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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
How Was Christ Crucitled!


An admirable picture of the crucifix-
ion of Calvary has been exhibited for
criticism and correction before taking
it abroad. 1t is full size The cross
differs from all extant pictures. In
height it is but little taller than a man.
Midway is a projecting saddle, upon
which the person sits astride. Ireneus,
Justin, and Tertullian so describe it.
Modern artists have omitted this, but it
is obvious that the outstretched arms
could not MAINTAIN, nor could the nailed
hands have supported, the body as
usually represented. All historians say
the legs were tied to the cross, and after
ward spikes were driven through the
feet, as through the hands. There is no
mention of a foot rest, but the artist has
supplied one because the feet cannot be
spiked without. The inscription on the
cross, affixed to the top is purposely and
ingeniously illegible, because each of
the four gospels have it differently.
There being no record ofpersonal appear
ance, every one is at liberty to draw on
his own imagination. Here the artist
exhibits consummate skill. A more
spiritual countenance we neversaw. The
head is reclined, as expiring The hair
is auburn, long and in ringlets, The
person is spare and of short stature. At
the foot of the cross are only the execu-
TONERS of the law. No one is repre7
sented as piercing the side with spear
Nor are any connections, as Mary and
John, present, this being direct contra
diction of the three synoptc gospels 1t
is usual to show blood flowing from the
wounds in the hand and feet. This is
omitted, because history tells us that
wrought iron, being our best styptic,
instantly stops the flow of blood. It is
popularity supposed that the sacrifice
consisted in the flow of blood. Paul
makes this indispensable. Yet it is n
mistake. A slight cut on a school-boy's
finger sheds more blood. Death results
from exhaustion, not from bleeding.
There are several marginal pictures
illustrating various miracles and other
scriptural stories. Perhaps the most
striking, and certainly the most artistic,
represents Jesus escorted to the place
of execution by low multitude exulting
in his fate. The central figure isclothed
in scarlet, according to Matthew, in
preference to purple, which Mark and
John say were the color And the man
of Nazareth walks majestically as to a
voluntary sacrifice 1t is usual, and al
most indispensable to public taste, to
show him bearing his cross and bowed
down beneath the burden, according to
John. But the artist, following the three
synoptie gospels, which deny Johns
story, shows Simon carrying the cross,
a stout plebeian, who walksupright with
it. The artist considers it one great
merit of his painting over others, that it
is true to history, according to the plain
est and most consistent non-sectarian
Interpretation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
GERMAN DISCIPLINE.

The brilliant successes which have of
late years been gained by the Germans
are, it is now generally recognized,
mainly to be attributed to the careful
provision with which the organization of
each of the separate parts which, when
united, form an army, has been perfected
beforehand. Every detail is arranged
during the years of peace; nothing has
to be improved in haste at the moment
when it is wanted. The invitation, there
fore, which has been recently sent to all
the ianmedical practitionersinBerlin
can only be regarded asa part of the gen
eral system. Every doctor and surgeon,
namely, residing in the German capital
has been requested through the police to
inform the authorities on the following
points. He is TO state, in the first place,
whether, in the event of his country be-
coming involved in war, he will be pre-
pared to serve during the whole cam
paign, or during any period of it of less
duration than six weeks, in the field hos
pitfalls of the active army; secondly,
whether, if he is willing to undertake
this duty, he will consent to serve in the
reserve hospitals not situatedin the town
in which he resides; or, thirdly, whether
he will be disposed to render medical
service in reserve hospitals in his place
of residence. In the event of his de-
claring himself willing to serve in any
of these ways, the authorities undertake
to consider, as far as possible, any wish
he may express as to the place in which
he would prefer to be employed
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
ENGLAND, whose Field Marshals had

