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Year: 1870

The Bangor Wing says work upon the new
Jail in Bangor, will soon be commenced. The
Commissioners are causing the covering to be
removed preparatory to pressing the work
with renewed vigor. 1t is feared that por-
ton of the brick work will have to be taken
down on account of the severe cold weather
last fall causing it to freeze and thaw. If so,
the damage and delay will not be serious, and
before winter Bangor will have one of the
finest Jail buildings in the State.
Year: 1870

A Massachusetts paper says it is estima-
ted that there are about forty-three thous-
and of the Sons of Maine" residing in
that Commonwealth, a statement which
we think puts the fact below the reality.
That so many of the sons and daughters
of Maine have left the State to seek 4
livelihood elsewhere does not speak very
well for us They are not to be censured
of course for going abroad to improve
their fortunes or get a living when they
have no opportunity or but IL poor one at
home. By all means let them 60 abroad
for renumerative labor when they cannot
find it at home, but if the State can help
them to the means of living within its bor
ders and does not do it then blame should
be cast upon its shoulders. These thous-
ands of young men and women that 90
from Maine to Massachusetts are wealth
to the latter State, while their exodus is
poverty to us. They are found employed
in all branches of bueincss in the State to
which they have gone. They are in cot





schools, fields, vessels, banks, offices,
everywhere that honest, faithful and eff
fective industry are required. No better
material for brain or muscle work goes to
Massachusetts than that which she gets
from Maine. 1t commands Il premium in
her markets, and has its representatives
in the front ranks of business. How many
villages have been built in the Common
wealth from Maine stock we cannot tell,
but the number is not small.


We do not regret that these children of
our State have made themselves comfort
able homes in the places where they are
settled, but we do regret that the factories
aud shops and other places of employ
ment necessary TO keep them at home had
not been supplied as opportunity offered.
If the men and women that have gone
from our State during the last twenty-five ve
years had remained ard found employ
ment in it. the amount which they would
have added to the wealth of the State, to
the value of the farms and manufactures,
to the number and appearance of its vii
lages and cities, churches and schools,
would have been as surprising as agree
able What we need is active capital,
capital from abroad, and associated capi-
tai where it may be organized and made
useful. With this we need a spirit to fos-
ter home enterprises and interests. The
farmer may have no stock in a factory in
his town, but he has all interest in its sue
cess if he understands himself He might
buy his calico, silks and carpets cheaper
in Boston than of the trader at his door,
but the trader or mechanic must have a
house and land and the products of the
farm and garden, and thus the farmer
finds it profitable to patronize and build up
trade and industry in his own vicinity, be-
cause he thereby makes a market for HIM
self. We must patronize home industry,
home enterprise where we can. Don't
grudge the merchant or mechanic the
profit or wages which they fairly deserve.
Take care of your own State and commu-
nifty. Those who do this generally pros
Year: 1870

Tuesday night the Saco river was higher
than for ten years past. Last week a portion
of Joseph Hobsons's Springs Island Mill was
undermined and fell over into the stream.
The damage will be probably about $1,000 to
this mill Water in the river is still rapidly
rising and much damage is feared at various
points on the river.
Year: 1870

When men have long bonds or mort
cages that would be worth twelve per cent
more if the late legal tender decision were
not reversed, it is next to impossible for
them to see any good reason for reopen
ing the question. Its agin human natur'
as Sam Slick would say
Year: 1870

The good will of our neighbors of the
Watervile Mail towards Augusta is clear
ly exhibited in their anxiety lest we be
damned. What better evidence is needed
of their kind wishes for us
Year: 1870

We do not understand that anybody has
been elected governor or senator, but we
learn that the fishes have clear passage
TO the regions above on this river, and that
smelts are quite cheap where they catch
'em.
Year: 1870

SARGENT VS.. CoLE.-Soms one has gone
to the trouble and expense Of publishing in
pamphlet form all the mean things tba,
have been said by the Republican pres. o
the State against Senator Cole two copies
of which have been sent 10 us. This i,
right as far as it goes and we hope at the
good work will 60 on until all the mean
things that all the Republicans on the coast
have done will be published and given to
the pubic. But oh, wba. rsams Of paper
and oceans OF ink it would take.
Year: 1870

