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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-15
Monday, July Ii.


Two powerful warships are to be added
10 the navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have been in
vited to visit at Gray Gables.
Printing in the New York postoffice is
to be hereafter done by union men.
P. j. Berlo won the ten-mile safety
championship of America at Manhattan
field
Tammany won the $4,000 Lorillard
stakes and broke the record at Monmouth
park.
Twenty-six persons were killed and
injured by the explosion of a steamers
boiler on Lake Geneva.
John Brady, aged 80, was probably ia
tally injured at Groton, Mass, by being
run over by freight train.
Mary NJ Frazer was arrested at the
Tewksbury (Mass) almshouse for the
murder of her illegiti mate child.
British Liberals have made a net gain
of twenty thus far. The Unionist major
ity of sixty-eight has been reduced to
thirty-four.
A man named Smith was arrested at
Providence charged with embezzlng from
the Singer Sewing Machine company, for
in which he was a collector.
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sMIT4soN ANb HIS REPUTATION.
He May Have Eeen "a Poor Actor but
His Heart Was in the Right Place.

He May Have Eeen Poor Actor, but
His Heart Was in the Right Place.
Smithson, once an actor, has had for q
long time the reputation of being cold
hearted, designing, crafty fellow. He
has come by this reputation gradually;
no one knows exactly when the first
symptoms Of GOODNESS showed them
selves. Some of his old time acquaint-
ances say that since the day following
his summary dismissal from the Play
well company SIuithson has been
changed man. Not few of them think
that there is now no hope for him.
There are few optimists, however,
who believe that in Smithson's heart
there still burns a flame of kindliness
that only needs to be fed to make him
the whole souled, splendid fellow he was
a few years ago
This small band of optimists met in
the fiat of one of their number the other
night. The conversation drifted from
one subject to another. They talked of
the propositions for membership in the
Players, and about other subjects of in
terest to actor folk. Finally, Augustus
Frankville said, Fellows, have good
news about Smithson."
"Good! what is it," they all cried in
chorus
"Well," continued Frankville, Il was
walking down Sixth avenue from the
park this afternoon when | saw him
walking about block ahead of me in a
most shiftless and detected manner.
From what | could see of him was
sure that he was desperately hungry.
His general appearance was bad. |
concluded to keep an eye on him and
to find out if possible how he was keep
ing body and soul together. He is too
proud to beg from his former friends,
You know.
"He went on few blocks, hesitated
before saloon and went III through the
side door, which was just opposite the
free lunch counter. went into the sa-
loon through the front door and stood at
the bar within two feet of him. 1t was
late in the afternoon and the free lunch
had mostly disappeared. There was left
only one piece Of corned beef and two
miserable slices of bread. Smithson
made for that counter totally oblivious
to everything and with as much decorum
as one could expect from hungry man.
''He lost no time in making sand
witch out of what remained ON the lunch
counter. He looked at it eagerly and
was about to eat it when dirty little
hand appeared under the small swing
ing door and tugged at his coat. At the
same time in sharp whisper there came
this appeal from the owner of the hand:
Say, mister, give us a sandwich? I'm
hungry
"Poor old Smithson cast one glance at
the sandwich and another at the dirty
hand of the street boy. In an instant
ne put the sandwich into the dirty hand.
The lunch counter was left bare and
Smithson's stomach was empty. | tell
you, fellows, old, broken down Smith
son has been maligned."
Smithsons reputation is not so bad
low.-New York Tribune
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A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY.
The Home of Samuel Slater, the Father
of American Manufactures.

