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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20

Now is the season of the year when ..egg
stories" are always in order. The fact is
that any hen is public spirited to lay al all
when the temperature is below zero, but when
these results are in themselves worthy of the
summer months, the newspapers can not
afford to be silent.
O. T. Gleason, OF Temple. keeps TWEEN
ty-two hens In the month of January
they laid 404 eggs During the year Mr.
G.. has sold $50 worth of eggs, besides those
used in the family, none being sold while
their summer boarders were with them.
In six weeks Alexander Wiley, of Waldo
boto, sold eggs amounting to 1872. One day
recently his flock laid sixty-five eggs. He
has l2j hens.
There are lots of others who give similar
results, but these will suffice to show that
Maine biddies are fully alive to the exigen-
cies of the season
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20

Fishermen along the New Brunswick shore
refuse to take Canadian bank bills in payment
for fresh fish, as some of the boatmeH say
who have recently returned from trip with
loads of frozen herring They want good
money for good fish"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
WALDO.

Mrs. Reuben Vinal of Vinalhaven. came to
Belfast last week with Mr.. S. j. Gushee of
Appleton, to consult Mr. Wallace in regard
to pension matters. While here Mrs. Vinal
stopped at the Ph9nix House. Wednesday
morning she got up in chair in her ROOM
and attempted to roll up the curtain. Had
she understood the working of the curtain she
would not have been obliged to have rolled it
from the top. She fell from the chair and
broke one leg just above the ankle. Mrs.
Vinal was driven to Appleton by Mr.. Gushee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

RgSend for descriptive circulars designating wheth
or book of California, Mexico, Washington tours
is desired
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
PIsCarAQUIs.

The Dover people are to be treated to q
fine concert and ball to be given some time
in March by the Ten Associates of that
place. Music will be furnished by Andrews
full orchestra, with solos by Mr.. S. H Board
man, Mr.. NJ. II. Andrews and Mr. r. b.
Hall. Arrangements will be made for half
fare. on the railroads. 1t will undoubtedly
be the musical event of the season at Dover.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
Special advertisements.

Small advertisements, not exceeding three lines
coming under the head of WANTED, For SAIr
To LET, Losr, &C. will be inserted here one time
for Is cents three times for 40 cents and one week
for so cents,if paid in advance. If NOT pAIp IN
ADVANCE, REGULAR RATES WILL RE CHARGED.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
THE SULTAN.

A Sultan sat by Danube's tide
And sore distressed aloud he cried;
While like the waters to the sea
His tears ran down both fast and free.
a passing stranger said: "My friend.
WHY do those tears so fast dcscend?"
"Alas!" he sobbcd, ''I'vc lost all hope;
I've lost my cake OF Ivory SOAP.
No more in pride through town I'll go,
With garments clean and white as snow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-20
TAINTED.

THANTED.-An experienced cutter on general
w harness work, to cut for crew OF fifteen 10
twenty Must be man of good habits Also
man for repair job. Address Ron IN, Gardner
Mass. frhl?d2w.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
MORE SENATORIAL STEALING.

MORE SENATORIAL STEALING.
Cleveland Leader.
The Republicans are not to get their
United States Senator from Delaware
after all; that is, if the Democrats can
steal it away from them. The news of
the election of a Legislature Republi-
can on joint ballot in that little 2x3 gar
den patch of ultra-coperheadism seemed
almost too good to be true, and yet it
was true 1t stunned the Democrats for
the instant. Upon coming to their SEN
ses they at once set about the work of
forming plan to recover, by dishonesty,
what they had lost at the polls. Their
idea was this: Mr.. A. 3. Richardson, the
Republican nominee from Dover, for
State Senator, had 1873 majority. When
the Legislature assemblies Mr.. Richard
son will be ousted because the ticket, it
is claimed, was improperly labeled.
Then Mr. Richardson's opponent will be
sworn in, the Legislature will be tie,
and the Democratic Governor will ap-
point Democratic United States Sena-
tor. This appointment will be delayed,
however, until after the Legislature ad
journs, so that the State Senate will not
have an opportunity to act on the nomi-
nation and the appointee will go to Con-
gcess direct.
This is very pretty Democratic
scheme, quite in keeping with party
that sanctions an attempt to buy the
Presidency, forgery, intimidation, ballot
box stuffing, assassination Of voters,
and other crimes. But will it work?
We presume so; up to that point at
least where the Governor appoints the
Senator. Then the United States Sen
ate will have voice in the matter and
the fairness and integrity for which that
body is noted will result, we sincerely
believe, in Mr. Saulsbury's successor be-
ing sent back to Delaware with more
bees buzzing under his bonnet than all
the apiaries in his One-horse little Senate
could hold. In the meantime the Re-
publicans of the Legislature will meet,
name their candidate for Senator, and
send him on to Washington, where he
should have no trouble in securing his
seat. There is not an indecent excuse
even for the arrangements being made
to steal the Delaware Senatorship. 1t
is low down outrageous attempt at po-
litical crime.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
THE BIG ToED PEOPLE

