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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
Fire Stricken.

A man in Kentucky lost his mother
when he was a child, by fire; house
he inherited from his father, by fire;
the house he built in place of it, by fire;
q lot of lumber after he went into the
lumber business, by fire. While visit
ing his brother his brothers. house
burned up. He went to Kansas to visit
his stepmother and while talking about
his hard luck her kitchen burned. Re-
turning to a relative in Kentucky and
talking in the same way abou: his fate,
that kitchen burst into flames. He then
visited another relative in the same
county, when broom caught fire,
which reminded young lady that she
had left some fire in the parlor. Open
ing the door the room was found all
afire. He is in hopes some day to 60 to
a world where things won't be so hot
for him. But he labors under the disad-
vantage of being Kentuckian.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06

lie wit of Sergeant Ballantine appears
to be of a very caustic character. When
some years ago, distinguished journal
list was forced to appear in the witness
box, the Sergeant, just before cross-ex-
aiming him, entirely deprived him of his
self-posscssion by coolly observing
''There is flour on your nose, sir" On
another occasion he publicly rebuked
Mr.. Justice Hawkins then Mr.. Haw-
kins, X. C.-for his inveterate love of
accommodating wealth, assuring him that
he had much more money than he would
ever need in this life, that he could not
possibly hope to take the surplus away
with him, and that if he did it would
most certainly melt.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
The Idaho Bachelor.

The supply Of women in Idaho IL not
equal to the demand Of the bachelors in
that interesting Territory, and they are
clamoring for girls to come out from
the East and marry them. The New
York and New England newspapers are
considering the forlorn condition and
matrimonial longings of Idaho bache-
Tors. and not a few Of them advise the
minated women Of their region to jour
ney West and bag husbands. The
blood of these injudicious editors be up
on their own heads! We fancy the ex-
perience of one of those New England
maidens who goes out to throw himself
into the arms Of one of those Idaho
bachelors. He is waiting for her in
front of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in
,Murderer's Gulch. She alights from
the stage well dressed, tidy. prim and
spectacles on nose. She has been a
school teacher for twenty odd years,
and she has education and tho feelings
and tastes of q lady, her only weakness
being q too strong desire to marry. The
bachelor stands on the veranda of the
hotel with his hands in his trousers
pockets. He has bought suit of store
SAOUACS AOl Iu0 OCCasSAOus Auc WIlukltS
of newness are prominent in every gar
ment. He has visited the barber like
wise. His face is shining, and his hair.
dripping with oil, is combed and waxed
down on his forehead and punched out
behind. His hat is cooked rakishly,
with sort of northeast dip over one
eye, and his heavy boots shine in Il hol-
iday daub of mutton fat. 10 the adj
miring eye of the denizens of Murder
er's Gulch the bachelor is picture of
fashionable elegance. He owns mi
ming claim, or q cattle ranch. fifty miles
from the Gulch, and once month he
rides in on horseback to that center of
civilization to have u time''--which
means that he comes to get roaring
drunk, play faro and have fight, not
to mention other forms of enjoyment
As the maid from Massachusetts alights,
and with a dainty little shake or two
frees her raiment from~tlust, the Ida
no bachelor squirts q gill of tobacco
juice on the veranda, draws the back of
his horny hand across his lips, assumes
gallant grin, and shambles forward
to meet his bride. She looks at him,
turns pale, and with difficulty suppresses
scream, and, taking his shoddy-clad
arm, totters into the hotel. The par
son is there in waiting. If she marries
the Idaho bachelor, the maid from Mas
sachusetts will, in the course of ten
years, die of hard work over the cook
ing stove and in acting as general roust-
about in the cabin and on the ranch,
and leave behind her large family, the
boys of which will probably be like
their father, and die with their boots
on. A more horrible fate for woman
than that Of marrying an Idaho bache-
lor, no imagination can picture.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
Track Laying on the Northern Pacific