Do NOT COMPLAIN Grass Valley
Union complains that the Republican Board
of Supervisors Of Nevada county sneaked
through contract for the county printing
for two years, without letting any of the
papers of the county know that contract
was 10 be let but the two Republican papers
of Nevada city. Of course this is character.
istio Of Republican fairness, honesty and
economy. The Union should not complain,
because it, the National and Truckee 7ri-
bane even in that dirty trick, have been
much better treated than we were by the
Board of Supervisors Of this county, a ma
jorily OF whom are also Republicans. The
Placer Board advertised for proposals TO do
county printing for one year, and after having
put US to the trouble Of obtaining the work
done for the previous year, the prices paid
for the same, and The amount and cbaract er
OF the work to be done for the ensuing year
and making out and submitting our bid


1t gaze the contract to the highest bidder, and
We had all our trouble tor nothing See
what world Of trouble the owners Of the
opposition press in Nevada have been saved


which was entailed upon us. The Rspubli-
can Supervisors of Placer are entitled to the
ces, that the Nevada Board must take a
back seat, and that the Union is not enti-
tied to the first growl. H
Year: 1870

WORSE THAN WoRrHLEss.-Of all the
worthless, careless or inefficient Iouls that
ever disgraced the postal department Of the
United States, the mail messengers on the
route between Sacramento and Truckee, bear
off the palm. They have over two hours
between Sacramento and Auburn TO sor.
the Sacramento mail and place 10 the
Auburn bag that directed to this place
aud vet they are so internal iguoran
or lazy that large potion Of the time
it is carried ps.l, and comes back a day
or two after it should be here. The same
is the case with the Eastern mail. We ad-
wise our Postmaster to write to the postal


agent on this coast, and If he fails to correc,
the evil. then report the whole batch to the
depar tment at " asbington.
Year: 1870

LAKE BIGLER AND SAN Francisco WATER
CoMrANY.-A company has been organized
to convey the waters of Lake Bigler TO San
Francisoo and we are informed the Compa-
nv has broke ground on the Truckee river
in this county. The Company now has a
bill before the Legislature autho rizng tie
people Of San Francisco to vote it aid 10
the significant sum Of ten million doliars,I
Our people in the vicinity Of the Lake are
manifesting some concern about the matter,
but we advise them to be easy as we regard
the whole thing as "bilk." In the first place,
the Legislature OF the S a'e has no exclusive
jurisdiction over the waters Of the Lake, nor
can any Company have which has been iu-
corporated under our State laws. Some
body in San Francisco may be fooled and
cheated, but the people around the Lake or
in the State Of Nevada will not be hurt
When this company gets its tunnel cut
three or four miles long, and is about to
turn the waters into the American rivsr
and start them for Auburn, it will yet be
time enough to enquire about the owner
ship OF the waters and the Jurisdiction OF
States and vested rights of land holders. A
part of the Lake has been patented and a
part belongs to the State of Nevada, and
question Of commerce between the States
is indeed very knotty one. Won Smidt
may be an excellent engineer, and yet
a very poor lawyer.
Year: 1870

ALLEGED VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY LAWS.


The steamship Florida, loading at this port
with military stores and ammunition, was seized
on saturday evening by United states Marshal Sharpe,
FOR alleged violation of the neutrality laws The vessel
20 held 20 await the further order Of the United States
Ditrct Court and the claim of her owners will probably
no heard today The Florida is of COO tuns burden and
was known as the Penguin, gunboat, during the war 1t
postyey stated that she is fitting out for Vera Cruz
whether she really intended TO aid the Prussans the
rrench ar the Cubans her seizure seems remarkable
orcumstance She is not Likely to be long detained, un
less those loading her been unusually stupid Tho
neutrality DAVIS allow almost as ample license as
can be desired Our citizens may sell and ship arms and
ammunition TO whomsoever they please only II they at
temnt To run blockade they do so at their own risk
There ia s vet no information to the special reasons
for the seizure OF the Florida II may haye been snp
nosed that her such as to h her for pri
Watering but this is not the Aside from the trng
bought with her from the United States Gov
ernment she has nothing with her but small rifle for
land service and little boat howizer Nor does 1t seem


clear how IL she had treble these slight warke equip
ments she could be prevented from clearing from Vera
Cruz unless the authorities have some secret but con
yincing proofs OF bad faith
Year: 1870

