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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-22


naments Of black pearls. and ct din
ner parties she II sometimes seen IN .
simple pale blue silk with an edging
Of white crepe lisse at the throat and
ornaments Of turquoise. She seldom
wears diamonds, nor does her daugh-
ter. Miss Eva Mackay, who has an
nounced her intention Of marrying an
American when the right American
comes along. Foreigners do not hesi-
tate to ask Mrs. Mackay in so many
words the amount of her daughters
fortune, and her invariable reply is:
Miss Mackay win have no dot
whereupon they take speedy depar-
ture. Mrs. Mackay prefers to con-
tinue to reside abroad. Several years
ago she returned to San Francisco
with the.full intention of remaining
but she found it out of the question.
As for New York, she argues that iC
would be like beginning her life over
again to make her entrance there. In
Paris her relations are established and
secure, and she feels at home. The
Messonier incident is automatically as
follows: Mrs. Mackay. before leaving
Paris, exacted from the master a
promise that he would not proceed
with the work on her portrait while
she was away, but continue the sit
tings on her return. He broke his
word, completed the picture by taking
lady who is a friend of his as a
model and exhibited the incongruous
results as portrait Of Mrs. Mackay,
who, after paying its weight in gold
for this work of art, saw fit to destroy
it. Cabanal had already sue
ceeded admirably with Mrs. Mac
kay, her two little sons and her
daughter. Mrs. Mackay's interest in
Mile. Nevada is of long standing; the
prima donna's father, DIR. Wixom, was
q AAACAAd dAlO dSSOI1dbC vi Mis-. hldIhCAy .
first husband, who was a physician.
The bonanza kings wife has made the
prima donna some magnificent presents
of diamonds and other jewels. The
last, given to her on the occasion of
her confirmation as Roman Catholic,
which was performed by the papal
Nuncio, was a bracelet from which
swung diamond ball. This, on
being examined, was found to contain
tiny watch. Mrs. Mackay is very
charitable, and gives away at least
$4,000 yearly. TO some applications,
however, she turns deaf ear These
latter recently included pileous APP
peal from some Parisians who, being
about to marry their daughter to some
happy man: wanted to know if Mrs.
Mackay had any "old diamonds or
rubies' she could spare Boston
Herald.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-22
Not His House.

Old man Pettigrew, Of Ao'.ls
gery precise in his statements, b.
.Iso a strict constructions" p,
morning neighbor rushed y . = j.
igrew, while the latter was a. .,,ssIr.
breakfast and exclaimed e'' -.
Your house is on fire. .Ys
Your house is burning up :. "a
ire wrong, sir Wrong i, sss
Iir, this is not my house
t"-Teras SJtings.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-22

Physicians and dealers Sn dyeskuas IN
London are trying to drive anilinc colors
out Of use and restore vegetable dves.
They assert that anilinei dyes produce
painful and Dangerous eraplions Of the
skin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04
A Cattle Commission.

Mr.. b. +. johnson of Illinois, who has
more than ordinary talent for observation
and correct inference, and who during
many years has noted from week to week
the conditions and progress of our agri-
culture, gives, through The Prairie Farm
er, this cautionary signal to whom it may
concern in reference to one of the current
efforts for appropriations in the alleged
interest of American husbandry:
'If my word of warning could reach those
engaged in taking measures at Washington
to prevent the spread of epidemic and infec-
tous diseases in our stock, it would be. go
slow If the wishes of few veterinarians
are met and the demands of a raft of pauper
lawyers and politicians are complied with, it
will result in the creation of half dozen
commissions. Each one of them, as previous
ones have done, will find sufficient reason
for their continu 1nce, and reports will be
made that half the live stock in the country
South and West, is either in danger from or
suffering under some of the many forms OF
epidemic or infectious diseases. :.
Beware of Commissions, and above all of
putting men upon them whose bread and but
ter is of more consequence to them than
the stock interest. vast as it is"
The gentlemen referred to, who during
a year or more have invested much vital
force in working up excitement about hog
cholera and pleuro-pneumonia in particu-
lar. to the detriment of our live stock mar
kets abroad, appeared of late before the
House Committee on Agriculture. In the
course of much other talk showing "un-
common anxiety" they said, according to
The N. f. Farmer, that
contagious disease of cattle exists in
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, New
York, and possibly in other places"
1t will be observed that Massachusetts
is not included in the list. The recent
official report from that State (Which prop
erly attends to its own contagious dis
eases) shows that of 81 800 appropriated
by the Legislature for this important bus
mess last year, there was occasion to use
only e467, leaving balance of s1,033.
These are pleasing statistics. and not only
suggest the propriety Of other States at
tending to their OWE sick animals so far
as may be practicable, but cotrast most
favorably with the fact, pointed out by
The Rural New Yorker, that
1.-The National Treasury has expended over
$4,000 on cattle quarantine stations, and to
meet the salaries and expenses of the
Treasury Cattle Commission, ETC."
And now CSC. 900 more has been asked
fer Zone report said round million), and
the fact published in Europe naturally
tends further to undermine foreign con-
fidence in American meats. The signif-
cant specimen excerpts we have made
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04
General News.

