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Brig Mechanic, Maouev from Ballynass Nov 20 for
London, struck The bar when leaving port, but sub
sequently came off and proceeded. She arrived off
Sc1ley 30 inst full of water. The vessel halls from
Portland, but is owned by Capt Malohey and others
of st Andrews, NIB
Sch hyue Otis, from Gardiner. arrived at City
Island, NY, 9th with head o. foremost sprung and
will have new mast put in
ES See general news columns for other reports,
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METEORuLO.ICAI

INDICATIONS FOR THE NEXT TWRNTY-FoUR
HOURS.
WAR Dept, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNALl
OFFICER, Washington, Dc,
Dec. 5. I A. NIL
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Boston stock Market.
lSales of the Brokers' Board, Dec. y
First Call.

IS Eastern Railroad. 10
Portland. Saco & Portsmouth R. r. $50. - 81
Eastern Railroad (new bonds) ...........72i q 72a
Boston q Name Railroad. .............. - q 1884
Sales at Auction.
2Pepperell Manufacturing Co. ...............72
10
Bates Manufacturing Co, ia
$500 Wiscasset, Me-, IS, 1892 90
$1,000 Bston q Maine Railroad 6s, 1898. ......116l
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U0s " -
For New Garland

Gear weather. followed by increasing cloudi-
ness and rain or snow areas, variable winds,
shtftiDg to warmer south-sasterly, and falling
barometer
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Ar at Boston 7th barque Lizzie h jackson, Mar
wick, New York.
Ar at houen 9th inst, barQue Sarah Fraser Shep-
pard. New York.
SID I'm Bremen 9Th inst, barque Wild Hunter Mi
StTout, Nagasaki
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--latest by European steamers,

Cid at Rangoon Oct 10, Beatrice Havener, Dickey
Penang.
Sid FIN Genoa Nov %. viora Hopkins, Hopkins,
Rouen.
Sid FIN Antwerp Nov %. Susan Thurlow, Eaton
New York; Blanchard Meady, Rio Janero
Ar at London Nov 49, Levi Burgess. Starrett,
New York.
Passed Tuskar Nov II, Eta Whitmore, Wright,
from Troon for Cardenas
Ar at Adelaide Oct s. Chas Stewart Powers. from
New York.
Ar at Singapore Nov Is, Geo M Adams, Morrison,
Cardiff.
Passed Straits of Suuda Oct 12 Caprera, Hichborn,
FROM Cape Town. CGH. for orders.
Passed Deal Nov %, Yorktown Blair, from New
York foe London.
Norfolk.
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DEPARTURE OF sTRAmsaIp..

ozanHssre Alma .,..... December a.
sun rlses. =. ..."".7.2l High water. 1920 AM
Jun eees' ''.'...' AL MOON rises.-. Pm
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Sch Exact, Kimball, Boothbay.
SAILED-Ship Standard; barque j II Chadwick
zen 4 Bailey, Congress; and others.
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SP0K EN-.
Sept a. lat "a so s, Ion 63 80 W baroue Alice Reed
from New York for HoDouu So days out.
Oct 20, lat 81 N, ION 90 40 W. baTque Xenia Rey
nolds. from Liverpool tor Bombay.
Nov IA. lat 40 90. Ion 81, ship VIM McGyery, Nick
els. from Liverpool for Norfolk
Nov Il E OF Gibraltar, brig Mareny, Handy, from
Alexandria for New Haven.
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EUROPE.
An Ameritan Charged With Conspiracy
Against the Sultan.

CoNsrANTINorLE, Dec. IAN American
was arrested to-day on the charge of conspiring
against the Sultan. The American legation
immediately demanded his release. The
charges are serious, and it is believed that the
1paa --~''
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Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, Dec. THE following is the
Bank statement ending tn.dav.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
GREAT SLAUGHTER
Overcoats C listers


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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27

