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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
Charcoal.

If we wish for some substance which
will catch fire from the smallest spark,
we find that among thousands of bodies,
simple and compound, that exist in
nature or are produced by art, the most
suitable for our purpose is pure carbon
in the form of tinder. On the other
hand, when we want a crucible that will
bear without taking fire the fame of the
hottest furnace, we make it of pure car
bon in the form of plumbago.
The wax mold of the electroplater
is non-conductor of electricity, and tits,
therefore, necessary to cover its surface
with some good conducting material il
is found that the best material is finely
pulverized plumbago; but this same ele-
ment, when crystalized, as in the dia-
mond, is the most perfect of all non-
conductors.
Carbon, in one state, is as soft as
lampblack, in another it is the very
hardest substance known; in one it Is
brilliantly transparent, in another it is
perfectly Opaque in one it is the most
costly ornament in the crowns of Kings,
in another it is shoveled out of the way
as worthless.
In all these changes in the condition
and properties Of carbon no law can be
discovered, with the single exception
that the temperature at which various
kinds of charcoal will take fire are in
fixed relation to the temperature al
which the several kinds are prepared.
This is of the utmost importance to the
manufacture of gun powder they have
caused it to be investigated with great
care.-Monthly Magazine, london.
The Difference.
Tennyson can take a worthless sheet
of paper and, by writing poem on it,
make it worth 5000. That's Genius.
Mr.. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on
similar sheet and make it worth $780,
00O,0 ,00O That's Capital. And the United
States can take an ounce and q quarter
of gold and stamp upon it an eagle
bird" and Twenty Dollars" That's
Money. The mechanic can take the ma
terial worth fifty dollars and make it into
a watch worth 800. That's Skill. The
merchant can take an article worth
TWENTY-FIVE cents and sell it to you for
800. That's Busines. A lady can pur,
chase comfortable bonnet for ten dol
lars, but prefers to pay 800 for one, be.
cause it is more stylish. That's Foolish
ness. The ditch-digger works ten hours
q day, and shovels out three or four tons
of earth for one dollar. That's Labor
Richmond State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
I. Wish I was In Tennessee,
A-settin' in my cheer,
jug o. whisky by my side,

This was his favorite. Who shall
doubt that it expressed to him all the
poetry, romance, passion, of life?
After time Uncle Brimmer fell i'll,
and we sent for a doctor.
DIR. Trattles Jex was the medical man
of our county. Hell ived in Middleburn,
seven miles away, and he came trotting
over on a great bay horse, with pair Of
saddle-bags hanging like Gilpin's bot
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

Foreign debt, payable in New
York-loan payable July l, 1868,
not bearing interest. .........
Loan payable after June 80, 1881,
bearing 6 per cent. interest. .
Loan payable after December 81,
1886, bearing 6 per cent inter-
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
The Maine Senatorship.


The Tribune SAYS: We have received
numerous communications from Maine
giving the views in each case OF the writer
touching the contest now progressing in
that STATE for the SenatorShip between
Hale and FRYE. We can see no good like
ly to result from publishing any of these
letters on one side or the other. The mat
ter belongs primarily and properly to the
people of Maine to settle, and We have no
desire in the premises except that the result
NAV be such as to strengthen and not weak
en- the Republican party. The papers Of
Maine are discussing the question with no
little warmth, and We observe some discreet
observations in the Portland Press taking a
very sensible ground. Maine needs the
services Of both Hale and FRYE in Congress,
and for that reason it advocates the election
of Hale TO the Senate What the Press
saws for the State of Maine we venture to
say for the country at large. Both Frye
and Hale are widely known and highly es-
teemed fer their services in public life, and
the Republicans of every State would re-
gret to see either of them retired. FRYE rep
resents district very strongly Republican
and can be returned at will. He has be-
sides an exceedingly promising prospect Of
being the Speaker of the next House, and
if not, he will, as the Portland Press points
out, be Chairman of the Ways and Means
and leader of the House-a position as de
sirable as a Senatorship and far more infu-
entail Mr. Hale on the other hand resides in
the one district in Maine which may re-
main Democratic; and if he cannot be chosen
Senator, Maine and the entire country
will lose his valuable services, his large ex-
perience, his dignifed and well-tempered
craftsmanship. If Hale and Frye had pre-
cisely the same surroundings, we should
feel no preference for one over the other.
If Hale were in the house 90 Frye now is,
and FRYE out as Hale now is, We should
earnestly urge upon the Republicans of
Maine to send FRYE to the Senate. The
situation being as it really is We cannot avoid
the conclusion that Maine will act the most
wisely for her own interests and most ac-
ceptably to the Republicans Of the whole
country by sending Hale to the Senate and
keeping Frye either in the Speakers chair
or in the leadership of the House.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
New York Letter.


