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The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21
City Hall, Bangor, Jan. 2 and 8.

Opening at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, Thursday, and clos
ing Friday evening. Addresses will be given by
prominent tempe rance workers of this State and by
PROF. GEORGE FOSTER, of the University of New
Brunswick.
mort cordial invitation Is extended by the tenn
perance women of Bangor to their sisters engaged in
This work throughout the STATE, to assemble at tie
opening of the year, to discuss those vital ques
tons pertaining the interests of the cause 1t is
earnestly desired that all auxiliary unions and aid
societies be fully represented at this meeuiny Enter
tainment will be furnished in tine hospitsbe homes of
the city to women attending the conveE:i lion Free
return TICKETS If s0cited will oe given at all tue sta
tions of the M. G. R. and the same reduction may
be expected on the other roads.
Women of Maine. let Us gather In large numbers,
thoughttully to consi the necessities of the
in wlich we labor, Invoking the divine blessing to
crown our efforts with success
MRS. l.. M. N. STEVENS.
Prest. Me. W. G. L. q.
MRS. c c. HUNT, Cor. Sec.
Augusta, Dec 18th, 1878.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

Massey has neat way of putting it:
"The niger hez the rite TO vote. We under
stand that and respect it. But there must
be limitashuns. He may vote-the law sez
that-but the law don't say how he shell vote.
That is Tor us'
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

THE Springfield Republican says "Tbe
Democratic and Greenback newspapers up
in Maine are displaying retrepchment zeal
that would need to be tempered with consid-
cradle discretion if the Legislature undertook
to follow their lead.''
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY Il ORNING. DECEMBER 21.

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni
cations, The and address OF the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty OF GOOD faith.
We cannot undertake TO return Or preserve CON-
municatioDs that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

THE tissue-paper ballot moves the bard OF
the Boston Aduertiser to print these lines:
1t falls as still
As snow fakes fall upon the sod,
And executes the freeOmeDS will
As lying does the will of God.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

ACCORDING to the Boston Transcript
''socia hen" is the latest thing in girl slang.
No explanation Of the mysterious phrase is
given. Maybe social hem Of girl is the,
female Of the species known as lively yoQsA
roosters OF fellows. n CT y
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

Mr.. HENDRICKS warned some Michigan
law students the other day not to stay too
long in politics if success full, and added that
he sometimes thought he had stayed too
long. His Democlatlc rivals think SO too.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

EVERY regular atrache OF the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersgDed by Stanley T.
Pulien, Editor. ALI railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent
Ourna1.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

William Westlake, aged 80, employ ed in the
boiler mandatory of Hodge s. Co., East Bos-
ton, rad his clothing caught in q revolving
belt yesterday, was carried roond the shaft
many times and instantly killed.
Mrs. Mary Barrett of Portsmouth, N. H.,
died of voluntary starvation Thursday night,
though she had considerable money at inter
est.
Phillip Conley was lost overheard from the
schooner Mary Odell as she was returning from
the Banks. She belonged to Rockport, Mass.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

THE Chicago Times is going TO model after
the London Times in type, style and make
up. If it wonld pattern after the Thunderer
in tone an Improvement would result worth
all the rest.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

The Governor Of Virginia has commuted the
death sentence Of John Bird (oolored) to I'm.
prisonment for life. Bird was convicted Of
killing his brother.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

THEY count their pigeons by acres in the
Indian Territory. One pigeon roost of forty
acres is newfoundland not by Eli Perkins
either.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

If the Union was worth hShsins for it is
worth paying for.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21

CONGRESS treats itself and the country to
an appropriate and pleasing Christmas gift;
it gives both rest,
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-21
vaults Cieau,et

Vau1IS CLEANED
A ND taken out at short notice, from a 10 Sc
- cord or SO load, by addressing
nov@adu q. LIBBY & CO., Portland r. O.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Gossip About the Dead Queen.

