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tered upon with all ardor and enthusiasm
stimulated activity in every direction, and
not only brought skilled artizans in every
vocation, who furnished permanent in
crease TO our population. but also ena-
bled the old residents, by opportunities
for lucrative employment. aud the en-
HANGED value of their property, to rally
entirely from the impcyerishment caused
by the war. -,
/ cannot dwell longer upon this noble
figure In our towns annals. He died sud
denly, 1S06--,a great and good man and
q powerful help to our moral and mate
rial growth. All the enterprises inaugu-
rated by Gen. Knox received a staggering
blow at his death. His extrayagant and
often chimerical plans involved an outlay
tar beyond his means. His estate, after
eight years of litigation, was proven in
solvent. The stately mansion rapidly fell
to decay. In 1928 the fences, gates and
outbuildings were dilapitated wrecks, and
the piazzas. colonnades and balconies so
ruinous as to force their removal. Fifteen
years later, Mr.. Holmes sought to restore
to the place portion of its former beau
~. but preserved everything in its I'M
changed order. not suffering a tapestry
within, or a rosebush or tree without, to
be disturbed. At last, in 1854, when the
last tenant of the Knox line had died, af-
ter little by little having been shorn OF
its fair proportions, the estate passed IN
to the hands of strangers, and It's glory
vanished like castle in Spain.
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Rallomell ADVERTISEMENTS
new GOODS
AT
EXTRA BARGAINS
FOR THE
Next Thirty Days !!

Best Glazed Spool Cotton REDUCED to cts. a
spool. .ftf
Good Elastic Cord cent I'd.
Ladies Rucnes REDUCED to 4 cent each
New Lot OF Fans from 10 to 20 each.
Large Lot Cambria sun Umbrellas from SOC to 81
each.
Silk Sun Umbrellas from 81 so to $3.50 each.
Mems Cotton Pants REDUCED to Is cts.
Mems Thin Undershirts for 81 cts.
~ Cakes Toilet Soap for rs Gus. i .4A
Hagan's Magnolia Balm so cts, a bottle.
Adamson's Balsam Is cts. bottle.
Ayers Hair Vigor IS cts. a bottle.
Mosquito Netting 10 cite. a yd.
Balls Best Transparent Soap Tor IS cts.
II doz. Shirt Buttons for cts.
Nice TWO Button Kid Gloves for 50c pair.
Clark's Machine Spool thread cts. n Spool.
Ladies' Felt Skirts only roc each.
Best Brown Duck Overalls sos a pair
Ladies' Fine Handkerchief for be
Papers OF Good Pins for IOc
New lot 10 Bone Corsets for Soc
Extra 20 Bone Embroidered Corsets for sl.Oo
Very Pretty Vases for SOC and 81 a pair.
All Linen Towels for SC each. -
Children's Round Combs ., 10, 15c each.
All Linen Table Covers for SOC.
New Lot Ladies' Ruches for loo Dozen,
pairs Ladies' Striped Hose for 25c.
Ladies' White Hose Sc pair. 10
Nice Linen Damask Towels &c each.
Good Wallets Is, % and soc each.
All Linen Bosoms IL, ~, 80, 25, 33c each.
Good Note Paper and l0c Quire.
Good Perfumery for loo Bottle.
Nearly all KINDS Of Pills for zoe Il Box.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
CHANGE OF TIME.

On and after Monday, June 18th, 1877,
trains Will leave Augusta as follows:
For Portland and Boston, 5.5u, and 10l7 A. NJ,
so and l0.tS r. M.
For RoekIand. $50 and lo.l7 AN.
For Harrington, l0.lI A. NJ.
For Bath, Lewiston and Portland, 81 l0.l1 A.
NJ, l.5U r. M.
For Watervile and SkowhegaR, 4lOP. NJ.
For Belfast, Dexter and Bangor, Ito r. NJ, $50
AN.
Train leaving at 1917 AN. arrives in Boston in
time 10 connect with Sound steamer lines Tor New
YORK. Train leaving al 30 + M arrives in Boston
in time to connect with 10 M Shore Line Train
or New York.
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NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed Administrative on the
estate OF
SAMUEL S. GILMAN, late of Readaeld,
I'd the County OF kennebec, deceased intestate and
mas undertaken that trust by giving bond as the
Jaw olrects All persons, therefore, having de-
mands against the estate OF said decease,l are de-
sired 70 ehhlblt the same for settlement; aud all
Nhdepteu 70 salu estate are requested to make inn
mediate payment to LUCINDA OH MAN
May IA, ls77. 3wlgs
NOIlCE Is hereby given, That the subscrl DeT
4N has been duly appointed special Administra.
tor on the estate OF
EDWIN 8. BRIGGS, late OF Winthrop.
In the County Of kennebec, deceased, ibtestate
and has nndertaken that trust by giving bond a.
the Law directs :-Al persons, therefore, having
demands against the estate of said deceased, ar.
desired 10 exhibit the same for settlement; and all
indebted 70 said estate are requested ~ make in
mediate payment to -
CHARLES r. WHITING,
special Administrator.
June Is, 1s77. Sw2Ss
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sHERIFF's SALE.

