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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-26
PIANO CHAIR.
Teachers, Scholars and Finished Amateur
and Professional Players will
alike welcome IL.

The practice Of sitting At pisuo or organ prac
Using for hours together, without support for the
back, Is tiresome In the extreme. as every PLAYER
veil Knows; and. giving way to the tired feeling,
very many especially young persons. attempt 10 rest
or relieve themselves BY ming position which IL
not only uugraceful but unnatural and and
are often permanently injured thereby. To rest the
Dack Is not always necessary to incline the BODY
to the rear The body may lean ard but II there
Is something against which the back NAV be
pressed. 1t affords sense Of support, q feeling Of
ease which car be obtained in no other way, and
really forms true rest The ordinary piano sfooI Il
not comfortable nat under any circumstances vet
no material improvement rae made upop the orieinsI
design until this Back Piano Chair was invented.
Although this Chair has been before the public but
short time n: already attracted marked attention.
and has gained the highest approval Of All who have
tested it. We confident that it win fully meet the
needs Of Thousands who have long been hoping and
anxiously looking for some such Improvement. -
Price, plain, 500 (; plush, $500.
With adjustable back, $l.OO extra.
OLIVER DITSON & co.
40 and All Washington st.,
D0oxoU, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-26
41isftIlarreolas.
Something About HernaIds.

THE SEA-GIRLs AND SEA-MEx WHOM THE
ANCIESTs BELIEVED II aNu WROTE
About.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-26

KENNEBEC COUNTT-M Probate Court, at
Awgnsfa. the second Moaday Of Jane, 1882.
nAvID GARLAND. guardian Of Thomas A. j.
IL Garland of Winslow, in said county, insane,
having presented his fourth account Of guardianship
Of said Ward for allowance.
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three weeks
successlvely, prior to the second Monday of July
next, In the Kennebec journal, newspaper
printed in Augusta, that all persons interested
may attend 1t Court Of Probate then to be held
1t Augusta, and show cause, If any, why the same
should mot be allowed.
EMERY o. BEAN, Judge.
Attest: HOWARD OWEN Register sw2ss
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-26

rHAS. Water ST., dealer In all kinds
" fresh. salt and smoked fish, also Oys ters CLAIMS,
crackers pickles, &c.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
Surrounded by Sharks.

Captain Francis Ganello, of the
Italian bark Madeleine, who arrived
here on the Sd instant, related the
following circumstance, which &C.
CURED to him while with his vessel
at Grnytown, Nicaragua, where he
arrived on the 9th of June. He waited
for the custemhouse officers to board
the vessel, but after waiting for six
hours and seeing no one coming, de-.
termlncd to make a landing to enter
his vessel regularly at the custom.
house. He ordered his launch to be
rugged with a mast and four oars and
sailors to use them. Taking his
ships papers with him, he entered
the launch and was about to push of,
when a French passenger, named Leon
Birard, from Lyons, France, to whom
he had given passage at Colon, asked
the Captain to be allowed to 90 in the
launch, which request was granted.
They pulled to within three or four
hundred yards of the shore, when they
saw the high breakers, and saw it was
impossible to land, as a high sea was
running over the bar. The Captain
then made signals to those on shore to
come to his assistance, but no atten.
ton was paid to his movements. The
Captain then determined to try to
land, and pointing the bow of his
boat to the shore, told his men to pull,
which they did with a will. The
launch safely crossed the first and
second reefs, but when they neared
the third reef a very heavy breaker
struck the boat, which capsized and
filed. Three of the sailors each got
an a and tried to make shore,
which they succeeded in reaching in
an exhausted condition. The Captain
with one sailor and the French psssen-
ger laid hold of the launch, righted
her, and though it was full Of water,
got in and waited for assistance.
While thus anxiously waiting a large
school Of sharks encircled the frail
craft and continually drew nearer.
They fought them with desperation
though the Captain came so near their
merciless jaws as to have his breeches
torn in several places. From three
o'clock until nearly nightfall they
kept up the fight for life, when the
Captain made up his mind to attempt
TO swim ashore, and told the sailor and
passenger to follow him. The mast oil
the launch was near by, entangled in
the cordage, and the Captain succeeded
in loosing it, and with the sailor at one
end took the other. They asked the
passenger to come on and take hold o.
the middle OF the mast, but he re.
fused, saying that he feared the sharks
He told the Captain that he would
wait in the boat, and begged him t
send speedy assistance. The venture.
some pair were thrown on the beach
BY Q heavy sea, in an exhausted condi.
ton. AS soon az they partly recovered
they told the citizens Of the passenger
yet adrift, and a boat with six OAR
wag Immediately rugged and went oul
in search Of tbs unfortunate laan, anC
the launch. The Captain, having
recovered from the buleting with the
waves, procured another boat and
pushed from shore With one Of his OWL
sailorg to and the launch. They
searched until the night was far gone,
and finding no trace Of either launch
or man, sadly returned to shore. The
next morning at dAybreak the Gov
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
Lucky Boy,
Texas Siftings.