Mrs. LeonOwens, in Nov. Wide Owake.
The strangest of all the Indo- Chinese
races, the ancient Gioa-Chi or Big -Toed
Race is called in our biographies "The
Anamese." This extraordinary people
are about the ugliest and worst built of
all our semi-civilized Asiatic Cousins.
They are much shorter than the Malays,
darker skinned, with lower fOreheads,
less developed skull, flatter nose, larg-
er mouth, thicker lips, blackened teeth,
gums often destroyed by the use of bet
el-nut, very prominent cheek and jaw
bones, so that the face is lozenge shaped,
short neck, shoulders sloping abruptly,
and see-sawing sort of a gait when
walking. But the most curious devel-
ment of all is the big toe. 1t is very
large, broad and fiat; moreover the dis
tance between that member of the foot
and the other toes is so great that the
Chinese so long ago as 1857 B. C, gave
them the name of Giao-Chi or the Big
Toed Race.
The curious physical formation is such
that it quite marks them from all other
Asistic peoples who walk barefoOted;
and strange to say, that though more
than forty centuries have passed since
this peculiarly was first noticed by Chi
nese travellers, and in spite of frequent
intermarriages with other races, the An
amese have transmitted, without the
least perceptible modification. this for
nation of the foot to their descendants
to-day; which fact, according to some
ethnOlogists, serves to prove that the
Anamese are not descended from the
mingling of indigenous races, but rath-
er that they had existed for an immense
period of time as distinct and peculiar
race.
However this may be, in funny old
Siamese legend, the origin of the Ana
mese race is attributed to the prayer of a
pious Bubhist missionary, the sole sur
vivor of shipwrecked crew, who, find
ing himself cast on the beautiful coast
of Anam, with no living creature in
sight save multitudinOus fllocks of wild
geese, prayed the Addhi Karma, or First
Cause, to change these wild geese into
human beings, so tnat he might instruct
them in the doctrines of the Buddha.
Then and there the flOcks swoOped down
at the feet of the suppliant, and were,
in the twinkling of an eye, transformed
into crowds of men, women and chill
dren, without vestige of their former
condition as web-foOted creatures save
the broad fiat distended blg-toe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

TIE desperate nature of the Demo-
cratic party was never more strikingly
placed on exhibition than in the game of
stealing the House of Representatives
by "recounts" in the Southern districts
carried by the Republicans. The Re-
publicans won the House in the South
ern States in districts where the craze of
the whites in their alarm about African
ization has been dissipated, and the
counting machinery is generally in Dem
ocratic hands. Hence the claim that
there should be another turn at the bal
lot-boxes, which means swindle. The
Republicans have not thought of pursu-
ing a similar process in the States where
they have the counting and there are
close districts, but the scoundrelism 60
ing on is simply revolutionary, and there
must be a line drawn on it somewhere.
1t will be remembered that the present
House is Democratic and that the Clerk
of the House makes out the roll, and
this gives the conspirators an extra
chance. We would give this tip to all
Republican Governors: Do not be in a
hurry to issue certificates to Democratic
members of the House. We may want
a recount in close districts. Cincinnati
| Commercial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
IN A POST-OFFICE.

