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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22
3rd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Iscpubiicnn Convention.

The Republicans Of the Third tongr. ssonai Dis
trict OF Maine, composed Of the counties nf Nomer
set. krnnrhCr, Hancock and Waldo, are requested
to send delegates to u convention to be held ~ the
Town Hall In WatctNillc, On "wednesday the 18th
day Of April 4 u. ISIS. nj II O'Clock \. VI. for the
purpose Of nominating candidate for Representa-
tive Ia the u Congress ofthe United states and
ddate for Presidential Elecor also elect two Dele
gates, and two hibernate Delegates to the Repuhli
can National Convention, to be held ut Chicago,
Illinois on June lWh iS~S and to select district
Committee.
The basis of representation will be rs follow
Each city, Town and Plantation VIII be entitled 10
Delegate aud for each - votes cast for Cover.
BoJwell IN lSS6 nm additional Delegate, and for
fraction Of 10 votes in excess of - votes. Hddi
tional Delegate.
February 18th, lSSs.
~, 'p " ,'t,5N' Republican
y, ,",',,,' District
a. h,,,,N'.,' Committee
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22

The following clipping from the Skowhe-
gan Reporter will explain to some of our
correspondents why certain notices about
shows, entertainments, theatre companies and
the like do not appear in their correspon-
dence;
A correspondent sends us good smart
puff of a troupe that gave an entertainment in
a village in Somerset County last week. We
have no doubt but our correspondent writes
the truth. and we would be glad to do him
the favor of publishing his well written item,
but we advertise amusements, shows, etc.
for pay. We are "fussy' about these things,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22

Several prominent villages of Maine are
talking of starting a Loan and Building As
sociation. These institutions are already
well rooted in the cities and have evidently
come to stay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22

Large quantities of Holsters are being
shipped from Maine to points West
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22

4 few more weeks will see the doors of
Maine jails opening to turn loose horde of
tramps upon the community. State Prison
is better lodging place for such fellows
than the county jails. Chief Justice Peters
is apparently inclined to try its virtues upon
the vagrant community, and his example will
doubtless be followed with increasing fire.
quency in the future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22

come to sta,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22
Spctial advertisements.

Small advertisements, not exceeding three lines
coming under the head of WANTED, For SALE
To LET, LOST, Sc, will be inserted here time
for - cents three times for 40 cents, and week
for so cents,if paid in advance. If NOT PAIp IN
ADVANCE, REGULAR RATES WILL RE CHARGED.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
PERSIAN EQUEsTRIANIsM

1t is strange that, although the Per-
slams are all horsemen. they do not
know how to ride, using the term in
our sense. They will canter or gallop
all day long without visible discOm-
fort, but they will sit on their animals
like monkeys, with their knees drawn
up and with their reins clutcled tight,
and will fall off on the slightest provo
cation. When babies of three, they
are already in the saddle, and they are
in it all their lives but they never re-
ceive any instruction, never know
what a good, steady trot is and never
learn to keep firm on their horses
back. And, like them, the Persian
horses never receive any training.
For all that they have a good deal of
native intelligence and they are kind
and atlectiOnate, kickers and biters
are rare among them, While in Ara
bia and Turkey mares are universally
ridden, in Persia it is the stations alone
that serve this purpose. Geldings are
unknown.
In the matter of dealers tricks the
Persians, with all their craftiness and
cunning, are not up to the Western
standard. Still they understand pretty
will how to conceal the ravages time
has made, or the imperfections Of con-
stitution or disposition in their 'crit-
ters.' Some of their tricks are identl-
cal with those obtaining here. There
is one great obstacle in the way of
success for them, though. Custom
makes it incumbent on dealer to leave
a horse he has sold at least "a hours
in the purchasers stable. If at the eX-
piration of that time, the animal has
not found favor in the eyes of the buyer
the latter can return it; if it has, the
money is then and there paid. not be-
fore. ~ Cosmopolitan
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
PIANO POUNDING.

