father, NJ. de Lesseps
scheme might have been treated by hin
with a. little attention as it was by thu
Porte. and we should have had no Sue
canal. As it was, he had an admirable
introduction to the new viceroy, talkct
him out of his fears regarding the in
truscn of foreign capital into his coun
try. gained the respect Of the viceroy'
counselors by showing his skill in horse
manship, and finally obtained the lon
desired concession on November 81
lS54.-London Examiner.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
MlNl'l.LLANEOlS.

The second trial of Piper, of Boston
for the murder of Mabel Young, terminate,
in a verdict of murder in the first degree.
| The late Reverdy johnson leaves {
family oi twelve children, about fifty grand
children and several great grandchildren
lie was married in 1919 to Miss Mary Msckal
Bowie, daughter of Robert Bowie former
governor of Maryland.
During January the demand for post.
age stamps, postal cards and stamped en-,
velopes reached the Unprecedented amount
| Of three and a half million dollars worth
| These figures are considered indicative of a
| country
Charlotte Cushman died at the Parker
house, Boston, on the morning of the 18th.
Her age was fiftv nine years and seven
months. She had been afflicted with cancer
for long time, but was better last week and
took short walk Saturday, when she caught
cold, pneumonia resulting. She was quite
| cheerful the day before, but a change occurred
two o'clock in the morning, and at seven she
was dead
In answer TO argument recently used
that the Southern Pacific railroad company
would not build road, even IL authorized to
do so, the reply is made that Mr.. Hunting
don has offered to have the road built to the
Rio Grande in three and half years, and
has assurances from strong companies to have
the line from New Orleans there to meet it,
and is willing to put up good and sufficient
security in the treasury.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has issued an order prohibiting the issue OF
special tax stamps to be used by peddlers in
selling distilled spirits, wines or malt liquors
in other werds, such stamps are only to be
issued to dealers in distilled spirits, wines orr
malt liquors, who sell at a fixed place, which
shall be clearly indicated in the special tax
stamp ead oil r-,ius- .,s tho sa.v."ci rs,.v.-,
bureau which are inconsistent with this order
are revoked.
Hon. John +. Ellis, chairman Of the
committee on Mississippi levees of the house
VI A''liNN'hh'i'',i 70 I'ihS W ''' i'N'i oiis-
sissippi on the lst OF March TO take observa.
tions as to the best method of keeping the
river within its banks Among the plans
which have been suggested that of construct
ing outlets at intervals seems to meet with
favor in the committee. The amount of the
appropriation 70 be asked for temporary re-
lief is s3,j00,000.
The following is corrected list OF the
heaviest losers and insurance by the great
fire IN New York last week: Lesher, Whitman
4 Co., loss 100000, insurance s750,o0o; Cat.
tin, Bundet 4 Co., loss si5O,00o, insurance
$4,000; Hornthal, Witches & Goa loss
S25O,0o0 insurance $4,000; Powers, CASTOR
4 Co., loss $4,000, insurance sl50Ooo; Geo
L. Shortridge & Co., loss sl50,0Oo, insurance
not stated the loss on the buildings dii to
i52 Broadway, owned by Edward Mathews,
$350,000. VIM. Smith 4 Co, lose only $25 600;
insured. The total loss and insurance will
not vary much from estimates already given.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
EAST.

A party of four hundred men has been
organized at Philadelphia to start for the
Black Hills early next month.
Chas. X. Landis, recently acquitted on
the ground of insanity oi the murder of Car
ruth, the Vineland, N. Y, editor, has been
pronounced sane by Judge Reed after exam
nation of witnesses and discharged from
arrest
A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine, and substitute Imprisonment and
hard labor for life, passed the senate by a
vcte Of is to II. The measure had previously
passed the house. An attempt to have the
question settled by the people at the next
election was defeated in the senate by a vote
of is to 10.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
An article in the Cologne Gazette

An article in the Cologne Gazette
draws attention To the fact that the Russian
press is continually instigating the insurgents
in Seryia and Montenegro against the porte
The Gazette declares that the Russian gov
ernment is responsible for the alarming de
meanor Of the press, consequently ii cannot
be surnsed that the people believe in the
existence Of a secret agreement by which
Austria is to be allowed to annex Bosnia,
Russia rctaking the Besssrabian territory,
which was ceded in 1867. The powers have
accepted the porte's modification OF An
drassay's proposals, so that the application
of the direct taxes of Bosnia and Hero
govima to the devolopement Of those prov
inces will not be required.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
rrrfNG Up on CoLp MORNINGS.