Especial Correspondence
| PAwTUCKET, r. L., June 30.-This
city, which for a long time claimed the
honor of being the largest town in the
United States, will always occupy a
prominent place in Rhode Island history
as the home of Samuel Slater the father
of American manufactures and of the
first cotton mill in America. Until re-
gently the house occupied by Samuel
Slater has been used as a private dwell
ing. 1t stands upon one Of the princi-
pal business streets, large, square,
brick building, with door in the CEN
ter of the front and large parlor on
either side. The quaint, old fashioned
wall paper on these two rooms has al
ways been an object of interest to visit
ors and has quite history. 1t represents
romantic landscape with trees half
the height of the room, and tradition
has it that this identical paper was de-
signed and made for European mon
arch, whose fastidious taste was not
pleased at the completion of the work
and it was refused. The manufacturer
was of course ruined by this unhappy
transaction, and Samuel Slater hearing
ofit-whether prompted by philanthropy
or self glorifcation is not stated-imme-
diately purchased it.
Another object of interest about the
old Slater mansion some forty or fifty
years ago was the family coach, around
which hung an air of genteel antiquity
and memories of some famous general,
who was said to have ridden in it some
time away back in colonial days. It
was the great delight of the boys of
those days to make surreptitious visits
to the barn in the rear of the house.
climb up Oh the high seat of the old
vehicle and lounge in the capacious in
terror
None of the incidents connected with
Samuel Slater are more interesting than
one given in the records of the Provi-
dence plantations. This little account
credits woman with being the origi-
1ator of that most useful article, cotton
thread: "Shortly before 1900 a young
lady in Pawtucket made suggestion
which gave rise to another industry
Miss Marcy Wilkinson, whose sister
afterward married Samuel Slater, who
established the first cotton mill in the |
United States, asked the latter if he
could not make thread from cotton,
since linen was SO uneven that it was
hard to use. In reply he gave her some
cotton, which she herself spun into
thread, probably the first ever made in
America. She wound it upon a large
spool and many years later presented it
to the Rhode Island Society for the En-
of Domestic Industry, at
whose rooms it now is.
The Wilkinsons were an old Paw
bucket family, and in st. Pauls Episco-
pal church, the Oldest in the city and an
lgly but unique old frame building, are
marble tablets in memory of both the
Wilkinson and Slater families.
M. A. TAFT.
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Eggs Within Eggs.

We have never been convicted of tell
ing fish stories, nor yarns of any kind
that sounded in any degree fshy, but
here is one for the yarn spinner to i'm
prove upon: Mrs. DR.. Campbell recently
found two eggs, the fruit of Plymouth
Rock hen, which were fully as large as
goose eggs, Upon breaking these eggs
they were found to contain the yolk and
yellow in the same proportion found in
other eggs, and in addition to this each
one contained another perfectly formed
egg of yolk and yellow inclosed in a
hard well formed shell. This inner egg
is of the shape and size of the ordinary
hens egg. One of these peculiar combi-
nations was opened at one end enough
to let out the ingredients of the large
eggs, while the inclosed still remains in
cased in the outer shell and will be care
fully preserved for inspection by the
curious.-Centralia (Mo.) Courier.
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In Prater restaurant few evenings
ago young and clean shaver man was
seated alone at table with a glass of
beer before him. Three men came in
and sat down at the same table. They
thought the beardless youth was Jew
and began to annoy him. For some time
he kept perfectly quiet and pretended
not to notice them. As they continued
to amuse themselves, suddenly he sprang
up and faced the three, who had risen
simultaneously. Without saying word
he placed himself in boxing attitude,
and in few seconds the three "Jew"
baiters lay in heap on the floor with
their faces bruised. On recovering they
left the place. The young man sat down
and called for more beer. He is an Eng
lish jockey, the winner of several of
this seasons races in Vienna Vienna
Cor. London News.
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Tuesday, July IL.

