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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-23
u. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-Ge

A large Indignation meeting was held
in Bangor the other night, to discuss the
TRACE per, t.ated by G"%H"U,r and
Council, when Senator Hamln, referring
to the cl,im of the Governor and Coun-
Gil that they acted under forms of law,
said:
"Jesus Christ was sacrificed under
forms of law. There has been no act of
oppression or crulty recorded in the pages
of history which has not been done under
forms of law. We want something more
than forms of law; we want to vindicate
the spirit of the law. The Governor and
his seven Councillors have, by their arbi-
trary and unwarranted acts, reversed the
will of the other people, as expressed by
them through the ballot, and | want
to say to you what | believe to be the
duty of the citizens of Maine. Shun
every one of these men as you would
pestilence! Make every one of them an
outcast and wandering Jew! Point the
finger of scorn at them, as moral lepers,
covered with sores from head to foot"
Hamlin was applauded. Several other
speeches were made in the same strain.
Resolutions were adopted denoucing the
action of the Governor and Council.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-23
EXCEEDINGLY LOW.

N. :. ROSENFIKLD.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
The Stock Regions OF Texas.

The section of country along the Gulf
coast, living between Houston and Gal
weston, and extending far around to the
Rio Grande. is the famous pasture region
of Texas. The country consists Of open
land, skirted everywhere by the blue
horizon. Its fertility and luxuriant
crops of grass. the even temperature
through the year, and the numerous
small streams of pure water, MAXI 1t
emphatically the paradise" not "tf
the Peri" but of the cows. Some OF the
cattle farms of this country are respect
able municipalities in their way. rivaling
many OF the petty kingdoms of the
German States. and the proprietors are
literal lords of nil they survey. From
100, 600 to 300. 900 acres, all in n farm,
are no unusual thing, and this, too,
under fence, where roam thousands on
thousands of sleek and saucy becves. 1t
is 4 very kingdom of cows. The owners.
uoo. are live, energetic men, awake to
the importance Of having the best
breeds, and accordingly have imported
Brahmin and Syrian bulls, which make
q most excellent cross on the Texas
stock. Durham and Devon stock do
not succeed well, being too subject to
fever. Great as it already is, it is be-
lieved that the cattle business in Texas
is vet in its infancy. The European de-
mand for fresh meats will tend to stimu-
late and enlarge the business.-New York
Mercantile Journal.
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Convict Labor.

Superintendent Wright, Of the Massa-
chusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, has
prepared a report for the next Legislature
Of that State. He says thai the number
Of convicts in 1878 in all the State
prisons oftile Union was 90, 1877, of whom
3,lS6 were employed in mechanical in
dustrics. The greatest number was in
New York and the smallest in I:hodc
Island. Three systems of labor We're
found to be in practice. The tlrst IS the
ontract system, which is ado pied III
Massachusetts and generally in the
Northern States, and which consists in
selling the labor of the prisoners Tor Il
stipulated time and at q fixed price per
day to the highest bidder, the work
usually being done within the walls OF
the prison, under the supervision of an
agent of the purchaser. The second is
the lessee system, which consists IN
leasing convicts to - party for a specl-
fed sum per year, with the PROVISION
that the lessee shall feed, clothe, and
discipline the convicts, and indeed at
tend to the entire work Of their care and
maintenance. This system is adopted III
some ofthe Southern States. The third
is the public account" system, accord
ing to which the officers of the prison
purchase all the raw materials, manu-
iacture the goods and sell them in the
open market for the best price they can
get, the same as any manufacturing cs-
adjustment. At the rate OF forty cents
per day, which was the average, the
wage-PuningS for the whole year
amounted to Sl,G24,5l5. At So per day.
would have earned IS, l22. $40. The pro-
ducts of prison labor. if we take the
, labor at 81 per day, did not exceed $780,
oGo,0 0 in 1878. while the products of all
the mechanical industries Of the United
States amounted to five thousand mil
lions
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Lucid, Very.