Some men begin to be lucky when
they are mere boys. A twelve year
old boy shot at a cat in Leadville last
week, but fortunately missed the cat
and killed an influential citizen who
was asleep in the back yard of a neigh
boring saloon. As the influential
citizen happened to be a delegate from
Texas, who had killed several mon,
and Of whom the Leadville police had
a holy horror, the Joy Of the oitiseps
was great. The boy received an ova-
ton. The Mayor made a neat little
speech on presenting him with a gold
mounted revolver. As the boy ex-
pressed a desire to be raised for the
ministry, a fund was raised to send
him to a theological institute.
Nothing has, however, been done for
the cat.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
Altering the Congressional Re-
turns.
Philadelphia Public Ledger. .

Philadelphia Public Ledger.
One idea of the Day of Judgment
represents all human u~tterances as
having been stored up in the boundless
volume Of the air and becoming audi.
BILE again to condemn the speaker out
Of his own mouth. 1t would be a good.
help to the judgment of contempora-
riesi the Congressional Record were
made up so, with the e~xactness of a
photograph it purports to be printed
verbatim and there should be no lib
critics with its text. 1t will be a good
help to decorum in the House of Rep
resentatives if each members words,
r%etorts, menaces and spoken speeches
alone 60 before the country as he
speaks them. Whatever it is beneath
the dignity of the House to hear, and
yet is uttered, ought to go upon the
Record as spoken. If the House re-
Duke it, then and there, the accompa-
nying rebuke will be shown in It's pro-
portion to its cause. The revision
by members of their own speeches,
to tone down discussion for cars polite,
must frequently necessitate the mutt
lation of another members words in
debate to make all smooth, and when
each gentleman works alone upon his
own statements the result goes forth to
the country as what they did not say,
and possibly would not aver have said
on the floor. More frequently, how
ever, the Record represents what
they wish they had said (the
wisdom of the staircase), or the elo
quent rounding off Of periods in I'M.
spoken addresses, which last are a
mere burden and waste Of the public
money to have printed. If a man can't
get an audience for his deliverance,
and so by common consent is al
lowed to print his remarks, it is
pretty good evidence that what
is not worth hearing is not worth
reading either. The dignity of the
House of Representatives. that is
any great matter at present to its
members--will be hest consulted by
taking every member on his first state
ment, and to permit of no corrections
that are apart from the phrase actually
raised in debate. Then the country
can see the manners Of its representa-
tives and their methods of conducting
argument, the weight and soundness
Of delivered facts, and then gentlemen
of the House will 60 upon the floor
with a fuller sense of responsibility for
facts and epithets. And by this is not
meant that truculent responsibility
which is carried as a chip on the
shoulder, but the weightier accounta
bility to constituents and the nation
for courtesy and frankness in debate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
HERBERT SPENCER.
The Great English Advocate of
sweetness and Light" Conn
ing to America.