The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has
$500, 900 on hand to build new chamber.
Massachusetts has so, 900 more women than
men.
Canada's Indian population is estimated at
l3l, 200.
OF the 500 students at the Munich Academy
of Fine Arts AZ are Americans.
Lake Champlain is frozen its entire length
and breadth, and can be travelled by horses.
New Haven authorities prohibit the blowing
of locomotive whistles within city limits
Three judges in Howard county, Ark, were
hanged in efilgy last week, because they
granted new trial to negro under sentence
of death.
Dublin, according to recent showing still
retains the reputation Lady Morgan gave 1t
years ago when she called it the "tay-drink
INCEST city ia the world
House rents are lower this winter in New
York city, and it is believed that May l, the
general moving day there, will inaugurate
further reduction. ----.-s-.-.s
Ohio has coal in 80 of 3S counties, and put
out 8 ,220, ,229 tons in 1854 gain of l,o00,-
600 tons.
Recent experiments in importing meats
from Russia to London have proved so sue
cessful that regular trade has been estab
lished.
The National and Mercantile Banks In the
city of Mexico are to be consolidated. Their
combined capital will be $40, 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04
PERSONAL.

NJ. de Lesseps has been invited to UNDER
take the completion of a canal which is to
make St Petersburg seaport and indepen-
dent of Comstadt
Mast, the caricsturist, hiss recovered his
health by travel. He was in Washinton AT
last accounts.
Wendell Phillips is as free with his auto
grspy as the late Mr.. Longtellow.
Miss Voorhees,, daughter of Senator Voor,
hees of Indiana, is hard at work in Italy
studying music.
The Rev. Mr. Spurgecn, whose poor health
obliged him to go to Mentone, recently, is
rapidly recovering.
Dolly Sexton has lived with the Shakers at
Mount Lebanon, N. Y, l02lyears, and Is sup
posed to have been five years old when left
with them.
Senator Rayard is successful Wall street
speculator.
Secretary Folger returned to Washington
on Thursday from Geneva, N. Y, and re-
sumed his duties at the treasury department.
Gideon Pitts, the father of the new wife Of
Frederick Douglass, was one of the first
Abolitionists and a man of sterling worth and
large influence about his home in Honeove,
N. Y.
Hon. VIM. Butterfeld. an old-time editor
and leading New Hampshire democrat, is said
to be fatally i'll.
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The Nillilista.

The Russian Nihilists, who have lately
renewed their assaults upon the Gar Al
exander. are not numerically formidable.
Their strength lies in their resort TO vari-
ant secret modes OF assassination. When
Bakunine organized his secret societies in
Russia, at the time of the Polish insurrec-
ton in 1862-G3, systematic assassination
was not on his programme. 1t was not
until the great Pansclavist agitation in
1875-76-77 that the Russian Socialists, TAX
ing advantage of the general preoccupa-
ton of their countrymen, held frequent
| meetings. and il was not until 1873 that
the systematic assassination of their rulers
was made the dominant feature of their
creed. To get rid of autocracy first was,
and is their scheme; after that a tabula rasa
upon which to construct their airy castles.
Upon the adoption of the assassination
policy, Miss Vera Sassulitch tried to kill
Trepoff Chief OF Police, at St. Petersburg;
Mezentsof stabbed the Chief of Police at
Keif, and the work went on, with pistol,
knife. and dynamite. until the Gar him.
self was killed by Nihilistic bombs in 1881.
Then came the severe and searching
| measures OF extinction a pause, and Of
late renewal OF the murder programme,
which is as useless as factor of reform as
| it is infamous. The Nihilists have been
fortunate in securing the sympathy of
several rich men, like Goldenburg, who
was of German-Jewish origin; but they
have no hold on the agricultural popula-
ton, who, although painfully taxed and
opposed by the provincial agents of the
Gar, are religiously loyal to their ruler,
whose fathers unusual liberality drew
from his present subjects an irreiragible
devotion to his familv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04

