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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-25
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-25
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-25

VIII make two trips daily, Sundays excepted, be.
tween Fort Popham and Bath, commencing Friday,
June 20, 1854.
TIME TABLE-Will leave Fort Popham at :
O'Clock A. NJ, and $50 O'Clock Z. NJ. Returning. will
leave Bath at O'Clock A. NJ, and z. NJ except
Saturday nights, leave Bath at Z. NJ; Monday
mornings leave Fort Popham at A. NJ; Tuesdays
and Fridays leave Fort Popham at Z. NJ. Land
ings will be made at Parkers Head, Georgetown and
Phipsburg daily on signal.
The "Percy v" is a new steamer, built by the Fort
Popham Summer Resort Association last season, and
no expense has been spared to provide for the
fort and convenience of its patrons and is first class
in every respect.
Connections made at Bath each trip, with Kenne
bee and Boothbay steamer Islander, landing at the
Star of the East wharf, also with trains NJ. c. r.
r., and passengers ticketed through from all sta
tons.
Fare from Bath to Fort Popham so cents; round
trip tickets rs cents.
Excursions every Tuesday and Friday, fare from
Bath round trip, so cents.
The favorte summer resort-Now that the Eureka
and Ocean View Houses have been reftted and reEo-
waited, and many other improvements made, in con-
nectOn with Its beautiful beach it will prove to be the
favorite resort in this section OF the State. Parties
going down on the morning boat from Bath, will
have four hours there. and return on afternoon
boat. Moonlight excursions can be had applica.
ton TO the manager. The management will spare
pains expense to make the stay of its patrons
at Fort Popham both pleasant and agreeable.
20. VICKERY, Manager.
ju2ltU
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

The London Vegetarian Society gave
dinner to about 100 ladies and gentle
men recently at the Health Exhibition.
The object of the dinner, which was
one of series, was to show how an ample
and varied diet could be procured with
out the use of any sort of animal food.
The menu included, among other dishes,
"Chestnutina de Lyon soup, pea fritters
and fried onions, aud barley pudd
After the dinner Dr. Ridge delivered a
short address, in which she laid stress
upon the fact that it had been album
dainty proved that vegetarian diet
was not only possible but profitable,
and expressed his conviction that the
excessive use of condiments was the
cause of large proportion of dyspeptic
illnesses 1t was also believed that veg
etarians lived much longer than flesh
eating members of the community"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

THE last rail has just been laid on an
other vastly important enterprise the
extension of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company's line to Hunting
ton, Oregon, where it connects with the
Union Pacifics already completed Ore
gon Short Line, and thus forms another
continuous rail line over the plains and
mountains to the Pacific coast. The
distance from Portland to Huntington
is 4O4 miles, and that from Huntington
o Omaha is 1,417 miles, making long
line of 1921 miles from the Missouri
river to Portland in the Union Pacific
interest
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

A HOTEL clerk has called attention
to the fact that the success of the effort
to force all persons studying penman-
ship to write uniform style would be
to destroy the individuality of auto
graphs. The result would be to &C.
casion banks and other institutions in
whose transactions the individuality
of autographs involved thousands of
dollars great inconvenience and possible
loss. These fears might be alarming
but for the fact that for some reason,
possibly pure cussedness, few boys will
write exactly the way their teacher
wants them to, and nearly every boy, as
soon as he gets out of school, seems to
think that the first thing he must do iD
to adopt style of penmanship that is
distinctly his own. Human penman-
ship seems to be very much Like the
human face, it is impossible for two to
be in every respect alike, however much
they may appear to the superficial OBJ
server to be so.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