Rain has damaged wheat in Tennessee
There is a smallpox panic at Victoria
B. c.
The business portion of Leroy, Ills, wa
burned
Eleven musicians were drowned a
Strasburg.
Baku is deserted by its inhabitants be
cause of the cholera.
The county treasurer at Paris, Ark, i:
short in his accounts
Postmaster Hart is doomed for governor
of Massachusetts
NJ Pasteur, the scientist, is suffering
from cholerine at Paris.
George William Curtis is suffering from
cancerof the stomach
p H. Donaghue, press correspondent
was killed at a fire in Lawrence
An increase of about 1900, 000is shown
in Boston's taxable valuation.
The London Times says that Gladstone
may secure office but not power.
Ravachol, the notorious anarchist, was
executed at Montbrisson, France.
A section hand on the Fitchburg road
was fatally injured at Waltham, Mass.
The American lawn tennis champion
Campbell, has won match in England.
Ex-Governor Ames of Massachusetts is
seriously sick at his North Easton resi-.
dence.
Hearings to be held by Maine railroad
commissioners at Augusta on the subject
of car heating
The Uurney & Daniels shoe factory in
Whitman, MISS, will be ready for occu'
pancy in the full.
The minority report on the senate sill
yer bill calls it crude, clumsy measure
tn effects of which are uncertain.
Charles E. Lord, the Massachusetts
agent of the National Cash Register com.
pany, has been released on bail.
A man supposed to be James Bradley OF
Togus, Me, WAS seized with hemorrhage
of the brain in Roxbury saloon.
Campbell does not know who will b,
appointed his successor as chairman OF
the national Republican committee.
The Conservative papers now concede
Gladstone's majority but say that 1t will
be so small that he will be unable to carry
on business.
OBITUARY.
George W. Bungay poet, author, and
orator, died at Bloomfield, n. j., aged "a
John Hooker one of the oldest and best
known physicians of Springfield, Mass,
is dead
Kate Castleton of the "Dazzler" COM
paay. died of typhoid pneumonia Sunday
night, at the Lake View Hotel, Warwick,
r. l.
Baron Winmarleigh John Wilson Pat
ten) died at London, aged 80 years. He
was chief secretary for Ireland in 1868.
The title. which was created in 1874, expires
with the baron's death.
Edward Ainsworth, a prominent and
greatly respected citizen of Claremont,
n. H., is dead. He was born in that town
Sept. 26. 1914 He had filled various civil
positions, and was member of the legis-
lature in 1866 and 1867.
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A Company of Soldiers Frustrated.

Nineteen soldiers were marching along
the highway at Bourges to reach the
artillery practice ground when a thur
derstorm broke over them and in min
ute drenched them all to the skin.
They began trotting, but had not sd-
vanced much when a terrible stroke of
lightning came and in an instar. laid
the whole detachment PROSTATE on the
ground. After short time some of the
men recovered and rose to their feet.
They called to their comrades, who
rallied and rose slowly one after an
other. But four remained immovable.
They were taken to the hospital. Three
were restored to life, but the fourth was
dead. He had a deep wound on the
crown of his head and his chest was
burned as over a furnace.-Chicago
Herald
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Frid ay, July 8.

Opening of the worlds students con
ference at East Mortified, Mass.
An old family feud at bingham, Mass,
resulted in an assault with an axe.
A British steamer was seized off Point
Iona, Cal, for opium smuggling
Close of the tenth annual encampment
Vermont division, Sons of Veterans.
A man twice tried to kill himself at
Ossipee mountain, N. H., and failed.
Ooms of Amsterdam easily won the
diamond SOULS at the Henley regatta.
Four persons were suffocated by smoke
in dwelling house fire in New York city.
The public schools are to be recon-
mended to observe Oct. l as Columbus
day
Lord Salisbury wants an explanation as
to the seizure of the steamer by the Cor
win.
GThe water works department investiga-
tion at Lawrence, Mass, proved a big
farce
The Harvard bridge suicide has been
identified as Jerry Abbott of Conway,
N. H.
The report of locomotive combine is de-
MED by Charles 7. Means of Manchester,
N. H.
The friends of Jack Sicily are anxious
to make a match between him and George
Dixon.
The investigation committee condemns
Raum and recommends his removal from
Office.
The City of Chicago on Barrel rocks,
on the south coast of Ireland has gone to
pieces
The executive committee of the Repub-
lican national committee has been ap-
pointed.
There was a favorable report on the bill
to incordorate and protect the Red Cross
society.
Arguments in the Almy murder case
will be made at Concord, n H., next
Tuesday.
Nancy Hanks made fast mile over the
Belmont park course, but failed to beat
SunoPs time
The senate silver bill was referred to
the house committee on coins, weights
and measures
The 3yearold son of George McBratny
of Whittensville, Mass, drank a large
quantity of washing compound, and is not
expected to live.
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Wednesday, July ID.