ENGLAND, whose Field Marshals had
been reduced by death to the Duke of
Cambridge and the Prince of Wales, has
now three new Field Marshals. They
are General Sir William Rowan, an
Irishman, eighty-three years of age !;
General Sir Charles York, eighty-seven
years; and Hugh Rose, Lord Strathnaim,
who is only seventy-four, and was distin-
guished as commander of the forces in
Central India, during the mutiny. He
was raised to the Peerage in 1866, in re-
ward chiefly for his Indian services.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

THERE are fourteen thousand four
hundred and forty-one persons in Eng
land members of the Society of Friezds.
Last year they numbered fourteen
thousand two hundred and ffty-three,
so that they have slightly increased of
late. OF ninety-fve members who mar
ried last year, forty-nine were united to
persons not belonging to their society
and these mixed marriages are probably
not favorable to the perpetuation Of
Quakerdom. There is one fact respect
ing Quakers, namely, that they are
iong-lived race. The rate of mortality
among them is remarkably low--only
eighteen in one thousand for the past
year.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

THE Secretary of the Treasury has al
lowed the claim of the Centennial Board
of Finance for twenty thousand dollars,
which they had advanced to pay salaries
of special customs officers in the early
days of the exhibition Some other
trifiing matters were settled, and the bal
ance of thirty thousand dollars was paid
over, and John Welsh, President, re-
ceived a receipt in full from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury for the 81, 500, 900.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
observation-disclosures of Rustchuk is sud

THE bombardment of Rustchuk is sud
denly found to involve great variety of
points in international law. The Porte
protests against the destruction of Otto
man merchant vessels, the English COM
plain that their consulate was not re-
spected, while, the. Consuls themselves,
of all nationalities, are raising an out
cry against the perforation of their resi-
dences with Russian shells. But still
the sport goes on. Esftf. 4'7at
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

THE first submarine cable was that
laid across the Strait of Dover twenty
seven years ago. 1t parted next day,
and the first working cable was la in
1851 on the same route. The net work
of cables has now extended so far that
when Asia is united to America by cab
ling the Pacific the electric girdle around
the world will be complete from east to
west, as it now is between north and
south. .r tt46a
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

AS an instance of the scarcity of
money in the Turkish Treasury it may
be noted that for some time it has been
the method of the government to pay it's
custom-house officials with portions of
the goods seized. Thus some luckless
officer would find himself the owner of
a bunch of cigars, a sewing machine,
some Manchester prints, several gallons
of American lamp oil, which, having no
use for, himself, hewould be compelled
to dispose of for what he could get
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

The bad condition of Roumanian rail
roads recently used for the transporter
ton of the Muscovite army has renewed
the ire of the Russians against the
builder Of the railroads, the famous
DIR. Strousberg. A dispatch says that
the Moscow Court has ordered the i'm
mediate execution of the sentence
against him, and he is about to be re-
moved to the debtors prison instead of
as hitherto being permitted to remain
under arrest in his own house.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

AN eminent Russian physician, Dr.
Bourganoff, has discovered use for the
cockroach. Upon manipulating the in
sect with suitable chemical reagents, the
doctor has succeeded in extracting anew
substance, which he proposes to add to
the resources of the pharmaceutist. 1t
is to be used in dropsy. The grass-hop-
per, the potato-bug and the mosquito
should now be manipulated
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

A NEW cause for disappointment in
railway dividends was reported at meet
ing of the shareholders of the Buenos
Ayres Great Southern Railway Com
pany recently held in London. An ex-
tension of the line had failed to fulfill
the expections which had fastened its
construction, mainly because five thous-
and tame Indians had swept the camps
beyond the Azul of about one hundred
and fifty thousand d.of cattle shortly
before the opening of the extension, and
thus interfered with the proper devel.
opment of business. as 4AAm
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

IT isgxeatly to the credit of the French
people mat their rage for equality has
never caused them to run into personal
extravaganza. A French peasant does
not try to dress like lady but is con-
tent with apparel suitable for her purse
and plight. In this country the maid
must have silk dresses because her mis-
tress has, and thus the money which
would in France go to the savings bank
goes to enrich the thrifty French.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

