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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-24

Mansfield, Ohio. Nov. IS, 1881.
Gentlemen Il have suffered with
pam IN my side and back. and great
soreness on my breast, with shoot
ing pains all through my body, at
tended with great weakness, deprcs-
sion of spirits. and loss Of appe-
tite. | have taken several different,
medicines. and was treated by prom
inent physicians Tor my liver, kid
neys. and spleen. but got no relief.
! thought | would Try Browns Iron
Bitters have now taken one bottle
and half and am about well-pain
in side and back al gone-soreness
all out of my breast, and | have a
good appetite. and am gaining in
strength and flesh. Itcan justly be
called the KING IF Dis.iieinss.
JoHH X. ALLRspER.
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Nffp Establishments.
NO USE FOR Them.

Concerning Certain Relics of the Past Dogs
that have had Their Day.
George Stephenson's Rocket" and the magnif-
cent locomotives Of to-day, built upon the same
general principal; yet the machine with which the
great engineer astouished his age, Ia interesting now
only as an Illustration of the beginning Of the In
veption. There WERE plasfers with holes in them
long before BENsON'> CAPCINE POROUS PLAS.
TER surprised both the public and the physicians;
and the triumph OF the Capcine is founded upon the
partial successes the utter failures of its prede
cessors. Everything Of value the old porous plas
ter is retained in the Capcine but nj this point all
comparison ends, and contrast begins. For
example:
The old plasters slow in their action; the
Cspcine is quick and
The old plas,ers lacked the power 10 do more than
TO impsrt slight, temporary relief in easy Of
treatment; the Capcine pcnetrates the $, stem and
permanently cures the troubles for which il is
commended.
The old plasters depended for any good results
they might obtain. upon accident OF their makers
and the naked faith of their wearers; the Bensons
reaches its ends by of the scientific cembina-
ton of the rare medicinal ingredients which it
contains.
In trief the old pasers, like Stephensons dis
carded engine. switched off the track, while the
Benson's goes on its way winning golden opinions
from all sorts of people.
Yet in this very fact lies the leading danger the
people who buy and use this reliable and scientific
remedy. "H, pocrisy is the tribute vice pays to
virtue Imitation is the concession failure makes
TO success. Benson's Plasters paroded in name
and style.
Beware Of swindles. The genuine have the word
Capcine CUT the center. Price IS cents. Seabury
& johnson, Chemists, New York.
janndSwlm
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SEEK

health and avoid sickness.
Instead Of feeling tired and
worn out, instead Of aches
and pains, wouldn't you
rather feel fresh and strong?
You can continue feeling
miserable and good for no.
thing, and no one but your
self can find fault, but if you
are tired of that kind oflife,
you can change it if you
choose.
How ? By getting one
bottle of BRowN' IRON BIT
TIERS, and taking it regularly
according to directions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-24
GaIts aItb Skftfkts.
4 STRANGE STORY.

Then to take whatever the gods may tend,
Putting 70 scruples and doubts an esd.
II the sensible wsy to live, my friend"
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CONSUMPTION.

have positive remedy for the above disease: by
its use thousands OF Of III. worst Kind ami OF
long standing have been cured. Indeed, strong
is my faith in its efficacy, that will sent TWO 30 l.
TIES FREE, together with Va ABLE Urea
1tSE on this disease, TO any sufferer. Give Express
and L. o. address.
DIR. 1. A. SLOCUM, Isl Pearl ST., New York
dec21dNWiw
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ANOTHER TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Sixty-Nine Cars and Three Locomotives
~ecked-Fif Lives Lost.

