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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-01
SHERTFFS SALE.

hfNNEbEC, $. Mo.b faM. 1S59.
s7AkEN ON ENlJ rlpN aud will be sold Nv
4 iHhc auction. op saturday iht nineteenth day
ct ii, a. -. l>f, M ten O'Clock iu the fore noun at
'h" Post Oii.r ~ North NH-.alborp', ,o.cailod in
Na-taihoa in aid County oft konurb,c. al The right
90 ,tlai,, which h,o,gc n,!ioo of WINSTON, has or
lcit '1 fhe 2tth, day of december. \. u. ls.S thu
tnta Whcu Tie -3nr was attached " tl original whit
81 i;.ccm the following dc~cfiitd real estate to wit
rain piece er Iarc, Of lnrl Wing III Wlm>l"w in
-asa toghf! uad bc4u'td ~f,iluVr. VIZ: beginning
81 tai, Jud .."H't tNvnty rlglt rods ca-tcrly Of
ttr hettbnt> II ruI-l eft land. Vlch Minor Phillips
hrHl.rt of Edward >1atlNick aud Elijah Robinson;
tItncc running oa,tuly tvtuty.hrer and orc. fifth
rot~t 500 ne" .outhttlY tWcnty.tuur degrees; west
lru save Nly ru3- go thr road adirg from China to
Nhis1tiIl", thence Westerly -Hid road twenty
seven rods: thence north, rly fG,-iSc rods the
bounds bcgus at containing nine acr,s, more or less
aituaiug 'ir same piece 90 land Ncycd TO l.ucius
kcN by II. q. Abbott by deed dared December =?
>53, the above dt scli5,d piece of land being sub
let 30 a mortgage given by said Uiioo 10 Hiram
~iui -uu, tc -ccWr the pu}iaent OF slN promissury
so, each hn ing oven date Herewith, and PAYABLE
i'm ui-c Two. three four, five and six wears with In.
ttrtl ANNUALLY dated Jan. l. $50, and recorded in
k,hy'hcc Registry II Deeds, book "'>, page 90, on
which there !. nov ''ig the Of &jaut
d;el al Ngs.alharo this 18Th day of March, A. u,
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-01
Valuable Real Estate
FOR .SALEI

lyon p. LANG, Of Nd,salhnrp'. o1ii "tr alc
his wharf property. situated IN Augusta. -,il
property commences NJ Tie south line Of the ~ tu
property, aud extends down thc river six hundred
feet or over aud contains over hundred feet b.
tween the city lots and wharf and il also includes
fish wharf 50 called. This property offers better
location for wharf Than any property in Augusta.
II Is also valuable to parties wishing to erect coul
houses, Sc. Also two front lot. Water 1t. extend
ing back IN wharf property with buildings thereon.
One LOT - feet front said street, and the other ~
feet front. i'll sell the two last mentioned los villa
the buildings, or will remove buildings and sell the
land. This wharf property is entirely safe from tie
highest trcshcis, thereby offering location for build
ing which would not be cndange. tq in any way on
this account Persons wishing to drchast can obtain
any Information they may desire writing tod. -.
LANG. Nassalhorough. j. a. LAST Watervillc or b.,
callingat my office where the de"u and plan ofthc
property can be seen. Terms OF e viii be made
known to parties who wishtopurch..so.
ARTHUR LIBBEN, Atty NJ Law,
AUGUSTA, Ne.
March II, lea9. marl5.hr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-01
GRATEFUL WOMEN.

None receive so much benefit and none
are SO profoundly grateful and show an inter.
est in recommending Hop Biters as women.
II is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to
the mauy ills the sex is almost universally
subject to. Chills and fever. indigestion or
deranged liver, constant or periodical sicl,
headaches. weakness in the back or kidneys.
paid in the shoulders and different parts OF
the body, a feeling of lassitudc and dc>pon-
dency, are all readily removed by these Bit
tiers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

ONE of the greatest booms to the ru-
raj population of England of late years
has been the establishment of cottage
hospitals. The first institution of the
kind was at Savernake, in Willis. In
1867 poor farm laborer was injured by
machinery, and had to be carried miles
to doctor and then forwarded ten miles
farther to hospital. The case so i'm.
pressed the vicar of Savernake that the
idea occurred to him to try and estab-
ish a cottage hospital. He found warm
and generous coadjutors in Lord and
Lady Ailesbury, the chief land owners of
the parish. Lord Ailesbury gave large
sum and site in lovely situation, and
in due time the thing was done. During
the past year I'll cases have been treated
with every comfort, convenience and
attention, at cost per bed of 1915 a
week, and the mortality among them
was only decimal fraction more than
three per cent. against nine per cent. at
Guys, ten per cent. at st. Bartholo-
news. and sixteen per cent. at ST..
Thomas's, the great London hospitals.
In case of amputation the advantage is
enormously in favor of the cottage hos
pitfalls, in consequence of the purity of
heir air.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
a Club With q History.

