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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-14
Wsekly Aennebse journal,

Published every Wednesday niUinins, is la,
largest iouu paper in the State, coutalulug nsws
oJhtlcal artcles agricultural aud scIvnLlnc lltcr
Va Is, poetry, anecdotes, household matter, mark
~ = &C., &c.
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, tIOu.
SPECIAL Notices, $3.50 per inch for nrst week; 81
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-14
..s LamE BACK.

Lame and Painful Back. Twelve DAYS in
Hospital.
hEssRs. WEEKS X POTTER: Ger tlemen, - | have
ST recovered from tams and pAiuul back
throu-h The use of your CoLLiNS' VoLTAIC PLAs
lEhs. Nj Lace WAS 30 lame AID painful IN II /
could not stoop, walk, or do duty ofany kind and
VAS placed IN the h sii,al Il eve d. vs. wItIu
cure. then Hs h pc mission OF the surge n to
try the Collins NOac III ,steis and in IL hours
alter put ing one on was en- iIey rcli, we'd Of pain
and abe 10 bend ny la +; am nov IhUrou ghly
WELL | C nsidvr hem imply wOl derful.
Resp eff llt youIs,
ALEXANDER JAMESON.
Co. !, lat artillery, Fort Warren.
Boston, May 3, 1876.
Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-22
VIM. D. Love & Co., Columbia,
The of firm will be changed January 1876 that Of
McCREILRY. LOVE 81 co.

And in accordance with our Semi
DOWN our entire stock of DRY GO
prices" to make room for Spring Good
Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-22
NOTICE..

The Subscribers are local Agents for the
Security Life Insurance and Annuity Comp
any Of New York, and for 3 Fire Insurance
Companies; and will lie pleased to feeiye
from their friends, and all otheis, applica-
tons for insurance Of either kind.
The Security Life is we'll known aa one
Of the most reliable Companies in the
United States, and the Fire Companies they
represent arc believed by them to be emf.
nently safe and trustworthy.
HUTSON Il HUTSON, II
Local Agents.
dec % 3m
Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-22

NIcCREERY, LOVE C co,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15

/ wonder if the children have any idea
how fast little pig that is only four
weeks old can run l am sure we had
not, until few days ago, we had a
chance to test the speed of our pig, and
our own speed as well. You see this
piggy HAD squeezed himself out of lit
tie hole in the SHE of his pen, into which
he was put only the night before. 1
suppose he felt very unhappy to be
taken from his mother, and the warm
sweet milk she gave him, and his broth
ers and sisters, to be shut up alone; so
he got out. He made his way out of
the barn yard rather slowly, looking
about him, around the corner Of the
house, into the field; but when We tried
to lay hands on him he. was not there;
he ran, and we ran, three of us
after him we could not catch,
we could not corner him - but
away over the wall into pasture he
went, among the alder bushes and
brakes, now leading in this path, now
in that, until at last, beginning, sup
pose, to think the pasture was too big n
place to stay in, he started back in the
direction of the barn, and while trying
to get through the wall he was taken.
Poor little piggy, he was dreadfully tired
out, and went right to sleep in Jessie's
arms. After short nap he was put into
his pen, and his breakfast given him,
which he seemed to eat with great relish.
After looking about his pen and finding
no more holes, he made a nest out of
the nice soft hay we had put in his pen,
crept into it, all out of sight, and was
seen or heard no more until dinner time.
He is now very happy, quiet pig, and
the only thing that troubles me about
him is that he should have to grow up
to be killed and eaten. How do the
little folks feel about itl-NeaO York
Tribune, J.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Seryia.

