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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-11-03
Champion Record in the Great Bos-
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MAINE CIVIL OFFICER.
FOURTH EDITION.

ints work has been carefully corrected revised
improved and new matter added, BY BYRON d. Shk-
KILL, Esq. The revision includes all amendments
y the Revised Statutes Of 1871 and acts addinonsi
aef'to passed at each Legislature, dnciuding tns'
iSS, and notes all decisions of the Supreme Court
tne present time. Sent tpaid on receipt ss'o'
l0Rlme. SHORT / HARMON.
PORTLAND. NE. ....
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Mexican advices report a terrible
storm in the harbor of Manzanillo, in which
four large ships and all the small craft in the
harbor were lost, and q number of houses and
stores wrecked The Pacific Mail steamer due
had not arrived.
Large amounts of Confederate bonds
have been purchased at Augusta, Ca, at from
$40 to $11 per $1,000.
Adelina Patti arrived at New York last
week. She was welcomed by large company
of friends who went down the bay to meet her,
and who presented her with an address, to
which she replied in French.
Richard Leonard, of st. Augustin,
Quebec, who had attained the age of 100 years,
was burned to death in his cabin while light
ing fire with shavings.
Mrs. Garfield has written to Mr.. 4. S.
Solomons, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of the National Garfield Memorial
Hospital project, expressing satisfaction at the
proposal, and saying that the project is one
which would be gratifying to him in whose
honor it is intended. She promises to contrib
ute to the accomplishment of the project in a
worthy manner.
Wendell Phillips is wanted by the
Land League to preach the no-rent doctrine in
Ireland. He e!oquently declines, on the score
of his health.
TheArctic relief steamer Rogers made
the discovery that Wrangell Land is an island.
A sledge party will be sent out from winter
quarters to explore the coast of Siberia.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Marion Station, Miss, on election
day, band of negroes opened fire on the
Whites at the polls, by which four white men
were killed and two seriously wounded. A. T.
Harvey, Democratic candidate for County AS
SCISSOR, was slain. Two armed squads went to
the scene of the trouble from Meridian, and
found 100 negroes barricaded in the house of
Edward Vance. After fight, in which John
Vance, colored, and A. G. Warren, of the
Sholiff's posse were killed, about thirty negroes
escaped to the woods, under a hot fire.
Miss Emma Smith, of Peoria, ILL.,,
has been admitted to the astrological depart
mcnt of the Leipzig (Prussia) University be-
ing the first lady ever accorded that honor.
To facilitate the working of the Land
act new Commissioners have been appointed,
of whom six are practical agriculturists and
three are barristers
Arthur LEROY, who murdered mer-
chant named Gold in an English railway car,
has been convicted and sentenced to des h.
He maintains that he is innocent.
Gen. Sherman pointedly ignored the
instructions Of Secretary Lincoln in giving his
annual report to the press without submitting
it, as he should have done, to his superior, and
there is trouble in consequence. Sherman's
comments and criticisms on the engineers have
given otfense to the engineers.
All the personal effects of President
Garfield, stored at the White House, were last
week placed in special cars rendered by the
Pennsylvania road and taken to Mentor. An
Attorney COW given to the President goes to
Cleveland, and the horses remain in charge of
Gen. Swain.
Philip E. Sullivan, one of the Arkan-
sas train robbers, young man of intelligence
and good manners, died of a broken heart in
the penitentiary at Little Rock, to which he had
been committed for seventy years.
A Chinese missionary student named
All Kim, at Marietta (Ohio) College, committed
suicide with dose of chloral or chloroform
because servant girl had rejected his prof
fered love.
A collision of Erie freight trains on
the mountain near Port Jervis, n Y, caused
the death of Conductor George Dorr and En-
gineers Jerome Grover and Mark Coxson.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Austrian Government has ap-
pointed Herr J. Won Schoeffer Minister to
Washington.
In the municipal elections held
throughout England the Tories made large
gains, owing to Irish voters supporting the
Tory candidates, or refusing to support the
Liberals.
Fresh reports of threatening letters
and Nihilistic proclamations come from st.
Petersburg. 1t is said that the police burst
open the door of residence, and seized a
man and woman engaged in preparing ex-
plosives.