The New York Post-office has stood
where it does now for eleven years.
During all that time it has never been
closed. In fact, like Tennyson's brook,
the post-office goes on forever doing bu-
siness. 1t requires Is men and women
to keep it clean. They are at work con-
tinually, and still the force is insufficient.
A cart load of dirt is swept up in the
corridors each day.
The post-ofiice fathers more than its
legitimate share of dirt from the fact
that pedestrians take advantage of its
cool corridors in the summer to protect
them from the heat, and also in the
winter to avoid the cold.
Ali kinds of articles are found on the
window-ledges, including umbrellas,
pocketbooks, books, shoes, clothing, etc.
These articles are all taken to Room No.
l, where they can be secured by de-
scription of the article lost. 1t is esti-
mated that $4,000 more persons pass
under the roof the New York Post-office
every day than under any other roof on
the continent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
INTELLECTUAL WIVES.

The Interior.
Do intellectual women make the best
partners of life? Emerson says: ait is
not beauty that inspires the deepest pas
sion;" and Jean Paul Richter declared
that he would not lead woman into the
matrimonial moose whom it would not de-
light to hear him read learned reviews
to Gottingen OF the universal German L.
brary when they sounded his praise.
though it might be in some degree ex-
aggerated.
John Stuart Mill regarded the institu-
tion of marriage in its highest aim aud
aspect as ''union of two persons of eul-
tivated faculties, identical in opinion
and purposes, between whom there ex-
lists that best kind of equality, similari-
larity of powers with reciprocal superior
ity in them, SO that one can enjoy the
luxury of looking up to the other and
can have alternately the pleasure of
leading and being led in the path Of de-
velopment."
buJ Quiet ll6l VI SCuAOo hohO ehOOcAe
differently on the subject. 1t is an oft
quoted saying of DR.. johnson that "a
man is better pleased when he has q
good dinner on the table than when his
wife talks Greek" Racine had an llit-
crate wife and was accustomed to boast
fully declare that she could not read
any of his tragedies. Dufresney mar
ried his washerwoman. Goethe's wife
was a woman of mediocre capacity.
Heine said of the woman he loved, ''She
has never read line of my writings and
does not even know what a poet Is"
Therese Lavasseur, the last flame OF
Rousseau, could not tell the time ofday.
NHow many of the wiseSt and learn
ed" says Thackeray, shave married
their eoOksl Did not Lord Eden, him
self the most prudent of men, make
runaway match? Were not Achilles
and Ajax both in love with their servant
maids. Seven hundred people sat up
all night to see the beautiful Duchess OF
Hamilton get into her carriage, but
would one in a thousand lose wink OF
sleep to get a glimpse Of the learned
wife of the pundit Yainavalka, who dis
coursed with the Indian in Sanserit on
the vexed problems of lifeS"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
PHIL sHERIDAN'S ONLY VOTE.

PHIL SHERIDAN'S ONLY VOTE.
EX-PRESIDENT HAYES TELLS A CHARM
ING STORY OF THE LATE GENERAL.
New York Tribune.
81 was present." says ex-President
Hayes, "when Gen. Sheridan cast the
first vote and the last of his life. Nc
Clellan was the candidate on one side
and Lincoln on the other. Sheridan had
never voted, as he was an army officer.
But he understood that under the laws
of Ohio an old soldier could vote, and
that there was to be somewhere in camp
among the Ohio soldiers polling place.
He soon learned it was at my headquar-
tiers, so he came over the day before and
talked about it. 4 never cast vote be-
fore in my life,' said Gen. Sheridan, and
l don't understand how to do it
"Next day Sheridan came over with
Gen. Forsyth, of Toledo, and Gen. Crook,
who also wanted to vote. 1 passed the
word around that Sheridan and Crook
would vote at 9 o'clock, and 5000 sol
diers and two brass bands were on hand.
The polling place was wagon, and three
non commissioned officers were judges
and two young fellows clerks. l said l
would vote first, so as to show Crook and
Sheridan how it was done. l was an old
voter; they were greenhOrns. l stepped
up and said to the judges: MY
name is Rutherford B. Hayes; vote in
Hamilton county, o., in the Fifteenth
ward, Cincinnati All this was put
down. Then Sheridan stepped up. He
was a little embarrassed, for all the
men were looking at him. 1t was new
part for him to play. He looked at the
Judge, the judge stared at him. Your
name, sir?' said the judge, with minute
dignity. Sheridan spoke up, phillip H.
Sheridan In what State do you vote?
asked the Judge impressively. In Ohio
Sheridan replied. In what county?'
Perry comfy Then came the difficult
question, In what ward or township,
sir?' asked the judge with solemnity.
My father lives in Reading township
Sheridan replied, in an embarrassed
way; for it was all new to him.
"Then Gen. Crook stepped forward,
pulling his mustache nervously, as was
his habit He gave his name and said
he lived in Dayton, Montgomery coun-
ty. What ward, sirY thundered the
Judge. Il don't know Gen. Crook said;
Il always stopped at the Phillips House,
though oh, call it the First ward l
said, and down it went that way. In
speaking with Sheridan afterward he
said, with feeling: This is my first vote.
l don't expect to vote again; but | did
want to vote for old Abe"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
New Series, Vol. 20, No. AT.