Servia is almost purely an agricultu-
raj country, and 80 per cent. of her pop
ulation are engaged in that industry. 1t
has an area of only $4,000 square miles,
and yet 1t has population about the
same as the State of Iowa-Iowa has a
population of 1853, 1000, and Servia
1856, 600. Servia lies on the south side
of the Danube, where they have strip
of fertile soil, fully equal to Iowa's best.
1t adjoins Hungary on the north, lying
between the last named country and Rou-
mania and Bosnia. Servia is mostly
mountainous and barren, and yet it has
over 900 inhabitants to every square
mile in the territory. The reader can
form some idea of its density of popula-
ton from the fact that ordinary towns in
this country of !, 900 inhabitants occupy
about one square mile. So that all Ser
via is as crowded as our towns, and yet
they subsist on agriculture.
They are hardy, healthy and brave
people, and have stood the assaults of va
rious enemies. at the treaty of Paris in
1856 Servia was placed under the pro-
lection of the Great Powers of Europe,
but from some cause, in 1862, war was
declared against them by Turkey, when
the European Powers decided that Tur-
must evacuate their posts in Servia, and
that peace and protection should con-
tinue to be guaranteed to them. Hence
the interest that the European nations
are now taking about the Eastern ques-
ton.
Their language is Serb or Illyran.
They are we'll prepared for war, having
powder mills, cannon of the best quality,
and 40, ZOO stand of Peabody muskets.
Their militia numbers about $50, 900, and
they can in forty-eight hours call into ac-
tive service 10000 men, being more
than the United Colonies of America
could in the Revolution, while they have
not one hundreth part of frontier to
protect, and not such immense marches
to make to mass their forces upon any
one point. In great emergencies, they
could bring into service 100000 men.
1t is said their cannon factory and mus
ket armory are in active operation,
and that they have all the modern con-
veniences and comforts of warfare in
transports, ambnlances and hospital
stores. They have $50 field as we'll as
an abundance of siege guns. They
have military school at Belgrade, and
in addition their chief officers
have been thoroughly drilled in the
French, Austrian and Prussian schools
and armies.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
England and China.

The existing difficulty between Eng
land and China seems to threaten serious
consequences. There is always a diff
Guilty of more or less magnitude between
the British and Celestials, mutual out
growth of the wars in which the pig
tailed disciples of Confucius suffered
years ago. But the trouble at present
is aggravated by the unwillingness of the
Chinese officials to make full PREPARATION
for the Margary murder, and the preju-
dice of the people and minor servants of
the Government against the overboaring
and dictatorial foreigners. Some prep
arations for war have been made in the
way of garrisoning forts and obstructing
rivers, but even the Chinese themselves
can hardly expect anything but disastrous
defeat to result from such strife, and
it is probable that concessions will be
ultimately made sufficient to satisfy the
exacting English Minister and avert the
threatened conflict.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Suffering for the Truth.

Oh, the artless prattle of an innocent
childhood How the sweet music of
their hearts and voices Gains the wild
yearnings of the sorrow-crowned years
of maturity At happy home in Bur
lington, the other evening, when the
family was gathered around the tea-table
entertaining unexpected guests, the fond
mother said to the youngest darling,
"Weedie, darling, be careful; you
mustn't spill the berries on the table
CLOTH" "'Taint tablecloth. promptly
responded darling, "it's sheet" And
late at night, when the company had
gone away, and that sweet child was
standing with its head nearly where its
feet ought to be, catching with its toar-
blinded eyes occasional glimpses OF a
feeting slipper that futtered in the AR
in eccentric gyrations, one could see how
early in the stormy years of this brief
life one may begin to suffer for the
truth. Hatok-Eye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
One.Sided DEVELOPMENTS.

The habit of using the right hand in
preference to the left among those
peoples whose monuments date from
the remotest antiquity appears to be a
universal fact, and this is accounted
for by the anatomical mechanism of
the human body. 1t is known the right
lung, liver-lobe and limbs exceed in
size those of the left side, involving,
OF course, greater amount of tissue
structure and larger supply of nerves
and blood vessels for their nutrition.
A person walking in dense fog fig
ures with his feet the segment of
circle, and if he is right handed, he
takes direction to the left, because
the right leg naturally takes longer
stride. The left side of the brain is
larger than right, and, as it appears
that the power of verbal articulation
in the right-handed is confined to
certain convolution ON the left side, the
conclusion is arrived at that, in speak
ing and thinking, the left side of the
brain is used, this being the result of
dextral education. The opinion has
also been expressed by some medical
writer's that amnesia and aphasia in
right-handed men indicate disease of
the left brain, and that hamm palsy
and writer's cramp show the result of
excessive working OF the left brain.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15