The superstitious recall that, as Mer-
cedes entered the Church of the Atocha
on her marriage-day the bearer of her
train stumbled, bad omen; also, that
at the bull-fght next Gay a veteran
torero, many years ago a great taVorlte
at Madrid, opened the amusement by
turning to the Royal box and exclaim-
ing to the Queen, "May your Majesty
live 100 years!" Next moment he was
tossed by the bull. The Queen died at
daybreak in the arms Of her husband
and in the presence of her parents, the
Infanta Christine, and the Ministers.
Cardinal Mareno administered the last
rites to the dying woman, who presery-
ed her clearness and serenity of mind.
"Does your Majesty regret leaving this
life?n he asked. "Yes," she replied,
81 do, but it is for Alfonso and my par
ents' sakes.i Alfonso telegraphed to
his mother the death of his wife in these
terms: "My beloved Mercedes is in
Heaven. Pray for her." an inconsist-
ent but earnest dispatch. At the time
of the wedding, five months before, the
ex-Queen Isabella prayed, on dit, at the
Church of St. Pierre de Chaillot that
evil might follow the Montpensier fami-
ly. The Pope sent King Alfonso an
autograph letter of coincidence, and
Queen Victoria telegraphed him as fol-
lows: "Dear Brother, my heart bleeds
for Won. What an awful misfortune it
has pleased God to send you! May He
give you strength to bear this terrible
loss" The Queens remains rest tenn
porarily beside those of the Bourbon
Princes in the vaults of the Escurial. On
the day of the funeral, throughout all
Madrid, almost all the shops were par
TALLY closed. The people generally
wore mourning, and business was en-
tirely suspended. More than $4,000 per-
sons visited the chapel where the re-
mains lay.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Things That | Wonder At.

Why the boys who made the Fourth
of July odorous and hideOus with gun
powder from 1910 to 1856, inclusive, ARE
speechless with indignation at the de-
praved and vicious tastes of the boys
who want to enjoy the same kind OF a
celebration in 1878?
Why people always discuss European
politics as though they understood
them?
Why man should always get mad if
you frankly and for his own good tell
him he is making an ass of himselfP
Why it is so hard to find a man when
you want to borrow money of himP
Why it is so hard to borrow the money
after you have found himP
Why somebody doesn't come out and
explain the Louisiana muddleP
Why a man always wishes he had
chosen some other professionP
What Mrs. jerks is talking about and
what she means by itP
Why man is always going to take a
vacation "next summerP"
Why people should consider it dis
graceful to be sent to Congress?
Why a man thinks every year that he
won't be as big fool this year as he
was lastP
And why he is, though, all the sameP
Why the tramps don't ask for some
thing to eat, if they are hungryP
Why man never tries to beat down
tba ,,rioa of q railroad ticketp
Why every body affects a profound
knowledge of growing crops and crop
prospects,
Why men always lie about the size OF
the fish they catch and the number OF
ducks they shootP
What girl ever sees in a great self
ish, deceitful, hulking animal of a man
to marry him for, any howP
Why SO many foreigners should speak
German or French, when it is so much
easier to speak Englishp
Why it takes five grown people to
take one sleeping infant to the circus to
"see the animalsP"
Why a man who doctors himself with
patent medicines, three bottles for
dollar, always, in referring to his health,
speaks of "his physicians" as though
he were constantly attended by retinue
of 50 or 60 doctors?
Why it is wrong to kill the man who
says he told you SOP
Why really generous men are always
so ready to admit that you were in the
wrong?-Hawkeye Bmrdette.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24

each other three times three cups, in
natural cOngratulation at the happy
change that has come over them, as in
dicated by their change of dress,
This being done there follows a feast
to all in the house, who assemble in one
room, and regale themselves with the
fare that is set before them; and, hav-
ing kept up the festivities till about the
dawn of day, the wedding-party breaks
up. Three days after the bride usually
pays a visit to her own parents, when
another entertainment is made to which
the relatives of the family are invited.
Henceforth the married woman is re-
garded as having been absorbed, as it
were, into the family of her husband,
and to have surrendered her relation
ship to her fathers house. Her duty to
her father-in. law and mother.in-law su-
persedes all the obligations of filial piety.
The common people, in their matri-
monial rites, endeavor to ape as far as
possible their superiors, the daimios
and other great people of the land.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24

