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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-14
ELM CITY ExCURsIoN.

The steamer Elm City will make an excur- sion to Shelter Island on Saturday, leaving her dock at S:30 8. m. and returning will leave the island Oinah's Roch) at 3:30 p. m. The fare for the round trip will be only 50 cents, and it will be delightful family ex. cursion which will no doubt be adopted by a large number of families.
 On Saturday evening at 11:3o the 'tElm'' will make her regular Saturday night excur- sion to Coney Island, arriving at this great ocean side resort at o'clock Sunday morn ing and remaining until p. m., when she will return to New York, and landing at Peck Slip will remain until 11:30 p. m., giving persons in New York an opportunity to reach this city early on Monday morning. These trips are bound to be very popular. Captain Fred Peck is in command of the 'sElm," Mir. Miles Peck is clerk and all the officers are po- lite gentlemen who look well to the interest of their patrons. The fare for the round trip is only $1.75.
 CHURCH PICNIC.
 To-day Grace Episcopal church, of Fair Haven, will picnic at High Rock Grove and Glen. This is @ favorite resort for churches and Sunday schools, and all who go there speak in the highest terms of the beauties of the place and the accommodations.
 FOR GLEN ISLAND.
 This morning the steamer John H. Starin will make her usual excursion to Starin's Glen Island. leaving her dock foot of Brew cry street at s:3o a. m. sharp, and returning will leave the island at 3:s0 P. m. in time to take the 8 o'clock trains. The American band orchestra will furnish music for dam cling and a most enjoyable trip is certain. No Intoxicating liquors are sold on board. The St. MarY's '. M. T. A. & l.. society will make their annual excursion on this steamer to-day.
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VOL. XLIx.
Thursday Morning, July IA. 1881.
NgW ENTERTAINMENTS TO-DAI ]

NEW ADVERTLSEMHNTS TODAY Auction Sale-B. Booth. Auction Sale--W. s. Sanford. Bicycles-Dwight Street Rink. Bryant's History ry-Charles H. Fish. Board-tS.n
 For Sals-Bay Mare-131 Meadow Street. For Sale-Milk Route-ttF.n Fruit Jars-At Minor's Fresh Goods-D. M. Welch & Son. Kitchen Economy Exp1ained-Geo. v. Hecker x Co., Meetine-Board of Aldermen. Proposals for Coal-A M. Shew, M. D. Probate Notice-Estate of John Brereton. Railroad Grove Restaurant-Putman < Hale. The Comet-G ". Babb. Wanted-Man-W. J. Holland. Wanted-B BrickIayers At waddfngham's. Wanted-Employment J. a." wanted -Situation-95 Putnam Street. Church Street.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-14
The Excursion Season. RAILROAD EMPLoYEs' PICNIC

The eleventh annual picnic of the em- ployes of the New York, New Haven and
 Hartford railroad repair shops, will take
 place at Congamond Lakes, in Massachusetts, on Saturday, July Is. The party will take the Northampton train leaving at 7:3O a. m.
 It will like former excursions be most en ioyable.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-14
LOCAL NEWS.