The offer of 80 cents for corn,
eighty pounds to the bushel, does not
induce Illinois farmers to hasten the
new crop to market, although the price
is sufficient to make their work profit
able. The country contains SO little
old corn that the Immediate consump-
ton of the new crop will be greater than
in ordinary years, and many predict
that the price of cereals generally will
increase before another harvest The
expectation of q rise in wheat is espe-
cially strong, and many thrifty and
sagacious farmers are holding all they
can, suspecting that the succession of
wheat crops may not be continued in
1885. However, reports as to the crop
now growing are favorable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

facing OF the pyramidal cap. This key
stone weighs nearly tons, and is set
o54 1eet above the base of the monu-
ment. 1t was hoisted few DAYS ago to
position above that in which il now
rests, and placed on secure nlatform
inside the framework of the derrick
spar. Its sides are finished in the usual
shape Of keystones, but above the kav
that completes the arch is q four. sided
perpendicular extension that braces the
interior stone blocks that extend to the
ashlar face. The entire stone is feet
6 inches high, 43 feet 10 inches from
the wedge, and 8 feet 6 inches
square at the top. At each cor
ner is concave cutting on wedge and
top to key the ribs SO that section of the
top OF bottom is nearly uniform in shape.
The plans of the engineer officers and
the preparations made were SO perfect
that everything worked handsomely and
without the slightest accident or delay.
With the precautions which has been
the rule about the shaft ever since the
work of completing the monument was
begun in October, 1878, Col. Casey di-
rected that the elevator should not run
while the setting of the stone was ip op-
Grafton, and no persons we're allowed on
the iron stairway, or anywhere in the
interior of the shaft AS the last of the
four stones upon which the keystone
was to rest, was being hoisted into place,
Messrs. w. S. Rose and Thomas Somer-
vile, two well known citizens and prom
lnent members of the Masonic order of
Washington, arrived on the 5O0-foot
level. They mounted the ladders lead
ing to the top of the double arch, and
were allowed to assist in setting
the browning stone of the
arch, an event full of sig
nifcance in their craft. With small
trowel, used on many occasions of Ma
sonic cornerstone laying, they helped
TO spread the mortar which was to bind
that famous arch under the keystone.
They were much impressed with the
fact that only very slight clipping was
necessary to make the stone fit with
mathematical exactness the place pre-
pared for it, the result from the debris
being less than a handful of chips,
which were carefully preserved by the
privileged visitors Information has
been received by Col. Casey, of the
successful casting at Philadelphia of the
aluminium of the capstone. It is small
pyramid about seven inches high and
about five inches wide at the base, the
apex being point sharp enough to.
prick the flesh. This is said to be the
largest casting of aluminium that has
ever been made. The lightning rod
which runs through the capstone is to
be fastened to the button of this cap,
and it will practically be the end of the
lightning rod
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

The supreme court of Iowa recently
endered decision which will be of in
crest to women who contemplate mar
rying drinking men with a view to re-
forming them. A wife had made .appi-
cation for divorce on the ground that
her husband was confirmed drunkard.
The evidence showed that she had a
knowledge of his Incorporate habits
when she married him, and the Judge
refused the petition with these words
@You voluntarily chose drunkard for
husband, and you should discharge
the duties of drunkard's wife. His
failure to keep a pledge of reformation
made before marriage does not justify
you in deserving him. Having know
ingly married a drunkard, you must
make yourself content with the sacred
relationship"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
GEORGE w. GABLE and Mark Tv