The proprietor Of q restaurant was
standing at his door the other morning.
when q rather questionable-looking man
paused to speak to him.
Good morning" said the restaura-
teur, pleasantly; You look bright this
morning."
Eyes, sir"
Il guess you got up before brcakfas
this morning. el.9"
"No, sir; I did not. I got up after
breakfast replied the pilgrim. i'll
humble tones. -,
"You got up after breakfast. did
you" inquired the MAJ Of meals, rather
sarcastically.
"Yes. sir. / got up after breakfast
"Id like to know how you did it,"
"You would, eh?"
"Yes, sir, l would"
"Well. YOU see, I got up this morning
at seven o'clock. and l amt had nothin'
to eat since breakfast yesterday morn
ing"
The hotel man seemed perfectly salts
ied.-MW York &ar.
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But the one circumstance of all that
troubled Rena most, and which, frank
though she was, she could not confide to
good Mrs. Brown, was the certainty that
She should never see Harold Reede more.
In this. however, it CHANGED that she
was mistaken. She had not been three
days within the shelter of her old home
when Rev. Mr.. Reedc was announced.
Rena came blushing down to see him.
IL thought you would avoid me-"
she faltered, latter what happened at
the croquet ground"
avoid you?" repeated he. "For
what do you take me, Miss Lewis?
Stay a minute. Let me speak. l have
always admired you; but upon that
afternoon Icomprchended my own heart.
| knew then that | loved you"
And Rena, in the blisstul confusion of
her contending emotion. knew not what
answer to make. so" said Mrs.
Brown, shrewdly. eve have no need to
look out fresh situations, ell? No situa-
ton like that of wife, Rena."
And Ill the brightness of Mrs. Harold
Rccdc's life had its supplying fount from
The croquct ground, on Georgetown
Heights, where Rcna Lewis suffered that
cruel humiliation.
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That Barrel.

Just as the last rays of the setting sur
were gliding the church spires and
withdrawing the back kitchens of De-
troit the other afternoon = man and a
barrel were discovered at a stairway on
Monroe avenue. He WAS a small man
and il was Il big barr.i. and pedestrians
who saw him looking up the stairs and
back ut the barrel inferred that it was
his intention to elevate it to the third
story. But how?
= I'D rigs tackle and pul!y in thatthird
story window" said the first man who
halted. That's your easiest way and
there's no danger of accident"
He leaned against the lanp-post to
calculate on the length Of rope and the
lifting power required and along came a
second man who took in the situation ut
a glance and said:
go and get some scantlings fourteen
feet long and lay 'em on the stairs. Then
two men can roll that barrel up there rs
slick us grease"
The little man looked around in a help
less sort Of way, and q third man came
clustering up and called out: =.
want to get that barrel up stairs, ell?
Well, now, f;isten your pulley ut the
head of the stairs and ten men down here
can snake the barrel up in no time.
Where's your tackle:?'
BY this time the crowd had increased
to twenty, and vas pretty evenly divided
between Il dead lift through one Of the
front windows and q pulley at the top OF
the stairs, but the man who suggested
the skids had very loud voice, and was
determined to carry his point. Taking
off his coat he said: ,
Il know what Pm talking about. and
I say that | can skid that barrel up there
alone. You just wait p minute"
He crossed the street to an unfinished
building and returned with a couple of
two by four scantlings and laid them on
the stairs, and the crowd numbered
fifty.
You want this barrel on the thiro
floor do you2" he asked the little man.
"Yes-but-but-"
but what?"
"Why Twas waiting for my wife to get
the clothcs-horSe out of the upper hail:
She's all ready now, and III take it up
And the little man shouldered the
barrel and trotted briskly up stairs be-
tween the skids. 1t was empty.-DetroI
Free Press.
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4 Quaker Printers Proverbs,

Never send an article for publication
without giving the editor thy name, for
thy name ottentimes publica-
ton to worthless articles.
Thou shouldst not rap at the door OF
a printing office; for he that answereth
the rap sneereth in his sleeve and loseth
time.
Never do thou loaf about, nor knock
down type. or the boys will love thee as
they do the shade trees-when thou
leavest.
Thou shouldst never read the copy on
the printers cases or the sharp n
hooked containcr thereof, or he may
knock theedown.
Never inquire of the editor for news,
for behold it is his business to give 1t to
thee at the appointed time without ask
ing for it.
It is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author Of an article, Tor
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.
When thou dost enter his office, take
heed unto tlyself that thou dost not look
ut what concerns thee not, forthat is not
meet in the sight of good breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof-sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye that
thou mayst understand.
Thou shouldst not delude thyself with
the thought that thou hast saved a few
cents when thou hast secured q dead
head COPY of his paper, for whilst the
printer NAV smile and say it's all right,
he'll never forget thv meanness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
Facts About Flour.

