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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-13
AUGUSTA POST OFFICE.

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Jan. |. 1878.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-13
9aily Seunsbse scurnal,

Issued every morning, except Sundays. 1t con.
AIMS the latest news by telegraph and mail gives
reports OF the Markets, and mas Carefully prepared
political and local articles, and generous amount
OF farming, home and miscellaneous reading with
iull compilation oil State news
Terms, 81 per amman in ddpd ac. . A. If pay,nenl
. not made within the year. Single copies scents,
20 De had al the bookstores and at TINS Office.
Advertisements inserted On reasonable terms
Rates may be had on application at this otice
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
The Last Chinese Porcelain.

Edward King writes in the Boston
Journal: Three centuries suthced TO
complete the ruin of Chinese porcelain
making: The workmeu were appar:'
entity paralyzed. Their arms lost their
cunning; secrets of salor disappeared
There is god of porcelains in China;
he must feel sad at times. This god
was poor workman in dim ages past,
but workman of signal talent, and
every year he brought forth some
beautiful work which won him renown.
But lust as he was at the height of his
his glory he became so enruged or was
50 filled with despair, because an expert
mept which be was making in the burn
ing of two vases seemed certain to tali'
that he threw himself headlong into
his own furnace, and he and his talent
were speedily lost to the world. His
friend. however, brought the story to
the ears of the emperor. That poten
tate expressed his profound grief' bu'
at the same time, having an eye tc
business, told the friends to rake out the
furnace and see if the unhappy artist:
experiment had really been unsuccess'
full. 10 and behold when this wal
done there appeared two vases Of sucf ~
lustrous beauty that all concluded tina
success had crowned the workman
efforts, and the sorrowing empero
capopized the dead man, ond built hin
noble temple.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
aForty'in a. Duel.

The famous duel in which forty or
more gentlemen were engaged in 1928
is still remembered 10, Natcbez. Col.
James Bowie, the famous fighter and
inventor of the knife which bears his
name, used to spend great deal of his
time in that city. He was challenged
bya gentleman from Alexandria, La. {,
whose friends, to the number of, forty
or more, accompanied him to Natchez to
see fair play, knowing that Bowie was
a desperate man and had his own friends
about him. All parties weit.upon the
field. The combatants took their
places in the centre, separated from
their friends in tho rear, or enough not
to cndanger them with their balls.
Behold the battle array thus: Twenty
armed Louisianians fifty yards behind
their champion and his seconds and
surgeon, and opposite them, as for be-
hind Bowie and his seconds and
surgeon, twenty armed Mississippians'
Behold the heights Of Natches throng-
ed with spectators and steamer in the
river rounded to, its deck black with
passengers watching with deep interest
the scene. The plan of fight was to
exchange shots twice with pistols and
to close with knives, Bowie being
armed with his own terrible weapon.
At the first fire both parties escaped.
At the second the Louisianian was too
quick, and took advantage of Bowie,
who waited the word. At this Bowie's
second cried "foul play" and shot the
Louisianian dead. The second Of the
latter instantly killed the slayer Of his
principal. Bowie drove his knife into
this man The surgeons now crossed
blades, while, with loud cries, came on
the two parties of friends, the light of
battle in their eyes. In moment the
whole number was engaged in fearless
conflict. Dirks. pistols and knives
were used with fatal effect until one
party drove the other from the field. l
do not know how many were killed
and wonded 10 all, but it was dread
full slaughter. Bowie fought like
lion, but fell covered with wounds. For
months he fingered at the Mason
House before he fully recovered.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
TWO Snakes Kill q Raccoon.

