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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-02-22
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
State Officers:

D." Il. +. JONAS,
Representative, 9TH Dis, J. FLOYD KING.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-04

Many persons, in the absence of a drill
ing machine and for small plantations,
drop the seeds of carrots. turmps. ETC.. by
hand, which is slow and laborious, as they
do not think it worth while to buy a ma
chine for use one day in year. A more
rapid and even mode than through the fin
gers, is to nail tin cup to the lower end
Of a wooden rod the size of walking
stick and making one or two perforations
through the bottom of the cup, Just large
enough to let the seed through, walk
slowly along the trench shaking the seed
into it, which is then covered with steel
rake. Planting may be done quite rapidly
in this manner and more evenly than il
done wholly by hand. The cup need not
necessarily be conical at the bottom and
in fact should have some fiat bottom, so
that the seeds may slide over it and thus
pass out when shaken.
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NO. 1O5.
wood in Is minutes recently. Wooden leg,

wood in Is minutes recently. Wooden leg,
probably.
The old Senate Bible, which mysteriousiv
disappeared three weeks ago, was found one
morning on the Secretary's desk, where the
purloiner had secretly replaced it.
A mortgage on personal property, which
was recorded in Boston the other day, pro-
vided for rate of interest at so per cent.
per annum.
Eight millions of dollars are depending on
the decision of the Vermont supreme court,
in the case of I.angdon VS.. the Central r. r.
company, on the question of mortgage.
A Montreal baker whose bread was combs.
Gated on the alleged ground of short weight,
has sued the city for damages. the corpora
tion scales having since been found to be in
correct.
Benjamin F. Delano, aged 73, died Sunday
in Brooklyn. He was native of Scituate,
Mass, and was the Oldest naval constructor
in the United States. He had charge of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard during the war. and
built many of the finest vessels in the navy !.
All the force of the construction depart.
ment of the Navy Yard suspended work
Saturday to make the appropriation hold out.
Only $4,000 are allowed this department for
the month of May. All hands are therefore
on half time and are obliged to lose every
Saturday
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.ReQuisites for Potatoes.

The best potato fertilizer on dry soil is
water, This is 10 saw that the potato is more
dependent upon moisture than the most of
our crops. On my own farm | am unable to
calculate upon sure crop OF merchantable
potatoes. may apply sufficient manure or
fertilizer, and yet if the season be unpropiti-
Gus the potatoes are small despite the
manuring This has led me to give = little
study to this crop, and find II. Thas any
cause which checks the growth of the plant
after the tubers are somewhat formed tends
10 check the growth of the formed tubers and
to stimulate the formation of new tubers.
Thus a severe hoeing in mid-season will
check the growth of the tubers and form new
tubers to such an extent that on rich land
the crop will be very numerous, but also
small and unmerchantable. A drouth at this
time will affect the plant likewise. .. That
manure put on the potato land, or fertilizer,
does not necessarily produce large
potatSes: it only influences aggregate
growth the production of the best merchant
able crop seems dependent upon a continuous
growth from the time the tubers are formed
until they attain ripeness. The potato requires
a steady, uniform season, without too much
or too little water. 1t requires fertility in
the land, but the physical condition of the
soil and atmospheric relations must be such
that growth be materially unchecked. As the
pinching in of shrub renders it more
branchy and leafy, and causes it to contain
more numerous buds than the larger un.
pinched shrub of equal age and vigor, so the
interference of growth of the potato plant, by
means of the hoe or drouth, affects the pro-
ducton of the underground buds or tubers
3. Fertilizer especially that containing potash,
seems to improve the quality of the tuber.
over that produced from manure. Plaster Is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-04
Maggie Mi,chelrs Dream.
Maggie Mitchell recently related the fol-
lowing dream to a newspaper interviewer:

Maggie Mitchell recently related the fol-
lowing dream to newspaper interviewer:
dreamed on that memorable night that l
saw John Wilkes Booth leap from the private
box of the President at Ford's theatre to
the stage. He was dressed as usual, with
inimitabe taste and neatness. He wore
short Spanish cloak, lined with crimson satin.
As he leaped on to the stage from the box,
hurriedly and excitedly, his cloak flew open
and disclosed little white poodle dog under
his arm. He ran past me and made his exit
by the identical door through which he did
actually escape after committing the horrible
deed. l was telling this dream the next morn
ing 20 my sister Mary and party Of select
friends while eating our breakfast. was en-
gagged in telling my dream, and before get
ting through with the remarkable details, the
head waiter came up to us with q scared look
upon his face. We were interrupted by his
asking us If we had heard the news He then
said that President Lincoln had been shot the
night before; and in 10 minutes we were all
electrified with the astounding news that the
assassin was John Wilkes Booth, about whom
we were talking when the head waiter first
interrupted our chat at the table. II made 4
lasting impression on me. | have often told
it to my friends, and it is strange that il has
never got into the papers, because every one
who heard me telling my dream, before We
heard the news from Washington, considered
it remarkable and wondr0us from its astound.
ing condolences.
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General News.

