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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-21

views against the crime and its authors. We
are g,ad TO publish below the words Of . life
long democrat a former member Of the iegis-
lature and one who is not only known in his
own town, but in the whole community as a
physician and scholar.
PrrrsrIELp. Jan. 10. 1880.
Ep,xxp CuAppouRNE Il congratulate you
unon what. to me. seems should. and l trust
will he. a peaceful solution Of the political
,ituatinn. feared from the first. and some
time since became eoarinced that there was
som,fhipo wrong in the ''count, Ut may
have been unintentional) and although l
voted for Gov. Garcelon. since such consc-
,ion have bee, out-spoken in denunciation Oh
such wrong. Il seems to me that the oni!
.sf.,tv in our form Of government lies IN
r,ofourd respecf for the opinion Of the Su-
pr,.me Court. and that every loyal citizen
.hould bow in willing submission 10 its man
dates Gov Davis has my sincere wishes
for a successful administration.
J. c. MANSON.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 20.
III. &c. MANSON. Pitts6eld. Me:
want to publish your patriotic letter
Answer Immediately. ~
Telegram in return - ,sso
PrrrsrlELp, Me-, Jan. 20, 1850.
To S. J. CHADBOURNE,
Secretary of State:
Are surprised BY your request. The iette'
80. ;nt.nded for YOU, privately. ~ friend
but If any good can result from its puo''ca'
ton. YOU have my reluctant consent.
''o"' ~" &c. MANSON.
Meeting q Ba)ssesn8.
T..n;sht the citizens Of Augusts vii eet
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

- A. SHIRER,
~. Oak street, near Second.
A general line of Stoves and 1fnware.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Healing by Touch.

Fer some weeks past the people of
Scott county, Virginia, have been
terribly excited over the miracles
hich are alleged to have been per.
formed by Richard Miller of that
county. His fame has extended all
over this section of the State, and
hundreds of the afflicted are daily
visiting him. Miller is a middle
aged man. employed as the keeper
of McMullin's mill, near Estillville.
He is deeply religious, and claims to
have hail dream a month ago in
which the idea was impressed upon
him that, with Gods help, he could
perform wonderful cures simply
through faith. He says that the next
day after the dream, after fervent
prayer, he healed a sick man by
touching him. the intelligence OF
such miracle went all over the
country, and the afflicted of all kinds
came to him and were healed, it is
said by the simple touch of his hand.
Yesterday G. N. Weftz, photogra.
pher OF Abidgdon, visited Miller IN
company with paralytic uncle, the
seat of paralysis being in the mouth,
and the man thereby was deprived
of both speech and hearing. Miller
looked at the afflicted man, and after
a short prayer, touched him and told
him that before he reached home he
would be well. Last night as Mr..
Wertz entered the door of his house
it is said that his speech and hearing
came back to him, and to day he is
apparently hale and hearty. Miss
Irene Newton, beautiful young
lady of Bristol, Tenn, helpless from
rheumatism, was brought to Miller
last week, and when an attempt was
made to lift her in the carriage she
arose from the sedan chair without
assistance, it is said, and declared
that she was entirely well. One of
the most wonderful of the alleged
miracles of Miller was the cure of
Mr.. Peter Whitesell, who has for
some years been afflicted with cancer
The cancer was touched, and in three
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Somersst's Scandal.

PRINCESS ANNE, Md, April 21.-
The scandal and gossip in regard to
the extraordinary marriage of Sid
ney A. Shores to his little step
daughter, Louella Shores, last Feb
ruary, has been revived here this
week by the trial of Shores, along
with the minister who performed the
ceremony. Sidney, Shores, whose
home is near Danes Quarter, is we'll
known through Somerset county, and
is well'to-do farmer about forty
live years of age, whose wife died
last December. The child.wife is the
daughter of Shores first wife, her IA
ther having been Captain Samuel
Shores, uncle of Sidney, and thus his
little wife is his first cousin as well
as his stepchild. The marriage, it
will be remembered, came off on the
9th of last February, and caused no
end of talk all through the county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