A fishing party, on the banks Of Shoal
Greek, Jasper county, Missouri, heard
noise in the direction of which they
saw largo coon and two large black
snakes in deadly combat, the former get
ting the worst of the fight. One Of the
reptiles was coiled around the coon's
body, and whenever it attempted to use
its teeth the other snake struck at its
eyes. 1t attempted to retreat, but the
snake which encircIed it dropped a coil,
and as quick as thought took "half
hitch" around small sapling. 1t tried
hard to pull loose, and while its ener-
gies were bent in that direction, the
other snake took a coil around the
coon's neck, and in q few minutes
chokcd the life out of it. The specta-
tors VINO had been dumb witnesses Of
the struggle, advanced and killed the
victors. One measured nine feet and
the other seven feet six inches.-S.
Louis Republican,
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
The saoredness Of Marriage.

For the man and woman who purely
and truly love each other, and areguid-
ed by the law of justice, marriage is
not state of bondage. Indeed, it is
only when they become, by this out.
ward acknowledgment, publicly avowed
lovers, that freedom is realized by them
in its full significance. Thereafter
they can be openly devoted to each 9TH
er's interests, and avowedly chosen and
intimate friends. Together they can
plan life's battles, and enter upon the
path of progress that ends not with life's
eventide. Together they can seek the
charmed avenues OF culture, and,
strengthened by each other, can brave
the worlds frown in the rugged but
heaven.lit path of reform. Home, with
all that is dearest in the sacred name,
in their peaceful and cherished retreat,
within whose sanctuary bloom the vir-
tues that make it temple Of beneh-
cence.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05

What plucky little State may do
againstapparently overwhelming odds
in country adapted for fdefense is
shown in the summing up by the
Deutsche Reeres-Zsitung, of the great
part played by the little State Of Mon
teuegro in the recert war. Her CAM
paign began on July .1st, 1876, aud
ended February lst; 1878. Thirty
thousand Montenegrins, Herzegovina
ians and Albanians fought against
25O,O0O Turks. The Montenegrins
were victors of twelve battles, ten
actions, seventeen larger and thirty-two
smaller encounters. In two smaller
fights Cat Bishina and A1amaliti) they
were beaten, while tn two others Cat
Goransko and Nozdren) they had to
retire before overwhelming numbers.
The Montenegrius took twenty-gve field
and mountain guns. 1O7 siege guns, an
army standard, ships flag, sixteen
flags of fortresses, liz battalion colors,
1900 horses, $4,000 rifles and 1851
prisoners. They captured three large
and twelve smaller fortresses, eighteen
forts, thirty-uine kules and block
houses, and ten redoubts. This bril-.
liant result was obtained with loss Of
1856 dead and 6,495 wounded. The
Turks lost in the Monteuegrin CAM
paign, besides the 10,67l prisoners
mentioned, 1850 dead, 42,44O
wounded, and about $4,000 victims to
disease, deserters and missing, as we'll
as $500 horses and mules, 10000
cattle, and four men.of-war.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
Just a. quick as farmer Jones pain

Just as quick as farmer Jones pain
ted his barbed wire fence blue, farmer
Smiths wife swore she wasn't going to
be outdone, and the fence around the
Smith farm soon blossomed out red,
picked with white. Mrs. Jones wasn't
going to have any of the Smith family
putting on airs over her, and their blue
fence was soon trimmed with gold leaf
stripes. Smith trumped over by put
ting gilt ball on every barb, and Jones
when last heard from, was planting
weather vanes, gilt horses, peacocks and
Iightning-rod tips all over his fence,
and swearing he'd beat tho Smith FAM
lily if he had to put cupola and a bay
window at every post and hang a chrome
every two feet along the line. We oil
should pay more attention to the decor
alton of our homes.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
He Preferred to Walk.