l don't like your chopped music, any
way!
That woman-she had more sense in
her little finger, than 40 musical socie-
ties-Florence Nightingale, says that
the music you pour out is good for sick
folks, but the music you pound out isn't
Not exactly, but something like it.
have been to hear some music pound
ing.
1t was a young woman, with as many
white muslin flOunces round her as the
planet Saturn has rings, that did it.
She gave the music stool twirl or
two. and tluffed down like whirl of
soapsuds in handbasin.
Then she pulled up her cuffs as if she
was going to fight for the champions
belt.
Then she worked her wrists and her
hands-to timber 'em | suppose and
spread out her fingers till they looked
as though they wonld pretty much cover
the keys, from the growing one to the
squeaky one.
Then those two hands of hers, made
a jump at the keys as if they were a
couple of tigers coming down on a flock
of black and white sheep, and the piano
gave great howl as if its tail had been
trOd on.
Dead stop-so still you could hear
your hair growing.
Then another jump and another howl
as if the piano had two tails and you
had trod on both of them at once, and
then grand scramble and a string OF
jumps, up and down, backward and
forward, one hand over the other, like
a stampede of rats and mice more than
like anything call music.
| like to hear a woman sing, and
like to hear a fiddle sing, but those
noises they hammer out OF wood and
ivory anvils-dOnt talk to me.
know the difference between bull
frog and a thrush OLIVER Wendell
Holmes.
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A NEW ORIGIN ATTRIBUTED TO
METHODIST.

The following is from DR.. Eggleston's
illustrated historical paper in the May
Century: about 1879 there sprang up
in England what were known as the
religious societies. and though great
part of the religious history of England
and her colonies in the eighteenth CEN
fury lay in embryo in that movement,
we cannot now tell the name of it's
originator or the source OF his inspira-
tions. 1t is possible that some stray seed
from Spener's pietistic meetings IN Ger
many had been waited across the Chan
mel, but it is more probable that the
English societies we're indigenous. The
members of these obscure associations
stirred up one another TO devotion, and
resorted to the communion Of the parish
churches in body. 1t was the phenom
enon so often seen in the worlds religi-
Gus history, -ecclesid in eccleSid, "a
church growing within a church that
had lost the power to satisfy the aspira
tions of the human spirit. About 1891,
a dozen years after their beginning, some
of these associations came under the in.
fluence of the reformatory impulse set
a going by the revolution Of 1858; and
by this means losing their merely pietis.
tic character, they undertook to cooper
ate for the suppression Of the prevalent
vices of the time. Three or four years
later the hidden leaven of the societies
began to make itself felt as force to be
reckoned with, and Queen Mary and
Archbishop Tillotson thought it worth
while to lend their approval to this new
movement, which had grown while SOY.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
ALCOHOL.

Among the curious side issues of the
current temperance discussion is the
question whether alcohol is a natural
product This is, | believe, vigorously
denied in some quarters. Alcohol, like
bread, is manufactured artificially from
a natural product. In each case fer
mentation, natural process, is made
use of. But while bread is known only
as a product of manufacture, alcohol
appears to be very widely distributed in
nature, though in extremely minute
quantities, Nor is this at all surprising
If grapes or apples, or their juice, be ex
posed to the air, fermentation Gets in
aud the sugar and other carbohydrates
are changed to alcohol. The ferments
which cause the change are afl0at in the
air all about, and might not unnaturally
attack similar compounds in other vege.
table substances. Professor Muntz of
the National Agronomic Institute of
Paris has, by refined chemical tests, dis.
covered evidences of alcohol in cultvat-
ed soils, in rain water, in sea aud river
water, and in the atmosphere. He finds
that vegetable molds may contain con-
siderable quantities, and it appears prob.
able that the alcohol Originates in the
soil, from the fermentation of the
organic matters in il, and is thence diff
fused as vapor in the atmosphere
Another side issue of our temperance
discussion is the so-caled Bible wine
theory, which maintains that the wine
used in Palestine In the time of Christ
was not alcoholic. have been unable to
find evidence that the composition of
the juice of the grape, the laws of fer
mentation, or the practice in the making
and using of wine, were different in that
country at that time from those in other
countries, or in that country at other
times; and believe it safe to say that The
theory that Bible wine was different
from other wine, that it had not the
alcohol which other wines contain, is
without any basis TO support it, in the
opinion of The student OF science.
or the inexpressibly baneful effects of
alcohol, that have made its excessive
use one of the worst of the evils of our
modern civilization, this is not the place
to speak. But there is one matter in this
connection about which, | trust, a word
may not be out of place, 1t is that,
great as is the physical evil of alcohol,
the moral evil is incomparably greater;
that true temperance reform,is moral re-
form; and that, like every other moral
reform, it will be best furthered by the
closest alliance with the truth.
The moral argument against alcohol
seems to me invIncible. Is it not certain
y strong enough when the facts are ad
hered to, without the exaggeraticns into
which earnest reformers, in the intensity
of their convictions, are sometimes ledr
-LFrom Prof, Atwater's article in the
May Century.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
THE UVEGT