ly. The total space covered by it is
about 1852 square meters.
Forty years ago it was feared that
the Queen of England might be de-
throned by the Orangemen in favor of
her cousin, the ex-King of Hanover, who
has just died.
The Emperor of Brazil hasn't
enough of travel yet. He is going to
Paris for the Exhibition, and has en-
gagged for July the rooms in the Grand
Hotel now occupied by the Shah.
The Partisan man never gives up
his seat in the car to woman. A cor
respondent thought one day he discov-
cred an exception, ,as two men jumped up
and offered their seats to two standing
women. He was undeceived when one
of the polite passengers remarked to the
other: "Brown, do you remember that
night at Wallack They were Amer
leans.
The cemetery in Munich is sight
for the visitor, for in buildings erected
for the purpose may be seen dead per-
sons waiting the lapse of three days re-
qCired by law before burial. None of
the Gloom of the grave surrounds these
remains, but they are attired in every
dav costumes and placed in careless or
half-reclining attitudes, amid fresh flow
ers. To the hand of each is attached q
wire leading to a spring bell, so that an
alarm may be given in case of resusci-
tation.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Poetical Odds and Ends.
Little bits of lemon,
Little chunks of ice,

Little bits of lemon,
Little chunks of ice,
Little water and sugar
Make a man feel nice.
Boston Post.
"Only a tress of woman's hair"
The boarder pensively did mutter,
"And yet think its hardly fair.
To give it to us in our butter"
stamford AdrOcate.
Two little boys were nothing 10th
To eat two verdant peaches each,
And now one tombstone covers both.
Thou hast this season for thine own, o
Peach! Puck.
"Come wife" said VIII, "Ipray you devote
just half minute to mend this coat,
Which nail has CHANGED to rend,
nTis 10 O'clock" said his drowsy mate.
al know" said Will, sit is rather late,
But it's never too late to mend"
When night serene and amorous,
With its lovely moonbeamS glamorous.
over earth doth wing;
As q general thing
The tom cats with rapture clamOrous,
And at that hour, fragrant, chaste and mute,
We hear the dire tiend practicing on bis flute
-Wild oats.
" Ball to the bat" the vampire said
As face to face the foemen stood;
Then the pitcher putch, and the catcher
cutch,
And the batter but as he oughter should
Adown the slope were the fielder fold
A liner, hot as hornet Wung,
And atween the optics bang,
AS bOunteOus as hOgshead's bung.
-YORkerS Gazette.
A boy stood back on the gallery floor,
At the naughty female show,
And cast his earnest glances DER
Bald headed sin below.
ppm too far back" he sadly said;
Yet he dared not forward go,
For he saw his aged fathers head
First in the foremost row.
PHILADELPHIA Mirror.
"Whats the difference" said she,
Between the moon and you"
"I can not tell, my treasured one,"
Said he with int'rest new.
"The difference is this ,,said she,
With satire ofa Junius,
"The moon hath silvery quarters, love,
While you are impecunious."
-TonkerS Gazette
He sits on the stoop; it's bright moonlight
night,
And kiss from her sweet lips he begS;
But his trowsers are not of the style that IS
tight,
And the cockroaches crawl up his legs.
He pauses a moment then wildly he grasps
simultaneously, both of his limbs;
"Pve got 'em," says he. ooh, good gra-
ciousr she gasps,
"Don't tell me, dear George, you've the
-PiHSburg Leader.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Traps for Georgia Fleas.