- A Portland correspondent says: "New
England is having an olemargerine war.
Oleo is now selling at 13 to Is cents per
pound. John l.. Best, Esq, who is now
selling FIVE carloads of Chicago dressed
beef and two tons of oleo per week, says
his sale of this species OF butter has dou-
bled within the last two weeks. The war
was inaugurated by Boston firms and their
agents, who hitherto have had monopoly
of the business, because Mr.. Best added
its sale TO his business and elects to sell
for one of the large Western concerns
rather than these New England manuiac-
lures. Mr.. Best says his instructions are
to sell, and he knows the firm can COM
pete with any in the world. So, perhaps.
Augusta may yet eat her Vermont cream
cry at from 5 to 10 cents per pound.
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Advertising Agents.
FOK THE
kennebec Journal,
DAILY and WEEKLY.

rh. following Advertising Agents are authorized
4, receive subscriptions and advertisements Tor the
tEsSggEc JOURNAL:
sosrOH ;: ::S.M.PETTKNGILL& q Co. 10 State
street.
s.R. NILES. No. 256 Washing
ton St.
T.C. EVANS. fremont Temne.
HORACE DoDD, 265 Washing
street.
.sw YORK ,.DAUcHY Co, "a Park Place.
iEo. 2. RowELL Co.. 10
Spruce Street.
JAMEs IA. BATES, Al Park Row.
PHILADELPHIA ". W AVER Son, Times Bld'g &.
Chestnut and 8th streets.
Ew HAVEN, CONN. II. L. HUBBARD, % ElmSt
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NO 30.

from three leading farm journals suggest
the advantage, if not the necessity, of
much Congressional discretion in voting
public funds at the request of devotees Of
contagious disease. And. by the way has
anybody yet accepted Mr.. Singleton's
handsome offer of .'$l 900 reward for an
animal infected with pleuro pneumonia" ?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04

II have used Burdock Blood Bitters, and
am happy to say they have done me more
good than anything yet. Send further
quantity xt once" This man was a sufferer
from dyspepsia for twenty years. His name
is Alexander Lough, and ne lives at Alpena,
Mich. jan29t&w1w1p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04
HIh1oPhoroS! !

Don't be skeptical. II you have any doubts as
to what ATHLOPHoRos can do, write to some Of
those whom 1t has cured. For instance, Rev. 8.
r. Dennen. d. D., Pastor Third Congregational
Church, OF New Haven, Conn, the Rev. W. p.
Corbit, pastor George ST. NJ E. Church, Of New
Haven. the Rev. j. E. Searles, pastor Willett St
NJ. Z. Church, New York city. MI. Brummell, the
well known candy manufactured OF New York,
Ex-Gov. Bigelow, of Connecticut, and many
others, equally well known.
II you cannot get ATHLopHoRos Of your druggist,
we win send II express Paid ON receipt Of regular
It from your druggist but II he hasn't it. do not be
persuaded 10 try something else but order at once
from directed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04

Republican National Committee.
The Republican National Committee will meet at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, May 81,
1854.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04

Agents in Kennebec County.
;. Davis, !.'' { Co., Augusta
J. Maxcy & Sons, Gardiner
L. T. Boothby & Son. WaterviIIe.
A. M. Bradley & Son, E. Vas'boro.
B. w, Hartman, Kent's Hill.
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i be Aennebsf Journal.
Published at AUGUSTA, NAME Water sfrest'foo'
cnart. BY sPKAsUE soS.
nailv Kennebec Journal.