In answer to the question, SIS far
mer in western Kansas obliged to mort
gage his farm?" an old settler gives the
following, which if pursued by the far
mer might finally leave him in full
possession of his land: First get pen
sion from Uncle Sam; then, after settling
down on your land, build a sod house
(without floor) for your family to live
in, use no sugar in your tea or coffee,
drink skim milk, eat meat only twice a
week, sell all your butter and eggs, pick
up all the buffalo chips and cornstalks
to burn instead of coal, take your wife
and children out in the field to work,
and finally when your work is done
about ten p. NJ. retire, only to rise at
dawn the next day to go over the same
routine. Let your clothing be of the
cheapest quality, and if your wife or
daughter should get new dress see
that it costs not more than five cents a
yard. If your father gave you a watch
or clock at his death, hide it away so
that the assessor won't see it. Keep
your shotgun loaded so as to be prepared
to repel a raid of grasshoppers or ehintz
bugs.n We conclude that the old sett-
Ter has been there Burdette, Kansas
Bugle.
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ereigns and prelates slumbered and
slept. By 1901 there were twenty allied
societies for the reformation of manners
in the British Islands. besides forty de
vout societies of the original kind,
THE most conspicuous Outgrowth OF
the devout societies was the Methodist
movement of the eighteenth century,
though do not know that the connec
ton has ever before been pointed out,
The so-called Holy Club of Oxford,
from which issued the Wesleys and
White field, appears to have been merely
one of the religious societies which had
already hourished for fifty years, and
some of which were still in existence
thirty years later. From this same ia
miliar model Wesley doubtless borrowed
the outlines of the plan that resulted in
the more highly organized Methodist
societies out of which in time have come
the great Methodist bodies"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10

The body is more susceptible to benefit
from Hoods Sarsaparilla now than at
any other season. Therefore take 1t
now.
The happy young husband begins to
realize that the honeymoon may possibly
end sometime when his Angelina wakes
him out Of sound sleep at a. m, and
insista that he shall get up and light the
gas because she thought she heard a
mouse scratching in the WALL Somer-
vile Journal.
Delicate Children, Nursing
Mothers, overworked men and for all
diseases where the tissues are wasting
away from the inability to digest food,
or from overwork, should take SCOTS
Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver OIL with
Hypophosphites. i used the Emulsion
on lady who was delicate. 1t put her
in such good health and flesh, that
must say it is the best Emulsion. - LIP.
Waddell. NJ. D., Hugh's Falls, S, G.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
INGALLS, VS.. VOORHEES,.