She's pretty hot, amt she p said a
backwoods passenger, addressing the
engineer of Mississippi steamer that
was racing with another boat.
$780,, responded the engineer, as
he hung an additional wrench on the
safety>valvo cord to stop the steam from
escaping.
Il reckon we'll over!ake that craft
soon,' pursued the passenger.
That's about it, returned the en-
cineer, giving the cords another twitch
and ballooiug through the trumpet to
the fireman to Shove her up
One hundred and ninetyshVe,
hummed the passenger, looking first at
the guage and then at the boilers.
That's about where she's rusticating,
put in the engineer.
Then the passenger ran his finger.
through his hair nervously, and walked
about the decks for a few minutes, when
he came back to the engineer and OBJ.
served:
Hadn't you better leave that boat
60 p
Cant do it. Must pass her,
But s'posin' We should blow up ?
.Wcll,' said the engineer, as ht
peeped over thh guard to see now tas'
he was gaining, 'if it's the will of Prov ',
idenco for this boat to blow up, wei
have to stand it. Then he hallooed tt
the fireman to roll up another cask o
bacon and to mix plenty of resin Will
the coal, and give her little more tur
pentine and oil. ,
The next moment there was splasl
| in the river. but before the yawl coui'
be lowered the man had succeeded II
reaching the shore, and ballooed out
"Go on with the race, I guess II
walk!
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
The Original Purchase Of New York:

The following is an exact translation
of the report of the original purchase of
the island of New York:
HIGH AND MIGHTY LoRDs.-Yes7s
terday arrived the ship The Arms q
Amsterdam. She sailed from the
River Mauritius (Hudson), in the New
Netherlands, % September. They
report that our folk there are prosper
Gus and live in p0ace; their women
have borne children there already.
They have purchased from the Indians
for the sum of sixty guilders (S24) the
island Manhattan, which is 1000
morgen (13,s2o acres) large. They
have already sowed grain by the middl.
of May and reaped by the middle of
August. Samples Of summer crops
have come, such as wheat, rye, barley,
oats, buckwheat, canary-seed, beans
and fax. L. SCHAeHEN.
Amsterdam, 5 November, 1926.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05

The singing swan is a native Of the
far, far North, where it is called the
"Whistling Swan" It's notes are me-
lodious, and as whole focEs of them e
sing while in flight, their high, wild,
yiol-like music is often heard at great
distances. 1t visits England and the
Scottish Islands during the cold winter
months, where it is shot and marketed
as game. These song swans are also
called "Hoopers," from the resemblance
of their nots to the cry OF "Hoop
hoop -
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
THE STARS.

sEEsa THE STARS.
When the night in starry glory
Stoops to kiss the placid stream,
Quiet thoughts of love come Ger me,
And live - in dream.
And the friends kindly cherish
Pass me by in slow review
Must the hearts fond portions perish
Can the heart itself renew
Ahfais sad .Bat, ike d river
Swelling sill, time tears away 3
Hopes sndloredsones; tcaasing never
Eth il bears ourseises away &
ThenI Iahinkdf those before me s s.
SConsin silence to their Sleep, 49,
Who are happy now, and DER me,
Sinful child, in sorrow weep.
And those stars, soul-like and sweeping,
In their robes Of silver light,
Name I friends departed, keeping
Vigils on ,he shores of night.
Then, % friend with friend embracing,
Il Heart 90 heart with them, hold
Soul-communion, as when gracing
Earth, they walked in days Of old.
She who faded in the dswning
Of her guileless sngelhood,
In her beauty's early morning.
Kindly constant, gently good!
Loved and lovely, then-in heaven
Still my warm affections star,
behold her-cherished even
By my heart in realms afar.
Unto men wondrens story = ]
with her cleaning eyes; she tells
Of the great, surprising glory
or the regions whore she dwslls.
Breaks the vision still, when scanning
Each bright. burning, radiant star, .
Wings unseen my cheeks are tanning,
Spirit-vsices call from far.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
Gene1 e. Twiggs' Swords:

