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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-30

II you are sick with that terrible sickness, Ner-
vou,ne,s, you will find a Balm Ia Gilead IN
Hop Bittcis.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-30

From the Philadelphia Times.I
Watterson loosely amends Burchard
with Rum, Randall and Rebellion.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-12-30

own f,ultif youremain ~. II
vOu ore wasting away with any form
# Kidney. Discl use, SION TEN ptiug death THIS
moment, and turn for azure 10 Hop Bltters'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
For Sale

49, nner, valuable farm containing sixty.hve
E;1 and in good state Of cultivation situated on
~ xno West streets; fifteen minutes walk from
Eos , Snce and depot; good buildings on the farm.
nssrss apply to J. N. LAkRADEE, On the
decSd2m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
The Magazines.

Harper's Magazine for February is strong
in its artistic and literary features. The
frontispiece engraving. from Abbey's draw
ing, 1.-The Bible Reading" is an illustration
for Blacks novel. The opening paper Of the
number, by Joseph Hatton. is a description
of the Upper Thames, accompanied by ten
illustrations. Miss Woolson concludes her
interesting article "At Mentone." Mr.. c.
II. Farnham. one of our best magazinists,
contributes paper entitled "a Winter In
Canada" Colonel Higginsons's american
History" series has passed beyond the Rsvo-
lutionary period, and in this month's paper
he traces the beginnings Of our national
life. +. Mason contributes a. paper
on the old Dutch master, Jacob Ruysdael,
Recent work in Tcrra.Cotta is the subject Of
an article by Alexander +. Oakley, illus-
trated from drawings by the author. Julian
Hawthorne contributes a story entitled David
Poindexters Disappearance" and shorter
story-a New England sketch-of . more
humorous character "Glimpses Of Emerson"
by Mrs. James Il. Fields, will be of interest
to every reader of the Magazine in America
and England. The late DIR. J. Marion Sims 10
the author of sketch of Revolutionary times,
entitled Lydia Mackey and Colonel Tarle-
ton, "and the Rev. Charles p. Thwing con-
tributes timely paper on The National
Government and Education" The editorial
departments are well sustained, as usual, and
full of entertainment and instruction. For
sale by j. f. Pierce.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08

Rev. +. ID. Winslow, the Boston forger,
was recently seen, it is said, in Davenport,
Iowa.
George III. Boxer, author of Francesca
da Rmnini," has sent his thanks to Walt
Whitman for his assistance in the produc-
ton" of his play.
The late Baron James Rothschild it is
said, generally dimes at home upon a slice of
roast beef or mutton, and head of cabbage
well tied up and boiled gently for seven or
eight houre in pot an fen.
Miss Emily Faithful arrived in San Fran
cisco on January q. While in California
she will examine the farming lands in the
southern part of the State in regard to their
affording prospective homes for families and
colonies.
The Queen of Tahiti, who is travelling in
cognita through the United States as Nine.
Eepau Salmon, is in New York, and may
possibly visit Boston. The object of her
journey is made someth ing of q secret, but
it is possible TO find some connection be.
tween her presence here and the fact that
this is leap year. To be sure Governor Rob
inson is married, and so is Mayor Martin
but Samuel J. Tilden is bachelor and Gen
Butler is widower
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
NO. "a.
In the Nick of Time.

In the Church of the Epiphany, Phiisdel-
phia, on recent afternoon. Miss Fannie
Elizabeth kessler and her father stood at the
alter awaiting the entrance of the groom,
but the Rev. G. II. Kinsolving mistook them
for the couple that were 10 be married.
dearly beloved - he read 1--WE are ,gatA-
cred together here in the sight of God
and in the face Of this company to join TO-
gether this man and this woman In holy mat
rimony." As he came to the words: 'If any
man can show just cause why they may not
lawfully be joined together let him now speak,
or else hereafter hold his peace" there was
noise outside, the door at the foot of the
nave was thrown open, and Mr.. Mitchell,
attended by his best man, hurried up the
aisle. They explained that unaccOuntably
the vestry door had been locked, and that
when the organ gave them the cue for their
entrance they tugged away at the door in
vain. and at length had to go outside and
round through the front door Of the church.
Thereupon the minister began the marriage
service again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
General News.