WHEELING, W. Va, Jam. ga special
from Keyser, W.. Va, to the Intelligencer
says; zone of the most terrible and fatal rail-
road accidents that ever occurred in this part
of the country happened on the Georges
Creek IL Cumberland railroad, running from
Cumberland to Homecoming, to-day. Itseems
three Goa! trains, consisting of three locomo-
tlves, fifty-two hoppers and seventeen Condo
las, all loaded, started from Cumberland
about 2 O'Clock this afternoon, all coupled
together, with one engine in front, another
in the middle, and one in the rear, this
being the safest way to get down grades this
bad weather. In going down one of
the steep grades about ten miles from Cum
berland, the train started down the steep in
cline at a fearful rate of speed. The tram
kept the track until it got to u trestle work
having a reverse curve, when the front en-
CINE flew the track, dragging all the sixty
nine cars and locomotives after it, all going
rolling and ~tumbling down a steep hill,
which was between eighty and one hundred
feet high, onto the tracks of the Eckhart
branch of the Cumberland & Pennsylvania
railroad. The loss of life is fearful, seven dead
bodies being found amid the wreck;
more are missing. Each train consisted of a
conductor, two brakemen, a fireman and
engineer-in all. fifteen human beings, not
one of whom can be found alive to tell the
tale. 1t is supposed the other bodies are
either among the wreck, or that the men
jumped to save their lives and are lying
down on the mountain somewhere, either
dead or badly hurt, and if exposed to i
night like his will surely freeze 10 death.
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but the country should stop this loss if it
can. Assuming that overinsurance and full
insurance have much to do with causing this
loss, | prepared u draft of some provisions of
the commission bill to'prevent this. 1t was
believed that for the public good every man
should be compelled to carry some insur-
ance-to lose something by a fire-and
companies should not be allowed to pay full
insurance. This would compel greater at
tention to building, would stimulate care
fulness in guarding against fire, and would
remove all incentive to willful burning to
obtain insurance money.
The draft referred to provided that after a
fire causing total destruction of a building,
appraisers should be appointed, and the in
surlng company, or companies, should paw
only q per cent (say IS, so or 80, as might
be thought correct in maturing the bilD of
the loss, II the insurance should be so much.
Inc company or companies inter
ested should return the excess
OF premiums received tor insurance not
paid under operation of the law. To prevent
companies from specializing against the con-
tlngency OF a fire. and charging for more in
surance than could be paid, it was further
provided that any p~olicyholder, during the
continuance of his insurance, or within six
months after its termination, should have the
right to demand an appraisement. rs in the
case OF total loss, and if it appeared that he
had been paying a premium on a sum
ICY oiu MudJ ne WOulu nave received In case
OF total loss, the company should refund the
excess and pay all the costs involved. This,
| believe. or somethi.g in this direc-
ton, would save a great deal of
property now annually lost by
fire. 1t is the aim OF all companies
to limit the insurance to about three-fourths
OF the value OF the property insured; but
while agents are paid a commission on the
premium received; they will naturally write
in excess OF that, and in cases give overin-
surance.
submit the proposition, as some member
may deem it of sufficient value to present it
in the shape of a bill. 1t was not incorpo-
rated in the commissions bill by unanimous
agreement, though General Manson and
Judge Woollen each thought well of it,
Permit me to add that the commission
bill represents u great amount of hard work.
1t can in certain provisions and omissions
be much improved upon, but 1 have no
doubt its main provisions, if made a law,
would give the people of Indiana better pro-
lection than they now have in the matter of
insurance, and would do what under the
present law is impossible-make the organi-
cation of home companies profitable.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. JONI A. FINCH.
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FRANK JAMES.
Two of the Charges Against Him Dismissed,
but He Is Held on a Third.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 23.-Frank James
was brought here from independence to-day,
and shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon
the case was called in the Criminal Court.
The first indictment presented was the COM
plicity in the murder of Witcher, the Pinker-
ton detective, in 1874. Prosecuting Attorney
Wallace stated that after diligent search he
had been unable to secur evidence to estab-
fish tile defendants connection with that
murder; therefore he entered a motion to
dismiss the case. The indictment for the
Independence bank robbery of 1878 was then
presented, and the prosecution was chen
obliged to dismiss it also for the same reason.
The two cases were accordingly dismissed.
The prosecution then presented an indict-
ment which had not before been an
nounced, charging Frank James with
%robbing H. A. Fox, all express
messenger, of $500, in September, 1881,
commonly known as the Blue Cut train rob
berry. The prosecuting attorney said that the
State would require some time to secure evil
dence in the case, and the defense stated that
they would also require considerable time in
preparing for trial, as they had received no
previous notice of the indictment. After a
brief discussion, the case was continued
uiltll Tile next leTIl Ill hdnSdS OltY, Wnlcn
begins on the fourth Monday in MAY, and
the court announced that bail was fixed at
81, 800, The defense was not ready to give
bond Immediately, and the prisoner was ac-
cording remanded to Jail and taken back to
Independence ON the evening train.
James, in an interview, stated that he ex-
pected to give bond in a few days. A large
crowd gathered on the street when the pris-
oner appeared, but no disturbance of any
kind occurred.
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CHICAGO Grain Market

