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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07
8aiIp &srtlrtbtf 5Durnal.
Augusta. Wednesday kaaing, Dec. z.

Speaker Keller made a seaside speech
to the House when he tsok the chair -
presiding officer. He desires session
devoted to business.
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Special inducements are offered you BY
the Burlington Route. 1t will pay you tt
read their advertisement to be found else
where in this issue.
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"Buchupaiba."

New, quick, complete cure 4 days, urinary
affections. smarting, frequent or difficult ur-
nation, kidney diseases. 81. Druggists
Depot Partridge Bros, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07
Fire in Wilton.

FARMINGrON, Dec. 6.
The farm buildings of II. L. Thompson,
of Wilton, was burned with its contents to-
day. Loss, 81, 500; insured for 81 900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07

A most remarkable cure for dyspepsia,
"Welis' Health REVIEWER The greatest
tonic, best bilious and Liver Remedy known.
81. Druggists. Depot Partridge Bros, Au
gsuta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07
SBeciOL Advertisements.

Small advertisements, not exceeding three lines
coming under the head Of WANTED, For SALE
To LET, LOST, &C., ciH be inserted here tin
for 20 cents three times for ~ ceats aud one see.k
for 90 cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07

The thing desired found at last. Ask drug
gist for Rough on Rats. 1t clears out rats
mice, reaches, flies, bedbugs, l5c boxes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07
MAINE.
A Maine Fisherman Lost.

HALIFAX, Dec. 6.
The American fishing schooner Plymouth
Rock, from Grand Banks, reports the 18th
ult.. two of the crew were in dory tending
travis, when it was upset and Jno. Frost, a
native of PASSPORT, Me-, was drowned. The
other was saved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07

Rheumatism, neuralgia, hysteria, female
weakness, etc, promptly cured with Browns
Iron Bitters. dec6d&wlw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07

War Dept, Office Chief Signal Officer,
Washington. ID. c., Dec. IL A. N.
For the New England and Middle States.
cloudy weather with rain; southerly, veering
10 westerly winds; stationery or higher tenn
reFasure; lower pressure.
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FINANCIAL AND CoMMERc1AL
New York Stock Market.


New York Money Market.
Evening Report.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.
Money loaned at GAG call and closed ut 6.
Prime Mercantile paper, 6a7. Exchange steady
sol for long. and 81 for short. Governments
strong and generally a higher. State bonds dull
Railroad bonds, irregular moderate volume Of
business.
Transactions. 900 shares.
Closing bids:
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WEATHER REPORT,

i.a,c.s,o.. for the Mex, n ao.ss.
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BY TELEGRAPH.

:iased Press Telegrams to the Daily
Kennebec Journal.
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Business il beginning to loom ~ At Old
Orchard. Lumber i beginning to arrive and
there i good prospect for work being un.
usually lively this vinter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-07

NJ aSpeCt VI tisC pan ~ "s's~'' Ss''->.o ''-~
Washington monument
This improvement would add to that part
and to the park south Of the Executive Man
sion a large area of valuable land, and would
transform what 10 now believed to be dan
eerous nuisance into an attractive land
scape extending to the river 'front.'
They recommend the renewal of steam
railway lines from the surface of streets of
the city. and the location Of necessary depots
in such places Is may be convenient for pub
lie accommodation; and they call attention
to the deficiency Of water supply which seri-
ously affects the material prosperity of the
CITY. and health and comfort Of its inhabi-
tants. commend these subjects to your ia
vorable consideration.
The ELEcroRAL CoLLEGK.
The importance of timely legislation with
respect to the ascertainment and decIara-
ton Of votes for Presidential electors.
was sharply called to the attention Of peo-
pie more than four years ago. II is to be
hoped that some well-defned measure may
be devised before another national election,
which will render unnecessary q resort to
any expedient Of temporary character for de-
termination Of the questions upon contested
returns.
PREsrpESrIAL INABuIrr.
Questions which concern the very existence
Of our government. and the liberties of the
people were suggested by the prolonged ILL.,
ness of the late President, AID his consequent
incapacity to perform the fanctioas Of his Of
fee. Il is provided by the second article of
the constitution, in the firth clause Of it,
lrst section, that s'in case Of removal Of the
President from Office or Of his death, res
ignasioo or inability to discharge the powers
and duties Of said ONCE the same sAall L.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
The Magnitude Of Our Mechanical In.
dustres.

