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Road Petition.

To the Hon the Court of County Commission
ers for the County of Somerset. next to he hold,
EN- In said County of Somerset, at skowhegnn,
on the FIRST Tuesday OF August 1886; Humbly
.how, that town way. from the end of the
Ripley road near ii. +. Buffers, to the st.
Albans road near v. II. Bragg's In said town.
would be OF great public convenience and that
the Selectmen OF said town of ST. Adams. after
due notice, unreasOnabiy refused to lay out
said town way; wherefore, your petitioners,
considering themselves aggreved by such de
lay and refusal, do pray that your Honors
would, agreeably to law In such case made and
provided, lay out said town way.
Dated at 81. Adams this ith day OF June A. ID.
1886.
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POETRY.
While the Clouds are Rolling BY.

Though the day be dark and drcary,
And the storm be raging IN,
And il seems Is It thu brightness
From the life he ever gone,
w can hope again far sunlight
And he happy if we try,
So just hear the darkness hr"cly
ANhile the CLOUDS are r1iliug by
Though grim sorfow hover, round as
And our lite has lust is bloom,
Though dark trouble ever blight It's
And eur day> be spent an gloom,
W. can look hcyond III shadows
T. that Land ,hove the sky,
We can lean upon euf Savior
" hi4c the clouds Ift fa.lius hy
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The Single Mems Endowment Association Of
s.n S.n o asfaf H.. SS,ss
reserve invested in arst mortgage bods. CIR.
sSri RI yos q marry rT; ..h ss
. ,% MARRIAGE ;GS: , ~! be paid
II. TOwLE. General Agent, a Maine Street.
Box 1901, Bangor, Ne.
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Senator Hearst of California will be re-
membered for the introduction of new
cocktail called "the cowboys dream,
1t makes balloon of mans head in
2.10 IA.
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nUssARp's ELIXIR OF OPIUM.

A boon to the victims Of vitiated indulgence, o
blessing to the sufferers from agonizing pain. In
Its action sedative, anodyne, and ant-spasmodic,
1t allay: nervous irritability, relieves pain and
commissions, and produces delightful sumber.
other unpleasant consequences, caused by the
narcotic properties in other preparations ofopium.
1t preserves the appetite and Is perfectly safe as
household remedy. Price, IS cents per bottle Sold
everywhere. Doolittle & Smith, Agents. Boston.
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For weak lungs, splitting Of blood,
shortness Of breath, consumption, night
sweats and ull lingering coughs. DR..
PleFce's "Goldsp Medical Discovery" Is q
sovereign remedy. Superior to col liver
oil. By druggists.
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IL Holland. Mich. c. J. Doesbury pub.
fishes the NerS, and in Its co umns
strongly recommends DR., Thomas Eject
ric OIL for cough, colds, sore throats
catarrh and asthma.
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f. yer and ague, malarious fever, bill.
lious and typhoid fevers all originate in
one producing cause and m.y all be easily
prevented by Parsons P'ugatire Tills.
These pills act directly and powerfully
upon the blood.
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MISCELLANY.

II is a dangerous thing to allow the
diarrhn or dysentery to 20 unchecked
and there is no need of it. A small bot
Tie OF ,Johnsoa's .iHodyhe Imminent will
cure the most stubborn case that can be
produced.
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FARM. GARDEN AND
HOUSEHOLD.

For tins department, correspondence Is solicited
bsicf u2ecstiun, tlet>, experiences accounts Of
crops, stock, etc. Address MtRSt1 REr KftF'
SHOW la = an, hc.I
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II is estimated that n healthy HN

It IS tStlmattd that n healthy Hy
in five weeks time will produce a
progeny of 800, and if these keep
on multiplying at the same rate
every month during the summer,
without accident or prevention, the
result will be, between the begin
ming of March and the end of Aug
ust, no less than 100000, 900 flies.
i Philadelphia Netcs.
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The expenses oil Jay Gould's yatch, the
Atalanla, are $2l6 day.
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and everything in the nature OF eruptions,
blotches, pimpes, ulcers, scrofulous
humors, aud incipient consumption,
which is nothing more or lie 's than scrof-
ula of the lungs, completely out of the
system. 1t stimulates and iavigorates
the liver tones up the stomach, regulates
the bowels, purties the blood, and builds
up the weak places of the body. 1t IL
purely vegetable compound, and will do
more than is claimed for it. We refer to
Dr.. Pierces "GoldeR Medicdl Discovery.
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Maine Cent? r. r.
CHANGE OF TIM r..

