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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18

1IONS in BIBLE LANDS consisting of Sketches
written from PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS, giving re.
suits of recent researches in the EAST and the re-
covery of many places in Sacred History long con.
sidcrel lost. Latest Cheapest, and most attractive
book on the Holy Land. Richly Illustrated with
New Maps and l65 Beautiful Engravngs. A Spen.
did chance for good Agents. Address, Phillips L
Hunt, sos Broadway, New York.
mar.2t Swfw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18

We cannot understand why DAYS of hesi-
fancy and delay will be INDUCED in when a
few doses of DR.. Bills Cough Syrup will
ease and cure the worst Cough or Cold.
Price only % cents bottle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18
TONTINE PLAN.

or upon the principle of accommodating profits tor den
mite perio1s which frs: introduced by this Socie-
ty, and ha been recommended and endorsed by emf
nent experts in Life Insurance. and by leading busi
ness men, Forty -Four per cent. has BET earned and
accumulated the premiums paid on its Iontine Lie
Policies and forty per cent. on Its TOntine Endow-
ment Policies, issued within the last five years.
The Directors of the Equitable Life Assurance So
cety represent exclusively the interests OF the Policy
holders and in presenting the Society to notice. they
feel that it has strong claims upon public confidence,
because of the strict and conservative principles by
which its various departments are governed. In the
assets and in the administration of the Society," per-
feet security given for the future which is of great
importance to those depending upon their insurance
No Life Insurance Company has such large annual
Transactions as the Equitable; none is more prom
nd just in its dealings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18
THE GREAT
BURLINGTON ROUTE.

BURLINGTON ROUTE.
~No other line runs Three Through Pas
senger Trains Daily between Chicago, Des
Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha. Lincoln. st.
Joseph, Atchison, Topeka and Kansas City.
Direct connections for all points in Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado. Wyoming. Montana, Ne
California.
The Shortest, Speediest and Most Comforta-
BILE Route via Hannib,, to Fort Scott, Denison
Dallas, Houston, Austin. San Antonio, Calves
ton and all points in Texas.
The unequaled Inducements offered by this
Line to Travellers and Tourists, are as follows:
The celebrated Pullman Q6-wheeD Palace
Sleeping Cars. run only on this Line. c., B. s.
q. Palace Drawing-Room Cars. with Horizons
Recning Chairs. No extra charge for Seats
in Reclining Chairs. The famous c.. r.. & o.
Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous Smoking Cars
fitted with Elegant High-Backed Rattan Re
volving Chairs for the exclusive use of first
class passengers.
Steel Track and Superior Equipment, COM
bined with their Great Through Car Arrange
ment, makes this. above all others, the favorite
Route to the South, Southwest, and the Far
West.
Try it, and you will find travelling luxury
instead OF a discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sale at all offices in the United States and
Canada.
All information about Rates of Fare, Sleep
ing Car Accommodations, Time Tables Sc
will be cheerfully given by applying to
J. Q. A BEAN. Gen'l Eastern Agent.
JOG Washington St, Boston, Mass
and 3l7 broadway, New York
JAMES K WOOD: Gen: Pass Agt., Chicago.
T. J. POTTER. Gen. Manager, Chicago
mar19t&w4Oweeks
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18
INTERNATIONAL
Pavement Co.
First Mortgage Bonds,
With a Bonus of Stock.

The pavement made by this Company has met with
the highest favor, both in this country and in Europe
and It Is considered to approach perfection more
nearly than any other.
The Works Of the Company are at Providence, X.
L., and at Hastings, N y, and the needs of its bust
ness will soon require additional ones at Chicago and
ether large cities,
Negotiations are now pending with capitalists in
London and Paris for the RICH, TO manufacture and
use this pavement in those cities.
Few enterprises now on the market promise ms
profitable business as this one.
The Company requires additional means to extend
their facilities for manufacturing and offer for sale the
second $00.o0 of their per cent bonds (converti.
BILE into stock) at par and interest These bonds
carry bonus OF Stock which is fixed for the present
at fifty per cent.
Pamphlets and full information furnished and
subscriptions received by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18

An 50 acre farm in Lisbon II miles from Farwcll,s
Mills, miles from Androscoggin Mills, Lewiston.
ON good road; good two story house, painted and
blinded two large barns carriage house clapboari.
Cd and painted; also hog house, sheep she'd etc.
Plenty Of wood and timber, and well wsfered; cuts
70 tons OF good hay. all moved BY machine. larg
oscnarf. Oh and young trees, also pears. peaches,
plume, grapes and cramberries; line shade trees and
very pleAsant location.
NATHAN BUcKNAN.
Proprietor. Lisboa, Ne.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18
So 100000.

