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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
THE AAlNE MARsHALsnIr.
Five Candidates Working Hard Tor the
APpoistneat.


WASHINGTON. Dec. 81.
The principal contest that 10 interesting the
Maine democrats nov 10 the one that 10 being
waged over the United States marshalship.
There are no less than five candidates. The
only one on the ground 10 Mr.. Holman, the
member of the democratic state committee
from franklin. He is looking closely after
the office. Mr.. Hsrmond, the city marshal
Of Biddeford, was here not long ago, and pre-
sented his application to Mr.. Cleveland in
person. The President 10 said to have re-
marked to him that he would certainly make
a good looking marshal. Mr.. Cleveland an
precistes avoirdupois. Mr.. William Emery
of Alfred is here spending some weeks. and is
said to be quietly working up boom for his
son-in law, Mr.. Donovan. The 6fth candi-
date is A. .. kimball, lawyer, Of Oxford
county. He may get the place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
The Western Union Buildings to be Sold
at Auction.
NEw YnRK. Dec Z

NEW ORK, Dec. Y.
The sheriff posted notice in the court house
today, advertising for sale, at auction, on the
2sth, the effects and plant of the Western
Union Telegraph Company at its building
corner of Broadway and Dey street and its
workshops at 62 New Church street to satisfy
a taxation levy Of sl25,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
Hound Over.

CIR. BARRISaroN, Mass, Dec. %.
Frank II Scott, young man of this town,
charged with rape on Fannie Winchell, s
years old, was bound over to the superior
court by the district court this afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
O'Leary in the Tramp Act.

New YORK, Dec. %.
OLeary and Weston Continued their tramp
of 25OO miles today. At 2 p. M. the score
stood: miles.
O'Leary, 6l5
Weston, Glib
At midnight the score of the walking match
stood: O'Leary, 65s miles and laps; Wes-
ton, 657 miles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23

BUFFALO, N. T., Dec. %.
1t 10 stated that Gus Master, collector for
D. x. Kallenbach, . brewer, il defaultef to
the amount Of 3l7 900. He has left the city.
No clue 70 his whefeabouts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23

I was confined to my bed with rheumatism
rnd was aimos, helpless. TO satisfy a friedj
tried Athlophoros. used three bottles and
wa, entirely cured, ,he paid and the swelling
disappearingr Jennie Prseger, Congress av.
and Commerce st, New Haven, CT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
Polo Contests.

At New Bedford-Waltham 8, New Bed.
ford l.
At Cambridge-Boston 8, Cambridge 9.
At Somerville-Salem 3, Somerville 2.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23

REV. +. J. WHITNEY of Clarkson, N.
Y, says Gilmore's Aromatic Wine for Female
Weakness, stands without a rival. Sold by
+. @ Kinsman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Chicago Produce Market.

CHICAGO. Dec. 20.
rLoUR--du
wsxAr- higher. No. y Chicago Spring, sAAs4li
Dec. s4i a IS
CORN lower at Sl.
OATs-steady 27t.
xrA- easier. 59l
BARLkY-hrm as.
PORN v 10 10 80
LARp - a 8 81 q o ~.
nuLk MkAr--Shouirers. so. Short rib 4 70:
Shor' niear. 8 ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
BY TELEGRAPH.
WEATHER REPORT.
Indications for the Mex, "A Hours.

- War Department,
omce Of the Chief Signal Officer.
washington, D. c., Dec. 23.-l AN.
For New England and Midale State,
warmer threatening weather, followed by
local rams or light SHOWS; southwest winds +:
lower barometer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
N'W York stock Market.
New York Money Market.
RM<msn. R~An~S

Nxw YORK, Dec. %.
Money cay between from as and closed at 3
Prime Mercantile paper, "a 8. Exchange s'eady
% Tor long, and s0i for short. Governments steady
Closing bids:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
As Strange as Fiction
AND
As True as Gospel.
East Stoughton, Mass, Nov. 20, 1885.
To the FLOWER MEDICINE 90.

