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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-24
Weekly Kennebec Journal,

Published every Wednesday morning, Is the largest
folio paper in the State containing political
tlcles agricultural and scientific matter, tales poetry,
nnecdotta. household matter, markets, &C., &C.
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Trausrnt Advertisements, *,vO per inch for first
week ~ cents per week for each subsequent Insertion
Special Notices, 500 per inch for hrst week; 90
cents per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notice. In reading columns, &c cents per
line for first Insertion lO cents per line for each sub
Sevuent insertion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-24

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-24

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02

New York SUM-
" Something pains me here, said
John Dobbs, the alleged Manhattan
Bank burglar, to his keeper at the city
prison yesterday morning
" Where?"
Here, " said Dobbs, indicating the
feshy part of his left arm between the
shoulder and elbow. The keeper put
his finger on the spot, and, pressing,
felt something hard and round. The
outside skin was very dark and ten
der, and Dobbs WINGED as the turnkey
applied his thumb to it. DR.. William
l.. Hardy, the prison physician, was
sent for and told to bring his case of
instruments. The physician, who is
accustomed to the eccentricities of
prisoners, examined the dark spot
carefully. He became convinced that
DobbS was not joking nor giving him a
ghost story" and, producing a sharp
bladed little instrument from his case,
he went quietly to work. In about a
minute and half the doctor drew
back his knife, and pistol bullet
with three rings around it rolled into
his hand.
Why where did you get this,
Dobbs?" asked Warden Finn, in a
surprise. The warden had just come
up, and was looking at the bullet as il
lay in the doctors palm.
=" 1t was all along of mistake, sir,
said Dobbs, passing his hand across
his mouth apologetically, and clearing
his throat. You see, | was travelling
through Jersey a year ago, and l met
farmer who mistook me for some
one else. He ups with his Smith &
Wesson's revolver and plugs me right
in the arm. | ought to have had him
arrested, but | didn't"
Have you ever been shot accident.
ally before2" asked the warden.
Well, yes; | received several bull
lets in my legs from persons who
didn't know who l was. Two or three
of EN- are in there now. It's extra
ordinary, when you come to think O
it. that all those people should have
fired at me by mistake"
The doctor and warden both cough
ed simultaneously. They asked Dobb
if there were any more of those me
tallic souvenirs which he wished to b
relieved of. Dobbs said no" an,
was locked up again. He is plumT
hearty person Of middle hight, wit
rosy cheeks and a good appetite, an
is confident that he can convince tn
courts that his arrest, like the pistC
shooting at him, was an unfortunat
mistake. ris tH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02

assent given by the State of Virginia
to its transfer to a company on
certain conditions for the purpose of
building a railroad on its banks, the
Richmond State objects to building
any more canals, whether for ocean or
inland traffic. This is going to ex-
tremes. As a general thing inland
canals have been superseded by rail
roads, for quick transportation is the
order Of the day. But in one sense
quick transportation may be provided
for by interoceanic canals where, as
in the Suez canal, it saves the long
passage of thousands of miles Of
ocean navigation TO India and the
China seas. The fact that there was
a railway across the Isthmus of Suez
before the canal was built proves, by
the success of the canal, that it was
inadequate to the purposes of com
merce. A ship canal across the PENN
sula Of Florida would, in like manner
save five hundred miles of sailing
distance. Whether it or the Darien
canal would pay fair interest on The
investment is another matter. They
would both be good for commerce
even if they were bad for the capital
lists who embarked their money in
either.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
Agricultural ProsnerItX.