The following statistics were given by
Professor Ihurston, in his address be-
fore the American Society of Mechani
cal Engineers, which recently held it's
first annual meeting in New York:
Ninety years ago Samuel Slater start
ed the first successful cotton spinning
mill at Pawtucket, r. I. To-day we
raise 1,5O0, 100000 pounds OF cotton to
supply the mills in every New England
State and in nearly every other State in
the Union, which manufacture $500.
600, 900 worth of goods.
From the day in 1704, when the first
rude wooden mill was established at
Newbury, Mass, our wooden manufac-
lures have grown in extent and in excel
lence of products, until to-dav our H.
600 or 15,000sets of machinery, handled
by nearly 10000 of the most skilled
operatives to be found in the world,
produce $250,000,O0O worth of goods
which, in point of cheapness and excel
lence, compete with the best work in
Europe.
We have seen the silk manufacturers,
after struggling with difficulties of ev-
cry imaginable sort for half a century.
finally secure a foothold and enter upon
a prosperity which is as marvellous az it
is encouraging The enterprise of the
Cheneys duringthe past generation, and
the steady persistence of the Paterson,
N. j., manufacturers, have borne fruit
in the erection of $50 mills, with pro-
duction of $30,O00,000 worth of silk
goods, which in strength and durability
excel, and in beauty are fully equal to
the finest products OF its French COM
petitor at Lyons.
In the manufacture of iron and steel
the story is the same. We have fur
naces which are supplied with every vari-
ETY. OF the best ores, and are making
100000 tons of pig iron per month.
The growth of our Bessemer steel
production is even more marvellous.
Twelve years ago this wonderful illus
tratlon OF the marvels of chemical sci
ence was looked upon as merely an in
terestng and curious process, of no inn
mediate value and of most uncertain
promise. To-day a single establishment
is making 100, 900 tons year.
The United States is looked upon as
the home of all ingenious and effective
.abor-sating devices. Fifty thousand
steam engines and more than an equal
number of water-wheels turn the ma
chinery of the hundreds of thousands
OF workshops throughout the country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
How to Hang Thermometers.

There seem to be so many erroneous
notions among amateur meteorologists
about the minimum temperature of the
twenty-four hours, and how to obtain it
correctly, that few lines from an told
weathercock," | trust, will not be alto
gether lost. In the first place, then, the
temperature of the wall of any building
at any hour OF the night or day is not
the true temperature OF the circulating
air, and is of no use to science. A wood
wall will radiate its heat more rapidly
than brick or stone, and the amateur
scientist who hangs histhermometer on
wood wall can force his mercury down
below the amateur who selects brick
wall. The proper way to expose your
thermometer is to surround it with q
light wood frame, covered with Stats.
like shutter work, and rooted over
This will protect it from the direct rays
OF the sun and reflected heat. Run a
light wood bar across the center of your
shelter, to which yon can attach the
thermometer, which should be, when
properly exposed, on the north side OF
the building, and at least one foot from
all surrounding objects. If these dr.
rections are followed, erroneous reports
OF extreme cold weather will not find
their way into print SO often. 1t is not
very funny thing for the press to re-
port twenty-five degrees below zero
when fifteen degrees represented the
true temperature of the circulating air.
1t gives persons abroad wrong impress
sions of your climate.-Cor. ISL. Paul
Mimi Pioneer Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
thirty Years and $4,000 Spent in
Vain

