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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-21
STATE OF MAINE.

To lie HpnorabIe the justices Of The Supreme Jndi.
ciGl Corrt, neat 10 be hotd'h at A"yustd. Titain
oad 0rhe county Of henHeJec, on TIE FIRST Tues
ddg Of Mnrch, I. u. 1879.
7 EWIS L. HENDERSON, husband of Nellie ~
Henderson,, respectfully libel. and gives this hon.
orable court To be informed that hc was lawfully
ried to the bcllce ut Augusta in said State of Maine
the fifteenth day of November hos that your libel
LIANT since their inteTnarrage, has ALWAYS conducted
himself ~ kind and faithful husband, and has
provided her with suitable maintenance and support
that the libellant and belee lived together in this
state from the time Of their marriage till November
ls.2 at which time they removed TO Cambrdgeport,
Massachusetts, and lived there three that in the
month of veuber, ls.j they removed to the city of
Ualowcll in this state and have continued to reside
in said Iaowell. in good faith since that dur.
ing the month of January, ls7s, while so living in
said lIallowe the libellee wfully and without just
cause therefor. deserted your bellant and lived away
from him two weeks, but M the earnest solicitation
of your libellant, your bece after said absence OF
two weeks, returned and lived with Your lbellant;
that during the month of May ls7s, the bellee again
wuly deserted the libellan, but nj his earnest
lications she again returned and lived with him al.
ter absence OF one month"; that the said libellee
sometime during the month of July, 1873 again vii.
fully deserted and abandoned your ibtlant, and has
never returned To him; and your libellant further
that he has used due diligence to ascertain the
present residence of the libollae and By the
else of such due diligence he has heen unable to rs.
certain 1t, that there exist such incompaibilty OF
temper and disposition between the libelant and Il.
belize that they cannot longer remain In the marriage
relation in peace and harmony, and in the perfor.
nance of the mutual duties and obligations thereby
imposed upon them. Whereupon. nasmnch II
would be reasonable and proper conducive TO doncs
tic harmony, and consistent with the peace and NOR
ality of society. your llhclnn prays this honorable
court 10 decree IL divorce from the bonds of matri.
mnny. -
Personally appeared before me, the within named
Lewis L. Henderson, libellant, and made oath that
the averment contained in the libel in relation to
hi. using dine diligence ascertain the present res
LEWIS r. HENDERSON.
ApTUI-p IIRREY Justic. cr ,b. pa.oo
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
On motion, duly seconded and car

On motion, duly seconded and car
ried, il was unanimously resolved that
whereas it is apparent to this Board
that. a mistake has occurred in the as,
sessment of lot 4, block 49,, in the vii
'age Of Little Falls, we, the County
Commissioners Of Morrison county,
hereby authorize and direct the youn,
Ety Auditor to correct said mistake,
and we further authorize and direct
said Auditor to abate all costs and
penalties on said lot4, block 19.
Ga motion, duly seconded and car
ried, the sum oftwenty>fve dollars
was appropriated out Of the County
fund to help the town Of Swan River
to repair the bridge on Swan river
near the Mississippi river, said money
to be paid on the order Of G.. W..
Lakin, County Commissioner.
On motion, duly seconded and carr
ried, J. D. Lachauce, County Auditor,
was directed to have notices published
in the Little Falls Transcript until
April 18th, 1879, that sealed propos>
ais will be received at the Office Of the
County Auditor until 10 o'clock in the
forenoon Of said day, for the finishing
Of the Court House and for the paint.
ing Of the same.
On motion. duly seconded and car
ried, the sum Of eight dollars was ap>
propriated out of the County poor fund
to help Syrus Cox, poor person.
The following bills we're duly pre-
sented to the Board, examined and
allowed l.:
George Geissel, fees as County Commits
sioner, $11,S0
N. Meyer, fees as Co. Commissioner, 1900
N. Gravel, fees as Co. Commissioner. 1880
IL - DAouAoAu3 AeoS dS OOuu'y COWmls-
sloner, 9,20
G. W. Lakin, fees as County Commits
sioner, 10.40
n. Meyer, looking after poor, 900
q, ". Lakin. looking after poor, 800
II. J. Bredfeld, looking after poor, 200
II. J. Bredfeld, goods d sundries, 700
On motion, duly seconded and car
ried, J. D: Lachauce, County Auditor,
was authorized and directed to issue
an order out Of the County poor fund
to H. J. Bredfeld, County Commis~
sioner, to help Lucy Matchet, pau
per.
On motion, duly seconded and car
ried, the County Auditor was author>
lied and directed to purchase books
necessary to be used in County Sur
veyor's Office.
On motion, duly seconded and car
ried, Board adjourned until April
18th, 1879, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Attest, j. D. LAcHANcE,
Approved, County Auditor.
NICHOLAS MEYER,
Chairman of Board of Co. CONS.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
Teachers of Morrison County.

