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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29
KNOX COUNTY.

The Opinion says that Haynes, the murderer
was brought to prison Tuesday, by Warden
Tolman, to serve out q life sentence for his
crimes. Haynes came into the guard room
smoking q cigar and apparently in the best of
spirits. To Overseer Smith, who was at the
prison when he served his first term there, he
said, Il told you 1 was coming back here.
When man makes up his mind to live in
State Prison, there is no use trying to stop
him He has been put to work in the car
riage shop.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29
HORRIBLE MURDER.

A WEST CUMBERLAND FAR
MER'S TERRIBLE FATE.
Assaulted in His Barn and Nearly
Beheaded.
THE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME IN
DOUBT.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29

TURNER Bros. are selling Dress Goods,
Silks, Satins and Yelvets at very low prices.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RD.

We are now ready to serve Gus
toners at our new store sos and
5O7 Congress Street. Although
our expenses have been increased
we intend to sell goods al a small
er profit than ever before, believ-
ing that a discerning public will
appreciate the facilities which we
offer for obtaining reliable and
fashionable goods at moderate
prices.
Everything in our power will be
done to make a visit to cur store
pleasant and profitable.
Respectfully,
Owen, Moore & Co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29

While Wilbert Hood, from Paris, was at
work for Mr.. Fred Sweetsir of Phillips, last
week, cutting railroad sleepers, the ak glanced
and cut the big toe of his left foot completely
OF, SO that it came away with his stocking, and
the two next toes were cut so badly that they
dropped under the foot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29

For fine Dress and Cloak Trimmings
Laces, Kid Gloves, Hamburgs, Zephyrs,
Worsteds, Yarns, Germantown and Shetland
Woods, Flosses &C., go to Ell. 1. NELSON &
o.s, 443 Congress street, where you will find
the largest and best assortment in the city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-29

From 100 a. m. to $50 p. M, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 a. m. and fronf2 to 3 p m.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

In Belgrauio, Richard A. Proctor
shows that, while it is theoretically pos
sible to construct a chess playing au-
tomaton, it is practically impossible
because the machine would necessarily
be so enormous and complicated. There
would scarcely be room on the earth for
it, and it could not be operated. The
number of different combinations that
can be formed on chess-board is APP
proximately represented as 1OO,OOo,Ooo'-
OOO, 900, 600, 600. 100000, 100000, and If
workman could make and drill LOU
holes an hour it would, to drill the
requisite number of holes in metal
plate for one automatic chess board, re-
quire all the present inhabitants OF the
earth 100000, OOO,OOO,00O,OOO years
Therefore, Mr.. Proctor thinks, there will
never be chess automaton that can
play game, unless there is Life in
Other Worlds than Ours"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

foot .foot!" each one of them un-
derstood exactly which was the foot he
must put forward.
1t sometimes happened, however. that
man would be so busy observing his
companions-and perhaps making fun,
at the same time, of their attempts to
walk like soldiers-that he would forget
his own business, and put forward his
straw foot" when "hay-foot was
called for.
1t must have been very funny to see
these raw recruits - here q country
hostler in high boots and striped shirt !;
there farmer in his shirt-sleeves and
broad straw hat; then, perhaps, village
doctor or school-master, with his high
beaver hat and his spectacles, with tall
boy near by in cap and short jacket
all marching side by side. with hands
down by their sides, thumbs turned out,
eyes fixed on the officer as he stepped
backward before them, and all keeping
time to the monotonous call of "Hay-
foot! straw-foot! hay-foot! straw-foot!"
The regular soldiers who may have
been drilling at the same time probably
smiled, if they did not dare to laugh, at
these queer-looking men, with their hay
and straw-bound legs; but the mothers
and fathers and sisters of the recruits,
If any of them CHANGED to come to town
to see their sons or brothers drill,
doubtless thought the affair fine mill
tary display, and that Jeremiah or Caleb
would be General yet, if the war last
ed long enough.-St. Nicholas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
BREVITIES.