GETTING UP on CoLp MoRSISes.-
Seme people say it is very easy thing
to get up of cold morning. You have
only, they tell you, to take the resolu-
ton and the thing is done. This may be
very true, just as boy at school has
only to take flogging and the thing y
over. To get out Of bed into the cold,
besides the inharmonious nature Of the
transition. is so unnatural that the poets,
refining the tortures Of the damned,
make one of their greatest agonies con-
sist in being suddenly transported from
heat 10 cold, "f from fire TO ice." They
are pulled out of their beds" says Mil
ton, "by harpy-footed fairies-fellows
who come to call them" A mcney-get-
ter NAV be drawn from his bed by Few
pence. A proud man may say, What
shall think Of myself If don'tget uPT =
but more humble one will be content
to waive this prodigious notion OF him
self out of respect to his kindly bed. An
ingenious lier in bed will AJAX for our
proofs and precedents Of the Ill effects q
| living late on cold mornings, and sophisti-
cate much on the advantages Of an even
temperature Of body, of the natural pro-
pensity (pretty universal) TO have ou,
own way. and Of the animal that roll
themselves up and slsep ~ vineess--
| LeiaA Essaf. ~. ::
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
TIME ENOUGH.

Two little squirrels out in the sun.
One gathered nuts, the other had nome
Time enough yet" his constant refrain,
: Summer is sifil only just on the waue."
Listen, my child while tell you his fate
lie reused him at last, but he reused him too late
Down fell the snow from ptiless cloud,
And gave little squirrel srotlsss white shroud.
Two little boys in school-icom were placed;
One always perfect, the other dixraced;
: Time enough for my learning" he said,
will climb by aud by from the foot 10 the head.
Listen, my darling, their locks are turned gray
One as a governor sitteth to-day;
The other, pauper, locks out at the door
W the almshouse, and idles his days as Of yore.
Two kinds OF people we meet every day;
Tine is at work, the other at play,
Living unrared for, dying unknown
The busiest hive hath ever drone
Tell me, my child, II the squirrels have taught
The lesson longcd 70 imPlant in your thought
Answer me this and my story Is done,
Which Of the two would you be, little ONE
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
A VALUABLE manuscript has been di.

A VALUABLE manuscript has been dis
covered in the Azores, referring to the
colonization, in the year 1900, Of the
northern part of this continent, by emf
grants from Operto, Aveiro and the is.
land of Terceira. 1t was written in 1870
by Francisco DeSonza, and Barboza Mac
hado states that II was lost during the
great earthquake Of Lisbon in 1855. Thi'
document, which, it is said, will throw
great light ON the disputed question Of
the early discovery Of America, is about
to he published by learned gentleman
IN the Asoees.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
TIMELY TOPICS.

Mr.. JAMES PATTON has been remar-
rled to Miss Eldredgc by DIR. Tying, of
New York. Now if the Massachusetts
legislature confirms his marriage in that
state, no man in the United States can
claim to be 80 well married as Parton.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

MANY Of our southern contemporaries
have commcnccdurging farmers to raise
their own food supplies, as has been Gus
tomary for long time at this season of
the year. Heretofore, farmers have paid
little heed to the sound advice of having
their oorn-crihs and smoke-houses at
home; now, however, the idea seems to
have found many adherents, and the
coming season will probably see the
south more independent of the west than
ever before -NdshriHe American
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

CAPT. JAMES b. EADs publishes a
card in a Washington paper, in which he
states that the dispatches from his work
are of most cheering character, and
tha. his grant will be scarcely one year
old before the channel over the South
sesss ks- will he the deepest outlet Of the
Mississippi, although only half the depth
Of the best when they began work.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
HOUSE.

