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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-02
BIOGRAPHICAL sKErcazs.


Mr. Howard Oven, the author and origina.
TOT of Biographical Sketches of members Of
the Maine Legislature, has thi. year perform
ed his work in a most thorough and pzinstak-
ing manner. The sketches in pamphlet form
will be ready for delivery to-day, and may
be had of Mr. Oven at the Farmer Office.
They will, on Thursday morning, be deliver
ed TO members of both branche. at the State
House On Thursday morning the sketches
will appear, in fall, in the Daily Journal, and
those members who have ordered in advance
will get them at the State House Thursday
morning. We can supply extra copies on
demand.
Mr.. Owens sketches Of the Senate embrace the
entire board Of 81 members. Ia politics all the
members are repabhean. The oldest member is
Hon. William Fl. Hunt Of Liberty W. lido county.
who is seventy years Of age; the next oldest Is
Hon. Henry Nah Of Addison Point, Washington
county, VIII, is 50. Tie youngest member is
Hon. F. N. Simp-on of Carm /, Peaobscot county.
who is 80, the next youngest Hoo. Erastus
c. Ryder Of Springfield, Penobseos county, and
Hon. Vim. T. IIaines of Wa,ervlle, Kennebec
county, who are zach "a. Six Of the members
are between 80 and 40, nine between 40 and 20,
eight between 80 and 60. SIX between 60 and 10,
and one between 70 and 80 Eight were born in
the towns where they now resi- lie; TWO were born
oat Of the State, eight participated IN the civil
war ia the Union army; six received collegiate
education sixteen an aesdemical education; nine
teen have had Legislative experience; twenty eight
are married. 0 her facts compiled as follows
l11I.l.Arrcss
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-02

Lestrr Percival, son OF Il. w. Percivai
of this city, submitted to another operation
upon hi. at the Maine General Hospital
Saurlly piece of dead bone was taken
out ard The surgeon now hopes to pull him
thr.,Dul1n In .nnul lnu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-02

ON wcdnes lay last til County Commits
sioners established the bounds on the east
side of Bangor street from Murray street
north to Pettengills corner. The monu-
ments had long ago become obliterated and
it was necessary to have them again estab-
lished in order to stragh;en and improve the
street They now have good four road AZ
that point
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-02

The officers elec, of seth WIN mS Post,
Nh. Is. Den of NJ G \ Il. vail be III
sta lei bv Past Commander Cht'. L Nash
on Thursday evening, Jan 81. Visiting
Gonzales who are members 10 Tie Legisla-
ture are cordially invited Installation plh-
liz only tn the ladies OF comrades AMI Seth
Williams Relief Corps AMI their husbands.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25

AS to our lack of prosperity there
is one great cause, that is the way
banks treat farmers. Our farmers
can't go to banks and borrow mon
ey, but he can give an iron-clad
note to his merchant for goods at
time price and be (the merchant)
will carry it to the bank, deposit it
and get money to buy supplies for
the farmer, who goes his security;
the bank says when the farmers
want money: 1--WE havn't got it
and can't let you have it, security is
not good, etc." But as soon as the
merchant gets the farmers note the
bank says it is good in this way, a
merchant will take a farmers note
for $4,000, carry it to the bank, de-
post as security, get $4,000 on it,
and sell $4,000 in supplies. |
have seen this thing done, and know
whereof | speak; there should be
some provisions made to force Ma
tional Banks to recognize the farmer
as we'll as the merchant; if it was
not for the farmers the banks would
soon close, yet, we are no more rec
ognized in them than blind dog in
a meat house; the dog knows the
meat is there, but can't see how to
get it. We farmers know the money
is in the bank but can't get it.-A.
J. Strickland, Planter, Ca, in Ex-
change.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25

pay for them with corn at 25 cents
per bushel; or twelve bushels for a
pair of shoes. The shoes are manu-
factured or produced for two and
sold to the consumer for twelve
bushels of corn. They who go off
with the other ten bushels have
much to do with the failure of far
mers.
The Iowa Homestead adds to this
list two other causes-scrub stock,
and the itch for office. To these
may be added, the want of economy
and of the adaptation of expendi-
lures to the productive capacity of
the farm.-Ohio Farmer.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
How to Succeed.