Herbert Spencer, the noted English
essayist and philosopher, is expected
to reach New York for a somewhat
extended visit to this country Friday
or Saturday Of this week. Spencer
intended coming to study the social
tendencies and institutions of Amer
lea, but being in poor health, he has
been enjOined to discontinue his
studies and literary pursuits for some
months Mt least. He visits this coun-
try, therefore, for a change Of scene
and complete rest from work. To
this end he hopes to travel quietly
through the country, avoiding for the
most part any attentions on the part
of the public hat might retard re-
cuperation. When he is at home he
lives in bachelor apartments at Bays.
water, London. His closest friends
are found among the p~hilosophic sect,
which until recently included Darwin,
Lewis and George Eliot, and whose
most conspicuous members to. day
are Spencer, Huxley and Tyndall.
In the evening he often meets these
congenial friends and others, who, if.
not equally eminent, are allied with
them in aspirations and attainments.
His mornings are usually devoted to
literary labor. He is in the habit of.
first debating to an amanuensis and
then laboriously reviewing his manu-
script. He is a member Of the Athe-
naum club, where he often goes in
the afternoon to play billiards. He
is very fond of the game, and in it he
finds one of his chief resources for re-
creation. In politics he is a Liberal,
and in most things has been substan-
tally in accord with Gladstone and
John Bright. He is in moderate cir
cumstances, and would indeed be poor
it he had not been rendered indepen-
dent in a small way, some years ago,
by a modest legacy left him by a dis
tant kinsman. The works which
have immortalized his name have not
been able to put bread into his mouth.
The route he will take in this country
is not yet known. While in the East
he will partake Of the hospitality of
a number of representative citizens
who have relations of personal friend.
shin with him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
One Result Of the Egyptian War.
Buffalo Courier,

England's war for the control of the
Suez canal is certain to have one
result which our British friends
probably have not anticipated. The
bombardment Of Alexandria has ef-
fectually and forever disposed Of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty. The people,
of the United States are determined
that if canal connecting tine Atlantic
and Pacific is to be built their gov.
eminent shall control it. The idea of
a partnership with Great Britain in
the management OF the proposed work.
if ever it is preached again, will be
emphatically repudiated. Such q
partnership practically existed be-
tween England and France with re-
gard to Egypt and the Suez canal, but
the events Of the past few days have
put an end to it. France has reached
the conclusion that England in her
policy toward Egypt is actuated by
purely selfish considerations, and re-
fuses to cooperate with her. The
neutrality" Of the Suez canal did not
outlast the firing Of the first shot. The
neutrality of such a channel can only
mean that it shall not be affected BY
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
Housekeeping in the White
St. Louis slobe-D Democrat.

Mrs. Slower, the daughter Of An
drew Johnson, was a most thorough
and excellent housewife, and by the
perfect order and management of the
establishment won a reputation for
domestic talents that q New England
matron might envy.
Mrs. Grant was altogether the best
housekeeper the mansion ever had,
and the most of her eight years was
spent in devising how to patch, turn
and make presentable the we'll worn
furnishings, since so much of the an
nual appropriation went to the roof,
the water spouts and the plumbing.
Mrs. Grant left the house in the most
perfect condition, with everything
spick and span, scrubbed, cleaned and
polished it, and gave a written inven.
tory of every article, from the kitchen
traps to the rags and broken furniture
of the garrett.
Mrs. Hayes left things more to the
care of the servants during her four
years and during the illness of Mrs.
Garfield, and aiterward the death
siege of President Garfield, tho place
ran itself.
1t was like cleaning the Augean
stables to bring the house to a proper
condition for President Arthur, and
that fastidiously neat gentleman gave
some very decided orders wheA he
first inspected the house from top to
bottom with a view to residence.
When it was scraped and secured,
cleaned, papered and furnished afresh,
President Arthur entered into his
domain with some reasonable compla-
cency. He was ushered into his own
private room, a room of carefully
blended tints of robins eggs blue,
the maroon touched with dull gold
and bronze, and then it was found
that there was not a towel in the
White House stores. The stock had
diminished and then disappeared after
President Gar6eld's illness, and his
successors first official act was to COM
mand the purchase of those necessary
appliances to civilization before he
could dry his hands.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
No Cure for

There is no cure for consumption,
whether of the lungs, bowels OF kid.
neys; yet the patient may be spared to
long years Of life, and the fatal termi
nation kept from approaching, if
Browns Iron Bitters are used. This
medicine strengthens the weakened
parts, restores to healthy action the
impaired functions, and stops all decay
and wasting away Of the organs affect
ed. Il is the best life giving medicine
ever invented, and thousands of living
witnesses stand ready to affirm the
truth of this assertion 4 trial bottle
will convince you Of its merits.
s. Mansfield q Co., w. N. Wilker.
son & Co., and G. W. Jones 4 Co..
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
Hhe flma.IkiIn rInh.
Detroit Pres prdlh.