A policeman in Norwich, Conn.,, car
ries club that has an eventful and
bloody history. It is made of hickory
wood and is about foot and half long.
The handle is round and heavily orna-
mented with brass, and increases from q
quarter of an inch to an inch in diameter
at its largest part. Between the handle
and the other end is a silver ferrule,
The striking end of the club is octagonal
in shape, with ferrule of lead quarter
of an inch wide about two inches from
the end and ferrule of heavy wrought
iron more than an inch in width near
the end, which holds in place a solid
brass ball, an inch in diameter, at the
top of which is ring by which the club
has been hung up.
The club is said to have been made in
Deshay County, Arkansas, in 1843, for
one Barnhill, from whose hands it passed
into the hands of Captain Pye, his son-in
law, who, as captain of a company of
Anderson's bloodhound brigade from
Alabama, carried it through the war.
He was a man of bad habits and ungov-
ernable temper, and is said to have killed
with it twelve of his own men, among
them his own brother. In the Brooks
and Baxter war it was carried by John
@. Wilson, of Pine Bluffs, Ark, who, in
his passage down the Mississippi to Little
Rock, became infuriated with liquor and
killed three negroes and a deck hand
On election day last spring it was used
by a Pine Bluffs, Ark, policeman in
attempting to quell saloon disturbance,
and in that melee was wrestled from
him, and passed into other hands, whence
It reached it's present owner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
A Wedding Cake.

If ladies sin against propriety in taking
the initiative, they can hardly be blamed
for bringing a shilly-shallyine or over
bashful lover to the point when good
opportunity presents itself. Such an
opportunity suficed to end what has
been a somewhat tedious courtship.
The young man, paying his usual even.
ing visit, asked his lady love how she
got along with her cooking: "Nicely,"
replied she; "I'm improving wonderful
ly, and make splendid cake now" Scan
your said the young fellow, ignorantly
rushing on his fate. "What kind do
you like best?' 81 like one made with
-four and sugar, with lots of raisins,
currants and citron, and beautifully
frosted on the top" responded she.
Why, that's a wedding cakes" said he.
81 meant wedding" said she; and there
was nothing left for him but to say he
meant wedding, too.-Chambers' Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
Washington Monuments to be Built.

In 1910 the society of the Cincinnati
had collected for a monument fund tine
sum of So, 576 So. For 56 years Horace
Binney, of Philadelphia, was the custo.
dian of this fund, and in his hands it
grew to be $107,300. He died in 1876
d the fund passed into the hands of a
committee. It now amounts to $685..
900. So soon as it reaches $150,000-
which it is supposed it will by the time
the society reaches its centennial, in
1885, the monument will be built on St.
Georges hill, Paramount park, Philadel-
phia. Already designs and estimates
have been submitted, and those Of W.
W. Story and Prof. Siemering of Berlin
are under consideration. When Lafay-
cite came to America, in 1926, another
Washington monument fund was started
ia Philadelphia and IS, 175 raised. From
this nest egg $4,000 was accumulated
and another monument will soon be
started, for which Lafayette laid the
corner stone.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
Important Decision.

The secretary of the interior has rendered
a decision of importance to all purchasers
of public lands by private entry, holding
that whenever prior to patenting it is dis
covered that the land previously offered
and entered as agricultural is really mineral
its character, the entry must be cancelled
and the land reserved for entry under laws
especially applicable to mineral lands. The
issue was presented DO the case of Smith
VS.. Charles Culver ct al, involving the title
to tract of 1000 acres of land in Camden,
Arkansas district, which was purchased
from the government at private entry in
1878, but subsequently found to contain ar.
gentiferous lead ore.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
WHEAT.
Mr.. GREELEY's politica methods were

Mr.. GREELEY's politica methods were
neatly defined in letter which he once
wrote to politician of Burlington, VT,
during an excited campaign. In this
letter-which has just been published in
the Free Press of that city-Mr. Greeley
said: You spoke of sending me money
for speaking in your vicinity. I beg
you not to do it. I am not in need and
have taken nothing since l left Windsor
county, having received there enough to
pay my expenses. would rather not
have any more. Should the state 20
right and the Wings who assemble at
Montpelier at the meeting of the legis
lature, see fit to make me any little ties.
timonial of goodwill for nay endeavor to
aid them, shall be gratifed. A mere
resolution passed by them and published
would be very acceptable; but money ]
don't want"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
The Afghans Defeated.