Matter on Every Pase.l
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val began in real earnest. By ten
O'Clock fancy and grotesque maskers
commenced to appear on the streets,
and in another hour the city was
alive with them. At noon King Rex
started ON his grand parade through
the streets, having massed his fun
loving subjects in procession nearly
two miles in length, We shall not
attempt to describe the various rep
reservations on the score or more of
floats, or the comic and ridiculous
figures that marched on foot in this
long procession. Like everything
of the kind it must be seen to be APP
preciated. The entire afternoon was
taken up before the moving piano.
rama Of comicalities had passed over
the route determined upon. At
night the thousands Of curious spec
tators gathered again to witness the
gorgeous display Of the Mistic Grew
of Comus. The appearances Of this
grand accumulation Of tableaux is
confessedly the best and most inter-
esting affair Of the Carnival. and on
this occasion j. is said to have been
grander than ever before. The
night parade wound MP with . mag
niflcent tableau and ball at the
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There can scarcely be q doubt that
many persons are buried before life
is extinct. Hence no person ought
to be inferred until decomposition is
plainly manifest.
A Baltimore dispatch says: To-
day the friends Of Miss Barbara Lie
field daughter Of wealthy German.
who died on Wednesday, March 2.
placed q watch over her coffin. be-
lieving that she is in q trance and
will come to life again. Miss Lie6eld,
who was about Is years Of age, was
found dead in bed. and Der physician
said she died Of heart disease. On
Sunday she was to have been buried,
but to the sstonishment OF her friends,
her face assumed Q life-like hue, and
the undertaken expressed the opinion
that the body had turned partly on
its side. Consequently the funeral
was indefinitely postponed, and fur
further develonmants we're ava;ted
v;th ;n..n.a ;n..-... M. 49,
"' 'soASo '"'e.ess 40 0AeoAs
assumed . rosy hue ana the bps
were neither cold nor stiff. The
hands were warm and M 10 vester-
dav morning I warm n.,ran;rs t;op
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After an absance of most enjoya-
BILE three weeks vacation we tender a
profound bow to the readers Of the
CHRONICLE, and start again the tread
mill work of editing a newspaper,
cheered with the hope that the part.
ner lately acquired will serve to
make our task both light and pleas
ant in the future.
Our trip to and from the city was
rendered doubly agreeable by the
comfortable quarters enjoyed on
board Capt. Sinnott's magnificent
steamer the Jesse K. Bell, the finest
and best managed craft tina. ever
plowed the waters of Red river.
Arriving in New Orleans on the eve
of Madi-Gras we found all life and
hustle and PREPARATION for the great
festival. At noon Monday. Feb. 2s,
Rex, the King of the Carnival, was
rendered most royal reception mp
on the wharves of his favorite city.
He came up from his feet at anchor
in the Gulf of Mexico on q palatial
river steamer. with banners waving
and bands playing. and on arriving
at the foot of Canal street q salute Of
one hundred gums was fred in his
honor. All the military organiza-
tions Of the city. accompanied by
several visiting companies Of troops
from New York. Bostonland Chicago,
were in waiting and acted as an es-
cort to his Majesty to the City ball
and other prominent places. Sever
al balls at night wound mp the jolly
making.
Next day lMardi- Gr4s) the carni-
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CHANGES CLAMoRED FOR