THE THIN PARTITION BETWEEN
LIFE AND DEATH.-When we walk
near the powerful machinery we
know that one single misstep and
those mighty engines would tear us
to ribbons with their flying wheels.
or grind us to powder in their pom
derous jaws. So, when we are thun-
dering across the land in railway
car, and there is nothing but half an
inch of iron fange to hold us upon
the track. So, when we are at sea in
shin. and there is nothing between
US and eternity, but the thickness of
plank. We imagine then that we
see how close we are to the edge of
the precipice. But we do not see it.
Whether on the sea or on the land
the partition that divides US from
eternity is something thinner than
an oak plank or half an inch of iron
fiange. The machinery of life and
death are within us. The tissues
that hold these beating powers in
their place are often not thicker than
a piece of paper, and, if that thin
partition we've pierced or ruptured, it
would be just the same with US as if
cannon ball had struck us. Death
is inseparably bound up with life in
the very structure of our bodies.
Struggle as he will to widen the space
no man can at any time 60 further
from death than the thickness of a
sheet of paper. "A
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
A Jndge's View of the Liquor Traffic


In sentencing murderer to death,
Judge Johnson, of California, made
use of the following language:
Nor shall the place be forgotten in
which occurred this shedding of
blood. 1t was in one of the thousand
antechambers of hell. which mar,
like plague spots, the fair face of our
State. You need not be told that /
mean tipping. .shop-the meeting
place Of Satan's minions, ami the
feul cesspool, which by spontaneous
generation, breeds and natures all
that is loathsOme and disgusting in
pronfanity, and babbling, and yul-
garity, and Sabbath breaking. 1
would not be the owner of groggery
for the price of this globe converted
into precious ore. For the pitiful
sum of dime he furnished the poison
which made the deceased fool. and
this trembling culprit demon. How
paltry this price of two human souls !!
This traffic is tolerated by law. and,
therefore. the vendor has committed
an offence not cognizable by earthly
tribunals but, in the sight of Him,
who is unerring wisdom. he who de-
liberately furnishes the intoxicating
draught which infiamcs men to anger
and violence and bloodshed, is par
ticeps criminis in the moral turpitude
of the deed. Is it not high time that
these sinks of vice and crime shonld
be held rigidly accountable to the
laws of the land, and placed under
the ban of an enlightened and virtu-
Gus public opinion ?'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

me child had been living in his
mouse since the death of his wife ,and
mis- extreme fondness for her was no
uced by all the neighborss. Several
Iof them asked that he allow them
70 take charge of the girl, but their
requests he Indignantly refused. To
quiet any suspicion. Shores put her
&c school al Deals Island, but after a
very short time he went to the school
and took her away, telling the teach.
~ that she was going home with
Them. The next day they came to
'his place in search of preacher to
ne the unequal knot, but ali refused
9n account of the extrelne youthful
less of the girl. After a long hunt
hey finally found a willing parson
named Rev Zaccheus Bowen, who
ssfarried and sent them or happy.
The indignation of the community,
when the news of the marriage came
out, was very great, and Shores ard
the parsOn were both arrested, Shores
being found at his home, where he
was fiving secluded life.
The trial began here Monday, the
preachers case being first taken up.
The case was tried before jury, the
indictment against him being for
joining in marriage a female under
the age of sixteen years, without her
guardians consent. The plea made
by the minister, who is an cid gen.
tleman. was that he was ignorant of
the girls age. and that there was no
intentional crime on his part. The
case was, therefore, settled by the
States Attorney, Col. Henry Page.
Shores was put on trial on Tues
day before the court on Indictment
of marrying his stepdaughter, and
was fined $500 and costs, to stand
committed until the fine was paid.
The marriage is-declared void.
Luella. the little girl who has thus
become the subject of so much gos.
sip, is a petite brunette, modest in
her bearing, and in her manners and
action there is nothing to indicate
that she is more forward than child
rem are at her age. She is bright and
attractive and possessed Of a kind
disposition, that has won many
friends ; but it is generally supposed
that she was induced to give hel
consent to the union without being
aware of the obligations she was as
suming, owing to her extreme youth
fulness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
Rich congressman.
= W ashington Letter.


