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Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16

BANGOR, April l5.
]. H. Jordan's steam mills at Mattawam-
keag were burned Sunday afternoon. Lose
5000 NO Insurance.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
Chicago Produce Market.

CHICAGO, April IS.
FLOUR--dull.
wHEAr-higher; No.2 Chicago Spring. 79las4
April, 81.
CORN higher at 45s a 4si.
OATs-higher 3lI.
RYE-firmer; 51a
BARLEY-irm 70.
PORK at 10 S5 a 16 S7l.
LARD - a rs 80.
BULK MEAT-ShouIdere. 100: Short rib, 20.
Short cisar. 8 90
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16

PORTLAND, April 10.
Bid. for the new Ogdensburg loan were
onened this afternoon. and the entire loan of
$3.50, 600 was awarded to Maine Saving Bank
at premium of $3.50 on the thousand.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
BY TELEGRAPH.
WEATHER REPORT.
Indications for the Next "a Hours
War Department

War Department,
ONCE OF the Chief Signal Officer.
Washington, ID. c., April LIE A. NJ.
For New England and Middle States,
cloudy weather and rain southerly, shifting
to westerly winds; rising following by falling
temperature; lower barometer. Cautionary
signals from Smithville to Eastdort.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
Getting Of Portland Commentary
knights Templar.
Meeting
PORTLAND, April To

PORTLANp, Apf1I 10
A meeting of Portland Commandary
Knights Templar was held here tonight be-
ing the official visit of Grand Commander
Bangs. Gov. Robie was received into the
order
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
This is the Season.

In which to purify the blood ana invigoase the body
sne6al effects of reliable blood pu ier. regulator
"a tonic like Hoods Ssrssparilia. The approach
sch manfests itself in that extreme tired feeling,
ABILITY, Ianguor. and dulness- Now IL the time 70
,aIe Hoods sarsaparflla-
81 have been troubled with general debility, and
~ Mood was all out of order. took Hoods Sarsa-
1.rils and am feeling perfectly wei. 1t has been
-, benefit to me-" y. A. LEE. Lima, o.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
Mail Lettings.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, d. c., Mar. L, 1884.

Washington, d. O., Mar. I, 1854.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Con-
tract Office of this Department until P.
NJ. Of MAY 8. 1884. for carrying the mails
of ~ United States upon the routes, and
according to the schedule OF arrival and
departure specified by the Department
in the State of Maine. from July :. .sS4,
to June 80, 1885. Lists of routes, with
schedules of arrivals and departures, in
structions to bidders, with forms for con-
tracts and bonds, and all other necessary
information will be furnished upon ap-
plication TO the Second Assistant Post
master General.
w. @. GRESHAM,
Postmastey General.
mar1t1aw6w
Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
Purify your Blood.

.Hoods sarsaparia tones up the system, purifes
,v blood and seems to make me all over" W. j.
BLAIR Corning. N 7.
any wife has been troubled with indigestion, ana
he, blood has been In poor condition. She has
.ed several bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilia, and II
ba. been great benefit to her." II. Die KsoN, Ken
ton, Ohio. ,
aFor seven years. spring and fall, had scrofulous
.o,es come out on my legs, and for two years was
nj free from them at ALL suffered very much. Last
NAV began taking Hoods Sarsaparills. and before
I had taken two bottles the sores healed and the
humor Ieft me" &. A. ARNOLD. Arnold, Me.
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Sold BY all druggists. u; six for e5. Made only by
C. /. HOOD Co. Apothecaries, Lowell. Macs.
100 Doses 81. 90.
apr1itMw&s&w-nr
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
Cultivation OF Root Crops.
Live stock Journal