IT is told of the accident to the steamer
Dean Richmond, that while the female
passengers evinced but little alarin, and
none were demonstrative, it was very
different with many of the men. Some
were running to and fro in frantic ex-
element, others began to pray with We
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

The employment of convict labor in
Maryland has stirred up the manu-
facturers and workmen of Baltimore to
remonstrance, and the chances are that
the question of employment or non-em-
ployment will be made an issue at the
next election. According to statement
before recentmeetingof manufacturers
five hundred convicts in the Maryland
Penitentiary make twepty-three hun
bred pairs of shoes per week,
at cost of 81, 200, and that the same
number of shoes made outside would
cost $3.50 7 "
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

THE surmise that many OF the persons
run over by railroad trains have been
previously murdered is usually not sus-
ceptible of proof. An engineer on the
Louisville and Chicago Railroad, how
ever, applied the brakes so promptly that
the body he saw ahead on the track was
not struck. 1t was found that the man
had been robbed, almost killed, and
then placed where a train would be
likely to obliterate all evidence of the
crime.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

hemence, and not few sought to monop-
Ollie the life preservers. One coward
provided himself not less than three
one under his arms, one at his waist,
and the last one on his legs. Had he
got into the water he would and ought
to have been drowned.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
The position of Austria in the present

Pfesent
struggle is one, of extreme delicacy.
With war in progress along large ex-
tent of her frontier, and disafected
population within her own boundaries,
there is abundantreason formoying with
caution. The Lower House of the Hun
garian Diet has been informed that the
government would not occupy Servia or
mobilize the troops, but that no conquest
of neighboring territory would be al
lowed. This announcement ought tc
calm the warlike spirit of Prince Milanl
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14
VOLUME III.
EDITORIAL OLI0.

PROCEEDINGS are to be taken against
several persons who have lately been
fighting duels near Paris. The seconds,
as well as the principals, will be prose-
cuted for infringement of the law
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

WHAT a man calls his hard luck is
frequently looked upon as laziness by his
neighbors.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

Tom THUMB got mad because staring
crowd followed him into a Carson bar
ber-shop, and he offered to fight any one
of them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-14

The crow cant fly tthe rate of twenty
five miles an hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21
EOLIIIGdL.

The seven democrats on the tribunal voted for
Tilden, but they were not partisans.-NeC York
Herald.
Robert T. Lincoln, son of the lamented Pres-
dent, has been appointed railroad commissioner by
the Governor Of Illinois.
1t Is stated by excellent democratic authority
that messenger is dispatched every night to New
York TO convey TO Gov. Tiden the confidential
communications OF Mr.. Hewitt, Col. Pelton, and
other leading democrats on the progress Of the
case before the Commits sion and the general situa
ton, and 10 bring back his suggestions. The
Waiting Candidate, it is said, distrusts the mails
and has lost all confidence in cipher dispatches.
The confession of Eph Holland relative to the
democratic frauds in Cincinnati accounts directly
for 500 fraudulent votes, enough to Dust Ban
Ming and nearly every democrat in office in the
county. He testifes that he was engaged as =
matter of business by Banning, Wallace, and other
democratic leaders to get votes by whatever means
were necessary, and he got them. Thousands of
dollars we're furnished him. and be discussed the
money among reporters from New York, Chicago
and Pittsburg.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

In regard to the decisions by the cleo
toral tribunal the Tribune says: The le-
gal claims set up by the democrats in
this contest have been at every point and
in every particular disowned and denied
by democrats hitherto. and rejected as a
basis of action. It is nothing more than
the naked truth 10 say that four months
ago the entire democratic party would
have accepted as indisputable the identi-
cal positions which the Commission has
now taken. In view of these facts, it is
not decent thing for democrats to de-
nounce the Tribunal for its course. Neither
is it credtable to the democratic mem
beers of the Comm ission that no one Of
them was found independent enough to
vote for the very same legal principles
which four months ago he would have ac-
copied without hesitation"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

