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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-11
District Court of the United States,
District OF Maine.
In the matter of
Charles simpson,
Il.hEr,.


Charles simpson, In Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt
THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE that a petition has
Il been presented to the Court this ailh day of
March, 1871 by Charles Simpson of Vassalboro',
in said District, a Bankrupt, Individually and as
member of the ITm of Simpson n Delano, pray.
ing that he may be decreed to have a full DIS
charge from all his debts individual and copart.
nershp, provable under the Bankrupt Act,
and upon reading said petition, lr Is ORDER
ED by the Court that hearing be had upon
the same on the first Monday in June, A, ID. 1877,
before the Court in Portland in said District, ten
O'Clock A. NJ, and that notice thereof be published
in the Weekly Kennebec Journal, and the Weekly
Portland AdveI tiser, newspapers printed in said
District, once week fer three successive weeks,
the last publication to be thirty days at least be
fore the day of hearing and that all creditors who
have proved their debts, and other persons in in
terest, may appear at said time and place and
said petition should not be granted.
VIM. Z. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court of said District.
aprtll,lS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-11
T0ATlNE PLAN,

orupon the principle OF accommodating profits for
definite periods, which wss first introduced by this
Society and has been recommended and endorsed
by eminent experts IN Life Insurance, and by lead.
ing business men. Forty-fonr per cent. has been
earned and accumulated on the premiums paid on
SIT Tontine Life Policies, and forty per cent. its
Tontine Endowment Policies. issued within the las,
veyears.
The Directors OF the Equitable Life Assurance
Society represent exclusively the inter ests of the
Pohcy-holders and in presenting the Society to no
confidence, because OF the strict and conservative
principles by which its variOus departments ar
governed. In the assets and in the administration
OF the Society, perfect security is given for the u
ture, which Is of great Importance TO those depend
ing Upon their insurance policies tor the ultimate
upport of their families.
No Life Insurance Company has such args an
nual tran sactions as the Equitable; none li NOR.
promptand just in its dealings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-11
legal a0bertise ments.
In the District Court of the United
States, for the District of Maine.

In the matter of
Arthur Berry, In Rankruptcy,
Bankrupt
At Portland in said District on the nineteenth
day OF Mach, A. ID. 1877, Before Hos EDWARD
FOX, Judge OF SAID District curt in Dau kruptcy.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, SIS:
PON the application OF Albert $. Parnton,
u John o. Given aud BafdWell Pdttcu, all OF
BOwdOnhan', IN the County of Sagadahoc and
State of Maine, represent ng that they have pend.
ing suit IN equity ia the supreme judicial Court
OF he state oi Maine, in the County of Sagada-
hoe, against Arthur Berry and Fred A. Berry.
both Of G 4r'iiner, Ia sad District, which com
an attachment OF he property of said defendants
was maze and still subssts, and praying for
leave to proceed with their said suit as well
against sand Arthur Berry as his code endant,
and that in ease Arthur Berr , upon the petition
Of his creditors. shall finally be sdjudged bank
rupt they may ttll prosecute the same suit TO
judgment and may take judgment as lar as relates
To said Arthur Berry ag tintt the property on
which they nave an attachment. Upon reading
the foregoing application, II is ordered that notice
TO all persons interested in the estate of sa d Ar.
hur Berry be gwen by publication il the kenne
bee Journal, and that a hearing Will be had taere
on AT Portland on the first onday Of April,
d. 1871, AZ ten u e ock IN the 10 renoon,
Nitne the Honorable EDWARD Fox,
~ Judge OF the said Court, and the seal
rs. the,eof at Portland, in said District,
~ on the twentieth day OF NJ arch, a
IL. 1874.
WIN. 7. PREBLE,
Gle. K of D.shict Cou,t for sand District.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-11
Maine Central Railroad.
CHANGE OF TIME.

On and after Monday, Oct. 9th, 1870,
trains Will leave Augusta
For Portland and Boston, 500, ll.a0 A. M, and
l0tS +. NJ.
For Roekland, s 90, II 40 A. NJ.
For Pennington, Lao A. NJ.
For Bath, Lewiston and Portland, 800, llA0 A.
NJ, l.25 7. Nj.
For Waterviile and SkowhegaH, $50 P, NJ.
For Belfast, Dexter and Bangor, 3.35 A. NJ, 3 80
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aaitp Aennebtt sournal.

