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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01
Schooner Four deIed.

HALIFAX. March 81
The schooner, Olivia A. q Mulin, from
Cow Bay, c. b. for Halifax lo,i d with
coal, ioundered OF Jedlote last night. The
crew escape in boat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01
At the annual parish meeting OF .he Fir.t

DAptiN so'ittf' Tirt peIts btiu a. ne 'esiy =
Thursday evening. John T Oxnsrd wac
chosen moderator and VIM. A Mitchell,
clerk. Samuel Lunt, canvasser and collector /;
J. F. Chickering, treasurer; II. p. Dsnn-
son ard James z Frank, assessors: II 7.
Dennison, Henry II. Cu'hing. Charles
Li.chisld, comnirtee Charles Cushing. c
A. Litchi.ld, Eben Brewer, II p. Denni
son, James z. Frank, W. A Mitchell, Her
~ Gushing. trustees. II vas voted 10 raise
$1,000 for salary and incidental expenses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01
An Old Nan Frozen to Death.

Tacoma, n. H, March 81.
Phneas o. Durham. aged SC, was found
tonight frozen to death in ice on Lake Win
nesquam. He lef, tome Thursday, since
which time he wandered from place to place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01

The Portla rrcss-in years gone by
rank as te most irh icntial republican
newspaper Naiuc-is today autalouz.nu
the romin IN to posit Ors in the service Of
the govern. ,rt of two sttrl.ug republicans
and melG IS OF the present Maine Senate.
for no b .cr reason than that they fail,d 10
vote to move the State Capital TO Portland /;
and niimates that Senator Rand, the new
appraiser Of the port, viii not be cordially
received. That is extremely silly, aud We
are very sure that the doctrine enumerated is
adhered to by very few outside of the Press
,anctum whose opinions are entitled TO
weight. When Portland undertakes TO de-
clare "hoycot, upon that issue it will be
found to be z ime at which more than one
of the parties may take a hand. "Iie digged
pit; he digged it deep; he digged it for his
brother" etc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01
Nature OF the Haibor.

Capt. Selfridge. L. S. N, was found at
the navy department this morning, poring
over char, of harbor at Apia, which he
visited several years ago. lie said that while
it was very bad harbor, it was the best on
the Island of Upola. Like all the Paciic
island tarbors, that of Apia is formed by
coral reef cncrclng he island at short dis
tsnce from the shore. The anchorage space
available for men ofwar is contracted, being
about 1000 feet wide at the mouth of the
harbor. The bottom is sandy, atforiing slight
hold for an anchor. and the harbor is e1
uosed on the north. On each side of the
ertrarc. are cora, reefs v hich are awash at
high water and are surrounded by shoals.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01

The new buliing containing the general
officers of The Maine Central Railroad near
the Grand Central depot, Portland, is nearly
completed and will be occupied about the mid
die of April
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01

At the annual parish meeting of the Con-
greea'ional society, Freeport, James II.
Banks va. chosen clerk. William A. Davis,
treasurer; Abbott Weston, George A. Pogg
and James Rodick. parish committee.
The members of the Columbia street
Baptist society, Bangor, are talking Of max
ing some extensive Improvements upon the
church edfce. and the matter will be
brought up at the parish meeting on Wed
ne s,isy April 10Th
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-01
Senate Objects to Hslstead.
Notes.

The nomination of Murat iIalstead TO be
minister 10 Germany has been rejected by
the Senate by vote of - to 10
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
THE TARANTELLA.
An Ancient and Picturesque Dance Origin
ated by the Greeks.