On and after Monday, June "a, 1886, Trains Will
run ss follows
Passenger Train Leaves skowhegau. for all
points west at s 20 A. NJ. Passenger Train Ar
rives at Skowhegan ~ p. NJ.
Mixed Train leaves Skowhegan at 80, i. M ,
md arrives att 80 A. M. every morning except
Monday. Mail on all trains out and in.
The p. NJ. mixed train connects At Waterville
with Fast Express trains for 7, riland. Boston,
Bangor, Bar Iarbor and st. john and enables
passengers to take night Pullman for Portland
and Boston.
on Monday Mornings a Freight train leaves
Skowhc gnn at & 80 A. NJ. connecting ut Water.
vile with passenger train leaving at 9 05 for
Belfast, Pittsheld and Bangor,
PAYs0N TUCKER, Gent. Manager.
+. e. BOOTHBY. Gen Pass'r Agt. u6
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The Great Rock Island Route

Guarantees its patrons that sense of personal
rity niforded by solid thoroughly balusted road
bed, smooth tracks OF continuous steel rail suhstan-
TALLY built culverts md bridges rolling stock near
perfection as human skill ear mike It the safety
appliances OF patent buffers platforms and air brakes
and that exacting discipline which governs the prac
teal operation OF all rs trains other specines OF
this route are Transfers at all connecting points in
Union Depots, and the unsurpassed comforts and
lu1nries OF its Passenger Equipment.
=, The Fast Express Trains between Chicago and
Peoria, Council Bntfs Kansas city. IoavenWnith and
Atchison are composed of well ventilated nnry IN
holstcrcd Day Coaches, Magnificent Pullman Palace
Sleeprrs OF the latest design. and sumptuons Dining
cars IN which deliberately cooked meals ei.ircly
eaten Between Chicago and Kansas CITY md AVhison
also tho L,crhrntIl NnnIlIlln l.l
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Woodbury., Morrill, & Gage,

Successors to A. II. Fletcher ut the we'll
known store formerly occupied by him are pre-
pared to give GOOD BARGAINS, in great va
Of Merchandise.
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Is the direct and favorte line between Chicago and
minneapolis and St Paul. where connections nre made
n Union Depots for all points in the Territories and
British Provinces. over this route Fast Express
trains are run 10 the watering places. summer
sorts, picturesque localities and hunting and fishing
grounds of Iowa ana Minnesota II IL also the IN
desirable route To the rich wheat fields and pastoral
lands Of Interior Dakota.
Stll another DIRECT LINE. via Seneca and Kan
kakee, has hcen opened between Cincinnati Indian
ilnlis and LAFAYETTE aud Council Bluffs Kansas
minneapolis and 81 Paul and intermediate points
FOR detailed Information Maps and Folders
ohtainahle well tickets, nil principal Ticket
Offices in the United States and Canada; or by ad-
dressing
2. r. CABLE, e. ST. JOHN,
IIest& Genl MEr Genl Tiki & Pass Ag't,
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Attest; 8. II. GOODWIN, Register.
Post Office address, Judge, Scion: Registe
SkUwhegan. 3w83
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Life Size CpayOl Portraits
ia MANI

MO Is utAcouAHr1o WITH TIE GEOGRAPHY OF
CnLlInn aIIL EsAMlhllha Il.ls NAE
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-10-21

DOJ Uttii Slll llSuldII1 KEW. AftL H.. hlChS.
fond of studying and speculating upon
weather changes. Four years ago he arrived
at the conclusion that astronomy held the ex-
PLANTATION of all the weather phenomena seen
by the inhabitants of the earth, and after
long and earnest examination into all the
theories of meteorclogy connected with as
tronomy, he at last settled upon that which
has been given to the world by
Professor Tice-that the planets all ex-
ert an influence upon each other,
and that all the meteorological cf-
fects felt by this planet can be traced to
causes arising from the movements of other
planets. In 1884 Mr.. Hicks felt that he had OBJ
tanned enough facts to be able to fix the time
for all the great weather changes during this
decade, and issued what he called the Weather
Prophet, a small past board chart, upon which
the disturbances were noted by figures, and
the planet given to which they owed their
origin. Below is a portion of the chart with
the storm predictions for the next three
months:
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Wine-Making in California