GEORGE w. CABLE and Mark Twain
had an experience in Boston last We'd
nesday that either might take as the
plot for good story. They had just
made call upon Mr.. W. D. Howells,
and were sitting at the window, when
they saw young woman jump into the
Back Bay from the end of Arlington
Street. They hurried out and helped
rescue the woman, and then marched
her to the police station, one on each
side of her. The officer said she was
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
LOOSENEsS LEADS TO FRAUD.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 20.-The
annual report Of the fourth auditor of
the treasury says that the growing evil
in the expenditure of money by the
Navy Department has been the in
creasing disregard by some bureaus of
the law requiring advertisements and
contracts for purchases made. It was
recently discovered that fraudulent
practices in the naval bureau of medi-
cine and surgery were greatly facilitat-
ed by the persistent determination
of the late surgeon general to
nominally make all purchases him
self, while it was practically
impossible for him to personally super
wise the transactions taking place scores
or hundreds of miles from the seat of
government. During the fiscal year
1883 supplies were purchased amount
ing to $12,293, 1857, OF which only $685.
$50 were bought upon advertisement
and contract. These bureaus wholly
neglected the law requiring advertising,
and another, the one making the largest
purchases of all, only advertised and
contracted for per cent. of the goods
and materials bought. About $1,OOO,-
600 open and exempt purchases we're
made of six individuals or firms, one
dealer going over 100000. Under the
act relating to materials for boilers,
hundreds OF thousands of dollars worth
has been bought practically with no
competition at all. Over $4,000 were
paid during the year as commissions to
Seligman Bros, London, and nearly
$1,000 in interest. the former, in the
opinion of the auditor, being twice as
much as it ought to be, and the latter
wholly unnecessary. The report says
!" The recently discovered frauds in the
bureau of medicine and surgery were
mostly committed upon the continuous
hospital fund where large unexpended
balance has furnished temptation not
existing in the case of the annual ap-
preparations made by Congress"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

BANTAM fowls are not as worthless as
are generally supposed. A little ban
tam rooster, near Norwich Conn, has
become quite a success in rat-killing,
and consequently raises that breed from
the fair ground roost which they have
so long occupied. A few days since a
wandering rodent espied a brood of
chickens which the aforesaid ban
tam rooster and their mamma were
endeavoring to feed, and boldly at
tempted to seize and carry away one of
the chicks. The little bantam rooster
did not like this raid on his flock, and
showed his rat-killing power by Jump
ing on the vermin's back, holding him
down and pecking him to death. The
most unnatural thing about the pro-
ceediug was his failure to crow over
his victory.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
THE WOUNDED JOURNALIST.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20.-De Young,
who was shot last night by Young
Spreckles, passed quiet night, free
from pain or fever. The doctors pur-
pose making second effort this after
noon to extract the remaining bullet,
but viii probably defer the attempt to
as late an hour in the day as possible,
in the hope that the bullet may move
itself and give clearer indications of its
position. Less danger is anticipated
from this bullet than from the effects of
the one extracted. The shoulder
blade was slightly shattered and broken
pieces of bone remain within the
wound. 1t is feared that these pieces
may induce suppuration and high
fever. If these broken pieces can be
removed the danger will be lessened.
The fact that Spreckles was admitted to
bail after having attempted to assassinate
De Young and in the attempt to do so
inficting dangerous wounds, excites
much comment. The only explanation
offered is that De Young's medical at
PENDANTS sent word to the police stating
that the wounds were not necessarily
dangerous. The Judge therefore consid-
cred it bailable offense This state
ment is denied at the Chronicle bust
ness Office. His managers say they can
not understand why SpreckIes should
have been bailed out, as they don't
think the doctors offered any opinion
on the character of the wounds, nor
were they in position to do SO until
been made after the removal of
De Young to his residence. Should
there be any appearance of De Young
getting worse Spreckles will be i'm
mediately rearrested and held in con-
finement until all danger to De Youngs
life is passed. Public opinion over
the shooting is more crystalized this
morning. Sympathy is all on the side
of De Young. More careful reading of
the articles which invited Spreckles to
do the shooting confirms the belief that
there was nothing in them to justify
such murderous attempt. The case
has just been called IN the police court
for preliminary examination.
DeYoung's friends express great
anxiety over his case. Although the
doctors refuse to make any absolute
statement as to his condition, it is well
known that at the present hour
they entertain the gravest fears.
Should Inflammation set in near the sub
clavian artery and the artery burst,
nothing could save his life. Spreckles
has been placed under surveillance.
There is no possibility of his escaping
from the city even if he should desire
to do SO.
By mutual agreement between the
prosecuting and defending attorneys
further hearing of the case has been
indefinitely postponed, as the condition
of both De Young and Spreckles pre-
vented their appearance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
SMALLPOX.