Necessity is the mother Of invention,
and in those parts of our State afflicted
with feas, many novel and ingenious
devices have been resorted to as a means
of getting rid of the pest. We publish
ed a few days ago that Cuthbert man
had, with partial success, tried covering
his limbs with varnish on retiring at
night and had captured 43 Another
paper now gives the experience OF
gentleman of its town who placed
plate of molasses under house where
the animals loved to congregate, drove
a little stake on each side, and then
fastened sheet of writing paper in
vertical position over the middle OF the
plate. The feas, true to their instinct
to make for every thing white, began to
Jump against the paper and to slip down
into the molasses, from which they were
unable to extricate themselves. The
scheme was success. The feas were
thinned out. "Now," says the paper,
"if it was some enterprising Yankee
who had made this discovery, he would
apply for patent and make fortune
out of it."-Sauannah (Ga.) NeWs.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Haps and Mishaps.

Peter E. Rush, farmer living one
mile east of Elkhart, Ind, was kicked
to death by horse.
5-vear-old daughter of Reuben Rey-
nolds of Stanford, Ky. fell into a kettle
of boiling water, and was scalded dead.
Robert Cummins died at Coskey
Station, KY, on the day set for his
wedding, from an overdose of morphine,
mistaken for quinine.
AT Waverly, o., James Funk, a
painter, fell off a scatfolding, a distance
of 80 feet, and was killed.
AT East Davenport, Iowa, Barte-
mus Hansel was assisting in moving q
house. when the supports gave way,
dropping the sill across his breast, and
crushing him to death.
Matte Matthews, a beautiful young
lady of Il, committed suicide near Den
yer, Col. by shooting herself with anavy
pistol. She had been disgraced and ru-
ined by young man under promise of
marriage.
Mrs DR.. Allyne, highly esteemed
lady of Cleveland, o in freak OF in
sanity, caused by fever, saturated her
clothing with kerosene, set fire to it,
and then inhaled the flames. She died
in a few minutes from her internal in
juries, but she was not badly burned
externally.
"A young man very respectfully con-
nected, named Robinson, residing with
Capt Jas. Morgan, in Union District,
on the Kanawha River, West Va, com
mitted suicide by taking arsenic. Cause,
unrequited love. The young lady was
very much prostrated over the sad af-
fair, and fears were entertained for her
life.
The foreman in a Delaware County
On. W tannery had been at work in
the sweat pits, and become overheated
and was perspiring profusely, and while
in this condition he fell into one of the
watts. The poison from the liquor en-
tered his system through the pores Of
the skin, resulting in death in few
days.
One of the most distressing acci-
dents of the Fourth occurred at Balti-
more, where Marcellus Keene, a 1O-year-
old boy, fell on a powder bottle he was
carrying in his pocket, and large pieces
of the glass penetrated his right thigh,
severing the large blood vessels and
causing death in 20 minutes.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
School and Church.
of sugar.

Cornell graduates a class of ~ tins
wear. of whom seven are women.
The "Disciples," generally called
Campbellites, have just opened their
first chapel in Paris.
Rev. DR.. j. H. Vincent, the great
American Sunday-schoOl man, who has
inst GONE abroad, will hold Sunday
school Congress at Rome 1t will be the
first ever held on the continent OF
Europe.
"A college has been organized at
Hickman, with P. G. Halyburton as
President. The faculty consists of seven
chairs, and frst-class preparatory de-
partment has been established.
The colored Baptists of the South
are trying to help themselves to better
education. They are making efforts to
establish a school to educate their
preachers in Louisville, KY, and theo
logical seminary in Alabama.
The Methodists of Canada, who be-
can their existence as a church in l71o,
lust - years after Philip Embury and
Barbara Heck had introduced the faith
into the United States, intend to cele-
brate their centennial in August or Sep
tember.
There is report of remarkable
spread of Christianity in the district OF
Tinnerelly, British India, $4,000 per-
sons having, in seven months, placed
themselves {" "under instructions with a
view to Baptism;" but the Madras Mail
throws doubt on the report, saying that
the first news of the affair came from
London.
The Roman Catholic system of
"retreats D." has gained an acceptance
in the English State Church, according
to Harper'S Weekly, which would hard
ly be supposed by those who DO not
closely watch the course of events.
Twentv-four or twenty-five are an
nounced to take place by the end OF
November next. Some of them are for
candidates for holy orders. 1t is eSti-
mated that four hundred clergymen OF
the Establishment will 60 into retreat
during this season.
"A movement is on foot among the
Methodist churches in the East to do
awav with the arbitrary rule which linn
its the time which a minister may re-
main in charge of one congregation to
three years. Some of the strongest
men in the church, it is said, favor the
proposed change. 1t is not proposed
to abolish the appointive system alto
gether and establish a settled ministry,
but to invest bishops with discretionary
power in the matter of changes in each
church at least once in every three
years.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Science and Industry.