The Pal Mall Gazette emphatically
denies that there is any money in the Bank of
England to the credit of the late Confederate
States of America available for the payment of
Confederate bonds The Gazette doubts if
there is penny in any British bank available
for such purpose. 1t also says that the re-
cent speculation in Confederate bonds is with
out substantial foundation.
The first complete railway train
passed through the ST. Gothard lnnel in fifty
minutes
The Nihilists threaten to prevent the
coronation of the Gear unless ho grants speci-
fed concessions.
The Ladies Land League met in
Dublin without interference, and formed them
selves into political prisoners aid society.
A daughter of the late John Stuart
Mil, in addressing the Ladies' Land League in
Dublin, expressed the opinion that only in Tur-
key could such atrocities be possible as are now
being committed in Ireland.
A farmer in Galway was shot dead
while entering his house. Two men have been
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Brother Gardners's Philosophy.

"Doan' seek to make angels of yer
selves" quietly began Brother Gardner
as the meeting opened " In de fust
place dis am no sort O. kentry fur angels,
an in de next place you would be
mighty lonesome. De lnan or woman
who becomes so sweet an soft an good
dat dey expect cherry mint to rise up an
fly doan' take so much comfort as folks
who feel dat it will be a clus shave to
git inter heaven. A leetle wickedness
pickles man an makes him keep all de
better. When I trade mules wild man
[ prefer dat he should suspect me wild
an intenshun to make an chen $25 by de
operashun. When / deal wild butcher
l like to feel dat he viii work in TO- ounces
of bone fur cherry eight ounces of meat
if doan' watch him. like to have de
bootmaker tell me dat American cowskin
am French calf, an / am pleased when
de sto' clerk warrants TO cent caliker 10
wash like sheet-iron. De man who am
not a leetle wicked has no chance to feel
sorry no use for prayer no need of
churches He cannot say to a fellow
man: 7 wronged you-I'm sorry
shake.
De man who neber sins makes
POOR mex doah neighbour. De woman
who keeps feelin' Of her shoulders to see
If wings have started makes a poor
mother an, wuss housewife. If you
have neber injured man an gone to
him an axed his pardon an made up
you doan' know what real happiness
am. If your conscience has neber drib-
en- you to prayer you can't feel de good
n sss of de Lawd. Ny advice to you am
to be leetle wicked-not 'nuff to make
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NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

Elections were held in twelve States on Tues
day, the 8th of November, and the result, as
indicated in the dispatches published in the
daily press on the morning following the
closing of the polls, is noted below.
In New York a very light vote was cast The
Democrats carry the State by an estimated
majority of 20. coo, and have probably secured
majority of the Legislature. W. w. Astor
was defeated for Congress, i'll Levi P Morton's
district, by Flower, Democrat
Pennsylvania goes Republican by an esti-
mated majority of $4,000, Notwithstanding the
fact that Wolfe, Independent Republican can
didatc for State Treasurer, polls $4,000 or
$4,000 votes.
Returns from Virginia are too meager, at
this writing, to indicate how the election has
gone. The vote is close, and both the Read
justers and Democrats are claiming a victory.
In Mississippi the Democrats make clean
sweep. Lowry's majority for Governor is
estimated at 100000 Many negroes voted the
Democratic ticket.
In Maryland the Democratic State ticket is
elected by 5000 majority, and there is Demo
cratic majority in both branches of the Legis-
lature.
Massachusetts is overwhelmingly Republican.
The city of Boston gives Republican ma jority
of 1920. The vote was light one.
In Wisconsin the returns indicate very close
vote, and at this writing both Democrats and
Republicans are claiming victory The Legis-
lature is Republican. The Democrats made
heavy gains in Milwaukee
In New Jersey the election was for House
of Representatives and half Senate. The
Republicans secure both branches Of the Leg
islature.
In Connecticut the Republicans carry both
branches of the Legislature by somewhat re-
duced majorities.
In Minnesota a very light vote was polled.
Hubbard, Republican, is elected Governor bv
good round majority.