PoULTRY-kEEPING AND COLORADO
BUGs.-Poultry-keeping, with the advent
OF the Colorado potato bug. should receive
new impulse. Particularly should the
keeping OF ducks he encouraged. Ducks
DESTROY the potato bug, and may be made
the guardians OF a potato patch near the
farm NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. also learn to
eat them. At first, in the West, accord
ing 10 Prof Riley. the chickens refused to
eat them, but at length learned to eat the
eggs, then the Larvae. and finally the full
grown insect. Instances occurred where
between thirty and forty beetles were
found in the crop of single chicken,
which had been eaten from preference,
although other food was at hand. Now
the protection of the potato fields the com
ing season, Will be work OF consdera-
BILE trouble, and would it not be well TO
delegate part of the work to chicks and
hens, and raise large numbers of them to
do it Whenever convenient, plant a
half-acre or more near the barn, and in
duce the poultry to frequent the field by
feeding them upon it. and rearing the
chickens in coops around it. The advent
of the Colorado bug should promote the
raising of chickens and ducks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-11

Premiums are received and Losses are paid In
cash only Policies are Issued pay able at the death
of the Insured, alSo payable at the end of certain
number OF years. Policies are also issued on the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31

old lady's behest, deftly passing the
scissors points between the flannel
leaves, scolioped and embroidered, and
faded silks, which had once boasted all
the colors of the rainbow. Suddenly he
uttered an exclamation, and in the same
instant Milly dropped the scissors.
"Grandman.ma, there is money here,
sewed to the inside of each leaf-thous-
and-dollar notesp
Granr.mamma Kirke smiled serenely.
"B .ow many, Melicent?"
Ten, grandmamma."
"Yes, yes, thought so" said the old
I lady. nodding her head. cts all right.
Take them, Frank, and spend them as
you and Milly please; they are the old
grandmamma's gift"
"Ten thousand dollars!" cried Milly.
"Ob, grandmamma, you never told me
thisl"
Because wanted you to depend on
yourself, my girl; but always meant it
for you. Now leave me in quiet little
while; l want to Sleep"
And half an hour afterward Grand
mamma Kirke died.
"It's precious BORE" said MIR. Charles
Glare, when the strange story reached
his ears, as it was not long in doing, OF
course. Blakesley always seemed to
have all the luck If I'd know'd about
the money, don't know that 1 should
have objected to the old lady"
But Grandmamma Kirke's money wa:
better invested in Frank Blakesley than
in Charley Glare. Melicent did not re
gret her choice.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31

Mr.. Layard, the English Charge
d'Affaires at Constantineple, is the sub
iect of a romantic anecdote in Figaro.
1t says that when he was twenty years
old and lounging through Mesapotamia
he was captured by an Arab tribe and
made the chiefs cook, in which position
he was greatly admired, and called by
the women of the tribe " the blue-eyed."
He did not enjoy his slavery, and after
while managed to communicate with
his friends, and at the end of a good
deal of talk the Arab chief consented to
exchange his prisoner for greyhound,
celebrated in that country for hunting
gazelles. His first halt on his return to
civilization was at the enca.npment OF
Botta, who had been making longitude
nal excavations, and to his despair with.
out result. Layard was struck by q
clever idea-to cut transversely. This
was done, and Nineveh was discovered
That happy thought decided his voca
tion-he became an archeologist. "Tht
only memory l don't like" says Layard
gayly, ais that was once exchanged fol
a dog. My only consolation is in the
fact that a Selougui greyhound is con
sidered by Mussulmans as an especially
noble animal"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31