A LADY connected with the New Yorl
World the other day called called upoI
Chauncey NJ. Depew to ask leading
question. 1t was whether women should
propose to the men they want to marry
She gives the interview as follows;
az have just come to get your opin-
ion on certain subject which doubtless
You will think very silly. 1t is this'-I
took long Should women pro-
poser
"Mr. Depew gazed at me a moment
with look of surprise, in which 1 de-
tected faint trace of alarm, then he
burst into hearty laugh. He bent ov-
er, placed his hands on his knees, and
laughed until his gold eyeglasses tum-
bled off. A man sitting on the other
side of the room with large book on
his knee joined in, and somehow l be-
gan to feel awkward.
az am not going to propose 1 made
haste to add, but really, now, when we
have women who do everything as ably
as men, don't you think that they should
have the right to propose'
"I do indeed he replied earnestly,
Strengthening up. But there are preju-
dices against it which will not likely be
overcome
"'YOu do not entertain any?
"tNo, no; certainly not'-stin smil-
ing.
"'Then you believe in women propos-
mgr
al do His eyes twinkled, but his
tone was serious. Proposing cost me
ten years of my life. would have lived
just ten years longer if 1 had not pro-
posed. 1t took me year to get my
courage up to the point. most GER
tainly believe in women taking that
privilege from the men,
"I suppose you feel happy over the
elections? said, forgetting for an in
slant the main subject OF the interview.
"'Oh yes, yes he replied, pleasantly.
why don't you telegraph Gen. Harrison
and ask him if women should propose?'
"'He would be too busy just now an
swering congratulations to find time to
answer my question: 1 said. Now, if
women would propose going back to
the old subject, do you think the men
would be so ungenerous as to laugh at
them or to refuse themp
"'Oh, no; they would never do that
His eyes cleaned roguishly. That re-
minds me of friend of mine-I never
tell stories, but I'll tell this one. He was
lecturing in some small town out West.
In the midst of his talk a number of
young girls in the back part of the house
began to giggle and laugh; so one of the
men, who was conducting the meeting,
arose and requested them to please keep
better order in the back part of the room.
A young man who was sitting by the |
girls got up and said, 'PleaSe excuse the
girls; they couldn't help laughing cause
q hornet has just stung me-" Now, if
the hornet had stung the girls; the men
would not have laughed, but would have
applied the remedies usual in such
cases.
Somehow, when 1 went out, and es-
oecially as had never been stung by
lOrnet, 1 wondered what the remedies
we're for such wounds"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
NORTH KNOWING.

Mr.. W. II. Morgan, merchant, Lake
City. Fla, was taken with severe cold,
attended with a distressing cough and
running into Consumption in its first
stages. He tried many so-called popular
cough remedies and steadily grew worse;
was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in
breathing and was unable to sleep. FL
nally tried DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption c and found immediate re-
lief, and after using about half dozen
bottles found himself well and has had
no return of the disease. No other rem
edy can show so grand record of cures as
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. Guaranteed to do just what is
claimed for it. Trial bottle free at Pat
tersons' drug store.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
SAYINGS OF LEADERS.

