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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-22
MARY l.. THOMPSON.
BRookLYN, T., Nov. ~, Is.

BROOKLYN, y. Y, Nov 20 ISIS.
Mrs PINKiIAM: Dear Friend Of Woman-l lave
derived great benefit from the use of your NeSeta
BILE Compound that recommend 1t in the stronges;
terms. with the utmost confidence and the fullest
CONVICTION that it will cure the most stubborn cases
consider ii superior 10 any other preparation Tor
Female Complaints. Very gratefully yours,
MRS. +. A. BECK,
No. Is Willonghby Ave, Brooklyn, y. Y.
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WASTING
DISEASES
NERVOUS POWER,
Fellows Compound Syrup of HypophOsphites'

The merit of this remarkable remedy Is due TO its
The body TO their original frinness and vigor. Ii is
well known that for every thought and action there's
death or decay of amount Of material proportion
ate to the magnitude of the thought or action This
waste is supplied by the unimpdired nutritive func-
ton. The precocious activity of youths, the enhusl-
astie struggle for wealth and fame in the middle
aged and old age itself cause undue decay OF ma
teral nervous force.
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Read the Following Interesting State
ment OF This Discovery;
Celery has only come into public notice within the
last few years "a ncryine but Scienif ernens
and experience have proved beyond doubt that II
controls nervous irritation and periodic nervous and
sick headache TO a marked degree.
But combination of the EXTRACT OF CELERY AND
CHAMoMILE, which has been but recently introduced
the profession and the public by myself has pro-
duced such mary elous results in curing business
and headaches and especially nervous and sick head
aches neuralgia, Indigestion and secpessness, that
it has excited public attention and newspaper COM
ments; and, therefore. give the following informi-
ton to the public 10 avoid answering hundreds OF lets
tiers of inquiry about them:
My Celery and Chamonile Pills. for the of
headaches and merry business, are prepared under my
supervision and intended expressly to head.
aches neuralgia, indigestion, sleepessness and
business, and will cure any where no organic dis
of the brain spinal cord exists. Hundreds OF
cases of many years standing have been cured. No
matter how chronic or obstinate the case may be, Il
permanent cure Is morally certain This statement
l. made after years of experience in their in the
general practice of medicine.
These pills also valuable for school children
who suffer from nervous headaches, caused By an
overworked brain in their studies and for all classes
centres need repair and ISOLATION. Nervous tTemor
weakness and paralysis being daily cured by these
pills. They correct costiYeness, but are not purga.
tive.
Directions each box. Price so cents, or six box.
for $3.50, postage free to any address. No order
filled unless accompanied by the money. For sale BY
all wholesale and retail druggists. Depot, No. 100
North Eutaw ST. Baltimore, Md.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-22

Many letters are constantly coming to hand bear
ing uniform and nnequivocal testimony TO the reno
waiting power of this invaluable medicine. A multi
ude once encrced by the coils of the hydra are now
released from his foul embrace, and are enabled to
rejoice in their recovered freedom. Health and hope
and happiness restored. When the pale sufferer,
who for years has dragged out miserable existence,
is restored, il is like being born again. one Obtains
lease of life The old house is repaired and the
tenant is happy. Such is the change wrought by the
VEGETABLE COMPOt ND, and many who have
taken it faithfully do not hesitate TO regard Mrs
piukham as Il savior of her sex.
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ON 30 DAYS TRIAL

We viii send our Electro oltac Belts and other Eec
iering from Nervous Debility, Rheumatism, Paraly
sis or any diseases of the Liver Kidneys and many
other diseases. sure Cure guaranteed or no pay
Address VoTAIc BEIrCo., Marshall, Mich. deci4w
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FORK

Joshua G. Emery of York, aged eight. was
drowned Wednesday by venturing on too
thin ice.
The kennebunk shoe factory has recently
purchased about thirty new Wheeler and
Wilson sewing machines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-22

call and see the s.FOX,
AND OTHER BREECH.LOADlN0 GUNS.
AT SAPFORD 4 co.'s GUN STORE,
Augusta. Maine.
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Courts OF Insolvency,

NOTICE is hereby given, than Courts of Inso
~ Vcncy, will be held al the Probate Office in
Augusta on the second and fourth Mondays in
olhcwise ordered. WI ""'"
cy,.,u II. X. BAKER, Judge.
Nov. ISIS. ,su,.
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Sold by ecery Druggist.