Pittsfield, Mass, wants to become a city.
Work on the tunnel under the English
Channel is to he suspended.
Tremendous snowstorms have occurred in
the Alps. The Simplon route is inpassible
Mail service has been suspended.
Large numbers Of icebergs are reported off
the coast
A clergyman Of Worcester says Masonry
and Odd Fellowship are the twin evils in the
world of the present day.
-Four ice houses belonging to the
Knickerbocker ice company near Pougfl-
keepsie. \. Y, were burned Monday.
A fire on the public square in Shelbyville,
Tenn, destroyed nine buildings. Loss s20,-
600.
The Newmarket buildings in Aberdeen.
Scotland, were damaged 100000 Saturday.
Three persons were killed.
The Ohio Sunday Law is being strictly en-.
forced. In a test case held at Cincinnati Mon.
day, the defendant was assessed heavy
fine.
A floating news item says that youne
school girl in Hanover chopped foot O
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Personal.

Collector Morrill, of Portland is in failing
health, and grave spprehensions are felt con-
cerning him.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes this month
completes his 35th year as Professor in the
Harvard Medical School.
The Centre Church at New Haven, Conn,
on Sunday extended practically unanimous
call to Rev. DIR. Newman Smyth.
Hon. Julius l.. Clarke, the present insur-
ance commissioner. has been in the service
Of the state Of Massachusetts for 25 years.
Judge Lord of Massachusetts is so far i'm
proved as to give hope Of bis ultimate re-
covery. He was greatly relieved by the
remedy of cupping.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the we'll know n
lawyer. was the first Washington woman who
had the courage to ride through Pennsylvania
avenue on a tricycle..
Senator Thurman is only sorry that he did
not have an opportunity of seeing Prince
Bismarck and the Queen of England. "Be-
cause" he explains, latter seeing them
might have been able to say that ] had met
two people in Europe who did not want six
pence from me-"
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Dailp Kennfhfr journal.

We hope that those deluded people who
continued to grease their chickens with
lard and sulphur. will learn after while
that this compound is sure death to both
lice and chickens. Some 10 years ago it
lice on fowls, and one farmer we recollect
anointed flock of 10 with it. In less
than week they were all dead. Recently
correspondent of the Home Farminquires
what is the matter with her brood of chick
ems. which have been treated with lard
and sulphur and all died. We should
leave the sulphur out and use the lard
alone, which is not hurtful to the chickens
but death to the ice
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Instincts of Trout.

Generally speaking, n thunder storm il re-
garded by trout fishers as putting a decisive
stop to their operations. Ii is not always the
case, however, that trout then cease rising.
just as pheasants always crow loudly after
clap of thunder, and the electrical state of the
atmosphere at such n time has curious effect
upon cells, causing them to be much more &C.
tive than at other times, so Mr.. W. Hender-
son relates a case of unwonted activity In
trout during a thunder storm. and that at
night. Between the flashes he casts his flies
straight across a rushing mill stream in the
Black Forest. 81 fished the stream steadily
downward" he writes, ("My Life AS an
Angler" page 299, "for about hundred
yards. The lightning showed me where to
throw my flies all around was nky black
ness. l cast, and rarely failed either to hook
or take fish. The strength of the current
enabled many a fish to break away, but at the
end of halt an hour my basket held eight fish;
and when these were tabled at the hotel, they
proved to be three trout three grayling and
two fish resembling club. The least was
three quarters OF a pound in weight, and the
largest n pound and half-a together
beautiful dish, and the fish by far the largest
in size that had captured duriug my weeks
angling" Most anglers must have noticed.
when fly fishing after dark, that, after Ger.
tain moment, as if some picnic curfew had
rung under water, every rising fish stops, and
none can be taken afterward for some time.
found this the case night after night in the
balmy darkness OF June in Devon last year
and Mr.. Henderson relates the same thing of
the Wear. when, Immediately before, his ears
had been assailed "by such a tumult Of fish
splattering and splashing as had never be.
fore heard; the water seemed alive with large
fish. There seemed something uncanny in
the affair" Before the cessation of their rise,
however, he had secured six trout, rs in the
previous case, considerably larger than any
which he could capture by day,-London
Field.
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Railroads ar,n Steamboats,
Maine Central Railroad.
Change Of Time.