An Ancient and Picturesque Dance Origin
ated by the Greeks.
In the lower part of the Hotel Tramon-
tame, at Sorrento, is a room where, whenever
the proprietor calls for them, number of
Sorrentino men and women come in their
picturesque costumes, and to the sound of
pipe, timbrel, guitar, mandoline (the
ancient lute), castagnettes, etc., foot most
prettily and vivaciouslv this curious dance,
which has come down from the old Greek
days.
Pliny and Elder wrote of it, continues a
correspondent of the Paris american Regis
ter, and described it most fully. In his day
it was called "the dance of Gades" (Cadiz),
because it had been brought to great per-
fection in that city on the Atlantic; but he
says that it was imported into Gades by
the Greeks, who, you will remember. had
large settlements around the whole of
the Mediterranean shores, and far up
the Atlantic coast in Hispania and Lusitan-
ia. The tarantella in Spain is to-day
called the "fandango," and so it is in Por-
tugal, in Brazil, and in all Spanish Amer
lea. Curiously enough, the first time that I
ever heard tandango airs played was on a
summer night in the Plazaof Cadiz But
in no part of Spain or Portugal, or Latin
America, will you see the fandango or
tarantella danced as in Sorrento. 1t is there
in its perfection, and it is not merely dancing
that you have, but they also sing the
popular Nespolitan airs, for the dancers
are singers, as many of your readers
will testify who heard them at the italian
Exhibition in London last year. One of
them-a falegname "a carpenter)-played
most exquisitely on the mandoline. 1 think
that never heard the air I'll Pescatore"
from "Lucretia Borgia" more sweetly and
touchingly rendered, than by this little
carpenter on his mandoline. The leader,
whose name is Neapolitano, is, as 1
was uniformed by the head waiter of
the Tramontano, a hairdresser of Sor-
rento-a local "barber of Seville" The
other guitar player, Antonio. is also good
composer of music; the 1.-THE young fellow,
who danced so capriolacally-to coin word
lis an oliYe-wood cutter, and the other
male members of the CORDS are mechanics in
various callings; while the women dancers
are silk weavers, or, as married women,
keepers of their own houses. The tallest
woman, and one of the most graceful of the
dancers, is the wife of the little mando-
linist.
forgot to say that, in addition to the In
strumentation mentioned, they are accom-
panied by small but very fair orchestra.
No one who goes to Sorrento should fail to
see and hear the tarantella-dancers. A col
lection istaken at the close of the perform
ance, and all are supposed to contribute at
least two francs each.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
A WOMAN'S WEAPON.
She Isn't Afraid of It, and It's Better Than
to Get Your Gun.

to Get Your Gun.
Forest and Stream
A long-range, globe-sighted rife in the
hands of a marksman can be made to run a
score of bullseyes down firing range, but
will it in the timber dc better work on deer
than bored-out musket loaded with buck
shot? The size of your game-bag, or rather
bag of game, depends great deal on the
knowledge of the firearms you're used to.
An estimable English lady who came to
Canada some 25 years ago was one day
deeply interested in getting out the wash
ing. She had sheets and tablecloths out
drying, when to her horror she saw the line
go down and her spotless clothes trampled
in the dirt. A large buck caught by the
antlers was the cause of the trouble. There
was not man within five miles of her
they all had gone to neighbor's for the day.
She screamed, and the deer, the more he
plunged the tighter he got wound up, and
the louder she yelled. Something had to
be done, and done at once. She had fine
gun in the house, loaded, but she would not
approach it, as firearms were her special
dread. Among her possessions she had a
large pair of tongs-fre tongs-that she had
brought over with her. She throughly un-
,derstood this tirearm. and with all her house
wifely instincts outraged, she grabbed
them and sailed in. She had her clothing
slightly torn, but within five minutes they
had venison; she literally pounded the
bucks skull to a jelly, after which she told
me she sat down and had a good cry. It
all depends on what you're used to.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
The Beauty of the Henrt.

The Rev. E. ]. Hardy, in his excellent book,
''How to be Happy, Tho Married." writes
some words about courtesy which are worth
consideration:
True courtesy is the beauty of the heart
How well it is that no one class has monopoly
in this kind of beauty; that while favorable
circumstances undoubtedly do render good
manners more common among persons moving
in higher rather than in lower spheres, there
should nevertheless be no positive hindrance to
the poorest class having good manners. Here
is an illustration of true politeness exhibited
by both classes of society. One day. IN hastily
turning the corner of crooked street in Lon
don, young lady ran with great force against
a ragged little beggar boy, and almost knocked
him down. stopping as soon as she could, she
turned round and said, very kindly, to the boy
4 beg your pardon, my little fellow; L am very
sorry that l ran against yOu.' The poor boy
was astonished. He looked at her for 4
moment in surprise, and then, taking off about
three-quarters of a cap, he made low bow
and said, while broad, pleasant smile spread
over his face, You can hev my parding, miss,
and welcome; and the next time you run agin
me, you may knock me, clean down. and won't
say word After the lady had passed on he
turned to his companion and SAID, 1 say, Jim.
it's The first time l ever had anybody ask my
parding, and its kind o. took me of my feet.'
One very cold day the American preacher,
Henry Ward Beeeher, bought paper from
very ragged little boy Poor little fellowr
said he, 'aint you coldF I was sir, before you
passed. replied the boy, with natural good
manners"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19