An old woman, named Caroline
Kuhn, living at IA Brooks Street, Pater-
son. died suddenly on Christmas, with
out medical attendance. and Coroner
Hurd was sent for to investigate the
case. She was found to have died of
natural causes, being eighty-four wears
old. Her husband, who survives her.
is ninety years of age. Thirty wears
ago, with a fortune of $4,000. he
started out to discover perpetual mo-
ton, and has been working at it ever
since. His room Is filed with wheels.
pulleys and levers, and in his search he
has manifested no little mechanical in
genulty. His favorite plan was one
based on an idea of one of the old
philosophers, that by constructing a
wheel surrounded with weights on
loose levers, and having it so arranged
that the weights would be further from
the center on the down side than thew
were on the up side, the difference in
the. weight would set and keep the
wheel in motion. But every time he
tried there was something lacking to
make it a success, and he spent the
whole of his fortune in trying to dis
cover some way to overcome the OBJ
stacle. He is now poor, and spends his
time lamenting the want of means to
make further experiments. N. Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
CalifOrnians Abroad.

a lew years ago steamer drew into
the Bay of Naples with lot of passen-
gers, among whom were q small party
OF Americans. The night had been
rough and the ship was behind time.
Ii was ten o'clock already, and no
breakfast. The stingy Captain had re-
solved to economize.
A stout, quiet man, with a stout
hickory stick, went to the Captain and
begged for little coffee, at least, for
his ladies. The Captain turned his
back, fluttered his coat tails in the face
OF the stout. quiet man, and walked up
bis deck. The stout, quiet man fol.
lowed. and still respectfully begged for
something for the ladies, who were
faint with hunger. Then the Captain
turned and threatened to put him 10
irons, at the same time calling his Off
GERS around him. T.
The stout man with the stout stick
very quietly proceeded to thrash the
Captain. He thrashed him till he could
not stand; and then thrashed every
officer that dared to show his face, as
well as half the crew. Then he went
down and made the cook get breakfast
This was an old Californian, ..Daye
Cotton" as we used to call him up at
Yreka.
VI course, an act like that was pun
ishable with death almost. Piracy on
the high seas,' and all that sort of Of
tense was charged; and know not how
much gold it cost to heal the wounded
head and dignity of the Captain of the
ship. But this Californian neither knew
the law nor cared for the law. He had
little party of ladies with him, and he
would not see them go hungry. He
would have that coffee if it cost him his
head.
Dear Dave Cotton! hear he is dead
now.
Once on the Rhine. between the
armies of France and Germany. I got
into great trouble with the authorities.
The military police, who were arrestino
everybody they could lay hands on, had
got me into their clutches and were try.
ing TO read a whole lot of mixed-uu
manuscript which constituted the main
part OF my luggage, in order to find out
what sort OF man l was; for l could
not talk word of either French or
German. | think they must have been
poorly educated, for they could hardly
read it. But they tried and tried with
all their might. And the harder they
tried the madden they got; and they
laid the blame all on to me.
They were about to iron me and
march me off for spy, when an Ameri-
can stepped up and laid down the law
In way that made them open their
eyes: He was Californian, and nv
trouble was over. He could not talk a
word to them-no more than I: but
they soon saw that although he could
not talk in any of their six or seven
tongues, he could at least fight in anv
language under the sun.-Joaqui,s Mi
Ter, IN the Californian.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

gravatingly asked "What style we pre-.
fer to see?' Werecklessly answer, s.No
particular shape-anything prettv.n
Again we remove our bonnet with an
actual reluctance to part with it. Again
we go through the old story. Our friend,
who looks slightly fatigued, suddenly
finds everything we try on becoming!
We get up a smile. We are once more
told our head is unusually small and
that it is necessary to have a STYLE
copied. We find one, we think, does
nicely. We leave our orders and turn
our steps homeward. tired, dusty, dis
enchanted with erything in general
and bonnets in particular. We are con-
soled about our small head, however,
by the thought that it is great beauty,
though inconvenient. We bid our
friend goodbye and tell her we are sure
we could have done nothing without
her. We speak of our success to the
head of the house at dinner He imme-
diately asks how much we paid for our
purchase. We take a long breath and
boldly state the cost There is fuss
about it. We say demurely we went
all over town for we feel tired enough
to believe ourselves and it is the cheap
est thing we saw, which is the truth.
For answer our amiable lord scornfullv
says, go, pah!'' We answer him, when
he sees the article under discussion. he
will feel perfectly satisfied. just then
the bell rings. We say, with a little
air of triumph, now you will be able to
judge for yourself. In comes the band
box. We rush up stairs to a mirror,
don the new fashion, arrange it most
becomingly, assume our sweet express
sion and descend for criticism. Our
better-half eyes us in silence. We slow
ly wnirl around for his benefit. His lack
of enthusiasm alarms us We falter
out, "Well?" He leans back in his
chair, takes us in once more and turns
around to go on with his dinner with
the remark. "rn give you just twenty
dollars to burn that thing up. To tell
you the truth, you look fifty years older
in it than you are" We are literally
crest-fallen! We silently return the
hat, we will never wear in comfort now.
to its resting place, consoling ourselves
with the thought that it is prettier than
we have seen, and perhaps
our liege lord will learn to like it
NeU Orleans Picayune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