A great mistake is often committee
in growing roots, in the ambition OF
obtaining such as are large of size,
and getting an extra quantity per
acre. We ought rather to strive for
those of medium size, and of the best
quality; for one bushel of these may
contain more nutriment than two, or
even three bushels of overgrown
specimens; and, Furthermore, gre atty
lessen the labor of digging, storing
and feeding. We have seen roots so
large as to be little better than wood
en-. Animals would not eat them
unless excessively hungry, and, when
they did so, they were more or less
indigestible, and afforded little nutri-
ment.
A very fertile prairie soil is too rich
to grow a good quality of roots, and a
poor soil should not be MANFRED too
abundantly for them In planting,
the rows are best made about three
feet apart, so that they can be cult
waited well and cheaply with small
one-horse plow and narrow harrow,
with fine, sharp pointed teeth, set
sloping behind, or with the ordinary
single-horse cultivator. Let beets and
other long roots grow so near to each
other in the rows that they will mere
ly escape touching when they come to
a full moderate size.
Sugar beets, according to Sir j. B.
Lawes, are 60 per cent more nutritious
than mangel-wurzels, and ought to
be cultivated most; but the latter pro
duce the greater quantity per acre,
keep better during the winter, and
will keep considerably later into the
spring, or even summer, in a cool eli
mate. Carrots are superior to these,
and most excellent for horses. There
is nothing better for dairy cows than
parsnips. and the advantage of cult
waiting them is, that they can be left
in the ground all winter, to be dug IN
the spring
Roots are very beneficial to horses
and sheep, in a moderate quantity,
and especially so in larger amount
to cattle'and swine. They soften hay
in the stomach, and render it almost
like gross, and quite as digestible and
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
ELEPHANT FIGHTS IN BURMAH.
The Contest Which Prince Arthur is
Said TO Have Attended.
New York Times, March 81
aabla ssananflv cold


The cable recently said that the
presence of the Duke of Connaught
prince Arthur at an elephant fight,
given by the Rajah of Bhurtpore,
India, would be made the subject of a
question in Parliament G. r. Gay
lord who brought Barnums sacred
white elephant to this country, said
yesterday that he saw q fight at
Prone, in Burmah, and another at
Theyatmo, in British Burmah.
THE one at TheyatmO was by all
odds the best one, " said he. There
were fifteen elephants on a side. A
pair of them are never started alone
at a fight. The fights are always ar
ranged for the amusement of the
mobiles, and are great events. The
battle is terrific. The elephants are
given toddy made out of the ferment-
ed juice of the palm, which,they drink
out of buckets. Jersey lightning is
like water compared to the stuff. |
drank some under the impression that
it was a kind of cider. 1t smelled
like cider | took only one finger,
and never was so drunk in my life.
/ never would have felt the same
amount of whisky. 1t makes the
elephants reel and tumble about like
drunken men. They snort and
trumpet and create a terrible racket
In the fight at Theyatmo the mahouts
or drivers straddled their necks and
urged them on. The beasts had been
maddened by prodding and beating
and rIshed at each other like mad.
There were some that wheeled around
and ran away, but those that kept on
made the earth shake when they
came together. They ran right into
each other They locked tusks, and
gored aud dashed one another with
their trunks. Tusks were run into
elephants shoulders six or eight
inches. The fights in India are the
same, of course. In Burmah fights
take place beteen elephants and tigers.
King Thebau has men fight tigers.
The Burmese in power arc cruel One
King used to make the people lie
down for his pony to walk over.
Colonel George Arstingstall, Bar
NUNS elephant trainer said elephants
were fond of whisky or any kind of
liquor. One would take four or FIVE
gallons at a dose.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17

presumption laws. 1t will soon become
as necessary in Oregon and Washing
ton Territory, in parts of California
and all of Arizona, as the deputy sur
veyor represents it now to be in North
eastern Nebraska. With the vast do
main of unoccupied lands in Texas,
congress has nothing 20 do. That
state, by the terms of its admission
into the Union, is the undisputed
owner of all the land, and its own
legislature must decide between the
rights of the common people and the
insolence of the cattle kings, sheep
herders When they make the dis
covery, as they must, that 1, 900 acres,
subdivided into ten small farms, we'll
cultivated and improved and settled
by ten families, with power to keep
common school running for six
months in every year, is worth more
to states finances and to enlighten-
ed progress than 20, 900 acres ranged
over by one monopolist's COW
boys, the legislature of Texas Will
put an end to the insolence of the land
grabbers and the depredations of the
cowboys
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
Wholesale Lnnd Grabbing