The Harper Brothers, who have
established great publishing house
in New York City, were poor boys
James, the Oldest, learned his trade
in John street, and made it prac-
tice in SUMMER to do fair half DAYS
work before other boys who worked
in the same place had had their
breakfast. He often worked after
hours, also, and almost the last
words that he uttered before he died
at a ripe old age gives the secret of
his success. He said: cit is not
best to be studying how little we can
work, but how much" And you
may be sure, boys, the ones who
will be the great men of this coun-
try twenty or thirty years from now
are the boys who are trying, wher-
ever they are, to do as much work
as they can, and not those who are
constantly looking for chances to
shirk duty. What grand thing it
would be if boys who have every
advantage that money can buy would
be as eager to make a success of
life. Just think what strides they.
could make in any branch of learn
ing, having nothing to hinder. That
is why | pity the rich boys-theys
have "nothing to HINDER" they
don't have to work, and for that rea-
son very often never learn to do
irksome or tiresome things. And
one who succeeds must learn to do
very many things that are not pleas
ant. He must work when he would
rather play.-Ex.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
NO. 81

insure larger area from a given
sized bed by drawing and setting the
first slips that appear, and getting
them out of the way of the
next crop. Slips planted out in
April require more cultivation, and
rarely produce SO well as those
planted in May and June. The
ground for the first and each success.
sive planting should be kept in mel
low condition by occasional plowing
and re-bedding. By no means
should slips be set out after rain
until the beds have. been freshened
by re-bedding, or at least listing.
Slips set in a sodden bed rarely do
well. Cultivator.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25

There is no bright future for the
young man who is shirking every
responsibility, ignoring industry,
and glories in being an idler. Good
luck will never come to him, and it
never should.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
STARKvILLE, MISS, APRIL Is, 1889.

and let him feel that his ownership
is secure and that his loss or gain
depends upon his own endeavors,
and he will work cheerfully and con-
tentedly.-Mirror and Farmer.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
WHY FARMERS FAIL.
The Chief Causes Leading to Poverty,
Slavery and Degradation.

Slavery and Depreciation.
The Commission of Labor Statis-
tics of Iowa, DR.. E. r. Hutchins,
recently sent out blank to be filled
by farmers, containing this question:
"What are the chief causes which
lead to farmers failures?" It was
answered substantially as follows by
Mr.. M. B. Doolittle, of Cresco, la. !:
/. The markets, or consumers, are
too far from products.
2. Too high railroad rates.
3. Too high rates of intss1st on
borrowed capital.
4. Too many dogs and wolves in
the country and not enough sheep.
5. Too much fashion, too much
whiskey and tobacco, ,and not enough
enterprise. !
6. Too high lawyer and doctor
fees and not enough general intelli-
gence.
Z. Too much party in politics and
not enough principle.
s. Too much listening to farmers
enemies and too little seeking for
common sense for a guide.
8. Business as now conducted gives
the farmer no part in making prices.
When he sells, the dealer makes the
price of his produce; when he buys,
the merchant names the price he
must pay, and both are generally
against the farmer.
10. The farmers greatest volunta-
ry act which enters into his failures
is the utterly heartless manner in
which he unhitches from machine
which has plowed his corn, mown
his hay or cut and bound his grain,
leaving it to rot and rust in the field
for the next eleven months. In
Maine and Massachusetts mems
shoes are manufactured and sold at
$3.50 per pair. Corn in that mar
ket is never less, and often much
more, than IS cents per bushel, or
two bushels of corn for a pair of
shoes. Middle-men and railroads
transport these shoes to Iowa and
sell them for So per pair. Farmers
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
A Farmer Who Robbed His Boy.