In the house, on the llth, the follow
ing bills were presented and referred: In
relation to bounties to nine-months' volun-
teers; to repeal the third section of the act
of 1874, establishing the national bank re-
demption agency directing the transmission
of printed matter through the mails when
Ahe postage thereon is insufficient; for the
repeal Of the resumption act, and for the
purpose of preparing way for the resump'
ton of specie payment for the preservation
of the forests on the public domain adjacent
to the sources of navigable rivers and other
streams. Mr.. Riddle offered a resolution in.
structing the secretary of war to report the
aggregate amount Of claims allowed or re-
jected in the bureaus of the quartermaster.
general and of the commssary general oi
| subsistence in the states OF Indiana, Ohio and
| Pennsylvania also the aggregate amount oi
| like claims allowed or rejected in the other
states, to which the law OF the ith of July
| 1854, applies. Adopted, On motion OF Mr.
Kelley il was ordered that Saturday next be
set apart exclusively for debate, the under
standing being that Mr.. Kelley is to make I
speech in reply to Mr.. Blaine. Adjourned
In the house, on the 18th. Mr.. Gaus'
offered resolution calling on the attorney
general and the secretary Of the in erior b
transmit to the house certified copies o
papers on file in their respective department
relating to the completely Of W. r. Ross
formerly Cherokee Indian delegate, in tn
alleged Indian frauds of John W. Wright
Adopted. Mr.. Sayler offered a resolution
calling on the secretary of the treasury u
report within ten days the actual amount o
gold owned by the government and availabl
for the resumption of specie payment, afte
deducting the amount of gold certificate
now outstanding, accrued interest bonds AM
bonds held for the sinking fund, TO thi
date. Adopted. Mr. Scales, from the CON
mittee on Indian affairs, reported bill requir
ing securities for all Indian agents and sub
agents to file sworn statements of value an'
description of property owned by Them ol
which they became streties. Passed. Nj
Wheeler, from the committee on appropria
tiohs, reported fortifcation bill and aske,
| for its consideration Al this time. The bill
sppropriases for protection, preservation an
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

IT is said that the temple Of Solomon
never had mortgage on it. Very few
churches in these days are built on that
model.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

THE officers of Harvard University
have lately kept record Of the percent
age of the students, from which some in
teresting facts are to be asccrtained
Merchants and shop-kcepers send to col
lege about half her students. Lawyers
send literally, and clergymen not 40 WELL
Among the classes of parents who do not
send at all, are sea captains, railroad
men, hotel keepers, artists, and literary
men, Artists and architects have only
contributed three students in six years,
and editors, authors and publishers have
done little better
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

ONE of the most curious things at the
exposition will be an architectural plan
of the city Of Mexico. Its dimensions
ae 33Oby 23l feet 1t will display all the
characteristics of the city, and will be
peopled by 10000 leaden figures dressed
IN appropriate costumes, some for the
opera, ball and social party, and others
vending fruit and ice cream, carrying
baskets and rolling barrels. In the
streets Will be 1900 coaches an equal
number of other vehicles and a lot of ar
tillery pieces.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-26