tanned every morning exceptsuhdays. fconfains
,nisie,, news by telegraph and mail givesreports
1w.rtets and has carefully prepared political ana
- .,tIcles and a generous amount OF farming'
80 and miscellaneous reading with afaii cempiia-
top Of state news -, ~ 4. .ro.nt
~, snade within the year. single copies cents,to
H. had a. the periodical stores Of Pierce, Au-
.ta: G. L. spauding, Halloweii. w.C. falmer,
ISyertisements ts inserted on reasonabeterms Hates
A. be had on application at this ONCE.
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Weekly Kennebec Journal

psbi.hed every Wednesday morning,is sone ofthe
,,,. auarto papsrs ia the state, containing news
1i7,cal articles agricultural and scientific matter,
aies poetry. Anecdotes, household matter markets.
Tsrms, az per annmnu; $3.50 u not paid IN ad-
fQacs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29
Mixed Metaphors.

Metaphors are as fascinating to the
average orator as edge-tools are to chill
dren, and their use is as frequently fol-
lowed 10y lamentable results. The ne
gro preacher and the Irish lawyer are
often tempted to indulge in this seduc-
tive but most misleading form of
speech.
1t was a negro preacher who, confess
ing his faults before his congregation,
cried aloud:
Brethren, the muddy pool of politics
was the rock on which / split"
1t was another who feryently ex-
claimed: I'VE thank Thee for this spark
of ace; water it, good Lord"
Another PRAYED for grace that we
might grid up the loins of our minds,
SO that we shall receive the latter rain. I"
The following peroration is attributed
to an Irish barr lister: Gentlemen of
the jury, it will be for you to say
whether this defendant should be III
lowed to come into couIt with unblush-
ing footstep, with the cloak of n.y.
pocrisy in his mouth, and dsaw three
buIlocks out of my clients pocket with
impunity"
Mr.. Shaw, member Tor CORK, and q
sober-minded man, was once seized by
the spirit of metaphor, when address
ing meeting held on Sunday to dis
cuss the land question. and this is what
it made him say:
They tell us that we violate the
Sabbath by being here to-day. Yet, if
the ass Or the OK fall into the pit, we
can take him out on the Sabbath.
sour brother is in the pit to-day
the farmer and the landlord ore both
in it-and we are come here TO try if
we can lift tn, m out"
This similh I'D of an Irish landlord
to an animal pre- @ tined to slaughter
was bold. The OF Ter half of the an
alogy seemed calculated TO get Mr..
Shaw into trouble with his constitu-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29
The True Story OF a Dude.

The more the fair young dude gazed
upon her the more he felt that In order
to complete his stature OF manhood he
must know her. Her spirit and his
would hold sweet converse over the
sparkling vintage of sunny France
But how could he manage it? Fortune
favors the brave, and in this matter the
fair young dude had sworn to do or die.
He became acquainted with genial
usher. He exerted his energies, such
as they were, to vim that ushers friend
ship. He fed him ON milk and honey
until his heart was won. Then he conf
fided to that usher the story of hill
passion.
Jaw, yas, deah boy he said, "I'm
awfully gone, you know, quite too
awfully. Cahn't sleep ahfter 10 o'clock
in mawning. Cahn't eat o whole roll
for bweakfast. Dweadful feeling OF
heaviness heah putting hand on bosom |,
Must know her somehow. Cahnt
you intwoduce me?'
What, introduce you to Miss Mount
morris. Well. L should blush to
murmur."
know her long?"
"Oh, you bet Come around to the
stage door after the show"
He went. His heart beat madly-
that is, as madly as il could-while
he awaited the coming Of the radiant
vision. Several young ladies passed
out. She did not come. Still he
waited. Presently he saw his lend
the usher with his arm around a lady.
She was not young. Indeed. it would
have been flattery to- call her thirty.
She was not fair. 1t would have been
base fabrication to call her even pleas
ant looking. No, that was not she.
Nevertheless, the lady and the usher
approached the fair young dude.
"Here you are. old boy" said the
usher, "allow me 10 present you to my
mother"
And they carried the dude away yea,
even unto the confines of williamsburg.
And they buried him under n grape
leaf. Aud no man knoweth his grave
even unto this day. And no man wants
to.-New York Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29