All persons needing Teachers Ger
ti6cates. are hereby notified that the
public examinations will be as follows
At the School House in District
No. 5 in the town of Bellevue on Sat-
urday, March Goth.
AT the School House in District No
3 in the village of Little Falls on Fri
day and Saturday, April 4th and 9th
1879.
Exercises to commence at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. Private examinations should
not be sought, except in case of una
veidable necessity. (see School Law
Little Falls, March 18th. 1879.
j.. A. GuERNoN,
County School Superintendent.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

The three Chippewa agencies in
Minnesota, at White Earth, Leech
Lake and Red Lake, have been con-
solidated into one agency, with its
headquarters at White Earth, and Mr..
Charles A. Ruffee has been appointed
agent for all the Minnesota Chlppewas,
with a salary of $4,000 per year.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
From the Douglas County News.

From the Douglas County News.
In these days the good housewife
armed with a rake, which her hus>
band has bought for the occasion. and
clad in an old calico wrapper and 4
sun bonnet that looks like a joint o1
stove pipe, sallies forth to the flower
beds; aud after working ten minutes
comes into the house $50 tired" thai
she is unable to do any housework 70,
a week.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

On motion, duly seconded AID car,
rled, George Geissel, County Commis-
sioner, was appointed an agent to look
after the land owned by Morrison
county, in Stearns County, and was
authorized to sell the same to the best
advantage, and the County Auditor
was authorized and directed to issue
an order out Of the County fund to
pay the taxes on said lands.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

On Monday last special election
was held in Minneapolis to vote upon
the issue of bonds to the amount of
$3.50, 900 for railroad purposes. The
vote stood about three to one in favor
Of issuing bonds.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

Hon. J. H. Stewart, ex-member of
congress from this district, has been ap-
pointed surveyor~general of Minnesota,
vice Gen. J. Il. Baker, whose term
expired on the J7th inst.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

F. D. Hall is now offering for sale
the new kind of harvester manufact-
ured by George Esterly & Son at
Whitewater, Wis. It bas no canvas
or belts to get wet and hinder the
working OF the machine or to rot.
The bundles are delivered separately,
complete and perfect, ready for bind
Jog, and the machine is of very light
draft. It has other points of superi>
ority, which can be learned by calling
at E. D. Halls Office IN Little Falls.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

C. Hays, of Two Rivers, Morrison
county, Mimi, who is town clerk, JUS
tice Of the peace, notary public, real
estate and insurance agent, guarantees
to transact all business entrusted with
him promptly and satisfactorily. spe-
clal attention given to drawing all
kinds Of legal instruments. &r,.zzz 81
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

LEON .HOUDE r.. ..:.. r..
Aa'j.s received til. 1"rae., B<< AID caaeps~ se.><
NEW GOODS
Dry Goods, Groceries, Pro-
visions, Boots and Shoes.
Hats and Caps, Flour and
Feed, Heavy and shelfHard-
ware, Crockery and
Glassware,
And, in fact, everythtn9 thai my customer. vanx
The oasnto" of farmers called the that paying very high
market price
WHEAT
axd a0kinls Of Fu.u Prodao>
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Mystery of Scent.