The markets in grain and provisions in Chica go
are becomin more active of late. There seems
to be an increased demand from shippers for
wheat aud corn, and prices have materially adj
Vanced this past week. Prices OF general pro.
duce hold their own. The warehouse facilities
which enable commission men there to handle
produce to advantage is notably on the increase.
Shippers of butter and general produce to that
city will find that the commission house of Flem-
ming IL Merriam have the very best facilities.
Their warehouses are adapted to the needs of
such commodities, and the firm ia one of I'M
doubted enterprise and energy. They also fur.
nish superior facilities for those who desire to
successfully speculate in the Chicago grain and
provision markets, especially for those investing
small and medium amounts. Their Cooperative
Fund W shows an excellent record. it having
paid regular monthly dividends to its patrons
cessful operation.
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car. They claim the hand-brakes we're pro-
perly set by tine brakemen before getting off
the train; that one brakeman escorted a lady
to the station, and returned toward
the train, which, was still in position;
that his light went out, and after he had
re-entered the station and relighted it, he
found the train gone. 1t is held that on such
a Grade a train could not have stood a minute
if left unbrakcd, and Chat, furthermore, the
engines and the air-brakes could not have
been disconnected unless the train had been
held by the hand-brakes TO ease the strain.
They express a belief that the brakes were
properly set, and that the train was tempered
with. 1t is known that when the train drew
into the station two men were seen who were
subsequently found dead in the wreck, and
who are, as yet. Unidentified. These men,
it is thought were part of the gang that
attempted to rob the train, and in order to
effect their object let off the brakes and
started it down the grade in order to get it
away from help and in a position where the
express car could be robbed. Being mex
perienced they lost control of the the train,
and the accident occurred. Further evil
dence is adduced that no tramps were on the
train before reaching Tehichipa, while two
were found amid the wreck, and two more
on the portion Of the train that kept on the
track.
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BISHOP TALBor's SUCCESSOR.
Consideration of the Claims of Rev. DIR.
Rumcie, of Missouri,

Madison Star.
The nance of Rev. DR.. Runcie, of st. joseph,
Mo-. has been mentioned in this connection.
We will give it a passing notice. No man
can be drawn closer to DR.. Runcie in love,
respect and admiration of his noble traits OF
character than the present Star writer. When
he was called to the rectorship of Christ
Church parish, Madison, twenty-five years ago,
we were instrumental in his coming here.
The vestry called him; he declined. The
writer afterward went to Jacksonville, and
called on him at the Southern Prison, where
he was moral instructor, and urged him
to recall his declination, which he
consented to do. When we returned
home we stated the matter to the vestry, the
cali was renewed, and he accepted, During
the eleven years he was rector of this parish
we formed a very warm attachment for him,
which still continues. When the convention
of the Episcopal church in Indiana was
called in August, 1865, to elect an assistant
bishop, we were in it, and urged DR.. Runcie's
name privately among the members. but
Bishop Talbot had such a preference that it
was useless to urge any one else. Some
months ago we received a letter from a prom
inent layman, asking US to consider DR.. Run
Gle as a candidate to the successorship of
Bishop Talbot. We preferred another cler-
gyman then, whose name We brought for
ward in these columns q few days ago. And
now, as that gentleman has declined, we also
decline to take up any other man to urge
his claims TO the convention.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Decision In Iowa.
70 the Editor of the indianapolis Journa.