An appeal is made for the sum of
IzV.ooO tor the purpose of restoring the
parish church of Stratford-on-Avon.
All the. Bishops of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church South, except Bishop
heene, have reached their three score
and ten years.
The National Educational Associa-
ton will meet at Atlanta, July 1922.
The State School Commissioner of
Georgia has been promised a full at
tendance from the South.
The State of New jersey offers $40
to every free public school in the State
with which to start a library. upon con-
dition that the district raise as much
more. And $40 is added yearly upon
the same condition.
In Sweden $4,000 people listen
every Sunday.to Methodist preaching.
thirty years ago Methodists were i'm
prlsoned for attempting to preach in
that country; now they have fifty
churches and not less than 1000 men,
bers.
The girls seminary at Mortified,
Mass, established by Mr.. Moody. the
evangelist, is full, containing now about
one hundred pupils. including the In
dian girls. The latter are making ex-
cellent progress in their studies. They
are very fond of music
The committee appointed to collect
subscriptions for the endowment of the
Harvard Divinity School decided re-
Gently to publish the list of those who
thus far have subscribed to the fund.
The total amount now pledged is $116,.
600, and S14, 900 more is to be raised to
complete the required sum.
The meeting Of the Methodist Con.
gress in London next September is now
fully provided for. The delegates have
not yet been named, however. There
will be about two hundred from Ameri-
ca, the Methodist Episcopal Church be.
ing entitled to about eighty, half OF
whom will be laymen. The Bishops are
intrusted with the power of naming
them.
"A recent article by Howard M. Tick.
nor, i'll the HarUard Register, represents
the study OF elocution in that College to
occupy very unimI ortant place among
the general studies of the curriculum,
Among other things, it is stated that the
salaries OF the instructors in this branch
are decidedly meager, and twice as
many hours per week are required of
them as Of other members of the fac
ulty.
An Englishman, Sir Francis Lycett,
who died recently, leaving fortune of
over million, was an ardent Methodist.
During his lifetime his gifts to Wesley
an Methodism were princely. His hobby
was the erection of new Wesleyan chap
els in the metropolis, which movement
he originated, and toward which object
he gave within the last ten years the
sum Of $4,000. Two DAYS before his
decease he handed the Secretary of that
fund a check for f7,5O0. He has left
a legacy of f23, 900 toward the scheme,
and at Lady Lycett's death two-thirds
OF his fortune, in which she has life
is to be devoted to the further
ance OF the same movement. Valuable
legacies amounting to several thousands
OF pounds have been left to WESLEYAN
home and foreign missions and other
objects.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
Choosing a Bonnet.