The Japanese are mixed race, formed
mainly by the amalgamation OF two dis.
tiIct stocks one of which, STYLED by
Mr.. Grifiis the Yamato,s from province
OF that name in Central Hondo, came
apparently from the south, and long be-
fore the Christian era were In possession
of the southern islands, from which they
act out for the conquest of Hondo,
which, with Yezo, was peopled by race
contemptuously styled e6isu, or bar
barians," who had descended from the
northeast Of Asia, and are identified with
the Amos, q remnant of whom are still
found unmixed in Yezo, and are occa-
sionally to be met with in the capital.
Mr.. Griffis gives characteristic portrait
of one Of these. The complexion is
dark brown the eyes not set obliquely;
the nose low, with rounded lobes the
mouth large the hair black and album
dant, clipped short in front, but falling
III abundant masses over the back and
shoulders the beard and mustaches I'M
usually long and thick. They are en-
phatically hairy race, the entire body
OF the males being sometimes covered
with fell Of hair an inch long. The
Amos are tho stock upon which the
other races have been grated, and
whose language forms the basis of the jap
anese of to-day, compelling the numer-
GUS words which have been adopted
from the Chinese to conform to its own
laws of construction, somewhat as the
Saxon masters the Latin element of the
English language. "The Japanese vo-
cabulary," says DR.. Hepburn, "has
been greatly enlarged and enriched by
the introduction of Chinese words, all
taken from the written language, and
not from the colloquial, which has never
been spoken in Japan. So extensively
have these words been introduced that
for almost every native word the Japan
ese have an equivalent Chinese word.
But in common usage the names of
things, family relationships, and the
words which express the wants, feelings
and concerns of everyday life, are, for
the most part native words, while the
technical, philosophical and scientific
terms are Chinese" The distinctive
types of the two races are still apparent
among the japanese. In the upper
classes we see the fine, long, oval face,
with prominent, well -chisled features,
deeply-sunk eye-sockets, oblique eyes,
long, dropping eye-ids, elevated and
arched eyebrows, high, narrow forehead,
round nose, bud-like mouth, pointed
chin contrasting strongly with the
round, fattened face, less oblique eyes,
almost level with the cheeks, and straight
noses expanded and turned up at the
roots which prevail among the agricultu-
raj and laboring classes. -Harper's
MAGAZINE.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Her Sweetheart.

The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun vouches for
the truth of the following: During the
war there lived in the vicinity of this
city solitary maiden of 60 summers,
who had no one to protect her against
the rude Bullets of the world. If any
flower of affection for the other sex had
ever warmed and beauti6ed her maiden
heart, it bloomed in secret and wasted
its sweetness on the desert air." At
that time which "tiied mems souls, 4"
she continued to live alone, unterrified
by the evils of civil war. One day,
while this city was occupied by Federal
troops, soldier went into her potato
patch and commenced helping himself
to the potatoes.
She soon discovered his presence,
and, rushing out, she screamed in a
high, shrill key:
"Get out of my potato patch, you
vagabondW
Soldier-"I shan't do it; your sons
are in the army fighting against us now,
and am going to have all the potatoes
L want"
Maid" You're liar; you're liar.
Soldier" Well, if your sons amt,
your husband is, and I'm going to have
these potatoes.
Maid" You're liar, sir; have got
no husband"
Soldier" Well, il your husband
amt, your sweetheart is"
Maid" Well, declare (softening),
who told you had sweetheart"
Soldier" Never mind"
Maid" Well, reckon you can have
few potatoes, but don't take more'n
you want for your own use"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Death i'm the PriZe.Ring.

Sporting circles have a delicious bit
of sensation just now in the shape of a
dead man, killed in a prize fight.
The manner of the dead mans taking
off was in this wise Weeden, "the con-
queror," was blacksmith in
Philadelphia foundery, and Walk
er was his helper. They were
warm personal friends, so the account
runs, but were led on by roughs and
thieves to the trial of skill, which took
place at Pennvllle, n. j. Weeden was
trained "by Clark, who has challenged
Edwards" and Walker was assisted in
his preliminary tactics by Sam Collyer.
About 600 roughs were present. Walker
got in the first blow, and drew first
blood. Weeden closed Walkers eye at
terrible cost to himself. In the closing
rounds Walker was blind man-his
face shapeless from the pounding. On
the seventy-sixth round he collapsed.
AS one of the incidents of the occasion
it is related that the Sheriff was knocked
down by watermelon, and general
free fight by the roughs ensued. The
Sheriff fred his revolver into the crowd,
and the whole gang returned it. The
dead body of Walker was found on the
wharf at Philadelphia ga mass of Jelly,
from which all semblance of humanity
had Departed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
What is q Carat A!