John Sweatnam of Howard county, Mo-,
has twenty-four children, twenty -one being
BOYS, all of whom were in the Confederate
army and all Democrats.
The newspapers in speaking of the orators
of the past 20 years who have all passed away,
omit to mention Governor Bullock. In
many respects he was the superior of those
named and second only to Mr.. Phillips.
At the recent session of the New Jersey
State Horticulturaf Society it was voted by
the most experianced grape growers of that
State that Concord, Worded (blsck). Bigh-
ton, Jefferson (red) and Packlington, Ouch
ess (whte) were the six best and most desira-
bic grapes grown. This may be true for that
section of the country. but how about New
England!
A belief in Druidism still survives in
Wales. DIR. Price. of Pontypridd said to be
a surgeon in good practice, was apprehended
by the police, while dressed in what he fan
cied to be Druid's garb, he was burning
with the aid of tar-barrel the body of his
deceased illegitimate child on the top of a
mountain. in the conviction that he per-
forming an ancient Druidical rite. He was
charged with disdemeansr in not having
buried tha body decently.
An English paper says that penal servitude
is, as now carried out in England, a very
dreadful punishment indeed. From the dock
the convict is carted away in the prison van,
and on his arrival at the Jail the heavy gates
are shut to, with a horrible sound, behind
him. He is thrust into narrow cell, there
to remain without companionship for nine
months. Scarcely ever hearing human
voice, save the warden's, fed on coarse food,
his fate is sealed for thirty-six weeks and af-
ter that he will probably be sent to another es-
tablisbment where the discipline is somewhat
less severe. The nine months solitary con-
inement of FIVE years convict is hard to
bear. About FIVE feet from the floor is a
peep-hole. The warder can look in at any
moment, and the dread of his constant super
vision induces in sensitive prisoners nervous
anxiety, in such cases the most severe part OF
the punishment inflicted on them. The pc
riod of solitary confinement at an end, they
are allowed 20 work in gangs, under strict
and purposely vexatious discipline.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08

Dailp kennrhrr JnurnaL.


Charles E. Warren writes to the Home
Farm on his experiments with potatoes
which have extended through several
years, and from which he has reached the
following conclusions with reference to
their growth: A moist. sandy soil, says
he. grows potato best in quality; while
a deep clayey loan will produce the
largest yield. find they do the best on a
newly turned sod, no matter what the
character of the soil. The best prepara-
ton have found is liberal dressing of
we'll pulverized stable manure. spread
broadcast on the furrows. and well incor-
porated with the soil. with the use of super
phosphate in the hill. Six cords of ma
nure and three hundred pounds of SUPER
phosphate is none too much to the acre.
As to manner of planting. prefer hill
ing to level culture. and get at my idea
of the proper amount of hill by planting
the seed about four inches below the level.
| find by this practice that | get the seed
down to level with the centre of the rows
after the potatoes are hoed, with the hill
somewhat broad and flat.
For seed, | have found the size most
desirable for the table, the best, cutting
them so as to give two eyes and no more
to the hill. | am not yet quite sure, but
am inclined to believe that a small piece
of the "seed end" where the eyes are so
close together. had better be discarded for
seed. Overgrown potatoes have tenden-
cy to produce overgrown ones, with but
few in hill. and these of inferior quality.
and in planting small ones the tendency is
to grow small ones more and more from
year to year.
believe in good seed. and have come
to the conclusion that potatoes designed
for seed should never be stored in large
quantities; and also that they are more
reliable when dug soon after they are ripe.
have no doubt but they are injured for
table use by lying in the ground long after
they are ripe, and still more if stored in
such quantities as to cause them to sweat.
The potato bug has proved with me a
success. | have not found the use of Paris
green satisfactory. and as fall back on
hand picking,I make the rows shorter and
have less of them. Potatoes we must have
and we shall succeed best in planting the
early varieties on rich soil SO as to mature
the crop by midsummer, if possible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
The Winthrop Creamery.