NELLY motor mas Dccn chNelOneu III
a mysterious obscurity for some time,
and people were generally beginning TO
believe that the affair was failure. Last
Friday evening, however, in Philadelphia,
terrific explosion took place in brick
building, and once the walls was knocked
10 pieces. Upon investigation il was
discovered that Keely occupied the
structure, and his iron box, where he
chained his motor, had blown up. There
seems to be something in Ksely's ma
chine, after ALL but the people who live
in the neighborhood have very earnestly
requested him to move elsewhere.
A GENTLEMAN in New York has CON
verted an old church, no longer used for
the purpose of worship, into lodging
house for tramps, the beds in the pews
on the ground floor free TO their occu-
pants, and those in the gallery let at a
triiiing cost. In this way he accommo-
dates three hundred vagrants nightly,
two hundred and fifty of them absolutely
without charge. in the morning each
guest is given hot breakfast of mush.
Il is entirely at the option of the tramps
whether they acknowledge the kindness
extended to them, by chopping wood in
the basement Of the building half an hour
before taking their leave, or not. 1t is
gratifying that large quantity is
chopped, which indicates that the much
abused tramp is not altogether destitute
Of honor. No drunken men are ad-
mitted.
SERIOUS danger has been apprehended
in England of war between the Anal
gamated Engineers and tleir employers
The owners of the Firth iron works,
having decided TO conduct their business
by piece-work instead Of weekly wages,
the men went on strike, and the union
issued orders that they intended TO COM
pei the masters--except under special cir
cumstances, to be judged by the union
to abandon the one method of payment
for the other. The Amalgamated Engi-
neers possess a fund of f250,000; and
they rule from 10000 TO 10000 skilled
hands. They can, If they organize gen
eral strike, throw entire trades out of
gear, and stop large undertakings directly
dependent on their labors. The London
Spectator says that the Amagamated
Engineers can stop or greatly reduce the
income of 100000 households, and nfict
nearly as much misery as great cam
paign would What this organization
proposes to perform, is to take away from
the skilled minority a possession which
they have for the benefit Of the majority
and, says the Spectator, they have no
right to do it, and no plea of benevo-
lence nor brotherhood nor general conve.
nience can give them the right. The
Iron Trades Employers Association
which held its general meeting at Derby
held in its hands the issues of war oi
peace. The counsels Of prudence fortu
nately overruled the promptings of self
interest, and adopted a policy which i,
likely to lead, for the present at least, tc
satisfactory settlement of existing
grievances.
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Copartnership Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers,
~ Hiram X. Ch0ale of Augusta, as general part.
ner and Herbert NJ. Heath of Augusta AS special
partner, have this day formed "a copartnershp un
der the name ofCHoATE Il HEATH, for the purpose
OF carrying on the practice OF law in Augusta and
Herbert NJ. Heath has contributed TO the capital OF
said firm the sum OF one hundred dollars Said part
nershfp Is to commence on the ninth day OF Octo-
Der, n ID. 1876, and 10 continue till Oct, O. 1877.
IL X. CHOATE.
HERBERT NJ. HEATH
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100000.

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
seected In different parts of North America and
nuyepe. furnishing, by this broad field Of opera.
rons. an additional and exceptional safety to the
&pta7- bolders. The assurances are made only on
- Mutusl Principle. The surplus Premiums are
gA&ped annually to the Iasured.i
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STATE OF MAINE.
Sept. 1915.

SOMERSET SS.-Court of County Commissioners,
August adjourned Term, Sept 30, A. d., 1876.
Upon the foregoing petition, satisfactory evidence
having been received that the petitioners
sponslble and ought to be heard touching the mat
ter set forth in their petition it is Ordered that the
County Commissioners meet at the dwelling house
OF Z; t. Briggs, in Carrying Place Plantation
on Tuesday, December 10Th, A. d. 1876, at
ten o'clock A. NJ. and thence proceed to view the
route mentioned in said petition; and on the next
day, Wednesday, September a0h, hearing of the
parties will be had at the dwelling house
Of said z. r. Briggs in said plantation,
and such further measures taken in the
premises as the Commissioners shall judge
proper. And it is further Ordered that notice
of the time, place aud purposes of the
COMMISSIONER meeting Aforesaid, be given to all
persons and corporations interested, by publishing
an attested copy OF the petition aforesaid with this
order thereon, Blk weeks successfully in the Som.
erset Reporter, public newspaper printed at
Skowhegan, in said county, and in the Kennebeo
journal, a public newspaper printed AZ August ,
IN kennebec county, by the printers to the State,
the publication ofthe same to he at least thirty days
before the time appointed tor said view. that all in
tsrested may then appear and be heard, If they
think proper.
Attest L. II. WEBB, Clerk.
A true copy of the petition and order Of court
thereon.
6w42 Attest:- l.. H. WEBB, Clerk.
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naiIp 3snnebst gourml,
TIE BELL.MlNs'S FEES.