Dear Sirs: -
With great pleasure 1 send
you few lines telling you of
the wonderful cure YOUR
LIVER AND STOMACH SAN
ATIVE has done for me. I
have been trying about every
thing on the market, BESIDES
TWENTY DIFFERENT DOC
TORS, and found nothing to
help me permanently. 1 some
times felt better for a short
time, but would then go down
again. / have had the DYS-
PEPSIA and NERVOUS PROS
TRATI0N IN THE WORST
FORMS, but to-day l call my
self well, and all the result OF
taking your medicine. 1 gen.
orally had bilious attack about
once in two weeks, and now l
have not had one since | COM
menced taking your Sanative,
and that was months ago. /
CALL 1T THE BEST MEDI-
CINE ON THE CONTINENT,
and | ought to be good judge
by this time. [ am now So
years old, am doing my work,
and feel like new being.
With best wishes for your
success, for you are doing a
great work for suffering hu-
manity, l remain your sincere
and grateful friend,
MRS. THOMAS TRIPP.
oproOd w
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
GABLEGRAMS.

DESTRUCTIVE foods are reported in
Austria and Hungary. Property valued
at $4,000 was destroyed by a water
spout at Pesth,
ADYICEs received by the war depart
ment from Indian Territory say the dis
affected Indians are becoming quiet.
and peaceful solution of the pen ding
difficulties is probable.
DISPATCHES from Russia state that
the harvest prospects throughout the
empire are the gloomiest experienced
| for many years, and that unless there is
general rain forthwith the whole crop
will be lost.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
ploTer, recently in London received a
delegation Of prominent citizens, who
have formed committee for the pur-
pose of promoting English emigration
to the Congo.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of London, Cardinal Manning,
and the Hon. Samuel Morley will begin
at once an investigation of the charges
of aristocratic iniquity made by the
Pail Mall Gazette, which journal, the
government deems it not advisable to
prosecute for it's revelations.
The anniversary of the fall of Bastile
was celebrated at Paris as a general
holiday. Great crowds listened to
speeches in the Place de la Concorde,
and the army of Paris was reviewed in
the Camps Elysees. The French citi-
zens of Chicago observed the day in a
becoming manner by fete and picnic
at Kuhn's park.
! EXTENSIVE preparations are being
made for the wedding of Princess
Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Care will be taken to prevent the public
from Witnessing the bridal possession,
and all approaches to the church will
be guarded by police. The Queen will
allow no press representation at the
| ceremony.
| The recent demonstrations of the
Russian forces on the Afghan frontier
have caused profound anxiety in Eng
land. It is stated that Russian officers
now on furleugh have been ordered to
rejoin their regiments at once. Semi
officials advices from st. Petersburg
say that the czar counts upon the assis-
lance of France in aEy contest he may
have with the British in Asia.
RUMoRs that the Russians had adj
vanced in force to Zulfcar pass and
that they were treating Persian terri
tory as their own caused a paaicky feel
| ing on the London stock exchange, and
a sharp decline ia Russian and Egyptian
securities, In the house Of commons
Lord Randolph Churchill said that tbs
government had heard of the Russian
demonstration, and that the British
Afghan frontier commission had retired
to Herat, upon invitation of the auth
critics of that city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

Two men We're instantly killed and a
third badly Injured by a boiler explos-
ion at Hamilton, Ontario.
SEVERAL buildings, including hotel.
were destroyed by fire at Richmond,
Ohio. Loss $50, 600.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, the building
and stock of William B. Bertels. deal
er in stoves and tiuware, was partially
destroyed, Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
ScHoFIELDs yarn mill at Manayunk.
Pa, burned Sunday noon, together with
three three-story brick dwellings. The
financial loss is about $3.50, 900.
KIELs,,soap factory at Oshkosh was
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $751;
600; insurance, $4,000. The fire is
supposed to have been of inccndiary
origin.
In Brattle street Boston, Saturday the
dress of Miss Bessie daughter of Gen
eral E. w. Hincks, caught fire from a
smouldering fre-cracker, resulting in
burns which caused her death Sunday.
Deceased was 90 years old.
FIRE at Albany, N. Y, destroyed Jas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23

