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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-04-16
PATENTS.
r.. FL. EDDY,

No. 70 state St., opposite Kilby, ostSn
Secures Patens United stases; aiss in tGreat
Britain France and other foreign countries. Copies
Of the claims OF any Patent furnished By remitiinG
one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washingt0n.
No Agency In the United superior IA.
cithies TOR obtaining Patents ascertGtatng Ae
DatentG65ttV of intentions.
RIB. EDDY, Solicitor Of Patents. !
TESTIMONIAL.
"Iregzrd Mr.. Eddy - one Of the most capable and
succesJui practitioners with whom have had on.
oial intercourse"
CHAs. MASON. Commissioner Of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ pesson more trustwof-
thy or more capable Of securing for them an early
and favorable confederation at the Patent Once.
EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner Of Pstents.
BOSTON, October 10. $50.
3. q. EDDY. Eso-eDear gfr you procured fse
ne. IN is4o my first patent Since then yoa hsvs -
Ted for and advised me In hundreds Of easea, ~
procured many patents, reissues and extensions.
have occasionsy employed the best agencies d QSW
you almost the whole Of ny bsslnsss, n youS hne,
A'' a'''fs YsSr. 0tssl sr.iS, y sp GEoseE pRArxs
Boston. JananU l. -
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A meeting of the Androscogging Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Society was
held on Friday in Lewiston, and premium
lists amounting to some $500, was pre-
sented and adopted. 1t was voted to
place the $500 with the premiums offered
at the State Fair which includes prizes for
matched cattle, steers. farm stock,
thoroughbred bulls, Derhams, Herefords,
Ayrshires, or Holsterns, town team of
oxen, family and matched horses, colts,
thoroughbred sheep and swine, one-half
acre of yellow corn raised on newly
broken land. manured exclusively by
commercial fertilizers, kind and quantity.
a sworn statement of costs to accompany
at the fair. 1t was voted that all entries
must be made before the 10th of the COM
ing June. The matter of encouraging
the cultivation of Strawberries was briefly
considered but no definite action was
taken.
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General News.

can aristocracy of robbers" is what the
Salt Lake Tribune calls the Mormon Church.
| A despatch from st. Johns, N. F., states
that the gulf fishery is failure.
! 1t is estimated that fully 200. 900 barrels of
| whiskey will be sent to Bermuda this year,
where it will be placed in bonded warehouses
| O age.
Calvin W. Brown, charged with causing
the death of seaman on the high seas, was
| committed for trial at st. John, N. B., on
| Thursday.
diamond setter of Hartford is under
| arrest charged with selling poor quality of
gems for diamonds of the first water. He
deceived some experts in New York.
Sitting Bull. it is announced from Mil
waukee. is about to join the church. Sitting
Bull is like a democratic statesman--always
in favor of reforms when the spoils seem far
OF.
smallpox has depopulated Morristown
Tenn. Five hundred people attended a
funeral of two men, supposed to have died Of
measles, and many were stricken with the
scourge
The u. S. grand jury ut Little Rock, Ark.
on Thursday last. indicted ex-U. s. Marshal
J. +. Brown for forgery, perjury and the pre-
sentation of false accounts while chief clerk
under the late Marshal Tarran.
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Thurlow Weeds Autobiography.

Thurlow Weeds autobiography was sent
to the printers, Houghton, MfFiin & Co., Of
Boston, on Saturday, and will be pushed as
rapidly as possible. This announcement
will be received with pleasure by the thou.
sands who have been looking forward for this
book. Some misconceptions regarding IL
have crept into print. which 1t may be well
to correct. 1t has been reported that it would
consist of two volumes, when, in fact, there
will be but one. The work has been In
course of preparation since 1s43, and its en-
tire contents were dictated to Miss Harriet
A. Weed. who has had full charge of II, and
edited by her alone, it will be issued. In the
work of arranging the subject matter she has
been assisted more or less by the Hon. Fred
erick A. Seward, but the main work was
performed by Miss Weed herself She al
ways acted as her fathers amanuensia, and
those who are aware how greatly Mr.. Weed
relied upon her-snd everybody who knew
Mr.. Weed understands that-will rejoice to
know that Miss Weed is determined to finish
the work unaided. No one knew better the
plans and purposes Of her father. In the
m my years during which the book grew,
there were discussions Of men and events, by
which tone and character was given it that
no other editor could expect to give. For
this reason there will be general gratifica-
tion that the book comes out edited by Miss
Weed.-N. y Commercial.
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Farmers must remember that it costs
them Just as much for feed to make poor
pound of butter, as it does to make a
pound of good. One increases The farmers
reputation the other diminishes. Let
every daryman strive to excel in this pre-
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Personal.