WE give up much OF our space tins
morning, to most interesting letter
from Q European correspondent of
the Boston Journal 1t gives a better
idea IF the character Of the organiza
tion Of the contending armies, as'well
as Of the individual soldiers, than we
have read anywhere else.
Year: 1870

The New York Legislature last
week, according to the Albany Argus,
a Democratic newspaper, voted away
eight millions of dollarsi The argus
says:


'AThese large votes of money were
made without reference to the condi
ton of the treasury, without much
discrimination as to the comparative
merits of the works to be benefited
and without much discussion of any
kind. Apparently the Assembly
looked beyond its own Chamber for
the judgment which should mete out
to these enterprises the shares they
each deserved, and the taxpayers
could afford to give, or which should
arrest them altogether.


IF in the preliminary surveys OF
some of these projects their engineers
have come across a gold mine or two
which our laws reserve to the State
1T would be no more than right to
inform the authorities of the fact
for where else is the money to come
fr0m?"


This, we presume, is sample o.
the kind of New York economy
which is to be introduced into oul
city during the present year, by the
young New Yorker who represents
the Democratic notions which pre-.
vail in that great commercial empo-
rum. Well, Ripper wayl We car
stand it with the balance.
Year: 1870

A CORRESPONDENT of the Morga n
County Gazette, who is writing its
'early history, thus describes the first
white woman who was ever domiciled
in Morgan County: @ie
3D. She was remarkably mild tenn
pered woman. Lfin the sight of God
a meek aud quiet spirit is of great
price, she would probably be entitled
to the prize above any woman with
whom ever bad a personal acquaint-
ance. AS a descendant of Adam, she
was no doubt sinner and needed the
cleansing efficacy of SaVior's blood
to ft her for heaven, the evidence OF
which was abundantiy lnanifsased. in
her life and conduct, so that my judg-
ment is that when she put off the
earthly house Of this tabernacle, an
angel was borne on wings of love aud
arms of faith to the realms of eternal
glory. ~ $50
Year: 1870

TO THE WORKING GLASS we IRE
now prepared TO furnish all classes with
constant employment at home, the whole
OF the time or for the spare moments.
Business new, light, and profitable. Per-
sons OF either sex easily earn from Soc TO
% per evening, and a proper tional sum by
deVO1ng their whole time to the business
Boys aud girls earn nearly as much as
men That all who sec this notice may
send their address, and test the business,
we make this unparalleled Offers To such
as are not Well satisfied, We Will send 81 10
culaTs, a valuable sample, which will do
to commence work on. and a copy OF the
Peoples Literary Companion one of the
largest and best family newspapers pub
ished--all sent free by mail. Reader, II
you want permanent, profitable work, ad-


FEB w3m
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crb the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten-

 ed by single bolts, bringing the crib on the level

 with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down over the mattress when not in use. The Crib can contain the bed made up for use when when closed in. Each bedstead can have a single
Year: 1870

A dressing which is at, once agreeable, healthy, and efectual for preserving the hair m Faded or gray haar as soon restored to ats original color and tue gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

CINoINNATI. May 1O.-The Central
Committee of the National Sangerfest
onight received memorial signed
by many of our most prominent oiti-
zens, asking them to so change the
programme of the approaching festi-
val as to have it close ON some other
day than the Sabbath. They decided
to report to the citizens committee
having the matter in charge that it
was now too late to ma Ike the proposed
change. but that they should recon
mend that the line of march be ar
ragued so as to be as little obnoxious
to the christian part of the popula
ton as possible. The matter will be
finally decided morrow night
Year: 1870

3. That we rejoice at the ratification o.
the Fifteenth Amendment, which forevel
secures an equality of political rights "a
ali men, and we extend to the colored
man q helping hand TO enable him IN
the race OF life TO improve and elevate bis
condition.
Year: 1870