''The Mescelero Apaches, in the vicinity
of southeastern New Mexico. are be-
coming restless because of then sup
plies giving out. At present they have
nothing but beef General Schoield
was directed by the rumor TO issue ra-
tions from the military stores at the
pest where the trouble Is threatened.
LIEUT.. COMMANDER w. IL. WEBB, con-
nected with the Alert, on the Asiatic
station, has been tried by court martial
on the charge Of drunkenness, and
found guilty. The court recommended
that be be suspended from rank and
duty on furlough pay for two years,
and that he be allowed to retain his
present number on the list of lieutenant
commanders during that time. The
recommendations were approved by
Rear Admiral Davis, June 2. Lieut..
Commander Webb has been ordered to
the United States in the Juniata.
A CHANGE has been made ia the man
ner of purchasing silver by the treas
ury DEPARTMENT for coinage into stan
dard dollars. The offers for the sale of
silver for this purpose will hereafter be
made TO the treasurer, instead of to the
director of the m Mt, as heretofore, and
after to-day the purchases will be made
on Tuesday and Friday of each week,
instead of Wednesday, as has been the
custom. The change is made for the
purpose of allowing the director to give
his undivided attention TO the business
of the minis.
EXAMINATION for departmental SER
vices will be held at Milwaukee, Sept.
3; st. Paul, Sept. 5; Bismarck, D. T.,
Sept. s; Helena, NJ. T., Sept. Is; P ort.
land, Oregon, Sept. 10; Seattle, w. T.,
Sept. %, and at San Francisco, Oct. /.
At the same time examinations will be
held for persons wishing to be examined
IN special subjects, as law, special pen
sion examiners, stenography, French,
German, Spanish, and Italian. Those
who intend applying should at once re-
quest official blanks from the Civil
Service Commission at Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23

a. Gray's piano factory and other build
ings, the loss reaching nearly 500. coo.
Four or five men, two of whom are
dead, were buried beneath falling
walls. and twenty eight horses persisted
in the flames.
A FIRE in the buildings Ne. SO and 81
Liberty street, New York, was caused
by An explosion of alcohol in the base
ment, by which five men were shock
ingly burned. Many persons in the
upper stories narrowly escaped with
their lives. The loss was 100000.
A FIRE at Tuscela, Ill.,, Friday mora
ing, destroyed. E. w. Coles jewelry
store, the Bates House, the postoffice,
NJ. Hedges grocery and Baum's restau-
rant. Loss, $4,000; insurance $4,000
The fire is supposed to have originated
from the explosion of lamp in Coles
store.
THE large cloth printing and bleach
ing works of James T. Martin &
Co.. in Philadelphia, were entirely de-
stroyed by fire, eatailing a loss of $780,
900, which is partially covered by
insurance. The fire was caused by the
explosion of gasoline lamp IN the en-
CINE room.
ABOUT O'Clock Friday evening fire
broke out suddenly in The Post build
ing at Washington, and soon the upper
stories were wrapped in flames. The
building was occupied by the Washing
ton Post, The National Republican, The
Washington Critic, The Sunday Gazette
the United States Electric Light Com
pany, and several other tenants. Loss.
$150,000.
A wEsT-BoUND freight train on the
Panhandle Railroad jumped the track
near Holidays Cove, w. Va, Wednes-
day, reducing to kindling wood sixteen
cars, and instantly killing Fireman
Thomas Wilson and seriously injuring
Engineer James Mccullough, Fireman
OShaughnessy, and Henry Leirigness.
Tbs loss to the company will reach
$4,000,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
WASHINGTON.

POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has or
dered restoration of the daily mail
between Milwaukee and Grand Haven.
SECRETARY WHITNEY contemplates an
entire reorganization of the nine gov
eminent navy yards in short time,
and an investigation of their books and
papers, with this end in view, is now iu
progress.
LIEUTENANT JOHN CONLIN, who has
for some time been an inmate of the
insane asylum of this city. has fully re-
covered, and announces his determine
ton to join his regiment He is senior
first lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry.
THE President will leave Washington
about Aug. 1 for a visit to the Adiron-
dack Mountains, where he will remain
about month or six weeks to obtain
much-needed rest and recreation. He
will be accompanied by few personal
friends.
The special delivery postal system
provided for by the last congress will be
put in operation in the course of month
or two at about dozen of the principal
postofices of the country, Including
New York, Boston, Brooklyn, PhiladeI-
phia, Chicago, and Washington. The
details of the system are now being
formulated at the postoffice depart
mGnt.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has forwarded
to the war department dispatch from
Col. Bradley in which the latter says
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
CRIME.