Reports of the grain crop made all
along the line of the Union Pacific
railroad as far west as the North
Platte river give indications substan-
tally similar to what have been hith-
erto reported from many other parts
of the country. Wheat is in fine con
dition and corn is likely to surpass
any crop ever harvested. Some dam
age is reported in places by hail and
some by insects. From other parts OF
the country there are some complaints
that the dry weather has done harm.
But the areas affected by the various
troubles are small, while, taking all
the grain producing regions together,
the evidence is that we will make a
crop greatly in excess of the yearly
average. And this great product will
coincide in time with the occurrence
Of good market, for that there will
be scarcity in all Western Europe is
generally admitted. 1t is bad year
in France and bad year in England.
Cold and rain have done the harm in
those countries, and cold and rain
have prevailed in most other coun-
tries. This agricultural prosperity
will set our financial condition beyond
the reach of the congressional tinkers.
We shall hear less and less of labor
grievances as the money gets more
and more completely right, but gov
ernments in Europe will have hard
time with over-burdened and hungry
people.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
ALion Attacks his Keeper.

From Philadelphia Record.l
Immediately after the close Of the
concert given by Coups circus in
Towanda, Bradford county, this State,
few days since, scene occurred
that thrilled with horror those who
witnessed it. The animals in one
cage, two lions and tiger, were fed at
that time, being separated by swings
ing doors, which are fastened during
the feeding, and afterward lifted,
throwing the animals together as a
happy family. These doors were lift
ed after it was supposed the animals
had finished their meal, but large
piece of meat had been left by the
lioness. This the tiger saw and was
about to spring upon it when the lion
covered it with his paw. Prof. Nc
Donald, the trainer, spoke to the lion,
but he refused to move, and he then
tried to force the meat from the ami
mails paws with the feeding fork, but
without purpose, as the lion held on
and growled defiance. To the horror
of those standing around, the
professor opened the cage and
sprang almost upon the beast,
which in turn sprang upon the man,
striking him a powerful blow in his
breast that staggered him and lace
rated the flesh. An attendant, think
| ing to assist the now powerless trainer,
caught him by the foot and pulled him
near the door. The lion again struck
him, tearing the flesh in his thigh.
| The situation at this time was one OF
terrible suspense to those who were
involuntary witnesses of it. Ladies
tainted, children screamed; but the
trainer, who seemed to suddenly re-
cover his senses, was on his feet in 3
moment. He looked the big beast
squarely in the eyes, and met him hal
way, maintaining the steady gaze. He
said in firm yet afectionate manner
" Ned, what are you doing? Do you
want to kill me, your best friend 2
The Towanda paper says it really
seemed that the " king of the forest
understood every word that was beinl
. said to him, for, dropping his eyes, he
went to the piece of meat and showed
it to his keeper. He then approached
his trainer and looked very penitent
for what he had done, lying calmly
down at his feet.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02

New York Times.
The British government has just
concluded what is now its greatest
mail contract, that is, a renewal Of its
arrangements with the Peninsular
aud Oriental Company to carry her
majesty mails from Brindisi to India
and China. The contract now in ex-
istence, but which will terminate on
Fobruary1 1, 1880, provides that, for a
payment of 81, 10000 per annum, the
company will carry the mails from
Brindisi, Italy, to Bombay, at a rate
of speed to average at least 9 $40
knots per hour, and from Brindisi to
Shanghai at an average rate Of speed
of not less than 9 7-10 knots per
hour, Under the new conditions,
which are to 80 into force at the ter
minatiOn Of the present contract, and
continue for eight years, the sum of
81, $4,000 per annum is 10 be paid,
while the average rate of speed has
been increased that is, between
Brindisi and Alexandria and Suez
ana BOMBAY tne steamers must make
on an average II knots an hour, and
between Suez and Shanghai not less
than lOl knots per hour. The terms
Of the agreement indicate that the
end in view is one of speed. There
are now plying on the great Indian
water route large number of steamers
owned by different companies and in
dividuals; but where the route is a
long one, and where fuel is an expeu-
sive commodity it is considered wise
to maintain relatively low rate of
speed. If the government would
consent TO put the rate at eight knots
per hour, there would be no trouble
in getting the mails carried at the
usual prices charged for transporting
express matter but as the coal
which is taken on board at all Of the
ports on this route has to be sent to
them in vessels from England, it is a
somewhat costly article, and thelco
panies running steamers IN eastern
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02

