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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-20
Railroad Shops Burned

BANGOR, Nov. 10.
The repair shops of the New Brunswick
Railway OF MsAdam Junction, was burned
last night. Loss from 81, 900 to $1,000. Full
" insurad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-20
The Portland steam Packet Co.

The Portland Steam Packet Co. this after
noon elected the following officers Presi-
General Agent and Treasurer, J. F. Lis
comb; Directors, Chas. Fobes, II. j. Libby
J. b Coyle, Jr., J S Kicker and John En-
gis, Jr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-20
Union Mutual Life Insurance Go.

The annual meeting of the Union Mutual
Life Insusance Co. in Portland, Tuesday
morning, elected the following directors
Edward X. Seccomb, West Newton, Mass. A;
Edward A. Noyes, Portland j. II. Drum
n. Y. John +. Dewitt was elected presi-
dent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-20
Arrested for Theft.

Alexander ii. Gardiner, Boston runner
for tea store, was arrested in Boston Tues
day morning, by order of the chief of police
of Boston, for embezzlement. He collected
money and appropriated it. The amount is
said to be about 5000. He will lie taken to
Boston Tuesday night
Arrest of a Wholesale Liquor Dealer.
John II Estelle, of Boston, wholesale
liquor dealer, was arrested in Portland Tues
day morning, on complaint of Gen. Neal
Dow, for soliciting orders in this State. This
is the first arrest of the kind ever made.
Libelled for Damage to a Smack.
The Steamer Sandman, of the Allan line,
was libelled at Portland Tuesday morning
for S5Sl damages claimed FOR the sinking of
the lobster smack Horizon, The steamer
pushed ice against the smack while making
her dock last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
leather REPORT.
War Department

War Department,
Office Of the Chief Signal Officer.
Washington, ID. c., Jan. 20.-l A. N.
For New England, colder; generally fail
weather; northwesterly wind.; rising baron
eter.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
THE SOUTH AND WEST.

An extensive strike is threatened in
the Chicago packing houses.
A violent hail and rain storm at
Staunton, Va, broke the windows and
damaged crops.
Fifty people are down with typhoid
fever at Waterford, Wis, four deaths
have occurred.
Sam Archer, the last of the motor
ious "Archer Gang" was hanged for
murder in Indiana, Friday.
The postofice at Minneapolis,
Mimi, was broken open and robbed
of $4,000 in money and stamps.
Forest fires in Wisconsin are sweep
ing the timber immediate rain is all
that will save the settlers from ruin
The cotton crop throughout the
country is ten to fifteen days late and
seriously damaged by wet weather.
The Cincinnati base ball players
arrested for playing on Sunday plead
ed not guilty, and were fined 50 and
COSTS.
A Confederate monument to cost
81, 900 is to be erected at Gloucester
courthouse, Va. The money has been
subscribed.
Programmes are out for great ex-
position in St. Louis, Mo. The exposi-
ton will open in September and close
October %.
Trouble has occurred at Timber
Line, Montana. between the Coal
Company and the Knights of Labor.
Bloodshed is feared.
Three brothers were killed in Clay
county, Texas, by fence builders
while attempting to stop the erection
of fence on land which they claim
ed.
The striking mill operatives at Au-
gusta, Ga, are firm in their demands
and the mill officials are equally firm
in refusing. Trouble is apprehended
in. the Sibley mill.
In denial of reports circulated dur
ing the past ten days the principal
Chicego packers say they have no in
tention of removing their business to
Omaha or Kansas City.
| Striking miners at Grape Greek
Illinois, threatened riot over the i'm
portation of negroes to take their
places; the strikers have been out 8
long time and their condition is ap
palling. .
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
FOREIGN.

Cardinal Gulbert, Archbishop OF
Paris, is dead.
A severe shock of earthquake lis re-
ported from Spain.
One hundred houses have been de.-
troyed by fire in the town of Kaden,
Province of Polah. Three hundred
families out of total population OF
$500 have been rendered homeless by
the confagration.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.

EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
Billy Porter. the craftsman, i'm
prisoned in Troy has been released on
$4,000 bail.
Miguel Chacon, a Cuban negro,
was hanged in New York tor the
murder of his mistress.
Orangemen in Chicago and New
York celebrated the 196th anniyer-
sary of the Battle of the Boyne.
The use of natural gas in manufac-
tories at Pittsburg, Pa, has thrown
about 5000 laborers in the coal fields
out of work.
Messrs Beach q Co., cotton opera
tors, who suspended, have resumed
business at the New York Cotton
Exchange.
Ex-Alderman Waite, of New York
a witness against the Doodle alderman.
has been committed to the house of
detention at his own request.
A verdict for s240,OOO damages
was rendered against the Western
Union Company in suit by the
Bankers & Merchants Telegraph
Company, of New York, for Selling
the latter company's wires.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
THE GIST OF THE NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEBK AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
The Cream of the Wire caught
by The Sentinel's Careful Con-
denser.
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Hugh Thompson has qualified
as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
airy.
The President vetoed the bill for
the erection of public building at
Asheville, n. c.
Reduction of internal revenue taxes
and tariff proposed by the Randall
tariff bill aggregate $4S,000,00O.
Pension vetoes were again discussed
in the House; the Senate made but
little progress with the River and
Harbor bill.
1t IS announced as settled fact that
Hon. S. S. Cox will shortly resign his
position as minister to Turkey and
seek reelection to Congress, and Cos
sips are already naming his successor.
Col. George B. Corkhill, ex-District
Attorney, died at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa on Wednesday last. Col. Cork
hill was one of the best known and
most popular men in the District. The
active part which he took in the trial
of the assassin Guiteau gave him a
national reputation.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15

DalIY GACtpI SUIudy.
SLEEPINC-CAR SERVICE.
On trains 50 and 81 Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Atlanta and New York.
On trains 50 and So Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Washington and New Orleans Wash
ington and Augusta. Pullman Sleeper be-
tween Richmond and Greensboro.
Through Tickets sale at principal stations
to all points.
ES@For rates and information apply to any
agent of the Company, orto
E. b. THOMAS, G.. w. CHEARS,
Gen'l Manager. Asst Gen'I Pass. Agt.,
Richmond, Va.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
$4,000

WILL NOW BUY first class Planer and
w Watcher, that will plane six inches thick,
twenty-four inches wide, and match any width
up to twelve inches. Write for circulars and
prices to the SALEM IRON WORKS, Salem, n. c..
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15

ALEXANDER.
The Statesville Landmark says the
road between Statesville and Taylors-
Vile will be laid with second hand iron
this summer, with rails taken up from
the w. N. G. r. R., to make room for
new steel rails
There are reports of serious sickness
from fux and dysentery in many sec
tons of the State. Eight persons were
buried at the same hour in Rocky
Mount graveyard, Alexander county,
on last Saturday. who had died from,
these diseases
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03

Some of the members of the Buffalo
Bar Association are starting a move
ment to take some action regarding
the nuptials of the President, who is
an honored member, and Miss Folsom.
whose father was one of the bright
stars in the galaxy of legal talent for
which the bar of Erie county was ia
nous over a decade ago. The only
difficulty is with reference to the exact
date for the event. and the problem of
who, if anY body, will be- invited to at
tend the ceremonies besides Mr.. BisSell.
who recently had a new swallow tail
coat built for the occasion. Some of
the lawyers are already figuring on
what kind of present would be most
suitable, and they think q solid silver
Oriental engraving. and appropriately
inscribed, would be Just about right.
The amount likely to be expended in
making this purchase Is variOusly
estimated from $1,000 to $4,000.
To make the inscription on the sal
yer complete it will be necessary
to have the date inscribed. aud
how that can be communicated with
sufficient secrecy IS problem which
worries Mr. Bissell. who would like to
see the present made, and who would
contribute literally to the fund. besides
taking with him some handsome gift.
1t is said that he Will present the bride
with the deed of an elegant summer
residence down the Niagara River, on
Grand Island, where the President can
spend his vacations fishing and enjoy
ing the splendid scenery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03
French FrivoIities