Considerable newspaper comment is
just now being INDUCED in about the
proper ownership ofthe valuable swords
Of Gen. Twiggs which were captured by
Gen. Butler at New Orleans. The
claimants seem to be his daughter, Mrs.
Gen. Myers, a son, whose name or where
abours is not known, and Q lady sup
posed to be his neice. Mrs. Joseph Gin
della, of England, formerly Miss Row.
ena Florence, Of New Orleans.
On the approach of the Federal troops,
when Gen. Twiggs was compelled to leave
New Orleans, these valuable weapons
wore entrusted to q young Jewess, who
insisted on retaining them, but was fn-
ally forced by threats from General But
ler to deliver them up. 1t must beevi-
dent that the swords of right belong to
Gen. Twiggs' children, not because OF
their intrinsic value, which is estimated
all the way from 100000 to $4,000,
but as souvenirs and trophies of a bril-,
liant career and triumphant past, and
the tribute which an appreciative ma.
ton paid to the "hero of Monterey"
In the year 1916 Congress voted S2o,-
900 for the purchase or sword tor
Brigadier General David E. Twiggs, in
recoguition,'of his military achievements.
It is q remarkable fact that during a
military life of over forty years he was
off duty but six weeks. This should
be borne in mind by the gallant officers
of the present day, who spend their
summers at watering places and their
winters in q round of gayety and pleas
ure, with as little interest 10 their du-
ties as possible.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
BE Sure to Stop Mt the
Latham House,
CAMDEN, 8. G.
ITRAs ssrEsr BOARD, $2.00 PEE pAT.)

sR-Ampls accommodations. Tables sup
.S.5 18th the best the Markets afford. Eve
~ attention paid to the comfort Of Guests.
.< Persons stopping at the Lathsm
~. " i'll be conveyed to and from the
sn. house rHo. ,>f charge. Passengers, without
aePot iiee - ~ will be conveyed to and
from any part of ae .o"h' n0' A00''
Kalb street. at 25 cen. o hama. "a . frat
~Connected with tn. no,ots,y from
class Bar, which is located ST..
the house, and orderly kept. Ma on
b~C Conveyances supplied to gu.. ,se
liberal terms, either for city or country.
jane-1y B. LATHAM, Proprietor.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
DeKalb House,
BY A. S. RODGERS.
Most Centrally Located Hotel
in Town.
Terms $S Per Day.

Commercial Travellers will have every
attention paid to their comfort, and be fur
nished with SAMPLE ROOMS at this
House; and persons visiting Camden will
find it quiet and pleasant home.
Special rates made for parties travelling
together, and for those who wish to stay
week or more.
s67 In connection with the house is
6rst-class LIVERY STABLE, where horA'es
and vehicles can be had at all times fer
town or country use, at the most reasons
BILE rates. Conveyances to and from the
depot at every train. declou
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05

A bishop asked little child: my
little friend, tell me where God is and
1 will give you an orange MY Lord,
replied the child, tell me where he IS
not, and will give you two
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05

A philosopher who went to church
where tbs people came in late, said 1t
was the fashion for nobody to 60 till
everybody got there.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
All Kinds

OF Canned Goods. sof best quality, and
WARRANTED full weight, for sale by
SsIst KfRkLEY & s :JyH.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-05
ADVERTISING RATES.
Montenegro in the Late War.

rB- Transient advertisements must be accom-
panied with the cash to insure insertion.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-15
DOMESTIC.

RECEIPT OF THE NEW SILVER DOLLARS.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Ten thousand
now silver dollars were received at the
Treasury to-day, and about 5000 Of the
amount have been paid out in exchange for
gold.
The burden of the demand is from parties
wishing the new coiuags.for pocket pieces,
and the exchanges have been generally for
amounts ranging from 81 to 800. Many
applicants for new dollars presented green
backs for the exchange, not knowing that
silver dollars would be exchanged for gold
only, consequence Of which was the pur-
chase Of . considerable amount of gold
coin from banks in the vicinity of the
Treasury Department by persons ambitious
t. become possessed Of the new coinage
The majority of the applications were made
with greenbacks. 8s6s 1ss1 w
The Morning herald., 1878-03-15
MONTREAL TROUBLES.