waters have to exercise the utmost
economy in its use in order to make
any profit on their voyages Recent
improvements in marine engines per-
NIT Of quite reduction in the CON
sumption of coal without lessening
the speed of vessel, and, in conse-
quenee of these changes, the English
government has been able to make its
new contract upon more favorable
terms than its old one. 1t is well to
call attention to this mail contract,
and explain its nature, as otherwise ii
would probably be referred to by
writer's and speakers on this side Of
the Atlantic as indicating desire on
the part of the British government to
assist its steam commerce by offering
subsidies while, as a matter of fact,
all that the bonus is given for is to
secure an unusually rapid rate Of
speed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
How the Japanese Keep Meat
Fresh.

The Japanese method of keeping
meat fresh in hot weather is Just now
attracting a good deal Of attention in
European circles. 1t consists in
placing the raw flesh in porcelain yes
sells and pouring on it boiling water,
whereby the albumen on the surface
is quickly coagulated aud forms pro-
lection against the further action of
the water. Oil is then poured on the
surface of the water so as to prevent
the access of air and consequent putri-
faction of the meat. The system Of
protecting animal substances by Sc
curing coagulations of their albumen
and the exclusion of air is of course
no novelty, and it can hardly be
supposed that we are indebted to the
Japanese for its original adoption.
But undoubtedly their method Of
applying it is fur preferable to that
practioed by ourselves in the process
Of preserving timed meats, which
appears to consist in boiling them for
such a length of time that almost all
their favor is destroyed, and the ulti-
mate result Is mass Of tasteless
shreds OF muscular FIBER, O
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
murrah ror the Prenoher,

New York Herald.l
1t is not easy to imagine the sur
prise and disgust of the canoeists at
Lake George on Thursday, when the
first prize of their padding race was
won by a Methodist preacher. It was
bad enough that his boat-an awk-
ward, heavy, unsightly9 craft-should
pass the light Nautilus, Rob Roy,
Shadow and other models over the
graceful lines of which canoeists quar-
rel so fiercely, but that the navigator
should be preacher-well, it would
be only the way of the world if the
defeated paddlers had assembled i'm
mediately after the. race and re-
solved that the community viewed
with unaffected horror the spec
tacle of a religious teacher appear
ing at a place where bets were
made and lager flowed and, second,
that although some of the apostles
worked fishing boats there was nc
scriptural authority whatever for the
use of a canoe by a preacher, and GER
tainly none for his snatching a gold
medal, one of the mere vanities OF
life, from lot of good fellows who
wanted it themselves. Public senti-
ment, however, will side with the
preacher. The world has been learn
ing, in late years, that preachers are
creatures of flesh and blood, like the
rest of us, and that physical exercise,
and plenty of it, is absolutely neces-
sary to them if they are to have the
clear heads and stout hearts that their
duties demand. The glorious deeds
Of the various churches were done
when preachers lived out of doors,
breathed plenty of fresh air, main.
tanned a proper balance of body and
mind and studied man and nature
elsewhere than in books.
The Catholic missionaries and the
Methodist circuit riders-mon whose
achievements are the wonder and
pride of the whole religious world
could paddle the canoe, ride a horse,
knock down a rowdy or make a go-as-
gOu- plCdoC tramp dCluoo IlOuSu nCOuu-
try against the crack professionals OF
their day, Is it possible to imagine
any one having ever gone to sleep
under their sermons2 As for the
| Lake George preacher, who hung
about the edge of the canoeists just
1 before the start, longing to contest
the race, yet too modest to partici-
pate until specially invited, we war
rant that he exceeded himself in the
first sermon he wrote after the race
that he has suddenly acquired un-
bounded influence over the small boys
of his congregation; that the pillars
of his church, in spite of momentary
conservative shudder, are hugely de.
lighted--on the sly, that the great
body of outsiders, for whom the
church in all its branches is angling
so industriously, will hereafter go to
his church when they attend any, and
that he himself has the best digestion
roddest blood and olearest head that
san DO found among parsonages 10 hii
Iueighborhood' c
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS.