Last spring farmer found in his
flock lamb which the mother
would not own. He gave it to his
son, a boy fifteen years old, who
saved it ana raised it. The boy call
ed it his all summer, all the family
called it his, and it was his. But
this fall, when the father sold the
other lambs, he let this one go with
them, and taking the pay for it
tucked 1t into his big wallet and car
ried it off to pay taxes or put in the
bank.
Now this farmer did not intend to
do anything wrong. Least of all did
he intend to wrong his boy. Proba-
bly, he did not give the matter much
thought anyway; and if he did he
considered the boys ownership Of
the lamb . sort of pleasing fiction,
or reasoned that the boy, having all
his needs supplied out of the family
purse, did not deed the pay for the
lamb, and it was better to put tim
to the common fund. But for all
that, taking the lamb and selling it
in that way, and pocketing the. pro-
ceeds, was stealing No, it was rob-
berry; and, as between this boy and
his father, one of the meanest rob-
berries that could be perpetrated.
Not only this, but by robbing the
boy of that two dollars the farmer
did more to make the boy discon-
tented and drive him away from
home than he can undo with ten
times that amount. A boy is a little
man, and if he has got any of the
gather and grip to him which will
make a successful man of him when
he grows up, he begins at an early
ege to feel that desire to own some
thing and to add to the property
subject to his ownership, which is
at once the incentive to effective
work and the motive which recon-
Giles men to their condition.
No matter how well the boys
wants are provided for from fund
which is common to the whole FAM
lily, he takes no particular interest
in adding to that fund because he
does not feel that it is his, and he
tires of labor and thought, the pro-
ceeds of which he must share with
several others; but give him piece
of property of mis- own, to manage as
he pleases, to keep or sell or change,
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1889-04-25
Planting Sweet Potatoes.

Nothing is gained by very early
planting of sweet potatoes, except to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
GENERAL NEWS.

Persondi-Edward O. Leech, who
was Monday appointed director of
the mint, is District of Columbia
man, although his parents were from
New York State, where his relatives
now reside. Mr.. Leech was born in
Washington, December 9, 1850. His
father, d. ID. 7. Leech, was well
known as man of learning and piety.
Two of his brothers are ministers OF
the Methodist church, one of them.
Rev. S. " Leech, being one of the
most distinguished members of the
New York Conference. The other,
Rev. DR.. George V. Leech, also 4.
preacher of great ability, resides in
Frostburg, Md. Mr.. Leech graduated
from the Columbia college in 1869,
taking the second honor in his class.
He also graduated in law from the Ma
tional University of the District, and
was admitted to the bar in 1866. Upon
the death of his father he was appoint,
ed in the Treasury department upon
the recommendation of Geu. Francis
A. Walker. He entered the depart
ment at the lowest grade of clerkship
in 1869. Upon the creation of the
mint bureau, in 1873, he was trans
ferred thereto, where he has served
continuously, passing through all the
grades Of clerkship up TO his late po-
sitIon, "eomputer of bullion" the
salary of which was increased by
Congress on account of his efficiency.
He qualified on Wednesday and the
Washington STIR of that date says ''his
desk was covered with floral tributes"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
New Business Locals.

AYankec SheriTFrightcncd.-A well
known sheriff who lives in Maine, had been
given up to die with what his physician call
ed Consumption 4 friend advised the sher-
iff to try Puritan Cough and Consumption
Cure Recovery soon followed, much To the
surprise of the doctor, who now preScrihcS It
for Coughs Colds and Consumption. Price
, cents at X. G.. COlborn's ; Drug store.
4 Sound Legal Opinion.-E. Balm
bridge Monday, Esq, County Atty. Clay Co.,
Tex says: "lIave used Electric BitterS
with most happy results. My brother also
was very low with Maarial Fever and Jaun-
dice, but was cured by timely use of this
medicine. Am satisfied Electric l'itterS saved
his life"
Mr.. u. |. WilcoXson, of Horse Cave, Ky.
adds a like testimony saying: He positively
believes he would have died had it not been
for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward OIL, as well rs
cure all Malaria Diseases and for all Kidney
Liver and Stomach Disorders stands unequal
ed. Price 10 cents and 81 at Colborn's
A President on Brandy for Sickness.
The President of the Baltimore Medical
College DIR. Byrd, who has thoroughly test
ed Speers wines, etc, says
have prescribed Speer's Port Grape Wine
with marked and decidedly beneficial effects.
| am prepared to bear testimony to the value
of his Pedro j. Brandy, also as a pure and
valuable article i'll all cases of disease IN
which a reliable stimuant is required |
would be happy to feel that | was instru-
mental in inducing my tclOw-CitilenS to
patronZe these productions to exclusion Of
the foreign ''doctored," aud harmfullv adult
Grated wines and brandies with which our
people are often in iured.
HARVEY l.. BYRD, NJ. d.,
President and Professor of Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and Children, Baltimore
Medical College.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
TO OUR
FROSTBURG READERS.