On and after SUNDAY, DEC. 4th. 1881.
trains viii leave Augusta
For Portland and Boston Mt 800 A. n. and l0.l0A.
NJ; 10.55 r. NJ.
For Portland an Lew iston. so d., 1O.loA.M.,
2.i5 and 1879 4. NJ
For ROckland, 600 A. NJ. and 1910 A. n.
For Farmlngto 1910 A. NJ.
For Bath, o.Ov A. M, 10. 10 A. M. and 2.i5 T. ii.
For WatervIile l.25, s-a5 A. Nj, Dds .M.,-
500 F. N. on Saturdays.)
FOR Skownesan. Belfast, Dexter and bangor, 3-A
M, ana z.z5 A. N.
Night Pullman Trains each way every night. sun
days included.
Gardiner Accommodation Train.
AUGUSTA TO GARDINER.
A. N. r. M. r. 81
Augusta, w., s.25 2.0O 5-3t
Hauoweil, w., e.33 2.Ce 5.3S
0ardinsr, ar, e.50 20 o.oo
GARDINER TO AUGUSTA.
Gardiner,lv 7.46 Leo 40
Halowel, w.. sos LIS 90
Augusta, A., e.l0 LID o.io
FREIGHT TRAINS.
For Portland and way, s45 AM. l2zs p. NJ.
For Bangor and way, z..o +. M. $50 I. N
Due from Boston and way, l2.3o A. NJ 4.Z2 L. NJ.
Due from Bangor and way, e.25 A. Nj. l2lo I'm
PAYsON TUCKER, supt.
Portland. Oct, l4th 1Ss1.
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As stages are quickly abandoned with the
completion Of railroads, so the huge, drastic,
cathartic pills, composed Of crude and bulky
medicines. are quickly abandoned with the
introduction Of DIR. Pierce's pheasant Pnr-
gative Pellets" which are sugar-coated, and
little larger than mustard seeds, but COM
posed of highly concentrated vegetable ex-
tracts. BY druggists. may2-t&wlw4p
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Advertising Agents.
FOR THE
kennebec journal.
Daily IND WEEKLY.

The following Advertising Agents authorized
10 receive subscriptions and advertisements for the
KENNEBEC JOURNAL:
BOSTON :: s. PETTKNeILL L Co. 10 state
street.
). Il. NILES, No. 2o6 Washing
ton st.
I.t. EVANS, fremont Temple.
HORACE DODD, 265 Washington
street.
NEW iORk /: :DAUCHY Co., "a Park Place.
Gro. +. RowELL Co., 10
spruce Street.
JAMES ii. BATES, Al Park Row.
PHILADELPHIA n. W. AYEK SON, Times bid'g
Chestnut and sth streets.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, II. T. HUBBARD, Is Elm ST.
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DIR. WEBSTER takes DRs
CROOkER'S practice, and his Office in
Cushnoc House. Office hours, to Il. Resi-
dence. corner State and Green streets.
DIR. CROOkER will be at the Office
every SATURDAY..
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Weekly Kennebec Journal,

Published every Wednesday morning 10 one Of the
largest quart papel in the state, containing news
DOtica artic es, agricultural and scientific matter
tales poetry, .Lcedotes, household matter markets.
&C., &c.
FERNS, * per aanmas in adraace.
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NOTICE

Is hereby given that the City Ordinance in reeart
to fast driving in the streets Of Augusta, win b
rigidly enforced from and after this date. Safety Il
life and limb compels 10 this course, as 1t hal
become q common nuisance.
By order Of the Mayor.
&. II. WHITE, City Marshal
Aupusts-yeeprrhc- ~ ,ssn
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
A King with Had Manners.
Temple Bar.