! 1t seems that the people of Lou
isiaua are never to have an admins
tration and a set of laws that give
general satisfaction. While it is not
put in SO many words, yet it is plain
ly apparent that there is much dis
satisfaction at the Wiltz manage
ment Of affairs in various portions of
the State. For several months the
State press has been contending for
the calling of convention to finish
up and amend the work of the con-
yention of 1879. Another cause of
complaint is the Judiciary system, in
which it is claimed several changes
are imperative. OF late the jury
system is also coming in for COM
ment Among some it is claimed
that as this is strictly democratic
government, in which the majority
rule. the same should apply to juries.
and the system should be amended
SO that the agreement of three
fourths or fve-sixths of q jury can
be taken for verdict. and the stub
bornness or corruptness of two or
three men could not hang jury in
the interest of known criminal.
Another proposed changed is that q
full knowledge Of case shall not
disqualify man from serving as q
juror in that case. In olden times
jurors were selected from among the
acquaintance and neighbors of con-
tending parties, and q full knowl-
edge of all the circumstances lead
ing to the dispute were not sufficient
to disqualify juror. but nowadays
it is all changed, and the least
knowledge of hearsay or reading is
sufficient cause for discharging the
juror. On account of the almost
universal reading of newspapers it
has become a very difficult matter to
find jury in any case that has be-
come of interest to q community, and
when q jury is found it is likely to
be composed of the most ignorant
and incompetent class, for only the
ignorant and incompetent will have
failed to bear and learn all about it.
The time for Ignorant" jurors has
past, and the custom should be rele-
gated to keep company with the
other antiquities that have been
found to be useless and bothersome.
While we know that a biased OF
prejudiced person is not fitted for a
juryman, still we hold that q mere
possession of the facts in case be-
fore coming to trial should no more
disqualify juror than it does for
him to become possessed of the same
facts while the case is under trial
Let as have a modification of the
jury system by all means.
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tDotkOG kteo FE0-osJ
80 she's I'll broken up, chr re-
piled . detroit landlady when she
heard Of the failure Of smother wo-
man in the same business in Toledo.
"Well. / knew It was only . question
Of time. / was in her house for .
week, and I saw plainly that she had
no economy about her. / tell you .
landlady must think and plan"
''Not only in great things but in
small There's PHILOSOPHY ID run
ming : boarding house
"Well, I can't stop to ten you
more than one instancA I have
buckwheat pancakss every morning
for breakfast for fourteen boarders.
They use butter on their cakes. I
keep the butter on ice until It is as
hard Is . rock. The cakes are all
placed on the tabley not smoking hot
Bot mildly wsrm--just warm enough
to soften the outside Of . lump Of
butter. In this way Imake = saving
Of two pounds Of butter par week
over the nsual way Of rushing on hot
pancakes tie only one dodee ont
Of one hundred, but The landlady
who does't play more or less Of them
must ultimately come TO grief"
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mo. 49,.



This life is Ike game Of cards,
Which each man has to learn,
Each shufles, outs and deals the pack,
And each his trump doth turn.
Some turn high card to the top,
While others turn low
Some hold . hand quite fall Of trumps.
While Others none can show.
When hearts arc trnmps, We play for love,
And pleasure ais the hour;
No thought Of sorrow check our Joys,
In pleasurcs rosy bower.
But when the heart i ON the top. m
Our cards Is random play;
And often when the hearts turn mp,
Our game i but holiday.
When dimonds chance to crown the pack,
It's then men stake their gold;
Large sums are often lost and won,
By gamblers young and old
Intent on winning each doth watch,
His neighbor With an eagle eye;
In hope perhaps to get chance,
To cheat him on the ely.
When clubs are trumps look out for war,
On ocean or on land;
For horrid deeds are often done,
When clubs are in the hand.
Last game Of al Is when the spade
Is turned by the hand Of TimG
It Is here that 6nishes up the gamc,
In every land and CLINE.
No matter how much each man wins,
Or how much each man sawos,
Y0u win at last the spads turn mp.
And dig the players grave
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To g. W. W. GOODWIN, Dealer in Stoves,
81 Camp 6teet Now orleans:
Dear SRI can safely recommend
the Active stove - being better than
any / ever tried, Charter Oak not
excepted. II gives full satisfaction.
Can recommend it to any one.
Yours Truly, W. g. EDnoHDs.
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Wise Nonsense at Concord.