NOU now have the opportunity of your
l. lives. The National Garment Cutting
System is the best ever introduced in any
community and you may never have So
near you again. With this system garments
can be cut and fit in more satisfactory man
ner and in less time than any other method
ever invented. Hundreds of ladies III Cum
berland, Oakland, Homecoming, Barton, Mid
land and other towns in the region are happy
III the knowledge that they can successfully
cut and fit with this system.
BE sure you do not neglect this opportunity,
but send your daughters at once to the in
structors, and have them to he taught tins
excellent essential in dressmakinE.
Even gentlemen are learning and are max
ing quite a success of it.
Easy, simple and accurate, it can be used
by child as well as young lady or older
person.
By this system everyone becomes ticic own
cutter and filter Its advantages are innum~
erable.
Don't wait for the agents to call ON you,
but send for them and they will put you in
the first class. You will never regret having
learned the system, and your daughters will
thank you many times for this gift thus
placed at their disposal.
DYER Il MCLAUGHLIN,
Agents,
FrOstburg, Md.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
TOWN HAPPENINGS.

FhesP""s on me hdahas' - Last
week several ladies and gentlemen Of
Frostburg, Mt Savage and Cumber-
land gave an amateur performance in
Cumberland for the Enisconal chanel
el 81 .,t,l. c.o,..., ,,..,,.,',l
- A..
'noii 'n'''e' ""' 'No !'"''''s 9''Ne i"
the highest terms oi the performance
and stage settings. Next Tuesday
evening the same ja0Dria DeyS0aa will
olive same nerformarcein in N,ot's uner,
IL, Co.. .Lo E,;,oo,I No- C,.'I
:, ' " ~ ~, '''" 0"u''"
/ "i' VI ''''9 P'''or luz "'''r''ae-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

ErPected DedM.-Thc dcccasc of
Mrs. Bette w. Taylor, elsewhere not
ed, was preceded by some pathetic in
cldentS. For some months she fully
anticipated that death would be the
issue of her next illness, and spoke
freely Of the matter to her friends.
She prepared with great care her
funeral attire and laid it out for
use, designating the dress she desired
to wear Even her husbands and
child'S clothing for the sad occasion
We're found ready to put on, and her
house to the mlnutest detail was placed
in perfect order. Her last request
was that her body might be taken once
more to her fathers house in Frost
burg to rest for night from thence
to the Catholic church, finally to in
terment on the hill in full view of her
birthplace. 1t is needless to add that
her wishes We're carried out to the let
ter. She was i'll only three hours.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
New Adve ertiSementS.
inSoIvent Notice.

ORDERED, This 18th day Of October,
olSS9, that the first Monday i'll January,
1890, at 10 o'clock a m, is hereby fixed as the
time at which Aaron Duckworth insolvent
petitioner, shall appear in the Circuit Court
for A legany county, to answer such interrog-
atories or allegations as his creditors, endor-
sers or sureties may propose or aliege against
him, and that J. Semmes DeveCmon, perma-
nent trustee for the benefit of the creditors of
said petitioner, shall, prior to the said first
Monday of January, next, give at least forty
days notice of the day so fixed and of the
purport of this order by weekly publication in
some newspaper printed in Allegany county.
THEO. LUMAN,
Clerk OF the Circuit Court.
True COPY. Test THEo. LUMAN, Clerk.
Oct 19-6t
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19
COUNTY NEWS.

Religious. McsSrs. James Banna-
tyne. Joseph Womslcy and John Dud-
ley, of Eckhart, attended the Mary
land Baptist Union association. held in
Baltimore this week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

THE Cumberland Times of Wednes-
day makes one Of its usual awkward
efforts in charging Mai. Alex. Shaw
with having committed ''mistake" in
becoming the fusion candidate for
Mayor of Baltimore.
NOBODY Gan tell what the Times was
driving at unless to say something pO-
litically mean about the Major without
appearing to regsJrd him as less than
''highly esteemed etc. This is diff
fcult rOte to play, and the Times il not
an adept at running with the hare
and training with the hounds"
In It's effort to injure Maj. Shaw
somehow the Times went back to his
defeat for the State Senate in this
county i'll 1867, when Garrett was un-
detached, and when immi migration. of
republicans mainly, had not raised the
voting strength from 1000 in both
counties to 5000 in Allegany alone
when the unbroken county was iron
bound and rock-ribbed in democracy
to prove that his political misfortune
at that time is an indication of his
popular standing at his old home. No
argument could be more fallacious.
As to fusion, there is nothing wrong
about that when no other method of
popular protest will avail to overthrow
the corruptionistS who have made
democratic politics in city and State a
by-word and Il stink.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19