"With malice toward none, with char
ity for all, with firmness in the right as
God gives us to see the right, let US
strive to finish the work we are in, to
bind up the nations wounds, to care for
him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow and orphan, to do all
which may achieve just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all ma
tions." ."-LincOln'S Last Message.
'There is not precinct in this vast
nation where Democrat can not cast
his ballot and have it counted as cast
no matter what the predominance of
the other party. He can proclaim his
political opinions, even, if he is only
one among thousand without fear and
without prescription on account of his
opinions. u. s. Grant.
"We shall never be beaten until every
man who counts or represents those
who count in the numeration to give
representation in the electoral college
can cast his vote Just as he pleases, and
can have it counted just as he cast it. y
y, S, Grant.
''The American citizen, rich or poor,
native or naturalized, white or colored
must, everywhere, walk secure in his
personal and civil right. james g.
Blaine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL MAHoNE claims that Vir-
ginia is a Republican State.
THE National Republican, newspaper,
at Washington, is to be revived.
| GENERAL HARRISON received six
thousand congratulatory kilograms.
THE Herald office at Wellsburg, W.
Va, was destroyed by fire last week.
Hon. JOHN F. LOCKE will assist Pros
ecutor Huling in the Myers trial, at Lon
don, o.
CHAs. GRAHAM was arrested at Dres-
den, O., for burglarizing store at Cam
bridge.
RICHARD MULLINS was called to the
door of his residence and assassinated, at
Dayton, Tenn.
IT is said that Mormon missionaries
are doing considerable PROSECUTING all
through Georgia.
VIM. SHOWERS was hanged at Leba-
non, Pa, for the murder of his two
grandchildren in 1887.
R. K. BURTON, Cashier of the Cincin-
natl Barbed Wire Company, was robbed
! of $3.50 on a street car.
THE Richmond (Va.) Wing nominates
Sam Randall as the Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency in 1892.
SIR CLAIRE FORD, at present British
Minister to India, is mentioned as the
probable successor to Lord Sackville.
ELISHA WILLIAMS, an old and re-
spected citizen of Taunton, Mass, was
swindled out of $4,000 by two bunko-
lists.
ALBERT OWENS, who was shot by
Deputy Marshal on the day of the elee-
tion at Mt. Sterling, KY, died on the 9th
inst.
THREE million six hundred thousand
bushels of coal has left Pittsburgh on the
present rise, for Cincinnati, Louisville
and New Orleans.
THE Lima (O.) Car Works resume
work with a full force of 500 men on
full time, after running on half time for
the past two months.
PERRY S. HEATH, special correspond
ent of the Indianapolis Journal, is mel-
toned as the probable Private Secretary
of President Harrison.
THERE is a movement on foot at
Washington to secure Schofeld's ap-
pointmentas Marshal at the inaugura-
ton of President Harrison.
IT is rumored that the Lehigh Valley
and Reading Railroads have united with
the Baltimore and Ohio in a eombina-
ton against the Pennsylvania system.
THE Democrats are trying to steal
the House of Representatives by count
ing out Republicans in close districts.
Mr.. Quay says, however, that it win be
Republican.
THERE were twelve new cases and one
new death from yellow fever at Jack
sonville, Fla, Sunday. There was light
frost Saturday night, with prospect Of
colder weather.
Ar GladeWater. Texas. George ROden
completely decapitated Nathan Owens,
who was trying to kill him The trouble
grew out of Roden's alleged intimacy
with Owens wife.
FRED GROF started a snOw-slide at
North Star mine, Solomon Mountain,
Col, by blasting. He was carried over
a precipice five hundred feet high. His
body has been found.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

~
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ReY. X. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
young peopIe's society Of Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, wednesday
evening Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-key:
7 n HoIlingshead pastor Sabbath preaching, II
a m; D. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, THURSDAY eve
nings; mems meeting, Friday evenings; sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited 10 all
services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIANC CHURCH-ReV
Thomas Balph pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m ;
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday D. m monthly prayer meeting, last Satur-
day of each month, p. m; womanS missionary
society. last Saturday Of each month, p. M. dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Young women's PRAYER meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m
AFRICANM. E. CHURCH-Rev- J. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1880 a. m; p m; SAD
bath school. 2 30 D. m; weekly prayer meeting.
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

ALEX. ROGERS, Government Store
keeper at Louisville, KY, became insane
over the result Of the Presidential elec-
ton.
THE $4,000 reward for the capture
of w. d. Tascott, the alleged murderer
of A. J. Schnell, of Chicago, has been
extended for sixty days.