Do not think that everything fashionable
Is becoming; 1t Is often the essence Of vulgar
ity. For instance, 1t may be, and is, eti-
quette and fashion TO mako noise with
jangling bells, like circus rider, when one
takes drive, or 10 make . greater noise
with = laundering rap aud . prolonged peal
ri the door when making cali; but no
fashion ~ etiquette can redeem such practice
f.on, The ,ainl VI yuiearity. They are a.
mos, on = par with the conduct VI late
king 4 Sweden. Al snpp-r," sa,s knight.
'-his Msjesi, was seen 10 scratch llls head
with hls folk, and also with his knife, =. d
NJ er~ard 10. go oll eating With IN M
Fashion usually thrsv~s npon ex,ravreancr,
and garment b admired, not E.r iss suila-
blIiis, bu, for Hs cosi. Yet, after slI, ilne
fra' hers d, mol make fife bids; f,r The birds
which have lhr i,.sst plulnage are In th~m-
selves .he lrass valued. = they ra,~iy ~ ever
sing. The parr"'. The pearock, and the ri, =
iisist Ar lsamiful 10 hook up,n, hut III. /
lnelasiy Is w"s. 'hsn the hsIk III ~ 4. I
which lz'ii~s e acrltain pr uuceu ain ne are
~ ~ p'sfrr 10 The conversation ~ tieif
sslIs'- snci, birds inss ll,il.k xi,h Anrm.s
Wsri. = mi s.rr, when canr,i sing. and
NJ I lends are sorry When | cam Fh,e
isa hers d. nj make dne birds any insrs
lsthan The cosmetics u Nine. Rachel mad1
her Iediss beautlful forever. or ths lase
Qnsen of Napiea was made vIrtucus by asIck.
ine pae1sd y&rses II ~ t1yu. 's'' :
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12

Scientific American.

Tbs Signal Service Bureau has in press
monograph, By Sergeant Finley, containing .
review Of the observations Of six hundred
tornadoes, with generalizations from the re-
corded facts and suggestions as to the me-
thods which ought to be followed in the in
vestigation Of such storms.
The storm studies have occurred during
tho past eighty-seven years In all parts Of the
country. From these it would appear that
tornadoes occur most frequently In summer,
and in the month of June. They have oc-
CURED, however, more frequently in April
than In July, and in May and September
than In August. Kansas Is the State that has
been most afflicted, and that notw,thstand-
ing the fact that the period during which
tornaIoes lave visited IL has been conpara-
ineI, short. The State has liza 4 " tntnadoes
f."m 1850 lo leoi; Illinois has hau "a fo,n
1874 10 1851; New Yolk las txd IS frm
1891 To 1851; Missouri has had A f,on. lsi4
to 1851; Georgia a3 fiom ieO+ To 1851 low y
81 trom 1854 To 1851; Ono 20 from 1873 10
Iooi; Ia,aiana q fom lo5z To 1851. The
> al-s anu 4, r.ltoiies that have liaa only one
each fiom i7y4 10 1851 are: Colorado, Gals
furnia, Injisn teirno.y, Nevada. New MEX.
lea, Mpntaila, Rhode Isiaad, West Virginia
xiiu Wyoming. The s,oiiiis occur most fie-
qIciitis from live Ia SIX IN The Afternoon. al
lIungi, there Is no hour of ths day that has
Dech entirely free f,om them.
The xvela.e Midll, VI tile path Of destrnc-
tio, Is l,OS5 fee., and The storm cloud runs
with v-ioclly u from t~ eive To sixty miles.
Il,c wind wnhin the vortex sometimes AL
tsi,,s = ,el.cny u oUO mites an hour, .Le
average yelvcIt, being :iu2 mixes.
Among the most ,ainabi. Suggest ions OF The
paper are those with reference 10 the pecui-
iarity Of the movements Of tornado clouds,
containing rules for arriving at their violence.
A tornado cloud always has center, and IL
always moves forward from west to east. 1t
may, however, sway from side TO side in its
progressive movement. Changes In motion
are sometimes very sudden. In the event Of
sudden change the observer who Is east or
south Of east Of the storm, should move
quickly to the south. II he Is northeast he
should move to the north. II within very
short distance Of the cloud, the observer
should run east, bearing to the south.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
AN oLD-TrME OUTLAW.
John A. Murreli, the Great Robber Of Forty
Tears Ago. es
Indianapolis News.