Flour is peculiarly sensitive to atmos-
pheric influences. hence it should never
be stored in a room with sour liquids,
nor where onions and fish are kept. nor
any article that taints the air of the
room in which it is kept: Any smell
%perceptiblc to the n will be absorbed
by lour Avoid damp cellars or lofts
where u free circulation of air cannot be
obtained. Keep in a cool, dry, airy
room, and not exposed to a freezing
temperature nor to an intense summer.
or to artificial heat for any length of
time above seventy or seventy-five
degrees. 1t should not come in contact
with grain or any substances liable to
heat. Flour should be sifted and the
particles thoroughly disintcgrated, and
then warmed before baking. This treat
ment improves the color and baking
Should be prepared for the oven Us soon
as the yeast has performed its mission,
otherwise fermentation sets in and
acldity results.-Amcrican Miller.
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ACTS OF A PERSONAL NATURE.

An act for the relief of Cyrus Thomas,
discussing agent of the United' States
chronological Commission.
For the. relief of DR.. G. W. Brink,
bearer of dispatches from the United
States Minister in Mexico in 1869.
. For the relief of the estate of Henry
Conard.
For the relief of'the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, Of Paris, Texas.
For the relief of William Nephew
King, Jr.
Providing compensation to e. E. Rice
for property transferred by him to the
government of the United States for the
use OF the diplomatic and consular repre-
sentatives at Hakodadi, in Japan.
To allow John Merryman and Frank
Brown, Of Maryland, to import and land
cattle for breeding purposes:
Extending the pension of Gen. James
Shields to his widow and children, and
granting a special pension to the widow
of Col. Fletcher Webster.
An act authorizing the Secretary OF
War to furnish condemned ordnance for
the monument of Col. Robert l..
McCook, of the Ninth Ohio Volunteers,
in Cincinnati. ,.
TO remove the political disabilities OF
Bagby, Arthur p, Texas: North,
James H., Virginia; Beale, "; N. r.,
Missouri; Saunders, John S., Baltimore
Harrison, James F., Virginia; Pember-
ton, J. c., Philadelphia.
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A Grave Joke.

Burleigh writes from New York to the
Boston Journal: There are in this city a
couple of brothers who look as much
alike rs two peas in a pod. They are
often mistaken one for another. Men
who have business with the n eften
try to do it with the other. One was
taken very sick; his brother attended
him with great fidelity during all his
illness. He was with him the night he
died. Leaving the body in the hands OF
the family, the living brother retired to
a room to repose. The undertaken came
in to measure the body. He knew the
brothers quite well, but did not know
which one was sick. Instead of going
into the room in which the dead man
Law, he went into the one where the liv-
ing man was sleeping. True to his in
stincts, he took out his measure and pro-
ceeded to measure the sleeper for his
coffin. He was so intent in his business
that he did not notice the breathing of
his subject, Moving up toward the face
he accidentally struck the nose of the
sleeper. This aroused the drowsy one,
and he faced the undertaken by sitting
bolt upright in the bed. The under
taker fled, hair erect, hatless and tools
left behind. It was q long time before
he could be persuaded to return and mt
the really dead man for his burial.
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Baby Earmin~