tFrom the Letter of "a Commonplace Person" In
the Boston Traveller.]
have returned alive from a morning ses-
sion at the Academic, and lecture from Dr.
Jones on the PHILOSOPHY Of Law" followed
by an hours discussion by the various leaders,
and am sitting up in bed with towel dipped
in ice-water on my head, which feels very
strangely. 1t was hotter at the chapel than any
place have ever been in, and to tell the hon.
est truth understood scarce one sentence Of
the doctors effort. When he had closed Mr..
Alcott rose, flushed with enthusia SIN, and ex-
claimed, "Can we now descend on the ladders
of our faculties, and find ourselves here as
men and women?" He said the lecture was
wonderfully clear. Another wanted it printed
in pamphlet form to be used as guide by the
young men of the land. would have given
a quarters income to know just how much of
it had been understood and remembe red by
the ladies who made up the audience Oh,
for mental phonograph to reveal thought, or
lack of it'll Ny role is that of semi-idiot who
really wants to gain ideas; so I ask bluntly all
sorts of definite questions, but the answers are
so indefinite as to be deeply depressing. And
hear such novelties stating with calm precis
ion as undoubted facts! Mr.. Alcott, for in.
stance, this morning said that "Matter is
merely the precipitate of mind" eff truly
holy, we might maintain ourselves indefinitely
longevity Of Abraham. aIf ali the bsings
ceased to will, there would be no planet"
"We may yet be able to determine when we
will ascend"
But have thought most on his statement
that we were not evolved from animals but
they from us! "When man behaves badly a
tiger or lion leaps out from him on all tours. :"
Of Forepaugh could make use of this fact,
what expense it would save him in getting up
his menagerieD t4As
The hardest of all for me to bear was the
question OF a western lady to DR.. Harris: "If
the word outside or inside should be applied to
the Potentially of an atom?"
He went on to explain at length in man
ner utterly unintelligible to me, until am
sure he was struck by the utter absence of
light or hope in my countenance, and turning
toward me he said kindly: "You can say either
you can say of handful of potatoes in a hat,
that they are either outside or inside the hat;
they are both outside and inside"
have thought a good deal on that. He
meant probably outside as regards the texture,
inside as regards the form; but dearl the
outside or inside of the potentiality of an atom!
But may get used to it.. / hear conversation
on the transcendent deduction of the catego-
ries, on entity Gently is mind") on Entele-
The first is one who has not but can realize
the totality of his potentiality; the second is
one who has realized the totentiality of his
potality. That does not seem exactly as it was
given to me, but my poor head is in such q
confused state that must renew the bandage.
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Portland, Bangor & Machias
STEAMBOAT CO.
-yOR
NIT. DESERT, ROCKLAND, CASTINE,
MELEBRHDGE and MACHIAs.
Five Trips Per Week.
Five Trips Per Week.

<sE@zs~ The Steamer LEWISTON,
k,HN.A SCHARLES DEERING, Mas
SsssffH ter. will leave Railroad Wharf,
Portland. every Tuesday and
rival of Express Train from Boston, fer
Rcckland, Castine, Deer Isle, sedgwick,
go. West Hsarbor, Bar Harbor, (1t Desert
Miiibridge, Jonesport, and Machinsport.
Returning, leaves Machiasport, every Mon
day and Thursday Morning, at 4.30 o'clock,
touching as above, arriving in Portland the same
evening, connecting with the Pullman night train
for Boston.
The fast Steamer CITY OF RICHMOND, Capt
VIM. K. Dennison, leaves Portland every Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday Evenings, at
lilo O'Clock or on arrival of Express Train from
Boston for va. Desert, Southwest md Bar
Harbors,) touching at Koclkland only, and ar
irving at Bar Harbor at about 1910 A. NJ next day.
Returning, leave Bar Harbor about A. M.
Mondays, Wednesdays aud Fridays, touch
ing at Southwest Harbor and Rockland, arriving In
Portland about 8 P. M.
Connects at Reckland with Sanford s. s. Go.
steamers each trip for Belfast, Bangor and River
Landings; also with steamer on Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday trips for Green's Landing, Bluehil
and Ellsworth. AT Bar Harbor with steamer for
Lamoine and Sullivan. At Sedgwick with stage for
Bluohill.
Coming West.
At ROckland Mondays and Thursdays with SAM
ford s. $. Co. from Bangor and River Landings for
Portland.
Tickets and State Rooms secured at Union Pas
senger Office, 40 Exchange street, Portland, e. A.
WALDRON, Agent.
All COMMUNICATIONS by mail or telegraph for
rooms should be addressed to
GEO. L. DAY, Gen. Ticket Agent, Portland.
Il. GUSHING, General Manager.
Portland. July 1. 1881. 1y6dtf
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HOTEL DIRECTORY.

