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Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
"BIG IKE"
Bruce Hunts Murderer Dies IN Jail
from HIS Injuries.
Denver, Col. Dec

DENVER, Col, Dec. %.
The negro big Ike" who. while attempt-
ing to rob the bank at Durang, last week and
shot dead Bruce Hunt. son of Ex-Governor
Hunt, died last night in Jail at that place
from injuries received in Jumping headlong
from forty foot embankment to avoid being
captured. just before he died he made
confession duplicating four others who are
all under arrest
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
Fire in Rockland.

RocKLAND, Dec. %.
The house Of Charles Maker at South
Thomaston was burned Friday night No
insurance.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
OBITUARY..
Death Of the Oldest Man in Rockland
RRcKLAND, Dec. %.

RRoKLAND, Dec. %.
Daniel Murphy, the oldest man in Rock
land, died last night. lie would have been
100 years old Christmas eve. He was na-
tive of Ireland. His physical and mental
power was wonderfully preserved to the time
of his death.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

Let US tell you what DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil 10 good for. 1t is death to rheumatism
and neuralgia. 1t will cure a burn, bite, OF
pain, and is equally good for sprains.
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

The Voice Of the People.
No family Dyes were ever so popular a.
the Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The
Black il far superior to logwood. The other
colors are brilliant. Wells, Richardson &
Co., Burlington, VT. dec24teod&wIw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

RocKLASD. Dec. %.
The mercury a, sunrise was l8 below; at
noon below; 10 wind and one of the cold
est davs ever known on this coast.
BANGOR, Dec. %.
The Thermometer this forenoon was from
10 to a2 below zero, and at o'clock in the
evening st II below.
At Lewiston the thermometer stood from
IA to Is below.
BosToS, Dec. %.
Adviees from different points in New
Hamrshire and Vermont state that the ther-
mometer ztood from 10 to 30 degrees below.
In Central New York and places in Connec-
ticut indicated from to Is below.
ST. JONI, y. g., Dec. %.
This was the coldest Of the season, the
Thermometer recording Is below.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
s.LApEER. Mich, Feb. 3, 1881.

"LAPEER. MICH, req. =, 1901.
am in receipt of your circular. / keep .
food supply of your Downs Elixir Gall the
sizes), believing it to be one of the best
Congh Remedies put up. l also keep DIR.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, and Henry &
Johnson's Arnica and Oil Liniment.
U. d BRISTOL, Druggist"
The above named remedies are all war
ranted to give satisfaction, and can be found
in any frst-class drug store.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
WEATHER REPORT.
indications. for the Mex, a Hours.

War Dept Office of Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, ID. c., Dec. 23-l A. M.
For New England and Middle States.
warmer cloudy weather with snow; variable
winds; falling barometer, followed Monday
night BY rising barometer and northeast
winds.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE DISPATCHES.
COLD WEATHER.

How the Thermometer Stood in Rock.
land, Bangor and Other Places.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
DR.. II. M. Harlow.
Office Central Block. (opp. P. o.
OFFICE HOURS, 10 to II A. M.
to 8 r. N.
Residence 50 Conv St., East Side.
iuly0f1y
Sherif's Sale.
STATE or MAINE, 90
RESNEBEc, oS'

CB0ED on execution wherein Edward L@fshton
y of Augusta in said county Is creditor, and John
u. shaw Of said Augusta is debtor and will be sold
at public auction on Saturday the eighth day Of
December, Ise3 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon af the
Office of s. & L. Tcomb, in Augusta, in said county
Of kennebec, certain lot of land and buildings
thereon situated in said Augusta the west side Of
kennebec river. and bounded as follows. viz. Re.
ginning at the of Bridge and Crosby streets:
thence running uorfherly on the east line Of Crosby
street sixty feet, thence eastery parallel with the
north line Of Bridge street seyenyseyep feet thenc
soufherIy parallel with Crosby street sixty feet to
said Bridge street, thence westerly on said Bridge
street seventy-seven feet, to the first mentioned
bound. NM H. LIBBY Deputv sherf1
Augusta, Nov. s, 16s3. v3V16
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
SPECIAL BULLETIN.