What / was gwine to remark, y
began the old man, as he took an un-
dissolved troche from his mouth and
placed it on a corner ofhis desk, was
to de effect dat it am none Of our
bizness what our nayburs do, onless
dey frow stones at our dog or toss DER
oyster cans ober dur fences. One
great cause OBJ SO much unhappiness
arises from de fack dat sartin people
want to know all about sartin odder
people. F~rinstance, Deacon Turner'S
wife runs ober to my house an tells
my wife dat Elder Dorker's wife
has got a new bonnet dat neber cost
less dan $l2. De elder am workin' on
a straight salary of So per week, an
he has a wife an TO chill'en. How
kin he save up $l2 on such a salary as
dat2 How did his wife git dat bonnet?
An what cheek four a poo woman
who can't set a table fur seven nor
ride on de street kyar once a week to
fam out in dat mannerl de within set
dar an talk an wonder an git mad an
want to pull ha'r, an [ slip out an 60
to pullin' weeds in de garden. It's
nobody's bizness how she got dat
bonnet, an yet some folks feel sick
bekase they cant find out.
My ole woman goes down town to
buy three towels wild a red bo'der, a
spool of No. 60 white thread, an half
a yard of linen to make me some cuffs.
She am as pleasant as a Jupe mawnin'
when she starts out, but when she
returns dar am a hull cyclone in her
left eye. She pens me up in a co'ner
an demands to know how de gals who
stan behind de sto' counters for three.
70 an five dollars a week kin pay bod
an washin' and dress in silks an
satins. | can't tell, an de less | know
bout it de madden she gifts, an bime-
by dar Gums a climax an somebody
gifts hurt. If a gal can make TO dollars
a week go furder dan | can make
twenty, OATS none of my bizness or yo'
bizness.
DE odder day my old woman come
home from Jedge Blanks an said dat
de Jedge's hired gal had gin 'em no.
tice dat she was about to 60 to de
kCntry on her annual six weeks vaca-
ton. Mrs. Gardner was hoppin mad,
but | was as cool as a red hot crewbar.
Why shouldn't a hired gal want to 20
to de kentry an have a rest from
breakin' dishes and kickin' tinWar'
aroun' de kitchen2 1t improves her
complexshun, braces up her form,
shapes her feet, and often results in
her margin a millionaire. If de
Jedge an his family can't afford to 90,
OATS muffin to do wild de servant.
Mrs. Kernel Dash was akin my
ole woman only las mite it she couldn't
hunt her a seamstress who'd be kind
and o~bleegin' huff to do a few days
work at twelve shillin's a day. She
won'tgit one. Dis am de season when
de poo overworked and half paid
seamstress packs her trunk, draws her
money from de bank and HES to de
seashore to secure de benefits of de
ozone an salt water bathin'. After
dey reach Long Branch it am hard to
tell one Of 'em from de wife of a
banker or broker, but OATS none of
my bizness. Let yer naybur save,
squander, keep sober, git drunk, war
good cloze or ole eloze-its muffin to
you. Let US now extricate ourselves
upon de reg'Iar order of bizness."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
POLICE TARIFF.
The Value Of the Various Misde-
meanOrs.~