The wife of General Diaz is nineteen years
old, and wears her high honors gracefully.
While the President is away his sun enter
tans his friends efthe Princeton College Glee
Club at the White House.
Mr.. James &. Flood, Of Bonanza fame, will
build one million dollar house on the top of
the highest San Francisco hill.
Although the election of Governor in Vt.
does not come off until 1884, Republican can
didates are being spoken Of by the Papers.
Ex-Representative Grout is mentioned.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, gave i've thousand
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Advertising Agents.
FOR THE
kennebec Journal,
DAILY AND WEEKLY.

The following Advertising Agents are authorized
. feoive subscriptions and advertisements for the
lREC JOURNAL:
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street.
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TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
Kidney and Bladder complaints Of many
years duratfOn-his word good as
gold-Case Of city assessor
Francis ssOmard. 50 sum
4 Il

Francis ssomard. SD sum
mer ST., Lowell. Mass.
"His word is as good bank note AT any bank
in Lowell, and know it," the opinion Of well
known citizen in speaking of City Assessor Franci:
Gomard Your reporter found MIR. Gomard At his
pleasant home, which, with many Others, adorns
Summer street and fronts the charming park of So
Common. Mr.. tiemard said: 81 had been. many
OF my friends in Lowell know. a great sufferer from
kidney and urinary troubles for n long time, Ny
ply scian sad II was the result of diseased kidney,
and enlargement of the prostate gland. had suffer
ed terribly, and although my doctors treat
ment had been the best which this city
afforded. got no better. said finally
Doctor. it's You have done all tina,
is in your power TO do, know that but must gel
help from some other source or die.' Finally was
induced try DIR. kennedy's Favorite Remedy, q
medicine which had been recommended very highly
for kidney diseases. received help ut once Ii has
acted like charm with me. Why so? DIR. kenne-
dy's Fayoriie Remedy is an honest preparation, and
know it. l did't think anything would help me
but this has given better help than any medicine
prescribed for me. I have recommended il to
many of my friends in the city of Lowell, and
with the same result. They think there is nothing
like DIR. kennedy's Fayorite Remedy
What Mr.. Goumard says can be depended upon, as
anyone acquainted with the gentleman knows.
aprlteodSwIm
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n hereby given that the City Ordinance In regaro
enforced from and after this date. Safety 70
so ~ aeo nmb compels Ne to this course, - It haa
ssSSone . common uuisanoe.
~ eeoee q the Mayor.
A.. .: =. MMTk Clp nasshal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-04-16
Weekly Kennebec Journal

Published every Wednesday morning Is one sfthe
rge,t aparto papers in the State, containing news.
,ocaI artc es, agricultural and scientific matter,
sles poetry, .nccdotes, household matter, markets.
Terms, ~ per annuns in advance.
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dbs Aenaebef 5omrnal.
pabtshed at AUGUSTA, MAINE, Water Street, foot
Court, by SPRAGUE Son.
Dail7 Kennebec Journal

Issued every morning except Sundays. Itcontains
no ,test news by telegraph and mail gives reports
Ma.kets and has carefully prepared political and
y cal articles and a generous amount OF farming,
eme and miscellaneous reading with full compila
,on Of State news
Terms. t7 per annum in advance, eS If payment
moi made within the year. Single copies 3cents, to
. hsd at the periodical stores Of :. +. Pierce, Au-
n.ta: c. l.. spaulding, Hallowell: W. G. Palmer
ariinsr; r. Percival SaIerville, and at this office
Adg.rtisemen Its inserted on nreasonableterms Rates
& Az be had on application at this office.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
PITH AND POINT