A young son of Charles Fritzer, of
Laporte, Ind, fell into a boiler OF scald-
ing water, and died from the effects in
few minutes.
AT Buchanan. Mich, child of Mr..
Simmons, aged five years, was choked
TO death by getting watermelon seed
10 lis windpipe.
p. w. Fauntleroy, prominent cit
izen and farmer of Essex County, Va,
was found dead in his orchard with a
load Of shot in his side from his own
gun.
A lad named Mack McCrystal was
fatally burned at Leavenworth. Kansas,
bv the explosion OF c.al-oil lamp,
caused by blowing down the chimney to
extinguish it.
William Beers, of Mishawaka, Ind,
farmer, aged about 20, endeavored to
pull a ramrod from loaded rifle, when
the weapon was discharged, blowing the
rod through his body and killing him in
an hour.
H. j. Bosworth, manager Of the
telegraph Mt Muscatine, Iowa, drank a
glass Of water from pail in which
some Of the boys had spilled a quantity
of blue vitriol. His life was saved by
the liberal use Of raw eggs.
A man named Anderson was out
hunting near Grayson, Ky, and at
tempted to draw his gun through .
fence. The hammer caught on a rail,
discharging the contents into his arm
and side, causing lockjaw, from which
he died in a few hours.
The boiler of threshing engine
exploded about nine miles north Of
Rochester, Ind, fatally scalding Louis
Strong, engineer, and seriously injuring
boy named Albert Highway. Several
others we're slightly injured. The cause
was defect in the boiler.
AT Winchester, Va, Mrs. Edwin
Lewis, a beautiful young widow, and
her two young children, were poisoned
by eating toad-stools, which they mis-
took for mushrooms. She had gathered
the supposed mushrooms for a fine din
ner for her pastor, who was expected
but was detained by railroad accident.
Her two children died in few hours,
and Mrs. Lewis was lying at the point
Of death.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27

The monotony of the travel from Buff
falo to New York was somewhat enliven-
ed on the Erie train, due here at half
past seven o'clock Thursday morning,
BY one Of the boldest robberies on rec
ord, which happened rs the train reach
ed CASTLE. An old gentleman, appa-
rcntly a resident Of CASTLE, stepped on
the train at Buffalo, and when il reached
his town, in passing through the car
door, a stranger brushed against him,
and hastily jumped from the train. AT
the same moment the old gentleman be-
came aware that his pocketbook con-
tanning $4,000 in bank notes had been
distracted from his person. He in
stantly raised cry, but another man,
apparently an accomplice of the thief,
exclaimed, "Just you wait, Ill catch
him for you" Thus deluded, the old
man allowed the robber to get good
start, and when the train moved on the
passengers who had been more or less
excited by the event, saw the thief skur-
rying through corntield, the old gen
tleman straddling the fence OF the same,
and the villagers kcenly watching both
On arriving at Hornellsville, the pas
scngers on the train we're informed by
telegraph that one Of the thieves had
been captured. No names were learn
ed.--N. \. Commercial Advertiser.
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The Deacon was so, prosperous
merchant, gray-haired and little bowed
with care, but still vigorous man, rails
ing a young family around him. To his
country store, which was q veritable
museum, if you came at 8 o'clock Of .
summer morning, or at in winter, you
heard the voice of prayer load and
strong and lasting sometimes half an
hour. The Deacon's house was connect
ed with the store, and after breakfast,
when family prayers were ordered, one
of the sons knelt in the passageway and
kept one eve on the open door Of the
store while he reverently closed the 9TH
er and shut business out of II that he
might let devotion in. It was . large
family circle, and there were young
children who, sometimes annoyed at the
protracted solemnity of the fathers
plea to the throne Of grace, would begin
to frolic, innocently enough no doubt,
and would now and then break into
laughter. At such times the Deacon
would continue his prayer unmoved,
but when he had concluded it, would
take the offender aside and sentence
him to punishment, which the mother
Immediately proceeded to inflict in an
adjoining room. Some wicked critics
say that deacons' sons "turn out
worse than sons Of other people; but
such was not the case in this deacon's
family. The punishments, probably,
did just the good they were expected to
do. The son stationed in the store pas
sageway was privileged to leave his
kneeling place and wait on customers,
and remember once to have had my
youthful gravity thoroughly disturbed
BY an incident which occurred one sum-
mer morning in the store at prayer-time.
The eye of the sentinel in the passage
saw the burly form Of an Irish woman
entering the doorway. He darted out
to receive demand for Goldfish, and
the remark, as the good woman wiped
her streaming red face and hardened
to the accents of prayer: Dear!
dear! the Deacon do be goin' 1t moighty
strong, and the Thermometer nointy in
the shade, tooi"--EdWdrd King, IN
Boston Journal.
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binary clock. II Is SO arranged that
when the hour hand Of the clock touches
q button an electric circuit Ia completed !;
the minute hand passes over the button
without effect There Is series Of
holes for the different hours. into any
one Of which the button can be pushed,
according to the time al which the
alarm may be desired. The completion
Of the electric circuit may ring bell or
sundry other alarms.
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school and Church.
Oakland, Cal, has a Chinese Pres
byterian Church with 20 members.
The Methodist Conference in
France, after a generation Of labor, has
20 churches.
Misses Stratton and Boyd, two
young lady evangelists, are carrying on
very successful camp-meeting, near
Pittsburg, Pa.
The " Spanish Christian Church =
is the name taken by the Protestants Of
Spain. The Church is Presbyterian,
having Presbytery at Madrid, where
the first assembly was held, and another
at Andalusia.
An African Methodist congregation
Of Norwalk, Conn, has been received
into the First Congregational Church OF
that town, and constituted mission
church. The congregation has become
weak and dissatisfied with the itin
erancy.
The $4,000 given anonymously to
Andoyer Theological Seminary will be
appropriated to the enlargement Of the
old chapel. Announcement is also made
Of pledge Of S25, 900 for the endow-
ment of chair of theology in Oberlin
by Massachusetts, lady.
An important experiment is being
tried in the Boston public schools, where
books have been excluded from the
primary departments, and oral exer-
cises and object-lessons substituted.
The young pupils are especially taught
to express ideas in their own language.
The teachers lecture, or talk, daily about
such knowledge as little children may
best acquire.
Two thousand delegates attended
the international Conference of Young
Mems Christian Associations in Geneva
August a. The United States, Canada,
Nova Scotia, Sweden, Denmark, all Of
Central Europe, and England were rep
resented. The whole number of Young
Mems Christian Associations in the
world was reported to be 1900; of this
total one-half are in America. The next
international Conference will be held in
London.
The widow and daughters OF the
late Prof. Agassiz, Mrs. Horace Mann,
Miss Z. p. Peabody, George b. Emer-
son and Others have been made trust
company at Boston to receive donations
and requests for the publication, among
other objects, Of standard library Of
the works Of Froebel and his chosen
apostle, Baroness Marenholz Bulow.
Over 81 900 has been received and spent
thus far in publishing two books, and
more money is asked for.
Prof. c. +. Thwing has collected
very valuable statistics Of the religious
life of American colleges, some Of which
are new One fact ofimportance named
is that leading UNCONVENTIONAL colleges
such as Amherst, Princeton, Oberlin
and Brown University-require no re-
ligious tests Of the members Of their
faculties of instruction. Practically the
majority Of professors in nearly all
American colleges are COMMITMENTS OF
Christian churches. As to the students,
nearly half Of the total number in the
United States-2O, 000-are reported as
decided Christians.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27