san Francisco Chronicle.
Information sent TO the interior de-
partment by ~. s. deputy survey
or, from the northwestern part of the
state of Nebraska explains a condition
of things there which congress ought
to remedy by the speedy passage of an
act, with severe penalties against the
class Of interlopers ON the public lands
described i'm the information. As long
as the public lands remain unlnclos-
ed every man has the right. at least
by prescription, to pasture his cattle
and sheep upon them. Bat no man
has a right in his own name to inclose
more than 100 acres, or to shut out set
tiers from his exclusive use of more
than that quantity. These North
eastern Nebraska cattle kings do not
limit their ranges. They have inclos-
ed tens of thousands of acres within
wire fences, and exercise their power
as guild TO bar out all settlers from
these vast Enclosures The land is not
theirs. 1t is public property. ANY
citizen desiring n home has the legal
right to enter and occupy By preemp.
ton or homestead regulation 100 acres
at government price. But the fact of
possession by the cattlemen is astaud-
ing menace to such occupation and
cultivation, for the unlawful holder
has the power TO veN the settler ina
many ways.
The evil is not confined to North
eastern Nebraska, either 1t was com
planned of ina Texas, where the state
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
Why the Chinese Oppose Railroads
Pesin Letter in the Pau Mall Gazette

Pekin Letter in the Pau Mall Gazette.
Foreigners in China make great
outcry about the stupidity of the
Chinese in holding out against rail
roads. Chinese do hold out against
railroads and they are quite right in
doing so. They feel that to introduce
railways at present would be to flood
the country with foreign engineers,
contractors, managers, machine me
chanics, engine-drivers, etc, and once
there. the Cinnamon fear that they
would never leave, but get hold on
the country, and that China would be-
come a second India and pass under
foreign rule. Rather than have the
foreigner they go without the railway
and bide their time. Railways and all
the rest will come as soon as they can
make and manage them without our
help. Coming up to Pekin from
TientSin | was surprised to look out of
my boat and see telegraph posts
stretching along the country, and
leaned that there had been a tele-
graph established between Tlentsln
and Tung Chou place fifteen miles
from the capital. 1t was erected under
foreign supervision but is said to be
worked entirely by Cinnamon. China
feels herself competent to work tele-
graph, and has it not only from near
Pekin to Tientsin, but from Tientsiu
onward to a river port near Shanghai.
AS soon as China feels that she can
work railway. the railway win come.
A great deal that is said about China
being ready for railway is premature.
There is hardly place in the north
of the empire where a railroad would
pay. What China wants first IS good
roads. After some ten or fifteen years
of good roads an intercommunicatlon
traffic will spring up which will call
for railways, but at present no SUCH
traffic, except perhaps on one route.
has been developed, and a railway, If
built tomorrow would stand rusting
its rails ia idleness. 1t is all very we'll
for merchants and spectators to call
for rapid advance and Improvements,
but any one taking a fair and dispas
sionate view of the matter viii, espe
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
MRS. FREMONTS BOOK.
The Daughter of Thomas Bentop
Writing a Firesidc study of Poll

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. wife
of General John G.. Fremont. saws
the Washington correspondent of the
New York World, is one of the best
known and most popular women in
this country. Nearly every winter
she pays visit to Washington, where
nearly every one who is worth know
ing pays her the most marked atten
ton. She is in Washington now. and
will remain here for several weeks
yet | called upon Mrs. Fremont
yesterday morning, and was received
by her while she was engaged in re-
ceiving a call from the favorite niece
of her father, the great Benton. with
her vlvacious daughter-in-law at her
right.
She is now engaged in writing a
book, covering her "reminiscences of
the national periods Of Benton and
Fremont, with notes up to the present
day, for the past relations with prom
inent political leaders give her to-day
footing with the leaders of the pres
ent, which her knowledge of politics
and social powers enable her to easily
maintain
What will be the title of your
book, Mrs. Fremont2" | asked.
"Oh, | can hardly say as yet I'll
could borrow French title | should
prefer to call it Ny Memoirs. [ in
tend to give a Preside study of the
political life of my time. Ihope to
make it something better than a mere
record of personal gossip and reminis-
cence. You know | was with nv
father when he was writing his
Thirty Years in the United States
Senate. and was the confuant of
many of his private papers. He made
his Thirty Years book much more
comprehensive than he would if he
had been preparing it simply for pub
lie men. But he intended it should
be political bible; it was especially
for the instruction of young men Just
entering politics. This book has Ger
tainly reached the place in public con.
sideration for which it was originally
Mrs. Fremont then said: II think
there is one thing lacking in the his
tory of our names that adds such full
ness and completeness to French his
torical literature, and that is the lack
of recording the personal observation
and gossip of a period which is so full
ly covered in France by the memoirs
of noted people"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
FOR TIE FARMER.
russian AppIes.
Prof Budd in Western Rural.