M. de ", well-known lover of pic
lures, bought at an auction sale last Feb.
ruary fine painting by Jan Steen, the
French master. 1t was carried to his
home in the Boulevard Haussman. The
other day, about four o'clock in the af-
ternoon, well-dressed man presented
himself at the house, and asked to see
M. de ", on important business. The in
terview was opened by his saying: "Sir,
you bought that picture" pointing to the
Steen painting, son February II. I
must have it. / know what it cost you
and have got together enough for you
to make handsome profit out of the
whole transaction. There are seven
thousand francs. Give me the Jan Steen."
M. de ", astonished, explained that he
did not wish to part with the picture at
any price The stranger smiled. "Do
you wantmore for it p he asked what
sum do you demand ?' "Nothing.
refuse to sell it." Positively p cab
solutely." "So much the WORSE" cried
the unknown, at the same time raising
his cane and bringing its head down on
the skull of M. de ", who fell stunned
to the floor. When he recovered con.
sciousness the picture was gone. 1t had
been cut from the frame. Upon stand
near him were seven thousand francs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31
THE HDssLE CALL


Hark tits the buyle-the bugle Of rssr,
Banners are flying and vsbers .nsheatb.
Rides and bayonets 81 eaJn fro a afaT
Cannon drive lumb sr,pg over The heath.
bI.tle ard stir from tIe East 70 the West!
Iehlns oI u~ % fro.a the North to the South /;
Pr ~ slsnu llaIs and bates at the breast
WIZ ,,,,, or 'ne ne ast time the warriors mouth;
WE nom nv He husbands are torn with a wrench.
a.nsa s,eeI letr hearts mid the cangor of arms
Nh hsa, san from tiIlsge to dig and intIench,
Al The in ay 70 si1y turren ieIs its charms
nv '"e v" stof the bugle-tne bugle Of War!
- tis the bugle-the bugle of peace
u,,sH eds DER the sattls -held-over he slain
n A.. toe strife, bIds artillery celse,
-hiiss through the dying stretched out On the
hszf how the call ringt . or valley and hill:
u,r Llgnt biyouae hres- weary warriors, restl
bp, tender-eyed Pity, TO save-not to kill;
Hoforth on thy errand the blessing and blestl
'Soity, white snow weaves shroud for the dead
mantle to hide the red deed War has done
Stern foenen shake hands where their feIo wv have
bled, nav
And Mercy can breathe, now the battle is done,
In the notes Of the bugle-the bugle of Peace
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31

A good many years ago, the family of
a country storekeeper in Eastern Mary
land, having on one occasion houseiul
of company to lodge, sent their two
boys to spend the night at the store.
The elder of the two was smart lad of
sixteen, named Ned. They made up
snug bunk behind the counter, and were
much pleased with their new quarters.
What happened afterwards, the younger
brother tells in recent number of the
Missouri Republican:
We soon talked ourselves to sleep, and
had been sleeping perhaps for several
hours when we were awakened by
grand crash of some description, and l
was prodigiously frightened.
"What is that, Ned ?" anxiously
whispered.
"Hush, lie still I" he replied, as he
raised up and lisened intently. Two or
three crashing blows on the window
shutter with some heavy implement left
no room for doubt on the mind of any
person of even limited information as to
Cne nature Oh Ine sOuHus.
"What is it, Ned 9' reiterated.
al think it is robbers trying to break
in" he replied.
l had read little about robbers
principally Italian bandits-and the word
pBqa meaning to my ears full of horror.
I thought of nothing else but bein
gagged and carried off to cave bound
hand and foot, and being subjected to
all sorts of barbarities. Terror nearly
oyerpowered me in the darkness and
stiffness when every sound in nature
seemed hushed except the occasional
crash on the window. and the loud beat
ing of my own heart, every pulsation of
which sounded to me like the blow of a
sledge-hammer, and when my brother
rose to 90 toward the window which was
being 50 rudely assaulted, would have
screamed had not my voice been par
alyzed by fright.
As Ned advanced towards the window
T listened with suspended breath to dis,
cover what weuld happen. He had
scarcely got in front ofthe counter, NOV
ing softly aud silently, when the robbel
got the window-shutter open and found
) the sash already raised, the season being
warm.
Just beside the window stood barre
of tar on end, with the head out for con
!, venience of dispensing it, and as the rob
ber, after pausing moment to learn
all were quiet, had balanced himsel
across the window-sill in climbing in
Ned scooped handful of the tar ant
suddenly smeared it over the marauder'
!. face and eyes. The intolerable smart t.
= his eyes from the acrid and penetrating
stuff caused the robber to utter shril
cry of pain as he fell to the ground out
side of the window, where he lay writh
ing in pain and unable to make even al
7. effort to get away. An outcry 500
9 brought plenty of people to the spot an
s. he was carried off to prison.
J. Ned got good deal of credit for hi
. GOODNESS in the emergency and for hi
e shrewd plan of capturing the burgla
Q but he disclaims any merit as to tn
IL latter, saying that in feeling round ft
some weapon with which to strike th
Is fellow, he accidently ran his hand int
the tar, and just happened to think wh'
T. good joke it would be to dab it into h
er face and eyes, without any thought as
"a what the result might be.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31
Perfectly Responsible ~