70 the Editor of the indianapolis Journar
l desire to call attention to ons principle
recognized, and it is the principle controlling
the decision annulling the constitutional
amendment by the Supreme Court of Iowa,
so far as that case has any bearing upon the
status of the proposed amendments now be-
fore our Legislature There is a conflict of
authorities upon the question whether a con-
stitutional provision for the enrolment of
the full text of proposed amendments is
mandatory or directory, the question being
settled one way in some States and the other
way in other States by their respective Su-
preme Courts. This is a constitutional ques-
ton which the Legislature has full power to
determine. The Legislature and Governor
may each construe the constitution under
which they act, subject, of course,
to the construction of the Supreme Court,
if its aid' should be invoked. When the
Legislature has construed this constitutional
provision either way, and acting upon such
constitution has amended and changed its
organic law, and such constitution has been
long accepted as satisfactory by the people,
then that question is settled. What 1 mean
IS, that such a precedent is the highest au-
thority in that State.
| quote from the Iowa case: "Here we
have a legislative construction of the conSti-
tuition which should not and cannot be
ignored"
This is the principle of law to which l
refer. That construction by the Legislature
OF Iowa upon the question pending before
our General Assembly had been heretofore
settled as mandatory, and the Supreme Court
felt bound by such construction.
This identical question has been specific
ally considered by two Governors and two
Legislatures, that in 1871 that proposed, and
in 1873 that submitted the Wabash & Erie
canal bond amendment, and settled the
question the other way in Indiana. Iiegisla-
tive construction is rs binding upon the
conscience of the Supreme Court in Indiana
as in Iowa. The Indiana construction is the
same as in several other States. Tn technical
question urged as a defect in record, to
defeat the pending amendment, has been
settled in Indiana, and a rule established that
Is binding upon good conscience and official
Integrity. There was one fatal defect in the
record in lowa-the Senate and House had
not concurred in the same amendment
There has never been any constitutional
provision adopted by convention or other
wise upon q subject matter of controversy
about which quibbling will ever cease so
long as the controversy concerning the sub
ject lasts.
Men bubble and disagree about the laws of
God, and it is hardly probable hat the Legis-
lature of Indiana will ever make a record or
pass an act that will stand above controversy.
We will never get amendments in better
shape. The people ask by their petitions and
otherwise that they be submitted. They
want to express their opinion. Let the
amendments come. E. +. r.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 90.
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Ro the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Some years ago your correspondent spent
some time in an effort to justify the pro-
priety of providing a way to save the inebri-
ate from utter, irretrievable ruin, thinking
time would ripen public sentiment for the
demand of such an urgent necessity. 1 am
glad to know that that hope was ~not.wholly
~unfounded. An occasional article in the
public journals convinces me that this ques-
ton is operating in the thoughts of progress
sive men and women. 1 am sorry to find
that the old objection, that it is useless to
provide a home for the drunkard while our
laws sanction a traffic that tends to ever IN
crease the number of inebriates, is still being
urged against this enterprise. While would
gladly cooperate with any effort that may
be made to remove the cause OF this lamenta-
BILE evil, l will as c%heerfully aid any measure
that may be brought forward to save those
now ruined by the effect thereof. No one
who has examined this question-earefullv
will contend that it is possible at this time
by any legislation to save that class of men
whose appetite for strong'drink has become so
intense that they will nave it unless restrained
by force. If the constitution of the State
prohibited the manufacture and sale of in
toxicants except for certain specified pur-
poses, these men would, in some way. get it;
they would go or send out of the State to
procure it. Such a provision would save our
country ultimately. but the class referred to
must be saved Immediately, or lost. Now [
am in favor of both measures, the same as l
would be in favor of removing the cause of
an epidemic of some wasting disease, and
then of curing up all who have con-
tracted it before removal. l shall not in
this letter go over the arguments to sustain
the enterprise advocated, or outline any
plan for concentrating the result, but will
when the time comes, if necessary. Those
who will take up this great duty the State
owes to this, the most unfortunate of its
sufferers, and push it to completion, will make
their names blessed around thousands of
hearthsides, and hand their memory down to
an age of grateful membranes.
January %. ], w. II.
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The Lawlessness at opeIika.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. GA dispatch to
to the Advertiser from Opelika says that
Dunbar and the others have been arrested
and are out under bond. Dunbar defied the
marshal and his posse yesterday, but is very
submissive now, and offers assistance in
getting the others arrested. 1t is feared if
the military leave to-day it will be worse yet.
Over one hundred shots were fired last night,
but no one was hurt. The firing was not at
persons, but was the general lawlessness of
the mob. General O'Neal has requested the
judge of the Circuit Court to hold . special
term TO try the law breakers. A solicitor
went with the military last night and pre-
pared the atfidayits on which the warrants
were issued.
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PlOn Plon, the Pretender.
New York Herald.


A larger man than either the First Ma.
poleon or his father, Prince Jerome re,
sembles the latter more than the former,
though in his carrier years his likeness to the
great Emperor was simply extraordinary.
His expression is placid and often extremely
agreeable, but now and then the fire of the
Corsican burns in his eye and his finely
chiseled mouth adds to the intensity of his
look. The Prince is fifty-seven years OF age,
not yet gray, though somewhat bald. His
head, says Ignotus, is a superb one, worthy
alike of the Prince and the thinker, and sec
ond only in what the enthusiastic
reactionary writer calls aristocratic beauty
to that of the Comte lie Chambord. At
home he usually walks to and fro while con-
versing, smoking cigarettes, and keeping one
or both hands in his pockets. Suddenly he
stops before the visitor, his language becomes
animated and even vehement, while his
words TEEN with color and picturesqueness.
He never laughs, but only smiles. The
Prince has a wonderful collection of an
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How Henrenism Is Regarded.
Lafayette journal.

For a rebel who took a musket or a sword
in manly warfare, fought b~ravely though
mistakenly for q bad cause, there may be n
PARDON but for a conspirator against his
county, WHO in secret seeks to strike a blow
az the government, there ought to be none.
Democrats have honored him with a
place from whence he rises, in imitation of
Boss Tweed, to insult the loyal people of the
State. Does the Democratic party propose,
since it is elated with victory, to bring rebel
sympathisers TO the front to glory in their
infamy? 1t is too soon yet to try
the experiment, as Mr.. Heffren will
find. The MANNED soldier who, with
hating steps, goes to the polls, is not in
love with the record of Mr.. Heffren,
nor with the party that places him in u po-
sition TO harangue the representatives of the
people in defense of the part he took in
the plot of 1923 against the government.
The bumptious representative, who, perhaps,
is an imitator of Tweed in more ways than
one, will learn before he is much older that
b%oasting of political records, such as his, will
not be tolerated.