Several new cases Of yellow fever were
reported last Wednesday in New Orleans
on Melpomene street, between Caronde-
let and Batonne.
The people and even portion of the
medical fraternity at New Orleans are
losing faith in the efficacy of checking
yellow fever by the disinfecting system.
Coal by the barge load at Cincinnati
has been fixed at Sc per bushel The
heet from Pittsburg began to arrive there
night before last and the top of the rise is
expected to pass there to-day.
Several prominent merchants have left
New Orleans for New York in order to
transact their Texas business Others are
seriously thinking of removing to St.
Louis or Chicago, so disgusted are they at
the renewal of last years embargoos,
fearing quarantine far more than yellow
fever.
Louisville Courier-Journal; "The crea-
ture, Minor, at Cincinnati, is again seek
ing to advance himself through the fears
Of the cowardly Cincinnatians. The lit
tie fool may be sure that every Louisville
passenger can show clean bill of health.
Louisville may this year quarantine
against Cincinnati"
The executive committee of the Ma
tional board Of health has issued circular
on disinfection. 1t advises thorough
scrubbing and moist cleansing, to be fol-
lowed by fumes Of burning sulphur at the
rate of eighteen ounces per one thousand
cubic feet of space to be disinfected.
The mischief in Memphis is subject Of
various excoriating articles in the press at
Cincinnati and elsewhere. One to sup
port fierce document quotes from Mr..
Keating's yellow fever book as follows
The streets of Memphis were filthy, and
every afiliction that could aggravate a
disease so cruel seemed to have been pur-
posoly prepared for it by the criminal
neglect of the city government, who
turned deaf ear to the persistent appeals
of the press"
u a dispatch from New Orleans to the
Cincinnati Commercial, says: GA quiet
feeling of satisfaction is evinccd by the
mercantile community, who now think
the idiocy of the present system of quar-
antine in New Orleans fully shown up, il
being demonstrated that the yellow fever
is indigenous here. Nothing can exceed
the animosity toward the board of health
for their theory of quarantine, and that
yellow fever is contagious. Several o.
the most celebrated scientists and experts
here state that both theories are absurd
pernicious and calculated to lead to need.
less cruelty and neglect to the sick"
d. Two railroad men, Jones and Lew
Farris, were in Jacksonville, Ind, oppo
site Louisville, last Tuesday, just from
Little Rock and the country between
there and Texarkana. They report The
greatest terror among the people along
the line of that road over the yellow fevel
scare. Each towns guarded with private
citizens, who carry loaded muskets, ant
allow no strangers to enter the towns
Little Rock has large force of men with
muskets, on the outskirts, and no person
coming from Memphis is allowed to entei
the city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
Ovation to A. II. stephens.
Chicago 'Timos.]

Chicago Times.l
ATLANTA, GA, July 2S.-Alexan-
der H. Stephens received here to-day
a great ovation. BY request he ad :
dressed the legislature on the issues of
the day. He was cheered as he en-
tered the hall, which was packed by
nearly 1000 people. He spoke seated
in a chair, but with great vigor. Re-
viewing the work of the extra session,
he said there had been no Democratic
back down. The house passed law
forbidding troops at the polls, and on
this and on the bill forbidding mar
shals to use money at the polls, we are
ready to 60 before the country. There
are two great questions before the
country-fnance and taxation. We
have too little money. We want
5000, 100000 at least. The demone-
tization of silver was the cause of all
our Woe The crash of 1873 came be-
cause of this, and we are poorer now
than we have been for fifty years. De-
monetizing silver made values shrink
in this country more than our war
cost. Taxation is unequal and cruel
The poor pay the bulk of it. The
negro on my farm pays more tax than
many a man who owns $500, 1000. To-
baceo and whisky are taxed when
used by the producer. Virginia has
paid enough since the war to pay all
her debt-over SH, 100000. He favor
ed, as the only relief, paper currency
to the amount of 5000, ,000,0 600 at least,
based, every dollar, on a silver dollar
in the vaults. He appealed to the
people to choose as leaders only
staunch Jeffersonian Democrats. He
proclaimed seotionalism dead. and said
the flag should wave, as President
Hayes said at Atlanta, over citizens,
not subjects, There is great enthusi-
asm here over the speech. Mr.. Ste
phens dined with Circuit Judge
| Woods.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
HEALTHY AND ENCHANTING.