4. That the National Debt, created in
the defense and preservation II the u Union, 4,
however great the burden, must be cheer
fully borne until honorably and honestly
extinguished I'm accordance with the letter
and spirit OF the several laws authorizing z
the debt, ana that all attempts At repudia-
the scorn and denunelation OF any honest
and patriotic people.
Year: 1870

time was the greatest punishment for al
offences not amounting to murder. About
three years after this l was going over the
same road and on the same business and,
having obtained very early. start from
the Springs one morning, met on top Of
one of the high hills, near this same point,
about daylight in tho morning, this very
same man, Potter, with his rife on his
shoulder. It was then sthat 1 thought of
the morrow" for I saw at the very first
glance that he knew me; but, stranger
still than this meeting was, he never no.
ticed me or deigned to speak of the Incl
dent of our first meeting there. It was
easy enough to face him, but it was never
more difficult to turn my back on friend
than to put this man behind me. But
passed on unmolested. He was reputed
fine narksmaa at the Springs, and per-
haps he remembered that within few pa
ces, and with an unerring rife, be had
tried me once before and failed, and never
had known the little incident that saved
my life at the time. have never heard
of Potter since then.


The truth of this adventure is vouched
for ly two of tho most respectable citizens
of Bowling Green, Robert Davis and Eli
iah Claypool; and its history has never
in print before.


XIcZAG
Year: 1870

The New York correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Chronicle gives these funeral
items: There is story told of the re.
nowned r. Brown, Of Grace Church, which
illustrates the state of feeling here with re-
gard to burials among the class he serves.
Whea the war broke out a young gentle
man said to him, What are we to do this
winter, Mr.. Brown there will be no par
ties p Well, sir, well, was the reply, as
he afectionately patted his protubsrant
waistcoat, we will do the best we cam
We will make the funerals as fashionable
and attractive as possible At fashion
able funeral in New York there is as much
show and as much to be seen, as at fash
ionable party. The flowers often cost as
large sums as they do for an evening par
ty. : l cannet afford to die in New York /;
it would ruin my family the bury me there,
| heard gentleman say. A handsome
funeral is an event, and talked of and
dressed for as is handsome party, and for
the same reason: one meets oil ones
friends there Not long since a lady who
had been two years married died. She was
young, handsome and amiable, and her
friends loved her. Her parents were in
moderate circumstances, her husband q
government clerk, and getting good sal
ary. The funeral was show occasion.-
Her bridal dress, with its rich lace over
skirt, was produced and remodeled by a
fashionable mantuamaker this was forced
upon her cold, still form. A hair-dresser
was procured to dress her hair and arrange
the bridal veil and orange blossoms. Then
the corpse was placed in magnificent
casket, the room was decorated with flow.
ers, the costliest blossoms were woven into
urns and wreaths, and crosses and anchors,
and dispersed about the walls the shut
ters were closed and the gas lighted. Then
the crows, who had heard of these prepar-
ntions and of this mockery of woe, were
admitted, and passed in to gaze upon the
still, pale form there. After it was over
the husband discovered that years salary
would hardly pay the cost of this hand
some funeral"
Year: 1870

Ben. Butler is entitled to white mark.
In pension bill for the soldiers of the
war of 1915, an amendment was offered
for the exclusion from its benefits of per
SONS ,rhc~.ymnathizad with the Snuth in
the late rebellion. Butler contended that
by the very course of nature, men who
were soldiers in 1915 could never have
rendered very efficient aid to the South in
the late war, and it was a mean act to
confiscate the poor pittance about to be
given to their comrades. In the course Of
his remarks, he said:


these old soldiers for their patriotic valor
is not new question to me. 1t came be-
fore me in the darkest hour of the late
war, when, because of possibility of a
revolt Of the inhabitants of the city of
New Orleans, ordered all the arms in
possession of the people should be sur
rendered to the military authorities. An


"What consideration shall be given to
old soldier who served with Jackson came
to me, bringing with him, to he delivered
up, the sword he had worn at the battle of
New Orleans. Said he, General, my
sympathies are against you; but this is
the sword that l carried at the battle Of
Chalmette, in defense of this city against
an invading army. 1t never has been sui
lied; it never will be. am an old man /;
I cannot surrender my convictions upon
this question which divides the nation.
Consider my former services to the coun-
try do not take from me my sword" I
listened to the appeal of the old man then,
and he took away with him the sword
which was dear to his heart; and l ask
the house to listen to the appeal of his old
comrades now"


