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Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Three Men Drowned.

BANGOR, May go.
Frank Harvey, Frenchman named Nor
risey and Swede, name unknown, were
drowned Wednesday morning by the sinking
of a scow into which the Swede had been
drawn by the others after being knocked out
of his boat. Harvey's body was found this
morning.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Arrested on Suspicion.

LONDON, May 80.
At Dover last'evening, at the time of the
landing of the Duke of Cambridge, the move
ments of foreigner were such as to arouse
suspicion. He was placed under arrest by
the police, and revolver was found in his
possession. The supposition was that he
was seeking an opportunity to fire upon the
Duke.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
The Portland Yacht Club.

PORTLAND, May 29.
The annual spring cruise of the Portland
Yacht Club occurred this afternoon. Eight
yachts started. The fleet anchored of Peak
Island, where the annual supper was given.
In the morning they sail for Wiscasset and
will return here Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
The Americans Successful.

LONDON, May 30.
A game of la crosse was played today at
Nottingham between an American team and
the local club. The Americans showed far
superior skill. The passing of the ball was
considered beautiful and was much appre-
ciated by the spectators. In the first half of
the game the Americans scored four points,
and finally won by toe
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Base Bail.

At Boston-Boston I. Philadelphis 6
At Providence-New York 10, Providence
S.
At Chicago-Chicago Is. Detroit 5.
AT Cleveland-Cleveland s, Buffalo 0.
The following is the standing of the league
games up to date
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Representatives Going to Chicago.

Among the members of the House of Rep
resentatives who have gone or will go to
Chicago tonight and tomorrow, are Messrs.
Long of Massachusetts,, Dingley of Maine,
Boutelle of Maine and Rice of Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Father is Getting We'll.

MY daughters say:
Biiiers
he is getting well after his long suffering from
disease declared incurable,
And We are so glad that he used your Bitters."-A
LADY OF Utica, n. Y. my2deod&wlmnr
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Chandler Not,Going to Chicago.

Secretary Chandler denies the published
statement that he will go to the republican
convention at Chicago.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Chicago PrOduce Market.


II sometimes wish could take hold OF the
sale Of Thomas Eclectric Oil for tell you it
is grand thing, and am conscientious in
saying could do good work" Rev. EFF.
Crane, Cory, Pa.
Eclectric Oil cured this gentleman of quin-
sy of many years standing may2et&wlwIp
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30

Both branches of the Massachusetts, legis-
lature passed . bill, Thursday, fixing salary
Of the member 1t $3.50.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
Base Ball.
LEWISTON, Ma

LEWISTON, May ~
The game of base ball today between the
Bow doins and Lewistons resulted in favor OF
the former, by score of % to s.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
What Mr.. WaddlngtOn's Says-The Nah.
dis Power.


PAKIs, May -.
The Gaulor says that Waddington, the
French minister to England, has informed
Earl Granville that Europe W ould regret to
have England abandon the Soudan, and es
pecially khartoum. which France desires the
Khedive to retain.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30

BY TELEGRAPH.
WEATHER REPORT.
Indications for the Next ~ Hours
War Department.

War Department, \
Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
Washington, ID. c., May 3d. A. NJ.
For New England and Middle States.
slightly warmer, fair weather; northwesterly
winds; cautionary signals from Smithville
to Point Judith.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
New York Money Market.
Rrsn,no Report.

Rren,no Report.
NEW YORK;, May 20.
Money easy between from 2a3 and closed Mt 3
Prime Mercantile paper, 5 a q. Exchange steady
s3i for long, and So Tor short. Governments steady
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
A Bill for the Protection Of Life on
Vessels.

Senator Dolph introduced bill for the
better protection of life on steamers and
vessels of the United States. 1t requires all
sailing vessels or steamers of the United
States carrying passengers to be provided
with self righting and self bailing life boats
of the Dickinson pattern.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
MAINE DISPATCHES.


State Convention Of the Order-DeIe.
gates Present-List of Committees
Appointed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-30
CAIRO, May 30.