Fair weather is indicated for the Middle At
lantie States and the Mississippi aud Ohio
valleys fer Tuesday. Snev followed by fair
weather is indicated tor New England on
Tuesday. Cautionary signals from Hatteras
to Eastpcrt.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

The new five span iron bridge across the
Connecticut river at Willimansett, Mass,
built for the Connecticut River railroad, was
tested Sunday afternoon and showed defiec-
ton of three-fourths of An inch under one
million pounds pressure.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

thief in the night is your enemy, but your worst
enemy is that thief, Cancerous and Scr0fulous
Humor. that gnaws your life blood gradually away
should be arrested from your system by using
CLOVER BITTERs.
81 have suffered With Cancerous and Scrofulous
Humor for years, and paid out hundreds Of dollars
trying to get cured. short time ago bought iour
bottles of CLOVER BITTERS, and am now entlrey
cured. II is worth its weight in gold.
IS. GARLAND, Boston, Mass.
Oct24dkwtf
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24
Special Advertisement.

SnsGU Advertisements, not ezceedinq fhres H..
COMING undev tie kead Of WANTED, FoR ssT.
Tor IS cents. tAvee times for 10 cents, and on ~,
ko- so cents.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-12-24

New YORK, Dec. %.
Midnight-About four inches of snow
have fallen since 8 o'clock tonight, and the
storm still continues. The thermometer is
q above
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
The Dark-Waltz saueeze,

Iowa Dancers Who Think Less of Repu- tation than of Transiiory Pleasure. From the Sioux City JournaLl
 The Marshalltown Statesman gives an in teresting sketch of the rise and progress of the ''dark-waltz squeeze," a figure of the German. The occasion for the Statesmsn's dance lore was the producing of this figure in a ball given at Farneys Music Hall in Marshalltown, under the direction of Pat Oille. who, from the Statesman,s- account, appears to have been an itinerant tutor of the art terpsiehorean. The Statesman, it ap- pears, differed with Pat as to how the figure should be danced and protested in advance against Pats version. The Statesman gives this opinion of how it should have been done:
 The real figure as is given, where conduct ed in respectable and decent social circles, is as follows: The lights are turned down, as in theatre when tableau or night scene is displayed, each lady being furnished with 8 lighted taper. This she holds in her hand, and it is never extinguished The couple then join hands; do not even take the waltz position, so carefully do they guard against any seeming impropriety, and thus waltz about the hall. This makes a very pretty figure. moving torchlight fanciful figure, that has it's beauty in the moving lights alone Conducted in this manner. it was first introduced into the German in this coun- try some years ago. and has held it's place ever since, though not always maintained.
 But it wasn't this way at all that the dark waltz squeeze' was danced at Farney's Music Hall, Marshalltowp, under the direc- ton of Professor Pat Ollie. Not at all. This is the Oillean way, according to the States mans account. Not content with turning down the lights, the janitor was sent to the basement and cut of the gas entire. Each lady taking part in the dance was furnished with lighted taper; the gentleman choos- ing a partner would blow the light out. In very few moments not a light remained in the hall; even the light from the stove was so smothered that it was SO dark you could distinguish not 8 person in the hall. The dance went on the usual time for waltz when the lights were again turned on. Thus ended the figure
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
Tuesday, March 27. 1883.
RuTLERIsM.