Permit me to remark, in a brief
way, that few Americans have correct
notions in regard to Russian soil and
climate The great empire is assumed
to be like the coast section of which
we know most. Central Russia. / 600
miles or less inland from the Baltic
has a rich black prairie soil, under
laid with clay, resting on limestone,
like our prairie, with no timber ex-
cept fringing along streams. The
temperature and relative humidity of
air-summer and winter-depend on
the direction of the winds. The com
mon wind from the southeast comes
up from the deserts of Arabia, Persia
and Southeast Russia, and is always
dry and hot. The southwest wind
which is also frequent, comes laden
with moisture like our air from the
Gulf of Mexico Again the prevalent
northeast wind corresponds in tenn
perature and aridity to ours from the
northwest. So extremely variable il
the climate that at Saratov. Simbursk
and other points east of the Volga, no
true German apple or pear will live
two years. Yet this region has as
fine old orchards as | have seen in
Europe or America. To give an idea
of the extreme temperature of winter.
| will say that twelve years ago at
Tula-south of Moscow warm
southeast wind took off all the snow
and drew the frost from the ground
followed by downpour from the
northeast bringing the thermometer
down to SIS degrees below zero. Such
extremes we never know, and many
varieties of popular Russian fruits
fail on the black rich soils in these
occasional periods of sudden and ex-
IRENE range and temperature. Yet
IN this region the average summer
heat is sufficient TO ripen dent corn.
melons and tomatoes.
Yet various parts of The great EN-
pire have varied climatic conditions.
Our first scions of the Russian fruits
were from the coast sections near the
Baltic. Some of those have done we'll
with us. That all of the far-interior
fruits will prove hardy with us, / have
no shadow of doubt. The many Ivarie-
ties on the college grounds growing on
rich garden soil, where common sorts
killed back % the snow lire, made
rank growth from the terminal bud
after the test winter of 1928 Most
of these are harder than the Duchess,
and all of them have the thick coria-
ceous leaf peculiar to the Duchess aud
the Tetofski.
The only point l wish to make at
this time is that Russia has the largest
prairies in the world and that differ
ent portions have a soil and climate
almost identical with corresponding
parts of our prairies, and that Russia
is ancient in the work of orcharding,
while we are yetyoung and our fruits
came to us mainly from the soft hui
mid sections of Western Europe
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17


There are few things so conductive
to the comfort of stock as wood lots
and groves into which they can re-
treat for shelter in case of storms.
And as the season for planting APP
proaches we desire to urge upon such
of our readers who have not already
attended to the matter the advantage
of provision in this respect A very
narrow belt of some of the quicS-grow-
ing trees, like cottonwood or box eld-
er, planted on the exposed sides, to
shelter the buildings and feed lots,
Will occupy but little rand and involve
but little expense, and will be very
grateful to stock II will be surpris
ing to note how great a proportion of
the time stock will spend within this
sort of shelter, when once provided;
and when the trees have acquired a
fair size, it is better to let the stock
run among them. At other points
about the farm small timber lots can
be planted with advantage and so
situated and fenced that took can
have access at one side from the grass
lands in the summer. and be given ac-
cess from the grain field on the other
in winter. Whatever land IS given
up to this purpose will be put to good
use, and will pay handsome dividend
on It's value in the increased comfort
and thrift of the stock on the farm.
And after few years, when the trees
have grown to some size, the thinning
out of such as can be spared will be
productive of direct income. Besides,
these timber belts and clumps relieve
the monotony of the landscape, and
render the farm more attractive to me
eye and more pleasing TO the artistic
senses; and there are but few things
connected with agriculture which
bring to the farmer more genuine
pleasure than the successful growing
of trees. They constitute a monu.
ment more appropriate and full OF
meaning than one of brass o. marble.
NY grandfather, said gentleman
to the writer one day, pointing to
noble group OF elmS whose branches
had spread of forty or fifty feet, aud
whose tops were sixty or seventy feet
above the ground, brought all these
trees, when little twigs, all the way
from Vermont tied up in pocket
handkerchief, which he moistened
every day" They were the pride OF
the whole neighborhood, and their
grateful shade aud graceful outlines
will keep green the memory and name
of the noble man who planted them
for generations yet to come. PAM
trees. Plant them for the protection
of your live stock; plant them for the
comfort of your children; plant them
for the glory of yourself.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
Indian Legends.
Brltlsh QuarterIy REVIEW