The new Mahdi, who is stated to have ap-
peared in the Soudan, claims the power of
becoming invisible at will. The story is told
by the natives that the Mahdi has sent soldiers
to capture the new people, but when the sol
diers had surrounded the divan on which he
was sitting he suddenly vanished in the air.
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Weed Out.

"The critics of the Schools" says the
Journal Of Education, are doubtless
right in their assertion that the curric.
ulum should be weeded out. We arr
crowding the children, and the result is
not that we break them down with over.
much work, but that they dodge, brace
up, and let the excess of the lesson flow
off, like smart shower from slate roof
Children, large and small, have good
many ways of protecting themselves
against the school committee that are
even denied to the teacher; in fact, the
faithful teachers are the chief sufferers
from this OVERRIDING of matters in
school. But the other side of the story
which our critics so often fail to see, is
this-that this crowding in school is
only part of our wearysome habit OF
life in all American towns and cities.
Every year the active, responsible class
of people, who do the work of these
communities, is more and more hurried
trodden upon, and driven into corners
by the attempt to do far more than can
be undertaken with any hope of sue.
cess. Let anybody try to do any
special good thing in Boston, Cincinnati
New York in any one of thousand
brisk towns and cities of the land
and he becomes at once aware that the
people on whom he must rely are bur
led, ten deep, under an avalanche OF
engagements and enterprises; each
worthy of attention, but all together
making an excess of labor and respon.
sibility that may well overtask an arch.
angels capacity. Our best men and
women are tired, nervous, harassed
with this excessive demand upon theil
reserve power. They lose the flavor
of character that comes from repose
and fail to do anything very well be.
cause, just at the point where the fin,
ish comes, an imperious engagement
of another sort storms in. Rushing
from club to concert, from concert to
play, from play to reception, from all
of these to church, is not the way tC
live the true life. Even our charities
and good works of every sort become SC
huddled and hastily attended to that
they cease to be either beneficent OF
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THE WATCHMAN has purchased the
subscription list of the Green Mountain
Ne,cS, lately published at Mortified,
and subscribers to the Ne,cS will be sup
piled with THE WATCHMAN during the
unexpired term of their subscription.
We believe this arrangement will work
to the advantage of all persons inter-
ested. We have given particular atten-
ton to gathering and publishing trust
worthy and interesting items of local
news. We try to make THE WATCH
MAN local newspaper for every COM
munity. 1t is this and much more. 1t
gives in its various departments much
larger variety of good reading than any
local paper can afford. Its agricultural
department is, alone, worth the price
of the paper to any farmer. 1t is SUI
perior to any special agricultural publ
cation in the state, and for Vermont
farmer it is better than any outside
publication. DR.. Hoskins, our agricul-
tural editor, is clear thinker, an able
writer, trustworthy adviser, and he
has worked out or tested on his own
acres his ideas of farming, Embarrassing,
etc. We shall endeavor to have our
new friends feel at home by THE
WATcHMAN fireside, and we feel sure
that we can make them so comfortable
that they will wish to tarry permanently
with us
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The Waterman for 1885.

The steady growth of THE WATCH
MAN in popular favor is attested by its
growing subscription list and by the
hearty words of commentator and en-
enlargement which come from every
quarter of the widening field of its cir
culation. AT no period of its nearly
eighty years of existence has the cir
cult of its influence been near so wide,
and at no time have its columns been
filled with matter of greater interest or
that which bears more directly upon
the welfare both of the state at large
and, particularly, of the communities
in which the paper has its chief sup
port. We make these statements not
only with the satisfaction which we
think we have right to feel and ex-
press, as the result of an unstinted out
lay of labor and money, but with the
confident belief that the friends, too, of
THE Misunderstanding its Old
Guard of subscribers, some of whom
read its natal number, others have been
on its list half a century and longer,
many more twenty-five years and over,
and also its later recruits, hundreds of
whom are among its most stanch and
Jealous supporters-will be glad to
know of its increasing prosperity. The
substantial support the paper is receiv-
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Eighteen Hundred Eighty-FOur.