ar" intending to support Mr.. Cunning
ham because "hc is the man who stood
up for us when he was there before,
and all that kind of decaying matter
The JOURNAL does not respond tC
this notion as one speaking by author
ity, but only under inspiration of the
Interchangeable and irresistible logic OF
cause and effect when it gives as it>
solemn and unalterable conviction the
belief that every miner in the region
will pay all the cost occasloned by
mining legislation. And after the
principal is paid it will continue as
the basis of compound interest which
the miners will also pay for an indeti-
mite period.
Send Mr.. Cunningham to the Legis-
laturc with his little bill LET him sue
ceed in making law of it, and our word
for it the expense of all mine changes,
current or prospective, forced thereby
will fall on the board and clothes OF
every miners family in this region.
1t cannot result otherwise it would
not be human nature for it to end
any other way. Invested with the
sovereign rights and powers of owner
ship, the companies cannot permit any
interference with their operations OF
economies without indemnity, and that
must come out of the people who thus
employ the State to play the meddler
with their business. There are none
others put the miners to pay it, and il
must be paid, or business stops.
The so-called mining and ventila-
tion bill" that exploded device of last
winter, then the cud of the demagogue,
now the seed of martyrdom, if enacted
next winter, will recoil sooner or later
with the weight of club on the head
of every conspirator who by his vote
invites such catastrophe.
An outcome so unhappy would mat
ter little could it fall only on those who
brought it about. but unfortunately the
innocent will suffer with the guilty.
With such contingency possible, a
for Cunningham Why, it is the next
step below overt infdelity to his fami-
ly for a republican to vote that part of
his ticket, especially if he a republican
miner? A democrat vote for Gun
ningham, bill and all, with the GER
tainty that the bill, if it come back to
him at all. it must be as club in the
strong hands of the corporations to
break his own head
Incredible.
Yet it is to be feared that democrats
will do not only this but make their
title to i'll fortune doubly, trebly clear
by votes for Cunningham's Noble Or
der yoke-fellows, Mullin and Scheer-
messer. The man intent upon his own
injury is an ''insatiate archer and
there is more hope of fool than of
him" If there are three steps to take
to accomplish bis ruin he will not stop
with one.
But. gentlemen miners, republicans
and democrats, remember what we tell
you-that if i'll the All-Wise Provi-
dence of God you succeed in hamper
ing coal production by Legislation
which increases its cost you will ulti-
mately pay the damages, both immedi-
diate and consequential, as certainly
as the sun shines and God lives.
That is the lar Of the faSe Oa ne QtheI
sde-the lar cf %If-detenre, e'.octed by ne,
ceSSjty ANIL apl,rored by justice.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

ihe Sfch,-Rev. a. Thompson, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church, con
trnucS cOnvalescent.
No change in Christian Fishers
condition.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

OF Mr.. Powderly's faith in the
Knights of Labor's professed king
cure-all for the evils of bread and
buttcr-winning the Washington Stm
says:
Arbitration he regards as the only hope OF
labor in the adjustment of its relations with
capital and all the history of the last four
years confirms this theory.
The same ''history confirms another
''theory" also-that arbitration, with
out law to enforce its findings, is as
fruitleSs and foolish scheme as the
Knights of Labor strike or the Noble
Order bOycot.
This being undeniably the ease, 1t
may be asked, too, on what principle
of individual liberty are Messrs. Cum
ningham, Scheermesser and Mullin
for instance, going to found II law to
compel Il man or men to work on
terms that may not suit them
No, gentlemen, after all your palaver
and effort to get more money for less
work, it comes to this complexion at
last-that every man must ultimately
become his own Knight of Labor
every man must feel as free not to
work when the terms or the pay do
not suit him as he feels free TO work
when they do suit him.
, If he is not thus free, he has no bus
mess bladging.
If he is, he can follow Adams en-
ample of independence aGi do his
gardening outside of Eden.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

heat"ica'. Two good shows in
town this week-Claire Scott's "Theo-
dora" and George Suns "Phantasma."