The New York Herald advises the dem
ocrais that they are beaten and that the
result must be accepted by them in good
faith. 1t says The South sets its face
against filibustering or factious opposition
and counsels its democratic brethren to
give Hayes fair trial. That he will be
pretty generally accepted in the North is
evident from the fact that Of the 23l cleo
toral votes of all the Northern States Mr..
Hayes receives 166 and Mr.. 1'ilden only
65. Mr.. Hayes is the choice of eighteen
Northern States and Mr.. Tilden of only
four. If ihe democrats will rise above
the heated political atmosphere of Wash
ton and cast their eyes abroad over the
whole country they will look in vain for
any section of our great country that
will refuse to recognize Mr.. Hayes as the
lawful President of the United States"
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GENERAL NE us.

If any one asks these days, to borrow your ne VS.
paper, tell them it's lent.
Sir Walter Scots house in Edinburgh has just
been sold for less than $500 So much for the
power of associations in these prosaic days.
Among the correspondents of the Peabody Ac-
ademy of Science, Salem, is gentleman named
Christ, and II is curious coincidence that be lives
in Nazareth, Penn.
The vsket, the official journal of Constantine
rle, says Turkey has 500 900 regulars under arms
and will soon have $50, 900 more exclusive of
volunteers; also 500, 900 needle guns aud 300 900
others Of recent invention.
Martin, the famous French lion tanner, once
took young artist into the cage of particularly
fierce lion, and the two men calmly sat down
while the painter cut his pencil and sketched the
huge and restless animal. The artist, afterward
distinguished as the Belgian animal painter Yer
boeckhoven, never would sell that sketch.
A Washington correspondent abiding to the
late Admiral Alden. says "He was young look
ing man Of his age-6S years am told. Foi
many years he labored under heavy sorrow
His wife was an inmate of an insane asy lun. She
died a week before her husband and many sup
pose that the news Of her death, with all the sad
recollecti0ns of the past, brought Oh the attack
from which he died"
Gilbert Stuart, the painter was one Of the most
sbssnt-minded of men. He once painted picture
for Mr.. Hare Of Philadelphia. This gentleman,
on i.s completion, made the requisite payment to
Stuart, who at once said Excuse me, this pict-
ure has been paid for" Mr.. Hare of course per-
sisted in paying the amount due, the painter all
the while protesting. lie inherited this pecuisri-
~. Once upon time mis- father, jogging along
{, church with his wife on pion behind him,
LIST in revery, dropped her on the road. lie
. ION became aware Of her absence, however. and
turning suddenly rode back, exclaiming, Goods.
ny-life, are you hurt r. There she sat. enjoying
her anticipation Of his surprise when he should
discover her plight
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

In the democratic dictionary "rising
above party" means to vote Tor Tilden.
That's why Clifford and Field are eulo-
gized by the democrats Tor their unparti.
IAN votes. 1t is surprising what unanim-
ity there is among democrats on this
point.
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n day at home. Agents wanted. OUTFIT dan
mar3-t&wly
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

1t Is not worth while TO take stock IN
the Cabinets being constructed for Gov
Hayes by officious newspaper correspond
ents aud gossips. The story will be told
soon after the 4th of March
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21
For the Journal
For the Journal
Gov. Packard and Democratic
Threats.