{ HENRY LANIER and Charles Thorpe
got into dispute at Baxley, Ca, and
Lanser blew Thorpe's brains out with q
| shotgun.
H. s. STEWART, alias I'll. S. Dale has
been arrested at Milwaukee, charged
with systematically swindling persons
whom he reached by advertising for
male help in the Chicago newspapers.
By orders from department head
quarters $4,000 pounds of barbine cart
ridges will be forwarded to-day from
the Rock Island Gill; arsenal to posts in
Western and Northwestern districts
where trouble is anticipated with the
Indians.
CHAs. WILLIAMS, of Highland Home,
South Carolina, who compelled num-
Der of ladies to present him with locks
volver in their faces, was riddled with
bullets by band of masked men while
being taken to Jail.
THE mob which lynched the two ne
groes at Grenada, Miss, On Thursday
completed it's work by taking BARLEY
James from his home and hanging him
to tree and killing John Campbell for
whom similar fate had been reserved,
but who was on his guard and refused
to be taken alive.
Z MINNIE DAILY, the notorious conf
dence woman of Chicago, was found
guilty in Judge Halves, court of steal
ing SOL from shorthand reporter
named Petit on the street, near the
corner of Washington and Clark streets.
On the evening of June Is, and was
given one year in the penitentiary.
CHAs. H. BOOTH, a prominent citizen
and insurance broker of Kalamazoo,
Mich, until lately many years deacon
in the First Presbyterian Church, has
been arrested for embezzlement and
larceny of 81, 900 from his counsin, Mrs.
Mary A. Denslew. He was bound over
for examination in $1,000 bail.
JOHN Ross, who was being held at
Erie, Pa, for return to a reform school,
Thursday improvised a hook from a
molding, reached out and secured the
keys of police headquarters, and iber-
ated himself and two burglars. He
then robbed the prison depository of
the money and weapons which it con-
tained. Upon reaching the outskirts of
the city, Ross teleph9ned the chief of
police where his keyes could be found
A naob at Marion, Indiana, visited the
jail, OVerpOW0Tou the OulCerS, ana was
about to take Frank Wallace, an in
mate, from his cell and hang him, when
James Riley, one Of the members, was
shot and killed. 1t is believed that
others in the party were wounded.
Wallace, the intended victim, is ne
gro, and is charged with an attempted
assault upoa white girl.
WIN. WYATT, of Mount Sterling,
Brown county, ILL.,, in fit of drunken
ness, beat his wife about the head,
from the effects of which she died.
Wyatt had been out of jail but few
days, where had been confined under
sentence since February last for stab
bing his brother. He is now again in
Jail.
Jos. PALMER, colored, was hanged at
Cincinnati for the murder of VIM. Fl.
Kirk on December "a, 1888. VIM. Ber-
ner, his associate in the crime, is serv.
ing a twenty-year sentence in the Ohio
penitentiary, the verdict of mansIaugh-
ter in his case having been the exciting
cause Of the great riot of March, 1884.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
Purifying Water With Alum.
Popular Science New:

Those of our readers who have tra>
yelled on the Mississippi river know
how turbid the water is, and they
may have seen people tie a bit of al
UNI to a thread, and let it down into a
tumbler of water, and swing it about
little, after which operation the
liquid become as clear as crystal. Re-
Gently the matter has been carefully
examined into and reported upon by
Profs. z. L. Austen and E. A. Wilder,
OF Rutgers college. In their experts
ments, two-tenths of grain to the
liter Zone and one ffths grains to the
gallon) caused the separation and
settling of the impurities in the New
Brunswick, N. j., water. Double
this quantity may well be used as a
rule. This amount is too small to be
perceptible to the taste, or to exert
any physiological action. The alum
may be used in clarifying water by
filtration. If q very small amount be
added to turbid water it can be filters
ed through ordinary paper without
difficulty, and yields a brilliantly
clear filtrate, in which there is no
trace of suspended matter. It is not
necessary to let it stand before hltra-
ton, as the action OF the alum is i'm
mediate. The simplest form of filter
for considerable quantities of water is
tube, one end of which is stu fled
with cotton. A drain pipe is the best,
as it can be so easily cleansed. The
plug of cotton should be two Or three
inches thick, and may be kept in
place by ring Of wood fitted into the
bottom of the pipe. For household
purposes, large glass funnel may be
used, or filter may be made by cut
ting off the bottom of glass flask Or
other bottle. The neck of the funnel
or bottle is to be plugged with cotton,
which should first be worked IN warm
water to remove the adhering air, and
to wet it we'll. 1t should be packed
in quite closely, a little at time, I'M
til It forms layer two Or three inch
es thick. To insure accuracy IN the
amount of alum used it is best to make
solution Of half an ounce of alum
to a quart of water. Dissolve the all
UNI in q cup of boiling water, pour
this into quart measure, and ELL up
with cold water. Keep in a properly
labeled bottle. Fifty-four drops of
this solution, or a. scant teaspoonful
will contain two and three tenths
grains of alum, which is the quantity
for a gallon of water. It is not i'm
portant to be very exact. as twice the
quantity would be harmless enough.
Analysis shows that the water is not
only clarified but purified by this pro-
cess, the greater part of the organic
matter being removed from it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

