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The Republican journal., 1882-06-22

In Union, Polly, wife of Nathaniel R. B rkett,
aged 81 years.
In Ellsworth, June 18th M Elizabeth Ho akins
aged Sc years and months.
In Ellsworth, June 9th, John l.. Calnane, aged l.
years and days.
The Republican journal., 1882-06-22

STOCKTON. The store owned by David Ames and
occupied by J. M. Lafolley, was discovered to be
on fire Sunday evening at about 9o'clock The fire
was in the attic and was soon eNtinguished. 1t is
thought to have been an ncendiary fire. A sheriff.
jury has been empanelled who are investigating the
case. The jurymen are-W. p. Thompson, of Bel
fast, and j. F. Eichborn and J. G.. Lambert, OF
stockton
LINCoLNvILLE. Mr.. Augustus Young, who re
Gently returned from Fort Fairfield is rebuilding
his barn. Mr. l.. SCammon is repairing his house
He has raised the roof and intends TO make the
house larger. :. Mr.. B. f. Young has improved the
looks of his house very much by the use OF the
brush. Mr.. Williams and family, of Providence
Il. /. are in town again. and have taken rooms in
b F. loungs house for the season. This is the
fourth summer they have spent here. There will
be preaching at the Centre in the Methodist church
every sunday at , p. NJ. There is talk of having Il
sunday school also.
MONROE The farm buildings of Mr.. George
Parker We're burned ON Friday last. They We're
new, having been built but 4 short time. Insured
for small amount. Furniture mostly saved. Cause
of fire unknown. Apple trees hloSsomed very
full in this section. Grass looks very we'll also.
About TWO tons OF mills are received daily at
the cheese factory viii Twombly sold last week
Ter oeef' Two three year old helfers for sllo MIR.
Ch"rleS hlckey Is at the Maine General Hospital
I'rtiaho' having ms lace operated upon'...The
N"floh 'unllee singers had . very full house here
l's' "erh''' M JohA NcAoftoh mas opened his
ne" harness Shop' an" mas plenty of work. The
crows are very premium ana troublesome Just now
WIyTrrrorr Tb. hpiI,li,,s ~, ~. f,,,, az ~.
lar, >,nne, pa,l.,. IN W., w;,,t.,,,,,.r ,,,.,.
b,,,nnl la.t,va rho hams. ..,,a1,. .,,i
tb, ia,7, g, larsa am, TN. bo,... and I,rn ,,o.o
connected IVA lon .hal AMI All mi ,,o.. H.,
stroyed.. Mrs. Isaiah phjDnev. formerly N win
terport lied In \ev.urrh hit Week Tbr remains
were brought to Winter,5rt for burial. Mr..
Elijah Lowe, who died last week. aged ninety.two
years. is said to have been the Oldest person in
The Republican journal., 1882-06-22

J. ID. LAWSON, Julge.-A. A. FLETCHER, Register.
The following business was transacted At the
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STEALING AFRICAN RIVERS

Stanley undertook to steal the Congo
river for Belgian corporation. A French
explorer stole march upon him, who took
possession of the river in the name OF
France. The most amusing feature in this
story is that neither Stanley nor the
Frenchman had any more right to this
territory than the Man in the Moon. The
quarrel is one between two thieves, over
the property OF third party. The AFRO
gance and self-sufficieucy of that European
spirit which prompts nations and govern
ments and individuals to treat less ad-
vanced peoples continually as though they
had no rights whatever, is conspicuous in
this episode. The idea Of Stanley or the
Frenchman taking possession of great
African river, as though it did not belon
to the people of Africa, as though any
European had or could possess any prog
erty rights in the premises, is sufficiently
preposterous. We have no sympathy with
Stanley in the role OF greedy European
trade agent, moreover. Between him
and the Frenchman there is nothing tc
choose in s1ch circumstances. Both are
equally bent upon establishing kind OF
commerce which we know from experience
will result in fleeing the natives. Both
are asserting rights which neither have
any Just claim to.
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TIME TO DO SOMETHING.