see paragraph floating around
the newspapers to the effect that Sen
ator Henry G.. Davis is the richest
man in West Virginia. l guess this
is true. and, like all rich men in Con-
gress, he did not inherit, but earned
his money. When he was II years
old Senator Davis was brakeman
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
He was promoted from one position
to another until he became a man of
considerable importance on the road,
when he found more lucrative en-
ployment as Superintendent of coal
mines in West Virginia. Here he
began to grow rich, until by able
management and wise foresight he
fasaccumulated an immense iortcne.
Senator Davis is a man of some cd
dities, and often annoys his follow
Senators with the persistency with
which he pursues whatever he un-
dertakes, whether it be an Janus
.tatteats or something practical; but,
leaving his hobbies out of considera
ton, he is an excellent man and a
useful Senator.
The rich Congressman are New
bury. of Michigan, Norton and Star
in of New YORK, Loring and Russell.
Of Massachusetts,, Singleton of Hi,
nois; and the rich Senators are
Sharon and Davis of Nevada, Don
Cameron, Davis of West Virginia
and Davis, of Illinois, Mcpherson of
New Jersey and Baldwin of Michi-
gan, and, as l stated, they all com.
mepced life in poor and humble
circumstances.
Senator Baldwin made his money
In the mercantile business, commenc-
ing in small way in Detroit in 1888,
about the time the late Senator
Chandler commenced.
Congressman Newbury made his
money in manufacturing. He had
been jack at all trades, railroad
man. a civil engineer, lawyer and
manufacturer. He is now President
of thirty-five corporations for manu-
featuring enterprises.
Judge Davis, of Illinois, made hi
by wise investments in the early his
tory of that State, Gen. Singleton
made his in similar way.
Morton, Of New York, commenced
early as merchant, and moved from
New England to New York just il
time Rto catch the flood tide at tn,
commencement of the war. Mr.
Starin was a clerk in a drug. stor,
when he was boy. but got a begin.
ming as boatman, and now control:
more water craft than any man ir
the world.
Sharon and Jones made their mon,
ey IN mines.
Mcpherson, of New Jersey, in
cattle dealing.
Moring and Russell in Manufactur.
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

WHEAT AND PRICEs.-The last
monthly reports of the bureau ofagri.
culture represent that the area sown
in wheat for tae present year is IA
per cent. more than last year, while
the average condition is about 9S per
cent, 100 being maximum average.
On this basis, unless the crop encoun-
ters disasters later in the season, the
yield fsi 1880 will be aho6E lG3 .cE
cent. more than it was last year. This
surplus will practically all of it be
available for export, over and above
the same amount as was exported
and is to be exported from the crop
of last year, and our farmers can
hardly expect to get as good prices
for this years crop az they secured
for that of 1879. The supply for Eu-
rope will be greater. while it is hard
ly likely that the demand will be so
great. The year has begun much
more fayorably for crops both in
Great Britain and on the continent
than was the case at the outset of
1879. March is reported to have been
very eeasonable, with opportune but
not excessive showers of genial rain,.
just the sort of weather to advance
the spring sOwings. Alderman
Mechi, the we'll known agricultural
writer, says: "A dry, dusty March.
worth many kings ransoms, and fol-
lowing dry winter, is happy omen
for British agriculture. The work
of the farm has been under most IA
vorable conditions, both as regards.
cultivation and the sowing of spring
corn" But harvest is as yet a long
way off far too remote for any safe
representations to be made OF the
crops in either hemisphere.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

At last there has been one election.
fight in South Carolina which has re-
suited in the shooting Of white man
and Democrat by another white
man and Democrat. 1t was in Edge
field, the scene of many negro s!augh-
ters. A local election was in prog ress,
and there were rival Democratic
candidates. A negro approached the
polls to vote for one of them, when.
his vote was challenged by the other,
and an alteration arose which culmi-
mated in the shooting of one of the ri-
walls by the other. A son of the man
who was shot Immediately drew his
pistol and shot his fathers assailant,
and also shot man who came to the
latter's defence. There is pathetic
cry from the bulldozing organs over
this slaughter, and excellent moral
lessons are given upon the bad prac-
tice of carrying arms. The life of one
man is despaired of, and there is no
doubt but that his murderer will be
brought to trial. How different has
it been heretofore when the victims
of the Edgefield chivalry were mere
"niggers"! There were no moral
lessons then. and no trials for mur-
der.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
NUMBER 10.

