davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
District Court of the United States,
District of Maine.

In the maucf OF
George Washburn, In Bankruptcy.
Bankru, {, }
rNHIS is TO GIVE NOTICE that petition has
i been presented To the Court this twenty -ninLn
day OF August,is7o, b. q gorge Nashuurn of Water.
vile, IN said Di-tricf,a Bankrupt praying that he
may be decreea to have fui discharge from all his
debts provab under the Bankrupt Act, and upon
aiding id petition,
IT is ORDERED by the Court, that hearing be
had upon the same on the first Monday of Move o.
A. ID. 1877, before the Court in Portland in said
District, at ten o'clock A. NJ, and that notice
thereon be puOli he'd n the Dali, kennebec journal
an the Daily Port and Advertiser, new spapers
printed in said District, once week for turee
successive weeks, and once IN the Weekly hen
neDec journal, and W. ekly Portland Advertiser,
Inc last publicai to be ,hiy day at least before
the day oi hearing, and that all creditors who have
proved their debts, ana other persons in interest
may ap lear at said time and place and show
cause, If any they have, why the prayer OF said
petition should not be granted
WIN. p. PREBLE,
Clerk OF District Court for said District.
tseptlI Is kSS lWJl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
legaI ADVERTISEMENTS.
Noiiee by Letter TO Creditors that Bank.
rupl has PetitiDned Tor Discharge.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
In the matter of
Joseph II. Doliver, In Bankruptcy
Bankrupt
ut Portland, In said District, on the lo.h day OF
Sept, A. ID 1873.
DISTRICT oF MAINE, SIS.
SIR - fake n,tce that Petition has been filed
10 sal Court, By stph II. Do liver of Aug sta,
In said District, duty dccl ,red nkrupt, under
the statutes OF the Unt-d states reistng to Bank.
ruptcy. tor a discharge and certificate thereof,
from all his deb and other claims provab.e I'M
said statutes. and tn At the first Monday of No
vember next, at 10 clock, A NJ, Is assigned Tor
I he hearing of the same, when and where you may
attend and show cause, If any y u have, why the
prayer of said Pc. ition should not be grained.
WIN. r. PEBBLE,
septi2.t Sw3w CLERK of District Court
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
SPECIAL OFF RS FOR
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING,

We publsh book of III Pages 8 vo (no advertis.
ing) sivipg special A. RS for aiyerti Y all over
the country. Prices lower than ever fired be
cell OF IS cents ty pAUi NY ca. Pr ters
Warehouse and AID, erlisement agency lgl tul.
ton tire v. glatS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
Mem ADVERTISEMENTS.

90 Chrome Cards. (perfect beautes) with name
~ IOc. Quilt los. Turner Gard Co., Ashland.
Muss ssptll-Iw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
Ear DiseaSe s.
new RICH BLOOD!

Parsons PurxatiNe ~ Is make New KIrh Is god ,
and will completely change the b ODD IN the entire
system IN three nontns. Any person who W III
take pill each night rom | G. IL weeks may he
restored TO sound health II such a thing b. poss
BILE. sent bv mail Tor letter stamps. | :. JoHN-
SON 4 Co., Bangor, Me. s.'utiltw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18

u. 5. Marshal's Office.

PORTLAND, August q, 1878.
hlSTRlCT OF MAINE, oS.-fhis |. TO give no.
~ lice: That Oh he tweBi y-sixth day OF A ugust
"a. ID. 1919, warrant IN BANKRUPTCY Was issued
against tn Jolnt and several estate. OF FIsur
Brown aud AlonzU N. GsOdaiL, co-pattn, III under
abe name ana style oil Is, own Il GoUdwin, Ut " at.
erville, IN the County Ut kennebec. and state of
Maine, who have been adjddged Bankrupts, on
their own petition eli In toe ID stii;t Court, Tor
sald Dstrici. august cad A. ID 1875; that the pa,
ment OF any de u, aud delivery Vt any property
belonging 10 such babkTupts, 70 them or for .bei
lorbildes by ian that me ting OF The Creditors
ot said Bahkrupts, ~ prove tnuir debts, and 10
emo se one or more Assiguees OF their Est ,les MI
be held at Count vi Bankrut toy To be holden at
The c"urt House, in Augusia, IN eau County, be-
lore john W. May, k-gister. On the mn, teen III
day oi September, A. -. 1915, NJ 10 o'ciosk A. NJ.
Is. B. MURRAY
U. s. Marshal, as Messenger, for said District.
tSw-sep4,l
, 1878-03-15
CHINA.