The situation in Egypt is becoming most
absurd, so far as the English are concerned.
Admiral Seymour seems to be paralyzed
by his connection with vacillating Mr..
Gladstone. The latter evidently cannot
make up his mind to strike the first blow,
and the Egyptians. appearing to under
stand this ministerial weakness perfectly,
coolly take advantage OF it to 60 on with
their military preparations, despite the
threatening ultimatum of the Admiral.
But what is the use of threats which are
not acted upon? Admiral Seymour said
that if work on the Notifications did not
cease he would open fire. Now it appears
that the work has not ceased, yet instead
of opening fire, as he declared he would
do, he very weakly gives the Egyptian:
twelve hours to stop work, and then still
further dilutes his menace by declaring
that twenty-four hours after the expiry
of that period he will open fire. Thii
gives them thirty. six hours more in which
to complete the batteries. If their en-
gineers are at all skillful they may MAKE
such dispositions i'll that time that wher
the English do fire it will be too late to d.
any harm. All the English preparations
in fact, are being frittered away by thu
imbecile inaetion of Mr.. Gladstone. Th'
truth is, his intellect is filter for priestcraf
than statesmanship.
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MRS. sSOVILLE'S CLAIM.

1t is pity that Mrs. Scoville could not
have been hanged with her brother, for ii
is evident that they were chips of the
same old block, and that it was block fit
for nothing but tirewood. She has, how
ever, right on her side when she insists
that the autopsy established the insanity
of Guiteau. We do not think there can
be any serious doubt on that point after
the report of the surgeons on his brain.
Mrs. Scoyille, however, is altogether mis-
taken in supposing that this disclosure
makes for her view of the case. She thinks
her brother ought not to have been exc.
cuted because he was insane. But in truth
he was not insane in the sense of being ir.
responsible. He understood thoroughly
what he was doing. He knew right from
wrong He could and did reason. And
all such insane persons are as much emit.
tied to be hanged when they commit muir.
der as are the sanest cutthroats that
ever mounted the gallows tree. That is
where Mrs. Scoville makes her mistake.
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Even in the dawn OF history the ancestors
OF the Anglo-Saxons were mighty drinkers
of alcoholic drinks, and they have contin-
ued to be so to the present day. The
change which has taken place may be
roughly indicated as the divorce of edu-
Gated intelligence from the grosser forms Of
sensualism. a century ago drunkenness
was not thought disgraceful in anyone, ex-
cept perhaps the minister, and even he
could get sufficiently Jolly" without
causing scandal Educated men then
drank themselves drunk every night after
dinner, while of course the lower classes
followed suit To-day educated men no
longer drink hard. They have ceased to
approve OF intoxication. They confine
themselves to light and innocent wines, or
ale and beer. As education has advanced
also the taste for alcoholic drinks has de-
clined very appreciably. Twenty years
ago very little beer and claret was drank
in this country. Now a very great
quantity oil eacn ~ consumed. a great
deal of whisky, however, is still used. So
much that we are compelled to doubt il
Thurlow Weed is right in his prediction.
A people who prefer whisky to wine
will not easily abandon one for
the other. For it must be recog-
nized that there is distinct liking
for the Intoxicating qualities of the spirit
among the majority of those who drink it,
and that since they would miss this
quality in light wines they are unlikely
to take kindly to the latter. We believe
that the growth of temperance must be a
work of time and education, under the
most favorable conditions, and that mas
much as the appetite for strong drink is
the result of ages of inheritance, it cannot
be eliminated in few years, or probably
in single generation.
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covering is removed.
TEURLow WEED ON RATIONAL TEN
PERANCE

Thurlow Weed thinks that the prohibit
ton experiments in Iowa and Kansas viii
prove failures, but that when wire-grow
ing becomes general in the United States,
and it is possible to get pure wine in
abundance cheaply, more temperate era
will set in. This argument is derived from
observation of the habits of the people in
wine-gTowing countries, especially France.
It is, however, open to question whether
France and Spain and Italy afford examples
calculated to be of much instructive value
to us. The people OF all these countries
belong to temperate and absterlious racs
to begin with, and it cannot be doubted
that temperance is very largely race
question. The French, Spanish and Ital-
ian peasants are frugal, thrifty, even per-
nurious in their habits. The French peas
ant is quite proverbially SO. He contents
himself with thin, acid wine, made from
the dregs of a more generous vintage, and
carrying probably not more than three or
four per cent. of alcohol. 1t is
true that in the cities the French
workman class have of late years taken to
drinking spirits quite freely, but this is not
national habit with the French On the
other hand it must be remembered that
the Americans, English and Germans, in
fact all of the Teutonic races, have been for
centuries addicted to potent beverages.
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THE EUNUCH.