The butter fartory of the Winthrop
Dairying Association Is turning out from
two hundred to two hundred and fifty
pounds of butter per day, which Boston
parties are taking as soon as made at salts
factory prices. The quality is said to be
very fine. By request samples of their
make hsve been sent to Philadelphia. and
the result is that more orders for it are be-
ing received from that far-off market
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
How About the Doses

Many people before purchasing medicine
naturally inquire the pize of the dose and the
strength of it. In using Burdock blood Bit
ters a teaspoonful for the little ones and TIVE
teaspoonfuls for grown folks are all that II
necessary at one time. This magnificent
medicine is not only economical bnt very
pleasant to to the taste. feb5tlwlp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
Attest HOWARD OWEN. Register. sV1s

KENNEBEC COUNTY.-In Probate Court,
at Augusfa, on the second Monday Of JsassrDs
1884.
DETITION5 having been presented fer TIE d.
l. charge Of the Executor Of the estate Of Lewis
ID. Moore, and the Administrators on the estate q
Elizabeth A. Moore, both late ofAsGusta.
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three
weeks successfully, prior to the second Mon6ay -
printed In Augusta, that I'll persops Interested Noy
attend at Court of Probate then 70 be kol6Ga
at Augusta, and show cause, II any, why the prayer
Of said petition should not be granted.
EMERY o. BEAM, Judss.
Attest HOWARD OwKH. Register. eWp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
KKNNEsEc CoyxTY.-fn PROBATE cssrs. ~

EENNEBEC C0UNTY.-fn PROBATE Courts h19d
at 1ugusta, on the second Monday of January,
1884:
A l.. BARTON, administrator on the estate Of
a. Crosby Kinds, deceased, who was executor
of the last will and testament OF David Hunter, late
of Benton, In said county, deceased having present
ed his account executor of said will for aOwaaee:
ORDERED, That notice thereofbe given three weeks
SUCCESSFULLY prior to the second Monday Of febsuay
next, In the Kennebec Journal, . newspapef
printed in Augusta that a persons interested may st
tend at Probate Court then to be held ct Augusta,
and show cause, II any, why the same should not b
allowed.
EMERY o. BEAN, Judge.
Attest HOWARD Owen. Register. 3Wlp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08

t. The best iamily pill made-Havley's stouach and
Liver Pills SC Pheasant in aetion and easy to take
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
Personal.

Rev. +. ID. Winslow, the Boston forger,
was recently seen, it is said, in Davenport,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-08
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF MAINE. g,

STATE OF MAINE. 90.
EENNFBEC, w.
CEIZED on execution wherein Henry W. Colder
= of Belgrade, in said county. surviving partner
OF the late firm OF d. q ii. w. Colder, IL creditor,
and Sanborn Mosher of Rome In said county, 10
debtor and will be sold at public auction on gatuf.
day, the eighth day Of March, A. ID. 1884, ut loooeek
in the forenoon, Mt the Office Of f. 8. Fogg in Al.
gusta In said county, certain tract parcel Of land
situated in said Rome. and bounded - follows: On
the north by the land Of Joseph Watson; on Ne
east by the Little Pond, so called; the north b.
the land Of Manchester Waugh; on the west BY the
land Of Elias Foster containing hfty acres, more o.
less, being the same described In deed by David
Ellis to said Mosher. dated November II, fse1, snd
recorded in the kennebec Registry, book az, page
lO3 WIN n. LIBBY, Deputy sheriff.
February !, 1884, w3Wo
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
TCincinnAti Enuuirer.l