A letter from Tientsin says: The tate
af the hundreds of thousands of Chinese
who are brought face to face with death
~ this terrible famine, has come to be a
problem too vast for this effete Govern
unent to grapple with. One may stand
appalled, at the proportions which the ia
nine has assumed. 1t Is estimated-and
apparently with fair degree of r.liabilty
that there are 10000 refugees at Tient-
>il now, aud still they come.
Ten or twelve soup kitchens and cake
shops, where millet Cruel, or steamed corn
bread Is served, have been opened in and
around Tientsin.
Over a thousand refugees from the ia
mine striker districts In the North have
met their death through the "sheIter'' in
yllIch they were assembled at Tientsin ac-
ridentally taking fire.
The cold on the coast and in Shanghai
has been usually severe during the last
week or two.
, 1878-03-15
A PROCLAMATION.
by the Governor of the Territory Of
Washington.

WHEREAS THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEM-
w bly, of the Territory of Washington, by
an act approved the 9th day of November, A:
ID. 1917, provided that special election should
be held in suid Territory, on the 9th day of
April, 1878, for the purpose of choosing dele
gates TO assemble Mt Walla Wala, in said Ter
ritory, on the eleventh day Of June, A. DE-,
IS7S TO frame State Constitution; and
= WHEREAS, ii Is further provided in said
act that delegates to said Convention shall be
elected in the Territory ut large and in dis
tricts as follows
Three Delegates in the Territory at large.
One Delegate in the First Judicial District.
One Delegate in the Second Judicial District.
One Delegate in the Third Judicial District
One Delegate i'm the County of Walla Walla.
One Delegate in the County of King.
One Delegate in the Counties OF Thurston
and Lewis.
One Delegate in the Counties of Clark, Ska
mania, Klickitat and Yakima.
One Delegate in the Counties of Cowlitz, Pa
cifc and Wuh&iakum.
One Delegate in the Counties of Pierce, Che
halls and Mason.
One Delegate In Counties of Calam, Island,
Jefferson and San Juan.
One Delegate in the Counties of Kitsap, Sno-
homish and Whatcom.
One Delegate In the Counties of Columbia,
Stevens and Whitman; and
WHEREAS. 1t Is farther provided In said act,
that the Counties OF Idaho, Shoshone and Nez
Parce, in the Territory OF Idaho, may he re-
presented IN said Convention by one Delegate
VINO shall have the privilege OF the floor, but
shall not be entitled to vote:
Now, rHEREFoRE, ELISHA p. FERRY,
Governor of the Territory oil Washington, by
virtue of the power and authority In me
vested by said act, do hereby call special
election to be held in the several Counties In
this Territory on the 9th day of April n. ID.
1878, for he purpose of electing the herein
before mentioned. The said election to be
conducted and returns thereof made and
transmitted rs Is now provided by law IN
cases of general elections for Delegate TO Con.
gress, Prosecuting Attorney, and me 'bers or
the Legislative Council of the Territory. Ana
the said counties of Idaho, Shoshone, and Nez
Perce, In the Territory of Idaho, are requested
to elect the delegate to said Convention pro-
yiled for in said act, at such time and in such
manner rs may be deemed advisable by the
citizens of said counties. ,. .
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF,
.. have hercunto set my hand and
caused the Great Sea! of the Ter
rtory TO he ain xed at Olympia,
this 2Ith day of January, A. ID.
St one thousand Eight hundred
and Seyenty-eight.
ELISHA p. FERRY,
BY the Governor,
n. II. OwINGs,
Secretary OF the Territory.
, 1878-03-15

COLONEL NJ. d. Ball, Of Virginia,
"ho has just been nominated as Col.
iector of Customs for Alaska, was
ne OF Stuart's cavalry officers. The
'lrglnia papers are disposed to make
'erry over the appointment, saying
that since Colonel Brown, of Stat.
'rd and King George was appoint.
e Consul to Monrovia, on the coast
81 Africa, such All administrative out
we has nos been committed. -
) 'niladelphia "Times."
, 1878-03-15