DIR. Chapin was buried to-day. The funcr-
al ceremonies were performed at the church
of the Divine Paternity. Fifth Avenue of
which for many wears he has been the pas
tor The service over the remains OF one.
who ha, been among the brightest lights of
our nation. was 4 memorable one. The
church was filled at an early hour. \ band
of heavy mourning cncircl,d the room, but
around the pulpit was forest of palm trees
and flowers. 1t seemed that every shrub.
that could bring forth blossom Of white.
life. The first speaker was Robert Collycr
Of the Unitarian Church Of the Messiah
he spoke with much feeling Of the life of
the dead: of his great love for all, and of
how he was loved by all. He spoke in his
own happy way. more Of the sweetness and
purity Of the departed life. than of his
intellectual powers. Henry Ward Beecher
followed; they had been friends for many
years. hand in hand they had stood together
in the darker days of our country, with
their shoulders under the weak. They have
both lived with few words for the high. with
many for the lowly. II would seem need
less to say that Mr.. Beeche was eloquent.
He gloried not alone in his life, but in his
death He portrayed very wildly the moral
and intellectual character of his friend. DR..
Armitage Of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church. pronounced an eloquent eulogy; ne
referred very touchingly to his own last
meeting with the great Uniyersalist preach
er, and how kneeling beside his couch, they
had PRAYED together. These were the prin-
! cpal speakers. But to see these leading
men in their several denominations, gather
about the remains Of one, whose creed
differed so widely, save in the fundamental
/ truth of love of God and of humanity,
/ seemed indeed sign of the times.
DIR. Edwin II. Chaplin was born in Union
village y. Y, December %, 1914. His
early education was received i'll the Ben
nington Seminary, Vt. He afterward stud
| lea law IN Troy, y. L. lHls Ho"cNei was
shortly abandoned He was ordained to the
ministry in 1887, and began his preaching
in Richmond, Va. He afterward preached
in Boston, Mass, and in 1913 was called to
this city, where he has since remained, as
the most distinguished Universalist preacher
of his day. He was perhaps best known To
the general public as lecturer, and some
of his orations will pass into history, as
among the first ever given in our land. A.
Mr.. Beecher said in his remarks made al
the funeral, in some respects he was the
most eloquent man he ever heard. DIR
Chaplin was distinguished for his patriotism
during the war, and always for his broaC
bene Violence He died Dec. 26, 1880.
New York, Dec. 80, 1880. 7.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
The Terrible Year.
New York sun.