Nor one Boston insurance company
can show profit on the business OF the
first six months of 1879.
The silver vase presented to Henry
Clay by Wings is offered fer sale in
Boston by his grandson.
The quarantine between Texas and
New Orleans is so strict that the papers
are not interchanged.
The telephone, after being in use
only two to three years, pays interest
on an invested capital of S. 100000.
The Atlanta (Ga.) ice factory Of Sen
ator Jones, of Nevada, produces $4,000
pounds Office daily.
If the proposed new constitution of
Louisiana is ratified by the people, it
will cut short by one year the term of
Gov. Nichols.
A MAN in Utica, N. Y, cut off his
wife's hair, close to the scalp, because
she had trimmed her little girls hair
short for the hot weather.
"ONE-THIRD of the voting population
of Kentucky cannot read the ticket
they vote, and 100000 children in the
State are growing up in ignorance of
the mere elements of the English Ian
guage," says the Louisville (Ky.) Coalr-
ier-Journdl.
DIR. CUMMING, the once-popular Lon
don preacher, is broken down in mind,
body, and estate. Twenty-Five years
ago he drew immense congregations;
now an appeal for money to buy him
an annuity brings few subscriptions.
He is ~ years old.
Two WOMEN were caught in mems
| clothes stealing rare giants from con-
servatory at Pittsfeld, Mass; and a
visit by officers to their home, q few
miles from the town, revealed the fact
that it was filed with stolen flowers.
Unable to honestly crafty their love of
the beautiful, they had put on trousers
and become thieves to do so.
BRISTOL, Va-Tenn., is perhaps the
only city in the world with two Mayors,
two City Governments, police, etc., and
that is taxed in two States. The line
between Tennessee and Virginia is in
the center of Main street. The fugi-
tive commits crime in Virginia, goes
to the pavement on the other side of
the street and talks defiantly to the Off
Ger on the opposite side, who has war
rant for his arrest.
A WHOLESALE tragedy, which calls to
mind the sanguinary exploits of Trop.
mann, is reported from Toulouse. A
family of five persons, named Combet
living at Beziers, disappeared recently
in sudden and extraordinary manner
After minute search the bodies of three
of the family-father, mother and eld
est son-were found in the canal
There remained at last accounts two
other children to be. discovered. The
police are said to be on the track of the
murderer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
"Hay-foot! Straw-foot."

Many boys and girls may have heard
the words apple in derisive way to
raw recruits who were making begin
ming in their military education by
learning to march; but very few young
people-or old ones, either-know how
the term originated.
During the war of 1912, there was
great deal of drilling and training among
the militia-men all over the country,
especially in the larger cities and towns,
where the principal recruiting stations
were situated. In New York city, much
of the drilling of newly enlisted men
was done in what is now City Hall Park,
in front of tavern which stood where
the Sun newspaper building is located.
Many of these would-be soldiers were
from the country, and these, of course,
knew nothing at all about marching in
military fashion. They could walk far
enough, some of them, and work as
hard and bear as much fatigue as any
soldier in the regular army; but they
walked as they pleased, and had no ideas
about such things as keeping STEP"
1t is even said that there were fellows
amoLg them who did not know their
right foot from their left, and who were
therefore continually getting them
selves and their companions into dis
order by mixing up their legs-that is,
moving out their right leg when the
officer who was drilling them called out
Left" and the other leg when he
called out Right" If they could have
put both legs forward mt once, it is
probable they would sometimes have
done so.
To make these men understand ex-
actly which leg was meant when the
officer gave his orders, curious plan
was devised. Around the right leg of
each man, just below the knee, was tied
a wisp of hay, while wisp of straw was
tied around his left leg. Now, these
country fellows knew very well the diff
ference between hay and straw, and so,
when they were ranged in line and the
officer gave the word to march, and
called out, "Hay-foot! straw-footl hay.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
Tea Drinking i'm Russia.