The Great Eastern, it is said, has
been bought by company for use as a
cattle boat 10 carry Texas meat TO
England. Her capacity will be 1900
head Of cattle and 5000 sheep.
-Sylvanus Morris, of Ellington,
Conn, is raising about $4,000 cabbages
for the city market. He claims that
the crop is fully as profitable as tobacco,
and less Of drain on the land.
The hair Of the deer, it has been
discovered, is five times lighter than
cork, and Government commission
reports that pound of hair will sup
port a weight Of 10 pounds for three
days. Within the last two years deers'
hair has been extensively used in the
construction Of life-preservers, cush-
ions, etc.
Emerson, Corville 4 Co., owners of
salmon-canning factory in Collins
vile, and reputed owners Of the can
merry at Sacramento Cal, which estab-
lishments have been for two months
putting up salmon for expectation, in
violation Of the law, have been arrested.
Over $4,000 seed-salmon, on their way
to the spawning grounds, are believed 10
have been destroyed by canneries since
Aug. /, and the State has thereby lost
not less than million of dollars.
East Liverpool, Ohio, has the larg-
est potteries devoted entirely to iron
stone china and decorated ware in Amer
lea. Firms that formerly gave employ
ment TO 60 and 20 hands now have work
for 200 and upward, and the whole num-
Der employed in the potteries Is now
over 1900 men, women and children.
The shipment Of crockery from that
place from January 1, 1873, to June 4
were 29,479 packages.
The Augusta (Ga.) cotton factory
shows a very satisfactory sort Of bal
ance sheet. 1t has been making cotton
goods for 10 years, during which time
It has omitted only one quarterly div
idend, and its profits have ranged from
20 TO 3 per cent. year. Its present
capital Is S600, 900, its surplus S256, 900,
and 1t made about $4,000, 900 yards Of
cloth last year, while factory in New
Hampshire, having more looms, made
only 100000.
-Quinine has advanced in price, un-
til It Is higher than II has before been in
this country since the rebellion. This
Is attributed not only to the spread Of
malarial disease, but to the falling off
Of the supply of bark, owing to troubles
among the South American tribes of
Indians, who are the principal gather
crs. They have shipped no bark for
eight or nine months.
1t is not generally known that the
Chinese make very fine razors, andthat
for long period no European shaving
knife could compare with theirs in
keenness and durability. A fine edge
is a necessity with them, since they reg
ularly shave their heads--carefuliy
emitting the pigtail- without using soap
or any other cmollient. They only
moisten the scalp with little warm
water.
An electric alarm has been recently
designed which may be fixed to an or
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27