PRIC $3.50 PER BOTTLE.
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PENonscoT.
SOMERSET.
WALDO.

There are few cases of canker rash at
Somerset Mills.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-22
The WONDERFUL
Effects of the Extract OF
CELERY the CHAMOMILE UPON
THE NERVOUS
System and Digestive
Organs
In Curing Especially Sick
Headache,
Nervous Headache, Neuralgia,
Nervousness,
Paralysis and Indigestion, and
Preventing
Neuralgia Of the Heart and Sud-
den Death.
Neuralgia Of the Heart and Sud
den Death.

This Preparation Has Won a Reputation
Unknown to any Other Article, for the
Cure and Prevention of These Diseases.
Read the Following Interesting State
ment OF This Discovery;
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kENNEBEC.

A good judge says that there will be sold
by Clinton farmers this year, $4,000 worth
of hay.
Mr.. Frank Sawtclle, of West Waterville,
has sold his collection of stuffed birds and
beasts to Colby University and they have
been deposited in the Museum.
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Edwin Clay of Pugwash, Nova scotia,kwrites as
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
tf ~ LNil3. vi ,
BOUND To EL0PE,

..aIIfEg % a
There is a prominent citizen of East Point
a town near Atlanta, Georgia, who is the
most determined eloper yet developed His
namd is Rateree.I About a, year ago be
courted tho. fourteen year old daughter OF
an eminent divine of that locality, Rev. w,
G. Walker by name. His attentions to the
child being disiavered by the reverend gen.
tleman he persuaded her to o.elope with him
to which she consented, and they were mar
ried. The marriage was, however, not legal
by reason Of the maiden's tender age, so the
incongruous couple were separated, All
the effoftsiof Ratereel to regain possession OF
his child love were upavailing, 50, apparent.
ly determined to become thelord ssnd m as
ter of one of the unfortunate ministers
daughters he transferred his attentions ia
an older sister. But the minister seemed
Just as determined not to have Rateree foI
a son.in-law, and the suitor was for the sec
ond time forbidden the house. But the
minister might have known that in the case
Of such lover as Rateret had proved him.
self to be, bars and bolts would be Of nc
avail. I'll he did not know lhis, he WAS soon
given further evidence ofrthe fact fcr, while
he and his wife were visiting in Atlanta on
Sunday last Ratcree slipped otf'with aaolh.
er of his susceptible daughters and married
her. This time the daughter is of prope,
age, so the old gentleman will have to make
tie best of Almost unsatisfactory bargain ol
turn the couple' out on The cold and heart
less worldy3 GiGm b 40 iBig jaan II 10
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
SAN FRANCISCO THE CENTRE.

Webster's eloquent description of the
British empire is familiar to every reader,
but we doubt whether it is generally realized
that we, too, have dominion on which the
sun never sets. 1t win hardly be believed,
perhaps, without an examination Of the
maps, that San Francisco, instead Of being
at the western limit of this dominion, is on.
ly about midway between our eastern and
western limits and yet it is a fact that the
farthest Aleutian isle acquired in our pur-
chase Of Russian America is as far to the
west of that city as Eastport, Me, is to the
east Of it. Between the northwestern limit
Of Washington Territory and the south
eastern limit of Alaska there is break of a
few degrees, but, with the, slightest deduc-
ton, our territory extends, through 1877 de.
grees of longitude, or, seventeen degrees
more han half around the globe. Hence,
when the sun is giving its goodnight kiss to
our westernmost isle on the confines OF
Behring's. sea, it is already flooding tbs
fields and forests of Maine with its morning
light, and in the eastern part of that state is
more than an hour high. At the very mo
ment when the Aleutian fisherman, warned
by the appr oaching shades of pight, is pull
ing his canoe toward the shore, the woot
chopper of Maine is beginning to wake th,
forest echoes with the stirring music of hi'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
HOW GEN. SHIELDS WAS CURED.