KINGSTON, Ont, Nov. 19.-Rev. Faith.
or Fleming, of Tweed, states that small
pox is in several families in that village.
The people are terrified and men are
leaving the village. On Sunday two
men died and the priest and grave
digger had to bury their re-
mains, as no assistance could be
secured. Even doctors refuse to at
tend the sick. To-day Father Fleming
and two Sisters of Mercy left for Tweed,
taking with them supply of vaccine
A gentleman from Tamworth says
smallpox is in a French village near
that place and great fears are enter
tanned of it's spread.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
THE YOUNGER BOYS.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Nov. 21.-Mrs.
DR.. Leo Twyman has arrived home from
visit to her nephews, the Younger
brothers, who are now serving out
sentences for life in the state peniten-
tiary at Saltwater, Mimi, for participant
ing in the Mortified Bank robbery.
Mrs. Twyman was sister of the mother
of the boys, and since the death of her
sister she has exercised more of a
mothers care for them than any one
else. Mrs. Twyman has always been
highly esteemed here, having made this
place her home, as did the mother of
the boys up to the time of her death in
1864. She was much pleased with the
treatment her cherished nephews re-
ceived at the hands of the authorities,
and expresses great pleasure at the posi-.
tions to which the boys have attained
and the esteem in which they are held
by their fellow-prisoners. "Cole, the
Older" said she, sis superintendent of
one of the mechanical departments, and
is turning his attention to preaching to
his fellow-prisoners Jim, the next
boy, is an invalid and unable to do
manual labor, by reason of the wounds
he received. He is giving as much of
his attention to the study of medicine
as his health will permit. He has &C
Gees to quite complete medical library,
and, if his health will permit, will some
day make medicine profession. Bob,
the youngest of the boys, keeps the
warden's books, having risen to the
position by a faithful performance of the
work assiOnad to him -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
THRILLING STREET EPISODE.

PITTsBURG, Nov. 21.-This morning
while street car containing thirty
eight passengers was going down Butler
Street. the brake became unmanageable
and the car started down the heavy
grade at frightful speed. When
Thlrty-sixth Street was reached the car
jumped the track and ran alongside the
walk for block, until the horses fell
and the Car was forced on top of them,
injuring them SO badly that they were
afterwards killed. Twenty-three pas
sengers were aboard at the time the car
stopped, and all were more or less
bruised, two of them, Thos. Moore and
Roller Maltby, quite seriously.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

THE committee appointed by the Ma
tional Bureau of Animal Industry to
gather statistics relating to the cattle
business in the West has nearly conclud-
ed it's work. It's report will show that
there are 100000 head of cattle in
the states west of the Mississippi River
being an average gain of 80 per cent.
since 1880. Texas leads, with a gain
70 per cent. and Kansas is second
showing an increase of 81 per cent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

The announceme that the Board of
Police Commissioners of New York
have taken such actions as will put a
stop to future glove fights IN that city,
will meet with general approval. Nor
will the cause of legitimate sport suffer
by it. The brutality of smuggling"
matches is not necessary to determine
the relative qualities of a couple of ath-
letes, or to encourage the development
of muscle in tAe young and rising gen.
Grafton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

In the annual report of the Commiss'
Toner of Indian Affairs, it is shown that
the appropriation to feed and clothe
the Indians amounts to fraction less
than two cents day per capita. De-
Quoting one cent day per capita as
agents perquisites, and we have about
the correct statement of Indian finances.
It is apparent that our red men are
reared on the principle of bedrock
economy
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
A Montreal Tradgedy.

A convict named Fauteux escaped from st.
Vincent de Paul penetlntary. Montreal on the
9Th, after plucky conflict with the guards,
one of whom be shot through the leg. He was
traced and located in q house Of ill-fame. The
following morning Detectives Gladue and La
pointe proceeded to Srrest him. The latter
officer had just entered the room when Fau-
teux drew revolver and shot him in the
cheek second shot was aimed at Gladu-,
but missed him, whereupon Gladue shot Fau-
teux through the heart.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
A Severe Sentence.