The Lives Insured by the Society kre carefully Sc
iected in different parts of North America and Europe
furnishing, by this broad field of operations an az
ditional and exceptional safety to- ne Policy holders
ThS assurances are made only on the Mutual Premi
ums Principal. The Surplus are returned Annually to
the Incurred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-18

Premiums are received and Losses are paid in cash
ONLY Policies are issued payable at the death OF the
Insured also payable At the end Of certain numbeI
of years. Policies also issued on the
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

A rumor from Richmond is to the eff.
feet that Notwithstanding the secrecy
with which affairs is the Auditors Of
flee are conducted it has leaked out that
the taxable values of the State have in.
creased under the last assessment. With
no danger of increased taxation. and
with the Supreme Court of the United
States to sustain the validity of the State
debt, why continue the attempt to pre-
vent the Influx Of capital and immigra-
ton by necessarily futile efforts at re-
pudiation? Had it not been for these
fully upon the credit of the Stase, she
could, during the present fushness of
money, easily borrow enough at three
and half or four per cent. to redeem
her debt, and experience no difficulty
in paying that rate of interest. Allen.
Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Times says: "There has
been good deal of unnecessary anxiety
about the papers left by Guiteau and
which were taken preseason Of by the
District Attorney. The idea seems to
be that the papers contain some allu-
sion to the criminals offence. its con-
ception and his motive. The truth is,
however, that there Is no allusion to the
crime Of any importance in these pa
pers. They are Of no value at all except
as they contain some newspaper slips
which show how Guiteau's mind was
affected by violent editorials directed
against the President and the Admins.
tration."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26
The New School OF Astronomy and the
Leander Mct'ui mick Telescope and
Observatory NJ the University.
Richmond Dispatch.l


As incorre5 It statements have been
made in reference to this splendid gift
to the University, and the plans Of the
Board of Visitors concerning it, we are
glad to be able to present the following,
which we have from an official source,
and which is an accurate statement OF
the facts:-
The Society of the Alumni of the uni
versity of Virginia, which had charge
of the enterprise of raising by suoscrip.
lions the fund necessary to secure the
Jeander Mccormick telescope, on June
3Oth, turned over to the rector and visi-
tors of the University the funds collect
cd and invested In their cOmmunica
ton to the visitors the officers of the
Society announced that Mr.. Leander
J. Mccormick had determined TO build
an observatory for his telescope at a
cost Of SIS. 900, thus adding $4,000 to
his original gift of the $50. 600 telescope !;
and that Mr.. Vanderbilt had sent his
generous gift of $25, 600 to be US d in the
best interests of the University, express
ing the wish that his name be not con-
nected with his gift. This $3.50 0 will
be sci aside as distinct astronomical
working endowment fund, while the
$4,000 subscribed by the friends and
alumni of tn, University will form the
endowment of the astronomical profess
sorship. Summing up the above gifts,
it will be seen that the whole amounts
to q sum of $143, 900 in equipment and
endowment added to the University
OF the astronomical professorship en-
dowment fund of $1,000, more than
$4,000 was subscribed in New York ;
over $40. 900 in Virginia. and the rest in
Philadelphia, Boston, Washington,
Baltimore, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas,
Louisiana, Kentucky and California
The people of Virginia, of the South. and
of the whole country, owe debt OF
gratitude to all liberal lovers of sound
teaching. whose patriotic munificence
has created this splendid astronomical
foundation in connection with univer~
sity, the creation of which, by Mr.. JEFF.
erson, has proved national blessing.
The observatory will be :called the Lee
ander Mccormick Observatory. It has
been proposed by some to name the pro-
fessorship the Thomas Jefferson PROBES.
sorship, of Astronomy, but we know
not whether this will be done. Tit
visitors appointed committee to make
preparations for the building of the OBJ.
servatory and . house for the director
(the former most probably on the sits
selected by Jefferson himself in 1925.
The director, or professor, will be ap
pointed, it is said, In the fall, and 1t il
hoped the services of one of the frs
practical astronomers of America o.
Europe may be obtained.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