Embracingthe leading Hotels at which the DAILY
PRESS may always be fonnd.
ALFRED HOUsE-R. H. Cooling, Proprietor.
AUBURN.
ELM HOUSE, Court st.-w. s. & A. Young, Pro-
AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA HOUSE. State St.-Charles Milliken,
''''''' BATH.
sHANNON'S HOTEL-Jerry Shannon, Proprietor
BATH HOTEL-C. NJ. Plummer, Proprietor.
BELFAST.
AMERICAN HOUSE,. D. Tucker. Proprietor.
BOLsTER,s MILLS.
HANCOCK HOUSE-M. Hancock, Proprietor.
BOSTON.
PARKER HOUSE, School St.-H. D. Parker & Go
Proprietors.
BRUNSWICK.
P. g. z. DINING ROoMS-W. R. Field. Proprieto
CORNISH.
DAVIS HOTEL-M. B. Davis Proprietor.
DANVILLE JUNCTION.
CLARK'S DINING HALL, Grand Trunk Railway
Depot-M. w. Clark, Proprietor.
DEXTER.
MERCHANTS EXCHANGE HoTEL-w. G Nor
LIBERTY HOUSE-W. II. Stickney, Proprietor.
EAsTPORT.
PAssAMAQUoDDY HoUSET. H. Buchanan,
Proprietor
PORTLAND.
AMERICAN HOUSE, Cor. of Middle and India St.
G. H. Wilkins, Proprietor.
CITY HOTEL, Corner of Congress and Green SITS.
FALMOUTH HOTEL, Corner Of Middle and Union
PERRY's HOTEL, 1T Federal ST.. G. PER-,
pkEBIE House, Congress ST.. Lindsey Son
U. S. HOTEL, junction of Congress and Federal SITS
Mcdonald & Newbegn, Proprietors.
HARTIAND.
HARTLAND HOUSE,. B. Littlefeld, Proprieto
ROCKPORT.
CARLTON HOUSE,. A. Nutter, Prop.
RAYMOND VILLAGE.
CENTRAL HOUSE, VIM. H. Smith, Proprietor.
SACCARAPPA
PRESUMPSCOT HOUSE,-W. s. Pratt, Proprieto
sKOWHEGAN.
TURNER HOUSE,-w. G. Heselto Proprietor
ELM HOUSE.-F. A. Dore. Proprieto
PHILLIPS.
ELMWOOD HOUSE-T. L. Page, Proprietor.
ELLSWORTH.
AMERICAN HOUSE-A.I I. Saunders, Prop.
WEST HARPsWELL.
HARPSWELL HOUSE.-A. j. Merriman, Prop r
HIRAM.
MT. CUTLER HOUSE-Hiram Baston. Proprietor
HOULTON.
SMELL HOUSED O. Floyd, Proprietor.
LEWISTON.
DEWITT HOUSE-Quinby g. Murch, Proprietors.
NORRIDGEWOCK.
DANFORTH HOUSED. Danforth, Proprietor.
NORTH ANSON.
SOMERS HOUSE, Brown b Hilton, Proprietor
HARTLANDHOUSE, J.B LittleHeld, Prop.
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London Lancet.l
The Season of Thirst.