A Russian goes to the tea-house to
drink tea only, with flavor of spirits
In it; If he wants other beverages, he
drinks them at home. In summer he
takes cold tea instead of hot, and
squeezes more lemon than vodki into
it; that is all the difference. He seldom
takes sugar, and the waiter does not
present it unless asked for. Cigarettes
are the rule in the tea-house not pipes
or cigars; the Russian never twirls
them himself, Spanish fashion, but buys
them ready-made. On his saying
"papyros," the waiter brings him pol
ished brass plate holding dozen loose
cigarettes of divers dimensions and of
three colors-white, buff and pink. The
last are the most delicate in flavor, and
are reserved for the bonnie bouche. The
Russian epicure begins with the white
ones, and, as he sits Invested of his
furred touloupa and wrapped in his
caftan, with his head leaning against
the wainscot and dreamily beating time
to the music of the organ, he offers
perfect picture of Oriental repose. The
wainscots are marked with rows of
greasy black circles made by the heads
of customers. There is scarcely more
talking than in Turkish cafe; but of
ficials in uniform, who may have i'm
bibed the tastes of the West, sometimes
get mp games of cards and intersperse
their play with squeaking interjections
expressive of their emotions at winning
or losing. The tea sold in the tea
houses is very good, and Russians swal-
low surprising quantities of it; three or
four pints, with proportionate guam
tity of vodki, will not seem an excessive
evenings allowance for sober man.
Coffee is never asked for. In the lower
kinds of houses (where hand barrel or
gans discourse music) the tea is said to
be rebrew from the leaves that have
been used by larger establishments; and
here it is customary to serve the tea
ready-havored with vodki. It makes a
potent beverage which will send glow
all over the body of an isvostchik (cab-
MANI in cold weather, and make him
drive his sleigh or drosky in wild zig
zags, with many yells. In the tea
houses of the lower orders, the shrine
of the Virgin stands just within the
door, and q customer would think no
more of taking tea without paying his
devotions than he would go out into
the snow without having his boots on.
When he has well drunk, he will make
another stand at the shrine on coming
out; and one is happy to say that, if
customer cannot remain quite steady on
his legs during his brief prisons, some
good Samaritans will always bear him
helping hand, lest the unsteady brother,
going out unshriven with so much
whiskyfed tea on board him, should
come to grief through his impiety. 1t
is a common phrase in Russia to say of
man who has rolled dead drunk into
the snow and got frozen there: He
forgot to pray after his tea."-Harper's
Weekly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

PEOPLE, last year and the year previ-
GUS, have been taking the late Horace
Greeley's advice in very practical
way; they have gone West in vast num-
bers. During the year ending with
June, 1879, the area of public lands
taken up under the Homestead act is
greater than the State of New Jersey,
and comprises little more than 6,O00,-
600 acres. The population of this ter
ritory cannot be less than 100000. This
increase is gratifying, as the falling of
in the entries of 1873 was nearly mill
ion acres, and in 1877 the entries aggre-
gated only 2,l7S,OO0 acres.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.


A pussy-cat's picnic did ever you hear
OF anything yet that was half 80 queer
But the brides began 1t, and this was the way
IL happened. One beautiful morning last May
Wee Susie running: "0h, look, mamma,
pease,
At the cirate lot of brides out under the trses'
so mamma looked quickly, and one seldom sees
such party of blacSbirds, and chick dee dees,
And robins, too, strutting so proudly about.
As much as to say, Master Biuebirds, Tn out
Your black coats well, In their way, suppose
But then I'm more stylish, ~ every one knows"
(Of course Robin thought this but said not word
For he knew that If Blsckblrd such dreadful things
heard,
He would hunt up that nest in the tall elder tree
And kill the dear little BIRDS quick as could be-
But all at once, Susie in childish surprise
At the new thought Just flashing through merry
blue eyes,
said Mamma they're having pitntt, fink,
Wiz muffin to eat. and muffin to drink
'Cept worms and fings. Mamma, say, tant 1, pease,
Just frow few sudar- plums under the treesp
But all in moment she gave such a cry!
For pussy. our pussy, 80 naughty and sly.
Had crept through the hedge, and, before we could
How to stop her, had caught poor chick-adee-dee.
Then, quicker than wink. she was over the wall;
So twas "pussy-cat's picnic" you see, after all.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

In Russia, as well as in Germany, Aus
tria, and one or two minor northern
realms, nobleman's title is inherited
by all his sons, who transmit it to their
male offspring, and SO on ad ininitum.
Needy mobiles necessarily abound. There
are forty or fifty Count Zichys in Hun
gary, three or four of whom are veal
thy magnates, and the rest pass their
lives in the army or Government offices
on the smallest pay. In Galicia there
are entire villages where every peasant
native has the right to preface his name
with the title of Prince.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