Nearly all the ills that afflict mankind
can be prevented and cured by keeping
the stomach, liver and kidneys in per.
feet working order. There is no medi-
cine known that will do this as quickly
and surely, without interfering with
your duties as Parker's Ginger Tonic
Zee advertisement.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

Here is the choicest conundrum of
the season: What 10 the difference be-
tween a muzzIe and . mince pie? One
IL good on dogs, and the other is dog-on
good.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

CLEAN CLOTHES IN HoT WEATHER.
"A timely suggestion thrown out by
the New York Herald touching the i'm.
portance of wearing clean clothes in
hot weather says: "Of various methods
of keeping cool in hot weather none are
to be entirely despised. unless it is that
of drinking spirits. Better than almost
any.of them, however. is the frequent
changing of Undertaking. So much
moisture escapes in the form of perspi
ration that the skin seems to have no
time to dispose Of anything else; but
the truth is that the perspiration carries
with 1t great deal OF waste matter that
is not, like most of the moisture, car
ried by absorption through the various
thicknesses of clothing and into the
surrounding air. This waste remains
in whatever fabric it first reaches, and
it soon aecumuiates to q degree that
either retards perspiration or pre-
vents its absorption. Servants may
grumble as tho family wash increases in
hot weather. of laundry bills may in
crease but itis-cheaper to devote more
money to both than to spend a larger
amount for liquor or other tonics to re-
move the sense of oppression that al
ways follows INSTRUCTED perspiration.
The frequency with which athletes, &C
tors, experienced pedestrians, and 9TH
ers who exercise freely in warm weather
change their Clothing would astonish
many people who imagine their own
habits to be extremely cleanly; but the
changes richly pay for themselves in
comfort"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

The Biggest and Only Gigantic
S22. 900 TWO-HORNED WHITE RI
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

CLAY, WEBSTER, AND CALHOUN
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press thus quotes Jefferson Davis: II
had peculiarly intimate relations with
Clay, Calhoun, and Webster" he said.
II went to school in Mr.. Clay's town,
and his favorite son was killed with me
in Mexico, and he always associated me
with that boy. Mr. Calhoun gave me
my first warrant to West Point, and,
by singular coincidence, when went
to the Senate my seat was by his side,
and he always seemed to take a fatherly
supervision over me. While in the
House I had been upon a committee
charged with Investigating the State
Department under Mr.. Webster's ad-
ministration. He had been charged
with misappropriating some of the
Secret Service funds, but the investiga-
ton showed that he had simply used 1t
to prevent the Introduction Of the Ash.
burton treaty into the politics of the
State of Maine. I drew and cham
pioned the report which exonerated
him. Mr.. Webster never forgot that
act. He was the most grateful man:.for
any act of kindness or interest in him
that ever knew. He was q great ora
tor, but not in the sense which Mr..
Clay was. Mr.. Clay possessed the graces
of oratory to greater extent that any
man that ever lived in this country.
His gestures, his manners, and his
speech were perfect. Mr.. Calhoun had
none of the graces of oratory. but did
have a perfect contempt for them, and
his pronunciation was wretched. But
no orator at the present day could in
f1ueace the people or have the position
that these men had in those days. The
newspapers have taken the place of the
speaker, and greater engine than the
newspapers has superseded the orator,
that is, the telegraph. People want
news and Information, and want it in
paragraphs"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

Draws Biggest Delighted Crowds Receives Biggest
Compliments Press Aboshes the Biggest kind of Nuisance by
permitting Peddg under its Big Tents ard Big Certainty the
Best and Biggest of all Shows
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26
CARRIAGE FACTORIES
CLICK & MILLER,

BRIDGEWAT VA,
Will sell you the BEST and CHEAPEST
HU6GY, CARRIAGE, or SPRING WAC.
ON. Send and get FREE their Price List and
Special Prices. jue28-1y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26
THE BIGGEST MARVEL.