No one has yet been able to analyze or
demonstrate the essential action Of per-
iume. Gas can be weighed but not scent.
The smallest known creature-thc very
monades of ife--can be caught by mi
croscopic lens and made to deliver up the
secrets of their organizations, but what
is it that emanates from the pouch Of the
musk deer that fills a whole space for
wears with its penetrating odor--an odor
that an illiinitable number of extraneous
substances can carry on without diminish
ing its size and weight-and what il is
that the warm summer air brings us from
the flowers, TO man has yet been able to
determine. So fine, so subtle, So impon-
dcrable; it has cluded Our most delicate
weights and measures and our strongest
senses. IF We come to the essence of
each odor, we should have made an enor-
nous stride forward, both in hygiene and
in chemistry, and none would profit more
than the medical profession if it could be
as conclusively demonstrated that such an
odor proceeds from such and sucn cause,
and we already know OF sulphur, sui
phate, hydrogen, ammonia and the like.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Street Life I'm Venice.
PHILADELPHIA Press.l

Venice's great impression Is its street
iife-so brilliant so highly colored, SO un-
like that of any other city. The COM
monplace shows of the guide-books are
fiat and Disappointing: the prisons, dun
geons, Bridge of Sighs and SO forth. The
school girl glamour thrown over these
places is mainly ,raceable to Byron's
sentimental wash of verse. The unbal-
anced poets judgment on the historic
events of Venice is about as weak and
vicious as his judgment on other matters,
and his ignorance Of fact is appalling.
The daily picture of all Venice, how
ever, is something of which one never
tires and which changes with every hour.
Gondola life is something deliciously
dreamy and luxurious in the soft light of
day or under the sheen Of moon and
starlight Let dark night come and
rain, however, and these long, narrow,
deep black boats, seen mysteriously from
the faint point of light in the prov, take
to themselves the likeness of floating cof
fins steered by the shades. The effect is
indescribably sepulchral. You seem to
be alone in the waters of Hades among
the spirits. The gondolas are all of
funeral black-painted black, carved in
black, with black draperies over the dark
cabin. Many centuries ago Venetian
law ordered this pattern and color, for
what reason do not know. The laws in
Venice do not change, and the gondolas
are all black and ghastly to this day.
The streets are very narrow and blaze
with light. There narrowness-some-
times not over three feet-makes very
little light serve 10 brilliantly illuminate
them, and the jets in the shop windows,
kept open till late at night keep them
bright and blazing almost without the
outdoor lamps. Through them the peo'
pie surge in constant streams-ah nations,
all classes, all colors. You study the
world, but even the Venetians themselves
present some strong contrasts, for they in
time are made up of the blood OF many
people. One striking contrast, which you
soon note, is that the Venetian men as
body are dark, their women blonde. The
sounds, too, are polyglotta, and every
thing is international. 1t was my first
sight, for instance, Of Greek money,
which received several times in change
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
A Nervous People
Newark Advertiser.I

Excellent medical authority asserts that
the constant strain of business, added to
the dryness of our climate, has so changed
!he constitution that it is impossible for
US to do what our fathers did before us
safely. ave are" says DR.. Beard, "ten
degrees more sensitive to cold than they
were," as the cases of sunstroke and heat
prostration bear evidence. There is an
immense increase in neuralgia, sick head
ache, hay-fever. nervous exhaustion, and
especially in dyspepsia, in itself the
potent source of host Of physical and
mental irritants and distresses.
Now with such systems as we have,
high h-strung, nervous and irritable, the use
of stimulants cannot be otherwise than
injurious. 1t is impossible to use them as
thev were used in the davs gone by.
There is hardly man of middle age who
does not remember that hospitality and
sideboard of wines and liquors were sy-
nonymous terms. Both men and women
drank freely, and professional men and
the clergy indulged in the same habit. 1t
would be folly to say that what is vice
now was virtue then, but it can be safely
asserted that people did indulge then with
out the same injurious effects that follow
the practice now.
The predominant nervousness of the
present time had not been developed.
Our ancestors could drink freely, smoke
extravagantly, indulge to excess in tea
and coffee, and yet live to serene old
age; now it is simply impossible True,
the traffic in ardent spirits has enormously
increased, but so has the population. True,
people yet drink to excess, but they do
not do it with impunity. Circumstances
have altered cases, and two thirds of the
present terrible effects flowing from in
temperance are due to the changed phvsi-
illogical conditions Of the human race,
and especially in this country, where peo.
pie are strung up to tension that will no
more allow a free use of strong drinks
than barn filled with straw will permit
the introduction Of fire.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