twice around her. At last, however, the
belt was fixed. Then Herold bade her to
saw the sentence, and she had no more than
merely uttered the last word when she was
lifted up and carried away. And it was
lust in time, too, because the people in the
castle who had missed the Princess came
now rushing down the avenue to find her,
but when they came to the place where
Herold stood, Belinda was already out Of
sight. They asked Herold whether he had
seen lady about the park, and he replied:
Eyes, saw Princess Belinda just now
fying away into the air.
They looked at him with an air which
seemed to say: "You must be mad; people
can'tfy."
Herold, however, said no more. he
quietly went out of the park, and he at once
travelled home to Cuthbert's castle. He ar
rived there in week, and when the King
saw him, he came up to him and embraced
him like father would embrace his own
son.
"My daughter has told me all you have
done for her and 1 will not forget to be
grateful to you"
Cuthbert made Herold his Secretary of
State, and after few years he also married
Belinda. He became afterward the wisest
and most learned man in the kingdom and
when Cuthbert died Herold was made King.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
HARMONY IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
If You Are MusIcal and Would be Happy,
Go and Get Married.


Go and Get Married.
Boston Herald.J
My advice to young musicians who are
dependent on concertizing is to marry. It
is rash, but fashionable, and the pull now
seems in the direction of harmonious part
nership on the stage. However storms may
rage behind the scenes, in public domestic
bliss plays the piano and warbles- like
birds on summers day, while the world
the wise old world-winks its eye, but
says, chow pretty" Well, it is 'pretty"
to see two artists in accord, even if the
bond that binds is composed Of dollars and
cents. How much of the success of these
dual entertainments is due to the fact that
the performers are married need not be
mentioned, tor it goes without saying.
The spectacle of art and youth. love and
talent, combined, touches a sentimental
chord, and besides, what a saving Of ex-
pense for the artist He sings, she plays
his accompaniments,o or vice versa, and there
are no conflicting jealoHsies to spoil song
or trip up the pianistl This is why the
sage tells Voealists and Violinists to wed
each other, and give their show without
any one else's Intervention or assistance.
The Henschel's are standing examples Of
what marriage does for art, and the Kor-
bays are not far behind them in what may
be termed the duo spOsi in professional lite.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
on
MORALS MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.I
It is at once interesting and painful to
Republican and Protestant Americans to
observe how monarchical Europe is exert
ing itself to boycott France In the matter OF
her Exposition. The great show of the
French Republic is let severely alone by
every government from London to St
Petersburg. The European peoples are rep
resented; the rulers are conspicuously ao-
sent. America is officially there; but our
sympathies are not as actively manifested as
they should be. The truth is that Americans
are infected by English sentiment. In recent
dispatch cabled to one of our great dailies,
discerning reporter indicates this, and points
out the cause:
"a mistake regarding France has been estab-
lished in English literature by Edmund Burke
and Thomas Carlyle. The one beheld the
orgies of mob insulting a beautiful Queen
and tearing of in frenzy the bandages wnlcn
despotism has bound upon the eyes OF great
nation. The eloquence with which an elevated
and chivalrous nature expressed its personal
horror became gospel for English thinking
races. The pictorial splendor with which the
gruh but poetic sage of Chelsea recited tne
same chronicle of mighty paroxysms length.
ened while 1t Illuminated the uOcIIlne, "
Burke, so that it still survives IN England as
the philosophy of conservatism against the IT.
resistible progress of political destiny.
"The essential impressions received Dy the
American people about the Republic Of France
are reflected from English mediums. whose re-
fractions and exaggerations are due not only TO
Burke and Carlyle, but to the sense Of irrita-
tion which. it is natural, English Interpreters
of foreign politics should feel toward peoples
who have dispensed with the symbols and reVe-
nues of dvnastieS Every scene of excitement
in the Chamber of Deputies is enlarged into an
incipient cataclysm; every breach Of conven-
tional decorum in the Senate is tortured into
revelation of impending disaster"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
Modern Miracles.