The amendment was lost by large
majority.
Year: 1870

The crown-princess Of Prussia went the
other day to the store of the court jewell
er in Berlin in order to purchase dia-
mond necklace. She selected very beau
tiful one, when, to her surprise, she no.
ticed thae the jeweler, who waited on her
himself, told her that she need not buy it.
The significant smile with which the deal
er in gold and jewels, accompanied these
words led her to believe that her husband,
the crown-prince, had purchased the neck
lace for her as birthday present, that
happy day coming off in week or two.
So she went home, but, on her birthday,
she received from her husband not the
necklace, but only pair of fine earrings.
Then she suspected something wrong, and
at the next court ball she examined, with
the utmsst attention, the necklaces which
the various noble ladies wore. Finally q
very beautiful young countess entered the
hall, and on her neck the crown-princess
discovered the necklace. She stepped
quickly up to the countess and asked her
in an imperious tone who had given her
the necklace. The young countess, great
ly frightened, faltered out that she receiv-
ed it from his royal highness, the crown
prince. The consequence was, that the
countess was notified that her presence at
court was no more desirable.
Year: 1870

ton Of Potter, even if l was correct about
his being the man. On arriving at the
branch, no trace Of Potter could be found,
nor could we for some time find any
marks or circumstances tending in any
way to confirm my report. Finally, how
ever, Col. Claypool found, on little hill
and behind large tree, the imprint of a
rifle stock and also of mans knee on
the ground. The colonel then placed me
where l stood when heard the shot, and


with his own gun he took aim at me from


the position behind the tree, and he then


told the doctor that thick dog-wood


bush was directly in tho line, and that a
ball could not have penetrated it without
cutting leaf or twig. On examination, a
leaf was found with the smooth-cut hole
of rifle ball in it; and the line Of sight
showed that it must have passed through
the centre of my back and, as it did not,
the matter was mystery to them all until
I told how was in the act Of STOPPING at
the time heard the shot. And it was
then plainly seen that my horse, being
beyond me, had received the ball that
passed over me. And celld account then
for the su1iusei leok On Potter's face when
asked him what he was shooting at.


He had expected, Of course, to run out
and lind me dead, and could not account
for his disappointment. Potter was after
ward arrested by the militia, but somehow
he was never brought to trial, but COM
PEELED to leave the country, which at that
Year: 1870

When legislators keep the law,


When banks dispense with bolts and locke,
When BcrlIes-whortles rasp and straw
Grow bigger d0JoR1odrdS through the box,
When he that selletb house or land


Shows leak in roof or flaw In right
When haberdashers choose the stand


Whose window hath the broadest light
When preachers tell us what they think
And party leaders all they rieah.-
When what we pay for, that we drink,


From real grape and coiice-bean,-
When lawyers take what they would give,
And doctors give what they would takec-
When city fathers eat to live,


Save when they fast Tor conscience sake
When one that has horse on sale,


Shall bring his merit to the proof,
Without II lie or every nail


That holds the iron on the hoof
When in the usual place for rips,


Our gloves are stitched with special care,
And guarded well the whalebOne tips


Where first umbrellas need repair
When Cubas weeds have quite forgot


The power of suction to resist,
And clarct-bDttes hafbOr not


Such dimples as would hold your fist
When publishers no longer steal


And pay for what they stole before
When the first locomotives wheel


Rolls through the UOosac tunnels BORE
Till then let Cumming blaze away,


And MIller's saints blow up the globe;
But when you see that blessed day,


IHen order your ascension robe!
Year: 1870

Like the ghost Of dear friend dead


Is time long past
A tone which is now forever fed,
A hope which Is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,


Was time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night


OF time long past;
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day n shadow onward cast,
Which made us wish it yet might last


That time long pastg
Thefs Is tegrct, almost remorse,
H. For time long past;
'Tis like child's beloved cOrse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty is like remembrance cast


From time long past.
Year: 1870

Particular attention given 60 this one article in
our Trade. and Ne are constantly supplied with a
choice article from New York state.


IN Tact We give our special and uniiyids attentiun
Ia lie