Tho donkey never suffers from
softening of the brayin'.
Tight pants and tight dresses have
both gone out of style, but it seems as
if tight men never will Chicago Trib-
u1le.
A Grabbed old bachelor says:
"When rain falls, if she gets the big
ger half of the umbrella they are lovers;
if he takes the bigger half they are mar
ried."
The latest freak of fashion in New
York is to have the feet photographed.
1t was tried in Chicago but given up be-
cause it was impossible to get whole
foot into focus. Philadelphia NewS.
A French lady at Nice went to her
room, put on white satin dress and
blew out her brains. 1t ruined her dress
maker, as ladies considered she was
driven to the deed by the badness of the
6t.-BoSton Post.
Two white tramps have been sent
to the chain-gang for throwing kisses at
the young ladies of Georgia seminary.
The privileges of the American citizen
seem to be getting very limited indeed.
IN. Y. Commercial advertiser.
The average age of different men Is
put down thus: Merchants, 55; physi-
clans and lawyers, 5S; farmers, 81;
clergymen, "a; and great geniuses, rs.
1t will be observed from the above that
the journalistic profession tends to
longevity.
--Edith-The fact that you do not
know what rock salt'' is shows that you
have never kept house. Rock salt comes
salt" 1t has to be pounded with a flat
iron before you can get any out. 80 Phil
adelphia NeaCs. -.
Little George, age four, saw and
heard violin for the first time. He
thought it very funny, and this is the
way he described it: .'.Why, mamma, /
couldn't help laughing. The man had
the funniest little piano you ever saw,
and he held it up to his neck and pulled
the music out with a stick. ~. Y.
Tribune.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution, after giving an account of
the attempted suicide of woman who
choked herself with one of her stock
ings, adds: II am informed that the
stocking was a red and blue striped. "
Accuracy in details is an important arti-
Gle in the stock in trade of newspaper
man. Chicago Inter ocean.
"A bashful young man went three
times to ask beautiful young lady if
he might be the partner Of her joys and
sorrows and other household furniture,
but each time his heart failed him and
he took the question away unpopped.
She saw the anguish of his soul and had
compassion on him. So the next time
he came she asked him if he thought to
bring screw-driver with him. He
bIushed and wanted to know what for.
And she, in the fullness of her heart,
said she didn't know but he'd want to
screw up his courage before he left. He
took the hint and the girl.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A TORNADO swept over Ozaukee
County, Wis, on the morning of the I'd,
almost completely wiping out number of
small villages. Over two hundred houses
were demolished in Belgium and Fredonia
alone, while many other towns suffered
nearly as badly.
JOHN Roach & SoN, of Chester, Pa,
were the lowest bidders for contracts for
building four new naval cruisers for the
Government, and will get the contracts.
EyoCH PRATT the other day gave
the Pratt library to the city of Baltimore,
Nd; also $3.50, ,33333 SO, invested in city
bonds, for the support of the institution.
THE Dauphin County Almshouse
building, at Harrisburg, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on Ile I'd. The inmates were all
saved. Loss, 100000.
STATEMENTS were made in the British
House of Lords and the Commons on the
ID that England does not intend to scoop
in New Guinea. Among the reasons as
signed was the objection of the natives to
annexation.
w. HI. VANDERBILT has added $780,
600 to the endowment fund Of the Wander
bilt University at Nashville, Tenn, swell
ing that fund to 100000.
WILLIAM H. SEAMAN, thought to be
insane, of Thragg's Neck, Westchester
County, N. Y, killed his sister and himself
the other night.
A MONTHS festivities on the three
hundred and thirty-third anniversary of
the first European colonization of the city
of Santa Fe, N. NJ, and the American con-
tinent opened at Santa Fe on the ID under
the most fattering auspices.
COLONEL HOLABIRD has been ap-
pointed Quartermaster-General to succeed
General ingalls,.
INFORMATION received on the I'd from
Rockingham County, Va, where w. @.
Elam was taken by friends after he had
been wounded in the recent duel with r.
F. Beirne, of the Richmond State, was to
the effect that the wound was more aggra-
waited than at first reported, and that Elam's
condition was critical.
MCGEoCH, the Chicago Qll.) provis-
ion dealer who failed recently, has offered
to paw his creditors fifty cents on the dol
lar. All creditors must accept, and all
suits, attachments, ETC., be withdrawn, or
the proposition is void. The unsecured
Liabilities of the firm were placed at 81 1,344,-
911.21. -
AN appeal has been made by the
Bartholdi statue committee to the people of
the nation for funds for q pedestal.
THERE were one hundred and forty
deaths from cholera at Damieta, Egypt, on
the I'd, fourteen at Mansurat and five at
Port Said. A death at Alexandria was
suspected to be from cholera,
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
''Pink BalIs'' in Paris.