Jesus Christ wrought miracles by the direct
exertion of omnipotent power. He multiplied
few scanty loaves into a suficiency for
multitude. He touched the eyes Of blindness
into exulting sight. He sti!led the tumultuous
waves by transcendent word.
Men work miracles to-day, not in the same
way, but almost as really. How? By a
knowledge of causes and effects and by con-
trolling the causes and varying the effects. We
cannot quiet the tempest, but we can build a
vessel which defies and outrides 1t. Thus the
same result is reached. We cannot anoint
blind eyes into sight, but we can teach men and
women to see with their fingers, and often by
medical skill, to open their eyes out of dark
ness into light
Who shall contradict the saying of Adam
Smith, that HE Is benefactor who makes
two blades of grass grow where but one grew
before2' This the scientist does. Wherever
the intelligent and industrious man goes,
though IL be barren waste or pestilential moTass,
health and abundance follow. Those divinities
who the ancients worshiped-Ceres, Pomona
and Flora, who strewed and beautified the
earth with grains and fruits and flowers, have
in modern times domiciled themselves among
men, exchanging their divine titles for plain
professors of chemistry; and we now call them
agriculturalists and horticulturalists. Is not
this beautiful way Of walking in the foot
steps Of the woodworking Galileanf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
A Test of Modesfy.

Modesty is one Of those retiring virtues
which is in danger to be overlooked in this
self-assertive and showing age. The worst is
that the occasions for its exercise are so misun-
derstood. Here is one who has done some ad-
mirable thing which has fastened on many and
admiring ewes. If he bedecks himself with
fuss and feathers and struts in pride, the ad-
miration of the spectators evaporates in a
laugh. Hence, he is under bonds to his own
self-respect to wear his honors modestly. If he
parades them he loses them. Knowing this Ito
change Hamlet little), he
'.Assumes the virtue, if he has It not.''
Such modesty is easy. But here is another
who has lapsed. Fault is found, and Justly. In
such case modesty will be tested, for the nat
ural inclination is to put pride IN the place of
desert, and to be self-assertive in inverse ratio
to the call. One who, when in the depths, can
still be modest, is well on toward deserved can
onization. He gains by his modesty a new
desert, better than that which comes from
lofty achievements, This modesty is always
'tcandle TO merit"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
A BAD CASE OF RHEUMATICs.
A Severe Attack of Common Complains
Among Moonshiners.

A Severe Attack of Common Complains
Among Moonshiners.
Detroit Free Press.1
1 stopped at cabin stuck away in the
pine forests, about five or six miles from
anywhere, to ask for drink of water, and
finding the man in bed with his face all
plastered up, i naturally asked him if he
had met with an accident.
"Oh, ne" replied the wife as she handed
me the gourd. "He 'un has done got rheu-
maticks."
'Not rheumatism in the head?"
Reckon it's mostly thar, sah."
"I never heard of such case" con-
tinued, as approached the bed.
"Howdy, stranger?" said the man as he
sat up. "Rheumaticks like this are pretty
common around yere.'
"Why, man, you have been pounded!
Both your eyes are blackenedi You don't
call that rheumatism, do you?"
CHATS what dun call it. had pains
and aches and 1 bought two quarts of moon
shine whisky. Sim Payson, back in the
woods, he had pains and aches, and him
cum over to help drink it"
"And you got drunk?'
Reckon we mought."
"And had 6ght?"
"Reckon we did"
"Aud that's what you call rheumatism"
stranger, look here, " answered the man,
as he got one leg out of bed with a
groan, kin you go fur to declar' that
I'D a drank that moonshine firstly if it
wasn't to cure rheumaticks? The old woman
and me hev iggered on it, and we can't get
at to come out right no other way, and now it
you've got pipe and terbacker I'll stand
fur you agin the hull community till the
mule lays down."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19