kESNEBEC ss.-Taken on execution, and will
be sold by public auction on Monday the TWEEN
ty-third day oil July, A. ID. 1871, at O'Clock in
the afternoon, at The Office of A. L. Carr 10 Win
thrOp, in said county all the right In equity which
William IL. Fairbanks OF Winthrop, in the county
Of KenneDec, has 70 redeem the following described
real estate situated In Winthrop, in said county to
wit; beginning on the southeasterly side OF the
county road leading from Winthrop TO Manchester,
ut the noriheasteriy corner of land occupied by
Green A. Longfellow; thence easterly by the north
line of said Longfellow's land 70 Narrows Pond ESQ
called; thence northerly by said pond to land
cupied by Dana II. Dudley; thence northwesterIy
said Dudley's land to the angle in the wall
thence running northerly on stone wall standing
on line between said DndieY's and land herein de-
scribed; thence running southwesterly on said
road 10 the bound begun at; also one other lot OF
land situated IN said winthrop, and bounded as
follows, to wit. beginning on the northery side OF
said road to the norheasteriy corner OF said Long
fellows land; thence northwestery on said Long
fellows northeasterly line about ELK rods 70 the
southeastery csrner OF land occupied by George
>. Metcali at The stone wall; theme northerly on
the easterly line OF land formerly occupied by Luz
Their hllDan, 10 land OF Is. f. Foster thence east
erly and southerly by land Of said Foster TO said
road; thence by said road to the bound begun at,
with building thereon standing, beng the same
land and premises bought OF 4. Winslow
Briggs Deed dated July I'd, A. ID e72, and record.
ed in kennebec Registry OF Deeds, Book 2s5, Page
535, by the above named William ii. fairoank :.
and by said Fairbanks morigaged TO one Thomas
Il. Williams oil koxbury, in the County Of Norfolk
ana state oil Massachusetts, Baid mortgage dated
March alst, ls7o, and recorded in Kennebec Regis.
try OF Deeds, Book $685. Page 6o, for the sum OF li
teen hundred dollars, payable as follows = five
hundred dollars in three equal annual payments
with interest.
A. c. CARR, Deputy Sheriff.
Dated June 2lst. A. D. 1877. june23- tlt&wsw
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-21

Forgotten ? Never! It is clearer and
more distinct in my darkened life than
ever before. My. mind, in my solitary
hours, has dweIt on each phrase of the
various treatment of the diseases till I
find my blindness a misfortune for others
as great as for myself"
"But, George, why should you cease
your work? Cannot you dictate to me ?"
maggie, is it right to tie you down
to such drudgery
"It will not be drudgery. Let me ar
range these papers now, and read them to
you, and you can continue the work to-
morrow"
II know it is selfish, but the tempta-
ton is too great. Maggie, you are my
guardian ANGEL"
The work progressed rapidly, and DR..
East watched with loving gladness the
change in George. Maggie wrote fro
him and read the extracts he dictated:
entering with her whole heart into the
work.
A year passed away from the day the
work was commenced before it wasready
for the press, and they were rewarded at
last by a package containing the hand
somely bound volume.
Maggie was in the library alone when
DR.. East entered with the book.
"Look at it, Maggie, darling, while |
find George"
II I'm here, Doctor" said George, en-
tering. "Let me feel it. Maggie, dear,
please read me the title page"
Slowly she read the page, even to the
figures that announced the date of pub
LEGATION. "1864," she answered, as if
bordering. "It is leap year."
George looked up. Despite his blind
ness he had never lost the habit of turn
ing his face toward any objectofinterest.
Now his face was pale, eager and yet ra-
diant.
Leap year, continued Maggie when
ladies may offer their hands to gentle
men. George, will you take mine?"
maggie, do not mock me. You are
young, beautiful and wealthy. What
am II"
What you are to Others said Mag
gle, "let the universal love and respect
you meet testify. What you are to me
I can never tell you. You love me,
George?"
"With my whole heart and soul?'
"Let your love, then, read mine"
cob! Maggie-Maggie, can it R true?
You love me blind, helpless, useless
"Husb, George"
"You are my eyes, my fingers, my in
spiration!"
"Then you will have me?" said Mag
gle, merrily.
~ have no answer yet"
DIR. East stole softly away, blessing
them in his heart as he did audibly when
the wedding day came. For they were
married, and the honeymoon has not yet
Waned.
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COZ. WADE RAMPTON'S FIANCE.