A scrap-book, compiled by Thomas
Jefferson while he was President, has
recently been added 10 the collection Of
the Virginia Historical Society.
Lady Caroline Norton left $500 by
her will 10 "the good cause Of woman
Suffrage" and Mrs. George Cakes, an
other Englishwoman, has lately contrib
uted ~, 500 to the same cause.
1t is reported that the Western
Union Telegraph Company has m"'e a
contract with Mr.. Edison TO pay L..n
$4,000 year for "a years. on condition
that he will give the company all right,
title and interest in his telegraphic in
ventions.
Prof. Skeat has undertaken an ety.
mological dictionary Of the English
language, illustrated by a few selected
quotations approximately illustrating
the period Of Introduction of the vari-
Gus words into the language. 1t will
take about three more years to complete
the work.
Mr.. Edison's peculiarities were
strikingly illustrated recently as plas-
ter cast Of his head was being taken.
While the work was in progress he en-
ployed his time in experimenting as to
the sound conductivity Of the wet and
dry plaster, and in communicating with
those about him by telegraphic instru-
ment which he could not see.
Henry NJ. SANKEY'S real name, ac-
cording to the Baltimore EUery Satnr-
day. is Henry NJ. Eastway, and he was
born in New York. His father was sea
captain. The family went to Europe
when Henry was very young, and soon
afterward the Captain died. Henry
quarreled with his mother at the age of
16, and went away TO seek his fortune.
Other accounts make Stanley Welsh
man, by name Rowland.
A discussion of the question, ssWhat
is Inspiration ?r appears in the Septem-
er-October number of the North amer
lean Heriew. The writers are the Rev.
DR.. +. ii. Hedge (Unitarian), the Rev
DIR. +. A. Washburn (Episcopalian) the
Rev. Chauncey Giles (Swedenborgian) I,
the Rev. DR.. J. r. Newman (MethodisD,
Most Rev. DIR. James Gibbons, Arch
bishop Of Baltimore (Roman Catholic),
and John Fiske independently.
III appearing as Julia, in the play
Of the Hunchback,r Mary Anderson
wears first simple white muslin dress,
flounccd nearly to the waist. The Sec
ond dress is pale pink satin, the front
Of which is solid mass of silver en-
broidery. The third dress is a robe de
chambre Of pink cashmere. The fourth
dress is violet velvet, trimmed with ara
ethyst silk; and the fifth bridal robe
Of white satin, profusely onramented
with Brussels lace and orange blossoms.
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--Scventy-eight more Communists
have been pardoned or had their SEN
fences committed.
The true northerner., 1878-08-09
Miss MAGGIE MAGUIRE,

Having justreceived large assortment of New
Goods would be pleased to have her friends call
and examine them. Everythingis NEW.
Rooms in f. Smiths store, I'd story. 1854
The true northerner., 1878-08-09
WAsH1yaroN. Aug. 5. 1878.

a story was started yesterday to the effect
that Secretary Thompson would shortly sue
ceed Attorney General Devens, and that Gov
Rice OF Massachusetts,, would succeed Thomp-
son. As stories OF changes in the Cabinet and
war with Mexico are alternately circulated with
remarkable regularity, no serious attention was
paid to the casting out OF Attorney General
Devens from the Executive Council. The
story however, has been instrumental in draw
ing from the President a remark which serves
to show that he is determined to make his Ad-
mnistration notable In one respect at least.
Referring to the rumor about changes in the
Cabinet, the President said: "The relations
between all the members OF the Cabinet and
myself have been from the fret, and are now,
entirely harmonious and pleasant, and 1t is lone
The true northerner., 1878-08-09

The chap who tolls in the hot sun For one
dollar or one dollar and half day. is not
worthy of the sympathy o. the pubic; but the
hardfisted laborer who goes around, and, for
s25 night, tells these men that they are down
trodden-these are the sufferers whose suffer-
ings are enough to make horse lament Drop
a tear at this point, some OF you, in behalf OF
these down-.rodden, S25-s-night workingmen,
The true northerner., 1878-08-09