Does any man realize the trials we
women have to endure under the ne
cesslty fashion imposes upon us of Sc
Letting suitable head covering. He Is
very quick to say: 81 How horrid Won
look! How in heavens name did you
come to buy such a looking thing as
that you've got on your head?n And
he thinks all we have to do is to ex-
change our unlucky purchase for some
thing more suited to his taste. He never
dreams how tiresome it is to find thai
somsthing.
SWego down town with 4 nice little
sum OF money in our purse. and take
our pest friend along to abide by her de-
clsion in a choice. We go to one MILL
merry establishment, ask to see ..the
latest remove the remains Of last
years style from our head with n ten
derness we never felt for it until the
present moment, take seat, and are
experimental upon for the next half
hour. Our friend plays a conspicuous
: part IN the operation. She has eyes s.to
The front OF u.s. ETC., but at each arti-
Gle placed above our brows, shakes her
head most Overwhelmingly. Tired and
disappointed. we find nothing fits,
Whereupon we are told by the polite
French woman waiting on us: "But
madame's head is so small we ave to
make something for her. Is she selec'
de style, why, we can copy egxzatle to
suit her." But madame finds No
style becoming. Her friend whispers
to her OF place where she lie sure she
will lind something to please her, and
with polite thanks to the disappointed
little French woman we leave the sbop
in quest of new fields We are sorry at
not having found something at the first
store. AT the second we begin to
weaken on . certain shape we have
seen which, if made smaller, we think
would do. We appeal to our friend.
She says: 80, never! in the first place
1t is an ugly color, most unbecoming;
IN the next, it is not worth the price,
In other words she is sure we would
never be pleased with it. With poor
excuse for an amiable smile, we decide
to take her advice and not take the new
shape. We reach the next place. The
door is opened for u.s. We are rushed
at by smiling young woman who
mechanically asks, Can | show
you anything?" We state our |
errand. Once more we are seated. |
Once more we are shown numerous |
styles until we become so bewildered
we don't know which to choose. Once
more we cock our head in all positions
and view that important portion of our
selves in every light. Nothing satisfies.
We leave discouraged and 60 into the
next door. By this time
the invisible net over our front hair is a
perfect wreck and the hair itself, which
WAS prettily arranged when we started
9ut, has tendency to stand on end.
There il a prospect of nothing being
seeomiDg, from our looks. We are ag-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

A New York lady, who lately be-
came widow, has received visit from
. former poor tenant who said that
eleven years ago she had moved out OF
2 house belonging to the lady husband
leaving 50 owing to him. She could
not afford to pay it at once, but would
do so by installments.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

Six genuine Arabs filed their pre-
Imlnary applications in the United
states Court in Washington. few DAYS
ago, to become citizens of the United
States. One of the applicants, who
speaks English very well, was with
Henry M. Stanley in Central Africa
when he was hunting for the great ex-
plorer, Dr. Livingst one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

flames W. English, the newly-elect-
ed Mayor OF Atlanta, Ca, was a Con.
federate soldier who gave up at Apo
mattox, and came into the city in Nav,
1868, with fifty cents in his pocket. Ee
oegan york there carrying brick at
fifty cents day, but is now one of the
city's heavy men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

Croker, the Central Pacific mill.
ionalre, had to pay 100000 taxes un-
der the new California Constitution last
year. and has decided to bring his mill.
ions to New York, where he will build
q mansion on Fifth Avenue to rival even
the Vanderbilt palaces.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03
1t was the SnIandid ioxuoIc x,,or,, H.,

1t was the splendid jewels worn by
Nine. Ropillard, the wife of a tobacco
manufacturer. at a ball at the Tuilleries,
IN 1910, that first gave Napoleon the
Idea OF making the tobacco trade State
monopoly. 1t yields now to the French
government an annual profit of about
$50. 100000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-03

Taken ON the spot-The measleA
The daily gazette., 1881-01-13

History'' that on the aeth of Decem-
bor, 1875, the Delaware and Ohio rivers
were beth frozen over, and navigation
was suspended upon them until the
18th of the following March.
In 1792, when soldiers were sent to
the disastrous battlefield Of General
st. Clair, to bury the dead, they en-
eamped where Cincinnati now stands,
January 70. The snow was reported
asitwo feet deep upon the ground, and
the Ohio was so strongly fronen that
the soldiers rode their horses across
from Kentucky on the ice. 81
The 7th of February, 1907, was
known fer years az Cold Friday, and
was the ground work for many q
gran dfathers tale. On the evening of
the 9th the weather was mild and rain
begin to fall as night set in. In Q few
hours the rain changed to snow, which
fslfto the depth OF six inches after
wbich b hurricane began TO sweep
over the lad. It grew colder and
colder as the night progressed, aud the
next morning the trees in the forests
were cracking like the reports of guns
and everything was bound in fetters
Of ice. There was no Thermometer to
register the cold, bat the day comes
down in history and tradition as Cold
Friday. fA8G gfHfEIFf \.