The prettiest and cleanest employ
ment ever saw is that of gathering
grapes. But it is hard on the back, and
in the end is not easy work. Of course,
the ugly stumps are entirely hidden by
the vines long before harvest time. Ia
deed, the thousand vines. and tenGrils
and blossoms that branch out from the
little black stump in the earliest days of
spring have long before harvest time
completely covered every inch of ground
with vines and leaves and tendrils that
reach almost to your waist. And the
stump is one solid mass of luscious
grapes. They are all there clinging to
the stump, not scattered about over the
ground on the long vines that are to be
shorn away. But you begin to feel down
in the dense mass of leaves and tendrils
for your stump. and at every stump you
find little cart-load of grapes.
There are blank rows up and down
and across all the large vineyards for
the wagons. And one of the prettiest
sights in California is the long lines of
wagons on the high roads on their way
to the wine-presses with their great
| pS VI
The best hand in the grape-feld by
all odds is the little Chinaman. He
grows close to the ground, and so does
not have to bend his back like a large
white man. Besides, he is very supple
fingered. And it does not take "a John
L. Sullivan to lift a bunch of grapes.
And so when you have decided in your
mind that the grape is going to be
conspicuous figure in the political econ
omy of this the greatest state in the
union, and when you have further de-
cided that the Chinaman is necessary to
make it most profitable, you can decide
very certainly in your mind as to
whether the little brown men are going
to 60 or stay.
If only every white man would hasten
to get hold of little piece of land and
plant it all, either till it himself or en-
ploy Chinamen,t to do the hardest part
of the work for him, why then this ques-
ton of cheap labor, so far as California
is concerned, would be settled instantly
and to the satisfaction of all. When the
white man who is now employed, or
claims to want to be employed, comes
to be the employer, why cheap labor
will seem in his changed mental vision
to be the very best thing that could be
| bestowed on the commonwealth of Cali
fornia.
And land is SO cheap and SO ready
for the plow. and SO accessible, too, by
any one of the five Pacific railroads, as
compared with the time when we. the
old settlers. put in the best half of the
year in crossing the plains.
But, alas, Notwithstanding all I can
say or do. fear my fellow laborer will
cling to the dirty alleys of the dismal
cities, hug his hatred Of those who have
toiled and braved danger and made
life q success. He prefers the pest-house
for his children to the green grape-tields
and the sweet air of the roohy west.
He prefers making bombs to making
bread. Alas, my fellow-laborer, you are
a bomberr r'-JoaQuin i!tIler in Chicago
Times.
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ment of Columbia university at Washington.
He is an elegant and forceful writer, in
tnsing even into scientific subjects liveliness
which makes the dullest topic treated by his
pen readable His home is in Washington.
Being known by his scientific fellow labor
ers to have so clear head on him, wonder
has been expressed that he should permit him.
self, as they say, to be deluded by that mix
ture OF Buddhism and blatherskiteism known
as theosophy. To all of which the learned
doctor answers his former brethren much in
the spirit of Fanny Squeers' postscript to
Nicholas Nickleby. "P. ST. pity your ig-
norance and despises you," or at least,
il not that he tells them that great
discoveries are on the eve of making
In psychic science. Spiritualisn, mesmerism,
clairvoyance and ghosts are drops of the
coming shower He himself has simply
already perceived and acknowledged facts
which all will be forced to give in to ere
long Many have already been dumbfounded
and silenced by the manifestations of powers
hitherto unsllspected in mankind To which
the professors opponents answer "Bosh," and
he in turn simply says, "Wait; you'll see."
DR.. Coucs has certainly proved his faith by
his works. He has given up various scien.
title pt'Si;.cm of honor AID emolument to de.
vote himself to occult studies.
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a momentary strength. Ihesentence n br1ef.
Il Is expressive. None can tell all it means
He has drained the cup his father gave him
20 drink Revelation Of God has been made.
Holiuess has been exemplifed. The law Of
God has been honored. Its penalty has been
borue. The blood that cleanseth from all sin
will have been shed when he expires. at is
finished" II the words Of the Hloud voice" be
those of Luke xiii, 40, we can understand
the tone of rejoicing in them. Then he bowed
1is head and gave up the spirit or soul
Ghost is the old word for spirit.
~ We may learn how interesting and i'm
portant is the death of Christ, from the
minuteness with which the evangelists set the
details before us, and from the prophecies
that went before regarding it.
t2 We may learn theevil of human nature
in the hard, unjust and unfeeling way in
which tho innocent sufferer was treated. Let
us beware of crucifying the Son of God afresh
by evil doing, while counted Of his people.
81 We may see how truly human he was
and how good in the relations Of life, from
his words regarding his mother Boys and
girls should treasure up these things and be
good to fathers and mothers.
az How firm foundation is laid for our
faith! Prophecy is fulfilled, atonement is
made. See it in Dan. tx, 4.-Sunday School
World,
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Gathering Grapes.