There is a set price for every grade
of misdemeanor in the Police Court
now. According to the present tariff
q plain drunk cost 50, dead drunk a
dollar extra to pay hack or dray bill,
drunk and disorderly IS and when
mixed with pure cussedness from ten
to twenty dollars more. DRINKS which
costs only a dollar have a lecture
thrown in worth at least 1913. Re-
sisting the officer is always IS extra and
for "sassing the police" ten dsllars is,
taxed on. fla drunk willis when
the policeman grabs him he usually
gets off with an eighty five cent lee
ture and a notice in the Police Points
Cold blooded disorderlies are taxed
S. each with the cost Of any damage
they may have done to personal prop
erty added to that amount Leunging
on street corners is rated at a lecture
for the first lounge, s. for the next
$25 for the third with a high pressure
sermon to boot. For the fourth
lounge the convict has the privilege
Of going to the Island for two hundred
days or leaving the city for four years,
OF during the Judges term Of Office.
The latter is usually chosen.
To have filthy premises is punish
able by soft soap for the first ofense,
threats for the second, and seven walls
of wrath at 81 each for the third of
tense. The culprit who interferes with
the sewers hears a couple of chapters
of the book of Revelations and is with
cred with vocal lightning and a $40 fine
for the second Cuss words are valued
at fifty cents each or ten dollars an
hour, according to education. 1t is
cheaper to use. profanity in front of a
saloon than on the steps of church
a good deal cheaper. Sunday crimes
always come higher than those com
mitted on week days. A premium is
always put on a stove.pipe hat.
Family quarrels cost the man from
two to seven dollars, and the woman
has a chapter read to her on good
cooking and cheerful stomachs as
family pacifcators. If ii happens there
is a mother-in law in the case, the
Court usually fines about fifty dollars,
RENTS the fine and treats the prisoner
to a five cent cigar after court.
Cruelty to animals is punished by a
two dollar fine and a fifty dollar joke
on the lovely disposition Of dray mules.
A dollar is added, however, for each
sOre the animal may have. Every
thing is beautifully balanced.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22
The Toy Pistol.
San Antonio Exnress.


Ever since the glorious Fourth of
July last past, the press of all parts
Of the country has been coming to
hand with special kilograms and local
items making mention of accidents
that befel boys from firing toy pistols
by way of demonstrating their patri
otto feelings on the nations natal day.
Our columns the other morning con-
tanned a Geographic dispatch stating
that a dozen additional deaths had
occurred in New England alone du-
ring the day and night previous. From
reports already to hand, we do not
e~xaggerate in making the statement
that upwards of fifty boys have gone
to the grave from lock jaw superin-
6uced by wounds in the hands, arms,
and feet, during the past ten days,
which were received from carelessly
handling toy pistols on the fourth of
the present month. Aside from those
who have died, there are many others
reported in a dangerous condition,
and ere the lapse of another week it
is not at all unlikely that the list will
have been swollen to a hundred or
more. Here in San Antonio the toy
pistol, and firing Of larger arms, is
not so much a feature Of Fourth Of
July remembrance as during the
Christmas and New Years hol-
idays, and the same is the case
very generally through the
South. Hence the list of accidents
and dangers of the toy pistol will ap
pear the more remarkable when it is
remembered that the victims are con-
fined almost entirely to the section to
Us known as the North. We have
had a number Of such accidents here,
however, and two deaths from the
same cause, the last of which was the
loss by Mr.. John WolirOm of his
twelve year old son, and one of the
brightest scholars of our public
schools. With these alarming facts
before them, it is surprising that
parents will allow their children to
purchase such dangerous playthings,
And the spirit that aetuates the boy
with the toy pistol, whether he fires
simply a cap or snaps the trigger on a
blank tube, is one most dangerous in
its tendency and effect upon the spirit
of childish impulse. 1t is but Guilt
waiting in its i%Dcipiency, and stimu-
lating with parental approval, an In
herent predisposition with many
youths I'd shoot at somebody, and to
cause thought and study of the mo-
tives that have actuated bad men who
have committed ~atFoeiOus crimes,
defed tho law, been outlawed and
cast off from society, or who have
paid the final penalty for their crimes
with the haugman' 5 moose about their
necks end the springine OF the trap
dopE. The Legislature should at its
next session pass a law prohibiting
the sale Of the toy pistol in this State.
PUBLIC LEDGER bindery and Job
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