in his inaugural address Governor Butler said: Ut is both my pleasure and duty to give one year of the best energies of my life to the service of the commonwealth, thereby to pay the earnest penny of my gratitude. " This had an encouraging sound and probably most of those who heard or read it believed that the governor really meant it. Perhaps he did, but several of the prominent news papers of Massachusetts gre now charging him with having forgotten that he ever said or meant any such thing
 Governor Butler is now in Washington and will not return to the State which he is supposed to govern until Thursday. His business is to defend suit against 8 Wash ington market corporation which has failed to make certain yearly payments to the dis trict, which by the terms of it's charter were required. The payments were made for 8 few years and then discontinued, though the property yields good profit and the corpor- ation makes large dividends to it's stockhold- CTS. There is no doubt that these payments were part of the consideration for the fran chise granted, and that the franchise was valuable, but under advice of Mir. Butler it's owners have been led to believe that they can evade the obligations which they as. stunned.
 This is the third time in the first quarter of his administration that Governor But law business, the Legislature being all the while in session.. This is not thought to be a very commendable way of showing his gratitude. Then, too, it is charged that his personal conduct has not been just what that of governor ought to be. "He has as- sumed the title of supreme executive magis- trate which the constitution allows him, but which his predecessors have seen fit not to take upon themselves. He has caused the State flag to be hoisted over the hotel in which he eats and sleeps when in town. He has surrounded himself with state and cere- mony at the executive office in way that is accessible of anything rather than of the suggestive and democratically inclined pub lie officer. He has tried to bully his coun- cil, using language in addressing them such as no self-respecting gentleman uses in speaking to associates who are, like himself, under responsibility for their actions. He has degraded his high office by undertaking. since his election as governor, the defence of man charged with gross fraud upon the government of the United States, and by appearing in court to conduct that defence in the toughest meth cd of the criminal lawyer
 For the above and other reasons the old Boston Advertiser thinks it is quite time that the Legislature should consider how far the governor shall be allowed to go without re- buke. It declares it to be the duty of the members of the Legislature who have the good fame of the State at heart to consider the grave question if they should not in some formal or informal way put upon record their opinion of the manner in which the is casting discredit upon the State. If the Legislature accepts this advice andre bukes the governor affairs in Massachusetts will be still more interesting than they have been
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
MORTIFYING.

At medical examination an aspirant for a physician's diploma was asked ''When does modification ensue ?" sFWhen you propose and are rejected,' WAS the apt reply. The coldness that exists between two low CTS just after quarrel can only be exceeded by that of hall with new janitor who does not know how to run steam boiler.-Low- ell Citizen.
 eI am 8 native American citizen, born, be iabers, in this counthry." said Mir. Muldoon, at recent political gathering, ''and if ye disbelieve it, come around home and will show ye me naturalization papers. s."-The Judge
 The George Washington of Massachusetts: A small boy in one of the public schools being asked by the speaker who was about to address them on the life of Washington, pointing to his portrait, Whose picture is that?" immediately replied, ''Ben Butler
 q do not mind the loss of my foot so much, said man who had tried to cross a track in front of an engine, 'but what l hate is the loss to my reputation, People will say that must be 8 lazy tout to get run over by an accommodation train. .''-Phila- delphia News.
 Heard in the suburbs Good morning, MT. Blank. Pa told me to bring back your snow shovel, which he borrowed last fall and says he will be very much obliged if you VIII 1eno ulH youE sphuS auu Iaho anu "n0oA- barrow. He says he will send the spade back in time to borrow your lawn mower. ."- Philadelphia News.
 Brown struck an icy place in the sidewalk, and down he went all in heap. A gentle men stepped up and helped Brown to his feet, politely remarking. Ut is quite slip pery, sir" Brown was so mad he forgot to return thanks. t'What in thunder did he want to tell me it was slippery for?" solilo- quized Brown; didn't the fool suppose I knew that before he told me?"
 ''Do you keep coffee here ?'' he asked, as he entered a Woodward avenue grocery. s'Yes, sir." DO you roast it yourself ?'' ''We do." ''Is the sdultsrating all done on your premises 2'' 'tIt is. We have clean, airy adulterating room, free from ash heaps, old hats, broken bottles and oyster cans, aud the man who mixes in the beans, peas, ground cocoanut shell and parched corn uses noth- ing but the best hair oil and toilet soap. How much will yeu have?' 1.-TWO pounds" l" was the bland reply, and he walked of appa- rently well pleased. Free Press
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