FUTURE PUNISHIsHMENT.-Rey. J.
r. Thompson's lecture upon the
above subject, on Sunday afternoon
last was listened to with marked at
tcntion and deep interest. Mr..
Thompson's theological training and
his research has been most thorough;
and, as he is a man who THINKS, who
does not take abstract or dogmatic
statements and blindly adhere to
them, but who can always adduce
the whpretores for the faith which
is within," his ultimate views are
reached through common sense and
logical course of reasoning. The
main points made by him upon this
subject were, firstly, that the word
"everasting," as applied in the BIZ
bic to the punishment of the wicked,
could not possibly mean less than
duration without an end, though he
stated that the meaning Of this word
had been the subject of controversy
between opposers and upholders Of
orthodoxy; secondly, that in the bi
bic desert ption Of hell the language
used is tigurative and therefore not
subject to a literal rendering; third.
", that God does not send men into
eternal punishment against their will
any more than he takes them to
heaven against their will, but that
the punishment is the inevitable pen
atty Of wrong. doing, and bears to it
the relation of cause and effect, and
farther that the separation Of the
wicked from the righteous constitutes
punishment in and Of itself, though
it is by no means inconsistent with
Gods merci(ul nature as sinners
would be punished more severely by
taking them to heaven, where they
would he out of congenial society,
than by sending them to hell among
co workers in iniquity. While upon
a few minor points we do not fully
agree with our clerical friend, it can
not be denied that as supporter of
the liberal wing Of orthodoxy his ar
guments were ably set forth. His
many illustrations were of the most
happy and timely nature, particular
ly the one in regard to sinners tax
ing their own rhinestone through
eternity with them, the one subver-
siye of the final restoration" doc
trine and also touching the inclina.
ton of scoffers to manufacture men
of straw and then knock them down.
Regarding the last we may say the
views set forth are worthy OF sub
because tits quite com,
mon to SEE unbelIevers setting forth
and defining orthodoxy as THEY view
it, thus manufacturing man of
straw" and then las Mr.. Thompson
says) setting to and pummeling it
most numerically with inyective
and sarcasm, without any fear OF be-
ing struck back. Mr.. Thompson
acknowledged himself prejudiced in
favor of the doctrine of final restora-
ton because of its soothing nature,
but said that he could not attempt
to support it from a conscientious
reading of the scriptures.
The Dayton woolcn factory will be started
, 1878-03-15

'onstantinople contains three quarters OF
81 million Of inhabitants. The old East
rr Empire walls, tweuty-One miles in
,..cuit, still surround it.
, 1878-03-15

WE are told that L. b. Merry is out of
the " lntelligener" office.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-24
A SeRsonnbIe Hint.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin, reminding
its readers that the next few weeks give the
best season Of the year to "plant fences, sup
plies some very remarkable figures as to the
use of wire fence, and especially Of the Barb
Fence Of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company. Since the introduction of wire fence,
twenty years ago, one hundred and fifty thou
sand miles Of wire fence have been constructed.
The Barb Fence has been before the public
only three seasons, yet already t,oenty four
thousand miles Of this fence are in use in this
country and various parts Of the world. 1t is
in the highest favor with land owners, for
farm and home protection against depredators
of the crops aud orchards. The fence is con-
structed Of Galvanized Steel Wire, and carries
steel barbs firmly attached by the process of
manufacture patented in this country and very
widely abroad. The Barb Fence is literally
steel thorn hedge with all the defensive
qualities of the most perfect hedge, and all the
durability Of galvanized steel wire. 1t is cheap
as material, easy in construction, and has
almost the life and tenacity Of a stone wall.
The Barb Fence wire is being extensively used
in single strands to perfect and give efficiency
to walls and fences Of old construction. 1t
will turn the breachiest steer, and is as useful
in the home Enclosures as in the outlying
ialda
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-24
HFOr Better or for WOrse,o