White muslin balls have been found
insipid. They can only interest man.
mas and professional match makers. A
young and well brought up French
demoiselle is not person with whom to
while away an hour agreeably in ball
room. She is only out to be married,
and in a business-like way. just as
lamb is taken to fair or market to be
sold. As she can have no voice in the
matrimonial negotiations of which she
may be the object, it would be worse
than useless for cavalier to attempt to
impress her favorably. When not dane
ing she sits still and tries to look vacant.
"A rose in the ballroom slang Of the
day, means very young matron. 1t
not being allowable to peer into birth
certificates. s'rosesn are classed accord
ing to the number of years they have
been married. In the first year of
welded life there is the blush rose Qa
France). When eight or nine years Of
matrimonial bliss have been run, and
beauty is boldly imposing, there is the
Paul Neron" and the "Reine Angle
terre." Next is the ''Gioire de Dion"
tea rose, very lovely in its ways but
vellowish, and therefore not admissible
to pink rose-party. Pink, it is found, is
not becoming after thirty. Ladies,
therefore, of .'certain age are ex-
cIuded from rose balls. Fetes of this
kind are too often given by charming
beings who look best in a roseate hue.
Invitations are generally limited, and
those favored with them are selected
because they will look frightful in the
pink livery that is de rigeur. A sallow
face will be at a dreadful disadvantage,
SO will be pensive countenance, or
one that grief has touched without spoil
ing. There are insignificant blondes
who are utterly effaced in the fresh
brightness of a pink party.-London
Truth.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
and eight hundred girls were thrown out Of

and eight hundred girls were thrown out OF
work. The shutdown was for six weeks.
UP to the goth ult., only three jurors
had been secured out Of a panel of four
hundred persons examined for the trial of
exTreasurer Polk at Nashville, Tenn.
r. FL. KILBy, wholesale hardware,
Montreal, Cana, has failed, with liabilitis
of S125, 900.
The cable announced a general scare
throughout Europe ON the 18th over the
cholera in Egypt and its threatened spread.
Mrs. E. BARTON, of st. Louis, Mo-,
visited Chicago, ILL.,, a few days ago. Her
chief business in that city was to enter her
objection to the marriage of her husband
with another woman.
THOMAS O'CONNOR, by means of
writ Of habeas corpus, got his nephew,
John O'Connor, out of Uncle Sans clutches
a few days ago. John enlisted in the army
in New York and was sent to Jefferson
Barracks, Mo. His uncle said he was under
age.
EIGHTEEN thousand immigrants ar
rived at Montreal, Cana, during the month
of June.
The master plumbers, in convention
at New York, decided the other day that
apprentices must serve five years.
SMALLPOX was reported to have
broken out among the Arizona Indians on
the 30th. Vaccine virus has been sent to
the front.
The Richmond Va.) editors fought
at six O'Clock on the moring of the 30th,
4
Colts six-shooters at eight PAGES. At the
first fire neither was hurt. At the second,
Elam fell with a bullet in his right hip.
Beirne was unhurt.
PAUL STRoBACH, United States Mar
shal of Alabama, has been acquitted Of
charges of fraud made against him re-
Gently.
A DRUNK" picked up on the street
at st. Louis, Mo-, by policeman the other
day was found to have over $4,000 on his
person.
TwENTY-THREE assisted emigrants"
were sent back to England. from New Y ork
on the 30th ult.
AFTER three years fight in the
courts, the parties who had refused to pay
special tax bills for opening streets in ST.
Louis, No., the other day gave it up, and
satisfaction of Judgment was entered in
sixteen cases.
Ir is estimated that the public debt
was reduced ST. 800 900 during June, making
the reduction for the last fiscal year $751;
225, 900.
MAJOR PHIPPs, of Philadelphia pa
Almshouse fraud notorety, was the other
day sentenced to five years solitary con-
finement at hard labor.
SIX HUNDRED and eighty Mormon
converts arrived in New York on the 1st.
They came from England, Denmark,
Sweden, Wales and Norway.
OBERLIN COLLEGE. Ohio, was fifty
years old on the 1st. A grand celebration
was in progress to last week.
THE Governor of Algeria has issued
an order prohibiting the usual pilgrimage
to Mecca this year on account of the chol.
era in Egypt.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, JULY I, 1883.