A curious story of baby farming in
Baltimore came to light II short time
since, and was told to a representative
of the Baltimore Gazette, with the under
standing that all names should be sup.
pressed. In the northwestern section OF
the city, in Il little by-street, there has
resided for over a quarter of 4 century an
old woman who for many years ago
practiced Little Buttercup's art of baby
farming. Many Of the little ones left in
her care were, when a few months old,
entrusted to the charity Of some infant
asylum, and in after years entered upon
lives of toll and drudgery, while others
or the little proteges were adopted by
miles of affluence and raised as their
own children. The history of one Of the
latter is almost as marvellous as that of
Captain Corcoran and Ralph. Some
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, on a dark and
stormy evening, an elegantly-drcssed
woman entered the door of the neat little
house-tlle home of the old nurse-rap-
ped and was admitted. In 4 few days
She departed, after intrusting to the old
woman q black-eyed girl baby. Years
rolled on, and the pretty infant grew to
be Il bright. beautiful girl. When she
was six years old q lady of wealth and
social position residing in the northern
part of the city called to see the old wo-
man and was so charmed with the
child's beauty and intelligence that she
persuaded the old woman to let her
adopt the little stranger. and subse,
q%uently the child was taken to Il home of
wealth and luxury. Time passed, child
hood rfpened into womanhood, and bear
ing the name of the family by whom she
had been raised and educated, she was a
reigning belle in the West End. The
young lady is now married and happy,
the wife Of one of the most valued and
honored OF Baltimorc's citizens. The
story is n highly romantic one, and has
the merit of being absolutely true. There
are at present some half-dozen of these
baby-farming establishments in Balti-
more.
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About MacarOni.

The first stanza of the old song en-
titled yankee Doodle" runs:
yankee Doodle came to town,
Upon n little pony;
He stuck q feather in his Int,
And called it macaroni.'
It is about this expression, "Maca.
roni," I wish to write what have found
out by asking questions and reading IN
books.
In England. during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, most of the danditled things
of that time such as table-forks, etc.
came from Italy, and were called "maca-
roni," which is Italian, derived from a
Greek word meaning very dainty"
About the time of Oliver Cromwell
appeared a verse which some have
Thought was meant to make fun Of him.
The verse runs:
"Yankce Doodle came to town,
Upon q Kentish pony;
He stuck q feather i'll his hat,
And called it macaroni."
But history says Cromwell came from
Huntingdon; and | think he was not the
kind Of man to wear feathers and brag
of them. He was stout. red-faccd and
rather rough; not slim and fopplsh..
In S%heridan's play, "The School tor
Scandal" are these lines:
Sure, never was seen two such beautiful
ponies;
Other horses are clowns, but these, moca-
ronis.
To give them this title, I'm sure can't be
wrong,
Their legs are so slim, and their tails are so
long"
Washington Irving tells us that, in the
war of the Revolution, some Maryland
regiments, who wore very gay uniforms
were known as 1.-The Ma~carenis;" and
he adds that "tley showed their game
spirit" So, it seems, they could fight
well, besides dressing well. $50,
Another author says: "a hundred
, years ago the slang for a certain sort Of
fop was 'macaroni.' He was distin-
guished chiefly by the strange way in
| which he dressed his head; and he wore
feathers in his hat"
This is all l have been able to find out
| about the word "Macaroni," used in the
song Yankee DOODLE" and it seems to
mean something 0 L somebody very dainty
!. or finical, and to have very little to 40
with the food called "macaroni," al
though that also comes from Italy.-&.
Nicholas.
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{: ECcentricS."

There are two things that perhaps no
living man car accomplish at the SAM
time, and they are to shout at a dog and
take a drink from the nozzle of a garden
hose.
This is the time of the year at which
the small boy feels like a downtrodden
patriot, when he goes into the garden
and discovers that his sister has used his
kite cord to run nasturtium vines upon.
The man who wins gold medal at
boat racing will soon be seen on Broad
way with said medal fastened to his
vest, and the lappels of his coat pinned
back against his shoulder to show
it off to perfection.
HAPPINESS.
Oh, ~joyously carols and revels
From the first streak of daylight till dark,
The light-heartcd, gay little schoolboy,
For happy he is rs n lark.
His spirits are now at the highest,
And nothing his rapture can drown,
For all this because on the morrow
The circus is coming to town,
And he is sufficiently shckled to purchase the
necessary pasteboard.
No matter how much patience and
good nature q man may have, he Will
find it quite impossible to preserve his
equanimity while indulging in q two
hours search through an unabridged
Webster for Il postage stamp Which he
has put there for safe keeping.
LILY.
The slender snowy lily
Elevatcs its dainty urn
By the gurgling valley brooklet,
Where the breezes wave the fern.
1t looks as sweet ana pretty
As Dolores benming face,
Either by the valley brooklet,
Or within the dollar vase
Which gems the mantelpleco.
And now the hungry street dog SHES
off from the pedestrian and won't be
patronized. His sociability won't re-
turn till October.
1t is not true that tho mosquito, the
sawmill of animated nature, IS totally,
without friends. He has numbers or
friends; they comprise the persons who
kick their sheets and coverlcts on the
floor at night.
Full soon we will read in the papers
From the north, east and south and the "sst'
OF the guileless and innocent urchln
Vino holds his hand hard on his vest
And signs in the woetulest manner
A sermon which ever should teach
His companions the beauty Of lodging
-.Heu York Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
How to Grow q Mustache,