Time has been the perennial theme
of poets, philosophers and moralists in
all ages and lands since " the morning
stars first sang together" In his yearly
rounds since the era of the printing
press, he has also supplied newspaper
editors with subject for writing, and
with an accumulation of incident and
accident with which " to point moral
or adorn tale" During the year
ending to-day /" the fierce spirit of the
scythe and glass " has swung his blade
with grim rhythm. AT no time as at
Ischia and Java in the previous year
has the cadence of the mowers stroke
been varied by the sudden humiliation
of myriads of mortals, but at the fire.
side. in church and state, down in mines
and in disasters by field and flood"
falling one by one or by scores and
hundreds, Time has left in the wake
of the year an unbroken swath of
the humble and the distinguished. On
this side the ocean the record of the
years dead is punctuated by the names
of Wendell Phillips, the peerless orator
and the fierce opponent of slavery; of
Mrs. Swisshelm and Mrs. Mary Glenn
mer Hudson, in the ranks of writers;
in the church, of Bishops r. II. Clark
son and Matthew Simpson; of w. H.
Hunt, United States minister to st. Pc
tersburgh; of John j. Cisco, Augustus
Schell and James Watson Webb, dis
tinguished citizens of New York: of
John F. Slater, Connecticut's philan-
thropist; of Cyrus H. Mccormick and
Robert Hoe, the inventors, and Allan
Pinkerton, the famous detective; of
Charles O'Connor, the great advocate,
and Noah Haynes Swayne, ex-judge of
the United States supreme court; of
Henry b. Anthony, Rhode Islands
veteran senator, the father of the
United States senate" and Charles J.
Folger, the good citizen and wise legis-
lator, the upright judge and, at the time
of his death, the faithful secretary of
the United States treasury in President
Arthur's administration. Beyond the
Atlantic, among the names of men dis
tinguished in literature, politics, society
and war who have fallen are Charles
Reade, the novelist; DR.. Edward Las
ker, the German liberal, and Judah p.
Benjamin, the ex-confederate but, since
the collapse of the great rebellion, ris-
ing to eminence in the law in England;
Keshub Chunder Sen, India's eloquent
Brahmin, the leader in the movement
away from the thraldom of Hindoo
caste and superstition, and General
Todleben, the famous Russian engi-
neer, whose skill, while yet a young
man, for months held the allied armies
and naval forces of England, France
and Turkey at bay before Sebastopol.
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effective. OF course all this gets into
the schools. The school board, the
teachers, the people behind, the chill
dren themselves, come to the work of
education buzzing and humming with
an insane activity, and the school-house
is simply like the home, the church, the
exchange. We see little hope for weed
ing out the school till the parents of the
children can be persuaded to weed out
their own crowded days and years,
pitch the tune of life on more moder-
ate key, and clear a space around the
children in which they can attend to
good education in a moderate and rea-
sonable way"
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THE Boston Sunday Herald contains
list of that city's principal taxpayers.
The thing about this exhibit that will
most interest Vermont people is the
statement of the assessors that they do
not get hold of more than thirty per
cent of the taxable personal property,
to say nothing of thirty millions which
a committee of the city government
lately estimated was lost by removal of
its holders to suburban taX-dodging re-
treats, and thirty millions of mortgage
loans which ought to be taxed, and
would be, but for the law of 1881.
Among the names Of taxpayers are
many rich men who were active in
securing the passage of the exemption
law, and who are distinguished by the
smallness of their personal taxable
estate, compared with what it would be
but for that law. AS a high official
of Massachusetts, says, and as the
Herdld'S list shows, g. the statute of