CABLE dispatch from London: The
famous deaf and dumb knickknack
peddler, who during the last fourteen
years attracted so much attention on
London Bridge. is dead, and the sub
iect of the latest sensation. He died in
the Southwark Workhouse, near the
south end of the bridge. Despite his
infirmities he managed to support him
self by his small sales, and, securing
official and police favor by the gentle
ness of his demeanor and the intelli-
gence of his conduct, he was allowed to
occupy the same post on the great
thoroughfare from year to year. Before
his death the peddler beckoned to his
cot one of the hospital attendants and
terrified him by speaking to himl
When the attendant recovered from
his astonishment, the beggar confessed
that his deafness and dumbness had
been feigned. He said he was Swis
gentleman and belonged to one of the
best families in the republic. When q
young man he was betrothed to benu1
tiful and accomplished girl. He was
possessed of most violent temper,
and in lovers quarrel over trife one
day he so wounded the girl by the bit
terness of his invective that she fell i'll,
The reproaches of his friends for his
cruel conduct stung him 80 that ho bel
came melancholy from remorse and left
home. He then resolved to punish
himself. He vowed to become O vol
untary exile for twenty years; to earn
his own living; leave his fortune un-
touched, keep his relatives and friends
ignorant of his whereabouts, and go
bareheaded and barefooted in oil wealth
ers during the entire time; and to list
en- and speak to no human being during
the last ten years Of his exile. If he
lived to complete his vow he meant to
return home, and use his fortune and the
remainder of his days in making his be-
trothed happy, providing she were alive
and unmarried. He had rigidly kept
his vow; but" he cried before he ex-
pred, "my time is not quite up, and
must die before it is. L have been pun
ished as deserved Investigation, SO
far as it has gone, has proven that the
peddler's story is entirely true, and his
family in Switzerland have been made
acquainted with his death.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29
THE MOON INHABITED.
Towns, Villages, and Cultivated Fields
Can be Seen.

Can be Seen.
At the astronomical observatory of Ber-
lin a discovery has lately been made which,
without doubt, will oause the greatest SEN
sation not only among the adopts in science
but even among the most leaned. Prof.
Blendmann. in that city has found, beyonda
doubt, that our old friend the moon is not
a mere lantern, which kindly furnishes
light for the loving youth and gas COM
panies of our planet. but the abode of liv-
ing. ut sihgent beings. for which he is pro-
pared to furnish proofs the most con-
vincing.
This question has agitated humanity from
time immemorial, and has been the object
Of the greatest interest. But the opinions
have always differed very widely, and no
two minds held one and the same. Already
in ancient times the belief prevailed that
the moon was inhabited with some higher
organized, intelligent beings, somewhat re-
sembling man, and in order to communicate
with them the earthly enthusiasts planted
rows of trees, several miles in length, SO as
to form the figure of the Pythagorean the
orem. The celebrated astronomer, Schro-
der, in the beginning of the present century,
fancied that he could detect places on tho
surface of the moon which periodically grew
lighter and darker, and from this fact no
derived the conclusion that the phenome-
non was a proof of existing vegetation.
During the last few decades, however, the
idea Of life on the moon has been held up
to ridicule, and totally scorned by men OF
learning. But, nevertheless, it has now
been proved to be correct.
BY accident DIR. Bendmann found that
the observations of the moon gave but very
unsatisfactory results, owing to the intens-
itv of the lioht mower of tho moons at
mosphere, which is that strong that it
affects the correctness of the observations
in q very high degree. He then con-
ceived the idea to make the object
glass of the refactor less sensitive
to the rays of the light, and for that
purpose he darkened it with the smoke Of
camphor 1t took months of experimenting
before he suco ded in finding his right de-
gree of obscurity Of the glass, and when
finally found he then with the refmctor took
q very accurate photo Of the moons sur
face. This he placed in sun microscope,
which gave the picture diameter Of Dot
feet The revelation was most startling. IL
perfectly overturned all hitherto entertained
ideas of the moons surface. Those level
plains which formerly were held to be oceans
of water proved to be verdant fields.
and what formerly was considered noun
tains turned out as deserts of sand and
oceans of water. Towns and habtations Of
all kinds were plainly discerniblc, as well
as signs of industry and traffic The learned
Professors study and observations OF old
Luna will be repeated every full moon when
the sky is clear, and we venture to predict
that the time is not far off when we shall
know more about the man in the moon than
as being an agent in English politics.