The following thoughts we command to
the public: alas it ever occurred to you
what commentary upon our civilization
are those lost women and the attitude OF
society toward them3
A little child strays from its home in
closure and the whole community is on
the alert to find the wanderer and restore
it to its mothers arms. What reJoicings
when it is found, with fearful sympathy,
what heartiness of congratulations! !!
There are no harsh comments upon tired
feet. be they ever SO miry. No reprimand
for the soiled, torn garments, no lack of
kisses for the tear stained face. But let
the child be grown into wonanhood; let
her be led from it by scourge or want;
what happens' DO Christian men and
women go in search of her? Do they
provide all possible means for her return
to her own nation3 Do they receive her
with such kindness and delicacy as to Sc
cure her against wandering' Far from
it. At the first step she is denounced as
lost-lost! Each, friends and relatives
we disown you; don't ever come to dis
grace us. Lost, says society, Indifferent
w. How bad these girls are And lost
irretrievable lost-is the prompt verdict
Of conventional morality, while one and
all unite in boiling every door between
here and morality. All! will not those
erring ones be required at our hands here
afterp
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

He slept on the sofa, and looked visibly
Older at breakfast the next morning, hav.
ing startled and paining expression in
his eyes.
When the meal was concluded he took
his daughter aside and asked her IL she
was really sure ,ha, she loved the Young
man, and when she replied that he could
gamble on it Tor words 10 that effect, he
said he could no longer Withhold his con-
sent-her happiness was more to him
than the spectacle of vindieated authori.
y.
10, pa, how good and kind you are !"
sobbed the beautiful girl, falling upon his
neck.
Amanda, my love-" said the author of
her being, "thats all right and l don't
bear your lover any malice, but don t
want you, my dear girl, to believe that
your pa is a three ply double and twist
liar, for | never said anything of that sort.
But it would do me no good to deny it !;
not if sued him for perjury and the ju-
rors brought in verdict OF guilty with,
out leaving the box"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Gladness.
Bishop Of Rochester in Good words.l


Now say, and distinctively as a Chris.
tian teacher, that joy is reasonable and
becoming and necessary and unspeakably
helpful. Reasonable, for it is one of the
periections of God; and man, being made
in the image Of God, may be expected to
resemble Him in it.
We observe it in thousand things: the
song of the birds, the mirth of children,
the instinct of humor, the cheek dimp-
ling into smile, the souls glee express
ing itself in laughter; here are but few of
the signs that joy is faculty of man.
And if becoming in all of us, how charm.
ing and suitable it is in the young! AS
our years grow, and our memory becomes
charged with anguish, and the setons of
sorrowful associations give us quick twists
OF pain, and down the hill we travel to
the river at the foot, with but few of
those who climbed it in our company, or
even stood with US on the summit, loy is
not SO quick or so upmixed as once it was !;
even when we take it, the old sparkle
seems gone. 1t is still jov, but not the
gladness of youth. But the young, for
whom life has but few cares conscience,
but few stains; memory, but few disap-
pointmentss Ndgmcnt but few problems;
behind it childhood, and in front man.
hood, with the grandeur Of enterprise and
the wine OF hope, joy is not only natural
but suitable. All Young things are full
of JOY; and He who made them means
them to be.
The burdens are at hand, and will be
here soon enough. Do not hasten them
DO not wish to bear them till thev come.
And this it is which not only makes iov
necessary, but also explains the abun,
dance and excess OF it, which tells us how
it is that not SO much for middle age, op-
pressed with its sombre and fatisuing
commonplaces, not for old age, with its
work done and its dismissal near, but for
YOUTH vigorous and buovant, JOY is SO
facile and so brisk. 1t is to help the young
to grow and to make them start and 10
bear their disannointments, and to part
with their Illusions, and 10 face th.'r dis
cipline, and to remedy ~ :.neair IL mistakes.
The little bark is on the shore, and it
needs vigorous shove to push it into the
water, and then a steady breeze to fill the
sails and float it out over the bay into the
deep sea. And this is what joy does, and
nothing else like it, making the will Wig
Jrous, the heart buoyant, coloring the i'm
tsination in the hues of the tropics, and
ajoling the reason into mistaking the
possible for the real.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
The First Sewing Machine in India
fChamkex's Iaura.l1