Tie death Of Jesse James in Missouri. and
the freqll-tt references to his robb.rirs and
To his int"ririy as .ihr rnnst conspicuous
and Formidable :" scoiindf~l of the Schiiii~r-
hannes and Car",ci,e type ever ks"wn In
this c'lniry, may suggest To some af the
Neaes y aders, with hong memories, that forty
seais ago ar nI.,rr there was rnbber, aud =
hand organizrd and directed by him. an the
lower Mississippi, more famous than jesse or
Faux James or the !. Blue Cut gang, more
dreaded. more wide reaching In crime, aud
far nn'ie bloody, f,r they made IL q rule 10
leave iso yictiurto become witness. john
A. Miri~ll Was name of terror from the
mouth f tile Ohk, to the Yazn, and far
hack in the Interior II the States h,rdrring
the Mississippi, o,i he east side. The west
side was t.s Wild . woods far travellers or
OTHERS II, tl"se DAYS, Lul the east side as
b+srt for hundreds Z miles along The roads
leading nori Inward firm New Orleans, which
we've largely travelled 10y dealers flnm tie
North. who had sk-n down ,i,Oves of lmIse
"r tia'h"ai ioa,is If p"ik or grain or whisky.
The drpredario Ions We're not cuI,tined 10 tie
Ia, d. by any means, hut ai,sls peci ing "br.ai
hnrns" were cap ui-d AID pin Iged, aud heir
crr~s fed toihe fish, while tied up At nirht
"ut T the way IT steamers and RATS that
might sink them IN f.g. IL Is said that the
Mnrr-ll gang hsa hsdlne places III, caves aud
stored thrIr plundei In them. Western Ten
n.sss~ as said to BE- tlieir favnrita ground,
bul they ranged from the north OF Mississippi
/" The Ohio. Many eif'ns were made 10
capt ure he leader and break mp The band
vii hnut effect, ill an adventurous young
fellow named Virgil Stewart undertook II Of
his own m"i"n. partly to clear the coithtfy
e n terror, aud patty to employ his supefa
hnndani enare, aud dsIing. II. became n
member "f the gang and conttn So for
seine c" Siderable tim---a year ar two, po,-
sibly mere, aud tirally trapped the srat-st
villain ever known on the American Cnnti-
lent since ilr days ~ the burcanerr chiefs.
Montbass a d Morgan. lie was sen, 10 the
p.nii ei.tisry al Nashville for long term. on
c''isieii',b ii robbery II Is to be presumed,
n . conviction "f murder would have hung
him. II may have b--h that ho legal -yi-
dence "f direct participation IN murder could
h- advanced, even by his capor, huwever
complete might have been the neral cer-
aih,y ~ his gaill. S,-aa,t published an
accnnii .f his adventures IN q Isig- pam.
phlri fony,'a.s ago ar thereabuuts. Tie
r''bbeI chirf died III tie penitehtisiy. ar. At
all events, before lie got chance to resume
his old career, even " lie had be~n So dis
p"srd. There are, in doubt, persons IN this
ciIy who retain an accurate recollection of
the mans adventures aud netoriety.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
The Advantages of Two Eyes.
Popular Science Month y.


In response to the question, ..WhAt Is III.
us of having two eyes p the answer was
given. ITO hav. or- left If tl,- other Is hurt
Much ss we might aiu,iir tile sagac,a,ls fore.
sight of this youthful physiologis,, Il will
mot br found sufficient Ia rest cun,riied with
his ultimaiann. He had evidently nat triee
his skill to find how unexpectedly he would
miss the inksiand while endravoriiiR to dip
his pen into II IT arms length, with one eye
closed. lie had not thought of holding his
finger few ineirs III front ~ his face l."
lind wha, pan of the wall 1t wnuld hide from
each eye Ia succe ssion, or how differently II
would look when regarded from those two
points Il view separately, how much thicker
il would appear when both EYES were open,
lnw readily he cuuld examine three si,rs IT
II at once. how much more definitely hr
could judge IT'S distsnce, JIM = word how much
more comprehensive wss the informal ion
given BY two eyes If used At the same mo-
ment. Assuming that be knows how TO sc-
count for the inversion of the retinal image
and the erect appearance Of the object there
pictured, how our visual perceptions are only
signs Of what we momentsrily feel on the
the retlna, signs that generally represent the
realities with fair degree Of accuracy, but
may sometimes represent almost anything
else on demand, how, If tho eyes be healthy,
we have no consciousness OF possessing any
retina 1t all, but instantly and Unconscious
~ refer every retinal sensation 70 some ex-
ternal body whose existence we are obliged
to assume, unless there be special arguments
TO the contrary all this, our young
physiologist has not thought Of inquiring
/ how II Is that, although two retinai images
are produced, We see but single object, and
this despite the fact that, like photographs Of
the same body simultaneously taken from
different o siand-poi,,s, these two imsges are
necessarily dissiiuiiar.