Gen. Roberts. attacked and completely
routed his Afghan adversaries about Cabul
on the Goth, inficting terrible punishment
upon them. While the native loss was Sc.
we're the British suffered loss of FIVE killed
including Capt. Dundas an Lieut.. Nugent,
of the engineers, who were killed by pre-.
mature explosion when blowing up the
towers of neighboring village. The Balla
Hisaar is again in the hands of English
troops.
A Lahore dispatch says the Afghans who
attacked Gen. ROBBERS On the 23d numbered
5000, and the ground around Shirpur is
strewn with slain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
Santa Domingo.

Santa Domingo dates to the 9Th inst. con-
firm the announcement of the flight OF
President Guillermo. The city suffered
from hunger before the surrender, and Gull
lermo is greatly disliked as being response.
BILE for the distress. AS consequence OF
his feeling, the triumphant entry of the
revolutionary army, on the 18th of Novem
Der, was attended with perfect order. 1t is
still unknown who will be the next presi
dent. Peace has been entirely restored.
None of the plantations have been restored.
An outbreak was feared at Cape Haytien,
and troops were sent to prevent it. Some
arrests were made. Business is active.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

ARRAY several days before. William Ortner,
an old man, is under arrest, charged with
nfiicting the wounds with large butcher
knife.
At "Bloomer" ball at sailor boarding
house at Wilmington, N. c., on the night of
the Oath, Maria Hall, negress, fatally
stabbed VIM. Marie, white sailor.
Edward Hanley was fatally shot by Dep
uty Marshal Mullins in Edgefeld, a suburb
of Nashville, on Christmas. Mullins was
attempting to arrest Hanley.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
MurderOus Deeds,

In quarrel growing out of an old feud,
at Pine Hill, KY, on the goth, VIM. A.
Owens shot and killed James Langford.
At Pope Station, Miss, on the goth ult.,
in a row over a game of cards, Frank Duke
shot his cousin Bedford Duke, fatally. The
murdered man leaves wife and seven chill
dren.
A. D. Sadler, an ex.member of the Arkan-
sas legislature, was ass assinated at his home
in Franklin county, that state, on the goth.
Four negroes charged with murder were
taken from the jail at Amite, La, on the
night of the 2Sth, by mob, and shot to
death.
During dance near Ellenton, s. c.,
Christmas eve, William Bates, while drunk,
shot and killed Stephen Bush. Bates was
arrested.
A coroner's jury, after several days session
upon the body of young Gustave Linden,
who was found dead on the street, at Chi.
cago, with a revolver near his head, and
whose death has been attributed variously
to suicide or murder, found verdict that
he came to his death from a pistol shot fred
by an unknown hand with murderous in.
tent.
Sam Woodruff and Joe Seminole, the lat
ter half.breed Indian, who murdered r.
B. Hayward, farmer of Jefferson county,
Col, on the 10th of September, was taken
from jail at Golden on the 2Sth and hung,
by $50 masked men.
Joseph Hanson engaged in difficulty
with George Pickering in saloon in South
Camden, Del, on Christmas eve, and was
stamped to death by Pickering.
John Woodson. Cincinnati barber, way
laid Frank Coleman, colored, head waiter
of the Miles house, on the I'd of December
and beat him terribly with a bowlder
wrapped in a towel. Coleman fingered
until the Goth when he died of the injuries
received.
At two O'Clock on Christmas morning,
Bernard Pecker, an old German resident of
Delphos, Ohio, was called to the door by
loud knocking. Upon responding to the
alarm he was confronted by three armed
men, who demanded his money. Pecker
resisted and was shot dead. His wife was
then bound with ropes and tortured with
fire until she delivered up $1,000. No clue
to the criminals.
At ball near Batavia, Ohio, on Christ
mas eve., quarrel occurred between Albert
Fitzwater and Jake Geiger, in which the
former was fatally pounded with stone
mason's hammer.
Peter Gilroy, aged Padded at Cincinnati,
on the 23d, from wounds received in an
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