An exchange states the following 'Gen.
Shields, at tie battle Of Cerro Gofdo, in
Mexico, was severely wounded while lead
ing his men, but he refused to quit the
field. He advanced to the charge when he
was stfuck in the chest by a copper grape.
shot that passed through his lungs. he
fell into the arms of Oglesby, at present
United States Senator from ILLINOIS, and
was carried from tile battlefield TO all ap-
pearanees lifeless. Obituary notices appear.
ed afterward in nearly all the papers Of the
country, SO convinced were his brother off.
icers Of the impossibiity Of his surviving
such terrible wound. For weeks lie, lay
at the brink Of death in the neigbborbood
of the battlefield, and his cure seems short
Of a miracle, The army surgeons had CIV
en- him over for death when a Mexican doc
tor said he would live if be would let him
remove the coaguated blood from the
wound. Shields, as kill or cure remedy,
told him 10 try and a 6ne silk handkerchief
was worked in and finally drawn through
the wound, removing the extrayasated blood
when daylight could be seen through the
hole. He lived to be, a hale, aud hearty
man, free from disease or any inconvenience
from his wound, which was considered at
that time mortal. - .l,. ---.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
AN INDIAN JOKE.

You would hardly expect to find wit
among the Indians, aud yet they are just
as human as the rest of us, and, in spite
of their stoicsm, indulge in joke now
and then which has a flavor of its Own.
During banquet which was given by the
pale faces to several red men, one of the
Indians took spoonful. of mustard sup
posing it to be some deicscy, The tears
came into his eyes. He could die without
flinching but spoonful of mustard wa'
something which even his heroic soul could
not endure, so he wept profusely, even as
white men do sometimes. The chief who
sat opposite, asked him why he cried, lie
naturally replied that he was thinking o.
his old father, who died horrible death
A few minutes after, the chief himself fell
upon The mustard pot, aud swallowed more
than was necessary The tears came into
his eyes, too. A thousand tomahawks wer,
nothing; but the pungent quality of thu
mustard made him weep like child, "AuC
why do you cry p asked the first victim
with savage delight in his tones. "Well,
was the quick reply, II am crying becaus
you were not killed when your fathe
| was.~
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
'Poeeti,coa5ll..
THE OWL CRITIC.
I, A LESSON TO FAuLrFrsDEBs.
"whp stuffed that white bwl,s No one spoke in