ARF Sf Great chance to make money
2Ysas We need a person IN every town
sN - n1 20 Ito take subscriptions for the lar
sest, cheapest aud best illustrated family paper
the world. Any one can become a success
Gal agent. The most elegant works of art Civ
en- TO subscribers. One agent reports making
over $3.50 in week. a lady agent reports TAX
ns ovor 400 subscribers in ten days. All who
engage make money fast. You can devote all
7our time to the business or only your spare
e.ms. You need not be away from home over
night. You can do IT as we'll as others. Full
- PARTICULARS, directions and terms free. Elegant
lnl expensive outfit free. III you want prof
table work send us your address at once. It
costs nothing to try the business. No one who
Engages fails to make great pay. Address The
Reople's Journal" Portland, Maine. 1172
The true northerner., 1878-08-09

rhe great celebrity of our TIN TAG TOBACCO
has caused many limitations thereof to be
placed on the market. we therefore caution all
Chewers against purchasing such limitations
All dealers buying or selling other plug tobac-
60 bearing hard or metallic label. render them
selves liable to the penalty of the Law and all
persons violating our trade marks are punish
able by fine and Imprisonment. See Act of
Congress. Aug. IA. 1876.
The genuine LorIlard Tin Tag Tobacco can
be distinguished by Tin Tag on each lump
with the word Lorillard stamped thereon.
Over 7.039 tons tobacco sold in 1877. and
nearly 5000 persons employed in factories
Taxes paid Gov'm't in 1877 about SO SOC. .OOO
end during past II years over $40 900 000
The Tin Tag Smoking Tobacco is second to
zone 10 aroma mdness. purity and quality.
These goods sold by all iobbers at manu-
4acturers rates.
The true northerner., 1878-08-09

Z: P, Hathaway & Co. have purchased the
Obj Leonardson PeddIing Wagon. and the
"a me will hereafter be run by Master John
3 nodes. who is commended to all our custo-
10 ers. 1905
The true northerner., 1878-08-09

FoR SALE CHEAP-A first class No. Q Wilson
Sewing Machine, just out OF the shop. and is
unlocked. This is good bargain 10 any person
who wants First Class Machine OF great durs-
bilIty. For further particulars call at this office
We will also sell tlrst class Victor, or New
American Machine, at bottom figures.
Richland beacon., 1878-02-09
Church and State.

Congress has at least dozen Ills
on the Norman question before ii.
Ii has devoted weeks on weeks of its
line in be past TO efforts to legislate
the MormOns out of Utah. or, at least
to eradicate polygamy in that terri
tory, but always in vain for however
,tric, the law on the subject passed
by Congress might be, it has been
found Impossible To prove blgamy
against Offenders. "a marriages in Utah
are secret. and equally impossible to
convict the offenders before IL Mormon
jury even II This crime could be
proved against them. The Gentlles
of Utah, however, have prepared q
system of laws on this subject which.
they think. will reach polygamy. As
it is impossible To prove 1t, they make
tie simple act Of living with two wo-
men a penal offence a. it is impoSsi-
BILE to convict Offenders before Nor
mon juries, they make all believers in
the religion of the Church of The Lat
ter Day Saints incompetent to sit as
jurors. BY further DISTINGUISHING the
Mormons the Gentiles think they will
be- able to convict the poly gam;sts.
The same might be done much more
supply by an act of Congress decla.-
ing all Mrrmons feluns. IL is dai-
garous and unrepublican precedent for
! E..nr.,s. ai- aud r.nH..r
incapable Of jury service citizens on
account of their religious belief, no
matter how great the evil e. be cared
by such act may be.--Nel0 Orleans
Democrat.
We agree with the Democrat, for
we regard any interference wi b ones
religious belief as directly anIaguniStic
to the principles of our Government
and dangerous to one of The Tost
sacred rights Of The people, which
Should he guarded with jealous care
We are NJ advocate Of polygamy, but
We are defender of religious liberty
GU the most liberal ground aud in the
broadcast sense Of the term, and will
ever defend the right of every man t.
worship God according to the die
taies of his own conscience" Con
gress has no more right TO ostraciz.
Mormous than Christians, Jews OF
InAdels; and if it takes one step il
this direction, there is no telling wher,
it will stop--perhaps nowhere shor
VI al established church.