The election in Nebraska was very quiet
affair throughout the State. The Republican
candidates for supreme Judges are elected by
majorities ranging from is, 600 to 81, coo.
In Colorado an election was held to locate
the capital and change Judges and county Off
GERS. No returns sufficient to indicate the re-
suit have been received at this writing.
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Tea and Coffee.

In respect to the popular notion that
coffee is an unhealthy beverage, that it
keeps up constant irritation of the stom-
ach and brings on depression of spirits,
etc., DIR. Richardson, the well-known
English scientist, while admitting that
the article cannot be taken in excess
without producing dyspepsia and irrita-
ton, nevertheless asserts that, moder-
ately used, it is an invigorating, health
full and wholesome drink, bringing
mans best energies into play. On the
other hand, DR.. Book, of Leipsic, an
eminent authority. declares that the
nervousness and peevishness of our
times are chiefly attributable to tea and
coffee, these producing chronic de-
rangement of the digestive organs.
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Beans.

The common bean is believed to have
originated in the East, and is still said to
be found wild in Persia and other parts
of Central Asia. In its natural state tits
bitter and scarcely edible, being small,
tough and stringy, though it quickly
yields to cultivation and becomes an ex-
cellent article of diet
There are number of varieties grown
from the several species, the most re-
markable of which are the French kid
ney bean (hdrico0 which has been raised
from the seed of the "phase0JWs tttJ-
9aris, the sword bean of India and the
Lima bean of America, both of which
are of the species known as "doKches. :"
The common bean is frequently trained
as vine upon frames, bushes or poles,
but the variety chiefly cultivated is the
bunch or shrub bean, which grows into
a small bushy clump, generally twelve
to eighteen inches in height; Of the.
the cherry and wax beans are the favor
ties.
Beans require for their successful
growth rich, well-prepared soil, which
they do not exhaust they bear Oblong
pods with rounded seeds, and those which
are to be used for dried seed; others
which have thick, feshy pods, have small
hattened seed; these are consumed more
for the vegetable nature of the pods than
for the seeds within them, and are termed
string beans. When they are dried the
pods are useless, and the seed or the bean
proper is the valuable feature. In this
condition they are of great value as a
food article, having 81 per cent. of nu-
tritious matter, while wheat, which is
looked upon as great staff of existence,
has but "a. They are also excellent food
for horses, and are more nourishing than
oats.
Beans were well known to the arcients,
many of whom looked upon them un-
favorably. This is supposed to have
resulted from certain mystic properties
being attributed to them, and from their
being used in incantations and other
occult ceremonies. They were also fire.
quently used as ballots, the white for
the affirmative and the black for the
negative. Ovid gives a description OF
an important domestic ceremony, in
which the master of the family, after
carefully washing his hands three times,
throws quantity of black beans over
his head nine times, exclaiming, &C. re-
deem myself and family by these beans.
The exact object of this ceremony is not
made clear.
Pythagoras urged abstinence from
beans, believing their use would produce
sensuality and grossness; the Egyptian
priests objected to their use on like
grounds, and believed thateven the sight
of beans rendered one unclean no one
who even cultivated the plant was per
mitted to approach temple or shrine
until they had performed certain strin-
gent additions.
String and Lima beans have both be-
come favorite articles for canning, and
are Theoretically sealed in large quanti-
ties, which meet with great demand and
large consumption. Limas are especially
regarded with favor, as it is difficult
matter when properly canned to distiu-
guish them from the fresh article
Baltimore american.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Since the 9Th of March star route re-
auctions amounted to about 100000.
Another crank" turned up at Wash
ington, the other day. who claimed that he had
been elected Vice President of the United States
and that David Davis had usurped the plCNr>
President Arthur has called the attep
ton of Acting Secretary of the Treasury
French to the loose system of bank examine
tons. lie says the Newark defalcation shows
that the Bank Examiners are either inefficient
or their inspection of the banks is merely NOM
inal This indicates purpose on the part of
the President to have the examinations mean
something for the future.