In the days when the sewing machine
was in its earliest infancy, a lady resi-
ding In India imported one, and for a
long time kept its mysterious workings
hid from the ken of her native tailor,
This functionary was the very slowest
Of his proverbially slow ''caste," and
wasted no end of time drawling over hem
and stitch.
One day his mistress comes to him
arm-laded with yards upon yards of some
dress fabric, "Dirzee," says she, show
long will 1t take you to run these
breadths together?" "Tree- day, Missis,"
replied Dirzee. "Misses, please, plenty
too much work" "Three daysi Non
sensel Three hours you mean. You
are very lazy man, and will cut your
paw. Give me the stuff; I'll do it N.Y.
self"
Then the lady retires to her boudoir,
from the inmost penetralia of which a
sharp and continuous click and whirr
reaches the ear of the tailor. He can't
make out what the sound is, and he is
much too lazy to speculate on It. He con-
tinues to chew "betel," and yawningly to
apply needle and thread. After an hour
or two, "Missis" comes back, and throw
ing at Mr.. Dirzee's feet the raw material,
now fashioned into completed skirt,
says: There! See! You wanted three DAYS,
YOU sleepy fellow,to finish this and have
done it already.
Astonished, Dirzee turns over the dra-
perry, examines the seams, scrutinizes the
stich, and satisfies himself that all is prop
er and according to tailors' rule. He is
confounded. 1t passes his understanding.
There lies the work done and no mistake.
But hows He springs up from the mat
on which he has been squatting; he kicks
over the little brass vases that hold his
drinking water; he scatters right and ,eft
thread, needles and thimble: h.. stons not
to put on his sandals Or 20 adjust his loos.
ened ,i turban and waist CLOTH Scared and
y. !. "''u' "a he runs for very life into the
yazaar, shouting as he goes along: "Sh-
tan! Shitan The evil one! the evil one 7
He do tailor business in that Mans house.
| listen. hear. He cry click, click,
click! Two hours' time he never stop
cry. Den Plenty too much true dis work
| tell! Ebery bit true. All work done
finish! not go back dat bungalow"
And he never did.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
Why Don't the Men Object


Male drcss-makers are increasing rapid
ly, and find favor in the sight of waman,
and what is stranger, woman's husband
But imagine woman setting herself up
as fashionable tailor in New York !!
Every wife would protest against 1t if her
husband should patronize the lady Of
shears But the man dress makers pa
irons neither find family protests as OBJ
stacles, nor have any SET of influences
until within the last month--determined
upon hindering the male from driving the
female away from the bread-trough.
These ladies belong to the upper fashiona-
Bile classes, and while they have hitherto
been either painfully conservative in the
matter of woman's self assertion in pub
lie and business matters or in some in
Stances decidedly opposed to those wo-
men who believe themselves reforiners,
in justice to their sex they now refuse TO
tolerate male dress-makers, and the latter
must expect reason of disrepute, If not
OF permanent hostility. This is selfsac-
rficing, for the male dress maker eclipses
his feminine rivals.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29
The Country Of the Future.

Ex-Governor DINGHY, of Maine, who
has been travelling through Europe, says
that John Bright declared to him that
"America is bound to be the country of
the future" Mr. DINGHY adds that it is
surprising to listen to the favorable com
ments upon America which are now
heard in Europe.
Not many years ago our country was
spoken Of slightingly and, even with deri-
sion. All this has been changed. An
American hears his country spoken of
with appreciation and even -eulogv'
Americans are treated with a respect and
courtesy that is shown to few foreigners.
Everywhere he went, in nearly every
railroad car, in hotels, on the streets, he
heard discussion on the prospects OF
America, with such remarks as these
What a wonderIiii'country" "How rap,
idly America is Developing"