There was a 500. 900 fire at North Lowell
Me.
Striking Baltimore carpenters COM
promised.
The report that Lottie Collins, the SOU
brette, was dead, is untrue.
A furious storm in Winnipeg destroyed
property and caused loss of life.
The president addressed the National
Educational Association at Saratoga.
Ex-senator Blair of Manchester, N. H.,
Is in the field for congressional nomina-
ton.
At the races of the New Hampshire
division, L. A. W., p J. Berlo wheeled a
mile in Pm. lbs.
Thirty people were killed and many in
jured by an avalanche at St Gervais-les-
Baines in Savoy.
John H. Du,gin of West Hamstead, n.
H., aged 50, was struck and killed by a
train at Lee, \. H.
Willie. the l4-year-old son of William
Ballanger of New York, was drowned In
the mill pond at Machias, Me.
Bloodshed at Paducah, KY, was caused
by armed negroes congregating at
fail to protect one of their race imprisoned
there.
The Anaconda Mining company is to
have its copper refined by the electrolitlc
process at Baltimore instead OF sending IL
to England.
A team was struck by a train near
Castleton Station. Vt, and the driver
Alexander Shefii-r an uged farmer, was
instantly killed
Cornelius Gee was arrested at Fall
River Mass. and was sent to Cranston,
RI. where he is wanted on a charge OF
rape upon a 19year-old girl.
The secretary Of the navy has made the
eighth payment Of $4,000 to the Bath
Me.) iron works on account of the con-
struction Of baitleship No. L
OBITUARY.
Max Groin. clothing merchant OF
Hartford, dropped dead from heart disease
at New York
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A DOUBLE ENDED BOAT.

opposite end being called the bow. A
double ended boat, one that is sharp at
the bow and the stern, may be rowed
stern first, provided the rudder is re-
moved from its place. The seats on
which the oarsmen sit are called thwarts.
There are two kinds of oars, spoon shaped
and fiat bladed ones. The former are
preferable for light pleasure boats or
racing shells, while the latter are better
adapted to heavier and to working boats.
The pieces of iron and brass that fit in
sockets on the rail of the boat are called
oarlocks. The extreme edge or toprail,
is called "gunwale" or "gunnl," in a
sailors vernacular.
When entering a boat one should
never step on the gunwale, as by so do
ing the craft is liable to capsize. Jump
ing into boat is also very bad habit.
The proper way of getting on board is
to put the right foot down firmly either
in the middle of thwart or in the bot
tom of the boat. The rope which is
found in the bow is named painter"
1t should always be kept clear and ready
W Dc IulOWH Jul at any IhOAAOhS' IL
you are alone sit always in the middle of
the middle thwart. Then get your oars
out and begin slowly to row. The blades
should be dipped just deep enough to
become covered with water; they also
should be brought forward as far as pos
sible, and then while they are immersed
throw your weight upon them. 1t takes
indeed very little practice to become
accustomed to the stroke. After you
have acquired an even stroke begin prac
ticing to turn your little craft. This is
done by holding one oar motionless
while pulling with the other. The quick
est way of turning a boat is of course
to push with one and pull with the other
oar, but only persons who have acquired
some proficiency can safely do this. Al
ways keep a sharp lookout and make
sure there are no obstacles in your way.
Collisions on the water are always dan
gerous. To tomfoOl in boats is the worst
thing young people can do, and many
young life has been lost in that way
With ordinary precautions, however,
people are safer in a boat than in a car
rage or on horseback.
ARTHUR PARKER.
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Saturday, July o.

The sealers warned out of Behrlng sea
will try the Russian side.
Justin Mccarthy was defeated at Derry
Ire, by Mr.. Ross, Conservative
George Stone, colored negro murderer,
was hanged at Fayetteville, Tenn.
Allen Lowe won the 2:20 pacing race on
the new kite-shaped track at Old Orchard
Me- -
A petition for a receiver for the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West railway
has been asked
Conductor Preston was crushed by the
cars and John Collins had his ribs broken
at Lynn, Mass.
The opening races on the new kite
shaped track at Old Orchard, Me. took
place Thursday.
Zimmerman, the American cyclist. won
the fifty mile safety championship race at
Paddington, Eng.
Mr.. George Fox Tucker of New Bedford
Is to be reporter of decisions in the su-
preme judicial court.
Should President Harrison insist. Sec-
fetary Proctor will accept the chairman
ship OF the national Republican commit.
tee.
No evidence has been found that the
British steamer Eliza Edwards, seized by
the United States authorities near San
Diego, was used for Illicit purposes.
OBITUARY.
Cardinal francesca Battaglini. arch
bishop of Bologne, is dead. He was born
in 1923
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CONDENSED NEWS.