1881 is diabolical continuance to throw
all the public burdens on land which is
less profitable than intangible property,
and, as being an absolute necessity, is
used more in proportion to their means
by the poor and middle classes than by
the rich. l hope your state will be
wise enough to keep out of any such
stupid and unjust arrangement" In
Boston, where this law found its most
persistent advocates and has its strong
est supporters, the rate of taxation has
jumped up from $14.50 per 81 900 last
year to $17-an increase of $3.50 and
rate $3.50 higher, the Herald says,
than has ever before been fixed since
Boston was founded. Seventy per cent
of Boston's taxable personal property
escapes taxation, and undoubtedly
very large, if not larger, percentage
throughout the state escapes. The law
exempting mortgages contributes to
swell the volume of untaxed property
and to raise the tax rate. Massachusetts
will some time repeal this stupid and
unjust arrangement" and adopt the
Vermont system, in whole or in part,
to bring under assessment the vast vol
ume of taxable property which now
escapes.
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ing and the words of good cheer spoken
by personal friends and acquaintance,
as well as by others whose faces we
never see, give us courage to begin
another year with new plans to improve
every good feature of THE WATCHMAN,
to still further develop the possibilities
for usefulness of its existing depart
ments and to make such additions to its
equipment as shall more and more con-
duce to instruction, entertainment and
amusement. Much has been accom-
plished, but, compared with what can
and should be done to build up strong,
Independent and aggressive paper,
compared with what our purpose and
ambition are, a beginning only has been
made. The income of the paper has
been devoted to its development. Its
subscribers have had, and will continue
to have, their money returned to them
in substantial betterments. Every sub
scription promptly paid, every new sub
scriber obtained, will greatly assist and
encourage our enterprise.
THE WATCHMAN believes in YER
mont. 1t is devoted to her fortunes,
and longs to see her undertake such
progressive measures as shall enable
her to recover from the depletion her
population has suffered from emigra-
ton, and the injury her material inter-
ests have received from this cause dur
ing the last quarter of century. In
its general and its agricultural depart
ments THE WATCHMAN has led in the
support of measures and in the advocacy
of line of policy that shall induce the
native population of the state to re-
main on her soil, and that shall also at
tract immigrants to cultivate her de-
serted farms or build mills along her
streams. Her schools and those moral
agencies which must go hand in hand
with material interests to build up
abiding prosperity in the state have
had, and will continue to have, a
Jealous friend and advocate in THE
WATCHMAN. We believe it is con-
coded that the paper has been indie
pendent in its course. 1t has freely
discussed questions of local or public
consequence. 1t has been outspoken
in what it has had to say. In this
respect, or in any other, we shall hardly
be required to give pledges. The past
is an earnest of the future. In the
matter of local and general news, in
the agricultural and editorial depart
ments, in the miscellaneous columns,
at every point, whatever of wisdom has
been husbanded in the school of ex-
perience, whatever of capacity or finan-
cial means we can command, they shall
all be employed to give THE WATCH
MAN greater value and increasing in
terest to the farmer, the mechanic, the
laborer, the man of affairs, the house
hold, and the boys and girls of the
household. For the past we thank
each friend, known or unknown; we
trust they will all abide long with us,
and to each and every one we wish "Of
whate'er this blessed peace
time lends"
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@attbmam 4 Sunrmal.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1884.
A New department..