days according to reports, had disap~
peared. The miracle worker is an
exceedingly modest man, and always
Indignantly declines any compensa-
ton for his services, alleging that he
is but the humble instrument of God.
He takes no credit to himself, and
the people in his section believe firm
ly IN his miraculous powers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

The poor people who believe that
the dead come back to talk and tip
tables do no harm. The spiritualism
which is working the greatest injury
and making the greatest number Of,
lunatics in the world is that which
comes from bottle,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

BYBRTD FISH Two years ago
reports were circulated fro.n the fish
Matching grounds in the vicinity of
HaVre de Grace. Md, that in tho.
progress of fish culture there new
variety of fish had been produced by,
crossing shad and herring. Inquiry
failed, however, to elicit any satis-
factory information on the subject.
Now the Scientific American states
that in New York, March 80, Mr.. r.,
b. Roosevelt read before the A lneri,
can Fish Cultural Association a paper,
in which he said that complete sue,
cess had followed attempts to cross
the following varieties of fish Sal
mon trout with white fish salmon
trout with brook trout F; brook trout
with fresh water herring. with Cali
fornia salmon, and with the Califor-
MIA mountain trout; shad with
striped bass and with herring. 1t is
observable of all bybrids that in ap-.
pearance they generally favor their
larger parent. The cross between
the brook trout and California Sal.
mon and the salmon trout bid fair
to be fine fish. Some of them new
in the hatchery are eight inches long.
The cross of the shad and herring
has done well. They probably are.
not migratory, and can be taken with
rod and line. The cross between the
shad and striped bass has not been,
heard from, though the result,
achieved in 1876, was to create great
number Of small fry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

NN M. NJ. WAGNER,
Shop Cor. First & Oak SITS.
dsEOf +. IOUGHRIDGE,
~ leave orders al Express Office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

ENR. E. II. PARSONS,
~ offers his professional services
o the people Of Oakland and vicin-
ty. Office in the old Offutt building.
38 3m
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-14

The testimony before the master in the
Greeuylle and Columbia railroad sale mat
ter at Columbia was closed "Wednesday
with the evidence given by the witnesses
for Messrs. Rhett and Corbin, who oppose
the uetition of the Clyde committee in the
interests OF the South CarOlipa and Green
vile and Columbia railroads.
Mfr. Andrew Carnegie. of New York,
who recently gave 1000 to his native
town OF Duniermline, Scotland, for the pur-
pose of establishing free library. has III
creased his gift to $4,000. The building
is expected to cost $40, 600, and will contain
q library and set Of reading and recrea-
tion-rOoms.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott has been spend
ing delightful month in yachting along the
New England coast. FreqDent stops were
made, and many visits paid to places OF
note. The COlonePs health is not robust
enough, however, to warrant him In at
tempting much work yet.
The Archbishop OF Canterbury follows
the scriptural injunction OF going into the
highways and hedges for his guests. He re-
Gently entertained 600 OF the poorer people
at Lambeth. and sent each visitor away
with bunch Of beautiful flowers.
A girl Just returned to Hannibal, Mo-,
from Boston high school said, upon see
| ing a fire-epgiue at work: "Wbo would
evab have dweamed such vewy diminu-
overlooking apawatus would hold so much
wattah !"
| The willow from which the ex-Empress
| Eugene plucked some shoots while at st.
! Helena Is the second one planted since the
burial OF the Emperor Napoleon. The tree
survives only thirty years in that latitude.
| Mr.. Daniel Delapane and his son, who
live near Buckland, Prince William county,
were thrown from buggy few days ago,
and miracuously escaped serious acct
| dent.
Rev. d. Il. Freerson, OF Anderson, s. c.,
has been called by the Presbyterian church
OF Marion, and has accepted the call. The
charge has been vacant for some months.
Bishop Watterson's conservation at Co.
Iumbus, Ohio, last Sunday, was attended
by his mother, six brothers, and three SIS
| tiers.
Judge Black does not find a sojourn in
Europe agreeable to him, and few weeks
will doubtless see him again In America.
DR.. Z. ID. Campbell, late resident physi-
clan at the city almsbouse, Richmond, has
located at Lexington.
A new lighthouse is soon to be erected on
! Bell Rock, in the upper part OF York river.
The Halifax.county levy has been reduced
from 80 cents on the 800 to 20 cents.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-14
A Beautiful wedding GIFT.