The other day an enthusiastic but
rather obscure citizen strolled into
the counting-room of the LEDGER and
began to construct half column adj
vertisement picturing the present
beauties of our city, and announcing
that its air is wholesome and inyigo-
rating, and the site lovely one for
lnvalids to flock to and enjoy nature
in its most enchanting aspect. The
man was eloquent on the subject OF
scenery, spoke glowingly upon the
picturesque aspect of our mystic and
mighty winding river, the forest
iringed shores of Arkansas opposite,
from which great waves of fresh ozone
are carried upon every southern
breeze tosupply the vacuum consumed
by the numerous animals, two and
tour-fOoted, that roam our highways
and in real dead earnest, too, worked
into his word structure notice that
he had about closed trade fol
the old Commercial Hotel site,
with other valuable property, neal
where he would shortly arrange q
splendid summer resort, which he ex-
pected to have thronged in briei
space of time with visitors from every
part Of the South. When the indi
vidual had progressed to this extent
with his labor, young person who
had been waiting on him became sud.
denly indignant, pronounced him Dun
dreary in disguise, or confirmed
lunatie, tore his touching production
into fragments, and set the big dog al
him with ferocious temper. since
then the summer resort man has been
invisible. 1t now appears, however
that there was method in the mans
madness if it were that which frst
inspired him. His brilliant imagina-
ton had been fortified by reading .
letter in the Cincinnati Commercial
in which an enthusiastic writer AnC
friend of Memphis had attempted t
portray the splendors of our city a.
they really are in his sight. In it,
editorial comments on the subject til,
Commercial says 4
If we have been misled as to the sani
tary condition Of the city, it has been by
one supposed to know Memphis from
basement TO garrett When we are tolC
Memphis is in better sanitary condition
than Cincinnati; that it has park in it
center filled with forest and evergreen
trees, with beautiful fountain; that it J.
situated on bluff, and is drained on al
sides by streams; that there are no tene
ment houses, even the negroes living il
detached houses, with plenty of ventilla
tion, and that the majority Oft dwell
ings are surrounded by beautiful gardens
growing magnolias and other health
bringing evergreens, together with roses
lilies, violets, lemon verbenas and othe
floral beauties" we seem to be reading o
that enchanted garden in which Adam
and Eve were placed, and might have re
manned to this day, had they not eaten O
''that forbidden tree, whose mortal tast
brought death into the world and all on
woe.p The surprising thing II that a city
so situated, so surrounded, so beautiful
should have become the plague-center 0
the continent, and between disease, dealt
and desertion well-nigh depopulated.
The constructor of that last para
graph evidently fails to appreciate tn,
attractions our city now presents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02
Christians and Jews.

New York Herald.
From many Christian pulpits yester-
day earnest protests against the insult
offered to the Jewish people by Mr..
Corbin, the Manhattan Beach director,
were uttered in eloquent words. The
Christian worshipers were reminded
how much the religious world is debt
or to the sacred writers of Israel, and
the intimate relations of the chosen
people with the Deity were dwelt upon
with an impressiveness that is credita-
BILE to Christianity. This exhibition
of tolerant sympathy will no doubt do
much to remove the evil effects of Mr..
Corbin's unwsse words from the minds
of the Jewish people by showing them
that, though the spirit Of bigotry and
narrow minded intolerance may be
harbored in some Christian breasts
the mass Of protesting Christians have
no sympathy with a policy which
would set a stigma on a race or class
on account of their religious belief.