have just returned from visit to
the end of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road track and the head of the Yellow
stone valley says General Brisbin. What
an enormous valley this is-62O miles
long! It would reach nearly, in straight
line, from New York to Chicago. The
end of the North Pacific track is at
Young's Point, on the Yellowstone riy-
er, or, rather, was there few days ago.
The road is progressing at the rate of
one and a half to two miles per day,
and this Winter will reach Benson s
Landing, and possibly Bozeman. The
track leaves Yellowstone valley at Ben
sons. after having traversed it for dis
lance of 400 miles. 1t strikes the yell
lowstone at Glendive, runs up to Miles
City, eighty miles; thence to FORSYTH.
forty-elght miles; thence to Billings, 1873
miles, where it crosses over from the
south to the north bank of the Yellow
stone. From Billings it runs to Coun-
tryman's Crosses, again to the north
side, and thence to Benson's. Here it
turns sharp west, goes up Trail creek
to Badger Mountain and through tun-
mel 1000 feet long, and energies in the
head of the Gallatin Valley, near Boze.
man, from which place it travcrses the
Gallatin Valley to Helena.
saw the tracklayers at work on the
Northern Pacific road. Little cars, load.
ed with iron rails, were dragged forward
by mules hitched to ropes made fast to
the sides of the cars. and, as fast as the
iron reached the end of the laid rails,
new iron was seized and rushed for
ward. So accurately would the hand
lers throw a rail. that it laid where it
fell and was instantly spiked down in its
place. If you stopped to converse for a
few minutes the tracklayers wonld get
several rods ahead.
did not time them, but about a min
ute was sufficient to place rail. In adj
vance of the track-layers were hundreds
of men sizing up the road-bed, building
culverts and putting in bridges. Behind
the track-men came scores Of boarding.
houses on wheels, long lines of cars,
loaded with rails, and great engines
pushing them along westward over the
new-laid track. 1t was a sight we'll
worth seeing, and one calculated to fill
the breast of Western man with hope
for the future of his country.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
a Patent Medicine Paradise.

If the negroes of the South could
read there would be such 4 demand for
patent medicines. porous ps.sters, pills
and stomach bitters lis W,isid iorce ev-.
cry manufacturer 10 uO,i,ip taisilelp and
capacity. The negro is always ailing.
No matter how healthy lie looks OF. how
strong he seems, he believes himself at
tlicted. If he could rcad ;.inanacs and
circulars he would thiGN =, twice as
strongly.
At Dalton, Ga, says correspondent
OF the Detroit Free Press, saw q big
fellow pick up q barrel Of -four us easily
Us could have lifted u % pound sack,
and when complimcntcd him on his
strength he replied:
s'fes, boss, seems powerful strong.
but you doan' know what hard time
has OF it. lie got liber complaint, dys-
pcpsia and consumpshuu, an reckon
won't neber see snow fly agin.
asked him what remedies he had
been using, and he replied that he had
been taking the dust OF burnt leather
and mixing it with cold tea. Nothing
whatever allied, him, but ii he could
| have got hold of ten dollars he would
have used eight Of it in buying medi-
cines.
was in livery stable at Marietta
when man came in with u bottle of
prepared Jamaica Ginger. One of the
colored men employed about the stable,
who hadn'tl9st a day for years and who
looked as rugged as mountain, looked
at the bottle three or four times and then
asked:
sWhat We got dar, Kurnel?''
Something for apoplexy," was the
reply.
"Would We mind givin' me sip of it,
kase my apoplexy has been takin' on in
de moas' dretful manner fur de las
week."
You can take a pull if you wish to. y
The cork was drawn and the negro
lifted up the bottle and took three
heavy swallows Of the fiery stuff: The
next three minutes were the longest and
,, hottest ones he ever saw, but as soon as
he could speak he remarked.
''Ah! but dat stuff seems to hit de
right spot! I reckon it will cure up my
apoplexy all right, an like huff I may
light on sumthin' else good fur conges-
ton of lie lungs an water on de brain!'
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06

They were only two-they were out
to make night of it-they were pretty
riproariously, howling, moderately drunk
II thank you. They stumbled upon
the word ''ditto'' in some way. One
said to the other, 'What's ditto
anyhow, Jim?''
you're . ditto" was the reply.
Chow sop
''Why, I'm drunken n a billed cork
screw. Amt I?''
The point was unanimously admitted
by sitting vote.
"'Well, sir, that being SO, you are =
ditto" Prom the tale of ..1tCo Fools"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
Paul Priv.