The weather is warm enough to give some
foretaste of the season of thirst, which, happily
in this country, is not also season of drought.
Indeed, the beverages placed at the public dis
posal are as numerous as the most capricious
and versatile requirement for drinks" can
demand. The difficulty is not so much what
TO take as what to avoid. 1t is obviously
mischievous and dangerous habit to employ
fermented liquors to allay thirst. Stimulan.s
are good and useful in their place, but they are
wholly misapplied when used as ordinary
drinks. Medicated or naturally medicinal
waters and beverages ought certainly to be
avoided as mere thirst-quenchers, however
useful they may be as agreeable vehicles for
the administration of small doses of medicine
in disguise. Warm and simply nourishing
drinks, such as cocoa, chocolate, milk with or
without water, and weak tea, which are prob
ably the least harmful liquids to consume, as
they determine to the skin not less than to the
kidneys, are generally distasteful in warm
weather. 1t is probably, therefore, necessary
to resort to cold and even iced drinks; but the
recourse is not to be commended. That there
are conditions of the stomach in which appli-
CaJlOn OF Ice 10 Jn0 muCuOuS membrane may
be indicated, u.s. of course recognized; but it is
scarcely desirable to suppress the temperature
of any part of the organism suddenly and Sc
verely for the mere sake of momentary sem
sation of pleasure There are risks attendant
on the consumption of ices when the body is
much heated, which cannot be comprehended
under the term "cold," or be gagged by their
immediate consequences. The loss of fluid by
perspiration must be compensated, but beyond
this it is we'll not to drink excessively. The
perpetual inhibition of liquids increases or
maintains the sense of need it is desired to
satisfy. The organism rapidly adapts itself to
the circumstances of the moment. If it is
thrown into a perspiration, the skin being set
to eliminate fluid, the action will be continued,
and the demand for fluid will be perpetuated,
not only to replace what has been secreted by
the sweat glands and cast off, but to provide
further work for the skin! In short, the per-
SEPARATION, caused by an excessive consumption
of fluids in warm weather sets up drain
which is unnatural, inasmuch as it outruns the
necessity Of affording relief for the augmented
blood pressure in the superficial vessels in
which an outbreak of perspiration originates.
A man may drink and perspire indefinitely.
It is better to put some restraint on the incli-
nation to imbibe inordinate quantities of fluid.
If any enterprising caterer should be able to
devise an agreeable drink which is neither too
stimulating nor indicated with saline, ferru-
ginous compounds, or phosphates, but simply
nourishing, like barley water, he will confer a
public benefit and command support.
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LOST.
SILK UMBRELLA.

r oST several days ago large Silk Umbrella, con.
II siderably worn, with stout wooden handle
Finder will be suitably rewarded by leavingIsame
at Press Office jy29dtf
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Do not neglect that pain in your back too
long, it will lead to something serious before
you are aware of it. Take ELIXIR OF L1FB
Roof at once and be made well and happy.
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RAILROADS.
Portland and Worcester Line.
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r.. r.
UMMER ARRANGEMENT

SUMMER ARRAN CEMENT.
On and after Monday, june "a,
EessssaessseesS 1851, Passenger Trains will leave
|~.7Portiand at 1870 u. M, and
1.2S p. H., arriving at Worcester
at 2.16 p. M and 7.3O p. m: Returning leave
~, arriving at Portland at LILO p. ana 6.IO p.
For Clinton, Aver 5unc., Eifchbxrx,
Nashua, Lowell, Wiutikans, and Ep-
ping at 1880 a. E,. and 30 p. m.
For Manchester, COncord and points North, at
1.25 p. M.
For Rochester, Springvalc, Alfred, Wat
erboro and saco River.1.3O n. n., .25
p. M, and (mixed) at $50 p. m. Returning
leave Rochester at (mixeD $40 a. M, ll.O5
am, and 400 p. M; arriving at Portland
For G0rhnnn, saccaraHpa, Cumberland
Mills, Westbreok and WOodford's.
at39O Il. m., tl.25, $40 and (EnixeO
The las p. m. II ain from Portland connects at
Aver Juno. with HoOsac Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New York via Norwich Line, and nIl rail,
via Springfield, also with N. Y. 81 n. e. R.
r.. C'Steamer Maryland Route'') for Phitsdel.
South and with BOSTON IL Albany II. R. for
the West.
Close connections made at westbrOok juno
tion with through trains of Me. Central K. R., and
at GrandTrunk Transfer, Portland, with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. r.
Through tickets to all points South and West, at
Depot Offices and at Rollins q Adams, No. 20 Ex-
change Street.
With Parlor Car attached.
Does not stop at Woodfords.
]. W. PETERS, Gen. Ticket Agent.
Grrvf 100