Dr. Walsh, the editor of a medical
journal at Washington, d. c., is out in an ed
itorial in which he maintains that President
Garfeld's wound was not necessarily fatal, and
in which he disputes many of the state
ments of Dr. Biss--among others that the
President wished Bliss to have the man.
agement Of the case. Walsh prints
letter from Dr. Lincoln charging Bliss with ig-
norance Of the nature of the wound and I'M
skillful treatment during the first days after
the shooting, and with excluding other physi-
clans through jealousy. Walsh claims that the
late President wished DR.. Baxter to take charge
of the case, but that Bliss unanswered to ex-
clude him.
The thieving on Government timbered
reservations in the South is to be stopped.
An effort will be made at the next ses-
sion of Congress to secure the admission of
Dakota into the Union as State.
The Treasury Department will take
steps to ascertain if there is any ground for the
boom in Confederate bonds.
The annual report of the Pension Bu-
reau shows that on the 30th OF June last there
were in the United States 26S, $50 pensioners.
being 1s,O2s more than there were in June.
1880. The total amount paid for pensions dur
ing the year was $40, 723 147, of which $50, 954-
1870 was paid for accrued pensions covering pc
RODS dating back to the date of the discharge
of the soldier who collected, or his widow or
children. ~ ~--..-.-..-
United States Treasurer Gilfllan's re.
port for the fiscal year ending June 80 of this
wear shows an increase in receipts over those of
the previous year from every source. In GUS
toms, an increase of S11, 6S76l1 internal
revenue, s11,255,011 sales of public lands,
S1,1s5, 1856; miscellaneous sources, sS,177,-
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arrested. 1t is supposed the man was muir
dered because he paid his rent He had been
"boycotted" for this offense some time ago.
The London Daily NeaOs claims that
the Confederate liabilities long ago alb
sorbed what money they had in the Bank of
England and hoped there would be no more
agitation on the subject. The principal jour-
nails of London continue to demonstrate the
impossibility of any return from Confederate
bonds. and the price has fallen materially with
in few days.
France has asked explanation of the
arrest in Russia of three Frenchmen.
Great foundations have occurred in
Hungary and Seryia.
The sub-commission of the Land
Court at Belfast has given Judgment In fifteen
cases, making material reductions In all but
one.
On many of the Irish estates the ten
ants tell the landlords they will not pay a
penny till Parnell is released. Archbishop
Croke, of Cashel, replying to an address of the
branch Land League, advised the tenants to
tender fair rent. If refused the fault would
not be theirs. 1t would show the Irish can
for their country's sake, endure insults and
injuries. He declared the Government had
established a reign of terror.
Egan's advice to the farmers of Ire
land is to pay no rent, avoid the Land Court
and hold the harvest. A manifesto to this
effect has been clandestinely circulated through
out Ireland.
The greatest of the Irish Catholic
Bishops, probably the greatest man of the
Catholic Church in Ireland since the Reforma-
ton, John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, is
dead He was in his 91st year.
Lord Byron's statue was unveiled at
Missolonghi, Greece where he died. The
ceremony was attended by great popular en-
thJlsiasm
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Fame.

Lord Byron was not far out of the
way when he defined fame as "beine
killed in battle and having your name
spelled wrong in the Gazette" There
is good deal of emptiness in fame.
Some of the first men of the world,
whose names have been, and will be,
revered by succeeding generations, have
been called upon to suffer disrespect
through being personally unknown.
The words of Bunthorne: "Oh, hollow,
hollow, hollow!" may well be applied to
worldly honors. Horace Greeley was
once relegated to the attic of a Chicago
hotel, as being party of no particular
consequence. Prot. Agassiz was char
acterized as a crazy Dutchman trying to
catch bugs. Gov. Andrew was denied
admission to camp of Massachusetts
volunteers by sentry who didn't know
him and refused to be convinced The
tragedian Bandmann, on giving his nam
to the doorkeeper of theatre, was re-
fused admission unless he could prove
what band he belonged to. Ex-President
Hayes, at Cleveland, while trespassing.
was shouted to by policeman eli
there get off that grass |"
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Wire Goggles for Snow Blindness.