A sharp critic refers as follows to common
disease: "lt is astonishing what severe strain
it is on the nervous system of some people to
sit for an hour in the sanctuary. The morbus
Sabbatticus is = well-known disease, and has
been thoroughly diagnosed. The Sunday
school measles, which attacks boy about the
time he first begins to use razor, is frequently
met with. Like other forms of measles, it is
exceedingly contagious, and frequently when
it gets into class of boys who will be young
men in about five years it breaks up the whole
class. There. too, IS the prayer meeting collie.
We suppose it is the collie because it attacks
person so suddenly and Unexpectedly, and he
RECEIVERS from it so soon. He may have been
perfectly able to attend to business all day. and
quite well enough to go to party at O'Clock;
but when the prayer meeting bell rings at 7:30
he is indisposed."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19

ou "Creed Tests" which Is copied by British
journals in whole or in part. The trial OF the
Bishop Of Lincoln for unlawful ritualistic
practices led to the article. In it the Arch
deacon says: men say that they multiply ritual
oDservances in order to glorify the sacrament.
Is the sacrament glorifed by postures and vest
ments, or by meek, pure and humble hearts!
Over half of Europe men not only glorify, but
worship, the sacramental elements; they genu-
hect to them, and pageant them about like an
IDOL. Are those countries better for this blank
ldolatory? One of the vilest Kings Of France,
Louis XIV. went on his knees in the mud be-
fore the host, and was cheered as a religious
king; yet he did so coming from the Caprea Oh
his loathly palace, ,,returning to the sty Of his
habitual vices. Nations are saved by right
eousness, manliness and self-denial; by preach
ing simple Christ to simple men; not by
Initers and candles and such geegaws." Arch
deacon Farrar is competent judge OF the
tendency and effect of rjtqalism, and is one Of
the broadest of broad churchmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19

The two had walked the whole dav, but
still they did not arrive at the Kings
castle. and in the evening they found them
selves in the depth of the forest and no place
could they see where they might stay for
the night.
az guess we will have to camp in the
snow!" said King Cuthbert. After short
hunt Herold discovered a cave, and calling
the King they, both went in there, which
was at least better than lying in the cold
and damp snow. Herold arranged the
Kings big cloak, and his master was soon
asleep, but the boy did not want to 90 to
sleep no matter how much the King begged
him to do so.
ST am YOUR servant" said Herold, 81
will watch while you are asleep. The
King had to consent to this, although much
against his will, but the boy was deter
mined. After Cuthbert had been asleep
about an hour, the boy suddenly heard
noise not far from the cave. He listened,
and it seemed to him as if somebody was
being killed. He heard voice like the
CRYING of child. Herold ran out of the
cave, and when he looked around he saw a
big snake. which had coiled itself around
the body of dwarf. Herold realized the
the whole situation at once, and If he had
not, the dwarf, who had seen him, very soon
told him.
"For heavens sake" cried the little man,
in pitiful voice, "help me or 1 shall get
killed"
Harold at once ran back into the cave to
fetch King Cuthbert's big sword. Then he
san up to the snake, and with q blow he
severed the head from the beastly reptile s
body. The snake was dead, and the dwarf
was now soon extricated from his danger
Gus position. -
81 am thousand times obliged to you,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
She Woro a Courlct,s Garb.

Albany Journal.l
'Do you see that woman?" asked prom
iment prison official upon Central Hud-
son train the otherdaY. "Yes?" ''Well that
travelling dress of hers is made Of exactly
the same material that is used in making
uniforms for conYicts. She doesn't know
it, and not one person out of 500 who has
been inside prison or penitentiary would
think of it. The cloth does very we'll for
travelling dress, but there are people who
would object to it because Of the base use to
which it is put"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
Always Seek the Best.

Let us never be satisfied with less than the
best. The secret of true success is the having
a high ideal. 1t is the part Of wisdom to aim
at the unattainable. 'Tis serious error to
mistake hillock for Mount Blanc. Guido
coveted wings that he might soar and behold
the archangel whom his Imagination was
obliged to substitute Had the artist contented
himself with some lazy, maccaroni-eating beg
gar summing himself stretched ont at full length
on the pavement OF Rome, the low model
would have dragged down his canvass to the
same miserable level, and no one would voyage
to Italy to see his masterpieces. They who
would live high must aim higher. The Alpine
men are lofty steppers with long stride, and
their heads are lifted above the fogs that dwell
down there in the valley. Look up, and then
live up. Read "The Imitation of Christ" by
Thomas attempts.