One of the most trying creditors that
our business men have to deal with is
the man who is perfectly responsible"
None but the merchants and the build
ers, and the contractors know OF the
large number making up the class we
are referring to men who have got some
property together, and are entirely able
to pay their debts, and for that very rea-
son ought to pay them; but who actually
make their responsibility reason for
not paying. "Ain't perfectly respon-
sible ?" they ask. Of course +; that's why
you trust them-you think them respon-
sible and therefore you expect them to
pay when your bill is presented. But
they don't do it and appear to be offended
at your feeling disappointed; for are
they not perfectly responsible?" Ger
tainly. certainly but then what is the
good of mans responsibility if he
doesn't pay? That's the puzzle. Aman
who is not perfectly responsible who
has no real estate, no property-is the
man who is expected to pay on the nail,
while his more prosperous fellow citizen
is to be trusted an indefinite period.
This seems rather an upsetting Of the
true state of things. 1t is not much sat-
isfaction to a young man who has just
started in business, and needs to keep
his capital well in hand, to be told that
his customer is perfectly responsible
which too often means, if it means any
thing, that he is a man who can be sued
and after a tedious delay, and much
trouble, and the recovery of judgment
can be forced by the constable or the
sheriff to pay what he ought to have paid
in the first place. The verbal promise
to pay of the wealthiest man in town il
not SO valuable to the young merchant
as the poorest customers cash in hand
If you are perfectly responsible" goot
sir, it should be your first duty to pay
your debts promptly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31

ARABIAN, the village which the Rus
slams have captured, was formerly town
of about three hundred houses, but be-
ing destroyed by the Russians in 1855,
it now contains a smaller population.
1t is situated southeast of Batoum
about two-thirds of the distance from
that place to the eastern frontier, and
near the northern frontier. The houses
are mostly under ground, method of
construction adopted on account of the
severity of the climate. Ardahan is n
kaza of Olta, and seat of a mudir. At
the time of its capture the fortress was
dismantled by the Russians and the guns
taken away. 1t was, however, refortified
by the Turks, and being commanded. o,
neighboring heights was II stron~ posi-
tion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31
Ho,, Mother Cuts Hair.

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of his hair look as though they had
been chewed of by an absent-minded
horse, but you tell it by the way he
stops on the street and wiggles his should
ers. When fond mother has to cut her
BOYS hair, she is careful to avoid any
annoyance and mess by laying sheet on
the carpet. 1t has never occurred to her
to set him on the floor, and put the
sheet around his neck. Then she draws
the front hair over his eyes, and leaves
it there, while she cuts that which is at
the back. The hair which lies over his
eyes appears to be on fire. She has un-
consciously continued to push his head
forward until his nose presses his breast,
and is too busy too notice the snuff1ing
sound that is becoming frequent. In the
meantime he is seized with an irresisti-
BILE desire to blow his nose, but recollects
that his handkerchief is in the other
room. There is fly lights on his nose,
and does it so Unexpectedly that he
involuntarily lodges, and catches the
point of the shears in his left ear. At
this he commences to cry and wishes he
was a man. But his mother doesn't
notice him. She merely hits him on the
other ear to inspire him with confidence.
When she is through, she holds his
jacket-collar back from his neck, and
with her mouth blows the short bits
from the top of his head down his back
He calls her attention to this fact, but
she looks for a new place on his head
and hits him there. Then he takes tn.
awful disfgured head to the mirror ant
looks at it, and, young as he is, shudder
as he thinks of what the boys will say
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Villages and People.