A companion of Schwatks informs us
that goggles of wire gauze without glass
are effectual against snow blindness, and
that they were largely used by the
Franklin expedition, many of them hav-
ing been found among the relics at bur-
ial places Of the victims, and at other
points in the Attic regions where re-
mains are found supposed to belong to
that unfortunate party. The glasses
sometimes used, of various hues, become
so logged by the moisture from the
breath of the wearer as to completely
obstruct the vision, and they cannot be
used in hunting. Snow blindness in the
northern ATTITUDES is severe malady.
The inner coat of the eyelids becomes
inhamed, accompanied with impairment
of vision and intense pain, requiring
sometimes several days within doors for
its cure. Nearsighted people are said
to be less affected than others. L Scienti.
&c American.
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When woman addresses her partner
with gushes of affection, as Hubby"
or &C. Ny dearest hubby" he may posi-
bly, like it if he can bear it, but most
men would like to hear almost anything
else. One fears that different terms of
address may follow, which represent
another mood. On the other hand,
when a man addresses his spouse as
"Wifee, it is almost impossible to avoid
thinking of doggy" and there is an
unpleasant feeling of sickness at hear
ing the word. But when one hears
husband address his wife as "Queenie,"
which is said to be the word used by one
of the most distinguished authors Of
New England in addressing his better
half, it seems as if the wife had her
proper place in his affections. The
word is expressive it grants the supe-
riority of woman it enthrones her in
his home. Quite in contrast is the re-
served tone in many households. 1t is
always "Mr Smith and Mrs. Smith,
and one fears constantly that he may
disturb the dignity of that house. Such
severe propriety, however, can hardly
endure the innovations of children. 1t
is " mamma and "papa which soften
ones feelings, and then they grow into
the more respectable terms; "father "
and mother" until the wife calls the
husband "father," and the husband
calls his wife "mother." When there
are no children and it is always =" Mr."
and Mrs" there is a skeleton in the
household, and love has escaped through
the window, like Noah's dove, in search
of new life. Then there are the Sc
verely homely terms which one finds in
use by Charley's father toward his wife,
the woman saying "my man, or simply
"man," the husband addressing the
partner of his tolls simply as g wife or
woman" and yet, when there is a
smile on the hardy faces, the words are
wonderfully freighted with meaning.
After all, there is nothing like simpli-
city and honesty between husband and
wife.-BOstO1 Herald.
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Journalistic Abuses.

There ought to be alaw making it o
penal offence for the newspapers to use
certain phrases and expressions, unless
the proprietor pay royalty to the State
for the use of such language. Quite
number of respectable old men have
tried it, but none have ever succeeded in
dying, without being subsequently de-
nounced as "an old landmark" Why
not call the late respected citizen al
old mile post" for variety? If respect
able old citizen dies, why should he not
be allowed to pass away? Is he ex-
pected, after his relatives have gone to
the expense and trouble of having him
ostentatiously planted it still required
of him that his remains loaf about his
old haunts, and frequent saloons just
about the time lunch is set out? Why
should he not pass away, without the
local paper indulging in personal filings
and meaningless taunts?
We have shown how the census was
kept down by the marriage notices that
are put in the papers, how there is more
skirmishing than regular engagements,
and how, amid all the popping, the ques-
ton is never popped In this connec-
ton we may mention the term g High
contracting parties" which is flung in
the teeth of every couple that has the
reckless hardihood to commit matri-
mony. What are high contracting par
ties, anyhow? Unless the fair bride is
seven feet in her stockings, and the
noble-looking groom has contract to
shingle the roof of shot tower, we fail
to perceive what possible justification a
reporter has to call them high-contract-
ing parties. And even if the bridegroom
is carpenter, and has contract to
build shot tower, that is no reason why
his trade should be flung in his teeth.
How would the reporter like it if the in
suited bridegroom were to publish a card
stating that the reporters mother took
in washing, and his father was hotel
keeper, who took in strangers ?-1eTds
iSiftinQs.
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There is prevalent idea that the
almshouses, for the most part, shelter
the unhappy and guiltless poor, whom
unmerciful disaster has followed fast
and followed faster until it has chased
them into this last refuge people who
have come from vine-covered cottages,
or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in
tenement houses, with big Bible on
the table and a pot of flowers in the
window or even from luxurious homes
desolated by commercial panics. As a
matter of fact, the great majority Of