SMALLEST TaiaRsFn ELEPHANT
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26

Biggest Only $4,000 pair of stupendous
I7V"Z.NG HIPPOPOT.A.NU
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-26
Far the Biggest Amusement Enterprise on Earth

It the Biggest Popular Success 1t has the Biggest Pile Of
Solid Capital Invested The Biggest Features the Biggest Parade
the Biggest Tents the Biggest Animals Biggest Menagerie
Biggest Circus; the Biggest Bands the Biggest Charots the
Biggest Dens the Biggest Electric Lights the Biggest Railroad
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-26
A Fasting Lnnafie.

There was years ago in the Blockley
almshouse 3 man named Thomas Wig
gins. who persisted in declaring that he
was Jesus Christ, and started out to imi.
tate the Savior by fasting forty days and
nights. He aucoeeded III doing without
food for thirty-tive days, when his rea-
son gave out, and the process OF restora-
ton was begun; but nature had been
overtaxed, and he lived but forty-eight
hours. The first seven days Of his fast
he existed on small bottle of porter,
with few swallows of water. Ihepo
ter he finally gave. up, taking only wa
ter. When he died he was very much
enaciated A post-mortem examination
showed that all his vital organs were
very much contracted his heart
weighed six ounces, his stomach was
ono third the normal size and bloodless:
In the right lung there was q tuber-
culous cavity considerably larger than a
goose egg; there were also tubercleg
scattered through the left lung. From
the start he began losing flesh, and, de-
spite the exertions of the attendants, de-
clined to partake of food, saying he was
Christ. Virgins was a native Of Boone
county, KY, and, aside from his pecul
lar hallucination, was intelligent and IA.
hOnal, and was a general favorite with
the attendants.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-26
Lowell in LOndDn.

James Russell Lowall's speech at the
Savage Club supper has been much ap-
plauded by the Londoners. sit was adj
mirabie III itself, says the London
World, perfectly delivered. in a soft,
l0w-toned and yet penetrating voice. .
Mr.. Lowell IS described as a wonderfully
yOung-lo0Bing An. -Eican, whom ii is diff
icult to believe IS sixty-one years old.
hIr. Lowell, in his pleasant little speech.
said, among other things: II confess
that if Alexander, who once offered a re-
ward for Il new .p.aasc,Te, were to come
again upon earth ! should be one of tbs
competitors for that prize. aId [ should
offer for his consideration Il festival at
which there were 10 81 uches. Gentle
men IN yol1r profession haze il! one sense
q great adyaHtaZa over jirc rest of US
your speeohes are prepared for Won llv
the Oleverest mon Of Fo5tr time, or BIZ the
greatest genius of All time You can be
witty and wise at less expense than We
poor creatures who ere OBLIGED 70 call M
on our own resources. l admit that there.
is good deal IL the spuE Of the moment.
but that depends very much upon the
animal into whose flank you dig it; but
there Is also q great deal Ill that self
possessed axtempOrameOusness which q
man carriesjn his pocket on q sheet OF
paper. 1t reminds one Of the compli-
ment which the freshman paid to the
national weapon: God bless this shil-
elah; it's weapon which never misses
IRE.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-26
T be Merristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1881.
The Nashville Banner.

Those wishing to be supplied With
the freshest secular, religious, pohti-
cal, financial and commercial news,
domestic and foreign, are advised to
subscribe Immediately for the Nash
vile Banner, published daily and
weekly, at % North Cherry street,
Nashville, Tenn, by the Nashville
Banner Publishing Company Il Is
unexeelled in enterprise, indepen-
dent Democratic in politics, frank
and fearless in expression, strictly
accurate in its reports OF the local
and other markets, and during the
past twelve months has been more
widely read and received more sub
stantial proofs of public favor than
any newspaper in Tennessee. The
DAILY, issued at B o'clock P. M, con
tains thirty-two columns of intelh-
gence, much of it being from every
mart of the world, and furnished by
the Western Associated Press, be-
sides the latest important news from
reliable correspondents in Washing
ton, New York, Eondon, Paris, and
in every place of note in the State.
The Daily is delivered in the towns
within one hundred and fifty miles
Of Nashville, by carriers, for $3.50
per year; $50 for six months 81 50
for three months; IS cents for one
month, and Is cents per week; and
sent free Of postage to any address
in any other part of the globe, at the
same price. The Weekly. issued ev-
cry Thursday, has .thirty-six COLI
.umns of choice reading matter, Sc
lected with great care especially for
the benefit of the large and intelli-
gent class among whom it circulates,
embracing a vast deal of informa-
ton regarding the farm and the
household, with abundant topics of
interest to both seller and buyer.
The literary department receives
special attention, short stories and
sketches, as we'll as the best of poe
try being selected with reference to
the tastes of old and young. The
Weekly is furnished to single sub
Ecribers at one dollar per year, and
clubs with The MoRRIsTowN GA
zErH AT 81 IS.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-26
IN nnl ON tine Ocean.