"whb stuffed that white owls' No one spoke in the
The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop:
The customers waiting their turns were all reading
The Daily the Herald the post little needing
The young man who blurted out such blunt
questions; Il.. t .......
Not one raised head or even made suggestion
And the b,rber kept on shaving.
Don't you see, Mister Brown"
CRIED the youth, with frown,
"How wrong the whole thing is, H.. ..
How preposterous each wing Is,
How llattened the head is, how jammed down the
neck is '- ''
In short the whole owl, what an ignorant wreck ,ls
make no apology; ... .... -
I've learned owl-eology.
I've passed days and nights in hundred collections
And can not be blinded to any denections .H
Arising from unskilnul fingers that fail
To stun bird right, from his beak to his TAIL
Mister Brown Mister Brown
DO take that bird down, 'u. .. lt t"l..'
Or youll soon be the aughIugstock all over town !,
And the barber kept ON shaving
81 ve studied owls,
And other night fowls,
And tell you
What know TO be true:
An owl can not roost
With his limbs so unloosed;
No owl In this world
Ever had his claws curled,
Ever had his legs slanted,
Ever had his bill canted
Ever had his neck screwed
Into that attitude.
He can do It, because .... ......
"ris against all bird laws.
Anatomy teaches,
Ornithoogy breaches,
An owl has a toe H.n s.
That CAN'T turn out sol .. I..
I've made the white owl my study for years.
And TO see such Job almost moves me to tears
Mister Brown, I'm amazed ...'fN.
You should be so gone crazed
AS to put up a bird '.
In that posture absurd
10 HOOK at that owl really trings on a dizziness;
The man who stuffed him don't half know his
business" 40
And the barber kept on shaving
Examine those eyes
I'm iilled witA surprise
Taxldermlsts should pass
on on yoL such poor glass;
SO Unnatural they seem
They'd make Audubon scream,
And John Burroughs laugh
To encounter such chan
Do take that bird down;
Have him stuffed agair, Brown!"
And the barber kept on shaving
"With some sawdust and bark
l could stun in the dark
| An owl better than that.
I,copld make an old hat
Look more like an owl
Than that horrid fowl, .." .
stuck up there stin like a side OF coarse leather.
In fact, about him there's not natural feather"
Just then, with a wink and sly normal lurch,
The owl, very gravely, got down from his perch,
Walked round, and regarded his fault. finding critic
(Who thought he was stuffed with glance analytic,
And then fairly hooted, as II he should say:
"Your learning's at fault this time, anyway
Don't waste 1t again on live bird, pray.
! I'm an OWL you're another. Sir Critic, good-day!"
Nl .. And the barber kept on shaving
JAMES 4. FIELDS, In "Earpers Magazine" for July
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11

captured. Ali was excitement in an instant
and as soon as Jim's location was betrayed
the guerillas scattered and formed skirm-
ish line. The fire of this line was copcen-
trated on the steps and was as rapid as if
opposed to a line Of, battle. The firing had
just begun when one of the skirmishers fel,
away from stump with q bullet in his head.
10 three minutes another was shot through
the chest. Jim ,Shanks had forty rounds Of
ammunition, and he fired slowly and with pre-
csion. l could see splinte,s fly from the
steps every time a ball struck, and knew
that many of the bullets were driven through
the boards. For long twenty minntes jim
held that skirmish line of thrty-five men at
bay; killing three aud woupdipg two, |
counting his shots. and be fred just twenty.
one times'lyuG sEu1dI-.G Visit .slnY o.
A reinforcement of about, twenty mount
ed men finally came up, and, hitching their
horses under cover Of the hill, the men took
the skirmish line. Just as the firing began
anew Jim Shanks suddenly left, his cover
and ran for the horses down the road, Every
skirmisher rose up, and there must have
been at least one hundred bullets fred at
the running man in the next minute. saw
them plow up the earth all around him, and
one of them sent his cap sailing into the air.
As he got in line with the horses, the fire
sackened, while the men saw his plan and
rushed forward. Jim was in no hurry. Rest
ing his carbine over his saddle, be wounded
another of his pursuers, and it seemed a
minute before he mounted and rode off in
the direction of Leesburg. There was a
rush for the horses, and away they galloped
after the recruit, firing as they rode. ,.,a
The strange luck that had stood by Jim
Shanks iu his fight might have aided him to
escape had he selected better horse. AT.
ter a gallop Of half an hour he found his
pursuers gaining, and, in trying to get into
the fields, his horse fell, rolled over the poor
fellow, and the pursuers found him dead
when they rode up. His clothing was fairly
riddled with bullets, and yet his flesh had
not been scratched. The church steps were
as full of holes as colander, and about the
| same distance apart, and yet Jim was not
wounded. Mean spirited, obstinate and
dogged as terminate, he had the courage of
lion and the gallantry of knight, and the
first and last grave ever dug for Union SOL
dier by Mosby's men was followed out for
a recruit that had never been to the 'front.'
Detroit Free Press. i., lana. ...t.it........ .
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
'll A..t |H LH- orr. @ ilf '.it N fr
Counterfeiters and their Tricks.