With the death of the old bell-msn of
ST. Johns Church, Perth. an ancient GUS
tom of the fair city has expired. From
time immemorial it has been the right OF
this humble official to claim commission
on the increase Of the census OF the par
ish. His fee was only two pence per
head for every child born, but the figure
was vigorously eXacled. Regularly the
bell.ringer called upon the registr ar. and.
obtaining the names of the happy parents
who had been increasing the population,
waited on them TO obtain his fee. New
conlers not unnaturally objected to this adj
dilion to the curse which fell on Mother
Eve, and having no respect for use and
wont refused to pay. Not long ago, irri-
taled by what Mr.. Bundle would have
called ''parsimonious parochal parents. y
the bell-man summoned some of the re-
calcitrant parties before the sheriff. To
their establishment that Judge decided in
his favor ON the ground that the custom
had existed from time immemorial. The
town council have now taken advantage
of the expiry of vested interests by the
death of the bell-man who was thus Gu
riously interested in the youth of the
parish to abolish the ancient custom, and
have fixed the salary of the office at Ell
per annum. Not long ago every town in
Scotland had its own "hangman." This
official. though scarcely respected, was by
no means despised He was servival
from the days when the gallows and the
whipping-post were looked upon as the
best .re.,snerators of morals, and when
executions were too common TO excite
horror. Aifthese finishers of the law have
now expired. One of this last was the
execuioner of Stirling, who was entitled
by law to handful OF meal out OF every
sack brought to market. His privilege
was generally cheerfully bought up al
prices considerably more than the value
of the meal.
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Is a pleasant and perfect substitute, in all cases,
for Castor Oil. Casoria is the result of an old Ply.
scians effort to produce, for his own practice, an
effective cathartic, pleasant to the taste and free
from gripping.
DR.. Samuel Pitcher OF Hyannis, Mass, succeeded
in combining, without the use of alchohol, purga-
tive agent as pleasant to take honey. and which
possesses all the desirable properties of Castor OIL
1t is adapted to all ages but is especially recon-
mended to mothers as reliable remedy for all dis
orders of the stomach and bowels of Children. 1t
is certain, agreeable, absolutely harmless, and
cheap. 1t should be used for wind colic sour
stomach, worms. costiveness, Group. &C., then
children can have sleep and mothers may rest.
j. b. Rose & Co., of as Dey Street, New York. are
the sole preparers of Castoria, after DIR. Pitchers
recipe.
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STATE OF MAINE, Kennebec ss.-Oct. o, 1876.
Personally appeared above named Hiram X .
Choate and Herbert NJ. Heath, and acknowledged
above certificate to be their free act and deed. Be-
iorem me.
W. ?. WHiTEuoUsE, Justice of the Peace.
octl2-tltSWJW
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Bangor, October 9. 1876. oct23 flt&w3w
NOTICE IL hereby gwen, that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed Administrator on the
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PEIl rlON.

To TIE Honorable Comfy Commissioners in and
for the county Of Somerset.
I'VE, the undersigned inhabitants of Carrying
w Place Plantation. and vicinity, respectfully
represent that public convenience and necessity
require a road running through said plantation, as
follows beginning ut the north line of Pleasant
Ridge Plantation, and running Dorthery
across land owned and occupied by c. T. Briggs
and John q. A, Williams, thence across land owned
by VIM. X. Lancey, still Dortherly to and across
land owned and occupied by Cephas Bean and
Joseph Clark, thence northery to land owned and
occupied by Joseph Adams and Osborn Pierce.
We therefore request your honUrs to appoint day
to view said road and to take such other meas
as you in your Judgment may see fit.
CEPfiAS BEAN, and 20 others.
Sept. 1915.