The eunuch Is great parsonage in the
harem or palace. His power is almost alb.
solute. There is no limit to his control.
The chief eunuch in a palace is styled
kislar Agaci he is black, and takes the
position of second man of the Empire,
ranking with the Grand Vizier. He is
captain of the girls. If they are insubor-
dinate he does not mince matters, but
chastises them with rods ON the bare body.
Should the matter, however, be very
serious one, they are disposed of These
black eunuchs are hideous, ungainly fell
lows, generally with short neck and long
legs; they are very naughty and over.
bearing in their demeanor, and when
escorting their charges on excursions,
slash about with their "corbatch" or
whip. indiscriminately, to clear the way
for the pets of the Padisha. They
enjoy princely salaries, and the for
tunes amassed by them result mainly from
the backsheesh screwed out of the inmates
of the harem. 1t is from this class of ORR
entails that the mutes are selected. Mutes
are still employed by the Sultan in his pal
aces as guards aid attendants, and espe-
cially are their negative services availed of
at the Porte, where all official business and
diplomatic interviews are carried on. The
mutes 1--WE are not speaking of the cara
bian Nights and their fanciful stories, but
in sober earnest as to what is happening at
the present hour) are selected from the
eunuchs, and when very young have their
tongues cut out, and every way devised to
keep them in a state of ignorance, as they
are cot even taught to read and write. The
eunuchs are also turned to further account.
When a Grand Vizier is to be deposed, or
some other person in high Office to be dis
missed, the matter is generally carried
through with expedition The officer whose
duty it is to undertake this important mis-
sion is termed "Black Ears" It is for
him only to notify the Grand Vizier that
his power is at an end. He appears sud.
denly, always at midnight, and without
any kind of warning. He receives for this
errand large amount of backsheesh In
former days it was his privilege and duty
to strangle then and there the Grand
Vizier or high functionary, whoever they
might be. But things are more mercifully
managed now, and the victim is Struggled
on board the Sultan's steam yacht the
Izzedin, to some distant point in Arabia or
Asia Minor, and most probably the mint
terial career is terminated by the simple
process OF administering cup of " mocha. u
-[London Society.
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PASSENGER LISTS,

CARLIN, July 1Oth.-Passed here to-day, tt
arrive in Sacramento tomorrow Miss IRENE
Aver, st. 10, Mo; Mrs. B. H. Randolph
San Francisco Miss Schaffer, Denver F.
P. Bell, San Jose s. w. Scott, L. Richie
secher, Fred Kuhr. New York Charles e.
Bassett, Washington J. K. Foss, Boston
Fred Friedheison and wife, Chicago w. L
Abb and wife. Portland, Oregon Charles F
Ffeiffer. A. P. McQueston, Fort Wayne
Ind; Peter Hansen, Wyoming Miss Olivt
Hexon, iowa; Moses Elmer, Minnesota
Rev. w. J. Crawford, wife and child, Alton
ILL.,; g. II. Rice, Redwood City; 81 immi
grant passengers, including 90 males, to ar
rive at Sacramento July l2:h.
NEwHALL, July 1Gth.-Passed here to-day
TO arrive in San Francisco tomorrow: T.
$. Walsh, San Francisco M. w. Stewart
Wilcox, L. Fraissil, A. T.; Z. A. Nichols,
nan, San Francisco DIR. i. Howard, New
York J. G. Gutsling, San Francisco d. B.
Clark and wife, Mrs. Marie Thidge, Los An.
geles c. w. Walton, Fort Wayne o. S.
Hubbell and wife, San Diego; William
Stephens and wife, Philadelphia c. Har.
azthy, San Francisco Frank Sampson, Los
Angeles Mrs A. L. Roache, Mrs. Summer,
Indianapolis; N. J. Thornton, San Fran.
cisco Richard Kallot, S. E. Freeman, Ari
IONA Thomas Green, Iowa A. Lee, Mex
leo; J. A. Stewart, San Francisco J. W.
Wilson, Lakepor.; DIR. 4. I. Whe,zsl, In.
diana; Mrs. S. R. Hall, II. G.. Newhall, San
Francisco.
OMAHA. July 10th.-Left here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento July 18th R. L. Oakley
and wife, Portland, Or; W. B. Charles,
Victoria, B: c.; D.. W. Dickson, London ;
Spencer M. Apollonis. Boston Hanlon
Brothers' Troune 10 nersaps Neu Vol
two Sisters of Charity, San Francisco James
Conway, New York; J. w. Cornell, Phila.
delphia; T. B. Collins, Buffalo; Andrew
Durham, st. Paul, MINI.
SihtyTfye through enigrants left on Sunday
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra.
mento July 10th, and 50 last night, 70 arrive
July 18th.
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SECOND EDITION.