Co.'s mill. At South Arlington, Mass, the
Reed & Closson shoe-factory was burned,
the loss being $4,000.
SEVEN persons were killed in an ac-
cident near Rasselas, Pa, on the Rochester
& Pittsburg Railroad on the 1st.
The steamer Bright Light struck the
bridge at Boonville, Mo-, on the 30th, and
sank in nine feet of water. No lives lost.
DOMESTIC difficulties induced Dugald
Mckenzie, living near Midland, Mich, to
kill her.
AT Murray, To-, man selling Wizard
oil on the street corner, the other evening,
was too free with his tongue, and as re-
suit was hit over the head with a baseball
bat. He died next morning.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The latest discovery is coal-tar
sugar. Its advantage is said to lie in
its superior sweetness.
AN electric light about the size Of
small bean has been constructed and
used successfully in illuminating interi-
or portions of the human body.-CleUe-
land Herald.
A citizen Of Laurens County, South
Carolina, has sixty specimens Of wood
grown on his plantation at that place.
The blocks are round and show the
girth of the trees with the bark on them.
There has been an unusual awaken
ing in scientific circles in Cincinnati
during the past few months; Polytech-
mic School has been organized; State
Forest Association formed, with its
headquarters in Cincinnati; and courses
of popular lectures on chemistry.
zoology, botany and history have been
given at the afternoon school in popu-
lar science and history. y.-Scicntifc
Anertcdn.
Bromide of ethyl is the new substi-
tute for chloroform. 1t is a powerful
agent, and teaspoonful, when inhaled.
Will put any one to sleep in thirty sec
onds, and keep him utterly oblivious to
what is being done. The unconscious
ness lasts only from three to four min
utes, when the patient awakes as from
a natural sleep without headache
or other disturbances Of any kind =;
Chicago Times.
The average distance at which
thunder can be distinguished is declared
to be seven miles, while the lightningbf
an ordinary thunderstorm, at midnight,
may be seen forty miles. Perhaps light.
ming sometimes occurs at too great an
elevation for the thunder to reach the
earth,S surface, particularly in the trop-
ies,r where the thunderstorms are at
greaf heights. In rare instances, in
Europe, lightning is observed in the
zenith. followed at an interval of TWEEN
ty seconds by faint rolling thunder i'm
niediately overhead. A slight increase
of altitude would doubtless render the
thunder inaudible.-N. Y. Sun.
The bee has long been a type of the
industrious worker, but there are few
people who know how much labor the
sweet hoard of the hive represents.
Each head of clover contains about six
ty distinct flower tubes, each of which
contains portion of sugar not exceed
ing the five-hundredth part of grain.
Some patient apiarian enthusiast, who
has watched their movements, concludes
that the proboscis of the bee must.
therefore, be inserted into 500 clover
tubes before one grain of sugar can be
obtained. There are 1000 grains in
pound, and as honey contains three
fourths of its weight Of dry sugar. each
pound Of honey represents 2,500,OQo
clover tubes sucked by bees.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
,,rrsoNaL AND POLITICAL.

co,oxrL D. B. PARKER, Chief In
.,octor of the Post-office Department, has
Slime .p,olined an appointment as Postmaster OF
Washington, D. c., with an increase OF
$500 in salary.
JoHS 0. JAMES, for many years a
.,rant dry-goods merchant of Phila
Spslnhia. Pa, sied suddenly few days ago.
u'tT Tur pennsylvania Senate on the 9th
..oa the Republican Congressional APP
Pao.sH ,ssnrant bill and the House passed the
pp.ooratic Legislative Apportionment
''i1 Tug bill legalizing marriage with u
,..,,s.d wifes sister in England has been
r.i.cted by the House of Lords.
MAJOR CALVIN c. JACKSON, retired,
for twenty-five years paymaster of the
United States Navy, died in Detroit, Mich,
few DAYS ago, aged sixty-nine years.
THE Interior Department at Wash
,ngtop has decided concerning the pension
law that total permanent helplessness"
means permanent injury requiring the
r.g,lar personal attendance and aid OF
another person."
THE President has modified his origi-
nal order reorganizing the internal revenue
collection service. The most important
Modification concerns Kentucky, that
State befag allowed one more district.
FRANK D. CoNGER, son of Senator
Conger, Of Michigan, has been appointed
postmaster at Washington.
Observation-Disclosures INGALLS,,
who has been in the United States service
forty years, has asked to be retired July l.
GENERAL SCHOFIELD has recon-
mended the adoption of General Crooks
plans regarding the captive Chiricahuas
DENNIS KEARNEY was in Chicago the
other day to attend the anti-monopoly con
vention. He made the assertion that me
chancs' wages had doubled in California
since the passage of the anti-Chinese bill.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07

When Dickens was in Louisville he
saw pigs on the streets, and, in honor
of Mr.. Dickens, pigs have ever since
been allowed to run in Louisville. ''But
what had Dickens's pen to do with
pigs?" asks the Louisville CourIerulonr-
mai.