Does the Boston Post desire to be understood
as endorsing assassination What other conc lu-
sion can be drawn from the item it contained Sat-
urdsy morning, Feb. 18th; The leading demo-
cratic organ Of New England taking such ground
what would you expect of the people it leads ?
We knew Governor Packard when gallant off
Ger In a Maine regiment. We have met him in
New Orleans since the war, and have no hesita-
ton in saying, that he posses more patriotism,
more of real merit in everything going to make
up good society and good government, in his little
finger, than can be found in all the people con-
nected in any shape or form with the Post. This
paper and many others, will never live long
enough TO outgrow the We nom engendered by the
overthrow Of their associates and sympathi zers in
treason.
Sixteen years ago, legally elected President,
was obliged to go to Washington in disguise. on
account of the democratic plot to kill him. They
brought on civil war in the interest of trail
tors, slew half million of people, and then killed
Mr.. Lincoln; and now after all this, after sixteen
years, we are again put to the humiliation of be-
ing obliged to guard the President elect on his
way to the capital, from threatened assassination
by a democratic conspiracy! There is not the
slightest question to-day. but that the attack upon
Gov. Packard, which the Post sanctions, was but
part of a plan whereby Governor Hayes was
also to be killed.
Shame, shame, that any paper or any party, or
any people can be found mean enough for such
infamy.
Gov. Packard, as we have said, was a brave
soliier of Maine during the war, is gentleman in
every particular, and we, having also been SOL
der of Maine, call upon every man who was in
the army from this State as well as the numerous
friends and relatives of Packard, now living in
Maine, where he was born and bred to resent THIS
cowardly, infamous attack. There may he speci
mems Of humanity whom it would be a waste Of
powder to kill, but they are not of the Packard
stamp, but rather his trsducers, a more appropri-
ated mode OF destroying whom would be at the
end Of rope.
We have had about enough of these democratic
threats, and if the legal authority can't stop them,
then the great American light of self protection
is left for use. ia. III.
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The Portland Argus is among the
mourners. The bright hopes with which
it hailed the passage OF the bill establish
ing the electoral commission have utterly
faded out. It's all on account OF the OBJ
siinate republicans who wouldn't rise
above party Pity they couldn't have risen
above party like the seven democrats who
voted straight for I lden every tire!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

Cuts, bruises and burns, are cleansed and healed
by the Forest Tar Salve"-sure.
ftb2l-t&wlw.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

The St. Louis Republican counsels its
democratic friends TO stick TO their agree
ment to abide by the decision. and Tor
consolation tells them that there will be
no more compromises on political ques-
lions in this country. A presidential dis
pute will never again be submitted to ar
bitration." Is this consolation or sar-
casmp
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SHE RIFFS SALE.

kENNEBEC ss.-Taken on execution, and will
be sold by public auction, on saturday, the Tenth
0th) day of March, A. ID. 1871 at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon at the Office of Baker II Baker. in Angus
ia, in said county, all the right in equity which
George A. Snow of Newark, in the State of New
Jersey, has or had on the seventh day of Febru.
airy, A. D. 1876 at tour O'Clock in the afternoon be-
Ing the time the same was attached on the orr gnal
writ, to redeem the following described real estate
situated in vassalboro', in said county, TO wit: A
certain tract or piece of land situated IN Nassal.
boro' aoresa , being part of lot No g. in the fourth
range OF lots in said Vassalboro' bounded as fol
lows -begnning at the south side of the road lie adj
ing from the twelve mile pond to the kennebec rv.
err in Nassalboro, and AT the northwest corner OF
land formerly occupied by widow Macy: thence
southerly seven rods and about thirteen feet
thence westerly parallel with the road five and one
half rods; thence norihery seven rods and about
thirteen feet to the south side of the road; thence
easterly five and one half DDS to the first enion.
ed bounds, containing forty three square rods
more or less, together " in the building, thereon
standing.
The above premises being subject to MOI tgage
recorded in he kennebec Registry of De Dis, Ii 1ok
24j, page 25G, given by alvin Il. Snow to Mehta.
BILE q. Bishop of Nassalboro', to secure the pay.
ment OF three hundred and fifty dollars PAYABLE in
the manner following in fifty or one hundred pay
ments, on before the 18th day of September is73
being ten years from the date OF said mortgage
with interest annually. The amount now due on
said mortgage will be made known at the time and
place of said sale.
WIN. III. LIBBY, Sheriff.
February D. 1877. 3gy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-21

The house democrats take the dose very
reluctantly. 1t ought not TO be so I'M
pleasant TO take their own nostrums.