The steamer Prairie City, plying on the
Wabash river between New Harmony and
Wabash Station, blew up on the 9th, when
above Hodges landing. The fireman, cabin
boy and cook are missing. The body of
Mrs. Capt. Mcintyre was found on shore,
with both arms off. Capt. Cox, who was at
the wheel, was blown up with it and fell in
the wreck beneath the debris, and had one
arm broken, his ankle sprained, and was
otherwise cut and bruised. The engineer
escaped with slight injuries. The survivors
escaped on barge and were taken to New
Harmony for medical aid.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

AN exchange gives some readable
facts in reference to the manufacture
of toilet soaps. How many are there
who know that the object of marbling
soap with an insoluble matter is to show
that they contain but little moisture,
since, if too large a proportion of water,
the coloring matter would sink to the
bottom and remain there, instead of be-
ing diffused through the mass. The
manufacture of the different soaps is
very similar, differing only in minor de-
tails. Fancy soaps are made from pure
curd soaps, scented with various per-
fumes and colored with different tints,
Honey soap cont aims no honey. 1t is
made of good yellow soap, scented with
oil of eitronella. Old brown Windsor
soap is curd soap which has turned
brown with age. 1t is now made
artifcially by mixing caramel with
white soap. Transparent soap is made
by discoloring white soap in spirit and
evaporating. Glycerine soap is prepared
by heating the fat with alkali and 8
little water to about 400 degrees T. for
two or three hours and running the mass
at once into moulds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
A Very Practical Joke

John M. Waite and n, B. Gould, both
prominent and respected business men in
Chicago, on the 9th, thinking to play q
practical joke on colored janitor, disar.
ranged the contents of Mr.. Waite's room
and then concealing tn, mselves in closet
waited until the ianitor appeared. The lat
ter becoming excited at the condition of
the room procured revolver, and hearing
a noise in the closet tried to pull the door
open, and failing in that fred through the
door. The shot passed through Mr.. Gould's
head and he died shortly after.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
Burned to Death.

Mrs. Clara Claviss, aged 1o3 years, was
burned to death by the explosion of lamp
at New Orleans, ON the 9th.
Mrs. Jones, of Oconce, ILL.,, left her three
year.old daughter in the house with two
other small children while she went to a
near neighbours on an GRAND. During the
mothers absence the little one got small
lamp and lighted it, as it had been in the
habit of doing in the mothers presence,
and in so doing it's clothes caught fire, and
when the mother returned she found the
little sufferer enwrapped in DANES, standing
in the door, with locked hands and speech.
less, with its skin and ears burned to a crisp.
1t lived few hours when death put an end
to it's suffering.
James Glason's house burned at Ayers.
town, Mass, on the 23d inst, and three chill.
dren persisted in the flames.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
Work of the Flames,

Dutton & Rhodes clothing house, New
York city, was damaged by fire to the extent
of $4,000 on the night of the 9th. Other
occupants of the building suffered to the
extent of $4,000. The building was dam
aged $4,000.
Boston was visited by disastrous blaze
on the 2Sth, consuming property to the
extent of nearly two and half millions.
The insurance is quite heavy, and will, it is
thought, cover the loss. The firms suffering
total loss were Rice. Kendall & Co., paper
warehouse, Houghton, Osgood & Co., pub.
fishers, and the Union Express company.
The Bailey hat factory at Newburyport,
Mass, was burned on Christmas. Loss $l1O,-
600; insurance $4,000.
The Chicago Union distillery, owned by
the Wolner Bros, was destroyed by fire on
the Oath. Loss $27, 900.
A destructive fire at Waynesboro, Ca, on
the night of the 22d, destroyed the stores of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

Colonel Arthur T. Lee, u. 8. A., retired,
died at Rochester, N. Y, on the 28th.
DR.. r G. Thomas, a prominent physician
of Bowling Green, KY, died suddenly on
the 28th, of heart disease.
Recorder Hackett, of New York city,
died on the 9th.
Geo. w. Bell, of the Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser, died on the Goth.
Gen. Avezzana, one of Garibaldi's most
famous companion in arms, is dead.
Irwin Russell, a well. known dialect writer
and poet, died at New Orleans on the night
of the 23d in destitute circumstances, and
among strangers, after few hours illness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
A Frighrful Calamity.