The New Orleans mint will be used
n coin money for South American
! 5untries.
al --Farmers in South Georgia think
ssrley have discovered bonanza in the
sb htiyation of the Chinese sand-pear.
lrs --ivg is regarded as prime necessi-
v at Bombay ,and the supply is received
ni'om this country, being shipped chief
ID u ss'c sr,s: Boston.
II IA big deposit of ice has been found
'Ell the OF mpic Mountains, in Washing
Fm territory, and it can be brought to
neattle at cost of S. ton. Ice now
ness $50 atom there
u IA new enemy to the potato has
ppeared in West Virginia. 1t resem-
les a small grasshopper, and destroys
" hole patches in single night by sting
Ag the plant near the ground.
n, Three of the largest tobacco facto-
! les in Key West have closed, and the
noans employed in them are goin Q
ack to Havana Cause, a strike and in
A arference of United States revenue Off
ers.
6 -~rarsnlps contain almost twice as
& aocn dry matter or real food as tur-
ID ips' and this of superior quality.
6 iafrots, again, contain about as much
tfy substance as mangolds, but are
icner IN sugar and of better feeding
j Gaality.
-oalt Is very important for animals.
large pieces Of rock salt put into the
dangers and feeding-troughs are rec
rrinmended. One-half the ash of ami
nal blood consists OF salt; without the
ao,er the blood can not be in a natural
= lAsalthy state. '- '''
IT Inc railroads of the United States
laye ~ use 3,5O0,0OO car-wheels. Those
= Iast passenger trains are renewed
e'{i y months; but freight cars use
II 81 llie wheels sometimes III wears.
n;'s erage life of wheel is $4,000
,.-... =" oV InaC rate 1t takes 100000 a
e 1 ~. J oaO a cost, less the old wheels, of
otrawoerries contain 5.S6 per cent.
< 81 ne'r weight of glucose, or grape
cnerrles 10, white currants 6 do.
=. ~ , 22t-houSe grape 1887; piineappllccs
= sas other hand, contain 1l.SS ner
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24

THERE is now on exhibition in Lon
don a japanese nobleman's room, CIV
en- by the Governor of Kiote to DR..
Dresser, who was royal guest in ia
pan. 1t is about twelve feet long by
rather less width, and about nine feet in
height. The roof consists OF panels OF
cedar. All the wood in the room has
polished surface. The walls are formed
of slides opening into the adjoining
room, and are edged with black lacquer.
ed strips of wood, the slides being OF
paper decorated with figures of birds.
At the end of the room is recess, the
upper part composed of wood cut so as
to represent flight of storks. Close to
this is larger recess, which, in ac-
cordance with the fashion Of the coun-
try in high life, is reserved for the ac-
commodation of the Mikado, should he
ever visit the house. There is an open
inc at the side for the introduction OF
refreshments.
Sharp County record., 1878-10-24
Foreign Notes.

One of the most attractive and pop
ular features of the Paris Exhibition is
the display of the superb Pullman pal
ace and sleeping cars in the American
section.
"A jeweler in the Paris Exhibition
shows necklace which purports to be
a mixture of true pearls and false, and
challenges any body to single out the
real.
OF all the buildings in the Park of
the the Trocaadero, the Algerian Palace is
said to be the most extensive and cost