Husband and wife were they. Chil.
dren at home called them "papa" and
"mama." They were still at the ante
meridian side of life, but the man at
deaths door, so to speak. His face was
of ashen hue, his lips purple and his
eyes looked like far distant stars reflect
ing in pool of stagnant water. His
brow was clammy, his hair dank, his
low. His hands nervously turned over
and "fiddled" with an old army dis
charge and some pension papers while
he gazed at the court with smile that
was more distressing to see than frown.
Pain, anger, despair and breaking
heart lurked in it's corners.
"What do want me to do with your
husband, Mrs. Bradleya" asked Judge
Otterbourg.
"To send him to some hospital or
asylum p rejoined the wife, trim and
neat beside the sinking man.
DO you want to go, Mr.. Bradley ?"
asked the court.
"Nol no your honor want the
care and attention of the wife love and
the kisses of my little children, whom
they won't let Inc see |" replied the poor
fellow in wavering tones of mingled love
and sorrow.
elbows thisp Who are they p"
"My mother-in-law and my wife's
brother, judge. am pensioner, your
honor, and have always been a good
husband. Haven't 1, Brunner ?" ap-
pealed he to one of the clerks sitting
beside the Judge.
"Of their family relations I know
nothing, your honor" responded Brun-
ner, taking off his gold spectacles, "but
l have been acquainted with them q
long time"
"Yes, yes, Mr.. Brunner; you have
often heard my voice raised in the house
of the Lord, haven't you, sir p exclaim-
ed Bradley, clasping his poor, thin hands
fervently together.
Mr.. Brunner sat down with sigh.
"Oh, judgel" continued the sick
man, "I want my dear wife home with
me and my babies, my little Ones" He
broke down completely.
"Why, William p said the wife to
him aside. Then turning to the Judge,
she remarked: "The doctor says he
ought to be sent to the hospital"
"Where are you living and who is
the doctor2"
"With my mother; the doctors name
is Hatton."
"Why don't you keep away from you,
mother and brother if they make trouble
between you and your husband, who is
SO sick that he ought to be in bed now
instead of being here, where you have
summoned him He doesn't abuse you
No; he's almost bed-ridden, and he loves
you and his little Ones"
"Ohi yes yes My little ones,
judge nay little ones I" gasped the poor
fellow.
$50 home, madam, and treat him
right. BE needs your best care, and
I've no doubt deserves it. will moi
help any one to shut him up in a hospi
tai to please wife or mother-in-law."
The wife bowed and left the Jefferson
market court with her friends. Bradley
tottered feebly home alone. YorA
| Herald,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-24
The Dead Sea.


The Dead sea, writes correspondent,
is about forty miles long, and about
eight in width. On its north and west
shores is a pebbly and muddy beach,
without shell or trace Of living creature,
30 far as have observed; no vegetation
surrounds it, and for our usual MONDAY
lunch we could obtain no shade from
the sun. L had to use my umbrella, and
can now better understand Jonah's COM
plant over his withered gourd, and tho
beauty of the prophets figure" The
shadow OF great rock in weary land u
On its banks, near its junction with the
Jordan, are number of reeds, but they
we're perfectly withered and brittle,
probably, irrigated, however, by some
stray streams from that river at the
period OF its annual overflow. Altogeth-
er the scene was the widest and most
death-like of any 1 have ever seen, and
had an extremely depressing effect on
the spirits, for which, ne doubt, an un-
wonted atmosphere was Also to blame.
30 intense was the heat at this level
the lowest spot on the earth's surface
being 1900 feet under the level of the
Mediterranean sea, and more than 5000
under that of Jerusalem-that three of
our party who made tour of the world
said that they had never experienced
heat SO intolerable, not under the equa-
tor, nor yet on the Red sea voyage.
1t seems obvious that the Dead sea
water surface was, at no very distant
era, several hundred feet higher in
level. This fact, I think, incidentally
indicates the former fertility of Pales-
tine, because luxurious vegetation
would produce more rain, and conse-
quently a larger volume of water supply
by the Jordan and its tributaries than in
modern times. Some say a miasma
arises from the slime beds of the Dead
Sea, which induces depression of spirits
and excessive fatigue. This is possible,
but probably imagination has something
to do with the feeling. True it is, how
ever, that neither man nor living thing
tarries many hours in its vicinity, nor is
O boat seen on it's solitary waters, al
though from their high specific gravity
everything foatable swims on its sur
face with remarkable buoyancy. Even
the naval officer who undertook to sur
vey its boundaries and sound its depths
has done 80 very imperfectly, driven off,
if 1 remember Alright, by sickness.
The waters Of the Dead sea contain a
fourth part of solid matter, of which
one-half is common salt. 1t is said the
bottom or bed of the sea is asphalt, and
Jumps OF bitumen are frequently seen
on its shores, as are also fakes of sui.
phur. The scene of solitude is awful,
nor can I imagine any punishment more
severe than to be left here alone even
for single week. The valley of the
Dead sea is surely the most extraordin-
Ary feat of geography. Its waters have
been sounded, and found 1890 feet
deep, SO that its bottem is nearly mile
lower than jerusalem Ever filing and
without egress, yet it is never full-as-
suredly no unfit type of the "valley of
the shadow of DEATH" Bathing our
hands in its waters, a disagreeable feel
ing remained until we had afterward
washed them in the Jordan further on in
the afternoon.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-24