Prof. F. w. Putnam, in his lecture
ON Ancient Peruvian Art" said that
the traces left by the Incas have shown
that they were tribe possessed of the
greatest skill in number of fine arts,
such as viewing, ceramics, delicately
formed designs Of pottery, and other
artistic pursuits. In the portions oi
Peru inhabited by the Incas one can
scarcely penetrate the ground to any
depth without unearthing the remains
of member of the tribe. All were
buried in manner peculiar to the
creed. The knees were drawn up to
the chin. the body surrounded by a
easement Of cloth andcotton; and the re.
mains of one of the tribe recently found
was wrapped in the same manner, the
case containing rag with the stamp Of
the Lowell cotton mills. demonstrating
that the mode of burial was carried
down from their ancestors.
Prof. Putnam exhibited q number oi
designs OF the specimens of the intri-
cate weaving and tapestry work per-
formed by the Inca tribe. The Peru
VANS were great cotton raisers, and
the specimens of cotton work found
have been pronounced by good Judges
as superior to the sea island cotton OF
the present day. The garments we're
as soft and delicate as could be made
from wool, and the colors were all fast,
particularly the blue and green. The
fast colors are secured from different
dyes, and are in such perfect state OF
preservation to-day that chemists have
been puzzled when endeavoring to as
certain how these ancient tribes per-
formed the work so effectually and
lasting.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
ArixOna,s wild Camels.
Tombstone Epitaph. I

The camels now running wild in
Arizona were bought by the United
States government in Asia Minor.
There were seventy-six camels in the
first "colony." They were first en-
ployed in packing between Fort Tejon
and Albuquerque, in some instances
carrying 100 gallons of water to the
animal and going nine days without
themselves. firing of the cam
els, the government condemned
them, and they were sold at Bene-
cia to two Frenchmen, who took
them to Reese river, where they were
used in packing salt to Virginia City.
Afterward the animals were brought
back to Arizona, and for some time
were engaged in packing ore from Sill
yer King to Yuma; but through some
cause or other the Frenchmen became
disgusted, there being no market for
camels just then, and turned the camels
loose upon the desert near Maricopa
wells, and to-day they and their descend
ants are roaming through the Gila val.
ley, increasing and multiplying nd
getting fat upon the succulent sage
brush and greasewood with which the
country abounds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
GDe rot Free P.ess.l


II will tell You something about paint
ing buoys," sud the pilot when you
enter any harbor in the world where
the channel is marked by buoys you
will find that those on yoIr right as
you pass in are painted red, and those
on your left black. Ii you should see
one painted in red and black horizontal
bands the ship should run as close to it
as possible, because that indicates the
red and black vertical stripes always
mark the ends of spits and the outer and
inner ends of extensive reefs, where
thereis channel on each side. When red
and black checkers are painted on o
buoy it marks either a rock in the open
sea or an distraction in the harbor of
small extent with channel all around.
If there are two such Instructions and
a channel between them. the buoy on
the right of you will have red and
white checkers, and the one en- your
left will have black and white check.
ers"
"Supposing wreck obstructs the
chan?el?"
A green buoy will be placed at the
sea side of the wreck. with the word
wreck plainly painted on it in white
letters, provided there is clear chan
mel around it. Otherwise an even num-
DER will be painted in white above the
word wreck when the buoy is on the
right side of the channel, and an odd
number if the buoy is on the left"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
4 Portable Body. Heater.