The last Connecticut Legislature
tried new experiment in getting It's
work before the people. Heretofore
the custom has always been to print the
laws in the newspapers, but this year
they were collected in pamphlet for
distribution by the Town Clerks among
the people. 1t is discovered, however,
that the people don't call upon the
Town Clerks for this sort of literature
with much enthusiasm, and these Off
Gals find big piles of pamphlets left on
their hands, without feeling quite safe
in disposing of them at the current
rates for waste paper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

WHEN we remark, GO it, Lemons"
we seldom pause to reflect how lemons
do go it in this country. Two millions
eight hundred thousand dollars worth
of lemons were imported into the
United States last year, although
lemons are an article we make at home.
These lemons paid $560,000 duty. Yet
the importation of lemons must de-
crease while the home-raised lemon will
increase, for, besides the duty on
lemons, more than 20 per cent. of them
decayed before reaching this country
and were thus total loss.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
Jhe Trlle Aurtllerner.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1879.

ONE of the most surprising facts with
respect to the anthracite or hard coal of
America, of which more than 100000
of tons are mined annually, is that it
comes from small locality in the State
of Pennsylvania-from the five counties
of Dauphin, Northumberland, Schuyl-
kill, Carbon and Luzerne. It's entire
area would only form q small county
twenty miles wide and twenty-four miles
lonU
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
Two Changers Discuss.

Granger A.-"Well, was up in New
England last June and found them
plantinq-such late planting beets all
1 ever seed-it narrowing fact, but
its SOW, all the same"
Granger B.-"Hay dayl wouldn't
give a straw to farm in such a slow
country-they ought to emigrate to
Texas and raise Cain"
A.-"That'll dew; don't rake up any
more yarns-you may Iget me all in a
maize. Lettuce have peas"
B.-You'd better take that ear corn
of yourn to millet will relieve your
mind"
A.-Oat IL wheat to hear the early bird,
To listen to the lowing herd.
But neither is half as sweet as seeing q
fresh Yankee girl of radishing beauty
aud trying to cultivator acquaintance
by singing hoe Emma, etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

CAPT. JAMES b. EADs has lately been
in New York, consulting with capital
lists on the subject of constructing a
ship railway across the Isthmus OF Pan
anna. 1t is understood that he can Sc
cure means to test the practicability OF
his scheme if he can secure proper
authorization to begin the work. A
bill will be introduced in Congress at
the next session to remove the prelim-
mary difficulties in the way of begin
ming the work. Capt. Eads' scheme is
to get ships into basin, mounted upon
trucks, and by steam power to convey
the ship and basin upon rails across the
isthmus. The Nicaraguan Government
has informed this Government that it is
opposed to the De Lesseps plan. In
compliance with the request OF the
Nicaraguan authorities, Civil Engineer
Menocal, of the United States navy,
has been given leave by the Secretary
of the Navy to complete his survey OF
the Nicaraguan route for a canal across
the isthmus. The work was begun by
Menocal some time ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

A CONNECTICUT paper says that the
people of Stratford, that State, were ex-
cited at the reported theft of case OF
diamonds worth $1,000, from Mrs.
Gunther, of New York, daughter-in-law
of ex-Mayor Gunther, of that city. The
police worked away on the case like
good fellows, and doubtless had several
good "clews," when it was found that
Mrs. Gunther had herself stuffed the
case into the covering of old sofa dur
ing fit of sleep-walking.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
"Curds and Whey."