Hest VaF1etfes and Lowest Prices 1t Am. drew GOOaman's, S8 Crown Street. Gallon cans Vermont Maple Syrup $1.35. Quart bottles Maple Syrup S8c. 1b cans Pure Strained Honey 66c. 2 ID cans Pare Strained Honey 45c. l lb bottles Pure Strained Honey 23c. Best New Orleans Melasses roc per gal. Best New Porto Rico Molasses $50 per gal. Best Golden Drip Syrup 58c per gal. 10 lb pail Genuine Shaker Apple Sauce 900. 5 Ib pail Genuine Shaker Apple Sauce soc. 3 ib Peaches, per can 10c.
 Fine Marrowfat Peas, per can 10c. Fine Sweet Corn, per can 100.
 Fine String Beans, per can 1Oc
 3 ID can Tomatoes, per can Sc, for 25c. Fine Blackberries, per can 1Oc. Fine Cherries. per can 12c.
 Fine Straw berries, per can 12c. Best Lima Beans, per can 12c.
 Window Jones Succotash per can 14c. Bahama Brand Pine Apple, per can 17c. 8 Ib can Best Table Peach, per can 18c. Best Early June Peas, 12c.
 Fine BlueberrieE, per can 10c. Fine Bartlett Pears, per can 15c. Boston Baked Beans, per can 16c Golden Pumpkin, per can 12c. Best canned Lobster 14c
 Spiced Lamb Tongues roc per dog. Boiled Ham 35c per pound. Fresh Neufchatel Cheese 5c each. Nice Butter 22c per pound, AZ lbs for $1 Fins Butter 28c per pound, 3A lbs for $l. Best Creamery Butter 35c per ID. Durham Creamery Butter in lb rolls rece1Veo every
 week. Fine Old Grape Wine 75c per bottle.
 Robt Smiths Philadelphia Porter $1.6 per dog.
 We have a great many other bargains too numerous to man ion, space not permitting. Please pay us visit. Bet Church and Temple sts, doodmans buiidang
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

commsdation for only 76,O00 persons, are crowded with at least 100, GOO, and that five prisoners are crammed into cells designed for one, with results as to morality which can be imagined. The House of Correction at St. Petersburg is pronounced to be in a very unsatisfactory state, and the great tfLithuan- ian'' jail is reported to be in state of extreme Reorganization. The supervision is lax, and as many as 1,352 prisoners escaped in 1881. This report is about as outspoken as it would be if Nihilists had made it.
 Mining coal with compressed lime is said to be great success. The process has been in use nearly year. It consists in drilling shot holes in the roof of the coal, into which cartridges of specially prepared limestone are introduced. By forcing water on to the limestone steam is generated, and this, with the expansive force of the lime, completes the work of disintegration. The advantages of this method of coal mining are inst the risk and dangers which inevitably accompany the use of gunpowder or dynamite are abolished and that the coal is obtained in large masses, thus saving the waste incurTed-by &lastipg with explosives. As is well known, coal, when broken small, is deterierated in usefulness and price by upward of forty per cent. but much of this waste is saved under the new system, as much greater proportion of tie product is f1argen coal.
 correspondent of Vermont paper does not believe in encouraging the preserva- tion and extension of forests by removing the duty on lumber and thus giving up the lumber market to Canada. On the contrary, he thinks theshigh price of wood and timber promotes the cultivation of wood and tends to make land owners more careful of their growing trees. He thinks the area of wood land in Vermont is not decreasing. Large tracts that were chopped over a few years ago are growing up into dense forests, and old pastures have been abandoned to wood and will soon be covered with valuable tim Der. Formerly, when lumber was low, only the butt of spruce log was used, and all the rest of the tree was left to rot; young spruces were cut for hop poles; in cutting wood for fuel farmers worked up only the best trees, and left the crooked and knotty ones to die on the stump or rot on the ground; no care was used to save the growing trees, but every thing, young and old. was cleared away. Now, where spruces are cut for logs, the whole tree is made of use r; no one will cut a young tree for hop pole worth few cents when he knows it will be worth nearly as many dollars in ten or twenty years the farmer works up for fuel the trees that are good for nothing else, saving the sound, straight naples, birches and beeches which are worth several dollars apiece in the log; the growing trees are spared, and instead of clearing the land of everything the mature trees are culIed out.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

The spirit of fun has not yet departed from the English House of Commons though that body has been dealing with very serious business lately. The other night Mr. Gallon. NJ. P. for Louth, stauneh opponent of the Sunday Closing and Permissiye bill and per- sonally great benefactor to the revenue, replying to the Irish Attorney General, said : The facts relied on by the learned gentleman are very strange. Now. Mir. Speaker, swal- low good deal. [.Hear, hear.' Quite true, tBegorras you can,' and roars of laughter.l repeat. can swallow great deal (sHear, hear,' and fresh volleys of langhter), but can't swallow that A few nights before, in debate which had to do with the Jews, Baron de Worms had just re- marked, 'fWe owe much to the Jews,'' when there came feeling groan from weIl-known member in his back corner, ssWe do.'
 Russian prisons have not very good repu- tation, and 8 report which has just been is- sued by the Administration of Prisons at St. Petersburg will not improve it. This report declares that their present condition is de- plorable. and announces that the sum of e100, ,O00-a mere bagatelIe-has been as signed this year for the extension and inn provement oflthe State prisons. The report declares that the prisons, which afford ae-
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