bIlulon quarterly REVIEW.
There was once a young prince
who was betrothed to a Yirtuous
maiden. Before the marriage took
place he became a gambler and a
drunkard, and behaved so badly that
his father and mother died of grief.
After their death he continued lead
ing a deSolate life, until at last he had
no money left, and was obliged to
wander about, living on charity.
Meantime his betrothed was doing all
that was good. She had given to the
poor half the money her parents had
left her when they died, and spent
her days in praying to God and in
reading in holy book; and, though
she was so young, she was wise and
very good" One day the poverty
stricken priRce paid her visit, and
she received him kindly and gave
him food and clothing. He wanted
to marry her at once, but she told
him he must first go out into the
Jungle and see four sights. So he
went forth and what he saw was this:
In one corner of large tank se be-
beheld "a man and woman who had
good clothes goods food, good beds
and servants to wait on them, and
seemed very happy" In another
"he saw a wretchedly poor man and
his wife who did nothing but cry and
sob because they had no food to eat,
40 water to drink, no bed to lie ON,
no one to take care of them At the
third corner were two little fishes,
which were necessarily leaping up
into the air and dropping back again;
and a the fourth was "a huge demon
who was heating sand in an enormous
iron pot, under which he kept up
big fire" The prince returned and
told his betrothod what he had seen.
She explained to him the
meaning of thespectacle. The
happy pair, she said,
We're her own parents. She mad been
good to them while they lived and
after their death she had given half
of their substance to the poor, and on
the other half she had ''lived quietly
and tried to be good. Therefore they
were made happy in their posthumous
existence. But the wretched man and
woman, she told him, were his par
ents, who were in misery because he
had gambled and drank till they died
of grief, and had afterward drank
ard gambled all their money away.
As to the two fishes she continued
they are the two little children we
should have had if you had taken me
to your home as your wife Now
they cannot be born, for they can
find no bodies i'm which to be born
so Khuda has ordered them to rise
and sink in the air in those fishes
forms. Finally she told him that
the demon whom he had seen, was
heating the sand in the iron pot for
him, because he had been such a
wicked man. No sooner had the
maiden told all this than she died
But he did not get any better. lie
gambled and drank all her money
away, and lived a wretched life, wan.
dering about like faku till his
death
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17

A PhiladelphIan sent postal card
to his sister in Canada on which he
had written G44 words. Not to le out
done, he crowded in 1003 which
brought an answer with |, 526 words
spelled out in fall and written plain
enough to be easily read bv persons
OF ordinarily good sight He thinks
he Will send her a new spring bonnet
and call it square.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
Baltimore SIM.

A Government official Just returned
from Florida tells a good story at the
expense of Jay Gould. When Mr.
Gould's yacht was lying off Fernan-
dia party of gentlemen, including
several of the English noblemcn tray
cling in Florida this season, received
an invitation from him to pay visit
to his vessel. They were received by
Mr.. Gould with much politeness and
shown all over the yacht by him in
person. The whole party were quite
profuse in complimenting the yacht
and its appointments, and all were in
high spirits, expecting of course, that
when the inspection was concluded q
collation. would be spread But moth
ing was said about lunch, and they
were not even invited to take a glass
of wine or a thimbleful of old rye, al
though lingering to the last moment.
The party finally left in digust, and
one of the British Lords was in such
high dudgeon that he went off with
out saying good bye 10 the Wall street
king, and afterwards remarked that
he was no gentleman TO act in such a
manner. lie said if the owner of a
yacht in Great Britain should treat
guests in that style hewould be ''cut
in all good society.