IJassy Correspondence Boston Journal
This section of Roumania between
Bucharest and Jassy, on the line of this
hideously constructed single track rail
route, is very populous. We stopped
every few minntes at villages of five
thousand, two thousand, or ten thousand
inhabitants. But what villages Verify!
the Russians will do well to begin elevat-
ing the Roumanians before they under
take their sublime mission of raising the
Bulgarians out of the depths into which
they have been thrust by the barbarous
Turk. There seems no independent
thought, no sense of energy among these
kinds. They are abased; yet there is in
them the material of noble men. 1t is
simply their ignorance which crushes
them to the very earth. I was struck,
in passing a long procession of water
carts on the Chaussee, the principal
promenade of Bucharest, with the de-
graded types of the men driving the
scrubby little horses. These men were
not abused by vice or drink; they were
simply rustic clowns, completely devoid
of any knowledge of the outer world, of
their OVID, or the country's destinies-
good only to tand sleep, and do their
dull round of daily work.
The villages generally consist of long
rows, interspersed here and there with ir
regular groupings of one-story matched
cottages, the doors and windows in which
are of the most primitive character
Some of these huts are whitewashed out
side, like the shanty of an Irish laborer
in America, and the window and door
frames are painted blue; but the mass
are undecorated and dirty in appearance
The mud was SO deep in some of the village
streets that the.villagers were picking
their way with staffs, trying a quagmire
before they ventured to walk through
it, as they came down to the stations to
"see the train" Just above Pascani, I
saw a village the main part of which
was composed of rows of huts built
around three sides of a square. In this
square there was not blade of grass nor
| a tree, nor any attempt at garden ;
there were no walks, no pavements; one
dead level of stagnant mud stretched
from the door of one peasant to the door
of another peasant. In these huts, look
ing out upon this inspiring prospect,
stood the peasants with their woolen
caps drawn down to their very eyes,
their long hair hanging in ringlets over
their backs, and their immense mus
taches permeated with the smoke from
their pipes and cigarettes. The women
were so smothered in sheepskin cloaks,
made in ungracious form, that the poor
creatures appeared precisely as if they
had borrowed their husbands overcoats
that it was impossible to judge whether
Or not they were pretty. Many Of them
wear huge boots, which are, of course,
highly necessary in this muddy weather,
and to see them tramping across the
fields, one is entirely at loss as to which
sex they represent. The beauty of the
Roumanian woman has been highly
praised in song and story. Perhaps un-
der these humble thatched-roofs, and in
the midst of these muddy fields, fail
creatures are born, but it hardly seems
possible.
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LOVE AND REAs SON.
ut ROSA vkRTSKR JKFFEKY.

Young Love went sailing without fear
Upon a lotus leaf,
Though Reason said, " Pray let me steer.
Or you will come TO grief"
Then laughed the saucy god and cried,
You look too grum and blue,
Go walk along the rivers side,
I'll paddle my own canoe
So Reason, plodding on the shore.
Watched Loves frail sballop floating,
And thought" Though walking is a bore,
It's very risky boating.
HALO young imp, you will be WRECKED,
Your bark is very frail."
But Love sang gayly, 4" expect
To have Jolly sailp'
Keep OF the rocks and cataracts,
They oft beguile q stranger"
ouoth Love" A truce TO stupid facts!
Irather like the danger.
The stream Is smooth, the sky is clear,
You need not come to measure
The crystal deeps through which 1 steer,
Ny pilot shall be PiessureP"
On with the tide did Cupid drift,
His hand at Reason kissing,
To whore those sun-lit waters swift
SSift down the rocks went Kissing;
A warning scorned, danger spurned,
OF whien he saw no token;
Loves lotus Leaf was overturned,
His fairy rudder broken;
The Eossamer sail was torn to strings;
He seized on Pleasure, crying,
Come, let US rise Though drenehed my wings
They're light enough for Aying.
From yondsr bark---to ruined whirled--
We shall escape In season.
I'll ny with Pleasure through the world,
And leave my wrecks TO Reason"
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