The Irregular" Democrats and the regular Republicans of Rhode Island will probably have little difficulty in defeating sprague and his old friend Butler. Charles R. Cutler of Warren, nominated for Governor by the irregular" Democrats, will take many votes that might have gone to Sprague
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
Voluntary Tribute of Gratitude for
 Benefits Received.

DEAR SIR Please allow me the privilege of giving my testimony regarding the wonderful curative prop critics of your invaluable medicine. Hunts Remedy, Daring the past six years have been great sufferer from kidney dissase and during great part of the time my suferings have been intense to be indescribable. Only those who have suffered by this dread disease know of the awful backache and pains of all kinds, accompanied by great weakness and nervous prostraton loss Of force and ambition which Invariably attend it. had all these troubles intensified and was in such bad condition that could not get up out of my chair except by putting my hands on my knses and almost rolling out before could straighten up. tried the best doctors, and
 many kinds of medicine, but all failed to help me; and experimented SO long endeayorng to get cured spring vas very poor shape, and in seek ing for relief my attention directed by friend to the remarkable cures of kidney diseases &c,which were being accomplished by Hunts Kennedy. was induced to try it and began to take it. and s1imbered up" as it were; my severe backaehe, and the intense pains had suffered long sreedily dis appeared, notwithstanding had been bothered with this complaint so many years.
 When began to take Hunt's Remedy WIS consid- erabIy run down in my general health, and suffered also from los4 of appetite. Ever aimee have been taking the Remedy, however, my improvement haE been most marked; my former complaints, aches. pains Sc. have disappeared, and now feel like my former self hale hearty and sound in health. shall always keep Hunts Remedy with ms, and would most earnestly recommend all those who sufferers from 1iiney OF liver diseases, or diseases of the bladder or urinary organs to Hunts Remedy, and take other.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

A Vermont judge has ruled that where liquor is sent into that State marked "C. o. D" the sale is made in the State and is there. fore contrary to law.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

Attention has recently been drawn to the fact that the new Civil Service law is silent as to any distinction to be made between male and female applicants for places in the departments, and the problem of reconciling this state of affairs with the present practice in most of the departments of giving male applicants for ofics the preference in ap- pointments is now the subject of considera- tion by the Civil Service Reform commission CTS. The rules to be drawn up by the oom- mission will, it is understood, contain some commissioners being cognizant of the neees- sites of the public service and the opposi- ton on the part of heads of departments to any large increase in the number of female clerks.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

BROWNS IRON BITTERs does not contain whiskey or alcohol, and will not blacken the teeth, or cause headache and constipation. It will cure dyspepsia, indi- gestion, heartburn, sleep lessness, dizziness, nervous debility, weakness, &c.
 Use only Browns Iron Bitters made by Brown Chemical Co.,, Baltimore. Crossed red lines and trademark on wrapper.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
Yours very truly,
 uENPv CHEF.

No. 280 Westminster St, Providence, R. l.
 s.In the lexicon of youths etc, there is no such word as FdiI" That sslexiconr ia now found in the of HuHr's RE1EDY. IL knows no such word as Fsnil fe2a cod
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

Italy has land question to puzzle over The small land owners are generally very poor, and an official report shows that over 100000 of these small proprietors have been expelled because of their inability to pay taxes. There would seem to be pressing need for relief, and 8 good many deputies think it is only to be obtained by an abolition of portion of the property tax, and have prayed the minister of finance to bring forward 8 bill already prepared for this purpose.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

The Indiana Supreme court has decided that it is unlawful to publish Sunday news paper. The question came up on the validi- ty of a sheriff's notice of sale published on Sunday, and the court held that if the pub fisher undertook to print and circulate his paper on the day the work became his ordi- nary vocation and was therefore against the law. It is probable that Sunday newspapers will continue to be published and circulated in Irdiana
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The peach crop has not yet been ruined, but it probably will be before long,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27

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