A large Canadian government majority
is predicted.
The Canadian government says that the
cruiser Corwin did not seize sealers
Three negroes were lynched down
south-two at Vicksburg Miss, and one
at Weston, w. Va.
Twelve members of the senate have
been governors of states, and five have
been cabinet officers.
AT Birmingham, Ala, Ed Porter, col
Ored, who outraged Julia Wilkinson,
white, was lynched by crowd.
Reporter Goldsmith, the survivor of the
Boston balloon disaster, has left the hos
pital.
Senator Proctor is now talked of for
chairman of the Republican national COM
mittee.
The schooner Theresa has been lowed
into Halifax, all hands being lost but the
captain.
Representative Hemphill of South Caro-
lima says every southern state will be
Democratic
The conferees on the postoffice appropri-
alton bill have reached an agreement upon
all of the important points at issue.
William Anderson, colored, charged
with attempting to outrage a white girl,
was taken from Jail at Louisa, Va, and
hanged.
Thomas Murray of Willimantic, Conn,
aged SO, was found drowned in Whitman
tic river. The drowning was doubtless ac-
cidental.
A mass meeting of Dover On H. citi-
zens has voted to celebrate Columbus
week, Oct 1914, with parades, sports, a
ball, fireworks, horse races, etc.
The coroner's jury of inquest on the
death of William Fields, who walked off a
wharf in Portland, Me-, while drunk,
brought in verdict of accidental drown
ing.
DR.. w. E. Brown, cancer specialist, has
started from North Adams, Mass, for
Sacramento, Cal, having been called by
telegraph for consultation on the case of
Governor Booth.
OBITUARY.
Senior Martinez del Campo, the Mexican
charge d'affares in London, is dead.
Esther Calvert, the English actress,
member of the well-known Calvert fam
lily, died in London, aged 80.
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ALL ABOUT ROWBOATS.
How 70 Manage Them with Ease and
Safety.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
ST. LOUIS. June 30.-The season of
drowning accidents has again opened.
I am convinced that many lives would
be spared if the large number of persons
who are fond of rowing would take the
trouble to learn how boat should be
handled.
But let me describe the various parts
of boat first The stern of boat is
the part where the rudder is put on, the
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Bradford, May 81, 1892.

There is nothing (unless it
be the Sewing Machine) that
has ightened woman's labor
as much as Dobbins' Electric
Soap, constantly sold, since
1869. Now why rub and
toll, and wear out yourself and
your clothes, on washday,
when this perfect soap is pro-
vided, to Tighten your labor,
and save your clothes! If you
have ever used it, in the %
years we have made and sold
it, you knoW that it is the best,
purest and most economical
soap made. If you haven't
tried it ask your grocer for
it no0. Be sure and get the
genuine, with our name on the
wrapper.
QEAN TuIC 1t is not the selling
uLHO iIiiS price alone, that must
TWICE T BE considered ST = E,Do IN aTe
of the value ofan article. There is as much
real pure soap in bar of Dobbins' Electric
as in four bars of any other soap made and
it will, if used according to directions, do
four times as much work as any other Its
cost is but very slight advance on that of
inferior soap. Insist on DObbins Electric.
l. l.. CRAGIN & Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Curious Chinese Medicines.

The Chinese medical writers recon-
mend such remedies as tiger bones.
bears gall, ground blood, tree bugs, fos-
sill crabs, fowls gizzards, elephant blood,
insects of nine SMELLS" dew falling in
the dark of the moon, COW hair, ground
bones Of cows knee, Jobs tears, snake
skins, ground rhinocerous horns, hedge
hog skin and claws, dried silk worms,
and many other remedies equally alb
surd and foolish.-St. Louis Republic.
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assassinate Judge Chute of Albany, N. Y.
Malcolm Chace defeated A F. Fuller in
the finals in the Partridge tennis tourna-
ment.
Senator Proctor has refused the chair
manship of the Republican national COM
mittee.
Ex-President Cleveland has chosen Mr..
r. L. O'Brien, a Boston reporter, for his
secretary.
The claim that the breaking of cycle rec
ords at Charter Oak park was not genu-
inc, owing to the track being short, is now
refuted
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-15
Sunday, July 10.

Henry NJ. Stanley will try again to
secure a seat in parliament.
There was another victory for a Her
reshoff boat in English waters.
The United Garment Workers union of
Boston have settled two strikes.
A Whitcomb s. Raymond excursion
party started for Alaska Saturday.
Lynn (Mass.) Patriarchs Militant ten
dered a reception to Colonel Merrill.
The body Of Josiah WATSON of Hampton,
N H., was found on the river bank.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
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