The original Of paul Pry," that
amusing character whose curiosity was
Unsuitable, was q London journalist
know as Tommy Hill. The man al
ways happened to Know everything
about everybody.
''He once went with others to visit q
friend at his suburban residence. The
party was so pleasant that the host
tried to persuade the guests to stay an
other day, but Hill was memorable. He
went about whispering to his friends, -
'Don't stay; he is not sincere. = s. II
When the party got on the, coach to
return to town, one of the disap pointed
asked Hill what foundation he had for
his suspicious.
"Well," said Hill, Il got up early
this morning and ! happened to look In
to the larder. There was nothing init y
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
A Very Cunning Toad.

An intelligent toad is nightly visi-
tor at the Office Of the Marysvilie Gas
Company. Mr.. Freeman, the COM
pany's accountant, usually works in the
office an hour or two every evening,
and he says that the toad hops upon his
desk with unfailing regularity each
evening at the same hour. The crea-
ture makes its exits and its entrances
through hole in one of the panes Of q
window about six inches from the desk,
to which it jumps from the window.
ledge. The toad is attracted by tho
flies and bugs which burn themselves
in the flame Of the gas jet and fall help
less upon the desk beneath. The know
ing creature, after devouring such
singed insects as await its coming,
squats in trustful content upon the desk
and eyes the gas jet with = speculative
eye. The instant moth or bug flutters
down. the toad springs upon It, and
gobbles it up in a moment, Marysvills
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-06
OND
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Far General Debility, Dyspepsia, Biliousncss.
Torpid Liver, Indigestion. Neuralgia and Nlleu-
\ usea. Sick Headache and Kidney Complaints,
it Is Invaluable. Price, 80 cents.
Ask your Druggist for these Remed-
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Descriptive Pamphlets Free.
~l\adrcs d.. Evory's Diamond Remedies C,.
2. g. Box $500. 1r4 John Street. New YORK
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

Mr.. C. B. Potter, Druggist, Towanda, Pa.
For seve raj years have been troubled with
Catarrh; have tried many remedies without
much relief Ely's Cream Balm has proved
to be the article desired. having wonderful
results in my case. I believe it to be the
only cure. l.. B. CoBURN, Towanda, Pa.
May IA. 1879.
cheerfuliy add my testimony to the value
of Elv's Cream Balm as specific in the case
of my sister, who has been seriously debili-
tated with Catarrh for the past eight years,
having tried Intellectually other remedies and
several speciality doctors in Boston. She inn
proved at once under this discovery, and has
gained her health and hearing, which had
been considered incurable. ROBERT W.
MERRILL, Secretary of the Phoenix Manufac-
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

One of the most attractive apartments on
Water street is the studio of c. c. Willough-
hv i, Meonian Hall block, opened a few
wsels ago. We have all felt the need OF
someone who could catch our vague. shadow
ideas of how things should be done to be ar
,;.,;c and beautiful, and mould them into
rsality. This is just what Mr.. willoughoy
ia doing. Besides framing pictures OF ali
kinds, he makes all the dainty little articles
which are required to ornament pariors ana
.,udios. He keeps for sale artists materials
oil paintings, portraits, etchings. engravinss'
etc and can procure anything in that line at
reasonable prices. 1t is astonishing wna' q
difference the framing of picture MAKES
The Mater Dolorosa in a tawdry gilt frame
i. an abomination; it rasps all our artis.'c
tastes: but put the sweet, sad face OF tue
,o,ber of our Lord in frame OF PLAIN ASH
or cherry, and the picture becomes divine's
ho.,,;fnl. Mr.. willoughby aims to give
character to pictures, by selecting apPro
,-;.,e frames for them, and this is something
rh;cb will be appreciated. We tiust the
vounr artist will be sustained. and that the
v;.;tor, to his at rooms viii Be many.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

The 10th annual meeting of the Maine
Homeopathic Medical Society will be held
in Granite Hall, Tuesday, June 9Th. Valuable
scientific papers will be presented by the
different bureaus; important meas
ures in regard to the much
needed reform in the laws regulating
the practice of medicine will also come be-
fore the meeting for discussion. Reduced
rates of fare will be granted by the roads to
musicians attending the convention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