The ladyto whomru says Governor
Hampton is engaged, halls from near
Lagrange, Tenn. She is daughter of
Colonel Beverly H. Holcombe, who
emigrated to Marshall, Texas, in 1850.
AS Lucy Holcombe, she was a noted belle
between 1855 and 1858. During the
latter year a handsome steamer was
built on the Ohio to ply between New
Orleans and Shreveport. This steamer,
which bore the name of Lucy Holcombe,
was commanded by w D. Bateman, now
of Shreveport. After running several
years the vessel was sunk in sight of
Helena, Arkansas, and parts of the pro-
jecting wreck have since been the death
o fseveral other boats. A few years since
the steamer Emma Elliott was badly in
jured by striking the wreck, and the
lower river steamer Katie was sunk, but
was afterwards raised, by hitting the
same obstruction. In speaking of her
probable alliance with Governor Hamp
ton, a late Marshall (Texas) Herald de-
scribes her as follows:
She was very beautiful, talented and
accomplished, and of course universally
admired. It was in the fascination of
her manners, in which all shat was
full and pleasing were tremendously
blended, that she excelled and which
shone respondent even beyond her per-
sonal charms. No one that came within
the sphere of her influence that did not
pay homage to its magnetic inspiration.
In 1858 she married Governor Pickens,
who afterwards received the appointment
of Minister to Russia. In 1861 he re-
turned and vas elected governor of
South Carolina. About a year ago Mrs.
Pickens was in Marshall, ON a visit to her
sister, Mrs. General Greer, locking almost
as young as she did twenty years ago."
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~SKYLARKLNG IN GTNCINNA III.

Many efforts have beeu made to natural
ize European singing birds in this
country, but, as yet, with only partial
success. A society was formed some time
ago, in Cincinnati, and not less thanthirty-
two different species, and over three
thousand in number, of foreign birds
were secured at one time and set at lib
erty at various points around that city.
Most q them disappeared. The skylark,
however, the favorite bird of the poets of
all nations, wherever its melodious song
has cheered sad and weary hearts, has
remained. Eh's hill was chosen for
their place of abode. They return4a to
the same Locality after the first winter.
and one or two pairs have made their
appearance every spring since then. This
summer they are there in large numbers.
Long before daybreak, and until seven
and eight o'clock in the morning, and in
the evening about dusk, the males can
be seen winging skyward on strony
pinions, dutteriDg between cloud and
earth, filling the air with their rich
melodies.
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a QUIET NIGHT.

-rE -~@@ - #H
So still The starry night, T almost fear
Ny mortal tread lest should put to flight
A fairy that, for something Of the@year
Holds court in this old garden bY fhe night.
The fawars are bread awake; for every truth
On this fofsaken ground anchantment dRells,
Such as. may breathIessh hold an am'rous youth, z
Who seeks at dead OF night for lover spells,
With anxious, fearful heart In haunted delis.
l will not walk, but sit upon thiseeat,
That ! may see, and hear, and nc noise make;
In time gone by how many gentle feet
Stray hitherWard to rest for dear loves sake g
Brave, bright-eyed youths, and many a gentle maid
Came, haply, here in June or autumn cold,
Leaving the great hall bv the portals shade
To tell a tale that even then was old
How oft at this seat has the tale been told?
The growing things. 1t seems, have eyes to see;
They softly shake their head, but make no p9oRn;
1t may be they are whispering of me, D
And wondering whyI wandered here alone.
l am'not waiting for a partner no,
You need not point at me for that the hall
Is rank with ruin lovers do not go
To feast together at Inc baTon's call,
For years the1 have been dead and buried all.
How silentl how Overwhelmingly calmt
How strange in such a place to be alonel
The big owl on the b0ugh Is 6xPd by charm
The cat sits on the wall still as a stone;
Listen the nightingale! Oh, what a thrill
OF glory falls on all fair things around!
Now know I why this place has been so still;
The fairies have shut out all grosser sound
To hear your song in this old garden-ground.
All the Year Round.
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TURKISH FINANCES.