In speaking of gold carat signifies
twenty-fourth part; or, in other words,
carat is a name given to the fraction
1.24, thus: Gold of twenty-five carats
fine is a gold of which twenty-five parts
out of twenty-four are pure, the other
two parts being silver, copper, or other
metals. The carat, in speaking of dia-
monds or other precious stones, is q
weight of fraction less than four grains
troy, or 74.116 carats, being equal to
seventy.two grains troy. The term, or
weight carat, derives its name from a
bean, the fruit of an Abyssinian tree
called kuara. This bean, from the time
of its being gathered, varies very little
in its weight, and seems to have been
from very remote period used as a
weight for gold III Africa. In India
also, the bean is used as a weight fol
gems and pearls.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15

eaten by dogs. We entered the church,
yard, but the odor here became so bad
that it was almost impossible to pro-
coed. We take a handful Of tobacco
and hold IL TO our noses while we con-
tinue our Investigations The church
was not very large one, and 10 was sur
is heaped up with stones and rubbish to
the height of Ave or six feet above the
leyel of the street. and upon inspection
we discover that what appeared to be
mass of stones and rubbish is in reality
an immense heap OF human bodies COW
cred over with thin, layer of stones
The whole of the little churchyard is
heaped up with them to the depth of
three or four feet, and it is from here
that the fearful odor comes. The dogs
had been at work. and now could be
seen projecting from this monster grave,
heads, arms, legs, feet, aud hands in
horrid confusion. We were told there
were 5000 people lying here in this lit
tie churchyard alone, and we could well
believe it. 1t was fearful sight-a
sight to haunt one through life. There
were little curly heads there in that fes-
tering mass, crushed down by heavy
stones; little feet not as long as your
finger, on which the flesh was dried hard
by the ardent heat before it had time to
deeompose; little baby hands stretched
out as If for help; babes that had died
wondering at the bright CLEAN of sabres
and the red hands OF the e-eyed men
who welded them; children who had
died shrinking with fright and terror;
young girls who had died weeping and
sobbing and begging for mercy; moth
ers who died trying to shield their little
ones with their own weak bodies, all ly-
ing there together, fostering in one hor-
rid mass.
We asked about the skulls and bones
we had seen upon the hill upon first ar
irving in the village, where the dogs had
barked at us. These, we were told,
were the bones of about 200 young girls,
who had first been captured and par
ticularly reserved for a worse fate than
death. They had been kept till the last;
they had been in the hands of their cap
tors for several days-for the burning and
the plllaging had not all been accom-
plished in single day-and during this
time they had suffered all it was possible
that poor, weak, trembling girls could
suffer at the hands of brutal savages.
Then when the town had been pillaged
and burnt, when all their
friends had been slaughtered, these
poor young things, whose very wrongs
should have insured them safety, whose
very outrages should have insured them
protection, were taken in the broad
light of day, beneath the smiling canopy
of heaven, coolly beheaded, then thrown
in a heap there, and left to rot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Caught on the Fly.

Last evening, while Harper, the clown
of Barnum's circus, was passing up
Broadway. a little child slipped from a
three-story window, and came headlong
toward the pavement. Harper at the
instant and, MS it would seem, providen-
tially, caught sight of the child as 1T left
the window above, and. with the alacrity
of cat, placed himself in position to
break its fall. When it came down. to
hin, he caught it with firm grasp, and
not only broke its fall, but held it from
going to the pavement. The act was
bold and dangerous, but successful.
The athlete suffered some little injury,
but not enough to speak of in connec-
ton with 80 extraordinary feat.-Dd'ty
.SdrdtO0ian.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
The Proposed Isthmus Canal.