second EDITION OF the RECORD UNION is ISSUED
each day at 2 P Y. bringing the Eastern and coAs
ews up 70 tina. hour. By this arrangement tbs
RECORD JSioN will present the latest news obtain
stle at all points east and north Of Sacramento.
The regular morning edition Of the REoosD- USIo'
Is carried by morning trains, and is ahead Of al
competitors as far north as Chico the Caliiorni
and Oregon Railroad; west to Benicis and south t
stockton, and cas-. 0 Colfax, Folsom and Placer
lille AID all intermediate places The second edition
matter will be found each DAY upon the third page
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Sacramento, July lo-By Rev. Fl. f. Rice, Theodore
S. Moore, Of Oakland, 10 Alice A. Briggs, of Sac
ramento Oakland and San Francisco papers
copy.)
Sacramento, July BY Rev. A. ]. Frost, Charles F.
Demmon to Mary E. QuigleY, both of this city.
San Francisco, July 4-Henry N. Bolander to Emelia
c. Essen.
San Francisco July 6-Ferdinand de st. German to
Angelo Sornin.
San Francisco, June 30-James II. Hammond to
Katie NJ. Fitzgerald.
San Francisco, July John II. Leo to Jennie
Tyson.
San Francisco. July 6-Daniel B. Libby to Louisa
Melsng.
San Francisco June 29-Charles II. McCurrie to
Mamie Meeteer.
San Francisco July 9-sylvester Parks to Annie
Mcclure.
San Francisco, July Own. P. wilkins to Elizabeth
J. Coleman.
Los Angeles, July Frank II. Lemon to Lizzie N
Spencer.
MERGED. July st J. Benny to Anna J. Marshall.
Bakersfield, June 29-Jud S. Burroughs to Jennie
McGrann.
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ONE attorney received, to prosecute hydraulic
miners &c. 600 from Sacramento county, 81 900 from
the Suffer people, $4,000 from the Anti HydrauliC
respondent and asks Questions only to be answered
by the parties interested. He wants TO know ii it
was a consideration in the contract made with those
outside Of Sacramento county that they to be
shielded from all other expense Of the litigation
This because it is true that he has brought suits
for those parties. Was it, in short says this CORE
spondent, part of the contract that he not to
bring suits for and at the expense of the parties
named, and thus leave Sacramento county to do the
work of pulling the chestnuts out of the fire
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a STUBBORN patient. Among the sur.
viving members OF the Twenty ninth
Massachusetts, Regiment is Charles G. Bos.
worth, OF East Freetown, Mass, who was
shot through the body at the Burnside
mine explosion. He was removed to the
field hospital, examined by the surgeons
and labelled "mortally wounded" He
tore the label off and repeatedly demanded
that his wound be dressed. The surgeons
would only reply. "It's no use, you can't
live" Bosworth declared that he would
not die; that they should dress his wound ;
and finally gave them such TRADE of abuse
that they, in order to stop it, put him upon
the table and operated upon him. He still
lives
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LATEST.
Fire opened on the Forts by Admir-
SeYmnur.