Mr.. Schuyler, consul general at Con-
stantinople, in a recent communication
to the department of state, gives us a
view of the financial condition of Tur-
key. which is far from encouraging. He
places the debt at 1927, coo, 900, the
yearly interest on which, about $65,OCO,-
900, is more than half the annual rev
enue of the empire. Last March the
financial budget showed a deficit Of over
$21, 900, 900, and MI. Schuyler thinks
that as there will be an additional deficit
each year, and us Turkey henoeforth will
be precluded from borrowing money out
side, the financia~ ruin of the country
inevitable Washington Star,
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THE COSSACKS AND ROUMANEqN


When the first troop of Cossacks rode
through Buch+ rest the Roumanian ladies
were very anxious to see them, and the
long avenue was lined with carriages.
A column of dust arose, thickening and
drawing nearer. A cry of delight and i'm
patience passed all along-ladies eagerly
stood up, favored gentlemen climbed upon
the coach-boxes and the wheels. The
column of dust approached, and presently
the Cossack lances pierced it, glittering
in the sun. Dark and colorless masses
doomed through it, and strange but stir
ring music was in the air. Not a sound
was heard, even while they passed, ex-
cept that martial war song of the bards
who head each sotnia and the shrill ac-
compartment of whistles modulated to
weird harmony. No rattle of ~accoutre,
ments betrays the Cossack; his very
horse seems trained to move with silent
activity. With that pan in ones ears,
and the whistles screaming through it,
one beholds without establishment these
warriors glide past, steaIthily and swift.
One recognizes the surviving race of an
earlier time. To the same war song,
perhaps, marched the ancestors of these
people when they overran Russia. The
Bucharest ladies were not a little i'm
pressed and not a little frightened. They
looked at each other blankly, with little
shrugs of the shoulder to express dis
taste. One of them afterward confessed
to the Standard correspondent, who
describes the scene, that her Muscovite
sympathies vanished at sight of the first
Cossack, SO ugly and so dirty was he.
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DA Y 4 RE.

During the intensely hot summer OF
1925, says a philosopher, I experienced
a attack Of day.mare. Immediately
after dining l threw myself on my back
upon a sofa and before l was aware was
seized with difficult respiration, extreme
dread, and utter incapability of motion
or speech. l could neither moven nor cry,
while the breath came from my chest in
broken and s~uffocating paroxysms. Dur
ing all this time I was perfectly awake ;
I saw the light glazing in at the win
dows in broad, sultry streams l felt the
intense heat of the day prevailing my
frame, and heard distinctly the different
noises in the street, and even the ticking
of my W watch, which [ had placed on
the cushion beside me. / had, at the
same time, the consciousness of flies
buzzing around, and settling with an
noying ~pertinacity upon my face. During
the whole fit, judgment was for
a moment suspended. I felt assured that I
labored under a species Of incubus. I
even endeavored to reason myself out
of the feeling of dread which filled my
mind, and longed with an insuferable
ardor for some one to open the door and
dissolve the spell which bound me in
its letters. The fit did not continue
above five minutes; by degrees l recov-
cred the Use of speech and motion and
as soon as they were so lar restored as t,
enable ME to call out and move my limbs
it wore insensibly away.-Fraze,
Monthly.
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BLIND NED.