On Friday evening of next week our
sic-loving people anticipate treat. A
grand concert is to be given in Granite Hall
BY Miss Fannie Kellogg of Boston, soprano,
assisted by Herndon Marsell, tenor, Miss
Florence Holmes, of the Temple Quartette
Glee Club. contralto, and Mr.. George Dali
on. 1t has been so long since we have had
any firstclass entertainments, that the hall
should be filled with the best people of the
three cities
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

Yesterday afternoon as Will S. Stone and
Will c. Gardiner of Augusta were fishing on
the Seven-mile brook, near the old paper
mill, in Vassalboro, their supply of bait be-
came exhausted, and they had to resort to
the bank for supply. In their excavations
they unearthed pair of rusty handouts.
locked together, with piece of bone, which
through one of the links. On being exposed
to the air, the bone soon crumbled to pieces.
How came the handouts there? and was a
crime committed years ago? are the questions
to be solved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

Mr.. II. H. Warner of Rochester, n. Y.
has made the following offer to all discoveries
of comets or meteors during the present year ::
WARNER OBSERVATORY.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, May Sth, 1882.
The discoveries of four of the comets of
1881 having complied with all the conditions.
were each awarded the Warner Comet Prize
of 5000. Prof. Lewis Boss has also been
paid the 5000 prize awarded him by the Judges
for the best ESSAY on comets.
Desiring to continue the prizes for scientific
discoveries, l beg leave to announce, that for
1882, on or after this date, l will give three
prizes, as follows, subject to the conditions
named:
PRIZE FIRST.
Two hundred dollars in gold for each dis
covery of a new Comet made in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain or Ireland.
CONDITIONS.
l. 1t may be discovered either by telescope
or the naked eve, but must be unexpected
except as to the comet of 1912 which may re-
appear during the year.
2. The announcement of the discovery
must be made confidentially and exclusively
(by telegraphl TO DR.. Lewis Swift, director
of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, NY,
and to him alone, and he will cause the same
to be Immediately telegraphed, together with
name Of the discOverer, to all parts of the
world.
3. The telegram must give the time of
discovery, the position, and, direction of
motion if possible, sufficiently exact to enable
at least one other observer to find it. Three
dsinterested astronomers will be selected by
DR.. Swift, to decide all disputed questions.
PRIZE SECOND.
The sum of two hundred dollars, for any
MeteOric Stone found in any of the above
countries during 1882, which Profs Henry A.
Ward of Rochester. N. Y, Principal Daw-
son of Montreal, Canada, and J. Lawrence
Smith, of Louisville. Ky. shall unanimously
decide contains fossil remains of animal or
vegetable life, thus proving the individuality
of other planets.
PRIZE THIRD.
The sum of fifty dollars, for specimen of
any MeteOric Stone, (whether it contain
organic remains or not seen to fall in the
United States during 1882.
CONDITION.
A specimen (Which shall become the prop
erty of the property of the Warner Observa-
tory) of not less than two ounces in weight,
must be sent to DR.. Swift accompanied by a
descriptive letter written in English. giving
the time of its fall, depth of penetration into
the soil, weight of the entire stone, direction
of fight, and such other facts regarding it as
will be of value to science.
Most sincerely,
II. II. WARNER.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

The "total depravity of inaminate things"
was illustrated Thursday evening by pecu-
liar accident which occurred at the Augusta
Bakery. Henry Pickering, young man, is
employed to drive the cart for the establish
ment, and occasionally tends shop for the
saleslady to 30 to her meals. On the even
ing in question he went behind the counter
in the front shop. One of the doors of the
upright showcase was partially open, and
on his way Henry accidentally hit it with his
arms, raising it off its hinges. 1t fell over
his head, his face going through the glass.
The sharp, Jagged edges Of the glass cut his
face badly, nearly severing the end of the
nose. DIR. Thompson was called, who sewed
up the wounds, the young man bearing the
operation unflinciin2ly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13
WINTHROP.
HERBERT.