|
A SILVER watch was found in a
watermelon bought by telegraph boy
at Battle Greek, Mich.
1T is now charged that pine land
ring exists i'll Minnesota, which has Gre
ated monopoly detrimental to the in
terest of settlers.
| IN South Mountain, near Sheridan,
Pa, rich deposit of mica, worth So to
50 a pound has been discovered.
FOURTEEN of the men whose discharge
occasioned the recent strike on the
West Division railway, Chicago, have
been reinstated by President J. Russell
Jones.
The HEssIAN fly, which is one of the
most destructive Of the enemies of the
growing wheat, is making terrible raw
ages IN the wheat fields Of Wayne coun-
ty, n. 7.
THE Illinois State Board of Agricul-
ture say the prospects for the oat crop
are that it will be the largest ever rails
ed In the State. The yield In 1884 reach
ed 105, 000000 bushels.
T. L. AIRY, OF New Orleans, has been
elected president and Jerome Hill, of
st. Louis, vice president of the National
cotton-exchange for the ensuing two
years.
A storm of rain, hail, and lightning
visited Watertown, Wisconsin, leveling
trees and fences and inficting consider
able injury upon growing crops. Much
damage was also done at Brainerd,
Minnesota, and along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad.
PROFESSOR CHARLES KENDALL
ADAMS, of Michigan University, has
been elected president of Cornell Uni
versity, vice Andrew d. White, re-
signed by q vote of 10 TO of the trus-
tees. President White warmly indoors
ed Professor Adams.
1T is estimated that forty leading
hotels in New York entertain an aver
age of 5000 transient guests daily. In
Guiding the lodging houses, it is believ-
ed that not less than Is 900 transient
guests find resting place in New York
every night.
The strike caused the closing down
Wednesday of all the lumber mills Oh
the river in Bay City and West Bay
City. At one point the officers and
strikers were in collision. Three arrests
were made but when a threatening
crowd surrounded the jail the prisoners
were released.
DISPATCHES from points in North.
western Iowa, Northwestern Nebraska,
Southwestern Dakota, and Southeastern
Minnesota state that within a few days
the corn crop has been greatly improy-
ed by warm weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-23
Science.


Prof. II. l. Cohn, in his pamphlet,
"Ueber den ACKNOWLEDGEMENT der
Lampenglocken" (Wiesbaden, 1889.
describes long series of determine
tons of the relative values of various
forms of lamp~shades. The method
pursued was to measure the bright
ness Of white paper lying on a tatle
over which the source of artificial
light was suspended at a given dis
lance by means of Weber photome-
ter. As one would anticipate. the
general effect of shade is to increase
very greatly the illumination imme-
diately under the light. and not mod
ify it notably at an angular
distance greater than forty>five
degrees from this region. The
last section OF the pamphlet.
which deals with the illumination
requisite for easiest use of the eyes, is
of the most general interest. Taking
as measure Of the value of the illu>
mlnatlon In this sense the number of
lines which can be read from news
paper IN minute, and as the unit of
illumination that of a normal candle
at a perpendicular distance Of metre
from the paper, he finds that the best
illumination is not less than fifty such
units. Since even q fifth of this IL
Elimination is very rarely secured, ex-
cept Immediately under lamp pro-
vlded with a good shade, the author
emphasizes the conclusion that few
school children work in satisfactory
light.