A Bridgeport, Conn, professor has
invented neat thing in the way OF q
steam heater to carry about on the per-
son. 1t is called the portable body
steam heater" The apparatus is a
small affair, consisting of copper
boiler, under which is o diminutive
lamp. all incased in a nickel box, and
balanced something like q compass, so
that, nomatter what position the outside
box is in, the boiler and lamp will
always remain in the required YER
teal position. The entire apparatus
is So small that it can be carried in the
pocket. After the lamp is lighted, the
water in the boiler is heated and circu-
lated through rubber tubes, which run
down the legs around the ankles, up
around the back, and back to the boiler.
The circulation of the warm water
keeps the body warm on the coolest
day. A safety valve and escape for a
higher pressure of steam than the affair
is allowed to carry flows off at the back
of the wearer's neck. Elaborate heat
ers are being constructed for ladies'
wear. They can he worn inside the bus
tie and entirely obscurel. Before going
out Of the house the lady's maid can
light the lamp, which. by the way, is
guagod to run six, eight, or ten hours,
and my lady" walks out under free
pressure of steam, and warranted to be
kept warm during the promenade
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
Not . Hernit's Llfe.
tCor. Pittsburg Dispatch.l


Mrs. A. T. Stewart will never again be
seen III New lora society. She will
spend the rema;nde. of her life in Nom.
ories of the past, in cherishing the fame
of her husband, in doing deeds Of un.
ostentatious charity, and in ENJOYING
the companionship of q select circle Of
lifelong friends.
For she doesn't live like . hermit.
Oh, no!
She spends her summers at Saratoga
living there in imperial splcndor. She
drives out, she walks, she attends the
superb garden concerts. Indeed, she
seems to enjoy life there as fully as do
any of the gayer and younger guests.
In winter she lives in her Fifth avenue
mansion. But not alone. She is never
without pleasant compaHionship. And
though the lights from the huge crystal
chandeliers scarcely show a glimmer
through the heavy white satin curtains,
every evening her parlors are the scene
of pleasant social life, all in q little
world of its own.
If any one thinks Mrs. Stewart lives
like hermit in tomb he is badly mis-
taken.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
Literary msicaltties.

l..
A whole history might bo written on
literary tritling, or the various whimsi-
calities with which literary men have
amused their leisure hours. Greek
poets used to divert their friends by
composing poems from which particu-
lar letters were excluded. One of these
lypOgrammatistS wrote an imitation of
HOmer's "Odyssey' in as many books
as there were letters in the Greek al
phabet. He called the first Alpha, be-
cause there was not an Alpha in it; the
second Pea, becarse that letter was
omitted. and 50 on through the rest.
A Latin monk, for want of something
better to do, wrote little prose work,
OF which part still remains. 1t has as
many chapters as there are letters in
the Latin alphabet, the first chapter is
without an "a" the second has no 3d."
and so on through the rest. There are
said to be still extant five novels of
Lope de Vega, from each one of which
he excluded some particular letter.
These heroic authors seemed determined
to prove that they could get along with
out the alphabet, and taking up each
letter in turn, triumphantly showed it
that they could transact their business
without its assistance.
On the other hand, there have been
literary trifiers who manifested unusual
fondness for some particular letter.
An Italian monk named Hugbald wrote
o book, stupid enough no doubt, in
which every word began with the letter
&C." There is also another brainlsss
production of the same age. entitled
"Pugno Po,orum," of which every
word begins with "p." Gregorio, to
amuse his friends at Rome, wrote dis
course from which he excluded the let
ter r." and when friend asked for q
copy he replied in letter in which not
an r." was to be found.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-28
Deaf Mutex Increasing.

In u paper read before the National
Academy of Sciences. at New Haven
Prof. A. Graham Bell contends that
something striking and abnormal is
going on among deaf mutes, something
that is tending to create new variety
of the human race. He quoted reports
of various asylums and institutions for
deaf mutes, showing that eighty-two
cases out of one hundred deaf mutes
were married to deaf mntes. Thes re-
ports did not give the information
whether the marriage in each case was
between persons congenitally deaf or
between those who had become deaf by
disease, or between one of each kind.
He believed that those who, being
congenitally deaf married congenitally
deaf persons, were likely to have deaf
mute children. The professor presented
diagrams showing thas the probabili
ties were that those who were congeni-
tally deaf had in almost every instance
relatives who were deaf mutes also.
The total number of deaf mutes in the
United States was "a, 900, or one out of
every 800