SHOOTING A CATHOLIC IN THE STREETS.
A special from Montreal is as follows -
"A murderous attack was made upon
young man named David Carey, at an early
hour this morning, as he was proceeding
to his home in the east end, by two men
armed with revolvers, who fired number
Of shots at him, two taking effect, one un.
der the left eye and the other in the leg
above the knee. Carey'is member Of the
Irish Catholic Union, while bis ASSISTANTS
are said to belong to the Orange Society.
At the ante-mortem examination to-day,
the wounded man identified James Irwin, a
brassfoupdsr and Protestant, who Is un-
der arrest, as one Of the men who pursued
him this morning. Large crowds were as !,
sembled at the police court to-day during
the examination, and much excitement pre-.
walls. A movement is on foot to form vigi-
lance committees of citizens to patrol the
streets at night. A. the constituted authori-
tics are evidently unable to prevent unof-
Tending people being shot down by assas-
sins. A mounted police patrol is also de-
manded. There are now two men in hospi-
tai suffering from being shot, and two from
being stabbed'in party rists.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-15

Schoebein named the substance which he
discovered Ozone. from the Greek word
'.Ozein," signifying to smell He supposed
that 1t was Oxygen in an acti We aud highly
el' ctro-ncgaiv i've state. My obs rvations do
rot warrant t THESE conclusions. as SUBJ
stances (such as Chlorate of Potass4, etc J
that yield la'ge quantities Of OSygen give
but little Ozone, while others pIoducing
product httl" or no Oxygen yield large
quantities ofOzone. The most HI ghly ozon-
lied organic bodies are Cedar W ood, Pine
leaves. Blood, etc, etc tf the Mineral
Salts, Alum, Surphur Chloride of soda,
etc, may be mentioned asagents yielding
Ozone In abun lance. Ozone may be man.
=ufactured from all ozonized bodies BY
chemical affinity, the evolution of organic
matter and the rapid disintegration OF all
ozonized substances, either by means of
heat, electricity or other forms ,f force.
Ozone Is the antiseptic principle OF every
substance possessing the power to pres erve
animal and vegetable Structures from de
cay. The preservative and pu itv ~ quail
tiles Of Salt, Carbolic Acid, hlnride OF
Lime, Alcohol. e!c., are due to the presence
Of OzoLe.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-15
SHERIFF'S SALES.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue of a writ Of ais. Levari Facias
to me directed will be exposed to Public
Sale. at the Gilpin House, sept by George
Whitfield, in the city and hundred OF New
Castle, In New Castle County, DEL, on
FRIDAY, the 2eth day Of March. 1878, at 2
O'Clock, p. M,
The following desert bed Real Estate, viz:
All that certain tract OF land situate in
Pepcader Hundred, New Castle County.
state Of Delaware, bounded and desc ibed
as follows, to-wit: Beginning at stake
in the middle Of the New Castle and
land now or late of william T. Gi Airicks, Ks
thence by the lines separating this fron
other land now or late of William T. AL
rlcks the three following courses and dis.
tances thereof to-witE North thirty. nine
degrees west torty-one and fiye-tenths per.
ches to q stake in the middle of ditch
thence north forty and one-half degrees
east along the middle Of said ditch twenty
one perehes to stake nd north sixty four
degrees and half east six and tWo-tenths
perches to stake in q line Of land now OF
Iate Of J. A: Kendal. thence along 9 line of
grees east six perches to stake1n line of
land now or late of Joseph Moore, thence
along line OF said land south thirty five
degrees east thirty-rine and three-tenth tbs
perches to the middle;of the New Castle
AID thence thereby south fifty-two degrees
west twenty-six and four tenths perches
to the placs Of begi ming, containing With
in said bounds seven ACRES. two roods, and
twenty-five and forty-tbree hundredths
square perches Of land, be the same more
or less, with q one-aud -a- half story frame
house md kitchen attached, carriage house.
granary and barn thereon erected
Seized and taken in execution as the
property Of Conrad M. Whitaker, and to
be sold by .-.
ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sheriff Ofice, New Castle, March 18th
A. D. 1878