Feminine logic; The ambition Of a
young lady is to be taken for ''mad-
anne" On the other hand married lady
even though she is still young is enchan
ted if some one by mistake addresses
her as ''madamoiselle." Cynics, draw
your own conclusions.
They were speaking in i newspaper
Office of the resurrection Of Lazarus.
'ln our age YOU don't see such miracles
as that, observed some one. mo,
should say not, replied DIR. De. Y. Med
zeal science has made too much pro-
greSs!
Anatole and his wife are out in the
suburbs of Paris. Tired and hungry
they 90 into little restaurant where
the proprietor tells them that he has
only single outlet. Only One?"
cried AnatJle, ''why. what in the world
will my wife eat?''
A doctor goes to visit patient who
is very sick. "Ah, doctor said the
wife of the patient when he arrived,
'my poor husband has just died. He
died Immediately after taking that last
uOse Wnlcn You ordered. ~ rcpDeu
the other reilectively: well. you see
madam, your husband was a goner
anyhow; his constitution was under
minded, so that my prescription could
not have been the sole cause of his
death"
AT the ball Monistrol has Just con-
Quoted his partner back TO her place,
But instead OF retiring after the usual
compliments he plants himself in front
of her with an air of considerable en-
barrassment. lis there anything YOU
desire, monsieur asked the lady,
noticing his uneasiness, mo, madem-
oiselle that is 1 mean-my crush hat,
which has the honor of finding itself
actually-upon the same chair as
Yourself
In the country Il don't see any of
the pigeons | sent you, Father Mich
CLASP "Ah. monsieur. was going to
tell you. You see | had to shut them
up for fear they would fly away, and
the poor birds became so tired of
their confinement that took pity upon
them and had them made into pot
pie. "-Nc1C York Graphic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03


A man with bundle under his arm
called at a Michigan avenue clothing
store the other evening and hesitaingly
inquired if the proprietor ever bought
secondhand clothing.
"Vhell, | puys sooch garments
vonce in a while. Vahs you a Sheneral
in der late WARP"
mo sir
dot makes it badt. could pay
you g, for dot coatif you vhas Shener-
al, and maybe somebody gif me 81.
Vhas you Congressman"
No
TOO badt. Shust now dhere vhas a
demand for Congressman old clothes
Was you some candidate for Governor
last timer
Not that remember of. -
"Mebbe you vhas great inventorg'
IL can't say that | am the only
thing ever invented was an excuse.
''Vhell, you see how it vhas. If you
yhas some celebrated man your old
clothes 90 off like hot cakes. If you
Was uOpbuy dCh hopou1 buNS thi'
How mooch you vhant for dot coat?'
Three dollars.
Tree dollarl' Say, you 90 right
oudt ofmy blacel | doan't haf some
time to fool away nit lunaties!'
Give me two!
1.-Two dolarsl Gif YOU der same
price ASH a great Shenerall Please go
oudt; my head aches!''
ID well take it for twelve shllings.
My friend look in my eye! You
vhas q poor man, und like to do right
py YOU. | hat my rules laid down
not to puy clothes except of great men,
but preak 'em for you. | gif YOU 75
cents for dot coat, und pin on him a
card dot youvhas celebrated poet. i
do dot mOoch to help you oudt."
"Give me dollar and put on the
card that am a celebrated artist"
"No my frient. Der very best |
could do vhas to gif you 90 cents und
put on dot yuo vhas a celebrated musi-
clan.
They bargained on that and the
stranger went away saying:
You can spell celebrated with a
big C. and depend upon me not to give
YOU away. Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03
Art a JeaIous Mistress.

One squad of chorus girls was COM
posed of five novices. TT " were
young and pretty, and had been hired
for those slightly qualities only, since
they have nothing more to do than
figure in poses and an Amazon march.
This was a full-dress rehearsal, So
called, though the performers were in
scant raiment. There was no vestige
of drapery on these five. Every article
Of apparel was tight, from neck to
heels. They were marched, counter
marched, and posed industriously tor
ten minutes.
They are the jack-knives, said my
campahion.
And why so singularly named?' l
asked
because they are prone to shut up
on themselves, IVES the reply; They
are new to that sort of Costume, you
understand, and their irresistible i'm
pulse is to bend forS ard at an angle
from the hips-a feminine characters
tic, under such circumstances of gsrb,
may be, but not picturesque on the
stage They are being cured of that
fault. Usder the trunk of her dress
each wears what is called a booster
that is, ii rudimentary pair of panta-
looms made awfully tight. You've
heard of the fond mother who made her
boys first pair of trousers without
rearward slack. the consequence being
that whenever he bent forward TO 90
do xn stairs he was boosted suddenly
heels over head Well. these girls are
not overturned when they stoop, but
are gently. firmly admOnisbed to re-
main upright. Oh, art is exacting and
her devotees must submit to severe
training"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03