In the verbal duel between Mr.. Ingalls,
and Mr.. Voorhees, in the Senate on Tues.
day, the Kansas Senator got the better
of his antagonist partly because it was
his good fortune to champion the better
side, and partly because he kept his
head and temper, which Mr., Voorhees,
did not do. Mr.. Ingals's assault upon
Mr.. Voorhees, public record was scath.
ing and merciless, but it referred to mat
tiers of history, which are legitimate sub.
jects of review. Mr. Voorhees, fetal
mistake was In inviting such an attack.
A man who has such a record as his
would do well to avoid directing atten-
zion to it, We have. to be sure, advanc
ed good many years from the war
period, but it will not be until the last
man who has a personal recollection of
those years of war and stress has passed
away that a virulent copperhead, who
assalled Lincoln with foul names, and
described the Union soldiers as dogs aud
hirelings, will command respect. II the
| Democrats were anxious to find cham
piOn to antagonize Mr.. Ingalls,, they could
hardly have made a more unfortunate
selection than to put forward Mr.. VooT-
bees. The latter appeared to entertain
! the curious notion that because the In
diana Democracy had passed upon, his
conduct, it was all right. This shows
either that he has slight sense of hu-
NOR, or that he imagines that people
have forgotten what the Indiana De.
mOcracy was in the war period. or are
ignorant Of what it is now. IL consti-
tutes about the last tribunal to certify
satisfactorily to a mans loyalty. The
Indiana Senator showed his helpnessness
in argument when he resorted to the
epithets of the gutter. Mr., Ingalls, did
well to take no notice of language which
reflected discredit only upon him who
uttered it.
We are glad that such scenes are not
frequent in the United States Senate.
They detract from Its dignity, and do
not further the public business. But
when circumstances demand that man
like Voorhees, be excorlated, it is salts.
faction to have the work thoroughly
done. II is safe to assume that it will be
long time before Mr.. Voorhees, poses
again as a champion of Union Generals.
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through Siberia that should never be per.
mitted to go there again, and that after tho
publication of my papers no other foreigner
would be allowed to make investigations
there, and lost no possible opportunity to
brought back more than fifty pounds Of
notes, papers and original documents, many
of the latter from secret Government
archives, besides five or six hundred fools
cap pages Of manuscript, prepared for me
by political exiles in all parts Of Siberia, and
covering the most noteworthy episodes OF
their lives, 1 can regard the black listing,
therefore, with certain degree Of compla-
cency. The stable-doOr is locked, but the
horse has been stolen-and I've got him"
Mr.. q. A. Frost, artist and photographer,
accompanied Mr. KEENAN,, and it is expected
that the results of his work will form the
most interesting series of pictures of Rus
sian and Siberian life and scenery ever
made
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

A young man ought not to propose too
gracefully. II he does the girl may get
the idea that he has had more practice
than she deems desirable.-[SomervIlle
Journal.
Ayers Pills are the best cathartic for correct
ing Irregularities Of the stomach and bowels.
Gentle, yet thorough in their action, they cure
constipation. stimulate the appetite and digestive
organ, and strengthen the system.
There is no doubt that new type
writer can save lots of time for the busy
editorvIrovided he has money enough
to hire somebody who understands how
to run it.-[SomerVille journal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
shiloh ,sConsumprIOn cure.

This is beyond question the most sue
cessful Cough Medicine we have ever
sold, few doses invariable cures the
worst cases of Cough, Group and Bron-
chitis, while its wonderful success in the
cure of Consumption is without paral
lei in the history of medicine. Since its
first discovery it has been sold on a
guarantee, a test which no other m edi-
cine can stand. II you have a cough
we earnestly ask you to try it, Price 10
cents, so cents and 81. II your lung
are sore, chest or back lame, use Shiloh's
Porus Plaster. Sold by ]. 7. Shurtleff.
Bennington,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
J. r. MERROW n Co.. ProprietOrs,
CHERIFF'S SALE.

- HERlFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an execution to me ordered and di
will sell at Public Vendue to the highest bidder,
May 9th, 1855, on the steps of the Court House
In the town OF bennington, at the hour of 10
o'clock in the forenoon. five parcels or pieces of
real estate. the same being leased lots and subject
to mortgage of three hundred dollars with in
tcrest situated on the north side of County
street in the village of Bennington, the five lots
containing six acres, more or less,
Also, at o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day ut the school house in District No. II, in said
bennington one leased lot situated north of lands
owned by Rhoda and Charlotte Stratton, and on
east side OF highway in said District,-said lot
containing about one.half acre, more or less.
Also, all the right, title and interest in and unto
the mineral clay and ochre beds situated in the
northeast part of said town Of Bennington, on
lands occupied by Rhoda and Charlotte Stratton,
purchased by Homer A. Lyons from Chas f.
and Elijah Dewey, by quit claim decd, dated July
25, 1871.
Also. at same time and place the equity Of re.
demption in the home farm owned and occupied
by Homer A, Lyons in District No. IL, in the
north part of the town of Bennington, containing
forty acres or less, together with the equity
of redemption in ten acres more or less of wood
land situated on the Bald Mountain, so called
Also, on the 18th day of May at IL O'Clock in
the forenoon, al the hotel kept by Charles Hast
ings in South SALISBURY, a two-thirds interest In
certain wood lot situated in the west part of the
town Of SALISBURY, known as the "Tinkham
lot"
JAS. L. MCCALL, Sheriff
Bennington, Vt, May I'd, 1855. 15wS
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
A BAD BREAK.