" ne world TO an end snail come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-oEr.'
Mother >hpton's Prophecy.
Ii would be difficult to describe all the
SIM, ter predictions that have. as by common
consent, been concentrated upon the coming
year. The soothsayers, divines, oracle
makers, astrologerS and wizards seem to
have combined - cast their spell upon it.
Superstitious people " every sort, and some
who are not willing to admit that they are
super>titious, regard the wear 1881 with
more or less anxious expectation and dread
As the earth, on New Years Day, swings
out into another round about the sun, it will
20 to meet a host Of evil omens. 1t Will 60
cursed BY theomancy and bbliomancy,
Aeromancy and meteoromancy will glare at it
from comets and shooting stars. Oneiro-
NANCY will intercept its path with visions of
evil, and nomancy will shake the ominous,
backward reading numerals 1851" before
it. 1t will be beset with scare-crow figures
by arithmancy, and with menacing phrases
by stichomancy. Yet there is no reason
why persons Of good digestion should not
go to sleep on New Years night cnnfAa"'
that, after having encountered the average
quantity of storm sod sunshine, the one
horse ball that weeall the world will bring
them safe through the perils of its 300, 0OO,
900 mile tiis:.t round to the starting point
again.
Timid persons first began to look forward
with some alarm to the year that is about to
open, whan, several years ago, the key to
the so-caned prophetic symbolism of the
Great Pys amid Of Egypt was made public,
backed by lhe name and reputation Of the
British AIT ,onomer, Piazzi Smyth. Others,
using Mr.. !Smyth's observations and meas
urements. pave gone much further than he
did in drafting startling differences; but no
one can reid his book without perceiIing
how powerfully II must enect those tho
have the slightest leaning toward supersti-
ton or crediality. Besides, this record of
explorations and experiences in the heart of
Egypts greatest marvel has all the charm
and interest of DIR. Schliemann's descrip-
tons of his discoveries in Homer's Troy.
Such book could not well be neglected by
the world oil readers, and by the nature Of
the human mihd. Many of its readers were
sure to be imbbed with its ominous dogmas
So the belief or at least the suspicion,
spread. that t~g~ssccret chambers of the
Great Pyrami adivine guidance by
the most MY IN all history,
Melclisedek K NSetell, among
other t,ipgs i; Twill end
in lS22r 80
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
Howgare'. Polar Expedition.

The Howgate Polar Colonization Project,
having received congressional Endorsement,
an expedition is now fitting out for carrying
it into execution. The Gulnare, steam
vessel of about 200 tons, has been selected
for the purpose, and will be sent out fully
manned and equipped with two years sup
plies. The personnel of the expedition will
comprise about twenty-five, including a corps
of scientific observers. The expedition, it is
said, will proceed to the west coast of Smiths
Sound latitude 81 deg, 40 MINI where the
first permanent depot will be located, and
the vessel is expected to return in the all.
The general features Of Howgates plan are
concisely expressed by the Kansas City Re
rie,c as follows: Howgate proposes to reach
the pole, if possible, by system OF slow but
continuous advances, made during several
successive seasons, pushing his camps far
Their and farther northward as rapidly as
may be found practicable, establishing Sc
cure basis of supplies, and replacing men
who NAV become disabled or disheartened
with fresh recruits each year. This plan,
though necessarily expensive, it isbe lieved
may prove in the end to of the least
expensive and most effective method accom-
,'lis LIZ desired result.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. 1851.
The Whitaker Case.

me case oil hI'iaker' the e"lorcd
cadet winch WAS 20 prominently before
me people during his trial at West
Point last summer. "ill again claim IT,
share OF public attention, His apPhca-
ton for trial by court martial has
been granted by the President and the
court Will be composed Of officers not
connected with West Point. Whitaker
mas always stoutly maintained that his
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
Thr Approaching session
stature

AEH ERS bEGIyNIyG 10 4RRfVE.
Especial Dispatch to the Lewiston Journal
AUGUSTA. Jan 3,--noon.
The forenoon tram from the East brought
a considerable number of members of the
Legislature ami outsiders. and the afternoon
and evening trains are expected to bring the
remainder of the members. and numerous
company of gentlemen Interested in the sen
ator.al contest The hotels arc looking for
big harvest the next two weeks.
THE ORGANIZATIONS.
The caucuse> OF republican Senators az d
Representatives elect to nominate officers
of the two house, will be held fuc,la,
evening. The candidates for speaker Of toe
House are McS>rS. Hutchinson Of Lewiston
and Hatch of Bangor. The candidates for
President of the Senate are VI Ssr, Bi~hcc
OF Oxford. Berry of kenuehce. Locke of
Cumberland and Mortian OF Knox. Cen
{. W. Iildeu Of CaStine. will lie nominated
.crctary of tn, Senate. bv acclamliia.:
while for the place of assistant; Geo f.
Bracket. esq. of Belfast. will lin formid-
able rival Hon. Geo. T.. Mmo; of Belgrade.
form.y Senator al the board. Charles H.
Lo,cjoy. OF Siincy, viii be reelected Mes
StnScr. without opposition while for the
position ot Assistant. besides Mr. Chad
borne. the present mrumb,nt. there are
dozen other candidates.
The State officers will he nominated We'd
nc>day evening and it is generally understood
the nominations will be made without con
test.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
ISDA1, JANUARY 8, 1881.