In a meuagerie having headquarters
in Philadelphia, says the Times, there
are six as little and brightly marked
tigers as anybody ever saw. One
morning, az daylight, the keepers We're
surprised by an unusual commotion
among the cat animals. The men got
out strong ropes, llssoes, and nets,
believing that some of the more for
midable of the wild beasts were out Of
their dens.
They approached IN, wide stairs
with caution aud entered the room
The tiger den was scene of fierce
confusion. and the other animals
shared the excitement. The men adj
vanced TO the front of the den. and
were met with demonstrations of
anger. Living close TO the wall in one
corner was huge Bengal tiger. at her
side a pair of beautifully marked cubs,
with eyes closed like a young kittens
With cries of wonder the men gazed at
the treasures which had been born
during the night Still they could not
understand why all the Wild beasts
should seem so restless. One of the
keepers, following the eye OF a huge
panther shouted
BOYS, look! One has got out and
is on the fuor,' One cub had crept
through the bars of the cage aud
tumbled out and wandered around un-
til it had tired out and gone to sleep.
When one of the men carefally picked
/ il up it uttered feeble cry. The
scene that followed made those men
used to danger as they are. white with
fear. The tigers bent the bars of their
| cages, and the lions roared in unison
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03
Pretty She WIZ BE.

An English woman is beautiful by
nature or not beautiful, and there is an
end of the matter. A Parisienne can
rarely compete with the beautiful En-
glish or American woman in features
or in complexion and purity Of skin,
but she exerts such an effort of will in
making herself fascinating that she
often surpasses her rival in spite Of
natural disadvantages. Take Rachel.
for instance. Nature gave her thin
face with a large and prominent foie-
head. deep-set eyes, a sunken mouth,
a pointed chin. scraggy body. and
lean arms. Out of these natural ma
terials the little Jewess, by dint of
genius. will. passion. love. and gold
spent on beautiful objects. made the
Rachel that men will ever remember
woman of COrinth or of Syracuse,
with the caressing gesture of a statue
BY Coysey Ak. the intensity of a water
color by Gavarni lirs, that always
caught and reflected tie light, and in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03

The worlds production Of sugar is
probably vel toward eight million
tons year Cf this, British India and
China produce and themselves consume
over a million tons each of cane sugar,
their exports being small, and these of
very low grade sugars. The estimated
product OF all countries available for
export was, in 1915, year Of large
production, 2.162, 900 tons Of cane and
no less than 1857 800 of beet sugar.
1t is estimated that the cane-sugar crop
marketed this year will increase to
2,2lS, 900 tons, and that the beet-sugar
crop will fall of $40, $50 tons partly
the result of "A lower acreage resulting
from the low prices of last year. Cuba
produces more than a quarter of the
whole export supply of cane sugar, last
years product being 627, 900 tons,
while this years will probably equal
her largest crop (lS75), which was
500 900 tons. OF this, more than half Gn
1885, 1888, 535 gross tons) comes to this
country, which gets nearly halfit total
supply for refining from that island of
revolutions. Louisiana produced last
year but 81, 600 tons, but its normal
product is nearer 125 tons, to which
Texas, our other chief sugar-growing
State, adds 10000 tons more. Five
other States contribute some cane
sugar.
The Sandwich Island crop, under
the stimulus of the treaty which per
mits its sugar TO enter duty free. reaches
65. 600 tons but it is said that the use
of all the available land, and the poor
quantity of native labor, the prohibi-
tons of Chinese, and the high price of
white labor, fix the limit at the present
figure. OF the beet sugar supply, Ger
many produced last year l55; 200 tons,
Australia 557, 900, Russia $4,000,
France $4,000, Belgium 10000 and
Holland 10000 tons. Our chief con
tribution to this crop is from a factory
at Alvarado, California, producing
about 1000 tons, but it is believed that
this will become an important Pacific
coast industry. Beet sugar IS largely
imported into this country for refining
purposes, and we get also some date
palm sugar, called commercially ''date
jaggeryn
Our yield of maple sugar. in which
Vermont still leads. was about $4,000
tons last year. Sorghum, although
large quantities of syrup are made from
the large acreage at the West. has not
yet come into the market as an imDor-
tant commercial source of crystalliZa-
hlp smear the LARGEST croD having been
1000 tons; our scientific agriculturists,
who give good reasons for looking to
this as one of the great American
crops of the FIXTURE. have yet to justify
their faith by their works. The manu-
facture of commercial glucose, or ar
tificial starch sugar, has of late years
reached enormous proportions in this
country. amounting in value to third
of OR cane-Sugar crOp.-R. r. Bow
KER. in Harpcr'S N0gaziHe for June.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03
neston,. Women speenl tors.