had letter from friend in Lon
don the other day, and he says:
Don't you remember how nice the
curds and whey tasted that we children
used to eat more than sixty years ago,
in st. James Park?"
Oh, don't remember all about it.
/ couldn't have been more than 4
years old then, but l thought myself
quite young lady, because / wore "tip-
pet. and sleeves, and beaver gloves"
and ate my lunch in st. James Park
that fashionable place where Kings and
Queens, and Earls, and Dukes, and all
the great folks, ride and drive every
day.
But I don't think they any of them
enjoyed that grand old park more than
we girls and boys did our Spring Gar
den" corner of it.
There the herd of sleek, beautiful
COWS stood in the shade OF those fine
old trees patiently chewing the cud,
while the neat, rosy-cheeked milk-maids
in nice clean gowns, and white aprons
and caps, drew the foaming milk into
large white wooden pals.
The wide, polished brass hoops gilt
tered in the sunshine as they carried
the milk to the long tables placed under
the trees.
There it was poured into large, white,
shallow bowls or pans, just warm enough
to be turned by "rennet" into delicious
"curds and whey"
The maids at the tables with large
spoons carefully dipped out the CULVER
ing curd into dainty little bowls, pour
ing new milk over it, and handing it to
their eager little customers, who, for
one penny, had splendid lunch "fresh
from the cow"
Then Nancy, our girl, would take us
to have a near look at the gentle COWS,
and would stroke their soft, velvety
noses, and thank them for the nice
curds and whey they had given us.
Why, it seemed almost like being in
the country to us little "cockneys."
A race over the broad, smooth gravel
avenues and walks of the park, and a
look at the splendid carriages, with their
prancing horses, that rolled by, and the
ladies and gentlemen on their beautiful,
high spirited horses, with their richly
dressed footmen riding just so many
feet behind them, finished our morning
ramble on those lovely summer days in
st. James Park.
In this letter, which has brought to
my mind the nice times we used to have
in the park so many years ago, this
friend says, "Our old Spring Garden
corner is still there, and few cows-in
the course of nature not the same.
"And what was then field with trees
is now charming labyrinth of lawns,
clumps of rare plants, and the choicest
specimens of woodlawn beauty from
every cline.
Towering above all are still some of
the ancient monarchs of the park; but
they are going, and their shortened
trunks tell in their enormous size of the
many hundred years they have stood
there"
Dear old trees! orten think of you,
and of the nice "curds and whey" we
used to eat under the shadow of your
great branches. AUNT DOLLY.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

A PHILADELPHIA newsboy, seeing a
locomotive start off by itself on a down
grade Of the Pennsylvania railroad, and
knowing that unless switched off at a
certain point it would meet an express
train. undertook to outrun it. He won
the race just in time to tell switchman
and prevent disaster. Col. Scott re-
warded him with a monopoly OF the
newspaper trade on one of the COM
pany's lines, and from it he derived a
good income until he died, a few days
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
The Restoration of Paris.

For almost ten years, the site of the
Tuileries at Paris has strongly remind
ed the traveller of the translation of that
celebrated name, the brickkilns. The
palace of the French sovereigns has
been in ruins, at least the portion de-
voted to residence, the great front
which stands at right angles to the
Seine and looks out upon the famous
garden, toward the Place de Ia Con-
corde. 1t is the last wreck of the Com
mune to be disposed of. The Vendome
column has been rebuilt, the City Hall
has been restored, the house of M.
Theirs has been replaced, every scar
upon the pillars of the Madeleine and
other traces of the day of barbarism
have been scrupulously obliterated, but
the Tuileries remained crumbling pile
fallen capitals and broken arches.
The Tuileries formed one end of a grand
quadrangle, of which the Louvre consti-
tuted the other end. The Louvre had
long since been devoted to art, but
for the republic to restore the Tuileries
was to invite spt culation as to who
should occupy it. The Assembly has
at length solved the problem of the dis
posal of the ruins by ordering their de-
molition and removal, the garden to be
extended over their site. Some will
trace a melancholy connection between
this event and the recent death of the
most promising pretender to the French
throne. Probably the republic, whose
administration now occupies the super
fuous palaces which escaped ruin, will
some day build its own Capitol upon
this spot. The national pride in Paris,
which since the war has carried out the
imperial plan of the Avenue del Opera,
will some time necessitate the erection
oS Capitol of dignity and magnif.
cence corresponding to the wealth and
taste of the French people.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15

The course of medical education in
Russia has not proved to be advan-
tageous to the health of the female stu
dents. In the first class of graduates at
the st. Petersburg medical college for
women there were eighty-six students
of these ffty-six passed through the
final examination; eighteen left the col
lege before the examination on account
of ill-health; and twelve died during
the five years course. Two of them