How much will one acre yieldP Well
in Napa valley they show YOU Il field
that yields fourteen tons of grapes to
the acre. From eight to ten tons is the
average crop. These grapes are sold by
the ton. They are sometimes sofd as
they stand; sometimes they are sold ON
delivery at some wine-press. They
bring from 800 to $50 per ton, accord
ing to the yield, as rule. But the year
that France sent over and bought up all
the wine these prices were more than
doubled. And ought to mention that
these are wine grapes I am writing
about now. The only table-grapes
which grow upon the Sierras near the
line of the eastern railroads bring
from 800 to 5000 per ton, and are ship
ped to Chicago and elsewhere beyond
the Rocky mountains. And l may men,
ton here that it looks to me as if the
southern states ought to wake up and
take all this immense trade in early
table grapes to herself.-Joaquin Miller
in ChtcaQO Times.
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THE MINERAL EXHIBITION BUILDING.
The confidence with which the citizens of
this youthful city look toward its prosperity
is evidenced by the public buildings, among
which is a building where the mineral prod
ucts of the region may be exhibited, studied
and discussed. A recent correspondent says
of the city: One hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars per month is paid to labor
by infantile industries only; stoves, piping,
steam engines, foundry outfits, furnace plants,
ETC., are shipped hence 1000 miles; chain fac
tories and iron bridge factories, flour mills,
furniture factories, cotton press factories and
cotton gin factories are springing up. From
the peaks overhanging this valley the philo-
sophie inquirer may observe hurrying throngs
of workingmen grading and paving wide
streets constantly encroaching on the sur
rounding farms; and along their lines me-
chanics build, one after another, great temples
of trade, halls of education, church spires
which kiss the clouds, beautiful homes, and
ever leave the end of one day overhang with
unfinished work for the next. Over 81 ,0O0,-
600 are invested in the great industries Of the
place, and no less than twenty-one iron fur
naces are now either in active operation or
about to begin work.
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Since the disappearance of the buffalo
the Rocky Mountain, or "big horn"
sheep. has become favorite game. These
animals ranged all the way from the
Rio Grande to the Mackenzie, but at the
limits named they are exceedingly
scarce and most difficult to kill. Their
natural home is among the mountains
of the Upper Yellowstone and Missouri
rivers. Some few are found in WASH
ington Territory, Oregon and California,
but the center around which they re-
yolve is the Yellowstone National Park
and the bordering counties of Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming. Particularly are
they plentiful in the mountains from
which they take their name. viz; the
Big Horn.
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foremost living Or
nithologist. At
tached to his name
is a string of titles,
honorary and sci
entifc, nearly half
q dozen inch e s
long, printed in fine
type, wide column.
He is a member of
the British Ornith-
ologists' union, a
collaboration in the
Smithsonian in
stitution at Wash
ington, and profes-
sor Of anatomy in
tho Y,1oflicol da,>ork
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The Oldest house in Birmingham dates from
1871. In 1880 the population according to the
census was 4,50O. 1t is now over 1900, and
the tax valuation of the property is about
$4,000, 900. The reason for this magic growth
is due to the location of the city. Red noun
tain, on the side of which the city rests, is
solid mass Of ore, and supported on one side
by the Warrior and on the other by the Co
haba coalfelds, with limestone and fire clay
lying between, one might imagine that here
Vulcan had chosen his home. A solid noun
tain of iron ore-a huge vein twenty-four feet
thick cropping out for 100 miles along the
mountain and hanked on either side by mile
after mile of splendid coal-it is something
unprecedented in the history of iron manu-
facture
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ANUS FEHUUSON' WIFI nlHl, " T
somewhat peculiar, he never failed to draw
crowd. He had daughter whom he in
duced to accompany and assist him on these
occasions, but when maturer years showed
to her the sarcastic applause, which to the
old man was the highest appreciation, she
forsook the barrel Or box on the street corner
and the old gentleman was compelled to "go
it alone"
Perhaps the greatest triumph of Mr.. Fer
guson's' life was the transcribing of the Bible
into verse. This translation he published in
book, but its sale was limited, notwithstand-
ing the book possessed a great deal of merit
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-10-21