Invent the other day to see some
Boston ladies speculate in stocks in
an Office near Exchange place, writes
Prentice milford. There were four of
them in brokers private den. The
front office was full of men. The
ticker was going. 1t was high noon.
The ladies were buying on margins.
They had bought De aware Il Lacka-
wanna and were waiting for it to go up.
They were very uneasy and couldn't
keep their seats. | was cool and calm.
having bought no stock. put my oar
in as prophet and said Lackawanna
would "go up" They were over
loved and wanted to hug me. | did
not explain at the time how | had pro-
tected myself in that prophecy. Lack
awanna did 90 up before l o'clock
.'higher than a kite that is. it
dropped per cent. Prophecies can be
made to run either way, like a double
ferrybOat All but one of the ladies
put up another X to "protect their
margins" The one who didn't put up
went out of the little office 800 worth
poorer than when she went in. She
lidtA Uttl tOiu ~ an az fu1iAioduNC NhD
speculated what an easy way to make
money it was. She had only to buy a
few shares of stock, wait an hour or
two for it to 90 up, then 90 to the
broker, III him TO "close it out" and
take up the solid greenbacks $40 or
500 more than she put in. The lady
who told this told also how she had
made $500 the day before. 1t was so
easy to make money in this way that
the wonder was that any one should be
so foolish as to work at all for living.
The brokers' office was, in fact nothing
but financial pump. You had only to
hang your bucket on the spout, jerk
the handle few times, and take it of
dripping with shekels. That IS the
reason they call them "bucket-shops.'
She did not explain to the poor lady
that sometimes the pump worked the
wrong way and pumped all the shekels
out of your pocket into somebody's else.
The first time she went into this twill
you walk into my parlor, says the
spider to the fly, affair, they let her
make mean she came out so ahead,
and never slept a wink that night be-
cause of the plans she was making for
the house she was to build out of the
fortune she expected to scoop out OF
Lackawanna he next day. She says
now she will never speculate IN stocks
again. She thinks it wicked because
she lost
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-03

There's the family pump, who makes
the business of his or her life to rout
out every disagreeable circumstance
connected with every family and retail
them round the neighbour od. People
speak of her or him as knowing every
thing" but this supreme knowledge is
only gained by the greatest presever-
ance and systematical pumping.
The pump is detested and feared; she
generally makes her attack upon the
youngest and softest member of a fam
lily, going to work after this fashion.
She meets little Mary. whose Brother
George has left the country Gas she
thinks) suddenly and suspiciously; Al
ter kissing the dear child, she takes her
into a shop, eXpends penny on sweets,
then they walk hand in hand. and the
pumping commences:
And so kind Brother George has
gone away?'
Yes
And dear little Mary is very sorry,
ISL SuC. 4 Us 4 huON oAC 10 @AbN
how is mammal
Quite well. thank you.
"Ah! not quite well, of course; but
she was very glad for poor Geo, &c to
90, eh?'
The pumr glances sharply at the
child, but the little face is unrUf filed the
sweets are good, and just the suspic-
ion of a smile plays around her lips.
"Oh! YES; because it was for his
good. You know"
"Ohl he left the brink rather sudden
ly, think.
Il don't know; did not see him.
The pump looks baflied and vexed-
was it for this she wasted her substance.
in pear drops? But she continues
And so poor mamma cried very
much and dear papa was angry with
George?"
mo, he wasn't there was nothing to
he angry about
mo. dear? | thought YOU said that
when poor George came home mex
pectedly mamma cried and papa was
angry"
The pump had met her match for
once; the child looks up and laughs
II didn't say anything of the sort.
and George told me to tel YOU if you
asked any more questions that there
an iron pump in our garden and you
can exercise yourself there if you like.
Everyone, am sure, has met the
pump. that nuisance who would cork
screw herself into your every affair
TJHSIey'S Magazine