Who is dat 'ar APPLYING? shucks! I wish I wusn'
Bat whea de Lord he TUX my eyfs, he left my yeahs
Is dat you, Mahs'r Bob? / fought I~1eco'nized
said Ssnowed twas yer soon's I heered de fiddle
g0in'.
1 feel like l could make de fiddle talk dis afternoon
Now, don't you see dat counters jes' a leetle bit toe
Well, nebber mini guess you'll learn to tune her
by-an-by.
YOu's jes' like all musicianers dat learns to play by
You amt got music in you, SO you has to has it
wrote;
Now dat amt science-why de debbil don't you play
For OATS de onlies' kind OBJ music fttin' fer to heah.
Do you 'spose when David was pfckin' on de harp,
He ebber knowed de difference atwixt a fiat an a
sharp?
But any tune you called for, he could pick it all de
same,
Fer David knowed de music, dough he didd't know
de name.
an quick?
Well, sab, jes' pay attention, an I'll go you "Cap'n
Dick.'
Yah! yah, young Mahs'r, don't you feel ies' like
you want to pat?
You hab to practice for awhile afore you ekals dat!
Dere amt nobody round dis place kin play wild
Uncle Ned
Dey isn't got it in DER fingers, neider in DER head;
Dat fiddler Bill deY talks about-1 heerd him play
an declar' it SOU nded like a fox among de geese.
A vioIeen is like an 'ooman, mighty hard to guide;
An mighty hard to keep in order arter once it's
q buyed:
Dere's always some6n' bout it out OBJ keller more
or lest,
An faint de fanciest looking ones dat always duz
de best.
Dis vera a splen'id iRs'ment-I spec it coss a heap;
You rally ought to let me hab dis fiddle for to keep;
1t amt no use to you, sab, for widout it's in de
man,
He KANT get music out dc finest fiddle in de lam
It 'quires a power OBJ science for to fiddle, sab, you
se0,
An science comes by nature; dat's de way it is wild
But, Lord! dat Bill ! it muses. me to hear him talkin'
big!
You nebber heerd a braggln' fiddler play a decent
jig!
Dat Bill, he's a caution, sab! 1 wonder Low whar
An oder folks l know of-yes, I wonder vhar deyu
In nebben, when de music's playin', an de angels
shout;
If Bill should jine de chorus, dey would hab to put
him out.
Well, ~good-by, Mahs'r Bob, sab, when you's muffin
else to do,
Jes' send for dis ole darkey, an he'll come an play
for you.
d1n't give up your practisin'-you's only seb-
enteen,
An maybe when you's ole as me you'll play de
Violeen.
-AgpEetons' Journal.
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DIR. LIE MOVIES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

An account ohea trip to Washington
would lack completeness without a ref
erence to DR.. LIE Moyne and his or ma
ton furnace. The doctor taAes great
pleasure in exhibiting the furnace to all
who have the slightest interest in it, and
explaining its modus Qperandi TO all
corners. The old gentleman was in high
feather the other day when adelegation of
citizens from Wheeling called to examine
the crematory, and on Monday he ac-
companied several Of the members of the
United States circus, then showing in
the town, to the furnace, and edited and
instructed them with a scientific dis
course, in which the advantage of incin-
Grafton over burial were fully set forth.
The crematory looks exactly like a coun-
try school house closed for the summer
vacation, and has presented this deserted
look ever since the burning Of De Palm.
Meanwhile DR.. LIE Moyne lives on in
cheerful anticipation of the day of his
own roasting, which, whether it come
soon or late, will probably be the next
cremation performed at the furnace. 1t
is stated that DR.. LIE Moyne is very zeal
Gus in getting proselytes to his theory,
and that he is very determined that all
of his children shall folI,w his example
and be burned. To make sure of this
result it is given out that the doctor has
made a provision in his will that all the
devisees shall stipulate to be burned be-
fore getting their legacies.
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Mrs. Ounces advises young men Il

Mrs. ounces advises young men 10
Eaarry the women they love, and to love
women not cause they are han'sum or
know how to play the pianer, but be-
cause they can cook, an air satisfied to
eat a plain dinner and hev an idee of
religion and the valy of truth.
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THE streets in front of employment
offices in San Francisco are 80 obstructed
with men seeking work that business
firms lately petitioned the chief Of police
to keep o passage clear.
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CADET FL1PPER, the colored graduate
at West Point, stands sixty-third in a
class of sixty-seven. And a white boy,
the son of an eminent general, too, stands
only second.
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GEN. GRANT will not be the first
American to receive the freedom of the
city of London in a gold box. Mr..
George Peabody received it for his SER
vices to England, and TO London par
ticularlY.
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3 IT is reported in London that Sir Will
liam Vermont arcourt, after the close of
the session of parliament, will proceed
to the United States to prepare the
biography of his father-in-law-the late
John Lathrop Motley.
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JAMES Fl. BEALL, a st. Louis lawyer,
has been debarred by the circuit court of
that city for unprofessional conduct in
advertising to obtain divorce without
exposure.
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CURRENT

A BOY in Salem, Massachusetts,: died
last week from lockjaw, resulting from
the filling of a tooth.
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A GROVE of the great trees of the
Yosemite has just been explored. 1t is
of an altitude similar to that of the other
groves-six thousand feet. Instead,
however, of being only a cluster of forty
trees, it is a six-mile square collection Of
ten thousand. There are trees on it
estimated to be from one hundred to four
thousand years old.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-21

THE twenty-pound Emma mine shares
have been sold in London at one shilling
each.
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"A POOR, unfortunate tramp, weary
of life, John J. Wilson, 148 Washington
street, New York-two months in this
state-can not get employment" was
found on a slip of paper, together with a
bottle OF strychnine, on the dead body of
a man On the east bank of lake Merritt,
Oakland, California.