Birds get lost IN the air sometimes, as
really as boys get lost in the woods.
Far northern species are often storm
driven out of their native latitude, and
no doubt may sink In the sea. One day
steamer which arrived at New York
from Liverpool brought a strange pas
senger who had boarded that vessel III
mid-ocean. A large, white owl dropped
ON one of the forward spars In an ex-
hausted condition one evening when the
vessel was about 800 miles off the coast
Of Newfoundland When brought to
the deck by sailor the owl was found
to be nearly dead from cold and hunger,
and almost too weak to eat. It had be-
come greatly emaciated, and trembled
violently in endeavoring to swallow the
first morsel of meat which was placed
In it's benk. The owl slowly recovered,
and is now perfectly well It is land
bird, and is supposed to have been blown
off the coast of Newfoundland by the
westerly gales which had for some days
previous prevailed there. Finding It
self once out at sea, it had probably
ceased making efforts to reach the land,
and had drifted before the gale, its only
efforts being to keep above water. The
bird must have possessed remarkable
powers of endurance to have kept up SO
long,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-26
stories Of the Dumas.

twas during the successful period OF
the dramaof " Henry III. one day, thaI
Mile. Mars was receiving friends and
admirers, Dumas, the elder, presented
her with a beautiful satin-bOupd copy
az the drama. and an old doctor who was
crescent exclaimed rather simply $50
you are tragedy-maker, young man 2
sssYes. replied Dumas, "just Ike you
Ghe only difference is that you have
yours bound in deal. "
Dumas was q great friend Of Vatouts,
who was so devoted to Louis Philppe's
family that he followed them into exile.
On hearing Of his death, 'fPoor fellow .
said Dumas. ''and how did that hap
pen ?" cat dinner the water they had
to drink was very bad the Princes were.
all sick, but Vatout died. " !" The
courtier /" said Dumas with smile.
Being present one evening with
Sand at the first performance of an exc.
cradle piece, he was cOnverspg loudly
with her, when a bourgeois, seated In
front of them, turned around and sharp
lyrequested them to be quiet. "What, "
exclaimed Dumas "you have the good
luck to hear George Sand and Alexander
Dumas conversing together, and you arc
not satisfied p
Dumas was a very powerful man, and
rather proud of his physical strength.
His father, Gen. Dumas, Marquis de la
PaiIlerie, notified his birth to Gen.
Bruno In the following terms "My
wife has just presented me with a boy,
eighteen inches long and weighing ten
pounds and half. If he keeps Ike
that at 25 he viii be no pigmy." The
father was also man of great strength,
I whose feats were renowned In the records
of the French army An engraving o
the time, now in the hands of Dumas,
Jr., represents him alone on the Brixen
bridge holding in check of body of Aus
trians, killing three, wounding eight,
aud causing the others to retreat. The
Marquis was mulatto being ono
evening at the theater in a box with
lady, young coxcomb entered, and Of
tered to see her home after the play.
Thanks said the lady, pointing to
the General ct am with this gentle
man" /" Indeed, exclaimed the young
man, sneering, at took him for your
servant" He had no sooner uttered
this piece of impertinence than the
General took hold of him by the collar,
and, lifting him like a feather, threw
him on to the stage.
bis grandson, the present academi-
clan, is q chip of the old block, of ex-
traordinary physical strength, and most
adroit In all athletic exercises, which, as
every one knows, does not prevent him
from being as witty as his father. Some
body speaking of Alexandra Dumas to
his son was saying one day: AFTER
all, your father has sometimes written
inferior works, but he never wrote tire
some ones. alt was through selfish
ness" replied the son, "they would
have bored him first. "