The stories about The Ma den boys
compositions have ,,rawa out Il lot more
of the sort from correspondents. One
of them tells how II class OF small girls
had been given ''oral instruction" on
the subject OF the camel. One point made
was the absorption, during long absti-
nence, of the fat of the hump. A bright
little thing with Il vivid minds eye
wrote afterwards: when camel is ex-
tremely hungry he can stretch back his
head and eat his hump, ,"-BOstoB
Record.
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CAPT. LAwToN.

fantry, and was transferred to the cav
airy in 1870. During the last seven years
he has been captain of Company B, Fourth
cavalry, and was much esteemed for his SOL
dierly qualities by Gen. B. S. Mackenzie, on
whose staff, we believe, he served In his
great pursuit of Geronimo, Lawton "kept
him shooting until he had nothing left to
shoot with" as Gen. Stanley once expressed
it, and it was no doubt their lack of ammuni-
tion that largely influenced the surrender of
the Apaehes When once Geronimo and his
son Chappa came in, and the hereditary chief,
Natchez, followed, the campaign was crowned
with complete success.
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In the chart as printed the black figures
show the dates upon which small storms or
disturbances not of an extraordinary charac-
ter will occur, while the lighter figures indi-
cate storms of greater violence and the names
of the planets to hold resonsible for the dis
turbances are also given.
Mr.. Hicks says further: hope some day,
and believe the time is not far distant when
we will be able to predict exactly when a
storm will break, where it will strike first,
and its exact nature-hurricane, tornado,
cyclone, flood or earthquake.
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cret Of the changes
in the elem ents
above us. This is
what the Rev. Irl
r. Hicks, Of St
Louis, has done
He is the pastor Of
the Olive Branch
CongTe e 6 ationa al
church, and a very
modest, energetic
and popular minis
ter. He is 40 years
old, and has from
the time he was a
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ure, and oftentines
his fields were ne
elected while he
composed these bal
lads and Travelled
around the country
in the immediate
vicinity of his home
singing them on
street corners, or
wherever he could
secure an audience.
As the tunes, which
were also original
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el'nor of New Jer-
sey, is q member of
the law firm of
Vander'poel, Green
& Cunning, of New
York. He is o
native of New Jer-
sey, and belongs to
one of the blue
blood families of
that state, and is a
very rich man. He
is in the neighbor-
hood of 50 years of
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THE BARD OF cHATAUouA.

Death of a Man Who Translated the
Bible into Verse.
Amos Ferguson was born upon farm in
Chatauqua county, New York, about four
miles from the city of jamestown, in the
year 1914, and the seventy-two years of his
life, which recently closed, was spent on the
same farm.
Mr.. Ferguson was an odd specimen of
humanity, withal q very good, patriotic
and devout man. During the war the
composition of war ditties lured more
than did the pursuits of agricult-
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mand is due the
credit of the cap
ture. Capt. Law
ton entered the vol
unteer army in
April, 1861, as a ser.
geant of the Ninth
Indiana infantry,
and at the end of
the war had be-
come lieutenant col
onel of his regi-
lnent. Then he en-
tered the regular
service as second
e =.