Work on the new mill is progressing rap
idly; the foundation is now nearly completed.
MIR. Hannaford, recently injured by the fall
ing derrick, has nearly recovered.-The Nor
folk Jubilee Singers held forth in Packard
Hall Tuesday night to a full house. This
entertainment is highly commended:-Many
of our sweet singers are in attendance upon
the musical festival at Bansor.-Mrs. George
A. Longfellow who has been visiting friends
in Boston. returned home this week.-Messrs.
Jones and Longfellow are making extensive
repairs in the store occupied by the late Ezra
Hammond. Mr.. Newland Bishop will occupy
it in connection with his other store in the
same building.-Messrs. Richardson Webb
the new proprietOrs of the Winthrop House,
report a good business. The house has been
put liz thorough repair and now presents
neat and homelike appearance. The proprie-
tors are gentlemanly and obliging, and appar-
emily understand how to conduct public
house so as to satisfy the most fastidious The
travelling public will appreciate the fact that
we now have a first-class hotel in winthrop
We are glad to announce that our esteemed
townsman, f. W. Kelley, is in fair way to
recover from his long and painful illness -
De coration day will be more fully observed
probably. than ever before in this town. Fifty
dollars was appropriated at the last annual
meeting to help defray the expenses fos'
Commander Franklin Wood is making every
endeayor in his power to have appropriate
ceremonies and is ably seconded IN MS
efforts by all the members of the Post. Our
citizens have ever manifested willingness
TO lend helping hand on occasions like tins
The orator of the day has not yet been secured
-Newland Bishop and w. +. Whitman, win
their families, are boarding at the winthrop
House.-Thomas A. Pinkham moves out OF
the building on Main street he has occupied
for the last FIVE years and more, this week
The owner. Mr.. George Z. Hanscom of Nal
don Mass. will put it in thorough repair.
Lorinc Foss has moved back to town from
Massachusetts, after an absence of several
months. Elliott Wood, assignee OF II; a,
Cobb's estate, is closing out the stock OF
millinery and fancy goods at rapid rate
The village cemetery is to be enlarged
sumner thinks he he has 'bonanza IN
patent for scar coupler" Patterns are
~, made at West Waterville-F. +. COT
fin. ESQ. of Osoye, Mitchell county, Iowa.
is in town for few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

Some would-be Byron looks on in disgust,
At the rhymes of Eclectric Oil poet"
But we have the best article known tot the
world,
And intend that all persons shall know it
1t cures coughs colds, asthma and catarrh,
Bronchitis and complaints of that kind;
1t does not cost much, though rheumatics 1t
cures.
lis best Oil in the world you can find.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

special Meeting ~ Maine se.te A--
cultural Society.
special meeting of the Maine State A.;
cultural Society was held in Lewiston Tues,
day evening for the purpose of acting upon
proposal to make a change in the by.l A,
the annual meeting last September, changes
IN the bylaws of the society we're made. up
on the recommendation of a committee ~
one OF these changes the salary of the score
tary was cut down to $500. At the meeting
Tuesday evening, the friends Of the seeratare
claim this reduction was unjust, and Mr.. Eaton
OF Portland moved that a committee he an.
pointed to investigate the expediencv IF
amending the bylaws SO a. to restore rho
salary of the secretary.
Hon. Geo. c. Wing of Auburn and Hon
Z. f. Libby of Portland opposed the motion
on the ground that such action could M, he
legally taken at that meeting Several other
gentlemen took this view. The meeting voted
that It was inexpedient to take any action.
The matter will probably be brought before
the next annual meeting
Messrs. Gardner and SAWYER. the ren,s-
sentatives of the Maine State Pathological
Society, made proposition to the trustees
Tor uniting their show with the State fair.
Ihey desired that the premiums offered by
the State Society in the genealogical depart
ment should be increased from $500 to 5000.
and that the State Society pay their clerk
hlre The trustees made them an offer of
about 500 below their proposition. Thev
are now considering the matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

The Good Templars at Weeks Mills dedi.
Gated their new hall On Wednesday evening,
with appropriate ceremonies. In the evening
. well-attended public meeting was held, at
which Dr. G. j. Nelson presided.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-13

All hard workers are subject to bilious at
tacks which may end in dangerous illness.
Parker's Ginger Tonic will keep the kidneys
and liver active, and by preventing the at
tack save much sickness, loss of time and
expense. Delay at such times means danger
Detroit Press. See other column.
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Our Glorious Independence.

What can be more glorious than to be
independent of suffering, caused by dyspep-
STA, indigestion, consultation, sick headache
or other diseases emanating from the stom
ach. This can be easily gained by a timely
use of BURDocK Blood BITTERs. Price
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