Fire opened on the Forts by Admiral
Seymour.
LONDON, July l1th-6 a. MA corre.
spondent on board the Bittern telegraphs the
following
ALEXANDRIA, July 11th-7 A. M.-The
bombardment has commenced.
LONDON, July 1lth.-A correspondent on
board the Invircible telegraphs as follows
ALEXANDRIA July 11th-7:40 a. M.-The
Alexandria, Sultan and Superb opened fire
upon the Notifications The batteries at
once replied, but their shots at frat fell short
of the ships. The rest of the feet then Joined
in and the action became general. After
twenty minutes cannonade, the forts ceased
firing. Fort Pharoah appears to be much
damaged. The ships. as far as can be per-
ceived, have no. suffered any damage.
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A STRANGE PRoPHEsY Mr. Swinburne,
an extensive traveller at the close of the
last century, who saw the glories of YER
sailles and Fontainebleau just before their
grand collapse, writes, in one of his letters
in l7SS "Met Monsieur lie Maitre, who
was ten years in the Bastile for having
published in periodical paper Espio''
Ture-the following strange prophecy
Catherine de Medicis was always sur
rounded by astrologers, one of whom, by
her desire, composed a magic mirror,
wherein she might view the future She
beheld each OF her sons on the throne, then
her mortal enemy, Henry of Bourbon,
When it came to Louis XVI, she saw
nothing but mist, no King, and rats and
cats devouring each other. On Seeing
them she tainted. On her recovery all was
clear, and Prince named Charles was on
the throne"
Feather fans and parasols must match to
| be fashionable.
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A RELIC OF NAPoLEp2, IA French
collector of bric-a,b rac recently in Rouen
curiosity shop stumbled upon two auto
graphs of the First Napoleon, They are
inclosed in an oval medallion of black
wood and read az follows "Relic-Pri.
vate letter from Napoleon to Prince Eu-
gene, brought from st. Helena by DR..
OMeara, in the sole OF his shoe. Should
he see my good Louise, l beg that she will
permit him to kiss her hand. The Goth
July, 1918. Napoleon" And on the other
side: Il" 1 hope that Las Cases
will zee that this obligation is repaid in
Napolecn F."
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Mira. r II. Dana recently purchased in
PariE the fine portrait of Longfellow by
the artist Healy, which has for years been
the chief ornament Of that painters studio.
1t was painted in Rome during Mr.. Long.
fellows visit there, and in it Mrs. Dana
appears, bright.eyed little maiden with
golden tresses, peeping over her fathers
shoulder.
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srNcE Marysville refused $4,000 offered by the
hydraulic miners for delay OF sixty days in the
suit it was to bring against the North Bloomfield
Company and since there really has been two years
Of delay, the question is asked, "Who did get the
$4,000? at is certain that the North Bloomfield
folks have enjoyed the immunity they sought to buy
from Marysville, and have been free from prosecu-
ton up to this time.
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HOME HAPPENINGS.

AdvIces from Washington Bio0dshed in
Arkansas Capture OF Counterfeiters-
Five Men brow Hed-RailrOad Accident
In Indiana-Tragedy at ChicagO-MOre
Victims of the scioiO Disaster Found
FIendish Murder In Louisiana - Two
Children Burned to Deaib-Etc.
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TIKI Colusa Sun warmly indories the RECORD
USroS's proposition for Sunday law, the main OBJ
ject Of which shall be to secure to every one the
right to day Of rest In seven, and in which this
journal said " We will not copy the errors of the
present statute We will not undertake to do by law
what public opinion is opposed to doing. We will
abridge no right of the citizen We will only guard
and confirm rights
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A GERMAN OPINION OF EMERSON. The
Cologne Gazette, one of the most promi.
nent journals in Germany, thinks Emerson
would have been Americas greatest philos-
opher had not bis doctrines Of the total per-
sonal independence of the individual ia.
volved dissolution and disintegration of
the idea of nation. "And
yet Emerson, i'll this respect, only uttered
what thousands in his country thought
and felt. His transcendental philosophy
was nothing else than the systematized
desire for independence animating every
one of his countrymen from youth up.
> 1t is the more interesting that
Emerson himself was never seized by the
feverish desire OF the society surrounding
him, but that he early retired to : plain
poets home, there, in contemplative man.
ner, to engage in quiet mental work"
A museum OF Confederate relics is to be
established in Raleigh, N. c.
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FOREIGN EVENTS.

The Egyptian Situation; SEYMOUR Bonn,
bardment to Commence this Morning
all Vessels Except English Leave the
Harbor; Telegraph office on shipbOarl
Receipts OF the Irish Land League
The Repression BilI-HOuse OF Com.
mOns-Efc.
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DR.. Bradley the present Dean of West
minister, is one of family OF % children
Ills father, the noted evangelical preacher
OF Chaplain, was twice married, and had a
large family by each wife. Seven of his
sons were for time on the foundations OF
their respective colleges.
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The New York Graphic has made the interesting
discovery that there is such thing as unskilled
labor; that it requires acquired knack to even
carry hod safely up ladder, plough furrow OF
dig ditch
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PoLITIcs are hot about this time in Petersburg,
Virginia, as the two parties, Democrats and Read
justers are resortng to all sorts Of means to get
charge Of the city government.
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THE Gridley Herald places the average yield OF
grain for that township, this harvest, Mt twenysiK
bushels per acre. 1t is considered an extraordinary
yield