Rev. VIM. II. Ramscar, superintendent of the
Home for Children and the Seminary for Girls.
children of the institution out to beg provisions
etc., for the home, was arraigned on the 21st.
and sentenced to the city prison for thirty DAYS
and fined 800, in default of which he is to
serve one day for each dollar, The recorder. in
sentencing him administered a scathing rebuke,
to which the prisoner made no reply.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

drunk, and when the funny man from
Hartford and the delineator of creole
character from New Orleans remon-
strated with him, they we're told blunt
ly to shut up and go about their bust
ness. The woman was found to be in
sane, and her rescuers walked back to
the hotel to muse over the advantages
of fame when it does not extend to a
Boston police station.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
Scandal in High Life.

The Adams oleridge libel suit, at London,
closed on the 22d. The DEVELOPMENTS are of q
highly sensational character and place the
British chief justice in an unenviable position
before the public. The jury brought in YER
dict of $4,000 for the plaintiff, but it was
promptly oyerruled by the judge, who gave
the case to Coleridge with costs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
COurhAf Heard From

Admiral Courbet telegraphs from Kelung, on
the 22d that detachment of 400 French troops
destroyeda Chinese fort and other works on the
road from Kelung to Tamsui. MARQUIS Tseng
has been appointed vice president of the Board
of War. Chinese Turkestan is to be made
province of the empire, and be governed like
other provinces
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
Fatal Explosions.

Two French telegraph constructors on the
Nepanee, Tamworth & Quebec Railway were
blown up on the 10Th, while heating dualin.
One was killed outright and the other fatally
hurt. gasoline forge beng used by plumbers
Pa, on the same day. exploded scattering fire
and debris in all directions. Two plumbers and
the hired girl were badly burned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
Three Children Burned.

On the afternoon of the Doth. on the farm of
Fred. Ridder, IN Tuscoa County, four miles
west OF Vassar, Mich, while the father was in
the woods chopping and the mother was doing
chores at the barn, the house took fire, and
before they could be rescued, three children,
the eldest years, persisted in the flames.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
Triple Murder.

News was received at Chattanooga, Tenn. on
the 10Th, OF a horrible triple murder in back
woods district in Marshall County, that state.
John Howard took double barreled shot gun
and went to the house of Henry Peak, to settle
an old difficulty. On his arrival Peak got the
first shot, giving him a mortal wound. Howard
lived long enough, however, to empty one bar
rel of his gun into the head of Peak. and with
the other he killed his victims wife who came
to her husbands rescue. All three are dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
A Terrible Death.

Vienna dispatch of the Goth gives details
of the death of Hungarian priest and his
family in the forest near Louca. While travel
ing by sledge, they were chased by wolves and
the wife in her terror dropped her child in the
snow. The husband while trying to rescue the
little one was eaten by the brutes. The horse
ran to Louca, where the wife was found to be
dead
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

toum. Disease is making great ravages among
his followers, fully 100 dying daily. Shiekh Morg
ana, with large force. has arrivedat point mid
way between Kassala aud Berber to lend assist
ance to Gen. Gordon. Advices from Wady
Halfa state that British troops are arriving
there and departing for the front with note
worthy rapidity. The Essex and Cornwall
regiments are now en- route to Dongola. Ad-
vance beyond Dongola is impossible for a
month. #.It
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
A Lost Huntar

W. L. Jackson, with party went hunting
deer from Centraha, Wis.,, on the 18th. He
was last seen Wednesday morning. party of
seventy men secuted the woods, and his re-
mains were found on the 2lst. He accidental
~ shot himself and was apparently instantly
killed. He leaves a wife and two children.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The work
men engaged on the Washington
monument have succeeded in setting
the keystone that binds the interior
ribs of stone which support the marble