A lady thus writes to the Philadelphia
Times: 1 noticed in. your to-day's issue
that one of our own fair sex is in a great
predicament because her son is unable
to raise r mustache. My own husband
was in the same unpleasant situation,
but by using the following remedy his
mustache commenced to grow vigorous
". coming out nice and full. 1t is be-
cause that I am in sympathy with the
men that I write this letter:
Take a teaspoonful of bay rum, one
drachm of %turpentine, n drachm of
glycerine, and put in an ounce bottle
and fill up with common lard. Apply
as hot rs can possibly be borne without
calding,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
An Indian Festival in Brazil.

The grand festival begins on Saturday
evening. During the day parties have
been coming in from all directions.
bringing their roupG de ger a Deus
"clothes TO see God in'-on their heads.
Every house is crowded with guests,
and many swing their hammocks to the
trees; the old women busy themselves
in preparing sweetmeats and mandioca
beer, and the men build an arbor of
boughs before the chapel. Everybody
attends the final prayer-meeting, and
devoutly salutes the saint; then the
dancing begins in several houses at once
and is continued with very little inter-
mission until Tuesday or Wednesday, as
the refreshments last. Many Of the
yoyrg people get only five or six hours
of Steep during this time. The dancers
are orderly, and for the most part sober
the old people sit around and watch
them, and grow talkative, and enjoy
themselves quietly; and white clerks
from town move about with a pleasing
sense of their WI glory. On Sunday
morning there is an interlude, during
which the grand breakfast is served.
An OK has been killed for the occasion,
and the guests eat as much rs they
please, with their fingers for forks:
C.,remonious toasts are proposed in bad
Portuguese and drunk in bad wine
everybody says TSra !" in acknowledge:
lnent of cverybody's sentiments, and
there is Il solemn aping of all that is
ridiculous in the grand dinners of the
brancos. With this the Indian feels that
they have done their duty, and return
to their sports with fresh JUNCTION.
They dance rustic waltzes and auadrilles,
not u~ngracefully. to the music of a
violin and a little wire-stringed guitar:
Then there is the favorite tundu, a kind
of slow iandango, involving much snap
ping of fingers and shutting of feet.
The saracurG dance is led off by a
special musician, Il merry old fellow,
who marches about the room playing a
tiny reed flute with the right hand and
beating Il drum with the left, One after
another the couples fell in behind him,
tripping along with their arms about
each other very lovingly, and keeping
time to his music with q little jingling
song, which, in English, would be some
thing like this:
Iswung in my drowsy hammock
And wooed the forest boughs;
But they answered low, There's pain and woe
In the lovers foolish vows.i
"Little fish in the deep, dark pool,
Tickle sand OF the sea,
How can I ever love you alone,
Since you will not alone love mef
"What If I DRIFT away, away,
Alone on the ocean swell;
What if 1 die with no one nigh
OF the friends who love me well?
"Yet I have the sun for my lover true,
The moon Tor my lady bright,
The sun to walk with alone all day,
The moon in the silent night"
-.ScriGRer.
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The Power OF Little Things.

All the great things of life and eternity
are made up of tribes. Kisses and kind
words may seem small, but they are the
corner stones Of true home. Did you
yer chase a ross word all day? What
havoc it makes! Causing Il smoking
stove in the morning; weak coffee
overdonc beefsteak and sour buckwheat
cakes for breakfast; spoils the dinner,
gets into the sewing machine and does
not always end with burnt toast for tea!
Did you ever chase a kind word, a
morning kiss, and have its influence
sing in your heart all day-sing in your
teakettle and echo from cellar to garnet
in all the wheels and whirr of house
keeping? need not speak of the power
of these two Titles.