Counterfeiting the currency of the country
is more extensively carried on than is gener-
ally supposed. There is large number of
men, women and children engaged in the
business. 1t has almost become national
industry. Two causes combine. TO make it
so extensive-one, the difficulty of capturing
counterfeiters, and the other, the small num-
Der OF men who are specially. employed in
the detection of that class of criminals.
Every coin issued by The government has
been counterfeited and every issue of legal
tenders and almost every issue of national
bank notes has been similarly dealt with.
There are more counterfeit notes, and more
counterfeits of national banks are put on
the market than of legal tenders. The
readiness with which coins can be coun-
terfeited and the small capital required
to enter into the business is the cause OF the
magnitude of such operations. Five or six
dollars is enough to set man up in the
business Of making spurious coins. Coin
counterfeiters direct their attention chiefly
to the quarter and half dollar silver pieces,
though they by no means confine
themselves thereto. The outfit for the work
consists of few genuine coins, some anti.
mony, lead, type metal, pulverized glass, a
small galvanic battery, crude milling ma
chine and moderate supply of plaster of
Paris. With the plaster of Paris they make
the moulds-very perfect ones-of the coin
Sometimes in one mould there will be cav
tiles exactly the size of all the silver coins,
with the impression of one side on one-half
of the mould and the other bearing the face
similar of the reverse. The base metal,
antimony, lead, type metal and pulverized
glass though tin is sometimes used-is
melted and poured into the mould. When
sufficiently cooled the metal is taken cut,
The coin has dingy, rough and not at all
deceiving look. 1t is smoothed with knife
as far as possible, the rough edges being cut
off 1t is next run edgewise through small
milling machine, which generally consists of
two small cogged- wheels. This makes the
uotches around the edge. All that is now
left to give the coin pretty decent appear
ance as genuine is coating of silver This
the counterfeiter secures from genuine
coins. The genuine coin subjected to the
action of the battery, soon looses some OF
its silver. Before it is sufficiently dissolved
to totally deface it, the coin is taken out
Enough genuine silver is in this way pro-
cured from single coin to plate a dozer
counterfeits, and the original looks after the
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-11
DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS.


About this time of the year fruit-growers
are often troubled with certain insects,
which are very annoying to the best
orchardists. There is. the slug on the pear
tree, the tent caterpillar on the apple and
the lose-bug on the. cherry. all of which
will skeletonize the tree in short order. For
years past there have been published vari-
Gus receipts for destroying them. Some
advocate liquids or washes, some fire and
smoke. But utunless the trees are very large,
there seems to be no way so good as hand
picking. The tent'caterpillar even in large
trees, can be so readily got at by a pair of
pole shears, cutting away the entire young
branch on which the vermin are feeding,
that anyone who wants cheaper or essier
plan would beseech Joye to kill them by
lightning strokes. The rose bug also can
readily be shaken from trees. Where they
attack trees of even tolerable size, they can
be shaken or Jared from the branches, and
with garden roller crushed on the ground
This of course has to be done early in tn,
morning or late in the evening while they
are in somewhat torpid condition. Or
smaller bushes they can be easily shaken OF
into pals or open vessels of water, and thel
taken away and destroyed. For the pear
slug, small, greenish-blaek moist body
there has been many recommendations
Powdered quick lme-not Stacked lime
receives the most countenance from practi
cal men. But unless the trees are yer
large, or the number very great, hand
picking is considered tn be the best way I
get rid of them. Usually there are bu
comparatively Few which do the damag,
and five or six year old pear tree may b
cleaned of them in i've or ten minutes. Th
leaf is closed over them and the inse,
crushed between the folds. We said thes
things were annoyances to orchardists
taste and neatness; but, besides this tn
plant suffers materially by the injury to :
much foliage, 1t not only looks well
have healthy foliage, but it pays to presery
| it Gerladnt0ipa TeIe0raDh