On the night of the 2sth ult., portion of
the iron bridge which spans the Firth
of Tay, Scotland, was blown down, and a
railway train bound from Edingburg to
Dundee plunged through the gap into the sea
below, distance of nearly one hun.
dred feet. Not soul on board the train
escaped, and the story of the disaster must
forever remain mystery. Reports as to
the number of lives lost are conflicting, one
placing it as low as ninety persons, but
other dispatches positively assert that 315
lives were lost. The train consisted of four
third class cars, one irst-class, one second
class, and brakeman's van.
The bridge was only opened for traffic in
May, 1878. It was considered triumph of
engineering skill. 1t was about two miles
long, and had IS spans, the longest of which
was 245 feet. At the highest point it was
100 feet above high water.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

The adoption of the GENITAL system by
the New York board of trade, and its
probable general adoption by the boards
of trade throughout the country, has in
duced the Syracuse Herald to make up a
table of the relative prices per GENITAL
and per bushel of wheat and corn. The
figures of couse may be adopted to other
articles where the rate of cost and weight
per bushel correspond. The bushel
quotations are taken to approximate
about the highest and lowest prices of
the market lately. The fractional fig
ures are given in eighths, which for ordi-
nary calculation will be better under
stood than decimals, which are not gen.
orally much used by farm produce sellers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
The Maine middle

AS the time for the assembling of the leg.
islature in Maine approaches, the situation
begins to assume q serious phase. The
Augusta authorities have increased their
police force to be ready in event of con.
hict, and the arms of the Hersey Light In.
fantry at Oldtown were taken possession OF
by the Fusionists on Christmas night, and
moved to the residence of the commander
of the company. Oldtown is the residence
of the Fusion candidate for governor. Clear
headed politicians, however, predict that
the skein will be disentapgled without
series difficulty,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
THE BATH.
BY EDMUED G.. GOssR,

with rosy palms against her bosom pressed,
10 stay the shudder that she breads of old
49, Lysidice glides down till siyer-cod
me wafer giro les bali her glowing breast:
yellow butterfly in fovery quest
Rifles the roses thai her tresses hold:
breeze comes wandering through the fold on
VI draperies curtaining Ter Shrine of rest.
SOFT beauty, like her kindred petals strewed
Al0ng the crystal GOODNESS, there she lies
q, nat vision gratihes these gentle eyes2
one dreams she stands where yes erday she stood.
"nere, while the whole arena shrieks for blood
dot In the sand gladiator dies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

A GENTLEMAN who recently returned
from Cuba says that the difficulties in
the way OF the Spanish government are
greater than ever before. 1t has become
absolutely necessary that the slavery
question should be settled at once, and
settled by emancipation. The urgency
for this action arises from the fact that,
under the pacifcation policy recently
adopted, the slaves who participated in
the last rebellion have been set free.
The result ia that the spirit of insurrec.
tion has spread among the remaining
slaves, who see that they have nothing
to lose and everything to gain by rebel
lion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

MILWAUKEE,, December 29-3:00 P. M
Flour - Quiet and unchanged; choice
spring extras at IS 25@6 so; common at
$5.25@550. Wheat Steady: No. regular
at $l.3il; No. 2 at $1.30A@1.311s; No.
at Sl.16; No. at $1.09; rejected at CSC; No.
hard at $1.32; No.2 seller January at
$1.3lH@1.31%; seller February at 1881
al 1879. Corn-In fair demand at 4O%c for
No. in store. Oats-In active inquiry
at 36c for No. cash. Rye-Quiet at 8O%c
for No. in store. Barley-Nominal at 76@
77c for No. 2. Pork-Mess, cash, at $13 80.
Lard-Steam at $3.50; kettle at 1926.
Dressed Hogs-In good demand at 1926 for
good averages
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31

w. A. Wilkes, Marshall, P. R. Beall, j. E.
Tant, ]. A, Polhiel, McCatherine & Co. and
s. Chwarzweiss. Several persons were in
jured, one colored, fatally. Insurance $45,-
900.
The Buell. wooden mill at Blue Rapids,
Kansas, was totally destroyed by fire ON the
23d. James Warning, foreman of the mill,
was badly injured by falling from ladder.
Loss heavy.
At Reading, Pa, on the 23d, the ware.
house, machine shop and part of the foundry
of Rich Bros, were burned. Loss $4,000