A curious and beautiful wedding gift has
recently been executed In this city. The
fair recipient will have the proud distiDc.
ton OF being the sole possessor OF such on
ornament. 1t consists Of solid gold chain,
OF the cable pattern, Of great weight, and
so constructed as to be worn as bracelet
at will. To this chain Is suspended large
circular locket, with gold back, crossed by
q broad band OF fine diamonds. and encir-
cled by small chain OF very delicate work
maDship. The locket Is q unique specimen
Of artistic jewelry II Is OF crystal, seal-en.
grayed from the back, and painted. II has
been produced by the only artist In this kind
OF work in London. The design is ex-
tremely elaborate; on the curling waves o!
a green sea. the Cambria, Mr.. Asbbury's
famous yacht, the winner OF the ocean race
in 1870, Is coming proudly In, her white
sails filed by the summer wind. The Sec
ond object on the glittering expanse Is the
"spot-boat" at Sandy Hook, its red hull,
two black balls, and the American ensign
flying from 1t, forming an exquisite con.
trast OF color. In the middle distance oil
this sea-piece on crystal Is a yacht, pre-
sumably the Cambria's defeated rival, miles
behind, with tiny boil and speck.iiAe sails,
while the funnel and smoke OF the tug wait.
ing on the winner completes the design on
the left. Nothing can be liner than the en-.
craving and coIoring OF this unrivalled
specimen Of the artists skin, and the origi
na'ity Of the design equals the spIendor oil
the gift. 4fg
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-14
Plaza or 80. Marks.
Mr.. nusxrx's woRD.rIcTuIE OF THE BEAuTT
ruf CHURCH. ds


From the Stories Of vcnice.I
Beyond those troops OF ordered Arches
there rises vision out OF the eartb, ana a''
the great square seems to have opcned rom
n In 4 kind Of awe, that we may see II far
away--a multitude OF pillars and white
comes. clustered into long low pyramid oil
colorcd light; a treasure-beap, 1t seems,
par,ly OF gold and partly OF opal and mo-
Thereof. pearl, halIowed. beneath into hve
great yauIted porches, ceilcd with
fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture
OF aabaster, clear as amber and del.
icate as ivory, sculpture fantastic and
involved, OF pam.leaves and lilies, and
grapes and pomegranaies, and birds cling.
ing and Hu,tering among the branches, all
twined together into an endless network
OF buds aud piumes; end, in the midst OF
II, the solemn forms OF angels, sceptered.
and robed by the feet, and leaning to each
other across the gates, their figures indis-
tinct among the cleaning OF the golden
ground through The leaves besides them,
interrupted aud dim, like the morning
light az IL faded back among the branches
of Eden when first its gates were angel
guarded long ago. And round the walls oil
the porches there are set pillars OF va
riegated stones, Jasper, and porpbyry
and deep-green serpeniine spotted with
fakes OF snow, and marbles, that hall re-
fuse and half yield TO the sunshine, Cleo
patrs like, .stheir bluest veins to kiss"
The shadow as it steals back from them re-
yeaIing line after line of azure undulation,
as receding tide leaves the waved sand;
their capitals rich with interviewer traccry,
rooted knots Of heritage, aud drifting leaves
OF acantbuS and vine, and mystical signs,
all beginning and ending 10 the Cross;
and above them, in the broad achiyolts.
o continuous chain OF language and OF
life-srgels, and the signs OF Heaven, and
the labors OF men, each IN its appointed
season upon the earth; and above these.
another range OF gliltering pinnac'es mixed
with white arches edged with scarlet flow.
ers, confusion OF delight, amidst which
the breasts of the Greek horses are seen
blazing in their breadth OF golden strength,
and the st. Marks Lion, lifted on blue
field covered with stars, until at last, as IL
in ecslacy. the crests Of the arches break
into a marble foam, and toss themselves far
into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths OF
sculptured spray, as il the breakers on the
Lido shore had been frost-b0und before
they fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaId
them With coral and amethyst.