Beginning with our next issue, the first
number of the new year, we shall add to
THE WATcHMAN new department, entitled
" The Household" 1t will be conducted by
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, our genial and capable
agricultural editor, than whom no one is
more competent to interest and instruct the
members Of the households to which THE
WATcHMAN makes its weekly visits. As
DIR. Hoskins will say next week in his In
troductory," he has been many times So
licited, during the ten years of his con-
nection with THE WATCHMAN, to add a
woman's department to his, to which the
lady readers might contribute, and which
might serve as a sort of exchange for the
giving and receiving of ideas on home top
les. Dr. Hoskins' name is a guarantee for
the complete success of "The Household"
and the women, and men, too, will be on the
lookout for it, on the agricultural page next
yvnplf
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observation-disclosures was appropriately OBJ
served in the church. The exercises opened
with singing " The Lord is My Shepherd -
S. F. Nye, chorister; Mrs. G.. S. Bosworth,
organist; Maria S. Pearson, treble; Mary
Perrin, alto; G. X. Perrin, basso. Prayer
was offered by Rev. Alden Ladd, followed
by singing. Remarks were made by Rev.
Mr.. Ladd, in which he gave a plain, lifelike
picture of the birth of Christ, and his views
of keeping Christmas. He was followed by
Rev. Mr. Evans, who thought that Christ
mas ought to be merry, happy joyful
time; when the Saviors birth was made
known, that Christmas was not time of
Sadness but a time of rejoicing A we'll
written essay was read by A. l.. Hewitt,
containing many timely hints and profitable
suggestions to the children, youth, and
those of mature age. This was followed by
exercises by the children, in which all did
themselves proud. Two hundred twenty
five presents-ranging from a Christmas
card to many dollars in value-were then
disposed of. II. G. Hayward, in behalf of
many warm friends, presented S. r. Nye
with S3S in money, as slight token of the
esteem and respect in which he is held by
the donors for his long service as chorister,
extending over a period of forty years.
That the fur coat that he has purchased
with the money may keep the body as warm
as the heart that beats beneath it, is the
wish of all. Superintendent A. l.. Hewitt
was not forgotten by his scholars, who pre-
sented him with an easy chair. The occa-
sion was an enjoyable one throughout.
80 Mrs. G. b. Leonard had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury, last week, by mis-
taking the cellar for the outside door. She
fell TO the bottom of the stairs, was well
shaken up and somewhat famed, but is now
doing well. - S. f. Nye was taken sick
Sunday morning, being confined to his bed,
but at last accounts was better.
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RoXbury.-Mrs. e. n. Wright of Mont
peler visited at Y. S. Stanton's ON Friday
= Rev. |. =. Booth of Northfeld was in
town on Monday. - Mrs l.. G.. Tracy
has been quite i'll with lung fever. -
Henry Van Deusen of Warren is to occupy
the north part of Mrs. Wilson's house
- The Universalist Sewing Circle will
meet at Mrs Ira Rays ON Thursday of next
week. -M Nj. e. Chase, baggage-master
at the railroad station, recently, at peril of
life and limb, ran and caught a runaway
train of sixteen cars loaded with hogs
that had started for Mortified with no
one on board. Mr.. Chase stopped them at
Samson's crossing, and the next day he re-
ceived notice from the railroad officials at
50 per month.
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AFTER DPHTHERIA.-Dip'ithe is n ter
rible disease, requiring the greatest medical
skill to effect a complete cure. Even when
its power is broken it clirgs to the patient
with great persistency, ana often leaves the
system poisoned and pre- ,trated. Just here
Hoods Sarsaparilla does vast amount Of
good, expelling impurities from the blood,
giving IL richness and itality, while it rem
ovates and strengthens the system.
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West Fairlee.-Mrs. William Paul met
with a severe accident last week. She fell
down the cellar stairs at her home. She
was badly bruised and shaken, and one
forefnger was dislocated, but no bones were
broken. Her many friends will be glad
to hear that she is coming out all right. Mr..
Paul was sick with neuralgia at the time,
but is also better, - Jenny Comstock
has returned from Boston, and Will Reed
and family are in town. - Mrs George
Comstock has pet tree-toad, which is very
interesting. 1t spent most of the summer on
a back piazza, sometimes clinging to a win
dow-blind, but generally on a broad-leaved
cactus which was kept there. 1t would fix
on spot where il was secured from observa-
ton and from the sun, and after "A few days
would descend TO the earth in the pot where
the plant grew, and bury itself, excepting
its head. After day or two it would climb
up again When cold weather came on it
fixed on n spot among and under moss
placed around the plant, and has not moved
since. 1t is plump and doing well.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.

A FEW horse-hoes and cultivators to ex-
change for wood or young cattle. NJ L..
Field, Mortified, Vt.
HoRsE-BLANKETs, only sixty cents apiece,
at j. G.. Columns. Also general assort-
ment of whips and sleigh-bells at bottom
prices.
THE place to get your horses shod with
the Never-slip Horseshoe is at E. w.
Colby's, East street, Mortified, Vt. Please
call and examine those shoes. They are
the cheapest, best and safest shoe ever used