1t has been decided that the isthmus
canal will be via Nicaragua, and, upon
the return to Washington of the Mica
raguan Minister Bernard, negotiations
will be at once entered into for the con-
struction of the canal with all foreign
powers, and The neutrality of the canal,
on the general basis of the Clayton Bull
wer treaty, will be proposed. The cost
of construction is estimated at nearly
$66, 000,O 900, and many engineers con
slider that it will really cost 800, 900, 900,
and the work of construction consume
five years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15

are now receiving flour from Boston.
| On the high-table of the interior there
are very few trees and no grass but the
flowers are abundant in variety and lux
Itiriant in growth, and there is plenty of
fruit both of the temperate and the tor
rid zones. Apples, pears. Iplums,
peaches. oranges, bananas, and hgs, are
found in great quantities. Donkeys
supply the place of horses and mules,
and the only conveyances used are sort
of low, oid-fashioned landau. like car
riages, opehed in front and covered be-
hind. The young navigators were
allowed whole day upon the island,
which they explored with the ardor, if
not with the thoroughness, of scientists.
On the homeward voyage two gales
were encountered, ore of them short. the
other long. and both of them heavy.
The old man-of- war behaved most nobly,
and the confidence Of the crew and the
officers made the amateurs courageous.
Punishment of delinquencies consists
first in imposing extra dnties; secondly,
in requiring them to stand for hours on
seam in the deck; thirdly, in confin-
ing them alone in light, well ventilated
room on the lowest deck; fourthly, in
depriving them of liberty on shore; and
filthy, in dismissing them the service.
They are now allowed, during good be-
havior, TO go ON shore for half day
weekly. They come from all classes of
citizens, just like the children of the
public schools. 1t is not in any sense
reformatory. The prerequisites for adj
mission are: certificate of good char
acter, the written consent of the parents,
freedom from all physical defects, an
aptitude or an inclination for sea life,
and a deposit of thirty-fve dollars for
an outfit. Sixteen boys constitute
crew; each crew is in charge of sea-
man, who undertakes to show them how
to sew, to mend their clothes, and to do
the other duties of sailor; and the best
boys are made captains of crews, and
allowed to wear distinctive badges of
office.
During the voyage to the Azores the
boys edited, printed, and published
weekly paper called the Messenger, an
Svo of four pages. 1t contains the log
for the week, some stories told in the
forcastle, a list of articles lost and found,
several "funny" paragraphs, letters
from correspondents, and other inter
esting matter. The number for July
% has clever little sketch of ga Day
in Villa Horta, Fayal." The writer OBJ
serves, among other things, that on land
ing at the village "the first thing to do
is to buy large basket to carry your
change in, for nine of their five-cent
pieces weigh pound" He adds that
"the Fayalensians-is that correct9-
were shy of us. and kept indoors most
ly, but the keepers of shops were not at
all backward" One of the lively para
graphs is the following GA buttered
hard tack, picked out with Cayenne pep
per, was carelessly left on top Of a locker
the other night. Some guileless boy
found it, thinking it had been put there
for him, and had nice little "bite "
with his coffee in the morning. Won
der if he took more than one bite"
The circu alton is announced to be sew
enty-eight copies, the Irice two cents,
and the advertising rate four cents a
line.-N Y Post.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
A Woman With a Scythe.

Men who have stood where thousands
fell, who have gazed unmoved ut the
horror of the battle-felds and the wrecks
of the storm, cannot, without emotion,
behold the devastation and mangled
ruin which marks the progress OF wo-
man with a scythe. Nature shudders
when it sees woman throw stone, but
when il sees woman swinging a scythe
IL inst tries TO cover up its head, and
keep out of sight until the ruin is COM
,,lafa
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15

A NEW cure for drunkenness was put
in operation the other day by an injured
wife at Preston, England. The husband
having come home, as usual, drunk, his
better half placed him on sofa, covered
his face with -four, and his body with q
shroud. She then aroused the neigh
borhood with melancholy vail for the
dead. When he awoke ne exclaimed,
"what the devils mp now" but felt So
ashamed of himself that the otfense was
not repeated.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
How Gladstone Won s5.

An enterprising reporter was the first
to inform Gladstone of Disraeli's eleva-
ton to the peersge, whereupon the
former said: "Well, have won 20; a
good old friend of mine was foolish
enough some time ago to bet me 20 that
/ would be made peer before Mr.. Dis
rieli." To which bystander reloined,