higher-that is to say, the emotions are
vivid and easily excited, although they
are shallow and evanescent. They thus
differ from those of most civilized men
in being more easily aroused and more
impetuous while they last, though leav-
ing behind them but little trace of
their occurrence.
AS regards the particular emotions
which occur among the higher animals,
/ can affirm from my own observations
that all the following give unmistaka-
BILE tokens OF their presence: Fear, af-
fection, passionateness, pugnacity,
jealousy, sympathy, pride reverence,
emulation, shame, hate, curiosity, re-
venge, cruelty, emotion Of the ludicrous,
and emotion of the beautiful. Now
this list includes nearly all the human
emotions except those which refer to re-
ligion and to the perception of the sub
lime. These, of course, are necessarily
absent in animals, because they depend
upon ideas OF too abstract nature to
be reached by the mind when aided bv
the logic of signs. .. ..
OF course the moral sense as it oc-
ours in ourselves involves ideas of high
upcufhCblOuy bO tuhb III dulIudlb Wo Cdu
only expect to meet with a moral sense
in very rudimentary form and, there
fore, even il it is true that no indica-
tions of such sense are to be met with
in animals, the fact would not establish
any difference in kind between animal
intelligence and human. But I am in
clined to believe that in highly-intelli-
gent, highly-sympathetic, and tolerably
well-treated animals, the germs of a
moral sense become apparent.
To give an instance, Skye terrier I
had was only once in his life known to
steal and on this occasion, when very
hungry, he took outlet from table
and carried it under sofa. / saw him
perform this act of larceny, but pre-.
tended not to have done 80, and for a
number of minutes he remained under
the sofa with his feelings of hunger
struggling against his feelings of duty.
At last the latter triumphed, for he
brought the stolen outlet and laid it at
my feet. Immediately after doing so
he ran under the sofa, and from this re-
treat no coaxing could draw him. When
I patted his head he turned away his
face in a ludicrously conscience-stricken
manner,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-24
An American on Bismarck.

Col. Forney says Bismarck is a most
fascinating person. Few can escape the
magnetism of his manner and his con.
versation. In his own house he yields
INCREASINGLY to domestic influences.
But he is eminently public character.
Never conspicuous in the streets, for
obvious reasons, and less so now than
ever, he dominates the whole empire.
He hates praise, and resents censure.
He is law unto himself and others.
While the great European congress,
called by himself, sat in Berlin, he was
its master and its president. He asked
little for Germany, but he parcelled out
the spoils to others; something like Lear
giving to his daughters his own king
dom, and keeping nothing for himself;
but with the great difference that Bis.
marck gave what did not belong to him,
and could always remind his guests that
he had saved them from war, and that
he was strong enough to keep the peace
between them. He SO became the ar
bitter of Europe, as he is to-day tho
dictator of Germany. All German par
ties admit that he has rendered incredi-
BILE service to the country; but nobody
knows it better than himself. He is a
tatalist-and naturally asserts by his
acts, if not by his words, his supreme
infallibility. But he does not try 10 be
cautious in his language. He is candor
itself-often to the verge of insolence;
and there is hardly day that he does
not speak scornfully of some of the
characters in the recent European con-
gress, and of living and dead European
statesmen. Such man might have
figured in the feudal era. He is the
anachronism of this age of progress.
Acted on. the stage twenty years ago, he
would have been regarded as another
Charles the Bold or Duke of Alva. As
real person, it is simple question Of
time, unless be moderates his policy,
whether he will fall by the bullet or the
poison bowl. He is the man of destiny,
and evidently accepts his mission and
knows his danger.