old Isaac Disraeli for her Prime Minister
TINS has been taken as fulfllment of the
prophecy. So Lord Beaconsfed's dramatic
personality is made principal figure in the
murky cloud Of evil prophecy that hangs
over 1881
As if the evil eye Of Mother Shipton and
the mystical menace of the Great Pyramid
were not enough for one poor twelvemonth
TO bear the horrors OF the periheia" have
been denounced upon the coming year.
About two years ago certain pamphlets were
circulated about the country. purporting to
be written by men Of science, and predicting
that awful consequences to mankind would
result from all the great planets reaching
their perIhella or nearest points to the sun.
together According to these prophets. the
sinister effects of the perihea were to be-
GIN making their appearance this Fall, when
Jupiter passed Its perihelion, and next year
the scythe of death was to be put to the
harvest IN the far East, and to sweep west
ward, with Swathe broad as the CONT
nentS, until 1t reached the Pacific Ocean
The narrow Atlantic was to be no more than
"A brooklet IN the path of this terrible hlr-
veSter. Plaques. pestilences, tamnes. fires.
earthquakes, floods and tornadoeS were to
Scourgc the human race until only a few
renamed. like Noah and his family. to re-
people the earth with sturder and more
God-tcarlng race.
80 much alarm was caused hy this hocuS-
pocus Of pretended science and prophecy
that some real men of scicuce-Mr. Proctor
among others-were at the pains to show
that SO far as the predictions protested to
rest upon scientific facts they were base
less. The great planets will mt all bp II,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

Some people have fashion of confusing
excellent remedies with the large mass Of
patent medicines and i'll this they are
guilty Of a wrong. There are some adver-
tsed remedies fully worth all that is asked
for them, and one al least we know of-IIop
Bitters. The writer has had occasion to use
the Bitters in just such climate as We
have most of the year in Bay City, and has
always found them to be frst-class and reli-
able, doing all that is claimed for them
Irfblme.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
- o -

The CaIais Times. OF last week.
after stating that the Greenback Com
gressmen would act independently of
both the old parties. says: III now APP
pears probable that Hon. T. ii. Murch
will be the next Speaker OF the House"
II Is cruel To transfer the Jokes of \ pril
lst 10 January lSt
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06
Notice of Foreclosure

WHEREAS Walter Garland, of Ellsworth,
w cock ounty, state Of Maine, on the tW
Bin h day of June, \. ID 1sS0. and cord,
the Hancock Registry of Deeds vol ITO, folio
conveyed to ne l.. a. Emery, by his mort
deed two certain parcels OF land situated at 4
Bro k, in said Ellswor h, md described as fol
to wit, rat called the stevens place, an,
same conveyed t. said Garland by Hale & En-.
by deed recorded in he Hancock Registry
deeds vol. Is =, folip, ,El5. The second being III
same conveyed by 4. H. Haynes, by deed date
oct 49, 1859, and ocorded in said Reg stry. 70
l36. foil 81, 10 said Garland. Reference to b
had to both said deeds, and the records thereo
for particular Il cription tn, reof VOW there
fore the conditions Of said mortx gage having bee
broken by reason thereof, | claim foreclosure o
the same and give this notice for that pu pose
LA. EMERY.
Ellsworth, January 3rd, 1871. 3v1
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

The wise and patriotic Abram S. Hew-
lit has found time, between his assertions of
innocence regarding the Morey letter. to say
that the Democrats Of Maine have lost
ground and deserve to because of their CO.
alition With the Greenbackers Hewitt is
correct. but if it had not been he Green
hackers it would have been something else.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