Patent Medicine Man TO Eiltor)-You
made a nice mess OF that testimonial ad
vertIsement.
Elitor-How?
Patent Medicine Man-John Smith
wrote Your Live Forever Pellets
are doing me a great deal Of good. Send
another box and told you to give 1t
a prominent place.
Editor-I did-immediately preceding
the death notices.
Patent Medicine Man-Yes; and the
first death notice on the list was that Of
John Smith:-IPhilip II. Welsh IN It'd
Rite -
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HOW SHE SAVED THE BARY.

Mrs. Jesse Gage, st. Johnsbury, Vt
tried seven different kinds Of prepared
food. The doctor thought the baby
could live but few days. She changed
10 Lactated Food, which saved the boy g
life, making him fat and well.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
HAPPY AND HUNGRY,

For over five years | was constant
sufferer with that most terrible and an
noying disease, dyspepsia. After pay
ing out hundreds of dollars, the only
medicine | found that would do me any
good was Sulphur Btters. Six bottles
cured me. Now can eat well and am
happy and hungry Editor,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
To Save Life

Frequently requires prompt action. An
hours delay waiting for the doctor may
be attended with serious consequences,
especially in cases of Group, Pneumonia,
and other throat and lung troubles.
Hence, no family should be without q
bottle Of Ayers Cherry PectOral,
which has proved itself, in thousands Of
cases, the best Emergency Medicine
ever discovered. 1t gives prompt relief
and prepares the way for thorough
cure, which is certain to be effected by
its continued use.
S. II. Latimer, NJ. D., Mt. Vernon,
Ca, says: al have found Ayers Cherry
Pectoral perfect cure for Group in all
cases. l have known the worst cases
relieved in very short time by its use;
and l advise all families to use 1t in sud-
den emergencies, for coughs, Group, &c."
A. j. Edison, NJ. D., Middletown,
Tenn, says: al have used Ayers
Cherry Pectoral with the best effect in
my practice. This wonderful prepare
ton once saved my life. had a con-
slant cough, night sweats, was greatly
reduced in flesh, and given up by my
physician. One bottle and a half OF the
Pectoral cured me-"
at cannot say enough in praise of
Ayers Cherry Pectoral," writes Z.
Bragdon, Of Palestine, Texas, "believ-
ing as do that, but for its use, should
long since have died"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-10
FITCHBURG r. r,
HoosAC TUNNEL ROUTE

HoOSAC TUNNEL ROUTE.
On and after Nov. 18th, 1887, trains will run as
follows
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON & RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington IS a m, arrive Troy 90, a
IN, New York II p m, HoOsick Falls Of, North
Adams 80, Greenfield II IL a m, Fitchburg 49,
Boston Top IN, INTERCHANGEABLE 3O,Saratoga, 10 20,
am,
Leave Bennington 10 4Opm arrive Troy rs,
New York 90, Hoosick Falls 80, North Adams
20, Greenfield %. FitchburgS 10, Boston IS p
IN, INTERCHANGEABLE AZ, Saratoga 80.
Leave Bennington 2j p IN. arrive Troy So
IN, New York (via steamerJ6 10 a m, HOosick
Falls II, No, Adams 90 m, Boston 90 a m,
INTERCHANGEABLE so, p. m.
Leave Bennington IL 10 night arrive Troy As
New York scam.
LEAVE VIA. LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
Leave Bennington 2O,a m, arrive No. Adams
80, Greenfield II II IN, Fitchburg 80. Boston
l0pm.
Leave ennington III Is a m, arrive Troy 15,
HoosickFalls II, No.Adams ~ So Boston, 1851 m.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA BENNINGTON & RUTLAND ny:
20 a m, from New York, Albany and Troy.
bauy, Troy, Hoosick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga
and MechaniCville.
3OOpm, from New York Albany, Troy, Hoosick
Falls, No. Adams, Boston ard Mechanicville.
30 IN, from New York. Albany, Troy. HOOSick
Falls North Adams, BostonMechanicve. and
Saratoga.
T5Op from Boston, Greenfield, No. Adams
and Chatham.
IS IS m, from Chatham.
MONDAYS Wednesdays and Fridays.
J.WHITMORE, j. r. WATSON,
Gent 1rafIlc Mgr, Boston. GEM Pass; Ag't
c. A. NIMMO, Boston.
Gen1 Western Passenger Agent, Troy