The Des Moines Register says that the
census returns show that Iowa has 10000
more men than women, and that the State
offers splendid inducements for good-looking
and good women in the East to immigrate.
1t promises them the best hopes in the
world, and in time, and not very long time
either, the best of husbands.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

Charles O'Connor, celebrated lawyer,
and once a brilliant Democratic iuminary,
has become 50 Disguised with his party in
New York that he has given up his citizen
ship in that State and gone to Nantucket to
live.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

THE PERUVIAN SYRUP has cured thou
sands who were suffering rom Dyspepsia,
Debility, Liver Complaint, Boils, Humors,
Female Complaints, etc. Pamphlets free to
any address. Seth W. Fowle x Sons. Bos-
ton. 1yrS.i
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

Young men suffering from Weakness.
Nervousness, cspondcncy, Loss Of Memo
ry, etc, are thoroughly and permanently
cured by DAYS KIDNEY PAD.
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HAVE WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHER
.EY always at hand. 1t cures Coughs. Colds,
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Group, In
fuenza, Consumption, and all Throat and
Lung Complaints. 80 cents and 81 Il bot
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To pay up as soon a possible.
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wish the paper afterwards sent.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

Whom the sc4s would destroy they
first make mad" If there was ever party
madden than the Democratic party is now
We fail of remembering it.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

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Remark able Property.

Let us see, What party was it that
Cen Plaisted II September?
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

toria.-No article has ever proved equally
satisfactory to Physicians, profitable to Moth
cr>, or beneficial to Children. Ca>toria ts,im-
hates the food, allays Feycrishnc>>, destroy ;
Worms and cures Wind-Colic. Sour-Curd,
DE-rhua and Rash. What gives health to the
child, promote, rest for the mother.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

Cleansing. purifying. strengthening and
nouri>hing beyond all others are Malt Bit
tiers.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

The n. Y. Erening Express in its annual
review of the past years business OF the
country and port of New York says: Viewed
from a business standpoint the year has been
a remarkable one, probably the most re-
markable one in the history of the country.
There has been a great revival of trade
and the volume of legitimate business dur
ing the wear was beyond all precedent. The
improved condition of affairs was the natur-
al result of large crops, good export de-
mand for our products, the growth OF the
country, the heavy influx of gold from Eu-
rome. and the complete restoration of conf
dence growing out of the success of specie
nayments. One of the most gratifying tea-
tures of 1880 has been the great falling of
in the number of failures and the amount Of
liabilities of suspended merchants. The
Growth of the country and the large addi
fions to the national wealth during 1880 are
strikingly illustrated in the products OF the
soil. of which we raised 40, 100000 bushels
of wheat, 1,50O,0OO,0O0 bushels OF corn,
413,OOO,OOO of oats, $4,000, 900 o. rye, 49,
900 aae6f barte7 and 100000 bales OF
cotton. to say nothing of tobacco, sugar rice'
bonn bay and other crops, and hog and dair!
,,roducts which yield an immense sum OF
tpnonev in the aggregate. In PLAIN WORDS,
tho United States now raises enough 10 ieed
Inc own 30. oOO, 900 of people snd to supply
the me deficiency OF the balance OF the eIyiilzed
I'D During the year more miles Of ran
- have been built, more conscientious
10 J nominations entered into, more freiSht
anu anu passengers transported, more money
armed and more interest and diVidehds pau u
n in any former year. The commerce Of
country during the past year has made
~ nrogress and caused the United States
r a still higher rank, being now third
the commercial nations OF the gione'
Providence journal does not hest
Il as its theological opinion,
n study and wide observa-
srst questions that st.
Tho presents himself
Ibid you put
'e sidewalk
wealth
man
STAG
the
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-06

The Boston Herald says that Gen.
Wheeler, of confederate cavalry and bogus
election to Congress fame, has done well in
deciding not to claim the seat from the Ala
bama district where another man was chosen.
Now LEI Gen. Chalmers of the Vicksburg
district refuse to be made aparty to attempts
ing to cheat out of his seat 2 menss
RECEIVED an honest majority